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Who all is homeschooling this year? What grades? Who all is just dreaming and planning ahead?
Lets wake the board up. A home schooling board would be fun.
Who all is homeschooling this year? What grades? Who all is just dreaming and planning ahead?
Lets wake the board up. A home schooling board would be fun.
Total lurker here. DS is only 20 months! lol. My husband is in the military and limited in the bases we could go to - and none of them have great, exciting school systems so I'm planning on homeschooling assuming my sanity at that point can deal with it.
It is never to early to start teaching your kids. Or to start researching what curriculums you want to use.
Still in between stages. I have to confirm with the charter school on or after the 21st so they can send us the curriculum, etc. But we are set on using them.
I have been busy getting my class room and lesson plans ready. Lots to do.
I'm a Nana...and a lurker of many homeschooling (and other) blogs that provide free stuff. I've used materials for making lesson plans for kids in Haiti...and making things for my grandchildren.
Hi! I'm around. I home preschool DS 2-3 days a week. DD also gets the benefit of some of the activities! We haven't done anything the past two weeks because of sickness and injuries but tomorrow I'm hoping to start a unit on Whales!
We homeschooled this past year (traditional using ACE program). Andrea made it through the K curriculum and 1/3 way through the 1st grade curriculum.
Next year we are using K12, taking advantage of public school money to pay for it. I've been spending hours online the last couple of days reading through the coursework, etc. Andrea has to start over with K, but she can skip and hop her way through it quickly and get up into the 1st grade stuff.
Hi, I just found this homeschooling board today. My husband and I have a combined family of ten kids. I have 5 from my first marriage DS 17, DS 16, DD 12, DS 10, DS 7), he has 4 from his first marriage that still live with their mom (DS 18, DD 16, DS 11, DD 10), we have one together (DS 3) and another one on the way(Due 1/11/13).
I have home schooled my children since pre-school but my two oldest sons decided to enter public school for high school and my husbands' kids go to public school. We will continue to home school as I thoroughly enjoy it and my husband has seen the many benefits.
We have tried many approaches over the years such as all A Beka, all unit studies, Five in a Row, Connections Academy and some years were a mix of Saxon, LLATL, Story of the World, Considering God's Creation and A Reason for Handwriting. Last year I also homeschooled another family's daughter and I had her and two of mine using Switched on Schoolhouse. My first grader did a mix of workbooks and my then two year old played. I had intended on using more unit studies for history and science this coming year, but since finding out I'm expecting again, I know myself better than to attempt that so we are sticking with SOS For all 5 subjects plus Spanish for my DD12 and DS10. My 2nd grader will be using mostly A Beka and my DS 3 will be using a few pre school workbooks, puzzles, finger painting, coloring, and various other play/learning tools.
We are starting on August 20 and will be trying to get as much done before the baby comes as possible.
Welcome! Sounds like it is a lot of fun at your house.
I have homeschooled since birth with my boys. I researched homeschooling before they were born and wrote my Thesis on it for my BS in Sociology from Linfield College! The Original Schoolhouse: Homeschooling Educational Methods. It is on Amazon as an ebook now. My boys are 9 and 10 this year. We live in Oregon and it was our first year doing state testing with our oldest, and it went really well. I was very nervous because he has dyslexia, but have found great materials by being humble and researching, and asking questions :).
Currently we use Saxon for our base math and MATH U SEE for fun and to fill in and reinforce.
We use an adult literacy program from Texas's Scottish Rite Hospital for our Phonics it is on VHS/DVD and worksheets and has gotten my 10yo to be able to read subtitles! Also use Scaredy Cat Learning System and Explode the Code Books... used lots of others when they were young.. I highly recommend using a phonics program because if you find out your child has a learning disability later on you will regret not starting there.
We use LessonPathways.com
BIBLE (character)
Weaver from Alpha Omega Press we are on Volume 4 now.
Unit Studies
Church, Cubscouts, Baseball, Swimming, Field Trips, Homeschooling Co-op
Very nice. You made me realize I forgot Bible from my other post. We use Lifepac for Bible.
I am going to clock in too!
This will be our first year of officially homeschooling. DS is 5 (6 in October). We started hooked on phonics last year, and he can read through our deck of 150 sight words. We will be starting first week of September, I put in my notice for work and my last day is Aug
We will be doing a mish-mash of books for the curriculum. Still have yet to settle on them. We will be trying to stay away from religiously based (I am a Christian, DH is not religious), because we both feel that DS will need to make those decisions on his own in his own time. (THOUGH I am not adverse the the religiously based curriculum). We will continue on with Hooked on Phonics grade 1, and I am thinking of getting a grade 1 math book that recovers the K. Science I planned on mostly checking books out from the library and doing unit studies.
