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Mike McGlone of ETF Securities identifies levels to watch and macro factors that should affect gold prices.
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WASHINGTON/SEOUL – The Pentagon announced Friday it will spend $1 billion to add 14 interceptors to the U.S.-based missile defense system, responding to what it called faster-than-anticipated North Korean progress on nuclear weapons and missiles.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday that the United States will also provide Japan with additional radar in the face of growing security threats from North Korea.
Speaking at a news conference at the Pentagon, Hagel said the Defense Department will deploy the 14 additional ground-based interceptors in Alaska by September 2017, bringing the number of interceptors on the U.S. West Coast to 44 from the current 30.
The plan to beef up U.S. missile defense capabilities will also affect Japan, given the increasingly threatening posture adopted by Pyongyang.
"With the support of the Japanese government, we're planning to deploy additional radar in Japan," Hagel said, adding that the move is aimed at providing "improved early warning and tracking of any missile launch from North Korea at the United States or Japan."
Hagel was referring to an X-band radar system that Tokyo and Washington are considering installing in Japan, in addition to the existing large-scale radar unit at an Air Self-Defense Force base in Aomori Prefecture.
Japan and the United States are considering installing a second X-band radar system in an ASDF base on the Sea of Japan coast in Kyoto Prefecture.
Asked when the second X-band radar will be installed, James Miller, undersecretary of defense for policy, told reporters: "At this point, I would say it's a matter of at least some months." The two governments are discussing the precise timing of the installation.
The move came after North Korea's military fired short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan on Friday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported. A single unit of the North's military test-fired the missiles presumed to be KN-02, estimated to have a range of about 120 km, the report said.
The tests came a day after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a live-fire artillery drill near the disputed Yellow Sea border with South Korea, as the South's prime minister visited the flash point area.
A portion of the $1 billion cost of the expanded system in Alaska will come from scrapping the final phase of a missile defense system the U.S. is building in Europe, Hagel said. The system in Europe is aimed mainly at defending against a missile threat from Iran; key elements of that system are already in place.
The decision to drop the planned expansion in Europe happens to coincide with President Barack Obama's announced intention to engage Russia in talks about further reducing each country's nuclear weapons arsenal.
Tom Collina, research director at the Arms Control Association, said the Russians may be more willing to talk about nuclear arms reductions now that the Obama administration has decided not to go forward with the final phase of its European missile defense system.
Hagel cited three recent developments in North Korea that prompted the Obama administration to act, including a nuclear test in February deemed reckless by Washington and condemned by the U.N. Security Council.
Hagel also cited Pyongyang's launch in December of a rocket that put a satellite into space and demonstrated mastery of some of the technologies needed to produce a long-range nuclear missile.
The U.S. missile defense system has a spotty test record and has never been used in actual combat. In addition to the 26 interceptors in Alaska, the system includes four interceptors in California.

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I made this thread over three years ago, I do somewhat regret the title every time I see it bumped. I could change it, but I won't.
I will say this - Obama is 'uh' and 'um'ing a lot more than Romney.
I'd prefer it if they ditched the point-scoring, who-is-winning bullshit that surrounds the debates (and the election in general) and instead focused on what Obama has done wrong, and how it could be done better. You know, actual *debates*, about policy and such. That would be so much more useful than "hurr hurr, Romney/Obama is going to get trashed, I can't wait". Albeit less entertaining.
I recognise that this will not happen, of course.
Romney is coming across as more energetic and with it on the TV. Ok he's full of shit and being a fucking dick but in the now he's done we'll.
I hope Obama has played this format to the future by letting Romney set himself up for demolition by the news' dissection of his statements.
What I've seen of it, Romney has come across well, but then so has Obama. I don't know if America is tired of Obama's schtick yet, so maybe Romney's schtick is coming across better. Obama does seem to be doing more attacking to me though, while Romney doesn't seem to be differentiating himself other than on vague idealogical lines. I still don't understand the difference between Obamacare and Romneycare for example.
Obama's not really attacking at all. Granted, I'm a few minutes behind as I had to do a beer run (Sam insisted on doing a drinking game for the debates), but he hasn't brought up things like the 47% comment and so on and so forth. Some pundits reckon he's been specifically training not to attack, but to reiterate facts. The only attacks he's really done is on Mitten's utter vagueness on how he intends to fix things.
But, speaking as someone who is only half-joking about saying I'll leave the country if Romney gets in, he's performing better. I suspect the Dems will heavily adjust their tactics for the next two.
meme wrote:Yes, I'll admit that's my recollection of his main attacks too. Romney's come out of this much better than I'd expected, and if the voters fancy a change he comes across as a more than viable alternative to the status quo.
The only attacks he's really done is on Mitten's utter vagueness on how he intends to fix things.
Obama was way too nice. Romney won, but he mostly won by being an unlikeable arsehole.
Romney spoke directly to the camera most of the time, and therefore to the voters. Obama spoke more often direct to the chair / local audience, which is better form but less effective.
Romney just seemed to be throwing out crowd-pleasing promises, with no word about how to achieve them. Obama did manage to point this out at least once.
I thought Obama looked weary though. Almost expected him break his genial mould to say "Oh come on people, this guy is a douche-bag with loopy religious beliefs, don't trust the country to him, you idiots!".
Second debate should have more blood in it.
Oh, and the moderator was fucking useless.
Try pulling that shit on Paxman. He'd murder your whole family.
Psychotext wrote:Loved the "I would have had five seconds if you didn't interrupt me" bit.
Oh, and the moderator was fucking useless.
Try pulling that shit on Paxman. He'd murder your whole family.
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Just the thought of a mormon being the most powerful man in the world sends cold shivers down my spine.
Word is that Romney "won" the debate. Well, fantastic for him. And great for the bookies who would have made quite a bit off his perfor- wait, people bet on this shit? Like it's a horse race?
There's something slightly disturbing about that, but YAY MY GUY WON WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
*punches own face*
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ecureuil wrote:Change it to 'America, FUCK YEAH!'
I made this thread over three years ago, I do somewhat regret the title every time I see it bumped. I could change it, but I won't.
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Al Gore says Obama didn't do well because of Denver's high altitude.
