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02/08/2010 16:55 - Behaviour / Discipline
My son is 6yrs old and is going into 1st class in school. We had looked forward to his starting school as he has always had a thirst for knowledge and learning. However we found out that it was not going to be the experience we had hoped for. Almost immediately our son began getting in trouble and causing havoc in the classroom. The teacher found she had to spend alot of time to keep him ´´on task´´ and he found it quite hard to concentrate. His teacher contacted us within his first week in school and said she thought there was a significant problem and suggested we have him assessed for ASD. I was quite upset to be honest, and we asked her to wait a while to see would he settle in. But the year went on we spent more and more time in meetings with the teacher and principle and while he was top of his class acedemically his emotional outburst were very worrying. We had him assessed and were told he was intelligent and would eventually grow out of this stage and that there was nothing wrong with him medically. We hoped that the next year would be better and it was to some extent but the new teacher was of the same opinion. We brought our son to see several different doctors and specialists and all said he was not ADD/ADHD or on the ASD spectrum and that he was a very intelligent child.
Anyhow recently with another year and new teacher looming we again sought the opinion of an expert. And after several test and IQ evaluations he said that our son was classed as gifted but that his emotional level was that of a 6yr old while his IQ was 140 and that this was causing him to be difficult and emotional at times. So basically this is where we are and im not sure as to what to do next to help him. They have suggested in a report that the school offer him extra resource hours to help him and also that he have a buddy in school to keep him on task.
I would really like any suggestions of what we might do to help him and how we ourselves can cope with him better. He can be quite a handful at times and often causes arguments because of his tantrums etc.. Sorry for rambling i probably havent explained myself very well. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
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03/08/2010 08:58 - Behaviour / Discipline
You might also find the information on the following page on schooldays.ie useful
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03/08/2010 19:18 - Behaviour / Discipline
A frustrating situation for him and it sounds like you are doing all you can and are happy to do more to help your son.
I´m not sure where you are living but there will be good suggestions on the gifted children site. Have you investigated Irish Centre For Talented Youth Courses? Any additional after school clubs would also be a good idea.
I´m a little exasperated to read about the latest suggestion by the ´expert´ who suggested the school offer additional resource hours. In the absence of a diagnosis, everybody knows that this is an impossible situation for an ´expert´ to be putting a school in. A school will not be able to submit an application for any additional resources to the Department of Education & Skills, on the basis of such a suggestion. Any such application by the school will, unfortunately, be dismissed by the Department.
Sadly, more and more ´experts´ are passing the buck back on to schools with such suggestions. In an ideal world, there should be such a provision for your son but in the absence of a diagnosis of ´Emotional Disturbance´ or one of the others you´ve mentioned, that´s not going to be provided to the school.
I am aware of one school where there were several such suggestions throughout last year, by various ´experts´ in relation to a number of different children, without any definite diagnoses. It is disappointing if that is the main suggestion that an expert can make as from your point of view, s/he is only passing the buck.
Having said all that, I hope that the other suggestions you have received will help to improve the situation. Also, in 1st class, there is a jump in the level of the work from senior Infants, which will helpfully suit your son.
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02/08/2010 19:18 - Behaviour / Discipline
Hi there,
My name´s Caroline, and a colleague of mine, Margaret Keane, runs a website called GiftedKids.ie, to support families like yours. If you contact her via
she has some good leads.
Wishing you the best, going forward.
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One person was killed and two were injured in a single-vehicle wreck in Colleton County early today, authorities said.
About 2:30 a.m., a 2003 Buick was traveling on S.C. Highway 64 when it ran off the side of the road and overturned, said Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Judd Jones. The force of the wreck caused all three occupants to be ejected from the car, Jones said.
Marcus Manigo, 17, of Walterboro, was killed in the wreck, Colleton County Coroner Richard Harvey said.
Two others males, 18 and 19 years old, were taken to a hospital with what appeared to have been non-life-threatening injuries, Jones said.
Harvey said authorities have yet to determine who was driving and whether any of them were wearing seat belts. The wreck remains under investigation by the Highway Patrol and the Coroner's Office.
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Awards Wine & Food Competition Umbria
Umbriafor#winelovers from 14th to 17th February
Wine Vs Food Competition – 1st Edition
Pre-selection was done among about 200 wines – selected around 70 references.
During this pre-selection, wines that had faults such as brettanomyces or others were putted aside, and the best representative wine from different appellations, different grapes and different styles were selected.
From sparkling, red, white to dessert wine and grappa were selected!
The food exhibited was based on local products and Italian cuisine
The tasting room was organized on 4 station each table was tasted and paired for 15 minutes by groups of about 6 #winelover, so for 1 hour they could taste all dishes. A total of about 25 #winelover were judges and tasters.
After 1 hour possibility, for a time of 15 minutes extra, the #winelover s could to try to pair also with wines from others table, if they were feeling that amongst the wines and food tasted they could find a better pairing.
The results ended nice and accurate, displaying a panel of different wine style for the dishes!
"And the Winners are…!!"
Results – 1 st edition Food Vs Wine Umbriafor#winelovers :
Frittatina Morbida al Tartufo della Valnerina
FiorFiore 2010 Roccafiore (100% Grechetto)
More infos about the wine on http://shop.roccafiore.it/en/shop/vini/vigna-d-autore/fiorfiore-2010
Lamborghini (La Firorita) Trescone Umbria 2009 (Sangiovese, Merlot, Ciliegiolo)
More infos about the wine on http://english.lamborghinionline.it/pagine/il-vino-000
Risotto Allo Zafferano di Cascia e Guanciale Croccante
Colli Perugini Chiorri Rosato 2011 (Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon)
More infos about the wine on http://www.chiorri.it/rosatodoc_chiorri_en.htm
Adanti Arquata Montefalco Riserva 2008 (Sangiovese, Sagrantino, Barbera, Merlot, Cabernet)
More infos at http://www.cantineadanti.com/
Montefalco Rosso Scacciadiavoli 2009 (Sangiovese, Sagrantino, Merlot)
More infos about the wine on http://www.scacciadiavoli.it/
Porchetta di Maialino Aromatica Bardata al Prosciutto
Re del Sole LS08 Leonucci (Sagrantino)
More infos about the wine on http://www.leonucci.it/
Marchesi Antinori Cervaro della Sala Antinori 2011 (Chardonnay, Grechetto)
More infos about the wine on http://www.antinori.it/it/26-generazioni/castello-della-sala/cervaro-della-sala-2010
La Palazzola Vin Santo Stefano Grilli 2005
More infos about the wine on http://www.lapalazzola.it/
Crostata di Mele e Crema Cotta
Poggio Forno Cantina Neri 2011 (Grechetto, Sauvignon)
More infos about the wine on http://www.neri-vini.it/poggio-forno.htm
Torta di Ricotta, Cioccolato, Uvetta e Rhum
Sperello VinSanto Colli del Trasimeno Berioli 2011 (Trebbiano, Malvasia)
More infos about the wine on http://www.cantinaberioli.it/en/sperello
Grappa di Sagrantino Romanelli
More infos on http://www.romanelli.se/
PS: As extra wine, that was very much appreciated also could name the Montefalco Rosso Milziade Antano
More infos at http://www.fattoriacolleallodole.it/
Satisfied and happy?
