A final Word

feeds@yuku.com (pennylee) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:50:53 GMT

Age 58

William - contact

feeds@yuku.com (pennylee) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:22:39 GMT

This is an open post. William - please contact me either here on the board or via a message. It is important and I have no other access to find you or your mom.

Thank you
Your Aunt

Research on Substitute teacher cases:

feeds@yuku.com (NicholasOtani) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:09:40 GMT

Substitute teacher gets his job back pronto after suspension for bin Laden writing

Saturday, September 22, 2001

By Carmen J. Lee, Post-Gazette Education Writer

City school officials have reinstated a substitute teacher who was suspended Thursday because of a quote he wrote in a newspaper margin about Osama bin Laden.

District spokeswoman Pat Crawford said that after school officials met with John Gardner...

I support Hillary Clinton

feeds@yuku.com (NicholasOtani) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:32:28 GMT

Several commentators are calling for Hillary, now, to get out of the race, to call it quits. They say she does not have a chance to gain the delgates she needs to win the nomination, and she is hurting Obama's chances and the Democratic Party. I commend her for not giving up, for fighting to the end. It is possible to come from behind and win. This is the kind of determination we want to see in a President, not a getting out when the going gets tough.

I also have to decide if I...

My Letter to the Assistant Superintendent

feeds@yuku.com (NicholasOtani) — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:27:31 GMT

Nicholas Otani

12103 E. Main,

Apt. 20

No Reservations

feeds@yuku.com (NicholasOtani) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:07:13 GMT

This is a great chick flick, with beautiful Catherine Zeta Jones and cute Abigail Breslin. There is also a lot of food preperation stuff that reminds of Hell's Kitchen, all that goes on in kitchens of busy resturants.

bis bald,

Nick

Michael Clayton

feeds@yuku.com (NicholasOtani) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:46:32 GMT

I always like to see George Clooney in movies. This one was a little long, but it did, after seeing No Country for Old Men, at least finally had a satisfying ending.

This is one of those movies that starts near the end and then goes back to prior events which explain how we got here. Then, it picks back up and finishes.

It is a lawyer type movie, which I also like, and the main character, Clooney, has some flaws he has to overcome. It makes him a rounded, believable...

No Country for Old Men

feeds@yuku.com (NicholasOtani) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:31:37 GMT

Several people rave about this movie. I don't see what is so great about it. Yes, it did remind me of Fargo for awhile. There is some good acting with Tommy Lee Jones and Woody Harrelson and others, and the cat and mouse game between the bad guy and the cowboy we all identify with is interesting for awlile. It is almost like a chess game, but then the cowboy gets killed. There are a few speeches and dialogues, but I couldn't find a message. This is one of those movies which leaves us...

Challenged Students

feeds@yuku.com (NicholasOtani) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:36:41 GMT

There have been times when I have had to work around special education students who are mainstreamed into the regular classes. Today, I had one. This would have been a routine day with no significant problems except that his young man suddenly had a melt down in class. He became upset and wanted to beat-up everyone in the class. I didn't notice anyone taunting him. It was just something in his head that made him angry. Out of nowhere, seemingly, he wanted to fight everyone.

I...

New words of wisdom

feeds@yuku.com (concept lad) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:43:37 GMT

To what is possibly the wisest and most honest webpage on the net, comes some new words of wisdom. (Look for 'New' under some of the pics):

http://www.despair.com/viewall.html

Some radical ideas about education

feeds@yuku.com (Ducky M) — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:15:02 GMT

There's only one teacher. It's called Life.

There's only one school. It's called The School of Hard Knocks.

Conventional "educational" establishments exist mainly to allow their administrators to acquire wealth and power. A facade of academic freedom and tolerance for dissenting views is maintained as long as the prevailing pecking order is not threatened. The operative unwritten law is: "Don't rock the boat." Those who insist in...

A fearless debater I have met in person

feeds@yuku.com (Ducky M) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:17:22 GMT

Although he calls himself an atheist rather than an objectivist, Mark Smith is not afraid to vigorously defend the cause of objective reality

Freethinker Debate Strategy

A visitor from Duckland comments on human affairs

feeds@yuku.com (Ducky M) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:43:27 GMT
Our kind resolves pecking order issues quite promptly and with minimal bodily and environmental damage. For humans, however, these decisions almost always entail an inordinate amount of time, effort, and consumption of material resources. This does not bode well for the long-term survival of Homo Sapiens.

Perhaps the supposedly most intelligent species on Planet Earth could benefit from our example. As long as we have a choice, and as long as we can find enough pond scum to nourish...

Alice in Objectivist Land, part one

feeds@yuku.com (NicholasOtani) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:41:56 GMT

One day young Alice Blumenthal was playing in a tree in the park when she noticed a white rabbit scampering across the grass and disappearing into a hole in front of some bushes. Alice was curious, so she followed the rabbit and peered into the hole. However, she felt herself slipping and falling into the hole and down into a large pit. "Oh, dear!" she said, and then she hit the...

Alice in Objectivist Land, part one

feeds@yuku.com (NicholasOtani) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:30:01 GMT

One day young Alice Blumenthal was playing in a tree in the park when she noticed a white rabbit scampering across the grass and disappearing into a hole in front of some bushes. Alice was curious, so she followed the rabbit and peered into the hole. However, she felt herself slipping and falling into the hole and down into a large pit. "Oh, dear!" she said, and then she hit the...

Seems like I'm in trouble again

feeds@yuku.com (NicholasOtani) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:00:00 GMT

On February 28, 2008, at about 3:00, I checked my mail and received a letter, dated February 27, 2008, from Central Valley School District, one of the districts for which I substitute teach. The letter read as follows:

Dear Nicholas,

Some changes from the change-over

feeds@yuku.com (NicholasOtani) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:32:05 GMT

For some reason, certain punctuation disappeared from my Alice series, posted both in this and the Writer's forum. after the switch from ezboard to this Yuku format. I am trying to slowly go over it again and put all the quotation marks and apostrophes back in. This didn't happen with some of my other posts which had such punctuation marks. I don't know why. Can anyone find any other discrepencies?

bis bald,

Nick

Sudoku puzzles and computer programming

feeds@yuku.com (Ducky M) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:34:11 GMT
If you know anybody interested in solving sudoku puzzles or in computer programming, please refer them to this thread

I Am Legend

feeds@yuku.com (concept lad) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:34:24 GMT
I saw it the other day. The script seemed a whole lot like Omega Man, with Charleton Heston.

Overall, it didn't do for me anything like the hype suggested it would.

Is it just to use force to prevent nuclear threat?

feeds@yuku.com (NicholasOtani) — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:08:06 GMT

This was my experience as a judge for a debate on whether or not the U.S should use force to prevent other countries from becoming a nuclear threat:

The Lincoln-Douglas debate proposition was:

NickOtani'sNeo-Objectivism

A final Word

William - contact

Research on Substitute teacher cases:

I support Hillary Clinton

My Letter to the Assistant Superintendent

No Reservations

Michael Clayton

No Country for Old Men

Challenged Students

New words of wisdom

Some radical ideas about education

A fearless debater I have met in person

Freethinker Debate Strategy

A visitor from Duckland comments on human affairs

Alice in Objectivist Land, part one

Alice in Objectivist Land, part one

Seems like I'm in trouble again

Some changes from the change-over

Sudoku puzzles and computer programming

I Am Legend

Is it just to use force to prevent nuclear threat?