DS is a smart kid. This is the reason we are homeschooling. I feel like he won't feel challenged or won't be studying things he finds interesting.
So some of you do a bible course? What's that like? When we were looking at our options to get Jacob out of the crappy school he was at, we looked into a private Christian school and he got excited that he'd be learning from the bible. What would you recommend for an 8 year old with ADHD? Verse memorization or just chapter studies? I'd like for him to learn the bible, but I am worried he won't enjoy it or that it will take time away from his main courses. I don't want him to be studying ALL day, but he wants to learn sign language as a school offered elective if he qualifies (Connections has requirements that they do well with base classes for a month before they can register for electives).
There are many options for Bible depending on what religeon, what you are willing to spend, and what you want out of it. If you did not want something super formal you could get a kids Bible and read the stories out of it. If you want a more formal curriculum there is Abeka (very expensive), BJU (very time consuming) life pac (this is what I chose) or several others. Those are just the ones I am familiar with.
Doorposts is a wonderful publisher, they produce helps for character based Bible Teaching/learning. I would highly recommend getting their Plants Grown Up, I just got it used to use with my boys. I have the IF Then Chart, the PUT On Chart, The Go to the ANT chart, and the Blessings Chart.. It has not only helped them, but me.
For other stuff we use Weaver which is a unit study curriculum that is based on the bible and goes Genesis through the Bible chronologically and it includes science and social studies. We love it and it includes Bible in every day, my boys love it. Your boy would also.. I would suggest testing out some Unit Studies with him, they are super fun, and you can add more or less, and they are cheap/free. Weaver I got the Volumes Used, there are 5 of them, the first 3 are about a year worth the last 2 about 1 1/2 years worth.. They are hard to find at curriculum fairs sometimes, but are put out by Alpha Omega, do NOT buy the Volumes new, you should be able to find them use if it looks like something you would like.. they are a bit overwhelming at first, but once you do a unit or two it is a cinch.
Thanks, Ladies!
I'm a little late joining, but I am homeschooling 1 this year. My son started Kindergarten. We started our 6th week today. It has gone so much better than I ever dreamed it would. We use a mixture of Saxon, BJU, and Handwriting for a Reason. We had already worked on things before we started, so a lot of days it feels like review work. I have been most nervous about teaching him to read, but he is picking up on it better that I anticipated. He still doesn'y totally understand about blending sounds, but he is getting there.
Thank you!


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The best classic golf courses in the north central U.S.
Our series on America's best golf courses continues with a look at three of the best classic fairways in the north central U.S., as determined by Golfweek magazine's handpicked panel of 450 course raters. The raters, who are students of architecture, attend national workshops and each evaluate 15 to 20 courses per year.
Here's what distinguishes the top classic courses in the north central U.S. We've also included information on the most convenient places to land your business jet near each course.
Brookside Country Club, Canton, Ohio
Here's a club that went through a dramatic restoration of its 1922 Donald Ross design. Architect Brian Silva oversaw massive tree removal, rebuilt bunkers, recaptured lost hole locations, put back cross bunkers that had been removed and made an impressive case that old school was still relevant today. Brookside sits at No. 63 on Golfweek's best-classic-courses list and is a joy from start to finish.
Akron-Canton Regional (CAK) 7,597-ft runway, 8.3-mi drive
FBOs: Castle Airport Services (800-325-4703); McKinley Air (800-225-6446); Ultimate Air Center (800-932-2647)
Olympia Fields Country Club-Olympia Fields, Ill.
In an area with many fine older parkland golf courses, you can make a good case that Olympia Fields-North, with two PGAs (1925 and 1961) and two U.S. Opens (1928 and 2003) to its credit, doesn't get the recognition it deserves. The 36-hole club, which has its own commuter train station linking to downtown Chicago, used to have four full courses on the grounds and a caddie crew of 1,000. The old grandeur is evident in the sprawling, 110,000-square-foot clubhouse. The South Course is currently getting totally refurbished, but it's the North Course, ranked No. 39 on Golfweek's best-classic-courses list, that is more compelling because of its elevation changes and the recurring demands of its doglegs.
Lansing Municipal (IGQ) 4,002-ft runway, 12.4-mi drive
FBOs: Associated Air Activities (708-474-6073); Chicago Business Air Center (708-895-2666)
The Minikahda Club, Minneapolis, Minn.
Only five miles southwest of downtown Minneapolis sits a leafy old golf redoubt overlooking Lake Calhoun. The Minikahda Club-which was designed in 1907 by Willie Watson and brought into its current routing by Donald Ross in 1917-was fully restored by architect Ron Prichard five years ago.
