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WASHINGTON — They broke barriers to serve their country — even one that denied them basic rights.
On Veterans Day, the District of Columbia honored two of the original Tuskegee Airmen in a special ceremony at the African American Civil War Memorial.
The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of African-American pilots in World War II.
Major Louis Anderson received the Tuskegee Airmen's Congressional Gold Medal.
"I'm just so happy that I was able to serve my country during World War II, happy to be part of this event and just blessed to be able to enjoy it all," Anderson says.
Anderson, 88, was a member of the 477th Bomber Group. He moved to Washington after the war and studied at Howard University.
"I stand proud to be a member of the original Tuskegee Airmen," he says.
William Fauntroy Jr., a native Washingtonian, is also an original Tuskegee Airman.
"I've been involved with some of the greatest men in the world — those guys," he says.
He was among the Tuskegee Airmen honored in a 2007 ceremony that collectively awarded them the Congressional Gold Medal.
He became a student pilot in 1944.
"The war ended while I was in training," he says.
"My class likes to think it ended because we were in training," he jokes. "Everybody quit because they heard we were coming."
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Barton: Government Regulation is the 'Most Dangerous Attack ... on our Liberties Since the British'
On yesterday's installment of "WallBuilders Live," David Barton and Rick Green complained that government regulation was destroying the free market system ... not too much government regulation, mind you, but any government regulation.
In fact, Barton declared that the mere existence of federal regulatory agencies represent "the most dangerous attack on our liberties since the British" while Green explained that there was no need for federal agencies to prevent companies from dumping toxic waste because the truly free market will hold them accountable when they get sued:
Barton: What's going on right now in DC is government at the regulatory level, particularly at the cabinet level, whether it's the Department of Agriculture or Health and Human Services or whatever, those are now pretty much unaccountable agencies. And what they're starting to do to the country, they have no sense of accountability, they fear no one - they don't fear the President, they don't fear Congress, they sure as heck don't fear the people because we don't elect them. the stuff that's now going on with those agencies is, I think, unprecedented and the most dangerous attack we've had on our liberties since the British, quite frankly.
By definition, a free market means there is no government intervention or regulation. So the more these agencies get involved, the less you have the free market and the less prosperity you will have and the less freedom you will have.
Green: You know, people say if you don't have [regulatory agencies] you're gonna have some company that dumps toxic waste or whatever; well then you the company and you go through the civil courts and there's accountability there.
Yes, I am sure that if some company recklessly dumped toxic waste that ended up making one of Green's children seriously ill, he's response would be "thank goodness our truly free maket has no agencies in existence that can prevent things like this from happening so that now I have the opportunity to sue this company and hold them accountable for gravely injuring my child."
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i saw this last night and i'd heard mixed opinions of it which seems the problem. The moment Jarhead was announced Sam Mendes the man responsible for American Beauty, a perfectly sculpted comment on lost innocence and alienation takes on war the heart of lost innocence and not only that the gulf war, the ultimate metaphor of alienation and something somewhat feared by Hollywood, not only that but Jake Ghylenhaal, Hollywoods newest wonder boy and star of everybody's favourite cult film was to star. It was touted as the apocalypse now or Full Metal Jacket for the new generation. Apocalypse now it isn't but it could have been. There are countless scenes which could have become iconic, playing American Football in chemical suits and the branding of Troy. Don't mistake me these are still memorable scenes but they are not classic making scenes like the beach attack in Apocalypse now, i also felt Jarhead lacked a character as memorable as Killgore or Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. The film seems very much to be cut up into two halves Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm- the first half (in which Swafford is trained and very suddenly sent to operation desert shield) is well done with ironic music and top one liners (alot of ironic humour, lines such as "thank god we never have to see to this sh*t hole again" referring to Iraq) punctuating a general feeling of honesty as to what actually happens in the army. When they hit the desert for operation desert shield i don't believe Mendes has achieved the effect he hoped for, we should feel like we're waiting for something to happen, we should fell like Swaff and the others. The football game should have appeared out of this, just something to do, not playing up for the cameras then it would have been iconic especially if filmed like any given Sunday or Friday night lights. When Swaff loses it with the other soldier was great and perfectly acted by Gylenhaal. When Desert storm begins is when i think the film really takes off you begin to feel really frustrated as they chase the war and the scenes at the burnt out barricade type thing are harrowing, they really make a point as does the friendly fire incident. You really start to feel for Swaf and Troy as they miss the chance at a kill and seeing them go back to their everyday lives makes it's point nicely. The cinematography is stunning there's little more i can say for it, you just have to see the desert after it rains oil. Overall this is a great film but not a classic, it lacks the memorable scenes which make it's predecessors so iconic except the point when the soldiers watch apocalypse now. If it ha been handle with a slightly higher level of skill it would easily have lived up to it's name.
Porkys is the original base comedy teen film and does it oh so well. From Porky's pig pen, the holy grail of sex to the howling PE teacher (a young Kim Catrall)the classic comedic moments just keep coming, the moral of the story (anti-anti-semitism) seems as if it may have been levered in as an after thought to give the film more depth but this could just be the film ageing. Overall Porkys can be clunky but this is an inevitable part of it's 80's heritage and it beats the pants off Animal house blow for blow (atleast Porkys has a plot)though not as side splitting as American Pie this again seems to be a product of age. See it but treat it like your mates dad, where your mate gets all his jokes from but your mate tells them in more your way. Respect for the Porky's sign though, i want it on my wall.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang revolves around petty Criminal Harry Lockhart who
stumbles into an audition for a role as a detective and is crowned
Hollywood's brightest star subsequently being trained for his role by
real detective (Val Kilmer's inspired Gay Perry).
Shane Black made his name penning Lethal Weapon and the Long Kiss Good Night, films stuffed to the hilt with clichéd smooth as hell language and over the top gunfights characterised by Bad guys who couldn't hit a barn door and good guys who never missed but disappeared off the Hollywood map. In fact rumour has it Black had to change his pen name simply to get the script for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang read, a legacy which surges through the whole film with Blacks (and every other action films) signature twists and turns dealt with a great depth of skill and providing ample plot but a sometimes subtle sometimes painfully (yet hilariously) obvious parody of Hollywood action films making Kiss Kiss Bang Bang the potential classic it is.
Through out his return to the Hollywood fold Black goes about deconstructing every film he's ever written and prodding it. The buddy cops of Lethal weapon weapon become the uneasy partnership of pro detective Gay Perry (Kilmer) and wannabe actor Harry (Downey Jr), the slick dialogue becomes humorous reference to Hollywood in general and hilarious twists on typical 'slick' dialogue ("You're an idiot. You know that. You know if you looked in the dictionary next to the word idiot you know what you'll find? A picture of me? No! The definition of the word idiot. Which you are".) With the whole film narrated by Harry himself often making mistakes and skipping bits. For all it's comedy though Kiss Kiss Bang Bang retains it's slick, cool feel and brings all the thrills of Blacks earlier offerings.It does give less bang for your buck but most audiences should see this as a worthy sacrifice for the humour introduced.
Whilst watching Kiss Kiss Bang Bang one could easily draw parallels with Pulp Fiction for it's super cool dialogue and genre referencing but it's closest comparison may possibly be Wes Cravens Scream. Craven pulled apart slashers films, explained them to us then went about contradicting every convention referencing every horror film he could think of on the way but still made a fully fledged slasher film instead of the parody you would expect, Black didn't explain action to us but what need is there, pull the trigger say something witty, but he did turn every convention of the standard action film on it's head, point fun at a never ending range of films and come out the other side with a fully fledged action film better than any action film he'd ever come up with before.