I would say "Yes" according to the great moments shared with Patrick Farrell Master of Wine!
Thanks a lot to all that helped out to organize this Wine & Food Competition !
Cheers #winelover s !


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Would Not Reccomend!
My friend and I have just returned from a trip to the Sofitel Minneapolis (February 20th-22nd). For months we had planned our "Girl's Shop Till You Drop" getaway and thought we had picked the perfect "4 star" hotel. The word disappointed does not even begin to describe how we felt! Here's what we didn't like:
1) This hotel advertised that it had free shuttle service to and from the airport and the Mall of America. While waiting (FOR OVER AN HOUR) to be picked up at the airport we saw several shuttles from other hotels come through 4 or 5 times. When we finally got to the hotel we had to sit around for over an hour waiting for that one shuttle van to come back to the hotel and pick us up, because they didn't mention that the shuttle only went to the Mall and back every 2 hours. The drivers are creepy, and try to cover up the fact that they have been smoking in the van in between pick-ups with a cheap bathroom air freshner. The drivers are not friendly at all!! If your not out there exactly at the pick-up time you will be left behind. They do not even wait for one second after the scheduled pick-up time! On our last day there we went down to catch the shuttle and ended up missing it somehow even though we were there waiting on time. We had to take the Hotel's taxi service to the Mall ($15.00) because we didn't want to wait 2 hours for the next one (hotel staff was not helpful at all with this and was very indifferent). When we were picked up at the Mall the driver showed up in a red unmarked van. No one bothered to tell us that they had switched vehicles (the van had always been a white marked one before this), which is why we missed it in the morning because we were looking for the other van! The driver almost killed us on the way to the airport. It was worse than the taxi ride we took in Mexico.
2) The rooms look NOTHING like the pictures posted on the internet. This hotel is worse than 2 and 3 stars that I have stayed in before. The only word we kept saying about this hotel is YUCK! The room looked unkempt, and there was not a top sheet on the bed (ewwwwww) just the duvet cover!
3) When we bought our luugage down to be stored our last day, it sat out at the desk for over a half an hour. Then it took over 15 minutes when we wanted to retrieve our suitcases while they had to track down the concierge to unlock the closet. HELLO???-no one else in the hotel has a key to this closet??????
Here's what we did like about this hotel: NOTHING!!!
We would strongly reccomend that if you are considering staying at this hotel that you RECONSIDER!
Great Value!!!
We stayed at the Sofitel the weekend of November 12-14 2004. We were pleasantly surprised at the great value of this property. For a very resonable rate we were given a comfortable room with many ammenities. Although this room had not yet been remodled it still contained all the main features of the other rooms. The feather bed was so comfortable I could have slept all day. Bathrobes, premium toiletries and Evian water with turndown service were nice touches. The carpeting and furniture could use updating, but the cleanliness made up for that. We spoke with other guests that were in remodled rooms and they told us they were beautiful. The lobby is nicely decorated. The staff was very cordial. I would recommend this hotel to anyone.
My husband and I stayed at the Sofitel July 9-10. We payed through the 11th but left a night early. The rooms in the hotel were OK - I wouldn't classify them as 4 star. We wouldn't know how the restraurant "La Fougasse" is because we couldn't get served. We sat for 30 minutes without anyone acknowledging our presence so we got up and left. The restraurant was not busy when we were there. The waitress that we saw walk past us several times was only serving 2 or 3 tables. The Sofitel is definatley not worth the money.
Good hotel, not new, but comfortable
Terrific beds... like sleeping in feathers. The property is the first Sofitel in the US, so it's old... but they do what they can to keep it fresh and modern. You can tell that it's an old place, though.
Great job on:
- Front desk staff: attentive, terrific conceirge.
- Insulation: can't hear the hall, the road, or anything else for that matter. Slept sound.
- The little touches: fresh flowers in your bathroom, classical music playing when you first come into your room
- Check-in/check-out: Quick. Blazing.
- Wireless access: Good reception throughout. I used it in my room, the lobby, and the lounge area during the day.
Improvement needed on:
- Less-than-functional TV speaker in the bathroom. Cool idea, if it worked...
- When they remodeled (appears to be quite recent), they didn't make the corridors bright. They're fairly dark. Seem small and kind of cramped.
- Elevators are slooooooooooow.
- No AC outlets at all that aren't on a wall switch. I found this out when I turned out the lights to sleep and my cell phone didn't charge overnight.
- At a 4-star, you shouldn't have to ask for a needle and thread kit. It should already be in the room.
Considerations when selecting this hotel:
- As noted, it's not new. It's quite comfortable, very very quiet, classy, but not new. You can tell this the second you walk in.
- The rooms are somewhat smaller than what you may expect from a comparable property.
- Housekeeping will change linens, etc., but will not even attempt to tidy up. Some people like this, some don't.
Stayed here April 2004 and the stay was excellent. It is a nice, quiet location. The thing I liked the best about this hotel was the beds...absolutely to die for. It was so comfortable down comforters, down feather bed, down pillows. Room and bathroom were very clean. I would recommend it.
GIve it a pass
Unlike other reviewers, I found this hotel to be very disappointing. I think of Sofitel as being distinctly French, but there was little in this hotel to distinguish it from any other chain hotel other than a sad little gift shop and a bakery that was completely hidden behind a corner. My room was ordinary and badly in need of a good update. Food was also ordinary. My biggest complaint is that the hotel wasn't FRENCH. The bistro menu was watered down for Minneapolis tastes - to the point where the menu labelled a California sparkling wine as "champagne". Breakfast wasn't the european-style offering I was hoping for but pretty run of the mill American basics. In a word - just another chain hotel and nothing like other Sofitels.
Simply Amazing!
My recent stay at this beautiful hotel was simply incredible. From the moment you walk into the hotel you are welcomed by the most genuine and informed staff that I have ever encountered in the hotel industry. Not only was the staff just attentive they exceed my expectations at every opportunity. You also must dine at both of the restraurants at the hotel. It was a true pleasure. This is my only choice in the Twin Cities.
