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Friends of pho make a beeline for the excellent Vietnamese noodle soups here – always on song at Song Que.
This is still the star of the Kingsland Road Vietnamese scene. Big, light, airy, buzzy (if slightly resembling a school canteen), Song Que is constantly packed with happy customers including many families and a good showing of Vietnamese locals. There's usually a warm welcome from one of the many staff, who deliver prompt, efficient and friendly service.
Food is almost always first class and highly authentic – and good value. Flavours are full and true, and textures perfect, bringing the best out of each dish.
Acolytes state that the kitchen makes the best pho in London, which is quite a claim, but the version served here is certainly excellent. Our assorted starters were excellent too, including a skilfully executed cross between a prawn toast and a banh mi: what seemed like a butterflied whole king prawn on a baguette slice beneath the minced prawn mixture – a real texture treat.
We experienced just two minor negatives: not automatically getting a change of paper table covering, and having to troop across the room to the cash desk to pay by card. Still, it will be the excellent food that lingers in the memory.
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|Song Que
134 Kingsland Road
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|Lunch served noon-3pm, dinner served 5.30-11pm Mon-Fri. Meals served noon-11pm Sat; noon-10.30pm Sun
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|Main courses £4.80-£11.80
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- 2 star:12
- 1 star:34
Was there last Friday and cannot understand why TimeOut gave this black hole of Hanoi a 5 star review. The waiters were rude, completely oblivious to what was happening around them and one served us dishes of which he didn't know what they were. During the whole time we were there we were treated with the lovely sewage smell of east london. The staff then decided to gas their customers with cheap air refreshener. If you wish to visit this restaurant, I suggest you watch a prison movie first. The way prisoners are served their food and made to eat it resembles the atmosphere of this restaurant. The guy who was in charge of the floor could have easily gotten a role as a sadistic prison guard in a movie. He didn't take any orders but was happy to remind you (in an unpleasant way) of how many minutes you had left to eat whatever grub they served you (and the food was dull grub) Also it would help if they mopped the floor before they opened. We were one of the first diners that evening and the floor was already sticky and dirty. Imagine how their kitchen will be. All in all, an abandoned McDonald's infested with rats has more atmosphere, better food and better staff than this "restaurant".
Has this place fallen under new ownership? I simply don't understand how Timeout could be so off the mark with this one. Those are lovely pictures above and I'd love to know where they were taken but certainly not recently at Song Que. The food was truly awful. I would like to be more specific about which dishes were passable and which to avoid but it was very difficult to distinguish between them as all were rather bland and thus tasted alike. Was a real shame to see such a beautiful cuisine destroyed in this fashion. I can only commend them for creating a hype when none should exist. Bravo.
Frentic, loud and casual; I'm immediately transported to Hanoi. The only difference? Proper chairs are a luxury compared to the wooden stools. The food? As beautiful. This restaurant is run by Vietnamese and have the same 'chop chop' approach to business - eat, pay, leave. So do come in with different expectations about service which is balanced by the price. The usuals on my order are usually the Pho (noodle soup), Bun (noodle salad) and Betel leaf beef started. Portions are huge, I recommend sharing and having your own delicious and silky Vietnamese iced coffee. What a way to enjoy your weekend!
I came here about 2 months ago with a friend who was moving abroad. I've been to Song Que on several occasions with friends to have fresh, tasty, cheap food. The service is usually poor and I accepted that but on this occasion as I was catching up with my friend, we had finished our meal and were in that stage where we were wondering about whether or not to order dessert. We couldn't get the waiter's attention, so we kept chatting for a bit and then suddenly the bill turn's up. We both looked at the waiter blankly and so he said "You finished, people waiting" as he pointed to people waiting at the door. We were both gobsmacked! We felt it was very rude and decided that we should pay and leave immediately and get dessert elsewhere. I was very disappointed and it was a terrible end to the meal. I will not be coming back here.
I have been to this place. The food is quite good, but the service is terrible and the waiters are rude. One even asked me to leave when I sat in a table for 2 since that was located in a rather quiet area, but they wanted me to move to somewhere else.
I've been coming here for years now and I only recently I stopped. The food quality I believe is gone down drastically, maybe the fame got to their heads! I'm now going next door...opened only last winter and food is really good and the service is fantastic. I wouldn't recommend Song Que anymore... :-(
Well what can I say. I'm Vietnamese, a friend of the family and a local to the restaurant. I was surprised to see the new sign with "Time Out Best Cheap Eats" significantly displayed. I wanted to find out the reason and couldn't believe the number of negative comments I found here. Sadly, I agreed with all of it. The food has always been amazing hence the number of customers and I always recommend it to anyone who ask me for the best Vietnamese place to eat. An incident occurred with me recently which I feel compelled to write, this happened well before they put up the new sign. I asked a friend to meet me there for lunch. When I arrived she was sitting at a table for two. I asked her to move to a table for four as we had so many bags with us. The place was 3/4 empty but this stupid fat little waiter, a nephew of the owner told us we must remain at the table for two. I said no we need more space so we can be more comfortable when we eat. He still insisted that we must sit where we were shown to and that's the law he said. I said "Law? What law? What are you talking about? I'm here to eat, not attend court." We moved to a different table anyway. He couldn't do anything about it and went off to tell the other waiting staffs, the floor manager, the kitchen staffs and everybody came out to have a good look at me. That angered me so I called the manager to come over but she was afraid to. I complained to another waiter but he was petrified to do anything about it. Once the meal was over I went to see a girl at the nails bar a few doors down who's a friend of mine and the owner's sister. She couldn't apologise enough and said she will speak to her sister about it. Come to this place for the food if you must and leave early. The waiting staffs here are mainly overseas students on £4 an hour so don't expect a proper service if any at all. And avoid that stupid fat little waiter if you can.
DON'T GO HERE. When I went, as the waiter's were clearing the table one said to the other to keep the rice that we hadn't eaten. They didn't realise I understand Vietnamese. When we confronted the maitre d, she had nothing to say. No wonder so many people have commented that they have been sick.
Ate here since the place had amazing reviews, and felt very unwell afterwards. I do not understand why this restaurant is so highly rated. Plus the staff were very unfriendly.
The place gave me food poisoning, bad rice I think. I do not really need to add anything more.
Non-existent service and rude staff. My companion and I were very disappointed.
I live down the road so ordered a takeaway for 2 people. This was easily the worst food I've eaten in a long time. The soft shell crab was inspid , the vietnamese spring rolls mediocre and the beef with crispy noodles slimy and tasteless. The pho was the most disappointing and went directly in the bin. A waste of £28 and I'm still hungry.
Very rude staff, appalling service, average food. Look elsewhere. The staff almost depise customers here (if they can be bothered to serve you - and, when they do, they want you out in 5 mins). DREADFUL!!!
Song Que's popularity is beyond me..the food is full of MSG, the chicken looks and tastes reconstituted, quality is akin to a bog standard high street Chinese...
The waiters were rude and unfriendly, I ordered a pho which tasted bland and my girlfriend one of their pancakes which was very greasy and bland. It's completely overrated and shouldn't be recommended to anyone who likes authentic asian food.
I googled cheap eats in kingsland road and this came up. I had been to a two other Vietnamese restaurants in that area and was tempted to go to the trusted viet grill - but then changed our mind. The décor does not look like a typical restaurant and as there were not many people there - we were not sure. We ordered 3 starters to share and as the pancake was so large - we could not fit in a main. 1. spicy deep fried prawns - awesome and tasty. 2. chicken and prawn pancake - stuffed with tons of beans sprouts; sounds bland and boring and looks strange - but drizzled with sweet chilli - awesome!!!! Maybe a little large for a starter - but I never really understood people who complained about being served too much food - if you feel yourself getting full - stop eating 3. Lamb chops; oh sweet manna!! Marinated in sweet and sticky sauce of - oh so goodness. Yes, the waiters weren't that polite - although one told me i was beautiful when reapplying my lipstick - but I it makes up for in the quality of food. My food experience; a whole of load awesomeness!!!!!
