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First enjoy Dan Savage talking passionately with a group of High School Students, paid for of course by the Department of Education, as a part of their anti bullying campaign labeled, "It Gets Better."
Having been a member in good standing of the political left very early on in my life, I know pretty much all of the asinine mantras that we are likely to hear. violence never solved anything and war is never the answer are among my favorites. Upon growing up, and actually learning a little something about economics, history, and consequences, I gave up being a leftist, (or being wrong about everything,) just prior to graduating from college. The problem with the phrase violence never solved anything is that in the real world, it is just not true. In fact, violence often is the only thing which can solve some problems. Wringing our hands and crying about bullying will only serve to embolden the bullies, most especially since they get a rise in their good feelings by inflicting fear upon their victims. So, when they see a national whine fest like the one in the video, their reaction is not going to be, "golly, I did not know I was causing so much angst amongst my fellow human beings. Maybe I should rethink my life." The reaction is more likely to be, "hey, I got a lot of people to be afraid of me. I really am somebody." The answer for people who seek validation in bullying others is to not allow them to find that validation.
Imagine if the Department of Education spent the money wasted on Dan Savage's approach to purchase karate lessons for every child in America identified as a potential target instead. Standing up to bullies is what stops bullying. This is something which was understood by people who existed prior to the 1970's. It is also a valuable lesson for children to learn, as adults are also capable of bullying. The only difference is that adults bully in different manners, but the methodology for stopping it is the same. Standing up to the bullies, and giving them a dose of their own medicine rather than validation is what will put an end to it. As Dennis Miller once asked, "do we really want to send our children into the world completely unprepared for the shit storm that is adult life?"
For Mr. Savage I have this to say, what Bible are you reading? In my Bible, the Old Testament, the whole slavery issue was addressed with the parting of the Red Sea and Moses leading the children of Israel away from the slave masters of Egypt. The removal of the tyranny of bondage is kind of the whole point behind the Jewish Holiday know as Passover. In case you have missed its airing every single year since the mid 50's, go and rent, "The Ten Commandments," some time. It was a movie directed by Cecile B. DeMille, and is generally regarded as the way an epic movie should be made. Personally, I found the performances of Yul Brynner and Charleton Heston to be over the top, but then that really seems to be just up your alley anyhow.
I have also not read anything about stoning girls for losing their virginity any where in any version of the Bible that I have ever seen. Don't Murder, (including stoning people to death,) don't steal, don't bear false witness, those concepts are all in there however. Putting aside the religious and anti religious arguments, I am sorry that you personally never learned to stand up to the bullies who tormented you during your formative years. While you obviously never learned the lesson of standing up to them in order to stave off their vicious attacks, you also subconsciously learned to utilize this for your own personal validation. Here is my case in point, a video of Dan Savage bragging about his attempts to bully Rick Santorum. The video also highlights other leftists telling us that they feel as though capitulation and appeasement are the preferred methods for dealing with bullies.
Now that these videos of you have gone viral, enjoy your upcoming vacation spot, otherwise known as under Barack Obama's bus. say hello to the many folks already there.


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On Tuesday, Aug. 5, fashion house Tommy Hilfiger and Dark Horse wine hosted the New York premiere of Magnolia Pictures' "Frank" at Landmark Sunshine theater. The film is an offbeat comedy about a young wannabe musician, Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant-garde pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank (Michael Fassbender), a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying bandmate Clara (Maggie Gyllenhaal).
From the film: Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Domhnall Gleeson, Francois Civil, Carla Azar, director Lenny Abrahamson, and author/co-screenwriter Jon Ronson all walked the red carpet. Read our exclusive interviews below:
Michael Fassbender
So what attracted you to this movie and what did you love about the script?
Michael Fassbender: It was a very original piece and I found some really funny moments in there and then some really human moments and some really touching moments ... thought it was quite poignant as a whole. And it was just so unusual that I was intrigued by this group of musical sort of misfits, outcasts, and guys that live sort of on the fringes. Yeah, it just really engaged me.
What was it like to have to act with the mask on for pretty much the entire movie?
MF: Fun!
MF: Yeah, I liked it.
Did you have to change anything fundamental about your acting?
MF: Really, I didn't have to change anything. Just roll out of bed, put the head on, and get to work. (laughs)
Director Lenny Abrahamson
What was the most important aspect in making "Frank"?
Lenny Abrahamson: That they do really operate as a band. They could play together, they're playing a song tomorrow on the Colbert Report, they're playing a song live. You know, the idea of creating a believable band, isn't something you create just for the movie using smoke and mirrors. They can really play and the music's great, and a lot of that really comes down to Stephen Rennicks, the composer, and also really down to the commitments of the actors, to really learn what they were doing and really take seriously being in a band. So the band in the movie wasn't a joke. There's a lot of funny stuff about it, but it's actually a pretty good band.
Was it a really difficult balance how selfish Jon was to the audience?
LA: What we do is we sort of play it for laughs at the beginning. So, his idiotic kind of search for stardom plays quite lightly, and then I think what we do is just drain a little bit of the silliness out of that and it becomes something realer. I think by that stage the audience does care about him as a character. I think it stands to Domhnall, and his strength as an actor. He manages a despicable character in a way that you can't help feeling for him. Partially because we all recognize that level of smallness. We all have the capacities to be very small and in our careers to be very selfish. So it's something we can all identify with.
Your next film is titled "Room." Is there anyone casted besides Brie Larson?
LA: No, nobody confirmed yet that I can talk about. But some really, really interesting people that I like think will do it. So it'll be good.
Carla Azar
Can you tell me a little about your role in the film?
Carla Azar: I play a drummer, and my name in the film is Nana, the character's name. And I am the one band member that really doesn't speak at all. Except one scene I finally speak. So I'm very quiet and shy and I just do my job.
So what made you want to be a part of this movie?
CA: Well, I never thought about acting, and I actually didn't want to do it when I heard about it because I didn't know anything about it. And then to be honest, I found out Michael was in it. And he's one of my favorite actors. So I thought, okay, I'll read the script. And then I read it, and I was laughing out loud. It was so funny. And the fact that I didn't speak in most of it was like, "Okay, I can do that and pull it off. Hopefully. Maybe."
So what's coming up next for you?
CA: I'm finishing a record with my band Autolux.
Additional celebrity guests included The White Stripes' Jack White, Guns N' Roses' Frank Ferrer, Ramone's Marky Ramone, Guster's Ryan Miller, MGMT's Benjamin Goldwasser, Bikini Kills' Kathleen Hanna and Kathi Wilcox, Paul Haggis, Whit Stillman, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Shannon, Stefano Tonchi, Zoe Kravitz, Tali Lennox, Alia Shawkat, Dominic West, screenwriter Michael Weber, Jessica Williams, John Gallagher Jr, Amir Arison, Mimi Gianopulos, Amy Heckerling, Cleo Wade, DJ Becka Diamond, artist Todd DiCiurcio, Hilfiger models Julia Hafstrom, RJ King, and Arthur Kulkov, Michael Medugno, AndrewAndrew, Wesley Taylor, Maggie Betts, Andrew Bevan, Carlen Altman, Max Osterweis, Kate Foley and Arden Wohl
Following the screening, guests headed across town to The Westway where the band/cast performed "I Love You All" from the film. Guests snacked on canapés and drank Red Bull cocktails. "Frank" hits theaters on Aug. 15, 2014. It is 94 minutes.

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It's not unusual in the VW world for owners to develop a bond with their cars. It seems that each and every Volkswagen ever produced has its own personality and charm. This Lotus White 1967 Sedan is no different. In fact, Flockie has become no less than a family member to John Plow and Cathy Gilbert. However, John and Cathy were not the first to fall in love with Flockie.
