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When you're down on your luck, it's easy to assume that there's no help. However, there are a wide range of programs and benefits in the United States that can help get you back on your feet.
While this is Evil Week at Lifehacker, we should point out that federal and state programs for assisting the underprivileged or impoverished are a serious issue. The information here is by no means comprehensive and will vary by state to state. If you have anything to add, feel free to do so in the comments below but, as always, please be respectful.
How to Find Benefits That Might Help You
There are too many different programs to cover in one article (though we'll get to some of the major ones below). However, if you're in a rough spot—or just want free money!—and want to know what kind of benefits you might qualify for, you should try out this site.
The benefits finder will ask for a sizeable amount of information to help you figure out what you qualify for. Benefits range from helping with housing, food, insurance, education, and medical needs. Even if you don't think that you'll qualify for any programs, it may be worth your time to check and see what's available (for reference: I'm a white guy in his twenties with no kids, a decent job, and no major student debt; there were at least 48 benefits I "may" qualify for, though suggesting the application is no guarantee of acceptance).
Get Help with Living Costs for Low-Income Homes with TANF
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF, commonly referred to as just "welfare") is a program that's designed to help out families who need, well, temporary assistance. The program generally requires you to find work within 24 months of first finding a job, or as soon as you're ready to work, and the benefits cap out at 60 months for your entire lifetime.
While specific requirements vary from state to state, most states require that you participate in a work program of some kind. This program will provide you with counseling, job training, and placement services aimed at getting you back on your feet. Depending on the number of people in your household, the minimum number of hours per week the adults in the household must put in range from 30 (single-parent homes) to 55 (two-parent homes, depending on circumstances).
To get started finding benefits in your state, head to this link and select your state.
Get Help on Food Costs with SNAP/WIC
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, commonly referred to as "food stamps") and the Women, Infants, and Children program (WIC) are publicly-funded programs that provide assistance in buying food for families. Both programs have certain sets of requirements, however both can provide automatic eligibility if you qualify for TANF or some other assistance programs.
If you want to check your eligibility status, here are the most important links you should check out:
- SNAP Eligibility information
- SNAP Pre-screening eligibility tool
- WIC Eligibility information
- WIC pre-screening eligibility tool
SNAP and WIC are both tied to income and are indexed to the federal poverty line. SNAP requires that your household make less than 130% of the poverty level. WIC varies by state, but federal guidelines require that the threshold be between 100% and 185% of the federal poverty line. You can check this link to find the phone number for your state to call and get information.
Get Assistance with Living Expenses with SSI
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a subset of the Social Security program that provides additional assistance to elderly, blind, or disabled citizens. If you're currently receiving social security, you can still qualify for SSI. In general, here are the groups of people who qualify for SSI:
- Adults aged 65 or older.
- Blind adults or children who meet certain criteria.
- Disabled adults or children who meet certain criteria.
You can check whether or not you qualify by using this online screening tool. Keep in mind that while the benefits come from the same department, SSI is not a social security benefit. Qualifying for Social Security benefits does not automatically enroll or qualify you for SSI assistance.
Get Health Coverage for Seniors and (Some) Disabilities with Medicare
Medicare is a very large and complex medical insurance program with several parts. While the program is primarily aimed at people aged 65 or over, there are certain options available for those under 65. Here are the four parts of Medicare coverage:
- Part A - Hospital insurance: This will help cover hospital inpatient care and provide some coverage for nursing home and hospice care.
- Part B - Medical insurance: This will help cover regular doctor visits, preventative care, outpatient care, and medical equipment.
- Part C - Medicare Advantage: This provides assistance with Medicare-approved private insurance and may include coverage under parts A, B, and D.
- Part D - Prescription drugs: This helps cover the costs of prescription drugs.
Finding out which parts of Medicare you qualify for and how they can help you is a vast topic that's beyond the scope of this article, but if you want to check your own eligibility, you can do so with this tool or read more about Medicare qualifications here. Even if you do qualify, it can be a mess of plans, coverage, and confusion, but you can use Medicare.gov to get information on your plan or contact someone to help you here.
Get Assistance on Health Coverage for Low-Income Homes with Medicaid
Medicare is primarily aimed at people 65-years-old and older. Medicaid, in contrast, is available to a considerable number of U.S. residents. Like many other programs, Medicaid is indexed to the federal poverty level. While states are allowed to expand their qualifications, the national level eligibility tops out at no less than 100% of the poverty level (though as of 2014, the Affordable Care Act will raise the national maximum eligibility to 133% of the poverty line).
If you want to find out if you're eligible for Medicaid, you can use the tool here to find out information about your state's requirements. It will also provide information about whether or not your state is going to be expanding Medicaid coverage in 2014 under the Affordable Care Act.
Buy Health Insurance with The Affordable Care Act
Technically, the Affordable Care Act is not a health insurance program itself, the act provides for health care exchanges that allow people to shop at both state and federal levels for insurance. The act requires most Americans to purchase insurance, though many individuals and families will qualify for tax credits towards said insurance.
Individuals making less than $46,000/year and families making less than $94,000/year may qualify. Tax credits can be applied to in a few different ways: either by applying it directly to your premiums, getting it back at tax time, or a mix of the two.
The Affordable Care Act is still rolling out nationally and, as you've probably heard in the news, the federal health care exchanges have been experiencing some problems lately. However, bugs aside, barring some political changes, the requirements to have insurance or purchase some through the new exchanges by the end of the year (or potentially after a pushed-back deadline, depending on how things shake out in Congress) will go through as planned. While the penalty for not having health insurance won't technically go into effect until the end of the tax year for 2014 (which are due in April 2015), if you want to see if you qualify for exceptions now, head here.
Of course, no matter what benefits you qualify for, the ultimate goal of all of these programs is to get you back on your feet and working again. It's not always easy to accept help when you're down, and it certainly won't fix everything, but every little bit helps.


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Does anyone know of a company working on a server-side model to convert XForms docs to Flash? It would seem one of the quickest methods to get the populous to adopt XForms would be to leverage the technologies that are already out there. While I've written a JS-based API that works w/NS3+ that handles a lot of the backbone of what an HTML/JS translation of an XForm document looks like, there are still some issues that you have w/traditional HTML elements that interfere w/the implementation of XForms. It would seem to me, a server-side solution that converted XForms to a standalone SWF file would be a really solid way to get the community to adopt the standard in their development. I think I remember someone mentioning they were writing an XForms parser in Flash--but I think a generating the SWF on the fly would be more efficient for users w/slow PCs. You'd also be able to cache the SWF files, so it's not like you'd have to regenerate them everytime. Any opinions/comments? -Dan -----Original Message----- From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of Doug Mcneil Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:57 AM To: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: RE: Question Hello, I think, as usual, that the reality lies somewhere in between (how is that for wishy-washy -:). My experience is that a limited number of industry standard Plug-ins (de-facto rarely de-jure) get adopted by most IT departments. Either because they have demonstrated valuable functionality (PDF, Flash?) or the user community vociperously complains if denied access (RealAudio). These are typically bundled into the supported application suite tested and maintained by IT. Getting another Plug-in into the pipeline is a difficult and time consuming process. Even an upgrade to an existing Plug-in is problematical. Failing rapid introduction of XForms by Microsoft into IE I see two alternatives: 1) Trogan Horse Plug-in - either Adobe or Macro Media release XForms versions of Acrobat or Flash respectively; or 2) server-side XForms. Neither of these alternatives provide seemless XForms support. The third alternative although unlikely IMHO is the dedicated XForms Plug-in. Such Plug-ins will have limited acceptance in limited deployments. The major sources will be the open-source community, vendors who attach their star to standards (AOBM) and the odd large corporation with CIO willing to go out on a limb. I have a decision along these lines to make in the next six months. Although I do not like the thought of living with the consequences I lean towards the server-side. Regard's Doug McNeil Architect Product Supportability Nortel Networks -----Original Message----- From: Mark Birbeck [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:21 AM To: 'Sikora, Gary'; firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: RE: Question Gary, > Yes, all of this can be accomplished with plug-ins. However, many > corporations and Federal agencies do not allow their staff to freely > download plug-ins because of security and platform compatibility reasons > - argh, that system administrator. I think there are two different models here. The 'old' model is what you are referring to, where developers have added some clever functionality to their web pages with ActiveX or whatever, and as you rightly say these downloads would never get past most corporate firewalls. But the 'new' model is that there are a small and manageable number of quality plug-ins that meet specific needs, and given that these plug-ins are 'players' they tend to only need installing once, whilst providing the developers with a great deal of customisable functionality. Once an administrator has decided to adopt a particular plug-in then it is a simple task to either place it inside the firewall, or install it on each machine. This is what most people do for Acrobat, Flash, SVG and so on, and I think XForms will fall into the same category. It will be a one-off decision by the administrator, not an arbitrary day-to-day decision by users 'freely downloading'. (I could go on for hours about the 'myth of the thin client' - just take a look at the amount of software we have on our machines to 'play' audio, video, images, SVG, spreadsheets, RTF documents, PDF, etc., etc. That's the 'thin client' you need these days, just to work on the internet.) > So, to create content that is truly accessible by the masses, a > server-side solution is the answer. Our first XForms processor was a server-side one, but we decided it wasn't worth the effort, since you don't get a great deal of extra functionality. Yes it's true, you do get a standard way of expressing your forms before conversion, but hasn't everyone got one of those anyway? At some point you have to convince people that the additional functionality they achieve is worth the download. And I have to say that when people see some of our sites, with XForms, MathML and SVG on the same page, all interacting with each other, it's difficult for them to go back to their boring old web pages! One final point about the adoption and uptake of XForms; I agree with you that we want to make XForms 'accessible to the masses' of users, but I also want to see it made 'accessible to the masses' of developers, in much the same way that HTML was usable with notepad and the refresh button. For that to happen you need a solution that doesn't rely on the individual developer having a server - which incidentally is the major motivation behind the free plug-in we have developed. Regards, Mark Mark Birbeck Co-author Professional XML and Professional XML Meta Data, both by Wrox Press Download our XForms processor for IE at http://www.FormsPlayer.com/ Managing Director x-port.net Ltd. 4 Pear Tree Court London EC1R 0DS E: email@example.com W: www.x-port.net T: +44 (20) 7689 9232Received on Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:54:18 UTC
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Kurt Wilson, hired in January 2014 as Stockton's city manager, visited The Record on Feb. 26 to talk about some of the challenges and opportunities he and the city face. Wilson answered a few questions posed by Record Editor Mike Klocke.
