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Mike Rose is on the faculty of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and author of a number of books, including "The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker." His latest book is "Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education"...
The Questions Education Reformers Aren't Asking
Education is moving to domestic policy center stage. The first round of competition for federal "Race to the Top" funds is over, and that competition generated a flurry of school reform activity across the nation. Fifteen states and the District of Columbia were selected and are now preparing for a winnowing round two.
In addition, the Department of Education just released its proposal to revamp the important Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which is up for reauthorization. (Its last incarnation brought us No Child Left Behind.) This proposal is already fueling local and national debate about the particulars of school reform: how to assess teacher quality, for example, or the promulgation of charter schools, or how to remedy failing schools.
So far, our discussions and debates about education have been focused on these particulars, frequently sparking more heat than light. But there seems to be little alternative thinking in the approach to school reform itself. And both elite and mainstream media have pretty much fallen in line with the reigning policy talk about the problems with our schools and how to fix them. As well, no one in power is asking the more fundamental questions like: What is the purpose of education in a democracy, and are our reforms enhancing—or possibly restricting—that purpose?
I wrote the following essays over the last year to address some of these broader questions.
Part One: Education 'Miracles' Don't Survive Scrutiny
Despite a childhood of incantations and incense, of holy cards and stories of crutches being tossed, I don't believe in miracles. So it is with less than wonderment that I watch as a language of miracles—along with a search for academic cure-alls and magic bullets—infuses our educational discourse and policy.
We started off the new century with the Texas Miracle, the phenomenal closing of the achievement gap and reduction of dropout rates through a program of high-stakes standardized tests. (The Texas Miracle would then spawn the federal No Child Left Behind Act.) Politicians and media-savvy administrators have also found the miraculous; the governor of my state, Arnold Schwarzenegger, referred to an Oakland charter school as an "education miracle." And the pundits have appropriated the lingo. A recent New York Times column by David Brooks on the charter school of the Harlem Children's Zone was titled "The Harlem Miracle." And so it goes.
Upon closer examination, some of these miracles turn out to be suspect, the result of questionable assessments and manipulated numbers. The Texas Miracle didn't hold up under scrutiny. And some, like the Harlem Children's Zone—which is a commendable place—gain their excellence through hard work along multiple dimensions, from teaching and mentoring to utilizing outside resources and fundraising. There's nothing miraculous about their successes.
Along with talk of miracles, we have the belief in educational wonder drugs and magic bullets—single-shot solutions to complicated problems: high-stakes testing, standards, charter schools, small schools, alternative teacher recruitment, slash-and-burn CEO management and so on. Each of these solutions has potential merit. Standards can bring coherence to a curriculum; small schools can result in increased student contact; alternative recruitment and credentialing bring new blood into the teaching force; some districts need the serious administrative shake-up that managerial housecleaning can provide. All good. But for these efforts to work, to increase the quality of education, other factors have to be present as well.
The structural change that leads to the small school needs to be accompanied by a robust philosophy of education, a set of beliefs about ability, learning, knowledge and the purpose of education. As well, you'll need a decent teaching force with opportunity built in for ongoing development. And what about curriculum? Or a set of ideas on how to connect school with community? The structural move of creating the small school may be central in all this—truly important—but, at its best, it will be a necessary but not sufficient condition for educational renewal. As small-schools pioneer Deborah Meier once said, you can have crappy small schools, too.
Research on charter schools—most recently a comprehensive study from Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes—demonstrates the kind of variability you would expect if you didn't believe in miracle cures: Some charters are terrific, some are average, and some are awful. The same set of issues I raise for small schools applies here: What you do within the new school structure matters immensely.
The kick-ass-and-take-names managerial cleanup that we've seen in places like Washington, D.C., and New Orleans has indeed disrupted the status quo, and I'll leave it to those who know those districts well to judge the legitimacy of the shakeup. But what interests me is what happens once the new broom sweeps clean. Then the same weighty questions emerge, questions involving curriculum, teacher quality and development, remediation, school-community connections and the like. To address these crucial issues, the school manager will need knowledge of human development, of teaching and learning, of the wisdom of the classroom. Because few of the new CEO types possess such knowledge, you have the rush to the magic bullet.
Let me consider one more magic bullet, since recently it has been making its way through opinion pages and commentaries: alternative teacher recruitment, most notably Teach for America. (See, for example, Thomas Friedman's April 21 New York Times column or the "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer" for July 7.)
I admire Teach for America and the public service spirit that drives its recruits. In the early '90s, I met with founder Wendy Kopp and participated in TFA summer training in Los Angeles, and I've taught students who have gone into the program or came out of it. Furthermore, my own introduction to education came via an earlier alternative program, Teacher Corps. So my concern is not with Teach for America itself but with the way it has been defined as yet another wonder drug, the ingredients of which are the idealistic energy of youth and an elite education. Sadly, Teach for America has become a weapon in the education wars, rather than a laudable vehicle through which young people can contribute to the education of a nation.
I'm all for idealistic, hardworking enthusiasm, and I welcome into the nation's classrooms these graduates of fine schools. But most of them teach for two years (and possibly a third) and then move on to the careers they went to college to pursue.
I'm troubled by two more issues related to the magic-bullet discourse here. First, many who champion TFA seem to affirm an idiosyncratic model of professional development: that these young people's elite undergraduate educations and their energy trump extended training and experience. There is no other kind of work, from styling hair to surgery to the pro football defensive backfield, where experience is so discounted. No TFA booster, I'd wager, would choose a med student fresh out of a cardiology rotation over a cardiologist who had been in practice for 15 years.
I also want to consider the assumptions about knowledge and teaching here—or more precisely the use of the status of one's undergraduate institution as a proxy for being able to teach what one knows. Knowing history or chemistry or literature is essential to teach these subjects, but—again this is common sense—knowing something does not mean you are able to teach it, as countless undergraduates who have sat through bad lectures can verify.
Let's consider this elite-school proxy for pedagogical expertise from one more perspective. I went through two books that profile first-rate teaching: my "Possible Lives" and Karin Chenoweth's new "How It's Being Done." I also looked at the Council of Chief State School Officers' National Teacher of the Year program. Only a handful of these top-flight teachers got their bachelor's degrees from institutions typically defined as elite. A number hail from state universities. And a considerable number come from small local colleges with teacher education programs. Expertise in teaching is more than a function of one's undergraduate pedigree.
What miracle talk and magic-bullet solutions share is the reduction of complexity, of the many levels of hard, creative work necessary to make schooling successful in the United States.
More so than many other domains of public policy, education is bedeviled by a binary polemics, a tendency to define an issue in either/or terms and then wage a pitched battle over the (exaggerated) differences. So we have the math wars, the whole-language versus phonics explosion, the knowledge versus process clash, and so on. These are fierce battles in which each side reduces the other's argument—often to the point of caricature—and then assails it.
The miracle/magic-bullet discourse plays right into this state of affairs, and both emerges from and contributes to it. Part of believing in this single-shot causality requires a simplification of difficult issues and a dismissal of other possible variables and remedies. If you have the single truth, then everything else is a target.
There's one more concern, and that has to do with failure. What happens when the miracle fades, when the magic bullet doesn't cure the disease? For some who are ideologically inclined, there is despair, a throwing up of the hands and retreat to the dismissal of public education that we've witnessed over the past two or three decades.
I propose that we leave the holy cards at the schoolhouse door, that we admit that educational excellence is achieved through dedicated effort along multiple dimensions—structural, curricular and pedagogical—and that we call a moratorium on the demonizing either/or polemics that create more heat than light. Unfortunately, that moratorium would probably require a miracle—but it's one I'm ready to pray for.
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By hogorina, February 25, 2011 at 12:47 pm Link to this comment
If one will look around, there will be hundreds of
Further, when searching out modern Christology, the
Its been a long waiting period for the great Parousia
By James, January 23, 2011 at 1:29 am Link to this comment
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. So goes the same thing with students. If students don't want to learn what schools have to offer then what are you going to do? With the economy the way it is today, most students are saying what is the use. if I can't get a decent job after I graduate, why should I learn what society thinks I need to be successful? This especially true for college students who are getting saddled with huge loans and debts, and no job to earn money to pay them back.
By Kathy Summers, January 21, 2011 at 7:58 pm Link to this comment
Really want to make education better? Six of our children are better. Divide kids by
By Dennis Szilak, January 21, 2011 at 1:03 pm Link to this comment
Control out of Control.
The emphasis and weight given to "assessment" at basic levels of instruction are an obstacle to instruction. Forms of quality control or assessment rubrics necessarily damage instruction by taking time away from class preparation and the production of instructional resources. Some forms of control do incidental damage, many of them do much more. Multiplication of controls are, to put it politely, organizational auto-stimulation, which exists only to serve controllers.
