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Derek Rang has been announced as the new head football coach at Dresden.
Rang, 29 replaces Keith Hodge who resigned and is now the head football coach Murray County (KY).
"I'm very excited to get started at Dresden, to hit the ground running and get to know the kids and get into the community and embrace them as well," Rang said.
Rang will indeed hit the ground running as he will move to Dresden soon and will run spring practice in early May.
"I'm in a good situation that I can get started pretty soon and we can have spring practice," Rang said. "Dresden has a good program going and they have had success and I want to build on that."
Dresden has high expectations for 2014 as they were ranked No. 6 in Examiner.com's Class 1A Spring Top 10 released last month.
Hodge was 18-6 in his two years at Dresden is coming off a 7-4 season.
Rang was the head coach at Powell in 2012 and led the Panthers to a 12-2 record and a berth in the Class 5A Semifinals.
He spent last year as the wide receivers coach on Ken Sparks staff at Carson Newman.
Rang broke into coaching in 2007 as he coached at Anderson County for two seasons before moving on as the defensive coordinator at South Doyle in 2009.
He then moved over to be the defensive coordinator at Knoxville West and hit defenses forced 81 turnovers in those two seasons as the a Rebels made back to back 5A Semifinals.
Rang played on three 4A title teams at Maryville from 2000-02.
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Oct. 28, 2001
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Junior Brad Nizwantowski (Peabody, Mass.) scored the game-winning goal a little over five minutes into the third period to lift the University of Massachusetts to a 4-3 victory over Providence College in the Hockey East opener for the Minutemen.
The Friars tied the game, 3-3, just over a minute into the third period when Drew Omicioli scored a shorthanded goal. The Minutemen responded with the game-winner less than four minutes later. Nizwantowski fired a shot that found the back of the net through traffic from along the boards near the top of the face-off circle. Juniors Jimmy Callahan (Lexington, Mass.) and Samuli Jalkanen (Helsinki, Finland) assisted on the goal.
Massachusetts opened the scoring less than four minutes into the game when freshman Craig MacDonald (Canton, Mass.) intercepted the puck deep in the Providence end and knocked home his own rebound beating Friars goaltender Nolan Schaefer through the five-hole. It was MacDonald's first collegiate goal.
Providence bounced back with two straight goals to grab a 2-1 lead. The Minutemen knotted the game, 2-2, at the 16:34 mark of the first period, when junior Tim Turner (Saginaw, Mich.) scored a power-play goal. Senior Toni S?derholm (Helsinki, Finland) found Turner alone in the slot with a pass from the point. Also assisting on the goal was sophomore Thomas P?ck (Klagenfurt, Austria).
The Minutemen gained a 3-2 lead with the lone goal in the second period. Senior Darcy King (Barrie, Ontario) made a pass from the corner to Callahan, who was cutting through the slot to the far post. Callahan redirected the pass into the net. Jalkanen picked up the other assist on the goal.
UMass senior goaltender Mike Johnson (Excelsior, Minn.) made 20 saves for the victory, while Schaefer made 25 saves for the Friars. The victory improves Massachusetts to 2-2-0 overall and 1-0-0 in Hockey East, while the loss drops Providence to 1-4-0 overall and 0-2-0 in Hockey East.
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August 25, 2005
The Downer in Me
Parshat Eikev (Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25)
People always tell me that I am a downer, constantly talking about the world's problems here, genocide there; conflict here, poverty there.
Nobody ever wants to talk to me at a party!
However, I also have a deep spiritual side, one that is open to the beauty and wonder of a sunrise, the power of my breath to focus my being, the depth and glory of prayer and praise of God. Together, these sides of me find a perfect home in this week's parsha, Eikev.
Throughout Deuteronomy -- which is Moses' final clarion call to the people that they should love God, follow the mitzvot and have faith -- we find an amazing combination of spiritual direction and powerful calls to social justice. We are not meant to separate prayer, Torah and God from the needs of the world, the demands of justice and the overarching call for equality and peace on earth. At the same time, God gave us free will, the power to decide and discern for ourselves, which is the most amazing and dangerous aspect of our being human.
The Torah says, "And now, O Israel, what does God demand of you? Only this: to revere Adonai your God, to walk only in God's paths, to love God and to serve God with all your heart and soul, keeping God's commandments and laws, which I enjoin upon you today, for your good" (10:12-13).
