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1 cup almonds
1 1/2 cups brown rice flour
3/4 cups barley flour
1/4 cup arrowroot
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
2 teaspoons lemon zest
1/4 cup cold butter or coconut oil
1/3 cup maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup water
Grind almonds in blender or food processor to powder. Mix with flours, arrowroot, sea salt, and lemon zest. Cut in butter (if using food processor, put all that stuff in and pulse to cut butter in). Mix in remaining ingredients to form a stiff dough. If it doesn't hold together when pressed, add a little more water. Chill in refrigerator at least 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 350. Oil large cookie sheets. On floured board, roll dough out 1/4-inch thick. Use cookie cutter to cut shapes. Bake 12 to 14 minutes until edges are slightly golden.
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- 1⁄4 cup flour
- 1⁄4 cup cornmeal
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄8 teaspoon pepper
- 2 lbs smelt
- 4 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 lemon, cut into 8 wedges
- 2 tablespoons butter
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- Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
- In a large plastic bag, mix the flour, cornmeal, salt and pepper. Add half the smelt, close the bag securely, and shake well to coat the fish with the flour mixture.
- Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the coated smelt, with out crowding, and fry 3 to 4 minutes, turning once, until the cooked fish are golden brown and opaque throughout (cut into one to check for doneness). Place the smelt on a baking sheet and keep warm in the oven.
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Other pre-game notes:
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1614 W Fayette Street
Property Address: 1614 W Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD 21223
Property Owner: Divine Services, LLC, 5824 Barnes Drive, Clinton, MD 20735 (Company charter has been forfeited, company is not in good standing.)
Resident Agent for Divine Services, LLC: CSC-Lawyers Incorporating Service Company, 7 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
City Council District and Contact: District 9, "Pistol" Pete Welch
State Senator: Shirley Nathan-Pulliam
State Delegate: Keith Haynes
1413 W Fayette Street
Property Address: 1413 W Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD 21223
Property Owner: Michael T Ware and Jumoke Alim, 2383 Akers Mill Road, Apartment 2, Atlanta, GA 30339
City Council District and Contact: District 9, "Pistol" Pete Welch
State Senator: Shirley Nathan-Pulliam
State Delegate: Keith Haynes
This property was condemned in 2014, due to unsafe conditions inside the home.
1809 and 1807 Frederick Avenue
Property Address: 1809 and 1807 Frederick Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21223
Property Owner (1809): Denaly Company, Inc. and Robert E Topi, Jr., 5720 Carrington Drive, White Marsh, MD 21162
Resident Agent for Denaly Company Inc.: George A. Heer, same address.
Property Owner (1807): Marzener Green, 4545 Pimlico Road, Baltimore, MD 21215
City Council District and Contact: District 9, "Pistol" Pete Welch
State Senator: Shirley Nathan-Pulliam
State Delegate: Keith Haynes
1809 showed up on the city's 2014 Tax Sale list (you'll have to do some scrolling). The home has a lien on it in the amount of $312,569.18. I'm not entirely sure why, as the value of the home couldn't have ever exceeded more than $20,000. The same company owns 1811 Frederick Avenue also, and that had a lien in the amount of $166,433.27.
Also note that 1809 has a red X placard, indicating that it is not safe for firefighters and other emergency personnel to enter the structure.
115 Willard Street
Property Address: 115 S Willard Street, Baltimore, MD 21223
Property Owner: David and Maxie Lee Boyd, 3805 Southern Cross Drive, Baltimore, MD 21207
City Council District and Contact: District 9, "Pistol" Pete Welch
State Senator: Shirley Nathan-Pulliam
State Delegate: Keith Haynes
Most of this property has collapsed, except for the facade and part of the side walls. It's located next to the site of the former Eigenbrot Brewery. It was the site of two businesses in the early 2000s: Boyd Moving Extension, Inc. (now forfeited), and Prophetess Kim Boyd Ministries.
There are no permits on file for this address.
1101 N Carey Street
Property Address: 1101 N Carey Street, Baltimore, MD 21217
Property Owner: Saroya International, Inc., 3722 Old Frederick Road, Baltimore, MD 21229 (Charter has been forfeited, corporation is not in good standing)
Resident Agent for Saroya International, Inc.: Muhammad Zulqurain, 1411 Glenwilde Road, Catonsville, MD 21228
City Council District and Contact: District 9, "Pistol" Pete Welch
State Senator: Shirley Nathan-Pulliam
State Delegate: Keith Haynes
1832 W Fairmount Avenue
Property Address: 1832 W Fairmount Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21223
Property Owner: Carl Hunter, same address
City Council District and Contact: District 9, "Pistol" Pete Welch
State Senator: Verna Jones Rodwell
State Delegates: Keith Haynes, Keiffer Mitchell Jr, Melvin Stukes
In 2011, Bloom Development, LLC filed to foreclose on this home — the court granted the foreclosure. However, in 2012, the court vacated the judgement, and ownership was returned to Mr. Hunter.
A Dying Piece of Baltimore's Industrial History: 611-661 S Monroe Street
If you've ever driven down Monroe Street to Washington Boulevard, you've seen this forlorn building next to the bridge:
The brick wall is crumbing, and the building has been in disrepair for years. On first glance, it appears to be just another one of Baltimore's many vacant properties, left to rot over the decades. However, a little research shows this isn't just any property — it has historic significance, ties to a famous local family, and deserves to be recognized and celebrated.
The building was built in the late 19th century, as the headquarters and manufacturing center for the Alma Manufacturing Company, the first company in the United States to make steel buttons and fasteners for clothing. The company held several patents for their work, among them No. 963,193 and No. 934,136, for buckles.
On the property were long, low mill and multi-story and high-ceiling manufacturing buildings, situated near the rail tracks.
The Alma Manufacturing company was founded by a German immigrant, Herman Kerngood, in 1887. At the beginning of the 20th century, Herman Kerngood formed a partnership with Moses Hecht, Benjamin F. Hecht, Nathan I. Hecht, S.B. Sonneborn, and Isaac Blum, to establish the American Steel Buckle Company, Inc. with an authorized capital stock of $1000. The Hechts were of the same family that started Hecht Brothers and the Hecht Company chain of department stores in the Baltimore-Washington region, starting with a used furniture store founded by Samuel Hecht, in 1857.
