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Taking Away Options?
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There are WAY more questions in this post then there are answers…I would love your thoughts.
I am a HUGE believer in personalized learning and think that our students should have opportunities to express their learning in many different ways. I would say that this holds true with the majority of educators that I know. The difference though is that do we often limit students to our version of personalization? Do we only give them options that we know? I have been very comfortable in my career encouraging students to share their learning in different ways whether I know them or not. The exploration and problem solving that goes into the work that a student creates using an unknown technology may not be taken directly out of the curriculum, but will obviously have some learning "side-effects" that will benefit the child long after their time in my class. Is this notion of exploration the norm though?
As the year has progressed, I have seen so many learning opportunities where "paper" has been the only option (always my favourite thing to happen in a session that discusses differentiated learning) and there is no digital component. This is not only for reading what has been shared, but also creating content to deepen understanding. Lyn Hilt wrote a fantastic post today giving some great options of what school administrators can try to further their learning. She ends her post with this quote:
This learning and reflective practice, which needs to be embedded throughout any district or school organization, must be modeled. It must be visible. It must be continuous. If you're a school leader, ask yourself what about your own teaching and learning methods needs to be transformed in order for you to grow your capacity as a leader. Then turn your insights into action.
I have always believed in the idea that we need to give all learners options and Lyn exemplifies this in her post with a great table of ideas. That being said, I am wondering if this is a 'suggestion' will people jump in and try the "new" way (which I would say is better)? Even if it isn't better for that learner, as leaders, should we still not understand different opportunities for learning, especially if we are to be experts on the subject? I wrote a post this summer that literally stemmed from my frustration of not been given the opportunity to have a digital component for my own learning at a "21st Century Conference" that was "paper heavy". I know we are supposed to meet learners where they are at, but, to be honest, this pushed me out of my comfort zone. That being said, when we are being pushed out of that zone, shouldn't it at least be a push forward? I wonder what would happen if we came to a point where we would say to educators that we are only going to use digital resources for this meeting, this PD session, this learning opportunity? Would they back down from the challenge or would they adapt and perhaps even transform their practice? I love the idea of sharing a continuum as Lyn has done, but maybe we need to just cut off the 'old' option. Can we really personalize learning for students if we don't understand how to use emerging technologies?
We ask our students to be uncomfortable in their learning every day; do we embody that practice ourselves?
Last year, I spoke with John Carver and our conversation still resonates. He said to me, "This is a printing press time in history; what are we going to do with it?" In my opinion, we shouldn't have the option to ignore it.


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Did you know?
The spring water rises to the surface at a temperature of 53 degrees centigrade.
Bela-Bela means 'boiling boiling' in the Tswana language, which refers to the hot springs that are this town's main attraction.
Set in the foothills of the beautiful Waterberg mountains, Bela-Bela's hot springs were originally used for healing purposes by the Tswana people hundreds of years ago. Today these legendary waters have been turned into a series of fountains, pools and bathing areas at various health and holiday resorts.
Pack your swimming costumes and towels. Bela-Bela's ancient hot springs remain nature's gift and you can swim, soak, slide down watery tunnels or just lie in the shade and relax.
This is hiking, game-viewing, cycling, wandering country. Big skies and red sandstone mountains, abundant game and remarkable birdlife. Take your pick from a number of reserves including Mabula, Kunkuru and Sondela. Lapalala Wilderness has long been at the heart of conservation in the Waterberg, and here you can meet two orphaned rhino, one black, the other white, and find out about their history and habitat.
Birds, from ducks, sand pipers and kingfishers to storks, buzzards and fish eagles, are the main attraction at the nearby Nylsvley Nature Reserve. Nylsvley's floodplain is the largest of its kind in the southern hemisphere and is one of the top birding spot in the country.
From cycling to marathon running, there's also lots of sporting action in Bela Bela. Over 15 000 people from around the country gather at Mabalingwe Nature Reserve near Bela-Bela annually for the Mabalingwe Lion Man Mountain Bike Race, one of the most popular mountain-bike events in South Africa.
The Warmbaths Dam, some 8km from town, is a popular spot for water sports and fishing. There are excellent golf courses in the area, many of them with wild animals sharing the greens.
You can also take a guided tour at the Thaba Kwena Crocodile Farm near Bela Bela, one of the largest commercial crocodile farms in the country.
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Who to contact
Bela-Bela Tourism
Tel: +27 (0)14 736 3694
How to get here
Bela-Bela is in the Limpopo province, approximately 200 kilometres from Johannesburg on the N1 highway.
Best time to visit
Spring and autumn going into winter
Around the area
This is game country and the area is peppered with reserves both big and small.
Get around
Self-drive is best, especially if you want to explore the beauty of the surrounding area at your own pace. There are guided tours and game drives available at various game reserves
Length of stay
A weekend at least, longer if possible.
What to pack
Hats, sunscreen, swimming gear, cameras, walking shoes and good company
Where to stay
The Welgevonden Game Reserve has many excellent five-star camps; Lapalala Wilderness has assorted budget accommodation from self-catering wilderness camps to an hotel; There are many B&B's, guesthouses and lodges dotted in and around Bela Bela and the Waterberg
What's happening
The famous Bela Bela Tourism Festival – featuring music, arts & crafts, food stalls and wildlife displays – is held annually in May.
Best buys
The Black Mamba in Vaalwater, an easy drive from the town of Bela-Bela. This Afro-chic bistro and art & craft gallery sells imaginative cloths, sculptures, beadwork, jewellery and decorative items.


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Restaurant Revisited: Something's Fishy at Joe Willy's Seafood Houseby Maria Russo in Shows, April 14th, 2013
Joe and Dena White, owners of Joe Willy's Seafood House in Fishkill, N.Y., looked to Robert Irvine to save not only their restaurant but their family too, as the stress of their declining business had put a load of frustration and tension between them. It was up to Robert to hone in on the most-critical issues plaguing Joe Willy's and work with his Restaurant: Impossible team to attempt to fix them in only two days and with just $10,000. He quickly learned that many of the restaurant's problems stemmed from its poor-quality food, made by Joe, the head chef, so he focused his efforts on implementing an improved menu that Joe could execute with ease. After 48 hours of renovations, Joe Willy's reopened to a dining room full of guests with Joe and Dena at the helm, now working harmoniously. We checked in with Dena a few months after the transformation to find out how Joe Willy's is doing.
Since its Restaurant: Impossible experience, the restaurant has enjoyed a significant boost in business, Dena says, explaining that "sales have tripled to quadrupled at times." Since they're now making a profit, Dena notes that it's "much easier to pay bills, rent and staff, and make improvements," and says that they've begun to catch up on their debt.
Diners and management alike have been wowed by the changes in decor in the dining room, particularly the bar that Robert added. It's perhaps one of the most-important renovations to take place at the restaurant, Dena tells us. "Not only is the bar one of the keys to our success, but it brings in extra cash." She adds that the new sign is likely responsible for drawing in first-time patrons.
Robert's custom menu, too, has garnered rave reviews from guests, who especially enjoy the Pan Seared Scallops and Shrimp Topped Salmon. Dena adds, however, that customers "were also demanding that [they] bring back items on [their] 'old' menu," so the eatery now features a combined list of offerings.
Joe has yet to pursue culinary training, but Dena tells us that he "finds himself watching Food Network almost every night when he comes home." He's embracing a more proper leadership role, delegating tasks to staff and tempering inappropriate outbursts, and recently he "got everything fixed" in the kitchen, which now features a brand-new dishwasher, according to Dena.
Dena has reduced her hours at her other job to just one shift per week, and she and Joe have enjoyed more time to themselves, as they've decreased the restaurant's operating hours. "Our decision to close for lunch Tuesday through Thursday has given us a little more time for us," she says. "We feel a little more human."
