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Mr Weir allegedly went as far as to force the boys to sign a waiver regarding his colleague's behaviour while they were in the office as employees or guests.
Mr Marsh, who inherited his grandfather's oil and gas fortune and previously owned TV station KVII, is set to challenge the claims, which label him as a 'serial abuser' in court,
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Frustrated and not alone, right?Posted by MammaMia to Parents of ADHD Children on Apr 02, 2014 at 5:20pm | 12 Comments
I am having SO many problems with my son and his school. He is 7 years old and in 1st grade. His teacher claims to have 2 young boys who are ADHD and she also claims that she taught Special Education classes before moving on to First Grade classes.
He'll start off a school year great, then we will let slip to the teacher that he has ADHD and the notes start pouring in. When we don't get a bad note, we think, hey, he had a good day. Then she told us at a parent teacher conference, some times she forgets or that there isn't enough time to write in the things he had trouble with in his planner, but that there IS an issue every day.
We asked about any kind of accommodations that will help him stay on task and she cuts us off and says "Tried it with my kids, didn't work." or "We can try that, but I guarantee it will be a waste of time." When she especially gets frustrated, the "Have you heard back from the doctor on medication?" notes start coming home! I am SO frustrated! I just don't understand! Where is the compassion for our children?
Out of the entire school year, I think she sent home 2 notes that highlighted something positive he did in school that day. And now she is sending home the work he doesn't finish in school, saying we have to complete it as homework and turn it in the next day because he "refused to do any school work." I wonder, is that the case?
He is specifically having problems with writing exercises. IE, she gives you a topic and you have to write 5 sentences including an intro sentence, 3 detail sentences and a conclusion sentence. He can sit down doing his homework and be stuck on the first word for two hours. I was wondering if any of you have had any experience with Dysgraphia? I was reading online that it is very often related to ADHD.
Does anyone have any tools or accommodation that work at home or at school to help with the homework/classroom experience? Does anyone have any suggestions what we could do differently with the school or at home??? I am absolutely at my wits end! I do not want to have to medicate him just because his teacher has NO patience.
Writing is very difficult for children with ADHD. Sometimes just getting started and organizing their thoughts is hard. I had such similar experiences to yours, I can so relate.
I had my son tell me what he wanted to say. It is much easier for him to tell me out loud and then write it down. I'm not sure if that will work for you or not.
You can request an evaluation from your school, to try to get an IEP or a 504 Plan. An IEP or 504 Plan will require your school to make accomodations for your son. There are many others on this list who can give you better advice than I for how to get that done.
Have you tried talking to the principal or to the Special Ed teacher in the school? Perhaps they can give you some ideas or options.
Good luck!
Well, the reason to medicate is for the child's benefit. It was something I felt opposed to when my son was that age and he was first diagnosed, but I came to the realization that he really, really needs it in order to function and exercise the kind of control expected of him.
I whole heartedly sympathize with you and was in the exact same position when my son was that age. He had a teacher in 2nd grade that resorted to yelling at him and he's still scarred from it. My poor little fella. We pulled him out mid-year and put him in public school where he was much better off. We couldn't understand why the school was being so harsh and would not wait for us to get the situation figured out. But they wouldn't. It was horrible and heartbreaking. So, I know exactly how you feel.
Once we did put him on medication the teachers said it was 'like night and day' as far as his behavior goes. He cannot focus, maintain control, remember anything whatsoever, without being medicated.
Bottom line to me, it's a medical condition that needs to be treated like anything else we would treat our children for. It's like the hearing aid or brail for another child. They have to have it, at least in a majority of the cases. The brain is not functioning as effectively without being treated and we cannot expect these children to control their symptoms, especially with the maturity delay, without it. It's not fair to anyone.
So while it is NOT OK for his teacher to be so negative, it is important to talk to your son's pediatrician aspa about options. These medications have been used for years and years, are effective and safe.
My heart goes out to you completely, but start with medication first and then see how your son's behavior does. Best of luck!
Well, it sounds a lot like typical ADHD symptoms, not necessarily a learning disability, which you can ask the school to test him for. If you would like to start the process of testing ask the teacher now, because it can take a while. ADHD in itself is not considered a learning disability, because it isn't. It is an implementing disability. But you should, just to be safe, see if there is a learning disability along with his ADHD and that the school will accommodate.
If she is telling you that the accommodations you want won't work why are you not believing her? You sound very frustrated obviously but be careful to not make the teacher the enemy. There is NO enemy in this situation, as much as we human beings like to have others to fight, this is not a fight situation. And in fact the more you fight your teachers and school the less good experience you will have with them. Have you asked the teacher what would work for your son?
I can tell you what helped my daughter before meds. She was in K and 1st without meds and I remember the homework misery that ensued! She absolutely never read in K, never. Refused. This happens. It is fight or flight. Their little brains cannot handle the stress of the situation so they shut down because they can't fight you all, you are adults! Although he might fight with you. All it means is he is running into difficulty with something - not that he "doesn't get it" or hasn't learned it, but that his brain is not adhering to the page in order to get it done.
So here is what did work.
—Snack! Protein please, it was like misery without one!
—For his age, 10 minutes of homework, 5 minutes of break. Use a timer but not where he can see it or he will watch it, where he can hear it is fine.
—If he gets really squirley you might play run around the house. This worked great for both my kids when they were little (even my non ADHD kid). If they are really struggling to focus and sit still you suddenly ring a bell or sound a horn, some fun sound, and say it is run around the house time for one minute. Then, YOU included, run around the house waving your arms, laughing, dancing, whatever until one minute is done then right back to homework. It also worked well for celebrations, like celebrating one line of math problems completed.
—Whatever homework is the most difficult, do that first. Kids with ADHD have a very small focus tank and he needs that for what he has the most difficulty with.
—Break homework into sections. So if there was a math sheet that had to be done I would fold it in half or fourths or as small as I could so she was only seeing on the page three or four problems at a time. Tell the teacher you are doing this and ask if he can do this at school. I actually got this from a teacher and it works wonders. The ADHD brain just sees a whole sheet of problems and freezes, so the less stressful the visuals the better.
—If you can have him tested or can do a test online (you might ask the school for a resource) find out what is his learning style. My daughter's is spacial mostly so getting her out of her seat and talking through a math problem with blocks helped tremendously. And with reading, which was her giant hurdle, she didn't buy in until, ironically, we got a dog. Dogs her favorite thing. Suddenly we have a dog (a three dimensional object - spacial) which she really wants to learn more about and observe what she learns so she is motivated to read. The first book she ever read without me reading it to her or outright force her to was a dog book - in 2nd grade! It can help you to help them if you know how best he learns.
And don't totally count out meds, particularly if you are doing it in reaction to the teacher suggesting it (again you have to stop fighting her). Find out more about them. There are lots of places to get information and as you do your research on ADHD - which you should be doing - you will find out more about them. When administered properly, conservatively, by a psychiatrist (NOT NOT NOT your pediatrician! Good lord it is a brain drug get a brain expert. So many parents have bad experiences with medications I suspect because they are going to a general practitioner for something highly specific) there is nothing to be really worried about. I know, I too was re-luc-tant! I dug in my heels like you can't believe. But when they told me again at the end of 1st (as they had at the end of K) that my daughter needed to be held back a grade because she was not testing well I knew I had to try. We lucked out with a great pediatric psychiatrist off the bat who is very conservative and follows my lead about meds, no pressuring to increase dose or going by any book, she is medicating my child as she needs, not by what a manual says. She takes into consideration school work and behavior, home and behavior there, she asks her many questions every time we see her and she weighs her each and every time. We are on the lowest possible dose and a booster and I have had a lot of success with the school in administering her booster in the afternoon.
