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We have located 10 free and income based clinics in or around West Harwich, Massachusetts.
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Ellen Jones Comm Dental Clinic - Harwich
Location: 3.40 miles from West HarwichHarwich, MA - 02645
(508) 778-5400
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Location: 3.51 miles from West HarwichHarwich, MA - 02645
(508) 432-1400
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Location: 8.37 miles from West HarwichHyannis, MA - 02601
(508) 771-9599
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Location: 8.40 miles from West HarwichHyannis, MA - 02601
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Access to health care is difficult for people who struggle with transportation, who have medical, mental health or substance abuse issues, or who cannot find a health care provider they can trust. Our mission is to help those most at risk for homelessness or housing instability. Mobile Health Clinic see clinic details
Duffy Behavioral Health And Case Management Services - Hyannis
Location: 8.41 miles from West HarwichHyannis, MA - 02601
(508) 771-1218
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Over the years, Duffy has been meeting the needs of not only homeless persons but others at risk of homelessness. Many of these individuals have chronic disabilities including mental health and/or substance abuse disorders; many suffer from trauma and co-occurring disorders. Others have experienced see clinic details
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Location: 8.46 miles from West HarwichHyannis, MA - 02601
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Location: 8.78 miles from West HarwichHyannis, MA - 02601
(508) 778-0300
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Location: 18.86 miles from West HarwichWellfleet, MA - 02667
(508) 349-2800
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Location: 19.08 miles from West HarwichMashpee, MA - 02649
(508) 477-7090
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Wellfleet Health Center - Wellfleet
Location: 19.52 miles from West HarwichWellfleet, MA - 02667
(508) 349-3131
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Motley Crue – Saints Of Los Angeles (2008, Motley Records/Eleven Seven Music)
- Face Down In The Dirt
- What's It Gonna Take
- Down At The Whiskey
- Saints Of Los Angeles
- Muther Fucker Of The Year
- The Animal In Me
- Welcome To The Machine
- Just Another Psycho
- Chicks = Trouble
- This Ain't A Love Song
- White Trash Circus
- Goin' Out Swingin'
Band Lineup:
Vince Neil – Lead Vocals
Nikki Sixx – Bass
Mick Mars – Guitars
Tommy Lee – Drums
Produced by: James Michael, Nikki Sixx, DJ Ashba
Total Time = 44:10
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It's been just over 10 years since the original lineup of Motley Crue released a new album of original material. Has it really been that long since GENERATION SWINE (1997) and the reunion? It seems like the Crue has been very busy in the last decade or so: tours, live CDs & DVDs, a tell-all book (The Dirt) by the band themselves, box sets, greatest hits albums, solo careers and the band even managed to release an album of new material, NEW TATTOO (2000) with the late Randy Castillo on drums instead of Tommy Lee. Get all that? It's hard to believe that SAINTS OF LOS ANGELES didn't come sooner, the question is…..was it worth the wait?
I've been a Motley Crue fan since around '82 when I discovered TOO FAST FOR LOVE at a local record store. I have been excited for every new record, every tour, and every move the band has made for the last 26 years. Hell, I even hated the Crue back in '83 & '84 when everyone was jumping on the bandwagon because they were the hot new thing…..secretly, and unknown to my friends, I was listening to TOO FAST FOR LOVE and SHOUT AT THE DEVIL at high volume in my bedroom, LOL! These guys were the baddest band in the land when I was growing up and every Hard Rock band was chasing them in terms of success and excess. So I was definitely psyched to hear new music coming from the Motley camp but I wasn't sure about the concept: an album loosely based on their collective autobiography The Dirt. The book came out in 2001 and that seems like a long time to release an album based on it. Granted there were personal issues between the original band members but these guys have been back together since the Fall of 2004.
Like most Motley Crue albums after SHOUT AT THE DEVIL (1983), SAINTS OF LOS ANGELES has some really good songs and some filler but the good definitely outweighs the bad. 'L.A.M.F.' starts the album off and it's a spoken word intro by Vince Neil akin to 'In The Beginning' from SHOUT. I'm not sure if this intro is really needed and I find it rather annoying so I hit the skip button. 'Face Down In The Dirt' is pretty cool and has that trashy vibe to start things off on a high note while 'What's It Gonna Take' slows down slightly and hits a nice groove. My favorite song is 'Down At The Whiskey', it has that sound that screams vintage melodic Motley and it has an infectious chorus. What I hear most in this song is Tommy Lee's inspired drumming (listen to those cymbals crash!) and Mick Mars' guitar playing, I think that Mick turns in the best performance of all the members on the whole album. More inspired playing from Mr. Mars on the lead single 'Saints Of Los Angeles'…..sounds a little like 'Wild Side' & 'Dr. Feelgood' doesn't it? Comparisons aside, this is probably the best track on the album despite my favorite being 'Down At The Whiskey'. Motley Crue has always put their best songs forward as singles and videos and 'Saints' is no exception…..it has that big sounding chorus thanks to the guest singers (and labelmates/touring partners) and Mick turns in one hell of a performance. I watched the press conference live on TV and when they played 'Saints' live, Mick went from basically a cripple to fluid motion almost instantly. Great song, I bet it comes off well in concert.
'Muther Fucker Of The Year' starts off the filler. It's an annoying song with juvenile lyrics, it just seems so unnecessary to have the profanity but this is the Crue so they do it. The first ballad is 'The Animal In Me' and is has that whiney Vince vocal that just sounds depressed. It kind of reminds me of 'If I Die Tomorrow' from the hits package RED, WHITE, & CRUE (2005), it has that sad vibe but it's good. One glance at the tracklisting and I was afraid that the band added a Pink Floyd cover to the record with 'Welcome To The Machine' but it's thankfully a gritty, punky original that rocks up like some of the songs did on TOO FAST FOR LOVE. The guitar solo on this song is particularly good and it just makes me respect Mick Mars that much more. Another cool tune is 'Just Another Psycho' that has the catchy hook to get me singing along with Vince and there's a cool bass line from Nikki Sixx that just follows along with the drums to provide the groove. I could do without 'Chicks = Trouble', another filler tune for me. Think they're talking from Tommy Lee's perspective on this one? Or Vince's? Or Nikki's?
A little drum intro starts 'This Ain't A Love Song' and it sounds similar to 'Primal Scream' (from DECADE OF DECADENCE) at times, it's an OK song. 'White Trash Circus' has some decent drum beats but the song bores me with it's chanty singing and dumb lyrics, just awful! 'Goin' Out Swingin' was added to the album late in the game, I think right after the press conference, to add a little punch (forgive the pun) to end the album. The song is uptempo and has some decent guitar lines but it's repetitve with the title in the lyrics…..I have to give it a "thumbs up" though after the last three duds.
Just a few words here about the package, concept, production and performance….. I like the black and white concept the band is using, it's basic and gives the band that street look. I'm not cracking on the guy's medical condition but Mick Mars just looks like one scary bastard! All the promo shots I've seen depict Mick as this mysterious, leather-clad, grim reaper type…..very cool. The songwriting tells the sleazy story of the sex, the drugs, the triumph and tragedy of being in one of the most notorious bands in Rock. I can remember different chapters of Motley history on each song…..Nikki is normally the main songwriter and he had a long history to draw inspiration from, I'll bet everyone contributed much like they did on the book. Production is 2008 modern but you can hear some old school Crue in some of the songs but also some Sixx AM in there too. Obviously, the production assistance Nikki and the band had from James Michael & DJ Ashba (Nikki's Sixx AM bandmates) had some influence on the sound, it's sounds great though and is crystal clear. Performance of the album goes to Mick Mars for his inspired guitar playing despite the Ankylosing spondylitis that is ravaging his body. Second place goes to Vince Neil who sounds pretty good on the mic.
Bottom Line:
I've been playing this non-stop since I bought the album and I think it's a pretty solid record. Like I said before, all Crue albums after the first two have filler but the good songs outweigh the bad. It may not be the next SHOUT AT THE DEVIL or DR. FEELGOOD but I would say that the band has come back with a good album with some great songs and a lot of attitude. Let's just hope that the Crue won't wait another 10 years to release a follow-up!
Favorite Songs: 'Down At The Whiskey', 'Saints Of Los Angeles', 'The Animal In Me', 'Welcome To The Machine'


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A man left a Seattle restaurant after the owner prohibited him from wearing a computer on his face, raising questions about the new technology.
It's begun. The first traffic ticket was issued to a driver for wearing Google Glass, and now the first report popped up of a restaurant kicking out a patron who refused to remove the wearable device. Glass wearers are quick to point out that these are isolated incidents that don't represent the majority of users, but every regulation starts with an isolated incident. If wearable technology like Glass becomes common, privacy concerns could be met with more new laws regulating the technology's use.