More From Restaurant Revisited:
Sweet Tea's Restaurant & Catering (March 24)
Soup to Nuts Diner (March 17)
Caseyville Cafe (March 13)
Maniaci's Italian Restaurant (March 10)
Dinner Bell Restaurant (February 27)
Nanny Goat's Cafe & Feed Bin (February 20)
Sapori D'Italia (January 23)
Windseeker Restaurant (January 16)
Whiskey Creek Steakhouse (January 2)
Rising Sun Bistro (December 19)
Boys & Girls Club of Southwest Missouri (December 9)
Bronk's Bar and Grill (December 5)
Rohrer's Tavern (November 28)
Poco's on the Boulevard (November 21)
Oleander Bar and Grill (October 17)
Valley Inn (October 10)
Whistle Stop (October 3)
The Maple Tree Cafe (September 26)
Michele's (September 19)
Paliani's Restaurant (September 12)
Frankie's (September 5)
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by Kang Sinjae
He always smells of soap. Well, not quite. Not always anyway. He
gives off a soapy odor whenever he steps out of the bathroom after
dousing himself with water upon return from school. So I know without
looking that he is coming near, even if I am sitting still at the desk,
facing the other way. I can even guess what kind of expression he is
wearing or what sort of mood he is in.
After changing into a T-shirt, he saunters into my room to flop onto the sofa or to stand leaning with his elbow against the window sill, flashing a smile at me.
"What's new?" he asks me.
He smells of soap when he says that. And I know that one of the most saddening and tormenting moments has come upon me. A tingle spreads in my heart along with the mild fragrance of soap that his body emits -- this is what I would have liked to say in reply. Then he gazes at me, wide-eyed. His eyes seem to be spying on my feelings or beckoning me to cheer up, smile, and be gay. Or else they could be nothing more than an indication of his cheerful mood. Which is it exactly?
I cannot help gazing into his eyes, focusing all my sorrows, pains, and wisdom at one point in each pupil. I am anxious to know how I appear to him. Just like the sound of the breakers that wash the rocks on the shore day in and day out, this one obsession of mine lashes my heart and sets my body and soul on fire. No matter how hard I try every day, I cannot find out. I cannot fathom the meaning of his gaze. Only my sorrows and torment turn into something so heavy that it sinks to the bottom of my heart. And then I realize that, after all, I must return to being what I apparently am, his younger sister without nothing on the surface to be awkward or uneasy about.
"Is that you?" I ask him in a cheerful voice as if he wanted it that way. I know how ungraceful it is to be anything but cheerful in a situation like this. Relieved at my cheerful voice, he stretches his legs saying, "Yeah, I'm dead tired. How about bringing me something to eat?"
"Gee, you sound impatient. I just got a breakthrough on my English composition homework and I've been scribbling along," I mumble as I sit back from the desk.
"Let me see whether you show any promise of becoming a woman writer." He leans forward, reaching for my notebook.
"My goodness, no!" I hide the notebook under a stack of books and go downstairs to fetch some food from the refrigerator. As I put a frosty bottle of Coke, crispy crackers, and some cheese on a tray, my heart begins to throb with secret joy. Why should he come to my room to ask for food? He always bypasses the refrigerator on his way and badgers me to fetch food for him. Certainly he is not too lazy to open such a simple device; or if he wanted someone else to do it for him, he could easily ask one of the servants. At least that would be easier than making me work, putting up with all my grumblings, tardy movements, and spilling and dropping things. (Somehow I am not adept in these things. I try to be neat and prompt, but in vain.)
When I return with the tray he is sitting down with his face half turned, peering through the window at the rose bush outside. Now he is in such a pensive mood that his eyes look placid and relaxed, unlike the ones I am used to. His tanned face and finely chiseled features viewed from an angle appeal to me. Even the side of his countenance that he would rather not reveal to me looks attractive. His head is shaped like that of Apollo, and a few curly hairs are drooping over his forehead.
"They say curly hair means a violent temper," I once said to him.
"No, not really, Sukhui. That's not correct," he replied in all seriousness to what I meant as a mere joke.
After repeating the routine of sitting down for relaxation in my room, he sprang to his feet, saying, "How about a game of tennis?"
"No. Wait. Didn't you say you're having midterm exams from tomorrow?"
"That's all right. It doesn't bother me."
To tell the truth, I didn't have any exams or anything like that. I pulled a pair of white shorts and a blue shirt out of the upper drawer of my bureau.
"You might flunk," he said as he stepped out of the room to pick up his racket.
The sun's rays were warm, but a cool breeze kept the fresh green leaves in the yard stirring. We walked to the fence at the foot of the hill in the back. Turning the corner where the stone wall has started to sag, we slipped into our neighbor's courtyard. By "our neighbor's" I mean the property belonging to the old royal household, most of which is an idle tract of land except for a couple of tile-roofed houses in the distant corner.
The residents of the old tile-roofed houses sweep and clean the yard religiously every day so that it is kept as clean as the ondol floor. "It's a shame so large a piece of land should he idle," I said one day, sitting on the stone fence, looking down at the yard. "We should make a tennis court here. Don't you think it's a good idea?"
At first he didn't go along with me, but later he gave in, and we walked over to the house to consult with the warden of the property. The following day, we drew lines by sprinkling lime. A few days later, we set up a net and leveled the ground to turn it into a regular tennis court. The warden couldn't have anticipated that so much work would be done on his property. If he should complain, we were ready to give it up any time. So we worked with more hesitation than dispatch.
But the silver-haired, good-natured old man of the house, not only did not express his displeasure but from time to time watched our games, leaning on his walking cane. On one or two occasions he spotted me climbing over the stone fence and appeared to be about to reprimand me, but said nothing. Perhaps he thought that I wouldn't abide by his instructions anyway. At any rate, the yard was our favorite playground.
As a physics major in college my brother was under constant pressure to keep up with his studies. But he was no bookworm to shy away from games. Although I had played tennis even before I joined his family, I owe most of my sophisticated skills to him. I was so happy to learn that he could play tennis better than the coach at my school in the country.
Dull brains do not appeal to me, nor do people with little or no athletic inclination. Athletic games enable us to taste the joy of life. There is nothing so sweet as the air we breathe while we jump around in pursuit of the ball. But that day, I was in the poorest of condition; I was not playing well, I relied on his ability to adjust his pace to none and skillfully to lead me to finish each game.
"Shucks! I ought to be playing better than this. I wonder if I am deteriorating."
"You're playing quite well. How would you like to play a game with Chisu before it gets warm?"
Soon after the sky turned lilac we picked up our balls and headed toward the valley where there was a spring of medicinal water. The water seeping through cracks in the rock was so cold it chilled my teeth, and it tasted of minerals. We scooped the water in our cupped hands and guzzled it down our parched throats. Our manners added a jarring note to the scenery there: the willow's light green leaves drooping over the rock and the clusters of red blossoms on the lone branch of a nameless tree. It's a pity we've never learned to improve our manners.
"Drink a lot! Spring water might do you some good."
"What good?"
"For one thing it might improve your tennis."
But this time there was a little gourd dipper at the side of the well. The old man must have put it there.
"From today on we have to drink nicely."
"The mountain god is watching us."
So we took the rest properly. And then he bent down to scoop a gourdful of water. He put the dipper close to my mouth, looking serene and strange. The face I saw then was one I had never seen before, one that was totally of his own. I had a sip and looked up at him. He slowly drank what was left in the dipper. As he put the dipper back where it was, he appeared to be overtaken by a gush of emotion in that short span of time. He didn't look toward me. All of a sudden, I was seized by confusion. But there was something that never eluded me in that confusion. Happiness.
I walked along the stone fence with a racket on my shoulder. "Brother," for that is what he is to me in terms of formal kinship, but it was a symbol of irrationality and unreasonableness. My existence was entangled in that irrational and unreasonable relationship!
I jumped down from the stone fence, which is taller than I am, and walked straight into the garden without looking back. I walked barefoot, with a pair of tennis shoes in my hand. The turf was so smooth and tender that it tickled but slightly, and I felt like taking my stockings off too.
"How would you like to have your feet shod so you can go anywhere without shoes?" he said to me whenever he found me barefooted.
"Walking barefoot on the grass takes me back to my hometown. It makes me feel as if I've reclaimed myself."
