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MLB News and Notes June - 8
Ortiz heads back to disabled list with arm injury
June 7, 2007
PHOENIX (AP) -Russ Ortiz landed back on the disabled list Thursday, the second stint already this year for the San Francisco right-hander.
Ortiz went on 15-day DL with a strained right forearm that is believed to be unrelated to the nerve irritation he had in his throwing elbow that shelved him for the first time. The Giants recalled left-hander Jonathan Sanchez from Triple-A Fresno to take Ortiz's roster spot.
Ortiz, who came off the mound Monday at Philadelphia in the eighth inning, had an MRI exam Thursday and the Giants knew he might need another DL stint after he felt discomfort in his forearm while playing catch Wednesday. He is scheduled to see team orthopedist Dr. Ken Akizuki on Friday back in San Francisco.
``It's very discouraging,'' Ortiz said. ``To have to go in for another MRI when I feel like I just had one is very frustrating. I was feeling really good. ... This is the second time I've had an issue this year when everything seems to be going the right way. I had to be on the DL twice, that's the frustrating part.''
Manager Bruce Bochy said the club couldn't wait any longer to add another pitcher to the roster. Ortiz arrived at the ballpark Tuesday saying he felt much better than a night earlier in Philadelphia, so he was surprised to have problems when he played catch.
``Hopefully in two weeks this thing will clear up,'' Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. ``I was looking forward to having him help out in the bullpen. This is a set back.''
It is a disappointing development for Ortiz, who rediscovered his form in winter ball in Puerto Rico and began the season as San Francisco's fifth starter before being relegated to the bullpen after coming off the DL for the first time May 21.
Ortiz earned another chance to be a starter after an awful 2006 when he signed on for a second stint with the Giants in January.
He left the Giants after the 2002 season, when he walked off the mound eight outs away from a World Series title only to see the bullpen blow a five-run lead in Game 6 and the wild-card Angels go on to win the seventh game, too.
He was traded to Atlanta in December 2002, followed by 36 wins and a pair of division titles in two seasons. After parlaying that into a $33 million, four-year contract with Arizona, little went right.
He went 5-11 in his first season with the Diamondbacks before everything fell apart last year in an 0-8 campaign, a release from Arizona and recommendations that he should call it a career.
He was winless in 26 outings, including 11 starts, overall last year for the Diamondbacks and Baltimore Orioles, who dropped him out of their rotation in July.
Sanchez, who started the season with the Giants, pitched three times at Triple-A and threw six scoreless innings.
``I was ready (to return) since I got sent down,'' Sanchez said. ``I was doing the same things as here, just getting innings.''
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Tigers RHP Miner goes on DL
June 7, 2007
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -The Detroit Tigers placed right-hander Zach Miner on the 15-day disabled list because of a strained tendon in his right elbow.
The team announced the move after the game against the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night. The Tigers recalled right-handers Yorman Bazardo and Aquilino Lopez from Triple-A Toledo.
The Tigers called up two pitchers because left-hander Nate Robertson was also placed on the disabled list Wednesday night with what manager Jim Leyland called a ``tired arm.''
Leyland announced Wednesday night that left-hander Andrew Miller will be called up from Double-A Erie to replace Robertson for Sunday's start against the New York Mets.
Bazardo was 4-3 with a 3.77 ERA in 11 starts for Toledo. Lopez, with his fourth major league team, is in his third relief stint with the Tigers this season. He has a 5.06 ERA in 10 2-3 innings.
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Rangers recall RHP Feldman
June 7, 2007
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -The Texas Rangers recalled right-hander Scott Feldman from Triple-A Oklahoma and demoted left-hander John Rheinecker before Thursday night's game against the Detroit Tigers.
Rheinecker got a no-decision Tuesday night, allowing four runs and seven hits in three innings against Detroit in his first major league start of the season. He was replacing Vicente Padilla, who was scratched from the start because of right triceps irritation. Padilla is expected to return to the rotation Sunday night against Milwaukee.
Feldman gave up two runs in four innings over two relief appearances for Oklahoma since he was demoted on May 28.
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Clemens should be ready Saturday
June 7, 2007
CHICAGO (AP) -New York Yankees manager Joe Torre said the team's improved play recently should make it easier on Roger Clemens in his season debut Saturday against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
``I think it will probably help him, although he'll probably be sky high Saturday anyway,'' Torre said Thursday.
``But the fact that, right now, he can fall in line and be one of the guys, as opposed to being the one guy to maybe change things and turn things around. I don't care how long you've been playing, it's still a lot to put on any one guy.''
The 44-year-old right-hander originally planned to start Monday night against the White Sox. He scratched himself from the outing last Saturday because of what the Yankees said then was a ``fatigued'' groin, an injury he first felt during a minor league outing May 28. An MRI exam Monday showed Clemens had a scar tissue injury in the right groin.
Clemens threw 55 pitches during batting practice at the Yankees minor league complex in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday and then worked out there again Thursday.
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Notes from Thursday's AL games
June 7, 2007
KANSAS CITY: RHP Joakim Soria was activated from the 15-day DL on Thursday and optioned RHP Ryan Braun to Triple-A Omaha. Soria was placed on the DL on May 26 with shoulder inflammation. The move was retroactive to May 23. He is 1-2 with a 3.57 ERA and is 10-for-13 in save opportunities. Soria has appeared in 21 games. Braun had no record and a 7.24 ERA in 10 appearances. ... OF Joey Gathright had five hits in two games since being recalled from Triple-A Omaha on Wednesday, including three on Thursday. Gathright and 1B Alex Gordon, who had four hits, combined for seven of Kansas City's nine hits in Thursday's 8-3 loss. ... DH Mike Sweeney was given the day off Thursday. ... RHP David Riske has pitched 15 2-3 consecutive scoreless innings since May 1. ... The Royals completed their seven game road trip to Tampa Bay and Cleveland with a 3-4 record. ... Kansas City returns to interleague play Friday by hosting Philadelphia in a three game series.
