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Halle Berry is recovering from a minor head injury suffered while shooting her latest movie.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, last night Halle was shooting an action scene for The Hive when she got hurt. Her rep said that the actress was working on a fight sequence when she suffered the minor head injury, but did not go into detail about what happened.
Halle was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and has since been released. A statement on the incident, which happened around 10 p.m., seems to imply that the injury was not very serious.
"[Halle] was taken to the hospital as a precaution, but she checked out healthy and was released. She'll continue with production as planned," her rep stated.
In the thriller The Hive, Halle portrays a 911 operator who is trying to save a caller (played by Abigail Breslin) from a killer.
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Delft, Cape Town
Street map of Delft
|Coordinates: 33°57′56″S 18°38′40″E / 33.96556°S 18.64444°ECoordinates: 33°57′56″S 18°38′40″E / 33.96556°S 18.64444°E
|South Africa
|Western Cape
|City of Cape Town
|• Councillor
|Frank Martin (Ward 19) (DA)
Buyiswa Bala-Mjobo (Ward 20) (ANC)
|• Total
|11.08 km2 (4.28 sq mi)
|Population (2011)[1]
|• Total
|• Density
|14,000/km2 (36,000/sq mi)
|Racial makeup (2011)[1]
|• Black African
|• Coloured
|• Indian/Asian
|• White
|• Other
|First languages (2011)[1]
|• Afrikaans
|• Xhosa
|• English
|• Other
|Postal code (street)
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Delft is a township on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. It is situated next to the Cape Town International Airport, Belhar, Blue Downs & Site C, Khayelitsha. It is notorious for its high crime rate, substandard schools, lack of jobs, and numerous government built housing projects such as the N2 Gateway.[citation needed]
Delft was established in 1989.[citation needed] It is a rapidly expanding community found within District D: Tygerberg. This community was originally established as an integrated service land project for 'coloureds' and 'blacks'.[2]
Geography and Demographics[edit]
Delft is situated approximately 34 km east of Cape Town, and approximately 7.5 km from Bellville. It was established to be one of Cape Town's first mixed race township including 'coloured' and 'black' residents. In 2000, it had a population between 25,000 and 92,000 inhabitants.[2]
According to the 2011 census,[3] Delft was 51% Coloured and 46% Black African with 3% "other". The dominant first languages are Afrikaans and Xhosa while English is widely used as second language. The majority of residents have not finished their matric. Official unemployment levels are at about 43% (although unofficially, this might be much higher).[4]
Much of Delft consists of government housing projects. The newest projects are the Symphony which is the main part of the N2 Gateway Pilot Project as well as Temporary Relocation Areas (TRAs) such as Tsunami and the Symphony Way TRA.[5][6]
Delft is a big Township. It is divided into 7 places (divisions) namely Delft South (also known as Suburban), Voorbrug, Leiden (Delft Central), Eindhoven, Roosendal, The Hague and the new Symphony section. Delft South is predominantly populated by Xhoxa speaking people, Leiden (Delft Central) is a mixed community of both Xhosa speaking and Afrikaans speaking people. Voorbrug, The Hague, Roosendal and Eindhoven are predominantly populated by Afrikaans speaking Coloured people.
In the news[edit]
Delft recently became newsworthy because of the controversial N2 Gateway housing project. The shackdwellers of Joe Slovo Informal Settlement in Cape Town have publicly refused to be forcibly removed to Delft. Also, in December 2008, backyard dwellers occupied over 1,000 N2 Gateway houses in the new Symphony section of Delft. DA Councillor Frank Martin who was accused of inciting thousands of poor people to occupy these houses.[7][8] Eventually, the families who occupied the houses were violently evicted by police who used rubber bullets to put down the protest.[9] News of the violent repression reached international news with some people saying that it has severely hurt South Africa's reputation.[10] Evicted residents are now living in makeshift shacks on Symphony Way which has widely become known as "Blikkies Dorp" across from the houses. This was believed to have been temporary housing for the evicted dwellers, however they are still occupying "Blikkies Dorp" for the past five years.[11]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d "Main Place Delft". Census 2011.
- ^ a b "Community Situation Analysis". DG Groups.
- ^ Delft Census 2011
- ^ "City of Cape Town - Census 2001 - Delft". City of Cape Town.
- ^ "Delft squatters 'still unhappy'". 24 News. 2008-02-22.
- ^ "Police illegally destroy homes on Symphony Way". 2008-10-04.
- ^ "Western Cape Evictions trial on hold". Labournet. 2008-01-08.
- ^ "DA councillor in court over Delft housing incident". Mail & Guardian. 2008-12-21.
- ^ "Delft residents refuse, resist eviction". Star. 2008-02-19.
- ^ "Everyone needs a stake in our society". The Mercury. 2008-03-05.
- ^ "Press Update: Delft community and Anti-Eviction Campaign sleep on Symphony Rd, vow permanent sit in". Anti-Eviction Campaign. 2008-02-20.


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On discussions with friends, they suggested Django. But I have no experience with Python or Django.
So my question is, is CI better or Drupal? And further, if not either of them, is Django better in terms of ease of development and extensibility?
Request you to not make this a php vs python battle as I'm looking for advice here. Thanks
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Another clarification: I understand that Drupal is a CMS and not a framework per so. The only reason I compared it to CI was due to the base platform - php. Perhaps the better comparison would have been Joomla vs Django (but I'm not sure as I do not know enough about either, yet)


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This one is certainly different, that's for sure. It was born out of a drawing day at *Pink-Foxx's house, while she worked on a project on Photoshop and I worked by hand on this. Have to say I wasn't feeling particularly well that day. I think I just wanted to try something... well.. different. And different it is. It's wonky, strange and every member of the Straw Hats look like they've each come down with some sort of illness, but overall it's rather interesting. I promised I'd submit this so here it is.. enjoy, yo!
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Awesome who is your favourite straw hat
Odd style...I LOVE IT!
Very vibrant and lively the way it's executed here. Each emotion counter-acting against another. Great work.
Woah, really? Awesome! Thanks.
This is very different from your style till now very nice coloring, and you are very good to change the style, zorro's my favorite
Hahaha yay you submitted it!!!
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Tracking El Niño: Underlying Models
El Niño and La Niña are names given to frequently occurring patterns of variation that are concentrated in the tropical Pacific Ocean, but that change the average temperature of Earth for about a year. When there is an El Niño the globe is warmer and when there is a La Niña the globe is cooler.