Moses understands that reverence and love are not attributes that can be commanded.
"Everything is in the power of Heaven, except whether a person will choose to revere God" (Talmud Berachot 33b).
As part of our inherent design, God made us the masters of our own destiny, giving us the path and the tools to succeed, but leaving the choice of using those tools up to us. This is what Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel understood as the great partnership between humans and God. That is why I understand Judaism to be the great combination of spiritual depth and social activism, prayer and action, Torah and the morning news. Without the action, the spirit is vacuous; without the spirit, the action tends to be ungrounded and temporary. God needs us to carry out the master plan; we need God to be reminded of that plan.
I am greatly disturbed at the direction our country is taking the world, as we are the greatest, richest and most powerful nation ever to exist, yet we continue to have a tremendous poverty rate, millions of homeless people -- including children -- and skyrocketing deficits, yet we give the lowest percentage of our GNP to foreign aid than any of the other major industrial countries. And even as we proclaim to be God-fearing and religious, we are not heeding the Torah this week, which teaches, "Take care lest you forget Adonai your God and fail to keep God's commandments.... When you have eaten your fill, and have built fine houses to live in ... beware lest your heart grow haughty and you forget Adonai your God ... and you say to yourselves, 'My own power and the might of my own hand have won this wealth for me.' Remember that Adonai your God is the one who gives you the power to get wealth...." (Deuteronomy 8:11-14,17-18).
These verses remind me that forgetting God leads to greed and arrogance. Our country, with all of its amazing virtues and incredible individual generosity, is not living up to its greatest potential, because we are not leading the world by example. We don't want to help others if it might hurt us. We don't want to give up our luxuries, including unnecessarily large automobiles, to save the environment. We don't want to participate in world treaties that might challenge our selfishness, requiring us to make less money so we can pass a cleaner, healthier and more balanced world unto our children. This is the downer side of me.
Yet, the spiritual side reminds me that this is what God demands: to seek justice, love, mercy and walk humbly with God. I cannot help but read the Torah this week and think of the Sudan, where millions of lives are being lost and disaffected while the world watches silently; of my own community in Pasadena, where there is homelessness and poverty because we don't want to build affordable housing and give more to those in need; of the disappearing ozone layer and melting glaciers because we are burning so much fossil fuel in our SUVs for the sake of comfort and status, and of the thousands of lives being lost in Iraq for a war that appears to not be bringing us any closer to peace and security. The Torah tells us what God wants, but then leaves it up to us to achieve it.
As we inch closer to Rosh Hashanah, let us all find ways to remember God more often in our daily lives. When we eat and are full, let us give thanks. When we prosper, share it with others. If we can share God's grace with the world around us, we have the hope of saving ourselves. And the next time you are at a party, maybe choose to be a bit of a downer for the sake of tikkun olam. If we don't talk about it, nothing will change.
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater is the spiritual leader of the Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center. He serves on the executive board of the Southern California Board of Rabbis and is chair of the social action committee.
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What's so frustrating—at least for those of us who wanted to defend Howard—is that it seemed a little bit of everything. And that's pretty much the story of Josh Howard at this point in his career. While still at Wake Forest, Howard spoke out against the war in Iraq before it became easy to do so. Howard received death threats, but he had a conscience to follow. In the run-up to the 2003 draft, Howard admitted to having smoked pot, figuring it was better to be up front with teams. It hurt his draft position but has since started to catch on as common practice—at least in the NFL. As a rookie, his energy, defense, and heart earned him major minutes, and he's made great strides every season since.
But the last year of Josh Howard has been one big mixed message. In the first half of 2007–08, he often looked like the Mavericks' best player. After the All-Star break, he fought through injuries, was dealt a major emotional blow with the death of the grandmother who had raised him, and then struggled to adjust to the addition of Jason Kidd. In the middle of the playoffs, there was controversy over his frank admission of drug use, which Howard couldn't resist addressing, and insubordination in the clubhouse. Earlier this summer, he was arrested for drag-racing in Winston-Salem. And now, this.
The tragedy isn't that Josh Howard's career and image are in turmoil. New coach Rick Carlisle, several months of rest, and more practice with Kidd will remedy his on-court problems. There's also no way that Howard, who most folks agree is a decent, mature man, will continue this run of off-court calamity. No, the real bummer is that this video made a mockery of Howard's desire to speak his mind, to be an athlete who stands for something and makes us confront uncomfortable truths. It may have been the low point of what was an awful summer, but it also reminds us what Howard could be if he got himself together.
