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Outlook 2010 - Cannot cancel a meeting as the organizer.
On Outlook 2010 I do not have a 'Cancel Meeting' option. I can delete a meeting but the only option is to notify the organizer... but I am the meeting organizer. I need to be able to cancel a meeting and notify all of the attendees. I currently do not have (or cannot find) this option!
Hi Joe,
Please make sure you are the organizer of the meeting.
And you should be able to find the 'Cancel Meeting' option here:
- In Calendar, click the meeting.
- On the Meeting tab, in the Actions group, click Cancel Meeting.
- Type anything you want to include in the body of the message.
- Click Send Cancellation.
You can also find the 'Cancel Meeting' Option when you have the meeting item opened or when you right click on the meeting item on the calendar.
Max Meng
Come back and mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.
- Marked as answer by William Zhou CHNModerator Thursday, June 02, 2011 2:40 AM
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Hi Joe,
Please make sure you are the organizer of the meeting.
And you should be able to find the 'Cancel Meeting' option here:
- In Calendar, click the meeting.
- On the Meeting tab, in the Actions group, click Cancel Meeting.
- Type anything you want to include in the body of the message.
- Click Send Cancellation.
You can also find the 'Cancel Meeting' Option when you have the meeting item opened or when you right click on the meeting item on the calendar.
Max Meng
Come back and mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.
- Marked as answer by William Zhou CHNModerator Thursday, June 02, 2011 2:40 AM
I am also having the issue initially described. We have multiple, unrelated users on Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010 who are, in fact, the organizers of meetings, and now they are unable to send a cancelation request to all attendees. It appears on the organizers' calendars as it does on their attendees' calendars. Let's use John Doe, firstname.lastname@example.com, as an example (original, I know :) ). John Doe creates a meeting. When he is unable to cancel the meeting, details of the meeting show 'Meeting was sent by John Doe (Display name) on behalf of email@example.com (email address). I'm thinking this has a lot to do with the issue. Has anyone ever seen anything like this???
Rachael Lynn - Messaging Administrator: Thompson Technologies
You cut and pasted a stock answer without reading his question! He is the meeting organizer. It was set up under his profile. I have the same problem.
The CANCEL MEETING OPTION is NOT available.
Please provide a viable solution to this problem which affects 2003, 2007, and 2010 version of Outlook especially for recurring meetings. I work with executives and have to ask CEOs and CIOs to cancel the meeting because I can't do it as the MEETING ORGANIZER. Talk about inefficient and embarrasing. I know that Microsoft is aware of this problem, so give us an answer please.
And please read the entire question next time before providing a non-answer that shows that you didn't do your homework.
I have the same problem using Outlook 2010. I logged into our webmail site and then I was able to delete the appointment. Outlook synched up with Exchange Server shortly afterwards and removed the appointment from it. This is obviously not a solution, but a workaround in the interim.
I have a brand new out of the box outlook 2010. NO CANCEL meeting option available. Yes, I AM the organizer and yes I check the help files on how to cancel.
Help files show a cancel button, that I simply DO NOT have.
What the heck. Has anyone found a fix for this?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
This happens after activesync. If you disable activesync for problematic user's mailbox, calendar didn't change meeting organizer (cancel, update meeting buttons).
I found that - after meeting organizers mobile phone (nokia) synchronization, some values of meeting organizer was changed.
You can look and compare organizer values (before and after sync)here:Kareldev - MSFT
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There are three MAPI properties that Exchange clients can key off of for determining organizer information. Here's a quick summary of what they are with details on how to inspect them using the MFCMAPI tool mentioned by Ripu:
1. For meeting requests, a Recipient table exists showing each attendee. The organizer is represented here when PR_Recipient_Flags = 3
2. PR_ Sent_Representing_Email_Address and/or PR_Sender_Email_Address
3. named prop0x8217 dispidapptstateflags [can also show up as MessageStatus]
if the value is 1 = olMeeting it means you're the organizer
if the value is 3 = olMeetingRecieved it means you received the item so you can't possibly be the organizer
In your situation, the organizer seems to be modified on the calendar item in all three users' mailboxes at the same time. This usually means an application that has privileges to each mailbox is the culprit. Generally, if ActiveSync or an ActiveSync device is contributing to the problem, only the mobile device user's calendar item would be affected.
The best approach is to inspect which organizer attributes are changed on each person's calendar item. Then, with careful repro steps, see if you can identify the user or service account that is making the changes. Take a look at the examples below:
Here's the details of what Recipient Table looks like [requires MFCMAPI available http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com from a PC with Outlook]. This isn't a user friendly tool, but it's very helpful in identifying what's changed.
· When you first launch the tool, select the menu item Session, Logon and Display Store Table.
· Now select an Outlook profile to login with
· If you see Mailbox - <username> in the list of display names you're doing good. Double-click this to launch the next window.
· In this window, drill into the mailbox
MFCMAPI Recipient Table
-To find the appointment you're troubleshooting, go to the calendar folder underneath IPM_SUBTREE. Sorting by Subject will usually help get to item quickest. Select the item, and Action Menu(?) / and Display Attachment table. You will see a list of recipients in a new window. There should be a "3" in the PR-RECIPIENTS_FLAGS columb for the organizer.
- A healthy recipient table - the PR_RECIPIENT_FLAGS indicates whether a recipient is the organizer, or an attendee [this column is actually all the way to the right ]. When the PR_RECIPIENT_FLAGS = 3, that indicates the organizer. For example, if the delegate organized a meeting with the manager and E2k7 Native being the required attendees. PR_Recipient_Flag should be 3 for the Delegate. If not, then the calender item was modified by something.
- Going back to the calender item, PR_SENDER_EMAIL shows Distinguished Name (DN) of the sender.
- Ok. Back on the calender item, if the organizer is listed as wrong person, look to see the last person to modify the item. Here's where you can find out what account last modified the calendar item. Look at the Column "Property Names" for row PR_Last_Modifier_Name. This is the account that last modified the item and is probably the culprit.
I hope this helps!
- Edited by Display--Name Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:14 AM
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- Unproposed as answer by HSR1911 Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:32 AM
run into the same issue with my outlook 2010. My invite sent to a group of people, and now as a organiser, I am not able to cancel or alter the invite.
it just happens to one invite and not all. I dont quite follow the debugging steps above. How can i simply resolve it from user end?
Also, i dont see the problem get fixed but it marks as answered???
I am having the same issue. I think it's similar to the thread at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrclientslegacy/thread/e9379f17-04a3-4872-9ad4-f70c952ad939/.
I hope someone can resolve this.
This is working for me .
- Proposed as answer by SANTAN SINGH RAWAT Thursday, March 14, 2013 12:15 PM
This is working for me .
How is this an answer? That link just tells you how to remove a meeting you organized from your own calendar without sending out notifications, nothing more. It will NOT cancel the meeting for others, which is what we need to be able to do.
- Edited by UoC Ken Thursday, June 06, 2013 10:31 PM
I am having the same problem with Outlook 2010, but I do have an active cancel button. When I click it and try to cancel one event in the recurring series and then try to send a cancellation notice it says I don't have permission to send as the organizer. I am the organizer!
It might have to do with Activesync. I was able to delete it from my iPhone, but it did not send out notices. )-:
So while this is not a solution, I would like to update people on my efforts to get Microsoft to address the problem.
