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[http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=User+talk%3AGregG&year=&month=-1 Here]. I thought [[Conservapedia:How Conservapedia Differs from Wikipedia|one of our differences with Wikipedia]] is that on Conservapedia, contributors are in complete control over their own userspaces. Please restore '''all''' of the revisions of my talk page and admonish [[User:Conservative]] against similar behavior in the future. Thanks, [[User:GregG|GregG]] 00:15, 12 July 2013 (EDT)
[http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=User+talk%3AGregG&year=&month=-1 Here]. I thought [[Conservapedia:How Conservapedia Differs from Wikipedia|one of our differences with Wikipedia]] is that on Conservapedia, contributors are in complete control over their own userspaces. Please restore '''all''' of the revisions of my talk page and admonish [[User:Conservative]] against similar behavior in the future. Thanks, [[User:GregG|GregG]] 00:15, 12 July 2013 (EDT)
::I find it creepy that you attempt to aid a known group of miscreants. But you are an evolutionist so it is not surprising. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 17:53, 13 July 2013 (EDT)
::I find it creepy that you attempt to aid a known group of miscreants. But you are an evolutionist so it is not surprising. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 17:53, 13 July 2013 (EDT)
== I like this conservative parable ==
== I like this conservative parable ==
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Hi! Thank for for creating this website.
- 1 Christian Feasts
- 2 Conservapedia Proven Right
- 3 "Jesus prayed, often publicly, for people"
- 4 My faith is VERY IMPORTANT to me
- 5 VivaYehshua
- 6 Dead link
- 7 My talk
- 8 A copy from my post on Main page talk
- 9 Can you please nuke
- 10 user:Rafael
- 11 Community Portal
- 12 Arkansas voter ID rulemaking
- 13 Building content vs. fighting spammers
- 14 Quote mining
- 15 Spammers
- 16 Captcha
- 17 Malachi
- 18 Catholic Church and evolution
- 19 Anarchism Logo
- 20 U.S. History
- 21 Hollywood Values strike again
- 22 Previous Breaking News Archives
- 23 Recent vandalism spree
- 24 User:Ryancsh and blocks
- 25 Markman
- 26 recent main page right post had panache
- 27 Ruth
- 28 £10 Note
- 29 Rafael
- 30 Off topic
- 32 Tennis liberal claptrap
- 33 Conservative youth groups
- 34 Conservapedia logo
- 35 Markman 2
- 36 User:Conservative deleted my talk page without explanation
- 37 I like this conservative parable
Christian Feasts
I was a little bit disappointed that Pentecost didn't make the Main Page, even after I had mentioned it: see Talk:Main_Page#Pentecost....
I'd like to see the Christian Feasts being honored on the Main Page, be it by a masterpiece, a link to an article, etc.: the next will be Trinity Sunday. Any ideas?
Thanks, --AugustO 08:42, 21 May 2013 (EDT)
- Good suggestions. Often this will depend on what else is in the news, or what other entries editors are spending their time on at a particularly moment. Other websites on the internet are purely religious sites.--Andy Schlafly 10:48, 21 May 2013 (EDT)
Conservapedia Proven Right
Mr. Schlafly,
I wanted to apologize if my past edit offended you or damaged the project. It was never my intent to remove information from the table, but only to enhance the layout and supplement the content through additional citations. I have also apologized on the talk page of the article, but I thought I owed you a direct apology as well.
Additionally, I still have a desire to improve the article. I have posted a proposed plan on the talk page, and I would be very grateful for your input. I eagerly await your suggestions.
Sincerely, WilliamWB 11:27, 23 May 2013 (EDT)
"Jesus prayed, often publicly, for people"
Andrew Schlafly, you claimed that "Jesus prayed, often publicly, for people". I'm still interested in an example for this - as you said that this happened often, you should be able to provide us with one. To be more precise: I don't want examples of Jesus blessing or giving thanks ( εὐλογέω - like in Matthew 14:19) or laying hands upon someone (ἐπιτίθημι χεῖρας - like in Matthew 19:15), I'd like to see an example of Jesus praying (προσεύχομαι) publicly for people.
Could you please give us a verse? Thank you. --AugustO 15:40, 24 May 2013 (EDT)
- For example, Jesus routinely prayed in public before each meal.--Andy Schlafly 21:32, 24 May 2013 (EDT)
- "I don't want examples of Jesus blessing or giving thanks"
- "I'd like to see an example of Jesus praying (προσεύχομαι) publicly for people"
- "Could you please give us a verse?"
- As you can see, your answer doesn't match the question. --AugustO 22:45, 24 May 2013 (EDT)
- Try John 8-14 (Translated)#11:41 - when Jesus very publicly prays to and thanks God prior to raising Lazarus from the dead.--Andy Schlafly 23:45, 24 May 2013 (EDT)
- I wonder if he'd be satisfied with John 17:11-17:
- Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. [1]
- Perhaps there aren't as many transcripts of our Lord's specific prayers as we'd all like. --Ed Poor Talk 19:46, 26 May 2013 (EDT)
- I wonder if he'd be satisfied with John 17:11-17:
My faith is VERY IMPORTANT to me
I may be a "liberal" Christian but I am devout, but some articles (guess by who?) suggest I am more associated with Satan them I am Jesus. I will not stand for it any longer--Patmac 09:34, 26 May 2013 (EDT)
Dear Mr. Schlafly,
Can you please unprotect this page? I would like to update it with information about VY and Shock's chatroom that has come to light at Talk:Main Page. If this is not desirable, then I would suggest unprotecting the page (which is currently sourced only to a single page on an anonymous blog) so that a more verifiable article can be written in its place (and perhaps if I can get a hold of Conservative, he can point me to reliable sources). Thanks, GregG 21:28, 31 May 2013 (EDT)
Dead link
Can you do anything with this: Template:Dead link? --JoeyJ 14:02, 1 June 2013 (EDT)
- What is wrong with it?--Andy Schlafly 16:20, 1 June 2013 (EDT)
My talk
Could you restore my talk page, actually? A nice little memento from the hoopla. :) Onward 20:24, 1 June 2013 (EDT)
A copy from my post on Main page talk
Conservative still goes on with his hatred, I will get blocked for this but here is my promise, I will wait 3 days and if after that time this users hatred is not completely removed from this site I am going to report Conservapedia to the Southern Poverty Law Center and request it is designated a hate group.--Patmac 11:28, 3 June 2013 (EDT)
- I would have preferred to send these messages to you in person but I cannot find an email for you so it has to be done here, I have requested you do something before but have been constantly ignored. Lets face it Andy, despite not holding office you are very much a politician, and what does a politician do when a subordinate constantly jeopardizes his position? He gits rid.--Patmac 11:41, 3 June 2013 (EDT)
- Conservapedia supports and defends the full right to free speech, and urges liberal groups to do likewise.--Andy Schlafly 12:16, 3 June 2013 (EDT)
This is not free speech, this is hate speech. When i read that Jesus eats and spits out moderate Christians that is hate speech, and it also brings the name of our saviour into disrepute. He does not just attack evolutionists and atheists, he attacks Christians, to the extent that we are not Christians at all. "Liberal" Christianity and marital infidelity, "Liberal" Christianity and whore mongering, "Liberal" Christianity and bestiality, need i say more? But if someone dare challenge his position, he blocks them, how is that free speech? I think you personally have some pretty strange ideas but you do allow them to be challenged without going on a hate spree, and you are to be respected for that. But constantly allowing Conservative to post his vile tirade, however free it may be, just undermines Conservatives and by extension your image.--Patmac 12:32, 3 June 2013 (EDT)
- This user Pacmac is blocked indefinitely. Apparently, he thinks he can define what hatred is, even so far as to saying that the above reference concerning Jesus constitutes "hate speech". This is the place in the Bible where it comes from, Revelation, Chapter 2:
- 14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
- 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
- 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
- 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
- 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
- What it means is that this user is trying his best to stop any mention of the Bible unless this mention is done in accordance with his liberal philosophy; which means that the above Revelation verses are null and void. He further threatens to call the SPLC on us if we don't behave in according to his whims, i.e. one hate filled individual calling a hate-filled organization to complain about our alleged hate against his own hate-filled ideas.