The 5 Point Café in Seattle was among the first establishments to announce that Glass would not be allowed inside, as the owner cited privacy concerns. "You have to understand the culture of The 5 Point, which is a sometimes seedy, maybe notorious place, and I think people want to go there and be not known," Owner Dave Meinert told Forbes. It was perhaps the publicity gained from this announcement that attracted a Seattle-based network engineer, named Nick Starr, who refused to remove his Glass, asking to see a written policy on the rule. When a written policy was not provided, Starr and his friends reportedly left angry.
"I would love an explanation, apology, clarification, and if the staff member was in the wrong and lost the owner money last night and also future income as well, that this income be deducted from her pay or her termination," Starr told Forbes. Meinert responded by saying it's poor etiquette to wear a device that can record others in a restaurant. Public support for Starr has been sparse, if not completely absent, even among the Google Glass community, which had already coined a term for how Starr's behavior is generally perceived. Since the incident, Starr's public Facebook page has been made private and his Twitter account has disappeared.
Starr's behavior may not be typical among Google Glass users, but it brings up privacy and safety concerns for many. West Virginia was one of the first states to impose a ban on driving while wearing Glass, and other states have followed suit, with California issuing its first ticket to a Glass user in October. Strip clubs in Vegas have instituted bans on the device, and Google also seems to be concerned, placing restrictions on both adult content and facial recognition capabilities.
But eventually, Google Glass will be no more regulated than smartphones are today, said Ben Nelson, a Web developer, moderator for the Google Glass community on Reddit and owner of a Google Glass. Nelson drew a comparison to the first days of camera phones to show how early concerns about technology fade away once the tech in question becomes a normal part of culture.
"I can remember when [camera phones] were first coming out people being skittish about it because they didn't want pictures of themselves on the Internet," Nelson said. "That's almost a given now, at least for people young enough. It's just kind of understood there are going to be pictures of you on the Internet and nobody really worries about it anymore."
The question of whether technology like Glass is a good or bad progression in society is a moot point, Nelson said, because it's inevitable that wearable tech will become the norm. "Technology is going to become smaller and smaller and more available, and people will have their own opinions about whether it's polite in the year 2013 to wear a camera on your face," he said. "But within the next 10 years it's going to become commonplace either way."
Nelson shared his own rules for using Glass in public. "If I'm walking up to a counter and there's somebody working at that counter, I always tip the glass up on my head just to be polite to them," he said. "While I believe that everybody will get used to it, I respect that people aren't necessarily used to it yet, and I wouldn't do, for example, what that guy in Seattle did."
The laws around Glass will likely fall in line with society's acceptance of the technology, he said. But not all Glass users are going to be as courteous and understanding as Nelson, as Starr proved. "I've noticed something in the Glass community," Nelson said. "A lot of Glass wearers swear up and down they've never had any negative reaction or looks from wearing Glass, and I don't believe that for a second. I don't think they're lying – I think they're probably just oblivious to it."
Nelson recalled the first day he took his Glass out for a test drive. "I put it on the first day I got it, went down to the Target and just wandered around to see what people would do, and you get all kinds of strange looks," he said. "It's not normal right now and you expect that."
It's still too early to tell when and if wearable computers will be common, but maybe Nelson is right that they will eventually be considered the same as any other device. After all, people have been acting rude and invading the privacy of others long before Google Glass was invented.


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On Thursday, September 15, 2011, USAID Amazon Malaria Initiative (AMI), and Amazon Network for the Surveillance of Antimalarial Drug Resistance (RAVREDA) will commemorate 10 years of successes and lessons learned in the prevention and treatment of malaria in the Amazon Basin.
The event's goal
The event's goal is to present breakthroughs in the regional fight against malaria and call for a sustainable roadmap to control and eventually eliminate this disease. The participants will reflect on the collaboration between USAID AMI and RAVREDA PAHO over the last decade and its positive impact on malaria control in the Amazon. They will also examine ways to align resources and coordinate investments in malaria control efforts in the Americas.
Invited speakers
Invited Speakers include Susan Thollaug, Health Team Leader, LAC Bureau, USAID; Rear Admiral, (U.S. Navy Retired) Timothy Ziemer, US Global Malaria Coordinator, President's Malaria Initiative; Dr. Mirta Roses, Director, PAHO; and Dr. Ana Carolina Santelli, Director Malaria Control Program, Brazil, among others.


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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Mike Zeck's Snake Eyes
Posted by Jason Shayer at 7:51 AM
Labels: G.I. Joe, Marvel Comics, Mike Zeck, Snake Eyes
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Zeck certainly did have the touch with the military style and look; the Image guys could've learned a thing or two in the early '90s with their pouches upon pouches, bandoliers and BF guns.ReplyDelete
Looks like he did a pretty nice ink job on his own work—he didn't always get much quality work over his pencils in the '80s.
I really enjoyed so many of Zecks GI Joe covers in the 80's!ReplyDelete
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ShortcutsMan is a very lightweight and portable tool which can help you to detect and fix your PC's broken shortcuts.
Launch the program and it'll scan your Start menu, desktop, Quick Launch toolbar and other areas, listing all the shortcuts it finds. And this is useful in itself, because it displays a lot of detail. For every shortcut you'll see its name, link, any command line arguments, the opening window style (normal, minimised, maximised), the hotkey (if any), location, date, any custom icon, and more.
Even more usefully, though, the program highlights any shortcuts which are broken. And you can scroll the report to view these individually, or click the "Broken Shortcut" column header to sort by that field and group them all together,
If your system has some broken shortcuts then you can select one or more of them yourself, or right-click the report and choose "Select broken shortcuts" to select them all. And then you can either delete all the selected items, or ask the program to resolve them (search for the target file and update the shortcut accordingly).
This final option seemed oddly inconsistent when we tried it, fixing some broken shortcuts immediately, failing with others (even when they pointed to the same files). Still, even without this feature, ShortcutsMan is a useful way to find out more about the shortcuts on your system.
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Thank you for all the super sweet comments you all left yesterday and the day before!! I just loooove getting comments!! :) And I'm so loving this December Daily!! I can't wait for December to begin!
I received several questions and requests for how I made my white circle paper so I decided to put together a simple little tutorial. Really...it's that simple.
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Here are the super easy directions!!
You'll need two pieces of white paper, white metallic dimensional paint (I used fabric paint since that's what I had on hand), Mod Podge or something equivalent and some type of round lid.
I found my paper at JoAnn Fabrics. It has a little bit of a texture to it and it has these really pretty flecks of gold and silver throughout. The tag on my paper said it's from The Paper Company and is called Celebration White. You will need two 12x12 sheets if you are trying to cover the album included in the Studio Calico December Daily kit.
So the first thing you do is stamp your paper using your lid. I just squirted a little bit of my white dimensional paint on a plate and laid my lid down in the paint to coat the edges.
Then "stamp" your paper.
This is what it looked like when I removed my lid. You can see where the lid moved a little while I was "stamping", but that's what I loved best about the circles....how they weren't perfect.
Then just stamp all over your paper. I left a little space in between each circle because I knew I was going to go back and stamp them several more times.
Continue stamping your circles until you are satisfied with how they look! I tried to overlap them a little.
Here is what it looks like after 4 stamps. That's about how many times I stamped each of my circles.
Your next step is to cover your album.
I didn't take pictures of this part, but basically I just painted my album white, trimmed my paper, rounded the corners and adhered with Mod Podge.
One 12x12 sheet (with about 3 inches trimmed from the bottom) will cover the entire front, spine and a little of the back of the album. I trimmed the second 12x12 sheet to fit the back perfectly and then Mod Podged that on.
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It was very exciting to see the presence of a number of social media and mobile sessions at the XIX International Conference on AIDS (AIDS 2012) last week in Washington, DC. Patricia Mechael (@PattyMechael), one of the presenters at those sessions, noted that HIV/AIDS was one of the first areas to leverage mobile technology in the global health space; thus it is our duty to continue this and to influence others. In the session, Utilization of Social Media and Web 2.0 to Advance the Human Rights of Young People and Adolescents, Hugh Stephens (@hughstephens) reminded us that it is critical to keep abreast of emerging technologies as avenues for helping us reach our goal of an AIDS-free generation.
Social and Crowd SourcedThere were many sessions that highlighted how social media and/or mobile technologies are instrumental in the response to HIV/AIDS in different settings. During the session Strengthening the Global HIV Response Through Social Media, Aram Barra (@arambarra) from Mexico talked about Crowd Out AIDS (@CrowdOutAIDS), an online social collaboration platform developed with UNAIDS that maximizes the potential for young people's participation and leadership in the AIDS response and serves as the hub for all UNAIDS youth-related activities.The platform takes advantage of crowd sourcing which gathers information from the general public about current events, products and retail establishments. For example, if a natural disaster strikes an area, locals often capture and upload images before a professional news crew arrives. Crowd Out AIDS features include CrowdMap, a global geo-location database of youth activists and organizations, as well as a forum, a blog and a wiki all built around engaging youth. It was refreshing to see a collaborative platform designed specifically for young HIV/AIDS leaders.