The company was taken over by Herman's sons after his death, and then sold to another manufacturing company in 1946.
Source: Maryland Historical Trust, Inventory of Historic Properties
Source: Industrial Development and Manufacturer's Record, July 20, 1905
Source: Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, Volume CLVI, July 1910
Source: Baltimore Sun, August 2010 "Shopping in Fells Point at Hecht's Reliable Store" by Jacques Kelly
Source: Baltimore Heritage: Hecht-May Company
Recent Years
Sometime around 1983, the complex was purchased by one Mahendra "Mike" Shah, who named the industrial center "Shah Industrial Park". One of its tenants at that time was the Naron Candy Company.
In 1996, the complex burned to the ground in one of the worst fires in SW Baltimore. It was later determined by the court that Shah had committed numerous counts of insurance fraud, arson, mail and wire fraud violations, and money laundering. He was subsequently sentenced to 15 years in prison, in 2004. In 2006, Shah sought to overturn his conviction, but the US Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit, denied his appeal.
Currently, the property is owned by a graphic artist and his wife, having purchased the property in 2009. I reached out to them twice to find out what they intend to do with the property — once two weeks ago, and then again this morning. Hopefully they'll respond. It's a terrible shame to see such an important property fall into an even greater state of disrepair.


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Eastmont library is in a high need area. 5 minutes off of 580 and 880, it is inside the Eastmont mall, where a variety of social services offices are located. Many people who go to this mall don't know they can get their kids a free meal while running errands--so part of your duties at this location will be to walk around the mall and let people know they can bring their children to the library for a quick meal. We expect 40-60 kids a day.
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My mother passed away about 2 years ago and we have finally sold her house after many mortgage payments. Do my siblings and I have to pay capitol gains tax on her house when we sell it and do we have to pay estate taxes when we split the estate afterward? We all have put in about six thousand dollars of our own money to keep the house afloat with mortgage payments and such while we tried to sell it. What are we liable to pay because we are only making a minimal amount of money upon selling the house?
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According to the report, girls are now more confident of getting better-paid professional jobs than their male counterparts.
One of the main reasons given for this success is that girls tend to be ahead of boys in literacy skills which gives them an advantage when it comes to university admission.
What makes girls high achievers? And why are boys falling behind? Can there be true equality in achievement?
This debate is now closed. Read a selection of your comments below.
The following comments reflect the balance of views we have received:
I believe the main reason girls do better is the fact that the majority of teachers in primary schools are female. My son is now in primary seven and is being taught by one of just two male teachers in the school, both teachers are P7. Carousel, N Ireland
I think it's ridiculous to say that girls do better than boys because there are more female teachers. That may be true for the humanities but there were no women in the technology department in my school, lucky for me the male teachers were just as supportive to their only female student! Now that I am doing construction engineering at university there are a few more girls on the course but no female lectures! Ruth, Ireland
Another contest is it? I think the main reason why boys fall behind is not that they are thick or lazy, they are just not interested until they grow up and realise why they were pestered to study. I won't mention why there are more men in the IT market than women. Derran, Wales
Because girls distract the boys in lessons! It's obvious. The way some girls dress in class these days would make the most conscientious boy turn his head and cause his mind to wander! Iain, UK
It depends where your goalposts are. In school or college and many of the new universities - where it seems to boil down more and more to being a diligent parrot, girls are achieving the highest. Yet where it takes individual initiative, the men are equal or doing better. To seemingly be elitist in our flattened society - it is revelatory that the first class pass rate at Oxford University is proportionately dominated by males.
Joseph Winters,
The socialising effect on student's learning is crucial. If the home values learning and that is reflected in the life of the family, peer pressure is diminished. Many comments are concerned with the "nerd" mentality facing boys. Girls can equally be faced with this pressure. The answer, children who value themselves and learning and schools which reflect that. The internet and alternate educational options now available allow broader choices for students to not be pressured by peer groups. Tess Williams, Australia
Oh no, here we go again! Another case of women shouting "girls are better/more intelligent/cleverer than boys" and all that rubbish. I'm a girl, but I've always found that if I wish to talk about make-up and hair and all things materialistic and trivial, then I'll go to my girl-friends. But if I want an intelligent, factual conversation then lads are the best to talk to. P.S. I've got a multi-A in A-Levels achieving female friend who couldn't point out Scandinavia on map. Tabitha, UK
Coursework does count for more than exams in a lot of subjects. I know this I've just done my a-levels and my younger brother has just started his GCSE's so I've seen the subject breakdowns and some of his are 70% coursework and some like leisure and tourism (which is a very popular subject with girls) are 100% coursework. Craig, UK
Has anybody considered that the way the exams have changed over the years might favour the girls. These days the exams favour those who can explain the best and tests have shown that the distaff side have an advantage when it comes to the use of language. Add to this the preponderance of female teachers especially at primary school level and the negative image of the male sex that has been emphasized over the last few years and perhaps that might help explain a few things.
I am surprised by the stereotyping that is going on in this debate. There is a freaky triumphant 'joy' that women are doing better then men, which seems really odd. As a young man, the culture nowadays for us is that we are all equal (although different), it seems to me that we are dealing with our fathers' sexist attitudes over the years. If boys at school are 'lazy' etc then we need to deal with it, not assume that 'it's the way they are'. As we have heard, girls weren't so good but now are doing well re exams which is great, but now we need to focus on the boys and get them up to their equal position as well!
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Bob, England: The coursework in GCSEs and A-levels really doesn't count for a lot compared to the exam results. I think the reason girls are doing better is because they mature earlier, so they're working hard while boys are still left thinking it's not cool to do your homework.
This is not really surprising, Girls and Boys require different teaching techniques, if you put them both in the same classroom then it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that one or both sexes will receive a substandard education. The classes will never separate again though; costs will prevent that ever being an option. Tony H, UK
From the age of 12 onwards a girl's priority is her school work, however for a boy its "girls"! We'll sit in exam rooms thinking of girls rather than the subject. I do however feel that boys are no less intelligent at this age and are more capable of holding a conversation about the world around them than women. My ex-girlfriend had 2 A's and a B at A-level, yet she knew nothing about life or the world around her. I conclude that it's all about priorities. I'm not disagreeing that women get better jobs these days. In this age of "equality" the "right person for the job" often goes out of the window. Gavin, Wales
Girls are cleverer than boys. Does this really surprise you? Proven everyday! Just look around! Franziska, UK
The way girls and boys think and respond to situations is fundamentally different, much the same way as they are physically different. Women's minds and thinking is more procedural and they tend to follow processes more diligently, taking less risks. This helps them achieve success in project oriented tasks, and the present educational systems. Girls are believers. They are more tolerant and enduring in general.
