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July 14, 2006
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Attacks on the Press | China, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Vietnam, Yugoslavia
Remember 1989? The collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of democracy and democratic institutions in the old Communist bloc, including Mother Russia, inspired a new generation of journalists in places where a free press had been a state crime. Other journalists in other places, such as Central and South America, Southeast Asia, and China, were showing a new boldness and courage that gave rise to the hope that we were entering a golden age of press freedom.
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Sunday, 6 March 2011
observer ONLINE
By Shanika SRIYANANDA
He, who braved the skies since 2007, could not touch the ground on
this fateful day as usual after the ill-fated training mission. Making
the entire nation grieve, he was a youth who always aspired to do his
duty towards the nation-Monath bid his last farewell yesterday.
Monath Erash Perera
There were swathes of banners wishing the young hero a good life in
his next birth. The country lost another hero who helped to save the
lives of thousands of innocent Tamils who were kept as hostages by the
ruthless LTTE.
He was fortunate and brave to escape death during the height of the
war against terrorism. He had many dreams after he completed his mission
- destroying the LTTE. But fate had taken all those dreams away.
"I don't have anything now. Why has this happened to my son, he is my
only child", mother - Kumari Sumathipala - cried repeatedly.
A picture of the handsome young officer with a charming smile hangs
on the wall near the coffin which was sealed. His father M. Chandrasena
Perera looked on unable to bear the grief.
It was on March 1st at 9.10 am that the two pilots took off to
perform their difficult flypast training mission to display their
aerobatic talents the next day at the colourful ceremony of the 60th
Anniversary of the Sri Lanka Air Force.
There were over 40 different flights decorating the clear blue sky
that morning. The breathtaking sight sounded fearful with the roaring
sounds from two Kfir fighter jets of the 10 Jet Squadron of the SLAF.
But sounds of Kfirs lasted for less then 20 minutes and then what
people saw was a large ball of fire. The mobile alerts flowed first
saying that the two pilots were safe. The unfortunate news about the
death of one of them came hours later.
Later the SLAF confirmed that Flight Lieutenant Monath Perera died in
the accident, in which the two Kfirs collided in the fly pass training
exercise at Yakkala, in the Gampaha district. Squadron Leader Vajira
Jayakody who was ejected from the Kfir was hospitalized with minor
Initially the SLAF said the accident occurred during the flypast
training exercise when the two fighter jets were flying at a speed of
around 900 kph in a close formation and the wings had touched when
taking a turn.
However, the SLAF is tight lipped as the investigation into the
accident is on-going. The Sunday Observer spoke to Monath's best friend
Charitha Dayaraja.
From the day Charitha was admitted to grade 1-D of Mahinda College
Galle, he was Monath's best friend until his untimely death.
" I will never get a friend like Monath", his voice quivers.
Recalling their school days, Charitha said Mahinda College won the
sixth place at the annual competition held at the Rantambe Cadet School
in 2000 under the leadership of Monath, who was the Cadet Sergeant of
the school.
" Apart from studies, he participated in extra curricular activities.
He was in the basketball team and English drama society. He was the
Deputy Head Prefect of the school", he says.
Being an Audit Assistant Charitha, met his best friend rarely during
the government's humanitarian operation as Monath was engaged in air
offensives throughout.
" He never talks about the targets he took. He said he was so proud
as he had taken many accurate targets but he never revealed any",
Charitha says.
According to Charitha, Monath always told his friends to find a job
which could give job satisfaction and also a job that serves the nation.
" I think his happiest day was the day he successfully took the
target to destroy LTTE armoury in Pudukudiyrippu. That day he spoke to
me and told me the location and the target. It brings back vivid
Born in 1982, Monath Erash Perera joined the SLAF in 2004. He was
commissioned as a Pilot Officer in 2005 and promoted as a Flying Officer
in 2007, January. Monath first flew the K-8 fighter jets, moved to F-7
in the No. 5 Jet Squadron and then joined the No. 10 Attack Jet Squadron
to fly the Israeli built Kfirs.
He had completed 450 flying hours and done 75 operational sorties
during the humanitarian operation.
Flight Lt. Monath was promoted posthumously to the rank of Squadron
Leader cause of his contribution to the humanitarian operation.
The SLAF Commander Air Marshal Harsha Abeywickrema appointed a
five-member committee to probe the incident.
According to SLAF spokesman Group Captain Andrew Wijesooriya the
Committee headed by Air Vice Marshal Kapila Jayampathi would submit its
final report in 14-days. Wijesooriya, who refused to disclose further
details of the incident as the investigation was going on, said the
committee had commenced its investigations from the day the incident
took place and it would look into the causes of the accident.
The report by the Judicial Medical Officer Dr. Channa Perera revealed
that Monath's death was due to a heart attack which had occurred after
he ejected from the jet.
The report was handed over to the SLAF Commander.
Refusing to comment on the JMO report, SLAF Commander Air Marshal
Abeywickrema said Monath was in good health and his death was due to the
midair crash.
The SLAF spokesman said all Air Force pilots undergo annual medical
check-ups and a doctor would check pilots after each sortie."Monath was
in good health and fit for flying", he said.The Kfir, Israeli-built
all-weather, multi-role combat aircrafts, with a maximum speed of 2.440
kph, are fighter jets of the Sri Lanka Air Force No. 10 Fighter Squadron
which was established in 1996.
The Kfir jets played a vital role by providing offensive support for
ground troops during the humanitarian operation in 2009.
All Kfir fighter jets of the SLAF have been grounded until the
investigation into incident is over.
According to sources the estimated loss of the two Kfir jets is over
US $ 10 million.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who rushed to the crash site had
instructed the SLAF to meet the funeral expenses.
Addressing the nation on March 2 at the SLAF celebrations the
President paid his condolences to Monath's family and said lives like
those of Monath was more valuable than expensive military assets.
"We should never forget the airmen who sacrificed their lives and
also the pilot who sacrificed his life on Tuesday while rehearsing for
the anniversary. Our sympathies go out to his family and all the
families who sacrificed their loved ones to protect the motherland", he
" The life of a war hero is more valuable to the nation than a heap
of metal", the President said.
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» Carrie Underwood Has Gone To The Dogs
Miranda Lambert isn't the only female country artist to lend a hand at animal shelters. Carrie Underwood's love for animals is well documented, and to start the year she decided to spend a couple of days volunteering at an animal shelter.
And she got her hands dirty, too (and some other things it appears) as she shared this video on Vine cleaning pens…
Coming off a busy end to 2013, Carrie is looking forward to recording new music and hitting the road in 2014.


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The Leonard Lopate Show
Sweet Treats
4 segments
Charles Dickens in Love 15 min
Golden Boy 32 min
On today's show: James Beard Award-winning food writer Melissa Clark will speak with some of the winning contributors to our Holiday Cookie Recipe Swap! We'll hear about the musical adaptation of Jean Shepherd's "A Christmas Story" on Broadway. Robert Garnett talks about the love life of Charles Dickens, and looks at how it influenced his fiction. Plus, the revival of Clifford Odets' classic "Golden Boy" has received rave reviews, and we'll speak with director Bartlett Sher and two of its stars: Tony Shaloub and Seth Numrich.


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•Let's go ahead and get this out of the way: the 'state championship' in college football is not a recognized title. There's no tournament, there's no trophy, there's no banner. To the college football world, programs are defined by bowl wins and conference and national championships. But within the walls of the Kenan Football Center, being acknowledged as the premier program in the state of North Carolina is supremely important.
