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The Legislature is doing more harm than good by focusing on test scores rather than actual learning.
Published: Monday, January 19, 2004 at 6:01 a.m.
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I am sickened by what is really happening in Florida schools.
\ I have taught in Florida for 32 years. Chosen as one of the top five educators in the nation in 1989 by the Parent Teacher Association, I was an instructional principal organizing and working with teachers to ensure that every child left school each day successful in reading.
Gov. Jeb Bush's plan of emphasizing test scores has made our schools into taking-the-test factories. This is harming our children by bringing effective long-term love of learning almost to a standstill. Teachers, students and parents have to adhere to the restrictions on instruction because schools are rated from A to F on achievement on test scores. The publicly praising or ridiculing educators has pressured teachers and principals into spending an exorbitant amount of time on teaching the test.
These tests are given to all children of the same age, regardless of advantages or disadvantages from home. Expecting children to be able to achieve on a standardized test without considering their past educational advantages or deprivation is unfair.
The test scores result in literally hundreds or thousands of dollars in state funds going to mainly affluent schools, while most underprivileged schools are condemned to failure, with teachers and principal jobs in jeopardy after three years failing these tests.
In actuality, the failing schools may have the best instruction! Here is why: In schools being labeled D or F, students may be achieving well at their correct instructional level. This means that a child has to be taught on his past knowledge base of recognizing letters, words in context, comprehension, etc., or correct instructional level.
Educational researchers and teachers know that class size is absolutely critical, and that any number more than 18 in a class makes it impossible for the teacher to give adequate attention to the children who need extra help. Rules enacted by politicians who want to be re-elected without even reviewing known research need to be questioned as does the leadership of our governor and education commissioner!
The consequences of the Jeb Bush era in education are:
1. An inflation of test scores. If studied statistically, they would show improbably rising scores. (Are we teaching to the tests?)
2. Teachers retiring because there is little time to instill the "love of learning" or to get to know and appreciate each child's natural skills and talents. Just drilling day to day on tests puts students and teachers in an entirely different role than what the educators were trained to do: teach skills and whole language approach to learning, love of reading, social students, science, the arts, cultural values, plus a love of school and of learning.
3. The teachers who deal with poverty day in and day out, who have to overcome problems such as hunger of their children at school, dirty clothes, enormous home deprivation, are penalized for being in a "failing school" and have to forfeit bonus money. These teachers are working in harder and harsher conditions. I know because in my last 11 years as a principal, I chose to be in this environment myself.
4. Teachers are leaving Florida in large numbers because of this environment. This causes the standards for state certification to be weakened to lure in new teachers.
5. Teachers and students are beginning to detest going to school because of the pressure of tests. They are developing sleeping, as well as, eating problems dealing with the stress.
The public needs to realize the educators are not failing our students. Why would they keep these jobs that pay less than jobs requiring comparable four year degrees while having to take abuse daily from politicians, newspapers, television and the general public?
Give the educators a break! Question these plans that are put into place by politicians and are devastating our schools!
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In a slightly more tangent-filled episode, Jeremy edifies the gang on bullet trajectories and regales us with his spoiler free experience playing Walking Dead DLC, Jack and Daniel discuss cosplay and crime at E3. We also give our interpretations of Don Mattrick's new position at Zynga after leaving Microsoft. We also talk about Hotline Miami, Mars Warlogs, and more!
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Kim Ima
The Treats Truck, Baking book
Prix régulier $16.20
We currently have 2 in stock.
176 pages / Éditeur: William Morrow Cookbooks (1 novembre 2011) / Anglais
Entrepreneurial baking queen Kim Ima invites you to climb aboard her famous Treats Truck, "Sugar," for an unforgettable tour of the world of cookies, cakes, pies, and all manner of scrumptious desserts. In The Treats Truck Baking Book, Kim shares dozens of mouthwatering recipes from the remarkable mobile bakery that has taken New York City by storm—while she tells the fascinating story of "Sugar," her chicly retro, clean-burning repository of deliciousness. This beautifully full-color illustrated cookbook is a sweet treat for home bakers everywhere.


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TEGoVA,The European Group of Valuers' Associations, is a European non profit making association composed of 67 valuers' associations from 36 countries representing more than 70.000 valuers in Europe.
The National Association of Authorised Romanian Valuers (ANEVAR) will have the great pleasure of hosting their annual valuation conference.