As far as boys are concerned, they are more eager to rush to the solutions and achievement of goals. They are more likely to try out innovative methods. This makes males better discoverers, inventors or innovators. At the same time the lack of discipline and tendency to skip procedures is what makes them show inferior results in academics and regular kind of jobs. However I strictly believe man and woman perfectly complement each other. Man provides and earns while woman maintains and nurtures. These basic virtues are still the same.
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I'd say it was the huge surge of Testosterone that boys experience in their teens. Our heads are so messed up that we can't concentrate on work. There's also kudos in being a rebel, more for a boy than a girl.
My experience, on both sides of the gender divide, may shed some light on the question. I was a young male university professor, and now, after gender-reassignment, live as a businesswoman and wife here in the U.S. Very different things are expected from me now, and such expectations bear directly on academic performance. For a woman, in group conversations, or in the classroom, consensus-building and cooperation are strongly encouraged. Women are expected to studiously and quietly focus on meeting the group's, or institution's, goals. A distracting, loud or competitive woman is not warmly embraced in the company of women.
Men who would meet those expectations are considered passive and weak, and are not held up as revered examples of masculinity. This difference in expectations appears to be strengthening with each generation. Just watch any 'college' or 'fraternity' movie and you will see the (exaggerated) idealized young man: he is certainly not in school to study or quietly and cooperatively meet academic expectations (those that do are considered to be "geeks" or un-masculine). Success is partly a function of the expectations we aim to meet.
Lauren P.,
United States
I've heard that while average ability is higher among females, the variance is higher among males, with the result that top-performing individuals are disproportionately male even while females do better on average. Is/was this the scientific consensus? Joe , US
My girlfriend tells me that women do better at exams because they are always right. Martin, England
Girls have always reached their intellectual peak before boys because they mature quicker, but eventually boys catch up and often surpass girls. With too much political correctness and not enough discipline, maybe today's teachers give up too early on the boys. eccles, UK
Why the surprise ? A significant proportion of mammal and insect species have the female at the centre, with seemingly unthinking males being the providers - whether it be food, work, war, or sex. And hey - we're much better at those things than thinking anyway ! Mike Raven, USA
Well, the statistics are not quite true, as my university (Cambridge, statistically the top academic institution in the country) remains the one place left in the developed world where male students achieve on average higher grades than female students. Although, I myself fit the general trend... Leo, UK
I think it is due to lots of reasons from different angles, but socially, I think it's because of some of the emasculation produced by the feminist movement. Just look at the messages contained on TV and in advertising. When is manhood openly celebrated or encouraged? It's only when it somehow, in a twisted way, fits the feminist agenda. Feminists have helped produce 'nice' boys with little encouragement to take risks encouraging them to be fully men. Instead, they are encouraged to be safe, dream little, and be like girls. What a bummer. Justin, USA
Many men here seem to be justifying their (presumably) mediocre academic achievements by claiming the educational system favours girls. What it actually favours is maturity and application. Perhaps there should be exams in laziness, aggression and insolence in order to balance things out a bit. Frank , UK
Having two teen children, one a boy and one a girl, I do see a difference in the peer culture they are subjected to. My son, very bright, dumbed down to fit this culture that believed to be popular you had to reject studying. My daughter's peer culture was less damaging. The rejection of school affected her most in fifth and sixth grade. For my son it went through high school. I have a feeling peer pressure will catch up to girls in the future, though, after making great strides now. I really think it is all about the culture, both popular culture through the media and their peers. Arlene, USA
A decade or so ago it was decided that the exam set-up favoured boys over girls. Since then GCSEs have changed to give course-work more prominence thereby giving girls an inherent advantage.
Now girls do better - exactly as intended.
Why is this even an issue? It is the planned outcome.
Girls are more conscio...
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Have I spelled that right?
Bilal Patel (a bloke),
London, UK
Academia is an environment where those who conform are rewarded. This is generally true with the business world as well. Since women prefer not to disturb the social environment and tend not to take risks, they tend to move upwards in their environment. Men are usually risk takers who seek to improve upon things and are very individualistic. This causes them to often be looked upon as outside of the herd. Failure and competition is frowned upon from within a herd, as is the unnecessary commotion that men often create. Therefore, men are not preferred, where quiet hard working women who follow the line are preferred.
To improve this boys need male teachers and an environment that accepts competition, drive, and rewards male creativity and individualism.
I doubt that boys demonstrate declining ambition or drive, it is simply that girls today are extremely motivated because they're working against a historical bias and may have a point to prove. A lot of young women have also witnessed women in older generations being economically trapped in unhealthy marriages due to lack of financial independence. It may be important for girls to believe they have effective choices in life and in relationships if they can succeed in a heretofore man's world.
Parveen Khodaiji Shah,
United States
Separating boys and girls won't help much. When I was in high school I enjoyed classroom debate and asked a lot of questions and wasn't afraid to disagree with my classmates when they got stuff wrong. A lot of the other girls had the opposite learning style. If there were no boys in our classes, the teachers would still have had to deal with two different learning styles.
Mina, USA
Girls succeed because the curriculum is currently geared to project work - which boys are useless at until they become adults. In addition boys also need strict discipline - alas they don't get it in today's school system.
Richard Mottershead,
United Kingdom
As a father of three - two girls and a boy - I see a massive difference in the ability of my son to sit still and concentrate for long periods of time compared to his sisters, unless (and this is crucial) he has worn himself out in some intense physical activity beforehand.
When I was at primary school, we had P.E. every day, and this burnt off much of the excess energy us boys had. We were able to sit down and concentrate without 'ants in our pants'.
Today's heavy curriculum leaves no time for this physical activity. Shorter break times and less energetic pastimes (video games etc) generally leave boys restless, fidgety and difficult to teach.
Bring back more sports time and longer breaks for boys to run around playing football etc. It'll help them sit still and do wonders for their attention span! Richard Topping, USA
I'll get pilloried for this, but an old joke springs to mind: Women do better than men because than can use sex to get what they want. Men can't do this, because sex IS what they want...
