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Last month, the Florida Senate approved a measure prohibiting students from wearing clothes that expose underwear or "indecently" reveal the body at school. The so-called "baggy pants" bill, now headed to the House floor, is one of a few proposed by state and local governments to target a fashion some politicians have labeled "nasty and dirty" and an "epidemic." However critics like the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida counter that such bills are discriminatory because they disproportionately target minorities and criminalize fashion arising from black youth culture.
Although this might seem like a contemporary debate, historian Kathy Peiss says it has an antecedent in the zoot suit, popular in the late 1930s and '40s. Comprising an oversized jacket, voluminous tapered pants, and accessories like fedoras and yard-long key chains, this fashion now primarily makes its appearance at costume parties and in Tom and Jerry reruns. But it once galvanized controversy among academics and politicians and even appeared to trigger violence in the 1943 "Zoot Suit Riots." Peiss, the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History and Department of History chair, explores the trajectory of this fashion in her new book, Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style (forthcoming in June from the University of Pennsylvania Press).
"The zoot suit has been interpreted as a style that conveys political resistance on the part of mainly racial and ethnic minority youth—Mexican Americans and African Americans in particular," Peiss says. "What I wanted to do in the book is analyze how we came to this interpretation and whether we should move so easily from a style to a political interpretation."
Peiss, a historian of 20th-century American culture, gender history and history of sexuality, first became interested in the zoot suit while teaching a class about the "Zoot Suit Riots" at her previous position at the University of Massachusetts. In this incident, white sailors on shore leave armed themselves with makeshift weapons and coursed through the streets of downtown Los Angeles looking for young Mexican Americans wearing zoot suits. They viciously beat their victims and tore the clothes off their backs.
"It was essentially a race riot, and the summer of 1943 was full of them," Peiss says. "But in other places—Detroit, Harlem, and Beaumont, Texas, they were called that. The weird thing is that in L.A., it was named after an item of clothing, and this was one of the things that drew me to this project."
Although it came to represent racial, economic and social tensions, the zoot suit, Peiss argues, didn't begin as a political statement. It seems to have originated in Harlem in the mid- to late- 1930s. One reason young men adopted the flamboyant style was simply to stand out. In her research, Peiss came across one man who said he wore zoot suits because he "wanted to look like a diamond." It was also worn to express group identity.
"Zoot suits were often associated with gangs—though not necessarily criminal," Peiss explains. "It was more to show connection with other young men in your community."
Because it was associated with the dance and music culture of the time—the jitterbug, jazz and swing music—zoot suits grew in popularity with youth from all backgrounds. Through the spread of American popular culture and U.S. involvement in World War II, the fashion eventually traveled around the world—to countries as diverse as South Africa, Trinidad and Russia—as a quintessentially American style.
"Unlike most American consumer products that are marketed," Peiss says, "this is a case of a style that just takes off. No one is intentionally trying to circulate it, yet it has a kind of exuberance that appeals to young men in many parts of the world."
However, Peiss' book posits, several elements conspired to politicize the style. One was the government's enactment of limitations on materials, including textiles, needed for the war effort. Clothing manufacturers subsequently could only produce narrow silhouettes, so even though the zoot suit wasn't illegal, they weren't allowed to produce its dimensions.
"In the minds of at least some people," Peiss says, "wearing a zoot suit becomes an unpatriotic act."
Additionally, the social and behavioral sciences at the time were developing an interest in decoding cultural symbols for what they might say about society and human psychology. Peiss points to efforts by a range of experts in disciplines such as social psychology, sociology and criminology to make sense of the zoot suit.
"Some of the psychoanalysts say the zoot suit is a sign of arrested sexual development," Peiss explains, "and some of the sociologists and social psychologists link it to the literature on criminal gangs, claiming that young men who wear the fashion might be grappling with an identity crisis or an inferiority complex. A whole interpretive framework becomes placed on the phenomenon."
"A style's meaning is produced not just by the people who wear it, but also by those who assess it –the manufacturer, advertising, popular culture, politicians and scholars, among others. Ultimately, this book is a plea for a more complicated way of understanding the symbol of clothing."
– Kathy Peiss
The riots further politicized the zoot suit. Most of those arrested were Mexican Americans who were attacked. For some of these young men, the fashion symbolized resistance against oppression and an assertion of rights. On the part of the authorities, the local government and the press, however, zoot suits were interpreted as a sign of criminality.
"This article of clothing," Peiss says, "becomes a sign of the 'other.' Zoot suits represent the earliest case that I'm aware of where there's this judgment of an article of clothing that if you wear it, you are dangerous; you may be violent; you may be a criminal. I think this has carried on, for example, in the way that hip-hop and goth styles are sometimes interpreted."
Peiss' book advocates for caution in the way society reads signs and symbols and recognition of the complex ways in which their meanings are produced.
"A style's meaning is produced not just by the people who wear it," Peiss says, "but also by those who assess it—the manufacturer, advertising, popular culture, politicians and scholars, among others. Ultimately, this book is a plea for a more complicated way of understanding the symbol of clothing."
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It looks like Kobe and Vanessa Bryant aren't the only two who are trying to work out their marriage. Online judicial systems records show the divorce petition file by Bishop Eddie Long's wife, Vanessa has been dismissed. Get more details after the break.
According to the online judicial system record, there are three new entries as of Feb. 13 related to the Longs' divorce case with the descriptions "dismissal," "certificate of service" and "dismissed without prejudice" noted.
"Dismissed without prejudice" means the case may be re-instituted or re-filed in the future. According to the Judicial Branch of Georgia website, "A dismissal without prejudice does not stop the plaintiff from re-filing the claim and proceeding as long as the claim is made timely (within the statute of limitations) and service can be secured."
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SurModics is selling its SurModics Pharmaceuticals assets to Germany's specialty chemicals firm Evonik Industries for $30 million in cash. The deal includes the entire portfolio of products and services, including SurModics Pharmaceuticals' cGMP development and manufacturing facility in Birmingham, Alabama, its parenteral dosage technology platforms and services, and bioresorbable lactide-glycolide polymers business.