We originally had been running an on-site Exchange 2007 server, with Outlook 2010, and faced this calendar issues several times, where the meeting organizer of reoccurring meetings loses the ability to change or delete the meeting and then send an update to all participants.
I originally detailed the problem here with no resolution:
In July we migrated our Exchange server to Office 365 Enterprise, with the hopes that this problem would then go away. Sadly it has not, which started me on my quest to find a solution yet again. In my search I found this thread and this one as well:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/e9379f17-04a3-4872-9ad4-f70c952ad939/meeting-organizer-cant-send-updatesIt would appear that this issue happens because of Activesync. Somewhere in the process of an iPhone or Android phone getting updated with calendar information the original organizer is lost.
I'm done with throwing out the question to the "community" in hopes of a fix. Now that we are paying Microsoft nearly $3000 a year to host exchange for us, I want it addressed. I have send a technical support request in, detailing all these threads.
I will post what they respond to me with.
Having the same issue here in our organization. Never had enough time to investigate it but the workaround I did was that a user needed to have at least send on behalf access to the mailbox to be able to cancel the meeting and maybe editor rights to the calendar.
Having the same issue here in our organization. Never had enough time to investigate it but the workaround I did was that a user needed to have at least send on behalf access to the mailbox to be able to cancel the meeting and maybe editor rights to the calendar.
How do you set yourself to have 'send on behalf of' and editor rights to your own account?
I have been having the same issue with Outlook 2013... I found a link that explains it might be a Dell computer issue. I'm having exactly this problem on a DELL! See this link below.
Hi guys,
I had same issue and found my meeting had some how went another PST file I use for archiving emails.
I did have the invite in my primary outlook PST file but that was because when I sent the meeting invite I accidentally included myself. Perhaps this is the true cause.
Try searching all the calendars you have and checking any duplicate meeting invite that you can modify. If it is there then you can move it to the correct folder/calendar and delete the one that you cannot modify.
And example of moving folders was provided before here.


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The economic crisis has given rise to significant challenges to the welfare state. Given that welfare expenses account for a large proportion of all state spending in the member countries of the European Union, reducing government spending means cutting welfare measures. Yet social protection, in particular unemployment insurance benefits and minimum income support, has significantly softened the impact of the crisis for millions of individuals. The global recession calls into question the financial viability of current programmes, and the crisis is being used by some as an opportunity to roll back the welfare state permanently. The present Forum discusses challenges to and opportunities for the welfare state after the crisis. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag 2012
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|2007-01-12, 09:02
|Link #1
I don't give a damn, dude
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In Despair
Age: 31
I know this part of the forum is specifically meant to cater to Kanon topics, but I feel that having such a thread, discussing a different but closely related anime series to Kanon, has its merits. There are certainly plenty of superficial similarities between Kanon and AIR; both are derived from KEY's games, both are works of Jun Maeda, both are adapted by KyoAni, and because of that, both have exceptional animation etc. etc.
However, there are also other, deeper similarities between Kanon and AIR that I believe is worth discussing about, and I also believe that such discussion would help viewers of both series to appreciate them all the more, through the act of putting one in the context of the other.
I refer you to this post I have made, in the "Kanon 2002 vs. Kanon 2006: Images, Script, Story, Animation, etc." thread:
Last edited by xris; 2007-01-12 at 12:41.
|2007-01-12, 14:56
|Link #2
Name means little...
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2004
Johann Sebastian Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3, movement 2 in D major, BWV 1068 was not featured in AIR.
Johann Pachelbel's Kanon D-dur is prominately featured in Kanon 2006.
Last edited by panzerfan; 2007-01-12 at 16:00.
|2007-01-12, 15:48
|Link #3
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 60
I'm beginning to think Kyo-Ani actually has that sort of ending in mind
Spoiler for just my speculation but spoilerific:
I suppose its a credit to KyoAni that even though I know the game, the TOEI, and the manga ... I'm still unable to discern where they're going to take the ending
|2007-01-13, 23:32
|Link #5
piko piko pikori
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Western WA, USA
I would only add to this that Air and Kanon are both set in real world places in Japan:
I know I have links to a page or two that show Kanon's real world places but I'll edit my post when I find them again... Or someone else will be gracious enough to dig them up.
|2007-01-14, 02:16
|Link #7
Anime Snark
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 34
|2007-01-14, 03:11
|Link #8
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Well, wasn't really aiming at seiiyu similarity, but the actual character. Sayuri's character is cheerful, sweet, and caring. Mai's character is calm, timid, and her vocal tone, I guess. When you combine that, along with their facial figure, you get Tohno Minagi. Tohno Minagi has Sayuri's facial figure, personality, and hair, along with Mai's vocal tone and personality (even Mai's blue ribbon).
Spoiler for Sayuri, Mai, Minagi:
|2007-03-05, 14:13
|Link #12
Nitro+ fan
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Hyogo
To be honest, I wish that KyoAni had been able to animate the AIR and Kanon stories in the order that they were made as game. AIR is so incredible that, as much as I enjoy Kanon, it's hard to avoid comparing it to the superlative experience I had when watching AIR.
One thing that handicaps Kanon in comparison to AIR (as an anime, not as an eroge) is the number of girls. The rather small number of girls in AIR made it much easier for me to suspend my disbelief, get totally immersed in the story and forget that I was watching game-based material. Although they took care of each girl's arc separately and had to take some liberties with what happened in the game, the anime progression somehow seemed quite natural to me. It might not have been a 100% perfect adaptation compared to Kanon 06, but it's because of this that it sucked me in so much.
In Kanon, I just can't forget that I'm watching a story that was adapted almost painstakingly from its game source. I think the 06 version could have been even better if they animated it in reboot arcs (like Higurashi) rather than try to weave the stories together. First of all, even calling it weaving is a bit silly because the show is still separated into clear arcs. Rebooting the anime each time would have at least gotten around the "what about Mai & Sayuri?" and "what about Shiori??" problem. KyoAni's writers have done some superficial attempts at making the girls' stories flow together, but they're always careful not to do anything that might seriously change the stories as they're presented in the game. I'm not going to get into whether this is a good thing or a bad thing etc., but if they wanted to take the route of reproducing the game as faithfully as possible, rebooting would've worked better IMO.
It might be just me, but it seems like the stories in Kanon lean more toward romance than the stories in AIR.
|2007-03-05, 15:14
|Link #13
Dead Sexy
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: NSW, Australia
But that doesn't necessarily work in Kanon's case. See...
Spoiler for Higurashi no Naku Koro ni last game:
|2007-03-06, 08:15
|Link #15
Dead Sexy
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: NSW, Australia
I haven't actually played any of the Key games, due to having fairly poor Japanese knowledge, but I'm guessing that'd be a different watching experience as well. It has even more girls than Kanon, however their stories apparently span across multiple years, so at worst the continuity errors would be resolved.
|2007-03-06, 08:16
|Link #16
I don't give a damn, dude
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In Despair
Age: 31
And if you're still under the mistaken impression that Kanon thus far has been seperated into 'clear arcs'......then you simply haven't been paying enough attention. Clear focus on one girl at a time, that I can agree with, but to pin the 'clear arcs' label on 2k6 Kanon is equating it to the 'modular' system used by the 2k2 piece of crap, which 2k6 is most definitely not; if you rewatch it from the start, you should be able to see more than one girls' stories advancing at the same time, for the most part of 2k6. This is in contrast to 2k2, where the focus shifts 100% onto one girl at a time, and all other girls are pretty much forgotten until their turn comes up; in other words, the girls in Toei Kanon were used only as plot devices, while the girls in KyoAni Kanon receive a constant dose of character development, all the way from the start up until the end of their story no matter what time or order in which it took place.