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Anyone who swears by Android is bound to jump off the floor if he or she comes to know that one can now run android on pc . Yes, this is all made possible by BlueStack, a California based company who have designed software that makes it possible. However, for those who used to have the android the first gadget in the morning and used to say bye the last can have the privilege of using apps for windows .
The official number of download of this software has crossed 600 thousand marks in less than a year. The entire smart phone world was overjoyed with the news of the launch of this wonderful software. The best part of running ones application on pc and laptop is that they can now enjoy the fun and excitement in large display screens. There is no need of confiding to 2 x 3 inch screen of phone or a bit bigger size in tablet. It is real fun to play most of the games in big screens. However, those applications that utilize the features of GPS system or use some android specific data are not yet compatible with the beta version of BlueStack. The company has announced to come up with latest updates and patches soon rectifying the bugs.
One can easily download the application on their desktop and install without much hassle. The desktop icon stays on the top right corner of the screen and is always ready for easy access. One needs to register their android device and get it synced with the desktop version. All the games and applications that you have been using on your android phone are now available on the pc with the help of easy to use inbuilt software SyncMate. It gives the android experience a new dimension.
At present, BlueStack users can run android on pc only. The Mac version is being developed and the entire project is funded by two big IT houses. With such powerful funding backup a lot of exciting developments can be expected with more and more apps for windows appearing in the market.


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From NBA.com staff reports
Depending on who you listen to, Howard and his contingent have been in either Colorado or Montana since sometime yesterday while the big man ponders his future. One of Howard's agents tweeted the following yesterday as the Howard throng made its way to the mountains of somewhere:
Where Howard and Co. are now is almost irrelevant as what all most folks (and most non-Howard free agents) care about is where he'll play the next few seasons: Golden State, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston or in Los Angeles with the incumbent Lakers.
According to ESPN.com, Howard may reveal his choice as soon as Friday and — not surprising to anyone who knows anything about Howard — he's "totally up in the air" about where to choose:
Perhaps the most surprising development of the week, sources briefed on the meetings told ESPN.com's Marc Stein, is the strong impression that the Warriors made in their presentation to Howard on Monday.
The Rockets and Mavericks are widely considered the only teams capable of stealing Howard from the Lakers — and Golden State would need to construct a complicated sign-and-trade deal to have any shot at actually acquiring the center — but sources say that the Warriors indeed got his attention with their pitch.
The Warriors would have to find a way to shed some salaries to accommodate Howard in a sign-and-trade and likely would be restricted in whom they could add to the roster after completing that transaction, but sources say that Golden State is factoring into the center's thinking.
The Lakers have thus far shown no inclination to participate in any sign-and-trades for Howard, according to sources with knowledge of their thinking. The team's long-honed plan remains to preserve financial flexibility for the summer of 2014, when only Steve Nash is under contract and a bevy of top free agents could become available.
Howard also got a little message from the Lakers' former legendary coach, Phil Jackson, via Twitter:
Some interesting post-meeting tales are surfacing, especially after Howard heard the Lakers' sales pitch on Tuesday after hearing ones from the aforementioned four squads between Monday and Tuesday. According to Yahoo!Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski, Kobe Bryant had some pointed words for Howard in the Tuesday night meeting that included Bryant, Howard, Nash and several other Lakers decision-makers:
When Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant spoke to Dwight Howard on Tuesday, his words to the free-agent center resounded an unmistakable and unflinching message: Let me teach you how to be a champion.
"You need to learn how it's done first, and I can teach you here," Bryant told Howard during the Lakers' presentation, witnesses in the room described to Yahoo! Sports.
Bryant didn't come to Howard's recruitment meeting in Beverly Hills to appease him, but to challenge Howard to stay and embrace the burden of the franchise's culture and embrace Bryant's demanding disposition. Bryant invoked Michael Jordan's hard-driving ways as his blueprint, and how it pushed the Chicago Bulls to six titles.
Bryant, a five-time NBA champion, insisted he wouldn't retreat in pushing Howard every day, that as much as the Lakers needed Howard, Howard needed Bryant and the Lakers, too.
"You have to learn how it's done," Bryant told Howard, witnesses described. "I know how to do it and I've learned from the best – players who have won multiple times over and over."
"Instead of trying to do things your way, just listen and learn and tweak it, so it fits you," Bryant told him.
Howard has retreated to Colorado for a few days, surrounded by representatives, to make a decision on his future. The Lakers are fighting frontrunner Houston, Dallas, Atlanta and Golden State to sign him.
CBSSports.com's Ken Berger also has a little insight into how Howard may reveal his decision (note: it won't be a LeBron James' style TV special):
Only one thing is clear: Howard won't be announcing his free-agent decision in a nationally televised marketing disaster, as LeBron James did in 2010. Twitter is believed to be one option, but given Howard's personality and camera presence, my money's on a tweet linking to a YouTube video.
The possible locations for Howard's decision-making summit are, in some ways, just as interesting as the decision itself. If Howard chooses to retreat to Montana with his advisers for the July 4 weekend, league sources say he'll be hunkered down not far from where former Lakers coach Phil Jackson finds his inner Zen. If it's Colorado, Howard will have plenty of company. Half of LA's rich and famous — and a good portion of its rich and not-so-famous — vacation in Aspen for the holiday weekend.
Either way, the courtship is over. Now, it's Howard's show and we're all just waiting for the curtain to rise.
It'll be at least another day of waiting on Superman. We just hope he comes out of the mountains with a clear mind, a clear decision and a clear end to this drama.


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i got tons of ripe bananas... anyone got super nice recipes to share for banana bread, cakes, etc., for using them up?
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just used the "search" and got the yummy recipes.... thanks clotilde!!!
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Ice cream may not have been your first thought for too many bananas. But I assure you that this recipe will make you rethink that. It's easy and killer good.
Banana Ice Cream
Recipe By: Alton Brown
6 bananas, ripe and peeled
1 tablespoon lemon juice
3/4 cup corn syrup
1 vanilla bean, or 1 tbs. vanilla seed paste
1 1/2 cup heavy cream
Peel bananas and place them in a ziplock bag in the freezer overnight. Remove from freezer and allow to thaw for 45 minutes to an hour. Place them in the bowl of a food processor with the lemon juice. Process for 10-15 seconds. Add the corn syrup and vanilla seeds and turn the processor on. Slowly pour in cream through the feed tube, continuing to process until smooth and completely combined.