PS: Top marks to Dave, USA (below) for his comment that "being 'equal' and being the 'same' are two different things" - hear, hear. Russ, UK
The study quoted showed Finland to have a 50% higher literacy for girls than boys. There is no mention of how this is measured - so how can we make informed decisions about the validity of the study? The reality in Finland is that although women author 40% of the PhD's annually, they still only obtain 20% of the professorships. This in a so-called progressive country. It's obvious that equality has a long way to go. Also, and this has been a major criticism of similar studies, if girls have a higher natural capacity for literacy, as many have claimed, then boys are not necessarily 'falling behind', but rather girls are realising their potential in this field. To suggest all boys if they are not succeeding in literacy are not interested in a career is ridiculous, but some people are far too quick to jump on the bandwagon with a stereotype, boys are only interested in video games and girls. I have been a teacher for many years and I tell it's simply not true. Mark P, Finland
Girls cheat.
This is because there is now an extreme cultural and socio-economic bias favouring females in any given field of endeavour, cultivated by the feminist movement that has sought to emasculate males in society in order to achieve their agenda of alleged equality. Joe Fitzgerald, USA
If Girls achieved as much in the real world as they did in school, then I would say that this is a valid comment.
However they don't, so what's wrong? Both genders have equal potential, but it would seem that academia is becoming geared towards females, but doesn't prepare them for a career.
Otherwise wouldn't men would be doing as badly in the workplace as they are apparently doing at school? Anthony Hunt, UK
Each and every human's mind think and react differently. You simply can't compare two or more humans and expect them to think the same. Place two girls or two boys together who are taught at the same rate. One will be better than the other in a particular subject. The way each person is brought up and affected by their surroundings alter the way they think. The way modern society treats girls and boys could play a major factor in how they perform, in this example, in education. Albert, London, UK
Apart from physical difference between men and women (better spatial awareness in men for example) there is a similar bias in education as there is in health - females have more time and money spent on them, and more facilities provided. Luke, UK
Despite all of the studies and educational findings, men still make up the vast majority of top business leaders, scientist, and politicians. Women will usually end their careers and look for a man to support them when they want to start a family. Jerome, USA
I would like to respond to the sender of the following - "men still make up the vast majority of top business leaders, scientist, and politicians. Women will usually end their careers and look for a man to support them when they want to start a family." All I say to that is those top leaders, business men and company fat cats etc, are all men because they are scared stiff knowing that if a women was to take over - they'd do the job first time around, no arguments and better - Its also a proven fact that women can multi-task, men simply cannot and I think that some men like to think they rule the world when the simple fact is that us women are better at it. All men know that, hence not letting them have any of the top jobs. Kell, UK
I grew up with my mother telling me how lucky I was to have opportunities she never had. She was determined that I wouldn't leave school at the earliest possible moment without any qualifications and get a job as her parents forced her to do. I suspect many girls will have had a similar experience - it certainly motivated me to concentrate on getting an education. However, I think it was my dad's insistence that arts degrees were less useful than science ones that pushed me towards studying chemistry at university. Sarah, UK
I think that female teachers have trouble gaining the respect of boys and young men. Boys need a male role model, and a different style of teaching to that currently offered. Certainly at my school (way back when) the boys always behaved better with a teacher who had their respect, and few women teachers can earn the respect from adolescent boys. John McArthur, UK
Huh? Women overtaking men? Out of over 300 scientific Nobel prizes in history only about 10 went to women. This ratio hasn't changed a bit. The Internet revolution was conceived of, designed and implemented by men. The governing boards of Silicon Valley consist of men (HP's exception confirms the rule). Enter "math (or physics) Olympiad" into your search engine and look at the gender of participants. 90% boys. Females having greater "literary skills"? Really? Most of Nobel prizes in literature go to men. Top 10% of Hollywood screenwriters are men. Degrees? They mean nothing in today's high-tech economy.
The most entrepreneurial individuals drop out of Harvards and Stanfords (to found Microsofts and Yahoos) or don't even bother studying. University admissions are tweakable by social engineers to meet politically correct goals. High-level, creative, intellectual achievement, as evidenced by real-life performance (not rote memory studying for exams) remains a male domain. Wake me up when half the Nobel prizes in physics go to women.
Having worked in the Education Development field, one of the key issues is the different maturity phases that girls and boys go through. Girls mature much earlier in life and then develop the required academic skills to succeed for higher education demands. What is interesting though, is how boys rapidly catch up in performance stats when you look at higher-level education statistics, which in some part is a result of their later maturity phase.
Dave T,
The brains of men and women are different. They think differently. Put a group of men and women together in any situation, you're going to find that one group (depending on the situation) tends to 'succeed' more than the other. This has nothing to do with the fairness of the situation. Men are good at some things, women are good at others. It's foolish to assume that men and women are the same (being 'equal' and being the 'same' are two different things, a concept lost on our society.) Dave, USA
Role models for my generation of the 1970's used to be the likes of Einstein, Faraday and Stephen Hawking. For most teenagers of the 90's these names were replaced by Michael Jordan, Puff Daddy and Tiger Woods. And this trend is only worsening with time. We as a society need to re-align our goals and priorities. Is it in watching that killer game of football or next to a study desk reading about Quarks?
Ahsan Upal,
The education system in Canada certainly favours girls and women's values. It's less about the amount of work or some mysterious "intelligence gap", than about motivating either the boys OR the girls. It seems that in mixed classrooms, you can't give an equally good education to both sexes. The structure of courses, the way you talk to them, the examples you give, the way you prepare team work and activities, the way you evaluate students... it's different enough to require separate classrooms. I've had a female teacher who kept punishing boys because "girls listen more, boys keep talking in the classroom". Well, if the boys are not "right" for the education system, then maybe we need separate classes... or we refuse access to the boys because they "disrupt" the girls' education! Hugo, Canada
Boys are taught from a young age that they should put their primary effort into developing their physical skills. The men who are commonly portrayed in popular culture are the athletes, the soldiers, the fighters. Girls by contrast are taught early on to develop their brain, and in particular language. At least in the US, exceptions to this rule are subject to extraordinary pressure by both their peers and their educators to match the mold. It's not impossible to buck that trend, but it takes more willpower than your average child has.