The Blue Book is now available in 10 languages.
The delegates at TEGoVA's General Assembly in Belgrade on 22th April elected the Members of the Board of Directors for the term 2017-2019.
A report for TEGoVA by Professor George Matysiak.
Available now.
The Chambre des Experts Immobiliers de France (CEIF-FNAIM) will have the great pleasure of hosting the Autumn TEGoVA Meeting in Marseille.


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Re: Looking for family from Middletown,NY
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I'm Wayne'sfriend he used my puter make the post. I have not seen wayne for while but i just rem us doing this some time ago. I will let him he has fam out there! I rem he said his dad was a police officer all his life too. must run in the family:) take care


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Thank You (In Video Form)
I'm so appreciative by all your support that I couldn't keep my mouth shut – I had to make a vlog for you. (And for me, just a little bit.)
Good Mood Quote of the Day: 2 For 1
"When I grow up I want to be a little boy."
~Joseph Heller
"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
~Albert Einstein
Growing up is hard, but I try to keep a childlike innocence and exuberance to all I do. If that makes me a tad immature or naive or foolish then so be it. At least I'm having fun.
I like kids. I like Lily from Modern Family. She is adorable. Happy Friday! Thank you for voting!
Good Mood Quote of the Day
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
-Good ol' Dr. Seuss
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Shot with my Canon 5D Mark II and Sigma 20mm f/1.8 lens – 400+ shots @ 20mm f/2.0 ISO3200 30s
I can honestly not believe the amount of views this video got because for me it was a huge disappointment. I drove out to Anza-Borrega Desert State Park with a pretty specific vision in my head. I wanted to capture as many meterors as I could and create a time lapse of them. The sky was going to be dark and ABD SP was listed as one of the top spots to watch the shower so on the peak of the Perseids, I headed out and maneuvered my Civic past 4 miles of sand to get to Font's point. Immediately, I realized this wasn't the ideal place to be. To the east, I saw a low looming layer of smog or pollution rolling in and city lights in the distance. It was going to be a challenge but as I began to shoot my timelapse and chimp on the rear LCD, I realized I had a much bigger problem–air traffic. The amount of planes were ridiculous; at times there would be 4-5 in the sky at once. At this point I was tempted to turn around, hike back down to the car and go home until I got the call from my friend, Joe, who was planning to meet me up at Font's Point. His truck was stuck only a couple hundred yards from the entrance.
At this point it was already completely dark and my fear of getting stuck in sand 4 miles from the road were definitely creeping in so I kept shooting with my camera hoping to at least piece something together. This is what I came up with. The only saving grace is that I was able to witness some of the shower with my own eyes, even if I didn't capture many on camera and I did make it out of the sand alright. Heres for hoping the Leonids in November are better!
On Thursday I took the plunge and decided to order the 35L with overnight shipping (thanks Amazon Prime). Unfortunately I overslept on Friday and ended up driving to the UPS sorting facility in Anaheim to pick the lens up at 8PM which was perfect because today was my sister's birthday and I got a chance to take it out for some real world samples using one of the hardest subjects to photograph, kids! We went to the supermarket where I was able to snap some shots of my niece, Adeline having a blast. More pictures after the break!Read More
It's been a long time but I've finally reacquired the Canon 35mm f/1.4L. I can't even remember my reasoning for selling it; the 20mm was one of my most used lenses on 1.6x crop which has an effective focal length at 32mm. Logically, this would mean that when I upgraded to full frame the 35L should have been one of my most used lenses but I ended up selling it and never replacing it for whatever reason. Fortunately I found one on Amazon Warehouse deals for $1290 and couldn't pass up the opportunity to "cheaply" repurchase this lens. I put cheaply in quotes because the price on this lens went from ~1200 to ~1400 since I sold it. Unfortunately when the lens arrived it was missing some accessories but Amazon is making up for it!
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So overall I am pretty excited to get this back in my hands. I've heard a lot of bad stories about buying open box stuff on Amazon Warehouse deals but so far everything seems fine. I'm going to test the lens for a couple days to make sure the person who returned it didn't have a good reason and then I'll probably take Amazon up on their refund offer.