On an afternoon like this my mutterings would give way to a surge of mixed emotions so that I would purse my lips like a grandmother and remain taciturn. I come to the terrace, looking glum. The purple carpet in the spacious living room, the large pieces of furniture in an impressive array, the mysterious calm that reigns in it, the peonies in full bloom around the house, the fragrance of lilacs, the deepening odor of the fresh green plants -- all these make me perceive painfully the meaning of my existence afloat in that ethereal purple air.
The brief moments of cheerfulness and happiness I have experienced cannot be mine for long; aren't they manifestations of my own sorrows and torment? I am at a loss. Such terms as "younger sister" and "elder brother" evoke hatred and terror in my mind. I abhor them. The joy and happiness I have been groping for are not permissible in this category of kinship.
There was something pathetic about my daily illusions of myself as a lone figure in the ethereal purple air. I no longer had the courage to be beside him. He would blink his eyes and crack a joke. He would bid me to cheer up, smile and be merry, without explicitly saying so. This is all he could do for me.
Today I felt more miserable because my heart had been filled with bliss. I stood there for a while. As I stepped onto the shiny wooden floor, puffing out my cheeks, I left my footprints along the way. Soiling the clean floor gave me an ironic pleasure.
After taking a bath, I stole a glance outside the window while dressing. I saw him sitting on a bench under the wisteria. He looked lonesome, with his elbows on his knees and his eyes riveted on the laurel bush. Could he be suffering too, even a little? Well, what could he do? I said to myself. For no obvious reason, I became cruel to him.
I sat down in the comer of my unlit room and looked out at him. He stood up when darkness began to lap him; he stood there for a while, his face turned toward the window of my room. I kept the room unlit and did not go down for supper. Instead, I picked up the glass of Coke he left unfinished. I brought my lips to the rim of the glass just as his lips had touched the rim of the gourd dipper in which I had left some water at the well.
How should I address him? Destiny compels me to call him "brother." I was escorted to this place by Monsieur Lee one day late in winter two years ago, when houses in Seoul were glittering like ice candies with snow and ice piled on tops of their roofs. My mother introduced the young man to me then. "Sukhui, I would like you to meet your brother. His name is Hyongyu."
I gazed at him standing on the purple carpet. Mother continued, "He's a top student at the College of Arts and Sciences of Seoul National University. I know you've been called a gifted girl in the country, but now that you're in Seoul, things will look a bit strange. I want you to get along well with him." Although she said this in a gay tone, a shadow of fear hovered about her as she gazed into the young man's eyes.
He wore a brown V-neck sweater with the collar of his shirt, a shade lighter, turned up over the neckline. His thick eyebrows were spaced wide apart so that they gave an air of intimidation. His eyes were cool and yet generous and poised, betraying wit and self-confidence. The overall contour of his face was one of neatness tempered by vigor and tenacity. Only the soft and delicate lines of his jaw and neck were exceptions.
"Of medium height and build, he does look like a prodigy," I rated him to myself, although I was not so foolish as to evaluate a man on his physical appearance alone. When I stared at him, he wore a faint smile on his lips, narrowing his eyes as if dazzled by the sun. The smile was an awkward but sturdily individualistic one. Perhaps he was reading my heart as I was trying to size him up. I grew tense at being subjected to his keen observation.
What he said then was quite simple. "It's a pleasure to have you with us. We've been much too lonesome in this house." He shook hands with me.
This was evidence enough that he took me for a child and that he wanted to honor my mother's feelings. Relief and gratification surged on my mother's face, as if to vindicate my observation. I viewed the relationship of Hyongyu to mother as being pretty much an artificial one that could be upheld only with minute consideration.
Monsieur Lee, a man of easygoing nature, didn't seem to take things seriously. With a smile on his face, he kept glancing at us, reminding us time and again that I must be tired from the journey.
At any rate, from this time on, the young man has been calling me by that easy and simple name, Sukhui -- sometimes simply, "Hey, Suk!" And he has been generous to me to the point of making me feel embarrassed from time to time.
Lately, important changes have taken place in his relationship to me, such as his coming into my room to ask for food and to ask me to dress wounds on his fingers.
Friendly and unreserved as he was to me, I could never for the life of me bring myself to call him "brother": in the beginning, because we were total strangers, later because of other reasons. To call him "brother" was many times more difficult than to call Monsieur Lee "father". I was not sure whether I was obstinate or sheepish. Both he and mother understood my predicament, for they phrased their questions in such a way that I did not have to struggle to avoid using the term "brother" in my replies. The only person who added relentlessly to my predicament in this regard was Monsieur Lee.
I changed a good bit in many ways during my first year in Seoul. I grew taller and learned to look stylish, and my complexion turned fairer. Last spring, I was crowned queen of E. high school and reigned one whole day over campus activities. I felt that my bust measurement fell short of the title, but the votes were overwhelming in my favor and I was amazed. Of course mother was extremely pleased, and Monsieur Lee bought me an expensive watch.
But Hyongyu didn't have much to say, not even a joke. All he said was that he wanted to congratulate me and he said that in an awkward and self-conscious manner. And I liked him for it.
Also, my personality had appreciably changed. I felt things more intensely in this new and quiet atmosphere than in the country, where I used to have a lot of friends to play and sing with.
I now understand what joie de vivre means. The atmosphere in the new home is pleasant and cozy with a touch of romantic air emanating from the relationship between mother and Monsieur Lee. I like the suburban setting of the home, in the woods away from the center of Seoul, and this old ivy-mantled brick house itself, in which Monsieur Lee is said to have lived alone for years.
Hyongyu is well mannered and courteous toward mother, and Monsieur Lee is content so long as I look healthy and happy. A professor of economics at a private university, he is a little chubby and looks every inch good-natured. Even though he has nothing to do with France or the French, I call him Monsieur Lee because he reminds me of the hapless father in a French movie I saw. But Monsieur Lee is not hapless; in fact, he is quite happy now. It is possible, though, that such a good-natured person may become wretchedly miserable if thrown into adverse surroundings.
In the tragedy of a young man like Goethe's Werther there is acute beauty; in the sorrow of a man like Monsieur Lee, nothing but wretchedness seems to prevail. How fortunate for him to have the companionship of my mother!
Mother looks happy even though she spends most of her time cooped up in our new house. Her voice, which was noted for being tender, has grown more so. She must be harboring a sense of guilt in her newly acquired happiness, for she refrains from going out or even from laughing aloud. Nevertheless, she is always well dressed and her light makeup is pleasing.
But there was something unexpected here which tormented me. It was my feelings toward Hyongyu that bore down on me day and night. When the crushing feeling was too painful to bear, I wished I hadn't come here. But such a feeling did not last long. I shudder to imagine my life without ever meeting a man like Hyongyu. Just meeting him has made me happier than any other woman on earth. I wouldn't trade the happiness of being near him for anything in the world.
It is true that I am at the same time sad and restless. To be more honest, my feelings keep changing every minute. The absence of Monsieur Lee, who is now traveling overseas, is a welcome relief, for I don't have to greet him every morning looking royally happy, or go downstairs for supper on schedule.
"Mother, you know I don't like fixed schedules," I said immediately after Monsieur Lee had departed on his journey. "I want to eat when I feel like eating, and I don't want to eat when I don't feel like it. So will you please excuse my manners as long as he is away?"
While the well-mannered Hyongyu was keeping mother company in the dining room, I sat by the window, staring blankly into the darkening sky. There was a faint glimmer of the river flowing beyond the vast plain dotted with small houses, patches of woods, and shimmering lakes. The river was as whimsical as the weather, glittering like platinum one day and becoming shrouded in fog the next. When the sky turned from purple to light grey, the river merged with the soft grey of the hanging clouds.
Viewing the dark river, I thought I must extricate myself from the confusion of tangled emotions. I couldn't let my whims be my guide, nor could I make any sense out of my conflicting claims. I was not bound by any sense of guilt in loving Hyongyu. That was out of the question. But to betray mother and Monsieur Lee in that sense was tantamount to ruining the lives of all four of us. I trembled at the dismal and horrible connotation of the word "ruin".
Before moving to this new home, I had lived in the country with my maternal grandparents. Until three or fours years before that, mother used to live with us, but after she left for Seoul there were only three of us, my grandparents and me. We had a few workers and several watchdogs for the orchard. One of the dogs, a Chindo, was my pet. But I was always unbearably lonely, especially after mother went to Seoul.
