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Sickening! Why are some schools like this? I took both my kids out for a day so DD could be on a TV show (in the 4th grade) and the school responded by giving her no homework because she was so excited. Talk about different philosophies! |
I posted on a few threads about this a while back. First, the media got a hold of it by a press release for "National Infectious Disease Prevention Week". At teh same time the ypublicized a stor yabot ua kid dying from it. Parents began freakign otu. Many kids were tested but had no symptoms. Hello?!?! Just cause you s... |
It's probably just the wax ring. About $3 to buy and 2 people can fix in minutes, one to hold the toilet, one to put the new ring on. |
Well, I forgot to add that my house was once searched due to a supposed 911 call! Our phone lines were crossed and we were haivng many problems with the phone. We came home to neighbors telling us the house was searched, etc. Cops said 911 was called but neighbors thankfully vouched that we had not been there for hours... |
I believe that is illegal. They said YOUR kid had it when she didn't, apparently said to others kid isn't vaxed, and kicked you out illegally. Leave but sue them for lost wages... |
Quote: My favorite 911 caller was a little old lady with dementia. She would call at 4:00 A.M. every single morning. She said there were blue lights out in her field that would fly into her room and scan her every morning. Poor little old lady. My grampa called 911 when he had dementia (he passed away a few years ago).... |
I am hearing about so many tv's broken due to Wii's..and my Mom got DS one for Christmas... Uh oh. |
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Stratton Falls Campsite has new owners |
By Joe Moskowitz |
Stratton Falls Campsite is a place that area residents may have heard of and may have driven by many times without having any idea what it is that they drove past. The campsite sits on 37 acres of streamside camping, nestled between state Route 30 and Stratton Falls Road outside of Roxbury. You can’t see it from either... |
For about 40 years it has been owned by George Slauson’s family. Before that it was part of their dairy farm. As of mid-May, it became the property of Stan and Anna Duszak of Bainbridge. |
The Duszaks own rental properties in Bainbridge, and getting into the camping business is something new for them. When asked why they bought the campsite, Anna Duszak says her husband saw it one day and just decided to buy it. |
They now own 37 acres about an hour from where they live. They plan to be here as often as they can, and much like the previous owner, two generations of the family will operate the campsite. Their daughter and son-in-law will also make the sometimes-daily drive. |
The Duszaks say they plan to spend some time and money making improvements, although they say at this point they haven’t decided what to tackle first. There are some things they don’t plan to change. They bought it because of the peace, quiet, and, natural beauty of the area. And the phone number will remain the same. ... |
Tawhid is an Arabic number derived from the Arabic number one. One is translated to wahid in Arabic. English translation of tawhid is placed under theology. It could also mean unite or join according to the context of the sentence, but basically, it all goes back to the number one. |
Variation examples of the number one and how it could be used for unity, |
Al Welayat Al Motahida Al Amreikyah. -- United States of America. |
Qol howa Allah ahad. -- Say god is one. |
Fel itihad qowa. -- There is strength in unity. |
Tathleeth on the other hand is derived from the Arabic number thalatha. Tathleeth is trinity. |
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When choosing a drum set it's probably most helpful to figure out a budget ahead of time. That way a sales person can help you take the merchandise and sort of fit it into your budget. It's helpful to do some research on the brand names for drums ahead of time. There are names such as Tama, Pearl, DW, Yamaha, and Mapex... |
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Irish brothers at war |
Boston 1775 recounts a story of two Irish brothers who found each other on opposite sides during the Battle of Saratoga. After the battle the two armies were talking to one another across the river when the brothers spotted each other and rushed into the river towards one another. One had left Ireland for America and t... |
I think I've read similar stories about battles between the English and French around that time. Still, it seems such an amazing coincidence that it's almost unbelievable. |
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[JURIST] Faced with possible indictment by an Italian judge, US and Italian intelligence agents implicated in the 2003 kidnapping and extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive] from Milan of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr [Wikipedia profile; JURIST news archive] Tuesday pressed for a political resolution ... |
Daria Pesce, the lawyer for accused CIA agent Robert Seldon Lady, withdrew from the case [AP report] Tuesday, stating that the former CIA station chief did not want to cooperate. Pesce told AP that her client believes "this case should have had a political solution and not a judicial solution. The Italian government co... |
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Stephanie’s Heroes: Therapeutic Adventure Camp |
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Once a year, a group comes together to attend TACO, the Therapeutic Adventure Camp of Orange. |
“For some of these kids, this is the only sport they get to play,” said Jessica Harlow, TACO Committee Chair. |
The program is a horse camp geared towards kids and teens with mental and physical disabilities. |
“We have one camper who is bound to a wheelchair and this is the only time he gets to move without the assistance of the wheel chair,” said Harlow. |
With a little help, the camper is up on the horse and able to ride. |
“It is the most rewarding, heart-melting thing you can ever see, it really is. When he smiles and laughs and gets up there, it's the best thing you could ever see as a volunteer, a parent, someone who's put blood sweat tears into this program. It's the most rewarding piece of it,” said Harlow. |
Not only is horseback riding enjoyable for the kids, staff members say it actually helps their muscles as well. |
“They teach you how to do trotting, stepping over the poles and stuff,” said Jessica Fletcher, camper. |
“It helps to work muscles they may not work on a daily basis. They do stretches reaching to the horse’s ears to their tail. They get a sense of steering, hand eye coordination, and balance; everything that we take for granted” said Harlow. |
Organizers say all the opportunities are made possible by a group of heroes, the camp’s many volunteers. |