CLEVELAND: RHP Jake Westbrook (strained left abdominal) will make his second rehabittation start for Double-A Akron on Friday. He is scheduled to throw about 75 pitches. It's expected Westbrook will make a third rehab start being being activated. ... The Indians play six of their next seven games in National League parks. Cleveland plays at Cincinnati in a three game series that begins Friday. After returning home Monday for a makeup game against Seattle, they open a three game series at Florida on Tuesday. ... Manager Eric Wedge said DH Travis Hafner would see some action at first base in games in NL parks. Hafner has started four games at first this season. ... Indians pitchers have been taking batting practice to get ready for the interleague games. ... OF Jason Michaels is batting .341 (14-for-41) in his last 16 games.... OF Trot Nixon is batting .200 (4-for-20) in his last six games.
TAMPA BAY: Delmon Young's two-run single in the ninth inning gave the Devil Rays a 5-3 victory over Toronto on Thursday, giving the Devil Rays consecutive road wins since June 16 and 17, 2006 at Philadelphia. ... Al Reyes recorded his 15th straight save, extending his team record for consecutive saves to start the season. ... OF Carl Crawford went 3-for-5 Thursday and was 8-for-16 with seven RBIs in the three-game series. He also scored six runs and stole two bases.
TORONTO: The Blue Jays designated RHP Tomo Ohka for assignment and inserted RHP Josh Towers back into the starting rotation. Towers, who went 1-3 in three April starts before being demoted to the bullpen, will start Monday in San Francisco. ... RHP A.J. Burnett struck out a season-high 13 batters in Thursday's 5-3 loss to Tampa Bay. It's his highest strikeout total since April 22, 2005, when he struck out 13 Cincinnati batters while pitching for Florida. ... Alex Rios hit his 14th home run of the season Thursday, a two-run shot off Edwin Jackson. No other Blue Jays batter has hit more than eight homers this season.
BOSTON: The last time a Boston pitcher lost a no-hit bid with two outs in the ninth inning came July 2, 1975, when Rick Wise did it against Milwaukee. Wise gave up a two-run homer to George Scott to break up the no-hitter before finishing off a 6-3 victory. ... The Red Sox selected University of Washington LHP Nick Hagadone with the 55th overall pick and high school shortstop Ryan Dent of Long Beach, Calif., with the 62nd overall pick in the baseball draft. Hagadone went 6-1 with 11 saves and a 2.77 ERA this season. Dent - no relation to Red Sox nemesis Bucky Dent - batted .468 with 29 RBIs and 28 SBs for Wilson HS this season. ... Manager Terry Francona disagreed with DH David Ortiz's assessment after Wednesday's loss that the team lacked intensity. ``I chalk that up to a guy giving a quote on the way to the shower,'' Francona said before Thursday's game. ``I think our intensity has been good. There's been some frustration.'' ...
OAKLAND: Oakland used its first-round draft pick on RHP James Simmons from UC Riverside. Simmons was 11-3 with a 2.40 ERA this season, striking out 116 batters and walking only 15. ... The A's were one-hit for the first time since July 7, 2006, against John Lackey of the Angels. ... OF Milton Bradley missed his fifth straight game with soreness in his right calf. Manager Bob Geren hopes Bradley will be able to play in Friday's series opener at San Francisco. ... Injured pitchers Rich Harden and Huston Street both felt good a day after throwing on the side. ``That's positive news for our pitching staff,'' Geren said.
NEW YORK: Yankees general manager Brian Cashman phoned Joe Torre at the behest of owner George Steinbrenner to voice displeasure when the manager failed to support Alex Rodriguez last week, according to SI.com. Rodriguez yelled something while he was running from second to third last week, causing Blue Jays third baseman Howie Clark to let Jorge Posada's popup drop because he thought he'd been called off the ball. Torre called A-Rod's tactic ``probably inappropriate'' and ``probably something he shouldn't have done.'' Torre declined comment on the SI.com report before Thursday night's game against the Chicago White Sox. ... SS Derek Jeter and C Jorge Posada were both given the day off Thursday. ...RHP Andrew Brackman was the Yankees first round selection, 30th overall, in Thursdays draft. Alex Rodriguez saw Brackman pitch for North Carolina last year and was very excited to see the selection of the 6-foot-10 junior. ``Im pumped about this guy,'' Rodriguez said. ``A guy like that usually isn't around after the 10th pick.'' ...Venezuelan C Jesus Montero, who was signed a $2 million deal last July as a 16-year-old, sprained his right ankle during an extended spring training game this week. Montero has the ankle in a boot and is expected to start a rehab program for a two to three weeks.
CHICAGO: Jermaine Dye, in a 2-for-22 slump, was out of the starting lineup Thursday as the White Sox' season-long hitting woes continue. Dye said his swing is pretty much the same as it was in little league and that slumps are more mental. Dye was batting just .224. As a team the White so were batting only .233 and had just one player in their starting lineup Thursday batting over .250. ``You look the scoreboard and it's June 6 and you look over there and see .210 and you're used to hitting .300,'' manager Ozzie Guillen said. ``I worry about guys looking at the scoreboard and say 'wow, start doing the math, what do I have to do? I have to get 3 hits today, 3 hits tomorrow' and then all of a sudden those hits don't come, you go negative.'' ... The White Sox used their first-round pick in the draft Thursday - No. 25 overall - to select left-hander Aaron Poreda of the University of San Francisco. Poreda, 20, is 6-foot-6 and weighs 240 pounds. ``We expect him to move through out minor league system at an accelerated pace,'' said director of amateur scouting Duane Shaffer. The White Sox have now taken a pitcher with their first pick for three straight years, grabbing Kyle McCulloch last season and Lance Broadway in 2005.
DETROIT: Manager Jim Leyland has been briefed by baseball officials on his duties as the American League All-Star manager. ``It's pretty complicated,'' he said. Leyland says it's a game he wants to win, what with home field advantage in the World Series for the victorious league at stake, but he also recognizes that it's an opportunity to display the skills of the game's stars. ``I'm definitely going to play that game to win, but I don't want to lose sight of the fact that it's a showcase for the greatest players,'' he said. ``It's their show.''. ...The Tigers have drawn NL powers like the Mets, Braves and Brewers on their interleague schedule, but Leyland won't complain even though his team's AL Central rival, the Cleveland Indians, have drawn an easier set of NL opponents. ``I don't care,'' he said. The Tigers host the Mets in a three-game series over the weekend.
TEXAS: 1B Mark Teixeira was back in the lineup after being pulled in the fifth inning on Wednesday night due to a stiff neck. Teixeira extended his club-record consecutive games streak to 506 on Thursday night. ...Jerry Hairston Jr. made his first start of the season at 3B on Thursday night, his fourth different starting position this year. ``He can play anywhere,'' manager Ron Washington said. ``If they hit it down there, he'll catch it.''. ... DH Sammy Sosa entered Thursday night without a homer in 12 games, leaving him stalled at 598 career homers. But Washington says he's not concerned that Sosa might be pressing to reach 600. ``He's gonna get it,'' Washington said. ``When and where, I don't know. I don't think it's wearing on him. I just think some of the pitching we've been facing lately, they're not allowing it. They're not making mistakes.''