In the last blog I wrote about predictions of a 2014 El Niño and why it is of such interest to climate and climate change. In this blog, I want to write about models that predict El Niño and relation of this type of modeling to climate change and climate modeling. Reaching very far back, I have written a bunch of blogs about modeling. In this blog from 2007, I write about types of models: intuitive or heuristic, statistical and physical. For this blog I will focus on physical models. I have also written about the difference between weather predictions and climate projections, with a simplistic explanation of internal variability versus forced behavior. Finally, I wrote a series to introduce models and modeling to nonscientists and here is a link to a late article in that series.
Here, I focus on the modeling of El Niño and a set of issues that are potentially related to climate change over the next decades and centuries.
Basic Information on El Niño Predictability: It has been recognized from earlier than the 1990s that El Niño might be predictable. El Niño is often stated as the largest source of natural variability, though such a statement depends on how long a time period you are talking about. Someone, who studies ice ages might provide a convincing counterexample of large natural variability. However, if we look at the recent weather and climate that is relevant to humans and society, El Niño is a major cause of variability in, for example, the global average temperature. This is especially obvious when looking at the hot years, for example 1997 and 1998, and even a moderate El Niño this year is likely to lead to the hottest year on record. El Niño also has a big impact on the weather. For the U.S., El Niño is known to affect the precipitation on the West Coast and in the Southeast. There is also a reliable impact on Atlantic hurricanes. Therefore, with an El Niño forecast, we can say something about the characteristics of weather. This is an example of how a forecast or projection that focuses on climate variability provides usable information for planning – a strong El Niño will matter a lot to water managers and emergency managers in California.
Seasonal prediction is feasible if there are slow and predictable variations in measures such as sea-surface temperature, sea-ice, snow cover and soil moisture. The atmosphere and, therefore, the weather is sensitive to these changes. Especially for El Niño, which is first described by a change of sea-surface temperature in the eastern Pacific, there is an atmospheric response. This response has a pattern, which includes more precipitation in California in the winter and fewer hurricanes in the North Atlantic in the summer. Here are a couple of references I use in class if you want to read more (Seasonal Prediction in 2001) and (Seasonal Prediction 12 years later).
One of the interesting pieces of information that comes from these papers is the "springtime barrier." That is, if the forecast extends through the springtime of the northern hemisphere, then the skill of the forecast declines. One explanation of this characteristic is that the northern springtime signal of El Niño is relatively small, therefore variability that might be construed as noise to an El Niño forecast dominates the projection. There is an obvious consequence of a springtime barrier, a limit of forecasting of about six months. There is an interesting paper Very Early Warning of Next El Niño, which "indicated (in September 2013 already) the return of El Niño in late 2014 with a 3-in-4 likelihood."
Some Changes in the Climate?: I wrote a long, some would say tedious, series of blogs on the Arctic Oscillation, changes in sea ice and atmospheric blocking (all of those terms defined in that series). Whether or not the changes in the Arctic are having large impacts on weather in middle latitudes or the tropics remains an open question subject to scientific investigation. From the point of view of predicting El Niño, during this prediction cycle we have levels of sea ice that are far lower than in previous El Niño cycles. This changes the heat exchange between the atmosphere and ocean in the Arctic. This is outside of the range of previous variability, which intrinsically increases the uncertainty in the forecast. The same could be said for springtime snow cover. In short, our background environment, on which we have developed what forecast skill we have, is changing. Also in my mind is a project that I participated in back in 2011 and 2012, where we were concerned about La Niña and flooding in the Upper Missouri River Basin. In that project, any sensitivity to La Niña was overwhelmed by the Arctic Oscillation being in its negative phase.
We Can't Predict Beyond Two Weeks: One of the sacred utterances of the community of the skeptic is that the the description of weather as chaos means that we cannot predict climate. Another statement is that errors in weather forecasting mean that we cannot predict climate. The skill that we have established in seasonal prediction stands as a concrete example of why these utterances are merely rhetorical diversions. A talking point would be that ocean sea-surface temperature can be predicted. We both predict and observe organized patterns of warm and cool regions of the sea. The atmosphere responds to these patterns. The atmospheric response is not random, for example, during an El Niño in winter, California can expect major rainstorms. In the summer, hurricanes are likely to be less frequent in the North Atlantic. The people who place real money on these predictions, emergency managers, insurance companies, farmers and water managers, ultimately, win.
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So, as some may have noticed, I am attempting a sketch a day challenge.
Sketch a day is misleading, as I already have missed a few days, BUT, I am trying to be more consistent.
I love Videogames, and one thing I especially love, is the character design that goes into them (sometimes more than the gameplay). So I figured why not VG characters.
Then I was like hey, the alphabet- that's cool and I can almost repeat it without singing. And so the endeavor was born.
The completed list may be a bit Nintendo-centric. Specifically Nintendo of the 80's and 90's. That was the brand of console during my gaming peak... those roots run deep. If you can't predict who will be for letters L and M respectively, well then you have lived a half life.
It should be fun, and good practice to keep my drawing muscles limber. If it goes well I have an idea for another series to start right after this one.
- Listening to: XM AltNation
- Reading: River of the Gods- Ian McDonald is awesome.
- Watching: Luther
- Playing: Darksiders 2 F@*k YEAH!
- Eating: Mexican whenever I can.
- Drinking: water, coffee, water
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Ever play the game SNATCHER for the Sega CD back in the day?
No, but I remember seeing screen shots in my Gamepro, and thinking it looked way hardcore.
It's one of my all-time favorite games. I'd love to get a piece from you sometime.
I was looking through screen shots; it looks like Bladerunner: The Game.
It has a very Blade Runner look to it, yes, but it's a different story... plus, hey there's Metal Gear!
That's some intriguing combinations Mikey. There must be some emulations out there; I'll have to investigate further and report back.
Hideo Kojimo, who worked on the Metal Gear series, was responsible for Snatcher as well (There's a little robot in Snatcher named for, and modeled after, the Metal Gear)
Looking forward to P, and the ensuing butthurt either way.
Oh oh! Do Sparkster for S :3 that or the letter R (for Rocket Knight)
I would, but I already got plans for S and R that I'm pretty attached to! Those two letters have a TON of great characters. If you can think of a good one for O, I am certainly open!


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Journey to the River Sea Guided Reading Planning
Guided Reading Planning for the book 'Journey to the River Sea'. The planning was intended for a more able Year 5 group, but can be used within Year 6 or at a slower pace with Year 4. Planning covers four weeks of guided reading sessions. Some key questions are noted on the plan too. Planning includes links to Framework Strands and Reading Assessment Focuses (AFs). There is also a box for observations and comments to link to APP.
Thank you. I shall use with Year 5 this year.
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Thank you for such an excellent resource. I will definitely use this with year 5.
