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Note: This is part of my preparations for my exams, im getting the wrong answer as $32/17$ which is not what wolfram alpha says, i would highly appreciate it if somebody could provide a direct answer so i can see what went wrong.
The equation here is $\frac{x+3}{x-2} - \frac{1-x}{x} = \frac{17}{x}$
Note: brackets are there to seperate, they dont haveany special meaning.
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Hint: Multiply through so that all values have the same denominator:
$\frac{x^2+3x}{x^2-2x} - \frac{-x^2+3x-2}{x^2-2x} = \frac{17x-34}{x^2-2x}$
Then simplify:
$\frac{2x^2+2}{x^2-2x} = \frac{17x-34}{x^2-2x}$
$2x^2+2 = 17x-34$
$2x^2-17x+36 = 0$
Edit: So, to continue, since you seem to have gotten to this point, you come up with factors:
$(2x-9)(x-4) = 0$
So the roots are $4$ and $4\frac{1}{2}$
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i already did that – Aayush Agrawal Mar 22 '13 at 14:48
See my edits. I completed the equation. – Jonathan Rich Mar 22 '13 at 14:58
Thanks, i finally understand. – Aayush Agrawal Mar 22 '13 at 15:01
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Good evening,
I have a question on the approximation of holomorphic functions on a space of cartesian product type.
Question: Let $U,V$ be domains in $\mathbb{C}^n$ and $f\in \mathcal{O}(U\times V)$ a holomorphic function on $U\times V.$ Do we always have the following : $f$ can be approximated by holomorphic functions on $U\times V$ of the form $g(z,w) = \sum_{i=1}^N h_i(z)k_i(w)$ where $h_i\in \mathcal{O}(U)$ and $k_i\in\mathcal{O}(V)$ ? (N is arbitrary)
If it is not possible, can this be true if we put some conditions on $U$ and $V$? So what are the conditions?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Duc Anh
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I would suspect that the answer is no. It may be true if U and V are domains of holomorphy. I will think about it and post an answer shortly. – Steven Gubkin Jun 13 '12 at 19:27
This is just a comment since I have not checked the details, but one special case where this might work is when $U$ and $V$ are open polydiscs, since then $U\times V$ is also an open polydisc and every holomorphic function $f$ on an open polydisc admits a power series expansion about the centre; truncating that series at some $N$ will give functions $g_N$ of the form you describe, and then my guess is that the functions $g_N$ converge locally uniformly to $f$. – Yemon Choi Jun 14 '12 at 3:46
Thank you. By the way, I think if $U, V$ are polynomially convex, we can get this kind of approximation. But it is very special :D, because the approximating functions are polynomials. – Đức Anh Jun 14 '12 at 7:27
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This is the answer : the above statement is true without any conditions on $U$ and $V.$ It is the theorem 1.7.7 in the book of Narasimhan, Analysis on Real and Complex Manifolds. One of my professors has pointed it out for me.
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You can accept your own answer, to stop the question being listed as "open" – Yemon Choi Jun 15 '12 at 18:18
You're right, but I don't want to do it, because i will feel uncomfortable (don't ask me why). Anyway, we had an answer, it is sufficient. – Đức Anh Jun 15 '12 at 18:39
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This is not an answer, but I hope someone will read and explain a little. I think the answer is the theorem 4.2.4, page 107, Eschmeier, Putinar, Spectral Decompostions and Analytic Sheaves. From the theorem, my above statement will be true if $U$ and $V$ are Stein spaces. To understand the statement of the theorem and also its proof, we have to know coherent sheaves, tensor product of two locally convex spaces, etc. So it is very far from my knowledge.
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So a bunch of little things are occuring that are reigniting a bit of interest in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. The biggest one of these is the announcement of a 3S Online Version, made by Capcom (which presumably would be on the GGPO Netcode). The idea here, of course, is that people would finally have a legitimate location in which to play 3rd Strike on their console online in a way that doesn't lag. This is, naturally, great for that community. It can only hope to breed more interest for the game and broaden the community for it.
With SF4 as popular as it is, it will probably piggyback on the popularity of the Street Fighter franchise and find itself with a lot of people playing it out of the blue. It will probably never reach the popularity of SF4 (it is a slightly more dated game, less people will be willing to "switch over" to it and there's no real chance for any professional circuit to crop up in the way that it's trying to happen in SF4), but it likely means that 3rd Strike will find its way again into the lineup of Evolution with a little bit of luck (although probably in a 2v2 or other similar team format).
The other curious thing is that, amidst all of this, some guy on the internet has undertaken a project in which he's decided to rebalance SF3 by making his own custom version by hacking the original 3rd Strike ROM and cleverly branding it as 4th Strike). There are a number of changes to a few of the characters, although some of them are a little perplexing, with some of the design choices not feeling like they make a whole lot of sense.
Let's start out with the first character that he showcases: Alex. Stungun Headbutt has been changed to a comboable super -- cool. Flash chops reflect projectiles; including super projectiles -- what? You can combo into a flash chop easily, and then afterwards into Hyper Bomb -- yeah, no.
This is usually the theme for most of the characters in the game. He starts off with a couple of really good ideas, and then slowly but surely pisses all over them by incorporating other, less good ideas. Here's a few of these not-quite-so-brilliant moves:
• Twelve's X-COPY now adds a Yang Super Art 3 effect to his moves; he shows this off by doing a combo on Dudley, transforming into Dudley, and then finishing that combo by spamming toward+FP over and over, killing Dudley.
• Yun's Geneijin bar has become extended. Yang now also receives Geneijin instead of his old SA3, but for some reason his SA3 bar isn't as long as Yun's (which means he now has Yun's old problem of Geneijin forever).
• Sean's uppercut was changed to the two-stage uppercut, but the move sprite wasn't changed to the old uppercut. Why? Who knows.
• Sean has a focus attack. (What?)
• Hugo received comboable lariats -- you can now do stuff like LP LP LP MP into Lariat, which is cool. The uncool part is how you can now somehow do his anti-air super cancelled off of his Lariat.
• Multiple characters can now combo into their throws. Welcome to the King of Street Fighters, '98th Strike.
• Ryu's SA3 has been changed to Shinkuu Tatsumakisenpuukyaku (he can do it on the ground or in the air), in favor of moving Denjin into a secondary role over SA1; Denjin now costs two bars instead of one. Ryu already had Shinkuu Tatsumaki as an EX move, and it doesn't make an interesting super.
• Urien's tackles... just watch the video.
There are a lot of great ideas in here too (Sean being more like his 2I version, where he has a good hurricane kick, his flip kicks are decent and his uppercut is useful; Q has more ways to combo things in, Twelve combos more things altogether, Remy looks viable and fun) interspersed with the garbage (Urien), which makes me wonder why half of this stuff was necessary. I noticed that the majority of these changes serve the purpose of giving ways for characters to get in and do their damage, but some of them are just really perplexing.
Some of the really good ideas in here could be taken and included into a version that doesn't have all of these crazy ideas. Some of the upgrades, reverts and changes to the characters make enough sense that they should be considered for their own version of SF3 without needing all the extra garbage this dude feels he should include. Some other ideas are just cool because of what they are, but it leaves me with the lingering feeling that it's all majorly unnecessary. Ryu having 2 stocks of Denjin, for instance, would have been a good enough upgrade that he likely wouldn't have needed anything else. Adding another super was unnecessary, although his changes to Shin Shoryuken make it viable if you want to do stuff like hitconfirm c.MP into something useful (like Ken can).
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By the end of Obama’s first term, we’ll probably top 6,000 dead U.S. troops in those two wars, along with hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans. The cost for both wars is also now well over $1 trillion.
But it was the extent to which the West subverted its own values as it tried to respond to Bin Laden’s threat that may have given him the greatest satisfaction. I’m just gonna pick a couple of highlights from the article:
- We’ve sent terrorist suspects to “black sites” to be detained without trial and tortured.
- We’ve turned terrorist suspects over to other regimes, knowing that they’d be tortured.
- In those cases when our government later learned it got the wrong guy, federal officials not only refused to apologize or compensate him, they went to court to argue he should be barred from using our courts to seek justice, and that the details of his abduction, torture, and detainment should be kept secret.
- We’ve abducted and imprisoned dozens, perhaps hundreds of men in Guantanamo who turned out to have been innocent. Again, the government felt no obligation to do right by them.
- Presidents from both of the two major political parties have claimed the power to detain suspected terrorists and hold them indefinitely without trial, based solely on the president’s designation of them as an “enemy combatant,” essentially making the president prosecutor, judge, and jury. (I’d also argue that the treatment of someone like Bradley Manning wouldn’t have been tolerated before September 11.)
- The current president has also claimed the power to execute U.S. citizens, off the battlefield, without a trial, and to prevent anyone from knowing about it after the fact.
- The Congress approved, the president signed, and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a broadly written law making it a crime to advocate for any organization the government deems sympathetic to terrorism. This includes challenging the “terrorist” designation in the first place.