On the other hand, as much as I loved AIR (TV), I felt that KyoAni committed a Toei-level mistake in the Dream Arc segment; as impactful as Kano's and Minagi's stories were, they contributed almost nothing to the eventual main arc, which belonged to Misuzu's. Moreover, they were their own stories in their own right; the events of one arc hardly affected another arc. Because of that, I actually experienced the 'adapted from VN' feeling much more strongly during AIR than I ever did for 2k6 Kanon, at least in the Dream Arc. There were times when I felt that AIR (TV) would have been better off if they just axed the Kano and Minagi segments altogether.
Nevertheless, because KyoAni had all of 7 episodes to tell the stories of 3 girls (even less than what Toei had to work with for their worthless 2k2 adaptation of Kanon), and also because KyoAni didn't promise an 'interweaving' at that time, I'm willing to forgive them for that. Still, if I were to compare AIR (TV) and 2k6 Kanon, and judge them on the "living, breathing world" criteria, I'll say that 2k6 Kanon has been more successful at that.
|2007-03-06, 08:25
|Link #17
Dead Sexy
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: NSW, Australia
I'd be lying if I disagreed with you. But it wouldn't be a Key game without the harem, would it?
|2007-03-06, 08:32
|Link #18
I don't give a damn, dude
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In Despair
Age: 31
Would you call it any less of a KEY game?
|2007-03-06, 08:41
|Link #19
Nitro+ fan
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Hyogo
In AIR I didn't mind Kano and Minagi disappearing because 1) they never actually went anywhere, technically speaking, 2) their problems were completely resolved (as opposed to, say, Shiori's), 3) Yukito was not portrayed as being particularly close to them at all, whereas Yuuichi was much, much more deeply emotionally invested in all the girls preceding Nayuki and Ayu.
In fact, the way Yukito--as a traveler--got involved with Kano and Minagi and eventually Misuzu reminded me a lot of episodic travel stories like Kino no Tabi and Mushishi. Perhaps that's why I accepted his interest in Kano and Minagi's troubles & his ability to solve them and felt that his interest in helping them was due to a general human goodwill & rapport & sympathy toward them rather than a more personal bond. Each time, in fact, his role was really to turn the girls toward those with whom they needed to bond most (which in every case ended up being female family members). In that way, he remained a benevolent outsider until he irrevocably plunged himself into the thick of things, deciding that he cared enough to go over his head & that there was no going back, by becoming Sora. Until Misuzu's condition became dire, he was able to remain a cool head and a relative level of detachment. That's why the brisk progression of arcs made absolute sense to me.
Kanon is inevitably much, much more personal. In AIR, Yukito meets with two "successes" before Misuzu's issues begin emerging full force. In Kanon, Yuuichi gets slammed time after time, but the limited number of episodes requires that he shift focus (if not recover?) very swiftly after each girl's story. And thus I find it harder to swallow the movement from girl to girl. Again, keeping them in the story after their individual stories ended would have done a lot to ameliorate this--and I'm not just talking one-line cameos from spirits.
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JR and the King welcome us to another edition of RAW! HBK faces Umaga in tonight's main event. Also tonight is ORTON Knows Best!
Shane McMahon makes his way to the ring, dancing his dance of course. Uh oh, Vince is here as well, POWER WALK~!
Vince on the mic. Despite recent events here on Raw, you can't take the smile off their faces. Stephanie gave birth last week to a baby girl. His baby girl, his granddaughter is more-wealthy than anyone here. Shane says also smarter already. The celebration will continue to Summerslam, the summer's biggest party. They are dedication their match there to her. Vince and Shane will team to face DX.
Speaking of DX, here they come. Nope, mind games apparently as the music plays, but nothing. Shane contemplates how HBK will survive UUUUUUUUUMaga.
The DX music kicks again, and them stops. Vince says they will soundly defeat DX at Summerslam. We get the DX music again and here they come.
HBK says they aren't here to rain on the parade, the offer congrats on the birth. HHH and HBK make Jewish jokes and move onto business. They say they have a match at Summerslam, and they will be celebrating when it is all over. HBK then says they will talk about the newest addition. He says HHH was there last week, and also HHH has gotten the entire McMahon family scrap book. HHH says it is true, and he wants to share it with us. We see Vince's first photo, which HHH makes jokes about the age of it. PHOTO SHOP TIME~! They also have Shane's first pic, and Shane apparently started dancing right after birth. They also have Aurora's first pic. It has HHH's face and a DX shirt, nice. HBK jokes that she looks like him.
Shane gets pissed and says they will change their diapers at Summerslam. Ok. HHH laughs at him, and HBK stops Vince from talking. They have some advice for Aurora, some life sustaining advice, suck it. DX jokes about their music, and Vince says there will only be his music. They argue about it and DX's music plays.
Also tonight is Carlito vs. Shelton vs. Nitro © for the IC title, and it is next!
Tonight another Diva chick gets eliminated.
The Miz is here to hype the Diva Search.
WWE IC Title Match: Carlito vs. Shelton Benjamin vs. Johnny Nitro © w/Melina
Carlito pokes Shelton in the eye and then gets a basement dropkick when Nitro tries to slide in. They brawl on the floor and Shelton gets a plancha onto both men! Commercial @ 0:35.
Back from commercial @ 4:08 as Shelton has a rear headlock on Nitro. Carlito is on the floor. Shelton kicks Carlito back to the floor as he tries to climb back in. Off the ropes and a missed dropkick by Shelton. Nitro misses the standing shooting star press. Shelton tries a powerbomb, counter into a roll up, another counter and Carlito flies in with a sunset flip for 2 as Nitro makes a save. Shelton and Nitro whip Carlito, Shelton misses Carlito and then Carlito clotheslines Nitro. Monkey flip by Shelton on Nitro, who does a full flip to his face, ouch. Lefts by Carlito, running knee lift and then a clothesline on Shelton. Elbows to Nitro, Carlito gets a RANA after a second thought. Tornado DDT by Shelton on Carlito. Shelton covers, but Melina puts Carlito's foot on the ropes to save Nitro's title. Shelton is pissed, yells at her and Nitro rams Carlito into Shelton and rolls up Carlito with the tights for the win!
Winner: Johnny Nitro @ 7:50 via pin
More diva search hype.
Later tonight, it is Cena vs. Striker. Also, Orton Knows Best.
Randy Orton makes his way out and has a mic. At Summerslam he will take the legend of Hogan and kill it. And his career will take off, movies, a book and actually, and he has an offer for his own reality show. It is his honor to introduce the cast of Orton Knows Best! We have a Nick, Brooke and Linda impersonators. And a Hogan dude! Hahaha, he looks pretty dead on with the stash, glasses and all. Orton thanks them for coming. He has a question for Nick, what does he want to be when he grows up? A wrestler like his dad brother! Orton says he has to lose some hair first, and then get used to this. He tosses him to the floor. Onto Linda, who is an animal lover. She must be, she married Hogan! They gave birth to a lovely and incredible daughter, Brooke. "Hogan" breaks that up and cuts a promo brother, dude, brother! He flexes too! Orton says he didn't mean to piss him off and all, but he needs to start thinking about himself. He needs a reality check. In 3-weeks the career ends. He will kill the legend, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Kiss your career good bye. In the meantime, he has a kiss in mind. He kisses "Brooke" and RKO's "Hulk."