Some great ideas and easy to adapt to age appropriate levels Thank you
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Legal proceedings in Australia are adversarial. The adversary system also prevails in most other countries where the legal system was derived from Great Britain. Trials, whether criminal or civil, in the adversary system are effectively contests between opposing parties, with a judge acting as the umpire, deciding on points of law and procedure, and giving legal directions to the jury, which alone decides the issues of fact. In civil trials without a jury, the judge decides both issues of law and fact. In the adversary system the burden of winning the contest usually rests upon the party who initiates the proceedings. In a criminal case it is the Crown in the guise of either the Director of Public Prosecutions or the police who brings the case against an accused person, while in a civil case it is the plaintiff who brings an action against a defendant.
The adversary system is in contradistinction to the inquisitorial system practised in most European countries where the legal systems are derived from Roman law. In this system it is the judge who plays by far the most prominent part in the eliciting of evidence. Expert witnesses are appointed by the court, and examined first by the court and then if desired by counsel for the accused. In contrast to the adversary system, where no accused person in criminal proceedings can be compelled to give evidence, a criminal trial in a French Superior Court commences with a formal interrogation of the accused by the presiding judge. The judges in the inquisitorial system usually come from a background based in the public service, rather than from practising barristers as is usually the case in the adversary system.
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I tried it during the few months I took a break from using SI, but it didn't really do anything (that I could tell). I would say give it a shot though, maybe it will work, and it doesn't hurt.
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I did the first month i took it i concieved my son. ...its worth a try good luck. I took burt bees 1000mg once a day from af up until my bfp
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Translation of shear in Italian:
transitive verb pass. sheared p.pass. shorn
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- 1 shear off (metal component)
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spezzarsi, cedere2 shear off [something], shear [something] off
tosare (hair, fleece)
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spezzare (branch)
spezzare (branch)
(accident, storm)
distruggere (part of building)
distruggere (part of building)
cesellare (metal, screw)
fendere (water)
fendere (water)
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Recent Articles by Mike Higgison
25 Years Ago in the BRL
THR biggest Saturday crowd of the season packed Lang Park for the best Saturday match of the season, when Brothers defiantly held off Redcliffe 19-15 to sew up fourth spot for the finals. In a thriller, fortunes fluctuated as first Brothers appeared to have the match won, before a gallant Dolphins came storming back, before a match-winning try with 5 minutes remaining. A physical opening saw only a Greg Holben penalty goal in the first 20 minutes. But in the next seven minutes, the Brethren piled on another ten points when first Holben, then centre Shane McErlean scored tries, blowing the lead out to 12-0. Redcliffe, their season on the line, toughed out the rest of the half in their own territory, before Bunny Pearce landed a penalty goal right on half time. The second half opened at a frenetic pace, eventually resulting with Dolphins centre Peter Leis capping off a brilliant team effort, when he dived over from dummy half. Pearce converted to make the score 12-7. The match pulsated as it swung from end to end, before Len Chemello put Brothers further ahead with a penalty goal. Some sustained attacking raids then saw the Dolphins right back in business as Leis crossed again, leaving the score 14-10. With the match in the balance, Redcliffe second-rower capitalised on some continued possession to barge over with 12 minutes remaining. Pearce took a lifetime to line up his kick in near deathly silence, before the Lang Park foundations were shaken by the roar of the Dolphins fans as his conversion neatly dropped over the red dot. The Dolphins held tight for seven minutes, before a tidy blindside play by Brothers hooker Jay Hoffman put big prop Peter McNamara over for the sealer. It was a vintage match, one of the best of the season. Stars for the match were McNamara and half Greg Quinn who dominated much of the play. For Redcliffe, the tried and true trio of Bunny Pearce, Peter Leis and Tony Obst were outstanding. The win iced a fine day for Brothers, as they took reserve grade 14-7 and third grade 29-6.
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We brake for Johnson's Corner. After fifty years, this truck stop got a remodel that made it a shiny examplar of chrome-plate efficiency. But while its look has been updated, this landmark continues to serve the kind of breakfasts that have kept truckers going, and going, for the past fifty years. Nothing the kitchen does is small. It turns out gigantic cinnamon rolls, huge portions of hash-brown potatoes, massive omelettes, enormous plates of corned beef hash and slabs of chicken-fried steak that weigh as much as a brick -- meals that have made its diner food rightly famous around the world.
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George Hall
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- Born:
- March 29, 1849
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- Height:
- 5' 7"
- Weight:
- 142 lbs
- Major League Debut:
- 5-05-1871 with WS3
Early career
George began his professional career with the Washington Olympics of the National Association in 1871, hitting .294 in 32 games. He moved onto the Baltimore Canaries for the 1872 and 1873 seasons, hitting .336 and .345 respectively. Playing mostly center field up to this point, he moved around from center to right field the following year when he played for the 1874 Champions, the Boston Red Stockings. After just one season with the Red Stockings, he moved on to play for the Philadelphia Athletics where he had another good season at the plate, hitting .299, and four home runs, which was good for second place behind Jim O'Rourke's six.
After the 1875 season the National Association folded, leaving room for a new league to begin. In 1876, the National League came into existence, the first official "Major League". George's team, the Athletics, followed that movement with very little success, finishing seventh out of eight teams.
One of the bright spots that year for the Athletics was the hitting prowess of their star hitter, George Hall. He led the team in almost all major hitting categories including a .366 batting average, 51 runs scored, and a league leading five home runs. On June 17, 1876, he became the first Major League baseball player to hit 2 home runs in one game. Those 5 home runs stood as the single season home run record until Charley Jones hit 9 in 1879.
For the 1877 baseball season, Philadelphia had been expelled from the league for refusing to go on a western road trip, late in the 1876 season, for financial reasons, so George moved on to play for the Louisville Grays. Again, he had an excellent season, hitting .323, scoring 51 runs, and hitting 8 triples. Surprisingly, after appearing in the league leaders for home runs the last 2 season, he did not hit one in 1877.
Gambling scandal and banning
On October 26, 1877, Louisville club vice president Charles Chase confronted George and fellow Gray Jim Devlin with charges that they threw some road games in August and September. Both admitted only to throwing non-league games, one of which was an exhibition game in Lowell, Massachusetts on August 30, and another in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 3. The admissions also implicated teammates Al Nichols and Bill Craver. Hall claimed that he and Devlin helped in losses to the Cincinnati Reds on September 6 and to the minor league Indianapolis Blues on September 24' but he argued that since the Reds were about to be suspended and the games nullified' it amounted to an exhibition game. As a result of the scandal, all four players were banned for life from Major League Baseball.
