PrivateTim

Well geeze, I was gonna be polite and not point out you were getting older..... But here is a special greeting from my close personal friends Paul, Ringo, John and George.

I agree and I officiate two sports (or four if you want to be technical). The sports I do are water polo and wrestling, but in wrestling I do three distinct types of wrestling, American folkstyle (what we do in high school and college), Freestyle and Greco Roman (what you see in the Olympics and the rest of the world). The contrasts between how officials who only do American folkstyle and those who also do the international styles is stark. American sports have a the "rule are the rules" mentality, black and white, it says it, that is what it is. International sports are more about the spirit and the intent of the rule and getting a fair result. And if you needed MORE reason to dislike the Monrovia coach........ he did not field his top team on the boy's varsity level, he dropped any athlete who was a freshman or sophomore to the frosh-soph team(9th-10th grades or roughly 15-16 for our foreign friends) off varsity (highest level) so they could win the league title at the lower level. http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/preps/ci_14989503

So does toe fungus.......

A shower is utilitarian. A bath is a luxury. Scented water, pedals floating in the water, aroma candles to bathe by and someone special in a nice large tub......

A sex scene is like any other scene in a story it should move the story forward, not sidetrack it. If the story is a coming of age story or a story of discovery, the sex scene can be very powerful and crucial. It doesn't need to be explicit It also should not be gratuitous or prurient.

Don't you have a chapter of Perks to bang out??? Or maybe SEVERAL chapters?

I think it presumptuous to accuse the other coach of being willing to go to the same level to win a meet based on no evidence. I was raised on the concept of fair play and stories like Luz Long and Jesse Owens where sportsmanship was more important than merely winning. I have seen many examples of fair play from coaches and players over the years although they seem to come fewer and fewer these days. But I believe as you sew , so shall you reap. No one is going to cut Monrovia High any breaks. This might bite them in the ass and then some.

This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. Henry V – act iv scene iii

Mmmm, but you weren't the best little boy in the world, because best little boys didn't do that.... or like other best little boys.... It was the aspects of being the best little boy in the world so your parents would like you and be proud of you that I could relate to.

Basically it is about "John Reid" who we later found out was Andrew Tobias, the financial writer, coming to terms with his sexuality. How could the "best little boy in the world" be gay, because all the good little boys went to great colleges, met the perfect woman, had perfect children got perfect jobs and life was just... well perfect. It was a struggle for "John" to figure out that wasn't the path for him.

Ok, so I admit I picked this book off the shelf in the bookstore because of its cover. I am like totally shallow. But when I turned to the opening chapter and read "I was eighteen years old when I learned to fart." I knew i was buying it. It turned out to be one of my favorite books of all time and one of the few books that had a direct impact on me. It was like reading my life story. Has any one else read it?

Oh yeah and what up with Vegemite? I totally don't get that.

Jacob, do you have a link to the story about the boy raped by the football team or recall what city/state it was in? I've tried to Google it but can't find it. I did find some hazing/bullying stories, but I don't think they were the one you were referring to. Thanks!

Happy Birthday Mark. Here is a special song for you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFdZSjLUhkc

Really? I so didn't like Quinn.... I think In The Fish Bowl is downright brilliant. I love The Lo(n)g Way, but it is fuffy compared to ITFB. ITFB could be a Masterpiece Theater mini-series.

I was actually referring to U.S. schools only, since those are the only studies I've seen. We don't really have tech schools in the U.S. any more, even though they might have the name still. The majority of remaining single sex schools in the U.S. these days are mostly Catholic schools and some charter schools in the U.S. inner city. There is definite political correctness going on in the U.S. when it comes to single sex education, especially in the inner cities. Several studies have shown African American boys perform much better academically, have lower dropout rates and lower deliquency rates when taught in single sex programs, but there is still resistence to expanding the programs. http://www.brighterchoice.org/index.php?id=29 http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/er/fsmn_09.html It is still an evolving topic.

Is this a two for one deal? Does Matt come as part of the package??

Hmmm, how long will it take to read this story to get me up to speed.... or can you do a non-spoiler Cliff Notes (Spark notes).

It is a three legged stool actually and part of what Nephy said addressed two of the three legs, do students get distracted by the other sex and what are their socialization skills with the opposite sex. There no no studies I know of suggesting that separating the sexes leads to serious socialization problems, there are studies that suggest students learn better, which IS the main goal of school, in single sex classrooms and or schools. The third leg is that students in single sex schools flourish in areas they do not in coed schools. For girls, it is math and science in single sex schools, for boys it is the arts and music. Oh and Ritalin is passe, Aderall is all the rage now.

You might find this Stetson University experiment interesting. They completed a three-year pilot project comparing single-sex classrooms with coed classrooms at a nearby neighborhood public school, Woodward Ave. For example, students in the 4th grade at Woodward were assigned either to single-sex or coed classrooms. All relevant parameters were matched: the class sizes were all the same, the demographics were the same, all teachers had the same training in what works and what doesn't work, etc. For the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, these were the results: boys in coed classes: 37% scored proficient girls in coed classes: 59% scored proficient girls in single-sex classes: 75% scored proficient boys in single-sex classes: 86% scored proficient. These students were all learning the same curriculum in the same school. The school mainstreams students who are learning-disabled, or who have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and so on. Many of those boys who scored proficient in the all-boys classes had previously been labeled ADHD or Exceptional Student Education (and not in the good way) in coed classes. I do find distraction a legitimate reason for single sex education. And boys and girls learn differently. Other studies show that boys in single sex schools are less competitive and more collaborative. They all participate more in drama and music than in coed schools. There is also a recent UCLA study that shows the benefits to girls in single sex situations over coed.

I think there is a big difference between an all boys school and and all boys boarding school. In general I think single gender can be highly beneficial, but like anything it has its pluses and minuses. My experiences with single gender education suggest that more gets taught with less in the way of distractions. Are there social disadvantages? Perhaps, but in some of the single gender experiments in the inner cities of the U.S., it seems to have worked to the benefit of the students.

It depends on the sauce.....

I say first option. It was very impact-full to me that way in It Started With Brian.

Mmmmm frog's legs...

Eh escargot only tastes good because you drown it in butter and garlic. Cat poop would taste okay in enough butter and garlic. Calamari though is great. I know places that do it so tender and in a light batter it melts in your mouth. I know another place that does it "abalone style" where they pound it flat and saute it.... just yummy. I can tell we need to get you out of the house more......