Back in the late 1930s, an Austrian woman by the name of Elizabeth Ringer heard about the new KDF car that was soon to become available. She decided that this was to be the automobile for her and began saving KDF stamps with the hopes of buying her own KDF car when they became available. Unfortunately, like so many other eager buyers, the development of World War II in Europe put Ms Ringer's hopes on hold.
It was to be several more years before Mrs. Ringer was in the position to purchase her very first car. In 1957, she went to Schicho VW in the village of Villach, Austria and presented her KDF stamp book with the intention of driving away in a new VW. It took quite a bit of negotiation, but eventually she was able to persuade the dealership to honor the stamps as a partial payment towards her Polar Silver 1957 sedan. This car was to be her transportation until she decided to trade it in on a new VW in 1967. Mrs. Ringer returned to Schicho VW and ordered a Lotus white 1967 Sedan with a 1300cc engine, 6-volt electrical system and "Gazelle Brown" fabric interior. And this is how Flockie, as Mrs. Ringer affectionately called her, came to be in existence.
From then on Mrs. Ringer and Flockie enjoyed a special relationship. After spending a day "storming" the Austrian Alps, Flockie and Mrs. Ringer would return home to the castle that they lived in. Because this castle did not have a garage, Mrs. Ringer would open the front doors and drive Flockie through the front hall and into the living room where they would both warm up in front of the fireplace.
This relationship was to continue into the 1990s when Mrs. Ringer and her faithful companion Flockie both moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada after the death of Mrs. Ringer's husband. Flockie had spent 25 years in Austria and was still wearing her original tires, paint and interior. She had traveled less than 44,000 km (approx. 27,000) miles and had never been serviced or repaired by anyone but Schicho VW. The only body repair she had ever required was a new left front fender and bumper because of a trip into a roadside ditch while swerving to miss a bus on a narrow Austrian curve.
In 1997 John and Cathy met Mrs. Ringer. Her health was failing and she was no longer able to drive Flockie. Several offers to purchase Flockie by collectors and VW dealers had been flatly refused. There was no way that Flockie was going to be trapped in a museum or dealership showroom. She needed to be loved and driven! Mrs. Ringer liked what she saw in John and Cathy and agreed to sell Flockie to them as long as they promised to regularly drive and care for her. So in the fall of 1997 Flockie moved to her new home with John and Cathy.
Not wanting to wear out the original mechanicals, and being a passionate fan of the original Cal-Look cars of the '70s, John decided to make a few well-planned modifications. All changes to Flockie were precisely engineered so that she could be restored to original over a weekend if needed. No extra holes were drilled, and all of the original parts were carefully sealed and stored. The original running board mats and fender beading were beginning to show their age, so Wolfsburg West replacements were used. Of course John couldn't just bolt them on. First he carefully polished them with #0000 steel wool to make them look more original. John's goal was to modify Flockie to appear as if she had been built back in the Cal-Look heyday of the mid 70s. Many hours were spent tracking down original, period-correct parts. The interior is completely original with the exception of an original EMPI GT steering wheel, EMPI gauges, and a terribly rare '67 chrome EMPI radio. Flockie's gears are shifted using an early Gene Berg shifter while her dash is decorated with an original BUG-IN dash plaque.
Flockie's new engine is a combination of two-liter power and amazing reliability. John wanted to build an engine that was healthy yet with good road manners and the dependability that would allow them to wander off on 500-mile road trips to VW events across the Midwest and Northeast. He started with a new AS-41 case that was fitted with a welded and counterweighted 78.4 mm crankshaft. Attached to the crank are clearanced factory connecting rods with Chevy racing hardware. The pistons and cylinders are Mahle 90.5 mm stroker pistons, which work in conjunction with CB Performance Magnum 044 heads. (40 mm x 35.5 mm valves)
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Rep. Joe Garcia, the Florida Democrat caught on video consuming his own earwax, caught an earful from critics on Twitter Sunday after posting a tweet highlighting a speech in which he excoriated Republicans, especially Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, for failing to pass "comprehensive immigration reform."
"WATCH @JoeGarcia's impassioned speech to #Congress-stripping kids of rights is unAmerican. The #TimeIsNow for #CIR," he tweeted. A number of Twitter users reminded Garcia that the children he referred to aren't American citizens.
"How can U strip children of rights they don't have?" one twitter user asked in response. "These R not American children & thus do not have the rights of Am citizens."
"You're insane. No rights are being stripped as they aren't here legally," another person said. "Since when is respecting law 'un-American?'"
The Miami Herald said Garcia didn't mention Cruz by name. He did, however, rail against "a fellow Cuban American that sits in the other house" for "dictating to this house that we should strip away rights -- strip away rights from children," the Herald added. The other Cuban-American Garcia referred to is Cruz.
CNN said House Republicans were prepared to pass an immigration bill to fund the crisis on the southern border. But "all bets were off" after Cruz called a pizza party, Jeremy Diamond said.
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The debate over gun control in America reveals a sharply divided public—and while many are passionate in their opposition to guns, the issue is rarely visited on a legislative level. But the recent mass shootings in Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., have rekindled the debate over the place of guns in the U.S. "Firearms are part and parcel of the American story," says John MacDonald, Associate Professor of Criminology. "Despite these horrendous mass killings in the last year, we've actually seen an overall decrease in homicide. The problem is that the share of homicides caused by guns has stayed the same—80 to 90 percent."
One problem is that firearm technology continues to grow more deadly. In the 1970s, the average gun used in a homicide was a small caliber rifle like a .22, or a zip gun—a poor quality, homemade weapon. Now the average gun seized from a felon in the street is a 9mm semiautomatic. "High rates of violent crime are, of course, not limited to America," says MacDonald. "In fact, when compared to victimization rates in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, the U.S. rates well. But our homicide rate outpaces these places by a factor of, in some cases, as much as 10, and guns have got to be the reason."
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Any unified approach to gun control legislation is inherently problematic given that each state's position is unique. In the short time that has elapsed since the shooting at Sandy Hill Elementary School in Newtown, New York City has already signed into law sweeping new gun prohibitions. Conversely, other states are proactively fighting any new legislation, with Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant even asking state legislators to pass laws that would condone willful disobedience of any new federal gun sanctions. Some experts have proposed a federal sales tax on guns, or a law requiring owners of certain firearms to purchase liability insurance. And while the cost of owning a gun might act as a deterrent, the likeliness the legislation would pass on a state-by-state basis is a statistical impossibility.
Despite the opposition, President Obama has announced 23 separate executive actions, including heightened background checks and a fresh assault rifle ban. "The newly proposed ban is mostly symbolic," says MacDonald. "It's probably not going to reduce spree killings. But even if it's only symbolic, it's a start, but the real issue is the culture and the sheer volume of guns in circulation."
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For all of you out in the blogosphere who have been waiting for my glorious return, here goes everything. To let it all hang out...literally...I weigh over 200 lbs now, depending on the time of day and the scale. So, that's really not working for me. Gotta do something about that.
And like probably 90% of America, I'm paying for a gym membership that I'm not using. Like really not using. I think I went 3 times this past month. That's some really not great stats there. Time for some tough love, I think. I keep telling myself how I "don't want to overdo" and "don't want to diet again" but I have got to do something!
Here's my problem. I love food. I read cookbooks all the time. And I mean all the time. But then I never make anything from them - I just make these huge lists in notebooks and lists on Springpad of things that I want to try. On top of that, I don't really exercise much. Particularly as summer has hit in full force and it's crazy hot out right now. Even though the gym is air conditioned and it's only six blocks away. At least, on the plus side, my chronic back issues are under control. Dealing with all that pain was ridiculous.