Orton then goes and slaps Lawler as payback from last week.
Vince and Shane in the back. Armando is here, and he thanks them for giving UUUUUUUmaga a match with HBK. He offers congrats on the birth of the baby, and gibes then cigars! They ask for some more and Armando says he will bring them more.
JR and King discuss the slap. Lawler is pissed and he says next week they are in Memphis and Lawler is challenging Orton for a match! Lawler says to expect to get respect kicked into his ass.
More Diva Search hype.
Torrie Wilson is out to be a referee. We see FHM photo shoot footage of Torrie.
Trish Stratus and Candace vs. Victoria and Mickie James
Victoria and Candace start. Lock up and Victoria grabs the arm and pulls Candace down by the hair. Lock up and a go behind by Candace. Fireman's carry and elbow by Candace. Arm bar and takedown by Candace, then an arm breaker to Victoria. Another and into an arm bar submission now. How…odd. Knees by Victoria, drags her to the corner and tags in Mickie. Up top…double smash to Candace. Forearms by Mickie, Candace fires back and Mickie slams her down. Mickie pulls the hair, slams her down and covers for 2. Mickie goes to hit Trish, misses but Victoria gets crotched on the top, tag to Trish. Clothesline and hand stand corner RANA by Trish. Headlock/leg scissor take down by Trish. Victoria tossed to the floor. Chops to Mickie. Off the ropes and an elbow by Mickie, RANA countered into a running powerbomb by Trish for 2! Knees by Mickie, Torrie stops her from throwing rights and a Stratus-Faction by Trish, which is almost botched and that is all.
Winners: Trish and Candace @ 4:24 via pin
Foley offers congrats to Nitro on a successful title defense. He ahs Melina to intro him, and she agrees.
Melina intros Foley as he comes to the ring. They are close friends ya know!
Mick thanks us and it is wonderful of her to be here, because this is an important moment. He will give the fans what they want, Foley, Flair, in this ring…tonight! As they go after tag team gold! Ok, that is ridiculous, but they aren't that different. He would like to point out how they are the same. Helping out young guys, Flair helped out Orton a few years ago, and he took her under his wing. Flair and him have famous friends. Flair is friends with GW Bush, Foley is friends of hardcore porn Christy Canyon! One made it to the top by screwing a lot of people, the other by being in adult films! They both made national headlines, he was in USA today while Flair was in it for Road Rage.
Flair makes his way to the ring. Foley says he was expecting him and Flair says to shut up! Brother, I have been waiting for three weeks for you, and that is a long time. The world know is have overstayed my welcome. You in turn, is this actually the bad ass Mick Foley, Cactus jack Mick Foley? PHANTOM ELBOW DROP! Shove it pal! We are long overdue, who gives a damn about your book we are here to welcome! They boo A-Rod and they will boo you because you are lazier than he is! And let me tell you for all of you that don't know, I drank a lot more than one glass of wine while doing my book, it is a lifetime of greatness pal! I am just warmed up. You say imaginary bad asses, Brody, where are you today? Stan Hansen in Denver, Stan, he is calling you imaginary! Harley Race, terry Funk the list goes on, imaginary? Those guys would walk over you on the way to the bathroom. And you wouldn't open you mouth to say anything. Those are bad asses. I have 19-stiches from you, did you taste you blood? I want to taste yours. I want you, tacks, nails, barbed wire, I want…I want Cactus jack, I want Foley, and I want what ever you want to be that day! Bring out Socko and I will shove it up your ass! Anyone in the world want to see Foley and Flair? WHO WANTS TO SEE FLAIR AND FOLEY GO HARDCORE? You tasted my blood and I have to try you, I want to fall off a cage, I want tacks **ROLLS AROUND** I want what you got Cactus Jack! Most of all I want you…you and me…to finalize this! Finalize it! Damn it! You know what makes me mad? This guy talks about his family, his ear, his wife, his kids…what a bunch of crap! She is the kind of Diva the Nature Boy gets, not you! 15-years ago…all night long! YOU would be space mountain high! WOOOO!
That is the difference Flair, she is my friend. You think about your odds, I see kindness and compassion. I have a porno friend and I have seen her work, but now I think of her and her work with children and I will not take family tips from a 3-time divorcee and absent father! Maybe I stepped over the line, remember the flight from Manila? We could always agree on family, and I am shooting straight. You called all of your kids, just because, it touched me. Maybe I am envious, I am a good dad, but I will never have the experience with my kids as you did. I will never know what it is like to say, you dad has just been arrested!
Flair knocks him from the ring, and Coach is out! After all of this, Coach is here to announce that they will have match. Flair vs. Foley, Summerslam. Foley asks if that is so, but Vince has to read his contract. He wrestles who he wants when he wants. After 20-years of the Foley stunt show, he only has a few good matches left and he won't waste it on washed up Flair…have a nice day…YEAH!
Edge vs. Cena is official for Summerslam, if Edge gets DQ'ed he loses the WWE Title.
Striker cuts a promo on Cena. He says Cena uses slang and he says Homies is not in the dictionary. He is brilliant and handsome.
Edge is here apparently. Yup, he and Lita are here and the RATED R ANNOUNCE TABLE IS BACK! It is up by the entrance this week.
John Cena vs. Matt Striker
Striker tries to attack and Cena beats him down. Belly to belly. Neckbreaker. Proto-bomb. 5-knuckle shuffle. FU. STFU. Match Over.
Winner: John Cena @ 1:10 via pin
Edge talks shit to Cena from his table and they stare down.
The Spirit Squad are in the ring. They do a cheer.
Johnny w/Spirit Squad vs. Rory w/Roby
Lock up and a headlock by Rory. Escape and a head butt by Rory. Rory gets tripped by a random squad member and then they play with the megaphone. The ref takes, uses it and tosses the rest of the squad! They get pissed and leave. Rory attacks with rights, off the ropes and a back elbow. Trip by Johnny, boots to Rory. Rights now by Johnny, neck breaker and a knee drop for 2. Rear choke by Johnny, Rory works to his feet and escapes. Rights to Johnny, off the ropes and a reversal and Scottish Hammer to Johnny. Off the ropes and a backdrop to Johnny. Uranage into a backbreaker by Rory for 2. Johnny then gets the cool spinkick to Rory. Johnny mocks Roby, but Rory rolls him up and wins.
Winner: Rory @ 4:28 via pin
More Diva Search hype.
The Diva chicks are here. Miz talks, no immunity again, Rebecca gets voted off, which is good because she has man-face. Five chicks left: Jen, Layla, Milena, Erica and JT.
Highlights of the WM 23 fan rally are shown.
We see DX in their locker room. Some cops and FBI dudes are here, and they say they heard they have some illegal substances. They have a warrant, and they find the Cuba cigars in HHH's bag. CONTRABAN~! HHH says he doesn't smoke and he is being taken down town…WELLNESS. Oh those wacky McMahon's. HBK is all alone now. HHH sees Vince and Shane, and says if he wants to play, they will play. Vince and Shane go to smoke their cigars.
Orton vs. King is official for next week.