By Robert Rjinsueguer, January 20, 2011 at 11:11 pm Link to this comment
The Roots of Student Learning Deficits in America
While capitalism has indeed raised the standard of living over the last half century, especially after WW II ; America's workforce, out of which came the nuclear family and the social contract, has experienced a flood tide of erosion of those values by the Capitalist class segment of our society who hold 40% of the entire worlds wealth.
All of which invites into our families greater fracturing and a dysfunction of family bonds, ripe for violence clashes between friends, spouses and siblings, and between significant others, which ultimately leads to broken families, broken value systems, and a broken human family within this nation.
Leaving our children blighted and damaged.
So when I saw that the teachers of America were going to become the most convenient scapegoat for the failings of our national character to address this problem, it was clear that the ruling class of America was certainly not going to allow for the truth to ever see the light of day as we have this public discussion on reforming the nations educational system to raise student achievement.
Clearly the Capitalist class will do everything possible to protect their status quo of reaping the benefits of surplus labor from working families across America and thereby exacerbate further gaps in income inequality, as the rest of American families suffer to survive in a cascading Capitalist system that is crushing families across this nation.
There has not been any leadership towards addressing this truth as President Obama and the leadership of the political class in this country is AWOL as they take their marching orders from the Capitalist Class to enact regulations and adopt policy strategies designed to do everything short of examining the truth in order to improve student achievement.
Does anyone else recognize the truth for what it is?
By expat in germany, January 3, 2011 at 7:28 am Link to this comment
Bonobo, I agree with a lot of what you say, but your idea will be unpopular because it is politically incorrect to suggest that young people have different learning aptitudes. Our son has struggled through school because of his high IQ, but he gets no support because it is anathema to call him "gifted" or "highly intelligent." If he were among the slowest, however, or otherwise handicapped, there are "special education" programs for that. As a society, we don't value the brightest; we value the "Forrest Gumps."
By Mitch C, January 2, 2011 at 4:01 am Link to this comment
I've been teaching for 15 years (the last ten at the college level) and the two major issues I saw in the public schools are in-class discipline and curriculum, and they have more to do with each other than you might imagine.
When students are given bs curriculum, they know it and act out. If teachers aren't in control of their curriculum (or at least buying into it), they can't control their classroom.
These two issues (discipline and curriculum) are both ADMINISTRATIVE issues. This is where the finger must be pointed - at the administrators and school boards.
One of the few commentators I've seen on this is Laurie Rogers detailing the mess in the Spokane public schools.
By expat in germany, December 17, 2010 at 3:53 am Link to this comment
Hmmm, mental masturbation for a year or the real thing for 2 minutes? I'll take the latter.
By expat in germany, December 13, 2010 at 5:00 am Link to this comment
This article has been here for, what, one year?
By lexicron, December 3, 2010 at 5:33 am Link to this comment
All these years of education reform, and this country's schools have not yet figured out how to teach kids to read! I joined a Teacher Corps-type program thinking that my master's degree plus the intensive 6-week training I'd receive would teach me how to teach the fundamentals—reading, writing, and math—in elementary school. Not so! Instead, new teachers are "allowed" to figure it out themselves…which is supposedly what they prefer, according to a number of wrong-headed, lazy administrators. Same experience in at LA Unified school district. Fifth graders read at kindergarten levels, and new teachers do not receive texts unless they buy them themselves. Even if they do, though, there's no consensus, in the district or even school-wide—on which of a zillion self-interested methods to adopt. It's chaos. I left public schools believing, against my own history as a student, that we need to start from scratch—just have a national curriculum of basics, teach that to teachers, and cut the crap.
By savanna, November 26, 2010 at 9:58 am Link to this comment
"Words, words, words" (Shakespeare, of course)
By Salome, November 20, 2010 at 7:10 pm Link to this comment
Apparently, President Obama wants to be known in history as the President who broke the teachers' union, the way Reagan broke the Air Traffic Controllers.
By Daniel Geery, November 20, 2010 at 5:53 pm Link to this comment
Clearly one could write a book about this topic, and
Society in general. I know that's a broad stroke
Secondly, on a more personal note—but also one that
By cokids, November 15, 2010 at 9:22 am Link to this comment
Interestingly, Mr. Rose has come to the conclusions I have had for years, but seldom read!! Yes, pay a living wage, give people the ability to get medical care, feed their families and BE parents (have time to spend with children rather than working multiple jobs to survive), and you'll have kids ready to learn and the schools you say you want!
But it will cost money and it will strain your beliefs about people and our 'system.' Yes, medical care DOES make a difference! Yes, a living wage DOES make a difference. Yes, social services DO make a difference. Yes, family values ARE pegged to time and work. Yes, EDUCATION is improvable, but not if you aren't willing to look at other factors as well….ones that will challenge your way of doing business!
By finn, October 16, 2010 at 11:23 am Link to this comment
I am from finland an in our country education is prettygood we dont have any private schools so that makes the goverment and administration to make sure education stays as a priority because their kids will have to go to the same schools as the rest. and as far as the administration of schools they make reasonable salaries and the students elect a group of students in highschools who hasa say in administrative matter. Teachers still here in pre and middle dont enjoy reasonable salaries and deserve much more but they all are univercity educated teachers who are respected for their knowledge in early education.
By Obbop, August 24, 2010 at 8:52 pm Link to this comment
Entered then departed the K-12 educational field.
Entered believing and departed firmly convinced that most aspects of the USA's K-12 educational systems/bureaucracies are merely a venue to indoctrinate / brainwash the masses of commoners to obey their socio-economic betters.
Some schools are better / worse than others with the schools having a populace lower down the pyramid-shaped socio-economic hierarchy subjected to the most intensive brainwashing.
There are reasons why the higher classes, the ruling class, our masters seldom send their vile spawn to public schools and only a few select private schools.
Our future masters are not allowed to be brainwashed.
"There's class warfare, all right, Mr. (Warren) Buffett said, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."
By doublestandards/glasshouses, June 26, 2010 at 7:55 am Link to this comment
Given that obesity has become such a problem among young people today I would think that pe teachers would be an important part of any faculty. I still use things every day which I learned in pe classes. I can't say that about many other classes I took.
For me the main issue here is the deliberate dumbing down of American citizens which starts in our schools. Some decisions were made and continue to be made toward that end.
I recently saw the requirements for admission to most good universities at the turn of the 20th century. Today's high school grads would be hopelessly lost.


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By: R W Knight
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Square FootageTotal living area: 1418' Basement: 2318' Main Level:900' Upper Level:518' Basement:900' Footprint: 33' 0" W x 33' 0" D
RoomsBedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2.0 Master suite location: Main Floor
AttributesLevels: 2 Foundation:
- Abundant Windows
- Study
- Skylights
- Rustic Styling
- Exposed Posts & Beams
- Varied Ceiling Heights
This house was featured in Sarah Susanka's book, "Creating the Not So Big House", as well as in both House Beautiful and Down East magazines. It was designed to have a very small footprint, and to possibly be expanded if the family decided to use it for year–round living rather than as a vacation home. The curved walls in the living and dining areas provide wrap around views.
Unlike any other design we've ever seen, this unique home can face in any one of four directions! Because the two diagonal entry points work equally well as a "front" entry – the entry porch of the original home (which provides direct access to both the kitchen and the mudroom) could just as easily be the rear entry, and the deck entry (which provides direct access to the living spaces of the home as well as a guest bathroom) could just as easily be the front – and, the porch and deck can be accessed from two directions, all four sides of this house could be the front of the house.
If you enter the house from the covered entry porch, there's a mudroom on your left (which can also be accessed directly from the porch), and next to it a door to a set of stairs leading down to the (optional) unfinished basement. The mudroom holds a freezer and a washer & dryer tucked under the stairs. To your right there's a well–designed wrap around kitchen. A long peninsula separates the kitchen from the dining area. It has a range and plenty of counter space on the inner side; a raised countertop for casual dining on the outer; and a pass–through section next to the range. The sinks sit beneath a trio of windows for light and views, and there's a pantry for storage. As you'll see in the photos, the portion of the roof over the kitchen is mostly glass, providing an abundance of natural light and views.
In the dining space the ceiling is vaulted, the outer wall is curved and filled with large picture windows, and above them are the same glazed roof sections that fill the kitchen with light. The homeowners must feel like they're dining outdoors every time they sit down to eat a meal! Next to it is the living room. A center–of–the–house wood–burning stove with a stone–wrapped chimney helps warm the entire house, and it faces built–in seating beneath more large picture windows.
There's also a bedroom with a full bath on the main level. The bedroom has a trio of windows on each of two outer walls for light, views and cross–ventilation. With the exception of the dining room and part of the kitchen, the ceilings on this level are set at a comfortable 8'8".
