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Jan. 27, 2010
by Josh Zywien-Melrose Free Press
Reprinted with permission from Gatehouse Media New England
MELROSE, MA-Three years ago, Melrose resident Lynley DeAmato was considering 12 different colleges and each of them shared the same major reason for her interest: basketball. So, the fact that DeAmato is now the starting point guard on the UMass-Dartmouth women's baksetball team shouldn't be surprising. Unless, of course, you consider that this is actually DeAmato's first year on the team. After a phenomenal high school career that ended with a trip to the TD Garden for the state tournament, DeAmato ultimately decided against playing basketball in college. "I was just burned out on basketball a little bit and just needed some time off," DeAmato said. "I just got to college and didn't feel the same about basketball. I wasn't sure if I'd ever play again, but I knew that those first two years I just didn't have the passion that I needed to have." Then the nightmares began. DeAmato was dreaming about basketball every night. She couldn't stop thinking about her decision to stray from the sport. Did she make the wrong choice? What if she never got to step on the court competitively again? "I really started to doubt myself and thought I'd really regret never giving college basketball a try," DeAmato said. "I finally decided to just go back to the court and see if I could still play." So DeAmato went to some shoot-arounds with one of her friends, Madison Malloy, a senior guard for the Corsairs. She was a little rusty at first, but it didn't take long for her to find a rhythm. UMass-Dartmouth head women's basketball coach Amanda Van Voorhis could barely tell she took time away from the game. "I actually recruited her when I was the head coach at Salve Regina," Van Voorhis said. "So I was surprised and thrilled when I found out she was on our campus and not playing basketball. It was great to get her on the court. I think she had to knock off some rust at first, but not much. She caught right back on." In only a half a season, Van Voorhis said DeAmato is already considered a leader on the team. "She's not a captain, but I think the rest of the girls, especially the younger girls, really look up to her," Van Voorhis said. "I really think she's only scratching the surface of her potential, too. With a full year under her belt, I'm excited to see what she can do next year." DeAmato hasn't regretted her return to basketball for a second. "It's been awesome," said DeAmato, who is one of the Corsairs' leading scorers this season. "I've been really honored to start as a point guard. I just love being part of a team. When I'm playing basketball, there's nothing else going on." She does miss some of the free time she enjoyed as a freshman and sophomore at UMass-Dartmouth. But, back then, there was almost too much free time. "I tried to focus on school work and adjusting to the college life and social life, and I was able to do that," DeAmato said. "But I was always trying to find something to replace basketball." So, instead, she replaced it with basketball ... again. So far, DeAmato couldn't be more pleased with that decision. "I used to eat, sleep, drink basketball in high school," DeAmato said. "I think I needed the time away to take a deep breath and just relax. But I don't know what I'd do if I had to walk away from basketball again." Van Voorhis said she's noticed that reignited fire in her point guard. "She does have an edge that some other players don't have," Van Voorhis said. "I think the time away re-energized her. Now she has a definite level of maturity that our younger players don't possess quite yet. She's a smart kid and she's really savvy on the basketball court." DeAmato isn't quick to praise herself, but does pride herself on leadership. With three seniors graduating from this year's team, the former Melrose High School star expects that she'll assume an even larger role next year. "It's going to be tough to make up the loss of those three seniors, but I'm really excited about next year," DeAmato said. "We've got a lot of talented freshmen, sophomores, and juniors that are coming back. If I can help lead that team, it would be awesome." For now, DeAmato is focused on this season. After two years away from the game she loves, she's learned to appreciate every practice and every game. "I definitely can't picture life without basketball now," DeAmato said. "I wouldn't change anything that I did the last two years. I think it was good for me. I wouldn't be where I am now if I had played. But I wouldn't give it up again." Judging by her sudden success, Van Voorhis and her Corsair teammates wouldn't give up DeAmato either.


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"Filomena/Filomina/Felomena/Felomina; Timotea/Matea. Isidora/Isadora/Teodora. Felemon/Felimon/Filemon; Glicerio/Licerio/Sergio/Cirio. "Antonia/Antonina; Antero/Sotero; Emeteria/Eleuteria/Leuteria; Cecilio/Basilio; Albino/Alvino/Olvino/Balbino."
The stanzas above are not a Bach canon. Nor are they another version of "A stick, a stone…"–Jobim's song Waters of March. Those are first names our early church scribes and records so mixed up with each other that for certain individuals, there is no definite way of ruling what the man's real name we should use. It's like a person would have been baptized Isidoro, married as Isidro and later in the baptism of his own children, identified as Teodoro. What's more, after he died his family would remember him as Eliodoro. So who should we call him?
The example is a caricature, but real cases are so out there. Take Brigildo Alegrado and Basilio Alfafara. Probably born in Cebu City but married to an Alega lady of Carcar, Alegrado was the patriarch of the entire Alegrado clan of Carcar. In the marriages of his children and even in his burial in 1852 his name was always Brigildo. He was even known as Brigildo Silvestre in pre-Claveria records. And yet 20-30 years after he died, in records for his grandchildren, his name was now consistently given as Hermenegildo.
Meanwhile, Alfafara was baptized Basilio Javillo in 1848. As late as 1877, in his marriage, he was Basilio Alfafara. Hard to reconcile why his own descendants remember him later as Licerio–until you come across a record where he was fully identified as Basilio Licerio Alfafara, leaving you scratching your head as to when the name Licerio had come into use.
If you're using a family tree program, you have to approximate a tracker's mind to guess these varying names to be of one and the same person.
I have come across scores of cases like this by now. Blame must be passed around equally between the clerks and the famiIies, too, whose respondents must have enrolled those names in the first place. I'm just grateful to fate (or genes) that I have a tolerant attitude when it comes to people's intellectual shortcomings–maybe because I'm so tolerant of my own, too.
What gets my goat, though, is when people, myself included, are so plainly wrong, and yet be so conceited about it.
The Bisdak. (Bisaya'ng dakô — a Visayan, big-time — for non-Bisdaks) When I was still working in Manila, I at once (which Visayan cannot) noticed that Tagalogs, or at least Manilans, laugh at Visayans' pronunciations. Of course, honestly, we can be so ridiculously atrocious with our pronunciation. But I always get heated up when they laugh wrongly at us when we are correct—just because the Manilans did not know they're the ones who are wrong.
In Manila, try telling a jeepney driver "Mamà, pier (correctly pronounced pir) po." Snickers from chocolate faces including incongruously jeepney-commuting ladies with Louis Vuitton bags in the P90,000 authentic-price range. Everybody else thinks the place is pronounced pi-yer. Another time, I could not help telling someone it's supposed to be pronounced "pir" in English, and she snorted back automatically, "but it's pi-yer in Spanish". I did not get angry at her, I just laughed at her beautiful face. There's no Spanish word pier; it's muelle, or the cruder pantalan. But, oh, there's no sense explaining it further to a lady who gets her kicks at the piyer.
Very few Manilans still observe the silent "h" in Spanish words. It's now he-rre-ra, hi-dal-go, her-nan-dez. When I pointed this out to a Manila doctora, she even retorted: Why, do you pronounce it tra-ba-o (work) in Cebu? Unlike the LV-toting lady in the jeepney I had to answer her truthfully: It's spelled trabajo, not trabaho. I had to level with her, what with her LV being presumably genuine. But I couldn't help with the coup de grâce: Do you also pronounce it hi-jo?
When you are wrong, they'll let you know about it and tell you what's correct, but when you're correct and tell them, they'll just say "that's the way it's said here". That's what both LV ladies told me.
For Visayans, most of our problems rose from our mixing up "i" (ee) and "e". And the problem started when Tagalog (in the guise of National Language Pilipino) was rammed down our throats. Before that, we had no such mixups; we simply pronounced everything with a hard "ee".