An example demonstrating the use of crowd sourcing is Declaration for Change (#dec4change). Young people from around the world used a Codigital platform to develop a list of priorities and a declaration for change for the AIDS response aimed at achieving an AIDS-free generation. Youth contributed new ideas, proposed edits or revisions to each other's suggestions, and voted on ideas of how young people will achieve an AIDS-free generation.
Easy Global Usage with Big Impact"Simple in concept, powerful in results" is the description given by Uganda's Eunice Gnay Namirembe, Program Manager of Text to Change (TTC), an easily scalable platform used to send out and receive text messages, multimedia messages, voice, and data to educate, engage, and empower people on health and well-being. Using mobile phones on a large scale for social purposes, TTC has been used to provide HIV-related information, such as personalized adherence reminders to improve treatment outcomes and interactive quizzes. The tool can also be used for data collection surveys. By focusing on the end-user through provision of local content and software, TTC has had great success. Ms. Namirembe also observed that despite the growing number of smartphones in the world, people in rural areas in developing countries can best be reached by text messaging, which is (and may remain for awhile) the most widely-used data application in the world. So, finding effective methods of working toward important health goals through mobile devices makes the most sense.
Innovative ApproachesAmong the innovations I saw featured was the mobile microscope, which could soon be used to improve HIV care delivery in the developing world. Dr. Aydogan Ozcan, a recipient of the NIH Director's New Innovator Award and head of UCLA's Ozcan Research Group, demonstrated LUCAS, an attachment for mobile phones that acts as a microscope, except without lenses. Using hardware that costs less than $10, these mobile microscopes are able to use the shadows of cells to detect illnesses. For the HIV community, Dr. Ozcan talked about their work on a mobile phone attachment that could be used for CD4 counting, logging the results in a database, and texting the results at a minimal cost. This could dramatically improve the availability of CD4 counts and other lab work in the developing world where access to labs and timely results can be a challenge, particularly in rural areas. It could also be used for digital diagnosis and rapid testing of Malaria and other diseases. Different versions of Ozcan's mobile phone attachments could help diagnose patients and provide better opportunities for care.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius also announced during an AIDS 2012 plenary session that HHS is working in partnership with the MAC AIDS Fund to pilot UCARE4LIFE. The pilot will use mobile phone texting to provide important tips and reminders about disease management to people living with HIV.
There were many other presentations about new media and mobile technology during the conference. The take-away here is that as we continue toward our goal of an AIDS-free generation, we need to remember to leverage all that the digital world now offers to help us efficiently and effectively act.


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Windsor is a township in New South Wales on the north-western outskirts of Sydney (60 km), located on the Hawkesbury River. Founded in 1811 by Governor Lachlan Macquarie, the town Windsor retains a great deal of its colonial heritage.
The Windsor area represents the third-oldest area of European settlement in New South Wales (after Sydney and Parramatta). Originally known as "Green Hills", settlers first arrived here in 1791. The town itself was inaugurated in a drive by Governor Macquarie to build cities worthy of the thriving new colony - it was named after Windsor in England, site of a royal castle.
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text: Bangkok Bangkok was originally a little village on the banks of the Chao Phraya River and renamed as Krung Thep, which means "City of Angels". Love it or hate it, its sheer dynamism is intoxicating as it is a quirky blend of traditional east with the modern West. Ask anyone who has ventured here and they will spin tales of exotic temples, shopping heavens and pulsating nightlife, all located east of the river at the heart of the city. Top 5 Must Do's The Grand Palace The Grand Palace together with Wat Phra Kaew and the Temple of the Emerald Buddha form perhaps the greatest spectacle for first-time visitors. It consists of over 100 brightly colored buildings, golden spires, glittering mosaics and a grand mural of Ramakian, the Thai version of the famous Indian epic story 'Ramayana'. In total, there are 178 restored sections which make for an interesting day of complete visual splendour! Taling Chan floating market A truly unique shopping experience happens on weekend mornings at Taling Chan floating market. Paddle and haggle your way among boats of multi colours and shapes that sell fresh veggies, fruits, flowers and more. Best to visit this place before 9.00am, where the 'authentic' Thai culture happens before the flood of tourists comes in. Chatuchak Market As one of the largest and most unique weekend markets in the world, Chatuchak is made up of endless rows of over 15,000 shops. Pick up some basic Thai language and bargain for the best deals on exquisite antiques and crafts, clothes, books and even pets! Experienced shoppers will come complete with a huge shopping bag or even to the extent of a trolley bag to store their purchases. Night Markets Bangkok is home to the most unique and exciting night markets, where each one offers its own specialty and attraction. Come over for a great bargain, authentic Thai food and even some night time entertainment. Talad Rot Fai displays a unique rustic charm with its hip attitude, vintage toys, retro fashion and even old school furniture located right next to the train tracks. Silom is tourist central for its list of 'shows' and night clubs to party on till the dawn breaks. Khao San is where you'll find backpackers from all over the world flocking over for its local designer clothes, souvenir trinkets and stalls after stalls of delicious Thai cuisine. Wat Arun The famous Wat Arun, perhaps better known as the Temple of the Dawn, is one of the best known landmarks and one of the most published images of Bangkok. It consists of a massive 104m high elongated prang (Khmer-style tower), decorated by bits of ancient porcelain ballasts, and surrounded by four smaller prangs. Despite its name (coming from Aruna, the Indian God of the Dawn), the best views of Wat Arun are in the evening when the red sky casts a breathtaking skyline behind the temple. To and from Don Mueang Airport Transportation To Journey Fare Bus No 554 & 555 Suvarnabhumi Airport 1 hr THB23 No 29 Central Bangkok (Siam area) 1 hr THB18 Taxi Mo Chit (connect to BTS and MRT) 30 – 45 mins THB150 Silom (south) 45 mins – 1 hr THB220 Sanam Luang (Grand Palace) 45 mins – 1 hr THB220 Phra Khanong (Sukhumvit) 1 – 1.5 hrs THB250 Hua Lamphong (Bangkok Railway Station) 30 mins – 1 hr THB210 Your awesome getaway awaits you right here! Book now Quick Facts Currency Thai Baht (THB) Electricity/Socket Adaptor 220V 50Hz Language Thai, English Time zone UTC +7 Tel code +66 2 Religion Buddhism Weather JUN - NOV Rainy season - wet and humid 30°C - 35°C Prepare for rainy days DEC - FEB Cool season - breezy evenings and comfortable weather 26°C - 30°C Great time for sightseeing MAR - MAY Hot season - sunny and blazing hot 30°C - 40°C Bring plenty of water when out and about Check out these other destinations! Australia Gold Coast Melbourne Sydney Cambodia Siem Reap China Changsha Hangzhou Kunming Shanghai Wuhan Xi'An Hong Kong Hong Kong India Kochi Indonesia Bali Bandung Jakarta Solo Yogyakarta Japan Osaka Tokyo Malaysia Kota Kinabalu Kuala Lumpur Kuching Langkawi Miri Penang Myanmar Mandalay Nepal Kathmandu Singapore Singapore South Korea Busan Taiwan Taipei Thailand Bangkok Chiang Mai Krabi Phuket Surat Thani Vietnam Hanoi Ho Chi Minh City


text: Nagoya, Japan, November 6, 2010 - The Netherlands defeated Cuba in four sets (25-12, 22-25, 25-12, 25-20) on the first day of second-round Pool F action at Nippon Gaishi Hall on Saturday afternoon.The 10th-ranked Dutch controlled the tempo for most of the match, as the sixth-ranked Cubans seemed listless at times and had trouble receiving. Avital Selinger's Dutch team now have a 2-2 record while Cuba dropped to 1-3.Cuba had 26 unforced errors and appeared to lack communication at times. The Dutch outclassed the Cubans from the service line (15-2) and also had the advantage in blocks (13-7). The Netherlands were inspired by Manon Flier and Maret Grothues who registered 17 points apiece, with Grothues hitting five aces. Ingrid Vasser and Chaine Staelens added 14 and 11 points respectively. Vasser and Staelens each recorded four blocks and Caroline Wensik had five service winners among her seven points. Kenia Carcaces was the primary force for the Cubans. She scored 15 points while Rosanna Giel contributed 10.Entering the match Cuba had won 13 of 15 meetings with the Dutch but it was the Netherlands who jumped out to a 14-4 lead in the first set, and Cuba were slow to react and made several mistakes. The Dutch kept the pressure on and took the set 25-12 when a spike attempt by Cuba's Carcaces was long.After the Netherlands moved out to an early lead in the second set, Cuba came back to go in front at 10-9 and by the second TTO the Cubans were up 16-11. Laura Dijkema pulled off a smart blind tip for the Netherlands but by that point Cuba were in control and won the set 25-22.The Dutch raced to a 13-4 lead in the third set and swiftly wrapped it up, 25-12, and they appeared in control early in the fourth set but Cuba rallied to make it 9-9. The Dutch then surged back ahead 16-11 and triumphed 25-20. Cuba will next play top-ranked Brazil on Sunday, while the Netherlands take on Thailand.