In Conclusion: Deserves to be a classic, see it now
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the plot is just a series of ill thought out strands strung together,
the humour is non existent, the only time i laughed was when the girl
pronounced "i'm only 13", this was not out of humour but discomfort.
The jokes are all clichéd and even when i heard them for the first time
(in marginally better films) they weren't funny.
The open premise is unbelievably shaky with the two prospective pledgers being rejected from the frat they spend the rest of the film in without this decision being changed (the speech made is booed off and his claims of entitlement through his brother immediately rejected) The frat is shut down for the toga party then shut down again for poor grades directly after the pointless one stop road trip without being reopened.
To summarise: base, humourless, a low point in John Belushi's career though a highlight in the National Lampoons saga.
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The Hulk is just plain bad. it never engages it's audience like xmen or the old superman films, it takes itself far too seriously by going into the science of the thing- he's a big stupid green man it's not really science it's a comic book. Which mastermind contestant was trying to think of something really cool to attack the Hulk with and thought oh poodles are scary. Banners dad was a lame bad guy- several people walked out of the cinema during the showing and the rest of the audience spent the showing laughing at the poorness of the film (i kid you not), i only stayed because my lift home wasn't coming until the end. MAKE NO SEQUEL- T'IS THE DEVILS COMIC BOOK ADAPTATION. I've only seen two films i disliked more- Unbreakable and long time dead


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I am trying to go back to my old style.
Render by me.
Character (C) SEGA.
Render by me.
Character (C) SEGA.
Was this rendered in sfm?
no I am certain it was done in blender
Sanic gained a bit of weight...
Unleashed roooocks!
I must have this MODEL,where did you get it?
Okay, sonic is purposely trying to get my attention lol
The toes of the shoes seem to have an irregular texture defect I think...
That is supposed to be there, even SEGA does it. I imagine it is supposed to be water splashes.
Wow really? Sega does that? Well I'm not surprised in the least, (you can take that either way ), but I haven't been paying attention to them or the pictures they make recently.
Water splashes is one idea, 'cause when I saw it, it looked like the tips were scuffed a bit. Maybe from all the running?
Colored lighting FTW :3
wow, that's cool
seems good
Nice, but clorefull)
This is better than the original!
Looks really good! The stomach is kinda big and the eyes are.... Creepy-ish, but it looks a lot like Unleashed Sanik XD XD
Good job! C:
Good job! C:
Thanks! I actually made the stomach like that purposely because I prefer it. :3
This looks perfect!
omg that's spot on!
Nice one!
i like your old style Tom
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Refreshing yogurt beverage. Sweet and salted
Mango Lassi$2.95
A delightful mango shake
Masala Tea$2.95
Darjeeling tea flavored with cardamon seeds
Palak Chat$6.95
Baby spinach lightly fried, seasoned with home made spices
Veg Manchurian$6.95
Mines cauliflower, cabbage & carrot balls grazed with tomato sauce and garlic
Ragda Patties$6.95
Spiced potato, chich peas, tamarind date, mint chutney
Vegetable turnovers stuffed with potatoes and green peas, tempered with cumin seeds and spices
Paneer Pakora$4.95
Tender chunks of homemade cottage cheese, dipped in chick pea flour batter and deep fried
Aloo Papri$4.95
Crisp puries made of flour topped with chunks of potatoes, coated with yogurt, mint sauce and tamarind sauce
Mixed Vegetable Platter$5.95
A combination of seasonal fresh vegetable & samosa
Garden Salad$4.95
An assortment of lettuce, cucumber and tomatoes served with homemade dressing
Tandoori Chicken Wings$6.95
Chicken wings marinated in a blend of spices & herbs with yogurt & finished in tandoor
Achari Chicken Tikka$7.95
Boneless chunks of chicken breast marinated in chef's secret spices
Lamb Seekh Kebab$7.95
Minced lamb seasoned with ginger, garlic, and a blend of spices
Salmon Kebab$8.95
Chunks of fresh salmon blended with our special spices cooked in tandoor
Assorted Platter$8.95
A delightful combination of Chicken Tikka, aloo tikki, and Seekh Kebab
Onion Bhaji$4.95
Onion rings, dipped in spiced chickpeas batter and deep fried to perfection
Served with Nan bread
Mulligtwani Soup$3.95
A traditional lentil soup enriched with cilantro and fine herbs
Tomato Soup$3.95
A refreshing tomato soup tempered with mustard seeds and fresh curry leaves
Tandoori Specialties
Served with Basmati rice and vegetables of the day
Tandoori Chicken$13.95
Half spring chicken marinated in yogurt, ginger, garlic & spices
Paneer Shashik$13.95
Chunks of homemade cottage cheese along with onion, pepper and tomatoes cooked in tandoor to perfection
Chicken Tikka$13.95
Boneless chunks in chicken marinated in yogurt, lemon juice and homemade garam masala, in a special blend or spices
Reshmi Kebabs$13.95
Supreme of chicken breast marinated in yogurt & rare spices and herbs
Tandoori Shrimp$18.95
Fresh filet of salmon, marinated in yogurt and chef's blend of spices
Tandoori Salmon$18.95
fresh filet of salmon, marinated in yogurt and chefs blend of spices.
Lamb Chops$24.95
Rib lamb chops to perfection of choice
Tiranga Chicken$14.95
Perfect sampler of chicken tikka, reshmi kebab, & achari chicken tikka
Boti Kebab$21.95
Chunks of fresh lamb marinated overnight in yogurt, ginger, and a touch of garlic a rich selection of indian spices and tnen charbroiled
Tandoori Tofu$10.95
Small cubes of tofu, marinated in yogurt, paprika and spices, and then charbroiled in the tandoori clay oven
Mixed Grill$18.95
Sizzling hot combination of Jumbo shrimp, boti kebab, and chicken tikka. A great sampler
Seafood Specialties
Served with Basmati rice pulao
Ragga Special Salmon Curry$18.95
Fresh chunks of salmon cooked in a yogurt based curry sause
Mixed Seafood Masala$16.95
Shrimp, scallops, salmon
Calcutta Fish Curry$18.95
Traditional Bengali fish curry cooked in mustard seeds and curry leaves. Seafood Specialties
Shrimp Masala$16.95
Pungent shrimp curry cooked in a coconut and tomato based curry sauce
Kadai Shrimp$17.95
Shrimp cooked over high heat in a special wok with fresh tomatoes, onions, and bell peppers, blended with choice spices
Shrimp Biryani$16.95
Large shrimp cooked with Basmati rice, cilantro, herbs &spices
Shrimp Masala$15.95
Pungent Shrimp curry cooked in a coconut and tomato based curry sauce
Chicken Specialties
Served with Basmati rice pulao
Chicken Tikka Masala$14.95
Charbroiled chunks of chicken cooked in a chefs secret blend of spices. A house specialty
Chicken Korma$13.95
boneless chicken cooked in an aromatic cashew based sauce
Chicken Curry$13.95
Traditional indian chicken curry cooked in a tomato and onion based sauce
Kadai Chicken$14.95
Boneless chunks of chicken cooked with curried spinach
Chicken Saag$13.95
Boneless chunks of chicken cooked with curried spinach
Chicken Vindaloo$13.95
Tender pieces of chicken cooked with vinegar, potatoes and cocktail onions in a spicy curry sauce
Chicken Nilgiri$13.95
Chicken cooked in lush green sauce with coconut in a special blend of spices
Chili Chicken$13.95
Thin sliced chicken seasoned with spices, work tossed in chili
Lamb Specialties
Served with Basmati rice pulao
Lamb Vindaloo$16.95
Tender pieces of lamb cooked with fresh herbs, vinegar, potatoes, cocktails onions & red pepper. A spice specialty of Goa
Lamb Curry$16.95
Traditional lamb curry cooked in a tomato and onion based sauce