And depression - depression sucks. I get depressed for weeks and don't even notice until I'm not depressed anymore. When I'm depressed, it feels like I have to make myself do anything. I can go to work, but I usually run out of food, have to patch together grocery lists, and it all just turns into a mess...so yeah. I'm at a loss as far as where to start here. At least as of right now, my depression is under control. I feel fine, I bought Tide and dish detergent and some other essentials on Amazon, and I'm starting to get my life back together. Last weekend, I finally got caught up on laundry and dishes - that took some doing, I think it had been two weeks for the dishes and a month for the laundry - and at least for now, I'm good to start making some changes about my eating and exercise going forward. Trouble will be keeping with it if things start to become less than great again.
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I have been reading a bit about the Bochner integral and now I'm wondering the following:
For the theory to be "nice", one would expect that
$$L^1([0, \tau], L^1([0, \tau])) \cong L^1([0,\tau] \times [0, \tau]).$$
Is this the case? How do we prove this (or where can I find more about this), since if we take $u$ in the set in the LHS, then we can evaluate $(u(t))(x)$ and we want to map this to some $u(t,x)$. The problem I see is that $L^1$-functions are equivalence classes modulo sets of measure zero. So for each $t\in [0,\tau]$ we have different sets of measure zero than the ones in $[0,\tau]^2$. How do we get around this?


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- Billy gets rich in the glasses business.
- He has two kids, Barbara and Robert.
- Barbara marries another optometrist, and Billy sets up his new son-in-law in the business.
- Robert joins the army out of high school and fights in Vietnam.
- Early in 1968, Billy joins a group of optometrists in a chartered plane to a conference for optometrists in Montreal.
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Sazon Booya is probably one of the least talked about and also most talented, moombahton acts around at the moment. This EP has been around for just over a week now, and I just can't get enough of it. Especially track number four, which has some help from another one of my faves, ETC!ETC!. All in all the entire EP is fantastic, I know for a fact that at least one of them will wind up in your next Moombah set fer sure. Enjoy.
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Over at Todd & Lindsey's house, the newlyweds are preparing for their first Christmas as a married couple. The decorating budget is pretty tight, but Lindsey was creative enough to figure out how to turn a stained tree skirt and an old sheet into a brand new tree skirt!
The cool thing about this ruffly tree skirt is that Lindsey made it without having to do any sewing. Smart girl! This is the perfect tree skirt–it's neutral enough to be a nice backdrop to pretty presents, but the ruffly texture keeps it fun and interesting until the presents arrive.
Lindsey provides a tutorial with lots of pictures at Todd & Lindsey so that you'll be able to make a ruffly tree skirt of your own.


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Adopt-A-Road is an anti-litter campaign. Make a positive impact on the appearances of Gresham's roads and our community by adopting a segment of roadway and helping keep it clean.
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Alien Adventures - Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
A fun website all about Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery - find games, activities, puzzles and fun facts. Learn how to create landscapes, find hidden messages in portraits and more. Flash player required.
Aston Hall for Kids
An interactive resource based on Aston Hall including fun activities including Tudor food i.e. make a heraldic tart, decorate a sugar paste plate and goblet and decorate a boar's head. Flash player required.
This resource, generously donated by Athena, lists the key features for writing a short autobiography. It works very much like a PowerPoint presentation (clicking the next button). To make it full screen press the F11 key on your keyboard, press the key again to revert to your normal view.
Bemused about Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery? Well don't be. Be excited, be aware, be informed, be amused, don't just sit there...be involved. Visit Bemused, a new website featuring videos, activities, gallery and a 'your say' topic areas.
Blakesley Hall for Kids
An interactive resource including 'The Building', Servants Room', Kitchen' and other interactive activities. Flash player required.
Body Parts
This is a simple interactive activity which helps pupils with English as a second language develop their reading and speaking skills.
Bonny , Banana and Mo
From the BBC Tikkabilla site. Quote from the site : The story from Bonny, Banana and Mo will be familiar through the characters from the television programme. This story will help your child's observation skills as there is little text. The story is told visually with sound effects. There are prompts to interact with the story, which will again encourage your child's listening and responding skills.
This activity allows you to create your own character and then talk and write about the person you have invented.
Choosing Adjectives
A drag and drop activity where you have to drag suitable adjectives into the spaces in a text. It is intended as a teaching tool as there is no checking facility.
Christmas Around The World
A factual Christmas website with a collection of 30 countries and how they celebrate Christmas, particularly focusing on history and tradition. The information is factual and presented as detailed text. It could be used as pupil research to produce reports or presentations using skills such as skimming and scanning, note making and a range of speaking and listening skills through presentations.
Coconut Words
This is a short, fun activity where pupils have to read a short sentence and find the missing word. The activity is based on a 'coconut shy'.
Coloured Text Mind Masher
Are you ready for your left brain to battle with your right brain. Sounds bizarre. Try this classy mind boggler if you're brave enough. This resource has been generously donated by eChalk Ltd.
Dick Whittington
The Dick Whittington story as told by the BBC Tikkabilla Site
Don't Use Said
A great teaching resource for looking at alternatives to the word 'said' in written work.
European Commission language quiz
A free quiz about languages across Europe from the European Commission. Each day a new multiple choice question is posted about one of the languages of the Commission. There's instant feedback with a second chance given before an explanation of the correct response is revealed. A resource that is useful for general interest and knowledge as much as language learning.
Exploiting the World Cup in MFL
Once more, the MFL Sunderland site provides a number of brilliant resources and ideas for using the World Cup in MFl teaching and learning. Simple ideas suitable for all age groups - ready made and also ideas to spark your creativity!
Extraordinary Earth
An interactive resource where you can investigate many objects from around the world and discover funny fascinating facts about the object! Flash player required.
Fact & Opinion
This drag and drop activity, generously donated by Athena, encourages pupils to explore the distinctions between fact and opinion based around mobile phones. To make it full screen press the F11 key on your keyboard, press the key again to revert to your normal view.
Film Education - film-related resources
This website offers a variety of film-related resources and ideas for teaching through film including screen adaptations of novels (such as The Kite Runner, Beowulf and The Polar Express) There are specific resources for both primary and secondary pupils.
Finger Spelling
This is an activity designed to familiarise students with a version of sign language called the British two-handed finger spelling alphabet. There are three different activities which test your knowledge of the alphabet.
Formal Letter Writing Part 1
This resource, generously donated by Athena, lists the key features for letter writing. It works very much like a PowerPoint presentation (clicking the next button) but don't miss the examples at the bottom of the last page! To make it full screen press the F11 key on your keyboard, press the key again to revert to your normal view.
Formal Letter Writing Part 2
This drag and drop activity, generously donated by Athena, encourages pupils to assemble a formal letter of complaint from its jumbled up components. To make it full screen press the F11 key on your keyboard, press the key again to revert to your normal view.
Frankley CLC eBooks Project
Staff at Frankley City Learning Centre have been running several 10 week projects in local primary schools to support literacy. The students used Toshiba NB100 netbooks in their Literacy lessons, which proved not only to be motivational, but also small enough to fit on a desk and still allow room for handouts, books, mini whiteboards and markers etc to be used alongside them. The ICT kit and a member of teaching staff were supplied by the CLC for 3 or 4 mornings per week to work together with the class teacher.
Goldilocks and the three bears
This is a BBC Snapdragon presentation. You can take the children through the story. It has voices as well as text. At the end there are lots of questions about the story. You can end the questions by quitting. When you come out of the story there are lots of other activities that you could get the children involved in.
The story of Herakles and his Twelve Labours is one of the most exciting and famous of all the Greek myths. You get the chance to read this exciting story and then complete the 12 tasks. Perfect opportunity to combine literacy skills with history in this cross curricular website. An Etymological Dictionary of words and their Greek origins has also been provided to enhance the children's understanding of language.