So, don't totally discount drugs. The above suggestions can help a lot. Every assist works better with medication in place. But there is a lot you can do to help your son outside of meds - you will have to give these assists on or off meds anyway so might as well start. And observe, be creative, have some fun with your child as you are moving him to what you want him to do - this I've found is the best way to get cooperation from an ADHD child and quickly!
The above responses have said it all. Take a breath, regroup, and begin with the above suggestions.
I'm now going through this for the second time having gotten my 8 yr old on track: meds (a lot of trial and error), behavior therapy, tutoring.
Now my six yr old has just been diagnosed with ADHD combined type with sensory processing disorder. Completely different from first son. I have to go through this all over again. It's rough, but it's about your child. Don't give up—I have to remind myself of this a lot. Good luck!
Thanks so much for all of your responses! I love the suggestions and can not wait to try some of them out, some of them I didn't even think of before!
I would like to say, I am not fighting the teacher. I am working on getting better insurance that will cover medication for my son. The problem I am having with the teacher is that nothing I have suggested is being considered. Instead of exploring other options that might make the learning process easier for him until we can get him medication and even after, I just get "won't work" and "that'll be a waste of time." Is not every child different? I understand that many people have tried these options and have not benefited from it, but isn't it my duty as a parent to ensure that EVERY possible option that is available to make learning easier has been explored for my child?
I love his teacher, personally, but there are some issues that are too bitter for me as a parent to swallow. I'm brand new to parenting a child with any kind of disability, and ADHD is probably small compared to many other issues we could be facing, but for me, it's hard. It's absolutely refreshing to be able to be in a group where I can vent and get advice from other parents going through the same thing I am. So thank you all, again, so much! Sometimes its nice just to get that slap on the shoulder that says, "I hear you, girl, I hear you."
Hi MamaMia!
Dysgraphia is certainly a possibility. My son has that and Written Expression Disorder. I didn't realize the Written Expression DIsorder until he started writing assignments like you described (2nd grade for us, seems like a lot to ask of a 1st grader). My son had the same issue, he could tell me a great story, but he couldn't immediately write it down afterward. Never could figure out where to start. It blew my mind and I had no idea how to help.
We have found in the almost 4 years since that allowing him to speak it and someone else scribe it (write it down) makes a HUGE difference. I hope to get him using Dragon Dictation in the near future, but we tried to set it up for him in 2nd grade and the process was too frustrating for him.
As much as I'd love to recommend that you ask the school to evaluate, I have found that your child has to be profoundly disabled to services and an IEP at that young age. My son's writing issues were very obvious to me and to his teacher, but he was evaluated and denied, because the first grade expectation was pretty low and there wasn't a large enough gap between his capabilities and that standard yet. By third grade, the gap was cavernous, he was evaluated again, and approved for special ed and an IEP.
I've fought many a teacher in the nearly 6 years since my son's diagnosis. Some get it and some don't. Some are open to suggestions, and others are not. Some will outright to refuse to give your child any sort of "special treatment" no matter how many times they're threatened with legal action for breaching a federal legal document (IEP). Pay close attention early each school year and evaluate the teacher's teaching style and willingness to help special needs kids. If it's not a good fit, ask for your child to be moved to a more suitable teacher. Insist if you have to.
OT can be helpful for kids with handwriting issues (as well as sensory issues). Seek out a pediatric OT office in your area and schedule an evaluation. OT has worked wonders for my son (though not on his writing).
Here's an article on dysgraphia that may help you further: http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/725.html.
Hang in there! It's really tough to get an adequate amount of help at school when they are this young.
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I firmly believe that the assignment to construct a 5-sentence "formal" paragraph is over the heads of most 1st Graders (even the really bright ones).
I have identical twins with ADHD (one more hyperactive & also with major dysgraphia; one more inattentive who has always had very neat handwriting & loved to color and stay within the lines). I always requested in elementary school that they be placed in separate classrooms. Luck of the draw made it so that year after year the hyperactive/dysgraphic student was placed in the classroom with the more rigid & demanding teacher.
Fourth grade was the straw that broke the camel's back where his teacher assigned multiple independent outside book reports and had a one page long, single-spaced list of all the requirements these essays done at home had to contain (along with certain specific requirements that were demanded of the parent—to provide meaningful corrections on the draft version…etc).
Meanwhile, his 4th Grade brother had the teacher who just had them journal, free-flow, any topic they wanted.
If I had it to do over again, knowing what I know now (4th Grade was the year I figured out they had ADHD) I would have fought tooth & nail to get my hyperactive/dysgraphic out of what was, for him, these no-win situations. It created lasting negative effects constantly being held to an arbitrarily defined much higher standard (these kids were in the same school after all, yet their teachers always had such very different standards).
I did fight tooth & nail as soon as I knew what the problem was, and by then the principal was also concerned (this is where having an identical twin as the "control" comes in handy). The principal had known these very bright, very well mannered, very adorable children since kindergarten and she, too, could see that hyper/dysgraph now hated school with a passion and was in a perpetual funk. I was so relieved to find out the principal had already made huge strides to rectify the situation before I set out to demand something different for 5th Grade (their last year of elementary). A new teacher was starting who had been a teacher for Gifted Kids and he was assigned to her. I met with her personally at the beginning of school & brought with me a stack of articles on teaching kids with ADHD.
I was furious at how Mrs. 4th Grade Rigid had gone totally ballistic over the fact that instead of paying full attention to her long math lectures he had resorted to folding origami cranes (bothering nobody)—he had figured out on his own how to do something so he could stand to stay in his seat and would make him better able to Pay Attention to Her Long, Boring Lectures. Both my boys were in her math class since she taught the advanced math class. Hyper/Dysgraph had solved his problem—getting in trouble for not staying in his seat in math class. However, now he was getting in trouble for Not Paying Attention to Her—she'd catch him doing origami INSTEAD of listening to her (she had no idea this "fidget" was actually allowing him to focus & pay attention) and she'd snatch it away from him, call him out for not paying attention, then go ceremoniously put the crane in a ziplock Baggie she was collecting (to give to me later on en masse as "evidence" of his Failure To Do As He's Told). Meanwhile, identical twin is simply able to zone out and stop paying attention to her after the first 5 minutes but continue to just stare at her while thinking about Anything Else Besides Math and never once get in trouble for it.
Back to my 5th Grade beginning of year chat with the new teacher. It went well. Everything I had brought with me was exactly how she taught her classes. By the end she looked up at me and told me her teaching methods were based on doing all the things that helped her as a kid—"So I must have ADHD then…my husband is always complaining about how I forget x, y, z…and…"
In one year she managed to completely reverse all the negativity that had built up over the years and hyper/dysgraph was back to liking school again. And by then he was allowed to bypass writing out papers and could type them instead.
At 15, he still types any papers he can but his handwriting is much better now. So is his drawing. That's what he's been doing in his spare time in math class ever since 7th Grade (after getting in trouble in 6th Grade math for reading a book when he was done with his assignments; the math teacher apparently thought he should just be doing more math even though he was done)...It's a never-ending battle…
Exactly what I mean! I know medication is an option, and I AM working on it. However, why aren't we looking into any of the options I suggested to make things easier for him? I don't want to fight the teacher, but he deserves to at least have the opportunity to try some of the options I've laid out! I did send her an email asking if he can type his paragraphs which she grudgingly said we could, so there's a plus! Im glad someone agrees that the structured paragraph is a bit much for a 1st grader. I know the kids are doing things faster than we did when I was in school but I know I didn't learn paragraphs like that until I was in like 5th grade. Aside from that, I don't even think he understands what a topic and closing sentence are! That's why we have each other, have to have someone who has our backs so we can fight the good fight!
At your school how many classes per grade are there? We had three classes in each grade so we weren't stuck with having to deal with the Mrs. Rigid's in the universe. Trouble is, usually don't find out how rigid until the school year is well under way, and by that time it seems like it would take her being Mrs. Possessed By The Devil to justify the ordeal of changing classes.