The par-72 layout, ranked No. 77 on Golfweek's best-classic-courses list, might look short on paper at 6,760 yards from the back, but the challenge here, painstakingly re-established by Prichard and then maintained by superintendent Jeff Johnson, is in the fescue-faced bunkering and the strong greens contours.
Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) 11,006-ft runway, 11.8-mi drive
FBO: Signature Flight Support (612-726-5700)
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A Hebrew charter school in Harlem may sound akin to an African-American-themed school in Borough Park or Jerusalem.
But Harlem Hebrew Language Academy Charter — whose charter the New York State Board of Regents formally approved on Tuesday, and which is slated to open in fall 2013 — is arguably in an ideal location to recruit a racially and socio-economically diverse student body interested in learning Hebrew.
While the publicly funded dual-language immersion school will be in southern Harlem, an area that, like the rest of this historically black neighborhood, has become more racially diverse in the past decade, the school will also be open to students from throughout Manhattan's District 3, which encompasses the entire Upper West Side from West 59th Street to West 122nd Street.
With more than five Jewish day schools, countless synagogues and a Jewish community center, the Upper West Side has one of the highest densities of Jews anywhere in the world.
Backed by the Hebrew Charter School Center, a group created by a Jewish philanthropic consortium led by Birthright Israel co-founder Michael Steinhardt, the k-5 Harlem Hebrew will be the first Hebrew charter school in Manhattan, the second in New York City and the fifth in the HCSC's national network, including two others approved this spring.
In addition, a separate network — the National Ben Gamla Charter School Foundation — runs four Hebrew charter schools in Florida, with a fifth slated to open this fall. Independent of any network, the Shalom Academy Hebrew Charter School is slated to open this fall in Englewood, N.J.
Scheduled to open with 156 students in grades k-1, Harlem Hebrew plans to grow over the next five years to 446 students in k-5. It is modeled on HCSC's Hebrew Language Academy Charter School, in south Brooklyn, which opened in 2009 and is one of the most racially integrated schools in New York.
Harlem Hebrew's planning group has developed a number of partnerships with community-based institutions, including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, which is developing a curriculum emphasizing immigration and migration with a lens on Harlem.
"One foundation of our model is creating diverse, inclusive schools that expose students of all backgrounds to the Hebrew language and build bridges of understanding," said HCSC's board chair, Sara Berman, co-lead applicant for Harlem Hebrew and a resident of the Upper West Side.
The other co-lead applicant is William Allen, district leader for Assembly District 70 and a lifelong Harlem resident. Other board members residing in Harlem include Linda Aristondo, assistant prosecutor in Jersey City, N.J.; Rabbi David Gedzelman, executive vice president of the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life; Basil Smikle, a political consultant and community activist; and Rev. Michael Walron of the First Corinthian Baptist Church.
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When sending a child to a Jewish Day school for $30,000 a year is an unreasonable amount for a family who realizes the value of such an education but simply cannot afford it, moreover, if that family has several school-aged children, it becomes more like an unrealizable dream. The solution, while arguably not the ideal one, could be a Hebrew charter school, if there is one in the family's geographic vicinity. In fact, most day school principals and board members may even see the Hebrew charter school movement as a danger even though, in spite of scholarship programs, can only provide for financially elite families.
However, when it comes to dollars and cents, the Jewish community has to make decisions based on priority. Just this month, in Los Angeles, the last of three Jewish Community Centers in the San Fernando Valley, with its seventh largest Jewish community in the country, closed its doors, sending over 300 seniors and a great many pre-schoolers to attempt to find other non-community venues. This was a matter of the Jewish Federation's financial priorities, and the JCC in Los Angeles area, which once had many community centers, is now operating only one old center building in what once was a Jewish neighborhood. It is all dollars and cents. And in the name of dollars and cents, it would be a great thing if the Hebrew charter schools would find a base of operations in the west, in Los Angeles including the San Fernando Valley, where so many Jewish children are deprived of a Jewish education because of rising costs.
For a Jewish child to know Hebrew is a link to his people that is unbreakable.
I was aware of the "machloket" when this school was first proposed for Harlem.
It could be useful to keep in mind that the Hebrew language is as "classical" to Western culture, as are Greek or Latin. It's not only the language of much of the Bible (surely as central to Western culture as Aristotle or Plato), it's the source of many of the children's own names!
Hebrew should also be useful and interesting for Arabic-speaking students (and other Semitic-based languages), just as Arabic can be for Hebrew- and English-fluent students.
All in all, I think this school can be a "plus" for the community, as long as it allows itself to attract students from a wide range of backgrounds.


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Monday, 15 June 2015
Youth Day in South Africa Amidst the Al Bashir Cluster Fuck.
So the wasp-filled pinyada has been walloped by a stick. But by whom?
The Pretoria High court decided that Al-Bashir should be arrested for war crimes wherever he goes.