When Larry Fedora arrived at Carolina, he recognized the wealth of football talent in the state. One of his first stated objectives was to reach out to those high school players and impart to them the idea that they can reach their dreams and goals without having to leave their home state. Next comes convincing those players that Chapel Hill is the best place to play within those borders. To do that, it's up to Fedora and his staff and players to execute on the football field.
This season, Carolina has five in-state opponents on the schedule. There are, of course, the three ACC opponents (Wake Forest, Duke and NC State), Elon (from the FCS Southern Conference) and East Carolina (Conference USA). Winning a state championship is a very real goal for a team barred from postseason play."That's one of our major goals, is to be state champs," Fedora said Monday. "[Wake Forest] is our second team in the state that we're playing, so it's very, very important. Our guys understand it. Under our circumstances, there are certain things that we can reach, and this is one of them, and so we're going to work hard toward that."
"We want to achieve that we can be the best team in the state," Bryn Renner said, "but it starts one game at a time. We're just trying to be 1-0 on Saturday and let the rest take care of itself."
You'd have to go back to the 2004 season to find a credible Carolina claim to the state championship. Those Tar Heels, led by Darian Durant, were 3-0 against NC State, Duke and Wake Forest. The 2005 Tar Heels went 2-0 against Duke and NC State, but did not play Wake Forest, who beat the Blue Devils and Wolfpack and added a win over East Carolina. Since then, Carolina is 11-8 against in-state teams.
For linebacker Kevin Reddick, Carolina winning a state championship would be a piece of achieving a greater goal in his senior season. "Like I said at the beginning of training camp, [our goal] is to win 12 games. Why not set that standard now?" Though he'll have played his last game in Carolina blue, Reddick is intent on laying the foundation for the Tar Heel teams fo the future. "Set that bar high, and teams will know what to expect next year. They'll just have to bring it to the guys, and the guys will have to bring it next year. The goal is go out there and win 12 games," he said.
•Last week's 62-0 win over Elon gave the Tar Heels some film of themselves against an opponent. It allowed them to see what they did and didnt do well to correct mistakes and move forward. Sophomore cornerback Tim Scott said he liked what he saw. "We really didn't know how good our defense was going to be, transitioning from last year into the 4-2-5, and I felt like we did pretty good going into the game on Saturday. But the past is the past, and now we have Wake Forest."
Scott said defensive coordinator Dan Disch stresses the importance of players having individual goals within the defensive unit. Scott's goal of seven or eight interceptions (he had one against Elon) would put him among the school's single-season leaders (Dre' Bly's 11 in 1996 remains the school record). But beyond that, he wants to win the individual matchups. Carolina was able to limit Elon's Aaron Mellette to just nine yards on two catches. They'll look to continue that success against Wake Forest's Michael Campanaro. "Our goal is to give him less than three catches, probably even none if that's possible," Scott said. "We just really want to have a lockdown defense. Last week was a confidence-builder, so we want to continue to see how good our defense can be."
•Now in his second year as a starter, Bryn Renner gets a chance Saturday to face a team he's seen before. Renner was 21-28 for 338 yards and three touchdowns against the Demon Deacons in Chapel Hill last season. Though he's running a completely different offense in 2012, he said there are things he can apply from year to year. "Knowing the caliber team they are and what they want to try to do on defense," he said. "They run a 3-4, so it's tough, (with) three down linemen. They like to blitz a lot, zone blitzes, so we've got our hands full. As a quarterback, I didn't know anything about Wake Forest last year, but now I've got a good head start on them. That's the biggest thing you can learn. You kind of know the scheme and how they're going to play, but everybody always gets better, so it's going to be a challenge on Saturday."
•Though Fedora, Renner and offensive coordinator Blake Anderson all said that Carolina didn't get too deep into the playbook last weekend, the quarterback did catch a pass when Erik Highsmith hit Renner for 18 yards early in the second quarter. "Yes, he did," Anderson said. "Hey, we can have a little fun. He has no yards after the catch, but he did make the catch. These guys work extremely hard, and so when you can do something fun to shake things up, and obviously if it creates an explosive play, that's a plus. If it gets some people in the stands, that's another plus. So, there's a lot of reasons why we do it. If nothing else, it's just an opportunity to have a big play and quit hearing Bryn talk about how good a receiver he was back in junior high."


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Winning the game of market musical chairs is the real battle with long-term investing. Knowing when to move more funds from cash to fixed interest to blue-chip stocks and small caps ultimately creates much greater value for portfolio investors than direct stock picking.
But getting the big asset allocation shifts right in portfolios confounds even the best investors because markets rarely follow an orderly script. The only certainty is that too many retail investors are too slow with so-called portfolio tilts, which lift or reduce allocations towards certain assets relative to the desired weighting.
Consider market trends this year. Investors who have held too much cash in bank term deposits for too long face puny returns of 2-3 per cent this year after inflation. Those who moved funds into higher yielding defensive blue-chip stocks, such as
Stronger returns in the next 12 months could come from holding blue-chip growth stocks that have greater leverage to improving global economic growth and better prospects for share price gains, albeit with low yield. Before long, the smart money will be invested more in small- and mid-cap stocks in anticipation of rising investor risk appetite, while most investors are not even thinking about it.
I'm not suggesting that retail investors take big punts on the next hot market and jump between asset classes; that is speculating rather than investing. Owning the best quality blue-chip companies with decent, sustainable yields should be a permanent feature of outstanding portfolios, not a fashion.
But there is a case to add more growth assets to portfolios and pay greater attention to small- and mid-cap stocks over the next 12 months in anticipation of the next bull market.
My past two columns have laid out a view of the sharemarket bouncing between 4000 and 5000 points before stronger gains next year. If that view is correct, it is time to add more small- and mid-cap Australian equity exposure to portfolios, for they often rally first.
How to do that depends on your risk tolerance and investment experience. Portfolio investors might use an exchange-traded fund (ETF) to achieve a similar return to the S&P/ASX 200 Small Ordinaries index. State Street, iShares Australia and Vanguard each offer an Australian small-cap ETF through the ASX; Vanguard is the cheapest, with annual fees of 30 basis points.
These ETFs appeal to conservative investors who are happy with the market return from small-cap Australian stocks, want diversified exposure and low fees. I struggle to get excited about small-cap ETFs when this is one of the rare markets where most active fund managers have shown they can outperform the Small Ords index consistently over five years, according to Standard & Poor's research.
A better strategy is using an ETF to gain index exposure over the top 20 or top 200 ASX stocks by market capitalisation, where sustained outperformance is much harder to achieve and use active managers for small-cap stock exposure.
When choosing small-cap managers, it is hard to go past those with good long-term performance, such as the BT Smaller Companies Fund, the Celeste Australian Small Companies Fund or the Pengana Emerging Companies Fund.
The Smallco Investment Fund has excellent returns over one and three years thanks to its higher weighting of internet stocks such as
Listed investment companies that specialise in small-cap stocks, such as
Investors seeking higher risk and more concentrated returns should invest directly in small- and mid-cap stocks. In July, this column nominated 10 investment grade stocks to watch in 2012-13:
Experienced speculators might delve into micro-cap stocks or those yet to earn profit. I nominated 10 for 2012-13:
The life science stocks have disappointed but exploration stocks such as
Expect small- and mid-cap resource stocks to rally if the market gets a stronger whiff that China's economic slowdown has bottomed. The S&P/ASX 300 metals and mining index has underperformed the broader market over the past 12 months and may have been sold down too much.
Gold stocks in particular are worth watching, because they have badly lagged gains in the gold price.


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Sin Cara Returns, Stacy Keibler Goes Back To Blonde, Prime-Time
Published On 06/02/2012 | News
– Sin Cara returned to action on last night's WWE SmackDown, defeating Heath Slater. Cara debuted new ring gear and was trending worldwide on Twitter.
