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Randy Orton vs Kane
Believe it or not, I predicted this match will happen (to myself). I do remember last summer when they had a match and Kane shaking Orton's hand.
Hey guys, this is the first ever blog I've posted on any wrestling forum of any kind, so i apologise if it's bad plus i wanted to steer away from all the wrestlemania posts But anyway.
Glenn Jacobs better known as Kane has had quite a career, but he has had nowhere near the career he could have had.
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Now I don't have much time on my hands, so I'm gonna make this quick. Wazzup guys it's me Mike here once again with another blog. Now WrestleMania is today and I will make a short blog on who I predict will win followed by a brief summary of why I think so. Let's get started!
Triple Threat Tag Team Match The Usos
I honestly don't care who wins but I am pretty sure that Epico
Figured I'd jot down a few points on what I think will happen at Wrestlemania. By the way... I think it's appalling that WWE aren't showing the tag team title match on TV.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson vs. John Cena
My original thought was that Miz would interfere, but given the recent news about Batista and Brock Lesnar, I'm predicting that Brock will interfere with the match.
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Say what you want about Lesner. His impact was amazing. He has the presence, the legit background and technical ability in the ring to become one of wrestlings greatest stars. Yes he's got a major attitude on him but he's arguably THE GREATEST pure Heel I've ever seen. I say The Greatest because he was just evil at times, some of the stuff he did to lesser stars was a close to the bone as WWE ever
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I'm happy. I'm happy that it is officially April 1st, 2012.. WrestleMania day. If I could get this made into a National Holiday, I would. It's certainly no secret that I'm a huge "mark" of THE 'E and always will be. They do a ton
Welcome everybody to THE DAY. It's here. It's April 1st. It's Wrestlemania XXVII. Now for a lot of people, this is a very exciting day. For some, it's going to be more fun pulling April Fool's jokes on your friends. But this is a special edition of The Abdominal Stretch that's going to focus solely on today.
Earlier this week, I posted my "Not Your Typical" WM predictions,
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We're on the homestretch to The biggest Pay-Per-View of 2012, and it's time that your's truly gives you his picks for professional wrestling's version of the Super Bowl.
How This Is Going To Work:
I'm going to give you all eight matches on the card, in the order that I think it should happen, and who I think will win, should
Hey guys, first time blogger so let me know how I do. Talking with some buddies about who the best in WWE are got me to thinking, who are the most boring superstars out there right now.
Before i get hated on for using top talent I just want to say I made this list out of guys who are receiving decent pushes, comment on what you think of my opinions and other guys who you think are currently
Wazzup guys? Mike here once again and I realized that last time when I mentioned Daniel Bryan in a bad way and everyone went NUTS, so I rewatched a couple of his matches and realized that he's not actually that bad, so my apologies.
Anyways today I'm going to be talking about ways to improve the WWE after WrestleMania, that includes the tag team division and possible rivalries/matches.
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[Wizards 2012-13 Player Reviews from the TAI crew are going down; let's reflect—index:
Jannero Pargo, Jason Collins, Shaun Livingston, Shelvin Mack, Cartier Martin, Earl Barron,
Jan Vesely, Chris Singleton, Trevor Booker, Garrett Temple, Emeka Okafor, Trevor Ariza,
Martell Webster, A.J. Price, Jordan Crawford, Kevin Seraphin, Bradley Beal, Nene, John Wall.]
Emeka Okafor
6-10 : Height
252 lbs. : Weight
30 : Age
9 : Years NBA Experience
3 : NBA Teams
Traded by the New Orleans Hornets along with Trevor Ariza to the Washington Wizards
in exchange for Rashard Lewis and a second round pick on June 20, 2012.