Place mixture in the fridge until it is very cold. When cold, transfer to the can of an ice cream maker and follow manufacturer's directions for freezing.
Transfer into an airtight freezer container and freezer for 3-6 hours before serving.
Variation: For a really decadent treat, layer frozen cream from ice cream maker in the freezer container with broken bits of nuts and ribbons of barely warm hot fudge and caramel sauces before final freezing.
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Rainey, I'll give it a go...must admit banana 'n ice cream
..bit like my sister being unable to eat chocolate-coated nuts of any kind. In her head chocolate + nuts....don't = what goes together....
am looking forward to the taste...
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Bananas freeze pretty well, especially if they will be used in a bread, cake or muffin recipe. Mash up recipe-sized quantities & put in freezer bags, noting date frozen & quantity on the package.
As for bananas & ice cream, how about Bananas Foster flavor ice cream, without all the last-minute rush of the original dessert? Add mashed bananas, along with some cinnamon & dark rum & vanilla to a rich egg custard style ice cream base, using at least part brown sugar. Fold in toasted chopped pecans after freezing process & before ripening, or omit pecans & serve a dark caramel sauce, flavored with more dark rum & toasted pecans stirred into the sauce at the last minute, or with pecans as a garnish.
Ice cream & sauce could both be made in advance, re-warming sauce & adding toasted pecans to just before serving.
Personally, I think toasted nuts are better as a garnish or added to a sauce at the last minute rather than freezing the nuts. Cold dulls flavors, so as a last minute addition to sauce, or garnish, they would add a flavor boost that would be more intense than if the nuts were part of the ice cream.
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Most of the credit for the Vikings' 9-6 record this season has gone to running back Adrian Peterson, but he hasn't been a one-man band this year.
The Vikings have played well on defense all year and come up with ways to win games despite finding themselves playing around quarterback Christian Ponder far too often. Coach Leslie Frazier deserves credit for that and Judd Zulgad of 1500ESPN.com, a former Vikings beat writer, believes it will come via a contract extension.
Zulgad writes that an extension is "certainly coming" for Frazier, who has a year left on his deal, after Minnesota's sharp turnaround from last year's 3-13 record. Linebacker Chad Greenway calls Frazier's steady approach a big reason for the team's success and draws an implicit distinction between Frazier and former coach Brad Childress.
"His speeches are real consistent if you know what I mean," Greenway said. "I think that's good. It is such a long season and there are so many ups and downs that I think if you have a coach that is kind of going with that; maybe he comes in Monday after a loss and he's really down and (you get a), 'This is going to ruin our season' sort of speech and that's not what Leslie is."
If not for the remarkable circumstances surrounding Indianapolis' rise from first overall pick to the playoffs, Frazier would probably be getting more support for coach of the year. He probably won't win that award, but an extension will do quite nicely as recognition for what the Vikings have done this year.


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Bonus Chapter Added:::::Sequel to my most anticipated story HeartBreak:::::4 years later: Bella has been created into a vampire and she has been happily married to Edward for four years, but when Bella's daughter Alice, now 14, starts dating the son of an old family friend she begins to uncover secrets from her mother and the rest of the Cullens, and Anthony, now 17, is becoming just like his father, a werewolf. What will happen when the secret is revealed? [[many thanks to Vatina for a wonderful banner!]]
1. Clearwater's Son
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Chapter notes: OK ive been working on the sequel, i know I said I wouldnt make a sequel but I just couldnt leave HeartBreak like that now could I? i couldnt. I wanted people to know what would happen when the son and daughter foundout about their mom and their new family. =]]
Now I have sent the special chapter to everyone, if i did miss someone, however, tell me and ill send it to you right away.
Now Im not going to update soon on this story, this is just like a small sneek peek, if you will, the next update will be by next year =/ so just hang tight =]
"I cant wait until I see him tomorrow, I cant explain how I feel every time he lays his eyes on me -and I know he does, I can feel it. I can feel his gaze as I sit across him in Biology. I can feel his warm gaze on me?! Wow I sound corny! But that's how I feel about him, and I cant stop my heart thumping a million times a minute every time I look back to his dark eyes. I cant cover up the blush that creeps up to my cheeks every time he speaks to me or when our gaze meets for at least a second. I just cant stop the way my thoughts travel to him. I know I like him, but I'm not sure he likes me, my friends bug me about it saying 'It's so obvious he likes you! You are just in denial!', I'm not in denial, I don't think he likes me because why would he? I'm so...UGH!"The door swung open and I automatically clicked the window to shut Microsoft Word. My mother chuckled and appeared next to me, I still didn't know how she did that but it was annoying.
"What are you writing?" She asked, not in a stern way, but a curious teenager, I scoffed internally, my mother was no teenager at all, but for a woman who is almost 40 she can surely pass for twenty six.
"Nothing." I piped up, my voice came out mildly squeaky, I scowled, I knew I sounded squeaky when I lied, I just couldn't lie.
I blushed and looked into my mother's golden eyes, she glared slightly and I sighed. My step-father chuckled in the doorway and I stuck out my tongue at him, I blushed, I was acting like a total five year old!
"Aly, let me see." My mother said moving the mouse to the big blue 'W'. I slapped my hand over hers on the mouse.
She smiled slightly, "Edward?" She asked my step-father. I scowled at the thought of Edward being my stepfather, he looked old enough to be in high school, but yet my mother did too.
I held my mother's hand on the mouse, I didn't want her to see my journal, especially not the ones from this whole week. I didn't want my mother or step-father or aunts, uncles, step-grandpa or step- grandma knowing that I had a major stupid high school crush on a boy. Those journals were just too private for my mother or anyone in this household to see.
Edward chuckled and I turned off my computer with a swift move of my mouse.
My mother nodded at him and he nodded back, and she escaped out the door with another smile.
I sighed and slumped on my chair, I looked over to the pile of Algebra 2 homework that had been left undone since last week. I grumbled, knowing that I had to finish it tonight -the teacher would collect everything tomorrow.I grabbed a notebook and pencil and tugged the Algebra 2 book towards me, opening it up to page 181. I began, Find (a) the GFC and (b) the LCM of the following monomials.
number 21. 110h3k2r, -88h2k2r2. WHAT?!
I groaned and shoved the book aside, I couldn't concentrate on homework.
I turned on my computer again and tapped my fingers on the wooden desk, a minute later the icons popped up on the computer and I clicked on the 'Internet' button. I froze on the keyboard, who was I going to talk to?
I bit my lip, wanting to know if John had responded to my e-mail. I bit my lip again and went to my e-mail. I checked the 'new messages' and my smile widened when I read the new mail of John, my hand shook and I clicked the icon.
The page opened and it was a short letter.
"Alice, U R a Wonderful girl and I knoe we hardly talk 2 each other but I really want 2 get 2 knoe U, so do U want 2 go out on a date w/ me friday nite? to the movies? @ 7pm?
John C."
I yelped and nearly fell off my chair. I knew I was red in the face but I didn't care, no one could see me. I didn't like when anyone talked "IM" talk, but right now...who cares, I understood perfectly what John meant, he want to date me!
I yelped one more time and jumped a couple of times on my bed singing, "He wants to go out with me!"
I laid back down and sighed a heavy sigh, I jolted up, I had to ask my parents permission first.
I ran -not walked- to my parents room and knocked furiously on the door. Bella and Edward were chatting happily - Bella holding a magazine in her hands. I walked in and they shut up.
Looking down to the floor I asked them both, it came out in a slur of words, I hoped they understood, "Mom-Dad-a-guy-has-asked-me-out-on-a-date-and-I-want-to....know if I can go with him?" I looked back up to them, both expressions were unchanged, my mother smiled, "Please."
Bella looked at her husband. "Edward, what do you say?"
"Bella, let her go, I mean, she hasn't gone out much, and we have moved a lot, she deserves time out." He said, I yelped and pounced on him, hugging him hard. I winced as my head hit hard on his chest.
"Thank you thank you thank you thank YOU!" I said jumping, then stopped and looked at my mother.
"Bella." Edward said sternly.
Bella sighed and nodded, "Who is this boy?" She asked casually, flipping the pages of the magazine.
"John." I said.
"John who?" Edward asked.
"John Clearwater."
Bella dropped the magazine, her expression shocked and frozen, her eyes, I noticed, seemed to turn black, along with Edward's. They looked angry. I gulped and took a step back.
