Mary Ann Teixeira says that a great reason to live on the Peninsula is the multitude of opportunities homeowners have to learn and grow. Opportunities including the 2011 SF Flower and Garden show that took place March 23-27th in San Mateo.
Burlingame, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) March 30, 2011
Judy," who was previously loving, kind and considerate, has for the last year distanced herself from me. I have left messages on her answering machine because she won't answer the phone. I have sent her cards and letters, only to receive no response. We live a short distance of each other, but I haven't seen her in a year.
I am bewildered by this abrupt change in our mother-daughter relationship. I have pleaded for an explanation; there's never any response.
Authorities on Monday identified one of two men who died after a rented sailboat carrying 10 family members capsized in calm water and good weather in San Diego Bay.
Eight other people who were thrown into the water were injured. The cause of the mishap was under investigation.
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A teacher causes an uproar with a lesson that asked kids, "What does the U.S. do to illegal aliens?" One of the multiple-choice options: "Puts them to death"
The video: Georgia school officials are investigating a curious third-grade assignment at Chesney Elementary in Duluth.(see clip below), the teacher's lesson featured a multiple choice question asking, "What does the U.S. do with illegal aliens?" The answers included: "A. The U.S. puts them to work in the army; B. The U.S. shoots them into outer space; C. The U.S. puts them to death; D. The U.S. sends them back where they came from." After Kelly Avalos, elder sister to one of the students, saw the quiz and found answer C "very disturbing," she alerted the local NBC affiliate. A spokesman for the local school board has since said the quiz was "not appropriate," and promised an investigation into who approved its use.The reaction: It's bad enough when children have to "imbibe hate speech through TV," , but it's "much more atrocious" when it comes "from a source they trust and possibly look up to," as part of their education, no less. Yes, "this is just plain wrong," . The teacher apparently got the quiz from a popular "education website." But before we reflexively cry anti-Hispanic racism, it's worth noting: "The teacher, according to the student's family, is Latina." Watch the news report below:
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Twitter is becoming the place for parody with a cast of characters that includes an elusive cobra, a tipsy Queen of England, a profanity-spewing US politician and a maladroit BP spokesman.
The latest entry in the Twitter comedy sweepstakes was @BronxZoosCobra, a Twitter feed which purported to be that of the Bronx Zoo's escaped Egyptian cobra that amassed more than 200,000 followers in less than four days.
US oil giant ExxonMobil will begin exploratory drilling off central Vietnam in late April, official media reported Thursday, potentially angering China, which has objected to similar plans in the past.
The project will be located at "Block 119" off Danang city and the adjacent Quang Ngai province, the Vietnam News reported, but it was not immediately clear if the drilling was in a disputed area claimed by both countries.
Jamie Dimon and Elizabeth Warren, both power players in U.S. finance, used a high-profile U.S. Chamber of Commerce platform on Wednesday to advance opposing agendas in the debate over regulation reform.
The two did not cross paths at the forum on capital markets in the chamber's stately Washington headquarters, situated within view of the White House, but their remarks reflected the intensity that still characterizes the issue.