That should help.
meme wrote:I didn't bother with the debate, but I'll guess that anyone playing that game would have ended up in hospital as a result.
Clips I saw sounded totally snooze-worthy. Romney sounds like he's learned a winning trick though - lie all you want, as long as those lies fit the pre-conceptions of your probable voters.
ILoveThrashMetal wrote:He'd be pledging allegiance to the Osmonds every morning!
Just the thought of a mormon being the most powerful man in the world sends cold shivers down my spine.
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Just watched the debate on Youtube.
I think that Romney did take it, but not because Obama was flustered or tired; he seemed his usual self IMO. The problem with Obama was that he went on the defensive too early and immediately began attacking Romney's ideas and pledges, when he should have stood by his own achievements to date.
Romney, on the other hand, did absolutely the right thing by criticising Obama's last four years - that's his job as the opposition candidate.
I felt Obama did improve towards the end but by then it was too late. I'd imagine his campaign will iron out his mistakes for the next debate but I look forward to the vice presidential debate next week.
Bremenacht wrote:I so wanted Obama to fire back when Romney said that, because he had five boys, he knew what it was like for someone to lie so often that they think the lie will become treated as truth. I mean, FFS, that is Romney's entire campaign in a somewhat odd personal anecdote.
Clips I saw sounded totally snooze-worthy. Romney sounds like he's learned a winning trick though - lie all you want, as long as those lies fit the pre-conceptions of your probable voters.
The entire Republican plank these days is basically the same thing - fact free and dripping with kinda creepy bullshit stories. It's a shame, as there's certainly room for debate about a great many things. But when one lot has decided to completely sever itself from reality then there's not much anyone can do to achieve anything meaningful.
Romney won the debate as it happened, but the after event is proving somewhat different - the fact checking has effectively torn most of Romney's rebuttals and attacks apart. Even though it's Rolling Stone, this is a pretty good rundown.
Americans don't have the attention span to care though. It's all LOUD NOISES and then they go back to their hunting and whatnot.
Win at the debate or don't... you wont win with factcheckers.
I dunno. The fact that there are multiple debates means the facts themselves should crop up there. Everything Romney said in this one that's a verifiable lie can be torn apart by Obama in round two in the opening statements (and vice versa). In theory, get the right things in and perform properly and confidently (unlike the first one), and Obama can knock Romney's legs out in the first few minutes. "Winning" the first debate only results in a small, temporary PR boost. The second and third are when it actually counts for a more substantial bump.
@meme Different focus in each of the future debates though? Which'd mean Romney can tell fresh lies and -presumably- not have them challenged until after the debate, by which time they'd already had their effect.
Obama seems to be doing what he did for his first few years in government - avoiding a fight.
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More Narwani Attacks on David Harris
about Jews, and about caring for human rights. We all saw how Ms. Narwani had nothing at all to say about the Arab Spring uprisings (and all the death and suffering it entailed) and instead spent her time licking her chops and waiting to attack Israel. Her bias has never been clearer.
But I must also praise Mr. Harris for standing above it all and not feeding the Narwani-troll. Good for him.
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HuffPo needs to get a lot of feedback about Ms Narwani and her total lack of decorum and respect for her fellow bloggers.ReplyDelete
Regular posters are BANNED for this type of commenting, yet Ms Narwani is PRAISED. There is something fundamentally wrong with HuffPo allowing Narwani's type of slander, and ad hom towards a fellow blogger.
But not a word from Narwani on Muslims killing Muslims. She is concerned only when the Jews do it.ReplyDelete
Zach, you are being far too charitable.ReplyDelete
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For context, it's good to remember that Glenn Beck didn't come out of nowhere. He's the latest example of what the great historian Richard Hofstadter called "the paranoid style in American politics," which he defined as angry minds that traffic in "heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy," and that see "the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms... always manning the barricades of civilization."
- Same source
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And lest we forget, Narwani's slobbering love affair "interview" with Meshaal, head of Hamas. Not a single tough question. Nothing about their targeting and murdering Jewish civilians. Didn't realize her tongue reached that far down his throat, either.
OK, now I feel better. :)
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Unless, of course, you are the *queens* blogger, personal friend, or share her personal views and agree to spew them.
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"I know Clay is not going to be available this week and we'll see what next week brings us," McCarthy said. "He was diagnosed as couple weeks away and this will be his second week. We'll see what happens next week."
This will be the second game Matthews has missed due to injury since entering the league in 2009. He missed one game in 2010 with an injured shin.
"He has rushed very well this year," Lions coach Jim Schwartz told reporters in Detroit. "I don't want to say a down year, but statistically, a little bit of a down year last year. He's made plays all over the field. Sacks, tackles for loss, really putting the offense behind the chains a lot of times."
There were a few bits of good news on the injury front.
Jordy Nelson "looked like his old self," McCarthy said. Nelson missed the Week 8 game against Jacksonville with an injured hamstring and turned an ankle on the second series against Arizona in Week 9.
Jerel Worthy, who said he never missed a game in high school or college, is back from a concussion. His interior pass rush will be needed to help off-set the loss of Matthews.
"Going home and sitting in the house every day is kind of boring, but I had to do the necessary things to get back," Worthy said.
Finally, while Charles Woodson and Greg Jennings won't play on Sunday, they are improving.
"I had a chance to watch Charles Woodson yesterday in the weight room. He's a lot closer than I think any of us thought he would be at this time," McCarthy said. "Greg Jennings, his workouts are going very well."
Packers injury report
Out: DB Charles Woodson (collarbone); LB Clay Matthews (hamstring); WR Greg Jennings (abdomen). Did not participate: DE Mike Neal (ankle). Limited: WR Donald Driver (thumb); FB John Kuhn (hamstring); LB Terrell Manning (shoulder); WR Jordy Nelson (hamstring/foot); TE Andrew Quarless (knee); CB Sam Shields (ankle). Full: T T.J. Lang (elbow/wrist); TE D.J. Williams (hamstring); DE Jerel Worthy (concussion).
"Mike's battling through the same thing, the ankle injury had going into the Arizona game," McCarthy said Neal. "It's bothering him. Hopefully, we'll be able to get some work out of him this week and he'll be ready for Detroit."