Great Getaway!
We had a deluxe room; king bed, large sitting area, double sinks. Got the best price from the hotel's website. We ate in both restaurants and enjoyed both. Very fancy, not really suitable for kids, as there isn't a pool or game room. We only saw one child during our stay. Since we didn't have our children along we did enjoy having an almost "adults only" atmoshpere. We'd definitely stay here again!
Very Pleased
I stayed in the Sofitel and was very happy with it.
The hotel lobby was very fancy and the desk was very helpful. The room was above average in size and had a lot of nice amenties. There were a lot of nice tolietries in the room, even had a mini sewing kit. They also turned down my bed at night and tidied up my room.
The colors inside the room needed to be updated but I was very happy with it anyway.
Not to be Trusted
I made reservations for the Hotel Sofitel in Minneapolis in June of 2002 for 10/16-10/19/2002. The hotel sent me a notice on 10/7/02 saying that of this date I would be unable to change my reservation.
On 10/14 we received a phone call from the Sofitel telling us that they could no longer accomodate us and that they could get us reservations at the Embassy Suites or at the Holiday Inn. Which did we want?
The latest of the notication left us with the choices of hotels/motels that the Sofitel gave us. I have never had this problems with any other hotel/motel.
You can draw your own conclusion about whether or not to stay at a Sofitel.
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Be Sociable
... hurrah. FYI: It's just around the corner from 612 Brew (where we recently saw the Step Rockets play,) set up for a promising brewery tourey type of day.
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AT&T Settles Old Billing Claim Lawsuits
By Sarah Pierce
AT&T Wireless, which merged with Cingular Wireless in 2004 and became AT&T Mobility in 2007, engaged in shady billing practices, according to several class action lawsuits filed in California and Washington. If you were an AT&T Wireless subscriber any time after March 1, 1999 and were billed certain charges, you could receive up to $10 if the proposed class action settlements are approved. (Note: The class action settlements do not concern the practices of Cingular Wireless or AT&T Mobility.)
According to the class action settlement notice, eligible consumers can receive settlements under the proposed deal if they fall within the following three classes:
(1) Stern I Settlement Class:
Includes those who subscribed to AT&T Wireless any time between December 20, 2001 and the Effective Date.
— Subscribers in this class who allege they were charged for the mMode Data Service without their authorization or didn't understand the disclosures about mMode may receive a check for $8 per line charged.
— Subscribers who say they were charged for the EDID (ENH Discount International Dial) service without their authorization or didn't understand disclosures about EDID may receive a check for $10 per line charged.
(1) Lozano Settlement Class:
Includes those who had a "One Rate-type" plan with AT&T Wireless any time between March 1, 1999 and the Effective Date.
— Subscribers who claim they did not understand that when they signed up for a One Rate-type plan that calls made during one billing period may be charged as if made in another billing period may get a check for $8 or a 250-minute AT&T Phone Card.
(1) UCC Settlement Class:
Includes AT&T Wireless subscribers who paid, but were not previously refunded or credited Universal Connectivity Charges between March 1, 1999 and the Effective Date.
— Subscribers who say they were not aware when they subscribed that they would be charged a Universal Connectivity Charge may receive a check for $7.
If you believe you're eligible for a class action settlement under any of these classes, you have until February 13, 2011 to file a valid claim form. More information about how to file a valid claim for the AT&T Wireless Service Class Action Lawsuit Settlement can be found in our Open Settlements section here.
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Walling said there hasn't been any serious interest in redeveloping the dilapidated 19-story downtown high-rise.
"Without market demand, I think it becomes increasingly likely the city has to dispose of the property, and that is more than a million-dollar cost and could be more, depending on the extent of the demolition," he said. "The alternative is for the city to maintain it for a longer period of time and that comes with a cost as well."
Ultimately, any decision over the Towers' fate rests in the hands of emergency manager Michael Brown while the city is under a state takeover. Under state law, only an emergency manager has the power to sell or dispose of city assets.
Brown today said his team will eventually examine both options -- redevelopment and demolition -- but Genesee Towers isn't a top priority at this point in his administration, he said.
"Certainly it's on the radar screen, it's an important piece of downtown development," he said. "It should be part of the overall opportunities downtown. As those arise, we'll certainly take a look at it."
The city was forced to take ownership of Genesee Towers in 2010 after losing a six-year legal battle over the former administration's decision to condemn the property.
A judge later ordered the cash-strapped city to tax residents so Flint could pay the former owners the nearly $9 million legal judgment.
Walling said there have been "a few" developers who have taken a walk through the building, but said the city doesn't have any proposals on the table.
"I don't think there's strong market interest right now in this particular property," he said. "It's very large for our market and would require very large costs to get it into a shape where it could be used."
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A front row seat to an American Idol performance just might be the best medicine. At least that's the diagnosis from Adam Cook's friends and supporters in Terre Haute, Ind., who arranged a $45,000 trip on a chartered medical jet to Los Angeles for David Cook's brother so he could see him perform.
Adam, who is undergoing chemotherapy for brain cancer, watched his brother David, an Idol favorite, perform Mariah Carey's hit "Always Be My Baby" from a front row seat during Tuesday's live broadcast.
"I am blown away," he said in an interview Wednesday with B1027.FM, a local radio station that helped facilitate his trip. "The support of the community made this possible, it literally just lifted my spirits to know I'm from Terre Haute. That might sound corny, but it's the God's honest truth. My feelings for back home were just amplified."
So far the trip is well worth it. "I'm not going to lie to you. He still has a tough road ahead of him," Adam's longtime friend Darrick Scott tells PEOPLE. "But this trip to Los Angeles has put a whole new pep in his step."
"This has just been incredible for the family," says Julie Henricks, midday host of B1027.FM. "Adam hadn't wanted to get out of the house in three weeks. Now, he's out sightseeing in Los Angeles. His wife Kendra says Adam is a different person."
Getting the VIP treatment probably didn't hurt. "They came in and asked if it was okay if they seated Teri Hatcher and Minnie Driver next to us," Adam, 36, said Wednesday in the interview. "When Teri sat down, I didn't even know who she was. She weighed all of 90 pounds. I expected her to be taller. But I'm not stupid. I figured it out. She's a desperate housewife and hey, I'm a desperate house something."
Having his brother in the front row may have been the inspiration for David, who, according to judge Randy Jackson, gave the "most brilliant performance yet."
"I'm not really very emotional," Adam's wife Kendra said in the same interview. "But I was crying when David sang. It was just the moment. I can honestly say it was so much fun."