Rogan Josh$16.95
Tender Pieces of boneless fresh cooked in yogurt based creamy curry sauce, enriched with a selected blend a spices. A chef's special
Dhania Gosht$16.95
Succulent pieces of lamb, cooked in blend of cilantro and spices
Kadai Gosht$16.95
Fresh lamb cubed cooked in a special wok with fresh tomatoes, onions and bell peppers
Saag Gosht$16.95
A perfect blend of lamb 7 spinach. An excellent North Indian dish
Lamb Biryani$16.95
Tender pieces of lamb cooked with finest Basmati rice, flavored with mint. Served with Raita
Laal Maas$16.95
Rajasthani Specialty. Spicy red lamb curry
Vegetable Specialty
Served with Basmati rice pulao
Hakka Noodles$11.95
Soft noodles stir fried in our chef's special with sliced vegetables
Shahi Paneer$12.95
A vegetarians delight. Chunks of fresh homemade cottage cheese, cooked in a tomato based sauce with bell peppers, fenugreek and a delicious blend of chef's secret spices
Mutter Paneer$12.95
Pettie green peas and homemade cottage cheese cooked in an onions and tomato based curry sauce
Malai Kofta$12.95
Croquets made with homemade cottage cheese, potato and vegetables, stuffed with raisins and cashew nuts and then cooked
Baingan Bharta$12.95
Baked and mashed eggplant cooked with onions, tomatoes and fine herbs. An exquisite North Indian dish
Palak Paneer$12.95
A perfect combination of fresh spinach and homemade cottage cheese, cooked with ginger and rare spices
Mixed Vegetable Korma$11.95
A delicious combination of fresh vegetables, nuts and raisins, cooked a creamy curry sauce
Vegetable Biryani$10.95
Casseole of saffron rice cooked with fresh vegetable, nuts and raisins
Dal Tarka$9.95
Tradition Indian urad lentils, enhanced with onions, tomatoes and spices
Yellow Dal$9.95
Masoor lentils saut with cumin and spices
Shabnum Curry$10.95
Fresh mushroom green peas cooked in an onions based curry sauce
Gobi Aloo$10.95
Cauliflower, Potatoes, cumin, ginger
Sookhi Sabzi$10.95
Seasonal Fresh Vegetables cooked with blend of spices
Chana Masala$10.95
Delicious chicken peas curry cooked in special blend of punjabi spices
Aloo Mattar$10.95
Garden fresh green peas cooked with potatoes in an onion based sauce
Kari Pakora$11.95
Vegetable fritters topped with a yogurt and mustard seed flavored sauce
Kadai Tofu$10.95
Chunks of tofu cooked over high heat in a work with fresh tomatoes, onions and bell peppers
Indian Breads
A fine flour bread topped with kalonji
thin whole Wheat flour bread
Laccha Paratha$3.50
Multi layered whole wheat bread. a chef's special
Methi Paratha$3.50
Multi layered whole wheat stuffed with fenugreek and selected seasonings
Onion Kulcha$3.50
Fine flour bread stuffed with onions and fine herbs
Aloo Parantha$3.50
A whole wheat flour bread stuffed with seasoned mashed potatoes
Kashmiri Nan$4.95
A chef's special. Fresh baked nan with nuts and raisins
Keema Nan$4.95
Freshly baked bread stuffed with seasoned ground lamb and cilantro
Garlic Nan$3.95
Nan stuffed with chopped garlic
Herb Nan$3.95
Rosemary, oregano, thyme
Assorted Breads$8.95
Combination of chef's favorite breads. Nan, laccha paratha, onions kulcha, garlic nan
Homemade cottage cheese patties served in a saffron and cardamon flavored milk sauce
Gulab Jamun$4.95
Dry milk dumplings dipped in a honey sauce
Gajar Halwa$4.50
A grated carrot dessert, flavored with rosewater and cardamon and enriched with pistachios and raisins
Pistacios Kulfi$4.95
A traditional Indian ice cream, flavored with cardamom and pistachios
Mango Kulfi$4.95
A traditional indian ice cream, flavored with mango and cardamom
Rice Pudding$4.95
Indian rice pudding flavored with cardamom, sprinkled with buts and raisins
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Yes he is young...yes I am old...but just because one is on a diet...it does not mean one can not drool at the menu!
He can be my magic man!
There are sooooo many more I would love to add...but my computer is acting up & won't let me put them in...
I will verbally say Vin Diesel, Josh Hutcherson (young...but sweet in the boy next door kinda way), LL Cool, *young* Sean Connery, Alex Skarsgard
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Australian Community Climate and Earth-System Simulator (ACCESS). Based upon the UK Met Office Unified Model system. ACCESS R is the regional numerical forecast model operated by the BoM. It is run twice daily (00Z and 12Z) and provides forecast data out to 72 hours with a horizontal resolution of 37.5km and 50 vertical layers.
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El Nino over, BoM says, so winter rain could be on the way
The latest El Nino cycle is over, which could lead to a wet winter, according to the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM).
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BMI View: The German IT market is forecast to increase to US$61.3bn in 2012, up by around 2%, with
positive growth despite the eurozone currency crisis. Consumers and businesses remain wary because of
the risk of a new recession in the eurozone, and in 2011 IT spending continued to trend negatively, with a
further decline in PC sales. However, the decline was at least relatively modest compared with that
reported in many other EU markets. Over the next five years, we forecast a more favourable outlook for
the German IT market, with areas of opportunity including cloud computing.
Headline Expenditure Projections
Computer hardware sales: US$16.1bn in 2011 to US$16.4bn in 2012, +2% in US dollar terms. Forecast
in US dollar terms upwardly revised due to analyst modification following modest growth in Q112.
Software sales: US$19.3bn in 2011 to US$19.7bn in 2012, +2% in US dollar terms. Forecast in US
dollar terms upwardly revised due to analyst modification, but political and economic uncertainty will
weigh on investments.
IT Services sales: US$24.8bn in 2011 to US$25.2bn in 2012, +2% in US dollar terms. Forecast in US
dollar terms upwardly revised due to analyst modification, and growing demand for cloud computing
services will provide a key opportunity.
Risk/Reward Rating: Germany's score was 80.0 out of 100.0. Germany ranked second in the Europe
region in our latest business environment ratings table, behind only the UK, and ahead of France.
Key Trends & Developments
The market's high level of exposure to the ongoing eurozone currency crisis suggests a more
challenging economic outlook for German IT spending in 2012. Businesses remain cautious, but
BMI expects IT spending to outperform GDP growth in 2012, and if business confidence
improves then there could be a boost from pent-up demand. Surveys from 2011 had suggested
that around 40% of German companies expected to increase spending on IT services, with
enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management systems among the main
spending areas.
Cloud services in Germany should receive a boost from a European Commission ruling in mid-
2012 that cloud services are compatible with the EU law on privacy. Concerns and legal
ambiguities regarding the security of data stored in the cloud has been seen as one factor
contributing to the relatively slower uptake of cloud services in Europe compared with the
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United States. There is now increasing interest from government organisations as well as the
private sector in cloud computing services such as SaaS and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
Other key drivers of IT spending opportunity will include growing mobile and fixed broadband
penetration, the proliferation of mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and e-readers, data centre
virtualisation, technology innovation such as GSP technology and services, and economic recovery.