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Mitchell, Joni (Roberta Joan Anderson)
Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is the rare pop star with a devoted following in the jazz world. Her uncommon vocal delivery draws on jazz phrasing, and her compositions share a natural affinity with jazz harmonies. Charles Mingus, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter are only a few of the jazz artists she has worked with and who have admired her work.
Roberta Joan Anderson was born on November 7th, 1943 in Alberta, Canada. Her father Bill was an officer in the Canadian Royal Air Force and later a grocer while her mother Myrtle worked as a schoolteacher. Her parents were of Norwegian and Scottish ancestry, respectively. Before she was a teenager, Mitchell's moved with her family throughout different parts of Canada before eventually settling in the town of Saskatoon.
Sickness was a constant companion during her childhood. She was stricken with scarlet fever and when she was nine, polio. During her stay in the hospital from polio she began her infatuation with singing. In addition classical music was also an influence on Mitchell who claims, "I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes."
As a teenager, unable to afford a guitar, she bought a used ukulele for thirty-six dollars, learning several folk songs to help support her smoking habit, which began when she was nine. Upon graduation from the Aden Bowman Collegiate she attended art and design school in Calgary where she began to frequent coffee houses with her acoustic blend of rock and folk music.
Joni left school a little after a year to pursue her career as a singer in Toronto. Joni became pregnant by her boyfriend from college and gave the child up for adoption in 1965. That same year she married singer Chuck Mitchell who brought her to the United States in the summer months of 1965. Unfortunately, they divorced soon after and Mitchell made her way to New York City in 1967.
While on tour in Florida, Mitchell was heard singing by vocalist David Crosby who was impressed by the young talent and took her to Los Angeles where he eventually secured a recording contract with Reprise Records for her. Her debut album Song to a Seagull was released in 1968 while her second album, Clouds was released in 1969.
Both albums helped to establish Mitchell as one of the premier vocalists from the folk-hippie generation, due in large part to her poetic story telling and high soprano vocal range. 1970s Ladies of the Canyon was her last album that featured heavy folk production and participation from members of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
Starting with her album Blue, released in 1971, Mitchell began to exploire different guitar tunings, and voicings, to come up up with easier fingerings for her to play altered and more extended harmonic shapes. The 1970s marked a strong turning point in Mitchell's career when she began employing jazz musicians on her recordings, and her music reflected an obvious shift towards experimental song forms, unusual vocal rhythms, and denser lyrical content. Her 1972 album Court and Spark featured jazz keyboardist Joe Sample along with guitarist Larry Carleton who were both at that time members of jazz-fusion group L.A. Express. Both had left the group by 1974 when the rest of L.A. Express backed up Mitchell for various dates in Southern California,, which culminated with the live release Miles of Aisles that same year.
Mitchell's largest change in artistic direction occurred on The Hissing of Summer Lawns, released in 1975. It featured a much more electric but mellow-rock sound than her previous albums and even used sampled drums for the song "The Jungle Line," which borrowed from the sounds heard on an anthropological field recording from Burundi. Mitchell next teamed up with electric bass phenom Jaco Pastorius, who provided driving bass lines and wonderfully blended harmonics to the singer's 1976 album Hejira. The following year, as Mitchell was close to obliging her record contract with Asylum, she recorded her most explorative and jazz influenced album to date, with 1977's Don Juan's Reckless Daughter.
Around this time, another musical icon, bassist Charles Mingus had been introduced to the Mitchell's music through a friend of a friend and wanted to work with Mitchell. In New York City, where Mingus was rapidly dying from Lou Gehrig's disease, he and Mitchell worked on different material that would become Mingus, released several months after his death in 1979.
Mitchell wrote lyrics for the bassist's homage to Lester Young, "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat," which featured Herbie Hancock on Fender Rhodes. Mitchell assembled a stellar touring band to support Mingus. Featured were Jaco Pastorius, guitarist Pat Metheny, drummer Don Alias, keyboardist Lyle Mays, and saxophonist Michael Brecker. The genius of the band is captured on Shadows and Lights, which was recorded during the group's September performance at the Santa Barbara County Bowl.