In our district we can request certain teachers (no guarantee you'll get who you want but they do try to accommodate that way). So if I could rewind the clock I would have requested Whoever Is Not So Picky, Rigid, and Uber-Controlling for THIS one (the OTHER one can deal with whoever). If you have more than one choice plan ahead for next year, ask around, find out what the teachers are like and make life easier for everyone (including the teacher)!!!
You are not alone! I was in your place 11 years ago! I did not read all of the above responses as I am off to work , so I am sorry if I repeat something. Who diagnosed your son with ADHD? There are many com orbit learning disabilities, the most common being dyslexia or what is now known as a language based learning disability. You need to request in writing that a psychological assessment be done by the school. If this is taking too long, here is Ontario they might not test until grade 4, so we paid for an assessment ourselves. We had the results for grade two, now we could have an individual education plan written up. This is a legal working document that can be changed at anytime and requires a teacher to follow its recommendations. You are right to want to work with the teacher and not against but I have had to go to the principal, superintendant and board trustee before to get what I need for my son. Take a parent advocacy program if you can! Many things can be added to an IEP that may help your son. A specific seating plan, cues to help stay on task ...something subtle like a post it note with a specific word placed on his desk or a touch on the shoulder, a laptop with word recognition software, ( so he can talk his homework out and have spellcheck). A scribe, less work ( if he can tell you he knows it in 3 questions, don't make him do 10) more time on tests and projects, a quiet place to do work that requires more concentration, ie a cubicle, for all kids this is available when they need some quiet time. The use of an iPod to listen to music to " drown out " the noise around him. A fidget cushion to wiggle around in his seat, "peace walks" he can walk around the school occasionally ( after asking of course) to gather his thoughts, a fidget pencil, let him stand at his desk to do his work. The teacher needs to follow an IEP once in place. This document will follow him all through his education process and can constantly change. Oh and don't rule out meds to assist. It just gives him time to think before doing. If it helps him learn and make friends, it's not such a bad thing p, honest. It might take some trial and error, but you might find something that helps and has little notable side effects. If our kids have decreased dopamine levels and executive function disorder it needs to be treated medically in most cases and medication has been proven to help. Think insulin and diabetes or hyperthyroidism and methimazole, specific meds to treat specific medical conditions!
Oh my gosh where do I start? This really is exactly the behavior my son went through. It wasn't until I held him back for failing kindergarten that I had him tested for ADHD. I really was so worn out as a parent that I thought It was all my fault. But I found out that it wasn't and I have him on medication for his ADHD. We had to try a couple but it didn't take long before we found the perfect option for our son, Daytrana! You mentioned insurance was an issue but I actually went to the Daytrana website and signed up and they have a coupon that saves you a ton of money. I pay 15 dollars a month for medication that's 250 bucks normally. Also, I have been where you are. ...I struggled with putting my son on medication but you Know what? It's the absolute right thing for him and he also goes to special Ed classes for additional help with reading for an hour a day and he has been on the honor roll his entire 3rd grade year. The great thing about Daytrana is it's a patch not a pill so he can take it off when he gets home from school and it has served it's purpose. I completely understand all you are going through, there isn't a parent on here that doesn't I guarantee that. You need to do what's right for you and your family regardless of the teacher. Take a step back and look at all the signs and what's best for your child. You will figure it out and move forward.
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From: Greg Matthews <>
Subject: Re: [DMU] Thinking of buying...newbie here...soliciting feedback onthe software
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 02:12:47 -0400
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Just entering coords won't generate a map for you. It will generate the
borders of the deed based on the data points you've entered. The data can
be GPS coords, metes/bounds info, etc.
The DeedMapper folks can provide back ground maps for some areas. If none
is available you can still import maps from images. Lately I've been
converting USGS pdf's to tiff and using those in areas where they don't
offer a map. In the past I've seen posts on here about other sources for
maps so check the archives. While I've never done it I believe you can set
the lat/long for the map center point you've imported then you could, for
example, export that to KML which can be read by several programs/web sites
such as Google Maps. There are other options such as using GPS points and
others possibly, but I've never gotten into that personally.
Steve Broyles, the guy that does the software, posts on here so he might
chime in. So, if you go with DeedMapper you've got the ear of the developer
on this mail list plus a lot of other helpful folks.
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Penelope Athey <>wrote:
> Just the kind of feedback I needed on the quality. Is this going to show me
> a map of where the land is, just by entering the coordinates? That's my main
> need. Thanks agian.
> --- On Thu, 5/13/10, Greg Matthews <> wrote:
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[Identification of item], John Ira Erwin scrapbook, Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
The John Ira Erwin scrapbook was received by the University Archives as a gift in 1979.
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Originally a resident of Murphy, NC, John Ira Erwin came to Trinity College in 1912. While he was an undergraduate, he belonged to the Sigma Phi Epsilon and the Phi Mu Kappa fraternities, the Weaver College Club, the McDowell County Club, the Mountain Boomer's Club, the Chemistry and Science Clubs, and the Y.M.C.A. He graduated from Trinity College in 1916. He later completed a course in the Aviation School in Atlanta, GA.
Contains photographs, news clippings, event programs and memorabilia relating to Erwin's last years at Trinity College, 1915-1916. Most items are unlabelled.
Erwin included these items in a 29-page, string-bound patent scrapbook published by the College Memorabilia Company, with the Trinity College seal on the cover. Loose items were placed in envelopes, for preservation.
This scrapbook contains autograph pages, photographs, clippings, and memorabilia from Erwin's extracurricular life at Trinity College from 1915-1916. The major subjects of the photographs are Trinity athletics, Sigma Phi Epsilon, 1916 commencement, campus scenes and other outdoor snapshots of Erwin's acquaintances. One of the pictures is of Trinity's campus in the snow, showing buildings that no longer exist, including the original library. A few other photographs highlight Trinity's baseball field and pole-vaulters. Also included are telegrams, Sigma Phi Epsilon memorabilia, train and athletics tickets, hotel and other business logos. These items are arranged approximately by subject.


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The definitive guide to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - fully revised and updated for a new generation of parents.
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Understanding ADHD shows parents how to work with teachers and health professionals to give their child the best possible chance of entering adulthood with self-confidence, life skills and strong family relationships.
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 330
Published: 1st April 2011
Publisher: Random House Australia
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text: I have downloaded a free e-reader for my macbook pro. Also, in addition to what I can find from itunes store, I found a website from which I downloaded a lot of the classics. Although, I have yet to read anyone of them. If you want to share some links for sites that have ebooks outside of the classics I would greatly appreciate it. You can PM me.


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Tarangire Lions and Mara Migration
August 2005
August is always an exciting safari month and combining Tarangire with the Northern Serengeti at this time of year is the very best Northern Tanzania experience.
Our guests from Toronto and New York flew into Tarangire to meet Marc Baker and I and the action started right away. Huge elephant herds greeted us at Silale swamp and the buffalos were everywhere we drove. On reaching the eastern side of the swamp system, on our way into camp, Albert Lucas, the Oliver's Camp resident guide called me on the radio to say that he had found our local pride eating a buffalo. We spent that first afternoon watching these familiar cats devour a massive bull.
All around us herds of wildlife were amassing at the waters edge- these lions will not move much before Christmas. We spent the next few days not having to drive or walk much at all- the wildlife was every where. Evening walks at the rear of camp watching elephants dig for water in the dry river bed was a great way to end the day.
On our drive out to meet our charter plane to the Serengeti we passed the buffalo kill site again and our pride was fat, lazy and happy. Then at about a mile away we could see 5 male lions walking in the tall blond grass- heading for our very position. We always worry a little when strange lions arrive. Not one of our well fed lion group saw the oncoming danger until the very last second- in came the new males - off ran our group. We dashed to meet our plane and flew to view the Ngrongoro Crater - dry as could be and full of vehicles - we then flew around Empakai Crater and around the top of the active volcano Oldonyo Lengai -3 times! What a view. Then on to land in the Northern Serengeti at Kogatende - The migration was below us as we came into land. Two Sayari Camp open 4wd vehicles awaited us, lunch and drinks on board and we headed across the Mara River seeing hundreds of hippos and fat and happy crocodiles for a pic-nic on the open grassland plains of Lemai. It was packed with animals. Huge numbers of wildebeest had already crossed the river and we just sat and took it all in.