- Patmac had also forgotten about our First Amendment RIGHTS to FREE SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, and FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE. He's so filled with hate himself that he would demand the SPLC to try to stop us from enjoying those rights. As far as I'm concerned, he failed. And he can continue failing somewhere else. Karajou 13:12, 3 June 2013 (EDT)
- Firstly, let me say that I do not endorse user:Patmac`s tactics of legal threats. They have no place on a wiki, and should instead be sent to the site's owner (Mr. Schlafly) by email. However, as per hate speech and the Bible, it is clear that the Bible condemns churches who do not uphold the tenets of Christianity, but on the other hand, who is User:C to decide which churches are not upholding these tenets? brenden 13:43, 3 June 2013 (EDT)
This is an opportunity for Andy to show some leadership in setting a path that de-escallates the conflict here. On the one hand, Patmac is absolutely right about the intemperate nature of User:C's comments. On the other hand, Patmac's frustration with the failure to address that problem led him to make intemperate remarks as well. I suggest that we forgive Patmac for his transgression, and address whether User:C's edits are consistent with the fundamental commandments of Conservapedia. This is not a "Free Speech" issue. User:C is free to express his views on his private blog. Our question is whether CP should endorse and republish some sharp comments as the views of the entire project. Wschact 07:22, 4 June 2013 (EDT)
Can you please nuke
ReymeDneK's contributions? Thanks, GregG 10:15, 5 June 2013 (EDT)
There is a dispute between myself and user:Markman regarding User:Rafael's block. Could you please provide some guidance? Thanks, brenden 15:34, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
- See this edit. Clear case of incivility. Considering his previous record I'd say he should be banned for at least a week if not more. I would have given him a lifetime ban but unfortunately there are too many editors with blocking rights who seem to be determined to subvert Conservapedia's rules. Interestingly enough, many of those editors are also in cordial relations with the RW userbase. - Markman 15:42, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
- You should also point out that, aside from you, the only other person who has given Rafael a block, was DamianJohn, and a now outed parodist. As per "determined to subvert Conservapedia's rules", I would suggest that you re-read the rules. I still haven't forgotten your bullying of AlanE. brenden 15:48, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
- "You should also point out that, aside from you, the only other person who has given Rafael a block, was DamianJohn, and a now outed parodist." Come on darling, don't be afraid to call the parodist by his name - Dvergne. The same Dvergne who sided with you and with AlanE against me. So you're basically admitting to both associating with a liberal website and with parodists. - Markman 15:54, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
- As far as I understand, User:Dvergne, Karajou, and myself were chastising you for spamming {{uncited}} specifically on AlanE's contributions. Are you insinuating that Karajou is "associating with a parodist"?? Furthermore, once again, you have shown yourself unwilling to read that userpage, that explains my goals on that website specifically. In case you can't see that website, I have the words reproduced below:
- "You should also point out that, aside from you, the only other person who has given Rafael a block, was DamianJohn, and a now outed parodist." Come on darling, don't be afraid to call the parodist by his name - Dvergne. The same Dvergne who sided with you and with AlanE against me. So you're basically admitting to both associating with a liberal website and with parodists. - Markman 15:54, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
- You should also point out that, aside from you, the only other person who has given Rafael a block, was DamianJohn, and a now outed parodist. As per "determined to subvert Conservapedia's rules", I would suggest that you re-read the rules. I still haven't forgotten your bullying of AlanE. brenden 15:48, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
==Wat?== *Why are you here? :I'd rather not be impersonated, and I would like a word in this place. *What are you doing at Conservapedia? :I do enjoy thought exercises. While Conservapedia does go in a little overboard at times, I still have faith in it. I feel that the only reason that Conservapedia's problems are so famous, are because of the inordinate amount of trolls and parodists, trying their best to write something so ridiculous, that their comrades might congratulate them. That, and the continued threats by [[user:naca|certain]] [[user:Umichcynic|people]] [[user:Proxima Centauri|at]] [[Liberapedia|certain websites]], to (blocked by spam filter), and harrass the precarious community at Conservapedia, have not helped the situation. One of my goals there is to rectify that. brenden 16:00, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
- Your other edits on that website reveal a different story. Your cordial relations with the RW userbase shows that you're one of them. - Markman 16:04, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
- In the days of TK your admiting you are even reading that site would have earnt you a ban. Davidspencer 16:05, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
- On the contrary, I have been called a dick, a parodist, a "smarmy little prefect", among other things. I do my best to present Conservapedia in a positive light, and frankly, are doing a lot more good than Markman, going there to deliberately spread a false impression of a surly, confrontational Conservapedia. brenden 16:06, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
- I think that I made my case and I don't need to elaborate any further. I don't only enforce the 90/10 rule but also try to comply with it, so I'll refrain from any further replies until Mr. Schlafly says his word. - Markman 16:09, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
- I think that you shouldn't jump the gun, and instead, should wait for Mr. Schlafly's word on this matter. brenden 16:05, 7 June 2013 (EDT)
- I think that I made my case and I don't need to elaborate any further. I don't only enforce the 90/10 rule but also try to comply with it, so I'll refrain from any further replies until Mr. Schlafly says his word. - Markman 16:09, 6 June 2013 (EDT)
Community Portal
A sock of Mr. Mason has recently posted some vile attacks on that page. Although I have undid them, someone may want to block that sock and/or take other remedial measures. Thanks, WilliamWB 12:43, 7 June 2013 (EDT)
- I wouldn't worry about this. Karajou took a minute or two to learn oversighting. Mr. Mason will now become even more obscure than he already is and rightfully so. Conservative 00:12, 11 June 2013 (EDT)
Arkansas voter ID rulemaking
Dear Mr. Schlafly,
I know you've taken interest in voter ID just as I have, and I found out this week that the Arkansas Secretary of State has proposed rules to implement Arkansas' new voter ID law. [2]. I'm planning on writing up and submitting comments to fix several issues with the rules, and I was wondering whether you were planning on submitting comments or wanted to see what I am writing. Hopefully, if the rules are fixed as I suggest, the voter ID law should survive federal and state court challenges. Thanks, GregG 13:24, 8 June 2013 (EDT)
- That's interesting. I wasn't planning on submitting any comments, but I'd be curious to see what you submit. My own view is that voter ID laws are not as significant as early voting laws.--Andy Schlafly 22:36, 8 June 2013 (EDT)
Building content vs. fighting spammers
Andy, I think if Conservapedians could spend more time creating content rather than fighting spammers that they would do so if given the opportunity.
Why don't you add the feature to the wiki that fights spammers that Brenden says works great at his wiki?
Here is the informmation:
I noticed that in the RC, there's been a large amount of spammers. Perhaps implementing QuestyCaptcha, a system that uses questions that Mr. Schlafly chooses, could stem the onslaught. It works excellently at my wiki. Here is the information for this extention: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha brenden 21:10, 1 June 2013 (EDT)
I hope this helps. Conservative 10:30, 9 June 2013 (EDT)
Quote mining
Dear Mr. Schlafly,
User:Conservative reverted my recent edits without explanation and protected the page. Since there is no way to contact U:C and I don't see it likely that there will be fruitful discussion about improving the article about the logical fallacy of quote mining, I would request that the page be unprotected and that U:C work in collegiality with me to improve the page. Thanks, GregG 11:21, 9 June 2013 (EDT)
- There is nothing wrong about quoting the other side and using those quotes to disprove and discredit their position. Some evolutionists pretend there is something wrong with this, yet politicians, attorneys, and any debater properly does this frequently.--Andy Schlafly 13:00, 9 June 2013 (EDT)
- I'm glad you are offering your input, and I should probably explain my changes fully on the talk page. Science, law, theology, politics, mathematics, and philosophy are all different systems for answering questions about our world. Each system has its own rules, so what may be a valid argument in law (citing to binding precedent or quoting an authority) is not necessarily valid in science or math. Likewise, logical deduction from axioms is the main way mathematical results are proven, but it has less utility in the other systems of answering questions.