Hey guys! This is my first post on this site. I am very excited. Honestly, an update to this site has been long overdue. It is insane to see the technologies in use with web design now. I'm seeing all these terms being thrown around and I have no idea what they are or how to use them. Overwhelmed, I decided to just give in and go with something premade so I switched from movable type to Word Press 3.0 and purchased the BigFeature theme to go along with it. So far I am really impressed with how far along things have gone. Hacks and customizations that I painstakingly and crudely pieced together for my old site are now standard features or easily installed widgets!
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God Wife Edited Out Of The Bible Almost
God's wife, Asherah, was a powerful fruitfulness goddess, according to a theologian.
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*God, what's more recognizable as Yahweh, had a wife named Asherah, according to a British theologian.
* Amulets, figurines, inscriptions, and ancient texts, by the Bible, reveal Asherah's subsequent to most important standing.
* Asherah's link to Yahweh, according to Stavrakopoulou, is spelled out in what's more the Bible and an 8th century B.C. lettering on pottery found in the Sinai give up at a site called Kuntillet Ajrud.
God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Tome of Kings suggests was worshiped flat Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar. In 1967, Raphael Patai was the initial historian to comment that the ancient Israelites worshiped what's more Yahweh and Asherah.
God's be idle, Goddess of the Sea, mother of Baal, this Asherah model was open in Nahariyeh, Israel. Emperor Mannasseh introduced Israel to her worship (2 Kings 21). The Hebrew word is commonly translated as "groves" in KJV (abu.nb.ca).
The suspicion has gained new lump due to the survey of Francesca Stavrakopoulou, who began her work at Oxford and is now a condescending educator in the Arm of Mysticism and Mysticism at the Learned of Exeter. Information free in Stavrakopoulou's books, lectures and journal papers has become the basic of a three-part documentary series, now exposure to air in Europe, someplace she discusses the Yahweh-Asherah link.
"You effectiveness know him as Yahweh, Allah, or God. But on this fact, Jews, Muslims, and Christians, the people of the prominent Abrahamic religions, are agreed: Acquaint with is modestly one of Him," writes Stavrakopoulou in a observe uninhibited to the British media. "He is a solitary image, a uncommitted, macro creator, not one God among go to regularly... or so we be devoted to to doubt."
"As soon as years of survey specializing in the history and religion of Israel, still, I embrace come to a brilliant and what may possibly express, to some, gauche discrimination that God had a wife," she second.
Abrahamic religions effectively turned on their Goddess (northernway.org)
Stavrakopoulou bases her suspicion on ancient texts, amulets, and figurines unearthed originally in the ancient Canaanite coastal metropolis called Ugarit, now modern-day Syria. All of these artifacts reveal that Asherah was a powerful fruitfulness goddess.
Asherah's link to Yahweh, according to Stavrakopoulou, is spelled out in what's more the Bible and an 8th century B.C. lettering on pottery found in the Sinai give up at a site called Kuntillet Ajrud.
"The lettering is a petition for a blessing," she shares. "Essentially, the lettering asks for a blessing from 'Yahweh and his Asherah.' Arrived was best ever that free Yahweh and Asherah as a divine link. And now a handful of go into liquidation inscriptions embrace as of been found, all of which help to sanction the coat that the God of the Bible subsequent to had a wife."
In the same way significant, Stavrakopoulou believes, "is the Bible's entry that the goddess Asherah was worshiped in Yahweh's Holy place in Jerusalem. In the Tome of Kings, we're told that a statue of Asherah was housed in the temple and that female temple department wove ritual textiles for her." more>>
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Channeling from Spirit
Spirit Words
Close your eyes and Listen
Listen with your heart
You might just hear me speaking
From deep within your heart
Close your eyes and listen
Listen with your hands
For I am all around you
Even in the sand
Close your eyes and listen
Listen with your eyes
You might just see a rainbow
You might just see a friend
Close your eyes and listen
Listen deep within
You never walk along your road
Without your faithful friend
Close your eyes and listen
Listen with your heart
I love you more than ever
And we shall never part.
Channelled by Ann Walker from her guide Malaki
Be still my friend I call to you
I am trying to touch your soul
Just feel me come around you
With the love that I bestow
For you are me and I am you
Together we are one
Feel the love I give you as I hold your hand
It comes from all around you
And deep within the land
You are but a child of god that
Walks along the land
With head held high I see a smile
Of knowing who I am
This love I have to give you
Is not for you alone
But for all of those around you
And in those far off lands.
