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A report by the Constitutional Litigation Clinic at Rutgers School of Law–Newark recommends a series of actions by the State Legislature, school boards, and high school administrators and guidance counselors to help students and their families make informed decisions about military enlistment.
The report, titled "Should You Enlist?: What Everyone Should Know About Military Recruiting, Military Life, and Veteran Affairs Before Enlisting," is an update of a report published by the Rutgers clinic in 2008. "Should You Enlist?" was prepared by Clinical Professor Penny Venetis and her students.
The report discusses the military's aggressive and well-funded recruiting tactics; how these efforts are imported to high schools under the federal No Child Left Behind Act; and the impact of military action on service members and veterans. The report also provides extensive information about scholarships that are available to students who are interested in pursuing college rather than joining the military. Along these same lines, the report discusses the many advantages of joining the military after college or during college (through ROTC programs).
The report concludes with a series of recommendations intended to ensure that high school students who decide to enlist will do so based on a full understanding of what it means to join the military during wartime.
Go to http://www.law.newark.rutgers.edu/files/Military%20Recruitment%20Report.pdf for the full report.


text: Hello everyone in Dragoart land, welcome to another fun filled day where we will be tackling various lessons based on different types of things. Today we will begin by tackling a task on a very popular baseball player that has a very distinctive style of playing the game, as well as being a very distinct looking person. If I didn't mention before, we will be learning "how to draw Derek Jeter", step by step. Derek Sanderson Jeter was born on June 26, 1974 to Sanderson Jeter, and Dorothy Jeter in Pequannock New Jersey. Derek was raised in a very structural manner and he was even taught to grow up with a positive attitude on life. When Derek was in high school he began playing baseball. He later received honors as being one of the best high school baseball players in Michigan. In 1992 he was signed to the New York Yankees for eight hundred thousand dollars. Early on scouts and coaches knew that Derek Jeter would one day make it into the Baseball Hall of Fame. From 1992 to 1995, Jeter was in the minor leagues. He made his way to becoming a major league baseball player the same year he starred in major league. Since 1995, Derek Jeter has been giving his fans what they want and he will continue to do so. I had a blast drawing Derek Jeter, and if you are a baseball or Yankee's fan, you will not only love this lesson, you will also have fun drawing out his face. I will be back in a few so stay tuned in to Dragoart.com.

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WTF is Mode-S?
Mode-S is the radio protocol used for secondary surveillance radar in the United States and most of the world. It is a direct descendent of Mode-A/C, which were originally used to add simple supplemental data to the primary radar returns on air traffic controllers' displays (like altitude and assigned squawk code). It is not literally RADAR, but it is a data protocol on a separate frequency (1090MHz), with by equipment generally co-located with primary surveillance radar systems (often 1030MHz). In Europe now and the US eventually, a new higher-level protocol, ADS-B, is being implemented on-top of Mode-S. ADS-B allows for more sophisticated two-way data transfer data between ground stations and equipped aircraft. Right now in the US, most aircraft only transmit Mode-S, but any flight going to Europe generally supports ADS-B. Most importantly, ADS-B-equipped aircraft generally transmit their location, so that aircraft can be tracked by anyone within line of sight, instead of relying on primary radar returns. (The US is eager to move to ADS-B, as it means they can get rid of those hundreds (thousands?) of secondary surveillance radar stations they have to maintain across the US territories, and replace them with very simple systems not dissimilar to that described here! Also note that the US will also support ADS-B implementation via the UMT datalink instead of "1090ES"; this is a different thing and isn't covered by this project.)
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mid and Balint installed an antenna tuned for 1090MHz on the noisebridge roof. It runs to bunny, a Geode LX800 motherboard with a microADS-B PIC decoder inside a NMEA/IP-67-rated weatherproof can powered over fake-PoE. It's running Voyage Linux, why not. In testing, it has been able to follow aircraft over 150 miles away (we picked up the Aeroflot A330 from LAX to Moscow on the other side of the Sierra last weekend, as well as flights en route over Paso Robles).
Currently it is not operational due to interference issues between the motherboard and the PIC (and perhaps a host of other problems). mid, jbm, and Balint have a plan! It likely involves aluminium foil and gobs more electrical tape. Also the mounting+cabling is a crime against engineering—we'll fix it ASAP.
Long-term plan
- Provide a freely-usable timestamped stream of data in the "port 30003" protocol used by most of the rest of the ADS-B hobbyist community
- Contribute the stream to the planefinder.net community to increase coverage of the bay area
- Put up a fun slippy map display
- Pool data with other hobbyists to try to do real-time multilateration on aircraft that only transmit non-positional Mode-S data


text: So there is not a lot of inofrmation I can give you on these next two characters that I'm going to submit but I can tell you that there is a new movie coming out in 2014 called 'Free Birds'. The film has voice talents like Owen Wilson, and Woody Harrelson. This lesson is going to be on "how to draw Jake from Free Birds", step by step. Jake is the rebel of the two turkeys and he sort of opens Reggie's eyes to what people do with turkeys on Thanksgiving Day. Jake is voiced by Woody Harrelson, and like always I'm sure he will do an awesome job. Have fun drawing Jake from Free Birds everyone. I will be back soon.


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Okay, so maybe some of those ideas are pretty out there, but fans tend to love it when two major franchises cross paths. Look at games like Marvel vs. Capcom or the aforementioned Kingdom Hearts. These cross-over games find a way to take two dissonant universes and franchises and mix them together into something special. Like chocolate and peanut butter, sometimes two great things are even better when they're side-by-side.
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This innocent-looking problem came to me some years ago.
These two most basic integration formulas are, of course, disturbingly different, in the eyes of any good mathematicians [ just joking ;-) ].
The challenge is to put them together in a nice manner.
Smells like analytical continuation and the zeta(1) pole is playing a role here, so I don't expect the answer to be trivial. Bonus for anyone using representation theory or p-adic methods [yes, i am thinking about Tate's thesis], or any appearances of cohomology.