And our government ... the ANC let him leave … probably supplied him with a limo, caviar and champagne too.
It's mentioned on News 24 that Julius Malema has said South Africa cannot endorse Bashir's arrest because the wanted
head of state is not on holiday or officially visiting South Africa.
If I had any respect for Juju before it has vanished now. He jumps on every bandwagon with a megaphone, and until now has appeared an intelligent man. But this has to be the most ludicrous and puerile statment he has ever uttered. I'd like to say 'what a tool' but that would lower the tone of the blog.
Actually, the subject matter unfortunately does that for me, so what the heck. What a tool.
Was Al-Bashir a hologram?
No he was here in our country.
South Africa signed the Rome Statue ...
By the rule of law he should have been arrested as soon as he landed.
In addition to this cluster-fuck AU president Robert Mugabe .... I can't believe I'm even typing this ... yes African Union President Robert Mugabe (in my opinion) a tyrant and dictator ... how did THAT get voted in? Pot luck? More like gravy-pot luck.
Allegedly it is a rotating Presidency ... but this really was good timing for the anti- west, anti-US and anti-EU countries and politicians.
But I digress ... according to the ENCA website Mugabe has stated .. and I quote:
"South African President Jacob Zuma had vowed to not allow police to arrest Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, African Union chairman Robert Mugabe said at a media briefing following the closing of the AU summit in Johannesburg in the early hours of Tuesday."
So laws mean nothing in South Africa if you know the right people. We already knew that internally ... but to flaunt it to the rest of the world really makes me wish I'd waited to bring in my pounds to convert to rands ... there goes our credibility and there goes our currency even more ....
A truly sad day for South Africa. I can only hope that the youth of South Africa does a better job of running the country than our current government.
It is Youth Day in South Africa today ... and I urge and beg the youth of South Africa to make their voices heard, and to make our country one to be proud of. I know they can do this ... and I believe in them.
I do not believe in the ANC, our seemingly corrupt and greedy president or any of the seemingly insanely corrupt officials that make up our political structure.
But I do believe in our youth and those who have the courage of their convictions with good intent.
So while our current politicians may be using and abusing their positions to line their pockets with gold as they rape the country ... there is hope for our future.
And that hope lies with our youth.
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Genocide ... South Africa and African Leaders .. we are losing faith
I wish this was a 'fun post' but with everything going on in the world today I wanted to share this with you.
As a woman who lives in South Africa I am losing faith in the justice system here, and what is held up as justice in other African countries.
I like to keep an eye on the news, so on Saturday morning I was gobsmacked to read that the Sudanese President is here for an African Union summit.
Our government has chosen to flaunt its growing antipathy towards "Western" rules, and towards a court in which so many African leaders now appear to have lost faith, or at the very least respect.
As I mentioned President Bashir is in Johannesburg for an African Union (AU) summit and my blood was boiling since members of the AU had basically implied rather patronizingly that the ICC was a white run organization picking on african countries.
South Africa has often shied away from this sort of diplomatic headache, but this time the government stepped deliberately, into controversy, courting Western fury by rolling out the welcome carpet for President Bashir.
This morning I woke up to the news that a South African court will decide today whether he should be arrested for war crimes and genocide.
The Pretoria High Court will rule on whether he should be handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) who have charged him with the crimes. Whether this court will have the teeth to make a difference or whether the ANC or the president will step in and over-rule has yet to be seen.
President Bashir is accused of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide during the Darfur conflict.
The UN says that about 400,000 people in Sudan have died and more than two million have fled their homes since fighting began in 2003.
On Sunday, the court ordered Mr Bashir not to leave the country until the case had been heard.
This is at least progress since it looked like this was all going to be left alone with no action.
But will the ANC or our President over-rule any judgement that finds against President Bashir? I think the hornets nest has been nudged, and later today I guess we'll find out who is going to beat it with a stick like a pinyada.
Tuesday, 5 May 2015
Brave and Inspirational. The man who cut out his own appendix.
This story blew my mind when I read it earlier today. I guess when one's back is to the wall anything becomes possible, so maybe we'd all rise to the occasion ... I'd like to think so. This is an incredible tale of an exceptioanal man and I'd ask you to take five minutes out of your day to relax and read it. This blog has been taken from excerpts from the article by Sara Lentati of the BBC World Service.
During an expedition to the Antarctic in 1961, Russian surgeon Leonid Rogozov became seriously ill. He needed an operation - and as the only doctor on the team, he realised he would have to do it himself.
As the polar winter rolled in, 27-year-old Leonid Rogozov started to feel tired, weak and nauseous. Later, a strong pain developed down the ride side of his abdomen.