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Girls are far more mature than boys. They seem to have a more realistic perception of life at an earlier age. Being 24, I have noticed that many of my high-achieving female counterparts do feel the pressure of the "biological clock" and look more seriously towards marriage and children, where an ambitious man can wait until he feels successful enough in his field to settle down. As they say, girls turn 18 every day. Randall, US
Well true that a few girls are higher achievers. Whereas most boys are average achievers. And this has got nothing to do with whether the country is developed or not. Madibe Makola, South Africa
My guess? Because the skills needed to get ahead in education (literacy, the ability to listen to instructions, getting down to doing tedious work) aren't fashionable "youth" behaviour.
Girls are still more likely to do as they're told and get on with the work than boys. We're not necessarily brighter, just more dutiful and willing to work. Lucy Hewitt, UK
Girls work harder, because they are used to reacting that way to pressure. They needed it because there always has been more pressure on girls to mature and to look beautiful. In addition, most girls find it easier to concentrate on details while men have more difficulties staying focused while studying. Alban, Belgium
The educational system MUST address unique learning styles for boys. Balance needs to be achieved so that both sexes have equal chances of success in learning endeavours. Lisa Spracklin, Canada
There is a strong tendency in modern culture to rubbish young men, other than athletes and members of traditionally victimised groups. How often are young men described as "inspirational" or allowed to be "proud"? Rarely. How often are men rubbished in TV ads where, if gender roles were swapped, an ad would be banned? Constantly. Men have lost the sexual revolution and young men, like all depressed losers, have given up are paying the price...
Girls achieve more at school because they are watching the future while the boys are watching the girls. Guy Chapman, UK
Girls (and women) work harder than boys (men). That's it.
It's not rocket science!!!
Jess T,
Boys still do rather better than girls at "hard science", i.e. Maths, Physics and to a lesser extent Chemistry. This is not evident from the A-level results since many comprehensive schools have virtually given up on these subjects (too difficult for the teachers!). If we introduced more rigour and discipline into our education system then the gender gap would soon begin to close. David MacDonald, UK
Simple. The feminisation of education. Boys require discipline and specific targets. The woolly education policies of today do not provide this. No surprise then that while numbers of individuals passing are rising (both boys and girls), the standards are falling. Unfortunately we have now turned a full vicious circle with degrees not being worth the paper they're printed on but the job market largely controlled by individuals with similar qualifications from a few years back.
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At the same time men are getting better at cooking, so it's all equal. Benjamin Nelson, UK
It's not surprise that boys in developed countries are falling behind. Any teacher of teens will tell you that boys seem to think that (a) being thick/aggressive/criminal is cool, and (b) the world owes them a salary and lifestyle equivalent to that of a professional footballer, with little or no effort on their part. Popular culture does little to disabuse them of these false beliefs. Girls do better than boys (despite the idiotic advance of so-called 'ladette' culture) because they are less likely to view literacy skills as 'boring' or 'sad'. Pat, UK


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BELTON — Bekah Alcozer and Skylar Stewart both hit home runs to help the Belton Lady Tigers rebound from Tuesday's loss to Waco Midway with an 11-1 victory over Harker Heights on Thursday.
"We were all dejected Tuesday, mostly with how we lost it," Belton coach Matt Blackburn said, referring to the 1-0 loss at Midway. "We were hoping to see more line drives."
Belton (14-10, 7-1 8-5A) cranked out 10 hits and got a five-hit pitching performance from Alex Wilson (3-4) to get the win.
Heights (8-21, 2-6) scored its lone run in the third when Madison Stanley came home on a throwing error. It's only the third run the Lady Tigers have yielded in district play.
The Lady Tigers were already ahead 5-0 when Alcozer turned on a 1-0 pitch from Heights pitcher Brianna Smith in the third inning.
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2010 SE.Bought new in Denver.Been a great car.58000 miles,with the only problem,injector went out .Ford replaced under warrenty in about 2 hours.Reliable,and good in the snow.31 MPG combined driving.It has been a better car than my 2003 Honda Civic.
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Faster readers will have done with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by now, and may thus be filled with a vague sense of anticlimax. But there you are, that's the thing with a book: better than a year in the writing, a couple of long nights in the reading and then what? Next book. Dozens of inspired early teens are no doubt now reaching for their first Saul Bellow yarn, or perhaps wondering whether Don DeLillo might do wizards too.
Potter VI sold nigh on 9 million copies in its first 24 hours, and wickedness knows how many copies over the ensuing week, a sufficient swell of commercial activity to attract the interest of evil-doers, some of whom had the entire 672 pages scanned and available for on-line piracy by Monday.
Pirate downloads appeared particularly popular in markets traditionally untouched by the long-established boarding-school wizard-romp genre - which is to say China, a market in which Potter has achieved such popularity that in the finest traditions of North Asian knock offs, clumsy imitations have been spawned. Countless readers were seduced by a still-unknown author's 2002 offering Harry Potter And Leopard Walk Up To Dragon, an instalment of the Potter saga little known in the West, but one that apparently looked a plausible enough companion to the other volumes to fool thousands of Chinese. And there is probably some kind of lesson in that for the officers of Australia's Department of Trade and Industry.
Digital piracy is one thing, straight out Potter fakes another, but in India, where download technology lacks comprehensive reach, printed pirate copies of the original Rowling text are now available, though in the tradition of bootlegs in other media, the type is a bit blurry, runs outside the margin in places and is quite often obscured by silhouettes as other readers move across the page towards the toilets.
All said and done, it is perhaps simpler to just pick up a copy at Myer. Already on the bargain table, by the way.
Wishing for a little wizardry mid-week was sometime football caller Rex Hunt, whose description late last week of Collingwood forward Leon Davis as being "black as a dog" had somehow been construed by a mean-spirited minority as a racist slur.
All had been forgiven by Thursday, when it was apparent that what had seemed in the heat and flurry of a Friday night contest to be racism had been exposed in the cool light of day to simply be Rexism, which, while still objectionable, was another kettle of fish entirely - or a kettle of she-leopard dragon spore as they say in China.
Researchers trawled the vaults to contextualise Hunt's latest public blunder, and the following transcript was released as part of the fully documented apology: "And yibbida it's worm burning by jiminy coming out to the 50, and bang! That's the poofteenth, oh, the humanity, grab me, 11.11 Lord Nelson, soaring Dustin Hoffman fish basket in low pressure fertilised."