SurModics specializes in developing drug delivery and surface modification technologies for the healthcare industry. Its core offerings include drug delivery coatings, microparticles, and implants, and surface modification coating platforms that provide lubricity, prohealing, and biocompatibility capabilities. The firm says selling off its pharma assets will allow it to focus on its core medical device and IVD businesses, and add cash to the firm's coffers. "The sale of the pharma assets is an important milestone toward achieving our goal of returning SurModics to sustainable, long-term profitability," comments Gary Maharaj, president and CEO. "After conducting an efficient and thorough review process of our strategic alternatives, we believe this sale creates compelling value for all of the company's stakeholders, including employees of the pharma business."
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SALEM, N.H. — Mitt Romney is a timid Massachusetts moderate, a flip-flopper on abortion and gun rights. As governor, he raised taxes and even tried to hike fees on the blind. He's also a liar full of "pious baloney" — according to Newt Gingrich.
The former House speaker left his "positive campaign" strategy behind in the cornfields of Iowa, where Romney's allies smacked him with a series of negative ads that helped knock Gingrich out of contention in the state's leadoff caucuses. Now, his tone is growing sharper by the day as he assails Romney.
"He owes us a report on his stewardship" of Bain Capital, the Georgia Republican said Monday on NBC's "Today" show, demanding that chief rival Romney tell the public more about how he operated as a venture capitalist.
Plowing through New Hampshire before Tuesday's primary, Gingrich is indulging an innate sharp edge that has won him attention — and enemies — from his days as a back-bencher in the House in the 1980s. Now, as always, he risks nicking himself in the process.
"Gingrich is doing it the way you shouldn't, which is a mean, nasty, transparently negative attack on Mitt Romney," says Michael Dennehy, the political director for Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign four years ago. "It comes across to everyone now. It helps Mitt Romney's opponents. It's not going to help him."
Some New Hampshire voters are pushing back.
At a health care event in Lebanon, an attendee, Peter Miller, lectured Gingrich for "conducting politics as if you were a suicide bomber engaged in hostage negotiation."
Gingrich demurred.
"I think that's a mythology," he replied.
Gingrich knows firsthand that attacks can be effective and risky. He made a career of attacking opponents personally, from House Speaker Jim Wright on down. Gingrich's rhetorical aggression also helped him lead the Republicans to the House majority in 1994. But Gingrich's style left him little goodwill among his own lieutenants. He was forced to resign as speaker after the 1998 GOP election losses.
As a presidential candidate in the 2012 election, he was bloodied in Iowa by millions of dollars in brutal television ads, many funded by a super PAC backing Romney. Once a front-runner in Iowa polls, Gingrich tumbled to a distant fourth-place finish in the state.
Winning Our Future, a super PAC supporting Gingrich, has purchased $3.4 million in ad buys in South Carolina, according to Rick Tyler, a former Gingrich aide who is helping lead the effort. The spots, in what is considered a critical state for the former Georgia congressman, are expected to go after Romney.
Contrasting records is fair game, Gingrich says, issuing a new pledge against slinging mud.
"I don't have the money and I will not engage in the kind of vicious negativity that, frankly, drove me down in Iowa," he said Friday night to an overflow crowd packed into a high-school cafeteria in Salem. "I'm going to fight honestly on the facts and draw the contrasts."
But Gingrich is famous for hyperbole and a lightning-fast response reflex that, deployed effectively, can knock a candidate as robust as Romney.
"The only reason you didn't become a career politician is because you lost to Teddy Kennedy in 1994," Gingrich shot across the debate stage last month, hitting a bull's-eye with his reference to Romney's unsuccessful Senate bid.
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Lowe, Robert (Jr.), guitar; born in Detroit Mich. 7/2/48 at Henry Ford Hospital. Parents are Robert Lowe and Velma Lowe. He was introduced to music at a very early age through his mother's recordings of black jazz and pop singers.
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A short time after that Lonnie Smith hired him and the band went to New York, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Boston, and Philadelphia as well as recording. After this tour he returned to Detroit and formed an organ trio to concentrate on jazz. He also began teaching guitar at Metro Arts, where he became friendly with the other guitar instructor, James Blood Ulmer. During this period he also worked in a big band with Marcus Belgrave, Ron Jackson, and others, but the big band and the teaching ended when funding was cut off. Soon afterward, in 1975, he toured with Charles Earland to New York's Village Gate, the Key Club in New Jersey, and gigs in Philadelphia. For the rest of the 1970s he worked in a recording studio in Detroit, recording various kinds of music, recording with vocalists, and so on.
From 1980 to 83, he worked in Detroit with Nancy Wilson, O.C. Smith, Marlena Shaw, Ronnie Dyson, Spanky Wilson, Richard Groove Holmes, Jimmy Smith, McDuff, Lonnie Smith, Earland, Joey DeFrancesco, Kenny Garrett, Eddie Jefferson, Mary Wilson and the Supremes, Regina Carter and others. He recorded as a sideperson for Lonnie Smith. Earland and others, and as a leader on his own label (Lowe-Down Records Inc.).
He continues to perform primarily in and around Detroit.
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Houston Person: The Real Thing
Lonnie Smith: Mama Wailer
Charles Earland: Odyssey (Dec. 1975; with Ron Carter, Randy Brecker, John Abercrombie)
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Shanghai: On the Cutting Edge of China's Economic Miracle
Although not the traditional China of pagodas and pavilions, Shanghai conjures up all the mystery of the Far East. A past of colonial adventurers, shady ladies, and opium dens, it now has a shining future as Asia 's major hub of economy and trade. Many multinationals whose regional headquarters were in Hong Kong and Singapore have already relocated here.
China's most cosmopolitan city, Shanghai is also its richest and largest. Although estimates vary, general consensus puts the population of its greater municipal area at around 18 million people. And that's truly beyond megalopolis.
Even for a city at the cutting edge of China's economic miracle, the pace of change has been astounding. Back in 1985, for example, Shanghai possessed one skyscraper.