During the 1980s, Mitchell signed with Geffen Records, which released several albums that built on the synthesized sound heard during this time in popular music. Though the albums also feature Mitchell's poetic, story telling and experimental guitar tunings an even livelier collaboration started with saxophonist Wayne Shorter who appeared on all of her albums from 1982's Wild Things Run Fast through 1994's Turbulent Indigo. Turbulent Indigo won the Grammy that year for Pop Album of the Year.
The new decade brought Mitchell back to jazz once again with 2000's Both Sides Now, an album that explored the complexity of human relationships mostly through well-known jazz standards. Mitchell went on hiatus from the music industry in 2001 and decided to focus all of her attention to her work as a painter.
Mitchell returned to music in 2007 with the release of her Starbucks' album Shine, her first album of all original material since 1998. Featured on the album is jazz drummer Brian Blade, who displays his diversity, playing many different styles of drumbeats throughout the album. Also, n 2007, pianist Herbie Hancock recorded River: The Joni Letters, an album dedicated to the powerful legacy of the singer's music. The album explores the depth of Mitchell's work with rich piano textures from Hancock and spirited drumming by Vinnie Colaiuta. Norah Jones is featured on the song "Court and Spark" and Corrine Bailey Lee on "River." Hancock's homage to Mitchell was the first jazz album to win Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards in over 40 years when it took the top prize on February 10th, 2008.
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Song to a Seagull (Reprise, 1968)
Clouds (Reprise, 1969)
Ladies of the Canyon (Reprise, 1970)
Blue (Reprise, 1971)
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Court and Spark (Asylum, 1974)
Miles of Aisles (Asylum, 1974)
The Hissing of Summer Lawns (Asylum, 1975)
Hejira (Asylum, 1976)
Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (Asylum, 1977)
Mingus (Asylum, 1979)
Shadows and Lights (Asylum, 1980)
Wild Things Run Fast (Geffen, 1982)
Dog Eat Dog (Geffen, 1985)
Taming the Tiger (Reprise, 1998)
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Improving stormwater discharge from a dense downtownProject: Riverfront Basin Stormwater Retrofit
Managing agency: City of Fort Myers, Fla.
Primary consultant: Johnson Engineering Inc
Primary contractor: Wright Construction Group
Cost: $5.7 million
You've got 15 acres of heavily developed downtown sitting on assets buried before the city's founding in the late 1880s. The central business district runs along the environmentally sensitive Caloosahatchee River, which the state's deemed impaired.
You've been tasked to meet a total maximum daily load (TMDL) to help reduce the river's nitrogen levels. Most (80%) of the 15-acre downtown area is impervious. Due to the high groundwater table, existing soils and intensity of rainfall, underground systems and dry detention aren't options for managing stormwater runoff.
That leaves one option: wet detention. But how to shoehorn a retention basin into such a dense downtown?
In 2009, the City of Fort Myers, Fla., launched an extensive riverfront redevelopment plan that's spawned several innovations. In its first project using a construction manager, for example, Public Works upgraded all utilities beneath 52 blocks and completely streetscaped the area.
Having saved almost $3 million in the process, the department suggested treating stormwater runoff using a visually appealing waterfront attraction. A weir structure at the river's edge hidden below a walkway appears suspended over the water but actually divides a 1.4-acre detention basin from the river to allow water in the basin to be treated before discharge. This solution provides the city with credit for reduced nitrogen loading to the river as well as excess treatment capacity for environmentally acceptable future development.
Even better, the city wouldn't have to go into debt. Public Works loaned the Fort Myers Community Redevelopment Agency most of the $5.7 million project cost, to be repaid with tax increment revenues. The rest came from a state appropriation and state TMDL grant.
Since opening in December 2012, the basin is a focal point for public events. Pathways connect to the waterfront, along with passive recreation and healthy living benefits.
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The Memphis Zoo is one of the most renowned zoos in the country. The zoo has spent more than $90 million in the last twenty years to create animal enclosures designed to mimic an animal's natural habitat. It has been repeatedly recognized as one of the top zoos in the nation (yeah, even better than San Diego). You can imagine that kind of awesome animal-loving environment draws not only the crowds, but the crazies as well.
