I admit it: I’m scared! July 10, 2009
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I just found out today that I have tons of money I need to raise for the upcoming year. Even though the amount is staggering and astronomical, it didn’t freak me out at first. I don’t know if I was desensitized to it all. I guess I usually don’t get too high or too low. But as the day has gone on, it’s hit me more.
The last two weeks since I’ve come back from Summit, the two week urban project in Tacoma, and just occupying myself with mostly brainless things. I’ve needed time to rest from the school year. But it was also my way of not having to think about way lay ahead for me for the rest of the summer. I knew that the fundraising numbers were gonna be ugly.
As I enter into this phase of my summer, I see tons of obstacles in our current economic downturn. People are getting laid off and are struggling financially. So I think where are the funds gonna come from? Can I just say that fear and doubts are rolling in my head right now. I admit it – I’m scared!
God has given me this vision for the upcoming year to plant a fellowship at the UW. It’s an exciting time for me. However, the prospects of not being on campus and being limited in what I can do this upcoming year because of issues with finances and fundraising is disconcerting. I have an amazing group of students and alumni ready to plant this new fellowship next year. I have this burden that I feel about not letting them down.
I know God will provide and I feel honored that he would use me to carry out his will at the UW. However, right now, I admit I have negative thoughts running around in my head. I look back at my time in college and doing ministry wasn’t even on my radar screen. In college, I would have imagined that I would have been a lawyer and living comfortably by this time. But God changed my path and I am thankful that he did. I wouldn’t trade all that I have experienced and all the wonderful students I’ve gotten to know for anything.
So as I reflect on what’s to come, please pray for someone as unworthy me. Time to get to work!
UC San Diego admissions gaffe dashes students’ hopes – again April 1, 2009
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UC San Diego admissions gaffe dashes students’ hopes — again
“They were like, ‘Oh, my God, that’s so awesome,’ ” Bettles said. Right before he got in bed, he checked his e-mail one last time and found another message saying the school had made a mistake and his application had been denied
UCSD admissions director Mae Brown called the snafu an “administrative error” but refused to say whether the mistake was made by one or more members of her staff or by a contractor or if those responsible would be disciplined.
The e-mail, which began, “We’re thrilled that you’ve been admitted to UC San Diego, and we’re showcasing our beautiful campus on Admit Day,” was sent to the entire freshman applicant pool of more than 46,000 students, instead of just the 18,000 who had been admitted, Brown said.
The admissions director, who said she was in the office Monday until midnight answering e-mails and phone calls from disappointed students and their parents, said she took full responsibility for the error.
“We accessed the wrong database,” Brown said. “We recognize the incredible pain receiving this false encouragement caused. It was not our intent.”
All applicants were notified by e-mail weeks ago that admissions decisions were available online, according to UCSD officials, but Bettles said he was unaware he’d been rejected.
“It was really thrilling for a few hours; now he’s crushed,” said the young man’s mother, Tracy Bettles. “Unless you have a high school senior, or remember what it’s like, you don’t know. It’s really tough on them.”
Schools such as Cornell University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Northwestern University’s prestigious Kellogg School of Management have made similar admission notification blunders in the last five years, but UC San Diego’s mistake was by far the biggest.
Barmak Nassirian, associate executive director of the American Assn. of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, said colleges are concerned about the dangers of e-mail notifications but believe the benefits outweigh the risks.
“This is a source of constant worry at colleges. They use extremely sophisticated systems of communication from the front end of applications all the way to alumni relations for all kinds of high-stake business, and bad things can happen all the way,” he said.
Within moments of receiving the erroneous UC San Diego e-mails, students were abuzz on sites such as Facebook and College Confidential. In their posts, some students were hopeful that the university had changed its mind; others thought the e-mails must be bogus.
When the apology hit their inboxes later in the evening, their posts turned scornful over how the university could make such a massive goof. Some proposed jokingly that all who received the e-mail should show up en masse at Admit Day.
Many California students were already struggling to cope with what appears to be a particularly tough year for college admission, especially at the state’s public universities. Facing budget cutbacks, both the University of California and California State University have capped enrollments for the fall. UC San Diego reduced its freshman enrollment target by 520 students, to 3,775, Brown said.
Aakash Agarwal of San Jose said UC San Diego had been among his top choices, but he was not surprised when he was rejected weeks ago because of the stiff competition. He said he laughed in surprise when he received the e-mail on Monday.