The judges -- Jackson, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell -- were also inspired. "Randy came over and asked, 'Are you the A.C., from the guitar? And he was like 'Dog, that's so awesome,'" Kendra told the radio station (David sometimes performs with a guitar with his brother's initials on it and has an "A.C." tattoo). "Paula came over and when Adam stuck out his hand, she said, 'No, I want a hug.' And Simon came over after the show and said, 'You should be very proud of your brother. He's a very nice man. You're welcome here anytime.'" --Pam Grout
David Cook's Brother 'Blown Away' by Chance to Attend Idol


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By Aaron Krol
December 27, 2013 | The first genome-wide study of cervical cancer mutations in a large cohort of patients was published this week in Nature. The program, undertaken through the Slim Initiative for Genomic Medicine in the Americas (SIGMA) and featuring an international team of researchers from Mexico, the U.S. and Norway, sequenced the whole exomes of over a hundred patients and their cervical tumors in order to identify key mutations involved in this cancer type. "Cervical cancer remains one of the most common deadly cancers around the world, although today vaccination offers the promise of vastly decreasing the number of cervical cancer cases," said Dr. Matthew Meyerson, a senior co-author of the paper and member of both the Broad Institute and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, in an email to Bio-IT World. "Finding new genomic alterations in cervical cancer, as we have just reported, offers the promise that new treatments can be tested for patients with life-threatening cervical cancers."
The researchers found over a dozen mutations that regularly occur in cervical cancer, including some that have shown promise as drug targets in other cancer types. However, Dr. Meyerson points out that cervical cancer appears to be highly heterogeneous, with numerous different driver mutations implicated in the disease, meaning that a single therapy is unlikely to emerge from genetic studies. Instead, individual variants will have to be matched to treatments as new drugs are developed and tested.
The common denominator in cervical cancer is the human papillomavirus (HPV), which is the root cause of virtually all cases of the disease. For this reason, the researchers also sequenced whole transcriptomes of many subjects' tumors. These measurements of gene expression can help to pinpoint where the virus has copied its genome into the cellular DNA, and how this affects the cellular machinery. "It turns out that HPV not only promotes cancer directly with the activity of its own genes," said Dr. Meyerson, "but could also promote cancer by affecting the expression of cellular genes. This could help to explain in part why some pre-cancers of the cervix develop into cervical cancer while others do not." The team discovered that HPV insertion was commonly associated with higher levels of gene expression, illuminating the process by which certain HPV infections gradually lead to cancer, while the majority are harmless.
Conducted under the SIGMA umbrella, this study is part of an initiative to include lower-resource countries in the Americas in cutting-edge genetic research, ensuring that the genetic diversity of these countries is not neglected when searching for the genes involved in disease. The National Institute of Genomic Medicine in Mexico City, and the University of Nuevo León in Monterrey, were major partners in the study, and contributed one of the two patient cohorts to be sequenced. Globally, cervical cancer accounts for one in ten cancer deaths in women, a number that public health authorities hope will decrease as vaccination campaigns pick up steam.
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The Alabama Board of Education extended state school Superintendent Joe Morton's contract by two years today.
The board voted 6-0-2, with members Stephanie Bell and Betty Peters abstaining, to extend Morton's contract until Dec. 31, 2012.
Morton said he's thankful for another two years on the board and wouldn't feel right leaving during such a financial crisis.
Bell and Peters said they saw no need to extend Morton's contract two years when it automatically would renew for one year anyway. His contract was set to expire at the end of the month, but would automatically have renewed for one year because the board already had missed the 180-day deadline to non-renew the contract.
"One day I'm going to leave on a Friday and not come back on Monday morning," Morton joked. "But I did not want to leave in one of the worst financial times in education's history."
Morton requested the board not raise his salary of $197,963, saying he wouldn't feel right getting a raise "when education in Alabama is hurting so badly."
In other news, the board honored outgoing board members David Byers, Ethel Hall, Mary Jane Caylor and Gov. Bob Riley, who serves as president of the board. Peters and Bell abstained from voting on resolutions honoring the four members because the resolutions commended them for the adoption of the controversial Common Core State Standards.
The board approved the standards in November, with Peters and Bell casting dissenting votes. The set of standards is meant to keep students from all states on a level playing field by having the same requirements across state lines in English language arts and math, but some feel it is the first step toward a nationalized education system.
"The Common Core State Standards did not have to be a part of the resolution; it was not a unanimous decision," Bell said after the meeting. "It was nothing personal against my colleagues at all. I just didn't think it needed to be part of the resolutions."


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EIB Provides US$220 Million in Funds to Mitigate Climate Change in China
2 April 2009: The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing a total of EUR 220 million in three operations that will contribute to the mitigation of climate change, within the objectives of the China Climate Change Framework Loan (CCCFL), signed with the People's Republic of China in November 2007.
The funds will partially finance two forestation programmes: the establishment of a "bio-energy forest" through permanent tree plantation for biodiesel and edible oil production in the Jiangxi province; and the establishment of permanent plantations with an environmental focus, contributing to erosion/desertification control and carbon sequestration in the Inner-Mongolia Autonomous Region. EUR 135 million will be allocated to the construction of four wind farms located in Henan, Hainan, and Guangdong. All projects will seek registration under the Clean Development Mechanism for carbon credit generation. [EIB press release]


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We recognize, as is pointed out by Gomez et al, that Asian Americans are a heterogeneous mix of ethnic subgroups. This is true of most, if not all, racial groups in the United States. Both [Lin] Gomez et al1 and we2 analyzed SEER data for cancer survival by race and ethnicity. We analyzed cancer-specific survival data for 1.8 million US whites and 5 major minority groups including Asian Americans who were diagnosed between 1975 and 1997, whereas the Gomez et al study was limited to 260 000 whites and Asian Americans (Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino) diagnosed between 1988 and 1994. Neither study included other subgroups of Asian Americans because of small numbers. We also excluded data from the 2 newer registries in California (Los Angeles and San Jose/Monterey) that joined the SEER program in 1992 because we compared survival differences for the periods 1975-1987 and 1988-1997. In contrast, Gomez et al studied a much shorter time interval (1988-1994), and did not examine temporal trends. We examined racial/ethnic survival disparities throughout the follow-up time period (up to 11 years), adjusting for tumor stage and age at diagnosis; Gomez et al reported unadjusted and stage-specific survival at one point (5 years after diagnosis). However, confidence intervals of their 5-year stage-specific survivals overlapped among racial/ethnic groups for each stage by primary site, so that differences in survival were not statistically significant by race/ethnicity. Gomez et al indicated that some Asian subgroups experienced worse survival than non-Hispanic whites after diagnosis of female breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer based on their unadjusted 5-year survival. To further examine this survival pattern after accounting for age and tumor stage, we calculated adjusted relative risks (hazard ratios) of cancer deaths over a 5-year follow-up for each Asian subgroup (with non-Hispanic whites as the reference group) using stratified Cox models and our 1988-1997 data (Table 1). Table 1 shows that every Asian ethnic subgroup experienced better, or at least comparable, 5-year survival rates than Non-Hispanic whites after adjusting for age and tumor stage. This result generally supports the notion that Asian Americans tended to experience more favorable survival than non-Hispanic whites and other race groups we examined after adjusting for age and stage.3
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3/30 - New Table
by Kenny on Tuesday, March 30, 2010
I've been wanting to redo my entire room lately, but finished one big step today...Picked up a new table from IKEA. Found pretty much what i was looking for, wooden, long, simple. This way Leslee and I can work on our computers on a table instead of her on the bed like usual lol.