Holding Hands
This Road Safety activity is designed to positively reinforce the concept that children need to hold onto something safe when they go out onto the pavement or road and they should not let go until they are in a safe place.
Initial Sounds
A resource that will help children identify initial sounds in words. All initial sounds are covered.
Letter Formation
A complete set of upper and lower case letters to illustrate letter formation generously donated by Athena. To make it full screen press the F11 key on your keyboard, press the key again to revert to your normal view.
List and instructions - Starter, Main and Plenary
A starter, main and plenary activity are included in this writing lesson.
Literacy Hour Resources
Literacy hour Resources for KS1 - Four activities: Final Phonemes; ch, sh, th; Consonant clusters & Full circle.
Look, Say, Cover, Type, Check
An interactive approach to teaching and learning spellings from Crick Primary School.
Make a Monster
Create, describe and discuss a character linked to a familiar text.
Make Beliefs Comix
This is a free online tool for creating comic strips, which could be used by pupils to support a wide range of curriculum areas, especially literacy, EAL, community languages, communication skills-based learning and special education needs such as autism or emotional difficulties. Because the resource offers a choice of emotions which can be portrayed by the comic characters, a particularly relevant use could also for the development of emotional intelligence, behaviour and PSHE issues best represented by examples in contexts.
Message in a Portrait
Discover the hidden coded messages and clues within the portraits. Flash player required.
Graphenes representing 'ie' sound. Consolidation work following previous lessons which have introduced children to the alternative ways of spelling the 'ie' sound.
Princess Long Ago
The Princess Long Ago story as presented on the BBC Tikkbilla site.
Quality Curriculum Support Online
There are tons of free learning activities on this subscription-based website. It is also cross-referenced and offers a catalogue of websites covering all curriculum areas from Foundation to KS3. The website is also speech-enabled.
R2L - Support Documents
Delivering an INSET as part of the R2L teaching resource
Ready 2 Learn
A KS2/3 resource providing a year's set of mini-lessons suitable for class assembly, PSHE, citizenship, RE, ...
Safe Places
This activity takes children on a trip around some familiar places in their homes and neighbourhood. The aim of the activity is to encourage children to consider where it is safe to play and where it is not.
Sentence Detectives
A useful site for teaching basic punctuation marks such as question marks, exclamation marks and full stops. Includes a download option.
Signs and Symbols
Find out more about signs and symbols in art, colour and its meaning and take the fun quizzes.
Sticky Letters
Move these sticky letters around to develop phonic and spelling skills. Take up the word challenge and see how many words you can make from the word twister. A really flexible resource from Crick Primary School.
Survival Guide
This is a simple multi-lingual resource, supported by audio, which helps non-English speaking recent arrivals to gain basic communication skills.
Templates - An Interactive Whiteboard Resource
Open ended resources without content that can be used from Foundation to KS5. Titles: 10 linked pages, Blank Shopping, Cycle 4, Euro Shopping, Multiple Word Bank, One Word Bank, Presentation 6, Romans, Shopping Veg 2.
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Over 89,000 free teaching resources uploaded, reviewed and rated by members of the teaching profession. Free access to downloadable teaching resources, lesson plans, classroom activities, revision guides, whiteboard resources and access to Teachers TV.
The Lingo Show
The CBeebies website has just launched a lovely language offering aimed at 4-6 year olds called The Lingo Show. As the blurb from the BBC says - "The Lingo Show introduces different languages to a pre-school audience, sprinkled with a bit of culture. Play fun games and learn new words whilst helping 'Lingo' the ultimate show bug and his performing bug friends prepare for the 'Big Bug Show'. Featuring French, Spanish, Mandarin, Welsh, Urdu, Punjabi, Somali and Polish. It's a bug-lingual adventure!" The site launched with French, Spanish and Mandarin with Welsh following on St David's Day. Urdu and Punjabi will be added on 14th March, and Somali and Polish on 28th March. So why not check out what Lingo, Queso, Jargonaise, Wei and the other bugs get up to on the site?
The Rupee Tree
A story from the BBC Tikkabilla series. Quote from the BBC Site : This story helps your child to explore cultures that may be unfamiliar to him or her while also expanding his or her social and emotional development. The interactivity of the story, where your child needs to click on objects to keep the narration going, encourages listening and responding skills. These skills will always be helpful for developing communication and language skills.
The Sun and the wind
This is a BBC Tikkabilla story. Quote from the BBC : The Sun and the Wind is acted out by Tamba, Lorna and Paul and may encourage your child to act out a story at home themselves. The theme of the story will also help your child's personal, social and emotional development while finding out about the world around them. There are related activities of a Weather Map printable to colour in and a Paper Windmill to make will help your child to understand more about the theme of the story.
The Tooth Fairy
The format follows that of a 'Big Book' where the text is supported by complementary pictures. The reading comprehension questions at the end of the book are intended as speaking and listening activities to support and extend understanding and develop vocabulary.
Using Similes to Enhance Writing Skills
A teaching aid to help children understand the use of similes in their writing. There is an option to download the teaching pack to your hard drive.
Virtual House
This is a virtual tour of a house aimed at supporting EAL speakers. The resource is available in a number of community languages.
Vowels - Long and Short Sounds
A drag and drop resource for discovering vowel sounds, generously donated by Athena. To make it full screen press the F11 key on your keyboard, press the key again to revert to your normal view.
Weoley Castle for Kids
Weoley Castle was once a Medieval manor house with an interesting history. Discover more about the castle through the interactive timeline and see what the castle used to look like. A fun and interactive website for children at Key Stage 1-2.
A useful site - enriched by witty sayings on each web page - offering a great range of primary literacy and numeracy worksheets and aiming to reduce teacher workload.
World of Teaching
Microsoft Power point presentations on science (and other subjects) that are free to download and use.
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JWC TO ELIZA STODART; August 1834; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18340800-JWC-EA-01; CL 7:250-254.
[ca. August 1834]
Our well-beloved Friend and Cousin
Mrs Montagu who has made "the fine arts" her peculiar study has a pretty and original way of knitting up a ravelled correspondence1— Instead of outraging the already outraged with a lengthened apology, she commences with a lively attack "is astonished that you have not written to inquire the reason of her silence"—"thinks it strange that you should adopt with her the formal letter for letter system"[—]"Is hurt," "is angry" is every thing but what you expected namely ashamed of herself—and you find yourself suddenly much to your surprise transformed into the offending party and thankful for the kind forgiveness with which she ends— This beats out and out our old simple fashion of making confessions of indolence &c &c or telling lies about excessive occupation and so forth. But having let you into the secret I need not play it off upon you this time, only I let you see what I might do if I liked—and I give you instead of a useless apology a useful hint which you may find your account in against enraged correspondents—
Well! is it not very strange that I am here? sitting in my own hired house by the side of the Thames as if nothing had happened; with fragments of Haddington, of Comely Bank, of Craigenputtoch interweaved with co[c]kneycalities into a very habitable whole? Is it not strange that I should have an everlasting sound in my ears, of men, women, children, omnibuses, carriages glass coaches, streetcoaches, waggons, carts, dog-carts, steeple bells, doorbells, Gentlemen-raps, twopenny-post-raps, footmen-showers-of raps, of the whole devil to pay, as if plague pestilence, famine, battle, murder sudden death2 and wee Eppie Daidle3 were broken loose to make me diversion.— And where is the stillness, the eternal sameness, of the last six years—? Echo answers at Craigenputtoch! There let them "dwell with Melancholy"4 and old Nanny Macqueen. for this stirring life is more to my mind, and has besides a beneficial effect on my bowels. Seriously I have almost entirely discontinued drugs, and look twenty percent better, every one says, and "what every one says must be true." This being the case, You may infer that I am tolerably content in my new position; indeed I am more and more persuaded that there is no complete misery in the world that does not emanate from the bowels.