"Did you say Clearwater?" Bella asked in a dark tone.
"Yeah, you know them? Seth Clearwater is Johns father." I asked.
"Long ago," she snapped, I flinched.
"Oh then you know they are a great-"
"No, I mean yes, they are great, Aly, but you can't see this boy." My mother snapped, "How old is he?" She asked.
I looked at her, "He's 15," I answered my voice shaking.
My mother looked at my step-father, both eyes widened. She muttered something that sounded like, "not good." I understood he was 1 years older than me but what was the big deal?
"No you can't see this boy," Edward said sternly.
I looked at both of them, horrified, two seconds ago they were happy with the idea I was going to go out and now they were hostile and being so ignorant.
"Aly, you can NOT see this boy, you understand?" My mother objected with a hard look on her face.
"Aly, don't, please, I loved the Clearwaters, but whatever you do, please don't mention me or Edward or the rest of us please." My mother begged in a soft tone.
I nodded, "How do you know them?"
"They were your father's friends my friends too, good friends, like family, the loved you, very very much, we always got together, with them and the rest of the Quillettes." My mother sunk into the bed, "They must not recognize you, so lets keep it that way, Aly, OK."
"Alice Isabella Cullen Black, you are forbidden to see this boy! End of discussion!"End Notes: I think I miss-spelled Quillettes but I dont have the books with me =/
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When the Rangers traded Tim Kennedy to the Panthers late in February 2011, the reaction in the Sharks' dressing room and offices was one of relief, essentially — "We hope we never see him again."
Less than two years later the feeling is more like, "We hope he never leaves."
The trade that brought Kennedy to the Sharks in exchange for Sean Sullivan last Jan. 26 is turning out to be one of the best deals ever made by a Worcester team, sort of like John Ferguson's swipe of Eric Boguniecki for Andrej Podkonicky back when Ferguson was the IceCats' GM.
Not that Sullivan wasn't a good player — he was having his best season ever when the deal was made. It's just that Kennedy has provided an offensive ingredient that the Sharks have often lacked through the years.
He has been a point-a-game man, a pace not many Worcester players have achieved. Logan Couture, Mathieu Darche and Ryan Vesce are the only ones with significant Sharks careers to have averaged a point a game, with Benn Ferriero and Graham Mink in the vicinity.
After a six-point weekend, Kennedy had 18 points in 18 games and moved into a tie for eighth place among the league's leading scorers. That six-point weekend included a three-assist game versus Portland; that was the kind of thing Kennedy used to do against the Sharks when he was with Portland, and that was the reason why they originally were so happy to see him leave.
He has been very productive against the Pirates in general, but it is not because of any revenge factor.
"That's really not my old team," he said. "There's a different organization in there now. I always did like playing in the building there, though, and I always liked playing in Worcester, too."
That helps explain why Kennedy's AHL career can be divided into two distinct segments. In Portland, Hartford and Worcester, he has 158 points in 179 games. With Rochester and San Antonio, Kennedy had 16 points in 32 games.
"I didn't like playing out west very much," he said of his San Antonio experience. "There was a lot of travel, and I didn't like the style of play. I like this division a lot more. You get to sleep in your bed just about every night, I'm comfortable with the way the game is played, and I'm only six hours from home."
Home is Buffalo. That's where Kennedy was born and raised. His wife is Buffalo all the way through, also — her family has had Bills season tickets since the days when they played at War Memorial Stadium and the Patriots were in Fenway Park.
Kennedy knows there is plenty of Buffalo-bashing from the world in general, since the world in general has come to believe that snow is a bigger threat to survival than nuclear war.
"It's a great place to live," he said. "You look at the news and see that we get these lake-effect snowstorms and you see six or eight feet of snow, or you drive into the city and see a bad neighborhood, and people think that's all there is.
"But we've got great neighborhoods, great restaurants, there's a lot to do. I think that most players who come to Buffalo for hockey wind up staying here with their families because it's a great place to raise a family."
So, the weather in Worcester doesn't faze Kennedy, although he thinks drivers around here turn into crazy people when it snows. Most importantly, he likes the DCU Center and some other rinks around the Atlantic Division. It adds up to a point a game and a complete turnaround for the Sharks, who now love seeing him step onto their ice.
1. What were the nicknames of the three AHL teams based in Baltimore?
2. Who holds the Sharks career record for most games played — position players only — without ever being credited with an assist?
3. What IceCats player had the first hat trick in Worcester hockey history?
Answers below.
Abbotsford's Barry Brust wound up breaking Johnny Bower's record for longest shutout streak, going to 268:17 before finally giving up a goal. Brust could do worse than have a parallel career with Bower's. Brust broke the record at 29 while Bower set it at age 32 in 1957-58. However, that was Bower's last year in the minors and he played for 12 more seasons in the NHL. Even better — at age 87, Bower is hale and hearty enough to come down to Rhode Island from Ontario for the annual R.I. Reds Heritage cookout every summer. … Taylor Hall, the former No. 1 draft pick skating for Oklahoma City these days, is the Player of the Week. Hall was 1-8-9 and plus-6 in three games for the Barons. … Just an opinion, but the Sharks home uniforms are very good. … People in the corners on Sunday afternoon said that while it wasn't obvious from every angle, the puck was indeed loose and in the sightlines of referee Jamie Koharski on that disputed goal scored by Syracuse. Some refs might have blown it dead, but Koharski is definitely a by-the-book referee … With Matt Pelech definitely out for at least tomorrow night's game in Portland, while the league looks at discipline for his match penalty on Sunday, the Sharks have brought in experienced defenseman Mike Brennan from Florida of the ECHL. Brennan played four years at Boston College and has 282 AHL games to his name with Rockford, Toronto and Lake Erie. … Congratulations to ex-IceCat Jon DiSalvatore, who recorded his 500th career AHL point Sunday as his Hershey Bears beat Toronto. … Everyone knows that a "natural" hat trick is three straight goals by the same player in the same period — very rare — so what would you call the hat trick Connecticut's Chad Kolarik had versus Norfolk on Saturday night. He had one in the first, one in the second and one in the third periods. … The two-on-none the Sharks had Sunday may be their only one of the season, and has a Worcester team ever had a three-on-none, or more? Sharks coaches Roy Sommer and David Cunniff remember one of their Cleveland Barons teams having a five-on-none once. "The other team changed everybody all at once," Sommer said. "I think it was a five-on-one at first, then when the one guy realized what was going on, he figured — I'm getting' out of here while I can." Yes, the Barons scored on the play — at least, Sommer and Cunniff think they did.
1. The Clippers played in Baltimore from 1962 to 1976, then went out of business; the Skipjacks were there from 1982 to 1993 and moved to Portland; the Bandits were there from 1995 to 1997 and moved to Cincinnati.
2. Tough guy Erick Lizon got into eight games during the 2010-11 season and had 24 PIM, but no goals and no assists.
3. Martin Mercier scored three goals, one of them short-handed, when the IceCats played a 5-5 tie in Hershey on Oct. 29, 1994.
Patrick Traverse and the AHL in Worcester were both rookies in 1994-95.
Traverse was with the PEI Senators then but came here to play for the IceCats in 1996-97, eventually settling in Grafton before becoming the first player to wear the uniforms of both the IceCats and the Sharks. He is sixth on the city's all-time list in games played, third for points by a defenseman and fourth for goals by a defenseman.
After 18 years as a pro hockey player, Traverse has retired and has joined AspenCross Financial Group as an associate working out of nearby Westboro. He and his family were at Sunday's Sharks game at the DCU Center.
While Traverse has hung up his skates professionally, he's looking forward to playing for fun.
"I'd like to get involved with the Bruins alumni when I get the chance," he said. "Right now, with the new job and doing things with my kids, it's hard to keep up with everything that's going on."
Traverse would love to coach some youth hockey, but there's a problem.
"My kids don't play hockey," he said. "They play soccer."
His career included 279 games in the NHL and, at 18 years, lasted way beyond average, so Traverse had great hockey life.
"Players that I talked to after they retired," Traverse said, "told me that what they missed most about it was being around the locker room, having friends and teammates, and I do miss that more than playing itself."
And the Sharks know that if they ever run short of defensemen and can't get one in from San Francisco, experienced help is just down Route 9.


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When it comes to college football, it's safe to say Andrew Albers has come full circle.