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My GIT setup runs fine in Linux, but when I try to set things up under Windows (using Git for Windows and TortoiseGit), I don't know where to put my private ssh key (or, better still, how to tell ssh where it's located). I'm using the standard ssh.exe option during installation of Git for Windows. The setup runs fine if I allow password authentication (in lieu of rsa) on the server.
For Git Bash
If you are running msysgit (I am assuming you are) and are looking to run Git Bash (I recommend it over TortoiseGit, but I lean to the CLI more than GUI now), you need to figure out what your home directory is for Git Bash by starting it then type
After you have the home directory, and a .ssh folder under that, you want to open PuTTYgen and open the key (.ppk file) you have previously created. Once your key is open, you want to select
Note: Comments indicate that this doesn't work in all cases. You may need to copy the OpenSSH key to
For TortoiseGit
When using TortoiseGit, you need to set the SSH key via pacey's directions. You need to do that for every repository you are using TortoiseGit with
Using the built-in SSH client shipped with Git for windows, you need to setup the HOME environment variable so that the Git SSH client can find the key.
For example, on a Windows Vista installation, this would be done by issuing
Made my day and fixed the issue with Git provided that your private key is not password protected. If you want to use ssh-agent, then you can probably run ssh-agent cmd.exe (although I've never done that) and the ssh-add as usual.
Note that all Git/SSH tools are supposed to be run from a cmd.exe in order not to blink a window.
If this does not work correctly, using plink can probably be achieved by tweaking GIT_SSH. Refer to all the svn+ssh tutorials, this is basically the same plumbing you need to setup.
You can specify the Key Location for Tortoisegit the following way:
Screen shoot below:
None of the answers above worked for me. Here was what worked for me in the end. It is actually fairly simple, if you know what to type. It doesn't need putty.
That's the bit on your own computer done. Now ssh into the destination server, then do
That's it! You're done! From git bash, do the following to test:
If it lists the files in your home directory on the git server, then you're done!
Edit: for github, you dont have shell access to their server, but you can upload the key using their website, so for the bit 'now copy to your server', do:
If you're using msysgit with the OpenSSH tools, you need to either create ~/.ssh/id_rsa, or create a git config in ~/.ssh/config which points to your key.
Here's an example of a Git config for bitbucket that will use the correct username, and a key other than the default key (in case you maintain one key for SSH connections, and another for git accounts).
Once in git bash, you can run two commands to add your key to your current session's ssh-agent to avoid having to repeatedly type the key's password.
I just set %HOME%=%HOMEPATH%
This has the advantage of working for all users logged into the system (they each get separate .ssh folders).
In Vista:
Your private key needs to be added to the SSH agent on your workstation. How you achieve this may depend on what git client you are using, however puTTY and its associated agent (pageant) might do the trick for you, here's the link to the official binaries and source:
Oke, i lookt at the sugestion of
But placeing in my private ssh keys in public folder i didn't was good idea so i started to look where are is the knownhost.
So if you want to correctly protect your ssh key you need to put your key in the following directory for Windows 7,8 and 8.1 32-bit in
for Windows 7,8 and 8.1 64-bit in
I hope this help some of you
The following answer also applies to this question when running ssh from Windows Service Account: Jenkins (Windows Service) with Git over SSH
You can specify both path to key and name of key file like so (on ubuntu). For example:
I originally posted this as a comment, but someone suggested I should post it as a proper answer.
Pageant (an SSH agent supplied with the PuTTY bundle) solves the problem for me.
I have a shortcut in my Start Menu's Startup folder (
When mixing GitHub for Windows and Git GUI for windows, you might run into issues where Git GUI keeps prompting you for a username and password. The cure for this is to change the remote url from https: (which is what GitHub for Windows creates) to git protocol. In the .git directory in the config file find
change to
I had similar issues and none of the answers here solved the problem. Turns out, my key pair were originally generated with an empty passphrase. (I know, dumb)
Once I created a new keypair and uploaded the public key to github, things started working again.
Reading your comment to Declan's answer, try opening a command prompt first (Start -> Run -> cmd) and then navigate to that git/bin folder and run ssh-keygen. Theoretically that will generate an RSA key and place it in the appropriate directory. Then you just gotta find it and share your public key with the world.
The reason that the window "blinks" is because windows run's the program, and when it executes, it closes the command prompt, thinking you're done with it, when you really need the output.
Hope that helps!
Using Git Gui on Windows v0.17 I clicked on the following menu commands
A dialog appeared entitled Your OpenSSH Public Key. I generated a key and copied it to the clipboard. Then I continued to follow the setup-ssh instructions on githelp from Step Three onwards. Afterwards Git Gui communicated with Github silently - no need to enter any credentials.
On my windows 7 system GitGui looks for the RSA key in the userprofile/.ssh folder or more specifically c:/users/yourusername/.ssh/
The tricky part for my setup was getting the shared host at hostmonster to accept the key. The only way I could get it to work was by using GitGui to create the key pairs (without a password) and then copy and pasting the public key via the control panel, ssh, manage keys.
To start at the beginning you have to create the keys in GitGui by going to Help, Show SSH key, then Generate Key. Now you will have two new keys in the .ssh directory. Open the .pub file and copy the contents. Log in to your control panel on shared host and go into ssh, manage ssh keys, import key. Paste into the Public box, and make sure you name it the right name without the extension-- mine was id_rsa. Now you must authorize the key using the manage authorization link, so it will get concatenated into the authorized_keys file.
Now your GitGui and your GitBash should be able to push using ssh without having to type the password. Oddly, I was able to push using ssh via git bash and git gui just fine on my own servers running linux, it was just the shared hosting that was giving me fits. Hope this helps someone as it took me hours of trial and error to come up with this--and its so simple!
If you're on Windows 7/8, you should look in C:\Users\Your_User_Name.ssh Just copy & paste your id_rsa file here and it will all work out-of-the-box.
The standard location for the files is in
If you are using the ssh tools that came with git, which are the standard command line unix-style tools, you can use something like my script here to work with ssh-agent across all shells.