Umaga w/Armando vs. HBK
BK with rights and chops, boot to Umaga and then more chops. Off the ropes and HBK rams Umaga to the corner. Corner mount punches, Umaga walks him out, roll up try and Umaga misses the sit down. Basement dropkick by HBK for 2. HBK slides to the floor and Vince and Shane walk out to the ring. HBK is cornered and we head to a commercial @ 1:35.
Back @ 4:27 with HBK fighting back on Umaga. Umaga takes him down, kick shim and HBK to the floor. Reef counts, Umaga with a double smash from the apron on HBK and then slams him to the announce table. Back in the ring and Umaga beats him down. Rights by Umaga, off the ropes and a knee by Umaga. Snap mare and a chop by Umaga. Neck vice now by Umaga but HBK makes it to his feet, escapes and Umaga head butts him down. Diving head butt by Umaga. Running ass ram misses, chops by HBK. Umaga shoves him down, chops by HBK again. Off the ropes, flying forearm. Umaga rocked, not down and then falls. Kip up by Armando pulls HBK down. Umaga runs into Armando and he is down. Toss into the Samoan Drop by Umaga. Umaga checks on Armando and goes nuts because he is hurt. He starts ripping shit up and Vince on the apron and gives Umaga the sign with the cigar! Samoan spike misses, LOW BLOW by HBK! HBK up top…elbow drop! Tune up the band…Vince grabs HBK, Armando tries to get in and HBK nails Vince. Shane in, forearm to Shane. Kip up…SAMOAN SPIKE and UUUUUUmaga wins!
Winner: Umaga @ 11:44 via pin
After the match, Vince, Armando, Shane and Umaga celebrate. Shane and Vince then beat down HBK. Vince takes off his belt and WHIPS HBK! He chokes him with the belt as Shane gets a chair. They put the chair in front of his face…and Shane superkicks the chair into his face! The McMahon's stand tall and talk shit to HBK, saying HHH has to face Umaga!


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What is different is the technological cone of silence that now allows this generational separation to be even more complete, even more isolating than the Manhattan my father poured and the book he went off to another room to find every time I put Jesus Christ Superstar on the record player. At least he had an idea what I was listening to. In the time it took to walk away, he discovered what my music sounded like, and could then make the connection between things I was singing in a too-loud voice in the car and the new-vinyl collection that polluted his Edith Piaf and Barbra Streisand recordings.
That's over. Each generation now lives in a soundproof room consisting of these four walls:
- Ear buds. No more bookshelf speakers for the shared stereo in the living room. The music goes directly into the ear from whatever device. Sure headphones have been around since the '70s, but only in the iPod era of the last 10 years have they become the dominant way to listen.
- The device itself. Even for purchased files, the list is private. My father could see my records. The music my daughter has purchased is all on her iPod, removed from the view of the rest of the family.
- Streaming. Purchases of music have given way to ad-based or subscription services that make any music "collection" ephemeral. At the same time, streaming pushes us into personal listening habits, precluding the opportunity for shared experiences we might have found and making new styles our kids might like seem more and more unfamiliar and exotic.
- Social media. Twitter is the primary billboard for artists. A new song can spread in the time it takes to hit "retweet." But the network is pretty much exclusively friends and the younger you are, the more likely your friends are in the same age group as yourself.
Shut off Pandora for a minute (you know all the words anyway). Hear that? That is the silence of obsolete old age, my friend. Welcome to the nonlinear future of music, you hulking, vinyl-collecting, CD-hoarding, iTunes-purchasing dinosaur. You and all the music choices you take such pride in are in the process of being thrown overboard as the cutting bow of culture speeds on to the end of the decade.
You and I are history. And whatever the future sounds like, we won't know.
Unless . . . we do the unthinkable. You may be wondering how I came to know the artists I mentioned above, the ones not being played on the radio, not available on any list.
Simple. I asked my daughter.
P.S.: Anyone who got the "cone of silence" reference, thank you.
-- Written by Carlton Wilkinson in Asbury Park, N.J.


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Just last week I was remarking that it was surprising more online lodging services were not using Google Earth. Well, one of the more established online lodging services for Europe, booking.com, has implemented its own Google Earth implementation. They have a hotel finder network link which lets you zoom over an area (you need to be below 100 km), and it will then load hotels for that area. One thing I was impressed by is they have implemented the GE and web interfaces in several languages (just click on the flag for the language you prefer). Each hotel placemark can contain photos, description, and links to more information including reservation capability. Once you find the hotel you think you like, make sure you zoom in in Google Earth to look at the scenery in the satellite photos. Also, turn on the Google Earth Community layers to see what interesting things are nearby.
About Frank Taylor
Frank Taylor started the Google Earth Blog in July, 2005 shortly after Google Earth was first released. He has worked with 3D computer graphics and VR for many years and was very impressed with this exciting product. Frank completed a 5.5 year circumnavigation of the earth by sailboat in June 2015 which you can read about at Tahina Expedition, and is a licensed pilot, backpacker, diver, and photographer.


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- Action, Fit & Finish: 10
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Sound — 10
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Overall Impression — 10
I play mainly rock and metal music and have found this guitar a perfect match for me. I have been playing for 7 years now and have owned several guitars in the past but this has got to be the best. I love the 2 humbucker pick-ups which give a lovely sound through an amp. My favourite feature has got to be the 24 frets, which are very useful while playing lead as they make it possible to reach 2 octaves on one string. I orignally went into the shop to buy an Ibanez but decided to leave with the Maverick after plaing the two guitars. I chose the Maverick over the Ibanez because of the unique sound that the Maverick gives. I would defently recommend this guitar to anyone Who plays rock/metal music and Who wants a guitar with great features and sound!
Reliability & Durability — 10
I have not had a chance to play this guitar at a gig yet, but I would feel happy enough to use it live without a backup. The strap buttons, controls, and tuning pegs all feel very secure and The finish on the guitar is very resistant. The guitar feels very solid and reliable and I think it will last a long time.
Action, Fit & Finish — 10
I own sereval other guitars and none of them were as well setup as this one when I brought it. I have had the guitar 2 weeks now and haven't had to change or adjust anything on it. The action is nice and low and there is no fret buzz. Perfect setup from when brought!
Features — 10
The Maverick Species 1 is a Korean built guitar. The body is made from basswood and the neck from one piece carved canadian maple, which is glued into the body giving the back of the guitar as good looks as the front. The neck has 24 frets with a scale of 25 inch length and The fingerboard is made from indian rosewood. The guitar has 2 LQ-6 4 Core Custom humbucker pickups, which gives the guitar a lovely sound! The controls given are volume, tone, and a 5-way selector. The guitar is extremly light which makes it a lot more comfortable to hold while playing.


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Hello and welcome to the GiveMeSport report - bring you the latest headlines from the world of sport.
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Hooker Tom Youngs won't make the trip to the southern hemisphere in order to stay with his wife Tiffany, who requires treatment for an illness. Alex Corbisiero, Tom Croft, Jack Nowell and Christian Wade will also be absent.
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Overall Rating 4 of 5
Value Rating 5 of 5
Used product for1 to 6 months
Year / Model Reviewed: vette 88 supercharged
Strengths:TRACTION IS GREAT, AND A AWESOME GOOD LOOKING TIRE. FOR THE STREET, STRAIGHT LINE DRIVING, THE WEAR OF THE TREAD IS GOOD.