"Being a surgeon, he had no difficulty in diagnosing acute appendicitis," says his son, Vladislav. "It was a condition he'd operated on many times, and in the civilised world it's a routine operation. But unfortunately he didn't find himself in the civilised world - instead he was in the middle of a polar wasteland."
Rogozov was part of the sixth Soviet Antarctic expedition - a team of 12 had been sent to build a new base at the Schirmacher Oasis.
It was not an easy choice. Rogozov knew his appendix could burst and if that happened, it would almost certainly kill him - and while he considered his options, his symptoms got worse.
"He had to open his own abdomen to take his intestines out," says Vladislav. "He didn't know if that was humanly possible."
"I did not sleep at all last night. It hurts like the devil! A snow storm whipping through my soul, wailing like 100 jackals," he wrote in his diary.
"Still no obvious symptoms that perforation is imminent, but an oppressive feeling of foreboding hangs over me… This is it… I have to think through the only possible way out - to operate on myself… It's almost impossible… but I can't just fold my arms and give up."
He nominated two main assistants to hand him instruments, position the lamp, and hold a mirror - he planned to use the reflection to see what he was doing. The station director was also in the room, in case one of the others became faint.
"He was so systematic he even instructed them what to do if he was losing consciousness - how to inject him with adrenalin and perform artificial ventilation," says Vladislav. "I don't think his preparation could have been better."
A general anaesthetic was out of the question. He was able to administer a local anaesthetic to his abdominal wall but once he had cut through, removing the appendix would have to be done without further pain relief, in order to keep his head as clear as possible.
"My poor assistants! At the last minute I looked over at them. They stood there in their surgical whites, whiter than white themselves," Rogozov wrote later. "I was scared too. But when I picked up the needle with the novocaine and gave myself the first injection, somehow I automatically switched into operating mode, and from that point on I didn't notice anything else."
As he reached the final and hardest part of the operation, he almost lost consciousness. He began to fear he would fail at the final hurdle.
"The bleeding is quite heavy, but I take my time... Opening the peritoneum, I injured the blind gut and had to sew it up," Rogozov wrote. "I grow weaker and weaker, my head starts to spin. Every four to five minutes I rest for 20 - 25 seconds.
"Finally here it is, the cursed appendage! With horror I notice the dark stain at its base. That means just a day longer and it would have burst… My heart seized up and noticeably slowed, my hands felt like rubber. Well, I thought, it's going to end badly and all that was left was removing the appendix."
But he didn't fail. After nearly two hours he had completed the operation, down to the final stitch.
Rogozov returned to his normal duties just two weeks later.
This story has been taken as from excerpts from the article by Sara Lentati of the BBC World Service.
I felt it so inspirational that I hoped to share it with you, in case you had not read the original article which can be found here ... http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32481442
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Monday, 4 May 2015
Stories like this give me hope ... and we could all do with hope in our lives !!!
What happened when an anti-Semite found he was Jewish?
By Nick Thorpe BBC News, Hungary
Three years ago, a Hungarian far-right politician with a strong line in anti-Semitism discovered that he was Jewish. He left his party, and set out on a remarkable personal journey to learn and practise his Jewish faith.
Only seconds before he goes on stage, Csanad Szegedi paces the school corridor like a bear in an unfamiliar forest. Then the headmaster's introduction is over, the pupils who pack the hall are clapping enthusiastically, and the big man is going up the steps, the blood roaring in his ears.
The confidence returns and he plays to the crowd, just as he once did at party rallies, or as a member of the European Parliament.
He comes across a bit like the American singer Johnny Cash. "Hello, I'm Csanad Szegedi." And the schoolchildren of the Piarist Secondary School in Szeged hang on every word.
"I'm speaking to you here today," says the tall chubby faced man, with small, intelligent eyes, "because if someone had told me when I was 16 or 17 what I'm going to go tell you now, I might not have gone so far astray."
As deputy leader of the radical nationalist Jobbik party in Hungary, Szegedi co-founded the Hungarian Guard - a paramilitary formation which marched in uniform through Roma neighbourhoods.
And he blamed the Jews, as well as the Roma, for the ills of Hungarian society - until he found out that he himself was one. After several months of hesitation, during which the party leader even considered keeping him as the party's "tame Jew" as a riposte to accusations of anti-Semitism, he walked out.
Not a man to do things in half-measures, he has now become an Orthodox Jew, has visited Israel, and the concentration camp at Auschwitz which his own grandmother survived.
He discovered that his grandmother wore long-sleeved shirts, or a plaster in summer, to cover the tell-tale concentration camp number tattooed on her arm. As his old personality collapsed, Szegedi performed radical surgery on himself. He even set fire to copies of his own biography, I Believe in the Resurrection of the Hungarian Nation.
