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Scherzer strikes out 13 as Nationals beat Padres, 5-1
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Marlins' Gordon trying to help poor Dominican Republic communities, one stolen base at a time
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Red Sox strike early to complete sweep of Rangers
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Was it ever meant to go like this my sweet?
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Status: Finished
Genre: Song Lyrics
When the sun came up on that very first virgin of our days together we laughed and smiled
And all that we ever did was set each other free from our stifled screams and binding chains
Every cloud in skies of days gone by evaporated like puddles of rain in the afternoon heat
We took our first initial baby steps to paradise hand in hand and filled each others brains
When the moon rose like a floodlight on the sparkle and gloss of our first embrace
You looked into my eyes and praised me for taking you and held my hand and we cried
And all we ever wanted was to taste the freedom that our hearts and minds deserved to have
Little did I know that all our truths down by that river would sink; and how we both lied
When the storm clouds came we chose to stay inside our castle and exhilerate us
I opened up my can of worms life and you returned the deed with lust in our warm bed
And all you ever wanted you said was the chance to fly with me stood at your side
I never thought I'd sing about the end of us and how your love had died and we were dead
Now every step I tread and every sign I see
Reminds me of the days gone by, of you n me
And every song on every radio I hear is sad
It holds some kind of relevant memory
I walk along with thoughts of you so clear
My body holds a heart that has no beat
I cry at night into my pillow when I see our star
Was it ever meant to go like this my sweet?
When lightning strikes knocked down chimneys, ours remained in tact and stood so tall
You told me how your body ached for love like mine and we smiled and we hoped and we
Held onto each other like our lives depended on us being so close and true and full of faith
You never told me then that one day you would grow tired of my unrivalled loyalty
When our childrenstood up tall and had a voiceit made our lives full and complete
We said we'd made the grade and all the promises we'd made were coming true
All I ever asked from you was trust andhonesty and the chance to feel wanted
I never knew back then that every time I heard your laughter, I would feel so blue
When that final fateful moment came, you shot me with your bullet words of hate
You told me that my love was making you feel inadequate and brought you down
I could have left you years before but did not have the courage or the bollocks to
And now our love is ridiculed and slandered in this two bob sad old town
When you walked away the air sapped from my lungs and all the spite came out
Like a poisonous venomous horrible snake I tried to bite you to return the pain
I should have walked away and held my tongue 'til we were cool to speak once more
But I never knew the ache I'd feel orloss of hope at never seeing your pretty face again
Was it ever meant to go like this my sweet?
Was it ever meant to go like this my sweet?
Tell me, look inside your heart we grew, me n you...
Was it ever meantto go like this my sweet?
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???????? . You need to learn how to make youre sentences clearer then. The way it was worded sounded as if you said we needed to find an M3 on the WRX forums, which is why i said you should re read my post about having already found a driver. Go take a business writing class and learn to clarify youre intentions (im only screwing with you so dont take it as a strike).Originally posted by Silver04Sti
Are you trying to piss people off? "learn to read"......why don't you learn to read, I can read a signature and if you "read" my post you would have seen I said: "You seem to be the advocate of the m3 scene on this forum so if you are not an owner than perhaps there are some on this forum in Fl that can step up and accept your challenge.
I saw that you said your friend had the m3 and was looking for sti challengers so I was addressing that. Not sure why you had to contemplate that I could not comprehend that message. Lame!
Who cares if you have 255whp.....let's see your torque output. I know that a stock wrx is not 227/227 unlike the sti with 300/300.......i've had both, a wrx.....modded, and an sti and in my opinion my sti is stronger in the lower rpm's in terms of its ability to pull hard. Have you driven an sti?
I beat a new m3 with my OLD car and I suspect that my sti will take one as well.....that's my opinion and until I see a number of statistical posts showing m3 guys spanking sti's then I will continue that opinion......Now if you and your skippy buddies in the m3 can prove me wrong so be it but let's see 10-20 cars of each caliber take a nice run and see the outcome.
Kinda like it would be easy for someone to say that maybe you should get out of your car and let someone else run it against that m3 that beat you.....see.....kinda pisses you off now doesn't it?.......i'll tell you what.....i have an sti in ct that is ready to run an m3....i'm even a ****ty driver so i'm basically giving away 1/10 of the 10 car runs that I would like to gather stats on...i'm giving you bmw guys 1 easy win to race me..........my hunch is that even with my loss (assuming I suck so bad I lose) that you will still see an sti win when one looks across the board with an average of 10-20 or so races. If not, then cool...this thread is dead and can go away but like I said before I think it will be bmw guys who are shocked by the results.
Guys in Fl.....prove me wrong........that's all i'm saying.....I just find it funny that in many of the posts people act like its not even possible when statistics from many mag's show that its quite possible indeed. Having beaten one myself I laugh even harder cause I know it can be done.
Also did the WRX you drove have a TXS stage 2 or a vishnu stage 2 (this will clear everything up quickly). Becouse theres no way a TXS stg2 will pull an M3 or even keep up with one, while on the other hand a vishnu will pull on an M3(from a roll that is). This is why i wanted to originally know youre dyno figures so i could figure out what the M3 driver was doing etc. I know it can be done also, you just need the power to do it. Its easy as hell to get them from a stop but from a roll you need a low to mid 12 sec REX, they dont go down that easy from a roll.
Also for my torque figures etc look in my sig. Im making similar power to the STI, similar gearing, im slighty lighter also. But lets get the two together and see what happens, i feel its gonna be close with the M3 eventually pulling up top after the STI tops out.


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| JP July 23, 2009
NA May 18, 2009
EU May 22, 2009
AUS August 27, 2009
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Punch-Out!! (パンチアウト!! Panchi-Auto!!?) is the title of the most recent game in the Punch-Out!! series. It was developed by Canadian game developer Next Level Games, released on the Wii and published by Nintendo. It was first revealed at Nintendo's conference on October 2, 2008. It was released on May 18, 2009, but was released on May 16th at the Nintendo World Store launch party. In an interview on October 9, 2008, Charlie Scibetta, Senior Director of Corporate Communications for Nintendo of America, confirmed motion control will be used in this game. NES-style controls were also confirmed to be in the game.