Weaknesses:IF YOU LET THE CAR SIT FOR A FEW DAYS, AND THEN DRIVE IT, IT FEELS AS IF THE TIRES FLAT SPOT, BUT DRIVING LESS THAN 2 MILES IT GOES AWAY.
Summary:OK- HAVE A 88 VETTE SUPERCHARGED, TRACTION WAS A REAL PROBLEM, THIS IS A STREET DRIVEN CAR. I ORDERED THE BFG DRAG RADIAL, LAST MARCH, AND TO NO AVAIL CANNOT GET THEM, SO AS A ALTERNATE, I ORDERED TWO 315X35X17 G-FORCE T/A R1 TIRES, THESE TIRES GRIP, AND I THINK THEY ARE BETTER THAN THE DRAG RADIAL, FOR THE STREET AS YOU DONT HAVE TO ''BRAKE TRQ. THEM TO GET HEAT BUILD UP IN THEM. I RUN STOCK WHEELS AND TIRES, ON THE FRONT, SO FOR STRAIGHT LINE DRIVING,THE TWO G-FORCE TIRES ON THE BACK, WORK VERY WELL, AND MAY ADD THAT AT ''WOT'' THE CAR GOES STRAIGHT, AS WITH THE STOCK TIRES, STRAIGHT IS NOT THE WORD FOR IT.PS- SHOW CAR-- WEB SITE http://www.zoomnet.net/~dsddhere GOT THE TIRES FROM TIRE RACK $180 PC.-- FOR MY TYPE OF DRIVING, I RECOMMEND THEM, IF I EVER GET THE DRAG RADIALS, WILL RUN A COMPARSION, BUT BELIEVE BECAUSE OF THE NEEDED HEAT THAT THE DRAG RADIALS REQUIRE, THAT FOR THE STREET,WOULD NOT BE THE TIRE OF CHOICE, UNLESS YOU BRAKE TRQ THEM.
Similar Products Used:I CAN ONLY COMPARE IT WITH GOODYEARS. [ NO COMPARSION AT ALL ]-''NO TRACTION''
Overall Rating 5 of 5
Used product forLess than 1 month
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Year / Model Reviewed: 79 T/A
Strengths:GREAT GRIP! AMAZING!
Weaknesses:Price, Quick wearing, havent had them in the rain yet.
Summary:These are some of the best tires ive used. Total control on the road. They are wearing down a little quick though. But they are just great.
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Year / Model Reviewed: 77 Datsun 280z
Strengths:These tires have to be the best choice for solo2. The harder you drive them, the better they stick. You better have a racing harness in your car, because these tire can make any car handle regardless of weight and power! (to a point of course)
Weaknesses:DONT, i reapeat DO NOT drive these tires on the street - because they will be gone in a week. They are a little pricey too.
Summary:In my first year of solo2, I used street tires on my stock Datsun. Now, the Datsun isn't the best car in the world stock, and the street tires didn't help. The car is basically still stock, with no interior and cut springs ( a band-aid until I get ground control coil overs). The car is in the midrange of wieght now , and still underpowerd. The BFG's are so good that I can almost hang with anybody on the track, in a basicly stock Datsun Z. They are crisp and tight fealing. The car moves about very easy and quickly with the slightest movement of the hand. Tire wear on the track is good, but listen to BFG and run the recommended 3-4 degrees of negitive camber. You can go way over the cars limits with these tires, but be careful because there is no, or very little warning before they let go on you. The biggest problem with these tires is just getting used to them. It takes a while to find their limit because they are so much higher than any normal tire.


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This past October, television cameramen gathered at the gates of Miami Edison Senior High, a Zone school in hard-pressed Little Haiti. The news crews trained their lenses on Shawn Beightol, a slender, bearded man waving a piece of paper and wiping sweat from his brow. A veteran chemistry teacher at Michael Krop Senior High School in North Miami-Dade, Beightol was agitating for increased education funding, including a more substantive pay raise for teachers; he was also campaigning to become the next leader of the county's teachers' union. (The election will take place next month.) The contract then under negotiation ratified two months later fell short, he said.
"This is the kind of school that is going to get hurt," Beightol shouted as he motioned to the hulking, almost windowless building behind him.
Beightol had been rattling cages for weeks. A former youth minister who doesn't shy away from spouting four-letter words or firing off impassioned political e-mails at three in the morning, the 41-year-old educator had been gathering teachers in the back room of a Chili's in Doral to organize protests over the painfully slow salary negotiations. He'd urged colleagues to work no more than required by contract until the district guaranteed across-the-board raises and put starting teachers' pay on par with Monroe County $40,000 effective immediately, instead of three years down the line.
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On October 5, he'd circulated a list of school district employees who earn more than $100,000 (there are 225, including twelve who make more than $165,000) in an e-mail that likely reached thousands of fellow teachers. He hammered on that message at Edison, pointing to a chart showing that the number of administrators making more than $100,000 had increased at more than one-and-a-half times the rate of teachers and students during the past five years. That's money that could be going toward better teaching at suffering schools like Edison, Beightol said. "It's racism. It's classism."
For about two weeks this past fall, district administrators had rewarded Beightol's efforts by transferring the award-winning teacher to desk duty at a bus depot. They pulled the plug on his e-mail account.
Schools superintendent Rudy Crew was calling for a $40,000 starting salary to be phased in over three years as part of his plan to retain more teachers and throw lifelines to sinking inner-city schools like Edison. Under Crew, teachers at the Zone schools receive twenty percent more pay for twenty percent more work and, in exchange, are expected to raise significantly their students' scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT), the standardized measure by which the state's schools are judged. If scores don't increase, pink slips follow.
Standing in front of Edison, one of the state's lowest-performing schools, Beightol for a moment looked like some kind of sidewalk prophet. He motioned insistently with his hands and warned that teacher turnover would continue unabated unless there were a cultural sea change. Education needed to be valued, educators respected. It's not simply a matter of salaries, he said, but also resources and support trusting teachers to teach instead of constantly saddling them with the FCAT and more overpaid administrators. It began with the new contract.
The diesel-pickup-driving single father, who makes his home on a sailboat off 79th Street, had become a strident, if somewhat quixotic, symbol of deep dissatisfaction with schools. One newspaper profile labeled Beightol "The Insurgent." He was hailed as a hero by some, denounced as a grandstanding wannabe messiah by others. His pickup suffered three unexplained flat tires in two months and, at one point, a screwdriver showed up in the air-conditioning condenser.
With 50,000 employees, the lumbering, bureaucratic megalith that is Miami-Dade's school system is South Florida's largest employer and the state's second largest. Boasting a budget ($6.1 billion) that dwarfs the individual gross domestic products of 50 world nations, it is the region's largest buyer of goods and services, accounting for $3.2 billion in annual purchases from local businesses and $2.3 billion in annual income for local households.
The district the fourth largest in the nation has largely remained mired in low graduation rates, low test scores, administrative corruption, and deteriorating infrastructure. And so the recent ratification of a three-year contract for the county's 21,000 teachers was heralded as a major breakthrough. It won overwhelming approval from the United Teachers of Dade (UTD), the county's teachers' union.
Florida ranks dead last in education funding when compared against income, and 32nd when it comes to teacher salaries, behind states like Tennessee and South Carolina. Voters' tax gag reflex and expanding homestead exemptions have made raising school dollars here an effort not unlike drawing blood from a stone. Declining student rolls will cost Florida school districts $203 million in state money this year.