At the top of the stairs to the upper level there's a small landing where you can turn in either direction. To the right there's a lovely study. At one end a door opens to an attic space, and at the other there's a nook for a cabinet or a desk. Next to it there's a hall that leads past a 12'–long closet to one of two doors that open to the bedroom on this level. The bedroom is wrapped by large windows on three walls, and rafters with windows run atop the center ones. Had you turned left at the landing, you would pass two doors leading to a private toilet room and a bathroom before arriving at the bedroom.
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Due to licensing agreements, this home may not be built in Hancock County, Maine.
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text: 000 FXUS63 KMKX 250734 AFDMKX Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Milwaukee/Sullivan WI 234 AM CDT Tue Jul 25 2017 .SHORT TERM... Today and Tonight...Forecast Confidence is Medium... The weak northwest upper flow increases and becomes more zonal tonight. Upper level divergence and 700 mb upward motion increases, especially late tonight. The upstream MCS will likely weaken and dissipate for the most part before reaching southern Wisconsin. However some light showers/sprinkles may make it down through the low level dry air late morning/early afternoon, mainly northwest areas. Expect some mid/high clouds from this. A shortwave will move from north of the Dakotas to just north of lake Superior. An associated 125 knot jet max will move across the U.S. canadian border, reaching lake Superior late tonight. The 850 mb winds increase late tonight, but become more west. There will be a slight chance of showers or a thunderstorm in the increasing 850 mb moisture convergence. The receding surface high will be centered over the Great Lakes today, with a developing south flow. However winds will be southeast off Lake Michigan with a lake breeze. Expect Wisconsin river valley fog early this morning, along with more patchy fog in the other river valleys. .LONG TERM... Wednesday and Wednesday Night...Forecast confidence is medium. A closed upper cyclone will progress across northern Ontario, as a shortwave trough rides the mean flow east-southeast from central Minnesota into northern and central Wisconsin. A cold front will slide southeast across Wisconsin during the period, with showers and thunderstorms most likely from Wednesday afternoon and Wednesday night. The primary forecast concerns for this period are the risk for both severe thunderstorms and heavy rainfall. As mentioned in previous forecast discussions, several parameters favor high precipitation efficiency Wednesday evening, including forward propagating corfidi vectors around 15 knots, deep warm cloud depths around 4.5 km, and precipitable water (PW) values around 1.75 to 2 inches. From a climatology perspective, these PW values are certainly high (90th to 95th percentile per NAEFS), but the return period for such values is not extreme (around 2 years for 1.75 inches). Regardless, there will be plenty of deep moisture around Wednesday evening. So let`s discuss the heavy rain threat first, taking a look at what we know, and what we don`t yet know. We know that showers and thunderstorms will occur ahead of the cold front from roughly late Wednesday afternoon into Wednesday night. The previously referenced moisture parameters suggest that these storms are capable of producing heavy rainfall. We also know that the steering flow remains progressive, which minimizes the potential for training cells (storms repeatedly affecting the same areas), and suggests that heavy rainfall may remain more localized and confined to the heavier storms. It appears that rain amounts averaging 1 to 3 inches are possible where these heavier storms track, with lesser amounts elsewhere. Now we arrive at the part of the forecast which lacks clarity: where these localized areas of heavy rainfall will set up. A perusal through the model data tonight reveals that the 25.00z deterministic GFS/NAM guidance have trended back towards a southerly solution after a waffle north seen on some of the previous model runs yesterday. This would dive a convective complex southeast from central Iowa into northern Illinois, keeping much of the heavy rain threat south of the state line. The 24.12z ECMWF/GGEM solutions remain farther to the north, bringing the heavier rainfall producing storms over southern Wisconsin. There appears to be a southward shift indicated by the arriving 25.00z ECMWF data, perhaps suggesting a consensus more towards the southern (less rainfall for our area) solution. Time will tell. The bottom line is that heavy rain remains possible in spots Wednesday night, but we`re not yet able to accurately pinpoint where those spots will be just yet. Keep up with the forecast. Severe thunderstorms also remain possible, with the most probable time from late afternoon into evening. The shear still appears sufficiently supportive with around 30 to 35 knots in the 0 to 6 km layer, and a veering wind profile. Instability appears modest with around 1000-2000 J/kg of mixed layer CAPE building by late afternoon. Shear in the lowest kilometer still appears weak, so damaging wind and large hail are the primary risks. There remains some question regarding how widespread the severe risk will be. There are now indications we could see an additional shower or storm Thursday afternoon as the shortwave trough/vort max drops through. Didn`t include any PoPs during this time just yet, but this may be necessary in the future if there is a stronger signal among the model guidance. Friday through Tuesday...Forecast confidence is medium. Surface high pressure will migrate from the Upper Midwest into the lower Great Lakes. This should bring quiet weather, with low probabilities for any showers or storms. Temperatures will be seasonal with lower humidity. && .AVIATION(06Z TAFS)... VFR conditions are expected overnight into Tuesday night across the area. High pressure will slowly move to the east of the area during this time. Light and variable winds are expected into early Tuesday morning. Light south winds are then expected Tuesday, becoming southeast near the lake in the late morning and afternoon. They will become south Tuesday night. Some high clouds may move through the area overnight into Tuesday. Scattered diurnal cumulus clouds should develop by later Tuesday morning and afternoon. Middle to high clouds should become more extensive Tuesday night. && .MARINE... The receding surface high will be centered over the Great Lakes today with a light southeast flow off Lake Michigan with a lake breeze. && .MKX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WI...None. LM...None. && $$ Today/Tonight and Aviation/Marine...Hentz Wednesday through Monday...SPM


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a comedy of errors. this story reminds me of some sort of modern-day/harry potter shakespeare rendition. it reminds me of one in particular, but i just can't remember the name.
i have a big smile on my face because of the neville/lavender situation.
wow. just wow. (in a good way)
aw. neville deserves someone. i hope that he and lavender get together by the end of the confusion.
haha. more characters to be added to the chaos in the coming chapters i presume?
I love this story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i give you a 365485483734537372262746235623656274656236414645646453464564566487654546845215458458458487584584875458787777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777 out of 10
Hilarious!!! I so laughed throughout the chapters!! No wonder I fell off my seat!!
This is really funny.
Boy, I write fantastic reviews don't I?
Oh well.
He he swings both ways, if you know what I mean, Draco stammered.
No, actually, I dont.
Oh for Merlins sake, THE BOYS A PANSY!
LOL... coudn't stop laughing for 5 minutes, haha... keep up writing!! XD
While I was reading this, I kept thinking "She must have been thinking of Much Ado About Nothing. I love Shakespearean mixing/matching couples, and you managed to pull it off quite well!
I love it!!! and yes it is funny. Not LOL rolling on the floor funny but chuckle, chuckle oh what a web we weave when we set out to deceive....by not being honest with the person they like they are going to make all sorts of matches in the "School family"
funniest part in this chapter:
By the window, two third year girls were whispering secretively. The sock the goblet the textbook
I think I have an idea, Ginny declared.
Really? Harry said eagerly.
Wait no, I forgot it.
Good job, Harry muttered.
ahahaha. You make me laugh. Well done, thanks for the entertaining story, I loved it. Write more. Please.
Harry writes Ginny note
Harry puts note in Nevilles book
Neville thinks its from lavender
Neville writes Lavender note
Neville puts note in Hermiones book
Hermione thinks its from Ron
Neville thinks lavender doesnt want to parvarti to know about it
Lavender sort of starts liking Neville
Lavender writes Neville a note
Lavender puts note on Rons bed
Ron gets note thinks its from Hermione
Harry finds out Neville got his note
Neville asks Lavender out
She says yes
Harry writes Ginny another note
Ron and Seamus floo the note
Ends up in Slytherin common room
Malfoy gets Harrys note
Harry yells the note was for Ginny, while Ginny is in the room
Ginny starts going out with Harry
The 2 new couples decide to do something about Hermione and Ron
Seamus tells Malfoy note is Harrys
Malfoy thinks harry likes him
The 2 new couples each write a love note to Hermione and Ron
Ron gets Hermiones
Hermione gets Rons
Hermione figures it out
They secretly get together but dont tell the others
Fight in front of others
3 New couples
Happily ever after
Malfoy gets another note and thinks its from Harry
Actually from Millicent
k i got it..
luv it too so funny
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YES!!!! That was great! I love the couples!
That was great! You can tell this is pulling Ron and Hermione together. They are falling into Ginny's trap, whether it's they way she planned of not. This is so good!
This is so good! I can't believe that they got the wrong notes. I can't wait to see what the plan is!