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Minor CircuitEdit
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- Champion: King Hippo
Major CircuitEdit
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- #2 Bear Hugger
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- Champion: Don Flamenco
World CircuitEdit
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- #2 Bald Bull
- Champion: Mr. Sandman
Title DefenseEdit
Once Mac becomes the champion, it's up to him to defend his title. All of the boxers he fought before will now challenge him for the title, with new moves and tricks, and are much harder to defeat. The "circuits" are split into World B, World A, and World S, containing the boxers from the Minor, Major, and World Circuits, respectively.
Last StandEdit
Mac's Last Stand is the "epilogue" of the game, simply put. After beating TD Mr. Sandman, Little Mac decides to retire with a bang: fight every boxer he has ever faced in random, repeating order until he loses three times. It is likely that you will encounter Donkey Kong in this mode. If you lose 3 matches, Little Mac will lose his champion belt and retire. The game must then be started all over from the beginning. If you manage to fight 10 opponents without losing, you unlock a toggled Exhibition setting called Champions Mode. In this mode, the red flashes a character makes when he is about to attack and the yellow flashes he makes when a star punch is available are gone, and any hit from an opponent is an Instant Knockdown.
- Lord of Games: Donkey Kong
Other charactersEdit
- This is so far the only game to have most foreign characters speak different languages besides English.
- When Mac loses the first time, Doc will tell him he can practice against his current opponent in Exhibition as a hologram that can not tire Mac or hurt him.
- This is the first game in the Punch-Out!! series in 15 years, when Super Punch-Out!! was released.
- If Mac loses to any fighter in career mode, the opponent's win record is increased (like if Mac losses to Glass Joe at least once, his record will go from 1-99 to 2-99) (though the opponent's record remains as the original in exhibition). This does not apply to Mac's last stand or Exhibition.
- Princess Peach from the Mario series was initially planned to be an opponent in this game, though she was scrapped due to the possible negative reception that could stem from having violence against women in the game.
External LinksEdit
|Punch-Out!! series
|Micro vs. System: Punch-Out!! · Arcade: Punch-Out!! · Super Punch-Out!! · Arm Wrestling · NES: Punch-Out!! featuring Mr. Dream · SNES: Super Punch-Out!! · Wii: Punch-Out!! · Doc Louis's Punch-Out!!
|Minor Circuit · Major Circuit · World Circuit · Special Circuit
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idea: git push requests
This is an idea that Keith Packard told me. It's a brilliant way to reduce GitHub's growing lockin, but I don't know how to implement it. And I almost forgot about it, until I had another annoying "how do I send you a patch with this amazing git technology?" experience and woke up with my memory refreshed.
The idea is to allow anyone to
git push to any anonymous git://
repository. But the objects pushed are not stored in a public part of the
repository (which could be abused). Instead the receiving repository emails
them off to the repository owner, in a
git-am-able format.
So this is like a github pull request except it can be made on any git
repository, and you don't have to go look up the obfuscated contact email
address and jump through git-format-patch hoops to make it. You just commit
changes to your local repository, and
git push to wherever you cloned
from in the first place. If the push succeeds, you know your patch is on
its way for review.
Keith may have also wanted to store the objects in the repository in some way that a simple git command run there could apply them without the git-am bother on the receiving end. I forget. I think git-am would be good enough -- and including the actual diffs in the email would actually make this far superior to github pull request emails, which are maximally annoying by not doing so.
Hmm, I said I didn't know how to implement this, but I do know one way.
Make the git-daemon run an arbitrary script when receiving a push request.
daemon.pushscript config setting could enable this.
The script could be something like this:
#!/bin/sh set -e tmprepo="$(mktemp -d)" # this shared clone is *really* fast even for huge repositories, and uses # only a few 100 kb of disk space! git clone --shared --bare "$GIT_DIR" "$tmprepo" git-receive-pack "$tmprepo" # XXX add email sending code here. rm -rf "$tmprepo"
Of course, this functionality could be built into the git-daemon too. I
suspect a script hook and an example script in
contrib/ might be an
easier patch to get accepted into git though.
That may be as far as I take this idea, at least for now..


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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - Law enforcement agencies from all over eastern Riverside County swept through the Coachella Valley, serving compliance checks on 97 probationers and parolees. More than 100 officers went to the homes of individuals on Post Release Community Supervision (PRCS), mandatory supervision and parole. The operation ran from 6 AM to 6 PM by 16 local, state, and federal agencies targeting individuals on PRCS, mandatory supervision, and parole. "Living at the address they say they're living at," said Sergeant Andy Diaz, from the Cathedral City police department. "That they're abiding by the terms and conditions of their probation and that no new law violations are occuring."
Twenty-four arrests were made, 18 were felonies and six misdemeanors. Among the felony arrests was one parolee-at-large who was found to be in possession of ammunition, drugs for sale and weapon. Drugs and weapons - including one of which had to serial number filed off -- were seized from various target locations. "We're finding people with drugs, we're finding people with weapons," said John Hall, the public information officer for the Riverside County District Attorney's office. "Some of the things this operations also doing is taking weapons off the street. "
The ongoing sweeps are to locate anyone who might have violated mandatory supervision or probation.
The sweep is a response to legislation which went into effect on October 1, 2011, Assembly Bill 109, or Public Safety Realignment. The bill, meant to ease prison overcrowding, transfers offenders convicted of non-serious, non-violent, and non sexual crimes to local jails instead of state prison. Before realignment, offenders who were released were supervised by state parole agents but now they are on Post Release Community Supervision by county probation officers. "It's created new issues that we didn't have before so now we've had to react to that," said Hall.