Terrible service! Rude and abrupt staff. Had much better experiences at the other Vietnamese restaurants nearby.
excellent food quality highly recommended for authentic style of food service was quick and needed
Went here yesterday on a whim. We were in the area and asked in a local cafe which was the best Vietnamese restaurant on the street. It was 5pm and the waiters were actually all eating dinner but we needed something to eat. I had the wonton pho, it was a thing of wonder... beautifully balanced fragrant broth, homemade wontons, perfectly cooked noodles. My friend had the grilled catfish soup which was also delicious. In response to the negative comments below, yes, if you go to an authentically Asian restaurant, you're probably going to get authentically Asian service. And when it's busy, standards are much more likely to slip. But this was the best Pho I've had outside Vietnam and I'll be going back.
Very rude waitress! Just passed the door and they asked you need to have eaten in 1hour and half! No hello or whatever... Then they seat you on a table just next to someone while the restaurant is half empty!!!! Don't go if you are a couple and have a child, cause they will seat you on a table for two! Will never go again! There are so manu nicer restaurants around where the food and service are amazing.
Is time out getting money from the restaurant? It is ugly, bad service and the food is comparable to the dodgiest take away around the corner of my house.
The food is incredibly nice, price is also good. The service is not amazing, the place is crazy busy......because the food is good.
How comes Time Out gives good ratings ? This restaurant used to be a little gem - now the owners are focussed on $$$ - very rude service, go spend your money elsewhere...
The food here used to be very good... however, the owners are focussed on $$$ and certainly not customer care. However, none if this seems to stop people coming for a cheap-eat. Be warned though... The staff are very rude and abrupt, telling you to hurry up and wont hesitate to argue with you if they gave you something you didn't order! Yes, the age old "customer is always right" does not apply at Song Que. My verdict: Song Que is "past it" - there are lots of other nice local restaurants which fit budget so go find them!
Our experience at this restaurant was one of the worst ever. Our starters (spring rolls and pork wrapped in betel leaves) were decent, even good, but the service was brusque from the very start. Our mains, (vermicelli noodles with stir fried pork and beef) were awful and completely indelible. I signalled our waiter and told him that I could not eat my meal. Glaring down at me he demanded "Why?" I responded the meat seemed old and had a strange taste. "We are busy!" he said. "Meat is fresh!" "Well, I cannot eat it." I said, pushing my untouched bowl in his direction. "You must pay!" he growled. So we paid for the full meal and left, swearing never to return.
Total disappointment! In fact, one of biggest culinary letdowns in my memory. Overpriced, fatty and lacking in substance food. My husband will eat almost anything, but he couldn't even finish his spring rolls. Five stars?!!
Spring rolls were dripping in fat. Main courses (morning glory in garlic and then tofu) were in some sugary gloop. The rice had no fragrance. Just really bad food and £35 with two beers (no vietnamese beer either). Go to Tre Viet on Mare Street. The food is ten times better. Recommend you avoid this place unless you are extremely hungry / drunk (delete as appropriate).
Despite the negative comments, the fact this restaurant is always busy is because the food is tasty. The soups are fragrant and bun noodle dishes flavoursome.
This is the closest you will get to authentic pho from Vietnam, however, Song Que is inconsistent. The pho on a Sunday is rubbish. On a Wednesday, its ok. The noodles come raw. Twice in a row, we had to send the noodles back and the staff think you dont know anything about food. The noodles ARE meant to be cooked before they put the stock in. Plus they want to charge you if you ask for herbs when pho is meant to come with herbs. Its a shame that they dont care about loosing returning customers because they are always full and if we stop going, they really couldnt care less. Unfortunately, if you want the real deal, you need to travel to Vietnam.
Food was completely tasteless. 'spicy' squid was boring, flavoured with a bit of pepper. Salad inside the summer rolls was brown and slimy. However, anything was better than the noodle soup that had been so highly recommended. It simply tasted like salty dishwater which they had tried to conceal with an overwhelming amount of coriander. Worst meal I have ever had the misfortune of paying for.
A most rude girl was serving tonight, definitely will not revisit again despite relatively alright food wise.
Dined here in late September. The food was great (spicy squid, summer rolls). The service, while perhaps not exactly the warmest and most welcoming, was perfectly fine. Recommended for its food quality and value for money. A great deal all in all.
As a former employee of the local college, I used to regularly visit Song Que and had continued to do so until around 12 months ago, having always been most impressed by the high standard of food at very reasonable prices. For years, I have been recommending it. Not any more after last Friday's experience. It has obviously grown way too big for its reputedly 'so popular' boots! I arrived with a friend at 6.30p.m. when the restaurant was quite empty. We had made no reservation but were told we could not sit at the empty tables by the window but had to take one in the middle in a row of cafe style tables. Menus were delivered and, despite an abundant number of waiters standing around chatting, we eventually had to call one over to place an order. We had not even been asked for our drinks' order at that stage. No sooner had the starters been brought than the main course dishes were also placed on the table and an 'eat up, clear off' mentality was already being established. We were brought the bill - unasked for - before ordering desserts (most of which turned out to be unavailable) and then, at just after 8 p.m., whilst finishing our tea, we were asked if we could leave as people were waiting to come in. The service was perhaps the most contemptuous and rude I have ever experienced in London (or Vietnam). On requesting to speak to the manager, the waiter I had asked told me he was "the manager". No concern for giving service – but an attitude of 'three/four sets of diners' at every table per evening... "sorry, thank you, bye bye"...?? There needs to be a clear sign by the door saying "You are only allowed to stay here for 90 mins. maximum and, please, you should preferably eat up within the hour". As for the food, the vegetable spring rolls and spicy squid were both excellent; the satay chicken and main course chicken dish average - suffering from the use of 'cheap, water injected chicken', I suspect; the sea bream and vegetable dishes both lacked the flavours one would expect from quality Vietnamese food. My advice would be to avoid at all costs – and choose somewhere like Que Viet a few doors away where, for approximately the same price, a group of us recently had outstanding food and excellent service in a congenial, relaxed atmosphere. There are, in fact, a substantial number of very welcoming restaurants in "Pho Mile" serving similarly priced food. By-pass Song Que!
My husband and I had a meal at the Song Que, upon entering the restaurant we were greeted by a member of staff and seated, we were given a menu and placed our order, Platter (ribs, crispy seaweed ++) and a main meal. The platter arrived and we started to tuck in, the crispy seaweed did not live up to its description it was soggy and tasted stale, I told the waiter who seemed not to understand what I was saying so I asked to speak with the Manager, The Manager (a woman) came over, I explained my grievance and she kept repeating "yes its crispy seaweed" I asked her to try it and altho you could tell she knew I was right she still stood her ground and told me it was correct. NO APOLOGY NO OFFER OF TAKING IT OFF THE BILL, very rude, unappreciative of customers in the economic climate I WILL NOT BE RECOMMEDING THIS RESTAURANT TO ANYONE and would kindly like you to send a shopper to this restaurant to re-review. As I can already see from comments below the service has been mentioned on quite a few occasions. I was not put off by the decor, the food we ate was adequate but what happened to customer service and the customer is always right.......
I've been coming here for years, for what is the best pho, summer rolls, beef in betel, and spicy squid I've tasted west of Hanoi. However the last 3 times I visited the service was so rude and unpleasant-and I dont mean brusque but actually rude, that it has put me and my friends off returning. This has broken my previously unblemished loyalty to song que. It also has to be said that while those dishes i have listed are superb, most of the main courses here are disappointing. I have always ended up feeling sad when I've been tempted to stay away from the pho. It would make my day if Song Que sorted out their service and I could tempt my friends back for another lovely pho.
AVOID AVOID AVOID - RUDE Service.... This restaurant is a gem, great food and wont break the bank. However, the service by the front of house 'man' is poor and rude. I asked for a table for 3 people, a friend was on the bus on 10 minutes away. However, the man could not stop asking 'where your friend'.... this went on even when we were seated. We can to order food (friend was still stuck on a bus) and the same guy rudely again said 'wheres your friend' ? 'wheres your friend?' ..... at this point I lost it and called the manager over.