Time as a Wizard in 2012-13
79 : Games
77 : Starts
2,052 : Minutes
1.43 out of 3 stars
Average Truth About It.net DC Council Game Rating
{Okafor evaluated over 76 games}
NBA historical PER contribution equivalent:
maybe Tyson Chandler for the 2002-03 Chicago Bulls (15.8)
maybe Erick Dampier for the 2002-03 Golden State Warriors (15.8),
maybe Bison Dele for the 1998-99 Detroit Pistons (15.7)
.104 Win Shares/48 Minutes
NBA historical WS/48 contribution equivalent:
maybe Samuel Dalembert for the 2004-05 Philadelphia 76ers (.104),
maybe Bendan Haywood for the 2010-11 Dallas Mavericks (.104),
maybe Brad Daugherty for the 1989-90 Cleveland Cavaliers (.104)
With Emeka Okafor on the Court…
The Wizards offense scored 1.0 point more per 100 possessions (OffRtg)
The Wizards defense allowed 1.0 point less per 100 possessions (DefRtg)
Plus/Minus per 48 minutes: minus-1.1
Numbers : Per 36 Minutes
13.4 : Points
12.1 : Rebounds
1.4 : Blocks
0.8: Steals
1.6 : Assists
1.9 : Turnovers
2.5 : Fouls
Okafor had 872 offensive possessions with the Wizards that ended with a FGA, TO or FTs, and he scored 0.88 Points Per Possession (PPP) on those, ranked 261st in the NBA (via Synergy Sports Technology). Defensively, he allowed 0.81 PPP over 423 possessions, ranked 73rd.
47.7% Field Goals (328-687)
58.4% Free Throws (109-191)
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Emeka Okafor in 2012-13 with the Wizards:
A Three-Sided Coin
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The many faces of Chukwuemeka Noubuisi Okafor: Emeka the Professional, Emeka the Player and Emeka the Contract.
The Professional
As the Washington Post's Michael Lee tells it, it's not a stretch to say that Emeka Okafor earned his entire $13.5 million salary on February 27. That was the night of John Wall's horrific meltdown against the Detroit Pistons which resulted in a fourth quarter benching, followed by a tense post-game interview where Wall blamed his teammates for mishandling his passes, followed by awkward post-game interviews with his teammates where they downplayed his struggles.
It was obvious something was wrong with Wall, but no one wanted to talk about it. Asked whether any veteran said something to Wall during the game, Martell Webster responded, "It's all about motivation at that point. You're not gonna brow beat anybody, just going to continue to encourage them and motivate them to lift them out of their slump. … So, it's not a matter of brow beating 'cause why would you do that, I mean we need him to be at his calmest."
Enter Emeka Okafor. Professional brow beater. Michael Lee reported there was a heated confrontation between Wall and Okafor during which Okafor pretty much told Wall to get his head out of his ass and act like a leader.
Looks like Wall needed the tough love and nobody—other than Okafor—was willing to give it to him. You can't put a price tag on that type of leadership, although $13.5 million probably comes close. The words "leadership" and "professionalism" get thrown around a lot in sports but rarely do you get such a clear example of its impact in the locker room. It's scary to think what might have happened to Wall (and the team) if Emeka had not, as it were, encouraged him to remove his head from his ass.
The Player
Emeka's up and down performance on the court has been well chronicled. In short, he was awful to start the season, then morphed into a double-double machine once Wall returned. He also led the league in a peculiar and surprising stat—FG% on hook shots. (No. 2 on the list was Washington's very own Kevin Seraphin.)
But his biggest contribution may have been on the defensive end. As a team, Washington emerged this season as a defensive force, ending the year as the eighth stingiest unit. While the credit does not lie with one player, it's hard to deny Okafor's impact as the defensive anchor. For a team only one year removed from an Andray Blatche/JaVale McGee front court,Okafor was a huge step in the right direction.
Which brings us to the final side of the coin…
The Contract
Last June it was no secret that New Orleans Hornets general manager Dell Demps was looking to cut payroll. Rumor was he might be willing to give up the No. 10 pick if a team took on Okafor or Ariza's contract. Ernie did him one better. Washington took on BOTH contracts and let New Orleans keep the No. 10 pick, inexplicably sending New Orleans a second round pick in addition to Rashard Lewis' partially guaranteed expiring contract, which saved New Orleans roughly $10 million up front and $22 million the following year. You can imagine Demps' reaction when he hung up the phone. Needless to say, the trade was met with mixed emotions. The criticism was not so much an indictment of Okafor and Ariza as much as a lament of opportunities lost. But that's a story for another time….
Let's move on to opportunities gained. Emeka enters next season with a $14.5 million expiring contract. All options are on the table—from trading him at the deadline to a contender for young assets to re-signing him to a more palatable multi-year deal as our defensive anchor/mentor.