On Monday, the Memphis Zoo was forced to ban a woman after she proved to be too exuberant an animal lover. At around 11 in the morning, an unnamed woman attempted to scale the barrier that separates the zoo's renowned big cat exhibit, Cat Country, from the zoo's daily visitors. Once over the railing, the woman reportedly sang to the animals and offered them cookies. You know, because music soothes the savage beast (and because cookies are awesome).
More than likely, each and every person reading this knows someone who would jump into an animal enclosure without hesitation for only the merest chance of some (purely appropriate) lion-on-human cuddling. After all, they're basically just big house cats. Really, really big house cats. Who will maul you. And then eat what's left. Of course, whether or not you'd actually end up on the business end of some razor sharp fangs is up for debate (just ask my wife), but that's simply because most people wouldn't be foolish enough to put a lion's killer instinct to the test.
Apparently, worrying you'll get your throat ripped out by a beast from the paleolithic era just means that you don't love animals enough, because one woman was willing to sacrifice life and limb just to get within arm's reach of a lion. According to one zoo patron, the woman, who was dressed in brown scrubs, "started singing loudly about how much she missed the lions."
The patron described the scene as, "bizarre," adding, "I've never seen someone singing to a lion." The witness' poor, apparently Disney-free childhood aside, you could probably imagine that "bizarre" is just about the right adjective to describe the scene. It became especially apt after the woman attempted to feed the lions cookies while in the midst of her serenade.
A spokesperson for the Memphis Zoo, Laura Doty, explained that even the lions recognized inappropriate behavior. "Our lions know their keepers," Doty explained in an email. "They knew this woman was someone new, someone different. They knew she wasn't supposed to be in that area, so they backed up, away from her."
Security was on the scene almost instantly to subdue the woman. While she was understandably upset at having to leave the lions she loves so much, the woman did not put up a fight as she was escorted from the zoo. She isn't facing any criminal charges at the moment, though, she has earned a lifetime ban for her shenanigans, and, according to Doty, "if she tries to enter again, she could be brought up on Criminal Trespassing charges."
More than anything, the good folks at the Memphis Zoo have repeatedly explained to the public that what this woman attempted is very ill-advised. Some might even call it extremely dangerous (and not just for the people, but the lions themselves). So, the next time you're in a zoo, you can sing to the animals (I mean, I don't see why you couldn't), but you'd best stay on your side of the fence when you do.


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Position: LB
Height: 6-1 Weight: 232 lbs.
Born: January 6, 1971 in Haughton, LA
High School: Haughton
College: Louisiana Tech (school history)
Drafted by the Chicago Bears in the 4th round (100th overall) of the 1993 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 7 (8324th overall since 1950)
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As I sit here to write this piece we are 23 days into the January transfer window and the rumour circus is in full flow. Liverpool Football club after a strong first half to this season which included being league leaders on Christmas day have as usual been linked to a wide range of players. From Juan Mata to Danny Ings there has been constant speculation about who will be joining Gerrard, Suarez and co in a second half of the season push which will hopefully end in a top four finish. Whilst understandably you can't read much into the ever flowing flurry of rumours which makes this time of year so exciting to the average football supporter there has been one name linked with Liverpool since the summer.
Mohamed Salah. The exciting Egyptian winger currently playing his trade at Basel in Switzerland. And that brings me on nicely to the main body of this article. Chelsea have just had a £11M bid accepted by the Swiss side. It has been apparent from day one of this window that he was Liverpool's main target yet after almost a month in which it seemed the Egyptian was destined to come to Anfield he has slipped through the clubs fingers. Not only that he is joining the side who are only six points ahead of Liverpool and most definitely a direct competitor to Liverpool. The reason I highlight this is that it isn't the first time we have seen this happen. Barring the acquisitions of Sturridge and Couthnio last January transfer time has become one of frustration for most Liverpool fans.
Let's go back to July. Liverpool's top summer target was Henrikh Mkhitaryan the Armenian attacking midfielder who eventually joined Borussia Dortmund. We had weeks of reports telling us he was all but a reds player and only had a medical to complete. Then we were told there was a hitch. Not with Mkhitaryan not wanting to join the club but Shaktar Donetsk were playing hardball over the price. Now this is not uncommon during negotiations but surely this is the reason Ian Ayre is managing director at Liverpool. He would simply iron out the issues and we would come to a compromise. It did not happen and the club missed out. A few weeks later we were told Willian the Brazilian winger was now close to becoming a Liverpool player. The same problem occurred over the fee and via a Spurs medical he became a Chelsea player. Diego Costa is another player who a bid was submitted for but he ended up staying at Atletico Madrid. This is no coincidence and now it looks like Salah is set to be playing his football in West London it begs the question what is the point of Ian Ayre? His job is to smoothly deal with these transfers and help Brendan Rodgers to create a competitive squad. Quite frankly Rodgers must be tearing his hair out.