– SmackDown tag team Darren Young and Titus O'Neil are now being called The Prime-Time Players.
– Former WWE Diva Stacy Keibler has dyed her hair blonde to help raise money for HAIRraising, a fundraising initiative that supports the Boston Children's Hospital. For every person who watches the video below, $2 will be donated to the organization.


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Frances 'Shorty' Swanger
In Loving Memory
CLYDE — Frances "Shorty" Lucille Snyder Swanger, 91, passed away Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014 at Smoky Mountain Health & Rehabilitation Center.
A native and lifelong resident of Haywood County, she was the daughter of the late Wiley Pearson and Hazel Mae Rhodarmer Snyder. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Roy F. Swanger, who died Jan. 17, 1992; two sisters, Evelyn Swann and Ruth S. Jones; and a nephew, Roger Norris. She was a dedicated member of Clyde Central United Methodist Church. Frances loved to dance and was a talented clogger and devoted member of the Pisgah Cloggers and Pisgah Promenaders Western Dance Club.
She is survived by a niece, Verba Norris, of Clyde, and a great nephew, John Norris, of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 13, at the Canton Chapel of Wells Funeral Home with the Rev. Daniel Gaddy and James Hart officiating. Burial will follow at Crawford/Ray Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 1:30 to 2:45 p.m. prior to the service.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Clyde Central United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 8, Clyde, NC 28721.
For those who desire, an online memorial register is available at www.wellsfuneralhome.com.


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'Innovation' Schools Get a Chance to Shake Up the Rules
Starting this September, dozens of New York City public schools will have the flexibility to deviate from school regulations or contract rules to try out some new educational strategies. On the face of it, the changes may seem small in scale but they were heralded by city education officials and the teachers union on Monday as significant innovations.
The city encouraged a mix of high- and low-achieving schools across all grade levels to submit proposals through a program detailed in the new teachers contract that aims to foster outside-the-box thinking. Out of more than 100 proposals submitted for the fall, 62 were approved. The city aims to expand to 200 schools over five years.
Carmen Fariña, the schools chancellor, said the new program put common sense at "the top of the list" and encouraged collaboration among school staff.
"This is not something that comes from the bottom up or the top down," she said. "This is something where people met in the middle. Principals had to sit around the table with their teachers."
The approved plans include modifications to teacher evaluations, more varied work hours for teachers and changing up teacher-student ratios to allow a mix of small group instruction and larger lecture-style classes.
One school, Community Health Academy of the Heights in Manhattan, plans to make changes around school food and teaching students how to cook healthy options. In order to open up the kitchen, the school needed to get around "a bunch of small regulations," said Mark House, the school's principal.
"Kids should be allowed into the kitchen if there's a great kitchen in the school," he said, so that students can experience what is being taught in their health class.
"I think the way you improve education is to sit down and say what are the little barriers that we can remove, what are the little things we can do," House said. For example, some schools are changing start times for teenagers because they tend to sleep late. "If your 17 year-old is asleep at 8 o'clock in the morning, it seems a pretty small barrier to move the start of school back an hour."
The schools submitted proposals to a joint panel comprised of representatives from the Department of Education and the United Federation of Teachers. The proposals will last for five years, and schools will be expected to meet performance targets. The Department of Education will oversee the program.
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USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll results
Below are the results of a USA TODAY/CNN/GALLUP POLL asking
Americans their opinions on recent developments related to the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks such as the U.S. military response in Afghanistan and the nation's anthrax
1. Question: Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush
is handling his job as president?
2. Question: In your view, should immigration be kept at its present
level, increased or decreased?
3. Question: As you may know, President Bush is on a trip to China.
Do you think President Bush is now in -- [ROTATED: more danger, about the same
amount of danger, or less danger] -- while he is traveling outside the country
than when he is staying within the U.S.?
4. Question: Do you approve or disapprove of the current U.S. military
action in Afghanistan?
5. Question: Suppose the World Trade Center and
the Pentagon had not been attacked, would you still have supported the current
level of U.S. military action in Afghanistan, or not?
6. Question: Do you favor or oppose the U.S. using ground troops in
7. Question: If you had to choose, which of the
following comes closer to your view -- [ROTATED: U.S. ground troops should be
used for limited missions which would send U.S. forces into Afghanistan for
only a few days or weeks at a time, (or) U.S. ground troops should be used to
take over areas in Afghanistan for an indefinite period of time]?
8. Question:If you had to choose, which of the following
would you say is the most important goal of the U.S. military action in Afghanistan
-- [ROTATED: destroying terrorist operations in Afghanistan, (or) capturing
or killing Osama bin Laden, (or) removing the Taliban from power in Afghanistan]?
9. Question: Which comes closer to your view on
how the United States should use military force to achieve its foreign policy
goals -- [ROTATED: American military force should be used only as a last resort,
after diplomatic and economic efforts have failed, (or) American military force
should be used as readily as diplomatic and economic pressure and should not
be held back as only a last resort]?
10. Question: From what you know, do you think the
U.S. is doing -- [ROTATED: too much, the right amount, or too little] -- to
provide humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan?
11. Question: There have been reports recently about
civilian casualties in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. military action there.
Which comes closer to your view -- [ROTATED: these civilian casualties are an
unavoidable aspect of war, (or) these civilian casualties could have been avoided
if the U.S. took proper care]?
12. Question: Next, I'm going to read you some things
people may do because of their concern about terrorism. For each one, please
tell me if it is something you have done, something you are seriously considering,
something you are not seriously considering, or something you haven't even thought
about. How about -- [RANDOM ORDER]?
A. Purchasing a gas mask or other protective clothing
B. Discussing the treatment of biological or chemical
warfare with your doctor
C. Trying to get a prescription for antibiotics
D. Trying to get a vaccination for anthrax or small
J. Using more caution in handling mail
13. Question: How worried are you that you or someone
in your family will be exposed to anthrax -- very worried, somewhat worried,
not too worried, or not worried at all?
14. Question: How likely is it that you or someone
in your family will be exposed to anthrax -- very likely, somewhat likely, not
too likely, or not at all likely?
15. Question: How confident are you in the ability
of the United States to respond effectively to the health threats posed by each
of the following -- are you -- very confident, somewhat confident, not too confident,
or not at all confident? How about -- [RANDOM ORDER]?
A. A major outbreak of anthrax
B. A major outbreak of small pox
C. A nuclear attack
16. Question: Do you think Americans are -- [ROTATED:
overreacting, reacting about right, or underreacting] -- to the threat of anthrax?
Would you say this overreaction is giving the terrorists what they want, or
Combined responses
17. Question: Do you think news media are -- [ROTATED:
overreacting, reacting about right, or underreacting] -- to the threat of anthrax?
Would you say this overreaction is giving the terrorists what they want, or
18. Question: As you may know, the U.S. House of
Representatives shut down this week because of threats of anthrax. Would you
say the U.S. House of Representatives overreacted, or did they react about right?
Would you say this overreaction is giving the terrorists what they want, or
Combined responses
19. Question: Do you think the recent incidents
involving anthrax do -- or do not -- represent the beginning of a sustained
campaign against the U.S. involving anthrax?
20. Question: Just your best guess, do you think
members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network are responsible for -- [ROTATED:
all of the recent incidents involving anthrax, some of them, or none of the
recent incidents involving anthrax]?
21. Question: Recently there has been some discussion
about the possibility of the United States building a defense system against
nuclear missiles. Do you think the government should or should not spend the
money that would be necessary to build such a system?
22. Question: Do you think the United States supports
Israel -- [ROTATED: too much, about the right amount, or too little]?