The decision is essentially a referendum on the rebuild. If you are happy with the direction of the team and are excited to battle for the 8th seed after an almost .500 record with John Wall, then Okafor is an essential piece of the puzzle. If you think "win now" does not apply to a team coming off five straight sub-30 win seasons and that our young assets outside of Wall and Beal are lacking, then Okafor is a nice trade chip to acquire another building block. If history is any indication, Ernie is firmly in the first camp.
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Fidesz, the mainstream center-right party led by former Prime Minister Viktor Orban, was widely expected to gain a commanding lead in the first round of the vote - as much as 57 percent, according to polls released after most voting stations closed Sunday evening.
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To varying degrees, Jews and Gypsies have traditionally served as scapegoats in Eastern Europe for resident majorities during hard times. Jobbik has been able to inflate the traditional, relatively small base of extreme nationalist and anti-Semitic supporters with voters from Hungary's struggling country villages where the lack of jobs and poverty-related thievery has exacerbated tensions with Gypsies, or Roma, as they are also called.
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When it comes to making playoff predictions or choosing players in fantasy hockey, it's just so much more fun to side with a trendy pick. Sure, it was probably the right move to select Ray Rice in the first round in fantasy football, but it didn't provide the visceral thrill of a riskier move.
Many hockey pundits are locked in debates regarding the Northeast Division favorite: is it wiser to side with the defending champion Boston Bruins or the Buffalo Sabres (the champions of splashy off-season moves)? From what I gathered, a startling amount are going chic with the Sabres. (A few might even lean toward the Montreal Canadiens, which is batty if you consider their defense but intriguing when you ponder their easier schedule.)
It's tough to figure out why people are discounting the Bruins after they won the 2011 Stanley Cup. Maybe it's because the focus of that championship round shifted toward Roberto Luongo's meltdowns rather than Tim Thomas' brilliance. Perhaps the problem is that the Bruins were good during the 2010-11 season, but they weren't overwhelming favorites like the last three champions. The Bruins' biggest stars are a huge defenseman and an unorthodox goalie, so maybe the hunger for marquee offensive talent has something to do with it.
Either way, it is a tough race to call.
The case for the champs
The Bruins feature the best defenseman in Zdeno Chara. You can generate hours of debate about which team has the better American star in net, but the Bruins' combined duo gets the nod because Tuukka Rask is more proven than Jhonas Enroth. Boston's group of centers is impressive even with Marc Savard hurtling toward retirement; one assumes that the hockey world will give Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci more respect sooner or later. Derek Roy should be outstanding if he is 100 percent, but the Sabres' pivots don't seem quite as sturdy – especially if Ville Leino ends up being their second line center, as many expect. (That's not to say that Tyler Ennis and Nathan Gerbe lack talent if they're in center spots this season – it's just that they're likely to get pushed around defensively.)
Depth is the key in Buffalo
That's not to say that Buffalo goes into this battle without any weapons, though. Their advantage can be summarized with one word: depth. Their defense is much more versatile now that they added Christian Ehrhoff and Robyn Regehr. Leino complements an offense that has a plethora of dangerous wingers, from Thomas Vanek to Jason Pominville and Drew Stafford.
The depth argument does make some sense in the regular season, but it's still surprising to see so many people brush off the Bruins' hardware – mainly because people usually follow champions like lemmings.
In a way, this is battle between change and stability. The Sabres seem radically different while the Bruins only made minor alterations to a team that won three seven-game series and their first Cup since the days of Bobby Orr. Picking Boston isn't as fun as siding with Buffalo, but if you ask me, it's the best bet.
- billyhoyle4real - Oct 6, 2011 at 3:28 PM
Buffalo Sabres are going to win Lord Stanley's Cup!!! Get after it.
- skoobyfl - Oct 6, 2011 at 4:08 PM
I've been preaching depth on here for months. Take one player, anyone off each teams roster against the Sabres. You won't bet against Buffalo then & you shouldn't now.
- trbowman - Oct 7, 2011 at 3:52 PM
I'd love to see a Kings/Sabres cup matchup. Two teams that haven't won one. Definitely within the realm of possibilty.
- hatrickswayze - Oct 10, 2011 at 1:11 AM
umm skooby, ill take marc savard off the bruins roster, oh ya thats right we did last year and still figured out how to win, with or without our powerplay. i love whats going on in buffalo as much as the next guy, but its two games into the season.how about we dont go crazy…
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – No time for a break.
This winter is keeping many crews busy. Towing services and the Iowa State Patrol are constantly responding to calls for help from motorists.