During the following days the real force of the migration was experienced as hundreds of thousands of animals moved into this area. Both sides of the river were busy and we witnessed a wonderful river crossing of Zebra and Wildebeest. Many drowned in the panic. What a scene!
Combine Oliver's Camp and Sayari Camp in one safari in the August/ September period and you will be amazed! I'm back for more in September.
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Campaigners warned tonight that the new government must not jeopardise falling rates of child and pensioner poverty with spending cuts after figures showed Britons' average incomes actually rose during the first full year of the recession.
Pensioners and children saw their overall situation improve during the financial year 2008-09 as hundreds of thousands were lifted out of poverty, offsetting a rise in the number of working-age people living below the breadline, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said.
The numbers run counter to rising unemployment and squeezed household budgets during the deepest recession in decades, prompting experts to caution against reading too much into one year's data. There was less good news on the gap between rich and poor, however, as income inequality stuck at its highest level in half a century.
Still, the headline figures were largely positive for the recently defeated Labour government, suggesting that 600,000 people had been lifted out of poverty since it came to power.
According to the DWP's annual Households Below Average Income report, mean take-home incomes grew for the seventh consecutive year, by 1% in 2008–09. At the same time, the number people in poverty fell by 100,000 from a year earlier to 10.9 million, before taking housing costs into account. After taking housing costs into account, the level was almost unchanged, at 13.4 million.
That left the number of people in poverty after housing costs down 600,000 since Labour's first full financial year in power.
Possibly reflecting tax credits and rises in benefits during the year, child poverty fell 100,000 in 2008-09 and was down 600,000 over the past decade. The Trades Union Congress welcomed the fall as evidence of "tremendous commitment and prioritisation by the last government".
"It will be a tough challenge for the new coalition to match up to these reductions in child poverty," said TUC general secretary Brendan Barber, urging similar action to stamp out increasing poverty among adults.
The Child Poverty Action Group raised its concern that the improving trend could be snuffed out by the new government's attempts to tackle Britain's parlous public finances."Child benefits are currently under attack from commentators and politicians seeking to reduce the deficit," said its chief executive, Shan Nicholas.
"Policies that impose cuts on hard-pressed family budgets will drive child poverty up – blighting children's lives and driving damaging and divisive health and educational inequalities. Today's poor children will be tomorrow's poor parents."
"Spending in the weeks and months ahead must be based on what is right for children and society not what is easy to cut from spreadsheets."
Experts noted that there remains much work to be done if the previous government's bid to halve child poverty are to be met. It would still need to fall by 1.1 million between 2008-09 and 2010-11, said the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The IFS analysis also put poverty among working-age individuals without children at the highest since at least 1961. It noted a similar record for income inequality.
"People might be surprised to see poverty falling in the midst of the recent recession, but something similar happened during the recessions of the early 1980s and early 1990s," said David Phillips, a senior IFS research economist.
"Pensioners are largely insulated from the increase in unemployment affecting other groups, and falling rates of poverty for them, and for children, will doubtlessly be welcome news for both the outgoing and incoming governments. But a further increase in poverty among working-age adults without children continues what may be seen as a worrying trend that started even before the recent recession."
The numbers of those in poverty are based on people living in households with incomes below 60% of the median income of £407 per week before housing costs and £343 per week after housing costs. For pensioners, there was a fall of 200,000 people in poverty on a year earlier.
Michelle Mitchell, charity director at Age UK, welcomed the drop but said there was a long way to go to help those still below the poverty line.
"The new government's commitment to relink the state pension to earnings from April 2011 with a 'triple guarantee' is a good start. However, in the short term the coalition must move quickly towards paying benefits automatically so that the poorest and most vulnerable older people receive all the financial help they're entitled to," she said."Clearly there are huge challenges ahead for the new government, but now is the time to renew the fight against pensioner poverty and commit to eradicating it once and for all."


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Moomba's royal flush
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Former Moomba monarchs Marina Prior and Molly Meldrum yesterday.
Photo: Penny Stephens
Melbourne had never been graced with so much royalty in one room.
Resplendent in purple robes, and carrying crowns and sceptres, past Moomba monarchs Lou Richards, Andrew Gaze, Marina Prior, Ian "Molly" Meldrum and Paul Cronin assembled at the Melbourne Town Hall yesterday to mark the 50th anniversary of the city's Moomba festival, which this year runs from March 11 to 14.
Beverley Jones, formerly Beverley Stewart, was 19 when she won a beauty contest to become the first queen at the inaugural carnival in 1955. "There were thousands of people lining the street and I had the most beautiful float of a swan with flowers," she recalled yesterday.
The festival, now known as Moomba Waterfest, scrapped the role of monarchs six years ago, but the traditional parade and events such as the Birdman Rally are still expected to draw large crowds this year.
When asked about the poor quality of the Yarra's water and the possible health effects on would-be aviators in the Birdman Rally, Lord Mayor John So said that recent fish catches proved the river was fine.
"If it's safe for the fish, it'll be safe for the birds," he laughed. "We are monitoring the quality of the water, but I don't believe it is a major problem."


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Jackals Host Second Annual Elmira Street HockeyFest
Sunday, August 23 at 11:00 a.m, inside First Arena
ELMIRA, N.Y. - July 20, 2015 - The Elmira Jackals are pleased to announce that they will host the Second Annual Elmira Street HockeyFest on Sunday, August 23, starting at 11:00 a.m. We are happy to report that this year there will be an Adult Division, for players 18 and over. The one-day tournament will take place on the rink inside of First Arena (there will be no ice on the surface). Check-in begins at 11:00 a.m. and the games start promptly at 12:00 p.m.
Registration is now open up until Friday, August 21, or when registration is full. Individuals can sign up online at jackalshockey.com or by clicking the link below. Participants can sign up as a team online and elect a team captain or individuals can sign up and be placed on a random roster.
The tournament is open to people of all ages at a cost of $30 per person. Each team will consist of four players and one goaltender. Participants are responsible for bringing their own equipment, including sneakers, hockey sticks and gloves. Goaltender equipment is mandatory. Additional protective gear is optional, but highly recommended.
Winners in each age group will receive prizes, and all participants will be given a voucher to attend a Jackals home game this season.
Teams will be divided into divisions determined age. Mini-Mites and Mites are required to wear a helmet and must also be under adult supervision at all times. Divisions are as follows:
- Mini Mites - 6 and under
- Mites - 7 and 8
- Squirts - 9 and 10
- Pee Wee - 11 and 12
- Bantam - 13 and 14
- Midget - 15, 16, and 17
- Adult - 18 and over
(Please note: if minimum number of teams per division is not met, certain divisional play may be canceled)
We hope to see you all at this great event, whether you're playing on a team or cheering on the participants!
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Group tickets are a great way to entertain employees, co-workers, clients, friends and family. For more information on discounted group tickets and a list of group benefits, call (607) 734-7825 or visit http://www.jackalshockey.com/groups/.
Officially licensed Elmira Jackals replica team jerseys, apparel and headwear can be purchased online at: http://www.jackalshockey.com/.
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The Ray Jewelers Diamond performers of the game are: 1. ELM - M. Seidel 2. ELM - C. Motte 3. ELM - T. Gjurich #JackalsHockey
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ALEX BRUMMER: Super Mario Draghi cannot fix all Europe's woes and we must be careful of issues lurking in EU banks
The idea that a hole in the balance sheet of a Portuguese financial institution, Banco Espirito Santo, could shake the confidence of the whole Western financial system might seem unlikely.