Now its skyline is crowded with around 3,000 buildings that tower 18 stories or higher. Everybody knows about the air-conditioned megamalls — a new one seems to spring up every month — but it was only about 11 years ago that the city's first convenience store opened. Today it has more than 5,000.
Western supermarkets, such as Carrefour and Wal-Mart, international schools, hospitals and clinics, top-class restaurants and posh hotels abound where you can blow China's average annual rural wage in just one night. Factor in the booms and busts of Shanghai's highly speculative real estate market, and it's easy to forget that you're in a Communist country.
Though shackles have loosened, information remains tightly controlled. Throughout my 18-day visit to China, it was impossible to access the BBC news website even once.
Opium for Tea and Silk
Separated by the Huang Pu River, Shanghai divides into two slices. The west side, home to the city's older quarters, is known as Puxi. The east, all brand-new, is called Pudong New Area.
With a sci-fi skyline fronting the river, Pudong is the location of Lujiazui, Shanghai's business and financial district. Its most extraordinary edifice is the Oriental Pearl Television Tower. It puts you in mind of a hypodermic syringe spearing a giant pink onion.
It's no doubt unintentional, but the syringe image seems apt for a city whose fortunes were founded on opium. In the 19th century, Britain's gunboat diplomacy forced China to open up to foreign trade. As one of the country's major ports, Shanghai was on the front line.
Trade figures concerned the Victorians as much as they do today's politicians. Flooding China with opium from the poppy fields of the Indian subcontinent, the British were more than happy to see Shanghai's people puffing themselves witless. They justified their drug trafficking activities on the grounds that opium was the only commodity China would buy in exchange for tea and silk. By 1870, opium accounted for 43% of China's total imports.
France and other colonial powers wanted a piece of the action, too. As a result, Shanghai was divided into foreign "concessions," where Chinese law held no sway. Reveling in its sobriquet of the "Whore of the Orient," the city attracted fortune builders and ne'er-do-wells in equal measure. During its 1930s heyday, Shanghai rocked like tomorrow would never come.
The good times crashed when the Communists took power in 1949. They closed down the brothels, gambling palaces, dance halls, and opium dens, and rounded up the gangsters, gamblers, drug-smugglers, and profiteers.
Colonial Edifices
Today's Shanghai still has its shady places — according to local sources, karaoke bars are often fronts for various forms of vice. But for most visitors, yesteryear's decadent glamour exists only in the imagination.
And one's imagination has to work hard. Much of the old city has already been bulldozed in order to transform Shanghai into a shiny high-rise metropolis. A few teeming pockets of back-alley life remain, but the best places to see the remnants of pre-communist Shanghai are in the leafy streets of the former French Concession and along the riverside area known as the Bund. Here, imposingly grand edifices built during the colonial era gaze across to the futuristic towers of Pudong.
With wide sidewalks and attractive parks, much of downtown Shanghai seems surprisingly spacious. The only place I felt the pressure of madding crowds was in the Old Town bazaar and the Yuyuan Gardens neighborhood that lies southeast of the Bund.
The Old Town bazaar is undoubtedly photogenic, with its fishponds, zigzag bridge, and wooden shop houses topped by traditional curved roofs. But it is touristy, and you're not seeing the real thing. The area was renovated into a few blocks of touristy theme streets in 1999. Unless you're into novelty shops, ersatz antiques, and teahouses where you cannot get a seat, you can safely give it a miss.
The New Decadence
Whether it's Swarovski crystal or designer boutiques, Shanghai's newly affluent have embraced consumerism as enthusiastically as their 19th-century counterparts reached for the opium pipes. Shopping is definitely the new decadence.
With air-conditioned malls and flashy department stores, the city's premier shopping street is Nanjing Lu. It's partly closed for pedestrian traffic only, and at night the neon-lit signs dazzle as brightly as those in Hong Kong. Prices for Western designer brands seem even higher than back home, but you can get great buys on shoes. While I was browsing, my husband picked up stylish leather loafers for the equivalent of $13.50. One big annoyance is the hordes of fake Rolex and Prada handbag merchants that attach themselves like limpets to any passing Westerner.
"Boo yow" — I don't want it. If you learn only one Chinese phrase, this is a good choice.
More popular with locals, Huaihai Zhong Lu is another major shopping street arrowing through the French Concession area. If you're still not satiated, take the under-river train through the weirdly psychedelic Bund Tunnel to Pudong. You'll emerge almost beside the monumental Super Brand Mall. With a floor of restaurants, juice bars, and coffee shops, it's also a great place for lunch. I paid less than $5 for a noodle hotpot and a beer.
For items like silk, calligraphy brushes, porcelain tea sets, and handicrafts, the best buys are often in the markets. But if you're looking for jade or antiques, be careful. Guidebooks warn that at least 85% of goods at Dongtai Lu Antique Market (on the eastern edge of the French Concession) are fakes.
Before buying any high-value item, take a look at the genuine objets d'art in the state-run Shanghai Antique & Curio Store (196-246 Guangdong Lu). Prices are high, but you'll get an idea of what a real porcelain vase or jade dragon should look like. But note that you may have to relocate to enjoy your treasures. Genuine antiques more than 200 years old cannot be exported out of China.
Mao memorabilia is everywhere. I succumbed and paid 5 yuan (60 cents) for a red-tasseled dangly thing with a portrait of the Great Helmsman embossed in gilt. I undoubtedly possess the tackiest car decoration in the west of Ireland.
Expat Encounters
Although competition is far fiercer than a decade ago, some individuals have carved out a Shanghai niche for themselves. One evening, I met International Living subscriber Mario Cavalo in a French Concession bar called Senses, with low lights, comfy couches, and an extensive wine list.
When not indulging his passion for playing jazz piano (catch him on the keyboards at Senses on Thursday evenings; the bar is at 515 Jianguo Xi Lu near the American Consulate), Mario arranges conferences and corporate training. He's set up his own company, Vision to Victory, and his latest gig is for Shanghai's German Chamber of Commerce. He'll be taking clients to the silver-sand beaches of Sanya, the premier resort on Hainan Dao, China's tropical vacation island.