- In any event, I think there should be a full discussion on the talk page, and, revisiting this issue, I think that what would probably be best (and what I will therefore request) is for the page protection to automatically expire, say, a week or two from now, and hopefully, the discussion that takes place during this next week will improve the article. Thanks, GregG 13:10, 9 June 2013 (EDT)
- EDIT You wrote "politicians, attorneys, and any debater properly does [sic] this frequently." I trust you are familiar with Rule 3.3 of the New Jersey Rules of Professional Conduct. GregG 13:23, 9 June 2013 (EDT)
Try this:
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createpage'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['createpage'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['createpage'] = true; $wgAutoConfirmAge = 600 ; # Ten Minutes
- I disagree with this proposal. I think one of the things that makes wikis so successful is that people can jump in by creating an account and instantly contribute by improving pages. To be honest, I think that there are enough blockers to handle the spam efficiently, but if there needs to be a solution, I would recommend QuestyCaptcha. GregG 17:03, 9 June 2013 (EDT)
It keeps on coming up everytime I add a link to references, is there any way that you can turn it off for my user? I clearly am not a bot or spammer so if you can it would be much appreciated. JAnderson 20:51, 10 June 2013 (EDT)
- Thanks for asking. I've added SkipCatcha privileges to your account.--Andy Schlafly 21:19, 10 June 2013 (EDT)
I'm happy to announce that the Book of Malachi is now fully translated. I would like you to take a look at it and if needed help improve it. Note: not all of the book's translation was done by me, but in the parts that I did translate I changed "LORD of hosts" into "LORD of armies". The Hebrew word "tsvaot" (צבאות) that is sometimes translated into "hosts" actually means "armies". I think that this translation is more accurate, plus it sends a strong anti-pacifist message.
I also see that I can't add Malachi to the list of fully translated books in Template:ConservativeBible. Could you please do that for me? - Markman 06:16, 15 June 2013 (EDT)
- Fabulous! I like your correction of the pacifist bias. I've updated the template. Well done!--Andy Schlafly 11:41, 15 June 2013 (EDT)
- Thanks you for your kind words! - Markman 11:41, 15 June 2013 (EDT)
- I look forward to more of your translations.--Andy Schlafly 11:48, 15 June 2013 (EDT)
Catholic Church and evolution
Schlafly, could you please answer to my post on Talk:Roman Catholic Church about the RCC and evolution? Thanks, cheers. --Swordsman 08:10, 15 June 2013 (EDT)
- Replied.--Andy Schlafly 11:48, 15 June 2013 (EDT)
Anarchism Logo
Hi can you please uploud these pictures: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anarchy-symbol.svg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ancapflag.svg Thanks --JoeyJ 13:49, 16 June 2013 (EDT)
- Done as requested.--Andy Schlafly 14:28, 16 June 2013 (EDT)
- Thank you but I cant put them into the articles Anarchism and Anarcho-capitalism Can you help me, please? --JoeyJ 13:58, 18 June 2013 (EDT)
- I resized them from 500px to 200px and now you can use them in a format smaller than 500px. See: Anarchism and http://conservapedia.com/File:200px-Ancapflag.svg.png Conservative 14:35, 18 June 2013 (EDT)
- Thanks Conservative. Please uploud yet this here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anarchist_flag.svg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christian_punk.svg --JoeyJ 08:47, 21 June 2013 (EDT)
U.S. History
Mr Schlafly, Having visited the Eagle Forum website I noticed you run courses on US history which interests me, but have noticed the registration is restricted to those living in the USA. Is it possible to enrole from elsewhere?--Tomqua 16:27, 18 June 2013 (EDT)
- Consider using the U.S. History course I posted here: Conservapedia:Index.--Andy Schlafly 16:41, 18 June 2013 (EDT)
Thank you--Tomqua 16:42, 18 June 2013 (EDT)
Hollywood Values strike again
It's the same old story over and over: a Hollywood liberal (he helped raise money for Kerry) engages in a self destructive lifestyle (compulsive eating in this case) leading to his own demise. So tragic and yet so preventable. - Markman 15:08, 20 June 2013 (EDT)
Previous Breaking News Archives
The archives from "Previous Breaking News" are very unvalid. Where are the archives from 2012/2013?--JoeyJ 12:01, 24 June 2013 (EDT)
- Here: [3].--Andy Schlafly 12:13, 24 June 2013 (EDT)
Recent vandalism spree
We've under a vandalism spree recently. Users involved: SwissE, Namkram, JackieS. I think we should consider a range block in case their IP addressees are dynamic.
I also blocked some users who registered in close proximity to the vandal spree: Mar92vg8br, Numisexpert37, Car9d94nha, NigelM, DennyH. I recommend using checkuser to see if they share IP addressees with the vandals. If not, than those with a proper username should be unblocked while those with an improper username should remain blocked but with their IP unblocked and account creation enabled. - Markman 09:09, 25 June 2013 (EDT)
- Thanks. I'll look into this.--Andy Schlafly 09:13, 25 June 2013 (EDT)
User:Ryancsh and blocks
You don't have any problems with his blocks, do you? brenden 14:11, 25 June 2013 (EDT)
- Checkers, stop barking at Mr. Schlafly this instant! - Markman 14:16, 25 June 2013 (EDT)
Please do something about this person. I realise has has been very helpful to you in the Bible Project but he is now blocking long standing and valued contributors on the most spurious of reasons. Davidspencer 15:03, 25 June 2013 (EDT)
- Hate to join on but I agree. Markman is a good editor of the bible project but he does engage in block wars and the infighting between Him and Brendan managed to drag me in when he attempted to associate my name is a previously unknown (to me anyway) internet joke. Also, I have serious issue with him questioning my Conservative Ideology simply because I am British and calling British conservatives "sexual degenerates"Ryancsh 20:07, 25 June 2013 (GMT)
- And before he comes back with an accusation of me being a sock of another user I have been here for far longer than he has, I may not have been that active a contributor but I am not a parodist. And I am not a sock of anyone on this site I assure you. Davidspencer 15:18, 25 June 2013 (EDT)
- I find no need to defend myself from accusations of libs such as yourself. Mr. Schlafly knows what's right, I trust him to act on it. - Markman 15:26, 25 June 2013 (EDT)
- Ad hominem attack from someone who quite frankly has no real arguments to defend himself. I may end up perma-banned from this site but the site will be worse in the long run for allowing you to continue editing and stopping those you block for no reason other than your whim. I will now bow out and leave you the last word, I would certainly not want someone to block me for 90-10 (an advisory limit only ayway). Davidspencer 15:31, 25 June 2013 (EDT)
- Since when was I a liberal? Last time I checked, I was more conservative than a lot of other users on conservapedia Ryancsh 21:39, 25 June 2013 (GMT)
- I find no need to defend myself from accusations of libs such as yourself. Mr. Schlafly knows what's right, I trust him to act on it. - Markman 15:26, 25 June 2013 (EDT)
- And before he comes back with an accusation of me being a sock of another user I have been here for far longer than he has, I may not have been that active a contributor but I am not a parodist. And I am not a sock of anyone on this site I assure you. Davidspencer 15:18, 25 June 2013 (EDT)
recent main page right post had panache
"If he cannot even control his own NSA, then why would anyone believe he can control the climate?". This most recent main page right post had panache. :) Conservative 02:28, 26 June 2013 (EDT)
I'm happy to announce that Ruth has been fully translated. Can you please add it to template:ConservativeBible? I would have done so myself but I'm not an admin. - Markman 07:35, 29 June 2013 (EDT)
- Fabulous work! I've added Ruth (Translated) to the template, and also trimmed the template a bit. Well done!--Andy Schlafly 09:11, 29 June 2013 (EDT)
- Thank you for your kinds words! - Markman 10:13, 1 July 2013 (EDT)
£10 Note
May I suggest using this source, from the conservative Telegraph rather than the leftist Daily Mirror http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/money/money-matters/jane-austen-could-become-the-new-face-of-britains-10-pound-note/story-fni0ctl0-1226669886966 --Tomqua 18:20, 29 June 2013 (EDT)
Recently a vandal who attacked my talk page claimed that the users Eg, Brenden and Rafael are his socks. Eg is already banned for other reasons, I suggest an investigation into Brenden and Rafael (whom I temporarily blocked for emergency reason) to see whether or not this claim is true. - Markman 10:13, 1 July 2013 (EDT)
- The account for User:Eg does not appear to be a sock.--Andy Schlafly 11:37, 2 July 2013 (EDT)
Off topic
Glad that got cleared out. Kind of off topic, but it came to my attention that some of your family members have a brewery, and that the Schlafly brand has been getting some really good reviews. Is it sold anywhere outside of the US, such as in Israel or in one of the more friendlier Mediterranean nations that are close to it (such as Cyprus or Greece)? - Markman 11:59, 2 July 2013 (EDT)