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re: Booting problems
98% of the time you will get away with hard rebooting your machine. The odd time though you will be unlucky - maybe the machine was writing to an important system file (that's needed for booting) and it got half-written before the reboot and is now corrupt. Something along these lines has happened.
The first thing to do is try Last Known Config. To do this tap F8 multiple times before you see the Windows logo. If you time it right you will see a menu of boot options. Choose last known good configuration and see if that boots. If not, hit F8 again and this time try Safe Mode. It that boots, something non-essential is causing the lockup. We can help track it down and stop it from auto-starting or repair it. If you do get into Safe Mode run chkdsk C: /r to check your hard drive to see if there is any corruption or inconsistencies.
If neither of those work you can try a bootable CD. Boot off it and run a chkdsk /r on your hard drive. If it still isn't working then I'd suggest asking a tech-savvy friend to take a look, or taking it into a computer shop.
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Thanks for the reply. But I can't seem to find the "last good configuration" option. I press F8 during boot, and that makes my motherboard bring up the boot options menu, so I can select which drive to boot, then it directly boots that drive, or I can select setup, which takes me directly to the bios so I can change system settings (sabertooth uefi bios). So it SEEMS like I can only directly boot, sometimes I recieve a "windows did not restart properly, would you like to 'system check' or 'start normally' " but the system check sists at a black screen, and start normally brings about the freezing. ALSO, my dvd drive seems to be working, booted the system dvd, did a startup check, but it encountered "NO ERRORS" so I tried a system restore on 3 points so far, but it keeps encountering an "Unexpected Error" (ox800700b7) and says no system files were changed.
OK, so heres what happened...
eventually I managed to get into safemode. I ran chkldsk, and it seemed to change several files. NOW my system will boot, but STILL gets stuck on the windows startup screen for about 1 minute. It USED to pass that screen in 10 seconds... maybe 15, anything else I should try now that my system is booting? ALSO, during the safemode boot, it also took quite a while, but at least it showed the files while booting, and it seemed to REALLY like staring at a file called "aswrvrt" might that have something to do with it?
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Have you ran a malware scan? May need to use a bootable CD and
run a couple of different scanners, such as MalWareBytes, and Avira...
Avira has a good boot CD.
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Well it's good news that it boots again. The next thing I would do is open a command prompt as an administrator (Find it in the Start Menu under All Programs - Accessories. Right-click it and choose Run as Administrator). This will open a black windows. Type into it "sfc /scannow" (without the quotes). This will run the system file checker, which checks the integrity of most of the Windows system files and replaces any modified ones with legit versions if it finds a problem.
As for the long delay while loading Safe Mode, unfortunately this screen doesn't print out the name of the file it is loading until *after* it has loaded it. So when it sits there for a long time on aswrvrt, it actually means that the files that gets loaded after aswrvrt is the one that's taking so long to load. Aswrvrt is a file from your antivirus, so it's possible the next file to load could also be from your antivirus system. As a test you could uninstall and reinstall Avast to see if that helps. If not we might have to get a bit more serious. You can also try a repair install of Windows. Let us know which version of Windows you are running if you'd like to do this. Another option is to use a tool to monitor and log what's happening during a boot of Windows then read that log file to figure out where the delay was. These steps are getting a bit advanced though - try the easier steps above and report back if they don't fix it.
you should try another HDD on your computer to confirm. or check this HDD to another computer
I second kush tyagi's advice
Many times I have found that when a computer takes a lloooonnnggg time to read a file the HDD is failing. I have suspected that the file that takes a long time to load has been written to a part of the HDD surface that is going bad (or is bad already).
Try another HDD! It seems like a pain in the neck to do, but it saves a lot of time in the long run.
I have wasted a lot of time over the years working with HDDs that are failing, and trying to coax them into "working better". It was all a waste of time.
Still ongoing... think it is drastic.
OK, LONG wait for the reply... BUT, it seemed to be booting perfectly, and CONTINUES to do so... but freezes VERY consistently a few seconds after boot. Sometimes on the login screen, sometimes while logging in and loading startup programs, STILL sometimes on windows startup... After it appeared to be booting properly, I scanned for malware/spyware and ran virus checks several times each, ran the sfc scan, as explained here, then used my pc normally for a day just to test it out until this constant freezing problem started occurring. I DO believe that it is the HDD failing, since as I was checking the connections, I kept hearing a slight high pitched (low, but audible) noise. I lightly tapped the HDD and it clinked once followed by several loud clicking noises... I am highly positive that is not normal... at least without major throttling/positioning of the HDD, am I correct? EVEN after spotting several bad clusters and fixing them via the sfc, with long loading times and the freezing/noises, I will try a new HDD soon as possible. I don't currently have one, so I will purchase one and post back with the results. I'll still keep checking back here to see any further suggestions. Thank you everyone for helping me troubleshoot.
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Yep - definitely sounds like a HDD issue to me. The noises sound like a hard drive issue, and the random slowness etc are common symptoms too so having them together makes it extremely likely to be the case.
The "chkdsk /r" that the first responder mentioned will check for a bad drive - in the summary section at the bottom is it has anything other than 0KB in Bad Sectors then your drive is dying. The only thing you can do about it is replace it.
Your best bet now is to not use the machine at all until the replacement comes. When it does come you can either clone from your old drive to the new (using software like Ghost or Acronis), or can install Windows on it from scratch and start copying your files over manually.
Final Query?
OK, so I bought a new HDD after work, installed it alongside my old HDD, and installed Windows 7 on it.. After boot, I used a partition manager to completely wipe all data from my old HDD, deleted all partitions and turned it into just one large logical partition (I thought I could use it for storage or something). Everything seemed GREAT until this morning. When I booted up this morning... it got stuck on the "starting Windows" screen again. I thought my heart stopped and I was confused as to WHAT the **** it could be. I let it sit there to see if it would EVENTUALLY boot... maybe it was extreme slowness. After about 4 minutes, it went black and started running the chkdsk tool and said my "E:" drive needs checking. My "E:" drive is my old (now storage) drive. during chkdsk it froze again... this time for about 3 minutes until I said screw it, powered off, unplugged my old drive, and now it boots like a charm again... at least the first time (which I am using right now).
What I want to know is... If a HDD is failing, can you not use it at ALL on your system? Is the old failing drive what may be causing boot problems now even though it isn't booting FROM that drive and is just a logical drive now? Hopefully IF that is the problem and I remove it completely, this will be the last entry to this Q&A thread... Thank you all so very much for your help so far, I do greatly appreciate it.


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Personally, I think Episode One should have started with Anakin and OB1 meeting as ambitious, young men. One a Jedi, the other a talented pilot. They are forced or assigned to fight together in the Clone Wars: a friendship grows... Anakin accepts training from OB1, shows exceptional talent as a padawan. And from here on, the fall begins. Something else than mother...
The whole development of Anakin should have spanned three movies during the Clone Wars. I think...
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^ It's actually the ONLY Star Wars movie that did not blow me away first time I saw it. And I actually did not need to see it again. Unlike the others.
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quote: (post)Originally posted by queeq
That's about my list, although I would rate ROTS with a higher grade than 5/10. ROTJ gets a 7/10 I think... saved by the excellent Vader/Luke/Emperor scenes.
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quote: (post)Originally posted by queeq
That's about my list, although I would rate ROTS with a higher grade than 5/10. ROTJ gets a 7/10 I think... saved by the excellent Vader/Luke/Emperor scenes.
quote: (post)Originally posted by KyleAP
Empire Strikes Back 10/10
A New Hope 8/10
Return of the Jedi 8/10
Revenge of the Sith 5/10
Phantom Menace 2/10
Attack of the Clones 2/10
quote: (post)Originally posted by C-3POTheClever
I thought you gave TPM a 6 & AOTC a 5? They're the ratings you gave when I asked for everyone's ratings. Have you changed your mind on them or something?
quote: (post)Originally posted by queeq
Did I? Must have been in my crisis days when I couldn't accept how bad the prequels were. I struggled with that for a while... Let's just say they haven't improved in my appreciation since the last time I graded them.
quote: (post)Originally posted by queeq
The Phantom menace 6/10
Attack of the Clones 5/10
The Clone Wars 5/10
Revenge of the Sith 8/10
A New Hope 8/10
The Holiday Special - a must-see horror movie
The Empire Strikes Back 9.5/10
Return of the Jedi 7.5/10
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quote: (post)Originally posted by sweersa
They change slightly from time to time. I re-watched the prequel trilogy recently and really don't see why people hate on them so much.