To be a successful entrepreneur, you'll need to emulate Mario and learn Mandarin. Although TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) teachers are keenly sought throughout China, merely having a degree and the ability to speak English isn't a guaranteed passport into Shanghai's job market. For one thing, huge numbers of home-grown graduates who have learned English are now in the workplace.
Most expatriates are on company assignments. Management-level employees usually get "the full expat package," which includes private health care, luxury-level rental accommodation, and private schooling for kids. Dawn Brandenburg of Savills Property Services estimates that Shanghai has between 50,000 and 60,000 Western expats, 100,000 Japanese, and another 200,000 "compats" from Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Take Your Earplugs
The three-star Metropole Hotel seemed a good choice when I booked a double room for a discounted $81 through hotels.com. (Shanghai hotels are expensive.) Built in the Art Deco 1930s, it's less than a 10-minute walk from the Bund's riverside promenade.
Unfortunately, its soundproofing is disastrous. The cacophony of horn-blaring starts before first light. Bicyclists, peddlers with handcarts, a tailback of cars heading toward People's Square… each frustrated driver seemed intent on making enough noise to wake an entire neighborhood of ancestral spirits.
Look for other unique Shanghai hotels and interesting Shanghai tours online.
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Even the most brainwashed iSheep can see the pattern now
Chinese smartphone makers managed to force Apple out of the top five in their domestic market in Q3 and account for an increasingly sizeable chunk of global shipments, according to the latest stats from analyst Canalys. The firm's soon-to-be-released Q3 2012 country-level estimates saw the fruity tech titan displaced, with …
Nice one Bob.
An article by Dan Crow (Who he?) in that well-known journal of technical excellence, The Grauniad, confirms that you are one of the elite cognoscenti, and anyone with the temerity to think differently is a sheep.
Great stuff!
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Erm, isn't it fairly obvious that Apple's market share by volume is only going to go down?
The Samsung vs Apple is a bit like saying Audi vs Ferrari. Since Audi cover the whole market (competing with Ferrari only with the R8), of course they have higher sales. If you are including the Kias and Tatas of the smartphone world, of course they are selling a lot more volume. Why is this news? And why do some people seem to insist on equating volume with quality / desirability?
*And please note that comparisons to car brands are intended to correlate to market sector operated in, NOT to teh quality, perceived or otherwise of any phone*
The recession has even hit China, people economising by buying cheaper phones.....
Cheaper or better value?
"...anyone with the temerity to think differently..."
Hey come on this is Apple's punch line... How exactly are you thinking at all?
Evidently, I'm thinking rather more effectively than you, sir.
"Think different" not "Think differently" was an Apple slogan. Some years ago.
It really never ceases to amaze me that the anti-Apple mouth-foamers delight in pointing out that in smartphones, Apples marketshare is <30%, and in computers, <20%. Yet they claim that those who purchase a minority product are sheep.
Now let me get to grips with this idea...
The minority who purchase Apple products are sheep, and the majority who go along with what they consider 'mainstream products' are rugged individualists.
Go along with the crowd/majority, and you're an individualist: be part of a minority, and you're a sheep.
Well it looks like Orwell was correct in his writing regarding Newspeak. Evidently "War IS peace", "Freedom IS slavery" and "Ignorance IS strength".
To say the truth im not anti-apple at all, they do great products altought a bit pricey for my taste.
What amaze me however is this claim of being/thinking "different/differently".
Please don't be picky with my english im not a native speaker.
"Think different" not "Think differently" was an Apple slogan.
I take it that their grammar checker was written by the same lads who did their maps application then?
You may well be right, Sir!
In such a price sensitive market, premium prices will only sell so much.
BTW, where can we buy this Yulong products in UK ? $100 to 150 range looks too good miss.
They are sold in China only, but being Windows CE 6.0 I wouldn't consider buying on those anyway
But beyond that, Apple is never going to have a large share in China because of its price. The GS3 isn't going to have a large share there either for the same reason (but the various low end phones Samsung makes in China may)
Consider that China's smartphone market has a ways to grow because today even the cheapest smartphone is more expensive than feature phones, but eventually the feature phone market will disappear as they can make smartphones cheaper and cheaper to where the price difference between smart and feature becomes insignificant.
Who is going to sell all those smartphones that displace feature phones? Certainly not Apple with it's high end pricing. Nor Samsung, at least not with the GS3/Note2 class of phones. Almost all of them will be Chinese companies we never heard of, who make the salaries paid to the iPhone assemblers seem like millionaire wages. They'll run Android, but have all the Google bits hacked out of it, using various Chinese services (this is already being done on almost all the Android phones sold in China by Chinese companies)
So Apple's share will continue to drop, but it won't mean they are selling fewer phones in China, just that they are selling a smaller percentage of a much larger market.
Be nice to see what these, previously unheard of, devices look like?
The new Yulong 'Love ^ Time'.
What's not to like?
"Yet they claim that those who purchase a minority product are sheep."
Sheep being a herd animal tend to follow other sheep. This tendency to follow other sheep does not depend on the sheep being in a majority.
@diadomraz: You're probably looking at their english-language website which has a copyright notice dated 2008-2010 (which probably suggests it hasn't been updated since 2010) and interestingly is hosted on a dot cn domain. Their chinese-language website (hosted on a dot com domain) lists android based models, and they've future proofed it by having a copyright notice dated 2012-2020.


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Oklahoma Schools have enlisted a rule that 3rd graders must take a competency test in order to stay in school in their "right grade". http://ok.gov/sde/reading-sufficiency-act There has been a good bit of kerfluffle over this issue, with legislators being begged for an alternative by parents of anxious or actual failing.
Oklahoma City Public Schools Foundation has said they want the public schools to be what anyone would wish as an education opportunity for their child, in this video. A few weeks ago, courtesy of .@FoundationOKCPS the Oklahoma City School Board meeting was rather easy to follow, from their excerpted tweets. A member of the Board was pretty adamant that he wanted every parent of failing 3rd grade readers to sign a paper that said they understood their child was going to flunk the test, and therefore flunk the grade level for that year.