I've eaten here a few times now, and I've found the vegetarian food hot, fresh tasting, a little on the salty side, but absolutely fine. It's somewhere I'll come back to if I'm needing some salty, savoury tastiness. I've also had no problem with the service. The staff don't bow and scrape, but they're polite enough and service has always been reasonably quick.
You come here for the pho and it's good really good. FACT. Don't bother going if you're going to make a fuss over service, decor or simply good food. This place is a no nonsense, super fast service eatery not a fine dine restaurant. Don't come if you want to lounge around sipping beers with your friends. That's what a bar is for. Anyone one who thinks other wise needs to get their head examined.
whoever thinks this is a 2 star is also the same idiot that ordered the aromatic duck. BEST RESTAURANT IN SHOREDITCH
So i decided to try out this restaurant after seeing them packed every time i pass by and sure i made a right decision, it even led me to posting up a review which i rarely do. So i ordered a Pho which i always order when i go to a vietnamese restaurant and by far can i say that it's the best i ever had. It was seasoned well and just brightened up my day. The place didn't look pretty but i didn't care, you come to a restaurant to eat not to stare. I also ordered a summer roll which was so fresh, i even heard the crunch when i bit into it. The rice paper around it was not dry so i can clearly tell that they did not make it beforehand and made it to order. I was surprised at the speed at which the food came considering they make it to order. The service wasn't great but wasn't bad well it was better that that i received at other vietnamese restaurants. Definitely would recommend this place.. and btw the price was so cheap that i had to leave a generous tip as service charge wasn't included
I'm Vietnamese and I must say this is one of the most unpleasant Viet restaurant I've ever experienced. Our friends and I went for a simple Vietnamese lunch (with rice, braised fish in clay pot and soups). The rice could not be colder than if it is spread on a witch's bossoms while she hang out bare-breast on one of Hanoi's December nights. When the rice came out I immediately feel uneasy about the place. There was a big party at the next table with kids and the place was indeed chaotic so we thought they might be forgiven for that. But then the soup arrived, again cold and sickly, sickly sweet together with some sad-looking pieces of fish of questionable species lies beneath a layer of tapioca starch glaze in the clay pot has done us the coup de grace. Tapioca starch! In a braised fish dish! Can you imagine this blasphemy! Honestly I don't feel the owners and chefs put any efforts into the food at all. Don't go to this place, even if all you only want non-authentic, pan-Asian fare. There are so many much much nicer Viet restaurants within paces of the area. Don't be the unlucky guy to land in this place, which simply doesn't justify your money.
Awful. Simply awful. Perhaps we went on an bad night, but the food was grimly disappointing. The fried monk fish was lacking, particularly in monk fish of which there were three paltry pieces hidden in a sea of onions. The pho was uninspired--lacking the complexity of even the OK competition down the street--and served with wilting mint and soggy bean sprouts. Well, you get the idea. The service was also unpleasant, including plates dropped on the table, multiple incorrect deliveries, and frequent reminders to leave soon. If I'm honest, this still probably deserves two stars, but I'm trying to do something about the ridiculous grade inflation. You get better food at the Pho in Westfield, which is sad.


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Research on Arctic and North Atlantic ecosystems shows the recent warming trend counts as the most dramatic climate change since the onset of human civilization 5,000 years ago, according to studies published Thursday.
Researchers from Cornell University studied the increased introduction of fresh water from glacial melt, oceanic circulation, and the change in geographic range migration of oceanic plant and animal species.
The team, led by oceanographer Charles Greene, described "major ecosystem reorganization" -- or "regime shift" -- in the North Atlantic, a consequence of global warming on the largest scale in five millennia.
"The rate of warming we are seeing (now) is unprecedented in human history," said Greene, whose research appears in the November 2008 issue of the journal Ecology.
In order to forecast the path of climate change, Greene and colleagues have been reconstructing major episodes of warming and cooling in the Arctic over the past 65 million years.
They have found in the paleoclimate record periods of rapid cooling, with average temperatures plunging by 10 degrees Celsius (18 degrees F) within just decades or even years.
But the rise in temperatures over the past five decades is unmatched since the onset of human civilization, Greene said.
The paleoclimate data gives the scientists more insight into the impact of melting Arctic ice sheets and glaciers on the North Atlantic oceanic system.
They have found "extensive" shifts in the geographic range of numerous plant and animal species.
For instance, the massive Arctic fresh-water melt in the past 10 years has helped one species of microscopic algae move from the Pacific ocean to the North Atlantic.
The last time that algae appeared in the North Atlantic was 800,000 years ago, the Cornell research found.
The increase of fresh water can have a huge impact on the ecosystems of the Atlantic continental shelf, for instance extending the growing seasons of phytoplankton and microscopic drifting animals fundamental to the food chain.
"Such climate-driven changes can alter the structure of shelf ecosystems from the bottom of the food chain upwards," according to Greene.
In another example, the collapse in the last century of cod populations in the north Atlantic is partially due to overfishing, but also partly due to Arctic glacial melt adding more fresh and colder water to the ocean, which stifles cod reproduction.
At the same time, the research noted, less cod and colder water benefited shrimp and snow crab populations.
"As climate changes, there are going to be winners and losers, both in terms of biological species and different groups of people," said Greene.
The Cornell studies also focused on the way the introduction of more freshwater in the north Atlantic can disrupt circulation patterns further south.
"When Arctic climate changes, waters in the Arctic can go from storing large quantities of fresh water to exporting that fresh water to the North Atlantic in large pulses, referred to as great salinity anomalies," Greene explains.
By modeling the current changes, the Cornell researchers posited that the highly saline water of the deep North Atlantic will likely not be heavily affected by the "pulses" of fresh water during the 21st century.
"Continued exposure to such freshwater forcing, however, could disrupt global ocean circulation during the next century and lead to very abrupt changes in climate, similar to those that occurred at the onset of the last ice age," the studies said.
"If the Earth's deep ocean circulation were to be shut down, many of the atmospheric, glacial and oceanic processes that have been stable in recent times would change, and the change would likely be abrupt," said Greene.
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Los Angeles Times reports that gun violence in movies has tripled since 1985 and 94% of the highest-grossing movies since then have at least one violent sequence. Brad Bushman of Ohio State University co-authored the report published in the medical journal Pediatrics and he said that "the MPAA website clearly says that R-rated films contain more violence. But PG-13 films now contain significantly more violence than R-rated films." This seemingly bizarre shift could be the result of the Motion Picture Association being harsher on films that have sex and foul language.
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ATHENS, Ga. - No matter what, I've got to figure that the Baylor softball team comes out fired up today for its second game of the Super Regional against host and sixth-seeded Georgia.
The 11th-seeded Lady Bears (44-12) have the momentum of Saturday's 5-1 win, when they rallied for five runs in the last three innings to overcome an early 1-0 deficit. Plus they have the motivation of playing for "fallen soldier" Clare Hosack, the freshman catcher who suffered multiple fractures on the right side of her face from a foul ball in the second inning.
And then, just a couple hours before the game, former LSU All-America second baseman Stephanie Hastings gave a motivational devotion that talked about "burning down the city."
"Last night, you laid siege to the city," Hastings said in her devotional, which she presented while the team was still on the bus outside of Jack Turner Stadium. "Today, you've got to burn it down. Nothing but ashes. . . . If you're still thinking about yesterday, today is going to be a long day. You won some battles and you lost some battles yesterday. You're going to win some battles and lose some battles today. But you've got to finish it. You've got to win the war."
I was ready to suit up and play or go to war or run into a brick wall. Put me in, coach.
Needing just one more win to advance to the Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City for the second time in five years, the Lady Bears play Georgia (50-13) at 2:30 p.m. central in a game that will be broadcast live on ESPNU. The "if-necessary" game is scheduled for 5 p.m.
