| Your guide to the Section III boys and girls basketball tournaments
Preaster, no doubt, would like to go out a winner, and winning a third straight Section III title would be quite a sendoff for the Proctor senior, considering he was the only starter returning from last year's championship team. West Canada Valley's Indians, meanwhile, are 20-0 and seeded No. 1 in Class C-2 for the second straight year. And you can bet senior starters Jeff Yaworski, Rip McKerrow, Dan DeKalb and Ben Maxwell are determined to make all of the Kuyahoora Valley forget how last season ended - with a double-overtime loss to Frankfort-Schuyler in the Class C-2 final. Cooperstown (C-1) and Richfield Springs (D-1) are the other two are teams seeded first in the playoffs. The tournament is "open" to any team, regardless of regular-season record, but several area schools chose not to participate this year, including Camden in Class A, Ilion and Canastota in Class B, and Poland, Owen D.
Rich, Fisked
A cultural sea change has passed it by. The 2008 primary campaign has been so fast and furious that we haven't paused to register just how spectacular that change is. All the fretful debate about whether voters would turn out for a candidate who is a black or a woman seems a century ago. Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama vanquished the Democratic field, including a presidential-looking Southern white man with an enthusiastic following, John Edwards. What was only months ago an exotic political experiment is now almost ho-hum. Really? It wasn't Republicans claiming to see the "Bradley effect" after Obama's NH loss; those were fellow members of Frank's MSM. And just this week, the sitting Dem governor of Pennsylvania said that some whites won't vote for a black man. Rich then argues against his own case, writing that Mr.
Sex workers in it for a quick buck
The Prostitutes Collective believes most sex workers simply use the industry to make a quick buck. National Coordinator Catherine Healy says only a third of New Zealand's prostitutes use sex as a means to live. She says the remainder do not stay with the world's oldest profession for very long. Ms Healy says one of the motivations for being in the profession is to have things they would not normally be able to afford. She says they earn up to $120 an hour, which can open up a lot of opportunities. Ms Healy says about 20 per cent of sex workers have taken up tertiary study. Share this Article:
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Principal sees technology as supplement to education
He now writes a blog for his staff after attending a half-day Northside Independent School District workshop on blogging last year. The elementary students know a little bit about word processing and PowerPoint presentations because that's what the school teaches them, Van Winkle said. And fifth-graders are beginning to get into iPods, he said. He sees technology as a tremendous benefit in the classroom, but it has to aid the learning process, he said. "I think that anything we can use within ethical and legal parameters that fosters high-level thinking is good for kids," Van Winkle said. "You're putting them into a whole another world of being able to think outside the box." Van Winkle remembers his first computer was an Apple IIe in 1986 when he worked as a fifth-grade teacher.
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