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- Breakfast (252 words)
- Renaissance dance performance (319 words)
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- Web 2.0 and entrepreneurship (118 words)
- More thoughts about social computing (75 words)
- Microsoft Word in schools (1000 words)
- Blogly angst (46 words)
- Team of Filipino Students Win MIT Entrepreneurship (379 words)
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1. Breakfast: 01:07
When Steve called me up on my cellphone at around 8:00 and said only "Help!", I panicked and nearly fell off my bed. I slipped into my kimono and went to the second floor only to find that he had conned me out of bed in order to surprise me with pancakes for breakfast. How nice!
When I learned that he was actually still okay and in one piece, my non-morning-ness reasserted itself. He was so cheerful, though, that I couldn't help but wake up - and the honey-lemon tea certainly helped restore my voice. He wanted help cooking the rest of the pancakes so that they didn't turn out like crepes, though, so I added more mix to the batter and poured out neat little silver-dollar pancakes. I'm getting better at them - I burned only two this time!
Hooray for instant pancake mix. Yes, I know, pancakes are so easy to make from scratch, yada yada, but the recipe requires a whole egg, and that's hard to divide. =)
It was very nice of Steve to surprise me with breakfast. I usually try to wake him up and cook breakfast. He doesn't have an alarm clock right now and he doesn't wake up to his cellphone, so a human without a snooze button can be pretty effective. Besides, it's a good way to force myself out of bed. <grin>
Ay, friends... what would life be without them?
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Random Japanese sentence: ここの家何匹猫がいる? How many cats are there in this house?
2. Renaissance dance performance: 01:17
Toronto Coranto - the renaissance dance group that I got drafted into - performed for a class on Love and the Renaissance. It was tons of fun, particularly the workshop part where we got all these students to try out the branle pinagay. I wish I'd learned the dance of the flowers. It looked very pretty, all courtly symmetry and synchronization...
Calum came downtown just to shoot the event. He left after the show, and I didn't get to talk to him much about what's going on in his life. Should check on him sometime. He has two camera bodies now, and he's gotten completely spoiled by not only the ability to switch from long to short really quickly but also the external flash. Heh.
Jed dropped by, too, even joining the workshop. He joined us for our celebration at the pub. I had a burger, some Aussie cheese fries, a plate(!) of whipped cream (I have no idea what possessed Mike to ask for that!), and a little bit of a brownie.
We had hot chocolate afterwards (oy, sugar overload!), and we chatted a bit about development, billiards, drumming... Come to think of it, I don't think he managed to finish his tea. I really should just prepare tea next time. Engineers Without Borders gave me a box of tea for showing up at lunch the other week, and I really should track down the wonderful tea David served at the Linux Caffe some time back.
Must learn how to listen for rhythms and to tap them out. It's not entirely logical for me to keep telling people that they can get the hang of computer science and that I'm not a special, unique snowflake, while excusing myself from not being able to get the hang of audio or visual stuff. ;)
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Random Japanese sentence: 鳥たちはその猫を見るとビックリして飛び去った。 The birds flew away in alarm when they saw the cat.
3. Aha! : 01:33
Thanks to a conversation earlier about web development and careers, I think I've figured out a little more about what I want to do. =)
I want to help people make the most of blogs, wikis, podcasts, vidcasts, social bookmarking, social networking, community content management systems, whatever. I want to help them figure out how to use version control systems and request trackers and mailing lists. I want to make it easier to use phone and e-mail and little stickies on the fridge...
What should I learn more about? I need to figure out how to set up a blog farm, a wiki farm, a social bookmarking site, Drupal, etc. Bryght does hosted community sites with Drupal, so they'd be good mentors and models. I'm also interested in the social aspects of it. My research into innovation diffusion and technology adoption _totally_ makes sense in that context.
Mmkay. That sounds like a plan. I'm going to need some help figuring out how to make it happen, but that resonates with me.
I don't mind working on mind-numbing web stuff if I'm working with fun people. I don't mind explaining for the nth time what a blog is and how people can use blogs for fun and profit, because I learn something new every time I talk about that. And of course there are so many things that aren't even on most people's radars...
Right. That sounds like what I want to do. Now, how do I go about doing it?
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Random Japanese sentence: 私は犬の方が猫より好きだが、それは前者が後者より忠実だからだ。 I like a dog better than a cat, for the former is more faithful than the latter.
4. Web 2.0 and entrepreneurship: 01:47
From the Kagay-anon Linux Users' Group mailing list:
sa mga hilig ug web/2 one page lang na guide; gamit kaayo.. http://www.vipedio.com/roman/blog/20culture_full.html
sa mga hackers ug novell fans http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1003
The first link is a quick guide to typical Web 2.0 interface stuff. http://msippey.tadalist.com/lists/public/155420 is an even shorter list. ;) (Heh. Also read http://blog.unitedheroes.net/archives/p/2051/ )
I read KLUG every so often even though I can't understand Bisaya... =) It's fun, and I've found a number of interesting people that way. For example, Botp Peña (who posted these links) conducts free Ruby on Rails training, and it looks like Botp Peña is also interested in entrepreneurship...
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Random Japanese sentence: ボップ・ボップ・キャット・ボップ。 Bop, bop cat bop.
5. More thoughts about social computing: 01:56
Come to think of it, the hardest and most interesting part won't be figuring out how the technology works. That takes time and experimentation, but it's quite doable. What's really tough and fun is figuring out how people work, how communities work, and how to support that while changing their behavior...
It's not about blogs, wikis, etc. It's about communication and community...
Random Japanese sentence: 猫は捕らえたネズミを引き裂き始めた。 The cat began to tear at the mouse it caught.
6. Microsoft Word in schools: 02:54
Didith Rodrigo, the chair of my alma mater's computer science department, seems to be getting a bit frustrated with people who've asked her to consider teaching students something other than Microsoft Word for word processing. She reasons: "I think that teaching tools is need-based. If there is some reason that the tool is more appropriate for the need, then fine. If not, then don't fix what isn't broken."
I'm going to go on a bit of a rant because I feel that it's important to expose students to choices that they might not otherwise encounter on their own. I agree with Didith's main point at the end - that it's not about the tools - but my particular bone here is that university's also where students should learn to abstract general principles.
This is how I understand the educational system's _supposed_ to work: people who want to learn about specific things go to vocational schools and workshops, and people who want to learn about abstractions and things they'd never encounter on their own go to university.