I think that whatever your overall political views, and whether or not you agree that the above measures were genuinely necessary to keep Americans and others safe, these are some pretty sad things to have happened. While I wouldn’t go as far as to say that Bin Laden “won,” I’m sure the political and psychological damage he caused were among his key objectives. What’s also important to remember is that most of the new and intrusive security apparatus that has been set up in western countries, including the far-reaching powers governments have arrogated to themselves, will remain in place for a long time to come, if not indefinitely. Governments tend to be reluctant to give up powers in general, and any loosening of security that could be blamed for allowing a terrorist attack to take place is surely too big a political risk for any government to take.
So, you know. Happy weekend and all that.
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preparing for a post israel middle east?
So what is all the fuss about?
It’s a paper entitled “Preparing For A Post Israel Middle East”, an 82-page analysis that concludes that the American national interest in fundamentally at odds with that of Zionist Israel. The authors conclude that Israel is currently the greatest threat to US national interests because its nature and actions prevent normal US relations with Arab and Muslim countries and, to a growing degree, the wider international community.
The study was commissioned by the US Intelligence Community comprising 16 American intelligence agencies with an annual budget in excess of $ 70 billion. The IC includes the Departments of the Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Defense Intelligence Agency, Departments of Energy, Homeland Security, State, Treasure, Drug Enforcement Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Agency, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency commissioned the study.
Among the many findings [...] are the following:
• Israel, given its current brutal occupation and belligerence cannot be salvaged any more than apartheid south Africa could be when as late as 1987 Israel was the only “Western” nation that upheld diplomatic ties with South Africa and was the last country to join the international boycott campaign before the regime collapsed;
• The Israel leadership, with its increasing support of the 700,000 settlers in illegal colonies in the occupied West Bank is increasing out of touch with the political, military and economic realities of the Middle East;
• The post Labor government Likud coalition is deeply complicit with and influenced by the settlers’ political and financial power and will increasingly face domestic civil strife which the US government should not associate itself with or become involved with;
• The Arab Spring and Islamic Awakening has to a major degree freed a large majority of the 1.2 billion Arab and Muslims to pursue what an overwhelming majority believe is the illegitimate, immoral and unsustainable European occupation of Palestine of the indigenous population;
• Simultaneous with, but predating, rapidly expanding Arab and Muslim power in the region as evidenced by the Arab spring, Islamic Awakening and the ascendancy of Iran, as American power and influence recedes, the US commitment to belligerent oppressive Israel is becoming impossible to defend or execute consistent given paramount US national interests which include normalizing relations with the 57 Islamic countries;
• Gross Israeli interference in the internal affairs of the United States through spying and illegal US arms transfers. This includes supporting more than 60 ‘front organizations’ and approximately 7,500 US officials who do Israel’s bidding and seek to dominate and intimidate the media and agencies of the US government which should no longer be condoned;
• That the United States government no longer has the financial resources, or public support to continue funding Israel. The billions of dollars in direct and indirect aid from US taxpayers to Israel since 1967 is not affordable and is increasingly being objected to by US taxpayers who oppose continuing American military involvement in the Middle East. US public opinion no longer supports funding and executing widely perceived illegal US wars on Israel’s behalf. This view is increasingly being shared by Europe, Asia and the International public;
• Israel’s segregationist occupation infrastructure evidenced by legalized discrimination and increasingly separate and unequal justice systems must no longer be directly or indirectly funded by the US taxpayers or ignored by the US government;
• Israel has failed as a claimed democratic state and continued American financial and political cover will not change its continuing devolution as international pariah state;
• Increasingly, rampant and violent racism exhibited among Jewish settlers in the West Bank is being condoned by the Israeli government to a degree that the Israel government has become its protector and partner;
• The expanding chasm among American Jews objecting to Zionism and Israeli practices, including the killing and brutalizing of Palestinians under Israeli occupation, are gross violations of American and International law and raise questions within the US Jewish community regarding the American responsibility to protect (R2P) innocent civilians under occupation;
• The international opposition to the increasingly apartheid regime can no longer be synchronized with American claimed humanitarian values or US expectations in its bi-lateral relations with the 193 member United Nations;
• The Draft ends with language about the need to avoid entangling alliances that alienate much of the World and condemn American citizens to endure the consequences.
Interestingly, it notes Iran as an example of a country and people that have much in common and whose citizens have a real interest in enjoy bilateral associations (here an apparent reference to Israel and its US lobby) not determined by the wishes of other countries and their agents. It also highlights the need for the US to undertake the repairing of relations with Arab and Muslim countries, including the drastically curtained use of drone aircraft. | http://planetgrenada.blogspot.com/2012/11/preparing-for-post-israel-middle-east.html | dclm-gs1-154840002 | false | false | {
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August 6, 2012
Yesterday was a great day for badminton with gold medals being awarded in the men's singles and doubles. This got us thinking about shuttlecocks. They are not like balls at all and this means that they don't behave like balls either. John D. Barrow, mathematician, cosmologist and prolific popular science writer, explains.
Shuttlecocks used for badminton are not like other projectiles found in sports. They are extremely asymmetrical, with a conical skirt about 6cm long and 6cm across that is attached to a cork of higher density at the narrow end of the cone. However, when the shuttlecock is hit it will quickly flip over so that the cork is leading because its pressure centre if different to its centre of mass. This will ensure that it is always approaching your opponent the right way round for her to hit it back.
The effect of hitting the shuttlecock is strange. When you hit a tennis ball or a cricket ball with a racquet or bat it goes further the harder you hit it. But no matter how hard you hit the shuttlecock it won't go much further than about 6 or 7 metres.
Trajectory of a shuttlecock
The trajectory of a shuttlecock, moving from left to right: it falls steeper than it rises.
The motion of the shuttlecock obeys Newton's laws of motion. Its acceleration is governed by the downward force of gravity and a drag force from the air that is proportional to the square of the shuttlecock's speed through the air. When it is first struck the shuttlecock is moving at its fastest and the drag force is therefore much bigger than gravity. So it moves upwards in a straight line, at an angle determined by the direction of impact from the racquet, gradually being decelerated by gravity. Eventually it is going so slowly that the force of gravity is comparable to the air drag force and the trajectory reaches a maximum height and curves downwards towards the ground. Gravity is now speeding it up and it quickly reaches a speed, termed the terminal speed, where the opposing forces of gravity (downwards) and air drag (upwards) become equal. There is now no net force on the shuttlecock and it moves downwards at this constant terminal speed, without experiencing any acceleration or deceleration. The overall trajectory doesn't look like a parabola: the shuttlecock falls steeper than it rises.
The terminal speed does not depend on the initial launch speed of the shuttlecock. It is determined by the strength of gravity, air density, the size and mass of the shuttlecock, and its smoothness. As a result it is these unchanging properties that fix the distance that the shuttlecock will reach when struck hard. Hitting it even harder can't make it go any further than these properties dictate.
August 2, 2012
Usain Bolt
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Usain Bolt is determined to become a legend this weekend, by running the 100m in 9.4 seconds. But what does mathematics have to say about this quest? What is the ultimate limit which no runner can possibly surpass? How can Bolt improve his record significantly without improving his speed? What about the effects of wind assistance, timing accuracy, and altitude on sprint times? Find out about all this and more in the Plus article No limits for Usain and in this video of a lecture given by John D. Barrow and featured on our sister site Maths and sport: Countdown to the Games.
The weekend will also be a great one for Olympic tennis so you should rehearse the scoring rules:
You win a game if you score 4 points before your opponent scores 3 points. Or, if you both score 3 points at some stage you win if you manage to score 2 points in a row after the 3-all stage before your opponent does.
That's quite a mouthful and it turns out that the maths behind tennis can get tricky too. What is the secret to the perfect serve? Can you figure out the probability of winning a game when the probability of winning a point is 0.6? What's the chance of a tennis match taking on epic proportions like the 11-hour battle between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon in 2011? Why does tennis use this comparatively complicated scoring system? And can you improve your chance of winning by choosing the right racket? Here are some answers to these questions, from Plus and from our sister site Maths and sport: Countdown to the Games:
Spinning the perfect serve — A new mathematical analysis of how to hit a winning server shows that spin is the thing. Perhaps there's still time for Murray's coach to include some maths in his preparations for the match today...
Any win for tennis? — Work out the probability of winning a game for a fixed probability of winning a point. This challenging activity is designed to be accessible to students of A-level maths and anyone else who likes puzzling over probabilities.
Anyone for tennis (and tennis and tennis ...)? — What's the chance of a tennis match taking on epic proportions like the 11 hour battle between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon in 2011?
Final score — Why are there so many different scoring systems in operation in sport? This video of a lecture given by John D. Barrow looks at how structuring matches into a series of sets affects the relative roles of luck and skill in determining the winner of the contest. It also looks at issues surrounding scoring in table tennis and decathlon.
Making a racket: the science of tennis — While the players get most of the limelight, engineers, too, are working hard to produce the cutting-edge tennis rackets that guarantee record performances. Over recent decades new materials have made tennis rackets ever bigger, lighter and more powerful. So what kind of science goes into designing new rackets?
August 2, 2012
Yesterday rowers Helen Glover and Heather Stanning won Great Britain's first gold medal. And the men's eight claimed a bronze with world champions Germany taking gold. Could the men's team have done better if they'd arranged their oars differently? Usually you expect to find rowers positioned in a symmetrical fashion, alternately right-left, right-left as you go from one end of the boat to the other. However, the regularity of the rower's positions hides a significant asymmetry that affects the way the boat will move through the water. Find out more in Rowing has its moments.
