Coretta Scott King, who turned a life shattered by her husband's assassination into one devoted to enshrining his legacy of human rights and equality, has died. She was 78.

Markel Hutchins, a close family friend of the Kings, told The Associated Press he spoke early this morning with Bernice King, who confirmed her mother's passing.

Former Mayor Andrew Young said on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Web site that Bernice King found her mother at about 1 a.m.

Young, who was a former civil rights activist and was close to the King family, told NBC's "Today" show: "I understand that she was asleep last night and her daughter went in to wake her up and she was not able to and so she quietly slipped away. Her spirit will remain with us just as her husband's has."

Rest In Peace, Mrs. King.

Head on over to "The Soda Stand" and say hello to my sister.

Lisa, from E. Webscapes and Blogs-About set her up with a spiffy new look.

Pepperoni Pizza

Robust and dominant. When you go for something, you go full force. You tend to take control of situations easily. And in return, you get a ton of respect.

[Hat Tip: Vinny]

I first became acquainted with GM Roper when he ordered a new design for his blog last year. Since then, he has asked for help a couple of times, usually when DIV tags were not doing what he wanted them to do.

His post today knocked me on my ass.

This is not a post I ever wanted to write. In fact, I don't think it is a post that anyone, ever, anywhere, would want to write. But I have a number of faithful readers and a number of irregular, but delightful readers and I think I owe them something. Thursday, January 26th, I was diagnosed with lung cancer. Talk about a kick in the teeth.

The diagnosis is obviously freightening, but at the same time, it has given me a new resolve. And that resolve is to fight this son-of-bitch right down to the wire and I have every intention of winning.

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So, my catch phrase for the future is FIGHT ON!

He didn't ask for help this time, but he's gunna get it. I would give my eyeteeth for GM (okay, so no one really wants eyeteeth, but you know what I mean). He's one of the best and he is not done yet, that's for sure.

Take a moment every day and say a prayer for GM.

Let me see if I've got this right…

Pupils have been stopped from putting their hands up to answer questions because their school believes it leads to feelings of victimisation.

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The head, Andrew Buck, says it is always the same children who wave their arms in the air, while the rest of the class sits back. When teachers try to involve less adventurous pupils by choosing them instead, that leads to feelings of victimisation.

Mr Buck believes that it can also cause panic in children who are picked but do not know the answer while others around them are straining to give it. To spare the embarrassment of those who do not know the answer, the school uses a "phone a friend" system, allowing one child to nominate another to take the question instead.

Instead of the teacher being the one to single out a student for "victimization", they are now allowing other students to single out each other for "victimization"?

I don't know about you, but I can see this going awry very quickly. I think this has the potential of taking bullying to a whole new level, but that's just me I guess.

Who picks the student who gets to "nominate" another student? The teacher? Isn't that still victimizing the "selector", and then letting him/her victimize another student? Wasn't it enough that the school thought one person was being victimized? Double the pleasure and all that I guess. Why make children answer any questions at all? The panic involved could be totally eliminated if we let them teach themselves. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Victimization: A feeling people get when other people subject them to stupid stuff like this.

[Hat Tip: Sister Toldjah]