- I don't think it is sold outside of the U.S. I don't have any connection with the product, which was started by a cousin.--Andy Schlafly 12:05, 2 July 2013 (EDT)
- Really? I'm an avid home-brewer myself. How are the beers? WilcoxD 23:10, 2 July 2013 (EDT)
Is this site a conservative news source?--08:55, 2 July 2013 (EDT)
Tennis liberal claptrap
Name one person - anyone - who said that a low seed could not win a Grand Slam. You're making up counter-arguments to suggest that the opposing side is wrong; when the reality is everyone got on you for suggesting that low ranking players are "best of public" - or when you said that expert opinion was factored into rankings.--IDuan 14:23, 7 July 2013 (EDT)
- you would pretend that Wimbledon is a female only event so you can pretend you're correct.--IDuan 18:12, 7 July 2013 (EDT)
Conservative youth groups
Andy, here are the top conservative youth group websites:
Why don't you try to strike up an alliance with one or more of them? People who frequent wikis are often in their teens or 20s. Conservative 08:51, 8 July 2013 (EDT)
- Those websites aren't representative of conservatism in my opinion. brenden 11:20, 8 July 2013 (EDT)
Conservapedia logo
Sorry to bother you on a trivial matter but can you tell me if the sites logo is subject to copyright. Can I use it on other websites or publications? For reference only of course. Thanks you--Tomqua 13:18, 9 July 2013 (EDT)
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This morning, Markman made this edit that called NKeaton a troll. I blocked Markman for 3 days based on that disruptive act of incivility, and this led to Markman unblocking himself and blocking me (with a block reason that is a personal attack that triggers the spam filter). Thus, I am leaving it to you to decide how this should be handled. Thanks, GregG 20:08, 9 July 2013 (EDT)
User:Conservative deleted my talk page without explanation
Here. I thought one of our differences with Wikipedia is that on Conservapedia, contributors are in complete control over their own userspaces. Please restore all of the revisions of my talk page and admonish User:Conservative against similar behavior in the future. Thanks, GregG 00:15, 12 July 2013 (EDT)
- I find it creepy that you attempt to aid a known group of miscreants. But you are an evolutionist so it is not surprising. Conservative 17:53, 13 July 2013 (EDT)
- It's alright Greg, as Cons can't delete [archive.org the various internet archives], whenever he feels like a modification of history is convenient. brenden 18:00, 13 July 2013 (EDT)
- I find it creepy that you attempt to aid a known group of miscreants. But you are an evolutionist so it is not surprising. Conservative 17:53, 13 July 2013 (EDT)
I like this conservative parable
I like this parable about how to deal with liberal critics. :) It is an amusing parable about how to deal with non-constructive criticism. I am going to put it into practice more. :)
Nehemiah provides a great example on how to effectively deal with unreasonable critics. Conservative 17:47, 13 July 2013 (EDT)
- Hardly unreasonable, considering you have never taken your own advice on ignoring your critics, or even better, to learn from them?brenden 17:55, 13 July 2013 (EDT)


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Columbia, SC July 8, 2013 – South Carolina junior defensive end Jadeveon Clowney has been named to both the Maxwell and Bednarik Award Watch Lists for 2013 as announced by the Maxwell Football Club on Monday morning.
Clowney, a 6-6, 274-pounder from Rock Hill, S.C., was a unanimous All-America selection as a sophomore last season. The SEC's Defensive Player of the Year finished sixth in the Heisman Trophy balloting after recording 54 tackles, including a school record 23.5 tackles for loss and a school record 13.0 quarterback sacks. Clowney was a finalist last year for the Bednarik Award and is one of only six defensive players in the country named to the Maxwell Award Watch List.
The Maxwell Award, named in honor of Robert W. "Tiny" Maxwell, has been given to America's College Player of the Year since 1937. Maxwell's contributions to the game of football were extensive, including as a player, a sportswriter and an official. The Bednarik Award has been presented to the College Defensive Player of the Year since 1995. Chuck Bednarik, former standout at Penn and with the Philadelphia Eagles, is a member of both the College Football Hall of Fame's Class of '69 and the NFL Hall of Fame's Class of '67.
Semifinalists for the Maxwell and Bednarik Awards will be announced Oct. 29, while the three finalists for each award will be unveiled Nov. 25th. The winners of the 2013 Maxwell and Bednarik Awards will be announced as part of the Home Depot College Football Awards Show held on Dec. 12th. The formal presentations of these awards will be made at the Maxwell Football Club Awards Gala hosted by Harrah's Entertainment Atlantic City on March 7, 2014.
The watch list candidates have been chosen by the Maxwell Football Club's selection committee, which analyzes both past performance and future potential. The Club reserves the right to make additions and deletions to these lists as the 2013 season unfolds. All members of the Maxwell Football Club, NCAA sports information directors, FBS head coaches and selected national media are eligible to vote for the awards.
The Maxwell and Chuck Bednarik Awards are members of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA) which encompasses the most prestigious awards in college football. The 21 awards boast 678 years of tradition-selection excellence. Visit www.NCFAA.org to learn more about our story.
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In January 2010, the average credit score in the United States was 692, according to Experian's National Score Index.
Today, it's between 700 and 710, according to John Ulzheimer, president of consumer education at SmartCredit.com, a credit-monitoring website. In an interview with CNBC.com, he said that reduction of credit-card debt is the main factor behind increased credit scores. "There's no doubt," he said.
If average credit scores are rising because consumers have begun to pay down their credit-card debts, then economic conditions must be improving to some degree. However, this average includes everybody, from the person who just became debt-free to the person who hasn't made the minimum payment in months.
Just as these people are not all created equal, neither are the states that they call home. As a result, some states will have average credit scores that indicate a rebounding economy, while others will have average credit scores that indicate economic decline.
Mortgage Marvel, a mortgage-shopping website, crunched the numbers from over 330,000 mortgage applications received in 2011 and determined which states had the highest average credit scores.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Like most things French, the Tour de France starts and ends around a lunch or dinner table.
In 1903, when Geo Lefevre told Henri Desgrange, his boss at sports newspaper L'Auto about his idea of a cycling Tour de France, Desgrange summoned him to explain the details of his plan at Zimmer's, one of Paris most famous Alsacian brasseries.
The deal was struck between cheese and desert and the crazy idea, probably fuelled by a little bit of wine, was so good that it celebrates its 100th edition this year.
The start of the first Tour was in front of a bar, Le Reveil Matin in Montgeron, near Paris, and several of the races most famous episodes took place around a good meal or a few glasses.
The greatest cycling show on earth lost its innocence in 1924 in a restaurant in Coutances, in Normandy, when the Pelissier brothers, and among them defending Tour champion Henri, decided to call it quits in protest at what they believed was the harsh treatment imposed on them by Desgrange.
At the table was also renowned French reporter Albert Londres - he gave his name to the most prestigious journalism award in the country - who listened to what the Pelissiers had to say.
While the menu and wine list have been long forgotten, the contents of the Pelissiers' bags have not: strychnine, cocaine and various doping substances to help the riders face their ordeal.
"We ride on dynamite," Henri Pelissier told Londres as the world discovered doping, 80 years before the Lance Armstrong scandal.
In 1998, doping almost cost then Tour director Jean-Marie Leblanc a presidential invitation.
Leblanc was about to attend dinner with French president Jacques Chirac in his family castle in Bity when news broke that Festina team director Bruno Roussel had confessed to organized doping within the French outfit.
"We decided to kick them out of the Tour and I arrived at the presidential table at 11 pm. Chirac still insisted on cooking me a big steak to hear all the details of the case," Leblanc told Reuters.
Food is, and always has been, a vital part of the race. Decisions are made over a glass of wine at dinner or a cup of coffee at breakfast.
Gastronomy is such a part of the way of life in France that a tour of the country's regions has to reflect the diversity of the cuisine.