We have got an excellent lodgement; of most antique physiognomy, quite to our humour; all wainscoated carved and queer-looking; roomy substantial, commodious, with closets to satisfy any Bluebeard, a chinacloset in particular that would hold our whole wor[l]dly substance converted into china! Two weeks ago there was a row of ancient trees in front, but some crazy-headed Co[c]kneys have uprooted them—behind we have a garden (so called in the language of flattery) in the [wo]rst order, but boasting of two vines which produced two bunches of grapes, in the season, which "might be eaten"; and a walnut-tree from which I have gathered almost sixpence worth of walnuts. "This large and comfortable tenement" we have, without bugs, for some two or three pounds more rent than we paid for the pepper box at Comelybank. This comes of our noble contempt for fashion—Chelsea being highly unfashionable. The only practical disadvantage in this circumstance is that we are far from most of our acquaintance; a disadvantage which I endeavour to obviate by learning to walk; my success is already considerable I have several times walked ten miles without being laid up. Besides we are not wholly isolated. Leigh Hunt lives a few doors off. The Celebrated Mrs Somerville5 is at Chelsea Hospital within five minutes walk, and Mrs Austin is coming to introduce me to her tomorrow—and within a mile I have a circle of acquaintances—one of these who lives in prodigious shine with wife and family, you may happen to recollect something about— A grave handsome, man who has been here repeatedly, and treats me with infinite respect, and takes immensely to my Husband—a sort of person with whom one talks about "the condit[i]on of art" in this cou[n]try—and such like topics of general interest and studies to support the reputation of a rather intellectual and excessively reasonable woman— Can you divine who I mean? impossible—George Rennie!6 How has it happened? quite simply. I am one of the most amiable women living; tho like your Uncle "My virtues are unknown"— I am incaplable [sic] of cherishing resentment even against a faithless lover, I heard he was there, I wondered what he was like; I sent him my address. He came instantaneously with his Sister Margaret7— "Bess did I feel awkward?["] to be sure I did, and looked awkward for I was within an ace of fainting and he looked like one of his own marbles8— But neither of us I believe entertained a particle of tenderness for the other nevertheless—it was mere queaziness from the intense sensation of the flight of time which such a meeting occasioned one—fifteen years! only think! He is much improved by age, in appearance, manner, and also I think in character—but he lives in the wretchedest atmosphere of "gigmanity"—his wife is a perfect fool—the whole kin of them are fools— And poor George must either go in with their folly to a certain extent, or break his heart, or blow up his whole household sky-high— Moreover he is still self-willed and vain enough to show me as often as I see him that I made an escape— I go often to Margaret's, who lives in style also, but seems to feel rather out of her element here. Lady Kinloch9 is close by the Rennies— she was amazed to see me, and is very kind— I am glad she is not "dead"
For the rest our society with a few additions and [subtractions is] mu[ch] the same that we had when here formerl[y]—only I find it much pleasanter now being in better ease for enjoying it— John Mill, Leigh Hunt and Mrs Austin remain my favourites. I know some Elliots10 acquaintances of David Aitken11 who are very agreeable people.— By the by did Mr Aitken tell you what a frantic[al]ly affectionate reception I gave him at Craigenputtoch— he looked rather fearful for the consequences to his cloth— I shall never learn to give up these outbreakings of the old woman in me from time to time— the other morning when Mr Terrot12 came in (who is to carry this) I sprang into his arms and I believe almost stifled him with the ardour of my embrace— He returned it however with more sympathy than was to have been anticipated. I have wondered at my audacity ever since. for the thought of such an attempt in a cool moment would have made me quake[.] For God['s] sake write and tell me what everybody in Edinr is doing—especially my own relations whom methinks I ought to know something about— I so seldom hear out [of] Scotland— My Mother is most scrupelous [sic] about putting me to the expence of postage— I shall be down perhaps next year— and then it will be hard if I do not see you— But will you never come here? I declare to Heaven there is nobody except my Mother I should welcome with such delight— After all you are the only right female friend I ever had in the world—the only one I can to all lengths and without the least misgiving talk nonsense to—and that I consider a pretty good test of friendship— Here I must be always so sensible it is really quite frightful— Carlyle wrote to your Uncle and sent a book— did he get either letter or parcel? He now sends his constant regards— God bless you my dear Eliza— I am always in spite of neglect in the article of writing
your truly attached Friend—
Jane W Carlyle—
You will remark again "Jane once wrote a beautiful hand"— Well it cannot be helped—the pen is bad—and I am in haste
Kisses without number to your Uncle— Love to your Mother— Does old Dr Hamilton13 yet live[;] if so do call on him or write him a note and say that I am here, and love him, and am almost quite well
Is Benjamin Bell14 (as we hear) divorced and mad?


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Cactus Jack may be the only midget driver that J.J. Yeley never passed. "He tried it once," says Jack Yeley. "I crashed him. Boy, was my wife ticked."
Even today, Jack Yeley says he's not sure if his wife was more angry because he put his son into the fence, or because J.J. didn't pass his old man. And Judy Yeley won't say.
More than a dozen years later, it doesn't much matter. What does is that driving hard against his father-trying to live up to Cactus Jack's expectations and reputation-helped create one of the most successful drivers in open-wheel history and one who promises to be an emerging stock car star.
J.J. Yeley was hired by Joe Gibbs Racing last November for the A-B-C plan, with races this season in the ARCA series and in NASCAR's Busch and Nextel Cup.
"He's ready," says his dad, a seven-time Arizona midget champion who twice won the World of Outlaws midget title. At 27, J.J. will hardly be a "young gun" as he makes the transition to stock cars.
"It's taken a long while," J.J. says. "Sometimes it was frustrating because we were doing so well in open-wheel, but it seemed like no one noticed. One of the problems is that we race every weekend, and it is hard to get to a NASCAR event and meet people when you are in the race car somewhere else."
That changed last year when J.J. became only the second driver to win all three USAC championships-Silver Crown, Sprint, and Midget-in one year. The only other driver to do that is Tony Stewart, in 1995.
"There really haven't been that many drivers of J.J.'s caliber who can go out in three different divisions and have the equipment to reach such a milestone," says Stewart. "He has a lot of talent."
Stewart will go from owning Yeley's Silver Crown and Sprint Cars to becoming his teammate at JGR. The addition of Yeley gives Gibbs three former Silver Crown champions on his payroll. Busch driver Mike Bliss-the 2002 Craftsman Truck champion-won the Silver Crown title in 1993.
"The guy's got tremendous talent," Bliss says. "It is going to be exciting to see him make the transition to stock cars."
Changes In StoreOne of the major changes for Yeley this year will be the luxury to concentrate on his driving rather than living like a wrench-swinging gypsy.
The nomadic USAC road show fills a calendar with races-sometimes three or four in a week-as it moves from one short track to another across the country. The teams are small, and the racing is physically tough on both drivers and cars. It's common for teams to race one night, then drive to the next town and spend the afternoon fixing damage from the previous evening in a motel parking lot.
"I think I did 88 races last year," Yeley says. "Some of that was self-inflicted. I'm a racer, and if you get a weekend off, well, you find someplace to go racing."
And if you don't race, you don't get paid.
The checks in USAC are modest. Yeley won three championships and $421,185 last year, but with that (and money from sponsors) he had to build and maintain his own cars and pay for two crewmembers. The three men and Yeley's wife, Kristen, made up the entire operation. (In comparison, Scott Wimmer won $479,504 last season by starting six Winston Cup races, scoring one top 10 finish, and ending up 48th in points.)