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Just a 20-minute walk from Uppsala Concert and Congress and Gustavianum Museum, Hotel Kvarntorget Uppsala offers 3-star Uppsala city center hotel accommodations. Carolina Rediviva Library is 1.1 mi (1.8 km) away.
This hotel offers a restaurant, free WiFi and free self parking. Multilingual staff can provide tour/ticket assistance.
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- Check-in time 3 PM-9 PM
- Check-out time is 11 AM
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- Monday - Sunday: 7 AM - 11 AM
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- Minimum check-in age is 18
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I Just Need Less Than One Yard Of My Grey Headliner. I Ordered From "Headliner Magic" THIS IS THE WRONG COLOR! THIS COLOR IS TOO LIGHT. So. YOU TELL ME. WHAT IS THE EXACT COLOR NAME DESCRIPTION OF MY GREY HEADLINER? No. They Did Not Make Dozens For One 2010 Toyota Camry.
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Why the Astros won't lose 100 next seasonSeptember 17, 2013 Updated: September 18, 2013 12:22am
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It took only one play against the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night for Jonathan Villar to capture the Astros' 2013, 2012 and 2011 seasons perfectly. In yet another baserunning blunder, Villar slid face-first into Brandon Phillips' left buttock for an out at second base.
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Norfolk and Suffolk council and business leaders to manage £39m transport pot
07:13 24 January 2013
Council and business leaders in Norfolk and Suffolk will be given control of a £39m transport cash-pot over three years.
In 2012 the government set up local transport bodies (LTBs) to take charge of transport infrastructure in the English regions.
Yesterday ministers confirmed LTBs would be given control of money between 2015 and 2018 that previously would have been spent from Whitehall.
Officials at the Department for Transport said initial calculations indicated that money allocated for Norfolk and Suffolk would amount to £39m over the three-year period.
Minister Norman Baker said: "The devolution of [money for] major transport schemes will give real power to communities to make locally-accountable decisions about what will work best for them.
"The figures we have published today provide the clarity local areas need to plan for the future and, armed with these figures, local decision makers can start looking at the kinds of infrastructure projects that will deliver the greatest benefits for local people.
"Many transport schemes deliver benefits far beyond their immediate surrounds and I would encourage local authorities to talk to their neighbours where joint schemes might be appropriate."
However, the actual allocations for each area will not be determined until future spending plans are set in stone by the government.
The Norfolk and Suffolk LTB will be made up of Norfolk County Council, Suffolk County Council and the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), a grouping of council and business chiefs designed to promote economic growth in the East.
Mr Baker also said that New Anglia would get a share of £5m this year to help it execute its role in administering the new budget.
The LTB will now start making contingency plans on how to spend the indicative amount of money, though it has been told to allow for the actual amount to be up to one third higher or lower than the indicative figure.
Graham Plant, Norfolk's cabinet member for transport and planning, said the LTB had schemes "on the table" and waiting for money, but could not give any the go-ahead until the actual amount was confirmed.
He said: "It's the start of something, but not the be-all and end-all.
"I'm hopeful that when the government are confident the LTB can spend the money wisely, more will be forthcoming down the line."
Mark Pendlington, New Anglia's LTB representative said: "Working with our local authority colleagues we are making good progress establishing the New Anglia Local Transport Board.
"We are pleased that the government has confirmed indicative funding of £39m, which we are determined to invest in projects which will maximise the economic potential of our area."


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|Howling Wings – Pillsbury Recipe
We love wings, we just don't eat them often. It is hard when you move to a new area to find a place that makes wings the way you like them, or the way your favorite place back home made them. Our favorite place in Northern NY was Doug's Tavern in Heuvelton. They have the best wings I have ever eaten when ordering them out. As a matter of fact, before moving down here last year, I joined some current and former students (if they read this now, they know they were my favorites!) at Doug's for my goodbye. Good food, sad occasion. I can hardly believe its been almost a year now!
Back to the wings. I have two reasons I rarely make or buy wings. First of all, I don't enjoy frying food in my home. The best way to make wings in my opinion is in our turkey fryer where I let Grumpy do all the work! I hate spattering grease. My second reason is the simple fact that they are not the most healthy food for you even if your baking them in the oven (unless your going skinless chicken wings…but that just isn't the same). So, to us, they are a rare treat.
Our very favorite way to eat hot wings is my the recipe right on the Franks Red Hot Sauce bottle. I know they make a hot wing sauce now too but I prefer to mix it up myself. I also like to mix them up a little with different flavors at times, but Grumpy usually complains when I do that (he still eats them though. lol). Franks has a slew of recipes for ways to make your wings on their website, you can check them out by following the link I have to their search results for hot wing recipes. Below are some of my favorite ways that I have made hot wings.
**Note – all the below are guides – please adjust amounts to your own tastes.
- Honey Garlic Wings: Stir in 1/4 honey and 3 large cloves minced garlic (fresh is best)
- BBQ Buffalo: Stir in 1/4 cup BBQ sauce of our choice with hot sauce mixture (my favorite is Sweet Baby Ray's or KC Masterpiece)
- Maple Hot Wings: Stir in 1/4 cup pure NY Grade A (what we use) maple syrup with hot sauce (this is my favorite way!
OR skip the hot sauce all together and make up the following sauces:
- Honey Mustard Wings: 1/2 cup honey, 1/4 cup dijon mustard, 1/4 cup stone ground mustard
Veganized Buffalo Wings (for you non meat eaters!)
Cooking by the Seat of My Pants – Lemon Garlic Chicken Wings
The Hungry Housewife – Grilled Rosemary Chicken Wings
Bobby has a slew of wing recipes on his blog – here is a link to the search tab for his BlogChef Wing Recipes
Allrecipes has a section on their website devoted to Chicken Wing Recipes


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|DNI REALTY, LLC Patent applications
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|BASEMENT DRAINAGE CONDUIT - A basement drainage conduit for use in basement waterproofing systems. The conduit has one or two side elements with apertures to admit groundwater. The conduit may further include an intermediate element to provide additional support to the conduit structure. In embodiments where the intermediate element does not define apertures, a two-channel system may result to prevent cross-flow within the conduit. The conduit may be a modular assembly, the individual components of which may be separately manufactured for on-site installation and customization. Structural features of the conduit components, such as those defining a mating system, may facilitate assembly of the conduit. Radius elements may be provided to accommodate corners to result in a continuous drainage conduit along the perimeter of a basement, and ports may be strategically positioned to allow access to the conduit interior, such as for cleaning.
|BASEMENT SUMP SYSTEM AND METHOD - A sump system for use in basement waterproofing systems. A sump liner may be generally rectangular in geometry, and may include two side elements with apertures to exchange groundwater while blocking debris. An adjustable inlet may be provided in another side element to fluidly connect other elements of a basement waterproofing system to the sump liner. The sump liner may further include a base configured to provide a built-in stand for a sump pump. The pump stand may contain a lip with notches to allow debris to fall and collect in a trough around a periphery of the base. The base may further provide an underside cavity for accommodating an obstruction in the floor of a sump hole. A removable lid may facilitate access to the sump liner interior, and may contain a break-away feature to accommodate discharge piping, as well as a groove to lodge a pump power cord. The sump liner may be strategically oriented within the sump hole to protect the basement foundation from erosion.
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Eighth Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention
20-10-2003 Statement
ICRC statement to the 8th Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the CWC The Hague, 20-25 October 2003
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) attaches great importance to the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (CWC), the ultimate goal of which is to rid mankind of an abhorrent weapon that causes excessive suffering and has indiscriminate effects.