Channelled by Ann Walker from her guide Malaki
As I look around this world of yours
I hold my head and cry
For you have just forsaken all that is alive
You've cut her up and dug down deep
To take away her blood
Without the thought of what you've done
The consequence you will reap.
You've made your goods and burnt your things
And just abused your world
That we must come and show you ways
Of appreciating your world.
Channelled by Ann Walker from her guide Malaki
What have you done to the planet
You have stripped her, torn her
And most of all made her cry.
For she gave to you unconditionally
And you have just destroyed.
My heart is crying with the pain
For this world cannot die.
My name is Joseph or is it Jake,
It really does not matter.
I have come to show you I exist
From my plane to yours.
Channelled by Ann Walker from Joseph/Jake
Transformation is the Key
The butterfly holds the most beauty of all
We must all undergo the change that is coming
We must all adopt the new ways
The time is come
The time is now.
Track the eagle and follow the wind
To become who we need to be.
Channelled by Lynette Hall - from her guide Ravens Claw.


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Poll: Should this be a Lucius/Sev/Harry? Vote Now!
Author has written 6 stories for X/1999, Shaman King, Harry Potter, Sailor Moon, and Naruto.
Name: Kristen
Favorite color(s): black, silver, green. (at least this week)
Any one interested in sailor moon may want to check out my youtube video, its basically the first part of a video fanfiction. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNzJYZTqtj8&feature=youtu.be
Favorite anime(s): Currently Kyo Kara Maoh, Mirage of Blaze, Spiral and Blood . However I am currently watching a couple of anime a friends gave me which I enjoy.
Favorite manga: Yellow is good. DNAngel assuming they continue it. Vampire Game, Yellow, W Juliet and Dragon Drive. I'm also a sucker for the old stuff: Cardcaptors, x/1999, Ranma and all the short series Clamp did. And Yaoi. Yah for the good stuff.
In the last year or so I've been hooked on Snarry and Voldie/Harry.Edward and Harry make a cute couple too. Kind of funny really since I wasn't very fanatic about the books. Don't get me wrong, they're pretty good but not to the extreme that everyone made them out to be. Of course I could just be bitter because they killed of Severus. Who knows.
The truth isn't what you think - This story is still in progress. Probably only about 5-6 chapters left. Actually it was suppose to be finished at this point but the story kind of ran off on me at several points.
The Unexpected Deal- One shot. This story is finished, but if requested I may make it a 2-shot. I've actually already wrote the next part but I'm to lazy to type it without motivation.
Afterward- This sort of died. I read a story that basically followed my idea and it killed my interest.
Shattered Moon- Had a couple of requests for more stories and I had several that I wrote a long time ago that I'm going to post. This is the only one of that isn't finished. It will be 5 parts.
The truth potion- Harry potter one shot. Will post it if I ever manage to find what I did with the third page. Its already written, just needs to be typed up.
Shaman King- This is a one shot I wrote about the same time as The unexpected deal. Will be uploaded in one go once I finished.
The half-demon and the wizard (title still up in the air)- A conrad/harry story I've started to write on a request. Not sure how long it will take, it will probably not be too long.
Have PRIDE! Support gay marriage!
I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.
FAKE FRIENDS: Never ask for food.
REAL FRIENDS: Are the reason you have no food.
FAKE FRIENDS: Call your parents Mr./Mrs.
REAL FRIENDS: Call your parents DAD/MOM.
FAKE FRIENDS: Bail you out of jail and tell you what you did was wrong.
REAL FRIENDS: Will sit next to you saying "Damn … we really messed up … but that sure was fun!"
FAKE FRIENDS: Never seen you cry.
REAL FRIENDS: Cry with you.
FAKE FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back.
REAL FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they forget it's yours.
FAKE FRIENDS: Know a few things about you.
REAL FRIENDS: Can write a book about you, with direct quotes from you.
FAKE FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that is what the crowd is doing.
REAL FRIENDS: Will kick the whole crowds ass that left you.
FAKE FRIENDS: Will knock on your front door.
REAL FRIENDS: Walk right in and say "I'M HOME!"
FAKE FRIENDS: Are for awhile.
REAL FRIENDS: Are for life.
FAKE FRIENDS: Say they are too busy to listen to your problems, but when it comes to them they expect you to have all the time in the world.
REAL FRIENDS: Not only kick everything out of their schedule to listen to what's wrong, but help come up with vindictive plans to make you feel a whole lot better!