Lions injury report
Did not participate: DE Cliff Avril (back/concussion); S Erik Coleman (eye); S Louis Delmas (knee); CB Chris Houston (ankle); WR Calvin Johnson (knee); S Amari Spievey (concussion); DT Corey Williams (knee). Limited: K Jason Hanson (left foot); LB Ashlee Palmer (chest); WR Titus Young (knee).
Avril leads the team in sacks with 4.5, Delmas, Coleman and Spievey are the top three safeties and Houston's the top cornerback.
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-- For those of you who are on pins and needles about whether Aaron Rodgers is engaged, the quarterback shed no light on the subject during his weekly chit-chat with reporters at his locker. "My personal life is my personal life. It's always going to stay that way and I will not comment on it," he said.
-- Rodgers is fourth among all players in Pro Bowl balloting. Rodgers, fullback John Kuhn, center Jeff Saturday, outside linebacker Clay Matthews, safety Charles Woodson and punter Tim Masthay lead their positions in the NFC.
-- McCarthy, on the team feeling fresh after the bye: "I thought it was evident Monday. I thought they had good energy. I think they were a bit surprised we were outside today. But they had good energy again today. It was good to be out on the grass. But I agree with ya, the bye week definitely helped our football team. We're definitely a lot fresher this Wednesday going into the Detroit game than we were going into the Arizona game."
-- New left guard Evan Dietrich-Smith says his experience from last year, which began with him jumping in at tackle at Detroit, has him prepared to be the starter for the rest of this season. "Oh, a lot more confident. I firmly believe my experience from last year is going to benefit me this year. You get to figure out the game speed, how things go, how Aaron runs the huddle, how we get in and out, how we fly around -- basically how it's done. You see how it's supposed to look and I think that's the biggest thing that's going to help me going forward."
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i'd have a macbook air over the lenovo, because the mac runs OSX…. it might be a contest if that lenovo was running a cool linux distribution, but… i've never seen a linux distrib thats as cool as leopard. And… lets face it. That Air looks hot! The lenovo looks like a kinda skinny brick.


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[1] For instance, N.S., Vols. III and IV (1894-1895), Time and
Hegelian Dialectic, and Vol. VI (1897), Hegel's Treatment of the
Subjective Notion. On Hegelian terminology, cf.
Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology (ed. Baldwin), article,
"Hegel's Terminology." Consult also Seth, Hegelianism and
Personality (second edition, London and Edinburgh, 1893), Morris,
Hegel's Philosophy of the State and of History (Griggs'
Classics, Chicago, 1887), and Hibben, Hegel's Logic (New
York, 1902).
[2] Logic, p. 10. References are to Wallace's translation
(Oxford, 1892).
[3] Hegel's Philosophy of Mind, p. xvi.
[4] Logic, p. 156.
[5] Op. cit., p. 28; Werke, vi, 26.
[6] Logic, p. 24.
[7] Op. cit., p. 45.
[8] Op. cit., p. 155.
[9] Op. cit., p. 207.
[10] Op. cit., p. 284.
[11] Op. cit., p. 281.
[12] Op. cit., p. 314.
[13] Cf. Encyklopõdie, No. 249; Werke
(edition 1847), Vol. VII, P. II, p. 32.
[14] Encyklop., II. Theil, Einleitung; Werke, VII, 18. On
the change of method implied in this admission, and on the possibility
of transition from notion to nature, cf. McTaggart in
Mind, N.S., Vol. VI (1897). For defense of Hegel's consistency
on this point, cf. Philosophical Review (1896), V,
[15] Phil. of Mind, p. 7. References are to Wallace's
translation (Oxford, 1894).
[16] Op. cit., p. 101.
[17] Philosophy of History, Introduction, p. 9. References are to
Sibree's translation (London, 1884).
[18] Op. cit., p. 16.


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Environment, Recreation, Communications and the Arts References Committee
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Senator LUNDY —Predictably, my questions will focus on the development of the new National Museum of Australia on Acton Peninsula. As we previously canvassed with Ms Casey, the project management is proceeding, but my questions will go more to the design integrity aspects—I am not quite sure of the terminology—of what is proposed for the museum as it relates to the original brief for the architects and the selection process. I understand that the elements of the design and the original specifications for the floor plan have been adjusted to try to fit within the parameters of the budget and of the time frames, et cetera. Can you provide information to the committee on the degree of flexibility that exists for the museum now, and how you, as the head of the National Museum, have a say in those decisions for change? I know it is a very longwinded, stilted question, but I think you understand what I am getting at.
Dr Jonas —I will take the second part first. We are in constant contact with the department—which, as you know, is actually the client which is actually building the museum—sometimes with the architects through the department, and sometimes directly with the architects. We set up a team which developed the functional brief that the architects designed to as part of the design competition. After the design competition there was, as there inevitably is, an iterative process where the larger spaces got tested: `Is it better to have the theatre on this side of the main hall or on that side of the main hall?', and so on. We have done that by dealing, as I have said, directly with the architects, directly with the department and through the department to the architects.
A series of workshops were held involving Dawn Casey, the consultants to the architects, who were in New York, the architects and myself. One of the things that came out of that—and this is leading on to the first part of your question—was the development of a mezzanine treatment which will run right throughout the permanent gallery spaces and into the gallery of Aboriginal Australia, which gives us an enormous amount of flexibility which we did not have before. That has slightly increased the square meterage of exhibition space, but it has greatly increased the exhibition volume. So we are probably now able, in design terms, to exhibit a lot more of our collections visibly than would have been the case before.
Senator LUNDY —If you are not extending your floor space, your meterage, how can you extend your exhibition space?
Dr Jonas —No, the exhibition volume has increased.
Senator LUNDY —As opposed to how many things you put on walls, or more walls?
Dr Jonas —As opposed to how many things you put on walls or in addition to what you can actually put on floors—which you can see looking at them, but now you will also be able to look down on them. For example, let us say we have a case with objects in it; you can see those at eye level, but now we can put things on top of those cases and you can also look down on them from the mezzanine level. So we have now actually increased the volume of visibility.