But the first signal of broader economic and financial panics more often begins in the banking system as we saw with Northern Rock and Lehman Brothers in 2007-08.
Markets have convinced themselves that the problems of euroland broadly have gone away with the promise by European Central Bank president Mario Draghi to do what is necessary to save the euro and the ECB's takeover of banking regulation from national authorities.
Super Mario: Markets are convinced that the problems of euroland have broadly gone away on his promises
The reality is that in both cases the emperor is not wearing many clothes. Draghi cannot provide unlimited assistance to the euroland economies because the German Constitutional Court and the Bundesbank likely will exercise their effective vetoes.
And on the banking front the ECB is barely at first base as a regulator having yet to carry out the kind of believable stress tests that have been done repeatedly in the United States, Britain and elsewhere.
Indeed, there are estimates that suggest banks across Europe have still to properly recognise the bad loans on their books and there could be a black hole of up to €300billion.
Banks ranging from the world's oldest Monte dei Paschi di Siena in Italy to Portugal's Espirito Santo are still striving for stability.
The result of Europe's still unfinished bank repair has been disastrous for much of the region because it means that lending – especially to small and medium-sized businesses – is on hold.
It is less than helpful to banking stability that the difficulties in Portugal coincide with further indications that the Federal Reserve's bond buying programme in the United States, that has fuelled equity and bond markets across the globe, is running down fast.
At its peak US quantitative easing was running at $85billion a month, a figure that has now come down to $35billion.
The latest minutes of the Fed's policy making Open Markets Committee suggest that this bonanza could come to an end as soon as October of this year. After that the Fed might well, like the Bank of England, have to think about normalising interest rates.
The uncomfortable reality is that even though European bond rates have come down sharply from the crisis levels of 2010-12 they can quickly climb back into the danger zone.
In Portugal equity markets fell 4 per cent in latest trading and bond yields have zipped up to 3.99 per cent.
The lights on Europe's periphery have moved from green to amber.
M&S transfer
One of Marc Bolland's great strengths at Marks & Spencer has been his calm demeanour and confidence that something will turn up after 12-quarters of falling sales.
His belief is that with the right long-term steps, that including the creation of its own website and more modern warehousing, there would eventually be a turnaround.
Leadership: Marc Bolland is always seen as being calm, nevertheless he looks to be a little rattled at the departure of one of his most senior colleagues Alan Stewart
He nevertheless looks to be a little rattled at the departure of one of his most senior colleagues Alan Stewart, the chief financial officer, who has been part of the recovery tale.
Stewart can no doubt be replaced and possibly by someone with more strategic vision. But at a time when M&S and its chairman Robert Swannell are struggling to keep investors on side it doesn't do much for morale when a colleague goes waltzing off into the hands of a rival.
M&S's explanation for what has happened is focused on money.
The Tesco offer for Stewart that includes a handsome rise in basic salary and a £1.7million 'golden hello', money for instant achievement of M&S bonus targets, clearly was too much of a temptation.
At times M&S, surrounded by its eccentric private shareholders, worrying about the absence of bras for the more ample décolletage, might still seem like one happy family company.
Those days are long gone and the M&S directors, including its chief executive, are a bit like World Cup footballer permanently on the transfer list. Philip Clarke at Tesco has clearly seen in Alan Stewart nimble talent that he admires.
Quite why, other than he was there, is harder to understand.
Saving Mothercare
Another retailer seeking to set a new path is Mothercare, with the choice by chair Alan Parker of interim CEO Mark Newton-Jones as permanent boss.
Aside from the hard work still needed at Mothercare, if it is not to join some other famous brands on the scrapheap, it is also seeking to repel the advances of American predator Destination Maternity.
Overlap between the two companies is not seen as great.
Mothercare's international franchise operations, that generate around £45million profits, are a source of cash flow while Newton-Jones adjusts to a new online space. But time and patience may be running short.
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5 Stories You May Have Missed Earlier
Celebuzz has compiled the top stories that caught our attention from around the web this Thursday.
Chris Brown Is Threatened Outside of a Nightclub
An aggressive heckler caused some issues for Chris Brown outside of an LA nightclub, even threatening to shoot Brown. TMZ has video of what went down.
Justin Timberlake Gets Suited Up
JT released the music video for his new single "Suit and Tie," which College Candy calls "just as boring as the song." It may not be the most exciting song, but it's a smooth tune for V-Day.
Britney and will.i.am Get the Remix Treatment
Brit and will.i.am's "Scream and Shout" hit has gotten the remix treatment and it's been leaked on the interwebs. Listen for yourself on Huffington Post.
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Jessica Simpson Drops $12 Million on Huge Mansion
With another baby on the way, it looks like Simpson has decided to move into some bigger digs. She reportedly just purchased an 11,000-square-foot mansion for more than $12 million from a fellow celebrity. The Stir has pics and details of the huge mansion that she'll be calling home.
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I love Cracker Jacks. Pop one in your mouth and let the thin caramel candy shell melt into a piece of popcorn or peanut (though the peanut part has become like looking for the pork in a can of Campbell's Pork and Beans. It ain't there). Still, always at the bottom of the box was a cheap ring and fake jewel or a magic trick for you to try. However that's not the case any longer. Now days when you buy Cracker Jack (most likely at a 99 cent store) there is never a real prize in it. Sure there's a word game printed on a small fold out piece of paper, but is that a prize? I don't think so.
The same thing used to be true with cereal prizes. Sure there were many that required you to save up a few box tops and to send them into the Kellogg or Post cereal company in exchange for a cheap piece of crap, but many cereals used to actually have prizes inside of them when you bought them. I remember when I lived in Battle Creek (the Mecca of breakfast cereal production) there was a lady that went to our church whose job it was was to oversee the placement of small trinkets of toys in the packages of things like Frosted Flakes or Sugar Smacks. Inevitably some of the toys or and surprises would land on the floor and get broken and she would bring them to us children at the church as presents.
Now days the era of extra gifts has passed. No more can one save up box tops to send to Battle Creek to get a real Raccoon Skin Cap from Davy Crockett or a secret decoder ring from whatever radio or TV star of the day was pushing. The kids today are being screwed by ever thinning profit margins that make promotion products and gifts sort of a joke and that's really sad. I actually used to like saving my boxtops to get a balsa-wood glider or an assemble it yourself model of a car of the popular TV show (Batman) of the time.
So, is it just me or do Cracker Jack and cereal toys really suck these days?


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Question for the day:
Let's begin the day with a bit of conversation:
If Rowan Williams the Archbishop of Canterbury decides that the Anglican Communion should become a two-track enterprise, with those churches that assent fully to whatever it is he wants them to assent to being allowed full use of the pool and weight room, while those churches that are historically Anglican, but unwilling to offer the necessary assents, being confined to the smoking lounge and the men's grill,
and if, the Episcopal Church is so confined
a) what difference will it make in practice?
b) do you care?
c) will anyone outside the Communion care?
and d) Does it feel to you sometimes as though we are writing rules for membership in a tennis club in a city that is on fire?
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On a day to day basis it would probably mean very little. But it matters because by creating this system the ABC would be acting like a pope and making unilateral rules after the game had already started. That may be his right but it is not the way TEC makes decisions. That's the sort of thing that has started many a revolution but maybe the revolution has already begun.
Another question is whether we would have to share the smoking lounge with the Southern Cone, Nigeria, and Uganda or is it reserved only for liberals?
1. None.
2. I used to. But the AC has become like an abusive spouse, and our relationship like a dysfunctional marriage. We (TEC) keep getting abused and then we plead for more. We are begging for love from someone who is incapable of giving it. I'm done with that.