FAKE FRIENDS: Make you say sorry when you want to talk to them at odd hours of the night, or even just hang out at odd hours.
REAL FRIENDS: Come right over and hang out with you, until you either fall asleep, or kick them out.
FAKE FRIENDS: Will ignore this.
REAL FRIENDS: Will repost it
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That way, the only thing we do is to become less attractive and lessen our self-confidence. So if you're hurt, just try to use your pain for yourself instead of against you. Some local tour Golden Goose Superstar operators present guided bicycle tours and a shuttle journey service. Avenue cycling routes within city are marked by sharrows on pavement.
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Once it comes back from the dry cleaners, keep it in the same bag. Make sure the bottom of the bag is secure to prevent molds. That person will express eagerness to take part in activities that you enjoy, even when it is outside his scope of interest. She could offer to go hiking or he could agree to come with you on a shopping trip.
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I'm new and trying out Spiceworks to manage my company's printers. I tried installing the HP SNMP proxy agent on a computer attached via USB to a HP LJ p2035 printer, and then using Spiceworks to see if it can add the printer into the inventory. Unfortunately, Spiceworks was only able to detect the PC, but not the printer. I am merely doing the discovery using SNMP (i.e. not with admin privileges for the computer). Anyone have any experience in this area, and can give me an idea of whether this can be done (to discover and manage PC-connected printers). I only want to monitor the printer for the basic stats e.g. toner levels etc.
Feb 24, 2010 at 5:15 UTC
There isn't as far as I am aware any way to poll PC attached printers. Your printer needs to support SNMP and be on the network directly.
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The latest version is 7.5.00101.
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Feb 24, 2010 at 12:26 UTC
I don't think this is possible as SW reads from the network. Since teh PC is setup with snmp, that is what will be picked up by SW. If the printer was attached to the LAN with its own address then SW would discover it.
Feb 24, 2010 at 1:17 UTC
Keep IT Simple Technology Group is an IT service provider.
Will this help ?
Feb 24, 2010 at 2:03 UTC
Thanks for the replies guys. The report suggested by Yasaf is too basic. I need something that can poll and check the toner level as well. Currently HP Web Jetadmin can do it with the HP SNMP proxy agent installed on those computers with attached HP LJ printers. Are there any Spicework plugins that can allow to specify the MIB and OID to be used to query any network device? I cant' seem to be able to edit the parameters used to query the network item (in this case the desktop) .
Feb 24, 2010 at 5:15 UTC
There isn't as far as I am aware any way to poll PC attached printers. Your printer needs to support SNMP and be on the network directly.
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Barcelona Casino – it's all on the roll of the dice
Roll the dice at Barcelona Casino. Swap Boddingtons for Bollinger and forget the online Poker rooms, this is the full Monte Carlo! It's time to don the white dinner jacket, the Omar Sharif cummerbund and try your "suerte" at the headless fish casino*. After all, you are about to be cleaned out, so why not do it in style and head for Barcelona's "Gran Casino"?
Our Barcelona Casino trip takes you to the area of town where Barcelona stars party. "Vingt-huit, rouge". And if roulette doesn't spin your wheel, try the Black Jack table, craps, poker (or even the one-arm bandits if you're really out of your depth). Or if the craps is just what you are trying to avoid, just hit the bar. You'll probably find Gerard Pique there fiddling with Periscope.
Barcelona casino is famous as one of the main poker venues in Europe.
It also combines with another Barcelona passion, football, with giant screens broadcasting Real Madrid and Barcelona's matches. Participants can win dinner at the casino or tickets for the Liga at Camp Nou.
Barcelona Casino provides a truly classy way to get rid of those funny Euro notes in one of its numerous fruit machines and gaming tables. Although… you just might get lucky! We'll lay on return transport to the casino, priority entrance and a high-quality buffet dinner. Your guide will be there to make suggestions about nightlife options after the casino (see Suggestions).
Thanks for sorting out the casino for us, I didn't win anything but didn't lose much either so it was a great night, after we went to Port Olympics which is pretty lively and the salsa club was great…( Owen & Jessica's party in Barcelona, September 2014)
In the great tradition of high-class casinos the world over, at the end the evening you'll likely be styling yourself as the slightly dishevelled romantic type, a nightlife buccaneer down on his luck and walk down the beach nearby as a shaken, stirred, cravat untied, think of a classy after-shave ad with Mr Brosnan. But Pierce-takes aside, as long as you haven't lost your shirt – afterwards you'll fall into the arms of Lady Barcelona who'll welcome you back to a bar or club, no matter the hour. Remember that the Casino's dress rules are important (see "What else do I need to know" below).