Meanwhile, unlike every one of us elsewhere in the country, the Tagalogs claim to have a soft "e" in their old alphabet and phonetics. But strangely, nobody among them has ever been able to answer why they, too, like the rest of us, have always called our currency the Piso. Not peso, as it was officially established by the Spaniards, but piso.
If someone really had a soft "e" in his alphabet, he'd never mistake the vowel, so why is it Piso in the Tagalog area, too? And why also kandila, not candela? And so on and so forth. The answer can only be that the old Tagalog alphabet never really had the "e" as claimed, maybe it was revised much much later—at least, much later than the currency in 1852. It's the colonial way: When in Jerusalem, do as the Romans do.
We just have the hard ee's and oo's, yet they always say we have the "punto" but have you noticed that it is actually the Tagalogs who have a tone in their speech? And they have a difficulty getting this tone out of their English. They don't notice it and will even say it's the correct tone if ever there was one.
Anyway, the Cardak. (Carcaranon'g dakô, for those who still didn't get it.) I can still remember, when still a grader in Carcar, that the older folks in the town accented the surnames Alfafara as al-FA-fa-ra, Barcelo as bar-ce-LO and Barcenas as BAR-ce-nas—all correctly. And no one in Cebu City did. And eventually we blindly followed the city folks and our younger ones now all say al-fa-FA-ra, bar-CE-lo and bar-CE-nas–including, sadly, even members of these families. Carcar people, why don't we start a movement to go back, not to the old, but to the correct? It may take a while getting used to because it would have to include the following, the correct pronunciation of some of which we have strayed too far from:
Carcar Spanish surnames: Albarracín (Argao origin), Alcáin, Alfáfara, Asís, Avilés, Barceló, Bárcenas, Bardelás, Escóbido, Garcés, Génave, Jaén, Padín, Sátira, Rodís.
And first names (male): Álvaro, Ángel, Ántero, Áureo, Bartolomé, Bernabé, Cleofás, Cristóbal, Darío, Fabián, Héctor (needless to add, pronounced EC-tor), Hermógenes (again, er-MO-ge-nes), Íñigo, Josué, Lucío, Moisés, Noé, Sabás, Sebastián, Sótero, Víctor.
First names (female): Ángeles, Áurea, Cleofé, Epifanía, Estefanía, Hermógena, Noemí, Rocío, Salomé.
Catalan names. If we've been having a hard time keeping up with the more familiar Castilian names, let's not even pretend with trying out Catalan ones for our offsprings, just because of their unique spellings (one of those foreign magnets to which we appear culturally-bound to have an eerie attraction to) because they are pronounced differently than how they would normally read in Castilian Spanish. Isidre (Isidro) would be i-ZI-drah, for instance, and Carme (Carmen) is Car-mah (pronounced as which Carme Martin may never have gotten a billing). And as a Catalán, she'd be Carme Martí. So, Cebu, it's Dra. mar-TI, not MAR-ti.
Davide. There are late 1800-early 1900 records of a Davide family in Carcar, I don't know if they're still here. The father of course came from Argao and presumably related to that illustrious family there. The surname does not appear in the catalogo, at least not in that form. This Davide surname may be Spanish but it does look Italian, but if it were, it would be pronounced DA-vi-de.
W. The names Bolinawan, Barawidan, Wasawas, Wasay, and others with the "w" were spelled with "oa" or "ua" in the Spanish period–Bolinauan, Barauidan, Oasaoas, Oasay, etc. Obviously the "w" is an American or even post-American period change. Why didn't they already think of using the "w" during the Spanish times? Because in Spanish, "w" is pronounced "v". It's even called "doble v". [That's what it even looks like, too] Those names would have read bo-li-na-van, ba-ra-vi-dan, etc. That is also why Bences or Vences still exists as a nickname for those named Wenceslao. That being so, how do you pronounce Weyler, as in the general? If you still don't know, just say Tres de Abril, that's what his street has been renamed to.
Barangan. Carcar pronounces the Barangan surname with a "ngga"–Baranggan. But since somebody came across an Ilocano Barangan family that pronounces their surname with a "nga", we've been having a minor quandary just how this Carcar surname should be pronounced. For years I've stubbornly tolerated only Baranggan. "They can call themselves Barangan but Carcaranons are pronounced Baranggan."
Until I came across signature specimens of Juan Barangan. He used a tilde over the first "n" in his surname. Juan Barañgan. This indicates that it was then pronounced "ñga", not "ngga". A tiny bit of caution here because I had not come across a church registry record where Barangan had a tilde, whereas I had encountered other surnames sometimes written with the mark, like Tañgian, and even Sañgat was spelled that way 1840s-50s.
Anyway, my position now is: Don Juan Barangan's own say on the matter stands. His signature was among those of church diputados–Carcar VIPs—in pages of two separate documents for 1863 and 1870. These were shown by Jerry Martin Alfafara for me to identify the names. Since the personages were all fairly well-known, the tilde-ied Barañgan was the eye-popper for me.
It makes you ask: How in less than a hundred years could the pronunciation have changed from Barañgan to Baranggan—if there ever was such a change?

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Keyholder Specialist (Part-Time) - Columbiana
About the role
As the Specialist, you are responsible to support the management team to perform functional tasks as assigned; guiding work while supporting a positive store environment. Specialists will act as a mentor and role model to other associates to support service behaviors and the execution of tasks in specific areas of expertise. You contribute to a high performing team and consistently deliver a best-in-class customer experience. This role will be focused on connecting with employees and customers to ultimately assist in achieving store performance goals; including meeting the sales budget, building market share, as well as other Company-wide defined goals. As an important part of the Sales Associate team, you will reinforce performance expectations by role modeling behaviors and communicating how to achieve the Brand Vision and achieve or exceed the goals / strategies of the store.
What you'll do
- Drives Results
- Collaboration & Influencing
- Trust & Honesty
- Customer Impact
- Guides processes and completes work based on management direction for functional areas within the store
- Ensures the consistency of operational processes and execution
- Assists the management team to achieve performance goals and execute standard operating procedures
- Contributes to the creation of an effortless service culture, delivering best in class, on-brand experiences, exceeding customer expectations, building loyalty and ultimately increasing market share to drive our profitable top line growth
- Upholds the commitments to the company's processes, values and Code of Business Conduct
- Supports the store management to ensure work tasks are completed in a timely and efficient manner
- Executes initiatives designed to drive customer satisfaction and business efficiencies
- Provides support in execution of marketing and visual presentation to promote sales
- Reads communications and interacts with store management to be knowledgeable of all current initiatives, priorities and business metrics
- Serve as a Brand Ambassador to achieve priorities in store, with customer as the primary focus
- Mentor and train individuals; provides on the job training to associates sharing a higher level of knowledge of product and processes
- Takes action based upon direction from Leader on Duty and collaborates effectively with employees
- Build expertise in assigned specialized functional area
- Guide work activities during the day, inclusive of before and after normal store operating hours when a manager may not be present
- Support Leader on Duty activities during non-peak hours, by exception
- May support completion of work processes before or after the store closes
- May open or close the store
- Drives Results - demonstrated ability to personally achieve and support others to drive results
- Collaboration & Influencing - responds to employees and customers to provide assistance; helping where a need is identified
- Trust & Honesty - Acts in line with values and guiding principles
- Customer Impact - Has responded to customers with a sense of urgency and utilized a basic understanding of customer behaviors to identify when a customer may need additional assistance
- Demonstrated interest and initiative to develop skills and improve capabilities
- Team-oriented, approachable, respectful and is looked up to as a role model of the brand
Who you are
- High School Diploma or equivalent experience preferred
- 1-2 years of retail experience preferred with a minimum of 6 months Gap Inc. experience
- Key holder experience preferred
- Ability to maneuver around sales floor, stock room, work with and around cleaning chemicals, and lift/carry up to 30lbs.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business, including holiday, evening, overnight and weekend shifts
This job profile intends to describe the general nature and level of work. It is not intended to include all duties and responsibilities.