This is awesome! Finally the mystery of the love letters is finally starting to unravle! Yay! Not Harry and Ginny are going out! Tell your sister she had a good idea. I really liked the bit about everything going to the Slytherin common room.
That is BRILLIANT!!! It's HILARIOUS!!! I love that Neville and Lavender got together, it puts a good twist on things. Now on to the next chapter!
That is BRILLIANT!!! It's HILARIOUS!!! I love that Neville and Lavender got together, it puts a good twist on things. Now on to the next chapter!


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Richard Ruelas: Good evening and welcome to "Arizona Horizon." I'm Richard Ruelas in for Ted Simons. The drought is California is hurting the agriculture industry there, but could it be a benefit to farmers in Arizona? Maricopa County Farm bureau president and dairy farmer Jim Boyle joins me now to talk about the issue. Thanks for joining us.
Jim Boyle: Good afternoon.
Richard Ruelas: How bad is it in California?
Jim Boyle: It's quite bad. It's essentially a 100-year drought in California. It's as dry as anything they have seen in essentially a century. It's part of a bigger drought. The entire Southwest has been in for a while. Just seems to have hit California particularly hard this year.
Richard Ruelas: We are seeing the pictures of sort of those like farmers are just abandoning --
Jim Boyle: They are in some ways. Some of that's planned in the sense that in that water will move to different users depending on if you have one farmer retires some land or let it lay fallow for the summer and shift that water another crop. You will see a reduction of acreage and farming in California because of this drought. Recently they have gotten some rain but unfortunately it didn't impact the overall picture so much because what they really rely on is the snowpack in the Sierra Nevadas which was almost nonexistent this year.
Richard Ruelas: So let's look at Arizona. Are we going to benefit? Are we going to be hurt? Is it a mix of both?
Jim Boyle: It's a mix of both. And that's because the agricultural farming systems in California and Arizona are both very large and very diverse. You will find some farmers with wine, grapes, or nuts or fruits and vegetables so farmers are retiring their alfalfa acreage and shifting that water to another type of crop. And then they're going, the users of the alfalfa, the cattle ranchers and the dairy farmers, are going to places like Arizona, Nevada, Idaho to bring alfalfa in.
Richard Ruelas: If you have alfalfa planted in Arizona your price just went up.
Jim Boyle: We have seen prices rise throughout the winter. Probably starting about December, and weekly prices have been increasing. Most of that hay going to California and dairy farmers and cattle ranchers in Arizona are having to compete with those prices.
Richard Ruelas: Like what prices we talking about? What was is in December and what is it now?
Jim Boyle: Good quality first cutting alfalfa we were talking about perhaps it would go ballgame as low as $200 a ton delivered into the Mesa area where I primarily dairy farm. Right now that's gone up to $285, there's some talk of it going higher. And --
Richard Ruelas: And I imagine there's a trucking company that benefits by taking it.
Jim Boyle: The truckers definitely do. And the dairy farmers in California, they are buying this hay, are having to add, pay $70 and $80 on hauling on top of that. While we are feeling it's bad for costing us $285 in Arizona, it's costing the central valley in California $350 and they are prepared to pay $400. They think that's where it will go. That hay will go up -- come up in different parts of the west.
Richard Ruelas: If you are an alfalfa farmer in Arizona, this is a great win for you.
Jim Boyle: Yeah.
Richard Ruelas: If our dairy farmer in Arizona you are suffering because now you are competing.
Jim Boyle: Exactly.
Richard Ruelas: With the California ranchers.
Jim Boyle: That's a big issue. And there's -- some of other farms that seem to be, that will probably benefit in certain things, the fruit and vegetables. Arizona fruit and vegetable market has been strong. I was talking to a cantaloupe farmer on Friday in Maricopa. And they felt that they should get a very good price for their crops.
Richard Ruelas: Because the supply, no one, few people probably have you this drought coming to this magnitude.
Jim Boyle: Right.
Richard Ruelas: It wasn't like Arizona overplanted expecting this.
Jim Boyle: That's one of the major issues is why agriculture as a whole in Arizona probably won't be able to take advantage of it. For example, a lot of California's crops just can't be grown in Arizona. Or if they can, they take years to prepare and be ready to send to market. For example, nut trees. Pistachios, pecans, almonds, a huge market in California. And we have some of that in Arizona. But it takes, once you plant a tree over three years until you get a crop off of it. It doesn't benefit to try to plant a nut tree in hopes of getting some profits off of the California drought.
Richard Ruelas: But the fruits and vegetables, they will be in the same situation as the alfalfa farmer where they have a supply that suddenly has --
Jim Boyle: Yes. And even though that the fruit and vegetable guys in California can often pay more than, say, alfalfa farmers or wheat farmers in California for water, the drought still stresses the plants out, makes them more susceptible to pests. There's also been, it's been surprisingly warm there, which is also caused a greater amount of pest damage on some of these crops. And so transfer there's definitely a lower supply even if they get water. So there's an opportunity there for some --
Richard Ruelas: The cantaloupe farmer in Maricopa you spoke to, he is going to see a little more money because the prices go up.
Jim Boyle: Yes, we think so.
Richard Ruelas: The cantaloupe eater in Phoenix, say, will also see their prices go up. How much stress are we going to see on the market?
Jim Boyle: I think a lot of it's already built in. We are in a period of rising commodity prices in general. And that comes back to some of the basics of the world economy, is that there's billions of people in the world that are not making any more farmland. We have seen over the last few years rises in almost all agricultural commodities and that's mainly driven by demand. So some of that price is already increasing. So it's built into the system a little bit.
Richard Ruelas: Meaning that this incident, although it's a major incident to California, a major incident with Arizona farmers seeing some increase for the consumer, we are not going to see a huge spike in citrus or vegetables?
Jim Boyle: If you do see individual things, it's often related. There might be individual commodities that may have a slight impact. But in general, I think there's just, we are in a period of rising commodity prices. And so I think everyone kind of feels that when they go to the grocery store. Some of that might be affected by the California drought but it's also affected by demand in China, droughts in Mexico, all of these other things.
Richard Ruelas: One more stressor on an already bad vagues. And again, you think of that alfalfa farmer or buyer in California, the rancher, that has to be built into the price of the hamburger or steak down the road, too. Are we going to see beef prices increase?
Jim Boyle: Beef prices are at a very high level now. That goes back to a series of events. Mainly droughts that started occurring eight or nine years ago. We saw a large drought in Texas followed by a drought a couple years ago in the Midwest, all large cattle growing areas such as this year. Ranchers have had to cut back the size of their herds because they didn't have the grass to feed the cattle. That created a smaller pool of cattle to choose from, which then coupled with relatively high demand as the economy has kind of improved and everybody wants a steak on their plate, you suddenly have a situation where that beef cattle inventory, which right now in the country is the smallest since late 1940s has suddenly caused meat prices to go high. While California is a small portion of that it's certainly not helping the beef price.
Richard Ruelas: Are we going to see this extend through next year? Are farmers in Arizona thinking that this is going to continue and maybe changing what they plant or the production level?
Jim Boyle: Well, we hope not. Despite the fact that at some segments of agriculture will benefit from this, this drought isn't a California issue solely. It's also an issue for Arizona and the entire Southwest. Our drought this year wasn't as severe as California's was but we are nearing a point where the Colorado river is potentially going to be a declared an official drought. There will be an official drought on the Colorado river which will impact agriculture first in the state of Arizona. Agriculture is the first industry that takes water out of the Colorado. We have the lowest right, so essentially that we will be cut off first before it impacts any municipality, any tribal group, any other user of Colorado water. So we fear another dry year for us or California could result in the lower Colorado river flow and us having less water to use ourselves.
Richard Ruelas: We will hope and pray for rain because now you are scaring everybody.
Jim Boyle: Well, we need rain, yeah.
Richard Ruelas: Absolutely. Jim, thanks for joining us. Good luck in the marketplace.
Jim Boyle: Thanks.


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|Reviews for Shadows
| Guest chapter 1 . 2/15/2013
Aww you never finsihed this!
| Guest chapter 1 . 2/15/2013
God that was depressing. Extremely well written and I actually like the theory of Adam being Claire's father too. Still the mere thought of going through what she did is terrifying, having it described in detail leaves one quite cold inside. Poor, poor girl!
| DivineSynder chapter 1 . 10/8/2008
omg! that was really good! wonderful job!
| udon'tknowmebutiknowme chapter 1 . 6/30/2008
veery good ]
| Nyah chapter 1 . 12/5/2007
Wow. Really intriguing, really excellent.
I painfully loved every time they set CLaire aside and what a wonderful ending.
My favorite line: the men set out to save the cheerleader, using the world as an excuse.