3. The only people outside the Communion who will care are the vultures like Rick Warren, who appears to be drawn to "Baptists in drag" and the RCC, which will likely pick up some new converts (and will probably come to regret it, since the schismatics are not too big on central authority when they aren't running the show...).
4. Absolutely. Jesus weeps.
Paige Baker
Thanks, Jim, for this.
I was at a community meeting in Burlington, VT on Monday and chatted briefly with the dean of our cathedral about the Anglican covenant. I mentioned to him that I was against it and his reply was that it was so "unAnglican" to form a sort of Anglican curia. It doesn't matter that much to me in the final analysis, I told him. I'll just continue to love the Lord with all my heart, soul, and mind and continue to live the Baptismal covenant locally. That's where it's at for me: working for social justice in Burlington, VT.
Remember "The Power of Their Glory: America's Ruling Class-The Episcopalians"? It was a terrible one dimensional book, published 30 years ago (!). In it Episcopalians were called "Episcocrats," and the book's focus was on the influence our denomination had on American politics and history (Republican party at prayer, and all that). I don't think it's the case anymore, thankfully. But with all this covenant talk coming out of Lambeth Palace, we sure have "Anglicrats" trying to pull their weight in the Communion!
Oops, sorry... the above post was by me, Jay Vos. Apologies (I always forget to give my full name.)
Well if confined to the "men's grill" I am out of both groups. The whole thing is symptomatic of people trying to protect their turf in a changing time - the world does not care nor do I. Women are connecting without help from on high (see cuts to budgets in TEC and lack of access to power elsewhere) - doing ministry with each other and for the world. We know how to organize for action while ABC and the 7 fly around the world doing nothing.
"Does it feel to you sometimes as though we are writing rules for membership in a tennis club in a city that is on fire?"
Couldn't have put it better if I tried.
1. No, it won't make much difference at the local level. A few parishioners will, for a while, feel some loss of prestige perhaps; but the sense of prestige was projection in the first place.
2. I care to the extent that it makes it harder for us to provide resources to those in need abroad. I imagine different opportunities will present themselves.
3. Well, perhaps Rome cares, which in itself argues against more centralization. Most outside the Communion will, I think, see this as some corporate restructuring with new labels on the doors, but little substantive change.
4. I'd say it's more like arguing over membership in a hunting lodge as the rest of the world becomes engrossed in (and perhaps enslaved by) "American Idol." The world around us isn't coming to an end; but we risk seriously losing touch with it.
Marshall Scott
(a) Very little.
(b) Sort of. I like koinonia -- and the more people involved, the better. The ABC himself has written this a number of times. On the other hand, I'm really uncomfortable with the ABC's high and rather sacerdotal theology. We got rid of the Pope 500 years ago, and good riddance. I think the ABC should be held at a bit of an arm's length, at least, until he (or his successor) gets over this spate of popery.
(c) Not sure about "anyone." In the US? Not really. We'd get a few converts, but that's all. It might have an effect on the ability of the AC to have a prophetic voice in other countries, though.
(d) Of course. The world needs Jesus. We're too busy fighting over ecclesiology. It's plainly stupid.
However, I question your premise: Although I'm against the Covenant on principle, I don't think as a practical matter we should have any difficulty signing on with its current language. It's so noodly as to be meaningless. And I'm not sure how we could be excluded if GenCon decided we wanted to be part of it, without the AC looking awfully babyish.
a)In practice, it will make little difference on the ground. If you work in a parish with a large immigrant contingency like mine, it might make a great difference. In other parishes, few people will notice. On an international / ecumenical level, it will matter who represents the Anglican Communion.
b)I very much care. Why should we set a precedent to make major structural changes over a short-sighted single issue that undoubtedly won't matter in 50 years. It also tears at the fabric of communion, and the very body of Christ, which we Christians seem to do without batting an eye.
c) Maybe. Our ecumenical partners will possibly care. The more evangelical side of Christianity might hold it up as some kind of divine righteousness, and the progressive side will say it's why religion is problematic. If s/he even notices, the average Jane and Joe on the street will just see this as more fighting in another Christian denomination that they may or may not care about.
d)That's a very good analogy, and one that seems to apply on many levels to all denominations.
My two-cents worth:
a) This matters, as it is a "deal breaker." I'm not the only Episcopalian who is fed up. Paige Baker's analogy to a disfunctional marriage is spot-on. At some point we, corporately, are going to say "We are not going to play this game any more. Do what you will, but count us out."
b) Not as much as I used to care. I care about mission, and arguing about member rights to the tennis club weight room advances mission exactly zero.
c) No. Nobody outside the "communion" will care. The RC's won't care since the womens ordination bridge was crossed a long time ago. The Baptists and Missouri Synod Lutherans won't care because they've made their judgments already.
d) I think it's time to declare a moritorium on placating the Right.
(Editor's note: Thanks, Lou. We need your name next time.)
I was going to write a brilliant and witty response to your question, Jim, but then I looked at the previous eight comments and realized that they had all said it better than I could!
"Does it feel to you sometimes as though we are writing rules for membership in a tennis club in a city that is on fire?"
Interesting question -- particularly as I'm looking out my window at the Station Fire still raging in the mountains above Pasadena.
1 -- Almost none.
2 -- Less and less every day.
3 -- Nobody whose opinion I find influential.
4 -- Bingo.
It does seem to me that articulating a "two track" reality is different that imposing a "two tier" system. If we use the railroad track as our model, it takes two rails running parallel to move the train forward ... along with numerous "ties that bind" along the way.
Isn't +Rowan really saying that there's room under the Anglican tent for different ways of living out the gospel in our different contexts and isn't that what we've been arguing for all along? It seems to me that if we're convinced the arc of history is long but it bends toward justice then moving forward along whatEVER "track" we're on is moving foward into God's future.
Susan Russell -- speaking for herself, personally
a) Perhaps a great deal. I am in a conservative diocese, and we are in the process of electing a new bishop. It depends on the loyalty of our new bishop to TEC.
b) I care, because more division in the Body of Christ does not seem a good thing.
c) Probably not.
d) Yes!
June Butler
I think the questions have been answered well. But let me point out that there is no pool, nor weight room, and Rowan meant what he said when he referred to this as "two styles" of being Anglican. Both will be Anglican -- one in the traditional way with the emphasis on provincial autonomy and ad hoc cooperation; the other in the new-fangled quasi-world-church, called that in spite of doing precious little about the state of the world other than mooning after the church of Rome.
Does that sound cynical. Perhaps; it's been a long day.
A) I agree it will make very little difference here at home. On the other hand, this is an invitation to TEC to be the scapegoat if I ever saw one. One day acceptance of that role will matter, very much.
B) I care, but not because there's anything lovable about the AC these days! I care because I think we are capable of doing better; also because we're totally capable of something worse... I agree we're in an abusive relationship, and we should remove ourselves from it by refusing the bait; the Anglican Covenant.
C) I suspect that outside the AC, as is true inside the AC, only those with a power agenda and an interest in marginalizing those in any way "different" will really care.
D) Correct. Our time is better spent in ministry. As someone else noted, opportunities will present themselves.
I'm not sure it it's even worth the time to discuss and stand against the proposed covenant. I AM sure I would never sign the thing, nor be pleased if our deputies & Bishop signed it. I don't think I could be part of any conglomeration that had the Covenant as its bylaws. One can only pray for that Forlorn Hope, better leadership.
Cheryl Mack
a. As a missionary of TEC serving in IARCA (Anglican Church in the Region of Central America), it may make some difference in practice, although the province in which I serve is part of Global Center and not the Global South or Global North. I guess it would all depend on IARCA's reaction.
b. I've self-identified as a member of global Anglicanism, so I do care, to a point. For me, it is more important to be working to bring about the Reign of God rather than worrying about a two-track enterprise, but I do worry about how it would affect those of us serving as mission-partners throughout the Communion.
c. I'm not particularly worried about whether people outside of the Communion care. Do I really want to do ecumenical work with Churches who believe in excluding my GLBT sisters and brothers? No, not at all.
d. Yes. And it makes me sad.