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Notes from Thursday's NL games
June 7, 2007
PITTSBURGH: OF Xavier Nady did not play in Thursday's 3-2 win over Washington after injuring his left hamstring Wednesday. He was available to pinch hit, though, and manager Jim Tracy said he will consider using Nady as the designated hitter during the interleague series this weekend against the New York Yankees. ... Tracy, who is in his 7th season managing in the majors, has been to Yankee Stadium but has never managed a game there. ``It's something that you should look forward to,'' he said. ``I don't think we have anything to be afraid of.'' ... Freddy Sanchez homered Thursday for the first time in 354 at_bats dating from Aug. 23.
WASHINGTON: Nook Logan is giving up switch-hitting for now. Logan is batting .314 this season as a right-hander and .231 as a lefty and lately has been platooned in center field with Ryan Langerhans. Manager Manny Acta said the platoon will continue, although Logan might get the occasional righty-vs.-righty at-bat if it's not a crucial point in the game. ``If it comes down to crunch time, there's no time for experiment,'' Acta said. ``Then I can pinch-hit for him.'' ... Acta said he will use a rotation of Ryan Zimmerman, Dmitri Young and Austin Kearns at designated hitter during the Nationals' nine-game road stretch against American League teams, starting Friday at Minnesota.
HOUSTON: When asked if he'd heard from the league office about a possible fine or suspension relating to 1B Lance Berkman's ejection on Tuesday, manager Phil Garner said, ``Why? It was nice he came back on the field to pick up his stuff.'' 2B Craig Biggio took a scheduled day off from the starting lineup, but pinch hit leading off the eighth inning. ... Carlos Lee and Biggio are among the players Garner is considering for DH duty. ... Biggio is a career .386 hitter 50 games at Coors Field. ... The Astros are 3-7-1 in 11 road series this year. ... RHP Roy Oswalt is 0-2 and has three no decisions in his last five starts. ... Closer RHP Dan Wheeler had converted 10 straight saves before Thursday.
COLORADO: Manager Clint Hurdle said he looks forward to interleague play, especially the team's trip to Boston. ``You feel like you're playing in a museum when you're at Fenway Park,'' Hurdle said. ... Hurdle hasn't set in stone who he'll use as a DH in interleague games. ``I've got a bunch of different lineups drawn up,'' Hurdle said. ``It could be Jeff Baker or Willy Taveras and I have one where Todd Helton is DH and Baker plays first.'' ... Colorado is 4-0-1 in the last four series and finished 6-4 on the 10-game homestand. ... OF Matt Holliday leads the majors with 88 hits and extended his hitting streak to a career-high 15 games.
PHILLIES: RF Shane Victorino threw out Mets 1B Carlos Delgado trying to score on a flyball Wednesday night, upping Philadelphia's major league-leading total of outfield assists to 23. ... Slumping LF Pat Burrell was bak in the starting lineup. Burrell, batting .223, pinch-hit in Wednesday night's game and struck out before SS Jimmy Rollins hit a three-run home run in the seventh inning. Burrell, who has batted fifth behind 1B Ryan Howard for most of the season, was in the six hole. CF Aaron Rowand was batting fifth. ... With the 19th overall pick in the major league draft, the Phillies selected LHP Joe Savery from Rice. ... Before taking the first two games of the three-game set, the Phillies had lost three straight series to New York.
METS: OF Endy Chavez was placed on the disabled list with a pulled left hamstring and the team activated second baseman Jose Valentin, who had been out since April with a knee injury. Chavez had an MRI exam and said doctors told him he could miss four to six weeks while resting and rehabilitating the injury. Chavez was injured Wednesday night running to first trying to beat out a double-play grounder in the seventh inning of New York's 4-2 loss to the Phillies. The Mets now have three outfielders on the DL, with Chavez joining regular starters Moises Alou (left quad) and Shawn Green (right foot). Green expects to be ready to play when he's eligible to come off the DL Sunday against Detroit. The Mets hoped Alou could play this week, but he's still bothered by his injury. ... The Mets didn't have a first-round draft pick because of their free agent signing of Alou. New York selected RHP Eddie Kunz of Oregon State with its first pick, No. 42 overall.
CHICAGO: RHP Angel Guzman had an MRI exam on his right elbow and will not throw for at least two weeks. Guzman was placed on the 15-day DL on Saturday because of a strained elbow. ... 3B Aramis Ramirez was still in Chicago after having an MRI on his strained left knee, leaving the team one man short. Manager Lou Piniella, who returned from his suspension, said Ramirez is expected to join the team in Atlanta on Friday and would have made the trip on Thursday if not for weather problems. Piniella said the MRI showed patella tendinitis, and it is hoped Ramirez can avoid the disabled list. ``We're going to see how he responds with treatment and with rest over the weekend, and then try to make a decision, probably Monday,'' Piniella said. ``But if we can ride this thing out, I think that's our preference.''
ATLANTA: RHP John Smoltz was encouraged that his sore right shoulder felt better, but said it's too early to know if he'll be able to make Sunday's scheduled start. Smoltz said if he does experience more discomfort in the shoulder before Sunday, he may have his next start pushed back to Tuesday at Minnesota. ``This is one of those situations where you just wait it out,'' he said. ... The team's first-round pick, OF Jason Heyward of nearby Henry County High in McDonough, Ga., visited the team during batting practice.
CINCINNATI: RHP Homer Bailey, the team's No. 1 pick in 2004 and the seventh overall selection that year, makes his major league debut on Friday when he starts against the Indians in Cincinnati. ``There's going to be a lot of adrenaline pumping, and it'll be an exciting time for him and his family. Us, too,'' manager Jerry Narron said. ``A lot of us have been waiting for him to show up and pitch.'' Narron said Bailey, 6-1 with a 2.31 ERA at Triple-A Louisville, will get more than one start no matter what happens on Friday. ... The Reds are 3-8 in their last 11 road series, including this one against the Cardinals. ... RHP Marcus McBeth made his major league debut Wednesday, working a perfect eighth against the Cardinals. ``I just felt good about being in control of my emotions,'' McBeth said. ``It was a great opportunity.'' ... The Reds and Cardinals entered the game tied for the major league lead with 25 pinch hits. ... SS Alex Gonzalez (hamstring) was not in the lineup for the third straight game.