Every morning at the Village Depart, riders in their racing gear, VIPs in suits and journalists in shorts and tee-shirts gather around huge buffets for a taste of the local specialties and wines - the cheese of Corsica, the oysters of Cancale, the foie gras of the Pyrenees or the fondue of the Alps.
And every evening, when the race is over, the whole Tour crew - known as suiveurs or "followers" - stage their own race to make it to the best local restaurants before closing time.
It cannot be totally fortuitous that the editor in chief of the Michelin Guide, Jean-Francois Mesplede, used to be the Tour de France correspondent for Lyon daily Le Progrès.
Culinary surprises along the road are often delicious but sometimes less so. One year, French novelist Antoine Blondin, arguably the best writer the Tour has known, found himself treated to guinea fowls at three dinners in succession.
"We should give this bird a bike and a bib," he said.
Riders, by contrast, are supposed to follow a strict diet and rely mostly on omelets and pasta. They should be happy to reach Mont St Michel home of France's most famous omelet at restaurant La Mere Poulard.
Not always have riders been so rigid about their diet though.
Five-times Tour winner Jacques Anquetil was also known as a bon vivant and sometimes joined journalists to savor wine and greasy sausages at rest day barbecues.
Reporters covering the Tour will be glad to know that several three-star restaurants are the route this year; from Passedat in Marseille to Bocuse in Lyon, Marc Veyrat in Annecy or the 10 in Paris.
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He became known in the early '90s for his commitment ceremony with Pedro Zamora
Sean Sasser, an AIDS activist and The Real World cast member, has died, his friend and fellow cast member, Judd Winick, announced via Twitter Tuesday night. He was 44.
"Our friend Sean Sasser has died. Our love goes out to his family & husband Michael. We will miss u so much," Winick Tweeted.
Sasser, who was HIV positive, died of mesothelioma, a rare cancer of the lungs, according to his life partner, Michael Kaplan, Dan Renzi of Queerty, reports.
Sasser became known in the early 1990s for his relationship with Pedro Zamora, who starred on The Real World: San Francisco. Their commitment ceremony was one of the first ever televised prior to Zamora's death in 1994.
As recently as May, Sasser was working as a pastry chef at RIS restaurant in Washington, D.C., and was interviewed by the Washington Blade, which praised his homemade ice cream and sorbets – his personal favorite was his Meyer's lemon meringue tart with grapefruit tarragon sorbet – and said he was fascinated by cooking since he was young.
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Sometimes, co-workers are just the worst.
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Why has a new food line caught my fancy? I'm happy to tell you!
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I love to recycle. In fact, my husband would say I am fanatical in this regard. So exactly how are these bags made? Well, all I needed to do was turn the bag over to the other side and find out.
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What is the best way to write a LISP program that will produce a mirror image of a list.
(mirror_image '((a b) (c (d e)))) should produce the following (((e d) c) (b a))
Do I use a function such as mirror_image?
intel1397 wrote:What is the best way to write a LISP program that will produce a mirror image of a list.
intel1397 wrote:Do I use a function such as mirror_image?
smithzv wrote:This question seems to go under the category of "so easy it must be for homework or learning CL." As such, I'm guessing it is not productive to answer the question.
[list](defun mirror_image (L)
(if (eq (cdr L) nil)
(append (mirror_image (cdr L))
(list (car L)))))[/list]
[list](mirror_image '((a b) (c (d e))))[/list]
smithzv wrote:Perhaps some leading questions:
What have you tried?
This looks a little like reversing the order of the list to me. There is a function REVERSE, but it doesn't do exactly what you want. How is what that does different from what you want?
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(reverse '((a b) (c (d e))))
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intel1397 wrote:I came to this forum to learn and discuss Lisp Programming of any dialect. Not to have my "easy" question ridiculed and mocked about. Now if there is such a category "so easy it must be for homework or learning CL." point me in the direction so that I am able to get the help that I need other then some immature juvenile looking to distract a new learner of CLISP.
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Owning multiple cards pulls down your credit rating. If you're going to apply for a loan in the near future, getting one more credit card could be the difference between approval and rejection.
Compare it to your rewards credit card
Store card benefits can really add up if you're a regular customer—discounts, coupons, member-only sales. Compare all that to you what you get from your rewards credit card—cash back, airline miles, etc. If you pay the full balance on your store card every month, getting their standard 15% off on a purchase (for example) is a better deal than the 1%-2% cash back from using your rewards credit card.
Some store cards waive interest payments if you spend a minimum amount in a certain period of time. If you're a regular shopper at that store, that may be perfect for you. But will you feel obligated to shop there for things you really don't need or that are cheaper somewhere else, just to meet those minimums? That's what the store is hoping!
As with all financial decisions, don't be impulsive. Don't take a short term gain at the expense of bigger hits down the road. Maybe it helps to think of a department store card as a long term commitment, not a one-time fling!


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John Spencer (1946-2005) was an American actor best remembered for his roles on L.A. Law and The West Wing. Spencer was interviewed by Kermit and Miss Piggy on the red carpet of the 2004 Emmy Awards Ceremony.
Among Spencer's credits are guest spots on The Patty Duke Show, Law & Order, Saturday Night Live, Miami Vice and the Soap operas As the World Turns, Another World, and One Life to Live.


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Interzone 247 has been out for a few days now. And I am busy beyond belief, which is why I haven't posted about it before now. Use the link to see more of it. There's some stunning artwork for starters.
This issue's Book Zone has the second of Jonathan McCalmont's Future Interupted columns as well as the following reviews:
Nod by Adrian Barnes (reviewed by Paul Kincaid)
The Peacock Cloak by Chris Beckett (reviewed by Jack Deighton)
The Science of Discworld IV by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen (reviewed by Duncan Lunan)
Vurt by Jeff Noon (reviewed by Iain Emsley)
Pollen by Jeff Noon (reviewed by Iain Emsley)
Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter (reviewed by Juliet E. McKenna)
Seoul Survivors by Naomi Foyle (reviewed by Ian Sales)
The Curve of the Earth by Simon Morden (reviewed by Simon Marshall-Jones)
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey (reviewed by Peter Loftus)
Solaris Rising 2 edited by Ian Whates (reviewed by Ian Hunter)
Shadows of the New Sun edited by J.E. Mooney & Bill Fawcett (reviewed by Stephen Theaker)
The Folded Man by Matt Hill (reviewed by Paul F. Cockburn)
Across the Event Horizon by Mercurio D. Rivera (reviewed by Matthew S. Dent)
Slaine: The Grail War by Pat Mills, Nick Percival & Steve Tappin (reviewed by Tony Lee)
The Warring States by Aidan Harte (reviewed by Lawrence Osborn)
Burnt Island by Alice Thompson (reviewed by Andy Hedgecock)
The links for the books will take you to places where you can buy the books. Happy hunting.
If you've got a joint subscription then your Interzone will have been mailed out with Black Static 35. Here's how you can get a free copy of Black Static 35 if you don't already have it. Check it out too.
And here's the link to a discussion thread on this issue at Interaction while I'm at it.


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The eighth-grade boy held out his wrists for teacher Carlos Polanco to see.
He had just explained to Polanco and his history classmates at Virgil Middle School in Koreatown why he had been absent: He had been in the hospital after an attempt at suicide.
Polanco looked at the cuts and said they "were weak," according to witness accounts in documents filed with the state. "Carve deeper next time," he was said to have told the boy.
"Look," Polanco allegedly said, "you can't even kill yourself."
The boy's classmates joined in, with one advising how to cut a main artery, according to the witnesses.
"See," Polanco was quoted as saying, "even he knows how to commit suicide better than you."
The Los Angeles school board, citing Polanco's poor judgment, voted to fire him.
But Polanco, who contended that he had been misunderstood, kept his job. A little-known review commission overruled the board, saying that although the teacher had made the statements, he had meant no harm.
It's remarkably difficult to fire a tenured public school teacher in California, a Times investigation has found. The path can be laborious and labyrinthine, in some cases involving years of investigation, union grievances, administrative appeals, court challenges and re-hearings.