If you are using Git command line for Windows you can do as following:
Create new folder
Done, now you can use git commanline normally
One mistake I made when using SSH on Windows was that when I attempted to use the keys through the Git Bash client, all of the files within ~/.ssh were the wrong permissions, yet it did not attempt to tell me that it was a problem.
Just as a test, make sure you've set everything in your ~/.ssh directory to chmod 600.
My msysgit OpenSSL/Bash GIT experience (not Putty's plink) is that the search order for your the
Hence why so many people suggest setting
Sorry for adding yet another answer but we found ssh searching in an obscure drive and none of the answers seemed to explain what we saw.
If you have the necessary permissions on the Windows machine, and your policies permit it, I would suggest installing Cygwin (https://cygwin.com/), especially considering that you have prior experience with Linux. Cygwin will make it possible to handle your ssh-keys as you would on any other Linux/Unix machine. And it provides access to almost all of the cli tools of Linux.
You can also load Putty Agent (pageant) and add the private key you generated with Putty for the server.
Git recognizes this and uses that for push/pull.


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A Singapore-based company has proposed a $650 million deal to Petrobras, including $80 million for the Nansei Sekiyu refinery in Okinawa and $570 million for oil and oil-derivatives stocks at the refinery complex, the Valor Economico newspaper said, citing sources with knowledge of the negotiations.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazilian state-run energy giant Petroleo
Brasileiro, or Petrobras, has received an offer to purchase a
refinery that the company owns in
Japan, as the company is selling assets aimed at raising $9.9
billion to fund its massive investment plan, the Valor
Economico newspaper reported Friday.
A Singapore-based company has proposed a $650 million deal
to Petrobras, including $80 million for the Nansei Sekiyu refinery in Okinawa and $570 million
for oil and oil-derivatives stocks at the refinery complex, Valor said, citing
sources with knowledge of the negotiations.
Petrobras is in the midst of a divestment program to raise
cash to fund the company's $237 billion five-year investment
plan. The oil company expects to raise $9.9 billion from asset
sales, with a majority of the sales earmarked for 2013, CEO
Maria das Gracas Foster said earlier this week.
The company is also in talks to sell its Argentine assets,
Ms. Foster said.
Petrobras purchased Nansei Sekiyu for a total of $57 million
in two separate transactions with ExxonMobil and Japan's
According to the report, Petrobras is also considering the
sale of stakes the company holds in natural gas-distribution
companies in Brazil, as well as several power plants that use
fuel oil and diesel fuel to generate electricity. Stakes in
several oil fields offshore Brazil and onshore natural gas
blocks in Peru also make up part of the divestment plan.
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Football: Holy Cross controls Copper Division title race
Holy Cross' 37-18 upset of previously unbeaten Woodland on Friday night kept the Naugatuck Valley League Copper Division championship race in flux for at least one more week.
The title could have been claimed by the Hawks with a victory over the Crusaders, but now Cross controls the division race and can clinch its third Copper title in five seasons with a win in Thursday's Week 9 game against Naugatuck.
If the Greyhounds knock off Holy Cross, the race is back open to all three teams and the championship would not be won until after Week 10. In that scenario, a three-way tiebreaker could end up being invoked to determine the division champion.
The NVL adjusted its football tiebreaker after the 2010 season, when Naugatuck won over Woodland via overall NVL record instead of head-to-head results. Since then, different procedures have been implemented to break two- and three-way ties.
Holy Cross leads the division at 4-0 and is 4-2 in NVL play (it has lost to Derby and Ansonia). Woodland stands in second with a 4-1 division record and a 5-1 NVL mark, and Naugatuck is third at 3-1 and 5-1. The Hawks hold a head-to-head advantage over Naugy, and the Crusaders have the same edge over Woodland.
The Hawks face Torrington in their final divisional game Friday night. Assuming the Hawks win, they would be in position to retake the lead in the Copper with a Naugatuck victory over Holy Cross due to the three-way tiebreaker rules.
The first rule in a three-way breaker is to check head-to-head results. Because the teams would have each beaten one and lost to the other, a three-way tie still persists. The second rule is overall NVL record. Each team still has an NVL contest remaining in Week 10, so that week's games must be completed to break the tie.
In Week 10, Holy Cross faces St. Paul, Naugatuck takes on Kennedy and Woodland hosts Derby. If all three teams win, the Hawks would win the division—they and Naugy would hold 7-1 NVL records, which would eliminate Holy Cross, and Woodland holds a 25-22 win over the Greyhounds in Week 4.
If in Week 10 only Woodland loses to Derby, then Naugatuck would win the division as the only team with a 7-1 NVL record.
The Copper Division champion will likely face Ansonia for the league title. The Chargers can clinch the Brass Division championship Thursday with a win over Seymour.
A title game against either Holy Cross or Woodland would take place Nov. 21 at Municipal Stadium; a championship meeting with Naugatuck would take place on Thanksgiving.
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Those with an interest in law enforcement may have a new opportunity this month.
Bowling Green Police is hiring officers, and say now is the time to apply.
Police say they have an application process twice a year, and the number of job openings varies.
Applicants must take tests for the position each time they apply.
The Department says it looks for a few specific traits in candidates.
"We hire for character and train for skill. If you're an honest person... you have good character... good moral values... then you would fit in, because the person we're looking for is not a person that's going to be a police officer the first day. We can train you how to do that," said Bowling Green Police Public Information Officer Ronnie Ward.
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I've heard it claimed that the expression "Shimshon HaGibor" (Samson the Mighty) [as a descriptive of Shimshon in Tanach] was invented by the Zionists, to promote their "strong Jew" narrative. Is this true?
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The rumor is false. The earliest I can find the phrase 'Shimshon HaGibur' goes back to 1831, long before modern zionism or Hertzl.
It can be found in the book צמח דוד
Google books also shows other phrases such as Shimshon our Hero from books in 1801, but those are in English and not the exact phrase. I would not be surprised to find it occurring even earlier than that.
Firstly, the צמח דוד, referred to in another answer, was actually first printed in 1592. Secondly, the first source I've found is מכילתא דרבי ישמעאל; the term can also be found in סמ"ג, in ספר חסידים, in Maharsha, and in numerous other seforim.