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Conditional sibling class names for IE patching
A different approach to using conditional comments to add class names for targeting CSS at different versions of Internet Explorer.
Using max-width on images can make them disappear in IE8
Images that have a CSS max-width, a width attribute in the HTML, and are children of a floated element that has no explicit width set may be invisible in IE8.
Visited links can only be differentiated by colour
It used to be possible to apply any CSS to visited links. This has privacy issues, so most browsers have implemented styling restrictions and only allow colours to be changed.
No more conditional comments in IE10
Microsoft is removing support for conditional comments in IE10. I don't think they will be missed.
Testing on mobile devices without the hardware
Tips for installing and running the iOS Simulator and the Android Emulator for testing your web sites on mobile devices without buying lots of hardware.
Time to make the title attribute device independent
The contents of the title attribute in HTML is difficult or impossible to access in current browser implementations if you do not use a mouse.
The IE6 countdown
Microsoft is trying to convince people to upgrade from IE6 through a website called The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown.
Internet Explorer now only the third most used browser
As of October 2010, Internet Explorer (all versions combined) is only the third most used browser on 456bereastreet.com, used by 16.3 % of visitors.
IE 9 does not resize text sized in pixels
Internet Explorer 9 (in beta at the time of this writing), still does not let the user resize text whose size has been specified in pixels.
"Inspect element" is not the same as "View source"
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Useful Safari extensions
I've spent some time trying to find Safari extensions that match the useful add-ons I have installed in Firefox. Here are my lists of what I have found and what I am still missing.
Internet Explorer market share now below 60 percent
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Web Inspector adds Timeline and Audits panels
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Heading navigation in web browsers
Very few web browsers allow users to step through the headings on a page. This functionality would benefit keyboard users, so I would like to see more browsers implement it.
IE9 Platform Preview available
A platform preview of Internet Explorer 9 is now available for download. News include better performance and improved support for HTML5, CSS3, DOM, SVG, and XHTML.
Visual display of alternative text
When an image is missing or images are disabled, web browsers should completely replace the image with its alt text.
Is SVG support coming to Internet Explorer?
The Senior Program Manager of Microsoft's Internet Explorer Team has announced that Microsoft has joined the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group.
Error messages for corrupt HTML
Vlad Alexander argues that web browsers should display error messages for corrupt HTML 5 and invites Ian Hickson to debate on this topic.
That's a useful feature, but when can I use it?
Need to find out which browsers (and versions) handle a particle web technology? Don't have time to keep track of it by yourself. Don't worry. Help is available.
Safari, WebKit and alt text for missing images
Safari and most other WebKit-based browsers do not show alt text for missing or broken images unless it fits on a single line within the image's allocated width.
Microsoft talks about Internet Explorer 9
News on what we can expect from the next version of Internet Explorer: highlights include improved performance, CSS 3 selectors, and better text rendering.
WebKit Web Inspector improvements
The web developer tool for Safari and other WebKit-based browsers has just received a number of improved and new features worth checking out.
IE 8 does not display alt text in a tooltip
Internet Explorer 8, unlike previous versions, behaves like other browsers and does not display alt text in a tooltip when you hover the cursor over an image.
Enabling keyboard navigation in Mac OS X Web browsers
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The mysterious sideways jump, a.k.a. scrollbar present or not present
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Safari 4 public beta with WAI-ARIA support. Or not?
Apple recently released a public beta of Safari 4. Among the news is support for WAI-ARIA, but I can't figure out how to make it work.
No more pixel perfectionism in IE 6
It is time to worry less about non-critical bugs in Internet Explorer 6, and eventually we will be able to treat it like we treat Netscape 4.
Make Safari open targeted links in new tabs instead of new windows
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The WebKit/Safari Web Inspector is getting even better
The latest update to the Webkit Web Inspector is very impressive and makes WebKit (and Safari, once it includes the new version of the Web Inspector) a viable web development browser.
NoScript for Firefox
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Recently discovered web developer-related Firefox add-ons
A few very useful Firefox extensions/add-ons that I only recently discovered: ColorZilla, Firefox Accessibility Extension, Screengrab!, and WAVE Toolbar.
First impressions of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
My impressions after trying out Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for a couple of days.
Doctype switching for IE 8
Version targeting as it has been presented is an incredibly bad idea to force upon the minority of people in the web industry who have a clue.
Internet Explorer 8 announced, passes the Acid2 test
The next version of Internet Explorer will be called IE 8, and passed the Acid2 test, meaning it has support for much wanted CSS features.
Keep browser lock-out a thing of the past
Browser sniffing and deliberately preventing people using a so-called unsupported browser from entering a site is a thing from the past that we do not need these days.
Mac OS X Web browser rundown 2007
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NoSquint allows site-specific text zoom
A Firefox extension that remembers your text zoom level per site. Anyone know of a Safari alternative?
Safari/WebKit has a new Web Inspector
Recent nightly builds of WebKit have a brand new Web Inspector that is much improved over the previous version, and is available for both Mac and Windows.
Safari 3 beta impressions
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Safari now officially available for Windows
Apple's web browser Safari is now officially available for Windows as well as for Mac OS X.
10 must haves in IE Next
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Closing the gap between list items in IE
How to fix the list item whitespace bug in both Internet Explorer 6 and 7.
Unitless line-height bug in Mozilla and Firefox
Older versions of Mozilla and Firefox for Mac OS X have a bug that sometimes makes them miscalculate line-height when no unit is used.
Safari brings high resolution to the Web
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The freedom of mobile Internet access
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Keyboard navigation problems in IE and Safari
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The danger of a better Internet Explorer
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Safari Wishlist
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Wishlist for IE7
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About Claiborne
"It would be interesting if a company like Sesame Street said to people, "If we don't raise X dollars (on Kickstarter or YouTube), we won't be able to preserve our old shows. So we need you to pitch in or everything is lost.""
I'm sorry, but you obviously do not watch public television, or listen to public radio, because you just exactly described their semi-annual pledge drives.
To take this a step further;
If every police car is equipped with video surveillance, then every police officer who fails to ask permission will now be guilty as well.
If an officer plays this out right they might earn enough to retire in just a few stops.
"Also, the idea that the number of pages is a "symbol" ignores that we've already got this magic thing called... scrollbars, which effectively do the same thing."
This can be true if comments don't also load under the story. I have seen scroll bars that are almost non existent due to 500+ comments under a short story.
I would love to hear what you are creating, as solo piano and piano-centric pieces tend to speak to my inner voices (the ones that make all of the noise in my head), and quiet the cacaphoney that it generates.
I am sorely disappointed in the complete lack of any "commercially" available works lately, as the large studio model does not waste money on producing anyone who cant generate a minimum bottom line of profit.
We need individual producers who have a goal of sharing there creativity with the hope that passionate fans will help support the created product. Studios only want to control front, or want nothing to do with any other business model.
Unfortunately,the law of unintended consequences would most like then come into play. Namely, the drastic impact on commerce and productivity would then label Google as evil and "too big" and would then drive the next angle of attack for the SOPA/PIPA witch hunters.
Um .... I believe that this is the exact definition of an auction, as opposed to paying the marked retail price for an item.