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The U.S. Women's National Team beat Sweden 1-0 Saturday with Torrance's Shannon Boxx going the full 90 and USC striker Amy Rodriguez getting a few minutes late. The U.S. now returns home for its final two Olympic warm-up games.
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The third Jimmy John's sandwich shop in Southwest Florida opened last week at Cattlemen Road and Bee Ridge Road.
The chain known for its homemade bread and speedy delivery service operates three other locations in Southwest Florida, including one in Bradenton, another on Honore Avenue near University Parkway and a third in downtown Sarasota on Ringling Boulevard.
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Detroit, Michigan (CNN) -- A winter's thicket of weeds still choked the soil outside Catherine Ferguson Academy late last month when the old school's loudspeaker crackled on.
"Good morning, good morning, good morning," Principal Asenath Andrews belted out. "It's a bright, sunny, ready-to-garden day!"
For decades, this is where Detroit's pregnant teens and young mothers have come to earn their diplomas. It's the only school in the city that gives them space to study while their babies are cared for just down the hall.
For the 100 students at Catherine Ferguson, high school diplomas are the minimum expectation; college acceptance letters are the aim. It has a reputation for academic rigor and comprehensive study: Students might spend afternoons on internships, weeks traveling overseas and hours working small plots on the school's farm.
On the walls, there are posters encouraging condom use, photos of newborns and beaming images of Catherine Ferguson graduates, all in their gowns, caps and tassels.
"Remember," Andrews signs off her morning announcement, "smart is what you get, not what you are."
Girls trickle outside, grumbling about the heat and mess of the farm, but intrigued by the seedlings of basil, arugula and cabbage. They fling handfuls of dirt at each other as they paw through a season of overgrowth. Over the years, the school's abandoned playground evolved into a spread of apple trees, honeybees, chickens, goats and garden plots -- creatures and greenery tended to by students and a pack of volunteers.
"You did not tell me there were going to be spiders in this dirt," a student recoils, then leans in to study the egg sac one spider carried.
Another student cracks that a classmate -- wearing oversized gloves, slicing through roots with the pointed end of a shovel -- "looks like a man."
"Don't you ever say that," the principal swoops in. "She's a competent woman. Just because she's good at something, she's a man?"
A few minutes later, a rumble of voices emerges -- a chant to a beat, too faraway to distinguish. This area is usually quiet; there's a dental school, a Salvation Army center, a few old homes, empty lots scattered with bricks and glass.
As the voices get louder and clearer, the girls look up from the garden beds, distracted and confused by the people on the other side of the high chain-link fence -- about a dozen protesters in red shirts carrying signs for the civil rights group By Any Means Necessary. It's a demonstration prompted by CNN's presence, the group's organizers said.
The tinny yelp from a megaphone leads voices they know -- current and former students -- shouting from the sidewalk to their peers in the garden: "Equal education is our right." They are protesting a new curriculum at the academy and want to see it return to a more traditional high school.
From state to state, school district to school district and even inside the walls of Catherine Ferguson, there's no agreement on how best to educate teens who are pregnant and parenting.
See also: Rural America has a teenage pregnancy problem
Only 40% of teen moms finish high school; less than 2% finish college by age 30, according to national figures.
Teen birth rates have declined most years for the last two decades -- dropping about 25% just from 2007 to 2011. But such girls still face challenges: punitive absence policies, a lack of child care and transportation options, and teachers and administrators who discourage them from attending school, according to a 2012 report by the National Women's Law Center.
According to the center, no national database tracks what happens to pregnant teens: Where do they go to school? Do they graduate? What happens once they do?
Few states have laws about how to handle them, and districts might not even realize what their obligations are. This week, a U.S. Senate committee is debating an update to the country's expansive education law -- including, for the first time, a call for better data and school plans that address pregnant and parenting students. The proposal has a long way to go before passage, if that even happens.
There aren't many schools like Catherine Ferguson in the United States, and several have shut down in recent years because of tight budgets and questionable quality. Some offer academically rigorous standards and services like child care, but others offer "no meaningful educational opportunities," the National Women's Law Center report said.
With little data to study, with no experts to guide them, Catherine Ferguson Academy long operated by instinct, Andrews said. She believes it's up to schools to work around the poor excuses, tragic reasons and broken systems that keep a young mother from getting an education.
Teach her, yes. Then feed her, heal her, keep her safe. Make her a better mother, but let her be a teen, too. Remind her she's beautiful. Insist that she own her situation and show her intelligence. Get her out of her neighborhood -- her home, her homelessness -- even if for just a few hours.
'We've had enemies'
The protest against the new curriculum last month was hardly the first challenge Catherine Ferguson has faced. It took feverish self-promotion and the work of "guardian angels" high up in the Detroit Public Schools just to open the academy nearly 30 years ago.
It felt like the same fight in 2011 when the Detroit Public Schools shut it down, saying the district lacked the funds to keep it open. District leaders said some pregnant and parenting teens were already attending the city's other, traditional high schools -- why couldn't these students?
Hundreds protested. Students were arrested during a sit-in at the school library. Almost immediately, the academy was reopened as a charter school -- an ending that students and teachers celebrated.
But since then, much of the staff has changed. Enrollment is down. Recruitment is tough; many heard the school closed in 2011, but not as many understood it reopened under new management. When it exited the Detroit Public Schools, it lost its clearest connection to pregnant teens. Now, Catherine Ferguson has turned to handing out goody bags to new mothers in local maternity wards.
The school's new curriculum this year changed the structure of students' days and focused on personalized learning -- a shift that confounded some teachers and students. They're fighting back with marches and a lawsuit, and say the school population is shrinking because of the new learning model.
The disagreements and uncertainty frustrate the students, teachers and Andrews. But then, educating a girl who's raising a child wasn't easy when Andrews started 30 years ago, either. In Detroit, Andrews says, the idea has been ignored and insulted, lost entirely in social stigma, political infighting and information voids.
"We've had detractors, we've had enemies, we've had slings and arrows," Andrews said. "Lots of people think, 'Forget it, if they don't finish high school, so what? They're just throwaways.'"
For girls, Andrews said, "the struggles are the same. The world is a harder place." See also: Starting a revolution for teenage mothers in Sierra Leone
How school should be
The Detroit of Asenath Andrews' childhood hardly resembles the one where most of her students live now.
The family farm along 8 Mile Road lined her grandparents' basement with preserved vegetables, tomato sauce and jam. In the 1950s and '60s, dozens of cousins lived within walking distance and gathered every Sunday for dinner.
Andrews' parents split shifts at the Dodge plant so one of them always could be home with the kids. The boundaries of right and wrong seemed clear, and she and her siblings knew when they'd crossed one: "That's not what Andrews kids do."
Andrews' parents hadn't gone to college but dangled its promise before their children -- they expected, assumed, planned that their children would go.
"In school, everybody knows who the smart kids are, and I was smart," Andrews says. "We were never taught to be stuck. I was so tired of hearing 'Look it up.'"
Just as planned, she entered Olivet College, a small liberal arts school in mid-Michigan, in the late 1960s. She studied psychology and art, occasionally trading paintings for rent. Before she finished, she tacked on a teaching certificate, believing she might someday home school children of her own.
It led, instead, to a job teaching elementary school art in Detroit. She was the youngest person on staff, all bangles, braids and wild ideas. She painted hopscotch through the hallways and pulled kids from their desks to build sculptures in the snow. She relished the support of the principal, who saw them at work and told her, This is how school should be. She realized her role was to teach other people's children. Simply, "school is for kids." She never had any of her own.
After years working with gifted students and managing art teachers around the district, she was pitched the idea of working with a little-known program for pregnant girls. For years, it had operated inside a Salvation Army building near the Detroit River; it was designed to keep the girls until they delivered their babies, then send them back to school as if nothing had changed.
It was well-meaning, Andrews said, and it was a failure. For all the work teachers put in, young moms still weren't graduating.
"Our girls were coming back saying 'I'm in regular school now, I'm starting to mess up,'" she said. "'My child care is falling through and I can't go.' 'That same crowd that I was hanging with that was getting me in trouble? I'm back with them.'"
What Andrews wanted was a school, a whole building, just for her girls -- a school flexible enough to fit their lives and lead them to graduation.