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GPS: Don't Leave Home Without It!
STANFORD, Calif. - Remember those American Express card commercials where it told you, "Don't leave home without it."
Well, if one of the GPS companies out there is interested, I'm definitely available to do a reprisal. "This is Jerry Hill for Garmin GPS, and I'm urging you, no, I'm pleading with you: `Don't leave home without it.' Or you'll end up like me.
OK, for the record, my problems at the start of a long Saturday had nothing to do with GPS. So I'll come back to that one later.
Scheduled to depart Dallas Love Field on a 7:25 a.m. flight with an eventual destination of San Jose, Calif., I ended up sitting (actually sleeping) on a plane for about an hour before they switched us to another plane that left about an hour and a half late.
That's when the real "fun" began. Check this flight path: I went from Dallas to San Antonio to Tucson, Ariz. (for refueling) to San Diego, Calif. I've now been at four airports, in some cases very briefly, and I'm still nowhere close to San Jose and the NCAA Tennis Championships at Stanford.
After a 2 ½-hour layover, I arrive in San Jose right at 4 p.m. Pacific, which was right about when the Baylor men were scheduled to play Ohio State.
No problem. Grab the car, take a quick 20-minute drive over to the Stanford campus, and I'll probably make it for the end of doubles.
This is where the GPS would have come in real handy. With no map and sketchy directions from google, I drove around for over an hour before I finally stumbled on the campus and found the tennis center nestled between some trees. Have they not heard of signs out here?
All the while, my cell phone has also died, and I don't have a car phone charger with me.
To make a long story longer, I arrive at the tennis center roughly two hours into the match and get to see the end of Ohio State's 4-2 win that ended the Bears' season with their 10th straight appearance in the NCAA quarterfinals.
If only I had taken my GPS and arrived on time, I've got to believe I could have made a difference. If you've never heard me at a sporting event, I can actually be very loud and annoying.
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Emile Ntamack may be the old man of an invigorating Toulouse side, but he still craves success like an aspiring youngster.
Now 33, Ntamack, who has not played for France for three years, wants more silverware.
It was back in the inaugural tournament in 1995/6 season that the ''Black Panther'' led Toulouse to glory over Cardiff.
Since then they have fallen foul to Leicester, Brive, Ulster, and most importantly, Munster in the knock-out stages.
For a team that reached the knock-out stages on five previous occasions, missing out in the last two seasons was a bit much to take.
Ntamack is the only player remaining from that Cardiff victory eight years ago, but that does not faze Ntamack.
Despite the presence of young zealots Frederic Michalak, Clement Poitrnaud, and Vincent Clerc, Ntamack is still one of the first names on the team sheet.
But he just hankers for success.
''Our ambition this year is to win a prize,'' said Ntamack, who would still like to add to his 44 international caps.
''We are still on target for the French Championships which we have won six times in the last eight seasons.
''Currently, we are still on course for two trophies, but we are taking nothing for granted,'' said Ntamack who believes Toulouse has had a topsy-turvy season.
''During the whole Six Nations period it was virtually impossible for us to train properly, and I think it showed in some of our performances.
''We struggled to find any cohesion. It's only since the end of the Six Nations that things have started to click and we have felt our game plan starting to come together.
''Our teamwork is our strength. That makes the real difference. The rivalry within the squad is intense and when we function well as a group, certain individuals are able to shine.''
Ntamack, however, does not have to reminded that it was Munster who defeated a fancied Toulouse side in Bordeaux three seasons ago.
It was the day that Munster came of age. To win on French soil against the French champions was special.
To beat Leicester on their own back yard was something else.
''Munster's victory in Leicester speaks for itself. But it doesn't really surprise me.
''They have a very powerful pack which they use to grind down their opponents.
''In the backs, though, the success of Irish rugby over the past few years seems to have given the three quarters the confidence to chance their arm a bit more.
''The fact that Munster were able to beat the current champions at home is testament to the fact that the Irish can now win anywhere.
''Munster beat us on French soil three years ago and they have continued to improve since then.
''Of course, playing in Toulouse is a factor, and we are conscious of the superb support we get from our fans.
''But unfortunately, in a match like this, against a team like Munster, it is not the only factor.
''In the end, it is the team that wants it the most who will get through to the final.
''If Munster really is better than us, then they will win. We will wait and see.''
coach Guy Noves has also not forgotten what Munster are capable of.
"We were really knocked off our pedestal that day in Bordeaux," he said.
"And yet they were a fairly inexperienced side. They have had a
great season this year and must be favourites.
''Their half-back pairing is first-class," he said of
Munster's pairing of Peter Stringer and Ronan O'Gara.
"Northampton were one dimensional but Munster are better
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Ask the Administrator: Standard Syllabi
A new correspondent writes:
One of my neighbors was hired to teach two courses
as an adjunct at a very large 2-year college. Three days
before the semester began the dean sent her syllabi for the
courses. Of course my neighbor had prepared her own syllabi--but
was told by the dean that she had to use the standardized syllabi
provided by the college. These allow for different book
selections but every other aspect ---grading scale, exams, learning
goals, assignments--- is set by the college. She lost the job
when she declined to use the standardized syllabi. I've never heard of
this before. Has anyone else? Are the terms of academic
freedom set by individual institutions?
It's a great question, but it needs to be addressed carefully. I see it as two questions: is this legal, and is this a good idea? I'd answer 'yes' and 'it depends,' respectively.
Colleges routinely construct course sequences with prerequisites built-in, so that somebody teaching, say, Calculus II has a pretty good idea of what the students will bring with them from Calculus 1. One way that many colleges ensure the relevance of the prereqs is by being very prescriptive about their content. If Calc 1 is whatever any given professor says it is, then students will enter Calc II with wildly varying levels of preparation, independent of their own ability and effort.
Standard syllabi give departments a relatively easy way to ensure that different sections are covering substantially the same material, even allowing for differences in personality or style among instructors. In my experience, this has been relatively common practice in disciplines like math, certain sciences, and foreign languages.
From a legal perspective, I believe the college is on solid ground. The Supreme Court addressed the issue of academic freedom in the Bakke case in 1978, ruling that colleges – note the term – have the right to determine what shall be taught, and how it shall be taught. (Note that it did not say 'individual professors.') If a given college decides that, say, Composition 1 shall consist of five graded papers, it is within its rights to do so.
(I've written before on standard textbooks for given courses, taking the position that they can be a good idea. I got flamed pretty good for that, which is fine, but it strikes me as the kind of decision that should be made on local and pragmatic grounds, rather than theological ones. I don't believe that a college is overstepping its bounds legally in saying 'this is our textbook for General Psych.' Whether a given choice makes sense in a given case is a different issue.)
Because something is legal doesn't necessarily mean that it's wise. In many cases, it may be wiser for a college (or, more frequently, an academic department) to set the 'learning goals' for a given course, then leave it to the instructor to figure out how to meet them. This is probably particularly true once you get beyond the freshman/101 level. One of the quirks of knowledge workers, as opposed to some other kinds of workers, is that you can get better results from (most of) them by not managing them too closely. I've observed professors doing things in class that never would have occurred to me, but that worked. I'm counting on them to innovate that way, to come up with methods for engaging and educating students that make sense for their own teaching styles, disciplines, and students.
(Folks who have taught at multiple institutions, as I have, may also notice that an exercise that works like gangbusters at college A falls flat at college B. It takes a semester or two, in my experience, to get the feel of the local culture.)
Certainly, I've seen some cases of unwise prescription. Since I left Proprietary U, friends there have told me that everybody teaching Contemporary Literature has to use the same novels. This strikes me as insane, since the point of the class is not to be a historical survey, but instead to be an introduction to literary analysis. I'd much rather let each professor pick the novels with which she can do the best job. But that's a judgment call, as opposed to a legal requirement. I think PU is being stupid, but it isn't breaking any law.
I hate to hear of someone losing a job over this kind of thing, but I don't think the college was out of bounds in defining its own courses as it saw fit.