We shouldn't teach Microsoft Word. We should teach writing (note: not even word processing). We shouldn't teach Microsoft Powerpoint. We should teach presentation. We shouldn't teach Microsoft Excel. We should teach data analysis.
The problems these students face go _way_ beyond the tools. You can
inflict death by bullet point in
Here's a quote that captures what I think:
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Fill them with the longing to write wonderful articles and make effective presentations! Inspire them through your examples! Help them reach out through their words! As long as students write only for their teachers and their classmates, you'll see bad prose and hear people read off slides. Show them examples, point out common mistakes and show them how they can improve, and put them in front of audiences that care about what they're interested in... If you can set them on fire, they'll _learn_ about all the nifty tricks hidden in whatever software they use - and it will be about the result, not the tool!
Note to self: I need to learn how to write really, really well. I also need to learn how to present really, really well. Then I need to figure out how to teach this while inspiring by example. I _so_ want to run a class on "Communication for Geeks", or something like that. ;)
But wait! Wasn't this supposed to be a rant about open source in education and how students should be exposed to open source alternatives?
I've written a fair bit about this in the past, but let's look at the Atenean case more closely. For the sake of argument, let's assume that there _aren't_ financial reasons to choose open source. The stereotype of the Atenean student is a middle-class or rich student who can well afford to buy legitimate versions of Microsoft Office. Truth is, quite a few people are on scholarships. Besides, most people quite happily pirate software or use whatever their computer dealer "bundled" with their computer because they just don't care about software rights or they don't think Microsoft deserves even _more_ money.
So let's ditch the financial and ethical incentives, and talk about the pedagogical one instead.
I taught for a short while, and even that short a while was enough to make me feel the pressure to cover everything in the curriculum. If a teacher's already having a hard enough time covering all the little features of one thing or another, how on earth is that teacher going to find time to explore and discuss alternatives? Won't that confuse the students and make them lose confidence?
I feel quite strongly that we should drag people out of their comfort
zones every so often, particularly in university when they can mess up
without losing money. I suspect that one of the best ways to check
whether students can abstract the notion of, say, emphasizing text is
to throw them at an unfamiliar but usable word processor like
I _want_ to make students feel a little bit uncomfortable. That discomfort is what drives learning in the future, where it's most important. I don't want students to stick only to what they know how to do. They should keep learning!
This belief is probably not going to make me very popular with students, most of whom would like to get through school with as little effort as possible - but we need to help them develop critical thinking and abstraction, and we need to help them figure out how to figure things out.
I think that to know one thing is to know that one thing, but to know two things is to know two things, their similarities and differences - _and_ to know that I can learn more.
It doesn't even have to be open vs closed source. It could be two closed source ways of doing things, two open ways of doing things, whatever. But it has to be sufficiently different to force the students to think about their abstractions and to expose bugs in their understandings... =)
Hey, would _you_ test a program with only one test case? ;)
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Random Japanese sentence: 「いいえ、ぼくです!、ぼくです!、ぼくです!」 百匹のねこ、千匹のねこ、百万匹、一億、一兆匹のねこがいいました。どのね こも自分が一番美しいとおもっていたのです。 No, I am! I am! I am! Cried hundreds and thousands and millions and billions and trillions of voices, for each cat thought itself the prettiest. [M]
7. Blogly angst: 02:59
Hands, a sketch by Dominique Cimafranca
Sometimes life doesn't work out the way we think it should, but then that could be because it has greater things in store for us than we could imagine.
Random Japanese sentence: 1匹の猫を別とすれば家は空っぽだった。 The house was empty except for a cat.
8. Team of Filipino Students Win MIT Entrepreneurship: 22:30
From: "Santamaria, Samuel" SSantamaria AT aicpa.org
Here's another victory we can be proud of. Tell your friends about it. A team of Filipino MIT students headed by Illac Diaz won the Grand Prize for the US$ 100K MIT Entrepreneurship Competition's development track for their business, CentroMigrante, Inc. Read on.
Their project, focused on a business model for social entrepreneurship in the Philippines, beat out several other amazing ideas. Impoverished people in developing countries leave their rural hometowns and flock to urban areas to seek employment but are usually unable to afford decent lodging while searching and waiting for jobs. In the Philippines, as many as 1 million Filipinos a year spend up to 3 months away from their home provinces and in Manila's port areas looking for jobs as seafarers, most of them living in shanties under depressed and undignified living conditions. CentroMigrante Inc. combines developmental architecture with a self-help business model to offer a sustainable solution that provides clean, safe and affordable urban housing for such indigent, transient job seekers.
The MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition is designed to encourage students and researchers in the MIT community to act on their talent, ideas and energy to produce tomorrow's leading firms. Now in its 16th year, the Competition has awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and business startup services to outstanding teams of student entrepreneurs who submitted business plans for new ventures showing significant business potential. The refinement process of the Competition, its network of mentors, investors and potential partners, and the cash prizes awarded have helped many of these teams to act on their dreams and build their own companies and fortunes.
The MIT Entrepreneurship Competition provides teams who enter with valuable resources in the following areas crucial to successful entrepreneurship:
- Networks of world-class entrepreneurs, investors, and potential partners
- Mentorship by successful and seasoned professionals
- Content rich feedback on their business model from world class entrepreneurs, investors, and professional service providers on our Judging [panel?]
- Teambuilding opportunities to create a winning team of founders
- Broad media exposure and PR buzz
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9. Hooray for people who know how to cook!: 22:33
How to not burn pancakes, from Mom:
use a teflon pan. heat pan. put very very little oil on the pan. pour batter. turn down heat so pancake (first bottomside) will brown evenly. When pancake (topside) starts to bubble, watch and flip pancake as soon as bubbles have burst and batter looks dry. pancake is cooked when it rises (thickens) You can check if the second face is done. If not, you may turn the heat up just a little bit. Remove pancake from pan. Turn up heat again for the next pancake. Use the thickest, flattest pan that you have so your pancakes will brown evenly. Hope this helps. =)
Egg-free pancakes, from Paul Lussier:
Pancakes don't require any egg at all:
- 1 cup flour (I prefer whole wheat flour, better flavor, heathier)
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- Cinnamon/Nutmeg season to taste
- 1.5-2 cups soy milk
- Add any variety of fruit: blueberries, strawberries, apples, bananas, etc.
I love writing about my cooking misadventures because they make my friends laugh and I get plenty of tips, too. =)
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Random Japanese sentence: 台所からその猫を追い出してくれ。 Chase the cat from the kitchen.