If respect for educators is measured by their compensation, teachers have been steadily losing society's esteem for decades. The gap between the average teacher's pay and salaries for other workers with four years of college is the widest it's been in 60 years, according to the National Education Association. Turnover is a problem across the country. A 2003 study found that a third of all public school teachers are in transition starting, retiring, or just quitting in any given year. Half of all new teachers leave the field within five years.
"If you're the valedictorian today, do you think you're going to go into teaching?" asks Karen Herzog, a librarian at G. Holmes Braddock High School who is preparing for retirement. Off the top of her head, Herzog mentioned three young teachers at Braddock, one of the county's top schools, who are plotting their routes out one to a better contract in Broward and the others to higher-paying careers.
Harbor West Marina in North Bay Village has been all but abandoned since Hurricane Wilma rolled through in October 2005, obliterating most of the houseboats docked there. This past Christmas Eve, Beightol was standing on one of the marina's docks amid snapped power outlet boxes and splintered wood beams, waiting for a guest to squeeze through an opening in the locked chainlink gate. Beightol wore jeans and a sweat-stained blue T-shirt bearing a chemical map of sucrose and the words "I never met a carbohydrate I didn't like." A short rowboat ride away, past yellow floating oil booms and occasional masts of boat skeletons sticking out of the water, was Beightol's home.
The 40-foot wooden Taiwanese sailboat Beightol lives on is anchored amid a phantom community of mostly derelict boats inhabited only by the occasional pelican. A solar cell and a gas generator supply energy when needed, but there's no refrigerator and the stove gets little use. A paperback copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude lay open on a small table in the galley. Briefly thumbing through the book, Beightol sighed. "It's amazing, man."
The boat cramped with boxes of food stacked on shelves and under tables, and clothes hanging from the ceiling shows its 30 years. The paint has worn down in most places, and Beightol has been forced to tear out rotting plywood and do homemade fiberglass patch jobs. Sitting on the deck in a sun-bleached canvas folding chair, he was still for the first time all day. Between sips of Coke, he recalled Christmases past and a childhood filled with wonder.
The oldest boy of five children, Beightol grew up in Apollo Beach, a small town south of Tampa, hiding out in tree forts in the woods behind his family's home, building telescopes from kits, and attending Baptist church three or four times a week.
His father scraped money together by fishing for mullet, working construction jobs, and, occasionally, selling marijuana out of his van. To make ends meet beyond monthly welfare checks, Beightol's mother cleaned houses most days, dropping her children off at the library for the bulk of the day on weekends. Beightol devoured books about weather and astronomy, chemicals and space travel. "I was always a geek. I was a science fiend."
Beightol's younger brother, Neal, remembers it a little differently. Far from a geek, Shawn was a burly kid with limitless energy and curiosity, Neal said recently. Shawn was always up early, first to fix any piece of machinery "he was the problem solver" constantly messing around with chemicals, experimenting on the fly. Neal, a dermatologist in Naples, recalled coming back from elementary school one day to find his big brother, home sick from third grade, electroplating pennies with a contraption he had jerry-rigged in the family fish tank. "Somehow he had heard about electroplating."
When Beightol was twelve years old, his parents divorced and his father all but disappeared, marrying a Creole woman and setting out cross-country. Beightol last saw his father eight years ago when they met up in the desert outside Las Vegas. "As far as I know, he's panning for gold in Utah." Beightol turned to his teachers for inspiration. He worshipped some of them, like Ms. Colding, the first-grade teacher who taught him how to spell. There were Ms. Lump, who kept a blue jay in her third-grade classroom, and Mr. Moore, the high school algebra teacher who helped Beightol go from a C to an A in math. "They all inspired me in different ways."
In seventh grade, Beightol fell madly in love. The girl's apparent lack of reciprocation didn't dissuade him from pursuing her to private school when she transferred. Without the money to pay tuition, the thirteen-year-old Beightol persuaded the school's headmaster to admit him in exchange for a few hours of scrubbing buses and mopping classrooms each day. "I'm such a romantic sop."
Without a plan after high school, Beightol figured he'd join the navy. A chance encounter with a dean at the former Miami Christian College changed everything. Armed with a full academic scholarship, Beightol set out for Miami, his first visit to a big city. "I jumped in a Camaro with $100 and a suitcase."
He didn't exactly make an ideal seminarian. Intellectually querulous, Beightol refused to sign a document swearing off various temptations, including drinking. He cited Proverb 31 in his defense: "Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish." He was seen as a rebel and placed under special supervision. At his ordination, he wore a wrinkled suit and boat shoes without socks.
During his time at Miami Christian, Beightol attended weekend Bible studies at Central Alliance Church on 106th Street. He became a missionary in Liberty City, working with kids making the transition from juvenile detention back to inner city life. Beightol's intense earnestness could be overwhelming, said Jack Edwards, a former elder at Central Alliance. "He would sometimes take over in [Bible] class and I would have to slow him down," Edwards remembered. But his energy meshed with the troubled teenagers. "He just sort of had a gift where he could speak to kids and bring something out of them," Edwards said. "He was always one for the underdog."
Idealistic and faithful to a fault, Beightol once made a house call in a notoriously dangerous housing project in the midst of a small riot. A group of teens jumped him, beating him from behind until several women came to his defense. "I thought God would protect me," Beightol recalled.
In a windowless classroom on the second floor of Miami Edison, second-year algebra teacher Hector Lopez was walking from desk to desk during a recent class, critiquing work and giving awkward high-fives. "My God, these kids are ready to work," he practically shouted. Speaking in hushed snippets of Kreyol, the 25 sophomores, juniors, and seniors consulted or, in some cases, copied each other's equations from FCAT workbooks.
Lopez, a 54-year-old former software designer with a persistent cowlick and a frenetic classroom manner, left a six-figure job with IBM to teach in the inner city. After 23 years in the corporate world, he wanted to try teaching, do something more meaningful. "This is the front lines," he said.
He tries to keep things interesting with Internet-based lessons, but he has to share the department's one LCD projector with eleven other teachers. Inspiring his kids is an uphill battle. Just helping them understand the written directions is a challenge.
Miami-Dade, the fourth-largest district in the nation, educates more than a third of a million students from 168 different countries at more than 300 schools. One in three students lives in a home where English is a secondary language, if it's spoken at all. Nearly two-thirds of students qualify for reduced-price or free lunch. More than 30,000 have disabilities ranging from hearing impairment to profound retardation. About 40 percent don't make it to graduation day with their classmates.
Many teachers don't make it, either. One of Lopez's colleagues at Edison, a veteran math teacher, recently left midyear to take a job with Boeing at almost twice the pay. Lopez doesn't blame his colleague. "To be honest with you, I don't know what I'm going to do in two years. Money is the bottom line."
Shelves lined with multiple answer booklets instead of novels are testament to Edison's obsession with ending five years of failing FCAT scores. There are constant classroom visits by administrators and bi-weekly FCAT reviews handed down from the main office. "I'm spending my time giving bi-weeklies and FCAT bullshit," Lopez said of the previous school year. "A lot of times, the bi-weeklies had nothing to do with what I taught that week." Lopez was fortunate. His principal allowed him to give his own tests this year. "I'm lucky they listened."