Have a question? Ask the Administrator at ccdean (at) myway (dot) com.
I teach at two Unis. At one I have carte blanch in terms of the syllabus, what I teach and how. At the other I have a little less freedom in that there are some texts that are 'traditionally' taught, but if we (the teaching team, 2 instructors and TAs as needed) wanted to teach the same concepts with different texts no one would really mind. I have some restrictions, for instance you can't dock for lateness above 5% per day and the final exam can't constitute a certain percentage of the total grade, but mostly it is up to the individual instructor.
At both Unis we are given a portion of the syllabus that remains the same from course to course; all of the standard Uni stuff about plagiarism etc. That seems reasonable to me, and it saves me from writing it up myself.
Currently the rule is that you have to use the official departmental syllabus if you are a grad student, a fairly new adjunct, or have not successfully taught the class before.
I suppose that the non-hired instructor would find out that the standard syllabus was created so as to satisfy college requirements and probably to deliver the course outline as passed by a curriculum committee at the college. Since it was at a CC, there may also be transfer agreements to consider.
I'm all for academic freedom and letting knowledge workers do what they do best -- but, it also is the case that if a course is often taught by over-worked and underpaid adjuncts, it should have a standard syllabus to make sure that the requirements are met for every student.
My department just decided that we would set some basic standards and requirements for each level of course -- nothing really stringent, but x number of pages of reading and writing, number of exams, etc. It helps us all stay on the same page in terms of what we want our students to achieve and also helps to avoid the impression that some faculty require substantially more work than others.
I should say that much of my opinion might be affected by the fact that some of my closest friends are academics in the UK, where exams are normally read by 2-3 readers (often including ourside readers from other institutions), and course content and standards are generally decisions born of consensus.
These friends are not threatened by interaction in the way that I think many US academics are.
On the point of departmental textbooks? One CC where I taught mandated them, and chose to use a given book for three years at a time, or until a new edition came out. This was primarily a financial decision -- using the same textbook means more used books and lower prices for the students. But it also guaranteed that adjuncts would be teaching something pretty much like what FT faculty were teaching and helped make transitions easier.
And I agree with second line-- leaving the responsibility to an adjunct to develop syllabi is not fair to the adjunct who will receive no compensation for their time spent.
A good standardized course plan delivered by the college to adjunct should leave enough flexibility for the instructor to use their own teaching style. There should be room for on the fly adjustments. There is a lot of gray area between an outline of what needs to be covered for the course and step-by-step choreography of what to cover and how. The college's attempt to standardize the curriculum is really just that--a basic, laudable attempt. Because professorial styles will still vary, students will not receive the exact same instruction, but the standard syllabus can be a starting step to ensure that all students receive comparable instruction. The course should be designed in a way the prepares students for the rest of the program's curriculum, and most newly hired adjuncts would not be attuned to how their course fits into the rest of the program.
But some things are intrinsic to teaching style. Some of us a behaviouralists and use (points towards) grades as rewards for right conduct, behaviour that facilitates learning. Others are judges: grades reflect only achievement. Some of us stress individual aspects of our subject through many short papers; others want to stress its unity and assign a single long paper.
I do wonder, too, why the standard syllabus came from the dean.
But I was told that this was how things worked at my first interview, and given a copy of the current version of one of the syllabi to see if I felt I could work with it. If it weren't for the crisis of losing the income for teaching two classes, and at the very last minute, I'd say that the adjunct in this case is well out of a bad situation. Three days notice? That's a clear sign that important information is not being communicated.
It also ensures that the course matches the master syllabus that details the hidden meaning of the catalog description.
(I nearly failed undergraduate chemistry myself, because one teacher didn't pace a prerequisite course correctly and ended up omitting the last 1/4 of it -- which was organic chem. Having to catch up two months of instruction in a weekend, on my own, turned out to be impossible; I didn't really catch up until the week before the final exam. Not a fun experience...)
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Published 10:00 pm, Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Metro bus service may be a lot different next year in Southeast Seattle after Sound Transit's light rail system begins operating between downtown Seattle and Sea-Tac Airport.
Some routes may disappear.
And parking around stations could change as well.
Both Metro and Seattle are analyzing what bus routes might change, and how, once the 15.6-mile rail line opens next year, first between downtown and South 154th Street next July, then by December to the airport. Changes would take place in mid-2009 and could affect bus routes in Rainier Valley and in the Mount Baker, Columbia City, Georgetown, New Holly, Rainier Beach and Sodo areas.
Metro this week starts a series of community meetings to discuss what might happen and get responses from riders.
"Anybody living in those neighborhoods should be very interested" in what might happen, Metro service development manager Victor Obeso told Seattle City Council members this week.
The $2.4 billion rail line will traverse Rainier Valley starting from the east portal of the Beacon Hill tunnel and a new Mount Baker Station and move south until taking a turn at Boeing Access Road, and continuing west of I-5 into Tukwila.
The new rail service will duplicate service on at least two bus routes: Route 42 between downtown Seattle and the Rainier View area, and Route 194 between downtown, the airport and Federal Way.
According to Metro, both are examples of routes that could be discontinued along with others such as Routes 7 Express and Routes 32, 34, 35, 39 and 126.
Others, Obeso told council members, could be changed and new routes might be added.
Possibilities include new routes between West Hill and the Rainier Beach rail station and between Rainier Valley and West Seattle.
Added service is being considered to connect the valley to Beacon Hill and Capitol Hill and to downtown, Mount Baker, Seward Park, Skyway, West Hill or West Seattle. Among routes being mentioned for changes are 7, 8, 9 Express, 14, 36, 38, 48, 60, 106 and 107.
Residents can let Metro know their thoughts by completing an online questionnaire by Nov. 6 at goto.seattlepi.com/r1720.
Comments also can be left by phone at 206-684-1146 or written and mailed to the King County Department of Transportation, Community Relations, KSC-TR-0824, 201 S. Jackson St., Seattle 98104.


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There are few misconceptions regarding marriage in many minds. Few think that marriage is a bed of roses, and expect that events that would take place after marriage are going to be as pleasant as a fairy tale. Most movies end with a happy note where the Hero meets the Heroine, they hug, and the screen says They Lived Happily Forever! May be they dont want to let us know how film stars marriages stink off screen.
There is a western concept called the concept of soul mates. Where in they believe that marriage is meeting of 2 equal halves coming together to become one perfect circle wish life was so easy. I am not sure about soul mates, but am sure hole mates surely exist.
Marriages are destined, and you cannot do a thing to change it. You are born with the prescribed fate about whom you are going to get married, when you will be getting married, and whether it is going to be a love marriage or an arranged one. Personal preference doesnt have any hold on it.
Marriage is not just tying of knots or sleeping together for a period of time. It is about deciding to live together in good & bad times, and also to learn our soul lessons through each other. Hence marriages are considered divine, and in most cases it is carried out in divine places like churches & temples.
Opposite poles attract & similar poles repel. Men & women are two different poles of energy, and through marriage they come together. I dont agree in equality of gender. They cannot be equal as their purposes are different & also their priorities are different.
Expecting eternal love & harmony when 2 opposite poles come together is mere nonsense. Misunderstandings, conflicts of interest, and ego issues are bound to be there in any marital relationship. Now the level of happiness depends on the intensity of differences. Marriages go for a toss if there is unequal ratio of happiness & grief.
In my knowledge, there is not a single couple who had not talked about permanent separation in their lives at least 100 times. Still they continue to live together as it is sometimes refreshing after you had a good fight with your partner. None other in the world can tolerate so much of shit from you except your partner. They become psychological pillow for each other.
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Rockets Hold Off Elimination With Game 5 Win In Houston
HOUSTON – The Houston Rockets were bound to win at home eventually. And on Wednesday night, that eventuality came to fruition.
After losing the first two games of the series at home, Houston staved off elimination for at least one more game by holding off the Trail Blazers 108-98 in Game 5 of the Western Conference four/five first-round series. The Trail Blazers still hold a 3-2 series lead with Game 6 scheduled for Friday in Portland.