Because of thousands of prisoners released early from county jails , local law enforcement agencies created Post-Release Accountability Compliance Teams, or PACT. There are three regional Post-Release Accountability Compliance Teams in Riverside County: one each in the Central, Eastern and Western regions. Nearly 600 parolees or probationers live in the valley, the sweep focused on the most high-risk, but even that can be misleading. "They could be serious or violent offenders, gang members, that just their last committed offense was a drug offense or a car theft," said Sharon Shuster, the Riverside County district attorney in charge of PRCS. "So, it is very frustrating."
Despite several arrests, officials can only wonder if the sweep's enough to keep these people behind bars this time. "If they're federally released, they'll be out again," said Shuster. "So, it is somewhat of a revolving door but we're doing the best we can."
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Iran rejects US accusations it is seeking to develop atomic weapons and has refused to heed UN Security Council demands to halt sensitive nuclear work. Some analysts said Putin could use his talks in Iran to seek a diplomatic compromise.
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It is not hard to see the appeal of Small Black, especially at such a time as now, when acts who covet the warm, fuzzy and spacey – usually together as equals – have risen to prominence, sparking a lorry-load of superfluous tags and several more convoys' worth of artists to fill these spaces, ranging from the derivative to the innovative. With the release of their debut EP earlier this year, this New York quartet slotted firmly in the latter of those categories and they continue to do so with their first full-length offering, New Chain.
The album's brevity would appear to be a carefully considered aspect. Not running to much more than the EP's 27 minutes, it doesn't wear you down with endless extended jams and diversions. While many have been tempted to try for expansion on their debuts, Small Black keep on message throughout, landing their wares somewhere between M83 in a summer haze and a less hefty but still beat-inclined Toro y Moi.
Singer Josh Kolenik's woven melodies are unmistakable in their mistakability. Deliberately nondescript, they fuse with the various parts of high and low register accompaniment, using the reverberating drums as their glue. Occasionally they simply fizzle away in the background, but the times they burst out beyond that are the most glorious, the greatest example of this being the woozy fairground ride that is Photojournalist. Dynamics are not key, and nor are they exploited – the band prefers to keep the levels of intensity constantly, but not strenuously, high. Little respite is offered and Search Party acts as one prolonged chorus with passages marginally more dazzling than others but at all times the modest side of garish.
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The students enter the classroom noisily and take their places in groups of five or six at a series of beat-up tables. Some open the clear plastic folders containing their work and look over what they did in yesterday's class. Others rummage through their backpacks and talk with their neighbors.
Bob Moses stands at the front of the spare white room, taping sheets of newsprint to a flip chart. With his wire-rim glasses, gray goatee, and serene composure, he looks like a cross between a college professor and a yogi. Even in a roomful of 25 ninth-graders, Moses has the calm, self-contained manner of an Eastern mystic.
''Okay, listen up,'' he says. ''Enter your data, then get the means and displacements.'' Moses designed this lesson, called the wingspan exercise, to teach key concepts about algebra and statistics. First, students measure one another's outstretched arms from fingertip to fingertip; then they calculate the mean for their group and the ''displacement'' of each person's wingspan from the mean.
The students settle down to work. Along two walls, big windows offer a glimpse of the sagging houses and vacant lots that border the school. Lanier High is located on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Jackson, Mississippi, and like so many other streets named for the Civil Rights leader in black communities across America, it speaks more of defeat than of dreams. Lanier was the first African American high school in Jackson, and it remains virtually all black, with two whites in its student body of 911. Some 83 percent come from families with incomes below the poverty line. Most read and do math below their grade level. A third fail to graduate. Only a handful go on to attend four-year colleges.
Moses goes from table to table, helping students with their algebra problems. The children were not yet born when their teacher first came to Mississippi in 1961, and few realize that the man checking their math was one of the most venerated leaders of the Civil Rights movement, considered by some to be the equal of King. As a ''field secretary'' with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Moses organized sharecroppers, domestics, and others at the bottom of society to fight for their right to vote -- an effort that sparked a violent backlash from whites accustomed to unchallenged rule. In the face of beatings and arrests, Moses became legendary for his humility and calm commitment. In 1964, he orchestrated Freedom Summer, the ambitious project that drew nearly 1,000 volunteers to the state and focused the national spotlight on Mississippi when the Klan murdered three Civil Rights workers.
''Moses pioneered an alternative style of leadership from the princely church leader that King epitomized,'' says Civil Rights historian Taylor Branch, author of Parting the Waters. ''He was the thoughtful, self-effacing loner. He is really the father of grassroots organizing -- not the Moses summoning his people on the mountaintop as King did, but, ironically, the anti-Moses, going door-to-door, listening to people, letting them lead.''
Now, nearly four decades after he left the state, Moses is back in Mississippi to work on what he sees as a second revolution: math literacy. Teaching algebra to descendants of sharecroppers doesn't involve the same danger as Civil Rights organizing. Indeed, Moses has received many official honors -- including the designation of a Bob Moses Day -- from the state that once branded him an ''outside agitator.'' His new work is quieter but, he contends, potentially more radical.
''The absence of math literacy in urban and rural communities is as urgent an issue today as the lack of registered voters was 40 years ago,'' he says during a break between classes. ''And I believe solving the problem requires the same kind of community organizing that changed the South then. If we can succeed in bringing all children to a level of math literacy so they can participate in today's economy, that would be a revolution.''
Every Monday morning, Moses, now 67, leaves his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at 5:30 and takes a flight through Cincinnati to Jackson -- a seven-hour trip. He spends the next four days teaching ninth-grade algebra and geometry at Lanier. On Friday evenings, he makes the reverse trip to Cambridge.
Moses believes that mastering algebra, preferably by the eighth grade, is the modern-day equivalent of the right to vote because it represents a dividing line between having -- or not having -- a chance in life. ''In the 1960s, we opened up political access,'' he says. ''The most important social problem affecting people of color today is economic access, and this depends crucially on math and science literacy, because the American economy is now based on knowledge and technology, not labor.''