At lunchtime in the teachers' lounge, some of Lopez's colleagues were less grateful. The pressure is intense, said English teacher Judy Brown, a 34-year veteran of Miami-Dade schools. Teachers leave, or are forced to leave, constantly. "It's a revolving door, baby. It's all about the scores. If your scores aren't good, you got to go."
Myriam Ariza, a nationally certified art teacher from Chicago, said she was ready to get out after a year. "In the big picture, I'm just concerned about real teaching and real learning. Basically real teaching has been limited to babysitting."
"Are we committing the resources to win this war, or are we fucking around?"
Beightol was sitting outside Zeke's on Lincoln Road after school one day this past November, sipping a three-dollar Miller Lite and talking a mile a minute about the contract, occasionally rummaging around in his tote bag for documents to prove this or that point. "Milk has gone up, eggs have gone up, insurance has gone up," he said. "Our people are living on credit cards."
When he first got into teaching fourteen years ago, Beightol recalled, Miami's teachers were the highest paid in the state. Their union, led by the steel-fisted Pat Tornillo, was unstoppable. But he proved more a capo di tutti capi than an idealist. After leading the UTD for almost 40 years, he was convicted in 2003 of stealing or misappropriating three million dollars from the union and took up residency in a federal prison. The American Federation of Teachers, the national teachers' union, swept in and took over for two years, rewriting the constitution and bylaws. Karen Aronowitz, a decidedly unflashy, soft-spoken former high school English teacher, took the reins in 2005. (Aronowitz could not be reached for comment.)
Beightol, a longtime outspoken union steward at Krop, was less than happy with the UTD's post-Tornillo evolution and hammered away at what he considered a lack of "fight." He presented himself as the "militant" alternative, believing the righteousness of his cause would carry the day. Factions formed among Miami's 21,000 teachers, and lines were drawn.
Beightol's dispatches to supporters were combative, frequently castigating district administrators and criticizing UTD leadership for rolling over. He would "be a bulldog" for teachers. His lack of diplomacy bordered on naiveté. Given its weakened state, the UTD was not in a position to twist the arms of a powerful superintendent and school board.
The unfolding drama came to a head in mid-October, when administrators censured Beightol for his broadcast e-mails, which he sent via his district account. That morning Beightol was scheduled to meet with Krop's principal to decide his fate. Then the hallway outside Beightol's classroom began to fill with his students and fellow teachers. "My doorway packed with bodies of teachers holding signs that spoke of the right to free speech, assembly, and to redress grievances," Beightol wrote in an e-mail that afternoon. The meeting was postponed.
The next day Beightol didn't make it to his classroom. As he pulled into Krop's parking lot, he noticed three school police cars parked out front. The assistant principal lifted a walkie-talkie to his mouth as Beightol rolled past. Krop's principal approached the teacher and, with a trembling hand, held out several forms for him to sign on his truck's hood. Beightol was to leave the grounds immediately. His reassignment: office duty at a bus depot, where he spent the next few days in a ten-foot-by-ten-foot room reading and writing notes for his legal defense, should it come to that. His offer to work on bus engines or clean up had been rejected.
In Beightol's classroom, next to a white dry-erase board on which is scrawled "All light comes from relaxing/falling electrons," a relic of that time hangs on the wall: a large poster inscribed with "Please Bring Him Back," bearing the signatures of dozens of teachers and students. Posted by the door are three lined spiral notebook sheets, each emblazoned with a single word:
His critics were equally vocal. On a Yahoo listserv for Miami teachers, someone using the screen name "Urall scabs" chided Beightol's supporters: "As for those who say 'vote no' to a contract, what you really mean is vote no to any contract that SHAWN didn't negotiate. He is your hero, your messiah. Please, what a joke."
Paul Moore, a member of the UTD's executive board and a veteran social studies teacher at Miami Carol City Senior High School, went a step further. In a rambling October post on the listserv, Moore took a not-too-subtle swipe at Beightol. Urging unity, Moore decried "our misguided brothers and sisters [who] have chosen martyrdom over leadership." Weaving into the thread Rosa Parks, Hurricane Katrina, Detroit's economy, and President Bush's recent visit to a Washington-area school, Moore continued:
Some have chosen to form a divisive cult inside the United Teachers of Dade rather than fight for the unity of the whole public school workforce. Some have chosen to call people to reckless rather than effective disciplined actions. Men like David Koresh in Waco and Jim Jones in Guyana moved people in much the same way with pie-in-the-sky ravings. But to what end? Is the Kool-Aid to be our destiny?
Sounding more restrained on the phone recently, Moore described the contract as "the best option" for a union struggling to find its footing in the wake of "near-destruction" by Tornillo. "We have breathing room now," he said.
In mid-November, as a contract was beginning to look like a done deal, Beightol called for one last rally. On a clear, sunny Saturday morning, about 60 teachers marched from the school district headquarters downtown to Bayfront Park, where they gathered at the small amphitheater.
Sitting on the edge of the stage, Georges Lesperance, a French teacher at Krop and friend of Beightol's, spoke softly yet forcefully into the microphone. "What we're working for is a change in the way we're perceived," Lesperance said to a smattering of cheers. In Japan, teachers are referred to with an honorific title, Lesperance said. They are the highest-paid public employees in some countries. Here, Lesperance said, he makes do with outdated textbooks in a trailer classroom that lacks air conditioning.
"When a student walks into that situation, it isn't so much what it does to me," he continued. "That says to them that I'm not valued to society. It says to them that what I have to say must not be that important."
Marlen Valle, a special education teacher at William A. Chapman Elementary in Homestead, shook her head knowingly. Valle's predominantly black and Hispanic students have more than enough obstacles before they get to school. They struggle with the language and often show up to class unwashed and tired from lack of sleep, Valle said later.
At the rally, teacher after teacher spoke of working second and third jobs as tutors, chauffeurs, wedding videographers. They talked about having to live with parents and shop at dollar stores. Some mentioned moving plans: There were good teaching jobs and affordable houses to be had in Georgia and North Carolina.
Behind them, couples hand-in-hand strolled by, glancing at the handwritten signs stuck in the ground around the amphitheater "Work to Contract," "More than Praise, We Need a Raise" as they passed. In the distance, a towering cruise ship pushed off from its moorings.
A little more than a week after the Bayfront Park rally, Beightol sat on an aluminum picnic bench outside Krop and rubbed his red eyelids. He was still recovering from an all-nighter two days earlier meetings followed by hours of get-out-the-vote e-mails. Union voting had just closed and it didn't look good, Beightol said. There was no will to restart negotiations after nine months of back-and-forth.
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"I used to think all it would take is somebody to stand up," Beightol said slowly, his chin on his chest. His district e-mail account was still off-limits, and he had yet to be given permission to resume using the district's computerized grade system. His students didn't know what their grades were, and he wasn't sure where he stood in general. "I've been neutered a bit."
A group of drama students walked by. A few shouted, "Hi, Mr. Beightol." Swiveling in his seat, Beightol opened his eyes wide, smiled, and waved. A special education teacher sat down and, ignoring Beightol's state, began complaining about her overcrowded classroom. Switching half-heartedly back into his role as union steward, Beightol promised he'd do what he could. "Let me look into the square-footage thing."
After the teacher left, Beightol placed his elbows on the table and reflected on the past few months. The school district is like a machine, he said. "I learned that the machine is larger, with more inertia, than I imagined."


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