Immediate thoughts ran to .@MHAOK. Mental Health Association of Oklahoma, a steady group with a longterm history of providing supportive education to professionals and non-professionals. Parents in the short or long run often have no idea what the teacher is asking them to do. This writer has written about this twice before, http://www.examiner.com/article/big-ten-quick-guide-to-understanding-stu... and http://www.examiner.com/article/what-the-counseling-students-said those are global and some are older kid concerns.
A conversation with a private non-profit clinic RN manager identified the (sic) following: People can gather together to join and improve stances about life... morals if you will. Truly people who have good will in mind, can learn what needs to be done and do it. Those joinings, and asking questions of community supporting groups, following given advice is where these issues can be resolved. http://www.examiner.com/article/systems-induced-trauma-lynchpins-invitin...
What are these kids who are failing at reading made of? Is the chasm of their experience understandable, preventable? Is it borne of baseline failures to comprehend the child or family, and in that is it an issue of wellness and whole family need, not just THAT child. If this hypothesis is true, then resources to understand and solve it will NOT solely be upon the shoulders of the school system.
So there are some things that maybe are or maybe aren't attended to by the school system as to why any kid in OKCPS might fail a reading test. Parents, as with the issues on bussing probably have some similar questions, thoughts and concerns. They may or may not have the words to express these awarenesses or concerns.
The question is WOULD any of these things in combination or alone solve the 3rd grade reading problem? Or inhibit school performance. Consider the identified problem. Consider WHO is responsible for the problem, and WHO should repair the problem.
1.) Buildings OKCPS schools appear to be crowded if not overcrowded for 4th grade and under for most all schools. Physically, too many kids in a room.
Inhumane or substandard environmental conditions. 2.) Insufficient supplies in classroom, 3.) but also not enough toilet paper, towels or soap. Asking kids or teachers to use hand sanitizer instead of handwashing to save money and time is not in anyone's best interest. http://www.examiner.com/article/flu-preventions-high-five
The lunchroom is an odd experience in some schools. http://www.examiner.com/article/back-to-school-lunches-hey-whaddya-tryin...
Some schools have NO toys to play with, or physical hazards on the playground or skip recess physical activities for a video.
Some of the buildings still have 4.) unhealthy air quality, or issues with structure.
5.) Student teacher ratios Too many kids per teacher.
6.) Behavioral outbursts stop the class and learning stops as teacher has to attend short or longterm to this person or person(s) poorly managed, or just too many kids who cannot or do not follow structure for a day of learning.
7.) Bullying in class, on grounds or on the bus.
presence of GANG or criminal activity or child asked to be in a gang or criminal activity.
8.) Assessments by Allied Staff : OKCPS as with many schools may not be sufficiently assessing learning problems as early as possible. Many are known by kindergarten, certainly before 3rd grade. Many things prevent identification, including child moves, or certain types of problems may not present until a certain age or developmental task flummoxes the child. Child learning struggles connected to bigger: if a child has learning disability, psychiatric illness or behavioral//neurologic disorder this fans out to other problems. For the same reason one could have a headache and broken foot... one can have none, one or all of the struggle trinity schools assess for. ( academic, emotional, behavioral). See medical assessment.
It has been said, that ANY US school system may thwart comprehensive assessments for the trinity school must provide service for, 1.) academics struggles 2.) emotional issues 3.) behavoral issues Parents often don't know their school rights, and have no idea who to ask or how. Schools are financially responsible for discovered problems until the child is 21. Oklahoma Health Care Authority, by federal regulation or of it's own accord has flipped the responsibility for testing and advanced assessment funding on the school first... and so parents who are not given suggestions to get their child assessed in school or who ask and are delayed or refused or merely per-capita cannot get in the que to get a child tested in a timely manner may be SOL.
Schools can refuse to use child testing from another source, like a private insurance paid, or medicaid paid psychologist.
Health Care Authority can refuse to pay for child testing, if the child problem is rooted in "School" problems. Remember, that children in Oklahoma are in school year round, and school is the developmental job for the child. Schools can also say a child is not having a "school" problem and then parents are left with virtually no method to determine who can help their child, or themselves understand what the child is up against and what methods of teaching and structuring/nuturing the child might work.
9.) Diagnosis, right or wrong? The sheer number of kids under age 10 in Oklahoma who have a medicaid and a mental health diagnosis are in the top % in the United States. Whether this is an accurate, or inaccurate read of ANY kids in Oklahoma is anyone's guess. Are mental health services acting as opportunities for parenting or community support, where wellness practices or resources are NOT in place in any other way for Oklahoma City Public School kids? Is any of that connected to incentivism in OKDHS or Juvenile Systems or related to the new Truancy laws is anyone's guess. It hasn't been tracked.
Some kids, enlisted into services under OKDHS or family court may experience distortions in practice that do not follow ethics or best practices. http://www.examiner.com/article/core-focus-remains-family-court-human-ri...
10.) FOOD: OKCPS schools are all Title I schools where kids should get breakfast and lunch. OKCPS rules say the staff cannot require the child to eat anything, or any percentage of food on a plate etc.
11.) Public Food Dollars Many families have gotten WIC supports, but these end at age 5. Notice that problems for spike in CPS coincide this age group. SEE OKDHS child abuse reporting and successful pick up stats.
12.) Private Food Dollars The Regional FoodBank offers resources as do many community food closets at local churches.
13.) Family Physician Have and have a relationship with a child medicine specialist. Does the child have a pediatrician they are required to get a physical from annually? This person, through communications with the parent and child would explain to the parents if the child has any developmental delays, who can refer to counseling, can assess the child's growth and discuss nutrition issues like teaching the #MrsObamaDinnerPlate This is not a shake your hand and you look well process, it is truly looking at the child, and the parent developing a relationship with ONE provider. OUHSC is a great school, but their clinics are rotating doctors in training, with virtually no opportunity to develop a standard appointment time, or standard caregiver due to clinic rotations. The relationship with a full physician, not an RNC or PA, but a true MD, preferably a Pediatrician can make a world of difference.