Albers, a 6-foot-8, 295-pound standout offensive lineman for Costa Mesa High and Orange Coast College, has accepted a scholarship to play at the University of Utah, where he initially committed out of Costa Mesa.
Albers' father, Frank, announced on Facebook Tuesday night: "So very happy and proud to report that my son Andrew Albers has accepted a scholarship and has committed to play football for the University of Utah Utes. I can't wait to be at Rice-Eccles Stadium for the first home game next year."
Andrew Albers received a scholarship offer to play at Fresno State on Tuesday, Frank said, and was planning for a visit to Memphis this weekend. Instead he will report to the Utes on Jan. 5.
He has two years of eligibility remaining and a redshirt year that can be used, but Utah wants Andrew Albers to play right away, Frank said.
Andrew Albers, who was named Orange Coast League Lineman of the Year and was a Daily Pilot Dream Team selection in the fall of 2010, left Costa Mesa early as a senior to train with the Utes as a preferred walk-on in the spring of 2011.
But he left in July of that year because he said he was burned out and he wanted to become a youth pastor. However, later in the fall, he wanted to play football again and he went to Orange Coast College.
After earning second-team All-Southern Conference honors as a sophomore left tackle for the Pirates in 2012, he wanted to take his game to the next level again.
OCC finished 3-7 in 2012, with three losses by a combined seven points.
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rifampin rĭfăm´pĭn [key], antibiotic used in the treatment of tuberculosis . It is also used to eliminate the meningococcus microorganism from carriers and to treat leprosy , or Hansen's disease. Rifampin, or rifampicin as it was formerly called, acts by inhibiting protein synthesis in sensitive cells. It is a toxic drug whose side effects include flulike symptoms. Because resistant microorganisms emerge during treatment, rifampin is used along with other drugs, e.g., with isoniazid and ethambutol for tuberculosis treatment and with dapsone and clofazimine in the treatment of leprosy.
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Bread Body Spirit
Bread Body Spirit
Edited and with introductions by Alice Peck (Skylights Path Publishing, 2008)
This is a book that will make you hungry. You'll be hungry for the rich curried vegetable soup in the chapter entitled "The Parable of the Squash," and you'll be hungry to take a new, more meaningful look at the meals you serve and eat.
Editor Alice Peck set out to create a compilation of already-published essays on the spirituality of food and eating. The result is a nourishing collection of reflections by authors of different faith traditions.
In a world that juxtaposes fast food with an obsession with dieting, Peck's anthology invites the reader to go deeper. "Looking closely at the relationship between bread, body, and spirit—the food we eat, how we eat it, and who we invite to our tables to share it—can be a framework to study what is sacred about a seemingly mundane part of our lives." The essays she includes are well-chosen. I saw my own Catholic faith reflected back to me in Sister Miriam Therese MacGillis' "Food as Sacrament," but I also got a taste of food's role in other faith traditions—Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Native American, and Muslim.
Also mixed in are essays that don't speak to a specific religion but rather are the stories of a particular meal that was transformative in some way. In "One Beautiful Meal" Alisa Smith and J. B. MacKinnon write, "It was the kind of meal that, when the plates were clean, led some to dark corners to sleep with the hushing of the wind, and others to drink mulled wine until our voices had climbed an octave and finally deepened in the small hours, into whispers."
The gift of this book is that it invites the reader to cook and eat with intentionality. It elevates food preparation from the dull spot where it is often lodged (next to sock sorting) and takes it to holy ground. Perhaps Mary Beth Crain says it best in her chapter, "When food is prepared with love and joy, with the pure motive of nourishing others, it becomes a blessing for all concerned."


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Which ACC teams would be buyers, sellers if trades were allowed in college football?
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Alcohol Use Before Sex and HIV Risk: Situational Characteristics of Protected and Unprotected Encounters Among High-Risk African Women
The authors compared the situational characteristics of protected and unprotected sexual encounters that involved alcohol use two hours prior with ones that did not. The data were collected from December 2002 to December 2005 as part of enrollment in a prospective cohort study aimed at identifying HIV seroconversion risk factors among female bar and hotel workers in Northern Tanzania.
In all, 608 (37.3 percent) of the women who were inconsistent condom users were asked set-matched questions regarding situational characteristics surrounding their last protected and unprotected sex, including whether they had been drinking within the previous two hours. After controlling for time since the last type of encounter, the associations between drinking two hours before sex (yes/no), condom use (protected/unprotected), and their interaction with the situational descriptors were examined with a 2x2 model for paired categorical data.
Condom failure was five times more likely if someone (woman, man or both partners) had been drinking ahead of the encounter (odds ratio [OR], 5.19; 95 percent confidence interval [CI], 2.05-15.46) and was especially likely to occur if only the woman had been drinking before sex (OR, 14.05; 95 percent CI, 4.03-50.41). Alcohol use before sex was associated with sexual contacts where the woman was having sex with her partner for the first time; their relationship was casual or transitory or sex was transactional; the location was unfamiliar and less under her control; and the partner had been drinking or using drugs prior to sex. "Condom use was more frequent in precisely the same types of encounters," the authors reported. The study found no significant interactions between alcohol use before sex and condom use, "suggesting that drinking before sex and use of condom are distinct and not contingent risk factors."
"Alcohol use before sex is associated with an increased likelihood of condom failures and with high-risk sexual encounters, ones that have consistent situational characteristics regardless of whether condoms are used or not," the researchers concluded.


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Liverpool are close to securing the signature of Manchester City defender Kolo Touré as they look to fill the void left by Jamie Carragher's retirement.
Brendan Rodgers has identified numerous targets to reinforce his central-defensive options, and Touré - available on a free transfer - is poised to have a medical at Liverpool after Manchester City's tour of the United States after next weekend.
The 32-year-old Ivory Coast international has seen his contract run out at the Etihad Stadium having rarely featured since being suspended for six months after admitting accidentally taking a banned substance in 2011.
Toure was once one of the most highly regarded centre-halves in the country, moving to Manchester City for £16 million in 2009, and Rodgers will feel that if he can regain full fitness with regular football he will be a useful asset.
The Liverpool manager is anxious for a proven Premier League defender to join his squad alongside a developing star.
In recent weeks, the Merseyside club have also assessed Schalke's Greek defender Kyriakos Papadopoulos and Sporting Lisbon's Tiago Llori.
Rodgers is also eager to be reunited with Swansea captain Ashley Williams, but his age and valuation in excess of £10 million have made it increasingly difficult to conceive such a transfer.
Much depends on the future of Martin Skrtel, who has been out of the side since January. A substantial bid for Skrtel would offer Rodgers an opportunity to reassess - Zenit St Petersburg were eager to re-sign the centre-half in January - but if a valuation of Skrtel beyond £12 million was not met the Liverpool manager is equally willing to give the Slovakian another opportunity to rediscover his form.
Rodgers, meanwhile, believes Philippe Coutinho may prove one of the most astute purchases the club has ever made if he begins next season as thrillingly as he ended this one.
Coutinho cost just £8.5 million from Inter Milan in January, unable to cement a place at the San Siro after numerous injuries.
At Liverpool, however, his performances in the second half of the season have generated hopes Coutinho will fulfil his potential as one of the future stars of Brazilian football.
"He's a real find for us in terms of the price we have paid. Hopefully his value will be much greater than the cost in the coming years," said Rodgers.
"When you bring somebody in during January, you hope they can make an impact. You are also looking at it as a six-month adaptation period before you get the best out of them from pre-season onwards.
"We are all pleasantly pleased and surprised by how well he has done. His numbers tell you the story in terms of goals and assists."


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Rob Balder
Rob Balder is the author of Erfworld. He is a full-time professional cartoonist, singer/songwriter, game designer and web entrepreneur.
Rob writes and sings comedy songs, and has recorded two CDs. The title track from Rob's first CD, "Rich Fantasy Lives" was co-written with Filk Hall of Famer Tom Smith. It won the Pegasus award for Best Filk Song of 2007. Rob's songs have often been heard on the syndicated Doctor Demento Show. In January 2006, he and six other comedy music performers founded The Funny Music Project.
In addition to Erfworld, Rob is the creator of the clip-art comic strip PartiallyClips, a clip-art comic strip started in 2001, which has appeared in more than two dozen newspapers and magazines. A book collection of the strip, "Suffering for my Clip Art: the Best of PartiallyClips, volume 1," was published in 2005.
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He is the Associate Editor of Nth Degree, a popular fanzine covering genre fiction, gaming, comics, fandom and more. He writes science fiction and fantasy, including one unpublished novel and many short stories and poems.