10. More thoughts about what I want to do with my life: 23:00
Here's a sketch of what I want to do:
That's a very broad goal. What does it mean?
What do I want to do?
I want to help people make sense of technology. I want to help them figure out which tools they should try out and how those tools fit into their ways of working. I want to help them bring the tools into their culture and adapt the tools to their needs. I want to help people look at the big picture and see how everything fits together. I want to help people look at the leaves on the trees and figure out how to make the most of each piece.
I'm particularly interested in technology that helps people relate with people. I'm interested in ways for people to discover other people and other resources, share their insights with others, and organize things for themselves.
Why is that a good fit for me?
I'm good at keeping track of technology news, which makes it easy for me to recommend something that fits a situation. I also like collecting and sharing productivity tips.
I enjoy speaking, writing, teaching, evangelizing, and all these other ways to help people learn.
Most of all, I love listening and drawing people out. I love learning people's vocabularies and telling them stories about other people's successes and failures, helping them imagine their own success. I love stepping into someone's shoes and figuring out which tools might be useful. I love coming up with ways for people to slowly make new tools part of their lives.
What do I need to learn next?
- I know about the tools. I need to learn about organizational behavior, organizational change, information technology diffusion, and technology adoption.
- I know how to spread enthusiasm. I need to also learn how to communicate solid business benefits.
- I know how to set a few things up. I need to become more familiar with the different technologies so that I can prototype them quickly and show how everything fits together.
- I know a few people in different areas. I need to develop a rich, wide directory of consultants and companies who can implement particular solutions.
What's my next step?
- Continue with my research at IBM, which is exactly in line with this anyway.
- Make another speech at Toastmasters, then another and another.
- Meet other people who are working in the same or similar area. Talk to them, ask them for help figuring out this passion of mine, and see if I can do anything to help.
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@GSElevator Loses Book Deal
The man behind the Twitter handle @GSElevator, whose identity was outed just last week, has reportedly lost his book deal.
John Lefevre, an ex-Citigroup banker who never worked at Goldman Sachs Group, was notified Thursday by publisher Simon and Schuster that his book deal was canceled.
"It's just a comical mystery to me," Mr. LeFevre told Business Insider. "As of Friday afternoon, after all of the noise — during which Simon & Schuster prohibited me from responding and defending myself — they have continued to support me and stand by our project. Well, until today apparently."
Simon and Schuster confirmed the news to the business site: "In light of information that has recently come to our attention since acquiring John Lefevre's STRAIGHT TO HELL, Touchstone has decided to cancel its publication of this work."
The identity of the person operating the GSElevator Twitter feed was first unearthed by Andrew Ross Sorkin in late February, two-and-a-half years after he first appeared under the pseudonymous Twitter handle and a few weeks after he signed a book deal. Despite receiving an offer once from Goldman, Mr. Lefevre never actually roamed the bank's halls or elevators as an employee even as his account claimed to divulge secrets from the highest echelons of power.
Goldman Sachs immediately took to Twitter with its own quip on the latest developments:
Guess elevators go up and down, http://t.co/xkDPZgaCI8
— Goldman Sachs (@GoldmanSachs) March 6, 2014
Yesterday, Mr. Lefevre penned a first-person piece for Business Insider with the headline "It's Time I Set The Record Straight." Here were his views on the upcoming book, before the deal was pulled:
My seat is like being the catcher on a baseball team. I'm the only person who can see the entire field; I coordinate the calls, and I'm involved on every play. And since most public deals are not sole bookrunner transactions, I have worked exhaustively with every bank on Wall Street; I saw it all.
Again, the book has never been positioned as the story about life just inside the walls of Goldman Sachs. It's far more interesting than that.
And it certainly isn't an indictment on any particular firm or some kind of exposé snoozefest. My objective is to unapologetically showcase the true culture of Wall Street in a way that hasn't been done before.
My vantage point is particularly unique and credible… and now, I can share it without the shackles of anonymity.
So of course, I will keep tweeting. I've even picked up a few new inside sources (and 25,000 new followers), so like I've always said, "Email me what you hear…"


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Judge John G. Koeltl ruled on Thursday that the lawsuit could not proceed because too many years had elapsed since the abuse took place.
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Dying Lawyer's Request for Release From Prison Is Turned Down
The judge said he did not have the power to order the "compassionate release" of Lynne F. Stewart, an outspoken former defense lawyer who is dying from cancer in a federal prison.
August 10, 2013, Saturday
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Lynne Stewart, who was sentenced in 2010 to 10 years in prison for smuggling messages from an imprisoned client to his violent followers in Egypt, is seeking to have her sentence vacated because she has cancer.
August 6, 2013, Tuesday
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Man Pleads Guilty in Plot to Defraud Broadway Producers
A former stockbroker admitted he invented investors and a phantom loan as part of a sham effort to rescue a failed production of "Rebecca."
July 30, 2013, Tuesday
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A federal appeals panel said an energy company founder had waited too long to file suit against Christie's, the auction house, over a bottle of wine marked "1787 Branne-Mouton Th.J."
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The judge said that the defendant, William Masso, had breached the public's trust while helping to plan a scheme to transport firearms and stolen merchandise.
July 21, 2012, Saturday
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10-Year Sentence for Lawyer in Terrorism Case Is Upheld
Lynne F. Stewart had argued that her rights were violated when a judge raised her original two-year term, handed down in 2005 for helping a convicted terrorist communicate with his followers.
June 29, 2012, Friday
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So that's why they tell their clients not to talk to us. Part of the ritual in covering courts as a reporter is going to lawyers after their clients are accused of something and getting the token ''No comment'' or ''We intend to vigorously...
July 17, 2010, Saturday
Sentence Is Sharply Increased for Lawyer Convicted of Aiding Terror
Lynne F. Stewart, a disbarred human rights lawyer, was convicted of aiding terrorism.
July 16, 2010, Friday
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July 2, 2010, Friday
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The size of the dating pool affects partner choice
A new study indicates that the traits people search for in potential partners may depend on the size of the dating pool. According to psychologists at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, people are more likely to focus on physical characteristics when scanning the crowd for potential dates. In part, this is because physical features do not require a lot of time to asses. The opposite is true in smaller groups where people are more likely to hone in on personality characteristics.
Chemistry of ocean changing rapidly
According to a report from the National Research Council, due to the carbon dioxide being absorbed from the atmosphere the ocean's chemistry is changing faster that it has in at least 800,000 years. The report discusses the declining pH levels, which raises concerns about the effects this chemistry change will have on fish, coral reefs, and other sea life.