It's easy to see why Moses considers higher math to be the key to economic equality. A study by the Department of Education shows that high school students who take rigorous math and science courses are more than twice as likely to go to college as those who don't. But the same study reveals that many minority and low-income students are steered away from such courses or attend schools that don't offer advanced math. As a result, many lack the skills they need to find decent work.
Moses began his new movement, the Algebra Project, when he was helping his own children with math 20 years ago. The nonprofit organization and its affiliates, based in Cambridge and Jackson, now have 22 full-time employees and an annual budget of $2.5 million. It currently reaches 10,000 students in 13 states, the majority at middle schools in the South.
Moses has developed a special curriculum to make algebra more accessible to students, and his organization trains local teachers in his method. But what makes the Algebra Project unique among education-reform movements is its emphasis on grassroots organizing. Just as Moses did during the Civil Rights movement, project leaders work and live in the communities they're trying to change. Every school that offers the Algebra Project holds regular meetings to organize parents, students, teachers, and community leaders around math literacy the way Moses organized sharecroppers around the vote. ''In the 1960s, people said sharecroppers weren't interested in voting until they stood up and demanded the franchise,'' he says. ''Today the kids themselves are the only people who can dispel the idea that they don't want to learn.''
Such a bottom-up approach is unusual among education reformers, who typically focus on hiring more teachers or boosting test scores. ''Bob is in the trenches, building a culture around math that draws kids into his program,'' says Uri Treisman, a University of Texas math professor who is a national leader in efforts to improve the math performance of minority students. ''It's an inspired notion -- and it works.''
Moses draws students into learning algebra by starting with a simple physical event, like measuring wing-spans. Rather than simply asking children to manipulate mysterious symbols, he gives them a concrete experience to help them understand the concepts of math. The students then talk about the experience, isolate the features that are mathematical, and work with them.
In his classroom at Lanier, students have finished calculating the displacement of wingspans in their groups. Moses then asks them to write down what they did and why -- not just in numbers but in sentences. ''Students need to learn to understand what the problems are about,'' he explains. As they work, Moses and Wilma Morris, a former Tougaloo College math professor who teaches the class with him, go from table to table asking questions. ''Now what's the next step? What did you do? Where is your mean?'' Porchia Jefferson has written a whole paragraph. ''Mr. Moses, is this right?'' she asks brightly. He reads her work and asks, ''What is a displacement? What are we getting at here?'' When he moves on to a different table, the girl sitting next to Porchia asks what he told her. ''He said I wrote what I did but not what was meant,'' she says and starts over.
''Can I do this?'' Ahmed Dortsch asks, coming up to Moses and showing him his calculations. Moses asks a few questions, and Ahmed goes back to his table. ''I think I got it,'' he says, and shows another boy what he learned. ''He breaks it down for you to understand,'' Ahmed says of Moses. ''Other teachers struggle with you, but he'll find your problem and get straight to it.''
Other students put their heads on the table, stare into space, talk, crack jokes, slip over to other tables. Moses and Morris hone in on them. ''Did you get your mean, Courtney?'' ''Shawn, have you done your calculations? You need to get started.''
''I need a job,'' one boy comments.
''You have a job -- to train your mind,'' Moses responds.
Moses remains calm during these interactions. He does not raise his voice or express frustration, even when he sends a student to the principal's office for disrupting class. He answers questions deliberately, his eyes seeming to focus inward for answers, and he rarely smiles or laughs. Moses sees his students as inheritors of ''the legacy handed down through the history of this country around the education of black people.'' He calls this legacy ''sharecropper education'' -- a limited education for people assigned manual work. Sharecropper education is not confined to the South, but also permeates inner-city schools in the North.
''If you think of sharecropper schooling, you went through it, but your options were you were going to chop and pick cotton or do domestic work,'' Moses says. ''Your education wasn't tied to opportunity. The connection between education and a change for the better in your own life wasn't made.''
Despite the Colin Powells and Condoleeza Rices, he adds, that link still is not clear among many poor African Americans because they do not see anyone they know whose success is tied to education. ''The big question we need to address in this country today is, How do we shift the culture in our inner cities and develop these expectations and beliefs for these kids?''
Before he was a Civil Rights worker, Moses was a math teacher. Raised in a Harlem housing project, he attended Stuyvesant High School, which specialized in math and science, then Hamilton College in upstate New York, where he majored in philosophy and logic. He had received a master's degree in philosophy from Harvard University and was teaching math at Horace Mann, a private school in the Bronx, when the student sit-in movement drew him to the South. As one of the few black students in white institutions, Moses had learned to avoid confrontation and repress his feelings of humiliation. ''I felt a great release when I began doing something to take on prejudice and racism,'' he recalls.
The Mississippi that Moses entered in 1961 was a closed society, with apartheid enforced by the law and the Klan. Within a few months of his arrival, Moses was beaten up by the sheriff's cousin when he accompanied two local blacks to the courthouse in a county where not a single black was registered to vote, and a local leader was shot and killed. People were afraid to challenge the status quo. ''They were frozen,'' Moses recalls. What broke the ice, he found, were small workshops where sharecroppers and domestics talked about practical issues that bothered them, brainstormed about what to do, and took steps to do it.
''Bob never set us down and said, 'This is what you should do, or this is how you should do it,''' says L.C. Dorsey, a former sharecropper who attended the meetings. ''He kept putting the questions out: 'Why do you think that is? What do you think we ought to do about that?' He'd listen to what you said and force you to think about it. That was his genius. He could hold his own ideas in abeyance and wait for you to finally develop the picture.''
His refusal to lead in the traditional sense created a powerful organization -- but it also maddened people desperate for guidance and caused SNCC meetings to drag on into the night. Freedom Summer registered 75,000 blacks and elected representatives to oppose the state's all-white delegation at the Democratic National Convention. But the victory came at a heavy price. Four people were killed and 80 were beaten that summer, the party refused to seat the black delegates, and the model integration among SNCC organizers fell apart in bitter arguments over race and black consciousness. Within a year, Moses left SNCC and the South.