Waiting for more
| excuse.my.muse chapter 1 . 11/25/2007
it's creepily good. it's creepy because that is an chilling tale, written beautifully in a way that many authors don't attempt because most times it leads to failure and the message gets left behind. However you wrote it so it did work. You didn't lose the message, which happens more often than not in writing. incredible writing and i hope you continue writing more, in any category.
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You can get the 5100 to work just fine if you have a look around, it seems to work pretty well in my HP DV3505 (£500), infact I'm pretty impressed with it.I'm currently looking at Dell Latitude e5400 or one of the ThinkPads. However, please correct me if I'm wrong, and I hope I am, Intel WiFi 5100 and 5300 cards do not seem to be supported by BackTrack and the Graphics Chip cannot be fully utilized (i.e. achieve it's natural resolution).
I do recomend you look at ubuntu and learn how to setup and use the tools included in backtrack, it'll be far more beneficial to you, it was for me.


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Get an overview of this hotel3-star Nagasaki hotel in Shinchi Chinatown, near Megane Bridge
Popular property highlights
Located in Shinchi Chinatown, this hotel is within a 15-minute walk of Dejima Museum, Megane Bridge, and Sofuku-ji. Confucius Shrine and Glover Garden are also within 1 mi (2 km).
Hotel Features
Along with a restaurant, this hotel has a bar/lounge and a business center. WiFi in public areas is free. Additionally, meeting rooms and dry cleaning are onsite.
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All 170 rooms feature thoughtful touches like bathrobes and slippers, plus free WiFi, free wired Internet, and flat-screen TVs with satellite channels. Guests will also find refrigerators, hair dryers, and phones.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
Hotel Jal City Nagasaki
Hotel Amenities
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The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Business-related amenities at this 3-star property consist of a business center and meeting rooms.
Public areas are equipped with complimentary wired and wireless Internet access.
- Business center
- Total number of rooms - 170
- Number of floors - 11
- Restaurant
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- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Meeting rooms 2
- Luggage storage
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
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- Pay movies
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- Phone
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- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
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- Satellite TV service
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Check-in time ends at midnight
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As you may have noticed, this blog is pretty sluggish these days. Please stand by. I'm hoping to get back up to speed shortly.
Shabbat Shalom.
As you may have noticed, this blog is pretty sluggish these days. Please stand by. I'm hoping to get back up to speed shortly.
Shabbat Shalom.
But funny. For those who need a break from the heavy, flagellatory brand of pre-Yom Kippur sanctimony, here's something refreshing. (Thank you, Lori!)
One Jerusalem hosted a blogger conference call this morning with Tony Blankley, former press secretary to Newt Gingrich, nationally syndicated talk show host and editorial page editor for The Washington Times. I'm ashamed to say that this guy really hadn't been on my radar screen before, but he definitely is now. It was a most interesting conversation and, as always, you can find the audio here, at One Jerusalem.
Tony's most recent book is The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations? It's going on my order list. In the meantime, I highly recommend reading all of the reviews of the book at Amazon. They're a fascinating microcosm of the debate within Western civilization that the book focuses upon, with extreme views on both sides and some (but not much) moderation in between.
Given Tony's
MSM LWM-assigned seat on the far right, I was pleasantly surprised by his thoughtful and open but forthright approach to some of the most serious issues facing us today. It was an enlightening call. Thanks once again to Mr. Blakeley and One Jerusalem for giving us this opportunity to get to know him better.
L'shana tova tikatevu v'tehatemu.
May you all be inscribed and sealed for a healthy, happy and sweet New Year.
Shabbat Shalom.
The President of Iran has granted an interview to Time Magazine, and the contents are on line for all to see. I just have a nagging question or two that I wish the interviewer had followed up on.
Ahmadinejad: Our position toward the [ ] question is clear: We say that a nation has been displaced from its own land. [ ] people are killed in their own lands, by those who are not original inhabitants, and they have come from far areas of the world and have occupied those homes.
Our suggestion is that the 5 million [ ] refugees come back to their homes, and then the entire people on those lands hold a referendum and choose their own system of government. This is a democratic and popular way. Do you have any other suggestions?
Now the word that Ahmadinejad inserted between those ellipses is, of course, "Palestinian." But if you try inserting instead the word "Jewish," you'll find that his statement explains concisely and precisely the historic roots and process of the creation of the State of Israel. Refugees of a nation, displaced by those who were not by any stretch the original inhabitants, returned to their homes and chose their own system of government. Why doesn't his democratic and popular analysis apply to the only original inhabitants of the land that are still around to lay claim to it (there being precious few Jebusites or Philistines around today)?
Here's another:
Ahmadinejad: As to the Holocaust, I just raised a few questions. And I didn't receive any answers to my questions. I said that during World War II, around 60 million were killed. All were human beings and had their own dignities. Why only six million?
This gibberish really wouldn't be worth paying attention to, but for the blazing inconsistency with his prior remarks. Of course, his numbers are terribly misleading. Almost half of those human beings were soldiers killed in battle. Of the remaining 35 million or so, the vast majority were collateral damage in air campaigns against enemy targets, were enemy targets themselves or succumbed to war-related scourges like famine and disease. While always tragic, these deaths are the necessary fallout of armed conflict. They're expected. Mass extermination campaigns of an entire people, however, are not. But why am I even trying to make sense of this man's mad ravings? The fact is that when it comes to the millions of refugees in the world, many of them Jews from Arab countries and, of course, from Iran, Ahmadinejad has no trouble singling out the "5 million" [sic] "Palestinians" [sic]. But when it comes to singling out victims of a campaign of mass extermination aimed primarily at Jews, all victims are the same. Why is that?
Can you think of anyone else who could write a sentence (well, two) like this?
The Pope expresses his belief in the superiority of his faith by tracing how the neo-Platonist trace in Aristotelian empiricism meant that the historical development of science qua falsification was limited by a horizon that it pointed to but could not access. The jihadists express their belief in their faith's superiority by slitting the throats of Jews on camera - and then selling those tapes to millions of other Muslims.
Awesome. And enlightening. But it gets even better.
To observe that someone said something that hurt someone else's feelings is not the same as proving that they should apologize. Enough of this absurd idea that nothing can be allowed to upset the temperamental Muslim Street. If someone has a reason why there was a factual or logical error in Pope Benedict's speech, let's hear it. The intellectual struggle for history and civilization is not a therapy session. Not liking an argument doesn't make it wrong. Not being able to justify irrational beliefs is often frustrating. But to assert that the Pope should apologize to fanatics because they're too illiterate, too uneducated, or too insane to understand or answer him is deeply perverse - it's either a new low of appeasement or evidence for the permanence of the idiot self-esteem affirmation sensibilities of previous decades. Probably both.
Omri has already managed to produce more voluminous and insightful analysis of this issue than most other sources combined. And he promises to have yet more tomorrow. Don't miss.
It's sort of just not conceivable that we won't be seeing her again, so ...
Too many amazing and moving tributes are already up, so I'll just refer you to Judith and Anne and especially Robert Spencer.
Her voice will be sorely missed.
Shabbat Shalom.
But I loved the headline.
I've had family visiting. It's kept me busy. It's also given me a chance to do stuff I don't ordinarily find the time to do. Tuesday, we spent a few hours at the National Constitution Center. It's an amazing, beautiful, moving tribute to a most incredible document. You should visit.
I have a lot of faith in our Constitution. And in the system we developed, here in America, out of whole cloth, to protect, defend and enhance it. Through legislation, challenge, interpretation and re-interpretation, it continues to thrive, expand and contract, to grow in meaning and substance, to address the challenges posed to it by a changing world. As it was meant to.
Part of the burden and the privilege imposed upon us American citizens by that Constitution is the right to vote. And this coming November, the citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have an extremely tough choice to make. It's a tough choice for me, anyway. Not because I'm vascillating (although I've had moments), but because, in this election, I'm going to have to vote against a candidate who stands for many things I strongly believe in. Why? Because he stands too strongly for too many other things I strongly oppose.
I urge the voters of Pennsylvania to consider their vote this November carefully. Very carefully. Two years ago, I decided to vote for George W. Bush, the first Republican Presidential candidate ever to win my vote, on the following premise: in order to protect our civil liberties, we must first and foremost remain a free country, and that means that we must first win the war against the Islamist threat, both here and abroad. I believed that then and I believe it today. But there are limits.
Rick Santorum's America is not my America. It's not an America I want to live in. If this race were happening in some other state, I could sit back and bite my nails and try not to worry about how I would vote. I don't have that luxury. Santorum gets the real threat to this country. He's a staunch supporter of Israel, and he understands the dynamics of the Middle East better than most of his colleagues in Congress. But when it comes down to the nitty gritty, to what this country, the US of A, is all about, he doesn't have a clue.