"Last year J.J. did everything from driving the cars to driving the truck," says his dad. "I'm not sure what he'll do with all his free time."
"Work," answers Yeley. "We'll do a lot of testing. The idea is to try to test at almost every track I'll race at. And I plan to spend a lot of time at the shop. I've always been a hands-on racer, and I really need to learn everything I can about the cars to understand how they work and give the feedback to the crew that they need."
He was pleased with preseason testing. "Everything I felt was confirmed by the data acquisition," he says. "That made me feel good. It was easier than I thought it might be to develop a feel for the car."
Yeley says that compared to Sprint Cars, the sedans feel bulky and react slowly. "If you get used to driving with the tail end hanging out, driving something that is extraordinarily loose, it isn't too hard to stay up on the wheel in a stock car," he says. "The driving style is just so different. It may be a case that we don't know we can't drive 'em that loose, so we do. We just don't know any better. I think the biggest challenge this season will be to find the edge-without finding the wall."
The Other GuysThe USAC immigrants to NASCAR have a driving style and work ethic that has left their impression in stock car racing's top series.
* Four-time Winston Cup Champion Jeff Gordon came up through the Midget and Sprint Car ranks, winning both the NASCAR Busch Series Rookie of the Year title and the USAC Silver Crown championship in 1991, the year after he won the USAC Midget championship.
* Tony Stewart, the 1997 Indy Car champion, was Winston Cup's top rookie in 1999 and took the Winston Cup title in 2002. In 1996 he was the IRL and the Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year.
* Last season Ryan Newman, the 1996 Silver Crown Rookie of the Year and 1999 Silver Bullet national champion, won 11 poles with a qualifying setup many veterans said they couldn't drive. He also won eight races in Winston Cup-more than any other driver-and finished sixth in the points for team owners Roger Penske and Rusty Wallace.
Meanwhile, in open-wheel racing, Yeley was tearing up the USAC record book. First to go down was the 19-win mark first set by A.J. Foyt in 1961 and matched by Sleepy Tripp in 1988 and Jay Drake in 2000. Then Yeley went on to nail down four more feature wins before the season ended. "Once I got to 20 and broke the record, my goal was to win as many as I could," he says.
For Yeley, success was simply expected. "When J.J. was just beginning, we'd rent Canyon Raceway for all day Sunday," recalls Jack. "I'd have it watered in good on Saturday so J.J. would learn to drive under different conditions as it dried. We'd take a couple of cars just in case one broke, and we'd have J.J. run 200 or 300 laps. We'd keep him out there until he couldn't sit up in the seat anymore."
It's the way Cactus Jack learned to race, too. His father, George Yeley, owned a Pure Oil gas station in Indianapolis, which served as the home base for his stock car racing efforts. It was a typical neighborhood service station, where mechanics worked on customers' cars when not busy building the boss' racer.
George Yeley sold his station and moved to Phoenix, where he helped build some of the local tracks and Jack learned to drive them under his father's critical eye.
"We're all stubborn as mules," Jack says. He readily admits that he and his dad didn't always get along and he and J.J. have had a rough time of it. "I brought him up to be just like me," Jack says. "Maybe I did too good a job. We can't both be right. But neither of us will admit we are wrong. Judy keeps hoping it's something that will skip a generation."
Getting StartedBut when it comes to racing, Judy Yeley is about as passionate as the men in the family. "I used to be Jack's only crew," she says. "I was the mud scraper, I fixed the helmet, helped change tires."
And when it was time for J.J. to get serious, she fixed things for him, too. "I was president of the racing association," she remembers. "J.J. was only 14, but somehow it ended up being 16 on his birth certificate."
By then J.J. already had a few seasons under his belt because he began racing when he was 10. The Yeleys started their son in a quarter midget, but Jack says that lasted only about six months because "quarter midget is the Little League of racing . . . run by parents who yell at the kids, scream at the officials, and are fighting all the time."
They moved to dirt karts, and by the time J.J. was 13, he was in a midget. By the time he turned 17, he was driving 410 non-winged Sprint Cars on a full-time basis. Those are 1,100-pound cars built on a tube-frame chassis with engines putting out 800 hp and enough torque to do wheelstands down the front straight.
When the field hits a track for warm-up, it looks like somebody opened the gate to racing's Jurassic parking lot. "They're monsters," says Jack. "With that power-to-weight ratio, you have to learn throttle control and to feel what the car is doing. You have to stay ahead of it or you are going to get into serious trouble. They teach you how to drive, and they teach you how to run side by side, racing close."
"He started out good," Jack says of J.J. "He should have won a lot more races, but he was hard on equipment, and most of the stuff he had was pretty worn out."
But the advantage of racing worn-out equipment that breaks often is that you learn to fix your own cars-to make them better-and you begin to understand what makes cars fast.
"He's the hardest-working person I know," says Jack. "Even in high school. He'd work for me at the construction company after school, come home and work on the cars until 10 at night. Then he'd go on the weight bench before doing his homework and going to bed. He graduated high school in three years. I didn't even know he was on the honor roll until graduation day."
Bound For NascarAt 21, Yeley finished in the top 10 at the 1998 Indianapolis 500, his only appearance at The Brickyard. "Everyone figured I was looking at a career in open-wheel racing," he says. "The intention all along has been to move to NASCAR."
He was being courted last summer by teams in NASCAR and the Indy Racing League, but passed on the offers when, last June, Gibbs asked Stewart to talk to Yeley about moving to his operation. "This is the type of opportunity you may get only once in your career," Yeley says.
He tested in stockers for Gibbs during late summer, and the announcement that he was signing with Gibbs put an end to one of the worst-kept secrets in the NASCAR garages.
"I went to Gibbs' shop and was really impressed," Yeley says. "But it wasn't the assembly-line fabrication shop, the stack of engines, or the gleaming transporters that sealed the deal. The thing I was most struck with was the number of people who have been there season after season.
"In racing, everyone moves around so much, always looking for something better, but I met guys in the shop who have been there for years and years. That, to me, says a lot about an operation. When people want to stay there, you know [Gibbs] is doing things right."
Yeley's Track RecordJ.J. Yeley showed early in his career that he was capable of winning in anything he buckled into. Here's a quick look at his record book.
* 2003: Only the second driver to win the USAC Triple Crown with titles in the Silver Crown, Sprint, and Midget divisions. He also compiled 24 main event victories last season in the open-wheel cars* 2002: USAC Silver Crown champion* 2001: USAC Sprint Car champion* 1999: Second in non-winged Sprint Car points* 1998: Finished ninth in his rookie start in the Indianapolis 500, driving for John Menard* 1997: USAC Sprint Car Rookie of the Year* 1995: Became the youngest driver in USAC history to win a main event, taking the checker at Chico, California, at age 18* 1994: Named Sprint Car Rookie of the Year by the Knoxville Sprint Car Museum and the Sprint Car Racing Association* 1992: At age 16 (well, maybe) was the youngest driver to get a USAC license, and was named the Arizona Midget Racing Association's Most Improved Driver* 1991: Arizona Midget Racing Association's Rookie of the Year
C.B.H. YeleySo, what does J.J. stand for?
"Nothing," says his mom, Judy. "His real name is Christopher Beltam Hernandez Yeley. I was going into labor and I already had names picked out, and suddenly in the delivery room I realized I didn't like either of them. I'm in labor and yelling, 'I don't like the names! I don't like the names!'
"So now we have this baby, and it took us days to figure out what to name him. By then it was too late. Everyone started calling him J.J. And it stuck."