''He was finely attuned to the implications of what they were doing,'' says Branch, the Civil Rights historian. ''Would people be hurt? Was he leading them down a primrose path? His sensitivity could be seen as a weakness. King was more like General Sherman when his people were killed, and you need this toughness to keep going. It tore Moses apart.'' Moses, who dislikes talking about his feelings, sums up that period in his life by saying only, ''It wasn't a happy time.''
In 1968, when his draft board refused to grant him conscientious objector status, Moses left the country. He and his wife, Janet, a Civil Rights worker who now is a pediatrician, lived in Tanzania, where three of their four children were born and Moses taught math at a school where nobody knew his past. ''I lived a life as just another person,'' he says. ''That helped me get grounded again and helped our family be just a family.''
What would become the Algebra Project began after Moses moved to Cambridge in 1976 and began work on a Ph.D. in the philosophy of math at Harvard. Freed from financial burdens by a MacArthur ''genius grant,'' he was ''fishing around for a kind of movement'' -- and he found one that combined the two previous chapters of his life. Upset that his oldest daughter Maisha's middle school did not offer algebra, he asked the teacher to let her sit with him in a corner of the classroom and do more advanced math. The teacher asked if he would take a few other students too. Recognizing that many children were falling behind, Moses drew on the organizing skills he had honed in Mississippi to bring parents together. Within a few years, the school was offering algebra to all eighth-graders.
But Moses didn't stop with his daughter's school, expanding the project to other states. In the classroom, he noticed that some children had difficulty moving from an arithmetic understanding of numbers to an algebraic one. One student in particular kept getting the wrong answer because he didn't pay attention to whether the numbers were positive or negative. ''He had only one question, the arithmetic question of 'how much?' I had to add another question you need for algebra: 'which way?''' From this insight, Moses developed the Algebra Project curriculum.
To add ''which way'' to ''how much,'' Moses takes students on trips that make the concepts real for them -- the subway in Cambridge or a tour of Civil Rights landmarks in Mississippi. ''On the subway, the first decision you are faced with is inbound or outbound,'' he says. ''Then you get into how many stops.'' The students draw a trip line with any stop as the benchmark, which is assigned the coordinate zero. The stops to the left are assigned a negative value, to the right, a positive, so any trip represents a number of stops (how many?) in either direction (which way?).
This method of teaching math produces ''aha!'' moments even for some of the more experienced teachers trained in the Algebra Project. ''When I went to the training, I began to understand math concepts I had only memorized, to be honest with you,'' says Lynn Moss, a former sixth-grade teacher at Brinkley Middle School in Jackson. ''More than that, I learned an instructional practice -- starting with an experience -- that is so much more meaningful.''
The innovative curriculum may excite students and teachers, but Moses knows that it's not enough, by itself, to turn schools around. For this, the Algebra Project relies on community organizing to try to produce a demand from the ''target population'' of students and parents for more math and better education. ''People will not follow other people's agenda,'' Moses says. ''Goals have to be internalized.'' He considers the ''most strategic part'' of his approach to be the Young People's Project, which mobilizes teenagers to run math camps and workshops for younger students. Some 70 students in Cambridge and Jackson tutor math on a regular basis, with another 40 helping in the summer camps.
The youth project is led by Moses' daughter Maisha, now 31, and son Omo, 30. During the week, Moses lives with Maisha and Omo in their ranch-style home on the outskirts of Jackson, and students involved in the project often meet here. Moses considers these teen-agers his real success stories, and whenever he speaks in public about the Algebra Project, he brings some of them with him to demonstrate math exercises. Just as the Civil Rights movement required African Americans to challenge not only the white power structure, but their own fears, the students who accompany Moses must push themselves to learn something well enough to stand up in public and explain it. ''I used to say, 'Man, this is hard. I can't do this,''' says Jessie Sims, a 16-year-old. ''When I finally stopped saying, 'I can't do it,' I started doing it.'' Another 16-year-old, Sylvester Davis, agrees. ''I use what Mr. Moses does in my other subjects,'' he says. ''Like I'm taking Spanish. Those verbs scare me. I think of what Mr. Moses says: 'Look at it. Apply what you already know.'''
One thing Moses didn't expect when he began the Algebra Project was that it would bring him back to Mississippi. He first returned to Jackson in 1989 after the release of Mississippi Burning, a movie about the murder of three Civil Rights workers during Freedom Summer. Distressed that the heroes in the movie are FBI agents, Moses and others met to discuss how to respond. At the gathering, he convinced Dave Dennis, another veteran of the movement, that math literacy is the contemporary Civil Rights issue.
Dennis, who'd become a lawyer in Louisiana, agreed to join Moses in bringing the Algebra Project to schools in the South. Moses began teaching classes at Jackson's Brinkley Middle School in 1996, and the following year he came to Lanier. At first, Moses says, his interest in returning to Mississippi was primarily strategic. ''Because of the history, Mississippi is a theater where we can lift our program out of the 'let's teach math better' box and take it to the country as a Civil Rights issue.'' But when he began driving down the roads he had traveled decades earlier, the history became more personal. He made contact with the doctor who had stitched up his head after one beating and another doctor who had treated a fellow SNCC worker when he was shot. ''I began to feel that this was a good place for me,'' he says.
Almost every week, Moses drives an hour and a half to the town of McComb to visit C.C. Bryant, the local NAACP leader who put him up when he first came to Mississippi in 1961. Bryant, now 85, still lives in the little yellow house where Moses stayed, though today it is located on C.C. Bryant Drive. Entering through the back door, Moses finds Bryant and his wife watching television. As they talk politics and exchange banter, Moses visibly relaxes, even breaking into laughter. His host knows the reason for the change. ''When he comes here,'' Bryant explains, ''he's comin' home.''