Some cynics would suggest that FSG are to blame they after all hired Ayre and are the ones refusing to stump up a few more million to secure Salah however I would point out two things to them. Firstly you can't blame John W Henry and Tom Werner to have reservations about overpaying. They after all saw Kenny Dalglish and Damien Commoli effectively pour £100M down the drain with the respective purchases of Andy Carroll, Stewart Downing and Jordan Henderson. Also if reports are to be believed and Basel turned down a Liverpool bid of £8M because they value Salah more in the region of £11M then why has it taken this long. If we knew Basel had rejected the initial offer then surely and extra £3M wouldn't hurt in the long run the money would be recouped from the revenue of sponsorship and hopefully Champions league football next season. Why in 24hours have Chelsea accepted a £37M bid from Manchester United from Juan Mata and agreed a fee for Salah when it has apparently taken three weeks for Liverpool to revise their offer? To me this all could have been avoided if Ian Ayre did his job properly. Without this article turning into a rant I would add that I don't like seeing anyone lose their job but I do think Ayres role has to be reviewed and if not relieving him of his duties then bringing in someone to assist with these transfer dealings otherwise this kind of thing is going to happen window after window and that would not be fair to Brendan Rodgers who is trying to bring this club back to the top of English and European football.


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On Tuesday, former Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., responded to reports that Attorney General Eric Holder wants school disciplinary policies based on race by calling Holder one of the "most vile and disgusting racists" and telling white Americans that Barack Obama despises them.
"This is my clear and succinct message to white Americans. How long will it be before 'you people' realize you have elevated someone to the office of president who abjectly despises you — not to mention his henchman Holder," he wrote. "Combined they are the most vile and disgusting racists — not you."
Speaking in Baltimore earlier this month, Holder called on school districts to "rethink" zero-tolerance disciplinary policies, claiming they disproportionately punish minorities and push too many students into the justice system.
"Alarming numbers of young people are suspended, expelled or even arrested for relatively minor transgressions like school uniform violations, schoolyard fights or showing 'disrespect' by laughing in class," Holder said.
According to The Hill, Holder's speech accompanied new federal guidelines that basically call for race-based disciplinary policies that includes a threat to investigate claims of racial disparity in the punishment of students.
"As part of this commitment, we will enforce Federal laws to eliminate unlawful racial discrimination in school discipline," said a letter sent to school districts.
West took Holder to task for his assertions, saying progressives don't want to tackle the problem they created with their policies.
"I taught high school for one year in Deerfield Beach, Fla and in the end, it was such an enjoyable experience breaking up fights daily, that I decided to return to the combat zone of Afghanistan," he said.
West said the violence he saw was "perpetrated 8 out of 10 times by black students," adding that it had nothing to do with race, but had everything to do with "a lack of discipline and control."
The violence was so bad, he said, that a child was stabbed while he served on the faculty of the school.
"When a young man took a swing at me while I broke up a beat down that he and three others were giving a young man already on the ground, it had nothing to do with civil rights. It had everything to do with a criminal behavior which does not belong in a learning environment – and he was expelled. Now imagine under these new guidelines and rules, DoJ and DoEd would initiate an investigation," he wrote.
Another problem he cited is out-of-wedlock births.
"Fifty years ago only six percent of births in America were out of wedlock Today the number is 72 percent in the black community. There was a time when "acting out" at school resulted in having to stay after school and worse, a call home to mom and dad — talk about a beat down," he added.
Citing Common Core, West said the "progressive socialist dream of state-run education is coming to fruition."
Worse yet, he added, children are now being told by the federal government that race is an acceptable excuse for bad behavior.
"Perhaps this is why Holder and Obama want Debo Adegbile as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division considering his defense of Black Panther and cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, when he was leader of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. There is no doubt that someone skilled enough to defend Abu-Jamal would be perfect to institute this policy of racial protectionism of juvenile criminal behavior," he added.