And if you prefer watching to reading, our sister site Maths and sport: Countdown to the Games features a video of a lecture given by John D. Barrow, which explores how to rig a rowing eight, whether a cox helps or hinders a racing boat, how the speed of a kayak or a canoe depends on the number of paddlers and what happens if you fall in.
August 1, 2012
Start of the women's 400 m freestyle at the 2008 European Championships. Image: Miho.
Some very exciting medals are going to be won in swimming today, including the women's 200m butterfly and the men's 100m freestyle. But we're unlikely to see the rush of record-breaking performances we saw in Beijing in 2008 — that's because in 2008 many swimmers benefited from controversial high performance swimsuits, which have now been banned. But how did these suits improve performance? Find out in By the skin of their suits.
Staying on the aquatic theme, the male divers are also competing for medals today and they'll need a good sense of balance to stay on those springboards. Our sister site Maths and sport: Countdown to the Games has a nice activity on balance and the mathematical concept behind it: inertia. It's aimed at higher GCSE and A level students.
July 31, 2012
Do more people in a boat help or do they slow it down? Image: Yanid.
We're getting very excited about the medals that will be awarded in canoeing and kayaking over the next three days. But here's a question: does having lots of paddlers helps or slow the boat down? The kayak with two paddlers has twice as many "engines" to power it, but it also has twice as much weight to drag through the water. Which is the dominant factor? It's something we should be able to work out using some relatively straight-forward maths. And indeed we can — you can find the answer here.
July 30, 2012
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Lizzie Armitstead has won the silver medal in the women's road race. Image: johnthescone.
The first Olympic weekend is over! GB has excelled at cycling and swimming, snatching a silver and a bronze, and there have been other good performances too. Of course it's the taking part, not the winning, that counts, but let's face it: it's the medals, especially the gold ones, we all get most excited about. So while we were sitting glued to the telly watching the joys of weightlifting, archery and judo we started pondering some serious questions. Are all gold medals equal in value? How do poor countries perform compared to rich ones? How do the weather conditions of the day, for example the wind, influence an athlete's performance? What about the effect of altitude? And that of chance? Thankfully we remembered that two good friends of Plus have written an article looking at just these questions — so if you'd like to know some answers, read The maths of gold medals: Four Olympic thoughts.
Our sister site Maths in sport: Countdown to the Games also has some interesting content relating to some of the disciplines in which medals have already been awarded. There's an activity aimed at A-level students, exploring the effect of altitude on a weightlifter's performance, seeing that the weight of objects decreases as you move further away from the centre of the Earth. And, noting that some weightlifters are very big people indeed, we recommend the video of a lecture called David and goliath: Strength and power in sport, given by John D. Barrow, on the role of an athlete's size on his or her performance. But if weightlifting isn't your thing, you might prefer this key stage 3 activity, which comes with a nice little interactive applet, to see how an archer should adjust the sight to adapt to new situations. Who said that there was no maths in sport?
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Jets’ Pavelec back to Europe, this time in Finnish league
Nov 26, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT
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After a tough stint in the Czech Extraliga and a brief return to North America, Ondrej Pavelec is crossing the Atlantic yet again.
This time, the Jets goalie will join SM-liiga club Pelicans. News of his signing appeared on the Pelicans website Monday, meaning he’ll soon be skating alongside fellow locked-out NHLer Jamie McBain, who signed with Pelicans in early November.
Pavelec is essentially a replacement for San Jose Sharks goalie Antti Niemi, who played 10 games for Pelicans on a lockout deal earlier this season, posting a 3.11 GAA and .904 save percentage.
Prior to signing in Finland, Pavelec appeared 14 games for Liberec of the Czech league, posting a 3.50 GAA and .896 save percentage. While those numbers were hardly awe-inspiring, it should be noted he played extremely well while representing the Czech Republic in recent international play.
The 25-year-old left Liberec in mid-November, stating his desire to return to Canada because “the NHL season could be saved.” But with no new CBA agreement on the horizon, he felt it best to head back overseas and get more work before the commencement of the 2012-13 campaign.
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Torry Holt as Captain ObviousThe Associated Press reports that Torry Holt blames the offensive line for much of the Rams’ problems when they have the ball. Well thank you Captain Obvious. I must admit that I am glad that someone said something but isn’t it a little late? Is it news that the O-line sucks? The bigger question I have is, after the looks of distain from Marc Bulger, Torry Holt and Steven Jackson last year why was Scott Linehan brought back for 2008? Why did it take two weeks for a star player to speak out? Does Marc Bulger have any fire? When players run around or over his line to maul him why does he get up off the ground like a puppy? Can you not grab one of those lineman by the facemask and cuss a blue streak into their sorry ass! Do something the fans are sick of it. Let’s fire up the squad. Out of 53 guys there must be someone there that wants to win and has a infectious personality. The St. Louis Rams slogan for 2008 is “Bring It” talk about irony. If you are unsure what the Rams need to do to improve please read the below quotes from Torry Holt.
Holt said Friday that the St. Louis line has to step up and protect quarterback Marc Bulger better.
“Those guys, the offensive line guys, have to continue to take more pride in what they’re doing to keep the quarterback clean.”
“It’s going to come down to the guys up front that’s protecting Marc and giving Steven [Jackson] running lanes and giving us time to get open in the secondary to make things happen.”
“A win there would be huge for us.”
“We need a victory. It would mean a tremendous amount to our football team.”
Thanks for the tips Torry
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Caută orice cuvânt, cum ar fi sapiosexual:
The outerwebs is what trasmits your information from your interwebs to The Cloud.
Patrick: "I just sent you an email"
David: "I didn't get it yet"
Patrick: "Maybe it's still in the cloud"
David: "Either that or it is coming through the outerwebs still"
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искать любое слово, например drinking watermelon:
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An extremely hot girl, with a great sense of humor. Sometimes forgetful, and has a short fuse. Beware the wraith of her temper. Can go for months without talking to you, and then blame you for one thing you did wrong. She is kind, generous, and blissfully unaware.
Dude: Did that girl just accidentally flash me!?!
Dizzy: I didn't flash you, I just forgot to close the curtains.
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I'm new to Linux. I'm using Firefox on Ubuntu to open a torrent seed file. I want to use the "open with" feature to open it with Deluge and not Transmission (my default client). However, I don't see Deluge listed as an option, and I'm not sure where to find it. How do I do this? Thanks!
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It will be at /usr/bin/deluge. If you already have a Firefox default saved, you can change it by going to Edit->Preferences->Applications, searching for torrent, then clicking the action item, then Use other..., then entering the deluge filename.
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My Ubuntu allows the use of l as a command to print out the current directory much like ls except that it is actually better in that it specifies which are folders, files, and executables.
Is this an existing command or did I configure my system (like la for ls -a and ll for ls -l) and forget about it? (it's not in my .bashrc)
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I can't connect to my linux machine right now, but I think type or which will tell you if it's an alias, and what it's an alias for. – Rob Feb 24 at 18:11
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My .bashrc has the following alias, included by default in Debian-based distributions (and probably others):
alias l='ls -CF'
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oh shoot you're right, it was in my .bashrc and I missed it. Thanks! – funk-shun Apr 19 '11 at 5:41
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Typically these are shortcuts that are implemented as aliases. Type alias at your prompt and you'll see a list of all of your aliases. If you don't have it explicitly defined in your .bashrc, it maybe in a system-wide bashrc in /etc/
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i actually couldn't find a .bashrc in /etc/ - it was actually in /root/ – funk-shun Apr 19 '11 at 5:42
It most likely won't be called .bashrc in etc, but the name is system dependent. For example on my machine I have /etc/bash.bashrc for my system-wide settings. – heavyd Apr 19 '11 at 11:18
oh yeah, bash.bashrc on mine (ubuntu 10.10) too - good call – funk-shun Apr 21 '11 at 6:51
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"Would it have made a difference? Didn’t think so."
"You asked me to make a choice, Damon, so I did. If you’re gonna be mad then take it out on me. Not on Stefan, or Matt, or anyone else, but me."
"Are we done here?"
"If it had been you at the bridge last night, and not Stefan, and I had begged you to save Matt…"
"I would have saved you, in a heartbeat, no questions."
"That’s what I thought. And Matt would be dead because you couldn’t let go. Matt would be dead."
"But you wouldn’t be. And you would have gotten to grow up, and had the life that you wanted, the life that you deserve. And I know that I didn’t use to get that, but I do now, and I wanted that FOR YOU, Elena. And I would have gladly had given it to you and let Matt die BECAUSE I AM THAT SELFISH. But you knew that already. The first night we met’s not all that you remember."
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sözcük ara, mesela sapiosexual:
You fuck a tall chick standing up, just before you shoot your load you stomp on her foot so she is standing on one leg. You then bust it right in her face when she bends down.
Tina got that cast on her foot when we were getting it on against the wall because I gave her an angry flamingo.
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As of 24th Feb 2011, a major update by Google on how it ranks sites has affected 12% of search results and halved many sites’ visitor numbers. Named the Farmer or Panda Update it’s only affecting US Google results as I write but if you’re outside the US it is coming to you soon. Here’s how to find out if you have already been hit, are going to be and what to do about it.