According to a new study published in the Archives of Dermatology, about one third of college students who use tanning beds on a regular basis could be classified as addicted, based on the same criteria that is used to diagnose substance abuse addiction. It was also found that those who frequent tanning beds reported greater alcohol and marijuana use, as well as having more symptoms of anxiety.
Study finds students are dependent upon social media
New research out of University of Maryland challenged 200 students to abstain from using media for 24 hours, and then to blog about the experience. Students who participated in the challenged suffered from symptoms of withdrawal, using terms such as, "anxious, antsy, and jittery". Students also seemed to suffer from emotional anxiety, saying they felt alone and secluded. Participants wrote about 110,000 words on their experience, according to the press release this is equal to about a 400-page novel.


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David Petraeus to go all in with private equity firm
Wednesday could be the day former CIA director David Petraeus joins the long, proud line of our nation's top defenders cashing in on their warrior bona fides for an Abrams tankload of cash.
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I recently upgraded an instance to 5.7.3 the other day, and ran into an error, so I wanted to share the resolution for it here.
In my case, I was upgrading 5.7.1 to 5.7.3. However, this will apply to anyone wanting to upgrade from pre-5.7.2 (including 5.6/5.5) to 5.7.2+.
I performed the upgrade, in-place, and restarted mysqld. This was fine. However, then I attempted to connect via the command-line, and received the following error:
shell> mysql -uroot -ppass -P3310 ERROR 1130 (HY000): Host 'localhost' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server
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A hardboiled egg and some pink dye or paint are just the beginning. With finishing touches, such as antennae and a rosy-cheeked smile, this egg decoration is as fun to look at as it is to make.
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Cut an individual cell from the carton, turn the cell upside down, and cut an opening in the top just big enough to secure the small end of the egg. If you can't find a pink egg carton, kids can paint the carton using the light-pink glitter paint. At the same time kids can dye or paint the egg light pink. While the egg and egg carton are drying, prepare the eyes, antennae, and felt overalls pieces so they will be ready to glue on as soon as the egg and egg stand are dry.
Cut out two small ovals from white paper and show kids how to glue one wiggle eye on top of each white oval. Snip a pipe cleaner into two 1 1/2-inch lengths for the antennae. Cut out pale pink overalls freehand from the pink felt. Cut out two straps, about a half inch wide and about 2 inches long. Have kids mark one red dot at the end of each strap of the overalls to create buttons. Set the pieces aside.
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Glue the overalls to the dry egg carton cell. Glue the straps to the egg carton cell.
Have kids glue the eyes to the large end of the egg. With the red marker, draw the mouth.
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Salesian High School girls basketball player Mariya Moore was slow getting out of the locker room at Las Positas College on Monday night. Carondelet's Natalie Romeo and Gabriella Grupalo got tired of waiting and went on in, enveloping Moore in a warm double-bear hug.
Minutes earlier, Romeo and Grupalo, and their Cougars teammates, had finished off a hard-fought 81-70 win over Moore's Pride. Romeo had a terrific game, scoring 23 points and grabbing five rebounds while handing out five assists. Moore topped that, recording a triple-double with 14 points, 12
assists and 10 rebounds.
Officially, it was "just" the third-place game in the Platinum Division of the West Coast Jamboree. It was also a meeting of two of the best teams in the Bay Area -- as well as a chance for the old friends to catch up.
"Natalie's my best friend," Moore said after the reunion. "We started playing basketball together in fourth grade. It's kind of weird because this is the first time we've played against each other in high school."
Moore added that, "We were talking to each other on the court."
Trash talking?
"No," Moore said with a laugh.
The game was close throughout, with Carondelet (7-2) making eight of its first 11 field goal attempts before going stone cold for most of the rest of the game. Makenzie Cast, who led the Cougars with 24 points, said that when the shots stopped falling, the team tried to emphasize other facets of the game.
"If not defense, then just driving," Cast said. "Take the ball to the hole. If you're not shooting well, then just keep shooting."
Carondelet finished 15 of 45 from 2-point range and 11 of 19 from 3-point range.
Salesian (6-4) trailed 44-36 at halftime, then came out very strong, going on a 14-3 run to start the third quarter to take a 50-47 lead. Defense was the key as the Cougars missed nine of their first 10 shots in the quarter and committed four turnovers during the run.
However, with one minute, 42 seconds to go in the period, Carondelet's Christina Chenault was fouled on a drive to break the cold spell. That sparked an 11-0 run to close the quarter and put the Cougars back on top.
"The game is about runs," Carondelet coach Margaret Gartner said. "As long as we play hard, (an opponent's) lead is not safe."
Said Moore, "It's really just focus. We should have focused through the whole quarter. We should have known that they were going on runs, too. That just comes with maturity. As the season goes on, we'll probably get better at that."
Cast and Romeo were named to the all-tournament team. Moore was joined on the all-tournament team by teammate Zoe Correal, who scored 21 points and collected 15 rebounds.
The Pride was hurt by sloppy ball-handling. Salesian committed 28 turnovers, two days after committing the same number in a loss to St. Mary's-Stockton. That negated solid full-court pressure by the Pride, which forced 21 Cougar turnovers. On multiple sequences, Salesian would force a turnover and immediately give the ball back.
Platinum Division Third place Carondelet 81, Salesian 70
Carondelet (7-2)
Romeo 8 2-4 23, Grupalo 3 3-37 10, Rathbun 1 1-2 4, Cast 8 4-5 24, Chenault 2 4-7 8, Boucher 1 2-2 4, Savio 3 2-2 8. Totals 26 18-29 81.
Salesian (6-4)
McNair 4 0-0 9, Mar. Moore 4 4-4 14, Horton 2 0-0 4, Correal 10 1-2 21, Crowder 6 1-2 13, Min. Moore 1 4-4 6, Stallworth 1 1-2 3. Totals 28 11-14 70.
Carondelet 25 19 15 22-- 81
Salesian 18 18 15 19-- 70
3-point goals: Romeo 5, Rathbun, Grupalo, Mar. Moore 2, McNair. Highlights: C -- Chenault 7 rebounds; Savio 7 rebounds; Romeo 5 assists, all-tournament; Cast all-tournament. S -- Ma. Moore 10 rebounds, 12 assists, all-tournament; Correal 15 rebounds, all-tournament; Stallworth 7 rebounds.


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'What If' Is The Problem
Published: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 8:23 p.m.