Barcelona Casino – Typical schedule
- 21:00 After the entry formalities, tuck in to the buffet dinner, it's all included!
- 23:45 Time to go and spend your winnings at the bars nearby – let us recommend a suitable establishment for you high rollers!
Casino in Barcelona – What is included
- Entrance to Barcelona Casino
- Buffet dinner including one drink
Barcelona Casino Night – What else do I need to know?
- CASINO DRESS RULES are applied strictly:
- No short or short sleeve shirts.
- No torn clothes or scruffy look.
- No-one wearing sports shoes will be admitted. (i.e. no trainers)
- Passports must be shown on entrance – a legal requirement that will not be skipped under any circumstances!
- If you'd like a limousine transfer, let us know!


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Do You have a Blueprint of Your Ideal Mate?
1. Must be nine inches or bigger
2. He must be six feet, one inch or taller
3. He must have light eyes, green or gray
4. Must have soft curly hair—none of that nappy shit
5. Gotta have Shemar Moore's cheekbones
6. Gotta be able to wear a mesh muscle shirt and look good in it
7. His ride gotta be phat
8. He must be making at least $80k (after taxes)
9. No kids—I don't need any baby momma drama
10. He'd better be a freak in bed
I can't laugh because at one time I kept a list. Yep, I kept a list of what I was looking for in a man. When I decided to start this blog I went searching for it. It's funny I wrote it in 2000 but for the most part my wants haven't deviated too much from the list.
Check out my list:
1. He must be a strong confident Black man
2. He must have strong morals, ethics and character
3. He should be comfortable in his own skin
4. He says, "I want to treat you like a queen." And really means it.
5. He must be sexually adventurous and can appreciate a women who is as well
6. He can be vulnerable but not weak
7. He should be centered within his universe
8. He must be spiritually strong, no need to be able to quote the bible
9. He wants to be a husband, lover and father
10. He must be willing to see my flaws as cute idiosyncrasies not defects and I'll do the same for him.
Pretty different from Stacie's huh? But maybe I should steal the nine inches or bigger requirement from her.
What do y'all think about lists? Do you think they're necessary? Who's more prone to keep them men or women? Do you have a list for the perfect mate? If so, what's on it? You gotta share, I told you mine.


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My notes from John Piper's opening session at TGC13′s national conference, "His mission: Jesus in the gospel of Luke." (All notes are paraphrased.)
The only place in the entire book of Luke does the author write in the first person (Luke 1:1). The reason he does so is so that we may have certainty (Luke 1:4). The word "certainty"— asphaleia—means security (NT) or safety (OT). The idea seems to be that Luke is saying, "Theophilus, you've been taught many things, but I want you to know them differently—I want you to know them as locked down, secure unshakeable reality.
The reason I"m lingering over this is not only because Luke did, but because we live in a time when people don't know these things in an asphaleia kind of way. THey have ideas in their heads and they know them like clouds and not mountains.
But when resistance comes, the old cloud goes away and a new cloud lodges in their minds–that's the way a lot of people know doctrine. I want you to know the doctrine locked down, nailed down, immovable like a mountain, not a cloud, says Luke.
He doesn't want you to know them any other way—he wants you to know the truth so it's safe from being changed from the culture or ceasing to be what they are. They're safe to be what they are forever!
This is the kind of knowing we want to have. The other kind of knowing—the kind that wrecks churches—is different. Luke knows what it means to be a most excellent Theophilus. He's the one who wrote to us about most excellent Festus and Felix—how did they know? Felix had an excellent understanding of the Way, but hoping for a bribe sent Paul on his way. That's the kind of knowing that wrecks churches, that brings reproach on churches.
Luke saw Paul's back—he knew the scars he had—he knew the kind of knowledge that sustains obedience. And he wanted Theophilus to know it too.
When Paul preached to Festus, Festus told Paul, "Your learning is driving you out of your mind." And Paul replied, "I am not out of my mind… I am speaking what is true and rational."
You can't buy truth with wealth. You can't control truth with power, which is why rich and powerful people don't like it. Truth doesn't give them enough wiggle room. It locks them down and you either submit or perish.