This photo was also taken by Leslee's new camera, Nikon S8000.
Leslee's been in the market for a new point and shoot. This camera is pretty good for $300! Shoots 720HD with VR and ED Glass which is a great plus (something ill probably play around with =D) I think a point and shoot camera will fit her well
Here is an older image of my room, maybe ill take new pictures later when everything is all cleaned up.
by Kenny on Sunday, March 28, 2010
Today was the first Yo-Yo Class/Club thing by Paul held in San Jose @ Barefoot Coffee. Nice turnout, will probably be going to every Sunday class =D. Great learning new tricks in person and watching others.
you gotta see this in person, pretty crazy lookin what u can do with it.
learnin Johns new trick so he can use it against him at the next BAC (lol)
and here's alex amazed....but at the same time thinking about Pauls mom.
Afterward headed to Kinokuniya/Mitsuwa to grab some lunch...
saw this cool bug in the parking lot
buying a bottle of CURRLY RAMUNE..not so good idea, yes it tasted just like what it sounds.
Thanks paul!
chillin at a fountain on Santana Row...so peaceful....lol
by Kenny
Today went over to Fast Pace Racing over in San Jose. This place usually runs mini r/c races but hosted todays RC drift event. Many people brought their rcs out to battle it out on this indoor track, pretty intense! A bit tough taking photos of these rc's indoor but here's what i got:
Thanks Rob and FPR for throwing this awesome event!
3/25 - mostly food
by Kenny on Thursday, March 25, 2010
Just a quick food update =P
So i had boiling crab agian, already. Guess im kinda addicted, i wouldn't mind going back again already!
my friends sitting in the table across from uuusss!!!
so they opened up a La Vics in Hayward. Today i tried it out, pretty good!
2x as good with the orange sauce! its like the mexican siracha!
afterwards we hit up SONICS which opened up just a few minutes down on Mission Blvd.
heres spikey, hes gay, i mean drunk.
leslee TRYING to lay down
theres spikey trying to reenact the Walmart night.
Reeses thing
I dont listen to korean music but recently leslee got me hooked on this song:
3/22 - Snowboard Video
by Kenny on Monday, March 22, 2010
Just browsing through some of my old vimeo LIKES i came across this again, so sick!
Riders: Fredrik Evensen, Tom Klocker, Shayne Pospisil and Daisuke Honso.
Locations: Tokyo, Alts Bandai, Sapporo, Hokaido
3/17 - RIP Nujabes
by Kenny on Thursday, March 18, 2010
I personally don't discuss music much although i listen to many many types of genres. One of my favorites has always been listening to beats such as Nujabes. I still remember when Leslee sent me his album from Samurai Champloo. So so good, very sad to hear he has passed away.
Rip Jun Seba, really sucks because you had music I actually felt like i could say that was the type of music i listened to, i dont feel like i can say that about a lot of music out there.
This is the one of my favorite songs:
3/18 - Cleanest BMW
by Kenny
Today i met one of Mark's old friend Alvin. Mark told me to come out and check out his BMW, i had no idea it was going to be something like this! Soooo freaking clean! Apparently he did this thing from the ground up and it really shows.
seriously something you don't see everyday
awesome interior color
not only does it look good, this thing sounded sick too


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Police said she was struck around 7:30 p.m. Sunday by a vehicle driven by a 23-year-old Flint man who was traveling westbound.
The Davison Area Reconstruction Team was called to the scene to investigate. The woman was taken to the hospital.
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Do not believe the idea name, this is your new 3-Series vehicle. After being hit for six by the Rolls Royce A5 which up-ended this vehicle industry by presenting an completely different system design to the saloon A4 - BMW has reacted by rethinking its vehicle providing of the 3-Series. That begins by providing it an completely new name, so for initially we are getting a 4-numbered BMW and later on, all vehicle BMWs will be even figures. But while you might be looking at the images and considering that this is just a 3-Series saloon with two gates, in the steel its a different tale.
The 4-Series is a longer period, broader and less high than the saloon and to our sight looks like a lightweight 6-Series. That is no bad factor at all. But, I listen to you say, its a idea, so who loves you. Well, BMWs known as it a idea, but the truth is that 95 percentage of what you see here will create it to a development car that strikes the street later this season - a bit like the organization's i-series energy source also due out in 2013. The tires will be an inches or two small, some of the consumption mayhem at the front as well as rear side will be small but everywhere else, what you see is what you get.
Inside, it gets better reduce out in a BMW personal program of cigarettes set and flat feed timber, it functions a rather unique wicker-like mix stitching on the chair and entrance cuts. The structure in here is as you will see in the development car too it fairly much uses the structure of the 3-Series saloon, simultaneously with a bit of a succeed on the center system as the outer lining area reactivities up into the sprint.


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The program provides three months of cytology with the curriculum taking the resident through gynecologic, non-gynecologic and fine needle aspiration material. There is ample patient material and numerous study sets are available for review. The outstanding cytopathology faculty at Cedars-Sinai includes board-certified cytopathologists and California-licensed cytotechnologists, all of whom are involved with resident teaching. With approximately 2300 FNAs annually, residents learn the performance, handling and interpretation of direct fine-needle aspirates and CT-guided aspiration, becoming proficient in fine needle aspiration of superficial lesions. The 7000 annually received non-gyn cytologies ensures residents see the full range of lesions evaluated cytologically. Correlation of cytology samples with associated surgical pathology specimens is performed. In addition, there is active clinical and translational research ongoing in cytopathology. Residents present a cytology conference once during each rotation.
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The resident on rotation in the Cytology service attends sign-out with the Cytology I attending. In the event that there are two residents assigned, the second resident signs out with Cytology II attending. The resident is expected to:
- Preview the daily slides, look up the relevant clinical information on their cases and, if necessary, pull out and review previous histopathology and/or cytology slides, request special stains, and review special stains with responsible attending so that the case may be signed out in a timely manner.