"It was another hard-fought game," said Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts. "Obviously we got down early in the first half. I didn't think, first half, we really played the way we've been playing most of the series at either end of the floor. We turned the ball over a little bit too much, a little out of sorts defensively. We made a good run at it in the second half. It was just another hard-fought game. Look forward to playing them on Friday."
"There's no question that we thought we were going to win that game," said Wesley Matthews. In an 82-game season, you play in every kind of game and we have been a resilient team all year. We've been in deficits that we've allowed ourselves to get into, but we've been able to pull them out."
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The following individuals were booked into the San Miguel County Detention Center between May 9 and May 16:
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RIO PUERCO, N.M. — Authorities say a stuntman has been injured during filming of "The Lone Ranger" at a movie set in northwestern New Mexico.
Bernalillo County Sheriff's officials said details weren't immediately available Wednesday afternoon. The name of the stuntman wasn't released.
They say a small locomotive was involved, but it was only capable of travelling 5 mph. Authorities say a medical helicopter was launched as a precautionary measure to the movie set.
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Wednesday, May 18 — There are 50 Boys' and Girls' Industrial Clubs with over 750 members in New Mexico. Sixteen counties now have flourishing organizations of young folks engaged in splendid work. Curry County has the most, 16 clubs with 236 members; San Miguel County has two clubs and 23 members. The purpose of the industrial clubs is to extend agricultural education and improve farming over New Mexico.
McGarrity book signing this Sunday
Michael McGarrity, author of the Kevin Kerney crime novels, will be at Tome on the Range, 158 Bridge St., at 3 p.m. this Sunday to sign his new book, Hard Country: A Novel of the Old West. The book is the first in a trilogy, chronicling the tragedies and triumphs of the fictional Kerney's ancestors from 1875 through World War I as they settled New Mexico.
Mostly sunny, with a high near 83. Breezy, with a west wind 10-15 mph, increasing to 20-25 mph. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph. Partly cloudy at night, with a low around 47. Breezy, with a west wind 20-25 mph, decreasing to 10-15 mph. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph.
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LOS ANGELES — Sunrises and sunsets often dazzle, but they'll have a special ring to them in a few days for people in the western United States and eastern Asia: The moon will slide across the sun, blocking everything but a blazing halo of light.
It's been almost two decades since a "ring of fire" eclipse was visible in the continental United States. To celebrate the end of that drought, nearly three dozen national parks in the path of the eclipse will host viewing parties.
ALBUQUERQUE — The New Mexico Corrections Department has launched an investigation into a then warden accused of thwarting an FBI probe into an alleged rape of an inmate by a guard.
THUMBS UP! ACCREDITED AGAIN. In the world of colleges and universities, accreditation is always a big deal. And in a town such as Las Vegas, where educational institutions are among the largest employers, an accreditation for the university that trains most local teachers is an even bigger deal. So, needless to say, the Highlands University School of Education's re-accreditation by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education is a real cause for celebration.
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Mississippi Museum To Lesbian Couple: You're Not Welcome Here
- A publicly-funded museum in Mississippi refuses to allow a lesbian couple to hold a commitment ceremony on their grounds. The Masonic Hall at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum told Ceara Sturgis and Emily Key that it has a policy against same-sex couples. [Think Progress]
- Marissa Meyer from Google has allegedly been appointed Yahoo's new CEO, according to reports. [The Wrap]
- On how President Obama could do more to protect immigrant women. [WomensENews]
- Nine funny women who don't defend Daniel Tosh's rape joke. [Yahoo Shine]
- The Buffalo News editor Margaret Sullivan has been named the new ombudsman/public editor of The New York Times. Sullivan will be the first-ever woman to hold the position. [NY Times]
- How might "stereotype threats" drive women to quit science? (Thanks to commenter SaraLing for the link!) [NPR]
- Broadway actress Celeste Holm died this weekend at age 95. [New York Times]
- More than 400 freed sex offenders in the UK went on to commit rape in the past three years after being released. [Telegraph UK]
- Sexual harassment prosecutions are getting short shrift in India. [New York Times]
- Ever wondered what it's like to give birth in Guinea-Bissau? [AP]
- Ms. Magazine answers the question, what does an African feminist look like? [Spectra Speaks]
- Meet Khadija Mohammed, 17, the first female weightlifter from the Middle East to compete in the Olympics, and the first-ever woman from the United Arab Emirates to qualify to compete. [Gawker]
- … and meet a Malaysian athlete who will be eight month's pregnant when she competes in the 2012 London Olympics. [New York Times]
- Japanese actress Isuzu Yamada, who appeared in films by Kurosawa, died in Tokyo at age 95. [New York Times]
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RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. (AP) — Orange County Fire Authority officials have yanked fundraising T-shirts that featured caricatures of firefighters in baggy gangster-style clothing and a chicken atop a fire engine outfitted with low-rider rims.
The Orange County Register reports firefighters at Rancho Santa Margarita's Station 45 produced the shirts to raise money for the family of a deceased colleague.
The design also pictured a vendor with a fire helmet and a droopy mustache hawking tamales, while a pit bull stares menacingly.
The shirt reads: "There goes the neighborhood."
Santa Ana Councilwoman Michelle Martinez complained and Fire Chief Keith Richter called the shirts "ethnically insulting."
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Yogini with Disciple
In a peaceful remote hermitage, a disciple plays a double-gourded vina for her female guru, who listens attentively to the music with a yoga band around her knees that enables her to retain this yogic posture for long periods. A peacock-feather fly whisk, an attribute of yoginis, lies at her side. Both yoginis wear the salmon-colored robes, rudraksha beaded necklaces, and large earrings (darshani) that are characteristic of ascetics of the Nath sectarian order.
The subdued colors and the sparse composition communicate effectively the peaceful atmosphere of the yoginis retreat. A sandy plain between the silver-gray river and the sky, a simple white hut, and the restrained postures of the two women further enhance the mood of tranquility. This painting was produced in the provincial court of Murshidabad, which rose to power in the eighteenth century, asserting its independence from Mughal rule in Delhi.


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WASHINGTON: In a rare admission, the US has said its own human rights record was in question in an annual report that criticised Iraq for its death squads with government links, kidnapping and torture.
"We do not issue these reports because we think ourselves perfect but rather because we know ourselves to be deeply imperfect," the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, said as she presented the report, which assesses human rights in more than 190 countries but does not review the US record.
Iraq was among the most problematic nations listed in the report for 2006, which found respect for rights had also deteriorated in China, Russia, Venezuela and Egypt.
The State Department's report said worsening sectarian violence and terrorism in Iraq prevented progress on rights last year.
On one side were Sunni Arab groups such as al-Qaeda in Iraq and Baathist remnants, on the other Shiite militias with ties to the Iraqi security forces.
Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Sudan, North Korea, Burma, Kazakhstan and Iran were among other nations listed as the most serious rights offenders.
The report said there had been advances in Liberia, where Africa's first female head of state was inaugurated a year ago, and in Morocco and Haiti.
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You can feel as guilty as you want to about Timothy McVeigh holding the EXACT same beliefs as you do. He shared your EXACT beliefs on the Federal Government, on gun control, the Constitution, Socialism and on taxes. Those are what is known as facts.<quoted text>
You can't talk to guys like Canton. People like him are myopic.
See, leftists have nothing to offer, so they are brainwashed into trying make people on the right feel guilty about being conservative. That's why when a conservative says something to a leftist like "good morning" they find something racists about it: the guilt trip.
Canton ignores things like DumBama being supported by the US Communist Party. He ignores other little facts like the UniBomber being a leftist that had Al Gore's (Cantons hero) book in the shed he was living in. Saul Alinksy dedicated his book to Lucifer. Giffords shooter had nothing to do with Republicans. He was obsessed with her. He didn't even know who Sarah Palin was. George Zimmerman was a registered Democrat.