“I was thinking maybe they changed their mind in terms of admitting me,” said the 17-year-old senior at the private Harker School . But he checked the admissions website “and sure enough, I was still rejected.”
“These kids are sitting on the edge of their seats waiting” to know what colleges they will get into, said Teri Kuwahara, director of the college and career center at Palos Verdes High School. Kuwahara said one of her students, after receiving the first UC San Diego e-mail on Monday, went out to dinner with her family to celebrate, then returned to find the second message wiping out her chances.
“The wrong click of a button could affect a lot of people very quickly,” she added.
Morgan Currier, a senior at the Cleveland High School humanities magnet in Reseda, said she had already decided to attend the University of Washington when she received the congratulatory e-mail. She checked her page on the UCSD applications portal and learned her status hadn’t changed, so she called the admissions office to get the straight story.
“We got the answering machine with a message left over from Christmas, saying ‘Happy Holidays,’ ” said Currier, 18, of Northridge. “This is a prominent UC, and they didn’t seem to have their act together.”
Currier said UC San Diego was the dream school for two of her friends who received the university’s welcome e-mail. “When they got the apology, it was just like getting rejected again,” she said.
Dallas police chief apologizes for conduct of officer who drew gun on NFL player outside hospital March 26, 2009
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Dallas police chief apologizes for conduct of officer who drew gun on NFL player outside hospital 3:33 PM CT
03:36 PM CDT on Thursday, March 26, 2009
Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle stood in front of a dozen news cameras this afternoon at police headquarters to apologize for the behavior of an officer who stopped a family outside a hospital emergency room.
Kunkle said Officer Robert Powell has been placed on paid administrative leave in connection with an incident last week in which he stopped a family rushing to visit a dying mother, detaining them for 13 minutes to write a traffic ticket.
“His behavior in my opinion, did not exhibit the common sense, discretion, the compassion that we expect our officers to exhibit,” the chief told a packed audience of media outlets that included Inside Edition.
During the traffic stop, caught on the officer’s in-car camera, Powell berated the driver, 26-year-old NFL running back Ryan Moats, and threatened him with arrest for running a traffic light.
“I can screw you over,” said Powell, 25. “I’d rather not do that.”
At one point during today’s news conference, Kunkle seemed to restrain himself from being even more candid with his views on the incident.
“When we in the command staff reviewed the tapes,” he said, “we were embarrassed, disappointed — it’s hard to find the right words and still be professional in my role as a police chief.”
The chief also praised Moats and his family for how they handled the officer’s behavior.
“They exercised extraordinary patience, restraint, dealing with the behavior of our officer,” Kunkle said. “At no time did Mr. Moats identify himself as an NFL football player or expect any kind of special consideration. He handled himself very, very well.”
Moats rolled through a red light as he and his wife were en route to Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano. A Dallas police squad car pulled their SUV over near the hospital’s emergency entrance.
Moats and his wife implored the officer to let them hurry on to the bedside of her ill mother.
“You really want to go through this right now?” Moats pleaded. “My mother-in-law is dying. Right now!”
His wife, Tamishia Moats, said Powell “was pointing a gun at me as soon as I got out of the car. It was the weirdest feeling because I’ve never had a gun pointed at me before under those circumstances.”
Powell then spent long minutes writing Moats a ticket and threatening him with arrest.
Powell could not be reached for comment.
Kunkle, asked about Powell’s reaction to the investigation, said the officer told a member of the command staff that he was just doing his job.
“My understanding is that Officer Powell, even when he saw the videotape, believed he had not acted inappropriately,” Kunkle said.
“I’ve read some of the comments in some of the publications, and the majority of the comments reflect my position — that at the point the officer was told that they were responding to a dying family member, that should have been his concern: to allow those people to get access to that family member.”
The scene, captured by the officer’s dashboard video camera, prompted apologies and the promise of an investigation even before Kunle met the media.
“There were some things that were said that were disturbing, to say the least,” said Lt. Andy Harvey, a police spokesman.
Harvey said Powell told his commanders that he drew his gun but did not point it at Moats or his wife.
The lieutenant said it’s not unusual for officers to draw a gun in traffic stops if they feel threatened.
Moats’ mother-in-law, Jonetta Collinsworth, was struggling at 45 with breast cancer that had spread throughout her body. Family members rushed to her bedside from as far away as California.
On March 17, the Moatses had gone to their Frisco home to get some rest. Around midnight, they received word that they needed to hurry back to the hospital if they wanted to see Collinsworth before she died.