When Moses isn't in Mississippi, he's often on the road, training teachers in his method, speaking at conferences on education reform, visiting university math departments, and lobbying to put math literacy higher on the national agenda. His book about the Algebra Project, Radical Equations, was published last year. He's equally driven in his spare time, maintaining a vegetarian diet, meditating regularly, and swimming 1,500 yards each day. He is known for following his principles even in minor matters. ''You won't find Bob in a tuxedo even at a fancy fundraiser,'' says Harvard psychiatry professor Alvin Poussaint, a friend since childhood. ''He sees this as a way the upper classes pull rank on the lower classes.''
Poussaint, who serves on the Algebra Project board, says the organization once lost a research grant because Moses insisted community people be involved in designing the research to be funded.
The available evidence indicates that the Algebra Project works. An evaluation of four schools across the country conducted by researchers at Lesley University in Cambridge found that graduates of the program enroll in upper-level courses at a much higher rate than their peers, making it more likely that they will go on to college. Standardized-test scores improve at schools where at least half of all students learn math from Algebra Project-trained teachers. At Lanier, enrollment in geometry and advanced algebra has gone up substantially since Moses arrived, and his students surpass their peers on standardized tests. The school has now expanded the program to include all ninth-graders.
But despite the progress, the Algebra Project faces serious obstacles. Even with the special curriculum created by Moses, getting students to pay attention remains a problem. Enlisting parents and community leaders in the education of their children is also slow going. When Moses called a special meeting for parents at Lanier one evening, just 18 showed up. Clustered in one corner of the school's cavernous auditorium, the tiny group seemed to symbolize just how far Moses remains from his goal.
Everyone gives Moses high marks for his commitment, but some suggest that his methods and personality may not always be the most effective. One advanced math teacher at Lanier faults him for letting his students use calculators too much and not requiring them to do more math drills.
Other criticisms mirror those made against Moses in the 1960s. His insistence on including everybody in meetings -- and requiring meetings for just about everything -- can exhaust even the most faithful. ''The more inclusive you are, the less efficient,'' says Stewart Guernsey, a lawyer who helps raise money for the project. Poussaint notes that ''some people wish Moses would be more forceful.'' His speeches at fundraisers are often less than rousing and he dislikes socializing with wealthy donors, making it harder for the project to raise money.
Moses responds to such criticism by doing exactly what he's been doing for 40 years -- listening to people no one else listens to, asking probing questions in the hope that they will figure out what's wrong and take it upon themselves to improve their lives. One afternoon, a student he had suspended comes in with his mother to see him after school. ''Mothers seem to be the one place where there's a real connection,'' Moses explains. As the three of them sit at a table in the empty classroom, the boy looks subdued. Moses explores in a tone of inquiry, not judgment, why the boy wasn't paying attention. If you couldn't see what I was doing, why didn't you move? he asks. Why do I have to keep after you? What are your plans after high school? Do you have a backup plan if the NBA doesn't work out?
After that, Moses spends an hour patiently going over, step by step, the wingspan exercise.


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The apatment can accomodate 3 guests (2 adults 1 child). It consists of one bedroom, a nice living room where you can use the WiFi, a fully equipped kitchen and a bathroom.
Walking distance into the City Centre takes only ten minutes. Shops, restaurants, supermarkets, local transport, take-away etc. all on your doorstep. Many attractions, theatre, cinema, museums all within minutes walk.
Car parking is private and secure, parking permit is provided on arrival.
Ev kurallarıCheck in time is 4pm - check out time is 10am. However, if you require an earlier or later time, luggage may be stored for a limited time. Every effort possible will be made to accommodate this.
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El apartamento está situado a 10 minutos caminando de todo lo que necesitas ver en Edimburgo. Esta completamente nuevo.
La propietaria, Elizabet, es una persona encantadora y muy agradable.
El trato es al instante para cualquier problema.
Pasamos unos días estupendos y además la ciudad es preciosa.
Appartement très agréable, fonctionnel et bien équipé.
Accueil sympathique et professionnel.
Edinburgh er en fantastisk skøn og anderledes by og Apartment er rigtig dejlig, der mangler intet - og en sød og venlig host - der var flotte roser og milk til kaffen da vi ankom.....vi kan kun anbefale et ophold her. Det kunne godt friste at gense både Apartment og Edinburgh.
le logement est très confortable et très agréable .Il est a 10 minutes du centre et est parfaitement situé pour visiter tous les quartiers d'Édimbourg .Elizabeth est très attentive aux besoins de ses visiteurs .Excellente adresse !A recommander
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Dear Liz, we enjoyed our stay in your beautiful apartment in Edinburgh a lot and would gladly recommend it everybody. Many thanks for sharing the apartment for visitors!
Liz was an excellent host - she made sure we received all necessary information upfront, she even texted us on the day of the trip to make sure we had her contact number. The apartment was excellent - clean, welcoming, comfortable. The parking was a bonus and Liz even provided us with a parking permit. I would certainly recommend this host and the apartment to my friends and will try to return to Edinburgh and Hopetoun Apartment soon.
It was great!!! I love Edimburgh!!
The apartment is a comfortable place and CLEAR... with all that you can need for your holidays... good location!
The owner (elizabeth) was rvery friendly... and she gave us all the facilities... i would like to say her... thank you...
Hopetoun Apartment in Edinburgh is a great stay. Elizabeth is friendly, kind and helpful. This apartment is good value for money, ideally located, clean and modern.
The perfekt apartment to rent in Edinburgh close to everything and you got all you need in the apartment. We were two couples and it was perfect for four people and we had an rental car that we could park in the private parking. We will stay here again when we come back to edinburgh.
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Does not matter what i do, i can't seem to keep the orginal domainname in the browser address bar.
I have a website at domain
www.website2.comThese are NOT subdomains, they do not have webspace. All domains are registered at the same hoster.