So by associating McVeigh with the Tea Party, you're supposed to feel guilty. See how it works? Leftists hate the Constitution. It's a thorn in their side. The Constitution stops leftists from total power over the people of this country. So if you believe in the Constitution, or are a constitutionalist, so was McVehgh, and you should feel very guilty about it. Throw away that darn Constitution, don't be an enemy of big government because Timothy McVeigh was, and you don't want to be in the same category as him, do you?????
The fact that I pointed that out to you how much the Tea Party and Timmy were alike about 3 weeks ago, and within that time, another Constitutionalist has gone on a shooting spree in no way supports my theory that you guys are just a bunch of desperate gun nut radicals who are willing to kill anyone to get your way...right?


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"Move over," says Leimomi Mo'okini Lum, gently but firmly. "You drive too fast." Pulling over on an empty road in North Kohala, I slide across the seat and let her drive.
Even behind the wheel she is regal in a brilliant blue floral-print blouse and blue slacks. Gold bracelets jangle on her wrist; yellow orchids flutter in her hair like exotic birds. We are heading to Mo'okini Luakini, one of Hawaii's oldest heiaus (temples). Lum ― the present kahuna nui (guardian-priest) ― has agreed to take me there.
The heiau, on the island of Hawaii's windswept northern tip, is one of several important sites that make the Big Island the state's most visible repository of traditional native culture. Other dramatic Big Island sites ― like Pu'uhonua O Ho-naunau, a religious village, and Pu'ukohola- Heiau, a temple built by Kamehameha the Great, who unified the Hawaiian Islands into a kingdom around 1795 ― are now national parks. But Mo'okini Luakini is especially significant.
Legend has it that Kamehameha was born nearby and was brought to this heiau to be blessed. The ancient temple is still an active link to today's native Hawaiian culture; Lum, I'm hoping, will show me how it's used. Like her late father, Dewey O. Kuamo'o Mo'okini, and generations going back some 1,500 years, according to family chants, she keeps watch over these sacred stones.
Turning off the highway, we bump along a road that becomes a dirt track through scrubby kiawe trees, eventually coming to a stop in a grassy field. The sun beats down, and beyond the heiau, wind pushes whitecaps across the blue sea. On distant Maui, clouds hide Haleakala's peak.
The heiau's walls, built of massive black basalt rocks piled atop one another, rise some 30 feet tall. "Ask for your needs, not your wants," whispers the kahuna nui outside the entrance. "Open your heart. Open your mind like a sponge." Inside, the temple is as big as a football field and open to the sky.
At the altar, Lum closes her eyes, tilts her face skyward, raises her arms as if to embrace the heavens. She whispers a prayer, then removes the yellow orchids from her hair and places them atop the sacred stones. Watching her, I'm struck by her deep spirituality, her reverence for this place of her ancestors. I whisper my own prayer, then put my lei of braided ti leaves near her orchids.
"Are you comfortable here?" she asks me later. Once a shadowy place where ali'i nui (kings and ruling chiefs) prayed to the war god Ku and where humans were sacrificed, Mo'okini today is a place of healing. "Yes," I answer. Water droplets fleck my arms, but I see no clouds. Lum smiles knowingly. "You're being blessed," she says. "Your prayers have taken flight." Across the channel, clouds have lifted from Haleakala's crown.
In 1978, Lum rededicated the heiau to the children of Hawaii, and there, each November, she teaches them the ways of their ancestors. They make leis to leave on the altar. "They must learn to give of themselves," she explains.
Driving back to Kona, she shares her vision for the heiau's future. She dreams of seeing an education center nearby where Hawaii's children can learn their heritage, and she has started a foundation, Mo'okini Luakini Inc., to help make it happen. Preserving the ancient sites and passing on old traditions are ways that Lum and Hawaiians throughout the islands are keeping alive their culture. "Without a past, we have no future," she says.
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Mo'okini Luakini. A remote but significant heiau. Off State 270 about 7 miles past Lapakahi State Historical Park. Turn left just before Upolu Airport and drive 2 miles on the cinder road; the heiau is on a rise to the left. For more information, contact Mo'okini Luakini (Box 240125, Honolulu, HI 96824; 808/373-8000).
Pu'uhonua O Ho-naunau National Historical Park. This beautifully restored village and heiau on the southern Kona coast was once a place of refuge for kapu (law) breakers. 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Mon-Thu, 6 a.m.-11 p.m. Fri-Sun (visitor center 8-4 daily); $3, ages 16 and under free. 21/2 miles off State 11 on State 160; www.nps.gov/puho or (808) 328-2288.
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So far, all the JavaScript code that you have written has been executed unconditionally. When you wrote a sequence of statements, those statements were executed one after another, in order. Similarly, a call to a function caused control to transfer to that function following a well-defined sequence of steps. And while for loops caused statements to be executed over and over, they always did so a prescribed number of times in a specific order.
Many programming tasks, however, require conditional control, that is, the ability to react differently based upon some condition. For example, consider the task of assigning students letter grades. Depending upon what the student's average is, a different letter grade must be assigned (e.g., 90 to 100 is an A, 80 to 89 is a B, etc.). In this lesson, you will be introduced to the if statement which is used to perform such conditional execution. Based upon some condition, an if statement can choose among alternative sequences of code to execute, or even choose to execute no code at all.
Conditional execution refers to the ability to execute a statement or sequence of statements only if some condition holds. The simplest form of conditional statement involves only one possible action. For example, printing out a message when the value of a variable is positive. However, conditional execution can also involve alternatives based on the same or related conditions. For example, we might want to print one message if the variable has a positive value and another message if it doesn't. This type of conditional execution in JavaScript is performed using if statements.The following are examples if statements which perform the conditional executions described above.
The general form of an if statement is as follows, where the else case is optional:
The CONDITION in an if statement can be any boolean expression, that is, any expression that evaluates to either true or false. The following relational operators can be used to build boolean expressions:
|equal to
|not equal to
|less than
|less than or equal to
|greater than
|greater than or equal to
Exercise 1:
Cut-and-paste the following section of code into the JavaScript interpreter.
Exercise 2:
Cut-and-paste the following section of code into the JavaScript interpreter.
Exercise 3:
Cut-and-paste the following section of code into the JavaScript interpreter.
Exercise 4:
Write a code segment which prompts the user for their name, and then displays a special greeting to that person if their name is the same as yours. If the name entered by the user is anything other than your name, your code should not produce any output.
Exercise 5:
At Dickinson, "roll call" grades are assigned around midterm to help students to assess their performance. A common rule-of-thumb is to consider a grade of C or better to be Satisfactory, while C- or worse is Unsatisfactory. Write a code segment which prompts the user for their average, and then displays a message assessing their performance. If their average is 73 or higher, they should receive a Satisfactory rating, otherwise Unsatisfactory.
In its simplest form, an if statement can decide between executing a sequence of statements once, or not at all. For example, in the first example of an if statement above, the code will either display a message on the condition that a number is positive, or else it will do nothing at all. Using an else case, an if statement can decide between two alternative sections of code, as in the example where a different message is displayed for positive and non-positive numbers.
There are examples, however, in which more than two alternatives must be considered. For example, suppose you were to write code for assigning letter grades in a class based on the student's final class average. In a rigid scoring system, any grade of 90 or better would receive an "A", any grade between 80 and 89 a "B", and so on down through "C", "D", and "F". Thus, there are 5 alternatives for assigning the grade, conditional upon where the student's average.
In JavaScript, arbitrary numbers of alternative cases can be considered using a sequence of nested if statements (shown on the left). A more compact and easer to read form of these nested if statments is the cascading if statement (shown on the right). A cascading if statement is really nothing more than nested if statements, formatted to be easier to read.
|Nested if Statements
|Cascading if Statements
The term cascading refers to the way that control cascades down the statement like water down a waterfall. The top-most test is evaluated first, in this case (grade >= 90). If this test succeeds, then the corresponding statements are executed and control passes to the end of the if statement. If not, then control cascades down to the next if test, in this case (grade >= 80). In general, control cascades down the statement from one test to another until one succeeds or the end of the statement is reached.