The idea seemed almost as far-fetched then as it does now. As far as Detroit school leaders were concerned, "getting pregnant is no different from knocking over a liquor store," Andrews said. Reward girls with special treatment, she was often told, and everyone will be getting pregnant.
That idea, she said, is "patently absurd." She believed the lesson from her own childhood still applied: "Kids pretty much do what you expect them to do."
What happened next is the stuff of school lore: One day she was walking with a group of pregnant students when they spotted a solid brick building with big windows and bold flourishes ringing the top -- a onetime elementary school named for Henry A. Chaney, Detroit's first public library director.
There it sat, empty.
A few of them boosted a girl inside, who propped open a door to let in the rest. They wandered from room to room, re-imagining the auditorium's small stage, the library fireplace, the lawn that stretched around it, all the vacant classrooms.
The police officer who arrived was less impressed by their vision. He handcuffed Andrews but decided to let her go once he considered her youthful, pregnant accomplices.
Andrews pressed her campaign for a school -- inviting the superintendent to breast-feeding workshops and baby showers. She hung holiday decorations with her program's name outside Chaney school and found ways to make district leaders drive past. She pleaded and lobbied and argued until finally Andrews and her idea moved to the little brick school on Selden Street, where they've remained since.
In the school's early years, students voted to name it after Catherine Ferguson, a slave who worked to buy her freedom and went on to educate and find homes for children on the streets of New York.
There's no tuition. It is now and has always been free to attend.
In fact, the school pays for bus tickets and cab rides to keep girls coming. Inside one classroom, there's none of the usual chatter. It holds parenting classes and doctor's appointments on site. There's a table of baby clothes by the door -- take what you need, give what you don't. Catherine Ferguson's in-house currency, CFA bucks, rewards punctuality, proper uniforms, great ideas or improved grades; students can use it to buy notebooks, pens, mascara, nail polish, even diapers -- by far the school store's most popular item.
Some of Andrews' plans have worked -- a four-day school week that gives girls time to manage their outside-of-school lives, the shift from semesters to quarters so a girl who gives birth won't fall so far behind.
Some failed, like starting the school day later in hopes of improving punctuality and a short foray into admitting young men.
Her choices are more intentional than instinctual now, she said, but the school is still evolving. It sometimes takes years to know whether something works.
Take her latest plan, which shifted the academy from a more traditional high school -- where students change class ever hour and take courses in English, math, science and the like -- to what's described as Big Picture Learning.
It calls for students to design their own curriculum and projects based on their interests and career possibilities and find related internships in the community.
With the new learning model, which Andrews borrowed from a nonprofit, no two students' school days look the same. In one classroom last month, students worked quietly at computers -- one researched graphic design, while another created a presentation about parenting, and still another filled out a job application. One girl studied a piece of sheet music from behind a keyboard.
Andrews said she implemented the new learning model in part because it works for students she sees more often -- girls who struggled in traditional schools or have gaping holes in their transcripts. Students are able to take more time on subjects they struggle with, while other students are able to graduate early. She said the new model formalizes elements her students were already learning from, such as internships.
She admits there were mistakes in the program's first year: The school needed more teacher training and buy-in. Students and parents needed a better orientation program. Cold calls weren't the best method for placing students in internships.
She says they've already started to address some issues and will do more in the coming school year. But for some students, it's already too late.
Students said some of their friends left out of frustration -- they weren't sure what was expected of them and didn't have enough guidance. Some students and teachers complained they missed group discussions and the familiarity of a traditional curriculum.
Andrews said the new curriculum wasn't a result of the school's 2011 shift from public to charter. Instead, it was designed to be able to help more girls in different stages of their education.
Teen moms don't tend to leave the academy when they're just a credit or two shy of graduation, or even when they're struggling academically, she said. Rather, it's in their first 30 days -- when a girl who just gave birth adjusts to late nights with a hungry infant, or when a girl who had dropped out returns to the benevolent tyranny of a school schedule.
If she can't see a clear path to graduation, if she's overwhelmed by a system that doesn't reflect how her life has changed, you lose her, Andrews says -- to the street, to a dead-end job, to just sitting at home.
Spark her passion and show her all the reasons she has to fight? She's yours.
"In other countries, we scream at people about throwing away girls, how they kill girl babies. Well, we kill girl babies, too, we just kill them slowly," Andrews says. "We take away opportunities for them to go to school, we don't provide opportunities for girls who have babies, and it is a slow death.
"Poverty is a slow, painful death."
'Don't hang your head'
In her first semester at Detroit's Communication and Media Arts High School, Darshea White liked math classes, JROTC and running cross-country, but she didn't have many friends. Her family had moved around a lot. She was a smart girl with not-so-nice clothes, she said: a magnet for bullies. She was petite and rail-thin -- they could tell just looking at her that she wouldn't fight back.
When she got pregnant her freshman year, she felt even more anxious and isolated; it seems crazy to her now, she said, but she really believed she was the only soon-to-be teen mom out there.
Her mother took her to Catherine Ferguson, where a security guard greeted her, chatted with them, asked Darshea's age. She was 14. Just saying so was her cue to feel ashamed.
"The first thing I did was hang my head low," said Darshea, now 16. "(The guard) told me 'Don't hang your head. Lift it up. There's a lot of people going through the same situation.'"
That moment in January 2012 was when she first fell for Catherine Ferguson Academy. She was quiet, there, too, but people were kind. Her classmates taught her what to expect as a student and parent. She liked Ms. Andrews, the teachers and the people who would care for her son. For the first time, school was a peaceful escape -- just going class to class, earning good grades and counting the credits toward graduation.
"I thought, 'I'm still going to regular school even though I'm a teen mom," she said.
Her baby, Jasiah, was born August 28, 2012; Darshea was back at Catherine Ferguson just a few days later -- sleepless from breast-feeding, terrified, in love. Her first weeks as a mother were also the first weeks she learned about Big Picture Learning.
It overwhelmed her. She didn't understand it, and she wasn't sure the teachers did, either. She couldn't find the required internship. Her major project the first quarter -- research about why there are more African-Americans in the prison system --- earned her an "incomplete."
She missed the familiar comfort of classes, of raising her hand and asking a teacher instead of searching the Internet for an answer. She doesn't have a computer at home, she said, which makes it hard to do homework. Students who struggled even more with school began to leave, she said, and the empty classes put everyone on edge.
"I just broke down crying because I didn't know what to do, and teachers were telling me, 'Don't give up, you can't get anywhere without an education,'" Darshea said. "I know that I want to have a successful future for myself.
"College is the way to go. I could give myself a successful life and future if I could just do that."
But for the first time since she'd come to Catherine Ferguson, she could feel her future slipping away.
One of the academy's teachers, Nicole Conaway, told Darshea about the civil rights group By Any Means Necessary and its desire for Catherine Ferguson to return to a more typical high school curriculum. Conaway, a member of BAMN, encouraged Darshea to get involved, too. The student wasn't usually one to speak up; activism was new to her. But the school had already taught her how important it is to fight for what she needs.
"It was a hard decision for me. I really like Ms. Andrews. I know she thinks I'm a bright student, and I look up to her," she said. "I feel like we should have classes -- do I get what I think I want and deserve as a student in the city of Detroit, or do I continue receiving what someone else wants me to get?"
Jasiah, with his head of tight curls, and goofy smile, helped her decide, too.
"I have to be something in life now," she said. "I have someone that's looking up to me and that I have to take care of."
So while her classmates tugged weeds from the school garden that bright sunny day late last month, she slipped away, tugged a red T-shirt over her uniform white. She became one of the girls on the other side of the fence, yelling about equal education for teen moms
Last week, when By Any Means Necessary filed a lawsuit in federal court, Darshea was among the plaintiffs.
The lawsuit was filed against Catherine Ferguson's charter operator, Blanche Kelso Bruce Academy; the school's charter authorizer, Wayne County Regional Education Service Agency; and the heads of those agencies. It also names the Detroit Public Schools and its emergency financial manager. They did not return phone calls, or said they could not comment on the lawsuit.
The suit alleges that Catherine Ferguson students are being discriminated against because they're receiving a "grossly inferior" education after the switch from a "traditional, comprehensive" high school curriculum. The lawsuit alleges the school eliminated some state-mandated courses, has "done away with all classes, ordered teachers not to teach classes" and does not employ certified teachers in subjects including math, physical education, music and health.
It describes how students seeking credit in certain areas are given packets of work to complete during the semester, and if they're not completed correctly, they receive no credit; how students don't change classes throughout the day, but receive instruction during short weekly meetings with teachers, "now known as 'advisers.'"
"The actions of defendants have degraded the education at CFA in a way that stigmatizes and punishes these young women for being pregnant and having children," the lawsuit said.
Andrews' response: "I would never do anything I felt downgraded the students, and particularly the students I have spent 20-plus years supporting and building."