- Write up cases of fine needle aspiration biopsies and take representative pictures on thyroid cases.
The American Society for Cytopathology recommends that residents review at least 1500 cytology specimens during the course of their training. This means at least 500 cases a month. The resident covers the FNA service during the month. He/she will attend FNA procedures with the attending on call and learn to perform the procedure based on the discretion of the attending.
Residents on cytology rotation I and II screen a set number of GYN slides then review them with the cytotechnologist for a minimum of ten multihead sessions. This will help them learn the basics and give them an exposure to screening slides.
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Every resident on the cytology rotation prepares a talk on any cytology topic of their choice under the guidance of a cytology faculty mentor of their choice. These may include basic topics, new advances, or research projects. Residents are expected to review literature for their presentations and include new and/or recent information on all topics.
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- Become proficient in the performance of fine needle aspiration.
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On Aug 1, 1:13*pm, Randy
> I am not particularly experienced with the 50g.
> I attempted to install a program from hpcacl. *The installation
> consisted of a library. *Instructions were sparse. *I copied the
> library, installed it, and found the user directions did not match
> what I saw on the calculator. *The calculator did not lock up.
> At that point I decided to start over by deleting the library and
> reinstalling the program. *I deleted the library.
> To my surprise, I can no longer copy from my pc to the 50g.
> Connection appears to be no different than before. *The connectivity
> software shows the calculator files in the home directory, *I paste a
> file into the pc side and a copy appears to occur.
> The calculator shows:
> xmodem server
> waiting for command
> name of file appears while the file is being copied
> However, the file does not appear on the calculator when I press var.
> I have tried to copy several files with the same results.
> I can create new vars on the calculator and they show on the pc
> directory side.
> I have reset the calculator and completed a self test with no change
> in results.
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
> Randy
Well, I have a 49g+ with a bad key but otherwise usable. I did a test
with it and was able to copy from the pc to it with no difficulty.
Then I set the flags on the 50 to match the 49g+. There were small
differences but none seemed to stand out.
Be that as it may, after I matched the flags I can now copy files from
the pc to the 50.
I believe I am back to normal.
Until now the 49g+ just sat on the shelf. I think I will use it as a
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I'm not sure. I like butter and haven't had a use for clarified butter since I stopped deep-frying in it.
I can't eat regular butter every day, so mostly I eat coconut oil. I've been interested in ghee. I got a jar at Whole Foods last year. I opened it and tasted it and was surprised that it tasted like shortbread cookies. I was actually worriedly trying to figure out if it had flour in it. I ended up never doing anything much with it. I was reading a blog a few days ago and ended up ordering a ghee from amazon that is supposed to be one of the very best. Got it. Tastes like shortbread cookies. I can't use this on anything. Eggs cooked in oil that tastes like shortbread are disgusting. The only thing I can use it on is popcorn, and I don't eat much of that at all. Is there something wrong with my tastebuds? I know what butter tastes like...I love butter and wish I could eat it more often. An egg cooked in butter is good. Ghee does not taste like butter. What is it you all love about ghee? This weird shortbread taste seems incompatible with almost everything we eat.
I'm not sure. I like butter and haven't had a use for clarified butter since I stopped deep-frying in it.
Ghee does dont taste like cookies to me...
Yeah, afraid I can't help you. It definitely doesn't taste like cookies. Try making your own with your favorite butter?
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I stopped buying it and use refined coconut oil instead.
I bought a jar of ghee once and didn't touch it again after opening it and using it one time...it smelled and tasted like rank ass to me. Never had that issue when I made clarified butter myself, though, so who knows. I can't be bothered with the effort, though; coconut oil and bacon fat are just so much easier.
That said, I don't know that I'd be all that turned off cooking with it tasting like shortbread cookies...I like the subtle bit of sweetness that coconut oil adds to eggs, veg, etc. Obviously this doesn't help you since you've said you just don't like it.
I suppose you could use it for something dessert like that would be inherently sweet(er) anyway, like roasting pumpkin or apples with it and topping them with cinnamon...?
Ghee does not smell like cookies to me, maybe I'd like it more if it did!
I'm in the camp of NOT liking how coconut permeates all my foods, since I am not a big fan of the flavor of coconut (though I do love the smell) so I cook almost exclusively with Kerrygold butter. I used to use ghee from whole foods, and while it is nice to cook with I much prefer the flavor of Kerrygold.
My second favorite is olive oil, or whatever fat from the meat I am cooking, if available.
I bought some good organic ghee from my local store. I didn't like it at all, don't think it smelled or tasted like shortbread though, or I would have liked it. I do my own now and love it. You can direct the flavor somewhat, by only clarifying it or cooking it long enough for the milk proteins to turn slightly golden, but not to burning point. Maybe experiment?
Started Primal June 2012 at 148.5lbs, and 5' 1", reached goal weight in 5 months.
Lowest weight 93lbs - too thin. Now stable at around 100lbs much better weight for me at my age.
Primal, minus eggs, dairy and a myriad of other allergens.
Shortbread is made with a lot of butter, so your impression makes a little sense. Ghee is a much better source of vitamins than is coconut oil and affects the final flavour of food much less. I use both among a range of fats. Maybe just use less until you've overcome your initial impression
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- Screening and Intervention Programme for Sensible drinking (SIPS) AED (F25W)
The Screening and Intervention Programme for Sensible drinking (SIPS) - AED is one of three clinical trials designed to test the best models of targeted screening and brief intervention in primary and secondary healthcare settings. The Accident and Emergency Department (AED) study employs a cluster randomised and nested factorial design to test the impact and cost effectiveness of implementing three models of screening and brief intervention.
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Bikini waxing and manscaping: How I explained hair removal business to my kidJessica Ashley
The news was on — the real news, not the morning-drive radio show my son believes in his heart of hearts is the news — and somehow the story of the salon offering self-esteem-dripping bikini wax specials to teens had just leaked to the station. I was standing in the bathroom, hair wrapped in a flat-iron, and too far away to flip it off in time. I also know from lots of experience that the quicker I hustle to switch a station or song, the more I call attention to it and the more questions there are. I stood silently and still. Maybe, for once, the moment would pass.
But, of course, it didn't. I had a five-minute breather to get ready and to begin believing it wouldn't be the day when my kid would be exposed to the cold, hard reality of hot wax and unwanted hair. But that was all I got.
"Mommmmmmy," Lil E said, stretching out my name that told me my reprieve had been stripped clean away. "What is waxing?"
He was on the other side of my bedroom door. I was pulling a dress over my head. There was no hiding.