On the other hand, the incidence of this term is not particularly frequent. If we replace 'Zionism' with 'Modern Hebrew Literature' which is commonly said to have begun in the mid-1700s, it is quite plausible that this might have done much more than the handful of traditional sources to popularize the term. Conversely, the term may always have been more common in the vernacular as opposed to formal, religious writing, and it might have been only the modern Hebrew books which adapted it as a preferred literary appellation.


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I don't know whether to laugh at him or cry.  Check out the video.http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1121#
he said that America must either become moslem or declare war on Islam...I know which choice I prefer.
He did make one good point that I agree with, he said that America must either become moslem or declare war on Islam...I know which choice I prefer.
Sloga,  BTW, I love the avatar and even though I'm a delija, when my wife and I have our second child, I'm thinking Mateja might be the name we choose (first one is Dejan - named after el genio). If only all of Islam was a "scary" as this clown, we'd have nothing to worry about.  I found his speech more amusing than anything else.
From the mid-1990s, Gaddafi managed to improve his connections among Middle Eastern nations and is today considered by some a more moderate and responsible leader in the Arab world than previously. Regarding the Palestinians, he has begun pushing the concept of a binational single-state solution — "Isratine" — a combination of the words Israel and Palestine
Regarding the Palestinians, he has begun pushing the concept of a binational single-state solution — "Isratine" — a combination of the words Israel and Palestine
don't know whether to laugh at him or cry. Check out the video.
Says the same man who peed in his pants and gave up his WMD's when he found out Saddam was caught.
And what about the WMD's Saddam was supposed to have?
I expect them to excel in the coming World Cup, and maybe they will oust Argentina and emerge together with Holland from the group of death to the second round.
The same can be said about a certain Big Brother across the Atlantic ..... Mexico. ÂÂ
Mina,   Serbia would be lucky to draw with Argentina, who are an amazing team.  Egypt did not qualify.  Sorry.   Iran and Saudi Arabia qualified from the middle east and Tunisia and the Ivory Coast from Africa.
We have a politics forum, if you want to discuss politics start a thread there.
a) I didn't raise WMDs on this threadb) this forum just says "No Americna politics" (this is a world issue; Australia was silly enough to believe the lies of war-mongers too).
Everyone (edited)   The question about WMD eventually comes back to Bush and his administration.  Fair game in the politics forum but not here.  Thanks.
Egypt did not qualify. Sorry.
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6 Hit Songs Written By the Last Person You'd Expect
It's no surprise that musicians don't write all of their own songs. Hell, with all the boy bands and Justin Biebers of the world, you assume it's all done on some assembly line anyway.
But when you actually sit down to look at the songwriting credits on famous tracks, the writers often come way the hell out of left field. For instance ...
#6. A Barely Known Rapper Wrote Puff Daddy's Heartfelt Tribute to Notorious B.I.G.
The murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (aka the Notorious B.I.G.) stand as some of the darkest moments in music history, and nobody seemed to be quite as grief stricken as Bad Boy Records founder Puff Daddy.
For months Diddy refused to do anything but look longingly out of the nearest window.
In the months following the death of his close friend Notorious B.I.G., Puff released a tender, heartfelt tribute song called "I'll Be Missing You." You can tell how heartfelt it was because Puffy felt it was worth ripping off an entire Police song for the music:
But as for the lyrics, you can see Puff Daddy reaching back for his most personal memories of his friend:
Seems like yesterday we used to rock the show/So far from hanging on the block for dough/Words can't express what you mean to me/Even though you're gone we're still a team.
Hmmm ... hold on. A quick scan of the songwriters reveals three names, none of which are Puffy.
Two of them should come as no surprise: Faith Evans, who sings the chorus on the song and also happens to be the wife of the late rapper, and Sting, who happens to own 100 percent of the publishing rights to the song because, you know, that's who Puff stole the music from. But the third name is the mystery here ... Todd Gaither.
Who in the hell is Todd Gaither, you ask? Our team of Internet researchers has confirmed this to be a barely known rapper and former Jay-Z protege who goes by the stage name Sauce Money, assuming he's even on stages anymore these days.
Here he is in a Vibe magazine interview discussing the process that goes into making Puff Daddy seem capable of actual human emotion ...
Writing for Puff is easy, he gives you the blueprint, the direction. He tells you, "I wanna say this." For "I'll Be Missing You" we sat down and he told me what he wanted. And being as that my mother had just passed not too long before, I just added sprinkles in there.
So, what's supposed to be a eulogy from one friend to another is not only not even written by said friend, but also it's not even written with the dead friend in mind. First an entire Police song, and then the tender emotions of another person. Is there nothing Puff Daddy won't sample?
Puff Daddy has decreed your song to be eminent domain.
#5. Prince Wrote the Bangles' "Manic Monday"
"Manic Monday" was the Bangles' first big hit. It's also the song most widely credited with leading to the band's demise, which is shocking when you take into account that we're talking about the band that also recorded "Walk Like an Egyptian."
Historical accounts suggest that this is actually how people walked in 1986.
That said, we're also talking about a song that painfully rhymes "Sunday" with "I don't have to run day." So it makes some sort of sense.
Curiously, the writing credit for "Manic Monday" was cryptically listed only as "Christopher." If that is a mystery that's been gnawing away at your brain since the mid-'80s, allow us to solve it for you. The "Christopher" in question is the lead character in the god awful film Under the Cherry Moon. The tiny man who filled that lead role was none other than Prince Rogers Nelson, more commonly known to the world as just Prince.
You know, the guy who tries not to bring up "Batdance" anymore?
Prince originally intended to give "Manic Monday" to Appolonia 6, one of the groups he created in the '80s, but eventually decided to give it to the Bangles instead. While we have no sources to back it up, we have to assume that this decision boiled down to the fact that Prince had probably banged Appolonia frontwoman Patricia Kotero hundreds of times by then, but had yet to lay as much as a baby-sized hand on Susanna Hoffs, the insanely hot soon-to-be lead singer of the Bangles.