Even when mother was with us I really didn't feel that our life was reassuring or joyful. It pained me that mother, a beautiful young woman, should devote all her time to the monotonous routine of a rural home. Although she usually had on her lap beautiful pieces of cloth or woolen yam to make or knit something for me, and spoke about me often, I felt unhappy and uneasy about her.
If only she would stop sewing or knitting for a change and act like other mothers -- shouting at me or scolding me under the pressure of household chores or of carrying a baby on her back -- and live a life of her own, I would be content.
I cannot recall when mother began to live a shadow-like life. It was already like that about ten years ago when the Korean War forced us to move to my grandparents' place. I remember it was like that even before the war, when I started elementary school in Seoul.
I know nothing about my father. Someone had once told me that he was dead, but I never really believed that. It was only after the war, when grandmother told me in a convincing tone, "Your daddy has passed away," that I tended to believe it was true.
Probably my parents were separated when I was a baby, and the eventual death of my father made the separation permanent. At any rate I have no more information, curiosity, or feelings of any kind about my father. All that I have inherited from him is my surname Yun, which is nothing unique.


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According to Fort Bend County deputies, the thefts happened at two separate locations off Smithers Lake Road near F.M. 762.
During the first break-in, the thief or thieves emptied a diesel storage tank of about 600 gallons of fuel and stole the pump on the tank, deputies said.
A storage facility was also broken into and a chainsaw and a generator were stolen, deputies said.
The second victim also had about 100 gallons of diesel fuel stolen from a storage tank, as well as a fuel pump with the victim's name painted on it, deputies said.
Detectives said in both thefts, two sets of tracks were found, which indicated that the person or persons had a trailer.
Anyone with information is asked to call Fort Bend County Crime Stoppers at 281-342-TIPS.
Information which leads to the capture and charges on the suspects could earn a reward of up to $5,000.
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Premier Mike Baird has urged his federal colleagues to back away from proposed changes to racial discrimination law, declaring: "If it's not broken, don't fix it."
Echoing his predecessor Barry O'Farrell's fears, Mr Baird said there was broad community concern about proposed changes to section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.
After federal Attorney-General George Brandis said the law needed to change and that people had the right to be bigoted, Mr O'Farrell countered last month that "bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally". "Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong," he said.
On Sunday, Mr Baird said he held a similar position to the former premier.
"I'm not a lawyer, but from my point of view, if it's not broken, don't fix it and there does seem to be broad concern across the community about some of these changes," Mr Baird told Sky News on Australian Agenda.
"Obviously my position is the same as Barry's, who had concerns on this, and my urging to the federal Attorney-General is to take on some of those community concerns.
"I will be making my comments clear and they reflect the concerns I'm hearing across the community on this."
An exposure draft has proposed changing section 18C, which makes it unlawful for someone to act in a manner likely to "offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate" because of race or ethnicity. The proposals include removing the words "offend, insult and humiliate", but retaining the word "intimidate" and adding the word "vilify". It is also proposed that section 18D, which protects freedom of speech, should be replaced with a new section.
The exposure draft has been criticised for proposing exemptions for words and images "in any public discussion of any political, social, cultural, religious, artistic, academic or scientific matter".
The Racial Discrimination Act was used to prosecute conservative political commentator Andrew Bolt over an article he wrote attacking "fair-skinned" Aborigines.
Mr Baird also said tthe federal government needed to take a humane approach in the placement of refugees.
"I think whatever happens in Manus Island, we have to make sure it's as humane as possible," Mr Baird said.
"I've got a broad problem with children in detention, but I am comfortable with offshore processing provided it's humane, provided resources are directed to do the processing quickly and in terms of legal channels."
NSW Community Relations Commission chair Vic Alhadeff on Sunday urged people to make their voices heard before the Tuesday deadline for public submissions on the proposed amendment to section 18C.
"It's essential that the government appreciates the extent of the massive opposition that exists to the proposal to dilute 18C," he said.
"The current laws protect all Australians against racial vilification, not only minority groups, and are one of the few inhibitors we possess against the racism which underpins many overseas conflicts."


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as slow as molasses photo by technicool
Are you avoiding white sugar because it is just empty calories? And using agave, honey, or date sugar because they are less refined and have more nutrition?
You might be surprised by a scientific study named Total Antioxidant Content of Alternatives to Refined Sugar, printed in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association January 2009. It tested the antioxidant levels of many sweeteners.
What was tested?
|agave nectar (light, amber and raw)
|blue agave nectar
|brown rice syrup
|brown rice malt syrup (not gluten free)
|barley malt syrup (not gluten free)
|corn syrup (light)
|date sugar
|maple syrup (100% pure)
|molasses (dark and black strap)
|sugar (white, light brown, dark brown, turbinado, raw cane)
How where they tested?
Sweeteners where purchased from major retailers, health food stores, and online distributors. From one to 53 samples were tested for each sweetener. Honey had the most samples, representing mostly refined clover honey as it is most available.
Results- a few surprises!
In order of antioxidant levels, high to low.
|Relative amount of antioxidants
|date sugar
|molasses, blackstrap
|molasses, dark
|barley malt syrup
|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (not gluten free)
|brown rice malt syrup
|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (not gluten free)
|sugar, dark brown
|100% maple syrup
|sugar, light brown
|sugar, raw cane
|sugar, turbinado
|agave nectar
|corn syrup, light
|sugar, white
Notes: White sugar, corn syrup, and agave nectar had almost no antioxidants.
These are composite results. The study did show some variability of antioxidant levels between samples of the same type of some sweeteners.
My graph is a crude representation of the results.
How does this compare with other foods?
|broccoli, raw
|milk chocolate candy
|red wine (merlot)
Note: Common serving sizes where compared.
Walnuts where way off this chart. One ounce of walnuts have about twice the antioxidants of one ounce of date sugar.
Can we switcheroo?
It is not possible to use some high antioxidant sweeteners measure for measure in place of white sugar in many recipes. A cup or more of black strap molasses in a cake will not be good. Date sugar is delicious, but will change the flavor, color and texture in recipes with lots of sugar. It is also expensive and not readily available. Some recipes successfully use these sweeteners though.
It is pretty easy to substitute dark brown sugar for white in many recipes. Did you know that brown sugar is simply refined white sugar mixed with molasses? The darker the sugar, the more molasses.
Stir 1 tablespoon molasses into 1 cup of white sugar to make dark brown sugar.
Using averages, the researchers concluded that substituting high antioxidant sweeteners for white sugar can increase the antioxidants consumed as much as having a serving of blueberries. That is because we eat so much sugar.
To much sugar
The average American eats 31 teaspoons of added sugar a day. Yikes!! While it is useful to use high antioxidant sweeteners, it is also important to simply use less sugar. And according to this study, using agave is not much better than white sugar.
Not tested yet
I like sorghum syrup and have used palm sugar too. They were not tested, so I do not know the antioxidant levels of these sweeteners. If anyone has this information, please share.
palm sugar photo by vsimon
The study authors are Katherine M. Phillips, PhD; Monica H. Carlsen, MSc; Rune Blomhoff, PhD.


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Victoria Beckham's Surprisingly Inexpensive Beauty Secret… Revealed!
Posh's best beauty secret DOESN'T involve spending zillions of dollars. Shhh, don't tell!
-Lucia Peters
As of 2011, Victoria Beckham had a net worth of $48.5 million. That?… is a lot. You'd think, then, that with a net worth that high, she'd be rolling in all sorts of uber expensive beauty treatments and such right? Well, maybe she is, but she just revealed one of her best beauty secrets via Twitter—and it's surprisingly affordable! Inexpensive, even! Who knew?
Ready? Here it is:
Read Love It or Hate It? Elle Women in Hollywood Edition: Cate Blanchett + More
Good ol' Posh Tweeted that pic over the weekend along with the following message:
Aha! So THAT'S how she keeps her skin so gorgeous, even with all the jetsetting she does! Planes, after all, do have an obnoxious tendency to dry you out from the inside out. As an added tip, we'll add that as tempting as it might be to order that glass of wine, sticking with water instead will keep you way more hydrated, and subsequently, you will look significantly less dead whenever you arrive at your destination. Zombies may be in these days, but it's usually better not to look like one if you've got an important meeting to go to or whatever.