Senator LUNDY —Why have you gone to a mezzanine treatment solution? It is obviously to increase your exhibition volume. Is that an innovative way of addressing a shortfall in exhibition space?
Dr Jonas —No, it is an innovative way of providing the visitor with a more holistic experience and with more and different experiences.
Senator LUNDY —It sounds very interesting. Can you assist me here: I recollect, from deliberations of the Public Works Committee, some concern about a reduction in the overall exhibition space from that original functional brief to what is currently proposed. Am I right in that recollection?
Dr Jonas —I am a little bit uncertain about that. Can I provide you with that answer later? We are actually quite satisfied with the exhibition space that we have finished up with.
Senator LUNDY —I appreciate that. I am not really asking for your assessment; it is just a practical question in the sense of how much it differs from the original functional brief. Can you respond to that question on the basis of each individual gallery, rather than giving an overall figure?
Dr Jonas —Certainly.
Senator LUNDY —I have a couple of questions with respect to the children's gallery. Are there any proposals which provide for a change from the functional brief with respect to what is now proposed for the children's gallery?
Dr Jonas —Not at this stage. One of the things that we learned when we were overseas, and we have also had other advice on this, is that children's museums seem to function very well as stand[hyphen]alone museums, but as part of other museums they do not appear to function as well. I think what happens is that, rather than adults going with children into the children's museum, they take the children into the other type of museum which has got a children's museum in it, and that tends to function as a child minding facility rather than them getting the sort of total museum experience. What we have done is let a consultancy which will investigate children's facilities in the National Museum of Australia. The results of that consultancy are not to hand yet.
Senator LUNDY —Surely these issues were determined in the preparation of the functional brief. Why are you engaging in a reassessment at this point?
Dr Jonas —It is just part of the process. A certain number of assumptions are used to develop a functional brief, but as part of the ongoing process of getting the best museum that you can get you test those assumptions, and that is an ongoing process.
Senator LUNDY —Is it normal to test those assumptions in the context of the preparation of tender documentation for the construction of the museum though?
Dr Jonas —Sorry.
Senator LUNDY —I am questioning the time frame. Once you embark upon a construction phase—a tender process—my experience tells me that is not the time to be engaging consultants to test assumptions about the merits or otherwise of components of that functional brief. Do you know what I am saying?
Dr Jonas —I think I know what you are saying and I do not see anything wrong with that taking place. If you have got the time to be making things better, why not take advantage of the fact that you have got that time?
Senator LUNDY —In terms of this particular consultancy, what was the brief?
Dr Jonas
—For the children's consultancy? To examine, in the context of Canberra and in the context of what direction the National Museum of Australia is taking, what might be the
best way to provide facilities for children in the National Museum of Australia. That is not the exact wording of the consultancy, but that is basically it.
Senator LUNDY —Can you provide the exact wording to the committee?
Dr Jonas —I certainly can.
Senator LUNDY —And when that consultancy is completed, provide that information to the committee?
Dr Jonas —I certainly can.
Senator LUNDY —Are there any other consultancies you have taken up to reassess elements of the functional brief?
Dr Jonas —No.
Senator LUNDY —As a result of the various budget pressures that inevitably come about with functional briefs and designs, putting aside the alliancing issue for the moment, are you finding the museum and the council are in a position of having to make compromises with respect to the integrity of the design to suit the government's budget and timetable?
Dr Jonas —No.
Mr Stevens —Senator, can I interrupt for one second? Ms Casey tells me that there may one or more consultancies that she is aware of that Dr Jonas may not be aware of. I might ask her to come up to the table if that is satisfactory.
Senator LUNDY —Yes, please.
Ms Casey —There a number of consultancies that are testing the assumptions of the brief. There is a consortium made up of CSIRO and museum experts in terms of testing the requirements for air conditioning. There is a library consultant brought in to look at the library areas in both the National Museum and AIATSIS. So it is not a matter of a cost cutting exercise but rather, `Here we have the opportunity to improve on areas, can we get expert advice?'
Senator LUNDY —What scope within the general budget is there for a proliferation of consultancies to improve the functional brief?
Ms Casey —There is scope for fees for various consultancies. A functional brief is just a guide and when people sit down with a functional brief it is like, `Here are the areas that we think we need.' You do need to get advice on it.
Senator LUNDY —But my experience—certainly with the National Museum it goes back some years—tells me that within the museum organisation they had developed their requirements to a very high degree of specificity, based on their existing collection, conceptually what they were looking for in the presentation of that collection, and issues going to the very heart of the whole thematic approach to the museum. To what degree are all those concepts that I am familiar with from the past relevant to what is going on currently in all these reassessments, consultants, changes, budget pressures, alleged reductions in floor space?
Ms Casey —Certainly, the museum has not changed its themes and, as far I know, people have thought about how you would exhibit those things. But air conditioning, for instance, is an ongoing area that is being tested nationally and internationally.
Senator LUNDY —Sure.
Ms Casey —You need to get the latest advice so that you make sure that you build in the latest, if we are going to get indemnified exhibitions, for instance, so that has been tested. They were saying, `Is this the right level of air conditioning for these levels of spaces currently?'
Senator LUNDY —My comments are more relevant with respect to what Dr Jonas said with respect to the children's museum. The prominence of the collections for those of the younger generation was a critical area, as I recall, for the museum in the way it presented its material generally.
Ms Casey —That is right, and that is what people are asked to look at. This is based on the advice that Dr Jonas, along with some members of the council, received overseas. It is asking, `Do you have a separate space allocation for children? How do you incorporate the children's experience in the rest of the museum, and not only in the exhibition areas? How best do you incorporate the experience for children in the retail areas, including the restaurant areas?' And it changes over years.
Senator LUNDY —Yes, I am sure. I have to say I cannot help being a tad cynical that what I am hearing is elaborate justification for the scrapping of the children's gallery. I hope I am wrong in that. I just wonder where it is going with these consultancies and the advice you are getting.
Ms Casey —There is a range of pieces of advice. We have got a certain allocation and, within that, one of the other areas that we looked at was the main hall. Originally, in the functional brief it was 1,500 square metres. When we looked at that we asked, `Is that the best use of 1,500 square metres?' No, it was not. But we have increased the exhibition areas.