The ICRC is an independent, neutral and impartial humanitarian organisation mandated under the 1949 Geneva Conventions to protect and assist victims of armed conflict, as well as to promote and strengthen international humanitarian law, also known as the " law of war " . International humanitarian law includes detailed rules aimed at regulating the conduct of hostilities, in particular restricting the belligerents'choice of weapons, means and methods of warfare, with a view to reducing the suffering caused by war. In relation to chemical weapons, it is worth recalling that in 1921, the 10th International Conference of the Red Cross unanimously endorsed the ICRC's call for " the absolute prohibition of the use asphyxiating gases, which are cruel and barbaric means that inflict terrible suffering on their victims. " This provided an impetus to the adoption in 1925 of the Geneva Protocol prohibiting the use in war of asphyxiating, poison and other gases -- the precursor of the CWC.
As is recalled in the Action Plan for the universality of the CWC being considered by this Conference, universalization is one of the key challenges to achieving the total elimination of chemical weapons. In promoting the ratification and implementation of international humanitarian law treaties, the ICRC continuously urges States to adhere to the CWC and, for States that have not yet done so, to accede to the 1925 Geneva Protoco l. The ICRC considers that efforts to achieve the universality of the CWC are greatly enhanced when States are reminded of the Convention's deep roots in international humanitarian law, in particular in the universal prohibition of the deliberate spread of poison and disease. This age-old prohibition is found in ancient codes of war and more recently in the 1925 Geneva Protocol. Since its entry into force five and a half years ago, the CWC has played a crucial role in reinforcing this fundamental prohibition.
The ICRC also welcomes the work being done in this meeting on the Action Plan on Article VII. The ICRC has considerable experience in supporting and advising governments on the development of implementing legislation for international humanitarian law norms. Through its Advisory Service on International Humanitarian Law, which consists of a worldwide network of regional legal advisers, the ICRC is available to provide technical assistance to States, in cooperation with the Technical Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), for the development of their penal legislation under Article VII of the CWC. In this regard, the ICRC participated as observer in the Regional Conference of the African National Authorities of States Parties, which took place in August 2003 in Khartoum, Sudan, where it presented its role in the promotion and implementation of the CWC. The ICRC is committed to pursuing such efforts in cooperation with States Parties and the Technical Secretariat.As the ICRC emphasised in its statement to the First Review Conference in April, the Convention's integrity is fundamentally dependent on vigilance regarding new technologies that could undermine its object and purpose. In this regard the ICRC expressed its alarm at the increasing inte rest among police, security and armed forces in the use of incapacitating chemicals, and at the lack of attention to the implications of these developments for the CWC and international humanitarian law in general. In our statement, we also urged States Parties to begin a process aimed at clarifying the meaning of the Convention's law enforcement provisions in Article 1. We would be pleased to discuss with delegations the concerns raised in our April statement and again encourage this Conference to begin work to address these important issues.


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[caption id="attachment_95221" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Former State Compensation Insurance Fund building at 1450 Neotomas Ave. in Santa Rosa (image courtesy of CoStar)[/caption]
SANTA ROSA -- A Petaluma-based commercial real estate investor added 188,000 square feet of industrial and office space to its sizable local portfolio with the purchase of two buildings in the Santa Rosa area.
Cornerstone Properties purchased a 124,337-square-foot warehouse at 975 Corporate Center Pkwy. in southwest Santa Rosa from Zynobia, LLC, on June 18 and the nearly 54,000-square-foot vacant State Compensation Insurance Fund office building at 1450 Neotomas Ave. in east Santa Rosa the following day.
"We believe in this area; we believe in the community, and we continue to do strategic growth," said a Cornerstone Properties principal who declined to be identified.
[caption id="attachment_95222" align="alignleft" width="360"] Front entrance of the warehouse building at 975 Corporate Center Pkwy. in Santa Rosa (credit: Keegan & Coppin)[/caption]
The warehouse was 70 percent occupied at the time of sale, and two deals were in the final stages of negotiations that would take that rate significantly higher, the principal said.
The three-story former state fund building was built in the mid-1980s for the agency, which accommodated more than 300 employees there at its peak operations. The steel-frame class A construction and location near Bennett Valley where a number of executives live made the building attractive to purchase, according to Cornerstone.
[caption id="attachment_95223" align="alignright" width="360"] Back of the warehouse building at 975 Corporate Center Pkwy. in Santa Rosa (credit: Keegan & Coppin)[/caption]


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A fast, primitive HTTP request parser
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTTP-Parser-XS/
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/www/p5-HTTP-Parser-XS/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install p5-HTTP-Parser-XS
cd /usr/ports/www/p5-HTTP-Parser-XS/ && make install clean
pkg install p5-HTTP-Parser-XS
PKGNAME: p5-HTTP-Parser-XS
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No options to configure
Number of commits found: 19
Update to 0.17.
Changes: https://metacpan.org/changes/distribution/HTTP-Parser-XS
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Change the way Perl modules are installed, update the default Perl to 5.18.
Before, we had:
site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18
site_perl/perl_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18/mach
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/5.18/man/man3
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site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl
site_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.18
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/site_perl/man/man3
Modules without any .so will be installed at the same place regardless of the
Remove all the bootstrap files (.bs) from the plists.
Starting with perl 5.20, they're not installed any more if empty,
and on FreeBSD, they're (always ?) empty.
Submitted by: mat
Exp-Run by: antoine
Sponsored by: Absolight
- stage support
Approved by: portmgr (blanket infrastructure)
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
- convert to the new perl5 framework
Approved by: portmgr (bapt@, blanket)
- Upgrade to 0.16.
- Upgrade to 0.15.
- Upgrade to 0.14.
- Upgrade to 0.13.
- Upgrade to 0.12.
- Upgrade to 0.09.
- Upgrade to 0.07 (unbreak with older Pod::Text).
Feature safe: yes
- Upgrade to 0.06.
Feature safe: yes
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- Upgrade to 0.02.
Feature safe: yes
A fast, primitive HTTP request parser
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTTP-Parser-XS/
Feature safe: yes
Servers and bandwidth provided byNew York Internet, SuperNews, and RootBSD
10 vulnerabilities affecting 20 ports have been reported in the past 14 days
* - modified, not new
All vulnerabilities


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Has there ever been a marriage between two Bike Forums members? Any romantic relationships started here?
Has there ever been a marriage between two Bike Forums members? Any romantic relationships started here?
Sure - Joe Gardner (the past owner) and Heather (Shadiyah)
I'm thinking that A.Troll must have run off with MERTON and the Underwear Nazi. She seemed like one guy wouldn't quite do.
Those voices in your head aren't real, but they have some great ideas
In one other bicycle forum I'm in there have been some relationships, but none leading to marriage - but there are also couple of married couples who post on there as individuals.
A hiking forum I'm on - yes there is one, if not two, couple(s) I know of on there who met and eventually married via the forum.
Mostly I see lots of people - some sectioning off (but not withdrawing from the forum - but rather developing a master e-mail group list/phone list) and becoming very close friends as I have with my other forum.
I have to say, one of my very closest friends, whom I have not seen for two years, lives in Toronto and I'm heading up there in March. I luvs me gurly friend - and I would not have met such a nice person - as well as many others had it not been for bicycle forums.
OK, now my next question.
When's Sadie Hawkins day anyways? I've got some pickin to do!!