Sunday was anything but a day off for the crew at Darrah's Towing. Tow truck dispatchers said they haven't had any down time in weeks.
"The last month has been the busiest month since I started working here. Every shift, as soon as I walk in the front door, out the back door and one tow right after the other -- the whole time," Tow Truck Driver Gary Hamer said.
Business is booming, and crews are towing away all kinds of vehicles.
"They are breaking because they hit a pothole, and all the parts are real cold, and they break," Hamer said. "They are sliding through intersections and getting in accidents. Snow removal -- people are leaving their car in the street and police have us come get those. People are locking their keys in their car, because they will start it up to warm it up."
The intense winter weather is also keeping the state patrol going non-stop.
"For some reason, this winter has just been absolutely miserable for us out here," Iowa State Patrol Trooper Eric Payne said.
In his eighth year on the job, Trooper Payne can't get over the sheer number of crashes on area highways this winter. During the sunny Sunday, alone, he responded to three crashes.
He also rushed to a big scene on Interstate 80 in Coralville on Saturday morning. The trooper said the snow lead to slippery conditions on the road.
"In my time on with the patrol, I've never seen anything like that here [Saturday]," Trooper Payne said. "The sheer volume of the vehicles and the magnitude of the damage that was involved was just incredible, and we are very, very fortunate that nobody was seriously injured out of that."
Thirty vehicles were stacked up on the highway, keeping the road closed for about three hours. Many of them were semis. One truck spilled thousands of glass jars on the road.
Despite the wreckage, the trooper said he witnessed some warmth in the bitter cold.
"They are sharing hand warmers; they are sharing blankets and coats. Those vehicles that were able to run, people were opening up their cars to allow them to sit in the heat and other complete strangers just to stay warm in their vehicles, even though they just got in an accident together," Trooper Payne said.
Just a few weeks ago, a different crash involving 30 cars also tied up traffic for hours on Interstate 80. The crash also damaged a trooper's car.
Trooper Payne said people need to remember to slow down and increase your following distance. That will help prevent another crash or emergency call for a tow. Emergency responders say they want to make sure there are no more 30 car pileups anywhere.
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Highlighted Text: Mark 9:35-36
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Olympics | There resides in all of us a desire for greatness. For athletes, that desire will be showcased for the next 16 days at the Olympics, where more than 10,000 participants from 204 countries will compete in 26 different sports for 2,100 medals [1]. This is the world's foremost sports competition and everyone will celebrate those who compete [2]. As Jesse Owens once said, "For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world" [3].
Distortion | Jesus never criticized anyone's quest for greatness. In fact, God made us in His image and He wants our lives to be meaningful and significant – whether we are runners, bankers or pastors [4]. Yet something happened that distorted our pursuit of greatness. John Piper says that it has been corrupted into a longing not merely to be great, but "to be known as great" and "to be greater than someone else" [5].
Children | On the way to Capernaum, the disciples were arguing with one another about who was the greatest. Jesus "said to them, 'If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.' And he took a child and put him in the midst of them" [6]. Jesus wanted them to see that "the measure of true greatness is to what degree the impulse of self-exaltation has been crucified" [7]. This is why he brought a child among them: "[Children] pretty much take for granted that you will take care of them. They don't make a big deal out of the fact that you pour your life out for them. And so, children prove, more clearly than any other kind of people, whether you are truly great or not – whether you live to serve or live to be praised" [8].
Prayer | Lord, Thank you for giving us a desire for true greatness. We confess, however, that we do not pursue it by being the last of all and the servant of all. Instead, we long to be known as great and greater than others. Forgive us and, by your Spirit, crucify our impulse of self-exaltation. For we know that the rewards of earthly greatness are fleeting. Even Owens, who returned as a gold-decorated athlete, ended up filing for bankruptcy and being prosecuted for tax evasion [9]. In Christ, however, our pursuit of humility and service that seeks your praise alone has rewards that will last forever. Amen.