Hall died in Ridgewood, New Jersey at the age of 74. He was laid to rest at Evergreen Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
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The dignity of lustFeb. 21, 2012
In his book Lust, the philosopher Simon Blackburn argues that traditionally we lump sex and lust together, giving both a bad name they do not deserve. For Blackburn, lust need not be excessive, illicit or dehumanizing: Lust can be a virtue and not a vice.
Lust, when properly understood and performed, is, in the words of David Hume, "useful or agreeable to the personal himself and to others." Lust is about desire that is felt. Lust is about the pursuit of sexual ecstasy.
But, but, but, says Blackburn, the full pleasure of sexual activity requires the presence of another-- a partner, a fellow traveler. There must always be an object of lust who is not treated as other, but rather as someone you "desire to please" as much as you "desire to be pleased."
Citing Thomas Hobbes, Blackburn argues that lust is about two drives or two appetites together: To please < --- > To be pleased. "I desire you, and I desire your desire for me… A pleases B, B is pleased by what A is doing and A is pleased at B's pleasure." And so on, and so on, and so on.
For Blackburn, true lust must be more than one-sided. Lust is about communion, harmony and completion.
'Afternoon Shift': Building audienceFeb. 21, 2012
One thing all public figures seem to have in common is a desire to build a bigger audience for whatever it is they do. For politicians, it's vital to getting into office. For bands and internet startups, it can mean turning a hobby into a career. For newspapers, it can be a matter of hanging on for another year in a shaky media landscape.
Unicycle Loves You celebrates 'Failure'Feb. 21, 2012
Unicycle Loves You perform "Wow Wave Cinema" from Failure (Mecca Lecca)
Listen to the performance and interview
Unicycle Loves You has been Jim Carroll musical outlet for nearly six years. With their third album, Failure, the noise pop trio has honed in on a catchy sound steeped in 1990s acts like Guided By Voices and Sonic Youth. They're about to head out for a month and a half tour including a week at SXSW, but first they played some songs and chatted with Steve Edwards on Afternoon Shift.
Behind the scenes of 'Afternoon Shift'Feb. 21, 2012
It would be entertaining to think that Steve Edwards hosts, produces, directs, and board ops the Afternoon Shift independently, in a Michael Keaton Multiplicity-esque fashion, but that would be far from the truth.
Afternoon Shift relies on the contributions of a hard-working team whom you occasionally hear sharing the mike with Steve. Check out the slideshow below to reveal some of the faces behind the scenes.
Thanks to photographer Bill Healy for capturing the team's candid intensity.
Report offers factors - and preventative measures - for adolescent suicideFeb. 21, 2012
Listen to this conversation on Eight Forty-Eight
Suicide is the third-leading cause of death in adolescents. Gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual youth and especially vulnerable. And while the nation has seen new tactics seeking to raise tolerance and build hope for gay youth, there has also been consistent news of young people taking their own lives after years of bullying and mistreatment.
Jury selection begins today in the trial of Dahrun Ravi. Ravi is the former Rutgers University roommate of Tyler Clementi, who died by suicide after he learned Ravi and another student had filmed him with another man.
Preventing suicide among gay teensFeb. 21, 2012
Here's what you'll be listening to during Eight Forty-Eight with Tony Sarabia on Tuesday, February 20.
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Gay Youth and Suicide: A new report from Northwestern University looks at factors that contribute to suicide among LGBT youth and measures to prevent it. Brian Mustanski, a co-author of the study, shares the findings, and a couple of LGBT youth reflect on their personal experiences. To join the conversation, call 312.923.9239.
The Morning Drive Podcast: Fat TuesdayFeb. 21, 2012
Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.
In today's episode: CPS school closings approach a final vote; the writings of a young Gov. Pat Quinn; Mardi Gras!
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St. Louis Cardinals principal owner Bill DeWitt Jr. is among 16 St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame inductees.
St. Louis Cardinals principal owner Bill DeWitt Jr. is among 16 St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame inductees.
Tony La Russa will almost surely enter the Hall of Fame in 2014, but he did not groom many coaches to be future MLB managers.
A search is underway for the author of a poem written about Stan Musial and left at his grave.
Stan the Man's personal memorabilia generated strong bidding via a recently-completed online auction.
Checking with other clubs being asked by fans and media why they passed on Michael Wacha in the 2012 draft.
The online auction of Stan Musial's memorabilia runs through Saturday, November 9.
The St. Louis Cardinals full system view reflects rosters for the 2013-2014 off-season.
Retired St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa will appear on his first Hall of Fame ballot next month.
St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Lance Lynn fell short of arbitration eligibility by three days.
Game 3 of the 2013 World Series ended on a very unusual play that the umpires got right.
The Boston Red Sox originally signed pitcher Carlos Martinez but the St. Louis Cardinals picked him up after his original contract was voided.
Two high-profile 22-year-old pitchers for the St. Louis Cardinals faced the Boston Red Sox in the World Series – 46 years apart.
St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Michael Wacha has put his name in the post-season record books.
12 St. Louis Cardinals players are listed 13 times among Baseball America's top prospects by league.
According to his agent, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter will retire as an active player.
Who should start for the St. Louis Cardinals in Games 1 and 2 of the NLCS in St. Louis this weekend?
With Hall of Famer Lou Brock throwing out the ceremonial first pitch prior to Wednesday night's Game 5 of the National League Division Series, researcher Tom Orf offers up a quick and timely bit of trivia.
Simply put, the St. Louis Cardinals have Michael Wacha because they don't have Albert Pujols. This gift is set to keep on giving for many years to come, but even in 2013, it has been a good deal.
The St. Louis Cardinals are starting Joe Kelly on Sunday against Pittsburgh's Francisco Liriano. Many chalked up a Pirates' win in advance. I am not so sure.
Instead of Michael Wacha joining Bud Smith and Jose Jimenez as St. Louis Cardinals rookies who threw no-hitters, he stands with Alan Benes and Rick Wise among those who lost a no-hit bid in the ninth inning.
Only five players in MLB history have driven in 50 runs for two different clubs in the same season and two of them are St. Louis Cardinals.
The rumors linking Colorado Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitski and the St. Louis Cardinals are getting stoked up early this year, but the same red flags remain.
Outfielder Matt Holliday reached the 30 doubles, 20 home runs plateau for the eighth season, four-plus times with the St. Louis Cardinals.
Considering the potential impact of Yadier Molina's knee problems on him, his MVP hopes and his team's won-loss record.
Matt Carpenter is on pace to accrue the most triples by a St. Louis Cardinals hitter since at least 2001.
The St. Louis Cardinals have acquired many players over time, but which minor league addition became the best as a major leaguer?
