56-Year-Old Woman Gives Birth
 Francesca, Aleta Saint James, and Gian |
And, what makes this story so is amazing, is that Saint James turns 57 on Friday, making her the oldest American ever to have twins.
Saint James, who helped co-found the Guardian Angels with her brother Curtis Sliwa, is a single, first-time mom. At a news conference in New York she said, "This is the most incredible thing I've ever done in my life. This is a miracle that God blessed me with."
She spent $25,000 on in-vitro fertilization to get pregnant. Her story prompted some criticism, from people who objected to her becoming a parent so late in life.
But doctors said, there were no medical reasons to hold her back and Saint James insists her age is not important.
"A lot of people may think I am selfish or crazy or whatever," St. James said. She said, "Well, I'm a little bit crazy. I've never lived in the box. I just say if you have a dream, if you put your mind to it and don't listen to other people's negativity, you can really do incredible things."
What's more, the new mother says she has the means to raise a family with plenty of loving support and a whole lot of faith.
Let me be the first to say WHAT THE FUCK. I'm sorry but thats probably one of the most selfish things someone can do short of suicide. Oh im 57, my uterus is like a spagehti western set, barren and full of tumbleweeds, I want to have a child. Someone should have just smashed her face in at the first thought of this. These kids won't have a life, uh oh mom fell and broke her hip... Sure she can take care of them or get them what they need, but that still won't be like having two loving parents that are not getting the AARP newsletter and worried about early bird specials. What a fucking cunt. People seem to worry about the wrong shit these days, This story is a human interest piece on the news but you don't hear anything about the woman that works 2 jobs, doesn't ask for hand outs and raises 2 kids... no its the cunt that sells papers. Sometimes I just wonder how this world hasn't imploded yet.
Story two gets even better
Used by Satan himself red pens are the devils tool.
Tuesday, September 7, 2004
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/189374_tf207.html
Red pens flunking out
Students don't like to see red marks on their papers and neither do their parents. This is why schoolteachers apparently are switching from red to tamer colors when grading exams and homework, according to research at office supply stores.
Paper Mate reports that sales of red pens have been flat in the past year, but purple ones are being snapped up, specifically by teachers, with sales rising 10 percent.
One Georgia teacher calls red "just too harsh. I will use purple or green, but never red. I think it's very demoralizing for a child to have written a creative paper and to have it marked up all in red to show that it's awful."
Paper Mate says its research suggests teachers like purple because it's a friendly color, yet projects a sense of authority.
One Georgia teacher calls red "just too harsh. I will use purple or green, but never red. I think it's very demoralizing for a child to have written a creative paper and to have it marked up all in red to show that it's awful."
Maybe seeing the red will make little Billy realize a little more effort is needed in his work. Fuck this pantywaisted mentality, oh poor kid we'll mask how stupid he is by correcting things in purple pen.
From : http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1234870/posts
Teachers starting to shun red pens
San Diego Union Tribune ^ | 10-4-04 | By Sherry Parmet
Posted on 10/04/2004 9:43:38 AM PDT by It's me
When term papers get graded this school year, many students who turn in sloppy work won't be seeing red.
An increasingly popular grading theory insists red ink is stressful and demoralizes students, while purple, the preferred color, has a more calming effect.
"I never use red to grade papers because it stands out like, 'Oh, here's what you did wrong.' " said Melanie Irvine, a third-grade teacher at Pacific Rim Elementary in Carlsbad. "Purple is a more approachable color."
Irvine said that in elementary schools, it's unnecessary to point out every error. Instead, a teacher should find a more delicate way to help a child learn.
The writing-instrument industry is a lucrative one, netting more than $4.5 billion in U.S. consumer spending a year, and the nation's major suppliers of pens have discovered many teachers like Irvine.
Paper Mate stepped up production of purple pens by 10 percent this year in response to focus groups that alerted the company to the many teachers switching to purple.
"This is a kinder, more gentler education system," Paper Mate spokesman Michael Finn said. "And the connotation of red is that it is not as constructive as purple."