A visitor types
www.website1.comin his browser address bar. Through
HTTP_REFERERin my
.htaccess-file, a hidden redirect should happen to
www.websiteA.com(with hidden I mean that the URL does not change).
websiteA.comthe referring url determines from which folder to get the skin and what database to use to get the content from.
folder structure:
/w/e/b/websiteA.com/http_docs/sites/config.php <- per domain a skin-folder, a databasename, and a code-folder is chosen.
/w/e/b/websiteA.com/http_docs/sites/skins <- contains skins
/w/e/b/websiteA.com/http_docs/sites/php <- contains code folders
website1.comshould 'go' to
websiteA.com/http_docs/sites/config.php, and fetch
skin_a, database
websiteAcom, and
code_standardand build the website. All the time,
website1.comshould be visible in the address bar.
How do I do this? D I need virtual hosts or aliasses or something?
All hints are welcome!
Your code is likely implementing an external redirect instead of an internal rewrite, or the rules are ordered incorrectly, or have missing directive flags or exclusions. But I can't comment on it further, since I don't know what it looks like.
When i say these are not subdomains, i meant that website1.com and website2.com are not subdomains of websiteA.com.
What i need is:
Someone types website1.com. I want it to go to websiteA.com and read config.php.
Someone types website2.com. I want it to go to websiteA.com and read config.php
I guess this will direct the browser from website1.com to websiteA.com and read config.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) [websiteA.com...] [L]
But the URL changes. I would like the url in the browser address bar to show website1.com instead of websiteA.com.
Then, based on the referring url, a designfolder is chosen (each design has a separate folder), a database is chosen (each website that refers to websiteA.com has it's own database), and a codefolder (there is only one folder with php code) is chosen. This, i can do programatically.
Hope this clarifies
Malicious user-agents can easily spoof the Referer headers as well.
Further, the HTTP Referer header does not change as a result of HTTP redirection; The referrer will not show that the request has been redirected from website1.com to websiteA.
Any attempt to use HTTP Referer for 'critical' functions will fail at an unacceptable rate.
However, if you can work without the Referer header, then the other part of your problem can be addressed.
If website1 and website2 are hosted in the same filespace as websiteA (that is, their files reside in the same directory as this .htaccess code, or in a subdirectory of this directory), then you can use an internal rewrite instead of an external redirect.
If these websites are hosted on a different server, or in a different 'account' or filespace on the same server as websiteA, then the only way to 'get' those files without changing the address bar is to set up a reverse proxy. Doing this properly will require server admin access.
An alternative is to emulate a reverse proxy by passing all requests for website1 and website2 to a script, which can then open an out-going connection from your server, go fetch the content from those other servers, and then pipe it back to the requesting client. All requests for website1 and website2 will then pass through the websiteA server (and will be logged). In addition, website1 and website2 will see all requests as coming from websiteA's server, and the original requesting client's IP address, user-agent string, etc. will not be logged on those servers unless you code your script to pass the X-Forwarded-For headers (and others). Further, the website1 and website2 server's will need to be set up for custom logging in order to log those X-Forwarded headers instead of the usual ones.
Understand that the address bar is controlled by the client, and not by your server. The user "owns" that address bar. So if you want to manipulate the address bar, it is not easy. And this is intentional; A user has the right to know what domain they are actually visiting.
Your response is answering some questions, as well as raising some. As you may have noticed, this is not my field of expertise. I am curious about how a setup like this can work. I always thought that what you describe as reverse proxy is the only way to do that, and that sounds complicated. Besides, i am not sure how the server admin feels about that.
In my case, all websites will be hosted on the same server, in the same folder or a subfolder of the .htaccess file. I have never realised that it is be possible to have a domain point to ANY folder, including a subfolder of another domain. (But is this considered good usage?)
As far as i can see now, a file structure like this is possible:
websiteA.com (domain websitea.com points here)
--website1 (domain website2.com points to here)
--website2 (domain website1.com points to here)
I can refrain from using the HTTP-REFERER thingy, and just use a PHP-variable I set myself.
And my .htaccess can use internal rewrites.
Would you please share your thoughts about the folder structure i propose? Are there reasons to do it in another way?
Thanks again!
Root (all domains point to here)
--sites subdirectory
--websiteA (domain websiteA.com rewritten to here)
--website1 (domain website1.com rewritten to here)
--website2 (domain website2.com rewritten to here)
This is really something that you should discuss at length with your server admin and seek his/here active participation and advice.
I think you'd be better off setting up each domain as a separate virtual server, and using mod_alias and symbolic links as required to 'share' resources such as scripts, databases, and templates, etc. This approach offers much better cross-site security than any .htaccess-based configuration, and is also much more efficient with regard to server performance.


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Armed with U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Striking Down Sodomy Laws Nationwide, Lambda Legal Will Appeal the Solicitation of Sodomy Conviction of Virginia Beach Man Monday
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(Virginia Beach, Virginia, July 9, 2004) -With court papers that will be filed Monday in the Virginia Court of Appeals, Lambda Legal will appeal the conviction of a man who was charged with solicitation of sodomy despite the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling last summer that clearly struck down all remaining sodomy laws in the nation.
"This sodomy law is dead, and that means you can't convict someone for attempting to violate it or talking about violating it; there's no law left to violate," said Greg Nevins, Senior Staff Attorney in Lambda Legal's Southern Regional Office and Lambda Legal's lead attorney on the case. "This was a rogue prosecution under a law that no longer exists."
Earlier this year, Joel Singson was convicted of solicitation to commit sodomy. The incident began after a discussion with an undercover police officer in the men's room of a store in a Virginia Beach mall, which the officer said led him to believe Singson requested an act of sodomy. Singson was taken by two officers to the back of the store, questioned and released. He was charged several months later and spent 8 days in jail. If Singson loses at the end of the appeal process, he faces a three-year jail sentence with two and a half years suspended.