I met my boyfriend (Vireo) on a Southern California Bike Forums century. We were going south, he was going north...we stopped at the same 7-11, he turned around and rode south with us and the rest is history. He wasn't a member here...until he came to BF looking for me the next day.
The day we met...
One year later in the parking lot of the 7-11.
And you make a spectacular looking couple! Congrats!!!!
When I told my boss I was getting married, he looked at me a asked, "Don't you have a watch?"
Perplexed, I replied, "Yes, I have a watch. Why?"
"Then you already know what time it is."
It turns out he was right. My wife has been telling me what time it is for 20 years now.
That's gonna leave a mark.
I need to chase more hotties on centuries. I have enough (on the exterior) in common with the lucky sap that found Brandy to KEEP HOPE ALIVE!!!
No marriage yet, but who knows...? Eboo and polara?
Edit: Just saw your post, Siu! Heh.
Not a BF marriage but I proposed on a MB ride years before BF existed. Were still together and still riding together. Biking and marriage is good stuff.
My story's even geekier. I met my wife on a dial-up BBS back in '94 or so. No real interest, just someone I saw in passing on occasion. We were both online and bored one January night in '97, and met for coffee. A week later, we met again for dinner and a movie. That was 11 years ago to the day. We got hitched in 2001. The rest is history.
ax0n: Geeky and bikey
My latest tip: Carrying your laptop
My latest geeky project: Ethernet-testing cuff links
Wow! You let him grab your drops on the first date.
Not on this board, but I met a special someone on another board. No marriage though.
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My crazy brain came up with this ridiculous idea. "Why can't I have a single 2.5" drive device that actually contains two independent hard drives? I want RAID 1 data mirroring and the security of having redundant drives. This is a thing that must exist!"
To be clear, I am not asking if I can somehow shoehorn two 2.5" drives into a single bay, replace an optical drive with an additional HDD, or anything like that. What I have in mind is a single 2.5"-form-factor device that houses two independent hard drives, with separate housings (likely) and distinct controllers. Probably all they'd need to share is the power & SATA connections.
Probably no such thing exists, but because I know there exist hard drives the physical size of a stack of postage stamps (roughly), I have to ask.


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Would you support an expensive, all agencies and levels of government, education initiative if it were pitched on the following basis?
"Just as the human body is no longer the major tool for physical labor, and just as a carpenter need not use only hand tools, so will mental functioning no longer be the sole province of the human mind."
That quote has actually been translated from Russian and came from a 1972 Moscow University paper on "The Psychological Consequences of Computerization." Most of you have probably heard that over the weekend President Obama announced a more than $4 Billion with a B Coding for All, computer science instruction for all, initiative. To supposedly make all children ready for 21st Century jobs. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/us/politics/obamas-budget-urges-a-deeper-commitment-to-computer-education.html?_r=0 is an example of the glowing coverage, but my favorite story is this one http://www.governing.com/templates/gov_print_article?id=367034991 because it shows just how excited state and local government officials are with this push. That link was actually pushed by the Center for Digital Education that is a subsidiary of the e-Republic organization of state and local officials and politicians.
It hypes all the "federal agencies and technology industry leaders behind this initiative." In other words, cronies and fans of public-private partnerships and public sector unions think education to create Manipulable Muppet Minds is a swell idea. I know what you are thinking. How do I know the nature of the initiative since it says computer science? Because it says it is to be Coding for All and facility with abstractions like Binary Code wouldn't be accessible to all.
Plus I am quite familiar with what kind of Coding and 'Computer Science' is accessible to all. Raise your hand if you know what a VPL is? It's an acronym standing for Visual Programming Language. No need for abstractions at all. In fact, VPLs are accessible even for those who cannot read or do not know English. Now that's the kind of manipulable, concrete learning experiences John Dewey would certainly love, wouldn't he?
The second I heard about the initiative I knew it had to be about using Logo and Scratch and letting children believe they could design imaginary worlds and come to believe that the natural world works similarly to pretend, manipulated virtual environments. After all I first wrote about Seymour Papert and his MIT Media Lab back here http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/megachange-macroshift-daily-school-experience-to-fuel-a-revolution-in-consciousness/ What I discovered though when I correctly surmised that this Coding initiative involved Constructivism (covered in depth in chapters 2 and 3 of my book on the real purpose of the reading and math wars) and Mitchel Resnick's Lifelong Kindergarten work, was that there was now an 8 minute video available celebrating this vision for learning. https://vimeo.com/143620419
Produced with videos of Papert and his vision that children interacting with computers is the ultimate integrated–tactile, mental, aesthetic, physical–learning experience that produces "involvement and engagement" that "grabs the individual so that they fall in love with the material." It provides the potential for a new kind of learning that can change how the students see themselves and the world. In other words, it's the perfect means to manipulate the 'interiority' of the individual without that person having any idea just how much they are being manipulated. It's Dewey's concrete experiences, except the actual consequences of any student actions are determined not by scientific laws of physics, chemistry, or biology. The results are whatever the software coders design and those rules are not apparent in the least to the student.
We do know though that the keynote speaker at a global ed tech conference bragged about this ability to rig virtual worlds and the beliefs about how the real world works that would be created. http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/when-gaming-intends-to-shape-and-distort-our-perceptions-of-everything-around-us-viva-la-revolution/ We know that the same Nicholas Negroponte featured at the 1:21 mark in that video is a member of the Club of Budapest working with Ervin Laszlo to pitch systems thinking and alter culture globally to create a Holos Consciousness. K-12 education is such a useful way to alter a culture and create a desired consciousness, isn't it, especially if it can be sold as Coding for All?
http://hci.ucsd.edu/102a/readings/LearningAboutLifeAnnotated.pdf is a 1994 article Mitchel Resnick wrote about wanting to shift students away from the mechanistic "models and metaphors of Newtonian physics." Isn't control over virtual reality useful if you want to alter how students "make sense of the world around them" as Resnick and that video both proclaim openly? Logo and Scratch may allow students to control the behavior of creatures they design and "create, experiment, and play with decentralized systems" so that they come to believe that human systems in the real world will react much the same. Contrary to all the plans involving redesigning people and economies using data, we are now running the biggest experiment in the history of the world in a bid that, finally, this time, collectivism will work.
Everything I linked so far I knew about, but because I have a large number of books that openly admit a desire to use computers to redesign how the human mind works, I decided to go back and reread them yesterday before writing this post on Coding. The title of the post is a direct quote from a 1986 book Mind over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer. Its authors, Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus, are quite excited about education that bypasses the analytic mind. Is that what any of us would associate with an initiative being sold as computer science for all? That the computer can be used to create "skilled behavior based on holistic pairing of new situations with associated responses produced by successful experiences in similar situations?"
Is that how Success for All, Coding for All, and closing the achievement gaps between groups with widely varying abilities occurs? To train students to act Arationally as the Dreyfuses called it. To rely on "in principle, we may be able to close much of the gap between the information-processing capabilities of child and adult and ultimately of computers by integrating our information-processing systems." That was my bolding or didn't you know there has been a long-standing desire by the Soviets and those seeking Social Reconstruction starting at the level of the human mind all over the world for decades to achieve a "co-evolution of Human-Computer Intelligence"?
Humans get weaker and what they can do and how they perceive and what makes them motivated to act all dictated by political power intent on a shift to a planned society. In other words, Overreaching political power needs to control the individual without that control being apparent. Manipulated Muppet Minds and mind arson are the perfect solution. Computers also means there's no pesky textbook to give away the nature of the shift. Education writers may misleadingly drone on about Common Core being a transition to a Type 2 Philosophy of Education, but the reality of the actual intended change in K-12 education is much graver.