Results are based on telephone interviews with 1,006 adults. The survey
was conducted October 19-21, 2001. For results based on the total sample of
adults, the margin of error is ±3 percentage points.


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Koranna Getaway
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Directions to campsite From Clocolan take the R703 towards Excelsior for 5km. Turn right on the gravelroad (S356) for 18 km. Turn left at the farm entrance: Koranna Wegbreek. Signs give directions to the campsite 9 km further.
General Info
If you don't what so see or hear anyone during your annual getaway, this is the venue for you. All this lies against the ever-impressive backdrop of the magnificent Koranna Mountain in the Eastern Free State.
Our venue is a unique outdoor lifestyle, inspires a feeling of mystery and awe sense of real wonder not to be found anywhere else!!
Perfect venue for corporate days and team building.
Experience your 4x4 vehicle and have some fun with the family (Family team building)
A most enjoyable outing for the family, "a truly unique and unforgettable experience".
There are several beautiful natural areas, with plentiful vegetation, fauna & Flora, panoramic views, magnificent rock formations, Wake up to the sound of farm life and experience the tranquil atmosphere.
Our Lapa are supreme style, spaciousness & comfort for the enthusiastic nature lover, discover our secret!!!
Beautiful picnic spots, playground on site a paradise for children exploring a place full of trees and bird life provide hours of fascinating natural rock pools. Playing on an open lawn.
Relax and have a getaway in a private estate, Lots to do….. Plenty of time to do!
Impressive lapa, thatched sandstone with built-in braai and cosy fireplace.
Barbecue facility outside under a tree veranda, where you can learn a game the Basotho play as Marabamaraba.
A fully equipped communal kitchen.
Deep-freeze, microwave oven, cutlery, iron pots etc.
Open- plan working surface, while the cosy fireplace burns.
Big family dinning table, Living and Sitting room in Lapa. Ideal for friends and family seeking an outdoor experience in comfort.
A perfectly positioning lapa "Mind unwind" natural destination for family and friends.
2. Ablution
Separate ablution facilities with electricity
Showers with warm water and toilets
3. Guini fowl nest (Ou HUT)
Thatched, sandstone chalet with 3 - 1/3, 1/2/ 1/3 units
Main bedroom - ideal for the family or friends
Crisp linen provided bring own bath towels.
Unit with 1 double bed sleep 6
Electricity and geyser for warm water, bath and flushing toilet
Fully equipped Kitchen self-catering unit.
This will be a unique experience for family or friends without electricity a unique experience.
Thatched sandstone house Barbecue facilities
Linen provided bring bath towels.
5. Bush camp
Under a witstinkhout boom with fresh tap water. Ideally for the outdoor family & friends eco-trailers.
Ideally suitable for hikers and backpackers merely seeking a bath or bed.
6. Camping grounds around the Lapa.
Ideal for tents & Caravans. Electricity nearby on lawn near the ablution and lapa for the kids!!!
7. Kaia Kudu and Kaia Ribbok
Two luxury self-catering chalets with own private deck, overlooking the stream from the waterfalls. Surrounded by trees and rocks.
One double bed (sleep2) Crisp linen and bath towels are provided.
Luxury en-suite for family or grandparents. 1 double bed 2/4unit. En-suite bathroom/ablution, Warm shower, toilet. Crisp linen and bath towels provided. Next to lapa with self-catering facilities.
Electricity en-suite shower and toilet. Barbecue facilities.
Convenience, tranquillity and warm hospitality awaits you.
The location of Kaia Kudu/Ribbok is one with nature and a place to dreaming ...
Quad bike
Challenging clearly marked route on a plateau: 22km.
Horseback riding
4 Horses are available for riding on the farm.
Saddles and rides to be booked two days beforehand.
Hiking trails
Various track is available from 3.5 to 12Km.Submit
The best trail is the one leading up the mountain on the 4x4 track passing two waterfalls.
The Hiker's Credo: No man has the right to enjoy and use what nature has to offer unless he is prepared to take up the responsibility of protecting and conserving his natural heritage.
Koranna Getaway 's motto:
Leave only footprints ...
Bring own equipment.
Rock & wall climbing
Plenty of watering holes reservoirs and dams to cool of during hot summer days.
Pools under waterfalls as well as natural rock pools in mountainous streams ...
Mountain- bike route
Clearly marked route forms part of the Koranna Two Mountains Cycle race
CYCLE THOUGH NATURE on farm trails excellent activity for the whole family.
Numerous dams and steams with fresh water fish bass, carb and barbel.
Clocolan hosts one of the top ten of the 9-hole golf courses in the country, 28km drive. www.clocolangolfclub.com/
Also bowls and tennis.
Situated in the Korannaberg conservancy, if offers a unique eco-system.
Sweet and Sour vegetation growing form the east and west, meet on the Koranna Getaway KLOOF route. One of the most diverse habitats for flora and Fauna. With no less than 52 indigenous tree species, over 560 plant species;
The ordinary Taaibos, Gwarrie, Olienhout, Ouhout and Witstinkhout trees are found.
Under waterfall "Overhanging cave" you can witness a flourishing 450 million year old fern, 90% of these species are evergreen.
On the birding side:
Korannaberg has a rich bird life and it is estimated that as many as 277 species can be found in the area. Endangered species such as the Black Eagle and Martial Eagle & Jackal buzzard are frequently seen.
The typical species are: Black Korhaan, Swansons Francolin, Orange river Francolin, Natal Francolin, Helmeted Guineafowl, Red Capped Lark, Rock pigeon, Bokmakierie.
Animal wild life:
Chacma Baboon (mountain baboon)
There are +/- 50 different species of smaller mammals such as Suricate (Stokstert meerkat) Rock Hyrax (dassies), ground squirrel, springhare, mice & hares
Ant bear (aardvark), Warthog, Porcupine. Black-backed Jackal.
Other game that may be spotted is the elusive mountain reedbuck, ribbok, springbok, duiker & steenbok.
Water life:
Bass, barbel and carp fish in dams.
Broadband-grass frog (common river frog)
Platanna etc ...
Wild life in Miniature:
Millipede, Dung beetle, Grasshoppers & termite Scorpion
Puff adder, (Pofadder), Brounhouse snake, Mole snake, Rinkals. Skaapstekertjie.
Gecko, Blue gecko and many more..


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Our premier Pie or Die "double rainbow all the way" winner was Team Eat The Love with their scrumptious "Check(mate) Please! Blackberry Lemon Chess Pie with Almond-scented Crust & Honey Humbleberry Sauce" earning them both Judges' 1st Place and People's Choice wins. So epic! The winners also wrote an excellent adrenaline-fueled recap of their experience, thumb which you can read right here.
This is a long-ass recipe, but nothing worth doing is easy, right? Continue reading if you want to make your own version of this double-winner pie!
Blackberry Lemon Chess Pie with Almond-scented Crust & Honey Humbleberry Sauce
by Team Eat The Love
"This recipe has a lot of components. But hey, it's an award winning pie, what do you expect? Once you read it through, realize that each component can be made on a separate day to save time, and you can skip certain components if you want to. I've made notes at the very bottom of the recipe explaining time saving methods and shortcuts and how to customize the pie. It's actually a really basic pie when you come down to it."
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Almond-scented Pie Crust
This recipe makes two single pie crust pies (or enough for one double crust pie).