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Rob also teamed up with Pete Abrams of the webcomic Sluggy Freelance to create "Get Nifty," a stand-alone card game themed around Pete's comic. Get Nifty debuted in stores in 2006, through Blood & Cardstock Games.
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He has a talk page here.
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Rob has been known to light his enemies on fire by glaring at them. Through his power of puns and pop culture references, he has managed to gain control of at least eight continents, but keeps losing them due to lack of interest in taxation protocols.
Part of this is because he keeps giving up Australia, and as anyone who's taken over the world knows, the key to half the game is the small, but significant unit pop from Australia.
He is part basilisk which is why this article has no picture. Partly camera shy, partly wanting to preserve the opportunity to get money from the sales of book one.


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From few moments ago we found the official twitter account of Mohamed Morsi saying the following :
#الرئيس محمد مرسي يؤكد تمسكه بالشرعية الدستورية ويرفض أي محاولة للخروج عليها ويدعوالقوات المسلحة سحب إنذارها ويرفض أي إملاءات داخليةأوخارجية
— د.محمد مرسي (@MuhammadMorsi) July 2, 2013
President Mohamed Morsi will hold on the constitutional legitimacy and refuses any attempts to turn against it. He also calls the army to reverse its ultimatum and refuses any domestic or foreign orders.This is a confrontation not only with the public and the Egyptian army but also with the States that called Morsi to hold early Presidential elections.I do not know if this is crazy or not.
Since early morning and almost everybody with access to real informed sources in Cairo knew that Morsi was holding talks with El Sisi. All predictions were betting that by tonight or tomorrow's morning there will be a comprise.
These bets were enforced by the fact that state owned Ahram's issue tomorrow published in its front page.
|Today : Dismissal or resignation "Aziz El Shafei"
Below the headlines are as follows for the report written by Abdel Nasser Salama , the editor in chief of Ahram. :
- Forming a presidential council and cancelling the constitution.
- The armed forces will supervise the road map of future for a period between 9 months to one year.
- Revolutionary trials for violence inciters and instructions to deal with outlaws in Sinai.
- Forming an independent interim government and have a presidential and parliamentary elections.
- Putting MB leading figures under house arrest and international support to the new development.
I think he is trying to pull Erdogan here. Unfortunately he does not know that Turkey is not Egypt for real and people can not stomach the Muslim brotherhood anymore.
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Morsi has addressed the nation from few minutes ago on National TV. To be accurate he addressed his supporters. Stressing over and over on his legitimacy, Morsi sent indirect messages to the army and El Sisi as well the people. I will not quote him.
The National TV is controlled now by the army FYI.I do not know what will happen tomorrow. I fear it for real.
By the way just now we got this tweet on the official twitter account of the cabinet.
مجلس الوزراء يعلن رفضة لخطاب الدكتور مرسي ودفعه الوطن الي حرب أهلية ويعلن المجلس انحيازه لارادة الشعب
— Egyptian Cabinet (@Cabinet_EG) July 2, 2013
"The Cabinet announces its refusal to Dr.Morsi's speech and how it pushes nation to civil war. The Cabinet announces its support to the people's will.


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David Ward is my 5th-great grandfather (b. 9 Apr 1785 Virginia – d. 25 Nov 1879 Ohio). The events below probably took place in the 1790s:
David's father, George Ward, did not live a great while after his marriage, dying in mid-life, leaving a widow and three children, George, David and Mary. This mother, who lived in one of the border counties of Virginia, on a certain evening went to the home of a neighbor with her children expecting to remain for the night. The neighbor was busy making a powder horn, his good wife was churning and the visitors were happy in the enjoyment of the hospitality of their friends. Roaming Indians came to the door, and when the neighbor extended the hand of friendship and peace, the savage yell was given, and the marauders sought to destroy the entire party. The neighbor and his son were shot to death, the wife made a prisoner and little Mary Ward fell a victim to the tomahawk. Mrs. Ward seized her two small sons and with them escaped through a small window in a rear room, but not until David had received a wound from a tomahawk, the scar of which he carried to his grave. The three fugitives fled in terror for a distance of five miles, wading a river twice in order to evade their pursuers. The mother of the family with whom they had expected to spend the night, saw her husband and son murdered and her home destroyed, and was herself carried away a captive of the Indians, although she afterward made her escape and returned to the white settlement.
Google books (books.google.com) is a great resource for genealogists. There are tons of old books out of copyright and which are fully searchable and viewable. I've used Google books in a few ways:
Finding old family histories. The above story is from "Historical sketches and record of the Elleman and Ward families and their Descendants". Another example from my wife's family tree is "The English Emersons".
Local histories. I have a branch of the family tree from Darke Co., Ohio, and there are multiple books about the history of the county. Other books on the early history of Baltimore have provided me with valuable information.
Agricultural surveys, law book, the list goes on and on.
I know of errors in the Historical Sketches book. Besides that, a fellow researcher told me that the copy of the book Google had scanned was missing a couple of key pages that were in a physical copy that researcher owned. As always, use typical discretion when relying on these sources since most will not be primary.
On a philosophical note, it's amazing to think that but for a window in the back of a colonial cabin my ancestral line might have come to a end (or rather have never existed)…


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Abstinence: A Guaranteed Way To Avoid Pregnancy and STD's
By Nathan A. Cherry
The liberal left, Planned Parenthood, and other proponents of contraceptive-based sex-education will try to tell us that such education is the only way to reduce teen pregnancy and STD's; despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Recently the CDC reported that teen pregnancy and STD rates are at all-time highs, and continuing to climb. (Click here for the CDC report)
Then there is a recent report found at Citizenlink.org showing research results from many major research institutions on a variety of teen related topics. This report shows the link between teen depression/suicide and sexual activity, and the positive effects of parent-teen homework assignments designed to reinforce communication between parents and teens.
But quite strikingly is the findings related to abstinence education on the rate of sexual initiation and sexual activity among teens. Here are several conclusions from the report:
"Researchers examined the impact of a school-based abstinence education program on the initiation of sexual intercourse by virgin adolescents. They also sought to determine the program's impact on adolescent social cognitive factors linked to adolescent sexual initiation. The researchers concluded that the program achieved its goal of reducing the rate at which adolescents initiated sexual intercourse. Adolescent virgins who participated in the program were approximately one-half as likely as non-participants to initiate sexual activity after one year."
"This paper discusses 21 studies of abstinence education. Fifteen studies examined abstinence programs that were intended primarily to teach abstinence. Of these 15 studies, 11 reported positive findings. The other six studies analyzed virginity pledges, and of these six studies, five reported positive findings. Overall, 16 of the 21 studies reported statistically significant positive results, such as delayed sexual initiation and reduced levels of early sexual activity, among youths who have received abstinence education. Five studies did not report any significant positive results."
"The authors analyzed data from interviews with 3,750 men and 3,620 women, conducted for the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (1979 to 2000). They found that women who were virgins at age 18 were, by middle adulthood (between ages 36 and 43), more likely than their peers to be debt-free and less likely to have used welfare benefits or to have experienced health problems. Both men and women who were virgins at age 18 attained more education than their peers and were half as likely to become divorced by middle adulthood. These findings held true when the authors controlled for ethnicity and measures of previous educational or economic disadvantage."
What should be immediately apparent is the obvious and positive role that abstinence education plays in the lives of teens. This is not partisan politics we are talking about here; this is the health and well-being of our children. Anyone who denies the positive results of abstinence education is quite simply foolish. If the ultimate goal is to see our children stay healthy then abstinence is the only guaranteed way to achieve that objective. How can a girl get pregnant if she doesn't have sex? How can a young man contract an STD if he does not have sex? It is practically impossible. Anyone who says otherwise is deceiving themselves.
And yet, our government would like to further push a failing program of contraceptive education. And why? Because there is a mentality that says kids are going to have sex anyways, so let's just show them the right way to do it. Well, kids are going to drink illegally, should we show them how to do that "properly" as well? Maybe we should lower the drinking age to make it easier on everyone. That is the mentality behind the ludicrous idea of teaching grade-school children about sex. Hey, Uncle Sam, that is mom and dad's job. Hey, mom and dad, that is your job.