I am not really the hiding type of mom, anyway, choosing to read books and have an open-door policy about sex and drugs and divorce and love and politics. I keep it age-appropriate, dole it out in manageable doses, all to underline that he can ask questions like the one he was asking. Still, you have to start somewhere. So I took the easy out first.
"Like when you get your eyebrows done," I said, leaning out the door once I was dressed and motioning in the general area of my eyebrows. He'd been with me and watched the nice ladies rip the hair from just above my eyes. He'd seen it already.
It wasn't enough. I knew it wouldn't be. He pressed on.
"NO," he looked right at me, right in my eyes where I'd tried to wave off his first inquiry. "BIKINI WAX."
"It's when people get the hair on their vulva taken off by using warm wax that is pulled off," I said as matter-of-factly as possible. "Like shaving to get rid of hair, but more painful."
His face was full of horror. He squeaked an "eww" and turned to go into his room and cover the whole thought in piles of Lego and stuffed animals.
Then he stopped, turned slowly, looked at me with nostrils flared and lip curled.
"Some people like the hair removed. Some people like the way it feels. And it's not just ladies," I added in, you know, just to be balanced in a feminist-mama-talking-beauty-ideals kind of way.
"Wait … really?" I had paralyzed the poor kid.
"Sure, some men get waxed, too." I was getting calmer.
He motioned in circles around his midsection.
"THEIR BUSINESS?!" This is is safe term for you-know-what.
I nodded solemnly and added, "And chests. Sometimes eyebrows and backs and other stuff. Not just women."
"Ewwwwwww," he said, parting company and retreating to the place where the most vile thing he had to consider was in a Captain Underpants book.
Really, he is right. It is kind of astonishing, kind of gross — not what we put our business through under the nice-ish term "bikini" but what we consider to be so everyday that we don't consider who will explain this all to our kids. I learned about waxing in college but it wasn't until years later that my grad-school friends revealed they were putting it into practice and I should try it, too. Our children won't have the luxury of waiting to hear about waxing until they have keg-fueled one-nighters and whispered dorm-room confessionals and enlightened conversations with grad-school cohorts over American Spirit cigarettes and triple espressos. They are being targeted right now, whether through over-hyped salon specials or even more ridiculous media coverage. It's right there, the business of bikini waxing, in their faces.
So our job, I suppose, is to find a way to say what it is. And to say it in such a straightforward manner that they have no interest whatsoever in using their babysitting money or shaking out the coins in their allowance jar to get whatever fuzz they accumulate ripped off before its (or even it's) time.
I'm fine with my child knowing what waxing is. I'm even OK with him choosing to manscape. When he is a man. If I had a girl, I'd hope she'd wait for womanhood (and not in the Old Testament-kind of definition of that word) before hoisting herself up on to the paper-lined table.
I think — I hold on to — that laying it out there will help keep kids informed about and away from aspirations of waxing.
And, just in case, I will totally put on an act by screaming in the chair the next time my son sees my eyebrows being ripped away.
Have you explaining waxing to your kids? How did that conversation go (umm…) down?
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In an appearance on The View taped Wednesday, Alec Baldwin offered an emotional apology for his angry voicemail to his 11-year-old daughter, PEOPLE has learned.
"Obviously calling your child a pig or anything else is improper and inappropriate and I apologize to my daughter for that," Baldwin said on the show, which is scheduled to air Friday.
"There's nothing wrong with being frustrated or angry about the situation," added Baldwin. "It's the way you do it, and as people often do in this world, I took it out on the wrong person."
Baldwin, 49, whose battle with ex-wife Kim Basinger took a very public turn last week when his voicemail to daughter Ireland was leaked on TMZ.com, did not say whether he has talked to his daughter since the voicemail hit the Web. But he insisted the incident was isolated.
"In my own case, with this message, I had never done this before in my life," he said.
Baldwin also added that he has asked NBC to release him from his contract for 30 Rock because he doesn't want the show or its cast and crew to be negatively affected by him.
"If I never acted again I couldn't care less," he told the audience. "I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation," which is a subject Baldwin says he's writing a book about.
For her part, Basinger has said through her rep that she hopes her ex will curb his "irrational behavior." "It is Kim's sincerest wish is for [Alec] to finally address his unstable and irrational behavior so he, at some point can potentially create a relationship with his daughter."
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by Amanda Lowery
Game of Thrones is very much a show that must be taken in as a sum of its parts. With such a far reaching and complex story to tell, some episodes seem more focused on establishing character motives and providing the audience with more background information as opposed to an action filled plot focused entirely on movement. I feel like Episode 2 'The Night Lands' was that kind of episode, making it no less crucial, but definitely requiring a different mode of engagement from viewers. In this episode we really needed to pay attention to the relationship between all of these characters, because how the story plays out has everything to do with their individualized emotional motivation.
I've read the books, but I am going to try to keep spoilers to a minimum and focus primarily on what the show has brought us. I will borrow from the more extensive background information I have from reading, but only to provide a greater sense of understanding and more insight.
The episode kicks off with Arya, now named Arry the orphan boy, as Yoren from the Night's Watch is transporting her, some criminals, and Robert Baratheon's bastard boy Gendry to the Wall. The plan is to drop Arya off in Winterfell to restore her to her proper place out of the hands of the Queen Regent. However, due to (as we discover later in the episode) wicked King Joffrey's orders to purge Westeros of Robert's bastards that may want to challenge his own claim to the throne, the Gold Cloaks have a royal decree to apprehend Gendry and bring him back to Kings Landing. Yoren refuses the decree, because in Westeros the Night's Watch is like Switzerland minus the windmills and lederhosen. The Night's Watch is neutral in all conflicts and once a man has taken the black all of his former transgressions are forgiven. Arya reveals her identity to Gendry, and the two become allies on this long journey north. I think this is interesting considering who their fathers were; the Stark and Baratheon bond runs deep. That bond is actually the reason why Robb Stark sent Catelyn to bargain with Renly Baratheon in the hopes of uniting their forces against the Lannisters.
Another ally is sought back in Kings Landing as Varys connives to bring Tyrion into his web of endless scheming. Tyrion, whore hungry but clever is hesitant to let himself fall into leagues with the Spider, however, what good can the acting Hand of the King do without the benefit of the whispering services that Varys has mastered, and now offered. The battle for accurate information and intel on the twisted intentions of the royal family and their council is like something out of the contemporary grappling of network news to beat out their competitors. In Episode 1 of this season we saw the mistake that Littlefinger made in educating Cersei on the delicacies of information gathering by reminding her that information is power, to which she responded that power is power through wielding the blind obedience of her bought soldiers through a display of violence to prove her point (I bet he wet himself).