Despite the lawsuit and protest, Darshea said, this school year hasn't been wasted. She's learned a lot about time management, and the new learning model helped her zero in on a career: After she graduates next year, she'd like to attend Wayne State University in Detroit to become a pharmacist.
But she's stressed by the volume of work remaining and whether she's learning the material she needs. She's a diligent student who's open to change, who won't quit, she said -- but she wonders, what about her peers who might need more guidance or have already given up?
"Maybe if we were always taught in this form, it would be different, but getting taught one way and being told to do it a different way is kind of hard," she said. "I'm already in this big change because I just had a baby, and now this big change of how to learn?"
A gruesome scene
Just a few days after the gardening day protest, the loudspeaker at the school comes to life again. It's Andrews' voice, demanding that a fictional student report to her office.
Teachers and staff understand immediately what that means. They clear the hallways and close the doors. The school is in lockdown.
It's a drill, as much for nerves as for practice. Over the weekend, volunteers arrived at the little red barn beside the school and discovered a gruesome scene: Eight dead chickens and five dead goats. More animals were wounded. A cat was missing, and soon found dead.
Early reports said the animals were bludgeoned, stabbed, slaughtered. Andrews said it was a like a bad movie; the school has hardly had graffiti trouble, let alone a violent crime. When students returned that Monday, investigators still hadn't announced who or what they suspected caused the carnage.
Grief counselors and psychologists were on hand. Andrews herself was supposed to be out of the office that day, but as the principal, she needed to be there. She wants the girls to know this school is a safe place.
The animals belonged to the girls, she said, and the girls belong to her.
"We will never, ever, as long as I am here, let evil try and foil good. And what we do here are good things," Andrews said. "If they burn the joint down, we'll start someplace else."
When Darshea heard the news, she thought of how she was supposed to be working on the farm the day the animals died -- a job the students canceled because of rain.
"All I could think about was 'That could have been one of our students that got hurt,'" she said. "This is the school I go to and take my son to every day. I couldn't even sleep the rest of the night."
Soon, Darshea began to see Facebook posts suggesting that By Any Means Necessary's protest was somehow linked to the deaths on the farm -- a charge the group's members deny. The Michigan Humane Society, which handled the investigation, later determined the animals' wounds were consistent with dog bites and said there's no evidence humans were in any way involved in the attack.
Since the protest, lawsuit and animals' deaths, classmates sometimes tell Darshea they agree with her position, that they'd like to see the school change back to its old self. But few are willing to sign on to the cause; they're afraid they'll be suspended or kicked out.
Darshea says she doesn't worry about it. She remembers what Andrews told students after the protest and animal deaths: that people are entitled to their opinions and their voice.
Other students wonder why kids involved in the lawsuit stay at the school at all. Darshea said she believes in this school more than any other she's attended. She intends to be a Catherine Ferguson graduate next year.
"I know I haven't done anything wrong," she said. "I haven't done anything beside voice my own opinion."
After all, this is a school with a long history of standing up for girls, of showing them how to be strong for themselves and their babies -- even if they have different ideas about how to do it. See also: CNN Hero gives teen moms the tools to change their lives
"The whole experience has been a good thing for me -- from getting told that being pregnant young doesn't mean your life is over, to my fight to get classes back," Darshea said.
"Going there, to that school, really made me a different person than I was before."
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Genres: Reality Show
Language: Hindi
Release Date: 09 September 2018
Video Quality: HDTV 480p
Judge: Sonali Bendre, Omung Kumar, Vivek Oberoi
Film Story: India's Best Dramebaaz is an Indian reality talent hunt show for children. If you think there is some acting talent in your children then go and participate in India's Best Dramebaaz because this platform will help your kid to become next superstar. India's Best Dramebaaz is acting reality television show for prodigies. India'sbest Dramebaaz have completed there two seasons successfully.


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I have a friend, Lori, who lives in a beautiful old farmhouse...complete
with gorgeous wood trim, nostalgic charm, and crooked floors!
Lori has been battling breast cancer and her amazing life group from our church
came and did some renovations to her home.
As Lori has been recovering, she has gotten the itch to make more changes to her home.
One of the places that she has really wanted to change is her son's room.
Here are some of the "before" pictures. I apologize because they were taken
on my camera phone so they are very blurry!
The room was covered in outdated wallpaper and just overall had a feeling of falling apart...
Lori asked me to stop by and give her some ideas of how to inexpensively
bring changes and life to the room!
On a side note, Lori was planning on throwing away the dressers in the picture
above...I gasped and said, can I have one and give it a second chance?
This is what I did with it!
Since Lori had "new to her" furniture to put in the room that was blue,
I suggested a calm blue for the top of the walls and beadboard wallpaper for the bottom.
I also suggested painting all the trim in a bright white and adding
painted chalkboards to the closet doors.
Here's what Lori did.....
Lori and her mom removed all the ugly old wallpaper and painted the walls a
beautiful soothing blue color. They added the beadboard wallpaper to the
bottom and painted everything a gorgeous crisp white.
She taped off rectangles on the closet doors and added chalkboards
with chalkboard paint.
I love how she added a black light and a map of hiking routes on
the Appalachian Trail!
I suggested she accent with white frames, so she took frames that she already
owned and spray painted them white and added special photos and memorabilia.
Doesn't her "new to her" furniture look perfect!
Truly, it feels like a brand new room! And mainly, the transformation was
the result of elbow grease and paint!
And because we all love a good before and after...
You don't even notice the beautiful original wood trim in the before pictures!
The paint and beadboard wallpaper just make it *pop*!
The paint and beadboard wallpaper just make it *pop*!
Great job, Lori! This was the type of remodel that I love....I
get to be the idea generator and someone else does all the work!


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ISE student uses education to manage roles, impact Detroit
DETROIT (Dec. 5, 2012) – Norman Dotson's various roles as dedicated Detroit advocate, skilled engineer, innovative entrepreneur, ambitious leader, supportive mentor and focused student would leave many people feeling completely overwhelmed.
Fortunately, he is more than up for the challenge thanks to his deep-rooted passion for Detroit and his process-oriented engineering education from Wayne State University.
The industrial and systems engineering (ISE) senior and Detroit native infuses his education into all facets of his life to help him more efficiently manage his numerous roles and projects.
"My ISE education has completely impacted how I think. I see everything as a process now, and I wonder how I can improve it," he said.
Take, for instance, his role as an advocate for the city of Detroit. He's been a spirited city supporter since he was just 12 years old, encouraging community service and involvement by regularly speaking at area elementary, middle and high schools.
While his speaking engagements proved successful – so much so that a generous benefactor provided him with scholarship money to attend Cranbrook Schools – he now thinks bigger. He and a fellow Cranbrook alumna manage ClickTheCause.org, a crowdfunding website aimed at doing social good in Detroit and Chicago.
"ClickTheCause recently helped Kids Kicking Cancer, a Detroit nonprofit that helps use martial arts therapy to help empower kids with cancer, buy martial arts uniforms," he said. "Some other projects we're still trying to help fund involve bringing STEM programs into Detroit elementary school classrooms, providing continuous shelter services for young women, and assisting teens who have aged out of the foster care system.
"There's so much that can be done, and ClickTheCause allows more people to have a greater impact on a greater number of initiatives and programs."
And that's only one of his many projects. True to ISE form, the Woodbridge Neighborhood resident often combines his roles to maximize effort and minimize "waste" – all to make a larger impact.
Dotson serves as a Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program instructor, a Wayne State peer mentor, a science and mathematics tutor, a College of Engineering tour guide and president of the Engineering Student Faculty Board. He is also an aspiring entrepreneur. In addition to ClickTheCause, he's busy working on a digital conversion venture with an ISE alumnus, an online grocery delivery service, and a project that would help local businesses become more environmentally sustainable.
Additionally, he is part of a systems redesign team at the John D. Dingell VA Medical Center, and he has a number of internship and co-op positions under his belt at companies such as Volkswagen, Ford Motor Company and DTE Energy.
"It can seem like a lot at times, but my education has given me the tools to see the larger picture. I'm always ready for more," he said.
When he graduates in 2014, he'll be the first man in his family to earn a college degree. Fortunately for Detroit, he intends on staying right here.
"I love Detroit. I love Wayne State. We're in the heart of everything and there's a great sense of community. If there's a possibility to positively impact Detroit, that's what I intend to do."
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Wayne State University is a premier urban research institution offering 370 academic programs through 13 schools and colleges to nearly 29,000 students. For more information about engineering at Wayne State University, visit engineering.wayne.edu.


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|At Leiby Kletzky's funeral - photo credit: Reuters
So we had the usual pre-fast discussion.