1. the increasing importance of original content
Prior to Google Panda, most Autoblog only need to install some plugin to work automatically and get good rankings and traffic, such as more people use wprobot, as long as the template is set up automatic updates. But Panda appears, sandbox, or down the right for this type of sites, and such extension has been no, my good friends so I suggest that this plug-in can be used to make garbage stations Union.
Anyway, original content is becoming increasingly important, it means that the original article service may have a degree of rise, because Google likes originality, resulting in the article service prices, cost also means that the article will grow. Both the trade and the auto blog, original article is necessary, whether it is someone to write or write-back of the costs is essential. Although you might not be willing to pay those costs, but I think not so generous in this regard.
2.Panda algorithms become more balanced
In previous SEO, link building is considered a very important thing, Panda appears, SEO no one more highlight detail is conducive to rank, Google would prefer a website everything is balanced, including updating frequency, the frequency of links, rather than just focus on one aspect of the building.
Age is not the most important
Before the advent of the Panda, we tend to find a lot of page age, or relatively long domain name age rankings throughout the Home, and is very stable. But after algorithm changes, why does this page also began to retreat into the second page or site, Web design, content, links, and they are not or no longer updated, so page domain age and age is no longer the standard, but is not without value, "depreciation".
EDU and GOV links have been "down right"
This type of link is outside the chain hot topic, why is hot, because this type of link popularity is not high, it is a challenge to get this type of link, and weights in their algorithm before this link is also high, so get a lot of seoer of all ages. But Panda appears, this kind of link it is clear down the right, 1th because such links can also be a lot of SPAM, a lot of comment spam, spam content; second, because Google is more like linkweel and outside the chain of diversity, we need "health", as well as "healthy" chain against the chain. But this EDU and GOV are not entirely without effect, the same "devaluation", so I don't pay much attention to.
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Counting SEO hot topics
1. Move to new server is impact on rankings?
Official response: in principle, it will not. Unless the new server is too bad, usually access failures or server is moved from China to foreign countries, which are likely to be harmonized.
Website notice:
(1) frequently within a short time to change domains,or swap between the secondary domain,and second-level domains, URL rules change frequently, and so on;
(2) without setting a 301 jump between new and old Web pages or within a very short space of time stopped 301 jump;
(3) the old page cannot be accessed within a short time;
(4) the submitted website without AdSense platform or submitted for a long time after.
Under normal circumstances, website on its performance in the search engines will produce a couple of losses, when these issues arise, it will magnify this loss, this is our webmasters and site owners do not want to see, therefore, I hope that webmasters:
(1) caution, website, believed to be necessary for cases;
(2) 301 jump between old and new website definitely relationship and the relationship between old and new content and jump for a while until the new Web crawling, recording and sorting to a relatively stable and in good condition;
(3) when you are prepared for the website please login webmaster platform website tool to submit relevant data.
2. gzip compression on the Web site of the site collection and the weights are not affected?
Official reply: gzip for intake and weight has no effect. Impact on the search engine only, crawler speed fast. Contrary is currently being promoted, fast Web site available to more users and search engines favor and station platforms encourage webmasters to use gzip compression tuning recommendations, enhance website speeds.
3. analysis of CSS style sheets and identify whether Baidu can crawl?
Official response: Baidu is able to crawl and analyze the CSS.
4. the website is been black led to k station on how to handle?
Description: site 9.19 in malicious attacks, it is added to a lot of bad information, Baidu afterwards. Site staff cleaned up that information in a timely manner, but Baidu 10.17 k site. Formal site for industrial classes, and no record of cheating. How to handle?
Official response: after malicious hackers attacked Web sites, insert a lot of cheating in your Web site content. Hackers insert bad information as soon as possible and returns 404 code when Baiduspider crawl this content, so that we can quickly find the site has returned to normal.
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Foreign trade: the potential of email marketing knowledge
For many years, email marketing is one of the most useful tools in foreign trade . It has a number of advantages, such as relatively low cost, customers can easily go to your website to browse and buy, and so on. For these reasons, e-mail has become a tool for many power companies to get high returns.
If a customer has bought something from you, or is already interested in your product, then email marketing is relatively easier.
However, if you want to reach new customers and open new outlets in an e-mail message, that is what happens?
Then we describes six main points to develop new customers by email:
1, email marketing is an investment
If we can gain new customers through email everytime, so we are on troubles like this. However, the fact is that (in the case of most of the marketing channel) for the cost of a new customer, often more than you get from the customer for the first time. We have prepared enough on this point. However, the development of new customers is the key point, subsequent proceeds and resulting from these new customers could return. A Word, before starting the e-mail marketing, to draw up a budget and you want to have a relatively achievable expectations.
2, after a message is received, reaction of potential customers is different from existing customers
We hardly ever hear of such a thing: when we were sent to a strange e-mail subscribers after an email, then received his orders, unless your company is a well-known brand, and gives a very attractive offer, this will happen. A initial contacts into customer processes like dancing, you must systematically design steps of their own.
Relative to you both of customers, you customers may directly points open mail and buy , and you first contact of potential customers may will into you website browse content, however for procurement conditions compared survey, see you with other suppliers has what different, then he may left , but as long as you to he produced has good of impression, he also may through Google search again into you of website after.
3, email marketing takes a lot of time
Successfully develop new customers by email, it may take you months of time, messages and if you implement a systematic outreach program to develop new customers and takes longer. During this process, you have to continually weighs the content of traditional email marketing activities, optimize, improve the content, while focusing on considerations to several elements, test, modify:
Message subject;
Deployment time;
As soon as you send e-mail to a customer for the first time there is a low probability of success. So, you send us an email to continue the process of observation, test, modify some of the content, but also keep repeating these behaviors. Only in this way, your email marketing plan will only become stronger. In addition, when you have one or two times after setbacks, do not give up easily, this is crucial.
4, sustainability is key
As soon as you discover your email feature took effect, so that a potential customer into a customer, so you have to keep repeating to try this. Some attempt might be more effective than the other, remember them, and continued to implement them.
5, through analytical tools to track trends
A new customer purchasing habits might have looked very different. For us, tracking a new customer purchasing habits is much more difficult. I have found, named "matchback" analysis tool to work, the analysis tool can open show potential customers what kind of promotional messages. At the same time, we can also associate him with the same time compares customer who places the order for the first time, and have found some patterns. In General, we cannot directly through the link and code to track sales, however matchback appears it solved the problem.
6, potential customers are leaving before he can
Many potential customers browsing your website for the first time, only comparison in order to make purchases, they may be leaving soon, and not like existing customers on your website in the search for new content or visit regularly. Therefore, you need to use all means as much as possible, converting those visitors into your customers.
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Reconsidering Gun Control
By Andrés Roemer
So what should the U.S. government do? It is difficult to say; some opt for controlling assault weapons, others for regulating the sale of munitions and others believe that partial control is ineffectual for prohibiting guns altogether.
Translated By Reva Dhingra
21 December 2012
Edited by Rachel Smith
Mexico - La Cronica - Original Article (Spanish)
The debate over gun control will reopen soon in the U.S. Congress after a national tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut where 20 children, six adults and the assailant died, the last due to suicide. In the United States, the right to bear arms is protected under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, approved in 1791. The amendment had two primary reasons: protecting the right of self-defense and preventing tyranny by allowing the population to bear arms so as not be “at the mercy” of the army of a tyrannical government.
Today, 221 years after the passage of the amendment, in a country where it is difficult to find tyranny and after the massacres at Virginia Tech in 2007 with 32 dead, a Luby’s cafeteria in 1991 with 23 dead, the opening night of “The Dark Knight Rises” in Aurora in July of this year with 12 dead, Columbine High School in 1999 with 13 dead and others, it is not clear what the role of the government should be in controlling its citizens' possession of arms.
In his speech on the previous Sunday, the president of the United States, Barack Obama, said that if there was anything they could do to prevent the death of another child or parent, they had an obligation to try. He said this referring to, I would like to think, the currently low level of gun control in the majority of U.S. states.
As Obama recognizes, the causes of this type of violence are extremely complex, as is the discussion of gun control, especially when it touches the themes of liberty, morality, democracy, tolerance, consistency and of the consequences of this policy. Additionally, there must be a discussion about not only whether it is good or bad, but also what to control and how.
Strict control of guns could prevent these types of tragedies, obviously because it would be much more difficult to obtain guns, although presumably not impossible due to the black market. In fact, the weapons used by Adam Lanza, the Newtown shooter, belonged to his mother who had a collection of weapons that included a Bushmaster AR 15, the civilian version of a weapon used by the army in Afghanistan.
After the tragedy in Tasmania in 1996 where 35 people died and 23 were injured, the Australian government decided to implement much stricter laws. Since then, no mass assassination has taken place, and as Leigh and Neill demonstrated in a 2010 study, the strategy has resulted in fewer suicides and murders with guns and did not increase those without guns. Comparable laws vigorously enacted in the United Kingdom after a massacre at a school in Scotland in the same year had similar results.