Speaking of Littlefinger, he is an awful little man. Probably already hated by audiences for his betrayal of Ned Stark, he continues to prove himself a vicious seeker. His House Sigil is a Mockingbird, which to me would automatically put me on high alert that he is a man out for himself, willing to sacrifice anyone and anything to get what he wants, mocking them all as his master plan unfolds. In this episode we get to see the darker side of Lord Baelish as he floats around the halls of his whore house. We first catch him peeking in at a client's session, while that client is voyeuristically peeking in on another client's session. Looking in on looking in, the essence of the sequence conveying the very nature of Littlefinger's spying tendency, and the ultimate "one up" that he always seems to have on everyone because he has eyes and ears everywhere, and nothing is ever as it seems. Littlefinger watches from afar and uses people to play out nasty scenarios to have the world unfold just the way he wants it to – he is a puppeteer, and perhaps that is why he runs a whore house and acts as the master of coin: he is a good manager. So good in fact that he threatens poor Roz whose breasts and wit we remember from Theon Greyjoy's northern adventures. Roz is distraught that a baby was just butchered right before her eyes at the end of last week's episode, and it is interfering with her making whoopy. Littlefinger starts to seemingly console her, but then regales her with a tale of another bad investment he made and the horrific end it held for the whore. Then he sums up his humiliating encounter with Cersei and the immoral bastard purging ordered by the King with the wonderful line, "sometimes those with the most power have the least grace." If ever there was a man not to trust – he would be that man.
So what is Rozz's old friend Theon Greyjoy up to now that he's been sent back to the Iron Islands to plead on the behalf of Robb Stark for ships to help in the war? Fucking ugly captain's daughters and feeling up his sister. Theon is so sketch! He is the guy who will roofie you at the club and never feel bad about it. That should speak to his moral character right there. So Theon returns home after being held as the Stark's ward for ten years. I loved the reproach of his father. You really get the sense of the Iron Island culture when Balon Greyjoy asks his son how he came about acquiring his jewelry. He wants to know if Theon bought it with gold to match his outfit, the gold way, or if he took it off a man he slaughtered, the iron way. The gold way or the iron way? A collision of ideology and a wonderful way to demonstrate to the arrogant Theon that he has been a Westeros brat for more than half of his life and he really has some nerve to waltz into his father's castle demanding ships and the right to commandeer them. This doesn't look good to me. Never a Stark and now shamed into realizing he isn't really a Greyjoy, Theon is being reduced to a desperate situation where he is ranked even lower than his sister, a woman (gasp), and the Drowned God only knows what he will do.
Gods. Ever so many gods in this show…it's kinda like, well, like the real world. The Lord of Light is reaping havoc on Dragonstone as the severe and unbending Stannis Baratheon continues to rail against those who dare to challenge his right to the Iron Throne. The Onion Knight, Davos, has secured extra ships for a sea attack by forming an ally with the pirate Sallador Sanz, a wonderful character of lightness only concerned with Queen fucking. And here, we find another complex relationship between characters. Stannis Baratheon cut off Davos' fingers when he was a smuggler (hence the Onion Knight title) as a form of punishment, and then raised him to a station that Davos could never had achieved if he had stayed a smuggler. Now Davos is so solidly behind Stannis that he compares him to a God. This is like Stockholm syndrome gone medieval on your ass, and check out that pouch Davos wears around his neck – those are the bones of the fingers he lost, he touches them to remind himself of his duty and loyalty to the man that raised him to a level that would allow his sons a respectable future. Then we watch as Stannis gives himself over to the Lord of Light, truly forsaking the Seven Gods and his marriage vows by doing it to the red lady. Melisandre is a sorceress, and I love how she has her own spooky music. The score is different in the second season, it allows for the development of these more mystical happenings to flow more organically in the pace of the show. Stannis takes Melisandre, melding his wants with her wants and the Lord of Lights wants, and they screw on the table of Westeros carved by Aegon Targaryen, the conqueror, whilst the figurines all scatter to the floor. Symbolism? You got it!
Speaking of Targaryens, where is that Danerys? Oh, still wasting away in the desert.
Oh, did you hear that? The sound of ripping paper? That would be Cersei, doing what she does best, shredding every attempt to establish order. She's the worst! No peace for Robb, and nothing for the Night's Watch either. Tyrion reminds the small council that the Night's Watch is the only thing between the realm and what lives beyond the wall. Cersei doesn't care, there is no room in her self absorbed ruthlessness to consider ancient myths and recent reports of mystical disturbances, she's too busy creating a monster of a King and proudly pretending not to notice. At first I didn't know what to think of Lena Headley in this role, but after Episode 1 of this season she has convinced me that there is no one else in the realm, I mean world, that could play this role. She has mastered the grown up indignantly malicious brat that she must play and she does it while looking beautiful. In a private conversation with her brother Tyrion she laughs at one of his many jokes and applauds him for his humor, but then she reminds him of the biggest joke of all: his hideous birth and the subsequent death of their mother. It's like she had been waiting to get back at him for calling her the disappointing child in last week's episode. Oh yeah? Well, your imp ass killed our mother. Burn. But really, if the first joke was Tyrion's it seems likely that the last joke will be his as well. Watch yourself monster maker, there is wit at play. This relationship between brother and sister is very different from the incestuous relationship she has with Jaime. The extreme of opposites is striking, and for a family like the Lannisters you would think that they would work a little harder to play nice for the sake of the almighty family dynasty.
Another important juxtaposition to note is the speech given by Cersei justifying the death of babies and striking fear in the heart of the people. Cersei compares the people they rule to weeds they must pull out by the roots to keep from strangling them. Compare this mindset to what Danerys is dishing out on the doorstep of death. She has become one with her people, suffering along with them, building their bond and consoling them for the losses they suffer. Who would you choose? The crazy gardener or the empathetic dragon lady?
I would choose Jon Snow. Because I think he is real pretty. So now we know what Craster does with his sons. He offers them up as a sacrifice to The Others to spare his wives and home. That isn't actually a plot point discovered in the books until much later, but it worked so well in the show. And now we are left to wonder how this discovery was made to begin with; how The Others are communicated with to establish these rules; and why the boys? The gender war in Game of Thrones is heating up, and we see that women are worth their weight in males. Is it just that Craster never wanted competition among his wives, or is there something about the male child that makes a better offer to The Others? I suppose we will discover that as the season unfolds. All in all a very important episode in further investing us in the dynamics that exist between all of these characters. We can see the storm brewing on the horizon and we are all likely positioning ourselves behind our favorites, but if Littlefinger's scenes have reached your intellect, you probably know that nothing in this show will turn out the way that it seems like it should.


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