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I am Extremely Terrified of Midgets
I need to take a moment to collect myself, I just saw a midget playing basketball in a movie… I will continue this article in a minute.
Midgets are very small people who look like babies, but without the cuteness. Babies show God's love while these tiny "people" are spawns of Satan.
I hear it constantly "Midgets are people too". Prove it to me, and I might agree. Every Concert or Film Premiere that I have gone to, when I have seen a midget, I jumped behind the nearest B-list star and cried.
A few years ago, before I became a celebrity, I went to a concert with my friends. We had to camp there because it was 300 miles from my home, but that didn't seem like an issue. It became an issue soon though. A female midget snuck up behind me in their sneaky ways and asked for a lighter. She had a normal voice, so I turned to hand her my lighter and then noticed that she was a Gerber Baby reject Adult. I instantly jump behind my girlfriend and scream for the police to come to my rescue. The Police never showed up, but I blew on my "Rape" whistle enough to make the midget leave.
I have had many encounters with the "Height Challenged" since then. I still find them scary. I think they look like Humans, only smaller. They have fingers that look like "baby" carrots and giant heads that even a human couldn't hold up properly. How do they hold their heads up? Black Magic? Satan? Leprechaun Charms? Nobody knows, but EVERYBODY knows they are up to no good.
I got on the public transit train in my city, (because I care about the Enviroment and don't drive my Hummer H2 everywhere I go) and I was alone on the train car until we got near a "Mall". I felt fine with the Hipsters, Emosexuals Blacks and Homeless that would normally come on the train, but I was treated to 50 midgets instead. I felt like I was Gulliver and the train was Lilliput. I literally rocked back and forth to keep them from tying me down.
If you have a hard time believing how evil these things are, I have found some videos to share.
I warn you that NOBODY should watch these, but if you must, make all Women and Children leave the room and Pray before pressing "Play".
Here is one of them drinking Satan's Nectar:
Here they are showing their violent tendicies:
Here is a Self-Hating one:
You can see their evil in this video. They promote "Small Power" and wear Klan hoods. Horrible:
Based on the facts I have proven to you in this report, I believe it is time to end the midget threat. Obama has yet to even speak out against this Terror cell, yet he expects to be Re-Elected???
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Let's consider an electron-positron pair with total spin equal to zero. When it annihilates it can not emit only one photon because it would have zero momentum and nonzero energy. The pair emits two photons with opposite momenta but on the momentum-energy plain it looks like the particle goes through a forbidden state (red path on the picture below).
The first question is: How is it possible? I suppose this is because of the energy-time uncertainty. The annihilation process is instant (at least looks like on Feynman diagram) and the energy of the intermediate state is not determined. Is it correct?
If we can go through any forbidden state, why doesn't the annihilation go the blue path? This is the second question.
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RENO, Nev. - On night one of the Wolf Pack Invitational in Reno, Nev., things weren't looking good for the 24th-ranked Arizona Volleyball team. Hours earlier they had suffered a deflating loss at the hands of Pacific and then, to compound matters, taking on host Nevada in the evening match, the Cats dropped a close set, 26-24.
Then, however, something awoke the Wildcats from its slumber as the team went on to handily beat the Wolf Pack over the next three sets, 25-10, 25-15, 25-13, improving its record to 6-2 and 2-0 in true road matches.
On the evening, Whitney Dosty accounted for 18 kills, five blocks and four digs while hitting .351. She was aided by teammates Cursty Jackson who added 13 kills and six blocks and Paige Weber who ran the offense with 42 assists.
There were 12 ties and seven lead changes in the first set before the Pack scored the 26-24 first set victory. Nevada hit .139 and the Wildcats .171 in the set.
The second set was all Arizona as they jumped to a 13-6 lead and never trailed in winning 25-10 to even the match a one set each. Nevada hit zero and UA was outstanding at .565.
Set three was back and forth early with the 10th tie of the set coming at 11-11 but a 10-0 Wildcat run put the set out of reach as they won 25-15 to take a 2-1 advantage in the match. The Pack hit negative .067 and UA .212.
The Wildcats closed out the match with a 25-13 set four victory and 3-1 match win. The Pack were unable to get going hitting .103 in the final set while UA hit .476.
Courtney Karst and Tiffany Owens each had nine kills and played a big role on the defensive end in the victory. Freshman Candace Nicholson led UA in digs with 14.
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