But this leaves the matter of liberty. For Conor Friedersdorf, a columnist at The Atlantic magazine, arguments such as those used by President Obama in his speech are invalid because they do not consider the value of the freedom being given up. Many lives would be saved if no one consumed alcohol, or if the whole world drove at 20 kilometers per hour; without a doubt, few people would agree to renounce their freedom to consume alcohol or impose a speed limit of 20 kilometers per hour. Why must we force gun lovers to renounce their freedom to possess guns? Why would it be better to restrict the freedom to possess guns and not alcohol?
Additionally, why do we deprecate the value given by gun lovers to the possession of guns? That is to say, if someone values having a luxury car less, we do not all have to value it less. When making a decision, it is part of plurality and tolerance to respect the value other people give things such as guns. In the world there are teetotalers and people who drive slowly to be cautious, but just because these people value drinking alcohol and speeding less, should we prohibit alcohol and radically reduce the speed limit? Along these lines, what would you think if the majority of the American population was in agreement with the freedom to bear arms?
Though it sounds terribly insensitive — and this is exclusively in regard to the freedom to possess guns, not to kill — it is a valid argument about liberty, but of course guns are not alcohol and the comparison is not perfect. Laws exist to punish those who drive while inebriated, which could prevent deaths as a result of alcohol, and those who exceed the speed limit, intended to prevent deaths due to traffic accidents, but what is the analogy for guns? Perhaps it is the punishment for murder, although this could arrive much too late.
So what should the U.S. government do? It is difficult to say; some opt for controlling assault weapons, others for regulating the sale of munitions and others believe that partial control is ineffectual for prohibiting guns altogether. The opposing side is stubbornly repeating that “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people,” and argues that a ban is not the ideal solution; the ideal solution is making people not want to kill. In any case there are drawbacks: To the latter, good luck designing programs to prevent these massacres, and to the former, good luck getting rid of the over 300 million guns in the hands of the people.
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Aldo Leopold and the Mark of the Wolf’s Tooth by Cristina Eisenberg, Moderator
Discussion Topic:
The Wolf's Tooth: Keystone Predators, Trophic Cascades, and Biodiversity]
In the early 1900s, while cruising timber as a young forester, American conservationist Aldo Leopold, founder of the science of wildlife biology, encountered a female wolf with her pups. The common wisdom of that era was that the only good predator was a dead one, so he and his crew opened fire. But as he stood there watching the “fierce green light” fade in the wolf mother’s eyes, he felt a sharp, surprising pang of remorse. It would take him decades to parse out his feelings about her death.
In 1935, Leopold bought an abandoned farm in southwestern Wisconsin as a hunting reserve. Today known as the Leopold Memorial Reserve, this land, which he and his family dubbed “the shack,” became the site of some of his deepest lessons about the ecological value of predators. In shack journals between 1939 and 1940, he noted that deer were nipping plants and trees down to eighteen inches in height. In a 1940s game survey, he found that humans had eliminated wolves throughout North America, causing an explosion in deer and elk numbers, and resulting degradation of forests through over-browsing. Meanwhile, back at the shack, deer calmly stood their ground in the absence of wolves, chronically browsing tender young saplings to death.
Near the end of his life, in possibly his most famous and poignant essay, “Thinking Like a Mountain,” Leopold reflected on his early encounter with that mother wolf and the wildlife management implications of her death: “While a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail of replacement in as many decades.”
Today ecologists refer to the powerful ecological link between predators, their prey, and the foods prey eat as trophic cascades. We have learned much about the conservation value of keystone predators, which have the ability to touch everything in a food web, thereby creating healthy, resilient ecosystems. Now more than sixty years since Leopold’s death, we are actively restoring these predators to oceans, streams, forests, and prairies worldwide.
Trophic cascades are an ecosystem’s stories writ large upon terrestrial and aquatic landscapes. Please join me over the next month to explore some of the ecological stories I write about in The Wolf’s Tooth. Ecosystems speak to all of us—researchers, managers, students, and plain members of the biotic community—through the glyphs left by the interactions of keystone predators and their prey. These stories are part of the rubric of conservation and can inform an alternative to single-species conservation. And if we play close attention, they will tell us what to do as we strive for sustainability in our rapidly changing world.
Here are some questions to which you can respond via the "Comment" link below.
How do keystone predators structure ecosystems
What are some of the patterns in an ecosystem linked to trophic cascades?
In places where we can’t have keystone predators, do you think hunting by humans can be used to create similar effects?
British ecologist Charles Elton referred to the food web as an “integrated economy” in which members exchange energy. Beyond keystone predators, their prey, and the food prey eat, what other kinds of exchanges could be created by trophic cascades?
How have Elton’s and Leopold’s ideas about the ecological value of predators influenced wildlife management today?
Margaret said...
Stories speak to all of us and it is very cool to read about those ecological concepts in a story telling format. I like to look at all of this through your "biologist eye," a differrent way to look at what I have often thought of as the food web. Help me understand how trophic cascades differs from the basic food chain with which we are all familiar? I look forward to hearing more about your conservation career choices and what made you choose this field....
Cristina Eisenberg said...
Dear Margaret,
Trophic cascades are a food web's stories written on a landscape. As humans, we respond instinctive to stories, because of our prehistoric and current tradition as storytellers. I chose the field of conservation biology, and specifically work as a wolf biologist, because when wolves recolonized the place where we live in rural Montana I saw everything change in a matter of five years. These compelling ecological changes made me deeply curious about how wolves can restructure ecosystems. This inspired me to study these relationships as a scientist. In subsequent posts I will share more about what I saw happen on our land and what I am seeing in the other lansdcapes where I conduct research.
Len said...
Dear Christina,
As someone who works overseas in "development," I am eager to know how I might apply your experiences and wisdom to communities in which human-predator conflicts are the norm rather than the exception. Here in Afghanistan, wolves prey on sheep and goats in the central highlands, as do snow leopards in Badakhshan. Proof of the presence of Persian leopards is in the skins for sale in Kabul. What is not similar, though, is the absence of wild ungulates; undoubtedly these have been replaced by domesticated livestock, to the great detriment of rangelands. Altering mindsets here is more a matter of survival - for the predators as well as human households - than in the US.
Cristina Eisenberg said...
Dear Len,
You have brought up the crux of matter. We live in a world with a burgeoning human population in which we have made enormous modifications to ecosystems. You describe how in Afghanistan lack of wild ungulates has created a situation where wolves and other predators are prey-switching to domestic ungulates (sheep), which have significantly damaged rangelands. You are right, fundamentally the way to create healthier, more resilient ecosystems is by opening minds and changing the way people think about the natural world.
I work as the research director on a 192,000 acre working ranch in Colorado, The High Lonesome Ranch. My job there is to implement science that can help managers improve ecosystem health amid very active cattle ranching and hunting. That the owners believe predators benefit land health via trophic cascades is the first step.
Recently, Wildlands Network and the High Lonesome Ranch convened a meeting of the largest landowners in the American West. We had 8 million acres of privately owned land represented at this gathering. We thought the topics that would come up would be primarly about ranching economics. We were wrong. The top topic was how to conserve predators—specifically wolves, but also cougars and bears--and why it is important to do so. That so many large landowners in the rural West support predator conservation and understand trophic cascades is encouraging. But much work needs to be done with rural communities in this country and abroad to increase understanding and tolerance, but more importantly, to offer the support to make living with predators feasible. Issues such as depredation on livestock, which in America is not a huge problem, need to be addressed everywhere.
Jim Estes said...
The issues that Christina speaks to concerning wolves and trophic cascades apply as well to other species of large apex consumers and their ecosystems. This in turn has direct relevance to conservation planning on a global scale. The following is is a blog piece I wrote on this
latter point for the Defenders of Wildlife (see next comment):
Jim Estes said...
Large predators are critical to the stability of our natural areas
In a world containing some 10 million or more species, the current tide of extinction cannot be stemmed one species at a time. More general strategies are needed. Nearly everyone understands this fundamental truth. But what are these strategies? Although the devil is in the details, the answer in the minds of most conservation thinkers and planners hinges on a single key factor—habitat. All species require habitat to survive and reproduce. Preserve enough habitat in the right places and species preservation will follow. The problem is that this strategy isn’t working very well. We continue to lose species, even from the largest conservation areas. Why is that? It might be that the strategy is fine but we have yet to get the details right—i.e., enough habitat with sufficient protection in the right places. Or it might be that something more is needed.
On 13 July, 2011, I coauthored a review in the journal Sciencewith 23 other ecologists from around the world in which we argue that something more is indeed needed. That something is the apex consumers. Our argument is this: Large apex consumers--creatures like lions, wolves, bears and killer whales--are key elements of nature. Virtually all habitats have had them for millions of years. That is, until recently. These large apex consumers have been among the first species to disappear from our increasingly human-dominated world. And along with the loss of these animals has been the loss of something even more fundamental—the essential roles they play in holding their ecosystems together. We are beginning to see these roles nearly everywhere—from the tropics to the poles, and on land, in rivers and lakes, and in the sea. Our review details the theoretical basis for this phenomenon and provides many specific examples.