Today he speaks to the students without notes, sometimes striding along the stage, sometimes sitting back in a chair, but keeping their attention with a mixture of confessions, family histories, and jokes.
His volte-face seems complete - there are giggles from the girls, awkward squirming from the boys in the audience as he describes his circumcision. Then come the questions.
"Did you know any Jews before you discovered your own Jewish roots? How do you react when you hear anti-Semitism expressed today? Were you a practising Christian before you practised Judaism? Was it hard to break with your party?"
The answers are straightforward.
"Anti-Semitism doesn't need Jews, because its based on false premises. It is the projection of one's own fears, and lack of self esteem." He had a Protestant wedding, but was never christened. Every rupture was hard, but he tried to do it peacefully, and state firmly his own mistakes. And also did his duty to point to the extremism in his old party.
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Really ... I have some Adolf Hitler in me?
Thank you SRC president Mcebo Dlamini for saying that I have an element of Adolf Hitler in me.
Are you smoking crack?
Or are you just avariciously ambitious?
I'm guessing the second. Only a bottom-feeding wanna be politician would say something this inflammatory whilst we are in the midst of a crisis like xenophobia …. you disgust me with your blatant disregard for those who are suffering because of it.
You are a disgrace and an embarrassement to South Africa and all who live in it.
With all the anger and suffering in the world do we really need hate speech like this?
In my humble opinion you are an attention seeking tool.
(Yes I know highbrow words indeed!)
I look to Baltimore in the US. I see the riots and anger there, I see a mother protecting her son #Baltimoremom and I salute her. Here is a mother desperate to protect her child from making a monumental mistake .... and she takes action. She is to be admired and I wish more parents would follow in her footsteps to end the violence. Yes there must be an investigation in Baltimore and I believe the truth will out there.
But while I see people in Baltimore trying to quell the violence I also see others who are revelling in it.
All over the world there are people struggling to make a positive difference. And then we get some idiot with a big mouth making South Africa look even more racist and xenophobic than it really is.
This is hate speech, and while I don't know if we have a law here in SA making it illegal ... I think it's about time one was implemented.
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So everyday now on my radio show... oh hang on did I mention I'm a radio dj? Aaaanyway, I'm now doing two daily features "Word of the Day" and "Today's Teaser".
Yesterday's word was bandoline ... and I LOVED the answers that came up ... so I'm going to share them with you ....
So what is bandoline? Actually it's a gloopy pomatum to style hair.
What is pomatum you ask?
pomatum - hairdressing consisting of a perfumed oil or ointment.
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Anyone who underestimated Usain Bolt is absolutely bonkers.
I had fallen for that once before, and I wasn't falling for it again. The fact is, Bolt knows where his bread is buttered. He only needs to be at his best for the big championships - that is where he and everyone else is judged.
He has entered legendary status by retaining his title, and is the first post-war athlete to do so on the track.
If anybody fell for the notion that his time had passed, I can only hope that the phrase 'once bitten' rings a bell.
In Stratford, we saw the old Usain Bolt. One that was an arm's length from a new world record. It was a brilliant performance.
I'd dare say that perhaps only something such as the climate in the Olympic Stadium or perhaps fear of a false start prevented him from setting a new best — he got off to a bit of a nervy start - and given the right circumstances I believe he will.
He out-performed himself in Beijing considerably, and if you put Beijing, London and Berlin in order you would have the 2012 time right between the two.
This performance sets things up nicely for the 200 metres and the relay, though the Americans will certainly be a handful.
Although the clock does not lie, I feel it does not tell the whole story of just how much Usain blew the rest of the field away. If you look at the times — 9.63 to 9.75 — it looked like more than that to me, watching the race. It was just a sensational run.
The World Championships last year appear to have been just the kick up the backside Bolt needed, while his compatriot Yohan Blake — who resembled a professional wrestling character with his antics on the start line — may just end up becoming a perennial bridesmaid with the exception of Daegu.
His 100m effort was very good, but he may well have to wait for the day Bolt calls it quits before he truly has a chance to take the crown.
Bolt often hinted that the end wasn't far away, but the defence of his Olympic title may well breathe new life into him.
Dwain Chambers and Adam Gemili, representing Great Britain, I felt did okay out there. The latter in particular impressed because he is the future: he did himself proud, it's safe to say.
Gemili's time in the first round showed me that for an 18-year-old in the Olympics, he carries himself very well and has the air of a future champion.
Christine Ohuruogu also looked excellent on the night. She nabbed herself another Olympic medal, if only silver, and with another five metres she would have retained her title.
Another one to keep an eye on is Robbie Grabarz. He qualified for the high jump final and he too has something about him which is very special indeed. Whatever it is that makes a top athlete, Robbie has got it in bucketloads.