Adapted from More Best Recipes (America's Test Kitchen) by the editor's of Cook's Illustrated
2 1/2 cups of unbleached AP flour
1/2 cup of almond meal or almond flour
1 tsp of kosher or sea salt
2 Tbsp of sugar
12 Tbsp (1 1/2 sticks) of cold unsalted butter
1/2 cup of leaf lard (see note) or trans-free shortening
1/3 cup ice cold vodka
1/3 cup ice cold water
1. Put 1 1/2 cups of AP flour and 1/2 cup of the almond meal into a food processor with the salt, sugar. Pulse a couple of times to blend and then add the butter (sliced into 1/4″ pieces) and the lard or shortening cut into 4 pieces. Process the mixture until dough/paste lump starts to form – about 15 seconds or so.
2. Add the rest of the 1 cup of AP flour to the mixture and pulse a few times to break up the dough. If the dough is still clumped up, open up the processor and break it up a little bit with your fingers or a fork and then pulse a few more times. You want the mixture to look sorta like cottage cheese lumps.
3. Pour the mixture into a bowl and sprinkle the vodka and the water over the dough. Using a large spatula fold the liquid into the dough. The dough should be a little sticky, but don't worry about that. You'll be adding more flour when you roll it out to compensate.
4. Divide the dough in half and wrap each half with plastic wrap and stick in the fridge for at least 1 hour or overnight.
Note: Leaf lard is different from the lard you find at the grocery store. It's refined (but NOT hydrogenated like the grocery store stuff). It's also a much higher grade way better for you. Don't use the grocery store stuff. Stick with a trans-free shortening if you can't find leaf lard, but if you can, it's worth tracking down. You'll make amazing flaky crust with it because it melts at a higher temperature (allowing for more air pockets in the dough. Air pockets = flakiness). Check with a local butcher and see if they can order it for you. Or split an order with a fellow baker and mail order a batch.
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Blackberry Curd
This recipe makes more than enough for two pies. Save the rest and use it on toast or a bagel. It's a great fruit spread.
4 cups of blackberries (fresh or frozen – picked over and any moldy one discarded)
1/4 cup sugar plus 1/2 cup sugar
6 egg yolks
2 Tbls lemon juice
3 Tbsp arrowroot flour or tapioca starch
1. Rinse the blackberries gently and spread them out on a large baking sheet lined with a double layer of paper towels. Gently shake the baking sheet to dry the berries.
2. Put the berries in a large stock pot with 1/4 cup sugar and cook over medium heat until the berries start to disintegrate. It's okay if some of the berries are still intact, but you want most of them to have dissolved into liquid. Remove from heat and carefully pour into a food processor. The liquid will be hot. Process the berries until smooth (being careful not to get any on yourself, it'll burn! I recommend wrapping the edge of the lid with paper towels before you turn on the processor. It will splash out – or at least mine did as my walls can attest).
3. In a double boiler, or a metal bowl placed over a barely simmering pot of water, add 6 egg yolks, the remaining 1/2 cup of sugar, 2 Tbsp of lemon juice, the arrowroot flour/tapioca starch and 1/2 cup of blackberry puree. Stir the mixture with a whisk until it thickens up to the consistency of thick pudding.
4. Pour mixture into the food processor and process until smooth. At this point the curd is finished.
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Blackberry Lemon Chess Pie assembling
This recipe makes enough filling for two thin 9″ pies (like my semi-disposable pie tins), or one deep dish pie (when I use my nicer glass pie dish, I can only get enough filling for one).
2 cups of sugar
1/2 cup of butter at room temperature
5 eggs
1/4 cup milk
3/4 cups cream
1 Tbsp cornstarch
2 Tbsp medium grain cornmeal
1/4 cup of lemon juice
Zest from three medium lemons (roughly 3 Tbsp of zest)
1 tsp of vanilla extract
1. Preheat the oven to 425? F.
2. Roll out the pie dough for each pie tin you are using, making sure to use a generous amount of flour (the pie dough will be sticky so use as much flour as you want). Fit the dough into the pie tins and crimp the ends decoratively. Take a fork and prick the bottom of the pie dough several times evenly across the bottom of the pie tin.
3. Line the pie dough with parchment paper or a coffee filter and fill with pie weights or rice or dry beans. Bake the pie dough by itself for 10 minutes in the preheated oven, and then carefully lift up the parchment paper/coffee filter filled with weights/rice/beans and bake the crust for another 5-7 minutes without anything on top of it. The pie crust should look a little dry and the edges just starting to turn golden. This process is called blind baking.
4. Cool the pie crust while you are making the filling.
5. Cream the butter and sugar in a standing mixer until it looks light. Add the eggs one at time, beating between each addition. Add the milk and cream and mix until incorporated. The filling should look quite liquidy.
6. Add the cornstarch, cornmeal, lemon juice, lemon zest and vanilla extract and mix until smooth.
7. Spread a thin layer of the blackberry curd on the bottom of the prebaked pie crust (I used about 3 Tbsp of curd, but you might want more if you like it sweeter, or are using a deep dish pan). I wanted just a bare hint of the blackberry taste as a counterpoint to the tart lemon, but you might want more. Keep in mind the more blackberry curd you use, the sweeter the pie will be.
8. Gently pour the lemon filling over the blackberry curd bottomed pie crust, making sure not to disturb the blackberry curd too much. Don't overfill the pie.
9. Now you can either decoratively spoon some more blackberry curd on top and then swirl a knife around, or you can pipe some blackberry curd in lines across the pie, and then draw a knife back and forth creating a feathered pattern. Or you can be insane like I was and cut out a grid and fill every other grid with blackberry curd and then gently lift the grid straight up from the pie to create a checkerboard pattern. I don't recommend that one though. No one should be that insane.
10. Bake the pie for 35 minutes or until the top of the pie starts to get golden and the the center is set.
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Honey Jumbleberry Sauce
1/3 cup honey
1/3 cup fresh squeezed orange juice
1 Tbsp arrowroot
4 1/2 cups of mixed berries (I used chopped strawberries, raspberries, tayberries, bluberries, blackberries but you can use whatever you want)
zest of 1 medium orange (about 1 Tbsp)
1. Mix the honey, orange juice, and arrowroot together and stir until the honey is dissolved.
2. Put the berries in a large stockpot with the zest. Add the orange juice mixture and cook over medium heat until the berries have dissolved and the sauce has thickened a little and looks shiny.
3. If you want to, you can puree it in a food processor, or just serve it a little chunky. If you want to get fancy, you can put it in a condiment squeeze bottle and drizzle it over the pie slices. Just remember to cut the tip of the bottle so it's wide enough to allow for the seeds to go through. Or strain the seeds out with sieve. I was too lazy and too much in hurry to do that. People didn't seem to mind.
This recipe seems super long and complicated. But it's really a serious of components. Here's how to simplify it and customize it for yourself.
1. Make the pie dough a day or two ahead. In fact, pie dough freezes really well. Just make a batch or two (the food processor makes it SO easy) and freeze a couple for future use! Just thaw it overnight in the refrigerator and you have pie crust, or better yet, roll out the dough, fit in a pan and then stick the entire pan in a large freezer ziplock bag and just freeze it whole. Pull it out and stick it directly in the oven no need to thaw (just make sure you are using metal pie tins, don't freeze glass or ceramic pie plates and then stick them in the oven directly. They'll shatter).
2. Make the sauce in advance. It keeps for a couple of days. Or skip the sauce entirely. It's totally optional. The sauce, by the way, is awesome on pancakes and french toast.
3. Make the blackberry curd a few days in advance (it'll keep for up to a week in the fridge). Or skip making the curd and use some store bought stuff. Or even skip that and just use some store bought blackberry jam or some other berry jam or preserve. I won't tell, I won't judge.