The song went to No. 2 on the Billboard charts (bested only by Prince's own "Kiss") and left the general public assuming that Susanna Hoffs was the lead singer of the Bangles. That was a problem in a band that always maintained they were equals, with no frontwoman. If we're guessing, we'd say the band was probably also jealous that Prince wasn't hitting on them. Shit, we're even kind of jealous about that.
His true love is music, or just sex with musical instruments.
And before you go thinking Prince only makes careers for women he'd like to sleep with, if you remember Irish singer-songwriter Sinead O'Connor, you'll remember her biggest hit "Nothing Compares 2 U," a cover of a song Prince originally wrote for one of his side projects, the Family.
What we're saying is that in the '80s Prince wrote every single song anyone ever sang.
#4. "Get the Party Started" by Pink Was Written by Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes
2001's "Get the Party Started" was one of Pink's (we hope none of you mind this more traditional spelling, but typing P!nk too many times just makes our stomachs churn a little) biggest hits and one of four singles off her second album, M!ssundaztood (another title we're going to do our best to only type once). Much of that album was written or co-written by a woman named Linda Perry.
Who's that? Well, you've heard at least one of her songs -- she was the frontwoman of '90s one-hit wonder 4 Non Blondes. Their (huge) hit was 1992's "What's Up?"
It's not clear what that song is about, but it's one of those songs that sounds like maybe you shouldn't make fun of it, because it might be about something important ("And I pray/Oh my god do I pray/I pray every single day/For a revolution"). Well, that's the song that made Pink reach out to her, beginning their professional relationship by telling Perry, "I love that you're not hip and that's why I'm calling you."
"You just have a certain, how shall I say ... 'je ne sais quoi.'"
After such a glowing compliment, instead of whipping out some powerful song about the triumph of feminism, Perry offered Pink "Get the Party Started," the first dance track she ever wrote. In fact, describing the writing process in an interview, Perry said she intentionally "put every wrong instrument in this song" and "pulled every catch phrase you possibly could imagine," never dreaming the song would actually be recorded, let alone become a major pop hit.
By the way, Pink was not the only 2000s pop star to cash in on a Linda Perry hit. Notably, in juxtaposition to "Get the Party Started," Perry wrote the emotionally vulnerable "Beautiful" for Christina Aguilera. Yep, like the Notorious B.I.G. tribute earlier, it's another track that sounds like the singer's deeply personal statement to the world ("I am beautiful, no matter what they say/Words can't bring me down") that turns out to have been written by a stranger.
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Does anyone make a bio-degradable K-cup?
My wife has her heart set on a Keurig machine. I'm not fond of them for many reasons such as taste of the coffee and price of the machines and cups, but chiefly I am not fond of throwing hundreds of little plastic cups into land fills each year. Does anyone make a bio-degradable K-cup for the Keurig? Not looking for a re-usable filter, as convenience of the cups is one of her main drivers. Just looking for something that I can toss or compost and feel OK about it.
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This answer looks pretty complete:
More info from the company itself:
I need to go to sleep. I am procrastinating by googling your question!
Thanks, kschouten, but the page looks to be about two years old. I'm hoping that someone has come across a biodegradable K-cup offering. Going to bed myself, and will check in the morning to see if anyone knows of any. So far, not looking too good for mama's Keurig plan...
most bio-degradable plastics I have seen are heat-sensitive. They basically melt if heated.
Short answer: No. Longer answer: If you're really concerned about the environmental cost of said device either you're going to have to go without one or use the refillable filters. So it might end up taking you ten seconds to prepare your filter instead of five or however long it takes to take one out and tear it open. I know, sucks right?
my wife was all about k-cups also... i found them stupid.
That changed in a heartbeat once i got her a cuisinart grind & brew coffee maker.
freshly ground, takes a little more time but well worth it. She's mainly a morning coffee drinker, so with a timer set, it's no time at all, because it's already done by the time she gets to it.
always remember - don't open the beans until you need them, and keep them frozen otherwise. Have your wife drink a fresh ground cup and a k-cup side by side, and she'll wonder what all the fuss was about with the keurig.
Try the filters - http://www.keurig.com/accessories/my-k-cup
Lots of options out there from different vendors.
I agree with @goatcrapp - Fresh ground coffee is terrific. Then you/she can both have what you want. You get great tasting coffee, and she gets the convenience. Plus, it would be cheaper than those expensive mediocre (at best) tasting cups.
Looks like I get to tell the wife we won't be getting a Keurig, and I get to continue enjoying my burr-ground coffee. Mwahahaha!
Actually, though, there is:
They're cheaper, too, organic, and really delicious.
@amaine: Thanks for the link! Looks like less plastic involved in that solution than a standard K-cup. Not bad on the price, either.
I checked out the amazon link and looks like even those are using plastic though. I am following this new company on their facebook page. They posted this link the other day. Looks like maybe some university students are launching a solution? http://goo.gl/4KYQI
Yes! not only biodegradeable but compostable. Emerald Circle Coffee is developing this product that will be available in the summer of 2013. The coffee pod is made of Bagasse ( sugarcane fiber) and uses recycled kraft paper and vegan adhesives. to get on the products mailing list please email to: email@example.com
@emerldcirle: Good news! You had me up until "vegan adhesive", though... I want my stuff to be held together by bone and sinew! Hahahaha!
I'll keep an eye out for this. Thanks for the tip!
Looks like there are a few companies using baggasse for k-cups. Biggest issue will be keeping the product fresh vs. k-cups. Once that coffee goes into that cup it will become stale very fast as the coffee beans gas. How do they plan on keeping the coffee fresh?


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I am checking with the merchant as to why these are marked sold out. EDIT: They fixed it.
I just checked and they seem to be available... Anyone have any experience with this brand?
I run in Vibrams all the time and I thought these (the adams) would be a nice backup. They felt awkward with all the different insoles, and the Velcro strap seems like it wasn't measured before they put it on the shoe, it's too short and looks weird. I waited too long to return so I ended up selling them.
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i have these as my "barefoot winter shoe." I can't wear my vibrams with toe socks. Those socks choke my toes. I think they fit and feel good. I think i use the thinnest insert. I've tried on soooooo many "barefoot" shoes and if i can't use vibrams i use these. Overall I would recommend them.