Anyhoo, happy hump day, Bettys. Carry on!
Lucia Peters is BettyConfidential's associate editor.


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Arroyo gets little offensive help in loss to Cards
Cincinnati limited to Choo's RBI double by St. Louis' Garcia, Mujica
ST. LOUIS -- It was a DIY-type of night for Bronson Arroyo at Busch Stadium on Tuesday.
The offense did little to support Arroyo's well-pitched outing in a 2-1 loss to the Cardinals that hinged on Matt Holliday's two-run homer in the sixth inning. Even if Cincinnati had provided a tad more octane vs. lefty Jaime Garcia, neither its closer nor its backup closer was available. Garcia made that a moot point with his eight solid innings.
Arroyo threw only 78 pitches over seven innings, and never with a runner in scoring position. It still wasn't enough.
"Right now, as a staff, we're doing our job," said Arroyo, who gave up two runs and six hits with one walk and no strikeouts. "We wished we were getting a few more wins out of these quality starts, but that's just the way the games are going. Guys on the other side are doing their job as well. It's always a battle."
The Reds have scored just 15 runs over their last eight games.
Garcia matched Arroyo with zeros until the top of the fifth inning. A two-out RBI double to the wall in left field by Shin-Soo Choo scored Derrick Robinson and gave Cincinnati a one-run lead.
The only two Cardinals runners to reach second base would pass right through. In the sixth, after Carlos Beltran hit a one-out single, Holliday pulled a 3-2 curveball for a low liner into the seats in left-center for the homer that put St. Louis ahead and ended a 17-inning scoreless streak for the Reds' rotation.
"He can hit. Holliday wouldn't be making all that money if he can't hit," manager Dusty Baker said. "He can hit for a long time. If it's any consolation, we got beat by one of the best on that team. That's what he gets paid for."
After throwing three sinkers to Holliday to run the count to 3-0, Arroyo threw three straight breaking balls.
"I thought I'd walk him with the sinker, because he hasn't been fishing for it much," Arroyo said. "I picked the choice of going right at him rather than having first and second with one out and [Allen] Craig up and kind of getting into the meat of their order with the crowd coming into play around the sixth or seventh inning, like they always do. You take your chances and play the best odds you can. A big, strong guy like Matt Holliday sometimes can beat you, which he did.
"He's just so strong. There are maybe a handful of guys in this game that can hit the ball out of the ballpark with that low of trajectory."
Cincinnati put the leadoff runner on base from the second through the fifth innings, but only got the Choo RBI to show for it.
Garcia felt that the Reds' aggressiveness played into his ability to get some quick outs.
"I saw early that they were taking some swings," said Garcia. "It's a really good lineup. They put some really good at-bats together every single time. The main thing for me was just trying to execute that pitch down, make them hit it on the ground."
Once Garcia departed, newly installed closer Edward Mujica shut the door by striking out the side of three All-Stars in the ninth -- Joey Votto, Brandon Phillips and Jay Bruce.
"That was a good game. You hate to lose it," said Baker, whose club finished April with a 15-13 record. "But if you keep playing like that and get pitching like that, you're going to win a lot of games."
Arroyo rebounded well from his lone subpar outing, on Friday at Washington, where he gave up six runs. He's had quality starts in four of six starts but is 2-3 with a 3.95 ERA.
Despite losing on Tuesday, he couldn't hang his head.
"I can't complain about it -- 78 pitches in seven innings," he said. "I commanded the lineup the way I wanted to. I pitched a great ballgame. but Mr. Garcia pitched a little bit better."
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Money Substitutes and Favoured Trade Items of Torres Strait and Papuan Gulf. (Colour Edition)
The Story of Money Substitutes of the Australian Headhunters & Their Neighbours
de Col Davidson
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Money is something that we take for granted but have difficulty in defining exactly.
A very simple description could be that money is something in which payments can be made, is used as a store of value and is a measure of worth.
The items in this book have many other attributes. some contain spirits or can be used to commune with the dead, others are required in ceremonies of birth, death and marriage. They are gifts to the gods and show a man's status in society. They are necessities of life and many have wonderful stories.
Other considerations regarding the items in this book take in the area from which they come and the people who used them.
Most of the people of the Torres Strait and Papuan Gulf were headhunters and many were cannibals with sea-going warriors roaming the coasts and islands in the search of heads, spoils of war and trade.
But even headhunters needed money - this book shows some of the wealth items that they used.
Características y detalles
- Categoría Referencia
15×23 cm
80 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación nov. 08, 2012
- Idioma English
- Etiquetas Trade, Headhunters, Cannibals, Primitive Money, Torres Strait
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Col Davidson I am a retired accountant who has been collecting coins for about sixty five years and Primitive Moneys for some fifty years. In 1974 I became member #29 of Neil Kent Becker's International Primitive, Odd & Curious Money Club (IPOCMC) - later renamed as the International Primitive Money Club. During the period 1978-79 I took over as Acting President and Editor of the Club and edited and isued 8 Journals. When Neil was able to resume the presidency I started up the Australian based Traditional Money Association which promoted the study and collecting of primitive moneys. This club lapsed in 1998 but, during the period 1980 to 1998, twenty six Journals of the TMA were issued. Refer to the below link where they can be read and downloaded. http://www.scribd.com/coldavo/documents) I am still a keen collector and student of all forms of Primitive Mneys with this book being illustrated with items from my collection.
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Wildcats Ready for UNI in NCAA Tournament
Wildcats Ready for UNI in NCAA Tournament
Nov. 27, 2012
Complete K-State Notes | Tournament Central
MANHATTAN, Kan. – The Kansas State volleyball team made a run to the Sweet 16 last season, and for the 2012 NCAA Tournament the Wildcats are headed back to where the 2011 magic began. K-State will take on the Northern Iowa Panthers in the first round Thursday afternoon from Lincoln, Neb., and historic NU Coliseum at 4:30 p.m.
The Wildcats are making their 14th NCAA Tournament appearance after going 21-8 in the regular season to earn an at-large bid. Head Coach Suzie Fritz has led the program to nine tournaments now in her 12 seasons at the helm and has her team ready for another push.
Northern Iowa is a perennial power in the Missouri Valley Conference, as the Panthers are making their 18th NCAA Tournament appearance and seventh straight. This is the first time K-State and UNI will have met in the NCAA Tournament and the first meeting since 2008 when the Panthers played in the Varney's Invitational with the Wildcats winning that contest.
Fans are encouraged to purchase tickets through the K-State Ticket Office from the allotment given to the department. Tickets can be purchased online at kstatesports.com/tickets or by calling 1-800-221-CATS. Fans may also go through the Nebraska Ticket Office by calling 800-8-BIGRED. All-session tickets are available for $34 in reserved seating and include all three matches at the site.
Other teams in the Lincoln subregional are host Nebraska (23-6) as the Huskers are the No. 4 overall seed in the tournament. Nebraska will take on Maryland-Eastern Shore (28-5) from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. The Hawks won their conference for the second season in a row and posted the most wins in school history in this year's campaign. Nebraska and UMES will face at 7:30 p.m. Thursday with the winner of both matches playing Friday. Of the two potential second opponents, K-State has never faced UMES and is 4-80 against Nebraska after upsetting the Cornhuskers on their home floor to advance to the Regional Semifinals last season.
On the Airwaves
Thursday's match can be heard on 1350 KMAN with Rob Voelker calling the action. Pregame coverage will begin at 4 p.m.
The match will be broadcast online at ncaa.com. Every match during the first two rounds of the tournament will be available for free at ncaa.com for fans to watch.
Live stats for Saturday's match can be found at huskers.com. A link will be posted to kstatesports.com when it is available as well.
The Series
Northern Iowa: K-State leads the all-time series 6-3-1 and has won all four meetings with Suzie Fritz leading the Wildcats. This is the first NCAA Tournament meeting between the Panthers and Wildcats.