4. Go back to basics, as the lemon chess pie is a classic southern treat. Skip all the extra stuff, just use a pre-made storebought crust (but I did tell you the pie dough is easy to make with a food processor right?) and make the lemon chess pie filling all by itself without the sauce, without the blackberry curd. It's a nice change of pace from the cloyingly gelled lemon meringue pies.


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"It's a very safe place to live and to think that we can be traumatized like that," Picard said.
Brusly Police Chief Jamie Whaley told News 2 it's not something they deal with that often.
"First one we've had in a long time," he said. "It's rare that something like this does happen in Brusly. We're fortunate."
The family is left with around $500 worth of damage to replace the home's back door. But Picard says being taken for granted is what hurts the most.
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The whole turbo thing is new to me also. There is definitely science involved in selecting one and I should have spent more time researching. There are so many different variations and types of turbos, it makes your head hurt. I selected mine based on a horsepower level I wanted and input from a Garrett technician. That was two years ago and I've learned more since then and would probably do it differently now. The exhaust side of the turbos I'm using have a T3 mount witch is a smaller housing and should give quick spool up but, they will probably be restrictive at higher rpm. If I had to do it again I would use a turbo with a T4 housing and then I'd have room to grow, not that I need it, with 600 to 700 horsepower and a manual trans the rambler should be a handful.
As far as motor parts, you build like you would for any high horse application. The cams in turbo motors are pretty mild so it won't have that nice choppy idle I like but, It will be way more practical, at that horsepower level than a normally aspirated motor. With the 6 speed overdrive trans, it should get decent gas mileage as well...gonna need that, the way gas is rising
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I am getting ready to shoot a FITA field round and decided to go with an up pin vice a dot on my lens with that being said I use a blue fiber and LP light kit for 3D is this set up legal for FITA field shoots.
I am getting ready to shoot a FITA field round and decided to go with an up pin vice a dot on my lens with that being said I use a blue fiber and LP light kit for 3D is this set up legal for FITA field shoots.
Nope. Cant have electronics on a bow for FITA events.
thats the way i read the rule as well.... what color fiber do you recommend. I am thinking red...
Red is actually one of the hardest colors to see...and it is the dullest color as far as fibers go. If your color blind at all red is probably a no no.
The brightest color is green....I prefer orange. But yellow and green also work for me...but I can also use red during the summer when there are no leaves on the trees.
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I like blue fiber. Used it the couple years I shot 3d and never needed the light on. Used it for 1 field course and never had an issue. Use it for hunting as well, and only time I needed a light is if I was in a blind. To me, its the brightest on all color faces.
Black target with a dull gold center causes a lot of problems choosing colors. In the past I have used an orange or green stick on dot. This year I will use a red fiber so it doesn't wash out as much.
Mike Marlow, ASA, FAA and NFAA member
ASA Area Rep NW Florida
I had a red 0.019" fiber (for Field scope) before and wanted a black dot for FITA scope. FYI both are 29mm with a quick swap on my Shibuya CPX
so, loaned a 0.160" dot from a friend, it was perfect for 90-70 but it was just way to big covering the gold entirely (9's and the 10) on 50
so got myself a 0.140" black dot and my 50 scores improved a lot
these changes all within a month....some of my friends having orange or red dots, all depends I guess from person to person. I need something high contrast....
but than...what about having a glow fiber that size instead of a black dot?
so ordered from Shrewd several sizes and after a first minute I just love that 0.120" red fiber big enough for 70-60 not much room aroound in gold and big enough for 50 as well, I would say comfortable size...
so...don't be afraid to try different scenarios...
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Karisma Kapoor, who is marking her comeback with Vikram Bhatt's Dangerous Ishhq, recently declared that she is a strict parent.
Kapoor launched 'Happy Meal' for a popular food chain, yesterday and on being quizzed if she is okay with kids eating 'junk' food Karisma said that everything in moderation is fine.
When asked if she monitors what her daughter watches on television, Lolo said, "Yes, I do monitor what she watches. There is a certain amount of time in the week, when my daughter is not allowed to watch TV, because you know I'm bit of a strict mom. I think kids should put their energy into outdoor activities, so TV watching is very limited in my house. Later they will watch it, so for now I like keeping a check. I am strict, Kareena is much cooler."
Talking about her priorities Karisma said, "I took a long break in between which I really enjoyed. Taking care of my child and house was always important to me and it will always be my first priority but now my daughter is older and she goes to school, so I'm getting time for work. So like I said, if in moderation it's good to be working."
Dangerous Ishhq stars Rajneesh Duggal, Divya Dutta, Jimmy Shergill and Arya Babbar alongside Kapoor and is slated to hit the big screens on May 11, 2012.
Karisma Kapoor, who is marking her comeback with Vikram Bhatt's Dangerous Ishhq, recently declared that she is a strict parent.


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Several hundred teenagers dressed in patent leather shoes and crisp green U.S. Army uniforms are greeting and backslapping each other in the crowded school hallway. Suddenly, a drum corps thunders to life, and the students hustle into a cavernous hall, where they snap to attention. Chests out, butts in, chins up, and right hands that smack their foreheads in simultaneous salute. Stone-faced student "commanders" walk along the formation, writing demerits for missing ties, untied shoes, and other infractions. A girl behind me drops to the floor and sweats through a set of push-ups. "I forgot my name tag," she explains breathlessly.
Is this West Point? The Citadel? Boot camp? Try again: It's a typical morning at the Chicago Military Academy, a public high school in the most militarized school system in America. More than 9,000 of the city's students, some as young as 11, are enrolled in school programs run by the U.S. military. Chicago is in the vanguard of a growing national movement that is responding to the problems of struggling inner-city schools by sending in the Marines-and the Army, Navy, and Air Force. The city is home to the nation's largest contingent of programs run by the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, a program established by Congress in 1916 to develop citizenship and responsibility in young peo-ple. Long limited to classrooms in conservative Southern states, jrotc is now in the midst of the largest expansion in its 85-year history.
The program began moving rapidly into public schools across the country after General Colin Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited South Central Los Angeles following the riots in 1992. Surveying the ruins, Powell declared that the solution to what ailed inner-city youth was the kind of discipline and structure offered by the U.S. military. Since then, the number of jrotc units and cadets has doubled. There are now nearly 500,000 students enrolled in the program at some 3,000 schools nationwide, and the Defense Department plans to spend $234 million on jrotc this year -- nearly quadruple what it spent a decade ago.
The idea of calling in the military to shape up students has won some unusual allies. Last August, the Oakland Military Institute, a public school run by the California National Guard, welcomed its first class of 170 students. The institute, which kicked off the year with a grueling two-week boot camp, was the brainchild of Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, the iconoclastic ex-governor of California who overruled two school boards and braved a firestorm of controversy to establish the academy. "The goal here is to become leaders in business, government, the arts," the embattled mayor declared on the school's opening day. "It's not engaging debates on Star Wars or whether to go to the Gulf War."
Why are schools inviting soldiers into the classroom? The simple answer is that jrotc offers an irresistible bargain: The military provides textbooks, uniforms, and instructors for the first two years of the program, offering an infusion of resources for cash-strapped schools. In addition, jrotc bills itself as a solution to high dropout rates and failing grades, promising to provide troubled kids with the discipline they need to stay in school and improve their performance. "I don't know where we'd be without it," says Joseph Murphy Jr., principal of Burncoat High School in Worcester, Massachusetts. "I think many kids in the program wouldn't make it through high school without the rotc experience."