ST. LOUIS: C Gary Bennett, beaned by Aaron Harang on Tuesday, was back in the lineup after sitting out one game as a precaution. ``I figured it would be a day or two,'' Bennett said. ``But yes, it's a relief.'' ... Scott Rolen had two hits and played well defensively in his return to the lineup after missing three games because of a strained right hamstring. He also stole third after doubling in the second, noting that Reds pitcher Bronson Arroyo was ignoring him. ``That wasn't really baserunning, just pitcher's indifference I think,'' Rolen said. ``I didn't even have to run hard on that one.'' ... Closer Jason Isringhausen said he just reacted when making a bare-handed stop on pinch-hitter Jeff Conine's comebacker in the ninth. ``I hope I never get hurt doing it,'' Isringhausen said. ``It's just a reflex. I don't think about it, I just do it.''
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Twins' Mauer will be activated Friday
Thu, Jun 7, 2007
By Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS -- Joe Mauer is headed back to the Minnesota Twins this weekend.
The Twins said Thursday that they plan to activate their catcher from the 15-day disabled list before Friday's game against the Washington Nationals. Mauer, last year's AL batting champion, missed 29 games because of a strained left quadriceps muscle. He was hitting .353 when the injury occurred.
Mauer played in a simulated game with minor leaguers on Tuesday and went 0-for-3 with a walk on Wednesday in a Florida State League game with Class-A Fort Myers, catching the whole game until being removed for a pinch runner in the ninth.
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire has said he'll consider moving Mauer to the second spot in the lineup. Michael Cuddyer, Justin Morneau and Torii Hunter have hit well in the third, fourth and fifth spots during Mauer's absence.
To make room on the roster, left-handed reliever Jason Miller will be optioned to Triple-A Rochester. After three scoreless appearances, Miller allowed eight runs while only getting one out against the Los Angeles Angels on Monday.
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Astros' Berkman suspended for two games after ejection
Fri, Jun 8, 2007
By Associated Press
HOUSTON -- Houston Astros first baseman Lance Berkman was suspended for two games and fined an undisclosed amount by Major League Baseball on Friday after being ejected in a game against Colorado.
Berkman was ejected Tuesday night in the eighth inning after arguing a third strike. He then threw his batting glove and an equipment bag onto the field from the dugout.
He violated rules by returning in the ninth inning when the benches emptied after the Rockies' Manny Corpas hit Houston's Carlos Lee with a pitch. The Astros won 4-1.
Berkman's suspension, unless appealed, is scheduled to begin Friday night when the Astros play the Chicago White Sox.
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Astros' Berkman suspended for two games after ejection
Fri, Jun 8, 2007
Astros' Berkman appeals 2-game suspension
June 8, 2007
HOUSTON (AP) -Astros first baseman Lance Berkman was suspended for two games and fined an undisclosed sum Friday, three days after he was ejected against Colorado and tossed his batting glove and equipment bag onto the field.
The suspension by Major League Baseball was to have begun Friday night against the Chicago White Sox. Berkman, however, is appealing the decision and was to play Friday.
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By SUSANNA RUSTIN
Britain's newest children's laureate talks comics, cliffhangers and why she's banging the drum of diversity in literature.
BY the time Malorie Blackman read a work of fiction featuring black characters, she was 23. The book was Alice Walker's The Color Purple, set in the American South in the 1930s, and its impact on her was huge.
Blackman was then working as a computer programmer, having given up her childhood dream of becoming an English teacher after the careers adviser at her London secondary school put her off. But she still read children's books, and in her spare time began to write her own, and imagine they might one day be published.
It took a long time. None of the texts for picture books she offered publishers was accepted, and she changed tack before an editor at the Women's Press said yes to a collection of short stories for teenagers that blended horror and science fiction. Published after she left her job watching stock prices in the City of London – because she "couldn't care less whether the prices went up, down or sideways" – it was called Not So Stupid!
Earlier this month, Blackman, now 51, was named Britain's eighth children's laureate, a position she inherits from mega-selling Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson and will hold for two years, until 2015. At the announcement of her appointment in London, a few days before publication of her latest novel for teenagers, Noble Conflict, she looks delighted.
"I think younger children have been incredibly well served by the laureates we've had, but maybe teenagers haven't had as much of a look-in, so I'm looking forward to redressing the balance," she says.
Blackman is also the first black laureate and a forceful advocate for black and ethnic minority children's needs and rights. As a child, Blackman loved myths, legends and fairytales, and comics such as Bunty, Judy and Jinty. She read Elinor Brent-Dyer's chalet school stories, Joyce Lankester Brisley's Milly-Molly-Mandy series and later Agatha Christie, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. She loved them all, she says, "but I was very aware that I was not in the books I was reading. I still remember feeling I was totally invisible in the world of literature".
In her 20s, Blackman was a volunteer reader in a south London primary school but her awareness of the lack of black faces in books didn't go away.
"I remember going into a bookshop and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was A Thief In The Village by James Berry and I thought, is this still the state of publishing? Then I thought either I can whinge about it or try to do something about it. So that was a major reason for me wanting to write books for children, because I wanted to write all the books I'd missed as a child."
But it was years before Blackman would address the subject of race directly. She says people criticised her for not doing it sooner, "but people love to stick you in boxes and put labels on you, and I didn't want that. I thought, I wanted to write the kind of books I would have loved to have read as a child." These were books with characters who looked more like her, but not books with race as their theme. Most importantly, they were books that were hard to put down. Blackman is a devotee of the cliffhangers she enjoyed in her weekly comics, and makes an effort to end her chapters at a suspenseful point.
Her first novel, Hacker, pitted a teenage girl against the bank that thinks her father is a thief. She followed it up with several novels combining technological themes with thriller-type plots in which enterprising children rescue their parents and avert disasters.