Senator LUNDY —Okay, it is fluid. The children's gallery: are you going to keep it?
Ms Casey —It is up for discussion. The museum council are still discussing it, based on what sort of advice they receive and based on their own views.
Senator LUNDY —What else is up for discussion? Maybe you have core and non[hyphen]core elements?
Ms Casey —They will look at a range of areas. They have yet to work out the spatial requirements for functions—what sort of performance space is allocated.
Senator LUNDY —What about educational areas? Briefing rooms for students? Are they core or non[hyphen]core?
Dr Jonas —They are there.
Senator LUNDY —They are?
Dr Jonas —Yes.
Senator LUNDY —Are they being inquired into through a consultancy?
Dr Jonas —This particular children's consultancy?
Senator LUNDY —I am sorry. I am employing some sarcasm, and I apologise for that. But the point I am making is: how can we or how can the public be assured that those elements of the museum will remain in what appears to be a very fluid consideration of the features and aspects?
Dr Jonas
—We are absolutely committed to children in that museum. We are absolutely committed to both the education of schoolchildren who come and the museum experience of everybody who comes, irrespective of their age. We are absolutely committed to that. What we are working out is: given that there is conflicting evidence—and evidence is mounting
overseas, as I have said—we are interested in finding out the best way of maximising that experience for children. That is what our aim is at the moment.
In terms of whether we are going to keep the children's gallery or not, the consultancy is being let now. I come from an academic background where I prefer not to answer the questions before I have actually asked them. We will have to wait and see what comes up there.
Senator LUNDY —Okay. That is all I have. Thank you.
Dr Jonas —Thank you.
CHAIR —I would like to thank the officers from the National Museum for their attendance. Mr Stevens, would you thank the staff for all their help today? I thank Hansard. I thank Senator Lundy for her cooperation in ensuring that we finished 2[half ] minutes over time, which has to be a record. I appreciate that, Senator Lundy. Thank you very much.


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Re: Mathematica Calls Home
> The following is a bit more puzzling. Another kind of outbound connection
> attempts, rated as medium risk, takes place in occasions when saving my
> notebooks. Then Mathematica tries to connect to the IP 22.214.171.124 (DNS)
> on port 53.
A whois shows that this IP is registered by Akamai Technologies. Does
this ring any bells?
A quick search shows that it's a company that mirrors servers in order
to offer faster internet connection. Perhaps the machine you save your
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'No poor countries by 2035': Bill Gates annual letter says extreme
Bill and Melinda Gates use letter to quash 'three myths' about world poverty
Bill and Melinda Gates use letter to quash 'three myths' about world poverty
The Brit succeeded crime writer James Patterson to top the list
Is a Britain with nuclear missile-equipped submarines a safer place to live, now and into the future? That is the crux of today's debate on replacing Trident - the weapon system that will cost an estimated £100bn over the next 30 years.
Rappers aren't exactly known for their modesty, preferring to fill their lyrics with endless references to Cristal and ice (diamonds). And, boy, do they love to brag about how rich they are. But how many of them are all mouth and no savings account? On the track "Versus" from the recent, Magna Carta Holy Grail, Jay-Z's taunts fellow rappers about just how much they have in the bank: "The truth in my verses, versus your metaphors about what your net worth is."
The animated film took more than $50m more than The Lone Ranger in its opening weekend
Lord Grade, the former chairman of both the BBC and ITV, has been suggested as a potential "mediator" who could help broker the current impasse over future press regulation.
Narendra Modi isn't actually standing for election as Indian Prime Minister yet, although you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise. Since the main opposition party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced he will be leading its election campaign, the world media has been busy sizing up his leadership potential.
Edward Snowden, the man who leaked the largest amount of classified information in the history of the NSA, has been advised to leave Hong Kong. A senior law official cited the city's extradition agreement with America as reason to hasten the departure of the whistleblower, who faces jail in America. But how will he fare should he stay?
Film director Bryan Forbes has died "following a long illness" at the age of 86, a family spokesman has said.
Prime Minister gives London Mayor's younger brother Jo senior government job as his head of policy
Today after more than 20 years in recession ritual persists in Japan, and for most people life moves along on fixed rails
The Premier League leaders have topped the annual list for the last nine years
World View: Any source is a good source when desperate journalists can't dig up the most basic of facts
Labour today said a controversial adviser to Education Secretary Michael Gove should resign if - as appeared to be the case - he was in breach of his profession's Code of Conduct by implying that a journalist required therapy.
Virgin founder publicly commits to give away half of his fortune to philanthropic causes
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Doherty, Goinsalvos, Kraus, Miller Comprise 2015 SNHU Athletic Hall of Fame Class
Changes Announced to SNHU Athletic Hall of Fame
The Southern New Hampshire University Athletic Hall of Fame was created in 1967 and was revived in 1988. The Hall of Fame currently has 104 individuals and two teams enshrined.
The SNHU Athletic Hall of Fame honors those individuals who through participation, support or interest have made outstanding contributions in the field of intercollegiate athletics and have brought recognition, honor, distinction and excellence to Southern New Hampshire University. Classes are selected and inducted on a biennial basis beginning in 2015.
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For 20 years, the Ellsworth Free Clinic has provided vital medical treatment for the uninsured-at no charge.
"There is quite, quite a demand. You have a lot of people that have no income, have no way of paying for insurance," said Jean Lyons, who works at the front desk.
Linda Grindle, who runs the clinic, says they receive about six to ten new patients a week-and run on a tight budget.
They receive no subsidies from the state.
We are funded totally on grants and donations. Our patients give, and i accept two dollars if that's all they have as graciously as I would a thousand dollar check," said Grindle.
As recently as last month, though, it looked like the clinic would have to close its doors.
"We were without funding and the rent has to be paid here and all our other expenses and insurances, and we just were running out of money," said Grindle.
But at the eleventh hour, two $10,000 donations came in–and now they'll remain open.
Staff members say without this clinic, many patients would have nowhere to go.
"We have people that come in that just need a physical, maybe some blood work, and then we have other people that come in that are very ill," said Grindle.