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[1] See Wikipedia:2012 Summer Olympics; ESPN: "London to feature largest medals." 27 July 2011. | [2] As Mary Lou Retton, winner of the all-around in gymnastics at the 1984 games, once said, "For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth." | [3] Owens won four gold medals in track and field at the 1936 games. | [4] I am not attempting to say that pursuing greatness in athletics by excellency in sport and pursuing greatness in the kingdom of heaven by service to others are mutually exclusive. We can do both; we can glorify God and serve others in our pursuit of excellency in sport (or any other type of work). For more on this topic, see The Center for Faith and Work at Redeemer Presbyterian Church. And, of course, who can forget Eric Liddell's famous quote in Chariots of Fire: "I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure." | [5] John Piper. "Receiving Children in Jesus' Name." 23 February 1992. (emphasis mine) | [6] Mark 9:35-36 ESV | [7] Id. at 5. | [8] Id. See also Luke 14:13-14 for how the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind also prove this. | [9] Wikipedia: Jesse Owens: Post Olympics.


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1.5 tonnes of litter were cleaned up and collected at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre (HKCC) 30 minutes after the Hong Kong International Musical Fireworks Competition finished tonight (October 5), among which 1.2 tonnes were collected from the rubbish bins and 0.3 tonnes collected from the ground.
A Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) spokesman said, "There was a decrease of 2.5 tonnes as compared to the total of 4 tonnes (2.5 tonnes from the rubbish bins and 1.5 tonnes from the ground) collected during the National Day Fireworks Display."
"Measures had been stepped up against littering at the venue by putting up more banners, arranging on-site announcement regarding keep clean appeal to visitors prior to and after the fireworks display. Also, more departmental staff, security guards and cleansing staff were also deployed at the Cultural Centre," the spokesman said.
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I would like to respond to all the negative ads of Susana Martinez.
First, they said she was going to move the medical center to Las Cruces. It was a lie. Then, they said she didn't like Hispanic people; that also was a lie. Now, they said that she is not from New Mexico and that she is from Texas. Strange Gov. Bill Richardson is from California.
The Democrats didn't say anything when he was running for governor.
I take offense to the letter to the editor from Mr. Cliff Bain in the Oct. 13 edition of the Las Vegas Optic. We have the best trained military in the world because they train in peace as they would if they were at war. They train in northern New Mexico because the terrain is like Afghanistan, which is where they are at the present time.
Whites Peak is but one example of special interests taking over the lands we natives have always held in common and are now in danger of losing to insensitive newcomers and the bureaucrats who earn their living off the taxpayer, but continue to exploit public lands we've sacrificed to maintain and keep in the public domain.
We must all garner our resolve to maintain these holdings by denying our vote to those who would partner up with special interests to wrest these lands from the public domain.
A month or so after the primary election in June, I accessed the secretary of state's website to check the campaign finance reports of Paula Garcia and John Olivas, two of the county commission candidates in Mora County. I discovered that while Paula Garcia had filed such reports, listing receipts and expense totals, her list of contributors totaled less than half her reported receipts. John Olivas had not filed any reports.
I am writing in regard to the Las Vegas city transfer station and the railroad crossing on Arriba Road, which leads to the city transfer station.
Ever since the transfer station was built, there has been an ongoing issue with trash being blown everywhere and dropped onto the street and railroad crossing.
Upon reading Mr. Rico Giron's platform for running for San Miguel County sheriff, I felt compelled to write this letter endorsing him and also to ask San Miguel County residents to do the same.
If the polls are correct, Americans are on the verge of voting against their own self-interest by electing Tea Party and Republican candidates on Nov. 2. If they do, they will be voting against health care improvements, consumer protection, regulation of Wall Street and much other legislation that Obama and the Democrats have passed in the best interest of all Americans.
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Why Is Congress Redlining Our Schools?
Redlining was the once-common practice in which banks would draw a red line on a map—often along a natural barrier like a highway or river—to designate neighborhoods where they would not invest. Stigmatized and denied access to loans and other resources, redlined communities, populated by African-Americans and other people of color, often became places that lacked businesses, jobs, grocery stores and other services, and thus could not retain a thriving middle class. Redlining produced and reinforced a vicious cycle of decline for which residents themselves were typically blamed.
Today a new form of redlining is emerging. If passed, the long-awaited Senate bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) would build a bigger highway between low-performing schools serving high-need students—the so-called "bottom 5 percent"—and all other schools. Tragically, the proposed plan would weaken schools in the most vulnerable communities and further entrench the problems—concentrated poverty, segregation and lack of human and fiscal resources—that underlie their failure.