14.) Exposure to developmental milestones http://www.cdc.gov/NCBDDD/actearly/milestones/index.html and ongoing growth expectations. Many churches used to teach parenting and encourage people to tap into understanding child growth. Many people no longer attend church or any organized group where they might access or be able to access data like this. Also, there is virtually no teaching of body changing, and human sexuality even perfunctory information. Some kids hit puberty at 8. Chris Brown was sexually abused by an older peer in 3rd grade, and thought he was a sexual hero. http://www.examiner.com/article/stress-management-couples-this-ain-t-real
15.) Nutrient deficits are real, more severe amongst persons of color and the poor. Do parents know that nutritional deficits, like NOT DRINKING MILK or low sun exposure can cause vitamin deficiencies that look like learning disabilities, ADHD and other like problems. African Americans can have as much as 90% deficit in Vitamin D. Who would ever want their kid medicated, when having a discussion about a better meal could fix the problem? http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/87/4/1080S.full Or taking a child multi-vitamin? or both?
16.) Chicken Act is a good idea, for families who may have limited dollars and need additional high nutrient food. Seasonal eggs, and a chicken for dinner in as little as 6 weeks. http://www.examiner.com/article/chicken-act-other-urban-agrarian-decisio... and http://www.examiner.com/article/oklahoma-city-gets-chicken-classes-but-n...
17.) Obesity is not an indication of nutritional sufficiency. Fat is not a sign of health, nor is it a guarantee the child has had proper nutrients.
18.) Insufficient Sleep is an issue for many people. Speak to your pediatrician to determine nightly sleep rates for a child your child's age.
19.) Head trauma Can come from fights, injuries, accidents or abuse, auto accidents... http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/22/study-says-half-of-jail... The commonality of having this, undiagnosed, untreated is pretty stunning. VISION issues connected to neurologic problems are often missed.
20.) Genetic medical conditions, including metabolic disorders can take up to 7 years to be diagnosed but can present with mysterious symptoms of all kinds but inhibit school performance.
21.) Allergies to food or environmental are often not identified.
22.) ELL English as a learned language for parents or child. Bilingual is great, but some parents never learned to read or write in their native tongue, and have no access to translation or a trusted translator. Using the janitor as the translator in major meetings about children and academic needs is unacceptable.
23.) Parents never got above 3rd grade education in school or 3rd grade reading level. http://www.ocpathink.org/articles/208
24.) Parents have mental health or addictions issues, physical disability or other limitation on psychological or physical mobility. Parents have trauma from OKC Tornadoes, abuse, military or more. Parents may not be conscious for the child. Parents may be unfocused. Parents may have no idea how to support their child. Death in immediate and extended families, along with domestic violence issues is also a factor.
25.) Living in temporary or unstable quarters? Homeless, shelter, extended family or fostercare, newly adopted.
26.) Insufficient clothes or supplies for weather, school Cannot tell you the number of kids heading to or from school in a hoodie and no boots, gloves, coat, hat, scarf in under 30 degree weather.
27.) Trauma undetected or unsuccessfully treated.
28.) Physical or Sexual current or past abuses. The commonality of child sex abuse, child porn and child sex trafficking is concerning. As often as 1 in 3 are sexually assaulted. As many as 80% of assaults or molestations unreported. Child porn victims are often under the age of 5, more often under the age of 2. http://www.asacp.org/whitepaper/ASACP-whitepaper-9-10-2010.pdf Mark that issue in understanding language development. Unclear what percentage of children exposed to porn, sexualized behaviors or experiences.
29.) Safety Education As is that Oklahoma has not enlisted a program like Erin's Law http://www.erinmerryn.net/erins-law.html or like this Canadian link https://www.kidsintheknow.ca/app/en/ and as much as 80% of child sex abuse is unreported, or happens to very young children is concerning. Kids who have problems with language, may also have problems verbalizing abuse issues.
How many kids must cross super busy streets that are insufficiently marked or maintained? How many kids have to walk in the street due to no sidewalks?
How many kids are walking in the dark or waiting in the dark for the bus ( school or city) , alone to school because their parents left for work and breakfast and the smiling adult is at school?
How many kids have to walk much further through areas unmonitored to get to school, due to public transit changes for Charter Schools.
30.) Parents work 2 or more jobs, no one at home to read with the child.
31.) Family chronically has no spending money.
32.) Public transit currently does not operate on Sunday in Oklahoma City, so a day that may be a leisure option, is not necessarily useable for the parent to get the kids to the library, park or church. No transportation to get to school to volunteer or learn with the child to improve home, may limit parental involvement in school at all.
33.) Background check Parents have a felony and cannot come to or on school grounds to see class because they cannot pass the background check, some parents may not be "legal" immigrants or have prior experiences with government officials that include abuse, war or other fear inducing residue.
Incarceration for kid or parents. http://www.examiner.com/article/systems-induced-trauma-lynchpins-maintai...
Parental prior or current imprisonment and the cradle to prison pipeline. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvUeOvLSEMI
Or the extremes that roll on incentivism.? http://www.examiner.com/article/systems-induced-trauma-lynchpins-adoptio...
What is the racial or ethnic divide on these kids and their parents?
Family involved in OKDHS fiascos? http://www.examiner.com/article/systems-induced-trauma-lynchpins-just-wh...
34.) TURN OFF ELECTRONICS. Parents have pocket money and spend it on advanced phones, handheld electronics, stationary game boxes, movies, tv or such. Not owning these items or turning them off seems to be out of the range of discussion, even when a comparison of NOT having them, not having them on all the time or using them sparingly is shown to give better results. Parents begin early using television, video, games, phones to occupy their kids. Kids brains are NOT geared to filter this, and use if not over use is not in their best interest. BESIDES the fact that books and reading expand vocabulary, imagination, problem solving attention and awareness, they can be obtained for free from a variety of sources. Some experts suggest reading before the child is even born is good, and reading AT BIRTH to the baby begins a process of ritual and sharing that lasts a lifetime. Reading a book together is a process which gets tapped again in PreK classes, formally.... but there is no reason families cannot learn to do this at home.