Not only is the process arduous, but some districts are particularly unsuccessful in navigating its complexities. The Los Angeles Unified School District sees the majority of its appealed dismissals overturned, and its administrators are far less likely even to try firing a tenured teacher than those in other districts.
The Times reviewed every case on record in the last 15 years in which a tenured employee was fired by a California school district and formally contested the decision before a review commission: 159 in all (not including about two dozen in which the records were destroyed). The newspaper also examined court and school district records and interviewed scores of people, including principals, teachers, union officials, district administrators, parents and students.
Among the findings:
* Building a case for dismissal is so time-consuming, costly and draining for principals and administrators that many say they don't make the effort except in the most egregious cases. The vast majority of firings stem from blatant misconduct, including sexual abuse, other immoral or illegal behavior, insubordination or repeated violation of rules such as showing up on time.
* Although districts generally press ahead with only the strongest cases, even these get knocked down more than a third of the time by the specially convened review panels, which have the discretion to restore teachers' jobs even when grounds for dismissal are proved.
* Jettisoning a teacher solely because he or she can't teach is rare. In 80% of the dismissals that were upheld, classroom performance was not even a factor.
When teaching is at issue, years of effort -- and thousands of dollars -- sometimes go into rehabilitating the teacher as students suffer. Over the three years before he was fired, one struggling math teacher in Stockton was observed 13 times by school officials, failed three year-end evaluations, was offered a more desirable assignment and joined a mentoring program as most of his ninth-grade students flunked his courses.
As a case winds its way through the system, legal costs can soar into the six figures.
Meanwhile, said Kendra Wallace, principal of Daniel Webster Middle School on Los Angeles' Westside, an ineffective teacher can instruct 125 to 260 students a year -- up to 1,300 in the five years she says it often takes to remove a tenured employee.
"The hardest conversation to have is when a student comes in and looks at you and says, 'Can you please come teach our class?' " she said.
When coaching and other improvement efforts don't work, she said, "You're in the position of having to look at 125 kids and just say, 'I'm sorry,' because the process of removal is really difficult. . . . You're looking at these kids and knowing they are going to high school and they're not ready. It is absolutely devastating."
'Really disheartening'
In his first major education speech in March, President Obama called for a system that would be the "envy of the world" -- one that nourishes good teachers and casts out the "bad" ones.
"I reject a system that rewards failure and protects a person from its consequences," he said. "We can afford nothing but the best when it comes to our children's teachers and the schools where they teach."
In many California school districts, that goal seems impossibly distant. Laziness, apathy or poor performance often aren't firing offenses, some school officials complain.
"We as administrators, knowing how difficult it is, tend to make excuses for the employee, and I think in some cases, accept mediocrity," said L.A. Unified Supt. Ramon C. Cortines.
Strapped districts are forced to keep tenured staffers they deem unworthy even as they must consider layoffs for less-experienced teachers, without regard to their talents.
"It's really disheartening," said Dr. Mitchell Wong, president of Act4Education, a group of parents trying to improve school performance in West Los Angeles. "What message does it send to the students, to the community and to the teachers who are doing their job?"
Kathleen Collins, associate general counsel for L.A. Unified, explained it this way: "Kids don't have a union."
Teachers have won strong job protections over the years, the legacy of labor battles in the early 20th century, when instructors could be fired for frivolous infractions. Some experts say the tenure system has outlived its usefulness.
Union leaders say tenure and collective bargaining are not the problem, nor is it fair to use egregious cases to indict the entire system.
"The union is bound by law to defend our members, and we do," said A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles. "That should in no way deter the resolve of the district to do their job, which is to help failing teachers to get better, or, if they can't, to work to get rid of them."
Outspoken teachers can be victimized, union leaders say, and principals and parents sometimes take aim at people they simply don't like. Teachers, they say, are entitled to a presumption of innocence.
Cynthia Acerno was a last-minute hire at an elementary magnet school in the San Diego Unified School District, according to a summary of her case by a review commission. Though known for being strict, the district veteran had had no previous problems.
But "vocal, politically well-connected" parents accused her of being a "menace," and started unfounded rumors that she was screaming at children, drinking and using drugs, the panel found. Some pulled their children from her class.
"The case against her was a cocktail of hearsay on hearsay with an ill-will chaser," the panel commented in its ruling in favor of Acerno, who could not be reached for comment. ". . . Many of these scurrilous and damaging things were said in front of the children of this class by parents. This was shameful."
Despite such problems, the system in California provides teachers protections that go beyond what they receive in many other states. Teachers here can gain tenure after two years instead of three, which is common elsewhere.
Proposing changes can amount to stepping on a political third rail. Last week, when Los Angeles school board members Marlene Canter and Tamar Galatzan introduced measures to streamline the firing process, more than an hour of debate ensued in which UTLA leaders, a state senator and fellow board members warned against hasty action and an end-run around the unions. A milder motion was approved to create a task force to discuss the issue further.
The process has remained more or less the same for years:
The onus initially is on principals to document their case. Their evidence must pass muster with district officials and lawyers, who decide which cases should be taken to the school board.
Once the board approves a dismissal, teachers may appeal to Commissions on Professional Competence, review panels that have final administrative authority on who gets fired or laid off in California schools. In many other states, such appeals are handled by administrative law judges alone. But California panels also include two educators, one appointed by the school district and the other by the employee under review.
The grounds for termination seem clear enough. They include immorality, persistent violation of school rules, unprofessional conduct, commission of a felony or sexual harassment, unsatisfactory performance and the catchall "evident unfitness to teach." In practice, however, even the panelists can disagree on whether these grounds are met, and if met, whether they merit firing in a particular case.
Districts complain that in review hearings, where lawyers go head to head, the testimony of student witnesses is often discounted because their memories have faded, they are scared or reluctant to talk about traumatic events, or they can't withstand intensive cross-examination.
But it is not uncommon for districts to sabotage themselves with technical missteps. In Polanco's case, for example, L.A. Unified administrators began firing proceedings before giving him the required 45 days' "notice of unprofessional conduct" -- one factor in the commission's decision to overturn his firing.
And if the teacher or district is dissatisfied with the commission's decision, each has the right to appeal the case to superior and appellate courts, which sometimes force the panels to reconsider.
Records show that from the time principals tagged teachers for possible termination, hundreds of cases were dropped or settled -- often through district buyouts -- between 1994 and 2008. No specific documentation was available, however, on how each case was resolved.
Even so, the cases reviewed by The Times open a window onto the firing process from start to finish, showing many of the ways it works or does not along the way.
District struggles
L.A. Unified officials have struggled with the system more than most. Of the 15 tenured employees on record as fighting their terminations before review commissions in the last decade and a half, nine won their jobs back.
The main reasons: Commissions did not find the district's evidence damning or persuasive enough.
The district wanted to fire a high school teacher who kept a stash of pornography, marijuana and vials with cocaine residue at school, but a commission balked, suggesting that firing was too harsh. L.A. Unified officials were also unsuccessful in firing a male middle school teacher spotted lying on top of a female colleague in the metal shop, saying the district did not prove that the two were having sex.
The district fared no better in its case against elementary school special education teacher Gloria Hsi, despite allegations that included poor judgment, failing to report child abuse, yelling at and insulting children, planning lessons inadequately and failing to supervise her class.
Not a single charge was upheld. The commission found the school's evaluators were unqualified because they did not have special education training. Moreover, it said they went to the class at especially difficult periods and didn't stay long enough.
Four years after the district began trying to fire Hsi, the case is still tied up in court, although she has been removed from the classroom. Her lawyer declined to comment on her behalf. The district's legal costs so far: $110,000.
Classroom ineffectiveness is hard to prove, administrators and principals said. "One of the toughest things to document, ironically, is [teachers'] ability to teach," Wallace, the Daniel Webster principal, said. "It's an amorphous thing."
District officials thought they had a strong case against fourth-grade teacher Shirley Loftis, including complaints and other evidence they said dated back a decade.
According to their allegations before the commission, Loftis, 74, failed to give directions to students, assigned homework that wasn't at the appropriate grade level and provided such inadequate supervision that students pulled down their pants or harmed one another by fighting or throwing things. One child allegedly broke a tooth, another was hit in the head after being pushed off a chair, a third struck by a backpack.