I did appreciate, though, the concession from an Atlas member, the Heritage Foundation, that http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/31/progressivism-throws-money-at-problems-conservatism-solves-them/ conservatism seeks to "build a society where all Americans are afforded the same opportunities." That would explain why the education policies pushed dovetail so closely with what John Dewey wanted. I didn't know until that letter that the supposed difference between progressivism and 'conservatism' is that progs put the focus at the federal level and 'conservative solutions' target the local. Well, they both seem to be targeting the individual and the sanctity of the human mind via computerized education.
Where else did I look yesterday to get that lead-in quote and to confirm that Coding for All is actually designed to alter the neurological properties of American schoolchildrens' minds in ways that level and manipulate? I have a tag for Stanford Professor Roy Pea because we have met him before in connection with the NSF Cyberlearning initiative. I have a 1987 book of his called Mirrors of Minds: Patterns of Experience in Educational Computing. It described precisely what was hoped for from Logo and Seymour Papert's work and the possibilities for altering the human mind as a result of "marrying the problem-solving capabilities of child and computer." Again, that's the whole point of the Coding for All push in the President's 2017 budget.
Finally, after all these years, those seeking to build a new society plan to get there using "the co-evolution of human and computer intelligence." Admitted progressives, Marxists, and apparently declared 'conservatives' all seeking to use computerized education to get at the human mind. Since "formal operational thinking" is decidedly 'nonuniversal' and terribly unequal in who is good at it, K-12 education grounded in equality of opportunity has to be about "integrating the powerful information-processing systems of the computer and the frail information-processing system of the human mind." These "integrations would serve as mental catalysts for engineering the development of high-level cognitive skills."
Those would be the same as what ESSA now requires states and districts to annually assess with fed Ed proscribing Opt Out in a way it never threatened to do before the statute passed. Using the computer as a tool, "the child would not need to await the development of general logical structures in order to become a powerful thinker." Without personally created logical structures, let's make that an Arational Powerful Thinker using ideas and concepts supplied to him or her by those wanting to reconstruct society in the 21st Century. What is being called adaptive learning now and promoted all over the globe appears to me to be what the older literature called a cognitive trace system. Let's end this post looking at the usefulness of the kinds of information provided (whether it is personally identifiable or not).
The "fundamental idea of a cognitive trace system is that the intermediate products of mind are externalized through the process of interacting with knowledge-based computer systems." More known then to the computer than to the actual student. Ripe for manipulation by anyone wanting to control that 'interiority'. Pea admitted that "cognitive trace systems can provide a major lever for cognitive development." And whose hand is on that lever? It's not the student as much as they may be excited about being allowed to follow their own interests. That simply allows content to be found that the student can be made to "fall in love with" as Papert put it in the video.
Students are being made to fall in love so that the manipulation is both lasting–Lifelong Learning–and not unpleasant. No need for gulags in the 21st Century. Virtual reality and Coding for All can create the needed shifts. "Cognitive trace systems could act as prime movers toward the child's grasp of consciousness in different domains by contributing to the development of this metacognitive knowledge, so important for expertise." Once again, that would be the supplied concepts, understandings, themes, and principles that Dewey wanted to use and so apparently do many pitching themselves as 'Classical Educators.'
Be very wary of all education using the computer whether sold as Classical, about Great Ideas, or Coding for All. Ironically, as I was getting ready to write this post a weekly newsletter from admitted educational transformationalists was hyping Seymour Papert today and the vision he had for the "personal computing device."
Papert called it an "instrument whose music is ideas." Beware the human brain manipulated by that instrument to act on Ideas Arationally.
Bypassing the analytic mind. It's just what every collectivist and Social Reconstructionist needs.


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How do you handle backtalking?
Mom to Leah Grace 08/24/2008 and Jacob Adam 04/03/2011 (my baby boy is here!!!)
What do you consider "backtalking"? I have learned that kids' words don't have any more "power" than you decide to give them. If you make it a big deal, you give their words "power"... you give them the power to make you react to them. They can turn around and use this against you if you're not careful, and things can escallate.
You have to listen to what they are trying to communciate and not pay so much attention to how they are saying it. Is she talking this way because she is frustrated? Tired? Upset? Hungry? Stressed out? Instead of focusing on the "backtalk", deal with the real issue of what she is trying to tell you. If you do this, you can teach her how to identify what is really bothering her and ask for help with that, rather than just venting her emotions. (I know a lot of adults who still don't know how to do this!)
You might want to pick up a copy of "How to Talk So Kids Will Listen, and Listen So Kids Will Talk", it can help with these kinds of issues.
Me(32) & DH(35) Married 6-22-02 ~ DD~10~DD~9 DS~8 V~8/08 VR~2/9/15 *Dr.Wilson* Findings ~ Rside: NO sperm Lside: Whole Sperm TTC # 4 since 3/2015
Honestly, the BEST tool I've ever found for dealing with this age. My son just turned 4, and it doesn't phase me a bit if he gets "mouthy", because I don't give it any weight. If he said "No, you take a bath" I would probably find some way to bring humor into the situation. Reverse psychology (humorously applied) can work wonders for things like this. He can't fight you if you suddenly switch sides. "No, you CAN'T take a bath... I won't let you! It's MY bath... mine, I tell you!" (maniacal laughter as I stand in front of the bathtub) Now I have my 4yo's full attention (because he thinks I have lost my mind) and he has to figure out what he's supposed to be rebelling against. Most of the time, he switches sides... "Yes, I CAN have a bath!" "No, it's my bath... my wash cloth, my soap, my rubber ducky... all mine!" "I WANT TO TAKE A BATH!!!" Now we can get down to negotiation. Fine... you can get in the tub, but you can't have any water. Ok, fine,you can have water, but absolutely no soap! No, no soap, no wash cloth, no ducky... sigh... ok fine, but you can't have any FUN! By this time, he has completely forgotten he didn't want a bath, he's fighting to get into the tub, and we have a very enjoyable time playing with his toys. Bath is accomplished, fight avoided, and we have a good time into the bargain.
This is SOOOOOOO much better than trying to prove some kind of point to a 4yo who doesn't really know why he didn't want a bath in the first place.
Been there, tried both... humor is better. :-)
Never argue with a 4yo (or a teenager). It's a losing battle, even if you win you lose. Search out the humor whenever possible, don't set yourself up an an adversary. DO NOT LET THEIR LANGUAGE OR BEHAVIOR DICTATE YOURS!!! My 4yo can talk back to me all he wants, it does not mean I have to react to it. I have found through experience that the more YOU make back-talking a big deal, the more your child will use it, because it gets a rise out of you. If you refuse to acknowledge the behavior, it has no power to make you frustrated, to make you angry, or to make you do anything at all. If you can learn to keep your cool no matter what your child does, you are going to have a tremendous advantage. Remember, you are only as strong as the smallest thing that can upset you. Don't try to insist that your child doesn't do anything to annoy you, learn to be strong enough that nothing they do can annoy you. THEN you can make calm, rational, logical decisions on how to help them change their behavior.
Check out the book Playful Parenting by Lawrence Cohen, it has some great ideas on how to use humor to discipline your kids.
I only have a 2 year old and he's just starting to talk more (a lot of "no, no, no's" though, haha) so I don't really have this problem, but I read the book Playful Parenting that the previous poster recommended and I loved it and really want to utilize the methods as my son grows.