This letter is for those who have been outraged by the George Zimmerman verdict. A jury of six spent a month of their lives listening to every detail the prosecution and the defense had to offer.
They deliberated for 16 hours, scouring over every detail, every witness and all the facts presented. Then, and only then, did they provide a not-guilty verdict.
If you were not in that courtroom every day, hearing and seeing every bit of evidence, how could you possibly know he was guilty?
If you need a place to vent your rage, I have a few suggestions.
Where is the truth about Eric Holder's gun running to Mexico ("Fast and Furious")? Where is the truth about Hilary Clinton and Benghazi? Where is the truth about the IRS scandal?
Emotions and color do not present the facts. As for those who ask, what if Zimmerman were black and Trayvon Martin were white? The trial was not about hypothetical events, it was about George Zimmerman.
Take up the what ifs when the what if is, in fact, the problem.
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- Oct 4:
- 2012: O'Brien: With Oracle vulnerable, CEO Larry Ellison embarks on final battle to shape his legacy
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- 2012: At 68, Oracle's flamboyant, multibillionaire CEO Larry Ellison still going strong
- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison: College dropout to billionaire
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- Lanai to Oracle's Ellison: What Hawaii's rural island residents want from their new owner
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- Oracle's Ellison closes deal to buy Hawaii's Lanai
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- Hawaii OKs Lanai sale to Oracle's Ellison; deal closes Wednesday
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- Oracle founder Larry Ellison buys 98 percent of Hawaii's Lanai
If you want further proof that the One Percent have a bit of a PR problem, look no further than Clark and Sharon Winslow, the Marin couple who bought the $4.2 million house next door so they could tear it down and improve the view of San Francisco Bay from their own $19 million home.
I don't mean to pick on them. (OK, a little.) The One Percenters are constantly pulling stunts that could be seen as arrogant, self-absorbed, wasteful, unjust, mean and, well, loopy. But what things seem are not always what they are. The problem is the One Percenters don't explain themselves. They're rich and explaining themselves is one of the many things they don't have to do because they are rich.
Look at Larry Ellison. The guy is scheduled to close on his latest real estate deal Wednesday. He's buying Hawaii. OK, just one island, for something like half a billion dollars. But because he hasn't exactly explained what he wants to do with Lanai, he's left it to bleeding-heart 99 Percenters to write the narrative: "The guy's got more money than he knows what to do with." "He needs a whole island. How else is he going to find a place big enough to take his ego on vacation?" No truth to the rumors, by the way, that Ellison plans to tear down Lanai to give himself a better view of the Pacific from Maui.
Anyway, the criticism is silly. It's not true that Ellison, worth $36 billion, has more money than he knows what to do with. He knows exactly what to do with it. In fact, over the years, he's shown he's got a list: Buy an 80-room yacht with a movie theater and basketball court, in case company stops by; build a Japanese estate in Woodside reportedly worth $200 million (we're a little short on comps); buy a yacht-racing team good enough to win the America's Cup. And now, of course, buy an island paradise.
But never mind all that. The truth is that Ellison could have avoided the tsk-tsking about his latest shopping therapy if he'd just come up with a plan. How about saying he was buying Lanai to create a preserve? Yeah, a preserve for the One Percent. I mean if you read The Wall Street Journal and watch Fox News you know that no species today is more endangered than the One Percent.
But we get silence on the Lanai deal. You would think Ellison, one of the richest people on the planet (word is he's in escrow on the planet as we speak) would know better concerning public relations. The Winslows, on the other hand, you could forgive. Presumably, they haven't been around the block as many times as the Oracle (ORCL) CEO. (Oh wait. The Winslows can't go around the block anymore. They just turned the block into their yard.)
But the Winslows could have put a whole different spin on this "tearing down a multimillion-dollar house to make yourself feel better" story line.
In case your moral outrage is on summer break and you haven't really followed this story, here are a few particulars: Clark and Sharon Winslow of Belvedere bought their 11,200-square-foot house, complete with health spa, pool the size of Sicily and ample stone terraces, for $19 million in 2008. It came with sweeping views of the bay, though the sweep was interrupted by their neighbors' $4 million fixer-upper. The neighbors' house was built in 1909 as a stable for the early 20th-century horsey set. The home's most recent owners apparently hit a rough patch and fell behind in payments to Bank of America. The bank foreclosed.
And this is where the Winslows missed an opportunity to write their own narrative. Never mind that by tearing down a house and converting the lot to a garden, they were creating green open space. Never mind that they were reducing the carbon footprint of all of Marin, while reducing visual pollution.
The Winslows' big contribution is that by picking up the foreclosed house, they are cleaning up the mess of 99 Percenters who reached beyond their means. No doubt the vacant place would have been turned into a crack house in no time. (It would have been really, really good crack, but still.)
And consider the house that the Winslows are tearing down. I mean, a $4 million house might pass as a dream house in your neighborhood or my neighborhood. But if you're living in a $19 million dollar place next door, it's a nightmare, a serious drag on property values. So in the end, the Winslows are on the side of neighborhood improvement.
And who, when you think about it, could be against neighborhood improvement?
So, good for them.
See, One Percenters. When it comes to PR, that's how it's done.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – Following two strong second-place finishes at the 36th Annual Justin F. Cooper Memorial Rice Invitational, the men's cross country team moved up four spots to sixth in the NCAA South Central poll. The women's team maintained its spot in first place in the Southland at the No. 7 slot.
"The improvements in both the men's and women's regional rankings shows the improvements we made at the Rice meet," head coach Shawn Flanagan said. "It is very encouraging and a spur for us to work harder."
The men's team finished in the runner-up spot in front of three higher ranked teams at the Invitational, including host No. 8 Rice (3) along with Southland foes No. 7 Stephen F. Austin (4) and No. 6 McNeese State (6). With the strong finish, the men moved up four spots, behind No. 4 Lamar and No. 5 UTSA in the Southland. The Islanders sit ahead of Stephen F. Austin who dropped one spot to No. 8 and McNeese State fell seven spots to No. 13.
The women's team stayed strong, holding the top spot in the Southland in the South Central Region at No. 7. The Islanders sit behind Rice, who slid down two spots to sixth after clinching the women's 4k race on Friday. Stephen F. Austin dropped one spot to No. 9, while UTSA moved up two spots to No. 10. After finishing behind the Islanders at the Rice Invitational, Lamar fell one spot to No. 12, while McNeese State's fourth-place finish solidified their 13th spot. Texas State rounds out the Southland with a No. 14 regional ranking.