Her writing was brisk and vivid, her focus on story more than style. But fearful once again of being pigeonholed, she thought "time to change, so then I wrote Pig-Heart Boy" – about a teenager who undergoes an experimental transplant, it was shortlisted for the Carnegie medal – "and some other books. I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism. But then with the Stephen Lawrence case I thought now I'm going to write about racism, but I'm going to do it my way." (Black teen Stephen Lawrence was killed in a racist attack in London in 1993.)
She planned to write about slavery and its legacy, "but all my friends – black, white, Asian, whatever – were underwhelmed by that idea. My white friends were like, what do you want to write about that for? It's so long ago. And my black friends were like, what do you want to write about that for? It's so painful." So she thought again, and came up with the idea for a series of dystopian adventures in which roles and races would be reversed.
The alternative modern society in which the Noughts & Crosses books are set is governed by the black Crosses, who have all the power, status and money, while the miserable underclass of former slaves are the white Noughts, otherwise known as "Blankers". The first book's plot revolves around the Romeo and Juliet-style romance (albeit with the emphasis more on friendship than sex) between Nought Callum and Cross Sephy, whose father is a government minister.
By making her young white characters the victims of oppression but without dwelling on their race, she offered a new way in. And while she was angry when she sat down to begin Noughts & Crosses, having just watched a TV documentary about the Stephen Lawrence case, she knew she had to channel this.
There was plenty of life experience that Blackman could pour into Noughts & Crosses, which she says was her most painful and satisfying book to write. Blackman, like Callum, was accused of stealing the ticket the first time she travelled in a first-class train compartment. And like Callum, she had a habit of standing up to her teachers. "I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'"
The racism Blackman experienced as a child in south London is shocking. Her father drove a bus, her mother worked in a pyjama factory, and there were five kids. The family avoided public places such as restaurants, and Blackman remembers being called a "jungle bunny" and told to go back to where she came from. "It was a strange and confusing time," she says. "I would think, but I was born in Clapham. But as a child, you get on with it."
She was sent out of class the first time she went to school with her hair loose in an afro, and was told by the careers adviser at her girls' secondary school that "black people don't become teachers".
Her education left her with many unanswered questions, some of which she answered for herself as a young adult when she spent much of her spare time and money in a specialist bookshop researching black history. It also shaped her conviction that efforts to engage ethnic minority children in education are essential if they are not to feel excluded.
Unlike British Prime Minister David Cameron, who argued two years ago that multiculturalism has failed, Blackman believes it needs to go further. "I don't think we've gone far enough with it in terms of making sure children know about different cultures and ways of living. If you want people to feel they are part of a society, it's about making it more inclusive.
"That's why I bang the drum for getting more diverse books out there, and for getting rid of the idea that if a book contains pictures of a black or Asian child, it's going to have a limited market."
Through talent, application and a self-belief she says she learned from her mother, Blackman made it. Her backlist features more than 60 books for all age groups, several of which have won awards. Pig-Heart Boy was adapted for television, and Noughts & Crosses won a spot in the BBC's 2003 "Big Read" poll of all-time favourite books.
But her life story also taught Blackman to distrust authority, and many of her novels are about the crises produced when those in charge get things wrong. In Noughts & Crosses we are invited to sympathise with terrorists. In her latest and even more dystopian novel, Noble Conflict, the reader is forced to switch sides.
Blackman's parents, she says, had an unquestioning attitude to those in charge of their children's education – when her teachers were racist her parents asked what she had done wrong.
But Blackman had a different response: when she was told she was not university material, for instance, she remembers thinking, "I'll show you, you old cow! If anything, it made me work harder."
But she knows not everyone had her confidence, and she speaks with sadness of "a whole generation, my generation, that was undervalued and lost". Newer immigrants, she suggests, don't carry the weight of frustration and disappointment of their African-Caribbean peers.
Over the next two years Blackman will do what she can to raise expectations, visiting schools and promoting libraries.
"As a child I loved Star Trek," she says. "You had Russians and Americans and a black officer and a Japanese officer, and I thought, yes that's the ideal, having all those people working together, when we get to the 21st century it's going to be brilliant because we're going to be past all this nonsense. And here we are in the 21st century and it's the same old, same old. Sometimes I feel we need to get over ourselves and move on. There are bigger issues." – Guardian News & Media
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SILVERTON, Ore. Oregon State Park workers said they were aware of a broken railing in Silver Falls State Park even before a 10-year-old boy leaned on it, fell and ended up in the hospital.
Wilson Pelot,10, of Portland was injured when he fell near the Upper Falls at Silver Falls State Park Sunday afternoon.
Pelot, now in intensive care, was on a hike with his father when he stopped to take a break. He leaned against a railing that gave way, sending him plummeting 40 feet down into a creek, said Lt. Gregg Hastings with Oregon State Police.
The boy's father went down the bank to the river and carried him across the creek to wait for emergency crews. Around 3:44 p.m., paramedics treated the boy then took him to the hospital, Hastings said.
Park workers knew the railing was broken and damaged by storms around the first of the year.
The railing had warning tape on it at the time of Pelot's fall, but some hikers wondered why it was not fixed.
I think it's insane, said hiker Michael Lockbaum. You got to have a little more maintenance.
The South Trail at Silver Falls is one of the most spectacular in a park known for its natural beauty.
Park manager Kevin Strandberg said more than one million people visit the park each year and only 20 to 30 get hurt, usually just with scrapes from tripping or slipping.
The railing was on a list of scheduled maintenance projects but workers had not gotten to it, Strandberg said. The trail remains open, though the section of railing now has much more hazard tape across it.
It's always sad when one of our visitors gets hurt coming out to the park, Strandberg said. We do have the trail open. It's a very popular trail to have right now. We believe it's safe the way it's properly signed right now.