My favorite example is the link between sea otters and coastal ecosystems in the North Pacific Ocean. The loss of otters has led to population irruptions of their prey—sea urchins. Hyperabundant urchins overgraze kelp forests, leading in turn to reductions or the loss of species and ecosystem services that depend on kelp forests. Similarly, the loss of wolves, grizzly bears and cougars from much of North America has led to population irruptions of their prey—moose, elk and deer—which in turn have overgrazed their range, thus leading to the loss of both plant species and the animals that depend on these plants. In another well known example, the loss of coyotes from chaparral fragments in southern California has allowed these habitats to be invaded by “mesopredators”--cats, foxes, and other small carnivore--that in turn have caused the extinction of birds and other small vertebrates. The list goes on and on. These are not unique stories but examples of a global phenomenon. And the effects of apex consumers extend widely across ecosystems to influence such diverse phenomena as wildfire, disease, and air and water quality. Trophic downgrading, which begins with the loss of large apex consumers from nature, can be thought of as an ecological chain reaction that is part and parcel to the biodiversity crisis.
What does this mean to wildlife conservation? It means that while habitat is essential, by itself habitat conservation is not enough to conserve biodiversity. This in turn has several obvious implications for conservation planning. Small conservation areas are doomed to fail, or at least doomed to be much less than they might otherwise be because small areas are incapable of maintaining viable populations of large, apex consumers. Even large conservation areas are doomed to under-perform unless they also contain the apex consumers.
The bottom line for conservation is simply this. Habitat is necessary but insufficient for biodiversity conservation. Apex consumers are also required to run nature’s engine.
[from Defenders of Wildlife blog post by James Estes]
Cristina Eisenberg said...
You can read much more about the effects of trophic downgrading and the importance of apex predators in the book "Trophic Cascades: Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature," edited by John Terborgh and Jim Estes, published by Island Press in 2010. Jim's book is filled with examples of the effects of trophic downgrading across many different types of ecosystems.
What I call the Field of Dreams Hypothesis, e.g., "If you build it they will come," is essentially about habitat. In our rapidly changing world, sadly, we are learning that if you build it they don't always come, because we have removed the apex predators that maintain habitat structure and function in ecosystems.
Len said...
Jim et al., It's of course not only predators that are in the class "apex consumers." John (Terborgh) or Patricia Wright could weigh in here, in regard to the role lemurs play in regenerating Madagascar's rainforests. For those of us without easy access to Island Press - what (if anything) do we know about the role of fossas in Madagascar? Jaguars in the Amazon? For that matter, the feline triumvirate on the African plains, where their role in natural selection (vs. trophic cascades) has been recognized for decades? What actually constitutes an "apex predator" on these plains, given the number of competing predator species? Closer to home, pumas in the American West? How have Tasmanian forests changed with the loss of the Tasmanian tiger? Is there, do you speculate, inevitably a connection between an apex predator and a trophic cascade?
WILD READ Team said...
More information about Terborgh and Estes book that Cristina references in earlier comment: Trophic Cascades: Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature edited by John Terborgh and James Estes and published by Island Press (2010).
Cristina Eisenberg said...
Dear Len,
Wonderful questions. My response is likely yes to all. the effects of loss of apex or keystone predagtors is profound, rev erberates through every part of a food web. Jim at al.'s Science article (link provided in Jim's post) about trophic downgrading provides an elegant, comprehensive overview of these relationships on a global scale. Another good source besides the Terborgh and Estes trophic cascades book and my book, is Will Stotzenburg's book, "Where the Wild Things Were," which is written for a more general audience. | http://wildread.blogspot.com/2011/08/aldo-leopold-and-mark-of-wolfs-tooth-by.html | dclm-gs1-155810002 | false | false | {
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William Bernstein on Deep Risk, Shallow Risk, and Investing for the Long-Term
Welcome to this week's video blog made in conjunction with The Wealth Channel at the American College. Today I provide a discussion of William Bernstein's important new e-book, Deep Risk: How History Informs Portfolio Design.
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Deep Risk and Shallow Risk
Deep Risk: How History Informs Portfolio Design is the third in a series of e-books by noted financial advisor and historian William Bernstein. This is an investing text which is of the upmost relevance to long-term investors seeking to build a lifetime financial plan. It is a book which focuses on the greater long-term picture for investors.
In the introduction, Bernstein begins by offering an operational definition of risk. Risk is the size of real capital loss times the duration of real capital loss. This gets at the idea that it is a permanent, rather than a temporary, loss of capital that that is most damaging to investors. Magnitude and Duration of loss are both relevant factors. Mistiming the markets, by buying high and selling low, is the most common method whereby an investor sees this risk manifested in their life, as this is the best way to experience a permanent loss of capital. A more disciplined approach to investing is needed to avoid this risk, and this is a key area where advisors can add value for their clients.
This definition allows Bernstein to identify two “flavors” of risk: shallow risk and deep risk. Shallow risk is the loss of real capital which recovers within several years, while deep risk reflects the permanent loss of real capital. It could be defined, for instance, as a negative real return over a 30-year period.
The focus on the book is on deep risk. Shallow risk is important and can be expected to arrive on a somewhat frequent basis, but it can be managed by having sufficient liquidity and discipline to stay-the-course in the face of investing storms.
Deep risk, on the other hand, is a much wilder beast. Over time, it is permanent losses of capital which defines risk, and it becomes apparent that stocks are risker than bonds with respect to shallow risk, but that the opposite is true with respect to deep risk. Throughout the world in the twentieth century, fixed income investors have suffered permanent losses in inflationary storms which equity investors were able to avoid. As Bernstein says, absence of leverage and with sufficient liquidity, retirement savings are not wiped out by too high of standard deviation, but rather by real-world events.
And so, with deep risk, once one has become properly insured to personal vagaries and carefully disciplined with respect to strategy and approach, the four big threats over long horizons are:
1. Severe and prolonged high inflation
2. Prolonged deflation
3. Confiscation
4. Devastation
The remainder of the book focuses on these four risks in terms of what damage they do, how likely they are to happen, and what strategies provide the best chance to mitigate the threat. Relevant here are the probabilities, the consequences of the hardship created, and the costs of protection.
First in terms of the probabilities that each threat will manifest, inflation is high, confiscation – medium, and deflation and devastation - low
Inflation, though high in probability, has a lower cost for protection.
It is the most relevant to worry about, but also the least catastrophic for a globally diversified investor. It is the easiest to protect against with international diversification, TIPS held to maturity to match spending needs, delaying Social Security, and an inflation-adjusted annuity. A globally-diversified stock portfolio has most effectively protected from the deep risk of inflation, though stocks do exacerbate shallow risk. Meanwhile, unexpected inflation devastates bonds.
Deflation, on the other hand, is the least likely to happen, but it is good for bonds and bad for stocks. Solutions include cash, bonds, and international diversification, as well as gold. But using long bonds and bills carries a high cost if we experience inflation rather than deflation.
As for confiscation and devastation, the best defenses are holding foreign assets and having a means for escape. Confiscation is a likely deep risk as taxes will likely increase in the future.
Bernstein’s conclusion is that the best long-term defense against deep risk is a globally diversified equity portfolio with tilting towards value and precious metals and natural resource companies, TIPS, and potentially some gold and foreign real estate. Because of inflation, bonds become riskier than stocks over long horizons, while shallow risk makes investors with shorter time horizons more vulnerable with stocks. For lifetime financial planning, determining how to transition between deep risk and shallow risk at different points in the lifecycle is one of the greatest challenges facing wealth managers. | http://wpfau.blogspot.com/2013_11_05_archive.html | dclm-gs1-155880002 | false | false | {
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5 responses to “Blake DeWitt is Not Guaranteed the Second Base Job”
1. Art
Quade is always making excuses for every guy on this team. defensively Colvin is having problems. Quade says maybe cause he’s playing 2 positions. DeWitt is having D problems. Quade says maybe cause he’s playing 2 positions.
Colvin hasn’t played 1B since college, ok, he’s rusty at 1B. that’s no reason he’s been bad in the OF. DeWitt has played 3B & 2B in the ML’s, no excuse. all Quade has to say is, best man wins, and not for 3-4 games, for 3-4 weeks.
1. miggy80
As a leader you have to pick and choose your words very carefully. How do you think the guys would react if he started to show he doesn’t have faith in them? Or better yet, what would you think of him then? What this shows me is that Q should be able to handle the media in Chicago.
2. jstraw
That picture of DeWitt is hilarious. “I found the ball coach…now what?!”
1. jim
“Hey Mommy, look what I found!!”
3. philoe beddoe
The Dodgers wanted Theriot because they said he was a “true” middle infielder..nice speak for saying DeWitt couldn’t play there..he is a 3B who is trying to be made into a 2B because his offense, which would be ‘suspect’ for a 2B, is unacceptable for a 3B..
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I would look for assistance from someone who's fluent with Forum_Account's Map Instancing or LummoxJR's Swap Maps, then I can have ships created and saved at runtime for each player who buys a ship, rather than pre-mapping a hundred ships on a z level (Ships can also be destroyed, which would make the pre-mapped ships more complex code-wise.)<br> quick set src in view() question Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:09:24 +0000 When you code a Get() verb to an object and insert set src in view() wouldn't that generate unnecessary checks for a source? I ask that because when your close to it, it's verb is added to your verb list and I'm just curious. How would I display an object's contents in a pop up? Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:34:19 +0000 I've seen <a href="">Everland</a> by Asha Lapoe do exactly what I'm talking about, when you break an object a pop up appears that list everything that object contains. 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DELAFIELD---A scuba diver has died after he was trapped underwater in Nagawicka Lake for several minutes.