The commission, however, sided with Loftis. It acknowledged that she showed signs of burnout and "would often retreat from student relationship problems rather than confront them."
But it said the district did not try hard enough to help her and suggested administrators find her another job -- perhaps training other teachers. "She's obviously an intelligent lady, and such a program might well succeed."
When the district took the case to Superior Court, lost and appealed, Loftis retired. The district agreed to pay $195,000 for her attorney's fees. Through her attorney, the former teacher declined to comment.
Collins, whose first case with L.A. Unified was Loftis', recalled being frustrated because, although the problems allegedly had gone on many years, the district was allowed to present just four years of evidence under the state education code.
"This is not an LAUSD story -- it is a statewide reality," Collins said in an e-mail.
But L.A. Unified doesn't pursue as many firings as other major districts, considering its size. The district, which has about 30,000 tenured teachers, fires 21 a year -- well under 1 per 1,000 -- according to district statistics for the last five years. Long Beach fires 6 per 1,000, and San Diego fires about 2 per 1,000.
Evidence suggests that L.A. Unified does a poor job of tracking teacher performance overall, making it tough to prove anyone is a bad apple.
A one-time study of teacher evaluations from the 2003-04 academic year, for instance, showed that 98.9% of all tenured teachers were said by supervisors to have "met standards."
The only categories in which a substantial percentage were said to have needed improvement concerned punctuality and attendance. Five percent had difficulty showing up on time.
Even some teachers union representatives said they do not believe the evaluations accurately portray the quality of teacher performance. Joshua Pechthalt, a United Teachers Los Angeles vice president, said the process is "fraught with problems" and results in teachers, especially young ones, not getting the guidance they need.
"I don't know any workplace where 98% of the people are doing a good job," Pechthalt said.
Contrition can help
In other districts, as well, review panels found officials to be too harsh, or determined that their firings weren't supported by "the preponderance of evidence" -- a standard also used in most civil cases.
San Diego Unified administrators tried and failed to fire an elementary school reading teacher who one district evaluator said could not follow a lesson plan.
"It was evident . . . that the teacher was likely not the most gifted or skilled," the commission said in reversing the dismissal. "However, her performance was not 'unsatisfactory' simply because she was not the most capable or the quickest study."
In many instances, an apology -- or at least an acknowledgment of error -- went a long way.
One teacher and coach from the San Ramon Valley Unified School District in the Bay Area was contrite after being accused of leering at teenage swimmers, making sexually charged remarks to students and instructing girls to "bark like seals" while they did push-ups.
"There is good reason to believe the respondent's conduct will not recur," the commission wrote of the teacher, who had worked in the district for 24 years.
In several cases, the commissions were torn. Ronald Hafner, a choral teacher with a long history of favorable evaluations in the Lake Elsinore Unified School District, was accused of serious misconduct during a trip he led with 24 students and five chaperons to Las Vegas. According to a commission summary, the district accused him of drinking alcohol in front of students, making offensive remarks -- such as suggesting that girls in his charge should apply to be strippers -- and touching a female student inappropriately.
Hafner disputed many of the accusations and argued in the hearing that he was the subject of a "witch hunt" by fundamentalist Christians. He could not be reached for comment.
In 2005, the panel found that Hafner's behavior was "shameful and inexcusable and demonstrates a severe lapse of judgment." But the teacher kept his job, because the district's allegations were not fully proved and did not warrant dismissal, according to the panel majority.
A middle school assistant principal on the panel wrote a sharp dissent:
"As a parent I would not allow my child in his classroom. As a colleague I cannot condone his conduct or attitude. As an administrator I could not trust him beyond my sight."
Too daunted to try
Faced with such frustrations, many principals don't even attempt to navigate the firing process. Letting a bad teacher slide or making him someone else's problem is far easier than trying to document his failings, some say.
The prospect of union grievances, and a protracted battle against labor representatives and attorneys, makes the endeavor even less appealing.
Joseph Walker, a former principal of Grant High School in Van Nuys, was sued by a special education teacher whom he tried to dismiss for alleged repeated sexual harassment. A civil jury sided with Walker -- but the review commission decided the teacher shouldn't be fired. The case, now in the courts, has dragged on seven years.
Confronting uphill battles like this, Walker said: "You're not going to fire someone who's not doing their job. And if you have someone who's done something really egregious, there's only a 50-50 chance that you can fire them."
Walker is now principal of Discovery Charter Preparatory Academy in Pacoima, where he said he had fired three teachers so far this year. None were fired during his three years as head of Grant. The difference: His school's teachers are not unionized and can be fired at will.
On regular public school campuses, some principals simply pass problem teachers from school to school.
Judith Perez, principal of Hancock Park Elementary School in Los Angeles, recalled a situation in which a fellow principal had one more teacher than he needed. Under union rules, the teacher with the least seniority was to be transferred. Instead, the principal pushed out a poorly performing veteran by threatening to make her life miserable with frequent observations of her classes, Perez said.
The teacher ended up at Perez's school. When Perez called the principal for information, he quickly apologized. "I'm so sorry," she recalled him saying.
Perez soon found out why, concluding that her new teacher was "a total incompetent. . . . She had no idea how to conduct a lesson in reading or math."
Perez committed herself to either making this teacher improve or forcing her out.
"I was a [teachers] union leader," Perez said. "I believe in teachers' rights and protections. . . . But my bottom line is I'm in this profession for children. . . . Basically, I dedicated my year to getting rid of this teacher."
She kept a detailed diary, conducted a series of formal meetings with the teacher and her union representatives -- all called for under the teachers' contract -- and finally persuaded the woman to quit.
A principal at Le Conte Middle School in Hollywood got a very different result.
To Linda Del Cueto, David Daniel's physical education class looked more like recess than an instructional period.
Half or more of the students refused to change into gym clothes, and it sometimes took Daniel more than 15 minutes to get enough control to take roll, administrators reported in commission and court documents.
Del Cueto and her assistants repeatedly observed Daniel, counseled him and offered help, compiling meticulous records over three years.
But the commission sided with Daniel, saying the evaluations by Del Cueto and her staff were so frequent that they undermined Daniel with his students.
"Students at the middle school level are very perceptive," the commission wrote. "This atmosphere led students to believe that they could openly defy [him]."
Essentially, the administrator was faulted for making too many observations.
"When that decision came out," Del Cueto said in an interview, "I really thought it was a classic example of damned if you do, damned if you don't."
Daniel agreed to resign from the district in late 2006. As part of a settlement, the district agreed to pay lifetime health benefits and $50,000 in attorney fees. Daniel's attorney said the former teacher did not want to comment.
In the Polanco case, as in Daniel's, there was no shortage of documentation. The account of the history teacher's interactions with the apparently suicidal boy came primarily from his teaching assistant, who wrote a detailed letter to administrators. In addition, students submitted written statements that were introduced at Polanco's hearing.
One student wrote that Polanco had told the boy that he "should cut himself more bigger next time (cuts himself like a little wussy)." Another wrote: "Polanco tell [him] that he should cut himself with something sharper." A third wrote that "Polanco would call [him] 'the cutter kid' and would sometimes call [him] stupid."
Polanco testified at his hearing that he had not made these remarks and instead had told the boy -- who was not named in the commission documents -- that he was glad his suicide attempt had not succeeded. The documents suggest he had showed concern about the boy, asking a counselor about his well-being.
"Knowing that I caused pain, whether I did it on purpose or without knowing it, it's a weight on my shoulders because I'm responsible [for] what happened in my classroom," testified Polanco, who declined to comment for this story.
The commission accepted the accounts of the teacher's aide and students as accurate. But it did not see the statements of Polanco, an otherwise well-regarded teacher and former union representative, as goading or callous. The teacher, the panel concluded, was trying "to defuse the awkward situation."
The Times could not determine what became of the boy. As for Polanco, he now teaches at East Valley High School in North Hollywood.
Times staff writer Seema Mehta contributed to this report.
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The Beautification Council is more than a pretty face.
"We are the stewards of the city's beauty; we assist the city in keeping the city pristine; we keep an eye out for chancellors of taste and provide support to those who have none," council President Ruben Flores said Monday night at the group's first-ever fundraiser.
Montage Laguna Beach hosted the event.