The price is not set but is negotiable, depending on the demand of those parties interested in purchasing the given item. The point of placing your items for sale in this way, is to try and get the maximum amount the market will bear in a given time period. Sometimes the seller gets more than they would have asked for the item. And sometimes the buyer gets a the item for below what the seller would have originally asked for the item. But throughout the transaction, the market demand is what drives the price/value of the item.
If you dislike this business model, don't sell your items at auction.
I am sorry, but the Washington Times is about as reliable as Fox News. It is a propaganda tool of the Unification Church and Sun Myung Moon.
Either of the following are more likely to share less biased information. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/14/world/main2179694.shtml
http://defensetech.org/2006/11/14 /behind-the-kitty-hawk-incident-updated/


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Erin is a simple girl who grew up in rural Idaho. She has spent the last several years living abroad and traveling with her husband and children. She is a seeker and observer. Whether at home or in travel, she seeks out natural light and moments. An observer of light and land, people and emotions; she embraces the imperfections in life and strives to make something beautiful out of them. Photography is her obsession, her way of life. She is particularly passionate about black and white photographs full of shadows, dramatic lighting, and mood. Erin considers herself very fortunate to be able to spend a good amount of her time working on personal projects, only taking sessions on occasion. She currently lives in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and thoroughly enjoys experiencing new places and cultures.
Having a positive influence on the photography community is something that is very important to her. She is humbled and honored to have so many who look to her for encouragement, inspiration and knowledge. It is because of this, that she has decided to start offering mentoring services to other photographers. Erin hopes to see this new venture grow and grow; she hopes to continue to offer more and spread the positive influence as far and wide as possible.
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Something big was coming. Tom Ward repeated it, again and again. It was late 1999, and Ward was having breakfast in Oklahoma City with Dan Jordan, a fellow energy executive, when Ward started in on his favorite topic: natural gas prices. They were going rise, Ward predicted—and his company, Chesapeake Energy, was going to take advantage.
In the preceding months, Ward and his partner, Aubrey McClendon, had seized on a plan: If they could lock up wells producing natural gas and then employ new technologies and techniques to extract even more gas from the acreage, a historic fortune could be theirs. They decided to borrow and then spend serious cash to lease as much land as they could, all over the United States, as quickly as possible. It seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime.
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For Ward, the plan offered a chance to escape a cloud that seemed to hover over him. Ward's father and grandfather had been alcoholics in a small town in Oklahoma, and Ward himself had been unemployed and without much hope just a few years earlier. McClendon's background was a bit different. He was the charismatic scion of an Oklahoma energy family. But he was just as determined to leave his own mark in the business and create enough wealth to make his family proud.
That morning over breakfast, however, Jordan wasn't buying Ward's argument about rising natural-gas prices. Ward seemed like a salesman reciting a pitch. After all, gas prices were barely above $2 per thousand cubic feet, about the same as a decade earlier. Ward went on and on, though, explaining why anemic production and rising demand would send prices higher. Soon, Jordan realized his friend wasn't just mouthing a favorite line. He's really starting to believe his own bullshit, Jordan thought.
Ward took his pitch up a notch. "Natural gas will be at double digits," he said confidently, predicting that prices would soar fivefold, well past $10. Jordan almost choked on his coffee.
"Yeah, maybe when we're 75 years old," he told Ward dismissively. "You're crazy."
Ward smiled. Just watch, he seemed to be saying. His partner was just as bullish. "This is the fuel of the future. It will be in demand," McClendon said in an internal meeting one day. "Everything will change."
McClendon and Ward had embraced horizontal drilling—a developing technique that allowed them to tap once-unreachable reservoirs—before most competitors. Now, they closely monitored how specialists were improving hydraulic fracturing methods, enabling drillers to shatter gas-soaked rock to free natural gas. The idea of violently fracturing rock to extract oil or gas wasn't new; drillers in the 19th century had used black powder explosives to coax oil from stubborn wells. (The method proved frustrating to an erstwhile oilman named John Wilkes Booth, who, along with business partners in Pennsylvania, destroyed their company's well trying to speed production. Bitterly disappointed, Booth gave up the oil business, and after the South lost the Civil War, he famously shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln.) Nearly a century later, an underground machine gun became a popular way to unlock oil. At one point, the United States and the Soviet Union actually detonated nuclear devices to try to get oil and gas flowing in tight rock, though the method didn't exactly catch on.
Techniques to hydraulically fracture, or frack, tough rock improved over the years. By the time Ward and McClendon forged their plan, a unique opportunity—maybe even a historic one—seemed within reach. Huge oil companies with talented geologists and engineers once held an insurmountable lead over small "independent" companies like Chesapeake because big organizations were best equipped to pinpoint new reservoirs and then extract oil and gas. But now, thanks to these new fracking and drilling techniques, it seemed that finding and pumping meaningful energy deposits was the easiest part of the equation.
The new challenge, McClendon and Ward decided, was to grab prime acreage before their competitors figured out that energy prices were headed higher. McClendon and Ward never took courses in geology or engineering and weren't drilling specialists. But they knew how to lease land and thought this skill might give them an advantage over rivals. To buy up territory, as if in a game of Risk, they relied on a group of so-called landmen—brokers who negotiate with landowners to secure mineral rights under their own properties. During the industry's good times, landmen—who usually receive little respect or limelight—find adventure and wealth. But it's also not uncommon for a landman to find a door slammed—or a gun cocked—by a suspicious landowner. These "lease hounds" are always on the move and viewed as little more than used-car salesmen, even in their own business. Movies are made about wildcatters. Jokes are made about landmen.
Ward saw things differently. He began wooing the best and most aggressive landmen in the country, directing them to buy up drilling rights as quietly and efficiently as possible, so as not to tip off competitors. The team traveled to county courthouses and "abstract offices"—privately owned businesses that own summaries of ownership documents—to figure out who owned the mineral rights to the most attractive land. These field brokers then visited individuals holding these rights and pitched them about selling to Chesapeake. Soon, the company was outbidding rivals for the nation's best wells. In 2003, Chesapeake spent $530 million to buy natural gas assets, and it emerged as the eighth-largest natural gas producer in the country.


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Obama: No apology for Bergdahl prisoner exchange
BRUSSELS (AP) — President Barack Obama says he makes no apology for seeking the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from the Taliban in a prisoner exchange that has caused a furor in the United States and has followed the president on his European trip this week.
Obama says the U.S. has a basic principle of not leaving any service man or woman behind and said Bergdahl's health had been deteriorating. He says, quote, "we were deeply concerned about it."
Obama spoke during a joint news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron in Brussels.
Bergdahl was released following a deal between the U.S. and the Taliban that was brokered by Qatar. Five Taliban detainees held in Guantanamo were released as part of the exchange. Republicans and Democrats have objected to the swap.
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Two separate class-action lawsuits were filed last week in Miami against 24 Hour Fitness, claiming the company refused to pay overtime to some of its employees.
The complaints were filed last Wednesday in U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida. The first complaint was filed on behalf of Jeanlin Lee, Jessie Quijano and Johnny Denis, former 24 Hour sales counselors who sold club memberships for the San Ramon, CA-based company. They claim they routinely worked more than 40 hours per week and reported their overtime hours accordingly yet were not paid for overtime, which they claim is a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Lee told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that 24 Hour supervisors told him that if he were paid for overtime, he would be fired. Lee claims the reason he was fired in February was because he complained about not getting paid for the overtime that he was required to work in order to meet his sales quota, according to the newspaper.
The second complaint was filed on behalf of former personal trainer Elio Constanza, who claims he was entitled to be paid overtime.
Pelayo Duran and Roderick Hannah are the attorneys representing the plaintiffs, who also claim 24 Hour supervisors removed overtime hours from timesheets and payroll records.