35.) Do YOU read? Parents who read generate an interest in reading. Little children who learn to love story time, often love the process of books, reading and learning to read themselves. Newspapers, magazines, signs, books. Reading and reading aloud is a gift of love from parent to child.
Where to find books RIF or other programs like Sugar Creek Camp Literacy Camp http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/Sugar.Creek.Camp.405-235-5154. Area rec centers and parks, like Boys and Girls Club or churches, many provide used or even new books. Many have the little libraries, portable kiosks in neighborhoods, at laundro-mats and such where books can be left and taken as need be.
OKC Metropolitan Library has many books, face to face, paper and interactive games and activities. Having a library card is a contract to care for the selected book, which can be returned for another by a specific date. That is empowerment, selection, responsibility, temporary guardianship and accountability to return the book in good order.... to get another.
36.) Wellness is an undeniable option we have managed to deny our kids and families in OKC. The parks dilapidated, no toys on the play ground and no meeting rooms that are local and climate controlled, no plans for social or community activities. This needs to be made available in schools and to parents. http://www.promoteacceptance.samhsa.gov/10by10/dimensions.aspx
Certainly, there may be other glitches preventing reading easily, however families who are offered many options to get supports early are in better shape than those who never asked a professional for help.
When will OKCPS learn to confirm or deny needs present, and in a roundtable with other service providers in the community look at what needs to happen to provide better invitations, better opportunities to help kids go to school, get something out of it, stay in school and get their diploma and on to vocational training, college, jobs or whatever. This is a long road, and if OKC is supposed to be treating these kids and their offered programming as what we want for our very own kids, this would be the case.
Some of these questions are about what has been originally alotted to students in school.
Some, about what any child needs to be developmentally basically understood, or understood under specialty considerations.
Some of this is acceptance and understanding of what combination of events or situations or resources any person with certain profiles might need.
It is pretty important for parents to have language to express their concerns, and any diverse group of assistance to materialize according to needs.
Fantasizing that these kids or families are up against problems that in fact are not, will cause a mis-allotment of resources or actions, which will perpetuate this problem.
Public failing to understand where these projected to fail 800 students are living and going to school, along with a profile that clarifies the above would be very helpful for that loaves and fishes thing to happen, for people to come forward with resources and action that have meaning and impact.
Suggested Links
- Systems induced trauma lynchpins: Just who is going act? Part I
- Systems induced trauma lynchpins: How early to act? Part 2 in a Series
- Systems induced trauma lynchpins: Maintain an awake status Part 3
- Systems induced trauma lynchpins : Inviting, teaching, supporting (Part 4)
- Systems induced trauma lynchpins: Adoptions incentives quota "awards" (Part 5 )


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When I use "cd" command to move to certain directory in terminal, I press Tab button to autocomplete the directory name, and a "/" sign appends at the end. But, when I use some other command (say "mv"), clicking on Tab button to autocomplete the directory name, autocompletes the directory name, but does not append "/" after it, but a space. So, I have to manually delete the space by pressing Backspace button and type "/". But, in my friend's laptop, it does not occur. Whichever command he uses, he always gets "/" after presing Tab button to autocomplete the directory name. Please tell how to solve this problem. I have freshly installed 12.04 LTS version.
See the screenshot here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9dhwm5Go59HZnFITmloVjZwcGs/edit?usp=sharing


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Here's a good database: http://www.360drives.com/list.
Just wanted to ask around and see if anyone knew how to identify the xbox 360 slims dvd drive without opening it? ie manufacture date etc.
If you'd like to contribute either PM me or post your manufacture date and dvd drive model and i can find an accurate date of timeframes
Thank you to all
Here's a good database: http://www.360drives.com/list.
Tiakso Erick (01-09-2012)
Its pretty hard to use, i have reffered to the site though.
But here is another way ive found.
Nice find, well im 100% sure i have a 0225 now god damn
what color was yours slick? Mine was yellow
Yep me too
yellow here too. manufactured 02-11-11. 4Gb without kinect.
what dates you guys got.
MFR date 22nd september 2010, 4GB uk model
I wish c4eva would release this one first. But I got a feeling we are going to be waiting a while.
Yeah i know, but that aint going to happen, well i know im going to end up with another 0225 or the Hitachi but in the next few days im gonna get the 250GB version, test out my luck and hope they are ones from older stock with 9504, id have to be real lucky for that to happen i mean the switch from the 9504 to 0225 was around mid september so yeah
But £149 for a 250GB slim is a good deal check it out from Tesco http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.209-4454.aspx use this code for £10 off TDX-KMAW


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Released: Nov 01st, 1989
Running Time: 75
Company: Stallion Video
Cast: Geoffrey Spears, Cory Monroe, Randy Cochran, Leslie Stine
Critical Rating: AA
Genre: Gay and Bi
Lovers Adam and Luke (Leslie Stine and Sparky O'Toole) decide to play a little joke on their friends and get a little nookie as well. Each one tells a good buddy a sob story about breaking up and wrings his hands in confusion, saying he's never even been with anyone except his ex-lover. Naturally, their friends are eager to be of comfort. Afterwards, Adam and Luke get back together for a good laugh and a hot reunion in the sack.
It's a cute little story, and any viewer with a particular penchant for one of the stars probably won't be disappointed. The sex and the production are competent; the acting and dialogue are another story. But at least this video has a breezy, carefree attitude.
My only major complaint is the soundtrack. Repeatedly you can hear distracting noises in the background (doors banging, someone shouting, "We're in the bedroom!"), along with the director's voice giving instructions, which sort of spoils any illusions of spontaneity. But the music track is worse, swinging with no discernable logic from a twangy hayseed country theme to saccharin elevator jazz, and always managing to sound completely inappropriate to what's happening on the screen.


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By hitting the Insert Coin button a second time, two users can play simultaneously, controlling Ms. Pac-Man with the WASD keys. Much like the original Pac-Man, Google has programmed it to glitch and end at the 256th screen.
The game was imagined by Namco developer Toru Iwatani in 1979 -- partially inspired by a pizza missing a slice, as the story goes -- and reached the U.S. in the fall of 1980 after being renamed from "Puck Man". At a time when shooter games such as Space Invaders ruled the arcades, Iwatani's creation stood out for its originality and simplicity. Pac-Man was an immediate success and has been credited with expanding video gaming to a wider audience.