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EAuction Tutor, Aka, Pacific Webworks, Inc. Constant $49.90 charges sometimes once a day for a service that I did not purchace and am not recieving. Salt Lake City Utah
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This weekend at the Ramada Inn, 'Pottery Lovers' held their annual reunion that gives them the chance to look through others' collections.
"There's people from all over the United States to find pottery that they need for their collections and there's people that come just to sell those pieces," says John Stofft, Pottery Lovers President.
Because Zanesville had all of the natural resources to make pottery, many renowned potters were established here. That's why so many people come to the 'once' pottery capital of the world.
"They pretty well travel all over your area here within a 50 mile radius at every antique mall, house that has a yard sale sign out looking for pottery," says Stofft.
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This little guy kept regurgitating some food he had eaten. Poor fella. Not satisfied with the focus at all though :/
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My ! Thoses eyes, what is that, looks like he's a little demon x3 They are really creepy eyes, i would be really scary to see that in the night or just when you wake up xD
The focus does look a little screwy around the edges but what a poor guy if he kept spitting up his food. At least he looks content while he is eating though. Really great shot to get all the colors.
I really love this! To be honest I love all of your bird photos, but this one takes the cake. The bird just looks so shocked, it's impossible to scroll past. I see that you're not satisfied with the focus, and upon further inspection I can see why, but regardless it looks very good.
i believe the term is ka-KAAW!!!! lol
aww great capture!
What a cool looking bird! I wish I knew what species it is, though.
I had the name somewhere. Let me see if I can dig it up.
Well whatever the name is, the bird is still really pretty! (too bad I only know north american/European birds)
he's such a freaky looking little dude with his piercing red eyes! looks like a zombie bird
If this bird could talk, he'd be saying, 'I didn't do it.'
Idk, first thing I thought of when I saw the thumbnail XD
Idk, first thing I thought of when I saw the thumbnail XD
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Thats a cool shot, I can understand with the focus, but this is a nice capture.
Cool shot (: I like the birds expression
Wow, cool closeup!
birds commonly regurgitate for their young and their mates. I think another reason they regurgitate is to mash up their food again so it can be digested easier. I think...
Speechless at how awesome this is.
beautiful! great capture, with a stunning angle. The birds eyes are in depth with every detail! amazing!
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Liberty National Insurance CompanyBirmingham, Alabama United States of America
Liberty National Life Insurance Company REVIEW: Liberty National Life Insurance Company clients, feel safe, confident & secure when doing business with Liberty National Life Insurance Company. Commitment to Ripoff Report Corporate Advocacy Business Remediation & Customer Satisfaction Program. Offering affordable life and supplemental health insurance through in-home and workplace sales. Providing local, one-on-one service to our customers is something we've done from the beginning.
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Ripoff Reports discussions with Liberty National Life Insurance Company has uncovered an ongoing commitment by the company to total client satisfaction. This means that clients can expect that the company will work towards finding a mutually satisfactory resolution to any complaints or concerns. Liberty National Life Insurance Company listens carefully to client concerns and sees them as an opportunity to learn from past mistakes and become more efficient as a company in the services offered and the support for those services.
Liberty National Life Insurance Company has been in the insurance business since 1900. We offer affordable life and supplemental health insurance through in-home and workplace sales. Providing local, one-on-one service to our customers is something we've done from the beginning. While automation is the way of the today's world, it won't replace our individual attention to Liberty National policyholders. Insurance can make the difference in a family keeping their home, a child going to college, or having enough money to pay bills each month if a family breadwinner dies. Liberty National Life Insurance Company is passionate about helping hardworking Americans protect their families. We look forward to helping you protect yours.
Liberty National Life Insurance Company, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, has been meeting the insurance coverage needs of families for over 100 years, dating back to 1900. Liberty National is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Torchmark Corporation. Torchmark is an S&P 500 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TMK.
Liberty National Life Insurance Company also offers an excellent career for motivated individuals looking to earn what they are worth. Earning potential is unlimited! With just seven to eight sales per week, agents have the potential to earn from $50,000 up to $75,000+ in the first year with valuable tools like laptop presentation at your fingertips. Liberty National believes in personal, dedicated service for insurance needs. We are committed to providing agents with full support, quality training and competitive compensation. Joining Liberty Nationals sales team could open the door to an outstanding income and a whole new lifestyle. Liberty National Life Insurance Company has immediate needs to fill several positions. We are looking for both entry level and senior level applicants.
In summary, Ripoff Report is convinced that Liberty National Life Insurance Company is committed to quality delivery of services resulting in total client satisfaction.