Although the current draft of the law scales back some of the worst overreaches of No Child Left Behind, the sanctions for failing to make "adequate yearly progress" that have threatened all schools under NCLB are now focused solely on the 5 percent of schools designated as lowest-performing by the states. As we have learned in warm-up exercises offered by the Obama administration's Race to the Top initiative, these schools will nearly always be the ones serving the poorest students and the greatest numbers of new immigrants. In many states they will represent a growing number of apartheid schools populated almost entirely by low-income African-American and Latino students in our increasingly race- and class-segregated system.
In the new vision for ESEA, these schools, once identified, will be subjected to school "turnaround" models that require the schools to be closed, turned into charters, reconstituted (by firing nearly half the staff) or "transformed," according to a complicated set of requirements that include everything from instructional reforms to test-based teacher evaluation. The proposed array of punitive sanctions, coupled with unproven reforms, will increasingly destabilize schools and neighborhoods, making them even less desirable places to work and live and stimulating the flight of teachers and families who have options.
Meanwhile, the most important solutions for these students and their schools are ignored by NCLB and the proposed new bill, as well as by current federal policy in general, leaving their most serious problems unaddressed.
There is no plan in the current or proposed ESEA or in other federal legislation to stem the rapid slide of families into poverty, homelessness and food insecurity; to address the inequitable distribution of state and local funds to schools; to improve teaching and learning conditions in underfunded, high-poverty schools; or to recruit and train expert teachers who will stay in these schools and stop the revolving door of untrained novices who leave children further behind. There are no significant investments in training to better prepare teachers to teach new English learners, students with disabilities and others with a range of needs.
There is no major investment in preschool or in wraparound services that will address the many needs of children for extended learning time, healthcare and social services so they can learn. While a recent Race to the Top initiative offers some preschool funding, it is minuscule in relation to the need and will not make up for the huge cuts in these services occurring in communities across the country. (After widespread cuts, preschool spending at the end of 2010 stood at almost $700 per pupil less than in 2001. Meanwhile, state cuts to education spending reached more than $7.5 billion this year on top of $3 billion in cuts last year.)
It's not as though we don't know what works. We could implement the policies that have reduced the achievement gap and transformed learning outcomes for students in high-achieving nations where government policies largely prevent childhood poverty by guaranteeing housing, healthcare and basic income security. These same strategies were substantially successful in our own nation through the programs and policies of the war on poverty and the Great Society, which dramatically reduced poverty, increased employment, rebuilt depressed communities, invested in preschool and K-12 education in cities and poor rural areas, desegregated schools, funded financial aid for college and invested in teacher training programs that ended teacher shortages. In the 1970s teaching in urban communities was made desirable by the higher-than-average salaries, large scholarships and forgivable loans that subsidized teacher preparation, and by the exciting curriculum and program innovations that federal funding supported in many city school districts.
These efforts led to big improvements in achievement and attainment from the '60s through the '80s. The black-white reading gap shrank by two-thirds for 17-year-olds, black high school and college graduation rates more than doubled, and, in 1975, rates of college attendance among whites, blacks and Latinos reached parity for the first and only time before or since.
Almost all the programs described above were ended or shrunk in the '80s, targets of the Reagan revolution, which systematically sought to dismantle federal supports for urban and rural development, housing, social services and education. Poverty and homelessness increased sharply. As the federal education budget was cut in half, funding for urban and poor rural schools declined precipitously, desegregation aid was discontinued and teaching supports were reduced, leading to growing shortages when teacher demand increased in the late 1980s. Despite some modest pushback during the Clinton years, the momentum toward increasing inequality was not reversed.
How Educational Redlining Works
The racial and economic segregation that sets the stage for redlining is now firmly in place. One in four American children lives in poverty, nearly 60 percent more than in 1974, and the number of people living in severe poverty has reached a record high. A national study released in 2009 found that one in fifty children in America is homeless and living in a shelter, motel, car, shared housing, abandoned building, park or orphanage. The proportions in some school districts exceed one in ten, and the number is growing rapidly.
Furthermore, this poverty is concentrated in increasingly resegregated communities and schools. More than 70 percent of black and Latino students attend predominantly minority schools, and nearly 40 percent attend intensely segregated schools, where more than 90 percent of students are minority and most are poor.
Poverty rates make a huge difference in student achievement. Few people are aware, for example, that in 2009 US schools with fewer than 10 percent of students in poverty ranked first among all nations on the Programme for International Student Achievement tests in reading, while those serving more than 75 percent of students in poverty scored alongside nations like Serbia, ranking about fiftieth.