The Deputies of the Diocese of Wyoming sent their comments on the Covenant to President of the House of Deputies as per her request. Send to Dr. Bonnie Anderson
A.) Initially, perhaps none. In the coming years, it will make a great deal of difference because we will lose the moorings of our identity and lose our significance and our influence for the sake of those who have little voice both in the U.S. and throughout the world. The reality is that as we have declined in membership and as our focus has become so myopic and insular, we have lost any real influence within our own culture and in those parts of the Communion where our grating yet important voice/influence is most needed. If we become "just another denomination in the U.S.," then the loss of influence and significance will only increase.
B.) Absolutely, I care. I certainly don't agree with the schismatics and those who refuse to reconsider the Church's traditional interpretation of Scripture with regard to same-sex relationships, but I also don't agree with those who are so attached to current socio-political agendas that they, too, would rather break away from the larger body to suit their own agendas.
We are losing a very significant aspect of Anglicanism - as iron sharpens iron, so balance in faith and perspective is maintained. If the more "conservative" groups are no longer part of TEC, then TEC becomes lopsided and unbalanced in belief and practice. If the more "liberal" TEC is not part of the Communion, then the Communion becomes lopsided and unbalanced. Both lose an essential aspect of being world-Anglicans. Do we really want to "think and act" globally, or only if the rest of the globe thinks and does just want we think they should think or do?
C.) Probably not. Any one who deals with younger people knows that we have already so maimed our witness that few pay any attention to us, already. If the world (particularly non-Christian) looks at us and finds that we are acting no differently than the socio-political culture of our time, why should they consider this Church to have anything of significance to add. If they don't see the imago Dei, but American cultural hubris and antagonism, why should they bother giving us a listen or consideration? They already don't care, primarily because we – both liberals and conservatives – are acting just like the world.
D.) Yes, and it is occurring among both liberals and conservatives! This is the thing: too many of those who are claiming to be liberal are acting just like too many of those who are claiming to be conservative. One group just happens to be against TEC and what it seems to be standing for at the moment, while the other group happens to be against the Communion and what it seems to be standing for at the moment. Both groups are schismatics – one to a local Church and one to the global Communion. Neither group can get around the other or eject or separate ourselves from the other without losing something vital in being "Anglican."
Good comments, one and all.
1) It makes no difference to me or my parish or really my Diocese, in daily practice whether we are 1st or 2nd track. This is for the entertainment of the fissiparous among us.
2) I think it is important we BID for the second tier as a witness against the growing desire to exclude glbt folks altogether from ordained or lay leadership positions (this is the African practice with respect to polygamy). We need to be clear that the sort of exclusion now favored by the ++ABC and +Durham is totally unacceptable to us, so if that means second tier so be it.
Please remember that in much of the Communion women clergy are still not welcome and we have been in impaired communion with parts of the WWAC for decades.
3) Outside the communion I think it will make TEC more inviting to be distinct from the homomisanthropes.
4) They are not making rules for a tennis club they are making rules for a Klan.


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Harrington's 64 steals show from Rory-Tiger at Barclays
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. – Headliners Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy turned in solid performances Thursday in the opening act of the FedExCup Playoffs, the PGA Tour's postseason showcase.
On the Black Course's massive stage at Bethpage State Park in the first round of The Barclays, Woods, the points leader entering the first of four tournaments in the playoffs, and McIlroy, the world's top-ranked player, shot 68 and 69, respectively, on the par-71, 7,468-yard layout. Zach Johnson, who joked that his boring style of golf would be overlooked while grouped with Woods and McIlroy, shot 68.
RESULTS: The Barclays leaderboard
BLOG: Rory talks smack, in jest, at Tiger
Padraig Harrington is the pace-setter following a 64.
In ideal scoring conditions — no wind, course on the soft side, overcast skies — Woods struggled early with his tee shots, often finding the rough instead of the fairway. But he scrambled well for pars and lipped out on two birdie putts early in his round.
Woods didn't bag his first birdie until his fifth hole — the par-3 14th — when his approach nestled 10 feet from the hole and he made a slick putt. He added his second birdie on the second hole with a putt from 21 feet. He got to 3 under with a nifty up-and-down from 80 feet on the par-5 fourth.
But a poor drive on the fifth led to a bogey. He recouped that with another birdie on the par-5 seventh from eight feet.
McIlroy was flag hunting from the get-go — which cost him on one hole. After a solid opening two-putt on the 10th hole, McIlroy's approach came to rest two feet from the cup on 11 for a kick-in birdie. On 12, however, after a fairway-splitting drive, McIlroy's approach from 159 yards took one bounce and hit the flag stick. But the ball went backward and wound up 11 feet from the hole, from where he just missed.
On 13, he pulled his wedge approach slightly but banged in a putt from 15 feet for his second birdie of the day. At 15, he got his third with a downhill putt from 10 feet. After a bogey on 16 when he found a bunker with his second shot, he came right back with a birdie on the tough par-3 17th from 6 feet.
He gave another shot back when he found a bunker on the par-3 third hole.
He added another bogey, dropping him to 1 under, when he missed the sixth green with his approach. But he regained the lost stroke with a birdie at the par-5 seventh.
Others seized the early spotlight, especially Harrington, who is trying to impress European Ryder Cup captain Jose Maria Olazabal enough to be one of two captain's picks made on Monday. Harrington got Olazabal's attention with a course-record-tying 7-under-par 64 to grab a one-shot lead over Nick Watney among the morning wave of players in the field.
"I don't want to go in there and try too desperately to beg for a pick, or I don't want to go in there and give excuses for anything. I'll just leave it be what it is. I'm just going to play golf," Harrington said about the Ryder Cup He closed his round with six birdies in his last eight holes.
"It's on my mind, no doubt about it."
Others turning in good scores were Sergio Garcia (66), Dustin Johnson (67), Phil Mickelson (68), Luke Donald (68), Lee Westwood (69), and Steve Stricker (69).
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At a press conference earlier Monday evening, Simon Cowell, joined by fellow judges Demi Levato, Britney Spears, and departing LA Reid, announced who the contestants would duet with on Wednesday night's performance finale. The X Factor is seemingly going country heavy for the finale, as well as including the only neutral judge – Levato. With…Details


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Mr List, post: 5113852 wrote:"fragility",
isnt a word, it sounds like an americanism.
Iam, why don't u update all the video in the spoiler form for each character? Just like what we did for Gouken... Easy to find later
Deadds, post: 5113853 wrote:americanism? lol no... it's a word.
Mr List, post: 5113856 wrote:lol, sounds like a move from mortal kombat and i'd really like proof it is an old english word.
NBKKbravery, post: 5113858 wrote:Online Etymology Dictionary
circa 1510
darkblade-0, post: 5113849 wrote:
hfz69, post: 5113863 wrote:im uploadin some vids at the moment..... though nothing of super high quality play, plus i dont really dare use Oni yet against strong opponents(players at the same or higher level than my main, abel)...
btw, is it me or sometimes when i intend to do the dp+k move, ill get the slash move instead... hate it when that happens... sometimes even when im being careful to do the dp motion...
hfz69, post: 5113863 wrote:btw, is it me or sometimes when i intend to do the dp+k move, ill get the slash move instead... hate it when that happens... sometimes even when im being careful to do the dp motion...
