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amawanqa
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OK, here's a few pics from Sunday night's festivities, at our friends' place, and taken with the Nokia 3230:
These were taken with the P900 en route to the house, with the silhouette of the houses along the street barely visible in the foreground:
Ain't that easy to take pics at night of these bright showering shards of light with basic cellphone cameras; it was more outta fun experimenting with these to see what they could indeed capture.
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Kryptik
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Those pix are great, Wanqa!!!
@Brix, i saw that ad too, very catchy indeed.
So i get a call from a former headmaster who's now with the General Motors Foundation. The GMSA directors want to implement a programme whereby they can contribute to solving the problem of school violence which is spiralling out of control. To get the ball rolling, they've arranged a meeting for tomorr evening, with the staffs of some of the most affected local schools, together with their communities, etc. Here's the rub- i've been involved in such a programme for the past year, so two of us who've been training as mediators/instructors have been asked to address the bigwigs, where i'll need to make the maximum impact on these folks. I know the type of question they're likely to ask, and how to answer them, but for now, i need your thoughts on the current situation in our schools?
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brix25
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Kryptik
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Hehehe, that's the one, Brix!
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francoislr
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lol!that cell c ad is quite funny,when they jump the guy and hug and all-hilarious! So if we could make our own cell network, what would we take from each of the different networks? I vote for the cell c look and advertising. What you guys say? (Save the rand!)
On school violence, my brother got thrown into a computer studies position at a school despite having only it training and experience, and he is doing a great job. But he is doing such a great job that a private school might want him. 3 times the pay for less work, and a disciplinary system where the kids get kicked out if they even look at you funny. We have talked about it, and it is so, the kids do not listen to anything, mxit the whole day long, and have an 'it's my right' attitude. Discipline should be applied harshly, and together with the parents. If the parents are not interested in working with the school then there should be proper notification and expulsion. If the kid has a parent issue, then he should not have screwed up in the first...
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francoislr
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...place. If they wanna do the spanking thing, there has to be written permissions from the parents, with proper guidelines, with a video camera taping the procedure, along with other teachers as witnesses. But it will not work as well as parents taking charge. If the parents can't, then the kid should be in a minor detention centre.
My whole thing with the involvement thing is pretty much that my friend Handsome is a teacher at a private Christian school. The principal is another friend of mine's mother. Now Christian schools really do get the worst of the bad kids,hoping the school will sort them out.it will not happen. How it is handled there is reward for good work and instant punishment for bad, with two warnings. The instant you get in trouble, your parent is asked to come to the school to punish you. In essence they are forcing the parents to take responsibility for the kids. I mean, if you as a parent had to go to the school to discipline the kids, or else they get expelled, what would you do?
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amawanqa
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Accountability...a word that (unfortunately) far too many parents nowadays seem to forget about, and how many of these parents that fail in this area then try pass the buck on 'the system?'
Right, if any of you feel like winding up some ManUre supporters tomorrow, draw their attention to tonight's Carling Cup clash, where Championship League strugglers Southend (which is a popular holiday town along the coast in Essex) knocked ManUre out of the competition by (incredibly) beating them 1-0 tonight...how's that for an upset for the bookies?! 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/league_cup/6116346.stm
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francoislr
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That situation as parent would really pizz you off, so essentially you will have to discipline the kid. And it happens there, the parents punishing the kids. Handsome has asked some kids who get in trouble daily what happened at home, and yeah, they get the best medicine:)
Lets face it, teachers hands are cut off. The best is, put the ball in the parents court. If they dont deal with their family, their kids, expulsion should be inevitable and the problem would not be the schools anymore. And three schools three expulsions should equate to a special military school being the only one the kid is allowed to go to or home schooling.
So there, a bunch of ideas. Use them, dont use them. Think about them, adjust them, but i think it is a good starting point. If not in essence, maybe in getting the ball rolling in ideas.
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Kryptik
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Thanx for the input, guys, i appreciate it, and i'll give it my best shot.
On a sadder note, one of my wife's cousins, who grew up a street away from my parent's house, and to whom i was very close, died tragically this evening. I've just come from the scene of the accident, not 500metres from his house, at a 4way stop. He folded his bakkie around a tree so severely that cutting equipment had to be used to extricate him... Now, as much as i love him, and mourn his passing, he knew the risks of speeding, since we'd often spoken about his driving habits. I couldn't bring myself to take a few pix of what the tree looked like... Suffice it to say that a 40year old oak, at the very least 20metres in height, has been reduced to the size of a shrub. Rustin would've been married in December, just after his 24th birthday. For the love of God, plz watch your speed, guys (and Psycho and Medusa).
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brix25
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I'm extra careful when it comes to driving, yesterday a colleague called me nervous.
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JK
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On 2006-11-08 00:26:00, Kryptik wrote:
Thanx for the input, guys, i appreciate it, and i'll give it my best shot.
On a sadder note, one of my wife's cousins, who grew up a street away from my parent's house, and to whom i was very close, died tragically this evening. I've just come from the scene of the accident, not 500metres from his house, at a 4way stop. He folded his bakkie around a tree so severely that cutting equipment had to be used to extricate him... Now, as much as i love him, and mourn his passing, he knew the risks of speeding, since we'd often spoken about his driving habits. I couldn't bring myself to take a few pix of what the tree looked like... Suffice it to say that a 40year old oak, at the very least 20metres in height, has been reduced to the size of a shrub. Rustin would've been married in December, just after his 24th birthday. For the love of God, plz watch your speed, guys (and Psycho and Medusa).
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Medusa a chick?? |
francoislr
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yep...didn't you know? She is a relation of Kryptik..(am I right?) and all that.
Lets put it this way, at least with Psychonymphe we had the latter part of the name as clue, but in the same breath, Medusa is also a female in Greek Mythology. This is what the dictionary says:
Noun: medusa (medusae,medusas) mu'doosu
1. Any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans
2. One of two forms that coelenterates take: is the free-swimming sexual stage in the life cycle of a coelenterate and has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles
Noun: Medusa mu'doosu
1. (Greek mythology) a woman transformed into a Gorgon by Athena; she was slain by Perseus
So there we have it, as the dictionary says. Now to the source:
Medusa, why that nickname? (do you have snakes growing out of your head?;-)
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francoislr
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@ Kryptik, condolences about your wifes cousin bro. |
Siosal
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The dictionary says that i'm full of crap. So just so we all know... i'm a guy. Not a typical one, but a guy nonetheless. Sorry to hear about the accidents and losses. I never drive without my seatbelt. I make it a habit and request my passengers do the same. They don't seem to understand that it's not your own driving you should worry about but that of others on the road. |
brix25
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Sweltering hot day in Cape Town and I need to get back home because I forgot my wallet.
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