Looking at the placement of four St. Louis Cardinals prospects on six national prospect lists.
The St. Louis Cardinals went almost 12 months between drug suspension announcements, but signed two already-suspended players in the interim.
Hundreds of Stan the Man's baseball-related treasures are going up for auction.
The offense from St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Pete Kozma has been on a free fall since his surprising September of 2012.
According to Bovada, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Shelby Miller is no longer the gamblers' favorite to win the National League Rookie of the Year Award, as Yasiel Puig is staking his claim.
On Saturday night, Brock Peterson became the oldest St. Louis Cardinal to collect an RBI in his first MLB at-bat since at least 1935.
Looking at the placement of four St. Louis Cardinals prospects on four national prospect lists.
Left-handed pitcher Kevin Siegrist set a St. Louis Cardinals record and placed on the MLB top 10 all-time list for scoreless appearances to open a career.
How might St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter's path to return to the majors be scheduled?
A guest column from blingboy asking a nagging question about how players should react to suspensions.
Looking at how season-to-date at-bats and innings pitched could end for three key St. Louis Cardinals All-Stars.
Four St. Louis Cardinals farmhands have placed in mid-season national top 50 prospect lists.
The St. Louis Cardinals' top hitting prospect, currently with Triple-A Memphis, discusses his game.
St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina will be endorsing New Balance athletic shoes.
The St. Louis Cardinals top draft pick received recognition as college baseball's top two-way player in 2013.
Who might represent the St. Louis Cardinals on the World roster in the MLB Futures Game if Oscar Taveras cannot play?
Considering possible reasons for the St. Louis Cardinals to repeat their 2012 All-Star Futures Game participants.
In what I see as an expected element of ongoing improvement, the St. Louis Cardinals lost another player via waivers on Sunday, pitcher Maikel Cleto.
The St. Louis Cardinals system view reflects rosters for 2013 short-season play with all organization players listed by level and position.
According to Bovada, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Shelby Miller is the favorite to win the National League Rookie of the Year Award, but Yasiel Puig is making a move.
One play can make a difference in the career of a young and promising pitcher.
St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny discusses his concern over pitchers throwing near batters' heads.
St. Louis Cardinals minor league left-handed pitcher Nick Greenwood absorbed a double-whammy on Monday, with losses at two different levels of play, in two different roles.
The Springfield Cardinals will wear, then auction off commemorative Stan Musial jerseys on Sunday, June 16.
Matt Carpenter has taken the lead on an unenviable St. Louis Cardinals career list – most hit by pitches in a game. We look back at other oft-plunked Cardinals.
In a very controversial move, St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina was ejected on Sunday. It wasn't the first time.
A look back at St. Louis Cardinals double-headers since 1996.
One of MLB's top set up men in 2012 is struggling badly in 2013. What should be done about it?
The career WAR of fast-risers to St. Louis points to Joe Magrane as closest to average. Will new arrival Michael Wacha meet or exceed Magrane's results?
A look at the players who reached the St. Louis Cardinals the soonest after being drafted.
Looking at effective first-game starters in St. Louis Cardinals history who also collected a hit.
Former St. Louis Cardinals reliever Chris Perez was forced to delete his Twitter account due to angry Cleveland Indians fans.
The St. Louis Cardinals will apparently have to option out a pitcher on Wednesday. Who do you think it will be?
Reviewing various starting pitching options for the St. Louis Cardinals in Jaime Garcia's absence.
Game scores put recent St. Louis Cardinals pitching dominance of Shelby Miller and Adam Wainwright into historical perspective.
Comparing recent contracts of Allen Craig, Paul Goldschmidt and Anthony Rizzo.
Comparing Shelby Miller's almost-perfect game to others in St. Louis Cardinals team and Major League Baseball history.
Can Major League Baseball owners live without Bud Selig? Are they ever going to try?
The current closer of the St. Louis Cardinals, Edward Mujica, is eligible to become a free agent following this season.
Trevor Rosenthal is on pace for 92 mound appearances for the St. Louis Cardinals in his first full season in the major leagues.
Is it a bad thing for some to compare new St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Seth Maness with another former Cardinals hurler, Brad Thompson?
The St. Louis Cardinals stellar set up man in 2012 lost his interim closer job and now is struggling in his old role. A former major leaguer offers his feelings as to why.
Former Brewers pitcher Zack Greinke wishes he had not made critical comments about St. Louis pitcher Chris Carpenter before the 2011 NLCS.
A St. Paul columnist thinks Tony La Russa could become the next manager of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina's new record label has established a web presence.
A look back at every opening day pitcher in the 16-year history of the Triple-A Memphis Redbirds.
Meet St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Joe Kelly at the St. Louis Sports Co on Thursday, April 11 and win a free autographed 8×10 photo here at The Cardinal Nation blog!
The St. Louis Cardinals system view reflects rosters for 2013 full-season play with all organization players listed by level and position.
Matt Adams had been blocked from everyday play at first base by Allen Craig for at least the next four years. Craig's new contract extended it to six years.
The St. Louis Cardinals catcher is entering the music business.
Why Matt Adams should be the biggest backer of defensive success by Matt Carpenter and Daniel Descalso with St. Louis.
Just 10 games into spring training, St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny is almost ready to declare his fifth starter.
Major League Baseball' labor agreement defines what pre-arbitration players can be paid – even for a player who may be the best in the game.
Spring pitching phenom Michael Wacha would likely not be a St. Louis Cardinal had Albert Pujols remained.
Despite a lot of activity, the bottom line for the St. Louis Cardinals middle infield has barely changed since the end of 2012.
Five St. Louis Cardinals players will soon be taking leave from the club's spring training camps to participate in the 2013 World Baseball Classic.
Comparing ERAs of St. Louis Cardinals pitchers with and without Dave Duncan as pitching coach.
First baseman Matt Adams' chance of making the St. Louis Cardinals out of spring camp took a couple of blows over the weekend.
The St. Louis Cardinals full system view reflects rosters by level and position for 2013 spring training.
A mass in honor of Stan Musial was held on Saturday in his birthplace of Donora, Pa.
Commemorative "Musial 6" jerseys worn and autographed by St. Louis Blues hockey players are being auctioned for charity.
A long search leads to proof when and where the greatest St. Louis Cardinals player of all time once wore number 19, rather than his well-known number 6.
While pitcher Bud Norris has enjoyed success against the St. Louis Cardinals, his record against their key rivals and away from Houston causes considerable concern.
Considering the current state of the St. Louis Cardinals rotation and beyond.
The St. Louis Cardinals came down to the last days on a pair of arbitration hearings in 2009. Could it happen again with David Freese in 2013?