UMES: K-State and Maryland-Eastern Shore have never played each other.
Nebraska: K-State trails Nebraska 4-80 all-time in the series but pulled the upset last year in the NCAA Tournament to go to the Sweet 16 and end the Cornhuskers' season.
The Coaches
Kansas State: Suzie Fritz (Florida Atlantic '94) is in her 12th year as head coach of the Wildcats she is the winningest coach in the program's history with 238 wins and has taken the team to nine NCAA Tournaments, including three runs to the Regional Semifinals.
Northern Iowa: Bobbi Petersen (UNI '90) is in her 13th year coaching her alma mater. She has helped make the Panthers a mainstay in the NCAA Tournament with 10 appearances, including seven straight. UNI has won three of the last four Missouri Valley Conference regular season and tournament titles.
UMES: Don Metil (California University of Pennsylvania '96) is in his sixth season leading the Hawks where he has taken the team to back-to-back NCAA Tournaments and posted the most wins in school history both years as well.
Nebraska: Jon Cook (San Diego '79) is in his 13th year with the Huskers and he has kept the program among the top in the nation winning two NCAA titles and reaching five NCAA semifinals.
Goodbye to Historic NU Coliseum
NU Coliseum has long been considered by volleyball fans to be one of the greatest venues in the sport, and the final matches in the long history of NU Coliseum will be played this week in the NCAA Tournament. With their appearance there this week, the K-State Wildcats will get to play at least one more match in the storied gym. The Cornhuskers will be moving to a reconfigured Devaney Center next season with Nebraska's men's and women's basketball teams moving to the new Pinnacle Bank Arena in downtown Lincoln.
The Cornhuskers own two of the top five longest home winning streaks in NCAA history at the coliseum, including the No. 2 streak of 90 wins from 2004-09. Only five teams have defeated the Cornhuskers more than once in the coliseum, K-State is one of only two teams to do so three times joining Texas.
Those three wins by the Wildcats are among the biggest in school history, and in the long rivalry dating back to the old Big Eight Conference days all the way to the Big 12, the Wildcats and Cornhuskers have had countless battles on the court at NU Coliseum in front of a packed house.
Nebraska fans have packed the rafters of NU Coliseum beyond the official capacity of 4,030 for years and now will have a 6000-seat arena at Devaney. Entering this season, Nebraska held a record of 164 straight sellouts.
Scouting the Panthers
Northern Iowa is led by senior outside hitter Megan Lehman with an average of 3.19 kills per set and she received first team honors on the All-Missouri Valley Conference team. Three other Panthers were recognized as All-MVC, including senior middle blocker Krista DeGeest and junior outside hitter Macy Ubben on the first team. Ubben is UNI's all-around player with 2.48 kills and 2.34 digs. DeGeest averages 2.75 kills and hit and efficient .310 on the year. Senior outside hitter Amy Braun was named to the second team and ranks third on the team in kills and second in digs at 3.81 to give UNI another all-around player on the outside.
Defensively, UNI digs 17.79 balls per set to rank 23rd in the NCAA this season. Libero Candice Burke leads the team with 5.09 per set herself and ranks 54th individually. She is not alone in keeping rallies alive with four other teammates posting at least 2.20 digs per set. Braun, Ubben, Molly Turk (2.72) and Jenny Wilms (2.20) all help the Panthers limit their opponents with strong defense.
UNI is not all defense, however. The Panthers rank fourth in the NCAA in kills per set at 14.74. That offensive production is spread around the team similar to the digs defensively. Five players are averaging at least 2.30 kills. The offense is guided by Turk as she ranks 11th in assists per set and has her team hitting .240 on the year.
Scouting the Cornhuskers
Nebraska is again among the top teams in the country ranked No. 10 in the latest AVCA Coaches Poll and receiving the No. 4 seed in the tournament from the selection committee. The Huskers have a senior class of four, and three of them are All-Americans: setter Lauren Cook and outside hitters Hannah Werth and Gina Mancuso.
Mancuso averages 3.43 kills with Werth posting 3.06. The pair also is active on the defensive end as Werth actually leads the team in digs from the outside hitter position, an extremely rare feat in the libero era. Mancuso is fourth in digs on the team and is the team's top server. Cook is third in digs and directs the team to a hitting percentage of .290 as the setter to rank 10th in the nation.
The Huskers rely heavily on Mancuso and Werth on the outside for their offense. Right side hitter Morgan Broekhuis is third on the team with 2.70 kills. Both of Nebraska's middle blockers average less than 2.00 kills per set as the Huskers the trio of Mancuso, Werth and Broekhuis takes 66 percent of the swings.
Nebraska is one of the top blocking teams in the nation as well thanks to a strong presence at the net from middles Hayley Thramer and Meghan Haggerty. Thramer, a junior, is averaging 1.20 blocks per set and Haggerty is stuffing 1.00 as a freshman.
Scouting the Hawks
Maryland-Eastern Shore won the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference for the second straight year to earn a trip to the NCAA Tournament. This year the Hawks posted the most wins in school history with a 28-5 record.
The Hawks are one of the top serving teams in the nation ranking second in aces. That is in part due to sophomore outside hitter Saitaua Iosia, who was the preseason conference player of the year. Iosia is second in the nation in aces as an individual with an average of 0.71 per set. She also is the most complete player on the team racking up 4.32 kills per set on an impressive .286 hitting percentage for an outside hitter. Defensively, Iosia adds 2.52 digs per set to lead the team.
Three other players average at least 2.00 kills per set for the Hawks. Middle blocker Ndidi Ibe is UMES's No. 2 threat with a hitting percentage of .319 and 2.28 kills. Outside hitter Maline Vaitai (2.77) and right side Victoria Williams (2.31) are the other main threats on offense for the Hawks. The Hawks are an efficient offense hitting .260 as a team to rank in the top 25 in the nation as well.
Catching Up with the 'Cats
The Wildcats closed the season at 8-8 in Big 12 Conference play to finish in fifth place after a loss to Oklahoma in the final match. K-State is looking to get back on the winning track in the NCAA Tournament after dropping three in a row to end the regular season.
K-State is coming off a 1-3 to Oklahoma on Senior Night. The Wildcats' defense was strong at the net, posting a season-high 17 blocks against the Sooners. Senior middle blocker Alex Muff had one of her best matches in her last match at Ahearn Field House as she marked her first career double-double with 11 kills and 10 blocks. Sophomore middle blocker Taylor Johnson also shined with a career-high eight kills backed up with seven blocks, one shy of her career best defensively.
This is K-State's 14th NCA Tournament appearance and ninth under head coach Suzie Fritz in her 12 years leading the program. The Wildcats are 14-13 all-time in the tournament and have advanced to the Regional Semifinals three times, including last season. Thursday's match will be the first time K-State and UNI have faced each other in the NCAA Tournament and 11th overall.
The Wildcats are still ranked among the top teams in the country in the polls and have the stats to back it up. In addition to ranking 48th in hitting percentage the Wildcats are 38th in the NCAA in assists per set in the NCAA's latest statistics report on Monday averaging 13.15. Thanks in part to senior setter Caitlyn Donahue's direction the Wildcats are also killing at a rate of 13.85 per set to rank just outside the top 50.
K-State is posting those strong numbers thanks to a number of individuals having great seasons for the team. Donahue ranks eighth in the NCAA in assists (11.73). Muff is one of the best blockers in K-State history and is showing it by ranking 22nd in the nation this season at 1.41 per set and with her all-around game Kaitlynn Pelger is 66th in points.
Three Wildcats Named All-Big 12
With the K-State volleyball finishing the regular season 21-8 overall and 8-8 in conference play, three Wildcats were recognized on Monday for their efforts on the court by being named to the All-Big 12 Conference Team. Senior setter Caitlyn Donahue and junior middle blocker Kaitlynn Pelger were voted to the first team by the league's coaches and senior middle blocker Alex Muff was named honorable mention.
Donahue ranked second in the Big 12 this season in assists per set at 11.73 overall and 11.79 in league play. In conference matches she trailed Iowa State's Allison Landwehr by just .14 per set with Landwehr earning the first-ever Big 12 Setter of the Year honor. Donahue posted nine double-doubles during the season as she also averaged 2.44 digs per set in Big 12 play.