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After five years of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, and the failure after more than 50 votes in Congress to get the needed support to repeal the signature legislative achievement of Barack Obama's presidency, Republicans in Congress are dropping the effort for repeal and are turning to issues such as trade and tax reform.
KMUW hosted a live call-in show October 9. We took questions from callers, email and Twitter. Below are questions and answers from the hour. We received more questions than we could get to during the hour, but we followed up with our panelists and added those additional questions and answers below.
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The federal online marketplace for health insurance opens October 1.
As part of the Affordable Care Act, most Americans are required to have insurance beginning in 2014. This part of the law, referred to as the "individual mandate," is designed to increase the number of consumers in the total insurance pool, with the intention of lowering premiums across the board.
A recent Pew Research poll found that nationally only a quarter of respondents said they understand "very well" what the effects of the Affordable Care Act will be.
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A health care reform expert fielded questions in Wichita Thursday about the Affordable Care Act.
A new report by the Center for Rural Affairs finds that rural residents stand to benefit from the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, more than their city-dwelling counterparts.The author of the report, Jon Bailey, says the premium tax credits to help pay for individual health insurance plans, and the caps on out-of-pocket costs will be especially important to people who live in rural areas.
Members of Kansas' all-Republican congressional delegation agreed the coming weeks are critical to the future of the federal health care law, though they are still unsure how to stop it.U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp urged the Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association members at their annual conference in Wichita to tell people in Washington how the new health care law affects small businesses.
Kansas Lieutenant Governor Jeff Colyer told a US House panel Tuesday that the federal health care law threatens patients, taxpayers, states, and the fiscal health of the country.