"What is most troubling about the 24 Hour Fitness clubs," Hannah said in a statement, "is not only the fact that they routinely did not pay overtime, but that the company encouraged its club managers to manipulate and falsify employee time records with the specific intent of denying the employees monies that they had worked hard for and had earned."
The plaintiffs in both cases are seeking a jury trial to recover back overtime pay at one-and-a-half times the regular hourly rate as well as damages and attorneys' fees.
In a statement, 24 Hour said that it does not comment on pending litigation.
"While 24 Hour Fitness is aware that two complaints have been filed in Florida, we have not been served with either of the legal actions," the company said.


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good bye peach.(that sounds so never taking to you again-ish)
BLONDIE!! They LOVED it!! More later as I am dashing to the airport...
Sorry for the size. I will try to fix it.
Well his Guinness isn't flat so maybe its the annoying girl ruining all the pictures?
Thanks, and we did. Peach should be waking up soon and may show more from her collection. I can't wait. Her camera is really nice.
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Kenneth H. Peterson
Kenneth H. Peterson, 92, of Herington died Sunday at his home. He was born Dec. 26, 1919, in Burdick to Birger and Anna (Johanson) Peterson.
He graduated from Diamond Valley High School in 1938 and attended Emporia State University's business school.
He married Alice M. Laudemann on Oct. 18, 1942, at St. John's Lutheran Church, White City. She survives of the home.
He is also survived by a son, Don Peterson of Camdenton, Mo.; a daughter, Linda Huntington of Springfield, Va.; three grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Walter and Roy Peterson; three sisters, Lilly Strand, Esther Peterson, and Inez Schild; and his parents.
A funeral service will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Herington, with Pastor Bill Peterson officiating. Burial will follow at Hebron Lutheran Church, Burdick. Visitation with family is 6:30 to 8 p.m. today at Penwell-Gabel Funeral Home, Herington Chapel.
Memorial funds have been established for St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Herington, Our Savior Lutheran Church of Mulvane, Hebron Lutheran Church of Burdick, and Dickinson County Hospice.
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Billy Graham: The Need for Strong Christian Leaders
By Boaz Wadel
It is time to start rebuilding the character of the American people. Our greatest leaders came from families whose ethical foundations were built into their very souls. Abraham Lincoln, with neither natural ambition nor education, never escaped the unique character building principles formed in his life by his loving stepmother. Christian character is not old-fashioned or outmoded.
J.D. Grey once said, "When we religious teachers urge young people to live sober, clean and honest lives, we are accused of 'preaching.'" But the fact remains that business advocates the same thing. Nearly every week we receive letters of inquiry from bonding companies and corporations, asking questions about certain individuals. One questionnaire reads as follows: "To your knowledge is the employee known to be: a user of intoxicating liquor; interested in gambling, in speculation; a user of drugs, opiates or the like; the possessor of a good reputation; happy in domestic life; extravagant; honest and trustworthy; suspected in any fraud; in good company and associates?" It is perfectly obvious that even business considers a strong Christian character of vital importance.
How about the questionnaire on your personal life? Could you pass that sort of examination? One mistake is the tendency to confuse character with greatness. A.W. Tozer said, "Bible characters fall into four classes: first, those who are great but not good; second, those who are good but not great; third, those who are neither good nor great; and fourth, those who are both great and good."
Goodness is possible for everyone, even though greatness is achieved only by a few. Greatness contributes nothing to one's personal and inward happiness. Goodness contributes everything. Most people aspire to be great, only a few desire to be good. We are upside down. We are placing value on the wrong thing. Greatness requires a combination of qualities rare in nature. Goodness is a gift of God and may be acquired by the humblest person.
A famous newspaperman said some time ago, "The world is in its present mess because of the absence of character." The glue that holds society together has been allowed to dry out. We have come unstuck, and we shall certainly fall apart unless somehow we can put moral virtues back into fashion.
Man measures material wealth. God measures character. Man says we must have something. God says we must be something. Man measures values by the degree of his own strivings and accomplishments. God measures true values by the degree to which His power is permitted to flow through a person.
In the sight of God, permanence and stability and character are related to conversion to Christ. Outward circumstances change, and as a result people change, but Christ is unchanging. Jesus remains the same in the storm or in the calm. His disciples withered under certain circumstances and were astounded to notice that Jesus was the same regardless.
Even though Nicodemus was a great religious leader, Jesus said that he still lacked something. Jesus turned to him and said, "You must be born again" (John 3:7). In other words, Jesus said, the only way that you can establish a permanent Christian character, the only way that you can be rid of the sin in your soul, the only way you can have a new life, the only way that you can begin to build a new and better world, is to be born anew.
Jesus taught that all of man's difficulties and problems come from a sinful heart. It is the heart that defiles a person, He said: "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man" (Matthew 15:19-20). The only way to build true Christian character is through a new birth.
This divine new birth is not the remolding or improvement of the nature with which you are born. It is not the remaking of the old nature. Jesus said, "You must be born again" (John 3:7). God wants to create a new nature in the individuals who make up our society.
The new birth is the impartation of a new life wrought in the Christian by divine power through a supernatural act, whereby we become partakers of the divine nature. The new nature is spiritual and distinct from the old nature. It is a God-implanted, divine life. The Bible teaches that it is the very life of Christ Himself. The only way for us to have true Christian character is to be born again.
When we, by faith, accept Jesus Christ as Savior, then God places within us a totally new nature. Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit, takes up residence in our hearts. The Christian begins to produce the fruit of the Spirit, which is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance. The Bible teaches that we cannot produce these fruits unless we have been born from above.
Many people ask the same thing that Nicodemus asked, "What do you mean by being born again?" (Cf. John 3:4-8). The first time we experience birth, we are born physically into the physical world. But at the moment we are born into the physical world, we are born spiritually dead. The Bible teaches that we are dead spiritually.
The Bible says the natural man "does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are ... spiritually discerned" (1 Corinthians 2:14). We are the natural man. We have been born once into the physical world, but we are blind to spiritual things.
There comes that moment in life when the Spirit of God convicts us of sin. It may be a sermon preached, it may be a tragic circumstance, it may be a disappointment in life. But the Spirit of God uses these things to convict us of the fact that we are sinners.
Christ is presented to us as the only hope of salvation from the bondage of sin. We are told to turn from our sins and commit and surrender our lives to Jesus Christ. The moment we do that-and it happens instantaneously-the Bible says we are born again. It is not a matter of emotion or some great feeling that sweeps over us. It is a simple act of commitment to Christ. Then by faith we believe the Word of God, which says, "God puts a new nature in you" (Cf. 2 Corinthians 5:17-18).
We cannot inherit Christianity. There are people who think they are Christians because they have Christian parents. I could be born in a garage, but that would not make me an automobile. We can be born in a Christian home, but that does not make us Christians. We may live a fairly decent and moral life, but that alone does not make us born again. We may go to church once in a while, but that does not make us born again. We may give our money to charitable organizations, but that does not make us Christians. Jesus said, "unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3). You must be born again.
There are just two conditions to the new birth: the first is repentance, the second is faith. At the moment we are born again, God will give us supernatural power. Lying, cheating, hate, lust and all such things will disappear if we let the Spirit of God have his way in our lives.
In every part of the world where I am invited to preach the Gospel, I seek for individuals to be born again. It is only as people are born from above that they can live the Christian life, and it is only as we inject Christians into our society that nations can be saved. We have tried to pick ourselves up by our own bootstraps, and we have failed. We have tried many schemes and philosophies. They have all failed. Now I beg of you to choose Christ. You cannot know the fruits, thrills, joys and destiny of the Kingdom of God unless you have been born again.