This is Donahue's first All-Big 12 award and is the first setter to be named to the team since Stacey Spiegelberg earned honorable mention in 2007.She is the first setter to make the first team since Gabby Guerre in 2003 when K-State won the Big 12.
Pelger earned All-Big 12 first team honors for the second straight year and was a unanimous selection by the coaches. All season Pelger ranked near the top of the league in kills per set and finished third behind only Haley Eckerman and Bailey Webster of Texas. Eckerman was named Big 12 Player of the Year.
In conference matches this year, Pelger ranked third in kills and points and for much of the season was one of only two players to rank in the top 10 hitting percentage and blocks as well. She is the first Wildcat to earn back-to-back first team status since Nataly Korobkova did so in 2007 and 2008.
Muff receives her first All-Big 12 honor in her final year at K-State. She was among the best blockers in the league again as she finished with an average of 1.32 per set in league action to rank second behind Khat Bell of Texas. Muff also ranked ninth in hitting percentage with a clip of .312. Muff ranks 22nd in the nation in blocks overall with a 1.41 average. She closed the regular season with her first career double-double against Oklahoma with 11 kills and 10 blocks on Saturday.
With Muff and Pelger both being named All-Big 12 it marks the first time since 2003 the Wildcats have had two middle blockers on the list. Lauren Goehring was named first team and player of the year in 2003 and Lisa Martin earn honorable mention.
Double Grand
Senior setter Caitlyn Donahue has joined an exclusive club this season for the Wildcats. She is just one of only two players in school history to post 3,000 assists and 1,000 digs. Donahue currently ranks in the top 10 in school history in both categories along with All-American Gabby Guerre.
Guerre helped lead the Wildcats to the 2003 Big 12 Championship and posted 4,943 assists to rank second in school history. Her 1,013 digs place her11th. Donahue moved her way up the digs list this season and currently has 1,099 to stand ninth. Donahue's 3,593 assists put her fifth.
Five other players in school history are in the double grand club but with kills and digs.
Hot Hand
Senior middle blocker Alex Muff has been one of the top blockers in the Big 12 Conference her entire career, and now she is adding more offense to her numbers in her final year to give the Wildcats another consistent weapon to go to in conference play thanks to her newfound firepower at the net. Muff averaged 2.44 kills per set in conference play this season, adding nearly a full kill per set more than her three previous years in league play. She also hit .312 to lead the team in that category and rank ninth in the conference.
Muff has posted10 or more kills in nine of the last 12 matches and hit .323 over that span. Before this season, she had only nine matches with 10 or more kills. She posted 10 kills and hit .353 against the No. 9 Texas Longhorns to start the hot streak and followed it with 10 kills on a .400 clip at TCU the next week. In the second match against Texas, Muff hit .455 with 11 kills.
During her hot streak, Muff has hit .300 or better in seven of those matches, including clips of .593 against Texas Tech and .556 against KU. In that match against Texas Tech five weeks ago, Muff posted a new career-high 17 kills in the victory. Her .593 hitting percentage also ranks fourth in school history for a five-set match.
Defensively over the last 12 matches, Muff has averaged 1.34 blocks, after stuffing 10 attacks against Oklahoma to close the season Saturday. With 11 kills in that match, Muff also posted her first career double-double.
For her career, Muff ranks fourth in school history in block assists with 416. She needs nine more to tie her own mark of 135 for 10th in a single season.
Round and Round
Middle blockers rarely play all six rotations in volleyball, especially now with additional substitutions allowed this season. That puts K-State's Kaitlynn Pelger in a select group as she is playing all six rotations for a second year in a row for the Wildcats.
Pelger is among four middle blockers playing all the way around at the NCAA Division I level this year joining Madeline Westman of UNLV, Xitlali Herrera from UTEP play all six rotations and Michigan's Jennifer Cross, who recently became a six rotation player for the Wolverines midway through the season.
Pelger is averaging 3.69 kills per set and has increased her defensive production on the back row to average 2.79 digs this year. The junior has tallied nine double-doubles on the year with eight of them coming by way of kills and digs.


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Detectives are sifting through missing persons files across Australia after the grisly discovery of a man's head by a holidaymaker on the iconic Rottnest Island, off Perth.
Porpoise Bay on the southeast of the island remains closed after the head, double-wrapped in a plastic bag, was found by a family as they combed the beach on Sunday afternoon.
An 11-year old girl is believed to have made the horrific discovery when she opened the plastic bag and saw a human ear.
Police on Monday confirmed the severed head belonged to a Caucasian male, aged between 30 and 50.
The man's front teeth were missing, with police saying they appear to have been removed some time before his death.
Police are treating the investigation as a murder probe but would not detail any other wounds on the head or decomposition.
Detective Senior Sergeant Cameron Western, of WA's Major Crime Squad, said officers would pursue all avenues to identify the remains, and how they came to be on the beach, 18km off the Perth coast.
"The avenues the remains could have arrived from are limitless," Sen Sgt Western said.
"But he appears to be Caucasian and missing his front upper teeth which the pathologist believes is historic and did not occur recently."
Sen Sgt Western said the family that made the discovery was understandably shocked.
"We have put in place what we can to assist them with the feelings they are going through," he said.
Police said the south side of the island would remained closed while investigations continued.
Porpoise Bay has been declared a protected forensic area, with access to the public restricted.
The southern side of Rottnest Island, an idyllic WA vacation spot, will be searched and police divers will search of the area where the remains were found.
"We want to make sure we do search the entire southern face of the island, which is where most of the debris washes onto that island," police said.
A post-mortem examination is being conducted on the remains, while police look into the shipping movements close to the island, and water currents in the area.
People who were on boats in the bay at the time of the discovery will also be questioned.
Police say anyone with information can call Crime Stoppers anonymously on 1800 333 000.


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I think we should discuss this again.
My opinion is that some of the characters who have no name (example: Iruka's Mother) should be deleted as these nameless shinobi / characters have little information on them to have an article. An article listing well-known nameless people might be better in this situation. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 11:06, September 2, 2012 (UTC)
She is Iruka's mother so wasn't just random generic ninja number #386 in the background. She kinda has to do with the plot, killed by Kurama and stuff--Elveonora (talk) 11:14, September 2, 2012 (UTC)
- I'm just using her as an example as a character who has not been given an actual name (example: Tokara Umino), whether she is important to the story or not is immaterial to the discussion. All I'm asking is whether we should keep or delete articles for characters who are just named by a description of whatever they are (eg Iwagakure Bodyguard) --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 11:19, September 2, 2012 (UTC)
I'm not for deleting every nameless article, that's kind of anti-progressive. Some of these nameless articles have a fair amount of information on them and while they simply have no name, is not a reason to delete 84 characters because they have no names. Then that would mean we should delete the 184 unnamed techniques and 43 unnamed tools that we have here as well.--Cerez365™(talk) 11:36, September 2, 2012 (UTC)
- Maybe I worded my original message wrongly. We should delete nameless characters with little to no info and haven't done anything to make the plot change.
Then that would mean we should delete the 184 unnamed techniques and 43 unnamed tools that we have here as well.
- Too far there lol. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 11:38, September 2, 2012 (UTC)
I think it was already done, these that are left are already "sorted" with the more information.--Elveonora (talk) 14:12, September 2, 2012 (UTC)
- I disagree with removing all the nameless characters here. As all of you said before, some of them have techniques as well as other information could be provided for them. Many nameless characters come from the filler arcs, but some of them are worthy to be deleted immediately like Hinata's Bullies for example. —Shakhmoot (Talk) 17:05, September 2, 2012 (UTC)


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That day in November when the envelope arrived at Fidelio Cruz's home in Midway City, he knew exactly what was in it. He had been waiting since August.
But Cruz didn't open it right away. He waited for his mother and his father and his girlfriend.
"I knew certain people wanted to be there when I opened it. It was that big an event," said the college graduate, 24, about getting the Employment Authorization Card that allows him to legally work in the United States.
They all cheered.