In addition to riding, volunteers also are using finger paint to teach campers about horses and how to identify certain body parts. |
Campers say coming to TACO is also a chance to make some new friends. |
Staff members say they’re excited to be a part of the experience and give this group the same opportunities as other kids their age. |
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The Wire, season 1, episode 1: "The Target" (Newbies edition) |
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on May 30, 2008 at 7:00 AM, updated June 02, 2008 at 11:56 AM |
As discussed frequently, it's time to start revisiting the first season of the best drama in TV history, "The Wire." Because I know some readers will be starting the series for the first time, while others will be "Wire" die-hards not ready to let the show go just yet, I'm going to post two slightly different versions ... |
Newbie-friendly spoilers for episode 1, "The Target," coming up just as soon as I haggle over the price of wood... |
David Simon likes to say that the first scene of each season of "The Wire" encapsulates the themes of that season. In the case of Detective Jimmy McNulty investigating the murder of one Omar Isiah Betts, known to friends and family as Snot Boogie, Simon gets to explain what the entire series will be about. |
As a surprisingly helpful witness (by "Wire" standards) explains, Snot Boogie played in the local craps game every week, and every week after a few rolls, Snot would grab all the money in the pot and try to make a run for it, and someone would chase him down and beat his ass and take the money back. McNulty, being the ... |
"Got to. This America, man." |
The America of "The Wire" is broken, in a fundamental, probably irreparable way. It is an interconnected network of ossified institutions, all of them so committed to perpetuating their own business-as-usual approach, that they keep letting their own equivalents of Snot Boogie into the game, simply because that's how i... |
Without giving away too much about what's to come, the first season of "The Wire" is the story of two men on opposite sides of the drug war -- McNulty with the cops, D'Angelo Barksdale with the dope slingers -- and what happens when each one starts to notice that his bosses and co-workers are following a rigid and ofte... |
And the chilling thing about the show is that, when someone like McNulty decides to care out of turn, he's not confronted by corrupt or otherwise evil people. Bill Rawls, the middle finger-raising Homicide chief, isn't a bad guy, though he seems like one when he bitches out McNulty. He's just a guardian of the system. ... |
Even more ambiguous is our introduction to McNulty's temporary new boss, Lt. Cedric Daniels from Narcotics. Because we first get to know him through his relationship with Detective Kima Greggs -- who herself was introduced as a good and sympathetic cop, and who clearly likes and respects Daniels -- we take it that he's... |
Now, if you're brand-new to the series, you can be forgiven for not getting much, if any, of that from the experience of actually watching "The Wire" pilot. Though it has some roots in previous TV shows -- most specifically NBC's "Homicide," which was based on Simon's non-fiction book (and which Simon himself wrote for... |
Back in 2002, I would say it took me at least three or four episodes to get even a tenuous grasp of who all these people are, what they're about, to whom they owe their loyalty, etc. (If you are, in fact, watching the series for the first time -- or even for the first time in a long time -- I'd strongly suggest watchin... |
In the DVD commentary for this episode, in the official "Wire" companion book, and elsewhere, Simon has complained about the flashback at the end of the pilot, the glimpse of William Gant testifying against D'Angelo. HBO made him insert it, he said, because they were afraid that people wouldn't understand the significa... |
Beyond the clumsy and/or necessary flashback, "The Target" doesn't do a lot of audience hand-holding. McNulty's there in the first scene and prominent throughout, so it's obvious he's important. Ditto D'Angelo, who gets to close the episode. After those two, the episode's a bit like a kid's game of memory match. You se... |
Still, you can be forgiven if you weren't clear on who was giving D'Angelo the lecture about talking in the car (that would be Wee-Bey Brice, lead enforcer for the Barksdale/Bell crew), or who outranks whom in the police and crime hierarchies. |
(Interestingly, but on point, both the pilot and the series as a whole tend to give more screen time to each organization's number two man -- Rawls for the cops, profane cartoon-doodling Stringer Bell for the drug players -- than to the actual bosses, Burrell and drug kingpin Avon Barksdale, D'Angelo's uncle. It's a ni... |
Though Simon, writing partner Ed Burns (the real-world inspiration for McNulty), director Clark Johnson and the late producer Robert Colesberry for the most part hit the ground running as much as they could with something this sprawling and unusual, there are some definite growing pains evident in the pilot. D'Angelo's... |
Meanwhile, when Rawls chews out McNulty, he complains that Jimmy is talking to Phelan about "some project nigger," which is phrasing that's too loaded for our introduction to a character who's supposed to be more nuanced (and smarter) than that. We hear politically incorrect and flat-out racist language from characters... |
Overall, though, "The Target" succeeds at the ambitious task it sets for itself in trying to introduce a huge cast of characters, a new model of narrative, and a more complex moral compass than viewers had any right to expect from a cop show. |
But then, as anyone who watches the show for even a handful of additional episodes can tell you, "The Wire" is much, much more than a cop show. |
Some additional thoughts on "The Target": |
• In addition to Ed Burns as the inspiration for McNulty, the Barksdale/Bell crew is modeled on a number of Baltimore drug crews of the 1980s, most notably that of Melvin Williams, who would himself become one of the show's recurring players (as a church deacon) starting in season 3. The high-rises where Williams' cr... |
• A stylistic conceit introduced here by Johnson, and not really used again until the Johnson-directed series finale: scenes are frequently shot from the point of view of a mirror, or a window's reflection, or security camera footage, which suggests not only the number of ways people can be observed in Baltimore (and... |
• One of the mysteries of the show that I never quite cracked -- or, if I did, Simon never told me that I did -- is the symbolism of the train tracks where McNulty and Bunk frequently gather (as they do near the end of the pilot) to get drunk and complain about their jobs, their wives, etc. Just keep the tracks in mi... |
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