"We see lots of diabetics and their blood sugar is out of control. We see people with blood pressures that are out of control. We see chronic obstructive pulmonary disease," said Susan Hughes, a nurse at the clinic.
They're able to treat all these conditions thanks to a generous staff…doctors, nurses, receptionists…all volunteers.
"I retired from where I had been working for 30 years and decided I wanted to have something to do and Linda needed some help so I said okay, I'm coming," said Lyons.
And patients don't take the free service lightly.
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Linkin Park
The Hunting Party
Album Review
Linkin Park co-frontman Chester Bennington wastes no time telling us exactly how he feels in the first lines of The Hunting Party's opening song, "Keys to the Kingdom": "No control, no surprise/Throw the keys to the kingdom down that hole in my eye/I'm my own casualty/I f--- up everything I see, fighting in futility."
While Bennington has never been a poster child for optimism and sunshine, rays of hope and a healthier perspective on suffering have at times peeked through the fog on Linkin Park's last couple of albums. Now the soupy despair seems thicker, and the warming rays of light thinner. Even what might be initially characterized as a positive perspective more often than not comes from a place of loss, confusion and deep melancholy.
Throughout The Hunting Party, Linkin Park fixates obsessively on conflict, death and injustice, only rarely suggesting that there might be meaning or hope on the other side of the violent warfare—whether literal or metaphorical—that many of these songs explore.
Positive Elements
Spiritual Content
Sexual Content
Violent Content
Crude or Profane Language
Drug and Alcohol Content
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"Guilty All the Same" is full of rage, to be sure, but it points out the fact that hypocritical moralizing helps no one ("Tell us all again/What you think we should be/What the answers are/What it is we can't see/ ... Show us all again/That our hands are unclean/ ... You're guilty all the same/Too sick to be ashamed/You want to point your finger/But there's no one else to blame"). A bit later, guest contributor Rakim denounces corporate greed, singing, "Even corporate hands is filthy/ ... All they think about is bank accounts, assets and realty/At anybody's expense/No shame with a clear conscience."
"War" rightly recognizes that armed aggression destroys lives. "Wastelands" laments our culture's lack of integrity. "Until It's Gone" repeats the old cliché, "I've heard it said a thousand times/But now I know/That you don't know what you've got/ ... Until it's gone." We also hear regret about failing to protect someone ("I thought I kept you safe and sound/I thought I made you strong/But something made me realize/That I was wrong"). "Rebellion" longs for cleansing and clarity, and painfully admits, "I can't repair the damage done."
Album closer "A Line in the Sand" insists that fraudulent oppressors will one day face justice ...
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... but many fans will hear it as both violent and vigilante ("Another day, your truth will come/You're gonna pay for what you/Pay for what you've done/You'll get what's yours/And face your fraud/You're gonna give me back what's mine").
A similar positive/negative balance might be applied to "All for Nothing," but the unbridled rage and despair expressed tilts things in a downward direction as the band lashes out at someone who has demanded strict obedience ("And if I do what you demand/You say/You'll let me understand/ ... Your word/Obey"), then ultimately turned out to be unfaithful and untrustworthy ("My debt/Repaid/Our trust/Betrayed/All for nothing"). Two f-words pop up on the song. And five f-words punctuate the futile anger on opening track "Keys to the Kingdom," which nihilistically asks, "Tell me what's worth fighting for/When we know there's nothing more?"
"Guilty All the Same" rejects any and all hope ("'Cause we cannot be saved/'Cause the end is near"). "War" sees no end to conflict ("There's no peace/Only war"), suggesting that death is all that remains ("Death has become your only right/And once you're lost/In your despair/Forever black, eternal night/And it will not apologize/For laying down your life"). "Wastelands" continues that lament, telling us we should "Fade to black/In the wastelands of today/When there's nothing left to lose/And there's nothing more to take/ ... When tomorrow disappears/When the future slips away/And your hope turns into fear/In the wastelands of today/Roll credits, to get it/The show's done." Also bleak is "Rebellion," where we hear this doomed diagnosis: "Rebellion, rebellion/We lost before the start/Rebellion, rebellion/One by one we fall apart." "Mark the Graves" offers a somber summation of death, ultimately and grimly concluding, "In the dark/In the light/Nothing left/Nothing right."
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The Hunting Party finds Linkin Park playing the part of an angry punk rocker with a 10-ton chip fused to his shoulder. Sometimes the band is upset about things that really do matter, such as injustice and the victims of war. Other times, though, it seems that Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda, Rob Bourdon, Brad Delson, Dave Farrell and Joe Hahn actually revel in their alienation and despair as they carpet bomb fans with obscenities, self-righteous vitriol and aggressive despair.
Billboard reviewer Kenneth Partridge put it this way: "There's a war going down on the new Linkin Park album, the band's first since 2003 not produced by Rick Rubin. Without the guidance of their bearded generalissimo, these Cali rap-rock commandos go rogue, flinging missiles in all directions. They attack record companies, politicians, rule makers, exes, and anyone else in sight, all the while rediscovering the savage fun of super-loud guitars."
Savage? Sure.
Fun? Not so much.
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2) don't lose at home in front of a buzzing, capacity-plus crowd never before seen in your facility that includes incredulous management execs, and;
3) don't get blown out 5-1 by a team incapable of shutting out 11 tykes on tricycles.
In admitting he'd consulted with Hunt Sports Group executives before dismissing Steve Morrow, president and general manager Michael Hitchcock cited the team's under-achievements, its poor record at home, and yes, that humiliating thrashing at Pizza Hut Park inflicted as much by Edson Buddle and Alvaro Pires as Landon Donovan and David Beckham.
Morrow, moved up to the top job in December 2006, after serving as Colin Clarke's assistant, followed him out the door after coaching just 38 games and recording a 15-15-8 record. As he did when he jettisoned Clarke, Hitchcock cited a wealth of talent unable to generate commensurate results as the primary reason.
"I just felt the team was heading in the wrong direction and that we needed to make this change at this time," said Hitchcock, whose contract, like that of Morrow, expires this year. "Obviously, losing 5-1 at home to Los Angeles in front of our biggest crowd ever [22,331] was a factor."