DaFeetLee, post: 5113864 wrote:I get the opposite. When I go for c.lk c.lp f.lp+s.mp slash, I get dp+k instead because I'm holding forward. Stupid easy SFIV inputs.
hfz69, post: 5113867 wrote:
just two casual matches between me vs ibuki... i choked a lot especially after a fa crumple or dizzied opp, guess i couldnt decide what combo to do, overthinking stuff like what combo ender should i do so i can keep on pressuring etc...
edit: hotdamn lol the hate comments be coming like i promised some good shit or something, btw ill just paste here what i wrote in respond to someone who commented that he was disappointed and unsubscribed to my channel
"its okay, i dont give a damn really. this channel was not made primarily to cater for other people, its for me uploadin my matches to study/discuss/improve... its part of a learning process. I do upload matches of top players from time to time though its not my obligation to do so and i dont owe or promise anyone anything. its all done out of my passion for fighting games. oh the oni in the vids was only 1 day old, you dont get good immediately, so try to understand? that too."
so yeah, hope that clears some things up for some of you people. lol
edit2: damn i was just told that iplaywinner featured my vids on their site.... wtf.... no wonder i got people watchin and commenting on those vids of my "scrubby, first day" oni.... sorry to disappoint those people, but yeah thats how it is.
otori, post: 5113880 wrote:
West, post: 5113884 wrote:tateyama is beasting with oni. he was my fav dhalsim. now he just beat momochis cody
0ShinAkuma0, post: 5113885 wrote:West, are you gonna main Oni?
West, post: 5113884 wrote:tateyama is beasting with oni. he was my fav dhalsim. now he just beat momochis cody
Titles, yes.DarkSephiroth, post: 5113894 wrote:Sorry for being noob but are those plates over their health bars titles?
I ain't seeing it, what do you mean?DarkSephiroth, post: 5113894 wrote:And what are those yellow and red plates that some players have under their name and BP?
Doopliss, post: 5113895 wrote:I ain't seeing it, what do you mean?
DarkSephiroth, post: 5113896 wrote:Sorry didn't remember that the video in my link didn't have those fighters but in video deadds posted NSB24 SSF4AE F & H Block, nsb nsb_sf4 on USTREAM. Video Game Marathon around 2 hours there is Yun player with those red and yellow plates.


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Introduction to Probability with R
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Kenneth Baclawski, "Introduction to Probability with R "
2008 | ISBN-10: 1420065211 | 384 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Based on a popular course taught by the late Gian-Carlo Rota of MIT, with many new topics covered as well, presents R programs and animations to provide an intuitive yet rigorous understanding of how to model natural phenomena from a probabilistic point of view. Although the R programs are small in length, they are just as sophisticated and powerful as longer programs in other languages. This brevity makes it easy for students to become proficient in R.
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Many other Rumble Bee owners echo those feelings in two of the forum's most vocal threads titled "Bad News Guys….Production #s" and "Class action letter to DODGE".
As with most Internet forums, there are postings that involve immature name calling, emotional outcries and lengthy off-topic rants. But a good deal of the frustration over the Rumble Bee production numbers has been clearly focused on presenting evidence to support the owners' claims. One owner posted a copy of the newspaper ad from his dealer where he purchased his truck. In addition to offering over $6,000 in discounts, the ad also lured shoppers with a sunburst graphic announcing that the truck was "#1019 of only 3700 built." Other postings often referred to dealers using the 3700 limit during their sales pitches. One member, who goes by jak112460 when posting, says he saw the 3700 number on the Dodge Web site and called Dodge customer service twice; each time he claims he was told 3700 would be the limit. In one of his postings, jak112460 said: "We all bought the idea of the truck being a limited edition of 3700. Most dealers used the 'limited edition' as a selling tool. Many used the actual 3700 number. That dash plaque wasn't put there for nothing. It is there to instill value and create urgency to buy one before they are all sold."
One of the few pieces of evidence posted on the site that attempts to give Dodge's point of view is an email from the Dodge Information Center to a Rumble Bee owner named Paul, who goes by the nickname vizaracer when posting. The email from Dodge, as posted on RumbleBee.org, said: "Thank you for your email regarding the production numbers of the 2004 Dodge Rumble Bee. At the time of production DaimlerChrysler planned on producing 3700 units. However, DaimlerChrysler reserves the right to produce additional vehicles as related to market demand." The email closed with comments appreciating Paul's query and was signed by C. Sean Hogg, Senior Staff Representative, Dodge Information Center.
Such a disclaimer was never mentioned by Joe Eberhart in an interview with PUTC at the Los Angeles Auto Show in January 2005. PUTC editor Mike Magda was gathering notes on the Dodge Daytona pickup, another special edition Ram designed with cues from a popular '60s muscle car. The Ram Daytona was on display in the Dodge booth but no information was made available to the media during press days. So Magda requested an interview with Eberhart, who is the Executive Vice President of Marketing, Sales and Service, during a Dodge media party. Magda asked a few general questions about the Daytona, and then brought up the question of a limited edition vehicle. Following is a transcript of the remainder of interview:
Mike Magda (MM): Is this (Ram Daytona) going to be a limited edition like the Rumble Bee?
Joe Eberhart (JE): I'm not sure. I need to get the details. I think they're actually limited and each truck comes with a number.
MM: Now, getting back to the Rumble Bee a little bit. I saw a lot of comments on the bulletin boards about how you guys went over 3700. Is that true?
JE: No we didn't.
MM: You did not go over?
JE: We built exactly what we said we were going to build.
MM: There were also comments that you built 3700 out o '04 models and you started over again with '05.
JE: We didn't.
MM: You did not do that?
JE: No, we didn't.
MM: Okay, so I can put to rest all those rumors?
JE: Yes, yes.
MM: You built 3700 and that was it?
JE: We did. We did. Because otherwise you really lose the (inaudible), the draw that you get with these vehicles. The customers buy them to get something special. And if you say you're going to build a 1000 and then build 10,000. I mean it's just a (inaudible).
PUTC did not find evidence that Rumble Bee owners paid a dealer premium over MSRP. But one RumbleBee.org moderator said the Indiana dealers he visited said they would not offer incentives because of the limited production. Mike Smith also says the limited edition number was attractive for resale reasons and doubts he would have purchased his Rumble Bee (#2056) had he known production would have exceeded 3700. Also an owner of a Ram Quad Cab 4x4, Smith says he went through a similar situation when he owned a 1999 Dodge Dakota R/T. In that scandal, Dodge advertised a 6000-pound towing capacity for the special edition R/T. But the lowered suspension could really only handle 2000 pounds. A class-action lawsuit was leveled at Dodge, forcing the company to either buy back the vehicles or offer other perks such as an extended warranty.
Loyal Mopar owners such as Lancaster and Smith—both have multi-Dodge driveways—are understandably upset over the matter. Legal action is unlikely since it will be difficult to prove loss of real value—given the depressed used-vehicle prices in today's incentive-driven market. Also, DaimlerChrysler high-powered legal team can probably dissect the fine print into the company's favor. It's more a question of trust and honesty with the customer. These buyers thought they were purchasing a special vehicle from a brand they enjoy a close and unique bond. It's no different than AMG owners and Mercedes-Benz vehicles, and DaimlerChrysler should treat both equally.
All the promotional literature from Dodge stressed the term "limited edition." By any stretch of the definition, "limited edition" includes a restricted number. Conventional wisdom says that number is usually determined before a product is produced, or at least before it's offered for sale. The owners say it's not customer-friendly to call a product "limited" and allow it to be sold for as long as the dealers keep ordering them. The 3700-limit number that is critical in this case didn't originate with the owners, dealers or the press. All indications point to Dodge. The owners are hoping Dodge will assume the responsibility of clearing the air with them. They say the first step is to offer a clear definition of "limited edition" so customers won't be confused in the future. The next step is to release the production numbers for the Rumble Bee and break them down for the owners. The owners say this step will allow them to better judge their position in the Rumble Bee marketplace and assess the resale value of their vehicles, which they deem to be collectible. They want Dodge to release a matrix that shows the split between yellow and black, between 4x2 and 4x4 and distinguish between trucks sold in the US and Canada. Early buyers would also like to see those splits within the first 3700 vehicles. Basically, Rumble Bee owners say they want to feel special again.