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- Feb 23:
- Sochi Games wrap up peacefully, dramatically
- Sochi wrapup: Sport by sport highs and lows
- Sharks in Sochi: Marleau, Vlasic share golden smiles
- Olympics: USOC defends America's Sochi results
- Olympics hockey: Sweden's Backstrom fails doping test
- Olympics: Canada wins men's hockey gold with 3-0 win over Sweden
- Olympics: Spontaneous commentary underscored athletes' unabashed joy
- Olympics: Steven Holcomb-led U.S. crew holds off Russia-2 for bronze in four-man bobsled
SOCHI, Russia -- As I wave goodbye to the (adorable) Russian stray dogs and (very bad) Russian hot dogs, can we please see the judges' final marks?
Yes. Yes, we can.
(Dramatic pause for television reaction shot of the dogs.)
Here are my style-points scoring totals for the Sochi Olympics in various sporting and other categories over the past three weeks:
As it turned out, the U.S. Olympic Committee was smart to hold its "wrap-up" session with the media on Saturday, when Americans still led the medal count. By Sunday night, they didn't. A strong finishing kick by Russia gave the home team an edge in total medals won (33) over the USA (28). That's significantly down from the 37 medals won by the United States in Vancouver four years ago, despite the addition of events. Russia also won more gold medals (13) than the USA (9).
Judges' Score: We have some work to do before 2018, citizens. To start with, can we get rid of those ugly sweaters worn by the USA during the ceremonies?
Ack. Except for the ice dancing duo of Meryl Davis and Charlie White, who dazzled in a clutch gold medal performance, our wonderful triple-jump nation that once produced such dynamic skaters as Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi was left off the podium. San Jose teenager Polina Edmunds was a bright hope in her first Olympic appearance. Problem is, she can't carry the entire USA skating future in her arms, no matter how long those arms are. And they're pretty long. But I must say, the fresh-faced and seemingly well-grounded Edmunds made these Olympics more fun for this old and cynical scribe.
Judges' Score: Assemble a troubleshooting committee with the best figure-skating minds in America and come up with a master plan to lift the sport, one Lutz and axel at a time.
Please. Don't get me started. I suppose the inevitable controversies are all part of the sport's appeal. But this sport must come up with a scoring system that's easier for average fans to understand. And the internal conflicts of interest are still maddening.
Judges' Score: Just throw out the entire questionable system and have Judge Judy decide the winners and losers.
I was tough on him early in the games after he made too many excuses for his medal-less downhill performance. I still think he deserved that criticism. His argument that course conditions foiled him didn't hold up because others skied the same conditions better. But it was nice to see him rally and win a bronze medal in the super-G. He is one of the USA's best ever, and despite his outward ennui, really does care about competing and winning. He's human. I'm sorry that NBC decided that it needed to induce weeping in order to drive home that point.
Judges' Score: Miller should be permitted to visit every NBC talk show, plus the "Nightly News" and force every host to tell stories about his or her dead relatives and pets.
The Sharks forward, who was almost left off the Canadian Olympic hockey team, showed what a big mistake that would have been by playing on the most impressive forward line of the tournament, with Jonathan Toews and Jeff Carter. Sharks defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic also had a fine tournament to help Canada win a gold medal in the nation's premier sport. Marleau had not even been invited to the 47-person "orientation camp" held for Team Canada last summer and was a last-minute selection to the team. After the medal ceremony, he received what amounted to an apology from Canada general manager Steve Yzerman, who praised Marleau profusely and said: "Looking back, the obvious question is why we didn't have him at the camp."
Judges' Score: If Marleau and Vlasic can carry the Sochi mojo into the Sharks' playoff games this spring, maybe a gold medal won't be the only hockey reward they receive this year.
All right, you're the best. OK? Point made. In the five Olympics contested with NHL players, Canada has won three gold medals, including the last two. And that's not even including the women's team, which is still mopping up the floor that's flooded with USA torment.
Judges' Score: Go pour some maple syrup over those medals. And remember, our country is still better than yours in ice dancing.
They continue to do the USA proud. On the first day of the Games, it was my pleasure to encounter American hero Sage Kotsenburg, winner of the slopestyle snowboard event and cool fellow extraordinaire. He would lead the charge of X Games types who have kept the USA medal totals high even as we falter in more traditional Olympic sports such as speedskating and luge.
Judges' Score: 8.9, 8.8, 8.8, 9.2, 9.4. (That's not for artistic merit. That's the number of times Kotsenburg used the word "dude" in each successive interview.)
Blaming your slow times and failure to win a medal on your ... new uniforms?
Judges' Score: Simple solution. You guys should start competing in the nude. I'd love to see Vladimir Putin's expression.
My most inspirational moment at these games. It was a long bus ride up to the venue -- which was awesome -- but so worth the trouble. For years, a group of women fought to have a female version of this event included at the Games. To see their wish come true and come off so awesomely was a joy.
Judges' Score: I boldly predict that at future Olympics, women may jump farther than men, given the physics involved. Smaller and lighter bodies should be able to travel farther while riding the wind, correct? (My high school physics teacher is probably cringing somewhere, because I'm pulling that theory totally out of my Lutz.)
Staffing the venues and transportation network, almost all of them were under 25 years old, and they maintained their smiles and cheerful attitudes throughout the games. Russian young people -- or at least the ones who gave of their time to work here -- are the same as young people everywhere. They are curious, ambitious and fun-loving. They were my second favorite performers here, just behind the security folk who kept us all safe. But the security people were paid. The young woman who stood in the rain at 3 a.m. to make certain my bus would stop and take me back to my hotel was not paid.
Judges' Score: Every volunteer, before departing Sochi, should receive a free puppy. Goodness knows, there are plenty around. Alas, I'm heading home without one. And am eagerly anticipating my first real hot dog in a long while. Dasvidaniya, dudes.
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Janaya Crevier will be heading to Austria in September 2016 to explore the journeys of a half dozen refugee families.
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Michelle Loyd-Paige is being recognized city-wide as this year's recipient of the Floyd B. Skinner Justice Award, an annual Giants Award honoring the pursuit of fairness and equality.
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German prof receives national award for excellence in cultural teaching
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NASA-funded student fellowships renewed
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MARIETTA - When it comes to the parks of Washington County, officials and residents alike are on the same green space - they love them.
The green spaces available in the cities and communities offer recreation, rest, scenic views, special events such as car shows, Christmas light displays, educational opportunities and more.
For one Belpre resident, having Howes Grove Park so close to his home means a healthy walk every morning.