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Rohan Connolly, a senior football writer for The Age and radio broadcaster with sports radio station 1116 SEN, has been covering the game since 1983. A multi-AFL Media Association award-winner known for his passion and love of the game, he analyses the AFL for the newspaper and contributes a blog and weekly video, "Footy Fix", for The Age's football website, Real Footy.
Mark Thompson says Essendon must regain respect
Rohan Connolly New Bombers coach wants his team and club to do things well in 2014, but after the shame of the supplements scandal, he's placing an even higher priority on doing things right.
Bomber bill a 'misunderstanding'
Rohan Connolly Essendon coach Mark Thompson has used personal experience to defend two of his players who were involved in an incident at an Albert Park restaurant last weekend.
Bomber looking for the right stuff
Rohan Connolly Essendon coach wants to do well in 2014, but priority is to do things right.
Carlton's Dale Thomas confident he'll play round one
Rohan Connolly Carlton recruit Dale Thomas says he has no idea why his former club Collingwood have doubts over his playing future and he's confident his ankle problems won't stop him playing in round one.
Podsiadly ready for new start with Crows
Rohan Connolly James Podsiadly has a bit of a head start on his peers when it comes to any butterflies which might be associated with joining a new club at a more senior age than most recruits.
Players may leave, but fans stick with their AFL clubs
Rohan Connolly No image has ever spoken more poignantly about the connection between a professional footballer of any code and a club than a moment at Old Trafford in late April of 1974.
In AFL one thing is certain
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'Messiah' Roos keen to keep it real with Dees
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Election of Melbourne captain may take time
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Dees coach lauds boosted midfield stocks
Rohan Connolly Paul Roos has lauded Melbourne's success in bolstering its midfield stocks as he prepares to officially oversee the club's 2014 campaign.
Saints be dazed - again
Rohan Connolly That word ''culture'' seems to be at the centre of discussion when it comes to the Saints.
Watters sacking: Dermott Brereton launches scathing attack on Saints and Chris Pelchen
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Fixture: hits 'n' misses
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Test for Blues, Tigers get off lightly
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Cut and bruised after a long fall from grace
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Don't kill the goose that laid the golden egg
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More: Rumor has it Jennifer Lopez is leaving the show.
Randy Jackson: That is not confirmed. I think that things will work out. I am hopeful she will stay on so we can have the same talent with us next season.
More: When were you diagnosed with type 2 diabetes?
RJ: It was around 2003, when I was 46 years old. I thought I had the flu. I could not quench my thirst, I was running a fever, I was resorting to over-the-counter cold medications and I was even calling the doctor.
More: What did he say?
RJ: He had me meet him at the hospital to run a couple of tests. One of them came back saying my blood sugar was over 500. It was then I was told I had type 2 diabetes.
More: What was your reaction?
RJ: For years my doctor had been telling me to change my lifestyle, get my weight down and follow a healthy diet. I never would adhere to his advice, despite the fact my dad had diabetes and it runs in my family. I never thought it would happen to me.
More: So you were shocked?
RJ: It was the shock of a lifetime. It was then I had to really get it together. I learned quickly that I had to get well informed on how to manage my diabetes because there is no cure for it.
More: Are you now trying to pay it forward?
RJ: I am thrilled to be teaming up with the Taking Diabetes to Heart campaign because I need to help people be aware of what this disease is about and how to manage it. People need to understand, if you have this disease you are at two to four times higher risk of developing heart disease or having a stroke. This is a really serious disease.
More: What was going through your mind when your doctor was using your name and the medical terms stroke and heart attack in the same sentence?
RJ: My doctor pulled no punches with me, and because of that, his diagnosis was the biggest wake-up call of my life. I mean, he told me I could lose my life from this or be completely incapacitated from this. This is no joke! This is a disease I will have forever.
More: You say it runs in your family. Did you think you were immune from getting it because you are a big celebrity?
RJ: Diabetes doesn't care who you are. Celebrity and success mean nothing. I am just like everyone else. It doesn't matter who you are, you can still get it.
More: Did you get angry when the doctor said, "Randy, you have type 2 diabetes?"
RJ: No, I got depressed and sad. Had I listened before, maybe I could have prevented this from happening.
More: How did you motivate yourself to change your lifestyle?
RJ: I had to. I grew up in the South where there was huge, crazy eating. Despite my love for the good stuff, I basically had no choice.
More: Is it a burden?
RJ: Not anymore, because I have learned how to manage it. I had to change my life, and by doing so I changed my diet, I started to exercise and maintain a healthier lifestyle. I check my blood sugar regularly, I go to the doctor often and I have a great management team.
More: Has having diabetes limited eating the foods you love?
RJ: I have a more balanced diet. I grew up in the South where everything was butter and sugar, even the veggies. Now it is more about moderation. My portion size is that of an airplane meal.
More: Is that why you went under the knife and had gastric bypass surgery?
RJ: Yes, that is one of the reasons I did it. I needed a jump-start to help me get my health together.
More: Are you happy with your weight today?
RJ: Yes. I got it to a place where it is manageable and controllable. I know now what works and is comfortable for me.
More: Is it hard to maintain your weight when you are going across the country to attend auditions?
RJ: You have to know the food that works. I know now the cheeseburger with the bacon does not taste as good as the chicken over salad. (laughs) If I eat that, I know I will feel terrible, plus it won't look good or feel good.
More: Do you kick yourself and say, Why didn't I do this sooner?
RJ: (laughs) Of course.
More: Since childhood obesity is such a problem, will you talk to the young minds of America?
RJ: Yeah, I do that often. I am one of the ambassadors of Save the Children and I do a lot with juvenile diabetes. I love the kid factor, and that is a big part of who I am. Children should learn how to avoid getting diabetes and having a weight problem because when you don't it can sometimes lead to bullying.
More: Is that something you have had to deal with?
RJ: Thankfully, no.
More: When American Idol comes back next season will you use the program as a platform to spread the word?
RJ: I would love to. Hopefully we will be bringing back our Idol "Gives Back" charity show.
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By Monroe Journal
The Aberdeen Board of Aldermen voted 4-1 to raise rates for customers with the Aberdeen Electric Company.
The rate increase will happen October 1, 2010 and April 1, 2011. Both increases will be two percent.
The motion was made after a TVA representative suggested that the board support the increase. Ward 3 Alderman David Ewing voted against the motion.
The representative said the increase is needed due to a cash-flow problem at the electric department.
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Dennis Rodman Surprised Kim Jong-un With a 'Happy Birthday' Serenade
Things are getting weirder.
Dennis Rodman's latest North Korea adventure took an even more surreal turn on Wednesday, when the former NBA star awkwardly led an auditorium full of North Korean basketball spectators in singing "Happy Birthday" to leader Kim Jong-un. Rodman apparently started the unexpected serenade by himself, before the crowd joined in. "We always tell Dennis that he can't sing. He is tone deaf," former New York Knicks player and fellow NoKo baller Charles Smith told USA Today. "He did it alone." This after offering a "charmingly shambolic speech" of thanks to Kim and his wife for showing up to the exhibition game between U.S. ball-players and a North Korean team.
"It started out as surreal, then people joined in and it sort of faded a bit, but it seemed pretty heartfelt from Rodman's side," Simon Cockerell, a tour guide who was at the game, told Reuters about the song. "It was unexpected, and probably unplanned," he said. "Kim Jong-un appeared to smile, but he didn't appear to expect it." According to the Associated Press, the capacity crowd of about 14,000 went wild for the song in Pyongyang Indoor Stadium. Facing Kim from the court, Rodman bowed.
Then it was game time. The U.S. players took on the North Koreans during the first half, but then split up the squads and played a mixed game during the second half, the AP reports. With an average age of 48, the U.S. players, a mix of former NBA pros and street ballers, trailed the North Koreans during the first half, which ended with a score of 47 to 39 for the home team. The mixed second half kept things friendly, the AP reported.