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The Campari Old-Fashioned/
I have done such a complete 180 on Campari over the last few years... actually, sometimes I fear that it's not so much that I've done a 180 on Campari as I've suffered from a life-long brain-fart conflation between Campari and Pimm's. Because they're both russet-toned and from the other side of the ocean, just like Communists, and my memory really started going to pot when I hit 34. The point is, I will still look at you sideways if you tell me you really love Pimm's Cups and probably ask to see your papers because you're clearly a pond-jumping toffer, but I will toast with you the whole night through if you tell me you love Negronis and Americanos. (Which are from Italy, I realize... logic's not my strong suit today.)
It's clear I've also been on a bit of an old-fashioned kick lately, probably because whiskey drinks on the rocks are inherently winter-appropriate, to my mind, and not terribly elaborate to make. This Campari Old-Fashioned is super-easy to make and gives you a reason to pull the Campari bottle down from the shelf between the months of November and April.
Not much to it? I guess, maybe. I can't hit them all out of the park, people, nor do I necessarily want to. Maybe I've just got a case of the Mondays today, or maybe I'm mixocologically burned out from making my neighbor World's Greatest Cosmoplitans over the weekend. Whatever. C is for Campari, that's good enough for me.
The Campari Old-Fashioned
2 ounces Campari
1/4 ounce simple syrup
1/4 ounce honey syrup
2 dashes Peychuad's Bitters
Orange peel, to garnish
Build drink over ice in highball, stir briskly, garnish with orange peel.
Tasting Notes
Honey syrup is just equal parts honey and water cooked down, the way you'd cook down any simple syrup. Its purpose is mainly to make honey easier to work with since it's sludgy thickness makes it unwieldy.


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My dad today bought a case of beers from around the world, and that got me thinking about my favourite beers. Then that got me thinking, I wonder what beers you people in the forum like to drink, but I thought that might be a bit inclusive (for some reason I imagine Wini either loving or hating beer), so I want to know what you guys usually or prefer to drink. Me, I prefer either a good beer (Asahi, Becks, Corona, Löwenbräu and Stella Artois being my favourites) or a gin and tonic, like an old woman. Sue me.
Ha, that's funny. I drink one of the nicknamed redneck beers, "Natty Light". Not just out of preference for a six pack for under five bucks, but because I have always prefered a super super light beer. Dark beers, ugh Guinness bleah, to me. Tequila, a good one, and cranberry juice. Or tequila and sweetened lime juice.
Though I no longer drink, I always liked Rogue beers... particularly their "Hazelnut Brown Nectar". Just a delicious beer. Generally pale ales were my favorites, along with super dark beers (Negro Modelo + Mexican food = search for delicious over), though. Bass is good. Sierra Nevada pale ale is good. My real weakness, though, was good scotch.
I don't know anything about American beer because Europeans and Australians won't touch them, Mexican beer is another thing though.
i wouldn't touch the big domestic beers here, either, but it's too bad the microbrewery stuff that's largely out on our west coast doesn't make it down your way -- that's some fine beer. Rogue is pretty huge at this point but they're one of many independent (I think they're still independent) brewers in Oregon. Black Butte Porter is another good Oregon microbrew.
I searched top beers of the world on google and most of the professional lists had American microbrews, so when I come to America I'd really like to check them out... oh wait I'm 19 and America you have to be 21 =(( oh well maybe my friend has a fake ID or something.
when are you coming?
Dave, I love the Rogue beers. When I turned 21 I went through a phase where I tried as many different beers as I could get my hands on and there are a lot that I discovered I enjoyed but now I barely ever drink, like once every three months and even then it's only a beer. I really enjoy pale ales or really hoppy beers though. I like the Stone brewery beers and probably my favorite beers are from the Unibroue brewery in Quebec - I really love all of their beer.
i'm with you -- hoppy beers are my favorites.
I'll be coming early next year. It's not for certain, but I'm going to do everything I can to get there.
I don't drink...yet, but I know up here in the upper midwest there are a lot of microbreweries, especially in Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Minnesota. Here is a map of craft breweries. "Of the 1,759 breweries in America, only 43 are not defined as craft brewers, and 100 not defined as either a micro or brewpub". Fact! [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Craft_Breweries_Per_Capita_(US).png[/img]
cool map. i think oregon has the most microbreweries in the country? i could be wrong. there are a lot in the west. swamp ale, a florida microbrewery beer, is literally the hoppiest beer i've ever tasted. at least bottled. it's a helluva lot smoother on tap.
Oregon I think is #1, but only #4 when it comes to per capita. My parents love microbrews and whenever they get the chance to stop at one, they will. A lot of foreigners and even most Americans need to know about all the good microbrews around the US.
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nice, didn't know we had a beemoticon
It's kind of weird for me to think that if I come to America that I can't legally drink. In Germany the law says that you can drink beer and wine by 16, and spirits by 18. In Australia you can drink whatever at 18. If I ever am in America at the right age I'll be sure to check out your microbrews or whatevers.
I have a friend who is going to mexico over break and the drinking age down there is 18 or something.
here in america, you can travel 10,000 miles to kill muslim militants and civilians as soon as you're 18, but we feel strongly that alcohol is far more immoral than murder.
True true, I remember this protest song that my dad played a while back about Nam. Eve of Destruction? I don't know really what it was called.
for the record, Maine has a lot a lot of great beers to offer.
no doubt, the northeast is a good place for brews, too.
I'll confess I've only tried beer a few times. My dad's allergic to hops. And it's genetic... so yeah. I do like wine though. My parents are wine people because of that.
there is a lot of really good microbrews in denmark and of course big ones like Carlsberg and Tuborg. i usually drink the cheapest beer called Harboe or Kings. But there is a great microbrew rigth where i live. my dad used to buy beer there on birthdays and such but he doesnt drink anymore. The rules are the same here as in Germany but a year ago you just had to be 16.
speaking of northeast i love premium grain belt NORD beast! uh! and It's miller time! ... MGD / hi-life! (the sham PAIN of bears! and real pain for mah shamu furry friends!) .... also PBR ... and not because of the hipster or blue velvet connection more just the taste and cheap price! unlike rice! beer...
oh yeah, I also have an unwavering love of Budweiser which is a result of my teenage years drinking exclusively that. (It now has the nostalgic taste of teenage mischief.)
i just can't stand those bitter / nasty tasting / dark / heavy beers and the beer snobs who think they're so groovy because they drink "GOOD" beers blech! screw that!
I'm relieved to hear of your taste in beer. I have no fear: you like them clear.
What I really don't like is yeast (cloudy) beers. It's really funny though, after I graduated from highschool we have this party thing because we're finally allowed alcohol and the Americans want to drink as much as they can before they go back, and I tried a yeast beer and thought, this is the best beer ever! The next day or so I went to the bar with my friends and got another one and thought it tasted really funky in a bad way. Maybe it's because I had two swigs of vodka before I drank the yeast beer? Probably.
I have no specific preferences (18 am I)
I was drinking 'till I was on the floor by age 11. You've got some catching up to do. LOL Raki is one of the coolest liquors in the world. It's a Turkish liquor (my parents used to get it at this Turkish place in Brooklyn with really great food) that's impressively smooth and cool. Because of what it's made with, adding water makes it kind of bubble up and become milky white. It's much cooler to watch and drink than it sounds, and the good ones have a really nice flavor.
I've never heard of it, sounds really awesome though. I was at my grandparents place a few weeks ago and my grandpa was digging through his liquor cabinet; we found some really crazy stuff. One of them was like, this Czech herbal liquor that tasted live cloves and vodka, it was pretty bad, but oddly refreshing.
