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Germany is ranked #2 in the world, Portugal is #5 so that is a big win for Germany and now puts Portugal and the #4 Dutch in a must win game if either hopes to advance.

I don't especially care about the cheater, nor his/her partner, I simply could not do it because I wouldn't be happy with myself, which means some where in there I care about the cheater and his/her partner, but not directly. It gets rather circular. Morality is what you do when no one is watching.

Pop Culture by Madeon. Here is a cool vid someone made using it.

No cheating

I was sad to hear of Bradbury's passing. After the "big three" of Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke, Bradbury was one of my favorites. Ursula Le Guin is probably my favorite living sci-fi writer now.

Being straight never adversely affected the level of same sex hijinks at elite prep schools.

There is a reason the Pedro Zamora Youth HIV Clinic is the Pedro Zamora Youth HIV Clinic and not the John Holmes Youth HIV Clinic. Pedro Zamora was a sympathetic character for most people, John Holmes was not. You think it may not matter, but when you are walking a fine line for support and funding you have to balance considerations. I just liked seeing JP and Beau back in the story. Maybe Beau will narrate one day? Even if a separate story, I just love the boy's prep boarding school stories! Ah love is in bloom at Phillips Exeter

Nice to see JP relevant and involved in a story (CAP) that is really his story. I liked Wade's interplay with his sister. If she wants to blame Wade for her getting beat up, it could make her mother look bad so now Elizabeth has an interest in keeping a lid on Mary Ellen and may even making a deal with Jason Haupt and the DA to slap him on the wrists and sweep the whole thing under a rug.

By the way, Spain will win. Probably beat Germany in the finals. The French won't advance and that will threaten the new government. Greece won't score and there will be a general strike called. Ireland will show up with hurling sticks and be very confused. England will put a team on the field either too young or too old and wonder why they didn't advance. Scotland will show up only to be told they hadn't qualified actually. Croatia will have smart uniforms. That's it. They'll have smart uniforms. Moving on. Ukraine will advance on the strength of home field, only to be brought crashing back to earth in the elimination round. Sweden should advance because they are all gorgeous blonde men who look like Viking gods. Denmark will prove once and for all, you can play football in wooden shoes. The Czech Republic will provide lots of drama and not much else. Poland will find out that beating a country with a population of 7,000 4-0 does NOT mean you are ready for real teams, but with the weakest group, will advance anyway. Russia will attempt to return to relevance in sports. Portugal has the great misfortune of being in a group with the #2 & #4 teams in the world in their pool. They will pray for rain to slow down the Dutch. The Netherlands has the great misfortune of being in a group with the #2 & #5 teams in the world in their pool, but if the weather holds they should advance, but the battle to advance will take away their legs and they fall in elimination.

I want to know who got those Asian students to stop studying for 2 minutes and 23 seconds to make a video.

So are you saying 25 years is the max penalty in Canada? Can they give non-concurrent sentences for multiple crimes? Besides the murder, he dismembered the body, mailed pieces about the country, tortured kittens, etc. If that isn't deserving of more than 25 years, the Canuks need to rethink some things.

Meh, the strike/lock out was a turn-off and the NBA bores me anyway. I'd rather watch college or good high school games than the NBA most days of the week.

Formula One? Is that a Gerber or Similac brand??

It is a sidetrack, but an interesting one. I wonder if there will be a backlash in the US?

Now there are five words you just never see together. Victim of Canadian porn star cannibal is Chinese gay lover as police reveal 'murderer' is on the run in France... dressed as a woman

Harvard Westlake isn't a public school with rigid, "the five year old brought a plastic knife to school to cut his apple, let's suspend him under our no tolerance of weapons policy" type policies. They care about their kids, and not just because they are paying $30k a year or have powerful parents, they care about their scholarship kids too. They use common sense and compassion when dealing with their kids. When a kid melts down like Will did their inclination isn't to pile on but to look for ways to help. The school also understands the pressure they put on kids and that a lot of the kids parents put on them and they look for signs of a kid cracking and buckling and they work hard to prevent that and help the kids. The private schools of the 1990's and on aren't the private schools that inspired Catcher in The Rye and A Separate Peace for a lot of reasons.

Here is the story with video. Worthington Boy Becomes International Inspiration After Viral Video

Even if you don't, the video on the home page is worth watching. Bridges of Hope, Indianapolis, IN

Best ever version of Rule Britannia. The last night of The Proms is something everyone should experience at least once. When Britain first, at heaven’s command, Arose from out the azure main, Arose, arose, arose from out the azure main. This was the charter, the charter of the land, And guardian angels sang the strain. Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the waves. Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the waves. Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. The nations not so blest as thee, Must in their turn to tyrants fall, Must in their turn, must in their turn, To tyrants fall, While thou shall flourish, Shall flourish great and free, The dread and envy of them all. Chorus. Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke. More dreadful, more dreadful From each foreign stroke. Loud blast above us, loud blast that tears the skies, Serves but to root thy native oak. Chorus. Thee haughty tyrants ne’er shall tame, All their attempts to bend thee down, All their attempts, all their attempts To bend thee down, Will but arouse thy generous flame. But work their woe and thy renown. Chorus. To thee belongs the rural reign, Thy cities shall with commerce shine, Thy cities shall, thy cities shall With commerce shine. All thine shall be the subject main, And every shore it circles thine. Chorus. The muses still, with freedom found, Shall to thy happy coast repair, Shall to thy happy coast, Thy happy coasts repair, Best isle of beauty, With matchless beauty crowned, And manly hearts to guard the fair. Chorus.

I think you grossly misunderstand the lunch duty of the 9th graders. They aren't bus boys or server ladies, they are monitors, they get to be in charge, they are telling their peers and the younger kids to pick up their crap. Do they have to pick up stuff themselves? Not really, not any more than the faculty members with their Maters and PhDs have to, they are supervising the people to get the job done.

Sweet chapter. It is especially nice to see Will in a comfortable friendship with someone and no sexual or romantic tensions. They can just be friends and do what 14 year olds do.

For the Glorious First of June!

No, H-W would not force Raine to do anything and I am not sure they could if they wanted to, CA has very strict, complicated laws in that area. And there were very, very few protests going on at clinics in CA and then it was at CLINICS, not the kind of place a H-W student would go, they'd be at Cedars-Sinai or UCLA and no one would ever know. It is one thing for the anti-abortion crowd in a place where there are few clinics to protest and even then it is seldom an every day thing, it is usually for a short time for the cameras. But in CA there are so many options, so many places and clinics, any protest would be short and merely symbolic. It isn't much of an issue in CA, especially So Cal. CA had laws allowing abortion before the Roe decision.

Maybe Beau will be Will's soul mate and we could see Brad and Elizabeth as in-laws.