It happened just after 10:00 a.m Saturday morning. Police and fire crews responded to a call for a scuba diver under water and in distress.
By the time officers arrived the man had already been found by other divers and pulled from the water. The other divers attempted to do CPR on the man.
Fire department personnel transported the diver to an area hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
The diver’s family has been notified and he has been identified as 32-year-old Steven G LaLonde.
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Total time: 20 minutes plus cooling time
Servings: 4 to 6
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1/2 cups Sauvignon Blanc
3/4 cups sugar
12 white peppercorns, lightly cracked
4 apricots, seeded and quartered
1 cup cherries, halved and pitted
48 lemon verbena leaves, torn
1. Combine the water, wine, sugar and white peppercorns in a medium saucepan. Heat to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer just until the sugar is dissolved, about 1 minute.
2. Add the apricots, cherries and lemon verbena leaves. Simmer 3 to 4 minutes, just until the fruit is almost tender yet still firm.
3. Remove the mixture from the heat and pour into a heatproof glass bowl. Let cool to room temperature, then cover and refrigerate 2 to 3 hours.
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Apple Cider Vinegar ingredients that affect health state:
Apple cider vinegar has been considered one of the healthiest foods, especially if it is obtained from fresh and naturally grown apples that are allowed to age properly. The rich content of the vinegar has great abilities of helping with digestion, weight management and various gastro-intestinal functions.
Potassium – this is an important ingredient contained in the apple cider vinegar and is responsible for many metabolic processes as well as cell and tissue modifications. Potassium is also involved in contraction of muscle fibers and can be helpful during the weight loss process.
Calcium – is required in transmitting nervous impulses and regulation of muscle contraction along with magnesium. It is a very important component of healthy bones. During a weight loss period calcium supplements are usually recommended if they are not contained in the weight loss supplement. This ensures that you only lose body fat but still have a healthy amount of vitamins and minerals and the metabolic processes are not disturbed.
Iron – is essential to proper functions of red blood cells. It also ensures a healthy oxygenation to the brain tissue that is important during a weight loss period, especially if you perform some physical exercises.
Magnesium – this mineral can help you prevent any damage to your cardio-vascular system during strenuous exercises or significant weight loss.
Enzymes – these are probably the most important ingredient of the apple cider vinegar for inducing weight loss, probably because the enzymes help speed up the chemical reactions in your body, especially oxidative reactions that allow lipids to be oxidized (burned) with a higher speed.
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Vinegar is obtained when a fermented liquid such as wine is exposed to air and bacterial activity causes a chemical reaction after which acetic acid is obtained. The acetic acid is usually used as a condiment or preservative but recent studied have shown that it has some other important properties such as enhancing the effectiveness of weight loss diets or even causing weight loss on its own when used accordingly.
Apart from these ingredients apple cider vinegar also contains malic acid, pectins, hydrophilic vitamins such as vitamin C and some from the B group (B1, B2, and B6) and lipophilic vitamins (A, E). Oligoelements are also present including: zinc, copper, selenium, phosphorus.
How can the apple cider vinegar influence appetite?
The fiber and nutrients that are contained in the apple cider vinegar have proven to be very helpful with keeping a caloric intake to the level that is required in order for the weight loss to occur.
Both apples and the vinegar that is processed from apples contain an ingredient called pectin, which is a type of dietary fiber that is usually found in fruits. This fiber has suppressing properties over appetite and food cravings.
This has been proven by the scientists from University of Southern California that studied the effect that resulted after adding an amount of 15 grams of pectin, in a high concentration to the usual meals of 9 overweight people. The results showed that the pectin was able to produce a delay in the time required for the food that was ingested to leave the stomach of approximately 45 minutes.
This can be explained because foods containing a high amount of pectin’s, once they are processed by the stomach will produce a feeling of “fullness” and suppress the appetite. The study concluded that foods that contain a high amount of pectin are helpful to people who have an increased body weight and caused an average weight loss of 7 pounds in one month.
Because apple cider vinegar is also rich in pectins, people have experimented taking small amounts of vinegar diluted with water with a few minutes before beginning to eat. Usually, one tablespoon of vinegar diluted in a glass of water can produce a significant decrease in appetite if it is taken before meals.
You can get more information about apple cider vinegar weight loss from the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition who published a study regarding how efficient vinegar can be in reducing appetite.
A number of patients were administered different dilutions of vinegar mixed with water, along with a piece of white bread in the morning. The results showed that the most concentrated drinks provided a milder metabolic reaction. This means that the patients that were given higher amounts of vinegar did not present any insulin spikes because the vinegar interfered with the level of glucose that is normally released into the bloodstream. This propriety causes a higher satiety level, so you would not experience hunger as soon as you would if you did not consume apple cider vinegar.
This effect was attributed to the acetic acid that is contained by the apple cider vinegar and that dampens the spikes of insulin and also causes an increase in levels of satiety.
Other studies have proven that this type of vinegar also interferes with the sugar levels and the insulin release in patients who suffer from diabetes. The same effect was obtained in diabetic individuals that were obtained from healthy patients. This has to do with the prevention of glucose release that vinegar can cause.
Another property that causes apple cider vinegar weight loss is attributed to its ability of keeping the sodium- potassium ratio to a normal level. Renowned health professional have stated that a balanced sodium/potassium ratio will cause a decreased appetite because it make you feel less hungry.
Apple cider vinegar will also help with digestion and some gastro-intestinal problems such as dyspepsia.
Aliments that have a high level of potassium also influence the amount of water that is retained by the body; this way less water is retained by the body, which will lead to a flatter stomach.
Apple cider vinegar and weight loss
The apple cider vinegar has many mechanisms that allow it to produce weight loss, such as suppressing appetite, speeding up the metabolic processes or fighting the damaging activity of the Trans fats.
Trans fats can be found in a large number of aliments nowadays and are represented by partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. Foods that contain these unhealthy forms of fat include fast-food, French fries, pastries or other baked products, muffins, margarine and many others.
People who have developed a habit of consuming these types of foods are approximately 50% more likely to develop heart conditions, myocardial infarct or clogged arteries.
Apple cider vinegar can be helpful in this regard, by reducing craving and giving you a feeling of fullness earlier than usual, so you will not feel the need to consume such a high amount of bad foods. If this amount is substantially reduced, in time weight loss will produce, as well as a decreased risk for developing disorders secondary to obesity.
Apple cider vinegar has less than 3 calories/ tablespoon and contains zero fat, so this makes it recommended and easy to use before meals. This amount may vary, depending on the producer, so you might need to check on the label.
Many people who usually drink a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, especially raw (meaning it was not pasteurized) and organic, diluted in a glass of warm water every morning have reported a significant weight loss, energy boost and a better digestion.
It has also been scientifically proven that consumption of apple cider vinegar is related to weight loss. A study on 180 overweight participants, both males and females studied the weight loss effect of the vinegar.
The patients were given a 500 ml drink containing 15 ml of apple vinegar for a period of 3 months. The results showed that, after this period of time there was a significant decrease in body weight, body mass index, waist circumference and free fatty acids. This result was only observed on the patients who had been taking vinegar meanwhile the ones who were given placebo showed no beneficial results.
The weight loss effect of apple cider vinegar is probably due to the presence of acetic acid (AcOH). There are 2 main mechanisms that produce weight loss: the first is related to the vinegar’s property of regulating blood sugar levels and the second regards the changes it produces to insulin levels.
The acidity of the vinegar is the main responsible of delaying the rate at which glucose will be released from the intestines and reach the bloodstream. These two mechanisms are correlated because a lower level of glucose will also cause the insulin to be released in a lower quantity.
If the right amount of insulin is released into the bloodstream, the weight loss process will be much easier. If the amount of insulin present in the bloodstream is too high, your body will react and store lipids even if you only consume a low amount of calories.
It is believed that apple cider vinegar can also have action over the genes that promote storage of dietary lipids as body fat. This was a subject of study for a paper published in 2007 that desired to explain the complexity of vinegar’s actions.
According to these researchers, the acetic acid that is contained in the apple cider vinegar can inhibit the activity of some genes that cause you to have an increased rate of fat storage. Apple cider vinegar is not only beneficial for weight loss, but can also help with comorbidities that are usually associated, such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
The efficiency of apple cider weight loss has been explored for many years, leading to the emergence of the apple cider diet.
This diet requires that the individual take 2-3 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar before each meal. You will probably not be able to take it as such, because of its acidity so it is recommended that you dilute it with a glass of water. After administering this, your glucose levels will be maintained to a normal level which will lead to a lower insulin secretion. The action of the apple cider vinegar over your body will exert in two main steps. The first step is stopping the food cravings and the attraction towards junk food and other foods that are high in carbohydrates. This will allow your body to stop gaining weight. Then, if you continue the diet you will notice that once your appetite is suppressed you will not each as much as you used to and your weight will slowly start to decrease. The amount of weight you lose with this diet can be improved if you associate it with some physical exercises.