Cryptographers worked tirelessly through the week, revealing on the eve of the apology to Davis that the transcript referred to a key passage of play in the 2004 grand final, an epic of translation that set the "black dog" comment in the context of a broad body of utterly imbecilic unintelligibility: whatever Hunt had said, no reasonable person could have expected it to make sense, even abusive sense. It could, therefore, have been worse.
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Minor error. Under section Rollback, it should say Rollback since. ;)
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I think it should be semi-protected. Is a user finds a mistake they can fix it. Technology Wizard · talk
- No. It's protected the way it is because the people who can edit it know what they're doing. --Jäzzi 12:06, July 20, 2011 (UTC)
I'm back. But I'll still be active. No as much. Busy. Working my fingers off. ANX219 21:35, July 24, 2011 (UTC)
Incorrect sorting table:
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The above example should be used to actually sort the "Admin/Rollback since..." in the correct order. It's alphabetized, in which we all know A will go before J, for example, August (A) will always go first before July (J). Or for the numbers, 0 first, 9 last, for example, 199 (1) will go before 71 (7), unless it's 071 (0), shown above. Bermuda • Triangle • 18:27,9/24/2011
We go by name not date, it's fine the way it is. By the way, it already somewhat does that, I believe when you hit the button, it sorts by year then month and day. --Bullet Francisco (talk)
Per Bullet, alphabetical it works fine, and I personally don't think any change is needed. – Jäzzi 18:32, September 24, 2011 (UTC)
- Well, however this wiki likes to work things isn't my problem. ;) I just like dates (or other things) to sort correctly, because that's just how I am. :P Bermuda • Triangle • 18:35,9/24/2011
- Never Mind, I thought you meant a different problem, you were correct my bad for the misunderstanding. --Bullet Francisco (talk)
Hey, could an admin please remove the page and pictures i just added? I was trying to post it on the PokePasta Wiki, but it brought me here for some reason. http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/The_Wrath_of_the_Titan My bad. Why did it bring me here though? It is a sub section of this wiki?
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Please correct the date King Marth 64 became a Rollbacker. Ellis99 I'm feeling the flow! 11:01, June 20, 2014 (UTC)
It needs Shockstorm and Shadowdemon137 even though Shadow is in-active. Ellis99 I'm feeling the flow! 19:17, July 27, 2014 (UTC)
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The sharemarket is always full of optimism at the start of a new year – but perhaps more so after total returns that tallied almost 20 per cent in 2013.
Indeed, the past 18 months have been a good time for investors and it seems that sharemarkets are in the process of readjusting to a more normal way of life.
But much of the optimism is tinged with warnings that investors shouldn't expect similar gains this year.
That's a mantra that's often wheeled out at this time of the year. But it's worth remembering that over the past 30 years the average annual return from shares has been about 11 per cent including dividends.
For sure, there's the odd down year, but for true long-term investors that shouldn't cause too many problems.
The accompanying graph shows that since 1990 there have been just six years that produced negative returns, while 2012 and 2013 were the first positive back to back years since 2006 and 2007.
And here's hoping there's not another year like 2008, when investors endured a 40 per cent loss in value (once dividends were included) amid the financial crisis.
Earnings will drive shares
One of the main drivers of shares this year will be earnings.
Over the past year, almost half of the gain in the major indices was linked to an expansion in the forward price-earnings ratio.
Now it's time for some earnings to come through to back up the gains.
The forward PE could expand more as it's still around long-term averages of close to 15 times.
But it's up from 10.5 times, when the bull market began back in June 2012. Earnings per share growth for the current financial year is expected to be around 13 per cent, up from minus 1 per cent for the 2013 financial year. And a major driver of that rise in EPS is the resources sector, forecast to grow at a very healthy 33 per cent, up from 22 per cent in the 2013 financial year.
But over the past few years, forward EPS forecasts have made a habit of being downgraded.
This time last year EPS for 2013 was closer to 10 per cent – but in the end it came in at minus 1 per cent.
One key difference between the local sharemarket and Wall Street over the past year or so is profits in the US have been quite good.
And this week the US reporting season gets into full swing and investors are very optimistic.
A survey by Thomson Reuters found that quarterly profits are tipped to lift by 7.6 per cent on a year ago.
Australian investors on the hunt for further gains this year will need companies to deliver on earnings expectations when they start their own reporting season in February.
Thanks to their weighting, resources and banks are again set to be key.
By anyone's standards, banks have also had a dream run – delivering 8 per cent earnings growth in 2013, although 3 per cent of that was from a fall in provisions for bad debts.
Most analysts think that earnings growth will fall back to 5 per cent and, with their attractive yields, their share price might not fall back that far. But with not the best outlook for earnings, it's starting to be a stretch to think they can keep rising.
Resources could surprise
The resources sector, out of favour with investors over the past year, could surprise when it comes to profits thanks to a higher than expected iron ore price, the lower $A and reduced cost pressures.
If resources are excluded, analysts are forecasting a pick-up of around 8 per cent in earnings growth through next year.
This isn't onerous, given that interest rates haven't been this low in almost 55 years.
There have been some signs over the past week that record low rates are really starting to bite.
The latest retail trade and building approval numbers show that perhaps rates are on hold and the Reserve Bank might be hiking earlier than most economists think.
That's good news for investors, as it will drive stronger revenue growth at a time when the large-scale cost cutting of the last two years will result in strong leverage.
One big risk for shares this year is the bond market, both here and in Europe. Bond yields around the globe have hit all-time lows over the past few years but are poised to rise.
Low bond yields have been providing an artificial boost to cash flow-based valuations.
Sharemarket analysts typically use the 10-year bond yield when calculating today's value of a company's future cash flows.
A lower bond yield delivers a higher value, and vice versa.
Higher yields don't normally have a good influence on sharemarkets, unless they rise on the back of an increase in economic activity, and that increases inflation concerns.
For the contrarian investors out there, it's worth noting inflation index linked bonds were a poor performer in 2013.
If you believe in the 'Dogs of the Dow'' theory that last year's worst performer might be this year's winner, they might be worth a look.
A major sell-off in the bond market would also create challenges for the banking sector as it would send borrowing costs higher.