In one of his last interviews, Stan "The Man" Musial shared his thoughts on a variety of subjects.
St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday doesn't believe current penalties for performance enhancing drugs are strict enough.
A new rumor has the St. Louis Cardinals among teams interested in inconsistent free agent infielder Ronny Cedeno.
Bob Costas and Tom Verducci host a one-hour program to remember Stan "the Man" Musial.
FOX Sports Midwest is scheduled to re-air the tribute to Stan Musial, "Remembering Stan Musial" twice in the upcoming weeks.
My Sunday appearance on Springfield's KOLR-TV to discuss "The Man"
St. Louis Cardinals photos from Monday's third and final session of the 2013 Winter Warm-Up at St. Louis' Hyatt Regency at the Arch.
Selected St. Louis Cardinals player photos from Sunday's second day of the 2013 Winter Warm-Up at St. Louis' Hyatt Regency at the Arch.
I joined host Lori Rubinson on WFAN Radio in New York to discuss the life of the late Stan Musial.


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Inferno: Alliance Standalone is an indie game which will serve as a remake of the old Inferno: Alliance, a mod for FreeSpace 2 SCP released back in 2006. Just like its predecessor, INFASA will merge Inferno's typical style with FreeSpace 1's atmosphere.
The GTSD Bastion superdestroyer, named after the Orion that saved humanity twice, is now downloadable!
Useful articles:
Getting started with FreeSpace 2
If you don't have FreeSpace 2 SCP and are insterested on Inferno, only, you don't need this model. Inferno will be standalone and easy to install, so don't worry about that.
Model - Pscyho and United Space Team
Conversion - Woomeister
Maps - FreeSpaceKing
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This I also did a while ago, too.
Gift for .
It was actually a part of a bigger project with our whole group of friends at school, but... I kinda lost steam. xD I only got her done.
So here we see her with her usual outfit, minus her glow-in-the-dark skeleton sweatshirt, of course. Black Na Na Na shirt, black jeans (with her phone in her pocket), an MCR necklace, and her ever-present Zune. (Usually playing something along the lines of MCR or blink-182 or +44 or the White Stripes)
The hand/arm is way too small. D:< But other than that, I love this.
Anywhoodle. Enjoy. Love you, .
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I really like the pose and expression.
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Little's definitive statement, "We have no indication that the Iranians have made a decision to develop a nuclear weapon," coincides with the consensus of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency, in December 2007.
In that report, the entire U.S. intelligence community stated unanimously, with "high confidence," that Iran had given up its drive for an atom bomb back in 2003.
Yet the Pentagon's categorical statement this week, and the 2007 declaration by the entire U.S. intelligence community that Iran abandoned its bomb program in 2003, raises a question.
How could the International Atomic Energy Agency conclude, as it did last month, that Iran "has carried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear device"? Did the IAEA discover clandestine bomb-building that our own intelligence community failed to detect?
If Iran is doing experiments consistent with building an atomic bomb, as the IAEA reports, why does the U.S. intelligence community not revise and update its 2007 report? Why are CIA and DIA silent?
This is no minor matter. For not only have Panetta and Barack Obama talked about "all options on the table" regarding Iran -- i.e., we do not rule out military strikes -- so, too, have the GOP presidential candidates, save Rep. Ron Paul.
Sen. Rick Santorum says we are already at war:
"Iran is a country that has been at war with us since 1979. ... The Iranians are the existential threat to Israel."
In fierce rebuttal to Paul's suggestion that the real threat to America is being stampeded into a new war, Rep. Michele Bachmann retorted:
"We know beyond the shadow of a doubt that Iran will take a nuclear weapon, they will use it to wipe our ally Israel off the face of the map. ... The Iran Constitution ... states unequivocally that their mission is to extend jihad across the world and eventually to set up a worldwide caliphate."
But is all this consistent or credible?
If Iran is an "existential threat" to Israel and intends to use a bomb it is now building on Israel, why have the Israelis, with 200 to 300 nuclear weapons, who have bombed both Iraqi and Syrian nuclear sites, not removed that "existential threat" themselves?
Second, assume the Bachmann horror scenario that we know "beyond the shadow of a doubt" that Iran, as soon as it gets the bomb it is building, will use it on Israel. If that is so, who does Bachmann think will then be establishing that caliphate in an Iran that an Israeli retaliatory strike will have reduced to atomic ash?
Lest we forget, the Israelis are a "Never Again!" nation.
And there is another serious matter here. While Obamaites, neocons and Republicans are talking about "all options on the table," the war option, if we still have a Constitution, cannot be used against a nation that has not attacked us, unless Congress, which alone has the power to declare war, has authorized military action.
When did Congress tell Obama or any president he can bomb Iran as soon as he concludes Iran is building a nuclear weapon? If, after leaving Iraq, we are going into yet another war of choice, let the Congress debate and vote on this new war with Iran.
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The text on her dress reads "Let me put on my reading glasses on. Reading makes you smarter & prettier. It's true."
It is true. A pretty lady, and a really nice drawing.
Thank you David :)
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I got this design on a tote bag and gave it to my (librarian) mom for Christmas. She got so many compliments!! Thank you for this beautiful drawing!


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Skip to comments.Class acts give lie to race card : The incredible phenomenon of Asian success in schools
Posted on 02/16/2011 7:55:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Here we go again. In a winter ritual as familiar as snow, the results of specialized high-school admissions are sparking the usual hand-wringing and finger-pointing about a shortage of "minorities" and a lack of "diversity" at the best city schools.
With the announcement that black eighth-graders make up only 5 percent of students accepted to eight specialized schools next year and Hispanic students only 6 percent, fevered accusations run the range from prejudice to prejudice. New Yorkers once again are being lectured by the media and others that the results prove the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged, which is another way of saying "white."
But facts are stubborn things, and they put the lie to those race-baiting claims.
The professional pot-stirrers can reach their conclusions only by dismissing the incredible phenomenon of Asian success. Last time I looked, Asians are nonwhite minorities, too, yet they are the superstars of New York education.
Many are also immigrants who come from poor families who do not speak English. All of which means city educrats should be celebrating their achievements and trying to duplicate them among other students.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Some New York City School stats:
* Asian Students represent only 15 percent of city students
* Asian students, including those from China, Korea, India and Pakistan, already account for upwards of 60 percent of the population at top high schools, such as Stuyvesant and Bronx Science. The pattern continues with the latest test results.
* Asians were 26 percent of the 28,211 students who qualified to take the 2011 competitive high-schools exam.
* Asians were 47 percent of those scoring well enough to get accepted.