Cruz was brought here from Mexico by his parents when he was 5. He has only vague memories of Mexico and didn't realize his illegal status until high school.
Under immigration policy enacted in August, Cruz and about 1.7 million other young adults under age 31 who are in the country illegally became eligible to apply for temporary work permits and for two years' protection from the threat of deportation.
With his card, Cruz can seek jobs that were previously off limits to him as an undocumented immigrant, and pursue the kind of work befitting his degree in sociology from Cal State Long Beach.
There was someone else he wanted to show his card to in person.
Earlier this year, Cruz dropped by the office of Zayda Garcia on the campus of his old grade school in Huntington Beach's impoverished Oak View neighborhood. Garcia is executive director of the El Viento enrichment program for students from Oak View Elementary School.
Cruz was in the first group to go through the program from fourth grade through high school. Garcia, along with other mentors, helped make it possible for Cruz to go to college.
"He showed me his card. He almost didn't have to say anything to me because I knew what it meant," Garcia said. "It meant having a future."
Cruz is visiting Garcia again on a recent afternoon, with Francisco Rojas, another graduate of that first El Viento group of 42 kids. Rojas, also 24 and studying sociology, expects to graduate from Cal State Long Beach in the fall.
They sit beside Garcia in her cramped, bare-bones office inside a portable building on the Oak View campus. On a wall above a stack of boxes that contain backpacks donated for needy students is a verse from an early Aerosmith hit. It seems to speak directly to the two young men: "Dream on, Dream on, Dream Until Your Dream Comes True."
Rojas, one of four children, was brought to this country illegally at age 1. His family and Cruz's family left the Mexican city of Puebla. Neither has been back to Mexico. Their home is here.
Both stayed away from trouble and stuck with El Viento until they graduated from high school. One of the program's rewards was $4,000 in scholarship money for college, based on keeping their grades up.
They have worked at establishments that turned a blind eye to their legal status, often holding two jobs while carrying a full load of classes at Golden West College in Huntington Beach and then at Long Beach.
They still live with their parents, who have jobs in landscaping and housekeeping or bring in extra cash baby-sitting and selling things secondhand.
Rojas, whose family remains in the Oak View neighborhood, got his work permit from immigration services toward the end of summer, not long after submitting paperwork that included school records, achievement certificates and a letter from El Viento.
"Every day we were just waiting for the law to pass and help us out," Rojas said of the Dream Act, the proposed legislation that would give young undocumented immigrants like him and Cruz a shot at legal residency.
With the Dream Act on hold, immigration officials in June enacted the policy change that allows Rojas and Cruz to think more positively about their futures.
"It's like you're hopeful," Cruz said, "but you don't want to be desperate."
After learning about Cruz's work permit, Garcia was able to help him land an internship with a gang prevention and youth development program for adolescent boys run by Community Services Programs Inc. at Oak View Elementary.
While Cruz didn't fall victim to the temptations of drugs and gangs, he did have a moment of serious doubt in high school after he learned about his immigration status. He thought it destined him for a low-paying job, no matter his education.
"I almost wanted to drop out of high school," he said.
Rojas also worried about transferring from Golden West to a state college: "Where was I going to get the money? I didn't want to put that burden on my parents."
Rojas worked and saved. For four years, he bused tables and washed dishes at a restaurant, but quit when he asked to be a server and was denied. "They said I wasn't fit for it."
He now makes and delivers pizzas for another restaurant while finishing school.
Cruz held a similar job before he got his internship. He's not getting paid for the 15 hours or so he works with the boys at Oak View, but he has savings. He is hoping the internship leads to a paid job working with youth.
Garcia remembers how Cruz's mother cried during one meeting as she told her son to stay in school. His teachers, school counselors and Garcia also said the same to him: "Nobody knows what's going to happen in the future."
Garcia's own story is a perfect example.
Garcia, 39, came here legally at the age of 11 on a student visa to live with her grandmother. Her parents had stayed in Mexico when the rest of her family immigrated to Los Angeles. When their marriage broke up, her father continued to live in Mexico, her mother moved to El Centro and Garcia was sent to Los Angeles.
"For my family, you would graduate high school, get married and then that was it. That was your life purpose," Garcia said.
She wanted more, especially after seeing friends go off to college and come back to tell of their experiences. She became a dental assistant and put herself through college.
"I really had to do that on my own," she said, "because my family was like, 'What are you doing? Just get married.'"
It helped that the dentist she worked for was supportive, hiring a second assistant for those times when Garcia was at school. It took her six years to get her bachelor's degree.
Garcia had planned to pursue her master's and become a therapist. But one of El Viento's co-founders, Ellen K. Shockro, was a former professor of Garcia's and persuaded her to pay a visit to the program, whose name is Spanish for "the wind."
Garcia intended to stay with El Viento for a year and then go back to school. That was 13 years ago.
Garcia, who became a naturalized citizen in 2001, said the accomplishments of the students make her feel like a proud mom.
"For these guys," she said, looking at the young men who were just boys when she met them, "it's about keeping hope alive."
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The new, 2,500 seat state-of-the-art facility will be co-owned by the City and County and operated by the County's Center for the Arts, which also owns and operates Abravanel Hall, Capitol Theatre and Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center."We are very pleased with our partnership with Salt Lake County, as the County will take a role as minority owner and an operator, bringing decades of experience and expertise in venue management," said Mayor Becker in a press release. "The New Performing Arts Center will be our region's premier entertainment venue, not only expanding our City's cultural offerings and building audiences for our world-class performing groups, but also profoundly impacting our economic growth."The center will be located on the 100 block of Main Street and will play host to touring Broadway productions, nationally prominent family programming, music and comedy as well as a rich schedule of local arts presentations, according to officials."This new facility is going to be an entertainment draw for our capital city and a new jewel in Salt Lake County's arts and culture portfolio," said Mayor McAdams in the press release. "The great partnership for this regional arts facility ensures current and future artistic organizations will thrive and continue to delight our residents and visitors alike for years to come."Constructionis slated to begin in 2014 and be done in 2016.Further information on the project can be found at http://www.utahperformingartscenter.org.


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Although the delay apparently centers on engine availability, Rolls-Royce denied that an August 2 ground testing failure of an engine meant for one of ANA's airplanes had anything to do with Boeing's latest announcement.
"We have been informed by Boeing that the currently planned dates for Trent 1000 engine deliveries will not support their latest flight-test program requirements," Rolls-Royce said in a written statement. "We are working closely with Boeing to expedite delivery in support of their program schedule.
"Rolls-Royce confirms that the engine availability issue is unrelated to the test bed event which occurred earlier this month."
A "Package A" Trent 1000 intended for one of ANA's 787-8s had been undergoing testing at Rolls-Royce's Derby, UK plant when an uncontained failure occurred in the intermediate pressure turbine. The IP spool on the Trent drives the generators, which supply the aircraft's electrical power. Earlier this month, Rolls-Royce said it had devised a modification for later engines and didn't anticipate any effect on the program. Boeing, meanwhile, preferred to suspend judgment, as its target of an end-of-year delivery to ANA already had risked slipping to the first weeks of 2011 due to horizontal stabilizer inspections and a change to flight test instrumentation. It has yet to fly a production 787, or, in fact, sixth flight test example.
Rolls-Royce has used the delays in Boeing's program over the last two years to incorporate new technology into the Trent 1000's final build. Plans called for Boeing to fly Package B later this year on the fourth 787 flight-test aircraft, ZA004. It will feature a revised six-stage low-pressure turbine with high-aspect-ratio blades, a relocation of the intermediate compressor bleed offtake ports and fan outlet guide vanes with improved aerodynamics.
Meanwhile, Boeing risks further cancellation of orders if schedules slip further. Since the beginning of this year customers have canceled orders for 32 aircraft, but as of early August net orders stood at 847 aircraft. Perhaps more important to Boeing, however, further delays stand to erode its credibility and result in further financial penalties. Indeed, the learning curve for the 787 has been a long one, fraught with missteps leading to six program delays so far. Nevertheless, Boeing maintains that the 787's troubles haven't shaken its confidence, and that test programs by their nature present uncertainties.


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