In the appeal, Lambda Legal argues that the lower court should have dismissed the case in light of the Supreme Court decision in the Lawrence v. Texas case striking down all remaining sodomy laws across the country.
Lambda Legal, which was lead counsel on the U.S. Supreme Court case challenging sodomy laws that was decided over a year ago, said the Supreme Court's ruling clearly struck down sodomy laws in all 13 states that still had them, including Virginia. Consequently, states cannot continue enforcing those laws or prosecuting people for attempting to violate them, although states can pass or enforce laws prohibiting public sex, as long as those laws apply to all people and are enforced equally, Lambda Legal said.
Lambda Legal pointed to a similar case in New York over two decades ago, where the state's sodomy law had been struck down and the state's highest court later said that, as a result, it was unconstitutional to prosecute people for loitering for the purpose of soliciting sodomy.
In the Lawrence case, Lambda Legal represented John Lawrence and Tyron Garner, who were arrested in Lawrence's Houston home and jailed overnight after officers responding to a false report found the men engaged in private, consensual sex. Once convicted, they were forced to pay fines and were considered sex offenders in several states.
The case is Commonwealth of Virginia v. Joel Singson. Richmond attorney Jay Squires is Lambda Legal's cooperating attorney in the case.
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The Most Surprising Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis
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The Most Surprising Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis
When you have multiple sclerosis, also known as MS, the signals between your brain and spinal cord go awry, which can result in pain, fatigue, and reduced mobility as the disease progresses. Some people with MS have only a few symptoms of the disorder, while others have many. You also may find that your MS symptoms come and go while others find them long-lasting. "What's surprising about MS symptoms is that they can affect so many different functions that people rely on every day in their lives," says Rosalind Kalb, PhD, a clinical psychologist and vice president of the Professional Resource Center at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in New York. "Some are physical, some emotional, and some intellectual. We tend to focus on the ones we can all see, but many people may be living with a variety of symptoms that just aren't apparent." Here are some less obvious signs of MS.
Many people with MS experience dizziness, which can make you feel faint, lightheaded, or off balance. A less common MS symptom is vertigo, which is different than a sensation of dizziness. When you have a vertigo episode, you feel as though the room is spinning around you, Kalb says. Vertigo can be treated with motion sickness or anti-nausea drugs or, if your symptoms are very severe, with corticosteroids.
Speech Disorders
Problems with speech related to multiple sclerosis usually involve difficulty articulating — your words don't come out very clearly, says Pat Kennedy, RN, CNP, MSCN, a nurse educator with Can Do MS, a national organization that provides lifestyle empowerment programs for people living with MS and their partners. It's unclear exactly how pervasive speech disorders are. Researchers at Göteborg University in Sweden studying a group of 77 people with MS found that about half had mild to severe speech difficulties. However, in a survey published in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation that relied on patients reporting their MS symptoms, only 23 percent felt they had speech and voice problems. A speech and language therapist may be able to help treat this multiple sclerosis symptom.
Difficulty Swallowing
You may experience difficulty swallowing, or dysphagia, with MS, especially if you have brainstem involvement. "We see people who have fluids or foods go down their windpipes as opposed to their esophagus," Kennedy says. Others can have difficulty chewing, choke when they eat, or dribble drinks on their cheeks. Swallowing problems may occur when you're first diagnosed with multiple sclerosis or as it progresses. A therapist may be able to show you new ways to swallow. In severe cases, a feeding tube inserted in the stomach may be necessary.
With MS, you may have sensations that feel like "pins and needles" or burning, stabbing, or gripping pains. Surprisingly, some people experience itching. When you have MS, the nerves in your skin or the nerves that send signals to your skin can be damaged. This damage can cause you to feel itchy even though you don't see any irritation. Because the cause is neurological and not physical like a bug bite or rash, topical skin creams won't help. However, your doctor can prescribe anti-itching medications. No one knows for sure how many people get this MS symptom, but it's not very common, Kennedy says.
Hearing Problems
Hearing difficulty is a surprising and uncommon MS symptom. This problem can range from a ringing in the ears to a sudden loss of hearing. Hearing loss can be the first sign of MS. Still, because this MS symptom is so rare, any trouble hearing is more likely to be from something else. Talk to your doctor or an audiologist if you experience difficulty hearing. Deafness is seldom a result of MS.
Experiencing tremors is one of the more distressing MS symptoms. These are different from tremors caused by Parkinson's disease: If you have MS, you may experience a hand tremor when you reach for a glass or pick up a fork, Kennedy says, but those with Parkinson's find their hand or leg may tremor when it's resting. "Sometimes we can hear a tremor in the MS patient's speech because their vocal chords shake," Kennedy adds. Tremors primarily affect the arms. "We have little to offer for tremors," Kennedy says. Your doctor may be able to prescribe some medication that can help you relax. One way to treat multiple sclerosis tremors is working with a physical therapist on exercises to increase your muscle strength.
Sexual Dysfunction
According to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, research shows that many people with MS have sex less frequently because of their disease — the damage to the signal system that runs along the nerves of your spinal cord also interrupts the signals your brain sends to your sexual organs. Men may experience erectile dysfunction or delayed ejaculation; for women, sexual issues include vaginal dryness and loss of sensation. "For people with MS, lack of sex can also be a self-esteem issue," Kennedy says. Medications are available to help men and women cope with sexual dysfunction. A marital or sex therapist also may be able to help if you go as a couple.
Though headaches aren't typically thought of as an MS symptom, some studies show that people with MS are more likely to get certain types of headaches than are people without the disease. Researchers at New York University found that women with MS may suffer from tension-type headaches or migraines. Analyzing data on more than 116,000 participants in the long-term Nurses' Health Study II, they found that of the 375 diagnosed with MS over the course of the study, 82 had been diagnosed with migraines before the study began. You may find relief with over-the-counter headache medication, but talk to your doctor first to find the best strategy to treat multiple sclerosis and the type of headaches you're experiencing.
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