* Non-Hispanic whites were 15 percent of test takers,
* Non-Hispanic white were 23 percent of those accepted.
* Blacks were 23 percent of test takers
* Blacks were 5 percent of those accepted.
* Hispanics were 21 percent of test takers
* Hispanics were 6 percent of those accepted.
* New York City doesn't know the race and ethnicity of 18 percent of those accepted.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/class_acts_give_lie_to_race_card_zaHPrQcnROO44ryaf5lD3O#ixzz1E8bJcK5e
They work and study like crazy and succeed at everything they do.
It is the parents. Asian families often have two, and they expect and encourage academic success from their children.
Remember the mortgage issue?
That blacks were turned down at greater rates than whites when certain cherry picked criteria were used?
(They only used income instead of net worth in their comparison.)
Well, "Whites" were turned down at a greater rate than Asians, using the same comparison criteria. But of course, you never hear that, because that's not part of the Agenda.
That's exactly what the left wants to keep hidden - families matter.
Their entire agenda is to destroy the family and replace it with dependence on government.
DNA tells all.
Asian kids in NYC schools are for the most part the children of people who were smart enough, brave enough, and determined enough to come to a new country and work fiercely hard for success. They know how fortunate they are to be here because they've seen how much worse things are back home; they harbor no resentments about the system mistreating them. They impart these values to their children and make them work hard. This pattern is common among immigrants and their children. I know; I'm the daughter of an immigrant.
Compare and contrast with the situation of inner-city minority kids in this country. Who are their role models? Who is going to be able to motivate them and help them with their homework?
Don't get me wrong: there are a lot of really involved, determined minority parents who are poor but are trying hard to help their kids succeed.
I suspect it's equally, if not more, related to culture. Asian culture reinforces academic achievement, Black culture not so much. However, Thomas Sowell found big differences related to achievement among African blacks as opposed to West Indian blacks; again suggesting that culture is the key.
My wife is Asian and our daughter did quite well in school. However any racial component was cultural rather than genetic. We set and enforced standards. School work came first and what was learned was more important than grades as grades are often inflated so all can "succeed". No means no and yes means yes. You love your kid by helping them achieve their full potential. This used to be American every bit as much as Asian.
Educrats are NOT NOT NOT going to study Asian success or try to duplicate it. Why?
Answer: Because 99.999% of Asian success is due to the AFTERSCHOOLING these kids do IN THE HOME!!!
Answer: The only thing the government schools are doing for these Asian kids is sending home a curriculum for the families, and the kids, themselves, to follow. The government eduwonks mere give tests and grade projects.
Answer: If eduwonks really studied Asian success they *KNOW** what they would find. Asian kids would likely do even better if they NEVER ATTENDED A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL!
Answer: A thorough study of Asian success would likely show that government schooling is retarding Asian progress and actually holding these kids back! ( Yes, I seriously mean this.)
Answer: Likely **all** of the students accepted to this elite government high school could and SHOULD be finishing COLLEGE at the age of 18 and moving on to graduate work instead of rotting in a government school!
Two anecdotal examples:
— A government teacher and acquaintance of mine is a high school math teacher. One of her students, an Asian, is now working on differential equations, on his own, IN THE HOME. This kid has already passed AP Calculus. Will the government school let him move on to the local college? NO!
— My three homeschoolers were in college by the ages of 13, 12, and 13. All finished all general required courses and Calculus III by the age of 15. Two were the youngest students to ever be admitted to our flagship state university and graduated with B.S. degrees in math at the age of 18. A full-page and full-color article was done on them in the university paper, other articles in local papers were also done.
NO eduwonk has ever contacted out family. NO teacher has ever expressed any interest in how we accomplished this. Why?
Answer: Because they are not interested in finding out how to best educate kids. They are, though, interested in maintaining their salaries, generous vacations, benefits, and pensions.
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How is this possible in a world of "structural racism" and "white privilege"?
How is that Jews and Asians are so successful in this country? The legacy of the Chinese Exclusion Act and centuries of pogroms in Europe and the Middle East seems inoperative in America.
The last thing liberals want to do is have a really honest conversation about the public school system. There are much bigger inconvenient truths than "global warming."
An interesting observation:
Americans of German ancestry in the Midwest and German school kids in Germany and Austria have roughly the same test scores. This comes in spite of the fact that German-Americans live on a different continent and no longer speak their native language.
How is it possible that kids who live in the same town, go to the same public schools, speak the same language, celebrate the same holidays, and sit in the same classroom and get the same homework from the same teachers manage to consistently produce such intractable differences in average test scores by ancestral group whereas their peers abroad - their cousins - are so remarkably similar?
Its all about culture
also, speaking very generally, while some elite blacks and hispanics are rising, the larger equalizing factor is that whites are being dumbed-down, both academically and culturally.
I'm a little tired of the use of the demographic "Asian". It has no meaning except in the mind of people who don't think too deeply. Do the Japanese have any ethic, cultural, or religious ties to Pakistanis? How about Sri Lankans and Mongolians? What about Koreans and Israelis? Russians and Filipinos? They're all "Asian" but may not be perceived or reported that way. The point is that data presented the way it is currently being done is useless and misleading at best, and needs to be broken down into some meaningful measure.
Why don't these pot-stirrers ever ask the 5% or 6% of black and hispanic youths what they did to become accepted to these schools?
I keep hearing these stories all the time: "only x % of blacks passed a test" or "only x% of hispanics were accepted into some school", but you never hear these race hustlers ask the few who are accepted into schools or pass tests what their "secret" is.
The reason why is obvious -- these troublemakers will not like the answers they will hear, especially when those answers won't fit the "racism" template.
Then let's say east-Asian, or (horrors) that old term "Oriental."
A very good friend's mother is Japanese and her father is white American. That term really bugs her, so I use it often. I was walking through a neighborhood in Beijing when ahead I saw two black men talking. I thought, "There's something you don't see everyday, black Americans in China - I think I'll go say hello." As I walk up to them I realized they were speaking Chinese, and there a couple of mixed race kids playing nearby. Blew me away - black Chinese - I never even thought of it. My point is that we make an awful lot of assumptions based on some pretty flimsy evidence...
Why are people from the subcontinent who are Caucasian -I.e Indo-European, classified with East Asians who are of the Mongoloid race?
I've had the same experience in both Beijing and Taipei!
How do you know it was cultural and not genetic? All of these "culture only" people seem to believe what they want and ignore whatever possiblities they don't like. There is pretty surely both a cultural AND a genetic component. There is NO evidence denying that likelihood.
The politically correct ban on the use of the term, "Oriental" was the work of Maria Hsia and the Clinton administration. It was an attempt to unite all Asians under one umbrella term (kind of like what Clapper was saying about the Muslim Brotherhood) and create one big lobby group as opposed to separate smaller groups.
