 damaged his legs in a road accident and my elder son, Firoz Khan is mentally challenged. Despite being a minor, he used to work to maintain the family’s expenses,” Khan’s mother said.
Last week Carlos Mencia, the mouth-breathing, barely human embodiment of the word "ugh," received the worst rejection of his career, and possibly of his life. It is so wonderful.
Comedian Carlos Mencia was yanked Thursday from a Mardi Gras parade's list of celebrity riders for jokes made about Hurricane Katrina.
That's according to Krewe of Orpheus officials who on Wednesday announced Mencia as one of about a dozen celebrity guests slated to ride in this year's parade, which rolls through New Orleans on Feb. 23, the night before Mardi Gras.
But Orpheus Captain Sonny Borey said in a statement Thursday that the club became aware of "certain remarks Mr. Carlos Mencia has made in regards to New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina."
Borey said Mencia would not be riding because "our krewe is very sensitive to the feelings of our community and the way our city is viewed."
—"Dr. Jake Martin of ABC's All My Children, and veteran of soaps Another World and Guiding Light, Ricky Paull Goldin"
—"The boys of MTV's Real World/Road Rules"
Ah, to be dropped by the same organization that will proudly advertise that they've snagged various and sundry unnamed male Real World/Road Rules cast members—that has to hurt Carlos Mencia. (And every time Carlos Mencia hurts an angel gets his wings.) The only way that this could be better is if they had never asked him in the first place.Can we see you on The Most Dangerous Catch?? Good luck!
Where are you going to be working out of?
Wish me luck or say a prayer. Thanks in advance If you never see me post again on BTOG then something real bad happened..... I should be back in about a month.
Bring your carcass back alive, in one piece and healthy.
Going to Bristol Bay.....Based out of Naknek, AK at the Trident Cannery. I fished 03, 04, 08, and this year. So Greenhorn I am not....... My Brother who started fishing miles off the coast for Tuna etc when he was about 10 years old in Hawaii. He has fished in Puget Sound and Alaska since the 70s. So compared to him I am a Greenhorn. The closest I get to the Deadliest Catch is selling salmon to some of the boats which buy fish in the Summer. Have seen a couple of people on the show......
Don't get eaten by an Orca.
You signed up for a cannery???? I'd rather fish for snow crab in a dead of winter than work 18-hour shifts at a cannery.  Good luck!
No, he's not working at the cannery! He's fishing on his brothers vessel that works with said cannery.
Should you not work hard 'nuff at the cannery, do you get canned?
(The Mercury News/TNS) — The Port of Oakland was brought to a grinding halt last week as hundreds of protesting truckers hold a key commerce hub captive. The action — following a similar one at Southern California ports the previous week — has dealt another blow to supply chains already reeling from pandemic delays.
The self-employed truckers are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to amend AB 5, a controversial labor law that could end their business model. Some say they will continue the port shutdown until they get action. But it is unclear what, if anything, the governor can or will do to end the blockade at one of the West Coast’s busiest ports.
The protest is the latest turn in the winding saga of AB 5, which will require tens of thousands of truckers, along with other independent contractors, to register as employees. The 2019 legislation — commonly known as the “gig worker law” — is best known for forcing Uber and Lyft to treat their drivers as employees and sparking a pricey political battle by the ride-hailing giants hoping to skirt the regulation.
For California truckers, key provisions of the law have been on hold since 2020 amid legal wrangling. But in June the Supreme Court declined to review a case opposing AB 5, leaving the state free to start enforcing the new system of employee classifications and sparking the current protest.
But unlike Uber and Lyft’s efforts, pumping over $200 million into a successful ballot measure to exempt their drivers from AB 5, the port protest is an ad-hoc action organized largely on a 500-person WhatsApp group by a loose coalition of independent truck drivers and small-freight business owners.
The band of truckers also lacks the ridesharing giants’ political savvy. At the start of the protest on Monday, many truckers, including Navdeep Gill, one of the central organizers, said they were unsure how to contact the governor’s office to lay out their demands, which include abolishing the law or providing drivers an exemption to AB 5.
Both requests would require Newsom to rally his Democratic supermajority in the Legislature and buck the stance of major unions that back the legislation.
“The industry should focus on supporting this transition just as California has and continues to do,” Newsom’s office added.
The dispute centers around the status of drivers who own or lease their trucks and are classified as independent contractors. Labor experts say that some of these drivers are legitimate independent drivers who work for multiple businesses and set their own hours, but others often lease their trucks from a company and work for that same company full-time while paying all of their own costs and lacking any workplace protections. Those are the drivers, at least in theory, that AB 5 intends to protect.
But many truck drivers say the independent contractors’ model gives them the flexibility to take days off of their choosing and the ability to grow small trucking businesses in an industry that has become a particular economic engine for Sikh immigrants and their children.
Matt Schrap, CEO of the Harbor Trucking Association, said Newsom needs to open a dialogue with the trucking industry, although he did not offer any specific compromises that would meet the truckers’ concerns.
Ken Jacobs, who chairs the UC Berkeley Labor Center, said trucking associations should have readied their drivers for AB 5 after years of court wrangling indicated that their legal claims would not stand.
In the meantime, the Oakland Port is hoping the standoff ends soon. Executive Director Danny Wan met with independent trucker representatives Thursday, and sent a letter to the truckers late in the day asking them to cease the blockade, and vowing to work the state to make sure the trucking community has access to resources included in AB 5 and other programs. Wan said that safe “free speech zones” would be set up to allow the truckers to voice their protests without blocking the flow of goods into and out of the port.
Past research indicates that experts with more specialized knowledge criticized educational implementations and curriculum content sharply. Whether the intensity of these criticisms originates from domain-specific knowledge or expertise is unknown, as experts are highly independent, internally motivated, and self-directed learners.
This study hypothesizes that when adults with specialized knowledge comment on educational implementations, they may project their own intellectual competences onto their judgments, in a phenomenon called as intellectual mirroring. The purpose of the study is to investigate to what extent intellectual mirroring has been hampered by an over-reliance on pedagogical or andragogical insights.
The study employed the qualitative research approach, in which the qualitative data were obtained from a series of focus group discussions and individual interviews with primary and secondary school students (Nfocusgroup=8) and teachers (Ninterview=5), who live in the UK. The content analyses identified 13 sub-themes under 6 categories for teachers; and 11 sub-themes under 6 categories for students.
The analyses showed that the nature and intensity of elder students’ criticisms were highly similar to those of experts’ previously found. Older than 14-year-old students claimed more independence in their learning journey and showed high motivation for specific topics, which can be interpreted by andragogical insights. However, teachers questioned students’ competences for self-directed learning, and emphasized curriculum-based requirements, which is driven by pedagogical insights. As opposed to the teachers, from the students’ point of view, intellectual mirroring is not the consequence of domain-specific knowledge or expertise.
I am extremely concerned for my safety I will be honest. I don’t know this woman, don’t know what she looks like, never seen her, know nothing about her etc… so I am terrified she is going to be somewhere and jump me or attack me. Yes that’s a true statement. 

I agree about the husband. I have the texts showing he pursued me and I didn’t even have his number saved and had to ask who he was because I didn’t even know. I’ve only met this guy three times my entire life and that’s the truth. So I don’t know how that plays out but it’s an unknown variable.The grass could be greener at baseball stadiums this season. Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore was among many major league fields that benefited from a mild winter. And with the start of the season indefinitely on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, there is more time for the grass to keep growing and strengthen for the season. That could be beneficial if the season stretches deeper into the fall once games are being played.The login joker123 video game is an interactive means to make close friends and also build a