The couple, along with Collinsworth’s father and an aunt, jumped into the SUV and headed back toward the hospital. They exited the Dallas North Tollway, just down the street from the hospital.
Moats turned on his hazard lights. He stopped at a red light, where, he said, the only nearby motorist signaled for him to go ahead. He went through.
Powell, watching traffic from a hidden spot, flipped on his lights and sirens. In less than a minute, he caught up to the SUV and followed for about 20 more seconds as Moats found a parking spot outside the emergency room.
Tamishia, 27, was the first out. Powell drew his gun and yelled at her to get back in.
“Get in there!” he yelled. “Let me see your hands!”
“My mom is dying,” she explained to him.
Powell was undeterred.
“I saw in his eyes that he really did not care,” Tamishia Moats said. “Honestly, I don’t think I cared that he had a gun pointed at me. My train of thought is that I’m going to see my mom in the hospital before she dies.”
Tamishia Moats and her great-aunt ignored the officer and headed into the hospital.
“It was almost like a movie,” she said, “It felt like we had robbed a bank or something.”
Ryan Moats, who stayed behind with the father of the dying woman, said Powell also pointed his gun at him. He said he put his hands on the car because he was afraid that he might get shot.
“I put my hands on the car so he couldn’t say I reached for something,” Ryan said. “He didn’t ask me to put my hands on the car. I just did it to try to protect myself. I was pleading with him.”
He tried to explain the situation to the officer.
“I waited until no traffic was coming,” Moats told Powell, explaining his passage through the red light. “I got seconds before she’s gone, man.”
Powell demanded his license and proof of insurance. Moats produced his license but said he didn’t know where the insurance paperwork was.
“Just give me a ticket or whatever,” he said, beginning to sound exasperated and a little argumentative.
“Shut your mouth,” Powell told him. “You can cooperate and settle down, or I can just take you to jail for running a red light.”
There was more back and forth.
“If you’re going to give me a ticket, give me a ticket.”
“Your attitude says that you need one.”
“All I’m asking you is just to hurry up.”
Powell began a lecture.
“If you want to keep this going, I’ll just put you in handcuffs,” the officer said, “and I’ll take you to jail for running a red light.”
Powell made several more points, including that the SUV was illegally parked. Moats replied “Yes sir” to each.
“Understand what I can do,” Powell concluded. “I can tow your truck. I can charge you with fleeing. I can make your night very difficult.”
“I understand,” Moats responded. “I hope you’ll be a great person and not do that.”
Hospital security guards arrived and told Powell that the Moatses’ relative really was upstairs dying.
Powell spent several minutes inside his squad car, in part to check Moats for outstanding warrants. He found none.
Another hospital staffer came out and spoke with a Plano police officer who had arrived.
“Hey, that’s the nurse,” the Plano officer told Powell. “She said that the mom’s dying right now, and she’s wanting to know if they can get him up there before she dies.”
“All right,” Powell replied. “I’m almost done.”
As Moats signed the ticket, Powell continued his lecture.
“Attitude’s everything,” he said. “All you had to do is stop, tell me what was going on. More than likely, I would have let you go.”
It had been about 13 minutes.
Moats and Collinsworth’s father went into the hospital, where they found Collinsworth had died, with her daughter at her side.
The Moatses, who are black, said Wednesday that they can’t help but think that race might have played a part in how Powell, who is white, treated them.
“I think he should lose his job,” said Ryan Moats, a Dallas native who attended Bishop Lynch High School and now plays for the Houston Texans.
Powell was hired in January 2006. Assistant Chief Floyd Simpson said Powell told police officials that he believed that he was doing his job. He has been re-assigned to dispatch pending an investigation.
“When people are in distress, we should come to the rescue,” said Simpson. “We shouldn’t further their distress.”
Collinsworth was buried Saturday in Louisiana.
Miley Cyrus: That Achy Breaky Bigot February 8, 2009
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This is a funny video that I found on “Angry Asian Man”
Miley Cyrus makes a racist slanted eye pose February 4, 2009
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Miley Cyrus aka “Hannah Montana” making a racist slanted eye pose. Why is it continually ok to be openly racist against Asians and Asian Americans?




“Just Because” (White guys and Asian girls) January 29, 2009
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Right now… November 19, 2008
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Right now this is how I’m feeling – uncertain, restless, confused, inadequate, emo, pensive, and expectant