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- 2 blood oranges, peeled, sectioned and cut into 1/4 inch pieces
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Leo "Big Lee" Bell, transitioned on April 30, 2012. The viewing will be at 9 a.m Saturday, May 5, 2012, with the funeral at 9:30 a.m. at the Whigham Funeral Home, 580 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Newark, N.J. Interment will immediately follow in Evergreen Cemetery, Hillside, N.J. Born on March 16, 1928, in Enfield, N.C., son of the late Edward and Allene Bell, Leo was the third of 10 children. He was employed by Atlantic Window Company in West Orange for decades. Leo, fondly known by his family as "Big Lee," loved spending time with his children, grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. His love and generosity will truly be missed by those who know him. Leo leaves to cherish his memories, his wife, Thelma Bell; daughters, Edith Bell of Georgia, Malinda Berry of Newark, N.J., Lynette Box of Orange, N.J., Shirley Bell of West Orange, N.J., Marilyn Bell of Glen Ridge, N.J., Sharon Bell of Tarzana, Calif., Earline Bell-Graham of Atlanta, Ga., and Lashonda Rogers of Newark, N.J.; sons, Anthony Johnson of Woodbridge, Va., Lee Andre Bell of South Orange, N.J., Ricky Bell of Bloomfield, N.J., and Glenn Bell of Fort Bragg, N.C.; sisters-in-law, Helene Bell, Fannie Bell, Dorothea Bell, Katie Bell, Arlene Bell, Mildred Smart and Helen Mays, and brother-in-law, Bogg Johnson. He also leaves 31 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and a host of friends and special loved ones, including his endearing friend Milton, and beloved nephew, Joe. Lee was preceded in death by sons, James and Al Bell; his sister, Earlene, and brothers, Floyd, Joseph, William Henry, Robert Lee, Theodore, Leonard Lee, James Edward and Calvin Bell.
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This painting records the peculiar damage inflicted on a church in the village of Coggeshall in Essex, near the artist's home. It recalls, however, images John Armstrong made in the 1930s in which ruined buildings served as symbols for political violence such as the Spanish Civil War. This was made as part of the artist's work as an official war artist and it may be that the structure of the building that is revealed intact beneath the stonework is a symbol of resilience at a time of threat.
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I have a 1978 Cheoy Lee 38 ketch with the wood masts and encountered the very same problem. From talking to other owners in the area I believe that Cheoy Lee installed wire routing blocks inside the masts when they were being constructed in Hong Kong, creating a problem for those of us trying to change out wiring, post-production. I, too, was unable to re-wire my mast with new wires, including the installation of radar cable. So, I did the next best thing, which was to install 3/4 inch PVC tubing along the rear quadrant of the main mast and run my wires into the cabin to that way. Suprisingly, the tubes are almost invisible to the casual eye and do not interfere with sail or halyard function. The only other alternative would be to dry dock the boat, unstep the mast and hollow out the wiring cavity (top and bottom). Perhaps next year, but at the moment the PVC is doing the job.
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Crocodile camp: camp and resort
After driving around in Maun looking for a nice campsite but we couldn't find much, so we drove more north.tThere are few resorts and campsites by Thamalakane river. It's about 12 km. from Maun downtown.We arrived there late afternoon and felt so hungry and thirsty.I knew that it's not eating time but I walked to their bar and restaurant to have some drinks and ask them nicely if they can make some small snack for us .They smiled ..and I noticed that they want to say no,but I kept smiling with begging eyes until they consulted to each other,finally they made us some sandwiches.I sat there enjoy the view by the river for long and drink a lot of nice cold soft drink..vow! simple but happy...
After relaxing afternoon cofee,we started to go back to our campsite to set up the tent above our vehicle before sunset.It's better to do it before sunset ,the reason was.. there still be enough light to see things around and do it before more mosquitoes arrive.Most campsites are completely dark after sunset.Only very few camp provide some light ,but mostly we have to use our own torch or candles,and these things attract mosquitoes.
Then try to take shower before dark.They provide ablution area for man and woman,with hot and cold shower and with some hand basins with mirror.That day ,there's no body using campsite ,it's only us.Other traveller stayed in bungalo (can choose from brick or reeds one),which is in another area from campsite.The campsite is more to the road.The campsite area shading by Acacia erioloba trees.That month ,the grond was qite dry so it can be very dusty,luckily there's no body around to make dust and noise,so I can sleep peacefully with only the smell and sound of nature.
I contacted staff in the reception area about Mokoro tour and paid there.This is a reason why I chose to stay here. First ,they provide Mokoro tour(transportation go and back with Mokoro and boatman), 2. Good location (by the river ,good for relaxing) 3.They have restaurant and bar,mean ..I have food and drinks, otherwise I have to drive out to town...which is no option for me, cuz my car already set the tent on top.
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- Reviews: 2527
Factors to consider when choosing Okavango camps
Most accommodation in the Okavango is only accessible by light aircraft. If you select a camp in the 'neck' of the Delta (for example, Tubu Tree), it will probably be towards the end of the 'milk run' flight that ferries tourists to and from Maun, since each flight tends to service several camps, particularly in quiet periods. This is a real bonus, as you get a 'free' aerial trip over the Swamps and see the unique ecosystem from an entirely different perspective: very few things in the Okavango come cheap (let alone free), so enjoy it!
Also make sure to enquire about the camp's proximity to water during the period that you are intending to visit - some camps are close to water after the wet season, but are 'dry' for much of the rest of the year. For many tourists, a mokoro (dug out canoe) trip is a highlight, which is obviously only possible if the camp is close to fairly permanent water.
Lastly, some of the camps offer the option of paying an up front fee for drinks to cover the duration of your stay. Drinks in remote locations can be extremely expensive (and by that point, you are probably too laid back to ask for a price list), so it is possible to run up an unexpectedly large bar bill for which you had not necessarily budgeted. We opted to pay R650 per person for our three nights at Tubu Tree, which covered all local beers and South African wines, which ended up being a good deal and avoided any unpleasant surprises.
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Tubu Tree Lodge: Not ANOTHER bloody leopard!
For the budget traveller, 'affordable' is always a relative term in a Botswanan context, but we certainly got our money's worth at Tubu Tree, with ridiculously luxurious 'Out Of Africa' tented accommodation and a personally assigned game ranger for the duration of our stay. The room was beautifully furnished with a stunning viewing platform over an open plain (that would be flooded in the wet season) and both an indoor and outdoor shower.
At the time of our visit, the lodge was run by Jackie and Justin, who are a delightful, hospitable and very knowledgeable couple for whom nothing is too much trouble. Our guide (Johnnie) was also excellent, although be warned that his passion is for leopards and big cats - so he was rather perplexed by our fascination with the smaller wildlife and struggled to understand when we were more excited by porcupines than our 4th leopard of the drive!
The food was very good - plentiful and varied but not exotic enough to be alarming. They pull out all the stops for afternoon tea, so you (and your waistline) have been warned!
Tubu Tree is towards the 'neck' of the Delta, so it is towards the end of the 'milk run' flight that ferries tourists to and from Maun. This is a real bonus, as you get a 'free' aerial trip over the Swamps, and I would recommend that anyone planning a visit to the Delta considers this when planning which camp to stay in.
The wildlife was great. In the camp, there are epauletted fruit bats nesting under the eaves of the office, which sets the tone. There were the usual 'glamour' sightings - for which Botswana is justly famous - we saw lots of big cats (including a recent cheetah kill, with cubs in attendance) and were all leoparded-out by the end of the trip but what really made it for us was the smaller, more unusual stuff. We saw porcupines, heaps of spring hares (beware - they're nigh on impossible to photograph!), African wild cats, honey badger and (my particular favourite), the not uncommon - but seldom seen - Cape Centipede Eater (not all that surprising given that it is a small, black nocturnal snake that lurks in rotting wood)! The birds were also excellent - we notched up 80+ species without doing any serious twitching, and by the time you leave, you'll be sick of spotting coppery-tailed coucals (usually notoriously shy and difficult to spot)!
Be mindful that Tubu Tree is only adjacent to water in the wet season - during drier weather, there is no water close by, so mokoro (dug out canoe) trips are not possible. We didn't feel that this was a major issue, but it would be a disappointment if you have anticipated this as one of the highlights of your trip.
We opted to pay an up front fee for our drinks (R650 per person for three nights) which meant that we didn't have to worry about running up an unbudgeted for tab. Given that drinks in remote locations can be very expensive (and you are usually too clutched out to ask for a price list), this is a very good scheme, and should be more widely adopted.
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- Reviews: 77
Motsentsela Tree Lodge: Lodge
This was a wonderful place to begin my safari. The managers and staff were wonderful and the place was nice and peaceful.
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- Reviews: 7
Kwara Camp: Private concession in the Okavango Delta
Kwara Camp is in the private Kwando Concession just north of Moremi Game Reserve in the Okavango Delta. It offers the full range of delta activities, plus the added benefit of night drives (not allowed in Moremi), allowing you to see a range of nocturnal wildlife not normally seen. The staff is friendly and efficient, the guides and trackers knowledgeable, and the food and accommodations are top-notch. I highly recommend this company for their professionalism and dedication to making sure that you have the best safari experience available.
The camp is small (eight elevated tents, each with en-suite lavaltory facilities and attached, screened outdoor showers) and is situated on a large concession, which guarantees an intimate safari experience. The lodge and tents face a permanent water hole which attracts a variety of wildlife, many species considered rare or endangered.
- K.Knight
- Reviews: 1060
Camping: Camping in the Okavango Delta.
Camping in delta was a fantastic experience that allows you to camp inthe middle of nowhere where wildlife is fre to roam in and out of your camp whenecer they feel the need! It was a fantastic experience to hear the roars of lions in the early morning and to see the elephants come down to the edge of camp for a drink.
- cloudsitter
- Reviews: 12
Island Safari Lodge: Camping and rooms
Located about 10 kilometers out of Maun back towards Chobe Park. Has campsite and rooms, rooms/chalets are very good quality, camping area shaded by trees. Remember to lock up stuff if camping as there have been the odd theft. Bar and restaurant are good quality and a good selection. Try and climb the pole in the bar and write your name on the ceiling. Has swimming pool and can arrange trips over or into the Delta.
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- Reviews: 51
cresta "rileys hotel": tourist hotel
nice rooms, for the tourist who likes their comfort.situated on the banks of the Thamalakane river.Most rooms are air conditioned with en-suite bathrooms.breakfast is a buffet and they have room service.
situated on the Thamalakane river, picturesque, but nothing compared to what you will see when in the okavango.....
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By Enrique Martel SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Legislators and government officials in Puerto Rico picked up the pace of bargaining in a bid to avoid a partial shutdown of the U.S. commonwealth's central government set for Monday.
By Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pro-immigrant backers of a nationwide boycott set for Monday predict millions of immigrants will stay away from work, school and stores and rally in support of an overhaul of America's immigration laws.
By Estelle Shirbon ABUJA (Reuters) - Mediators from the African Union (AU) agreed in the early hours of Monday to give the warring parties from Sudan's Darfur region an extra 48 hours to strike a peace deal after a midnight deadline expired.
By Noah Barkin BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel heads to the United States this week for the second time in four months, intent on mapping out a strategy for confronting Iran that will not splinter the West as Iraq did three years ago.
By Achmad Sukarsono JAKARTA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of workers rallied across Asia on Monday in peaceful May Day demonstrations for better conditions.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Digital music service Napster on Monday said it would launch a free, advertising-supported version of its music platform. Napster said users could listen to any of more than two million tracks free and on-demand up to five times each.
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil climbed more than a dollar on Monday after a refinery fire in Italy added to fears Iran's defiant pursuit of its nuclear program and violence in Nigeria will lead to a global fuel shortage. IPE Brent crude futures stood 66 cents higher at $72.68 by 1111 GMT.
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By Estelle Shirbon ABUJA (Reuters) - Chances of a peace agreement for Sudan's Darfur region looked slim on Monday despite a 48-hour extension to negotiations, observers said, citing rebel inflexibility.
By Megan Goldin JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's new government will take office on Thursday after Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert formed a coalition to carry out his plan to redraw Jewish settlement lines in the occupied West Bank.
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There are several factors that go into what grade you get. While I do believe intelligence is one of them, that changes over time. "Intelligence" is not stagnant, it's very fluid and changes as you learn new things.