Not winning any of its past four games after opening the season 2-0-2 also weighed into Hitchcock's decision, as did the presence of HSG executive Dan Hunt, son of the late Lamar Hunt, who watched FCD utterly collapse after surrendering a Chris Klein goal in the 25th minute following a good start by FCD, including a Steve Cronin tip-over of an audacious 40-yard effort by Kenny Cooper.
"That's the way soccer can go," says Cooper, who assisted on Dominic Oduro's goal in the 54th minute. "It was an interesting game. We weren't able to score and they were very efficient in front of goal."
Buddle danced past three defenders untouched to score the second, defender Duilio Davino deflected a Donovan cross past keeper Dario Sala for No 3, and some sluggish defending by Sala and Davino enabled Pires to set up Buddle to knock in the fourth.
"I shared my thoughts with ownership," said Hitchcock. "I got their thoughts and they provided their input. You never want to make these decisions on your own, you always want to provide an opportunity for people you respect and trust to share their thoughts."
Said Cooper, son of the former NASL goalkeeper and MISL Baltimore Blast coach Ken Sr., "I didn't think anything like this was coming. I really am surprised. I enjoyed playing for him very much and I am sad for him. I think he'll go on and do really well for himself."
Cooper, who joined the team in February, 2006, will play for his third MLS head coach this weekend when Marco Ferruzzi sends the team out on an interim basis against Real Salt Lake, with a fourth coach to follow when a replacement for Morrow is selected. Hitchcock said that process is just beginning, which suggests the Galaxy goalfest so disgruntled team management that it decided immediate change was needed.
Yet tension had been building, and not just because of the winless streak. Team management has refused to clarify or comment about the dismissal last week of assistant coach Jorge Alvial, who'd been hired by the team in January. Losing for the second time in four home matches this season exacerbated one of Hitchcock's pet peeves.
"If you look at our home record over the past year and a half, I think we've had 30 home games that were actual ticketed matches in all competitions, and we've won 10 of those," said Hitchcock, who is absolutely correct when toting up regular-season, playoff, U.S. Open Cup, SuperLiga, and preseason games. "I am a firm believer in that when we bring our fans out to the stadium, we need to make sure that this is truly a homefield advantage for the team.
"When we do that, we need the team to respond and reward the fans for coming out and supporting us. Our home record has not been great, and the challenge that we've been having as a team and heading in the wrong direction sort of manifested itself with the 5-1 loss on Sunday."
Dallas fizzled at home in the last two months of the 2007 season. It lost the Open Cup final to the Revs, 3-2, and went 1-3-2 in its last six regular-season games before beating Houston narrowly, 1-0, at home in the Western Conference semifinals. Houston romped in the return leg, 4-1.
Not confirmed were rumors of a team meeting called by Morrow last week to discuss the previous game, a 2-1 loss at Real Salt Lake, in which he and several players allegedly bickered over blame for the defeat. Kyle Beckerman nutmegged Sala for the winning goal after the keeper had charged out to contest an Andy Williams chip. Sala had drilled a ricochet off teammate Andre Rocha that Javier Morales rolled home for the first goal.
An excellent flying save by Sala had denied Fabian Espindola in the 10th minute, and Davino had robbed RSL of a goal by clearing a shot off the goal line in the second half. As they had done the previous week in a 0-0 tie at San Jose, Dallas flubbed numerous scoring chances against RSL.
"I'm not aware of anything like that," said Cooper of players being singled out for blame at a meeting. "We thought we deserved to get something out of that game but I don't know anything about anything else."
Hitchcock hasn't set a timetable to name a replacement. SMU head coach Schellas Hyndman is a favored candidate each time Dallas fires a head coach, as is former head coach Dave Dir. Hitchcock may be hampered in his search by teams refusing to let him talk with current assistant coaches, such as Paul Mariner (New England), John Spencer (Houston) and Robert Warzycha (Columbus).
"This decision was made purely on the fact we're not headed in the right direction, man," said Hitchcock. "If you look at our results as of late, on the field it does not meet the expectations that we have for this franchise.
"By no means do I think we're past the point of no return for this season. We feel we've got a talented roster and I feel confident that when this team plays up to its potential, it can contend for championships."


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Image from BBC.
The event, inspired by the letter of a little girl, includes a 30ft(9m) puppet girl, 50ft(15m) puppet of her uncle and 30ft dog which will roam the streets separately before meeting Saturday evening. Over 100 volunteers will help move the puppets with the use of cranes. The company behind the street theatre are Royal De Luxe, who have created giant spectuacles before, including the Giant Elephant which walked the streets of central London in 2006.
Giant Elephant in London 2006.
These photos, as well as the promotion video, are breathtaking, especially along side the massive crowds and the volunteers working the giant structures. The scale and detail of the puppets are incredible and I can only hope that one day I can capture the puppets performing another time.
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A stunning photo from the final part of the spectacle with the three puppets leaving the city down the River.
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Pop-Culture | Posted by Helen H on 01/28/2010
The Mean Girls Reality
It may have been my simplistic seven-year-old view of the world that made me categorize everyone into 'good' and 'bad', but I soon got over it with the help of time, and even things like movies. Still, there was one kind of movie that never seemed to stretch that idea of good and bad, that always seemed to use the same archetypes, and frankly, that scared me.
Yes, I'm talking about the high school flick.The protagonist? The new girl, warm-hearted, pretty, smart. The antagonist? A typically blonde, vapid creature, who is usually captain of the cheerleading squad and always vain. Most of the time, the plots aren't too creative either–our evil, sputtering antagonist realizes that new girl is a threat to her popularity, especially after new girl catches her boyfriend's attention. So, antagonist comes up with some nasty ploy to destroy new girl and keep 1st place in the popularity contest.
Fast forward, though, to my first day at my own new high school, one of the best and most expensive in Jordan. I was given a scolarship to go there, and it was well-acknowledged that this school was for the diplomats' sons and daughters, the children of rich businessmen. This, of course, terrified me. Not only was I afraid of being outcast as one of the scholarship students, but also of finding myself in one of 'those' high schools, the ones I'd seen far too many times on T.V.