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Mazzie, 8, and Lacey, 2, play recently in Beverly's Dodge Park, while their mother, Brandi Petry, 30, of Macksburg, watches them from nearby.
"The doctor told me to walk at least a couple of miles every day for my heart," said Robert Wile, 83, of 1598 Lois St., Belpre. "I have a certain route."
As far as the park itself, it's very well kept up, he said.
"Lots of people use it," Wile said. "There is always something going on up here."
Belpre City officials didn't return calls for comments about upkeep of the park.
Marietta City Councilman Harley Noland, D-at large is chairman of council's lands, buildings and parks committee. He also operates Trolley Tours around the city. He said the parks are a terrific draw for tourists.
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LeAnne Ross, 21, and Caliegh Doan, 13, both of Marietta, spent part of their Friday morning shooting hoops at Lookout Park.
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Trees figure into the plans of Salem Township as it continues to maintain its park in Lower Salem. Salem Township Trustee Tom Fagan said the old playground equipment from when the village hall was a school was refurbished in 2012 and a new piece of equipment shaped like a boat was added. The trustees also plan to replace at least two trees.
"We have some challenges," Fagan said. "We are still doing what we can do with the amount of money that's allocated for us."
"To me, (the park) is kind of a highlight of what the community is," he said. "It's the biggest thing we maintain besides streets and sidewalks."
The village of Macksburg recently was awarded a grant to upgrade its basketball court. The court will have a new fence and a lower backboard for younger children.
"All you read about is how in Macksburg, no one does anything to help and keep kids out of trouble," said Josh Williams, 32, maintenance supervisor. "With the mayor and council helping, we are finally making progress."
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For New Matamoras in the far eastern end of Washington County, Patty Martin continues to check every penny that's requested or spent. Keeping vandalism at bay in the parks is also a challenge, she said.
"They try to keep it maintained and mowed," she said. "I think the worst part is trying to make sure people on off hours don't tear up the pool park."
Dodge Park in Beverly is usually seen as one the most popular places in town.
Thad Tucker is a member of village council and chairman of the council's lands, buildings and park and recreation committee.
"We have one of the nicest parks in the area-1 square acre," Tucker said. "We are always working on grants (to make improvements)."
Within the next five years, Tucker said the village wants to have new roofs on all the shelters in Dodge Park and to renovate the restrooms, including making them Americans With Disabilities Act compliant, which he estimates will cost $50,000 to $60,000.
Brandi Petry, 30, of Macksburg, said Dodge Park was nice as she visited recently. She said there is plenty of seating and room to run.
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Most IT people seem to have a really bad habit: reinventing the wheel. While sometimes this is "justified" by ethical requirements (see the big Gnome vs. KDE mess), often the problem is caused by ignorance.
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libjpeg. I am also quite sure that there are one or two people out there who, in order to print 1000 envelopes, will do everything with a text file or a word processor (OpenOffice, Abiword, etc.) rather than using a specialised label printing program.
Finally, I am absolutely, 100% sure that there is at least one person out there who will develop a content management system (CMS) in house to be used in a magazine. Okay, it's time to show my cards: that person is me.
I am talking about our own web site. I am the person responsible for creating the technological structure behind it. In my case, I reinvented the wheel mainly because of server requirements: we could only serve static pages, in order to cut down the hosting costs. This ruled out the use of Drupal, for example (or any other content management system, for that matter). I created a complex back-end which allowed our editors to do a peer-review on each article, and eventually publish it (as a static file). Later on, it became clear that this was no longer working out. Static files were fine in the beginning; however, as the web site grew (and we added blogs, newsletters, book reviews, and so on), its limitations became impossible to overcome.
I am writing this editorial while taking a break from configuring (and in fact programming) Drupal so that it duplicates our current CMS abilities. Our requirements are quite intense (see: the peer-review system for each article, with word-for-word comparison between revisions, blogs, display of issues, multiple authors, etc.). However, it's more than doable—in fact, if you are reading this editorial on line, then you're looking at the new system.
This editorial has three purposes. The first one, is my reminder to everybody out there who's thinking about reinventing some kind of wheel: don't. And I mean: don't. Consider how much each constraint will cost you in terms of time, and then decide if it was worth it. The second purpose, is to announce that our web site has indeed changed; we have taken the opportunity to improve the web site's layout and features and we'll make more improvements over time. Hopefully, you won't find the transition as painful as we did.
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If you're writing something big, or something complex, you more than likely want to use pre-written, pre-tested code. But, there is the occasional task where everything you might use is just too big, hairy and complex, and you just need a simple solution.
For example, our company needed a very simple task recording and issue tracking web application, and we needed the results to be kept in a (hiss) SQL Server database. Now, there definitely are applications out there which could do this, but what we wanted was so basic in comparison to the applications we found that it was worth our time to create the application ourselves. And we did. And it works like a champ.
If what you want is a very simple wheel, and all you can find are complex ones, I suggest you consider reinventing it.
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Maybe you're right. Maybe some wheels do need to be reinvented.
However, I can guarantee that this particular one didn't :-D
The site runs on Drupal now, and it's absolutely fantastic.
Ahoy, It would be great if
It would be great if you could put together a page listing your customisations to Drupal, especially where you've introduced new modules. I'm sure lots of people would be interested in your system for peer review with good support for revisions, and also just a guide for those who are relatively new to Drupal.
Disclaimer: I'm setting up a journal for the student grassroots network People & Planet at the moment with Drupal, so I have a special interest in what you've done ;)
Hi, We are working on it! We
We are working on it!
We need to test the module a LOT more first - it's just too immature right now.
Please write to me in about a month!
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hi tony
you made the choice of drupal, which i do not know/use more than this.
My choice for years has been spip, a CMS meant to publish "editorial" websites, including a powerful backoffice (three kind of reg users : admin, writers, visitors), versioning management of articles, peer-reviewing mechanisms, websites syndication, etc.
spip started about 8 or 9 years ago in france. it became a huge multilingual community since (you can pay a visit to spip-contrib, the spip webmasters support site to get the picture).
btw, spip is released under the gpl.
A CMS for Magazines and Newspapers
Another CMS written specifically for magazines and newspapers is Campsite (http://www.campware.org). It understands what "issues" are, workflow, fine-grained access control for the backend, subscription management, RSS, and multi-lingual content. It's also released under the GPL and has a team of full-time developers working on it. (Disclaimer: I'm one of those developers :) ) It's in use by many real-world publishers around the world and a lot of work has gone into making it easy to use (e.g. for the journalist who just got his first computer yesterday).