How does Luke build the asphaleia in his head so they're absolute unshakeable reality—mountains, not clouds?
In the first two chapters he does it by paralleling John the Baptist and Jesus. Remarkable that John the Baptist receives so much attention in the first two chapters of Luke.
So how do you preach on two chapters of the Bible? I'm going to show you how Luke shows Theophilus how to get the truth into his heart in an asphaleia kind of way. And he does it by showing Theolophilus the following: [Read more…]


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Called the Collegiate Learning Assessment, CLA+ for short, approximately 200 U.S. colleges and universities are administering the voluntary test, according to The Wall Street Journal. According to the exam's website, it allows recent graduates to "use their verified scores to provide potential employers with evidence of their work readiness skill," giving students something measurable to show for themselves beyond grade point average.
Lisa Kwarteng, a third-year in psychology at Ohio State, said she wouldn't want to take the test because she doesn't believe standardized tests accurately reflect intelligence or capability.
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Various colleges have signed up for the spring testing include Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio, which has been administering a previous version of the test, called the CLA, since 2005, according to Ursuline's website, the University of Texas system, Marshall University in West Virginia and Flagler College in Florida, according to WSJ.
Created by the Council for Aid to Education, a nonprofit based in New York City, the 90-minute long CLA+ is based on a 1600-point scale. By asking performance-based questions, the exam evaluates critical thinking, problem solving, scientific and quantitative reasoning, writing and the ability to critique and make arguments.
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In today's competitive employment market, students might be willing to take the CLA+ in order to differentiate themselves from other college grads searching for jobs. According to a report by The Economist last year, the average college GPA increased to 3.11 in 2006 from 2.52 in the 1950s and the average number of A's distributed by professors has increased as well, leading some to believe that grades are not the best resume-indicator of individual success and that other objective measures might be beneficial.
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This is from Juan Cole's blog which as usual has interesting critical commentary on issues in the Middle East. This is his critique of Obama on Iraq and Afghanistan. It will be interesting to see if Iraq ever gets veto power over U.S. operations in Iraq. Even if they do get it formally I doubt that the U.S. will worry about breaking the pledge if they think it is necessary for whatever reasons. The situation in Iraq has certainly calmed down and the Al Qaeda branch of the insurgency has been severely weakened but mostly by the agreement of the U.S. to fund and support Sunni militias. At present there does not seem to be a great deal of violent conflict between Sunni and Shia groups and even disputes about what territory belongs in Kurdistan seems to be on the back burner but who knows how long this will last. On the negative side there is no oil law and no status of forces agreement. Sadr is laying but this means that the Shia who are closest to Iran are consolidating power. If there are winners in this war, they are Iran and Kurdistan.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Obama on Iraq and Afghanistan: A Friendly Critique
Barack Obama wants to get out of Iraq by summer 2010 but wants to send 10,000 extra troops to Afghanistan.Obama's editorial is thoughtful and far more sensible than anything we are hearing from the White House or McCain, and I agree with most of it. But I have one quibble and one major critique. The quibble is that Obama talks about leaving a small American force in Iraq after most of the troops are withdrawn, to continue to fight "al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia."That suggestion is not plausible for several reasons. If there is only a small force in the country, who will rescue them if their helicopter gets shot down or they are ambushed and besieged? Then, how would a small American unit be any good against a terrorist organization operating in remote parts of Sunni Iraq? They don't know Arabic, can't hope for really good intelligence from locals, etc. Wouldn't it be more efficient to let the Special Police Commandos of the Iraqi Interior Ministry take care of this sort of thing? By the way, no one seems to be calling themselves "al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia" any more on the jihadi bulletin boards. The main fundamentalist vigilante group is the "Islamic State of Iraq."And then there is the problem that the Iraqis are demanding veto power over US operations in Iraq, a demand that will only grow with time. If they don't concur that a Sunni group is terrorists, the Baghdad government could just keep the US unit cooling its heels. It is precisely over issues such as Iraqi demands that US troops get permission before they act that Karen DeYoung at WaPo says have definitively derailed negotiations between Bush and al-Maliki on a Status of Forces Agreement. Now the two leaders seem likely just initial some quick and dirty executive-to-executive understanding