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Liberty National Life Insurance Company recognizes that complaints posted on Ripoff Report (whether true or not) are issues that need to be addressed, not ignored. One company executive agreed that, if handled correctly, complaints can be valuable learning opportunities. With the feedback generated by Ripoff Reports Review of Liberty National Life Insurance Company has made organizational changes allowing its clients, employees and agents a more streamlined approach to problem resolution and a commitment to a great client experience.
As a Part of the Corporate Advocacy Program the member business allows Ripoff Report to send an email to all of those who filed a complaint in the past, letting the customer know, the member business wanted to make things right with them, .. whatever it takes to do so. Ripoff Report always monitors these emails to insure the member business does what they agreed to. The people at Liberty National Life Insurance Company did just that.
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Liberty National is a "trainwreck"
Their creed is the following and appears in there literature
Since its organization in 1900 "The Guiding principle of Liberty National Life Insurance Company has been to achieve sucess by deserving it, to protect its policyholders with a fair unselfish contract and to serve them faithfully,adequately,honestly and economically"
"Every decision considered at Liberty National must benefit the customer,the agent and the commpany."
Each is equal in importance,and if any one of them is missing we simply won't do it
IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING JOINING LIBERTY, DO NOT BELIEVE this propaganda for a minute.Check the history of this company withs regards to its cancer exchange program lawsuits.This company will also allow you to pay more into a policy than you can recieve.
I personaly have seen 2 policies recently where the insureds had paid in two times what the beneficiarys are going to recieve.
The company cares about one thing and one thing only and that is maximizing the earnings for the shareholders and the analyst.
Liberty is a 100 year old company and its management team has hundreds of combined years of expeirence.
You have to ask yourself how did the company lose 30% of their agents in 2004 and 50% in 2009
Ask the person interviewing you to show you a copy of the recent AM Best report
If you really want to see how Liberty is performing you can read about them in the annual reports which are on line.The comments from the President are a "broken record" of comments ."We are turning the corner at Liberty or I am optimistic that the next quarter will be better"
How is that this company with all of its changes and management leadership in the past 10 years has not made the company grow.In fact since 1998 inforce life premium has declined.Compare this record to their competitors.
Branch managers recruited 60,000 applicants last year and less than 300 agents will make it past their 1st anniversary.(Mgrs are required to recruit 10 prospective agents per week.Multiply this times 160 offices at 40 weeks a year)
The company promotes their agent position as an "Opportunity of a Lifetime"
If this was such an opportunity why are agents and managers leaving as fast as they come in ?
Branch and Unit Managers and former managers owe hundreds of thousands of dollars to the company due to lapsed policies which are a result of wholsale recruiting, poor training and mediocre products and ineffective leadership in the home office.
Thes managers are paid for the most part on newer agents ( less than 6 months in the business).If you can make it for 6 months the manager neither cares nor can afford to help becasue his # 1 job is to recruit and not manage
In fact he would he or she would prefer to see you leave and then the manager could give your accounts to a newer agent.
Liberty's niche is worksite and the middle income market.
Their focus is to specialize in writing insurance of $ 50,000 or less.In my opinion they have no regard for the well being of customers family, otherwise they would encourge agents to write more insurance and not penalize them when they do
Yes that is true, Liberty pays less commssion when you write bigger/larger face amount policies.
The true purpose of life insurance is to replace the economic value of the person
Liberty's agent for the most part are nothing more than "policy peddlers".
Before going to work for this company Do You Homework
Check the AM Best Report and other internet website comments
Ask the person or manager recruiting you the following
How many agents have you trained that are still in the business ?
The answer will shock you
Don't believe all of the hype
Only 200-300 agents are making any enough money.
Ask for the weekly bulletin and get the manager to explain in detail what it is and means.
In the last 3 years mgt has changed the compensation plan 7 times
Does this sound like a company that has it act together
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The insurance business is a good career but this company, well let me just say this
Their record speaks for itself
No growth in the past 10 years
Lose 30 % of their agents in 2004 and then 50% in 2009
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Pressley Ridgill "has been the Chief Executive Officer of NewBridge BanCorp. since July 1, 2008 and as its President since August 3, 2007. Mr. Ridgill has also been the Chief Executive Officer and President of NewBridge Bank, a subsidiary of NewBridge BanCorp. since February 27, 2007. He served as the Chief Executive Officer at FNB Financial Services Corp. and its subsidiary FNB Southeast Bank (also known as Southeast Regional Banking Organization) since February ..."
On October 19th the Business Journal wrote Greensboro mayor steps down from NewBridge board. I noted on that same day that Mayor Perkins had already been removed from the Newbridge Bank website.
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While over at Ed Cone's blog, Ed deletes my comments so that no one will know the truth and continues to cover for the crooked mayor and the rest of Greensboro's crony capitalists. Why is he doing that? Because he doesn't want Greensboro to know about Robbie Perkins Newbridge Bank Fraud.
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