The fact that contraceptive education is failing is a growing fact among social analysts. Moira Gaul, Director of Women's and Reproductive Health at the Family Research Council, says,
"After 30 years of implementation and evaluation, there is no compelling evidence of contraceptive distribution and instruction programs having had a sustained and meaningful effect on "protective" behaviors-that is, "consistent and correct condom use" in classroom-type settings. As a public health intervention method, contraceptive programs have simply failed American youth: An STD epidemic currently exists amongst young people. One in four teenage girls nationwide has an STD, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the U.S. continues to have the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world; and the toll from the negative psychological [effects] associated with adolescent sex is having an impact on mental health and the pursuit of life-goals."
Not only are contraception programs failing, they are helping contribute to single parent homes in poverty, substance abuse, lower academic achievement, and school drop-out rates according to Gaul. And yet our government wants to continue pushing these programs. Something tells me they are not concerned at all for the health and well-being of our children, but rather the pockets of their financial donors.
There will never be such a thing as a 100% successful public sex-education program. But evidence for success is overwhelmingly on the side of abstinence education over contraception education when it comes to the overall short and long-term health and well-being of children. That should be enough for any person, republican, democrat or otherwise to support such education.
Further Food for Thought: "Abstinence Education is the Key," by Moira Gaul
"Abstinence Education: A Selection of Research," by Linda Klepacki
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I normally talk about the importance of using a flash when taking shots into the sun to give sufficient light to add features to your subject but there are also times when making your subject featureless apart from their outline against a bright background can be most effective – or when in other words silhouette is a worth exploring.
Silhouettes are a wonderful way to convey drama, mystery, emotion and mood to the viewers of your photos and often stand out in an album because of the combination of their simplicity but also the story that they convey. I love them because they don't give the viewer of a clear picture of everything but leave part of the image up to their imagination to wonder about.
The basic strategy you'll need to employ in taking silhouette shots is to place your subject (the shape you want to be blacked out) in front of some source of light and to force your camera to set its exposure based upon the brightest part of your picture (the background) and not the subject of your image.
In doing this your subject will be under exposed (and very dark, if not black).
There are a lot of very technical descriptions going around on how to take great silhouette shots that you might want to look up but let me attempt to run through some basic steps that should get you the results you're after. In essence what we're trying to do is make your camera think that it's the bright parts of the picture you are most interested in.
Here's how to do it:
Almost any object can be made into a silhouette, however some are better than others. Choose something with a strong and recognizable shape that will be interesting enough in its two dimensional form to hold the interest of those viewing your image. Silhouettes can't draw on the colors, textures and tones of subjects to make them appealing – so the shape needs to be distinct.
If you have your camera in automatic mode your camera will probably want to use its flash which will ruin the silhouette. Basically you want as little light on the front of your subject as possible – so the flash has to go (basic – but I've seen a few attempted silhouette shots with the flash firing).
When it comes to lighting your subject you'll need to throw out a lot of what you've learnt about normal photography and think a little backwards. Instead of lighting the front of your subject, in silhouettes you need to ensure that there is more light shining from the background than the foreground of your shot – or to put it another way – you want to light the back of your subject rather than the front. The perfect light for this is placing your subject in front of a sunset or sunrise – but really any bright light will be able to do the trick.
Frame your shot so you are shooting with your subject in front of a nice plain, but bright background. Usually the best backgrounds will be a bright cloudless sky with the sun setting. You want to position the brightest light source behind your subject (either so that they hide it or so that its in the background somewhere).
If there is more than one shape or object in the image that you're attempting to silhouette, try to keep them separated. ie if you are silhouetting a tree and a person don't have the person stand in front of the tree or even leaning on it as it will merge them into one shape and as a result your viewers could be confused about what the shape is.
Also when framing you'll probably want to photograph silhouetted people as profiles rather than looking straight on. This means that more of their features (nose, mouth, eyes) are outlined and they are more likely to be recognized.
Most modern digital cameras have automatic metering which are pretty good at sensing how to expose a photograph so that everything is well lit. The problem with this is that most cameras are so smart that they will light up your subject instead of underexposing it to get a silhouette so you need to trick it. Most cameras work out the exposure levels in auto mode when you push your shutter half way down (at the same time that they focus). So point your camera at the brightest part of your picture and then press the shutter halfway down (don't let go). Then move your camera back to frame your shot with the subject where you want it and then finish taking the shot. With most digital cameras this will result in a silhouetted subject. In effect what you're doing is tricking your camera into thinking that the bright part of the image is the mid tone of it so that anything darker than it will be exposed as a nice dark shadow.
Some digital cameras also have 'spot' or 'centered' metering modes that you can switch on which helps with the above technique as they will set the metering on the central spot of your frame rather than multiple spots. This means you can accurately tell your camera exactly which bit of the bright background you want it to set the exposure on.
If this technique doesn't work and your camera has controls to allow manual exposure or exposure compensation you might like to try some of your own settings. The beauty of digital is that you can experiment to your hearts content until you get the result you're after.
A simple way to start using manual mode is to look at the shutter speed and aperture that it suggests in automatic mode and to start from there. If in auto mode your subject is too light (ie you need to make it darker) stop down the shutter speed a stop or two and see what impact that has. Use the 'bracketing' technique that I described in my previous tip on sunrises and sunsets to get a variety of shots at slightly different exposures.
In most cases you'll want the subject which is silhouetted to be the thing that is in focus most crisply. This can mean that the process described in point 4 can be a little tricky as pushing your shutter half way down to get the metering right also means that you'll focus on that spot in the background. To get around this you can use two strategies. Firstly if your camera has manual focusing you might want to try that. Pre focus your shot before you meter your shot.
The other strategy is to use Aperture to maximize your depth of field (the amount of your image that is in focus). Set a small aperture (ie a larger number) to increase the depth of field – this means you're more likely to have a sharper foreground and background in your shots.
One last tip on how to photograph Silhouettes – while a total silhouette with a nice crisp and black subject can be a powerful shot, also consider the partial silhouette where some detail of your subject is left. Sometimes a touch of light on them makes them slightly more three dimensional and 'real'. This is the beauty of bracketing your shots as it will leave you with total and partial silhouettes to choose form.
UPDATE: Check out these 12 Amazing Silhouette Example Shots.
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Some great tips.....feel free to read my blog entry on some particularly challenging silhouette pictures!!
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I know you have a zillion readers and one more likely doesn't have much of an impact, but imagine my delight when I arrived here to find that it's run by Mr. Darren Rowse? I follow your problogger site and knew you had one on photography but never had the time to track it down. Happy to find you here and even more happy to subscribe.
Hi Darren,
I really enjoying reading your tips everyweek.
Right now I am trying to take some pictures about hockey. Do you have any suggestions?
Very useful tips here - thanks. I always found it a challenge to photograph a totally black silhouette before.
Loved your post. I have a Nikon that moves the point around the frame that will help with focusing and evaluating exposure without having to move the camera around. I think the Canon also has this feature. The control is on the wheel/multifunction button on the back of the camera.
thanks ...
I really like the carnival ride swings silhouette. It is not the type of silhouette subject one traditionally thinks of, especially since it's such a fast moving one.
This is a great blue heron with a strong, yellow sunset background taken in Florida:
Here are some of my version
Thanks for waching.
what are the things that you consider when you talking a picture?
As always, great article. Got this a few weeks back. Got lucky and was able to take advantage of a family taking up my field of view.
Suggestions taken !!
Very good for am amateur with a Canon 1100D
Thanks for the great article. I took the below picture on my recent trip to Nice, France. Lovely sunset and great how the image turned out.
Years ago, I took a photo of an equestrian monument silhouetted against a sunset. I wanted the statue completely blacked out, with the brilliant sunset behind it. In those pre-digital days, I did not realize that I had overexposed for the sky and the sunset was washed out. Mr. Clueless, aka Dad, asked "Why didn't you increase the DoF to get more detail on the statue?" Maybe Dad was right; he once commented that it was too bad that Ansel Adams did not make color photos. The rest of the family snickered behind Dad's back, until I read some of Adams' comments about how some of his images would be better in color and called Dad to apologize.
hi, when i shoot silhouettes i use the exposure lock button, on my canon 400D its button with the * next to it on the top right. so you can point at a bright part of the sky for example (the sun) press the button so it meters the required exposure for that bright source and saves it into its memory, then i can recompose the shot with my subject and use the autofocus to focus, it wont affect the saved exposure settings. there is a time limit to this function so you cant take too long with your composition. this helped me alot
Great explanation of the techniques, I have to admit to all of silhouttes so far have been accidental.