Off the court, Rodman's outburst yesterday about the guilt of imprisoned American Kenneth Bae earned him the ire of Bae's family. "He was in a position to do some good and to help advocate for Kenneth," Bae's sister, Terri Chung, told CNN's Anderson Cooper 360. "He refused to do so. But then instead he has chosen to hurl these outrageous accusations against Kenneth. He clearly doesn't know anything about Kenneth, about his case. And so we were appalled by that."
But hey, at least Kim and Co. got to see a fun game.


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Future Water Treatment Plant Improvements Will Cost "Several Million"
Unspecified future renovations to Savannah's Wilshire and President Street Water Pollution Control Plants will cost millions of dollars, according to Public Works and Water Resources Director John Sawyer. Sawyer spoke to reporters Thursday after briefing city council on upcoming changes to pollution requirements. On an average day, Sawyer says Savannah's plants fall well below the pollution limits set by their state permits. But those limits are set to change to bring plants into compliance with Environmental Protection Agency standards revised in 2010. At the time, the new regulations represented a 76 percent reduction in daily pollution along the length of the Savannah river.
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Group Cites River Concerns
A report released Thursday by the River Network says electricity production in Georgia is threatening rivers and power generation. It also says the state's once ample water supply is declining along with water quality.
Thu., May 31, 2012 2:31am
Too Much Bacteria On Jekyll Beaches
Two Jekyll Island beaches are under advisory after high levels of a bacteria that cause gastrointestinal illness were found in the water. The Coastal Health District reported St. Andrews Beach and Clam Creek Beach were placed under advisory following routine water quality tests from samples taken May 29.
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King America OKs 3rd-Party Tests
A Screven County textile mill has agreed to pay for third-party water-quality monitoring of the Ogeechee River in southeast Georgia after a record-setting fish kill last year. King America Finishing and the state Environmental Protection Division agreed the company would spend $1 million on what are called "supplemental environmental projects."
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Twelve Rivers Make 'Dirty' List
The Georgia Water Coalition has put the Ogeechee River in southeast Georgia at the top of a new list of dirty Georgia waterways. The coalition representing 180 groups and businesses is highlighting the Ogeechee after a massive fish kill soiled the river in May. The Altamaha is at number two on the list because of Jesup's Rayonier paper mill.


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Erroll Garner: Strike Up the Band
Strike Up the Band
Erroll Garner (piano)
Erroll Garner Plays Gershwin & Kern (EmArcy 8262242)
Erroll Garner (piano),
Eddie Calhoun (bass), Kelly Martin (drums).
Composed by George & Ira Gershwin.
Recorded: New York, August 19, 1965
Rating: 95/100 (learn more)
Here, as he so often did, Erroll Garner performs a seemingly unrelated introduction. Punchy, dissonant, deceptively out-of-time gestures belie the straight-ahead swinging nature on which Garner's trio embarks in this rendition of the 1927 Gershwin standard from an eponymous musical. Even though the original production was unsuccessful, this song, along with "The Man I Love," proved to be hugely popular, and each in time became a standard. In his improvisations, Garner exercises remarkable contrast, at times appearing to trade eights with himself. Garner fans will appreciate how this track in many ways epitomizes his inimitable pianistic style, which proved consistently effective and popular throughout his career.
Reviewer: Mark Lomanno
Tags: 1960s jazz · gershwin covers · piano trio · strike up the band
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Express Scripts-Medco Deal: 5 Years in the Making
We knew rival drug-benefit providers Express Scripts and Medco had flirted for years before they reached a takeover deal in July. But we didn't know until now how close they had come before to getting hitched.
The two companies in 2006 had preliminary talks about a merger, according to a regulatory filing released today. In November of that year, Express Scripts and Medco got far enough to agree to swap confidential financial information. Nothing came of the deal talks.
In subsequent years, according to the regulatory filing today, Express Scripts and Medco representatives sometimes talked about resuming merger discussion. Our colleagues Preeta Das and Gina Chon previously reported that Medco had been the acquiring company under some of the deal scenarios. That's because until very recently — about spring 2010 or so — Medco consistenly had a larger market value than Express Scripts.
Then in early February of this year, Medco got serious about plotting its future. The company's directors began to meet with bankers from J.P. Morgan and Lazard, and with attorneys, according to the regulatory filing. At that point, Medco shares had been on the comeback from a long stock slump. As previously reported, company executives weighed a range of options, include an acquisition of rival Caremark out of CVS Caremark Corp.
In early June, Medco directors believed it was the right time to reach out to Express Scripts about a deal. Weeks of the typical M&A discussions followed. Medco was particularly concerned about landing guarantees that any deal would close, according to the regulatory filing.
Medco didn't have to do much pushing on its sale-price demands. The company initially proposed in early July a price of $75 a share in cash and stock, according to today's SEC filing. They two sides agreed to a starting point price of $70 to $75 a share. And when the acquisition was announced weeks later, the deal pricetag was $71.36 in cash and stock.


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Things to do on your day off #13671
By Calum-Oracle on Jun 13, 2008
Update: Here's a QuickTime version for those of you who can't handle .oggs yet...
Update: Here's a QuickTime version for those of you who can't handle .oggs yet...
I'd been using Parallels 3.0 for the past few weeks to run SXDE 2 on my MacBook Pro, but started having problems when I upgraded to Solaris Nevada build 69-- the X server wouldn't start any more, and I just couldn't get it going at all.
I took the opportunity to try out the VMware Fusion Beta instead, and so far it's the clear winner. It does feel a trifle slower than Parallels (even with debugging turned off), and its snapshots aren't as flexible, only allowing one per VM. But its VM tools for Solaris are way ahead of Parallels' non-existent offering-- clock sync, on-the-fly desktop resize, copy/paste/drag+drop from Solaris <-> OS X... nice. (Haven't figured out if shared folders are supposed to work on Solaris yet or not-- the settings are available which suggest they should, but the folders I've nominated don't show up anywhere obvious, so I'm guessing they don't.)
Assuming it's just as happy at full screen on my Sun 24" display when I get into the office, I'll be sticking in the VMware camp for now.
Edit: Oh, and did I mention that Solaris sound and networking work out of the box on VMware too?
My 15" Powerbook G4 died in various interesting ways yesterday.
It's been making a scary buzzing noise for months, but yesterday the hard drive gave up the ghost. While doing some diagnostics in its death throes, I also noticed that I seem to be suffering from the logic board failure that causes half your memory to go AWOL. Not sure which of those was responsible for the buzzing noise (if either)-- will find out when I replace the disk in the next day or two, I guess.
Of course, Apple being Apple, they'll only admit that the logic board was faulty on a certain range of PB G4s, with serial numbers from W8503xxxxxx to W8518xxxxxx... and three guesses whose is a W8502. So no free repair for me.
I guess that leaves me three possibilities (four if you count "do nothing and hope it doesn't get any worse")... sell my 2x512Mb memory sticks and replace them with a 1xGb stick in the 'good' slot (and hope none of the more serious symptoms of the failure appear); purchase AppleCare now for €450, even though I'll only get a year out of it now rather than three, and have it repaired under that; or pay the somewhat ludicrous €690+ that my local Apple authorised repair shop quoted me. Hrmm.
Edit: D'oh, just realised you can only buy AppleCare within a year of purchase, of course. Just have to cross my fingers for a while then, I think :)
I am a Principal UX Engineer in the Systems Experience Design team, working at Oracle (via Sun Microsystems) since the turn of the century. I currently work on sysadmin user experience projects for Solaris. Formerly I worked on open source Solaris desktop projects such as GNOME, NWAM and IPS.