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At ChristianJohnson540 when my son who is 4 refuses to do something I ask him a ton of questions, i open it up as a discussion to better understand why he is refusing. Like mom27kids said, our language is not theirs. For me I use love and logic and I paint him a mental picture in our discussion ofwhat it would be like to not do something. For my son its washing his hair. I can get him to play in the tub all day long but as soon I would suggest washing the hair its a power struggle. PP is right again, you cannot win a power struggle so if you know that there is going to be one, we avoid it at all cost. We want a win win situation where the hair gets washed on the boys terms. These are the questions I have asked him in the past:
*how it would work out for me to not wash my hair?
*How many days could I go without washing my hair before I start to stink?
*How many of my friend will want to sit next to me if I stink?
*What ways can we wash your hair so you feel good about it?
Each time I ask a question I give him the process time he needs to answer the question. I want him to di all the heavy thinking, I dont disagree I dont try to change his mind, his mind has already been made up, So i ask him " How do you think that solution will work out for you?' If he still refuses to wash his hair I could enforce a consequence that he cannot go with me somewhere till he can be presentable. " I will be happy to take you along when you take care of your body" Or I could encourage the bad behavior, " No problem son, I will love you no matter how many time you choose not to wash your hair' Be sure that your tone is loving and your agreeing with the child, do not be sarcastic, it will backfire everytime! For stubborn and defiant kids you can be enforcable immediately and still have the child maintain dignity and control, "you may take your bath now or in 10 minuets.' Then empathy, consequence and hugs!
Best of Luck to you all! :)
Me(32) & DH(35) Married 6-22-02 ~ DD~10~DD~9 DS~8 V~8/08 VR~2/9/15 *Dr.Wilson* Findings ~ Rside: NO sperm Lside: Whole Sperm TTC # 4 since 3/2015
Mom to Leah Grace 08/24/2008 and Jacob Adam 04/03/2011 (my baby boy is here!!!)
"Also, we think DD is very strong willed so I am reading Dr Dobson's book " the strong willed child"! "
NOOOOOOOO!!!!! Put that book down and burn it! Forget everything you read there! I used that with my first few kids (I was a big Dobson fan) and it almost destroyed our family! That is the WORST advice you could possibly get for any sort of "strong willed" child, because the author sets up a very adversarial relationship between parent and child where the parent HAS TO WIN ... meaning the child has to LOSE... every single time.
If you don't believe me, skip to the section where he describes beating his little Dachshund into submission because he didnt' want him sitting on the toilet next to the heater.
""When I told Sigmund to leave his warm seat and go to bed, he flattened his ears and slowly turned his head toward me. He deliberately braced himself by placing one paw on the edge of the furry lid, then hunched his shoulders, raised his lips to reveal the molars on both sides, and uttered his most threatening growl. That was Siggie's way of saying. "Get lost!â€
"I had seen this defiant mood before, and knew there was only one way to deal with it. The ONLY way to make Siggie obey is to threaten him with destruction. Nothing else works. I turned and went to my closet and got a small belt to help me 'reason' with Mr. Freud.â€"
"But this is not a book about the discipline of dogs; there is an important moral to my story that is highly relevant to the world of children. JUST AS SURELY AS A DOG WILL OCCASIONALLY CHALLENGE THE AUTHORITY OF HIS LEADERS, SO WILL A LITTLE CHILD — ONLY MORE SO.†(emphasis Dobson's)
Dobson characterizes children as manipulative from birth:
"[i]t is possible to create a fussy, demanding baby by rushing to pick him up every time he utters a whimper or sigh. Infants are fully capable of learning to manipulate their parents through a process called reinforcement, whereby any behavior that produces a pleasant result will tend to recur. Thus, a healthy baby can keep his mother hopping around his nursery twelve hours a day (or night) by simply forcing air past his sandpaper larynx.â€
My parents used Dobson's books, and I used them for the first 10 years of my parenting, and in both situations, it caused nothing but bigger problems and heartache. I hated the way my parents treated me as a child, and I am disgusted at the way I treated my own children while following Dobson's advice. It was selfish, manipulative and cruel.
I have a lot of strong feelings about this particular book, I hope you can understand why. I have completely turned my back on that style of parenting, and my whole family has benefited immensely from the change. I would suggest checking out books on positive discipline. If you are reading Dobson, I'm guessing you would like Christian parenting authors? If so, here is a list of books you might like:
Bailey, Becky - Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline (See past discussions about this book.)
Budd, Linda - Living With the Active Alert Child: Groundbreaking Strategies for Parents
Chou, Grace P. - Disciplining Children with Confidence
Clark, Jean Illsley - Self-Esteem: A Family Affair and Time-In: When Time-Out Doesn't Work
Clarkson, Clay - Heartfelt Discipline: The Gentle Art of Training and Guiding Your Child
Clarkson, Sally - The Ministry of Motherhood: Following Christ's Example in Reaching the Hearts of Our Children
Cohen, Lawerence - Playful Parenting
Colorosa, Barbara - Kids Are Worth It
Crary, Elizabeth - Dealing With Disappointment
Faber, Adele and Elaine Mazlich -How To Talk So Your Kids Will Listen and Listen So Your Kids Will Talk and Sliblings Without Rivalry
Flower, Hillary - Adventures in Gentle Discipline
Gordon, Thomas - Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children
Kimmel, Tim - Grace-Based Parenting
Kurcinka, Mary Sheedy - Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles and Raising Your Spirited Child
Lutton, Crystal - Biblical Parenting and Grace-Based Living.
McKay, Matthew - When Anger Hurts Your Kids
Nelsen, Jane - all Positive Discipline books (note: the ones for younger children are not AP), and Jodi's fav Positive Discipline A to Z
Neufeld, Gordon and Gabor Mate - Hold On To Your Kids - jujubnme says, "He talks about parent-orientation vs. peer-orientation. Very insightful, and good information on parenting from connection. Although it applies for all ages, it's an excellent resource for parents of school-aged kids."
Pantley, Elizabeth - Kid Cooperation: How to Stop Yelling, Nagging & Pleading and Get Kids to Cooperate - kauaidee says, "She does recommend time outs but I found overall her discipline style very gentle. It is one of the most practical books I've read which is what I need right now. I feel like I've got the concept of GBD down but I need ideas and this one gave me lots. Plus she also had a chapter on dealing with anger as a parent which is something I struggle with."; The No-Cry Discipline Solution; and Perfect Parenting: The Dictionary of 1,000 Parenting Tips
Sears, William - The Discipline Book and The Successful Child
Tobias, Cynthia Ulrich - You Can't Make Me But I Can Be Persuaded
Turansky, Scott and Joanne Miller - Say Goodbye to Whining, Complaining and Bad Attitudes...in You and Your Kids
Whitehurst, Teresa - Jesus on Parenting
Wyckoff, Jerry and Barbara C. Unell - Discipline Without Shouting or Spanking


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Review: I've been a vegetarian/vegan for 32 years and I prefer to eat only at vegetarian restaurants. I'm from England, but I live in Los Angeles, CA; I've traveled around Europe and Chile a lot, and I always seek out vegetarian restaurants abroad. Before I came to Fatty's, a year ago, my favorite veggie restaurant in the world was Millenium in San Francisco, followed by Greens (also SF); but Fatty's beats them both. The "Potato Skin Tacos" are out of this world and the "Vegan Ravioli" is fantastic; I also recommend the "Strudel". They have a wonderful selection of wines and Happy Hour prices for Martinis. I have noticed that there is a high turnover in the wait staff. So far they've all been really nice, but I did notice the last time that the waiter seemed new to the job. Fatty's is owned and operated by two ladies, both really sweet. It's obvious that excellent food and wine are their passion.
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