SkyLight? I guess we can lock the exposure by half pressing the compact camera, maximum zoom to the sky near to the sun, half press, then point the subject, then press the button.. well I just guessing, no harm to try ;D
Great tips indeed. For silhoutte shooting, as a noob, i will use point matrix for exposure to point at the point very near to the sun then lock the exposure, focus at the subject then shoot. Please advice. Thanks.
I love your details on how to take this shots! I have some great ideas. And will post my results asap so you can see how much you helped me figure this out. Ty
Fantastic tips, thanks for sharing. Your point on shape certainly helped me improve my knowledge. I have done many silhouette shots before (my basic tips below), but I have found thinking about the shape as your suggest really makes a big difference.
Could you explain the often used term, "take a meter reading" or, "meter the sky". t-y
Does anyone here have a Canon PowerShot SX210 IS ? If you do please let me know how u can take those kinds of pictures..... Thanks!!!
I've read a load of books and have had pro' 1 to 1 lessons. This artical is writen so lovely, it is simple to understand. So much so that when I practised it for the first time, even I was able to do it and get it right. So I'd like to thank you. And want to know if you have writen any books on photography.
I so love taking photos in silhouettes, even with my digicam before.. I so love this article too. It helped me a lot! Thank you so much. (happy reader)
Item #7 Manual Mode....second paragraph. Should that not
read "stop down aperture" instead of shutter speed ?
Yeaaah,...Me too :) :) :) :) :)
I am very fond of silhouette phots as well as photos of shadows
Wooow, Cool http://www.flickr.com/photos/confusedsam/5539595608/
"I prefer the edited"
But maybe you need to remove the black edges that, it makes our eyes are less comfortable. just a suggestion Friend :)
Be the best :)
I honestly love silhouettes even though at times they can be tricky, but a pleasure if you get it right.
Great information, Like This. :)
I also once tried to shoot with Canon cameras, but I think the result is not maximized, you can see it in my deviantART http://jnrlavigne.deviantart.com/art/Depok-Beach-Sunset-197640947
I do not know if this is included in "silhouettes Photograph" or not ?
This is a very great and amazing art form in photography. I really enjoy doing it! ^_^
Would you mind to check my silhouette photos and compare yours http://ybraelabergasphotos.blogspot.com/
please leave some comments, it would really help me improve. thanks! :)
This is funny "
So point your camera at the brightest part of your picture and then press the shutter halfway down (don't let go). Then move your camera back to frame your shot with the subject where you want it and then finish taking the shot"
You can use AEL instead of this. Pressing AEL will lock exposure for few seconds then you can shift your camera to your subject without holding the half press shutter.
To Taryn,
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This is great information. Thank you so much. Does anyone know if there is a way to print this article? Thanks!
How nice, Really you are great.
Great tip! This will make me improve my craft in taking pictures in silhouette!
Thanks for sharing your amazing photos and tips.
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I wanted to do one of those retro 80's feel images and towards the end decided to light up one of the flowers a bit. My lovely wife helped with the flower arrangements.
Forgot to take a setup shot for this one, so here is how it was done:
1 stop diffusion panel for the background lit from behind by a a 580EXII with a 1/4CTB gel (triggered with a cactus v4). The speedlite had the wide angle flipout on and was very low and angled up - giving the gradiation and the blueish background tint.
The top tulip is lit by a YN460 (also triggered by a cactus v4) with a massive grid spot on it that just illuminated a very small area which I initially had illuminating the flower from the inside but it looked TOO 80s, so I switched it to light from a different angle and feather onto the stem as well. The grid is about 15cm long with each cell having a roughly 5mm diameter, so it is about a 5 degree spot - way tight (I can light a single eye from 3m out).
Other kit details:
Canon 450D with battery grip
24-105 f4L @ 92mm
1/200th @ f4 @ 200iso
This was awesome. My pictures usually turn out to be verry bad.. but this helped a lot ! xD
Dropped you an email.. :-)
Nice tips.I must try it.I also eager to know about candid photography and flash photography.
wow thanks i think i know how to take a silhouette
I've been looking for some good tips for silhouette shot and then I found your post. It answered all my queries. Thanks for sharing. I just can't wait to try them out. Silhouettes also make nice postcards. :)
Good post but will come to its full extend only with some more sample pics....[as dhanesh said]
nice post.... but can be better and easier if you add some more pictures as example...
I think this post needs more sample pictures.....
great help, worked wonders for class assignment, thanks.
Thank you for the tips. My attempt @ http://www.sarthaksinghal.com/blog/burning-sky
thanks for this tutorial. really excellent! likewise with the comments and tips by the readers, except for that comment by Mr Foo. I must say he is in the wrong site to post such. i suggest he must look for an ENGLISH TUTORIAL website to say all his corrections.
Great tips as usual.
On another note, Mr. Foo is entitled to his opinion, which was politely expressed. He doesn't deserve such a harsh reaction. If you don't like his comments, either express your displeasure civilly or keep your comments to yourself. Commuincation is important and there is a big difference between a contraction and a possessive.
Great information. I love silhouettes, usually get them at sunset or against a bright sky. Thanks! As Shepy does, I use the * in my Cannon a lot on difficult exposure shots when the auto exposure is not appropriate for the main subject i.e: very bright sun or clouds. I have to try the manual mode more in silhouettes.
Is there any way to do the silhouettes in an editing software? I am using Photoshop and Photopaint? Please let me know if there is a way to do it in there........
thanks for the tips dude! It's really useful! two thumbs up! =D
First class !! have been hunting around for ages for tips on shooting silhouettes. The tips were spot on and now all i have to do is go out and try them.
many thanks !!
Please explain: I do not understand "Pre focus your shot before you meter your shot." This is under step 8 above and I do not understand it. Could you please clarify ?
Great ideas. Till date I am using manual Pentax cameras. Hope I shall be able to improve my next shots. Thanks.
wow. thanks for the great tips:)
Hi, the images are not showing....
Mr. Foo,
Cripes, it's a photog website, and if that was really the only comment you had to make, keep it to yourself. If you don't have anything constructive to add, then I agree with Rob: Shut up. Don't make me f-stop your aperature.
Ok this seems very helpful but, I am wanting to take a silhouette with about 10 people in a alley. I know this sounds very crazy but, I really want this to turn out well. there is no light down this alley. So I have to find a way to light it and still get a good silhouette. Any comments or suggestions would be very helpful to me. I have a film camera it is a SRL cannon. I am new to photography although I have taken basic photography. I have the book (photography the eighth edition) If anyone can tell me maybe chapters or anything that would be helpful.
Thank you
Mr. Rob,
You're not very nice. It's very important to communicate well , and you need to learn how to punctuate, yourself. Had I not used that comma you might have wondered how to punctuate yourself. See, grammar is important.
Thanks, Shepy, for the great Canon tip. I've always wondered what the asterisk was doing there on my G7.
Will try the thing with the camera in auto-mode...thanks for the help.
Thanks - I'm taking my granddaughter star gazing next week from a hill top in our pasture. We'll get there early enough for sunset and will try some silhouette shots. Thanks again.
I'll try it, thanks
Brilliant tips! Especially the bit about tricking the camera in auto mode!
Thank you!
Oh and totally agree with guy above me!
shut up mr foo
no one cares how to write its or it's or its' or tits
the article is on taking photos
not a grammar lesson
This has really helped me. thanks a lot!
Ohhh...Thanks a lot!!!!!!!
I've make very good photo...THANKSSSS!!!!!
My Fuji compact camera's 'sunset mode' takes photo similar to Silhouette too. You might want to try it on your camera.
If you have a Canon camera then the * button can be handy for taking silhouettes. You can half depress the shoot button to focus then move the center of the frame to a light section / background of the image and press the * button (Just behind the mode wheel on my 400D) and this will set the light metering for the whole image against what you currently have centered in the frame. Move back to regain your composition to take shot and it should turn out great!
Its really amazing what you can do with silhouettes. :-)
Please learn the difference between "it's" and "its".
Great Tips!! I go on vacation in a couple of weeks and I can't wait to try them out.
Thanks for sharing.
wow, I can see myself trying this today. Great tips, thanks.
Some great advice here, nice article. For those interested I've written a beginners guide to photography at http://GoingManual.com. Hope it proves useful too!
Another excellent article backed up once more with superb images.
- Paul @ www.photographyvoter.com
What he said. ^_^
Great tips! Thanks for this. I can't wait to try it!


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