On the East Coast, there's a company called Flying Dog, really good, they might be based in CA but I've only ever seen their stuff in Maryland though: everything from Pale Ale to Heffe Viesse or however you spell that... live in Ger. but i sprekin no deutsch
Heffe WieBe I think is how it's spelled. Except instead of a B it's that weird german B thing that means "ss".
I've definitely heard of Flying Dog before but never drank it, i'll have to next time I see it available.
I like Flying Dog, we have it here in N.C. New Belgium makes lots of good beers I like. As far as liquors go, whiskey is my favorite. Gin is OK too.
Whiskey whiskey!
Gin gin! The gentlemen's drink.
Emphasis on the gentle.
bluck gin! I love whiskey though, a lot.
Did you know that if you can't get a hangover from gin (unless you drink A LOT)?
I certainly got a hangover after my first time drinking it! I did drink quite a few shots though...and it was my first time drinking ever...
I think that qualifies a lot. Interesting that your first time drinking was gin - did you grab it from the closet or something?
bathtub gin?
Tequila is the worst. Every time i drink it i cant remember anything the day after and people always tell me i acted crazy. but that is pretty normal when you drink a lot of tequila
Franziskaner Heffeweisse is good, as is Spaten Optimator. As for hard liquor, I like scotch. I'm not above Steel Reserve though.
Wow, one of good friend's favourite beer is Franziskaner Heffeweisse! What a coincidence.
My boyfriend of the time took the bottle from his dad's liquor cabinet and I just kept drinking it because I wasn't drunk yet and then it all hit me at once and I was wasted. Needless to say, I hate gin now.
it tastes like pine needles!
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In a supermarket parking lot at Westheimer and Weslayan, I was loading groceries into the car when a woman in a green sedan pulled up beside me. She asked if I'd give her a little help.
Ah, a panhandler. And on wheels. OK, I have a long-term interest in panhandlers.
In recent times I've been staying up in the country, at the Winedale place, so it's been an entire year since I was panhandled. Up there we don't have beggars.
Even in Houston I don't get many of them any longer, probably because an old white-headed party driving a dirty pickup doesn't look like he'd be carrying a lot of spare cash.
But on this day, my pickup was getting a rest beneath a shade tree up in Washington County, and I was driving my partner's car. Her ride suggests a good deal more prosperity than mine, and I expect that's what stopped the panhandler.
She was in her mid-30s, I'd guess. Her car wasn't new, but it was clean. Nothing shabby about it. Motor running smooth and quiet.
She was dressed well. Had two children with her. A preschooler in the back seat, at work on what looked like a coloring book. An older one in front. Maybe a second-grader.
When I'm asked by a panhandler to donate, I like to hear the pitch. Why was this person out there begging in a parking lot?
She said her husband had died. And she and her children didn't have a place to stay. And the kids were hungry. And she was broke.
So it wasn't much of a story. If panhandlers intend to get money out of me, they've got to have a decent story.
But I'll go ahead and confess. I gave that woman five bucks, just in case those kids really were hungry. I doubt they were. I figured there was maybe one chance in 10 that her story was straight. If everything she said was a lie, so what? I've spent five bucks on worse things.
The $5 bill wasn't in her hand two seconds before she said, "Can't you help out a little more than that?"
Now I call that a mistake. It violated my rules. When you're begging on the street, and somebody gives you X amount, you don't ask for more, no matter how small X is. Instead you feel grateful for X, and move along.
Don't you suppose a panhandler working supermarket parking lots that way could do pretty well? And without ever getting out of the car.
I've long wondered how much a beggar might collect in a big city, with a good story delivered in a credible style. I searched the Internet and the only thing pertinent I found was on Wikipedia. A few years ago a study made of panhandlers in the city of Toronto showed that they averaged $638 a month. Those were Canadian dollars.
I do wonder how the people conducting that study got the panhandlers to talk honestly about their income. Back in my traveling days, when I was working a lot harder than I am now, I tried to interview several beggars. Most of them said they had no place to live, hadn't had a square meal in four days, and a week had passed since they'd had two nickels to rub together.
My most fertile experience with panhandlers was in my Army years, back there in the '40s. In downtown Louisville, Ky., I once was approached by a short fellow who convinced me he was about to faint from hunger. I gave him money for a meal.
Half an hour later I met him again in a bar around the corner. He was drinking a double bourbon. Was he embarrassed? Why no. He laughed, and offered to buy me a beer with my own money.
During that old war, the West Coast to me seemed populated mainly by sailors, soldiers, Marines, cab drivers and panhandlers. I spent months out there, stationed at Santa Ana and Santa Monica.
The panhandlers knew when the eagle flew. I'll bet you the pros among them could look at a corporal getting off the bus in L.A. on payday and tell you within $5 how much cash was in the pocket of his suntans.
Some of those West Coast guys were so sharp at getting money out of soldiers, I used to wonder if they were trained in Hollywood drama schools.
But the best panhandler I ever met was in Mexico City, in the '50s. I was down there on assignment, and this guy collared me on Paseo de la Reforma and asked where I was from.
Houston? Oh, he knew Houston. Did he ever know Houston. Used to live there, work there. Worked for Oscar Holcombe.
(Holcombe had been mayor then for something like 20 years.)
Worked at the Rice Hotel, too, there on Texas Avenue. Hey, he used to shuck oysters at George Kelly's just across the street.
However, just lately he'd been having a bad streak of luck and if I could see my way clear …
Are you asking me whether I gave this guy money? I don't want to talk about that.


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There are several apps at the App Store created to help adults and children with ADD/ADHD. These apps include simple alarm clocks to encourage you to get to school or work each day on time; reminders to help with medication; apps to store emergency contacts; apps to store notes and reports for reviewing with your doctor; and apps to store health statistics. It's fantastic that these apps are available, but they don't solve the core problem that there's not one place to manage everything. Managing everything in one place is essential for success to eliminate distractions from "app switching." When you spend your time switching from app to app, the task at hand takes longer than it should — or doesn't happen at all because something grabs your attention, and you forget what you were trying to accomplish in the first place. At LightArrow, we've developed LifeTopix to solve this core problem — we manage EVERYTHING you do in life — all in one place.
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Daily to-do list
According to Psych Central "When things get busy, ADHD symptoms can lead a person to lose perspective. On a daily level, to-do lists can help organize your schedule according to the importance of each activity." LifeTopix includes features which enable you to create, schedule, and prioritize using to-do lists, as shown below.
All of these items roll up into your master calendar, and you can track daily progress.
Your Daily Planner
According to HelpGuide.org, a non-profit resource that helps people who have mental, emotional, and lifestyle challenges, it is important for those with ADD/ADHD to "make use of lists and notes to keep track of regularly scheduled tasks, projects, deadlines, and appointments. If you decide to use a daily planner, keep all lists and notes inside it." LifeTopix allows you to accomplish this via its virtual daily planner. It is based on 12 LifeTopix.
LifeTopix gives you the ability to enter, organize, prioritize, track and check off even the most complex tasks and projects in a streamlined, natural, and easy-to-understand way. It also works with popular apps such as Evernote, Toodledo, and Dropbox — eliminating the need to switch to those apps if you've stored notes, files, or tasks there. Take a look at the My Calendar view, which includes a rollup of all the data that you are tracking every day in LifeTopix
Progress Reports
According to Psych Central, a motivational strategy for children with ADHD is to establish a Daily Report Card. LifeTopix is completely user configurable — you can create your own report card with any values you wish using the LifeTopix Wellness Log Forms. An example of wellness log values are shown below.
You can choose to log any stats with any range of values or numbers. For example, the following report card was created to track the number of times undesirable behaviors occurred during a day (on a user-defined scale of 1-10). You can track this data every day, every week, or every month — it's up to you to decide. Teachers can create report cards for students and email the report cards to parents; alternatively parents can track these behaviors on their own to discuss with doctors during appointments.