"I dunno," my friend said. "I just can't feel it. The Churban is so long ago... even the Holocaust is so far away in history. It's hard to get into the spirit of Shiv'a Asar b'Tamuz and Tisha b'Av."
I thought about what Rebbetzin Malky Friedman had said on Sunday morning, at her Derech Hashem shiur, when one young lady brought up that same point.
"Rebbetzin, I need your help," she said. She was very sweet, expecting her first child in a few weeks. Incredibly young. "I just don't understand how we are supposed to mourn the destruction of the Temple. I can't feel sad. I just feel hungry, and annoyed about having to fast."
The rebbetzin answered her sensitively but straightforwardly. "We don't have to go back to the Temple, or even to the Holocaust. We only have to go back to last week." After a discreet silence, during which we all "touched base" with that part of ourselves that could deal with Leiby Kletzky's murder, Rebbetzin Malky continued softly.
"We have reached the very lowest level of the Churban," she said. "The Churban [the destruction of the Holy Temple in 586 BCE] has manifested throughout history, every time there was a destruction of Jewish lives. But they were all done by other people to Jews. This is the first time that Jews have had to be afraid of Jews."
I didn't think it was politic or necessary in that setting to bring up Gush Katif. And thank G-d and Jewish nature, no one was killed there, in spite of a world press that sat licking its collective lips, waiting for that very event. Besides, as bad as Gush Katif was, this was infinitely worse. We can make the excuse that the murderer is deranged. But he is a Jew. He wears a kipa. He was part of an insular, trusting community.
And they can no longer trust their own, because of him, because of this one incident.
"We need to feel the pain of this, because this IS the Churban," the rebbetzin reiterated. And she is right. Every terrible thing we experience -- terrorism, wanton murder, terrible diseases -- all of these horrors would not be possible if our Temple were standing.
(I think of events close to home, and my heart screams. "End the Galut now! Right NOW!")
Rebbetzin Malky left us not without hope, but with responsibility.
"Now people in that community tell me that they have changed the guidance they give to their children. It used to be 'If you're lost, ask a Yid for directions.' Now the parents tell their children, 'If you're lost, don't ask a man. Not even a Tatty. Ask a Mommy.' We women have the same responsibility we have always had throughout Jewish history. We have to bring the Geula. We can and will bring the Moshiach, b'mheira v'yameinu [speedily and in our days]."
The rebbetzin then explained what we already knew. Love your fellow Jew. (As I looked around the table at the mix of women -- Chareidi, Dati-Leumi, very discreet about religious preference -- I saw that a microcosm of the Jewish family was listening to her words, and looking around the table with me.) Choose a mitzvah. (She recommended the Grace After Meals.) Be present when you do it. But mostly -- love your fellow Jew.
There are women right in my yishuv (and in your community, as well) who feel great pain at feeling a lack of acceptance from their fellow Jews. Each woman is sure that it is because the other sees something lacking in her. I am sure that it is because -- though each and every one of us desperately needs validation by our fellow human beings -- they are too caught up in their own dramas to even see the poor woman and her pain. No one is truly trying to hurt his or her fellow Jew. But our task is to not merely avoid causing hurt. We have to seek out opportunities to validate, to give a compliment or a smile. Even a smile.
Or we can take the path of the "familiar rut," the practices and habits of a lifetime, our smiles reserved for family and dear friends, our compliments reserved for "special" moments and people. And there will be more and more tragedies, until we get it.
Feel the pain. It will fuel us for the work we have to do.
"May the death of this boy mark the end of all anguish...": taken from a prayer that may be said in the house of mourning
Churban: Destruction of the First Temple (but also referring to the Second Temple's destruction)
Shiv'a Asara b'Tamuz; Tisha b'Av: fasts commemorating the Churban
Derech Hashem: The Way of G-d; Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzatto's book on basic principles of Jewish belief
Galut: Exile, both in physical and spiritual terms
Geula: Redemption
Yishuv: community
Powerful articles that helped me to focus on turning from this evil by doing good can be found here and here.


text: October 29th 1740; James Boswell is born on this day in Edinburgh to an ancient Scottish family. His father was a judge, the Lord of Auchinleck, and Boswell was heir to the title and a large fortune. He studied at the University of Edinburgh but ran away to London and was brought back by his family, who forced him to study law under close watch at home. He later studied law in Holland, then toured Germany, Italy, and France.On his tour, he met Rousseau, Voltaire, and a prominent Corsican general leading the island in revolt against Genoa. Boswell took careful notes after his meetings and later used his detailed diaries to create vivid profiles of these famous personalities. In 1768, he published An Account of Corsica, which was translated into four languages and made him famous across Europe. Meanwhile, at age 23, in 1763, he had met the prominent man of letters Samuel Johnson, who had written A Dictionary of the English Languages (1755). Their friendship lasted until Johnson's death, and Boswell's greatest fame came from his study of the man.In 1769, Boswell established a successful law practice in Edinburgh, which he maintained for 17 years, while continuing to write. He married a cousin and continued his correspondence with Johnson. In 1773, Boswell and Johnson took a tour of the Scottish Highlands and Hebrides. The journey was a great success, and in 1775 Boswell published Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland. During the next decade, he wrote some 70 essays for a London magazine and succeeded his father as Lord of Auchinleck. Four years after Johnson's death in 1784, Boswell moved to London, where he practiced law, drank heavily, and began writing his masterpiece The Life of Samuel Johnson, which was published in two volumes, the first in 1791, the second in 1793. He was working on a third volume when he died in 1795. Boswell's lively and colorful chronicles helped familiarized generations of future readers with the literary characters of the late 18th century.


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I am excited to share my first national magazine music article with the readers of this blog. I was approached by Steffen Franz , CEO of Independent Distribution Collective, a couple of months back to write an article about our mutual friend, trumpet player Bill Ortiz.
The article is published with Churn Magazine, an arts and music magazine from San Francisco that is moving to a national distribution model.
Here is the cover of CHURN's Spring 2011 issue along with the three page article. I hope you will enjoy what is written and published about Bill Ortiz, Soulful Communicator.
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A grove of ancient giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park is no place for a tram ride, gift shop and asphalt parking lots, say officials who are looking to have them removed.
Park officials on Tuesday released a draft environmental study on the effects of an estimated $15 million worth of improvements at Yosemite's popular Mariposa Grove. The proposal includes getting rid of the tram ride, shop and parking lots - changes designed to restore the habitat for the nearly 500 giant sequoias there.
"Today we know more about how to manage our national parks, and we would not be putting a parking lot within a giant sequoia habitat," park spokesman Scott Gediman said.
Giant sequoias, which grow only in the southern Sierra Nevada, are the largest living things on earth, and their shallow root systems extend several hundred feet sideways.
Park officials hope that by removing the grove's parking lot, they will create a larger habitat for new trees to sprout. Visitors would then be shuttled from a station at the park's south entrance or could hike in on a new two-mile trail.
The tram that carried tourists through an otherwise peaceful grove of giant trees would be discontinued, and a road rerouted so wetlands could be restored.
"The loud trams are not conducive to the visitor experience," Gediman said.
Park officials hope to break ground in June on the 150th anniversary of the date President Abraham Lincoln signed the grant that set aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove for preservation, a first for the federal government.
The improvement project would be paid for by the Yosemite Conservancy. The plan is available on the park's website. Comments will be accepted through May 7.


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Hi!!! how can I edit my profile? No puedo llenar los datos.
Just click on 'Profile' in the top middle area of the website and it should take you to JMQ.com where you can update your profile.
I spoke to David a few days ago and I'm pretty sure that he said that there was a problem at the moment with the 'profile' button, but hopefully it'll be fixed soon so keep trying and you should be able to access it soon
yep, but i think there working on it now cause there's a part of it fixed, with a new jay pic and stuff...so just wait and see
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Harry Shum, Jr. has been cast in the upcoming Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon prequel.
Harry Shum
The actordancer is set to play Tie-Fang, one of the four heroes of the martial arts world, alongside Donnie Yen as Silent Wolf and Michelle Yeoh, who will reprise her role as Yu Shu-Lien.
The next instalment will centre around the foursome as they fight to keep the legendary sword Green Destiny from the hands of villainous Hades Dai.
Shum, Jr. is best known as Glee's Mike Chang.
He also recently wrapped filming on a drama with Ray Liotta, called Revenge of the Green Dragons.
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Most experts agree: when it comes to skincare, the purer the better.
Advocates of organic products in particular argue that, since they contain a higher concentration of natural actives, and hence a closer affinity to the skin's own make-up, they are better able to support the skin's natural processes of cell renewal, hydration, oxygenation and protection.
Pure, natural and organic formulas are an especially important choice for those with sensitive skin conditions, such as acne or eczema, as they are less likely to irritate or cause reactions.