Exercise 6:
Cut-and-paste the above cascading if statement into the interpreter. Add a prompt which asks the user for their number grade and reads that value into the grade variable. Similarly, add a write statement at the end to display the letter grade. Execute the code on each of the following grades and report the result.
Exercise 7:
Cut-and-paste the code from Exercise 1 which displayed whether a number is positive or not. Modify that statement so that it prints one of three messages, stating whether the number is positive, negative, or zero. Test your new statement on a variety of numbers to be sure that it works correctly.
Once written, a control statement is just like any other statement (e.g., an assignment or a call to document.write). In particular, you can nest a control statement inside another control statement. You have already seen this with a cascading if statement, which is really just a series of nested if statements. The same holds for the other control statement you know, the for loop. You can nest one for loop inside another, although this is usually avoided since tracing the flow of control can become tricky. You can also nest an if statement inside a for loop, and vice versa.
Exercise 8:
Consider the following segment of JavaScript code.
Exercise 9:
Write a segment of JavaScript code that will display the sum of all the even numbers from 2 up to a certain maximum. That maximum should be prompted for and entered by the user. Your code should contain a for loop to range through the numbers and add them together, and an if statement to consider only those numbers in the range that are even. Hint: refer to the code in the previous exercise.
Exercise 10:
Consider the following code segment, which prints a table of powers of 2. The number of rows in the table is specified by the user in response to a prompt.
Add an appropriate if statement to this code to verify that the number entered by the user is indeed 1 or greater. If so, it should proceed to display the table as is. If not, it should display an error message and avoid executing any of the table code.


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MELBOURNE Heart remains optimistic that it can snare Socceroos captain Lucas Neill on a short-term deal - but not if it gets trapped into a high-cost bidding war.
Heart football manager John Didulica and chief executive Scott Munn met with Neill's representative Darren Jackson in Sydney on Friday to discuss a move to the Melbourne team for the rest of the season and hope to know whether they have been successful by Saturday.
They believe they are a strong chance to win the signature of the Socceroos veteran if he makes a decision based solely on soccer criteria.
But cash-strapped Heart, which is determined to break even and has sold many of its most talented youngsters to buttress its financial position, is not prepared to spend up big to lure Neill. If it came to a wages contest with Sydney FC, which is also now back in the hunt for Neill, then Heart would come off second best as it cannot match the financial firepower of the Sky Blues.
Backed by Russian businessman David Traktovenko, Sydney FC already has two of the best paid players in the league in Alessandro Del Piero and Brett Emerton.
It is believed that the former Blackburn, West Ham and Galatasaray defender is prepared to play for much reduced wages for a short-term stint as his key criteria is to remain fit to play in the Socceroos' World Cup qualifiers in June.
Those three matches against Japan, Jordan and Iraq over a 14-day period between June 4 and 18 will determine Australia's World Cup fate, and national coach Holger Osieck wants his captain to be in the best shape possible for those crucial encounters. Neill will, however, miss the match against Oman in late March as he is suspended.
The Heart duo travelled to Newcastle on Thursday with the team ahead of the Friday night clash with Newcastle Jets. They went to Sydney to meet Neill's representative on Friday morning before travelling back for the game at Hunter Stadium.
Heart's two coaches, head man John Aloisi and assistant Hayden Foxe, both played with Neill in the national team. They hope the experienced defender can organise their young defence and provide the sort of leadership and on-field coaching needed to coax the club into the finals in the last weeks of the season.


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A leading clinician has labelled plans to close St Helier's maternity unit a "foolish idea".
Last month the Better Services Better Value review (BSBV) put forward its preferred model for the future of health services in south-west London recommending that St Helier lose its accident and emergency (A&E) and its maternity departments.
Carolyn Croucher, who has been a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at St Helier Hospital since 2001, said: "We support BSBV in the process of anything that produces better quality care for patients.
"We are not against that at all, but I can tell you that of the women's heath clinicians we think that closing maternity services at St Helier is a foolish idea."
The maternity unit, which comprises state of the art delivery rooms with birthing pools and a neonatal unit, opened just three years ago at a cost of £2.8m.
Should the recommendation go forward, this maternity unit would close with maternity services being expanded at the remaining three hospitals in south-west London at a cost of more than £100m upfront, with projected year on year savings of £15.9m.
Mrs Croucher said: "This is where the BSBV argument falls down. It's not a bad argument to improve services; it's about how you go about it.
"I also recognise that we live in a world with financial challenges, but the BSBV scheme does not stack up financially."
The money to expand maternity wards at St George's, Kingston and Croydon would have to be applied for and approved by the Department for Health that would result in larger maternity wards catering for 7,000 births a year at each hospital; St Helier delivered 3,305 babies last year.
Mrs Croucher said: "It's about the team working together and I think that happens particularly well here.
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St Helier will have a planned care centre for non-emergency surgery for patients across south-west London.
Plans to shut the maternity and A&E services were recommended last week. They will now go to the joint boards for approval on September 27, before a three-month public consultation which is now due to begin in November.


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SANTA ANA - St. John Bosco couldn't hang with the state's No. 2-ranked high school boys basketball team. Now they have a date with No. 1.
Stanley Johnson took over at the start as Mater Dei jumped to a double-digit lead within three minutes Wednesday night, cruising to an 82-71 Trinity League triumph - in a game that was not nearly so close - in their second showdown this month with the Braves.
"They're better. Any way you want to size it, they're better," Braves coach Derrick Taylor said. "We do not have an answer for Stanley Johnson. He looked like an NBA player to my guys, and yet my guys are high-end players. He's another level above."
Now Poly, the top team in Cal Hi Sports' rankings, awaits Saturday in the Nike Extravaganza at Mater Dei.
"Yeah, but they pose up different ... I don't know," Taylor said. "At this point, I don't know. I'm disappointed we're still making the same mistakes we were making in August. That's what's disappointing."
Bosco (17-5, 6-2) believed it should have beaten Mater Dei at home three weeks ago, but lost 79-67. On Wednesday, there was never any doubt about the Monarchs' mastery.
Johnson scored 31 points and grabbed 12 rebounds as Mater Dei (22-1, 8-0) opened with a 12-2 run, then used an 11-3 run to pull away before the first quarter was done and finished the first half - and finished off the Braves - with a 17-2 spree.
The Monarchs, No. 2 in the state and as high as No. 7 in the nation in one poll, led by as many as 25 points, and SJB scored the game's final 10 points to make the score look better.
Johnson, who scored 35 points Friday against Santa Margarita, had 29 points by the end of the third quarter, and Elijah Brown added 25 points for Mater Dei, which clinched a share of the Trinity title, their 25th straight league title.
Daniel Hamilton hit five 3-pointers - three of them in the third quarter - and scored a season-best 27 points, and Tyler Dorsey made four en route to 23 for Bosco, but leading scorer Isaac Hamilton was just 2of9 from the field and scored only seven points, his worst outing this season.
It didn't matter what anybody did with Johnson on his game. His 3-pointers were NBA distance, and he dominated inside, too.
"Stanley Johnson, he's the X factor," Taylor said. "He's about as good as I've ever played against. He's up on that level."


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A woman is in critical condition after she was stabbed outside her child's school Tuesday morning.
The attack happened around 10:00 a.m. Tuesday outside the Bonham Academy on St. Mary's Street. Teresa Barron, 38, had just dropped off her child at the school when the child's father showed up, and the two got into an argument. The child's father, 38-year-old Roberto Barron allegedly then stabbed the woman several times in the upper body and neck area.
Police say a bystander who happened to be a concealed handgun license holder pulled his weapon and ordered Barron to drop the knife. Barron surrendered and was taken into custody by the bystander and a school district officer.
The woman was taken to San Antonio Military Medical Center.
Barron was arrested for aggravated assault, and is in jail on a $150,000 bond.
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