Report: LA sub kept teaching after 3 abuse allegations

By msnbc.com news services

LOS ANGELES -- A substitute teacher in the nation's second-largest school district was investigated three times for allegations of sexual misconduct with students before he quit in 2007 and started teaching in?another district, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The teacher, identified as 45-year-old George Hernandez, was never arrested or charged in the Los Angeles Unified School District cases.

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The Los Angeles Times reported?that when the third investigation was completed, Hernandez quit teaching in Los Angeles and started working for the Inglewood Unified School District.

He taught there for nearly three years before police found a videotape they say shows him molesting a second-grade girl at an Inglewood?school.

Hernandez was charged with child molestation but he fled and is considered a fugitive.

"This guy should not have been kept in the district," Kathleen Carroll, an attorney who worked for the state Commission on Teacher Credentialing, told the Times on Wednesday. "This is an outrage."

In recent weeks, several Los Angeles school district employees -- including?two former Miramonte Elementary School teachers?-- have been accused of lewd conduct. One of the former teachers, Mark Berndt, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of lewd conduct involving more than 20 students.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Read NBCLosAngeles.com?s coverage on the Miramonte abuse scandal

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Source: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/22/10477945-report-la-sub-kept-teaching-after-3-abuse-allegations

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How Important Is Health and Fitness? | Healthy Human Life

Health and fitness

In every human life health and fitness is a very important thing. It is like one of the parts of a human life. A human must follow the rules of it regularly. It is also a good way to find happiness in life. There are many ways to gain health and fitness.

Firstly, by taking those foods which contain vitamins, nutrition, minerals. Secondly, by getting sound sleep of minimum eight hours. Lastly, through taking exercise like jogging or playing many kinds of sports. A human body which is unhealthy and unfit can be attacked by many diseases. And it is also very dangerous. Now a days it has become an increasing priority for people all over the world. As medical science continues to point to the indisputable benefits of regular exercise and managing a healthy diet, many people have begun instituting daily routines designed to make them feel healthier and help themselves to live longer. Today's world is the most competitive and toughest one; each and every individual hardly finds enough time to keep themselves fit by way of physical exercise or by using sophisticated modern health equipments that may be supportive to keep their body healthier.

Today's extensive hard work from dawn to dusk that may cause severe mental stress, weakness, sickness and various organic problems that may also lead de-generative disease like Coronary Heart Disease, Diabetes, Cervical Spondiolitise, Insomnia and or so many other fatal diseases. There are so many modern handy equipments in the space using extensively by the people to keep fit themselves, but ultimately, such equipments found miserable in the long run. People get tired of by using all such unorthodox and miserable products. There are many health and fitness products which are useful to stay healthy and fit. They are- dumbbells, weight plates, EZ curl bar, tricep bar, hyper extension bench, preacher bench, the arm blaster, chin up bar, benches etc. Dumbbell exercises are performed with dumbbell in each hand. Weight plates range from 2.5 lbs to 100 lbs.

They are usually iron. The EZ curl bar is designed for working the bicep and tricep. The hyper extension bench is used for working in lower back, hamstring, and glute muscels. The preacher bench is designed for working the biceps. The arm blaster works similar to preacher bench by eliminating body momentum and allows you to isolate the biceps. The chin up bar is a iron bar that is either bolted to the wall or part of a exercise machine. Chin ups are great for working the back, biceps and forearms. The most common equipment in any gym is the bench. There are three types of benches flat, incline and decline. Some benches are adjustable. They can be adjusted either flat, incline or decline. Some benches have racks on one end for holding a barbell. While other benches do not have any racks.

Source: http://reelsaltlife.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-important-is-health-and-fitness.html

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How They Write A Script: Robert Towne | Go Into The Story

The screenplay for Chinatown (1974) is considered one of the greatest scripts of all time (it was named the #3 best script in the WGA?s 101 Best Screenplays list). The script was written by Robert Towne, who also received writing credit for a slew of other movies including Shampoo, Tequila Sunrise Mission Impossible, and Mission Impossible II. Towne is also one of Hollywood?s busiest ?script doctors? having worked on yet received no credit for a host of movies including Heaven Can Wait and 8 Million Ways to Die .

Here are some of Towne?s reflections on screenwriting as a craft and a profession, excerpted from interviews in books and magazines I?ve read over the years.

ON STRUCTURE

?Generally speaking, if you don?t set everything up in the beginning, you?ll pay for it? in the middle or in the end. So I would rather pay for it at the beginning. It?s not television and they?re not going to go off into the icebox, or they?re not going to change channels. An audience in a movie will forgive you for just about anything for the first 10 minutes or so. But really nothing at the end. So it?s the time to prepare? the beginning.?

ON THE QUESTION ?WHAT?S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT??

?I don?t think there are principles, other than asking yourself over and over again what?s going to happen next? and seeing if you?re interested in what?s going to happen next. I?m upset if what I think is going to happen next or I think should happen next, there?s something about it that doesn?t, I guess, ring true. That?s not quite real.?

ON CHARACTER

?The single most important question, I think, that one must ask one?s self about a character is what are they really afraid of? What are they really afraid of? And if you ask that question, it?s probably for me the single best way of getting into a character. That finally is where stories are told? with a character that?s real.?

ON REWRITING

?In rewriting what you have to be able to do is read a piece of material, say what?s wrong with it, know how to say what?s right with it, and then be able to do it yourself. That?s really what it comes down to. Some people say what?s wrong with something, some people can even say what?s right with it, and some people can do all three. but, you know, the more things that are required, the fewer people can do it. I think I can do it.?

ON WHAT JACK NICHOLSON TAUGHT HIM ABOUT CHARACTERS

?Watching Jack improvise really had an effect. His improvisations were inventive. When he was given a situation, he would not improvise on the nose. He?d talk around the problem, and good writing is the same way: it?s not explicit. Take a very banal situation ? a guy trying to seduce a girl. He talks about everything but seduction, anything from a rubber duck he had as a child to the food on the table or whatever. But you know it?s all oriented toward trying to fuck this girl. It?s inventive, and it teaches you something about writing.

?Most scenes are rarely about what the subject matter is. You soon see the power of dealing obliquely or elliptically with situations, because most people rarely confront things head-on.?

[Originally posted June 26, 2008]

Source: http://gointothestory.blcklst.com/2012/02/how-they-write-a-script-robert-towne.html

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Pioneer of rap reggae, King Stitt, dies at 72 (AP)

KINGSTON, Jamaica ? Rap-reggae pioneer King Stitt has died in Jamaica at age 72.

Jamaican musicologist Bunny Goodison says his close friend died Tuesday after being treated at a Kingston hospital for prostate cancer and diabetes.

The entertainer known offstage as Winston Sparks started his career in the late 1950s on Kingston's sound system circuit.

He is credited as being one of the earliest performers of "toasting," a form of Jamaican deejaying that inspired hip hop.

Stitt is best known for songs such as "Paradise Plum" and "Fire Corner." He collaborated for years with late music producer Clement Dodd, who ran the celebrated Studio One.

He is survived by a daughter.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120131/ap_en_mu/cb_jamaica_obit_king_stitt

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