Neither happened. I'll speak for myself, because as an overall uninvolved girl who likes to be on good terms with everyone in a relatively small school, I'm probably not the best person to give advice on this. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying my fellow high school girls are entirely peaceful creatures–I've seen girls bitch-calling and holding months-long grudges and I've been slapped by a best friend who claimed I was flirting with her crush. So, I don't think it's that we're innately programmed to act like the cast of Mean Girls. I think it's just that we've seen so many movies like it that we start noticing the little similarities–like, we see a girl who's popular–and we immediately make a connection.
And if there's one thing I've learned, it's never to take another high school flick seriously, because I've seen some girls who could fit in the 'vicious cheerleader' stereotype, and hey, they're not so vicious after all.
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ACW @ at 12:50 pm, January 28th, 2010
Or, you know, a student's first experience could go completely in the other direction, and truth could be as bad or worse than fiction:
My sophomore year, a male student was sick of being bullied and –since the administrators and counselors were unwilling or unable to do anything about the situation– he brought a gun to school and 'handled' it himself.
Helen H. @ at 2:13 pm, January 28th, 2010
Oh my. That's terrible.
Helen H. @ at 2:15 pm, January 28th, 2010
I mean, I'm speaking purely from my own measly experience, and that's not much.
Jordi @ at 9:06 pm, January 28th, 2010
I'm from Australia and so I've never been worried about the whole clique thing with the popular and beautiful girls having everyone in the palm of their hand at school that Hollywood seems obsessed with.
However, I must admit that my and friend and I, after watching a little too many of these films, would love to visit America to see if it's really like that ;P
Allie @ at 10:21 pm, January 28th, 2010
Jordi — I think a lot of these behaviors are universal, they are just extremely exaggerated in Hollywood! so, I don't think it's actually like that in the US.. at least not most of the time, past middle school at least, haha.
Moria @ at 12:25 am, January 29th, 2010
The mean cheerleader trope really irritates me. I was a cheerleader for a while in high school, and I really liked it. None of the girls on my team fit the "mean girl" stereotype, and many of us weren't even people who fit any of the cheer stereotypes.
Those movies are really unrealistic and promote a simplified view of high school as a dichotomy between good and bad. It's ridiculous. Also, having so many stereotypes about how cheerleaders (and lots of other groups, too) are only serves to discourage young people from pursuing activities that might actually interest them for fear of not fitting in to a clique that doesn't actually exist in real life.
Giorgia @ at 10:02 am, January 29th, 2010
I don't think all of Mean Girls was meant to reflect reality. The notion of the new girl being targeted (as with other teen movies), I believe was only for a storyline purpose because the new girl allows a whole new dynamic which provides for a more entertaining movie, and not to mention, it represents the audience as we are new to this world too.
There are good and bad in every school, and some may have worse 'clique' problems than other. Hollywood, like with everything else, exaggerates it.
Alex Catgirl @ at 11:02 pm, January 29th, 2010
I'm convinced people who make movies about high school life were miserable in high school and are making the characters as unrealistic as possible in a feeble attempt to get even….they probably hate teens in general too.
There is some truth to them, but it's not nearly as mind numbingly simple as what's shown in the movies. The "victims" often provoke the ugly treatment they latter cry about.
Anu @ at 9:08 am, January 30th, 2010
"The mean cheerleader trope really irritates me. I was a cheerleader… None of the girls on my team fit the "mean girl" stereotype…"
Well, to be frank, I'm sure a lot of people are completely oblivious to how horribly they (sometimes) treat other people. I don't know you or your cheerleader friends and I'm more inclined to think you were/are decent people, but just because you (the potential bully in the stereotypical high school scenario) don't think you or your friends were a bullies doesn't mean it's true. Who wants to admit they are/were a horrible person, even if it was years ago in high school?
kanadra @ at 12:01 am, February 1st, 2010
To play the devils advocate to your comment, Anu (and not saying that i don't agree to what you're saying), but the cheer-leading team at my high school was the epitome of not-mean.
We didn't have a cheer squad for more than a year because while i was there, no one was really interested. Most of the "popluar", cheerleader material girls were either involved in actual sports, or too busy with parties to get involved with extracurricular activities. The girls who were actually on the cheer squad, from what i can recall, were a pretty random selection from many crowds, including the art and gaming crowds, but mostly people who enjoyed dance and similar activities.
I guess what i'm saying is, maybe the people on Moira's team were not in fact bullies or "mean girls". Just because someone is in a stereotypical high school role, doesn't mean they have to fit the stereotype.
Toongrrl @ at 2:23 pm, February 1st, 2010
I'm glad high school is over
PatriarchySlayer @ at 2:17 am, February 2nd, 2010
Let me just say that everyone's high school experience is so different. Even within my own high school there are a million different opinions about the same people, same teachers and same cliques.
My personal experience was not great. I never felt that I fit in anywhere. I was the aimless wanderer, just hoping to make it out undamaged. I hated high school. There were some great people, but there were some really really horrible people. Not only to me but to other people. I tried to stop it when I could, but eventually when the people you are trying to protect turn against you, you know it's a losing battle.
The division in my school (I went to a big public high school) between the rich and the poor was very evident. There were a lot of rifts and imbalances. It was a tough time for a lot of people. So I can relate to the meanness. It can get pretty ugly.
kimi @ at 9:21 pm, February 2nd, 2010
This kid in my school is bullied so much that the teachers are afraid to let him go to the bathroom. But in all fairness this boy is both rude and obnoxious to everyone, though I do believe it may have to do with the fact he's always getting bullied.
cheergiirl @ at 11:51 pm, February 17th, 2010
to jordi: no its not really like that here. theres really no cliques like that. some stereoype. like with cheerleaders but i am a cheerleader and almost none of us are really like that.
Lupe Tenhoff @ at 9:42 pm, March 1st, 2010
Good information in your post, I watched this report on the tv last week about this same thing and since I am going to be married a few weeks from now and the timing could not have been better! thanks for the ideas!, I have bookmarked, thanks Lupe Tenhoff
Grey @ at 4:38 pm, July 5th, 2010
Never happens in my school. Granted, I go to an art school where everyone's friendly with each other. And in middle school it never happened. These types of films annoy the hell out of me. Sure, Mean Girls is entertaining, but most high school flicks bored me to death.


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