As you stroll down memory lane remembering the good ol' days when you scrambled for quarters to hit the arcades, we want to ask you: what was the first game you ever played? If you didn't think much of it, what was the first title (and platform) that really got you into gaming? I remember playing River Raid quite a bit on an Atari 2600 back in the day -- and never got the hang of E.T., man that game was awful. Discuss.


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There was an interesting incident on Twitter on Friday where TNA President Dixie Carter took a shot at WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross. A parody Twitter account, located at twitter.com/WWEJimRoss, Tweeted the following to Carter's verified account:
"It's official, Chris Sabin is gone from @IMPACTWRESTLING. Who will @TNADixie and @JohnGaburick screw over next? (Besides the few fans)"
Carter responded, "@WWEJimRoss @JohnGaburick it's official. You know as little as the real JR."
I posted a screen capture of the exchange on my Twitter account:
I found a screen capture of @TNADixie heeling @JRsBBQ pic.twitter.com/69HTV7ciZ5
— Richard Gray (@wnwdotcom) May 10, 2014
It's likely Carter was portraying her on-screen heel authority character, however, the Tweet has since been deleted.


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- 1 lb. carrots peeled, cut into 1/2 in. rounds
- 1/3 cup milk
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 1 1/2 tsps. cinnamon
- 1 1/4 tsps. baking powder
- 3/4 tsp. baking soda
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 sticks butter, room temp.
- 3/4 tsp. salt
- 3 lg. eggs
- 1 tbs. vanilla extract
- 1 cup chopped toasted walnuts
- 1 cup plus 2 tbs. shredded coconut
- 8 dried apricot halves, chopped
- Orange Glaze:
- 1 cup plus 3 tbs. powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 2 tsp. finely grated orange peel
Instructions:For Carrot Cake: Preheat oven to 350. Butter and flour 12 cup Bundt pan. Cook carrots in pot of boiling water until tender, about 15 min. Drain well. Transfer cooked carrots to food processor and puree. Transfer 1 1/2 cups puree to small bowl (save any remaing puree for another use). Add milk to carrot puree; stir to combine.
Whisk flour, cinnamon, baking powder and baking soda in medium bowl to blend. Using electric mixer, beat sugar, butter and salt in large bowl to blend. Add eggs to butter mixture one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanila extract. Beat in flour mixture alternately with carrot mixture in 3 addions each. Fold in toasted walnuts, 1 cup coconut and apricots. Transfer batter to prepared pan.
Bake cake until tester inserted near center comes out clean, about 55 min. Cool cake in pan on rack 20 min. Invert cake onto rack.
Orange Glaze: Whisk powdered sugar, orange juice and peel in small bowl to blend. Pour glaze over wark cake. Sprinkle remaining 2 tbs. shredded coconut over glaze. Cool. Cake can be prepared 2 days ahead; Store airtight at room temperature.
This recipe was submitted by one of our readers and has not been tested by our food editors. We are not responsible for errors in this recipe, but if you find one, please let us know.
Updated Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
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LongHorn Steakhouse is a popular destination for delicious steaks at a value where the entire family can enjoy these tender, juicy morsels. Even the most avid carnivore craves variety. As seasons transition, farm fresh ingredients seamlessly weave themselves into our plates. The Peak Season menu at LongHorn Steakhouse brings the bright, flavors of Spring to the forefront.
Currently on the Peak Season menu, LongHorn Steakhouse offers a few limited time selections that guests will want to try. These offerings include:
- New Crispy Artichoke Harvest (appetizer) – Hand-battered artichoke hearts, green beans and red bell peppers served with red chili ranch sauce
- New Roasted Golden Beets (side) – Sweet golden spring beets topped with melted goat cheese
- New Grilled Chicken Famers' Market Bibb Salad – Tender butter lettuce topped with grilled asparagus, shaved radishes, grape tomatoes, hearts of palm and mandarin oranges in a chardonnay vinaigrette
- New Blueberry Lemon Butter Cake – Warm blueberry butter cake filled with a lemon custard, finished with a vanilla cream sauce and topped with fresh blueberries
Recently, my family enjoyed a dinner at LongHorn Steakhouse and dined on Season Peak menu and other new items. With two school aged children, our family tries to encourage the kids to try new flavors at every possibility. The Crispy Artichoke Harvest was a perfect start to the meal. The tempura batter was light and crispy. With the red chili ranch sauce, each bite had a little zing without becoming over bearing. More importantly, my kids learned that they enjoyed artichokes.
Entrees brought a variety of options to the table. Our three entrees were Bourbon Black Pepper Sirloin, Cajun Dusted Shrimp and Coconut Chili Mahi-Mahi. Since steak is a popular item at LongHorn Steakhouse, the peak season Bourbon Black Pepper Sirloin is a great option. Wrapped in bacon, the steak is sweet yet balanced with the spice from the peppers. A good side to pair with this entree is the golden beets with feta. The beets are sweet and very flavorful and the brininess of the goat cheese compliments the beets.
For the bolder palates, the Cajun Dusted Shrimp is a perfect option. The seasoning on the shrimp is smoky and spicy. Topped with citrus butter, the grilled shrimp are tender and juicy. Another option, the Coconut Chili Mahi-Mahi is a blend of sweet and spiced. Grilled fish sits atop a pineaple, ginger rice and topped with crisp sweet potato straws, one bite hits all the flavor profiles.
Since a dinner out isn't complete without dessert, two options pleased our guests. The Peak Season Blueberry Lemon Butter cake is a bright bite to end the meal. The cake is soft and creamy and the lemon flavors are tart citrus. For chocolate lovers, the Chocolate Stampede is large enough for two to share. With six types of chocolate, the chocolate craving will be satisfied.
LongHorn Steakhouse has locations throughout the United States. Menus and specials do vary by location. For more information on the Season Peak, Chef's Showcase and other menu items, please visit the LongHorn Steakhouse website.