The Australian Financial Review


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I photographed the human banner on October 13, 2012 at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. The human banner said DUMP CITIZENS UNITED.
While photographing the banner, I did not understand what they meant or who Citizens United was, but now I know. I was asked by many people at the scene what the term meant, and I shrugged my shoulders and said I don't know. On their website Citizens United it says they are an organization that "dedicated to restoring our government to citizens' control. Through a combination of education, advocacy, and grass roots organization, Citizens United seeks to reassert the traditional American values of limited government, freedom of enterprise, strong families, and national sovereignty and security. Citizens United's goal is to restore the founding fathers' vision of a free nation, guided by the honesty, common sense, and good will of its citizens."
This event was organized by a Brad Newsham, Andrew Boyd and John Sellers. They have a website humanbannersf. This event was a "a collaboration between Brad and The Other 98%, with support from CREDO Mobile, Code Pink, Common Cause, Courage Campaign, Democrats.com, Move to Amend, Public Citizen, Roots Action, Ruckus Society, and unPAC.org.
The people who formed the banner lined up and joined hands at the edge of the surf.
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Sources show suppliers get exposure
May 26, 2003,
Overseas companies eager to break into the U.S. market, or expand what they have already, joined the exhibitor list of the new Sources show here at Pier 94 last week.
"I'm not going make a dime at this show," said Vivek Jolly, co-partner, Profile India, New Delhi, India, because the bulk of his business is conducted in October. But he's here for the exposure and to meet new accounts.
Profile already sends 60 percent of its business to the U.S., Jolly said. His decorative pillows, tree skirts and stockings emphasize the holiday season, so the timing of Sources was wrong for him, he said.
Decor Evolutions is the new U.S. office, located in New York, of a Thailand-based company that make table, bath and gift sets. The company decided to add the new office to be closer to the U.S. based retailers it works with, which targets the mid tier level, like discounters and catalogs.
Bangkok, Thailand-based Siphya was in the Untied States for the first time because "we want to know the market," said Phannee Chirangboonkil, managing director. Though it mostly sells furniture, it recently introduced its first textiles group of bed covers, pillows and upholstery to coordinate. It targets hotel and restaurants and interior designers.
Jallpa Nina, a Lima, Peru ceramics producer, used the show to debut its new textiles group of rugs and pillows in pre-Columbian culture designs. It already ships ceramics to such artists as Jonathan Adler here, said Eduardo Deneumostier.
The show was also the first visit to the United States by Krishna Sales Corp., a Noida, India-based manufacturer of bath products. Looking around at the gift and decorative accessories exhibitors, Gaurav Khetan, director of business development, said, "I don't think this is really our show. But I think next time we'll go the [home] textiles show."
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Washington • The Obama administration stepped up its attempts Monday to court China's support for efforts to isolate Russia over its military intervention in Ukraine.
With official comments from China appearing studiously neutral since the Ukraine crisis began, President Barack Obama spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping in a bid to get Beijing off the fence. The call was their first known conversation since Russian forces took control of Ukraine's Crimea region.
Obama appealed to China's well-known and vehement opposition to outside intervention in other nations' domestic affairs, according to a White House statement.
However, it remained unclear whether Chinawould side with the U.S. and Europe or with Moscow, which has accused the West of sparking the crisis in Ukraine with inappropriate "meddling" in the internal affairs of the former Soviet republic. China is a frequent ally of Russia in the UN Security Council, where both wield veto power,


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I have a strange problem. I have a site (wolcf.org) that has a title tag of "Word of Life Christian Fellowship". When I type in the keywords "spirit filled churches in henrietta, ny" into google, this site comes up but has the title of "amoxycillin for sale". There is nothing about amoxycillon on the site. The google link goes to the right site. Also a friend of mine who has an rss feed to the site says that the title to his last couple of feeds had the amoxycillon title as well. It is a wordpress site and is using version 3.3.2. All plugins are up to date. Any ideas?
It sounds like you've been hacked, to be honest. You'd probably better investigate your server to see what's happened, and ideally, change your passwords and revert back to a backup version. This can be a bit of a trial, I'm afraid.
I did not found anything wrong with SERP.
Your site might have been hacked when Google was crawling that page. Run a scan to make sure that your site isn't hacked otherwise people will not go to your site with that title. After you've cleaned it up, it might take quite a while for Google to crawl your site again so you're going to have to wait quite a bit.
hello weddon .. today i have check your website in google ..now your website is ok..