Good point.....I have a South-east Asian background, not Oriental.
Coming back to the issue, Asian families are grateful to be here. They respect America, and they are willing to work hard to make a better life for their kids. And they VALUE Education. Family is tight, both parents generally present and kids know they are expected to grasp the educational opportunities.
Family,Country and Opportunity - That's why I love the US and am conservative to the bone. Can't wait to kick the Obama grifters out :-)
China is a strangely wonderful place. The contrasts and the unexpected reality can really be challenging - travelling there taught me a lot about myself.
No doubt whites are the superior race and the others are not really human. Satisfied. I'm tired of this nonsense and finished with such discussions. Kind of like I don't argue with young earth creationists anymore.
Ah yes...I've been spouting about this for ages.... racist race baiters like Jackson and Sharpton have made a career about accusing the "man" for keeping minorities down, but that doesn't hold water in that Asian Americans are disproportinately over represented in universities and scientific jobs, as well as having a higher per capita income than whites. So the "man' purposely puts whites in 2nd place to a minority?
Oh, and Asians managed to overepresent themselves in colleges the good old fashioned capitalist way...HARD WORK, not affirmative action.
Countries like China, South Korea, and Japan have young people and students who are fiercely competitive, who strive for the limited spots at universities, and compaines and schools only take the best of the best. The US, meanwhile, strives for "diversity", where the color of your skin determines the content of your character. We need more minorities at the best universities! never mind that they may be taking spots away from more qualified applicants. More diverisity!
Asian countries strive for excellence, where we strive for mediocrity, all in the name of diversity.
My dear poor America, down the spiral of meekness....
RE: Here at the University, Asian students consistently out perform everyone else.
UCLA : University of Caucasians Lost in Asia
UCI : University of Chinese Immigrants
MIT: Made in Taiwan
UCSB : University of Casual Sex and Beer
Asians don't play midnight basket ball,they study.
I think most educators know exactly why and how Asian students are successful. Their lives out of school revolve around family and studying. There are no PS3's, Nintendo's, sleep overs, cell phones, Facebooks, or even organized sports. Music, of course, that's a given - but time away from studying and family - not going to happen.
In one way, this is backfiring on them. Asians are considered Over Represented Minorities for professional schools. My daughter is currently beginning her applications for medical schools and has shown me the data. A URM (Under Represented Minority) needs about a 27/28 MCAT and a 3.25 GPA to pretty much be in the solid running for admission. Whites - a 30 MCAT and a 3.50 GPA. But a ORM? They need a 33 - 35 with a 3.8+ GPA for a good serious look.
Fair or not - it's just how it is.
Not to quibble, but Asian kids have more cell phones, Nintendos, and PS3s than any other group I know. Not to mention karioki machines. They do tend to shy away from organized sports after the age of 9 or so, but I doubt that's a good thing.
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RE: A URM (Under Represented Minority) needs about a 27/28 MCAT and a 3.25 GPA to pretty much be in the solid running for admission. Whites - a 30 MCAT and a 3.50 GPA. But a ORM? They need a 33 - 35 with a 3.8+ GPA for a good serious look.
Well, the scores are sufficiently close to get away with some sort of "unfairness".
In Malaysia, the non-Bumiputras ( AKA Overseas Chinese and Indians who are not native Malays), have to score over 95% in the entrance exams to be even considered in one of their elite universities ( and even then, you're not guaranteed to be accepted ). The Bumiputras ( native sons of Malaysia ) on the other hand need to score only above 75% to be accepted.
That's a huge ( and obviously discriminatory ) gap right there.
The only reason the public schools in my area do as well as they do is because of the influx of Asian students. We used to have fistfights in the hallways of the local high schools because the white kids couldn't keep up with them. That was years ago, and the Asian kids still outshine the other kids. No more fights in the hallways, though. The white kids got used to the fact that they probably weren't going to do as well as the Asian kids.
I should have added that they angrily refuse to even discuss the issues on which they are irrational. BTW, I was hardly saying whites were superior; if Asian kids do better academically then wouldn't they be the "superior" ones? Why is it ok to say they may have a cultural advantage, but not a genetic one? You have a very strange (but not unusual) mindset.
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Opinions on new Cytex shoe?
(Oops. sorry spelled CyteK wrong.. *faceplam*)
What do you think?
If you want, tell me your discipline and tell me why you would/wouldn't use it.
It sounds like a fine idea but I'm not educated enough to know if it will work how they say it will or not. The shoes have been around a while but I've never seen anyone actual use them. My concerns are that they they don't appear to be shapeable and they are quite costly if I remember correctly. As someone that shoes my own horses I am also leary of learning a whole "system" of shoeing.
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Have no personal experience of these, but inclined to agree with Kevin about unshapability & also shoeing 'systems'. Apparently farriers must do a special cytek course to know how to apply the 'system', because a regular qualified farrier couldn't possibly do it properly with his current knowledge. There also appears to be very little info on the main sites for these and at least some apparent misinformation, which doesn't fill me with confidence.
I'm glad you responded to this thread loosie. It just seems like to me that if the shoe has been around since 2006 and it did all that it claims to do then every farrier I know would be putting them on but I've never actually seen one on a horse. Also you would think there might be some video of a horse moving with the shoes on.
I think those are some sweet ass lookin' shoes. If I ever build a life-size robotic horse, I will definitely put those shoes on it
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Hahah! Yeah guys - I just came across it and was like, whoa you don't see those often..
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Nah, AC, check out these ones for your robotic horse... Fran Jurga`s Hoof Blog: News from Hoofcare & Lameness Journal: Dressage, Fuego-Style: It's What's Underneath That Counts as Euro Rocker Shoes Score for Spain
Yep, like Kevin and loosie mentioned, the inability to shape them to the hoof is a huge problem. I also have the same issue with most of the plastic or polymer shoes on the market. Sure, it looks cool to have bright orange or royal blue shoes on your horse, but they just aren't practical because they likely won't fit the horse's foot. To me, that is no different than a person who just pulls the regular shoe out of the box, whacks off the extra hoof, slaps the iron on, and rasps off everything that hangs over the edge, with no regard for the proper shape of the hoof.
My brother is a farrier and he says that once in a blue moon, you will come across a horse that will wear a shoe just as they come out of the box, but they are very few and very far between.
Definitely interesting! My horse isn't having any problems with her feet (knock on wood) So i probably wouldn't use them... I agree with kevin, It seems weird that they're not shape-able? Do they come in sizes? Because no two horses i know have the same shape of hooves at all....
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