But the explosive growth of jrotc has prompted a wave of opposition. From Worcester to Seattle, community groups have resisted the program, charging that the military is exploiting the desperation of inner-city schools. jrotc classes are taught by retired military personnel with minimal training as educators, and the program can muster little evidence that it actually helps at-risk youth. To many opponents, jrotc is little more than a recruitment program in disguise, designed to introduce black and Hispanic kids to a military mind-set at an early age. "Why are we just offering them the military?" asks Harold Jordan, coordinator of the National Youth and Militarism Program for the American Friends Service Committee. "Why does the bargain have to be one where they have to shake hands with Uncle Sam and possibly risk their lives? I don't think it's an acceptable trade-off."
In the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, as the nation's interest was focused on the armed forces, I traveled around the country to see what the military is doing in America's schools. As the United States primed for a new war, it seemed an appropriate time to explore whether the military is helping troubled teens and training a new generation of leaders -- or just recruiting more grunts.
From the outside, everything about the Chicago Military Academy seems incongruous. In the middle of a neigh- borhood filled with dilapidated housing projects and run-down shops, the school is housed in an old brick armory that's been restored like a high-rent condo. As I arrive early one morning, boys and girls in smartly tailored green uniforms are filing into the building to begin the school day.
The academy is the jewel in the crown of the jrotc program in Chicago, one of two public schools in the city in which every student is a member of the Army corps. Forty-one of the city's 92 other public high schools are home to jrotc units, and another 16 middle schools also have "leadership" programs run by the military. There are plans for a third public military academy next year, as well as talk of offering jrotc in every high school in the city. The Chicago school system is spending $2.8 million on jrotc programs this year and another $5 million on the two military academies -- more than it spends on any other special or magnet program. The Department of Defense kicks in an additional $600,000 for salaries and supplies.
"Our ultimate goal is to increase the preparedness of students for life employment, for higher education, and to be better prepared for their role as citizens in this country in whatever they want to pursue," says Army Lt. Colonel Rick Mills, who directs jrotc programs in Chicago. Mills, a retired squadron commander who was hired by the school system despite having no jrotc teaching experience, earns a salary and bonus of $110,000, making him one of the system's highest-paid administrators.
In Chicago, the program's size and aggressiveness have muted most critics. In fact, jrotc is popular here: There were 2,000 applicants for 140 slots at the Chicago Military Academy this year. Many students who gravitate to the program seem to find it a place of belonging. jrotc classrooms often have the feel of a clubhouse, and like any popular club, they offer alluring perks: The field trips, dances, drill competitions, and community service projects build camaraderie and self-esteem. Parents say they appreciate the respect for authority that the military mentality cultivates, and many single mothers see the male instructors as role models for their children. In neighborhoods where gang affiliation is common, jrotc stands as a safe counterweight -- a "good gang," in the words of Colin Powell. The program also offers tangible benefits after graduation: For those who decide to enlist in the military, their jrotc stripes are worth at least $200 per month in extra pay.
The superintendent of the academy, retired Brig. General Frank Bacon Jr., has heard from critics in the neighborhood who accuse him of training disadvantaged children for a life in the military. Three-fourths of his students are African American; another 22 percent are Hispanic. "We don't have any Vanderbilts or Rockefellers in here," concedes Bacon, a silver-haired man in a neatly pressed Army uniform who grew up in the neighborhood. "We are a poverty area -- 73 percent of our students eat free lunches." But the superintendent insists that his goal is education, not recruitment. "I'm giving them additional avenues to make a living, and to make them good citizens," he says. "jrotc is just a methodology that works."
That methodology is on display in the corridors of the academy. Students wear either khakis or a full-dress military uniform every day and respond to adults with a curt "Yes, sir" or "No, sir." Cadets are rewarded for good behavior by receiving military rank. The academic workload is typical for a high school, but failure to complete assignments can result in demotions or suspension; chronic violation of the rules can lead to expulsion. Bacon greets incoming students with a no-nonsense message: "If you don't do your homework, we'll bust you out."
Antonio Alvarado, a junior at the academy, has gotten the message. "This is not for the person who has an attitude and shies away from being told to do things," says the 17-year-old cadet. "If you don't like responsibility, if you don't like to be yelled at for not doing things, then don't come here."
Other students chafe under the military regimen. "My parents made me come here," says a 16-year-old student who is sitting in the guidance office after receiving an in-school suspension for swearing at a teacher. Counselors at the school concede that for those who don't "buy in" to the military approach, the going can be rough. That helps explain why as many as 3 of 4 students leave some jrotc programs before graduation.
jrotc claims it has reduced the dropout rate in Chicago schools by 20 percent and improved student performance. "We are a college prep school," says Jeanette Howard, chair of the guidance department at the Chicago Military Academy and a 33-year veteran of the public schools. "We want to send 90 percent of our students to college."
But it's not clear whether military discipline helps students achieve such educational goals. Only 43 percent of students at the academy scored at or above national reading norms last year, down from 52 percent the previous year. A 1999 study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank with close ties to the military, showed that jrotc juniors and seniors in Chicago fared no better at grades or attendance than other students, even though military programs have the advantage of weeding out underperforming students. The study did show better performance for jrotc students in Washington, D.C., but senior cadets in El Paso, Texas, actually posted lower grades and worse attendance.
Whatever its track record in the classroom, jrotc certainly has no problem turning students into soldiers. Defense Department figures show that approximately 40 percent of those who graduate from jrotc eventually join the military. This outcome is not left to chance: An Army memorandum directs jrotc staff to "actively assist cadets who want to enlist in the military [and] emphasize service in the U.S. Army; facilitate recruiter access to cadets in jrotc program and to the entire student body...[and] work closely with high school guidance counselors to sell the Army story."
The prospect that jrotc offers a ready pool of recruits has not been lost on political leaders. At a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee in February 2000, then-Defense Secretary William Cohen told represen-tatives that jrotc is "one of the best recruiting devices that we could have." The committee was impressed. "If that's the case," suggested then-Chairman Norman Sisisky (D-Va.), why not have jrotc programs in "as many places as you can?"
The military's push to expand into more public schools has met with stiff resistance in many cities. Community groups have succeeded in stopping jrotc in California, Washington, Minnesota, and Connecticut. In 1998, community opposition convinced officials in Rye, New York, to halt a jrotc program that had been in the schools for 19 years.
Given the state of many public schools, however, opponents of the military often face an uphill fight. When the Air Force announced plans in 1994 to establish a jrotc unit in Worcester, a working-class city of 172,000 in central Massachusetts, parents and others opposed to the plan swung into action. Forming a group called the Worcester Coalition to Stop jrotc, they staged angry confrontations at school-board meetings, held protest vigils outside school offices, and bombarded the local newspaper with letters to the editor. But school administrators, strapped for cash and eager for alternatives, sided with the Air Force, approving jrotc programs at Burncoat High and two other schools.
Since then, opponents have continued to protest, holding a vigil outside school offices each year on Good Friday. jrotc, they say, is designed to enlist kids at an impressionable age and encourage them to join the military. "If people are indoctrinated in militarism as teens, a time of hope and dreams, where are they going in the future?" asks Scott Shaffer-Duffy, a member of the pacifist group Catholic Worker and a founding member of the Worcester coalition.
When I visit Burncoat High, a double line of students in baggy jeans and T-shirts are slouching in front of the building. Then a young man with frosted hair pivots an about-face. "Preseeennnnt arms!" he commands -- and the jrotc "airmen" are transformed into a well-oiled marching machine. Four of them step forward in a rehearsed ritual, carefully unfolding the American flag and raising it up the flagpole until it ripples in the autumn breeze. Classmates disembarking from yellow buses take little note of the pageantry as they hustle by.
The jrotc curriculum covers a variety of subjects, from personal hygiene and job applications to military history and the importance of the flag. Character education "is a big part of what we do," says retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Henry Cyr, an instructor with the program in Worcester. "In addition to leadership and citizenship, we do a lot in the area of life skills: financial management, public speaking, survival, and map reading."