It amazes and confounds me that so many in this country are so willing to overlook the attempts of politicians to impose their own narrow religious and moral rules upon the rest of us, so long as those rules derive from some fuzzy origin in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Or, let's be frank, from some less fuzzy origin in the fundamentalist Christian tradition.
I mean, imagine the reaction if a member of Congress tried to impose Jewish dietary laws on the country. Or make circumcision a legal requirement. How about if we set out to mandate an educational program to teach women that they must abstain from sex for two weeks out of every month? Or outlawed clothing that reveals a woman's navel, shoulders or collarbone? The notion is, of course, absurd. But why? Simply because Judaism, unlike fundamentalist Christianity and Islam, generally seeks to apply its rules only to those who are already within its fold. Even in Israel, most of the foregoing isn't law and that small part that is (dietary laws in some parts of the country) is often recognized more in the breach than in the observance.
Imagine, instead, a bill proposed to make the veil mandatory for all women in America. Or to legislate the circumstances under which men may beat their wives. This notion, sadly, isn't quite so absurd. Why? Because there are Americans already seeking to take us there. Because militant Islam seeks to apply its rules across the board, to anyone who lives under its power. And it seeks power here.
If an Orthodox Jew or a Wahhabi Muslim were to try to ram his (undoubtedly his) orthodoxy down our throats, we'd never for an instant tolerate it. But when Rick Santorum does it, it's ok. Why is that? No matter how strong his stand with Israel, when Rick Santorum says there's no right to privacy in the Constitution, I say: study up. Under our Constitution, the Supreme Court has the final say on that question, and it has consisently upheld that right. No matter how clear he may be on the so-called "war on terror," when Rick Santorum equates homosexuality with bestiality and incest, I say: the U.S. Congress is one of the last places we need to enshrine irrational and self-righteous hatred and bigotry. No matter how right he may be on the justification for the war in Iraq and the imminent threat from Iran, when Rick Santorum tries to blame the devastation of Katrina on the National Weather Service, when he claims that George W. Bush (a Methodist) is more Catholic than John F. Kennedy, when he describes how he brought his dead five month old fetus home for his children to hold in their arms, I ask: is this man even sane?
Bob Casey is not the right choice for Pennsylvania. But there is a worse choice and, unfortunately, that worse choice is Casey's opponent, the incumbent junior senator who, if elected, is projected to become the second most powerful Republican in Congress. Those of us who have lost faith in the Democratic party, who are seeking leadership elsewhere, can't possibly sit by and allow the fanatical right wing fringe to take over the GOP just as the fanatical left wing fringe is attempting to take over the party of Roosevelt and JFK. The Democrats need more Caseys, if only to pull the party back from the brink, back towards the center. And the last thing the Republican party -- or America -- needs is Rick Santorum serving another six year term.
Yeah, I know that he's blanketing Pajamas Media with his ads. And that he's speaking in all the right places and saying what we, would go to the mat for Israel, want to hear. I know that many of us aren't willing or able to see past that because it's just too important. I get that. But I can't do it. Baring totally unforeseen circumstances, he's not getting my vote.
Anniversaries are important. Very important. But truth be told, I'm 9-11ed out at this point. There's something about the constant barrage of replays and interviews and political posturing that's covered the news for the past several days that's had a numbing effect.
The best tribute to the 9-11 victims would be to get our act together and our heads out of the sand and start doing something serious about making sure it never happens again, anywhere. I've heard a lot of self-congratulations going on about reaching five years without another attack on American soil. Five years is good. Ten years would be excellent. But it's not going to be enough so long as the threat is still out there and we're still pussyfooting around looking for it in many of the wrong places.
Meanwhile, on a related subject I've heard about enough of, Meryl scrapes the shine off the "Path to 9/11" controversy. She's right. About all of it.
I commented earlier today on the importance of accepting responsibility and of recognizing the significance of not only cause but also effect. Effect, otherwise known as consequences.
This week's Torah portion focuses on commitments and consequences. It rather succinctly outlines the parameters of the covenant between God and the Jewish People, and it makes clear that it's not a picnic. Good things are promised, rules are set and consequences for breaking them are clearly delineated. Cause and effect. The terms of the contract.
There's no wiggle room, no exculpatory clauses, no loopholes. No room for the most obvious excuse: if we screw up, God, it's because You made us weak, You abused us as children, You oppressed us in the desert. Not our fault. None of that works. Because, you see, it's all about responsibility. When we took it upon ourselves to grow up, to become a nation, we accepted responsibility for ourselves and our actions. And we accepted that there would be consequences if we behaved badly.
It's a good lesson. Spread it around.
Shabbat Shalom.
Rachel Neuwirth posted this provocative essay yesterday at The American Thinker: The Stockholm Conference: A Political Obscenity.
It's a must read, especially if you're unfamiliar with the details of the Conference in question: the commitment of close to a billion dollars in aid for the rebuilding of Lebanon in the aftermath of an unprovoked aggression launched from its soil, coupled with uncontested condemnation of Israel, the victim of that aggression. Oh, and some additional gratuitous aid for Fatah and Hamas thrown in, just for kicks. It truly boggles the mind.
But as if that weren't enough, Neuwirth outlines the parallel attempt at Stockholm (by the European-based Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt) to require reparations(!) from both Israel (the victim) and the United States (the ally of the victim) to be paid into the coffers of Lebanon (where, God forbid, they would certainly flow directly into the pockets of Hizbollah).
Finally, Neuwirth deftly turns this funhouse mirror back on itself by proposing that there are adequate grounds in international law for both Lebanon and Israel to demand, together (and for the international community to enforce), reparations from Syria and Iran, the true forces behind the aggression that devastated both countries. I say: Go for it!
That said, I'd like to draw attention to one paragraph in Neuwirth's essay that deserves a post all its own. She quotes the Swedish Prime Minister's firm statement of solidarity with the Lebanese people, to which she replies:
These are noble sentiments; no one should be indifferent to the human suffering of civilian populations. But there is a shocking omission in this kind of statement: the quest for responsibility. Whereas the European Left has always been eager to find exculpatory "root causes†in all matters related to Islamic terrorism after 9/11, and found them in such implausible factors as poverty, inequality, oppression, joblessness and alienation, there was no mention in Stockholm of the root causes of the Lebanese ordeal. This omission is nothing short of obscene.
This aversion to "the quest for responsibility" (it's more than an "omission"), this compulsive but selective search for exculpatory "root causes" and this insistence upon ignoring forseeable effects, characterizes not only the European Left but the universal Left, and not only in matters related to Islamic terrorism after 9/11, but in all matters, from its distorted perception of the Israeli-Arab conflict to race relations in America. It's one of the fundamental flaws that has torn the left away from any claim it had to the moral high ground and set it adrift on a sea of its own rudderless self-righteousness.
More on this anon, I expect.
Once again, there's talk of a prisoner swap. Two of them, actually. For now, I'm going to focus on the demands that Hezbollah is making for the release of kidnapped Israeli soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser. The kidnapped soldiers for whom Israel went to war in July. The kidnapped soldiers for whom Ehud Olmert vowed to keep fighting until he brought them home. The kidnapped soldiers for whose lives Olmert swore he would not negotiate with terrorists.
Those kidnapped soldiers.
Nasrallah seems particularly interested in three "Lebanese" men held in Israeli jails. The first, Samir Kuntar, we can only hope and pray will not ever be considered a candidate for release, no matter what. I won't waste more breath on this pile of sludge. If you don't already know it, the horrific story is here, among many other places.
It gets stranger.
The second, Nissim Nassar (Nasr), is actually an Israeli citizen, although reportedly born in Lebanon and of Lebanese descent. Here's the kicker: he's a Jew (his father was a Shi'ite Muslim, but his mother is Jewish). An Israeli Jew who spied for Hezbollah against Israel. Very nice. He gets out in 2008 anyway.
Yehia Skaff either died or was arrested in March or April of 1978 for his part in a terrorist attack on an Israeli bus in which 37 innocent civilians were murdered. That attack is better known for its catapulting of Dalal Mughrabi to hero status among palestinian Arabs. Slaughtering Jews is all it takes. One of those killed in that attack, BTW, was American nature photographer Gail Rubin. She had the misfortune to be taking photographs nearby.
It appears that Olmert may be considering offering some petty criminals of Lebanese descent in return for the soldiers. If that turns out to be the case, I'm not going to get too worked up about it. There's a limit to how far one can stand on principle when the lives of two brave young men are at stake. If a few car thieves go free, well, maybe that's ok.
Unless, of course, it encourages more kidnappings. This would be my bottom line. I know it sounds harsh. I know it's easy for me to say. But as Meir Indor of the Israeli Terror Victims Association said on the occasion of the last Lebanese prisoner swap:
"Today three mothers will get the bodies of their sons back, and tomorrow many others will cry over the result of terrorists being freed."