text: Cleveland's largest newspaper, the Plain Dealer has done a beautiful series exposing the cruelty and environmental hazards of modern egg farms. The extensive stories, by Fran Henry, received front page placement on Sunday, June 1 and Monday, June 2. Sunday's story, "The squawk over Ohio's eggs" compared the way chickens were treated on old fashioned farms, to what they suffer on modern factory farms. The story was jam-packed with information, and was printed with huge photos. I will share one of my favorite sections: "Listen to the faint scratching sounds. Look how the egg rocks ever so slightly as the small creature within it struggles to break free. Peck-peck-peck. A fragile bit of shell falls, and then another. Peck-peck-peck. Then the baby rests awhile, gathering up the energy to try again, and again. "Finally, the pale beak triumphs, and the chick is free. It hops to its feet and begins its instinctive search for food. But a hand swoops down and picks it up, and an employee called a 'sexer' makes a decision that scripts the small creature's life. "For a male chick, it is a short story. He can't lay eggs, and he can't develop enough meat to be raised profitably for food. So he is dropped in a grinder alive and processed into cattle feed. 'They don't know what hits them,' said Robert Kreider, vice president of Hy-Line, the nation's leading supplier of chicks. 'It's the ugliest side of our business.' "A female chick, however, has a busy future. When she is about 10 days old, her beak is trimmed with a heated blade to prepare her for life in a small cage. Without the trim, most farmers say, she will peck at other hens, possibly causing them harm. "After about 17 weeks, the bird begins to lay eggs, nearly one a day. She lives in a windowless shed, where light, water, feed, heat and ventilation are computer controlled. On some farms, her manure will be allowed to pile up beneath the bank of cages, causing strong ammonia vapors to fill the barn. "When she is about 65 weeks old, she is starved an average of 10 days to induce molting, which means she loses her feathers. The process reinvigorates her, farmers say, allowing the hen to lay eggs another 40 or so weeks. "At about age 2, she is so physically depleted that her bones often break when she is removed from her cage for disposal. "About 30 percent of hens arrive at the slaughterhouse with freshly broken bones, says a 1999 study for Compassion in World Farming. "At the end, she is gassed to death and buried, or slaughtered and processed into food." Henry goes on to discuss the work of Nathan Runkle, with Mercy for Animals (http://www.MercyForAnimals.org ) who breaks into modern egg farms and documents abuse. You can read the whole article on line at: http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/living/1054581302227950.xml? lxoth The Sunday paper also included a wonderful section headed "How hens live." You'll find it at: http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/living/1054474263222280.xml? lxoth The Monday, June 2 article, on the environmental impact of modern egg farms is headed, "State rules still short of ideal, some say." Henry refers to the once peaceful flatlands of Wyandot County where "16 green barns filled with 3 million hens fractured the serenity." She writes: "The complex is one of four owned by Buckeye Egg Farm, an 11-million hen company whose lawsuit-plagued history of fly infestations, waste runoff and noxious odors has embarrassed the egg industry and cast doubt on its ability to produce eggs without harming the environment and annoying the neighbors. Since April 2002, Buckeye's permits to operate have been under review by the state." We learn about new rules governing factory farm operations in Ohio but read that, "The new rules also do not address the problem of nuisance odor and air pollution." We also learn that, "When the new state rules were implemented in August, responsibility for their enforcement was transferred from the Ohio EPA to the Ohio Department of Agriculture." Local activist Robert Bear comments, "It's like the fox guarding the henhouse." You can read the whole story on line at: http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/living/1054553402180680.xml? lxoth Here is a perfect opportunity for activists, particularly those in Ohio or those involved with organizations that work to help farmed animals, to write appreciative letters to the editor referring to the cruelty involved in the consumption of animal products or singing the praises of a plant-based diet. 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Just wanted to hear some thoughts from RPSers on whether any of the (story) DLC is worth it. So I guess that would be: From Ashes, Leviathan, and Omega.
I just got ME3 on a sale so that's why I ask ;).
I was impressed with the DLC for ME2 (namely the Kasumi and Shadow Broker ones), and was wondering if these 3 are of the same quality.


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Rogue truckers bringing guns, drugs and contraband into Merseyside are being targeted by law enforcement agencies during a 12-month crackdown.
The operation - codenamed "Hedgehunter" - is being led by Titan, the North West Regional Crime Unit.
Senior invetigating officerDetective Chief Inspector Janet Hudson said: "This is the first time Titan has led an operation targeting haulage companies as the movers and shakers in serious and organised crime in this region.
"Almost all organised crime affecting the North West involves commodities like drugs, weapons or contraband crossing our borders illegally and end up fuelling crime on the streets of our communities and damaging people's lives.
"By targeting rogue elements within the haulage industry we are disrupting this supply chain, driving the criminal element out of trucking and firing a warning shot across their bows that we are going to be looking very closely at their business practices."
Police say the operation is aimed at:
• Disrupting criminal activity by rogue elements within the haulage industry
• Gathering information about who is involved
• Supporting law-abiding members of the trucking industry whose profits and livelihoods are being threatened by criminals.
Detective Chf Insp Hudson continued: "The vast majority of firms are run by decent, law-abiding people who are simply trying to run a legitimate business and make a living. But they are not competing on a level playing field because some of their rivals are using the proceeds from organised crime to expand their business unfairly.
"My message to them is help us put a stop to this by sharing what you know about suspicious or illegal activity in your industry."
A high-profile awareness-raising campaign aimed at truck drivers and other motorway users will also encourage them to report any information about illegal or suspicious activity anonymously to Crimestoppers.
Leaflets with an eye-catching image of a set of truck doors with the slogan: 'Illegal load on board?' will be placed by Border Force officers in the passports of truck drivers going through security checks at key ports. Business cards will also be handed to them in cafes and garages in the region's main motorway truck stops.
Law enforcement agencies and border officials have successfully targeted hauliers from all over the country and Europe in the past with millions of pounds of drugs seized and offenders being given double-digit prison sentences.
Operation Hedgehunter is being supported by independent charity Crimestoppers, Border Force, the Serious Organised Crime Agency, HM Revenue & Customs as well as all six regional police forces and other agencies.


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TONBRIDGE ANGELS 1 (Bakare 15)
DORCHESTER TOWN 2 (Crittenden 35, Jermyn 90)
THE Magpies struck late for the second game in succession to take all three points at Tonbridge Angels.
Michael Bakare lifted the ball over Alan Walker-Harris to put the hosts ahead after just 15 minutes but Dorchester got back level before the break when Nathan Craig's free-kick was parried by Clark Masters, allowing Nick Crittenden to convert the rebound.
That equaliser gave Dorchester a huge lift and in the second half they deservedly went on to win it.
They had several chances to grab the winner but it eventually came when Mark Jermyn bravely turned in a header in the dying seconds.
Nathan Walker also struck the crossbar for the Magpies whose bid for survival in Skrill South is well and truly on.


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One of the more maddening aspects of the Cindy Sheehan story is the implicit argument that her virulent anti-Bush, anti-war attitudes represent a lot of military families, and perhaps even the secret views of soldiers themselves.
But during last year's election campaign, the Annenberg Public Policy Center (definitely not part of the VRWC), polled members of the military and their families. While the October 16, 2004 press release (written by NYT alumnus Adam Clymer) stressed issues where service members and their families disagreed with the President, there was this gem back in the data tables:
Q: "Do you think the U.S. should keep military troops in Iraq until a stable government is established there, or do you think the U.S. should bring its troops home as soon as possible?"
Among the troops (both regulars and reserves), the vast majority (79%) insisted on staying in Iraq until victory was assured, vs. 17 percent who said leave as soon as possible. Among just family members, a smaller (but still pretty convincing) majority of 65 percent wanted to stay in Iraq, vs. 30 percent who wanted to leave.
The networks have been lavishing attention on loudly anti-war voices of relatives such as Sheehan and war veterans like recently defeated congressional candidate Paul Hackett, but unless there's been an absolute sea change in attitudes in the last 10 months, such coverage merely masks the real support from the majority of both warriors and their families.


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