So what makes these good? I've tried velcro strapped shoes, they're loose, feet slosh around, quite unsuited to running, nothing like barefoot. Is this different?


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I am making my third batch of cider using juice from a local farm, so far its worked out well other than a persistent haze in one batch. I want to try and simplify / improve by process by removing a racking and priming step if possible. I would like to rack my bucket fermentation early at an SG that will ensure i generate sufficent additional CO2 in keg for the finished product. What calculation should I be using assuming I will run to total dryness? eg. If I rack at 1.020 and after the secondary ferm end at just below 1 what volumes of CO2 will be in the cider assuming I keep the keg sealed or an appropiate top pressure? Could I use this to produce fully sparkling cider for bottling? If any one has any insight, guidance or advise I would be most greatful. Kind Regards Arend
If you want to do everything in one vessel, consider an entirely pressurized fermenter setup.
The key piece to this is the Spunding valve, which will control the release of pressure to keep your fermenter at a specific pressure level.
Now, downsides. The first 2 that come to mind are: 1. You'll have to seal with Trub in the bottom where the Dip tube for that keg is, which means blowing out a lot of trub before you get good cider 2. Autolysis: If you don;t rack, you'll be staying on the yeast cake forever which may cause autolysis. Autolysis is when the yeast cells decay and rupture, spilling their fetid insides into your carefully produced cider.
Personally, I would definitely stick with fermenting in a dedicated vessel and then rack out to a keg or secondary for further clearing/maturation. Force carbonation is a great way of not having to worry about priming and being able to get exactly the carbonation profile you're looking for.
Wow, that's a tricky one. I'm of the opinion you wont make the same quality cider with this method. Fermentation is the most important part of the process, and the hardest to keep consistent. Towards the end of fermentation the yeast are cleaning up their byproducts, they are battling alcohol levels and fatigue as it is. Fermenting under pressure will not only stop fermentation stank from blowing off, it will make the clean-up job even more difficult.
If you want to try, I would base my calculations on your experience in previous batches. I will attempt to get this right:D, please check my work and let me know what I missed.
Say you want 2 volumes of pressure, and your storing at 65 F. I will assume you've got a 5 gallon batch. Mr Palmer's handy nomograph located here, tells us you need to add 2.4 oz of priming (cane) sugar to 5 gallons.
So what we need to understand, is how many gravity pts 2.4 oz of sugar adds to your 5 gallon batch. 16 oz of (cane) sugar in 1 gallon yields 1.046, so in 5 gallons you'll get 1.0092 (46/5). That means that 1 oz of cane sugar in 5 gallons will give you 1.000575 (9.2/16). If Palmers chart says we need 2.4 oz, that's the equivalent of adding .00138 (.575*2.4) of specific gravity pts.
You need to bottle when your cider is .00138 higher than the expected F.G, which you can really only know from experience with this cider must.
Say these apples always ferment out to 1.000 (for simplicity), you need to bottle at 1.00138 and then store at 65 F.
Good Luck, and please let me know if this works out.


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#3. The Best Way to Stop Deadly Bleeding
Claudius Galenus (called "Galen" by his peers) was the greatest surgeon in the world back in the second century AD, which is a little like saying he was the "classiest stripper in Atlantic City." Galen's contemporaries, after all, were convinced that arteries were filled with air, which gives you some idea of how useful they were when you were bleeding to death. And Galen himself was a huge advocate of bloodletting, and was the first doctor to prescribe "bleeding it out" as a perfectly reasonable way to cure headaches.
Just a few more pints and your dandruff will be gone forever!
Yet Dr. G was also the first guy who popularized ligature as a method of stopping uncontrollable bleeding. Ligature, for those of you who aren't in the medical know, is tying up a bleeding artery, vein or pee valve. Before Galen there was only one treatment for deadly bleeding: Cauterizing. Sounds all right, unless you know that "cauterize" is Latin for "burn it shut."
Also known as "arson on your arteries."
As the chief surgeon for wounded gladiators in Pergamus, Turkey, Galen was the first to stop a hemorrhage by tying the injured vessel closed. And he got so good at zipping fools up that the mortality rate of his charges was next to nothing, which rightfully made him famous. His technique revolutionized medicine...
Or it would have, if the world hadn't completely forgotten about it for the next 1500 years.
How Could We Have Forgotten It?
By the Middle Ages, no one was doing the ligature thing. Not only was cauterizing the only way to deal with bleeding valves, Europeans decided to one-up the barbarism by full-on pouring boiling tar on the injury rather than using a hot iron. BOILING TAR.
Well, lots of brilliant stuff was forgotten during the Dark Ages, like the shape of the Earth and how to bathe. In Medieval Europe, touching a sick person was a no-no--you'd probably feel the same way if 60 percent of the people in your universe died of the plague. So instead of tying an injured artery closed, the surgeon just burned it shut with a long metal rod. Or poured BOILING TAR on it.
Meanwhile, the Islamic world actually embraced Galen's treatises, and kept his immense legacy alive while the Western world got progressively stupider. But they had their own problem: Getting all up inside a sickie's veins wasn't kosher, or whatever the Islamic word for kosher is, and the Muslim world that loved so much of Galen's other teachings let this one little remedy go the way of the pulled pork sandwich.
It wasn't until 1575 that a French surgeon re-popularized Galen's idea about ligature and people started getting their tie on again--a whole lot of dead patients and an ocean of spilled blood later.
#2. The Great Hedge Of India
A hedge? Like, a bunch of bushes in a row? Why would people remember a hedge?
How about if it was approximately 2,000 miles long?
Such a thing existed in India once upon a time, and it was probably big enough to be seen from space. Why would somebody bother to plant a hedge that ridiculously huge? Well, salt used to rule the world. It was so valuable it was often used as currency, and for centuries, despots who wanted to grab a country by the balls only needed to control its access to salt. The British East India Company, for instance, brutalized India for decades with a crippling salt tax. There was only one problem: Salt was totally accessible to anyone willing to travel to either coast during the summer. Because the salt just sat there in the evaporated ocean bed, begging to get mined, boiled and tossed on your giant mall pretzels.