(originally quoted in the JPost but of course that link is now gone)
Today (and every day for the past few months) is tomorrow for the mothers of Gilad Shalit, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser. How many more?
So no, wait, to Nasser. No, never, to Skaff (if he's even alive). And never, ever, to Kuntar, who is eagerly anticipating his hero's welcome back home (according to a report I read yesterday but now cannot find). Regardless of the pathetic posturing of Ha'aretz pundits. Never, ever.
Seriously. One more day is too long for this disgrace to preside over the United Nations (which is enough of a disgrace all by itself).
Unfortunately, there doesn't actually appear to be any legal way to remove a sitting UNSG. Another disgrace.
Or battening down, as the case may be. Actually, I guess this is more like tying up a few loose ends.
The only reason I didn't link sooner to Lori Lowenthal Marcus's Weekly Standard article on UNIFIL's egregious perfidy in the recent war in Lebanon is because everyone else was. In case you forgot to go and read it, or if you somehow missed the previous links, go now.
In the What Were They Thinking department, Israel drops objection to Indonesian troops in UN force. But of course it does. It's being run by the three stooges and their merry band of pranksters, after all.
And don't miss the accounts here, here, here and here (at least) of Wednesday's blogger conference call with former Israeli army COS Moshe Ya'alon. It's a knockout. The audio is available at One Jerusalem, but it's a little hard to hear this time. Pamela has the full transcript of the Q&A.
Well, Ernesto is bearing down on the Delaware Valley, and it's going to be a wet and windy night. Time to go.
Shabbat Shalom.
This article (discussed immediately below) has been getting a lot of attention, it seems. Mere Rhetoric has the details, here.
In a nutshell, a commenter calling himself "Roberto" and claiming to have attended the conference suggests at Soccer Dad that the Ynet story was "a flawed representation" and that Steven Erlanger was "purely professional and showed no bias." Now that would be a first for Erlanger when it comes to Israel, at least in my experience.
But, as mentioned in my previous post, Ynet has already deleted one particularly inflammatory paragraph from the article. And The Media Line, in an email that has been quietly circulating, corroborates Roberto's appraisal. They should know. They organized the conference.
Here are two other (considerably milder) versions of the conference comments. Compare and contrast. Stephen Spruiell says it seems as if Ynet just emphasized different comments. Omri suggests they may have been taken out of context.
TML has promised to put up the audio and video of the conference soon. We shall see and we shall update, as circumstances permit.
Update: The mystery of the deleted paragraph is solved, Steve Erlanger responds to Lappin's article, and Lappin responds to Erlanger's response (all here). They both recommend watching the tape -- when it's available. Stay tuned.


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Searching for and teaching the truth to enlighten earthlings. Have various courses and initiations to offer. We do healings and readings. Organize holistic thermal holidays to Hungary.
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Understanding the ascension process and awakening to self mastery by whatever modality. DNA Activation, Energy imbalance clearing. Sound healing. Talks. Workshops
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Reiki Master Original Japanese Usui Reiki Past Life & Soul Regression Therapist Physic medium including Aura reading Ladies retreat weekends of Yoga Meditation Spiritual development & treatments
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Ilkley, West Yorkshire, England
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Traditional Amazonian healing centre with female Shipibo indigenous healers running ayahuasca and medicinal plant retreat workshops.
Have had to list as Hants, UK as Holistic local doesnt allow for Peruvian listings yet, Hampshire, England
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We offer a comprehensive programme of training in Shamanism, with Shamanic Practitioner Training, Four Elements Course, year Long Mentoring Training, Amazonian Retreats and one to one shamanic healing
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Energy Clearing is a self healing process that can benefit: Illness Stress Anxiety Phobias Addictions Depression I am also currently working with clients with ME, Autism and Schizophrenia.
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I offer holistic and experiential tours of sacred sites, to truely connect with this sacred landscape. I take people to Avebury, Stonehenge and West Kennet long barrow, to drum, meditate and connect.
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Alaska Apprenticeship & Training Coordinators Association
Piledrivers, Bridge, Dock Builders & Divers Local 2520
825 East 8th Avenue
Anchorage, Alaska 99501
Tel: (907) 272-7576 Fax: (907) 277-8967
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Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters
Steve Abel Business Manager Kevin Hanley President Tammy Walter Office Manager Niki Ratana Training Department
In 1903 an organizing effort by an association of Dockmen, Ironmen, Timbermen and Machinemen culminated in the formation and charting of Local 51, San Pedro, California, of the International Pile Drivers, Bridge, Dock and Ornamental Ironworkers Union.
During the 1890s through the 1920s, Construction Trade Unionist like the Pile Driver, Carpenter/Bridge Constructors, Dock Workers, Divers, Seamen and Ironworkers found collective labor to be successful periodically.
The chartings of Pile Driver, Bridge, Dock and Wharf Carpenter Locals by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters was the culmination of a jurisdictional mediation between the Ironworkers and Carpenters International Unions at the beginning of the 1920's.
Alaska Piledrivers, Bridge, Dock Builders and Divers Local 2520 were granted their charter in 1955 by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. The original membership started with 25 charter members.
PILEDRIVERS LOCAL 2520 BYLAWS AND TRADE RULES PREAMBLE Our aim will be to promote and protect the interest of the membership, to elevate the moral, intellectual and social conditions of all working men and women, to assist each other in sickness and distress. To discourage piecework, to encourage apprenticeship and a higher standard of skill, to cultivate a feeling of friendship, and to assist each other to secure employment. To aid and assist all organizations to uphold the dignity of labor, resist oppression by peaceful and honorable means. To hold it as a sacred principle, that Union members, above all others should set a good example as true and faithful workmen, performing their duties to their employer with honor to themselves, and to their organization. We resent the principle of open shop association, and will continually strive for the enactment of legislation which will enable us to achieve our objectives. Realizing that a blow at one organization is a blow to all, therefore, it shall be our duty as Union members to purchase Union made goods and patronize Union shops and business establishments whenever possible to do so. So with these aims and principles in mind, we, the Piledrivers of Alaska affiliate ourselves into an organization that shall be known as Local Union 2520 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, in conformity with the provisions of the Constitution and laws of the Brotherhood.


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La Jolla Playhouse has gotten its hands on some stars for next month's world premiere of "Hands on a Hardbody."
The theater announced late Monday afternoon that the musical's cast will include Keith Carradine, a star of the film "Nashville" and a Tony Award nominee for "The Will Rogers Follies" (as well as a member of a distinguished acting family); and Hunter Foster, the Broadway veteran seen at the Playhouse last year in the movie-based musical "Little Miss Sunshine."
As noted here last week, Jon Rua - a star of the recent Old Globe world premiere of "Somewhere," also joins the cast, along with Tony-winner Jarrod Emick ("Ring of Fire"), and a company of seasoned Broadway and national-tour actors: Allison Case (the recent revival of "Hair"), Jay Armstrong Johnson ("Catch Me If You Can"), David Larsen ("Good Vibrations"), Kathleen Elizabeth Monteleone ("Legally Blonde"), Mary Gordon Murray ("Little Me"), Connie Ray ("Next Fall"; she also co-wrote "Smoke on the Mountain"), Keala Settle ("Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"), Dale Soules ("Grey Gardens"), Jacob Ming Trent ("On the Levee"), Scott Wakefield (the San Diego Rep-launched "It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues"), and William Youmans ("Billy Elliot: The Musical," the Playhouse's "Dracula").
"Hands on a Hardbody" is based on the 1997 documentary film of the same name about an endurance competition in Texas that required contestants to keep their hands affixed to a new truck for long periods. The last one handing (so to speak) won the truck, at significant cost to body and spirit.
The Playhouse-commissioned musical's unusual creative combo includes composer Trey Anastasio of the Vermont jam-band juggernaut Phish; lyricist and co-composer Amanda Green ("High Fidelity," "Bring it On: The Musical"); writer Doug Wright, a Pulitzer- and Tony-winner for the Playhouse-launched "I Am My Own Wife" whose credits also include the La Jolla production of "Creditors" and Broadway's "Grey Gardens"; director Neil Pepe, artistic chief of New York's heavyweight Atlantic Theatre Co.; and choreographer Benjamin Millepied of the movie "Black Swan."
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Orbit determination of FedSat based on GPS receiver position solutions – first results
Enderle, Werner, Feng, Yanming, & Zhou, Ning (2003) Orbit determination of FedSat based on GPS receiver position solutions – first results. In 6th International Symposium of Satellite Navigation Technology and Applications, 22-25 July 2003, Melbourne, Australia.