The hotel did them proud with a sumptuous dinner in the ballroom to celebrate the group's Diamond Jubilee and a cake with a frosted lifeguard tower, in honor of the council's late founder and "Window to the Sea" advocate Harry Lawrence.
Flores, who loves growing things and all things beautiful, enthused over the revitalization of the council.
"Our motto is 'Keep Laguna pristine and quaint,'" Flores said. "Come beautify with us. What have you got to lose?"
The event included a silent auction, with items from Lawrence's collection, donated by his widow, Zahide, including basketfuls of his ties and scarves and a beautiful teak model of a Chinese Junk.
Other donations included two scripts from "Hot in Cleveland," signed by Betty White, a Lygia Delgado painting and gift certificates for Sawdust art classes and a meal at the Lumberyard. John Barber and Gavin Heath donated vases.
Sergio Prince, executive director of public affairs for Supervisor Pat Bates, presented proclamations on behalf of her and the state Senate. Bates was at the event early, but had to leave before dinner.
The city was represented by council members Elizabeth Pearson, Toni Iseman and Mayor Pro Tem Verna Rollinger.
Event committee members included Barbara Ring, Chloe Echternacht, Joan Sutch, Lecia Davis, Max Brown and Flores. Michael Gosselin took souvenir photographs of the guests.
Also on the guest list were longtime councilmember Eleanor Henry, Laguna Beach Visitors Bureau board chairwoman Karyn Philippsen and president and CEO Judy Bijlani, John Gustafson and Jim Palmer, former Mayor Ann Christoph, Sawdust exhibitor Dennis Junka, Laguna College of Art & Design board member Nelson Coates and Cathy and attorney Larry Nokes.
Seated at the Chamber of Commerce table were President Michael and Cheryl Kinsman, Sam and board member Michelle Clark, Executive Director Kris Thalman and Luciano Stefaninini.
Playhouse Gala
The opening night gala of the Tony-award winning play, "39 Steps" on Saturday was a sellout.
Theater-goers were welcomed by Playhouse Executive Director Karen Wood, Artistic Director Ann E. Wareham, Development Director Elizabeth Pearson, staff members and volunteers — the women all dressed in 1930s-style black dresses and pearls — and Wally Ziegler, actor and audience services manager for 22 years.
Also on hand was Lauren Simon, library manager, whose job is called dramaturgy. Simon screens scripts, helps select presentations and conducts adult education programs.
Nolet, parent company of Ketel One Vodka and Nolet Dry Gin, and the newest Playhouse sponsors, served glamorous '30s-style cocktails.
Laguna Concert Band members Cathie Schroeder and Chuck Johnson performed '30s standards at the reception, applauded by band founder Carol Reynolds.
Jock Stalker catered the reception and the post-performance desserts.
"The reception was itself a performance," Pearson said.
But the play was the thing, and it wasn't just the laughter that got applause
"Director Kevin Bigger should get a lot of credit," said jeweler and Sawdust exhibitor Patti Jo Kiraly, awed by the tricky stage craft.
Four actors play 150 different characters and the staging is a triumph.
"It is so smart and clever," said Festival of Arts Special Events Director Susan Davis.
Planning Commissioner Bob Whalen loved the "puppets."
"I am amazed by the timing," said Faye Baglin, who attended the gala with her husband, Art Alliance President Wayne Baglin.
Also in the audience: Arts Commissioners Pat Kollenda and Suzi Chauvel, Laguna College of Art & Design President Jonathan Burke, Festival of Arts exhibitor Kristen Whalen, Jane and Playhouse board President Joe Hanaeur, board member Cynthia Harris and James Spencer.
And: Dwayne and Laguna Beach Community Foundation President Darrcy Loveland Bickel, Dr. Gary and School Board member Betsy Jenkins, Dr. Paul and Laguna Beach Live! founder Cindy Prewitt, Laguna businesswoman Heidi Miller, Matt and Mary Lawson, Francine and Dan Scinto, Bill Schroeder and Indian Territory's Toni and Len Wood.
An Enchanting Evening
Supporters of a nontraditional approach to court cases spent an "Enchanted Evening" Sept. 29 at a dinner honoring Orange County Collaborative Court Judges Matthew Anderson, Debra Carrillo, Michael Cassidy, Deborah Chuang, Maria Hernandez, Joe Perez, Richard Lee and Wendy Lindley and Commissioners Ronald Klar and Jane Shade.
Collaborative Courts, which got their start in Orange County 1995, are specialized tracks that address underlying issues, ranging from juvenile delinquency, truency, addiction, homelessness, to combat veteran's adjustment to civilian life, that may factor into cases that come before the court.
"They take the pressure off the rest of the courts, get people into programs and serve to better their lives and keep them out of the justice system," said Judge Lee.
The dinner at the Surf & Sand Resort was a fundraiser for the Orange County Collaborative Courts Foundation, founded in 2006 by Laguna Beach resident Kathleen Burnham, who serves as executive director.
Burnham said that being a mother, a taxpayer and knowledgeable about the success of the Collaborative Courts programs inspired her to create the foundation with the goal of raising awareness, funds and community support for the programs.
Foundation programs help participants in the collaborative courts with medical or dental needs, vision care, continuing education; and it provides them with life skills, workshops and clean and sober social activities.
Board members include her husband, Bob Burnham, retired Newport Harbor City Attorney who has forged a new career helping Laguna recover from disasters.
Guests at the fundraiser included Peggy and City Manager John Pietig, former Laguna Beach Director of Administrative Services Sandy Groves, Synthia and Honus Riechter, Catherine and Torben Hoelshoj.
For more information about the foundation, call (949) 494-6369.
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text: Power Hour: USDA Delivers a Grain Stocks Surprise April 1, 2013 09:30 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By University News Release Email By Jennifer Stewart, Purdue University U.S. grain stocks are higher than expected on the heels of widespread, summer long drought that devastated crops throughout the Midwest, according to a March 28 USDA report. The Grain Stocks report, issued quarterly by the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, said U.S. corn stocks are as much as 370 million bushels higher than markets had anticipated and that soybean stocks are as much as 50 million bushels higher - news that sent corn and soybean prices falling. "The perception was that inventories were extremely short because of drought and that we would struggle to have enough corn and soybeans to make it through the summer," said Chris Hurt, Purdue Extension agricultural economist. "When you're expecting 632 million bushels of corn, an additional 370 million bushels is substantial." The report is derived from farmer surveys and commercial grain handler responses. Because of the level of inaccuracy associated with survey data, Hurt said commodities traders are likely to keep a close eye on grain availability. "The markets will be looking at other factors in the coming days and watching to see if more corn becomes available in the marketplace," he said. "Right now we are seeing strong basis levels, and that indicates there's still a shortage." The USDA also released its annual Prospective Plantings report, which includes survey data from farmers nationwide to gauge their crop-planting intentions. Nationally, corn growers indicated they would plant an estimated 97.3 million corn acres, up just slightly from last year's 97.2 million acres. Soybean growers expected to plant about 77.1 million acres, down slightly from the 77.2 million acres they planted in 2012. Hurt said the numbers weren't surprising and that farmers weren't likely to increase corn production, in large part because corn price incentives aren't high enough to justify the agronomic risks. "Corn does have a slight premium over soybeans, but our farms already do a lot of corn," he said. "Growing more corn would mean more continuous corn, which has a lot of risks. Most growers are sticking to their corn-soybean rotations." Also causing corn acres to level off are the slowdown in ethanol demand and China's growing soybean demand, Hurt said. Indiana and Ohio farmers indicated they would closely mirror the national trend. Indiana farmers plan to plant 6.1 million corn acres this spring - a 2% decrease compared with last year. Ohio growers plan to plant 3.95 million acres, up 1% from 2012. Indiana soybean growers said they would plant 5.1 million acres of soybeans, down 1% from 2012. Ohio growers intended to plant 4.65 million acres, up 1%. Higher wheat acres in both states gave little room for corn or soybean acres to expand. Indiana's wheat acreage is up 34% over last year and Ohio's is up 26%. March 28 Prospective Plantings, Grain Stocks Reports See all of the report data, coverage and analysis of USDA's March 28 Prospective Plantings and Grain Stocks reports. For More Information Read more Power Hour news, blogs and videos. Back to news


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