Salt & Human life
So the British East India Company came up with an evil-genius-caliber solution to prevent salt smuggling: They hired demonic gardeners to raise a living, impenetrable wall of thorns that became known as the Great Hedge of India. The Great Hedge was immense: If there were a hedge running from San Diego to Vancouver, it would still be shorter (although it would contain almost 160,000 times more discarded granola bar wrappers).
For 40 years this big bush acted as the blocker of free salt. Yet once it was dismantled, its memory totally disappeared from India and Britain's collective consciousness.
They remembered the hot, sword-wielding chicks though.
How Could We Have Forgotten It?
At some point in the 1880s, the Great Hedge was dismantled twig by twig, reworked into tasteful patio furniture, and then burned. Probably gleefully. And for more than 100 years, no one bothered to record or even mention it in any of the definitive accounts of India's history. As any hedge aficionado will tell you, it's tough out there for a hedge; even the best hedges have a rough time getting any play in the mainstream media.
By 1995, The Great Hedge of India was entirely forgotten, and it might have stayed forgotten indefinitely, if not for one librarian: Roy Moxham. Moxham followed up a footnote in an obscure text and re-discovered evidence of a 1,500-mile long hedge--a hedge that happened to be associated with a hated initiative of a brutal regime--that had inexplicably slipped the mind of an entire country.
#1. Concrete
About 300 years before Baby Jesus was born, the Romans wrote their name in the sidewalk of history as the perfecters of concrete. The new building material quickly won a following, and even spurred something of a revolution, which was dubbed "the Concrete Revolution" by a historian who was himself dubbed "least creative dubber of all time" by us.
It wasn't long before dicks were drawn in it.
It was during this revolution that the Romans perfected the arch, the vault and the dome, not to mention underwater architecture, which allowed Rome to bless the Empire with aqueducts and dams. And guess what? Head on over to Europe and there's a good chance you can still see some of this stuff.
But what we don't see are concrete dams, bridges and Pantheons from the Middle Ages, because, once again, something that the Romans figured out was immediately forgotten by an entire society of ADHD sufferers: The Europeans of the Dark Ages.
It wasn't until 1756 that concrete was rediscovered and quickly applied to another revolution:
The skating revolution!
How Could We Have Forgotten It?
They lost the recipe.
But to be fair, unless we're specifically talking about medieval Italians who lived near Vesuvius or other volcanoes, they weren't going to get the recipe right in the first place. Because the key to Roman concrete was the use of volcanic ash called pozzolana. The ash served as a binder so effective that, with a few steel reinforcements, would still be as durable as modern concrete. We can only assume that architects from the Middle Ages tried to mix up their own batches, left out the crucial volcanic ash, then cried themselves to sleep over the watery sidewalk stew that they ended up with. Eventually, they abandoned the formula altogether - presumably chocking up all those buildings people still lived in every day as some sort of pagan magic.
Finally, in 1756 a British engineer figured out that how to use something called hydraulic lime (you god damn British and your lime) to get the concrete party stared once again, and the rest is rebellious pre-teen and aging burnout history.
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Post your pets!
kali the french bulldog and kiba :D
This is my Pug Alice, my little beauty !!!
Sorry I'm so late to the party!
Here are my sugar gliders Tera (with the ball, and looking at the camera on the snuggly pad), Plo (sitting beside her) and our newest addition Aayla who came to live with us in July when her cage mate died.
They all live together happily now, but don't sit still long enough to get a photo of all 3. LOL
(Any massive Star Wars geeks may notice that they are all named after Jedi LOL).
There are so many lovely animals. I love seeing other people's pets! :D
I LOVE King Charles spaniels too! We ot one when I was 2 1/2 and she lived till I was about 14 (OLD for a Kin Charles). She was a furry sister to me :D
very cute dog!
They just got two new puppies and oh my lord.
i'm mad about animals, cats, dogs, just about anything :D
But i am very happy to see your pets....
these are some kittens
green....green eyes....hypnotizing......master...spinning around and around.....catnip...
. The ACD is very active and the Pit is very laid back. Total opposites in almost every area.
- 43 Loaves (Loafs, Loafes? I can't spell it) of bread.
- Too many granola bars to count
- An entire bowl of halloween candy (we had to get her stomach pumped).
Sad thing is, this has already happened three times....
Once, Keith-Kid made a hamburger for me. But he wouldn't just give it to me. He was very inconsiderate and left to get me something to drink while leaving my burger on the desk. This has happened three times. His nerve.
I swear that's what my dog thinks about me. Lol.
She gives me a certain dirty look
and then ten sweconds later
ZIP the food is gone!
Why do they always leave my food up so high? It's like they want me to eat that other crap on the bowl before getting to the good stuff!
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Americans are quick to respond with gestures of sympathy and condolences and praises for those who do heroic deeds during times of tragedy and chaos, as evidenced in the senseless massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. But we are slow to do in-depth study to identify the roots of causation and then demand solutions.
One major reason for the lack of aggressive grassroots demand for reform lies in the fact that we sit back and let the 24-hour news agencies control the dialogue. They start out by interviewing friends, neighbors and anyone who will express grief and shock. The media controls the pace of the discussion. Then, they bring in usual suspects of pundits and experts who have been showing up with their interpretations and solutions for the past 30 years, while all the time these tragedies get worse.
It is time to take the conversation away from the television and into the communities where the only agenda is protecting our children. The media is an agent of sales and it has affiliations with various agencies and businesses that don't always approve of the message that might come from the analysis of cultural decay. Consequently politics and profits play a role in how we examine social issues. The standard method of kicking around political footballs and pundit re-runs is not gaining ground in our fight to protect our youth from violence.
Taking the debate into the community can broaden the spectrum of investigation and garner a more honest and relevant interpretation of the ills of society because community-based discussions will render solutions that don't take political and profit motives into the search for solutions.
When we are faced with the sadness and shock of these horrific tragedies, we seem to go back to what we have been told. We have been instructed by media and pundits that these scenarios beg for more gun control and better mental health treatment.