Two years ago, almost no purple pens were stocked on the shelves of Staples stores. After teachers began demanding the color, however, the national office-supply company obliged. Staples went from adding purple pens to multipacks last year to now manufacturing packages of solely purple pens.
"Teachers are a great customer for us, and we need to supply them what they need," said Staples spokeswoman Sharyn Frankel. "If they come to us and say, 'We need purple,' we get them purple." Although some educators are sticking to red for grading, the trend seems to be toward a less-judgmental shade.
"We try to be as gentle as we can and not slice children's thoughts to pieces with a red pen," said Laurie Francis, principal of Del Mar Hills Academy. "The red mark is associated with 'This is wrong,' and as you're trying to guide students in the revision process, it doesn't mean this is wrong. It's just here's what you can do better."
Teachers traditionally wielded a red pen because it stood out on paper, and they had to use a different color than black or blue, the shade typically used by students.
The idea that red induces stress, especially in younger children, has been around for years, said Lawrence Jones, a psychology teacher and former graphic-design instructor at The Art Institute of California San Diego.
"You associate red with blood, stop and danger," he said. "Teachers, realizing the immense problems they face with kids in education, find avoiding red helps them avoid one more negative in a child's life."
Daniel Ochoa, a color theory teacher at the institute, said purple is associated with spirituality, royalty and elegance. Green is also soothing, he said, because it is the color of the forest and symbolic of refreshment.
Lisa Parker, principal of Chula Vista Hills Elementary, said she has no policy on pen color, but definitely has a preference.
"We never say to teachers, 'No red,' but to get a paper back with red marks all over it is not necessarily the best way to get kids to be comfortable with their writing," she said.
Yet tradition is hard to break.
Gloria Ciriza, a fifth-grade teacher at Pomerado Elementary in Poway, corrected papers in red when she began teaching 11 years ago because it was familiar to her. Now, she doesn't necessarily favor purple, but she prefers a softer color.
"If it's in red, they want to put it in their desks real quickly so nobody else can see," she said. "If it's in another color, they're a little more comfortable."
Not all educators, however, are surrendering their apple-red pens.
Some argue that American culture is one of extremes. They say the same students who receive color-sensitive grades leave school and play gory video games. And some attribute the dwindling number of red pens in the classroom to self-esteem sensitivity run amok. Skeptics discount fears of the shade and wonder whether all the attention to the color of a grade has any substantive effect.
Sheldon Brown, a visual arts professor at the University of California San Diego and director of the school's Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, said the negative reaction to grading in red is culturally embedded – a reaction more ingrained in the teachers than the students.
"Teachers may start out using purple, a color that they seem to think has less negative connotations, but in time, after kids have gone through 12 years of purple check marks, they're going to think purple is an awful color," Brown said.
Many educators say the choice of pen color is only the tip of making the grading experience a positive one for kids. Some argue that the science of grading is so much more than a check mark on a piece of paper.
Lorri Santamaria, who instructs aspiring teachers at California State University San Marcos, said callous grading can cause kids to loathe school, and she cautions her students against correcting tests in red.
Stephen Ahle, the principal at Pacific Rim Elementary, said grading is much more sophisticated than it used to be. Every aspect of grading – from the language used to the teacher's tone and the color of ink used to make corrections – leaves a psychological imprint on students, he said. "I tell teachers to use more neutral colors – blues and greens, and lavender because it's a calming color," he said. "And, of course, kids also like purple because it's the color of Barney."
This is our future folks. I really get sick when I see this stuff, it boggles my mind as how we as a nation actually let this shit happen in our schools. Umm parents quit worrying about guns and drugs, this is a major problem. Drugs are bad sure, as are guns in the hands of the young and un-trained, but christ changing colors to make things seem less harsh ? There is a bus just waiting to hit these people as they cross streets everywhere. Hopefully its on Christmas day and ruin everyone elses fun. I can see it now "Slaughter in the cross walk, 100's of pussy teachers run over by yellow school busses"
Im done, time for the guns and drugs...
-T.
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