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On 14th December 2002, the Australian small satellite FedSat was launched with a Japanese HII-A rocket into an 800 km sun-synchronous orbit with an inclination of 98.6 degrees. One of the payloads is a dual frequency GPS BlackJack receiver from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). This receiver provides a Position, Velocity and Time (PVT) solution and also raw measurements (code and carrier), which will be used in different ways for Precise Orbit Determination (POD), Orbit Determination (OD) based on GPS position solutions, 2-axis Attitude Determination (AD) and atmospheric experiments.
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Baton Rouge General Breaks Ground On New Medical Office Building02-Nov-2012
Baton Rouge General Medical Center held a groundbreaking ceremony on October 31, 2012 for their new, state-of-the-art medical office building to be located on the Bluebonnet campus. This event is part of a larger hospital expansion project on the Bluebonnet campus, and follows the recent addition of a new four room operating suite equipped with innovative hybrid heart surgery technology and minimally invasive robotics. With the completion of this surgical services expansion and this week's medical office building groundbreaking, Baton Rouge General moves one step closer to becoming a fully integrated medical community.
About Baton Rouge General Medical Center
Baton Rouge General Medical Center is a full-service community hospital, with 544 licensed beds between two campuses. As the first hospital in Baton Rouge, opening its doors in 1900, Baton Rouge General has a long history of groundbreaking milestones, as well as providing the Greater Baton Rouge community with high quality healthcare for generations.
Baton Rouge General is affiliated with and also serves as a satellite campus of Tulane University School of Medicine. In addition to serving as a satellite campus for Tulane medical students in the LEAD (Leadership, Education, Advocacy and Discovery) Academy program, Baton Rouge General also offers a Family Medicine Residency Program, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Sports Medicine Fellowship Program, School of Nursing and School of Radiologic Technology. Baton Rouge General, an accredited teaching hospital since 1991, is committed to exceptional medical education and serves a diverse population that is representative of the types of patients, injuries, illnesses and healthcare needs most frequently seen by physicians in private practice. For more information, visit www.BRGeneral.org.


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Office: 818 W. Hancock; (313) 577-1344
Director: Albert I. King
Associate Director: Michele J. Grimm
Website: http://www.eng.wayne.edu/departments/bme.html
Gregory Auner, Safwan Badr, Albert I. King, Michael Kleerekoper, Dorothy A. Nelson, Robert Silver, Paul H. Wooley, King-Hay Yang
John M. Cavanaugh, R. Darin Ellis, Howard Matthew, Samuel Nasser
Cynthia A. Bir, Michele J. Grimm, Steven H. Hinderer, Guang Zhao Mao
Warren Hardy
Paul Begeman, Lawrence Diebel, Stephen DeSilva, Scott Dulchavsky, James Eliason, Bernard Gonik, Anne Guyot, Tawfik Khalil, Robert Levine, Quinghang Li, John W. Melvin, Jeffrey Pike, Scott Tashman, Eeric Truumees, Paul VanTassell, David Viano, Lucia Zamorano
Program specialization at the master's degree level may be undertaken in four areas, including transportation-related trauma, age-related injuries and rehabilitation engineering, smart sensors and engineering neurophysiology, and tissue engineering and biomaterials. These specializations are available to both part-time and full-time students, in either research or non-research degree programs
Admission to this program is contingent upon admission to the Graduate School; for requirements, see Admission, Regular. In addition, applicants must have a baccalaureate degree or its equivalent, earned at an accredited college or university, as well as the preliminary preparation and ability to pursue graduate study in this discipline. Students who have a baccalaureate degree or an advanced degree in a non-engineering discipline (e.g., life science) will be considered for admission to the program on a case-by-case basis. Regular admission may be authorized if the applicant's undergraduate grade point average is 3.0 or above. All applicants are expected to submit a one-page statement of purpose along with their application, describing their interest in biomedical engineering. It is recommended that applicants also submit Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores; these scores are required for students applying for financial support. An Application for Admission, with application fee and official transcripts from each college attended, is required before any student may register for graduate study. The applicant must take any entrance examinations specified by the Office of Admissions, the College, or the Program.
This Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering is offered under the following options:
Plan A: A minimum of thirty-two credits in course work including an eight credit thesis.
Plan C: A minimum of thirty-two credits in course work.
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS: For either plan, students must complete the following Core Requirements: BME 5010; BME 5020; BME 5030; and BME 8070.
Additional courses will be chosen from the curriculum outlined for each specialization. A list of curricula can be found in the Handbook for Graduate Students in Biomedical Engineering, available from the Biomedical Engineering Office. Students must take a minimum of two 7000-level courses if they are enrolled in Plan A, and a minimum of three 7000-level courses if they are enrolled in Plan C. Directed study and directed research courses (BME 7990 and BME 7996) cannot be counted toward the satisfaction of the 7000-level course requirement. A maximum of four credits in directed study or directed research (BME 5990, 7990, and 7996) may be applied towards the degree. Thesis credits are earned through satisfactory completion of BME 8999.
Students enrolled in the master's degree program are required to file a Plan of Work with the Graduate Officer of the program by the time eight graduate credits have been earned. Following this, the applicant will petition his/her adviser to advance his/her rank to `candidate.' Candidate status must be authorized by the time twelve graduate credits have been earned, or else subsequent registration will be denied. All course work must be completed in accordance with the regulations of the Graduate School and the College of Engineering governing graduate scholarship and degrees; see Academic Regulations of the University, Degree and Certificate Requirements, and Academic Regulations for the College of Enginering, respectively.
Admission to this program is contingent upon admission to the Graduate School; for requirements, see Admission, Regular. All applicants must submit Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores. In addition, applicants must have a graduate grade point average of 3.5 or above and must have completed an undergraduate major or substantial specialized work in his/her proposed doctoral major field. Students with an undergraduate grade point average of 3.5 or above may apply for direct admission to the Ph.D. program; students with less than a 3.5 undergraduate g.p.a. must complete a master's degree program in biomedical engineering prior to consideration for admission to the Ph.D. program. All applicants are expected to submit a one-page statement of purpose, describing their interest in biomedical engineering.
Completion of a minimum of ninety credits beyond the baccalaureate degree are required for the Ph.D. program. These credits are distributed as follows:
1. Core Courses (nineteen to twenty credits): BME 5010; PSL 5550; BIO 5040 or C M 6010; BME 5020; BME 5030; BME 8070; BME 8080.
2. Dissertation (thirty credits).
3. General Courses (minimum of forty credits): Students must complete a minimum of forty credits in graduate coursework, in addition to the core courses and including the satisfaction of the minor in life sciences. The life sciences minor may be satisfied by the completion of eight credits of course work in graduate-level life science beyond the core curriculum. The student is required to seek approval of his/her selection of courses from a graduate adviser. At least twenty credits in general courses must be chosen from those offered by the Biomedical Engineering Program. Directed Study courses may be included.
An approved Plan of Work should be filed with the Office for Graduate Studies before the student has earned forty-eight credits beyond the baccalaureate degree. The student must have filed the Plan of Work before being recommended for candidacy status. (Consult Doctor of Philosophy Degree of this Bulletin for Graduate School regulations governing doctoral study.)
Examinations: All Ph.D. students must pass the examinations outlined below. After successful completion of the qualifying examinations, a student may be admitted to the status of doctoral candidate.
1. Written and Oral Qualifying Examination: Students are encouraged to take the qualifying examination after completing sixteen credits in new course work toward the Ph.D. All Ph.D. students are required to pass a qualifying examination before completion of thirty-two credits in new course work. Each student has two chances to pass the examination; if the exam is not passed by the second attempt, the student will be dismissed from the program (the option of obtaining a terminal master's degree will apply). The examination is offered once a year, in May.
2. Proposal Defense: This examination shall be a presentation of the student's proposal for dissertation research, and will be administered by the student's Doctoral Dissertation Committee.
Dissertation requirements are satisfied by the successful completion of thirty credits of dissertation research. The thirty credit dissertation registration requirement is fulfilled in one of two ways: 1) Students who have accumulated credits in the course numbered 9999 (Doctoral Dissertation Research and Direction) register for a total of thirty credits in 9999; or 2) Students who have not accumulated any credits in the course numbered 9999 and who attain Candidacy after Summer semester 2001 register for the courses 9991, 9992, 9993, and 9994 (Doctoral Dissertation Research and Direction I, II, III, and IV, respectively), in consecutive academic year semesters. All Ph.D. students must pass the written and oral qualifying examinations before election of dissertation credits. All Ph.D. students must register for dissertation credits for any semester in which they utilize campus facilities or consult with faculty, even though they may not be enrolled in a formal lecture course. The dissertation defense will be publicized by public notice to the academic community; at this session the candidate presents his/her doctoral research for final approval by the Doctoral Dissertation Committee.