The schools identified as low-performing not only serve a growing underclass of impoverished families; they also typically do so with fewer state and local dollars per pupil than wealthier districts around them. Unlike high-achieving nations that fund their schools centrally and equally, most American states spend three times more on their wealthiest schools than they do on their poorest.
In California, for example, urban school districts often spend less than the state average although their children have the greatest needs. With inadequate budgets, crumbling buildings, class sizes of more than thirty (in some cases nearing fifty) and not enough desks or books, many schools serving the neediest students have long ago canceled art, music and physical education, shut down libraries and fired librarians, nurses and counselors. They have lost reading specialists, science teachers and school psychologists. As they suffer cut after cut while they seek to meet the needs of children who are often hungry and homeless as well as shortchanged in terms of educational opportunities, these schools must decide how they will underserve their students, not whether they will.
These disparities in school funding also lead to disparities in salaries and working conditions, which create shortages of qualified personnel in high-need districts. A recent study found that in California and New York, for example, the highest-spending districts offer salaries more than twice as high as those in the lowest-spending districts. Even within a single region, the average teacher in high-poverty Oakland earned $54,000 in 2009 while her counterpart in wealthy Portola Valley (home to Silicon Valley industrialists) earned $89,000. Nationally, teachers in low-poverty districts earn one-third more at the top of the salary range than those in high-poverty districts. And the teachers who work in the neediest communities also manage larger classes with fewer books, materials and supports of all kinds.
These disparities are greatest across districts, but they are exacerbated further within most large districts, where resources are unequally distributed. It is no surprise then that the Education Department recently reported that schools serving mostly African-American students are twice as likely to have teachers with only one or two years of experience than schools in the same district serving mostly white students. Because they are less experienced and educated, teachers at schools with more Latino and African-American students are paid $2,500 less on average than teachers in the district as a whole.
Now comes the federal government to announce that such schools—where students score lower on tests than in more advantaged communities—should be labeled as failing and threatened with closure or staff firings. This makes educational redlining official. The federal share of less than 10 percent of school budgets is a tiny drop in the bucket, and far from enough to tip the scales that are so dramatically out of balance. Not only is there no plan in federal law to tackle poverty, segregation or the massive state and local underfunding of these schools; the plans embodied in Senate ESEA proposals are likely to undermine these communities even further.


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Megan Fox dyes her hair red for 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'
There really is no way Fox could have successfully pulled off the role of April O'Neil without changing the color of her hair, so this new look doesn't come as much of a shock. It remains to be seen if she'll cut her hair for the role too, as April frequently is depicted with shoulder-length hair.
This role is the first time Fox and Bay have worked together since their 2009 fallout following the release of "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." She'll be joined in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" by Alan Ritchson, Jeremy Howard, Pete Ploszek, Noel Fisher and Will Arnett. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman, the film is due out on June 6, 2014 and is currently filming in New York.


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montgomery63 wrote:My set screw on the speedometer hub is frozen and I am beginning to strip the phillips head on the screw. I've tried penetrating oil and gently heating the screw. Nothing has worked. Ideas?
montgomery63 wrote:Got the stripped screw. Bought a $7 screw extractor from Ace Hardware and backed it right out. Got the new cable installed but the speedo doesnt work. It seems to be seated on the bottom end. Cant tell if it is going far enough up inside the speedometer at the top end, but it seems to go in a half to 3/4 inch. Don't know what else to do.
Did you make sure it was seated into the drive? If you unscrew it from the speedo, and watch the end while turning the front wheel, can you see the inner core turning?
montgomery63 wrote:Did you make sure it was seated into the drive? If you unscrew it from the speedo, and watch the end while turning the front wheel, can you see the inner core turning?
Yes, I did that, and it was not turning. It sure felt seated, so I pulled the other end from the speedometer drive and spun the wheel. The internal pin in the speedo drive was not turning consistently (would for a second, then would stop). I now believe I have isolated the problem as a bad speedometer drive.
montgomery63 wrote:Does anyone know a source for a speedometer drive unit for an 82 GL 1100? I am not finding one online. Thanks.