that may not last past Bush's last day in office next January. So the Iraqis are unlikely to want a special forces unit of the sort Senator Obama envisages running around Iraq at will.It will be over with by then. Iraqis want their sovereignty back.The way to get out of Iraq is to get out of Iraq.The major critique I have is that Obama keeps talking about intensifying the search and destroy missions being carried out by US troops in the Pushtun areas of southern Afghanistan. As we should have learned from Vietnam, search and destroy missions only alienate the local population and drive it into the arms of the insurgency. Tom Engelhardt explains how US bombing strikes sometimes hit innocent civilians, including now several wedding parties, which is rather alienating to the clans that are attacked. (The US military says that the insurgents routinely allege that wedding parties were hit when they were not actually. But then there are those pesky photographs of what are obviously civilians . . .)The cost of such guerrilla struggles is high. On Sunday, Pushtun guerrillas attacked a remote base where US troops were under a NATO command and killed 9 of them, wounding 15. Many more "Taliban" were no doubt killed. But the evidence is that the Afghan insurgents are getting better at fighting the US.When was the last time that an al-Qaeda operative was captured in Afghanistan by US forces? Is that really what US troops are doing there, looking for al-Qaeda? Wouldn't we hear more about it if they were having successes in that regard? I mean, what is reported in the press is that they are fighting with "Taliban". But I'm not so sure these Pushtun rural guerrillas are even properly speaking Taliban (which means 'seminary student.') The original Taliban had mostly been displaced as refugees into Pakistan. These 'neo-Taliban' don't seem mostly to have that background. A lot of them seem to be just disgruntled Pushtun villagers in places like Uruzgan.There has now been a rise of suicide bombings in Afghanistan, on a scale never before seen. One killed 24 people in a bazaar at Deh Rawood on Sunday. Robert Pape has demonstrated that suicide bombings typically are carried out by people who think their country is under foreign military occupation. If the US keeps sending more troops, will that really calm things down? (See also the recent blogging of Barnett Rubin on the situation of Afghanistan)I don't know whether Senator Obama really wants to try to militarily occupy Afghanistan even more than is now being attempted. I wish he would talk to some old Russian officers who were there in the 1980s first. Of course, it may be that this announced strategy is political and for the purposes of having something to say when McCain accuses him of surrendering in Iraq.If the Afghanistan gambit is sincere, I don't think it is good geostrategy. Afghanistan is far more unwinnable even than Iraq. If playing it up is politics, then it is dangerous politics. Presidents can become captive of their own record and end up having to commit to things because they made strong representations about them to the public.I think Obama has a little bit of a tendency to try to fix his political problems by going overboard. Thus, he faces skepticism from Jewish American voters. So he made a Zionist speech in Boca. In the context of US politics, that is to be expected; he would not be any sort of politician, much less a phenomenon, if he did not try to reassure Jewish Americans about his commmitment to Israeli security, which is after all a worthy goal. But Obama went on to praise Zionist thinker Theodore Herzl, who started this nonsense about a people without a land for a land without a people. And then he gave away Jerusalem, undivided and permanently, to the Israelis in the middle of ongoing negotiations over its status between Israel and the Palestine Authority in the context of the Quartet, which the US government supports. Neither of those two things was necessary. It was overkill. And Obama now has some bridge building to do with the Arab and Muslim worlds if he becomes president, since Jerusalem is also dear to their hearts.Search and destroy in Afghanistan is an even worse example of going overboard. My advice to his campaign team is to give more thought to how he can take a strong enough position on an issue to win on it, without giving away the whole store.We who admire him don't want Afghanistan to become an albatross around the neck of a President Obama. I am old enough to remember one of the things that nearly killed the Democratic Party as a presidential party in the US, which was the way Lyndon Johnson let himself gradually get roped into ramping up the US troop presence in Vietnam from a small force to 500,000, and then still not win.Afghan tribes are fractious. They feud. Their territory is vast and rugged, and they know it like the back of their hands. Afghans are Jeffersonians in the sense that they want a light touch from the central government, and heavy handedness drives them into rebellion. Stand up Karzai's army and air force and give him some billions to bribe the tribal chiefs, and let him apply carrot and stick himself. We need to get out of there. "Al-Qaeda" was always Bin Laden's hype. He wanted to get us on the ground there so that the Mujahideen could bleed us the way they did the Soviets. It is a trap.Beware.
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Friday, July 18, 2008
Juan Cole: Obama on Iraq and Afghanistan
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