If you want to give it look (the backend admin interface), check it out here:
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Leaders discuss needs of Henderson County children
United Agenda for Children to shepherd formation of action plans
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More than 25 percent of children in Henderson County live in poverty. More than half the children in Henderson County schools receive free or reduced-price lunches, and 231 children in those schools have been identified as homeless.
McCray Benson, president of the Community Foundation of Henderson County, presented these sobering facts at a breakfast Friday sponsored by Henderson County United Agenda for Children, spearheaded by the Children and Family Resource Center and the Community Foundation.
In light of those needs, Elisha Freeman, director of the Children and Family Resource Center, rolled out "5 Promises" related to issues affecting children. The promises will be the foundation for the second "Speak out for Kids Engagement" next spring.
Those five promises — caring adults, safe places, a healthy start, effective education, and opportunities to serve — are designed to engage citizens in discussions that will result in actions to help the children in Henderson County. The promises were determined by examining data over the past six years.
"Being in poverty means everything is more complicated," Benson told the group of business, government and nonprofit leaders attending the breakfast.
And that's the reason United Agenda for Children was organized in 2007, Freeman said. The group plans to bring together influential leaders in the community to brainstorm and enact a plan to implement changes based on the promises introduced on Friday.
County commissioners asked the Children and Family Resource Center to compile some statistics around children in 2007, and that's what got the ball rolling.
In that initial effort, seven goals that were identified. Some of those goals, such as increasing the number of school nurses, have seen progress. Additional progress going forward will require the help of the leaders who attended the presentation on Friday, Freeman said.
"Your leadership will make it happen," Freeman told the crowd. "When we invest in children, we invest in the economic health of our entire community."
After the presentation, there was a question-and-answer session where people spoke about health concerns, safety concerns and legislative concerns related to children in the county.
In the end, Freeman was pleased to see leaders engage in a dialogue about children's needs.
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WINTER HAVEN | A Bradenton woman was arrested after she crashed her vehicle into a Winter Haven police cruiser early Saturday, Winter Haven police said.
About 12:58 a.m., a Winter Haven police officer was outside his vehicle investigating a disturbance at Lake Silver Drive and Avenue L Northeast when Jessica Marghel Baker, 26, of Bradenton, who was driving north along Lake Silver Drive, went out of her traffic lane and crashed into the back of the cruiser, police said.
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Should the United States cut off foreign aid to Pakistan?
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Well said Randy, I agree 100%
We shouldn't have to pay other countries to be our "friends." If we want a military base in their country, we pay rent (and lots of it) along with all the money our troops spend there. Neither should we borrow money or raise taxes to give money to other countries.
In the case of humanitarian aid, if the people of the USA want to send their money someplace to provide such aid, each of us is more than capable of deciding how much to send and who to send it through (i.e. Red Cross, etc.). There is no need for the government to send my tax dollars anywhere.
I haven't observed any type of HELP, from any Foreign Country, Member of the United Nations or NATO, in lieu of ALL the Devastation here, in the CONUS. NOT 1 Red Cent !!! So, as far as I'm Concerned & Convinced, F@#$K Them ALL ! Cut-Off Every American Dollar. Especially, in the Non-Profit/Charity Sector. Alleviate the Tax Burden to the Legal & Average American Citizen. Obama will probably Never Withdraw any more Troops from Afghanistan. Maybe Iraq, though. But, Will NO Doubt have us involved within Libya, then on Pakastani soil. So, it really won't matter.
It's High Time to Isolate & Go on the Defensive Game Plan. It'll Cost alot Less, in $'s & Lives !
Since Pakistan has offered to let China establish a Naval Base on it's shores, then let China send them aid and not the U.S. I don't think that Pakistan understands that China is harsher on Muslim extremist than the U.S. If this is what the Paki's want, then let them have it. But remember: Be careful what you wish for.
Other posters appear to have forgotten that cutting off aid to Pakistan means allowing a foreign power with nuclear weapons to possibly come under the influence of armies not opposed to using them against us. Right now cooler heads are prevailing and it is in the interest of all in the United States to have influence over this unstable but important part of the world. They, like us in America, are not of one mind. Let us support and influence those who will be positively pressed into the service of freedom in their fight against terrorism. It is clear, just like in the USA, our government agencies such as CIA, NSA, DIA, do not always work in the interests of the free Americans but in the special interest of the landed and powerful. Let us not forget that we must be ever vigilant to protect freedom, and abandoning Pakistan to the Taliban could easily cause us to anguish in a Nuclear Fire.
How many of these countries are giving us help in the devistation we are suffering from tornados, floods, and fires? We want to cut expenditures in the military but we're sending them in to cleanup other countries as well as our own. We need to cut back on aid overseas and start taking care of us for a change.
The federal government is looking at cutting entitlements for veterans and other taxpayers to balance the budget. Meanwhile, we are sending billions of dollars to other countries, like Pakistan, who are in better financial shape than we are. Am I the only taxpayer who believes this is ludicrous? We are borrowing so much money as a nation, cannot pay the debt, and our elected officials are looking to balance the whole works by cutting benefits to our citizens.
All actions have consequences and Pakistan's harboring the world's Number 1 terrorist should result in consequences. However, without at least some US foreign aid going to Pakistan we will have no voice there whatsoever. Pakistan's recent request for China to develope a permanent naval base there is a direct result of our actions against ObL and demonstrates they are already looking for outside assistance.
Then there are all the other Islamist supporter nations that also need adjustment vis a vis US Foreign Aid. None of them actually need our aid and our aid is given more as a bribe to them to behave correctly. Unfortunately this nation cannot depend upon the United Nations to compell them to behave properly and in many instances acts as a cheering section to their improper behavior. With this as a starting point it seems the only option is to reduce, not end, Foreign Aid to all these nations. How great a reduction should be the only consideration.
Two solid, irrefutable reasons to end US foreign aid to Pakistan: one, Pakistan has more than enough money to have researched, developed, installed, made operational a nuclear arsenal, and it continues to spend billions to expand that arsenal; two, in Pakistan the police, government, and judiciary often look the other way from, and often cover up for, open Moslem persecution of Christians and other religious minorities.
I think we should cut off all foreign aid to Arab countries and let the rich oil Arabs take care of their needs. These countries are so corrupt that no one knows whos actually getting the aid we are providing. Half of these countries are in civil wars and just let them go. Save that money and use it to protect our own borders, our military, and citizens of the US. Especially Veterans.
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