Britanicus wrote:You have to make sure that you seat it properly. I just did this for my bike and found that the seat end has a slot and groove that must be lined up to properly seat.
bassmaster42 wrote:so how do i change the speedometer hub. do i have to take off the tire..
bassmaster42 wrote:so i see, to just take off pinch nuts and bolts on the cable side.. not the break caliper? so if i lift up the bike will that give me enough room to get the hub off without the other side not lossen or off?
bassmaster42 wrote:ok, sorry to keep bothering you. was trying to save money the shop wanted and extra 120 to do this on top of my 48k tune-up. so i have to do all that stuff for taking tire off. but just for the speedometer side. i can leave the other side alone right? tks
ronscycle1 wrote:I dont know how to get it lose from speedo either ? anybody
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VW Golf Diesel + DSG Reduces Fuel Consumption by 10.6%
27 April 2005
Volkswagen is combining its diesel Golf Plus 2.0 TDI with its direct shift gearbox (DSG) to deliver up to a 10.6% reduction in fuel consumption and lower emissions compared to a Golf with a five-speed automatic transmission.
A new Golf with the five-speed automatic gearbox would have a fuel consumption of 6.6 litres per 100 kilometers (35.6 mpg US). With the DSG, consumption decreases to 5.9 liters per 100 kilometers (39.9 mpg US).
The DSG is essentially two gearboxes in one, combining the comfort of an automatic with the agility and economy of a manual unit. The six-speed, transversely mounted DSG has two wet clutches (offering a higher thermal load tolerance than dry clutches) with hydraulic pressure regulation. One clutch controls the odd gears plus reverse, while the other operates the even gears.
This dual approach enables the next-higher gear ratio to become engaged but on standby until it is actually selected. In other words, if the car is being driven in third gear, fourth is selected but not yet activated. As soon as the ideal shift point is reached, the clutch on the third-gear side opens, the other clutch closes and fourth gear engages under accurate electronic supervision.
Because the opening and closing actions of the two clutches overlap, a smooth gearshift results and the entire shift process is completed in 40 milliseconds.
Volkswagen is optimizing the DSG for diesel engines, working on features such as pulling more powerfully from low engine revolutions.
In its combination of the new Golf Plus TDI and DSG, Volkswagen refined the fuel injection system to perform more precisely for the initial (pilot) and main injections. This, combined with other enhancements, improves the engine characteristics at idle and at low loads—improvements of which the DSG can take advantage.
The increased pulling power at lower revs ensures that the engine torque required is always available. The commencement of injection is brought forward through "dynamic pilot control" so that up to 15% more torque is immediately available when needed during fast gear changes.
As a result, the engine turns over considerably less than it would with a conventional gearbox to carry out the same work, and decreased engine revolutions reduce fuel consumption.
The Volkswagen engineers also achieved 15% more exhaust gas recirculation in the DSG gearbox load areas to reduce NOx emissions while maintaining a low level of PM emissions. VW claims that the TDI plus DSG combination delivers emissions lower than Euro4 levels.
All together, a good example of the ability of the increasing sophistication of electronic engine management combined with new approaches can deliver further improvements in fuel economy.
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How much saving compared to a five-speed manual?
I don's have figures on that yet. The Plus 2.0 TDI is due on sale in select European countries approximately mid-year.
But it might be close to comparable. Last year's standard Golf with 2.0 TDI and manual is rated at 5.7 l/100km.
We'll see. :-)
I am picking up a new VW Touran (available where I am in the UK) with the 2.0 TDI (140PS) with DSG box on Tuesday (10th May). Have test driven this combo - and they certainly seem made for one another.
When will this be available in the US and will it pass California state regulations?
I am in the UK and surfed past this site. I drive the Golf DSG and it is superb. The auto shift is extremely smooth and a good match to the 1.9 diesel. On a long cruise it delivers >55mpg (UK gallons!) Diesel Fuel is 90 pence a litre here so that makes a big difference to the fuel bill compared to my thirsty Ford Auto.
Torque Converters are just old hat
will this model run on biofuel? If so, will it need any modifications?
I have a 2005 Golf TDI and it just turned 50,000 miles. I change oil and filters, including oli filter, fuel filter and air filter, per maintenance schedule every 5K miles,. The car was making about 40 mpg (US) but after I changed tires at 50K it suddenly dropped the millage to 34-35 mpg. The tires are pumped per spec and they are identical replacement of the original set. Is there anything else that I should know or do? Can someone help?
How do I change oil and fuel filters on 2005 Golf TDI?
Do I have to change fuel and air filter every 5K?
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