In my experience, the biggest factors are ability, effort and consistency. Do you have the ability? Are you making your best effort? Are you consistent in your efforts? Those are the factors I would look at.
Grades are merely a snapshot in time. They are dependent on a variety of outside factors: everything from the mood the student is in at the time of the test, to the amount of sleep from the night before; likewise it could have a bearing as to the mood of the instructor, to how many stressors were affecting the instructor at the time the test was created. So, do they prove intelligence? Not in-so-much as might be thought by a single test.

That being said... guess what? They are about the best tangible indicator available. But they work best when viewed over a period of time. They can show trends. So are they a "reflection" of intelligence (which was really the question asked)? Yes.

But just like a reflection viewed in a mirror, it could be blurred or obscured by how clean the mirror is (or how much bias was put into the tests which generated the grades).

The trick is to realize any time you are viewing a reflection, it's not the real thing. A solid educator looks beyond grades when rating a student's intelligence.
Not necessarily, although a low IQ will diminish your ability to understand. I agree with much what's already been said.

I was (according to my records) very intelligent when young but could never unlock it so was only ever mediocre at school. There are several factors that can act against learning at school, for example:

Lack of interest.*

Actual inability or slowness to understand - perhaps a different approach to the subject would work but that is not necessarily offered.*

Teacher's poor performance.*

Pressure from parents or others to "do well" - either by rebellion or stress - rather than help and encouragement.

Similar pressure in direction.

The opposite - no support from, or even hostility to, learning, by parents or other elders.

Stress from other causes like the attempt to "succeed" or being bullied.

Illness.

*These were my main factors. Of inability to understand, I finally learnt certain maths subjects only by chipping away at the, many years later, in my own time and way.
No, they are not necessarily a measure of intelligence. Look up Howard Gardner's book Multiple Intelligence and Education. There are different sorts of intelligence and grades are not necessarily a measure of that.
Here is a good link for anyone interested http://www.infed.org/thinkers/gardner.htm
Depends on what intelligence you are talking about..there are different types. If its an English exam, it will tell you how good you are at English. Not Physics. Not Maths.

Also, it won't reflect your emotional intelligence, your social intelligence. So...not really.
it is pure crap...most of my teachers should have just phoned it in...most iq tests are bogus also...they are knowledge tests and not intelligence tests...i am tired of people who are not bright at all running everything (except Obama, he really is smart). our entire system of living is wrong...
Not much. They might be a good reflection of how well you can play the system though.
I believe they are a reflection of your ability to sit exams and to remember facts. That's not necessarily the same thing as intelligence.
To a point
Either intelligence or effort
Dumb people usually don't get A's.
I've amazed people in my life
iv'e gotten people who drink themselves to death in a sentence wish to stop want help.
And some listen in the end some don't, its not about what a paper gives you as a IQ score
it's about your own experiences it's about how you learn the world around you weather or not that shows or comes out in the way everyone wants it to be and that's on paper someone can have a grate mind and high intelligence yet the papers score them like a dumb ***.
If people new my IQ level on paper they'd look at me and go "Not possible"
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Discover the world with Lufthansa
Even if you are not planning a trip to Basel, Lufthansa flies to a variety of other places throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia. Experience, for example, Europe - one of the world's continents. Exciting metropolises are waiting for you there! Travel to Italy or discover Germany. Feel the unique atmosphere of the multifaceted city of Berlin, the traditional flair of Munich or admire the individual skyline of Frankfurt.So travelers can enjoy longer trips to far away and exotic destinations. Find out how much baggage you can take. Book a weekend shopping trip or a simple visit to see your friends and family.
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