I ask ninth-grader Dariana Schultz why she enrolled in the program. "I think rotc is good for people who wanna do things in their lives but are having trouble," says Schultz, a 14-year-old with straightened black hair and a broad smile. "I figured if I really wanted to do something with my mind, this would guide me through high school."
Even parents wary of letting soldiers lead their children have come to respect the program. "My wife and I are deeply suspicious of many of the deeds that we associate with the U.S. military around the world," says Howie Fain, a union representative whose sons are both airmen at Burncoat. "But ironically, rotc has been a zone of peace for them. It has been an incredible counterweight to the violence whirling around them. Frankly, we were surprised by what a difference this has made."
Almaz Teare, an Eritrean refugee, says the program has helped her 16-year-old son Paulos, an airman at Burncoat. "It's like another family to us here," she says. "I don't know what I would have done without them. It's not only that they learn basic things, but they learn about structuring their life, behavior, and how to get along with other people." Teare says that when her son encounters problems in school, "I just call the colonel or sergeant, we talk about it, and they talk to my son and sort it out."
But other parents worry that the discipline comes at too great a price. The military "catches you when you're young, and it all sounds so wonderful," says Pete Hollis, the father of two high-school boys and a local Marine combat veteran who spoke out in opposition to the Worcester jrotc programs. "Their business is to fight wars, and they don't care how they get recruits." Hollis offers a blunt warning to his neighbors who support the military expansion into public schools: "I just hope your friends don't die in a war because they end up getting recruited as a result of this."
Worcester is not the only community where veterans like Hollis have joined the fight to block jrotc. The U.S. Marines met resistance from some of their own when they arrived in New York's capital city in the spring of 2000 with a plan to launch a jrotc program at Albany High School. Lt. Colonel Frank Houde, who retired after 20 years in the Air Force, learned of the plan from his neighbor, an ex-Marine. Houde, a former pilot in Vietnam, is no pacifist. He says he objects to the program because it misrepresents itself to kids in their formative years.
"The people who are for this often say it is 'leadership' training," he says. "But it is really followership training. Most people who go into jrotc will not become officers. They will receive dead-end jobs and a low rank. If you do go into the military, it will ensure that you are on the front lines and could get killed."
Houde and other veterans were joined by members of the Albany Friends Meeting and the local Catholic Worker group. "Military programs promote obedience rather than leadership," the Quakers declared in a statement. "They foster a culture of war and violence rather than peace. We prefer that young people get credits in serious academic subjects."
Opponents focused their attack on jrotc by challenging the quality of the curric-ulum. When the Marines failed to provide a textbook that would be used in the course, critics cited racial stereotypes in the standard first-year Army jrotc textbook to make their point. In a section on "brain power," the textbook asserts that whites, who are said to be "left-brain individuals," prefer "being on time," while "right dominant" African Americans prefer "a good time." Opponents also questioned why the school would allow jrotc instructors, who lack state teaching certification, to teach a credit-bearing course -- a concern cited by the National Education Association in a 1997 resolution urging that jrotc curriculum and instructors meet "all local and state educational standards and policies."
Students at Albany High School also joined the fight. I meet Zach London, a lanky 16-year-old, in the school's brick courtyard. London and several of his classmates organized a petition drive, gathering 600 signatures of students opposed to jrotc. "The Marines picked this school because it's an inner-city school, and there are a lot of kids who are poor," he says. "jrotc comes in and tells them that their best option for the future is to go into the military." It is lunchtime, and our conversation is punctuated several times by fights that send waves of students scurrying to watch, and security officers sprinting to intervene.
London shrugs off the melees. "Oh, that happens all the time," he says.
London and his classmates may be inured to school violence, but the Albany School Board is not. Officials considering the jrotc plan became concerned when the Marines proposed a curriculum that included classes in marksmanship. Nearly half of all jrotc units run by the Army include an optional course in weapons training, but several Albany students had already been prosecuted for bringing guns to school. "The whole issue of guns and training young people about guns didn't sit right with some of us," says Theresa Swidorski, a school-board member. "We are supposed to be a safe school, and no guns are allowed."
On the day London and other students were scheduled to hold a rally against jrotc, he was called into the principal's office and informed that the superintendent had canceled the program for lack of interest. In the wake of the student organizing, only 10 students had signed up. It was a shocking victory: Students and community activists had taken on the U.S. Marines, and won. "In the end, jrotc is a little too militaristic," says Swidorski, "and not up to snuff curriculum-wise to meet muster."
Despite the protests, the military continues to expand into public schools at an unprecedented clip. In the new defense budget, Congress wants to eliminate a current cap that limits jrotc to 3,500 units, allowing the program to proliferate at will. There are already 600 schools across the country on a waiting list, eager to enlist.
The next frontier for jrotc can be found in Madero Middle School, located in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago. Middle schools have rarely been involved with jrotc, since by federal statute the program is intended for students in grades 9 through 12. But Chicago has gotten around this stricture by creating and running its own jrotc-style "leadership programs" in 16 middle schools, without federal sanction. "I think we have a great program focused on teaching character, values, and leadership," says Lt. Colonel Mills, the jrotc director in Chicago. "And if we have the opportunity to present ourselves at an earlier age, all the better."
That is precisely what worries critics. Most of the middle-school programs are held after classes let out for the day. Cadets as young as 11 wear uniforms, learn about military history and citizenship, listen to lectures about preventing drug abuse, and perform in a color guard. But Madero Middle School has taken the concept further: It offers a "school within a school" academy in which the youngest cadets attend classes together, including a daily leadership class taught by a retired Army sergeant. Students are promised a spot in jrotc when they go on to high school -- effectively creating a military program that will encompass half of their school years, from their preteens until they are eligible to enlist in the armed forces.
One morning at Madero, not long after the September 11 attacks, I ask a class of 35 sixth- and seventh-graders how many of them hope to go into the military. All but seven raise their hands. I point out that as military personnel, it will be their job to fight wars such as the one in Afghanistan. I ask how they felt about that.
David Ruvalcaba, a pint-size 11-year-old, exclaims that he would like to be a soldier "because it's cool when you defend your country." Twelve-year-old Elver Patino adds, "I wanna go to the military because you get paid to go to college. I heard that in the commercials."
A cheerful 13-year-old named Lydia Banda thrusts her hand into the air. "I wanna go into the military because I see it in the movies and it seems fun," she declares. "And when the war is over, you get famous and you make a lotta money." Her classmates giggle and nod their heads in agreement.
With the advent of the "war on terrorism," the issue of prepar-ing children for careers in the military has taken on a new seriousness. So far, the promise of jrotc -- that military discipline can help solve the problems of troubled kids and struggling schools -- rests largely on faith in the military's image as a can-do troubleshooter. The program has certainly helped some students, who say the military has provided them with the discipline and values they felt were missing in their lives. But perhaps the biggest beneficiary has been the military itself: With nearly half of all cadets eventually joining the service, jrotc has extended the military's recruiting reach into thousands of public schools. In the battle for the hearts and minds of tomorrow's soldiers, at least, the armed forces are clearly winning.
The military has succeeded in large part, opponents say, because troubled students often have few other options. For students who don't fit in on the football field or the yearbook staff, Junior rotc offers a sense of belonging in an otherwise alienating environment. "There's no doubt in my mind that the school needs something for these kids who join jrotc, something where you take tougher kids and find a niche for them," says Pete Hollis, the Marine veteran who fought the program in Worcester. "There have to be alternatives. I just wish it weren't jrotc."


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