You can also view the data in a graph form (line, bar, or plot), which allows you to view and analyze any trends that occur over time, as shown below.
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When I first starting working with young mothers I found myself trying to validate my ally-ness. If anyone asked me why I was involved, or if I had children of my own, instead of simply saying "no", I would feel the need to defend my involvement.
I would often respond with:
"No I don't have any children, but my mother was a young mother"
"No but I have many friends who are young parents"
I asked myself, "as an undocumented immigrant, what do I want from allies?" Then it hit me, I can be an ally without an explanation or defending my involvement. "I'm not a racist, my friend is black" isn't cool so why would "I don't have children but my friend is a young mom" be considered okay? I started reminding myself that I can be an ally, just because. I can be an ally because I believe in the importance of young mother's voices being heard without tokenizing those around me. I can be an ally because our liberations are tied together. I can be an ally because no one is free, while others are oppressed.
Even though being an ally can be tricky. We should all be willing to learn and be called out. We are allies to each other. Here are some things I've learned throughout my involvement with young mothers:
1. It's so much easier to sit back and judge young families. Young mothers already face a bunch of judgement everywhere. Don't judge. Educate yourself.
2. Always step back and look at the bigger picture. This isn't about you, remember?
3. Families are different. Don't assume every family is compiled of a mother, father and one child.
4. Always engage the children and think of their needs/wants.
5. Be an ally just because. Don't try to prove something to others or to yourself. Believing in the people you're working with and the cause you're working towards is sufficient.


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All this is hypothetical of course, but I was wondering whether tanking the season is an option.
I'm not talking Penguins-like tanking pre-Crosby/Malkin, which was a bit extreme in my opinion, and I don't think this would work in NY, so please hear me out.
Since we don't have a shot at the Superbowl anyway next season, why not let the younger guys gather precious experience for the following years?
If I'm not mistaken, we don't have a lot of players nearing the end of their career due to age concerns, so it's not like Denver with Manning or comparable scenarios.
We need to build a good foundation for the future, and I'm pretty optimistic that's what Idzik will do anyway, but I hope they go with this approach 100%. One of the possible consequences would be: If Revis doesn't want to sign a reasonable extension, dump him. This goes for other players as well, although Revis is special of course.
What do you guys think?
Would you be content with a 3-13 type of season in order to build towards 2014 and beyond? Or is this out of the realm of possibility for you?
All I know is I wouldn't mind a 3-13 season in place of a 6-10, 7-9 one. I'd rather have a shot at Manziel or Bridgewater than to settle for a WR or something. I come from the school of unless you're making the playoffs, and I don't think this team will in 2013, hope for as poor play as possible so that you can land yourself a franchise QB. Screw missing the playoffs by a game or two. If you're not getting in, give me 2-14, 3-13. Suck it up.
Is there someway we could get 2 of the Top 3 picks like the Redskins did in 2000? If we tanked the season and traded Revis for a package of 2014 picks and used that package to move back up. Teddy B and Clowney.
A kid can dream.
No. You play to win the game some guy once said.
On the jets it will be dbrick, mangold, Harris, Revis and Cro. I am not including Holmes as i think he will start the year on IR/Pup or Sanchez as it is not known if he would start.
Personally I'd keep Brick, Mangold, Howard, and find two guards (Ducasse strictly BU unless there's significant improvement) in the draft. Consequently, the OL play will drop and the QB will be running for his life, but that way we might have a VERY YOUNG and VERY GOOD line for 2014. Then draft a QB, or pick someone up in FA, and we're good to go.
As was stated in many other threads, the defense won't be the problem; going with a half-assed approach with the OL will be a big problem in my opinion.
I'd happily take a 2 or 3 win season in exchange for a bright future.
Obviously, Brick and Nick aren't in the equation. We need 3 players on D, and 5 on O to get in the hunt this it is going to take more than going in the tank, and not necessarily high draft picks. It's going to take time, bodies and luck unless Sanchez can pull off a miracle( which he may). If he does it makes it more manageable, but still difficult.
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We shouldn't tank a damn thing. Clowney is not a reason to tank a season and the QB class IS NOT GOING TO BE BETTER. Draft a QB THIS year run the year. If the rook has a good year we could still have a winning season. I think our future QB is in this draft. People need to stop acting stupid and look at the talent here. Loosing year in and year out only makes good players not want to stay. 3 seasons of the team quitting doesn't make this a place people what to stay or go to for that matter.
Seriously. ..
Our "fanbase" wanted everybody fired and shot after a 6-10 season. ..even after the prior 8-8 season. ..
Can you imagine the bloodletting from some of our SARry SOJFs after a 3 win season???
Take it another step, what if they had the top 3 picks that year. Then they could have drafted a bust at DE #1 overall. Draft picks are lottery picks. you don't tank a season to get a guy you hope will be good. Remember when we lost out on Reggie Bush and had to settle on D'Brick? That worked out ok for us.
In all honesty, if Sanchez is the starting qb, you won't have to worry about "tanking" anything, it will happen naturally.
When the Colts got word that Manning was done for the year, they went forward with a plan in place to "tank" the season to get Luck.
It worked.
Yes, if the Jets see a qb next year that is franchise worthy, tank the season.
I don't really believe there is any correlation between getting a top 5 pick and becoming a SB contender. In fact there is much more correlation of teams who get top 5 picks continuing to get top 5 picks.
The idea that "tanking" the season really helps is kind of a myth, there will always be cases where getting the number 1 pick really did turn the fortune of a team around (Colts) but that's not really how it works out normally.
How will we be able to tell?
I can live with a 1-3 win season if it guaranteed a top 3 pick and a shot at Clowney or Bridgewater.
To think this team is "a player or 2 away from contending" would be naive and you probably should lay off of the green kool-aid. This team needs a total rebuild so why not play some of the younger players and rookies to decide who to keep when we start tearing down the roster. Also the 2014 draft seems like it will have some studs at the top so why not try to get one of them......


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I subscribe to quite a few podcasts on my iPhone and I want to share a few of the science fiction & fantasy and podcasts I find informative, amusing and fun. Listening to podcasts is perfect in the car or while training. My personal favorites are Slice of Scifi and Dragon Page but that changes over time. The list below is alphabetic.
Do you have a podcast? tell me about it and I'll add it to the list.
Abaddon & Solaris Books Podcast, the
So far this year there has been a cast in January and March. I liked the interviews.
The Abaddon & Solaris Books podcast blasts out of yout earphones each month with fresh insights, general nonsense and the latest releases from our favorite Science Fiction and Horror publisher. With regular features, guest authors, and book readings. Warning: Ensure socks are firmly secured against being knocked the Hell off before listening.
Adventures in Scifi Publishing
(Farpoint Media)
Used to be a regular, but I haven't seen any casts in 2010.
Adventures in Scifi Publishing began in October 2006 when creator Shaun Farrell decided to try something his hand at podcasting. Our first shows featured exclusive interviews with Ray Bradbury, R.A. Salvatore, Harry Turtledove, and Michael A. Stackpole. How could we stop after a lineup like that! We interview authors, editors, agents, publishers, artists, and a variety of other professionals from the science fiction and fantasy publishing industry. We have covered exciting events such as Comic-Con, the Clarion Writers Workshop, WorldCon, World Fantasy Convention, Condor, Conjecture, and live book readings. Occasionally we step outside the world of books and brave the frontiers of media, and on our website you will find interviews with Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis stars, musician Bear McCreary, and the filmmakers behind Ray Bradbury's Crysalis. Whether you're a writer or just love to read, you'll find insight and entertainment in AISFP.
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