Gun control is one of those polarizing issues because of the Constitutional ramifications. The abuses of gun control laws are twofold, surrounding someone who can only acquire a gun illegally and those who profit by assisting in the illegal sale of a weapon. The people who meet the criteria of gun ownership are seldom the problem. So the only problem I see with the sale of a gun to a responsible qualified citizen is the safe handling, security and storage of that gun, which can be a concealed carry class with periodic refresher courses, trigger locks on all their weapons and some type lockbox or case. The guns that are usually involved in crimes are not registered to a bonifide purchaser who committed the crime. The debate over the gun performance and capacity won't stop a criminal from having an automatic weapon and will place him a notch above a homeowner who wishes to protect his family and property. Nevertheless there would be room for discussion in a community forum.
The next issue to always surface is mental health and the lack of diagnosis and treatment. This issue is always improperly addressed because it comes down to funding and the root causes of mental illness are not being discussed in depth. Parents may be more interested in figuring out the cultural impact on their child's mental capacity and less apt to just want to sedate their child into submission in order to quiet down classrooms and eliminate distractions. What is not discussed very often is the distance between the culture of the youth versus the norms of society as viewed by adults. When our children leave the house, they play by a different set of rules than we may or may not impose at home. In the schools and in the streets our children are answerable to peer pressure that for the most part is more instrumental in their survival amongst peers than anything we teach them at home.
Also, youth have a different picture of this nation and all the various factions involved in this country's overall performance. Young people feel betrayed because they are hearing their parents being accused of destroying the economy through massive debt and that the burden will be theirs, thus ensuring them of a lifetime of struggle and sacrifice. And they already realize that it is next to impossible now to find a job that can free them from mom and dads' house and checkbook. The future holds very little promise unless you are in line for a sizable inheritance.
Now let's add to this equation the diminished childhood that is soaked with a variety of violence, sex, drugs and stimuli, audio and visual. Young people who are at the threshold of adolescence and should be playing kick the can and relevio are instead involved in violent video games and are being exposed to graphic violence and sex and offered a variety of dangerous drugs in the streets. Young people are missing a vital piece of their developmental stages and they are being replaced by stimuli that is beyond their understanding and doesn't coincide with their coping skills.
Now, I want to discuss a piece of this puzzle that I don't see getting a lot of attention. We hear about the hazards of using street drugs and even to some degree the abuse of pharmaceutical drugs by young people and I think we have an awareness of the brain damage associated with these types of drug consumption. But what have we been told about the drugs, chemicals, hormones, steroids, pesticides and preservatives that are laced into our food chain? While I am certain that these poisonous cocktails are responsible for many of the sicknesses and diseases that are on the rise in this country, I have to assume with some valid research that the developmental stages of growth in our children are negatively impacted.
Many of the additives that are introduced in the growing, processing and preparation of our foods have been found to impair physical and mental health. I am going to give you the short list of damaging additives because I could do an entire article on the damage done to mental and physical health by the allowable poisons and compounds that the FDA approves for daily use in our food chain. Steroids and hormones are the last things that need to be introduced into the body of a young person who is already dealing with the hormones being naturally produced in their changing bodies.
Here are six different steroids and hormones approved by the FDA in the use in food production in our country. They are Estradiol, Progesterone, Testosterone, Zeranol, Trenbolone Acetate and Melengestrol Acetate. Do your own research into the severe damage done to the mental and physical development of children by these additives. Other food items such as hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils are known as brain poisons. Aspertame was kept off the market due to negative lab results but was later accepted by the FDA at the urging of Donald Rumsfeld.
These not only damage the nervous system but play havoc on the cardiovascular system. Believe me I can elaborate on the lack of nutrition and the variety of poisons and hormones used to increase the profitability of food production, but I think that I have already given adequate grounds for developing a conversation about eliminating the causes of mental damage as opposed to downplaying the symptoms with more damaging drugs.
Haven't we allowed our children to be exposed to enough already? Isn't it time to take a stand? We have already allowed greed to sabotage their financial futures. Can't we mount a fight for their physical and mental health and attempt to put their lives back together? We at least owe them a fighting chance at repairing the damage done to our society and give them hope for their children.
Communities across this nation need to come alive with dialogue and subsequent action to save this culture for our children.
(Scalise, a resident of Steubenville, has a bachelor's degree in applied conflict management. He is the city's former director of public services and a former member of Steubenville and Jefferson County planning commisions, the Steubenville Fair Housing Commission and a current member of the Steubenville Community Re-investment Commission.)


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The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Judge and Mrs. Merwin M. Brandon Jr. of Bastrop and the late Mr. and Mrs. William V. Spires of Mer Rouge.
Michael is the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Marshall L. Moon of Gadsden, AL, and the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Massengale, of Birmingham, AL.
Sarah is a graduate of Prairie View Academy, University of Louisiana at Monroe, and Paul Mitchell The School Birmingham.
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protected override void Draw(GameTime gameTime)
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spriteBatch.Begin(SpriteSortMode.BackToFront, BlendState.AlphaBlend);
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spriteBatch.Draw(textureTiger, new Rectangle(422, 407, 50, 50), Color.White);//fourth component
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WACO (December 3, 2012)—Former Waco Mayor James Robert "Bob" Sheehy died Sunday after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
He was 82.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Louis Catholic Church and burial will follow at Oakwood Cemetery.
A rosary will be recited at 6 p.m. Friday followed by visitation at 6:30 p.m. at Oakcrest Funeral Home at 4520 Bosque Blvd. in Waco.
Sheehy was a Waco native and a graduate of Waco High School and the New Mexico Military Institute.
He attended the University of Texas and then Baylor University, from which he received a law degree.
After serving in the U.S. Air Force, he joined his father and brother to practice law in Waco.
He was elected to the Waco City Council in 1991 and was elected mayor the next year.
During his two terms, the city established a system of neighborhood associations that continues to function today.
He also helped guide the city through the Branch Davidian standoff in 1993, during which an international media spotlight was focused on the city.