Because of the positive results that this diet can provide, some formulas containing apple cider vinegar have appeared on the market.
Supplements such as capsules or tablets containing concentrated extracts of apple cider vinegar are available on the market.
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Why choose apple cider vinegar over other weight loss diets?
The main reason why this diet is preferred over others is its safety. As opposed to the usual weight loss options that require taking some form of medication or undergoing surgery, the vinegar diet is safe and easy to use. Vinegar is a usual component of daily meal, so it will not cause any toxicity or side effects. It represents a more natural approach and a form of holistic treatment.
The rate at which weight loss is produced is a normal and healthier one, so you should not expect to lose a very high number of kilograms in a short period. However, the process will be much safer than the regular alternatives.
One of the main problems that you may encounter when undergoing a weight loss diet is the fact that along with the body fat you also lose vitamins, minerals and nutrients. This will probably make you feel weak and tired and might prevent you from being able to perform physical exercises.
Apple cider vinegar weight loss is much better in that regard, because vinegar has a rich content of vitamins and minerals, so it can provide both appetite reduction and weight loss and maintain your body in a healthy shape.
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January 8, 2013 - You might have noticed that pretty much every subject is infinitely more complicated than it appears at first glance. Maybe nothing proves this more than our relationship with food. As a kid, it's just "If it tastes good, cram it into your mouth until Mom makes you stop." The you get older and pay a little more attention, and you realize that you have to start reading labels. And if you pay even more attention, you realize that humanity's relationship with what we eat is downright bizarre.
As we have previously discussed, food can and absolutely will affect you in plenty of other ways besides just filling your stomach. And it keeps getting weirder ...
#5. A Common Food Ingredient Apparently Turns You into an Aggressive Dick
Look, you already knew that margarine, the somehow less-healthy alternative to butter, wasn't good for you. And as is the case with many processed products, margarine enjoys its share of wild-ass rumors and urban legends, from its supposedly appalling original color to the one about it being practically plastic. However, the stuff does have one peculiar side effect that is often overlooked: Margarine can turn you into a raging bag of cocks. Of course, we're not being literal (we think). What we're saying is that margarine increases your aggression.
"Bring it on, bitches -- I've been choking down Pop-Tarts since 7 a.m."
What's worse, it's not just margarine. Any food that has dietary trans fatty acids can do it: cake mixes, frozen dinners, cookies, french fries, doughnuts ... you name your favorite food, chances are it has copious amounts of dTFA lounging about.
Everyone knows that trans fats are linked to a multitude of health problems, and science has had a blast finding out all the ways they can mess us up. Recently, researchers have gotten curious about whether trans fats could affect our personality in the same way that they wreck our physical health. So they recruited nearly a thousand test subjects from all walks of life and studied their behavior, rating their levels of aggression and comparing it to their dTFA intake.
"Keep snapping pictures and you'll have to pull your ass cheeks apart to take the next one."
After adjusting for other possible factors like sex, age, and alcohol and drug abuse, researchers were left with some pretty condemning evidence: The consumption of dTFA has a significant effect on a person's irritability and aggression levels. In fact, the dTFA consumed consistently and accurately predicted how much of an irritable dick the person was.
Of course, the first question you should ask when hearing about this type of connection is "Are you saying that doughnuts make people dicks, or that being a dick simply makes people hungry for doughnuts?" Well, the theory at this point is that these chemicals block your ability to create the beneficial omega-3 fatty acids your brain needs. So, if your roommate is acting like a dick, throw out all of his snacks and replace them with celery sticks. That'll cheer his ass right up!
#4. Hot Drinks Actually Cool Your Body
You're mowing the lawn on a hot summer day. The combination of heat, humidity, and uncharacteristic manual labor is drenching you in sweat, to the point that the crazy hobo living under your porch barely even throws his poop at you for fear of getting it dirty. Still, it's a good day -- all you need to make it perfect is a drink to cool you down. But should your thirst be quenched with lemonade? Beer? Perhaps iced water?
Nope! By drinking any of those, you're doing precisely jack shit to cool your sun-scorched ass. If you want to cool down, your drink needs to be hot.
"It's going to be a scorcher today -- Glenda, warm up my morning vodka."
It sounds wrong to the point of triggering physical disgust to even think about, but those of you who have visited (or lived in) a really hot country -- say, India -- know that the people there have a tendency to drink hot tea. They know that that particular beverage cools them off far better than the coldest of cold drinks could, because they're actually using the human body's natural cooling process instead of working against it.
When you do the seemingly reasonable thing for a hot day and drink something chilled, the information the receptors in your mouth receive is: "Whoa, this shit is cold." They pass this intel on to the brain, which in turn thinks that the cool sensation amounts to everything being nice and chilly in the outside environment and moves on to other, more pressing matters. But drink something hot, and your receptors rush up to Mama Brain to complain about the heat. The brain immediately responds by turning on the body's built-in cooling mechanism: sweat.
"After this microwaved pickle juice, I'm gonna have to go wash my balls."
Yes, drinking something hot will make you sweat more, but that's what you want. The same principle works with spicy food, which goes a long way toward explaining why warmer areas enjoy their chili peppers.
Oh, and another thing: If you're attempting to pull this off when you're wearing clothes that won't allow suitable evaporation, it won't do you any good. So if you embrace the hot drink strategy at a relative's wedding, prepare for an evening of shambling around in sweat-drenched formal wear while everyone else takes care to stand upwind. What we're trying to say is that a proper cooling program requires a hot drink and a big dose of nudity.
#3. The Sight of Meat Calms You Down (if You're a Guy)
If you get your ass kicked by a huge dude in a biker bar, would you assume that the guy is a meat eater or a vegetarian? Hell, has a vegetarian ever kicked another person's ass in the history of the world? It's not just humans, either -- dangle a steak in front of a tiger and you'll lose your arm. All of those aggressive hunter instincts come right to the surface. Isn't this why men like barbecues? What makes them feel manlier than the sight of hunks of charred meat?
Eh, doesn't count. They still think of that as clothed meat.
But, when researchers actually got around to testing this thesis, the results were ... surprising. Where male dogs enter full-on drooling aggro mode upon seeing a delicious lump of carcass, human men actually calm down when they see meat.
To research this, scientists set up an intricate fake "multitasking" experiment where a bunch of guys had to observe an actor reading a script. Every time the reader made a mistake, they had to punish the guy (who just faked pain) with a sharp noise, the loudness and hurtitude of which depended entirely on the punisher's whim. During this process, some of the men were shown neutral images, while others were subjected to pictures of delicious, delicious meat.
Ah yes, and the confounding neutral meat.
Imagine the researchers' surprise when the guys who were most aggressive in doling out punishment were the ones who hadn't been shown food porn. Meanwhile, the meat-viewing men remained cool and laid back in their actions.
It makes sense, if you think about it. After all, meat is what you get after the hunt is already over. So when a guy has meat in his field of vision, his brain knows that the prey has already been killed and there's no call for murder instincts anymore. Therefore, it tells him to relax and enjoy the delicious spoils of the war he wrought against the animal kingdom.
#2. Colored Chips Can Control Your Eating
Sometimes there's nothing better than sinking into the couch to watch a good movie armed with a cold drink and a giant bag of chips. Of course, there's only one way for such a scenario to end: Before long, your chips are all gone, even though you swear you never meant to eat them all. The entire potato chip industry is based on this "mindlessly eat until your hand punches through the bottom of the bag" behavior.
Thankfully, researchers have found a way to bring your accidental snack-binging under control ... with food coloring. And it's not what you think -- we're not talking about dyeing food some disgusting color so you don't want it anymore, although that also works (that's why your "dye all of the food green for St. Patrick's Day" party failed). No, it turns out that mixing up the colors of the food makes it easier to keep track of how much we eat.
Chip math is so much easier when you can count them, versus weighing their liquid volume in the toilet.
For the experiment, scientists took tubes of Pringles and sneaked red-dyed chips into them at regular intervals. The test subjects were then told to eat however much they liked, upon which everyone unsurprisingly went all "Whoa, free food!"
Yet, as the dust settled, the people who'd had red chips in their tubes ate 50 percent less than the ones with just regular chips. The placement of the red chips didn't matter, either -- as long as these "divider" chips were present, people just ate less.
The colorblind, however, are still fucked.
Researchers then asked both groups to estimate how much they'd eaten, and again, those who'd had their chips segmented with the red ones were much more successful than those with unaltered snacks.
The thing is, we all know that it's best not to eat too much. Sometimes our brains just have a hard time determining when we've overeaten, because food has few tangible markers beyond "Yeah, there's still some" and "Fuck, all gone now." So the brain just sort of gives up and lets you go on with the automated eating sequence until the food is gone or you collapse. However, introduce the red chips into the equation as markers, and your brain is suddenly able to monitor exactly how much crap you're shoving into your face -- and send a stop signal when appropriate.
#1. Alcohol Boosts Your Subconscious Memory
Everyone knows that alcohol and memory enjoy an inverse relationship: When your head is full of one, the other is notably absent. That's kind of the point of the whole "drinking to forget" thing.
There's a truth to it, of course -- everyone knows that your pub quiz performance deteriorates to hell after a few beers, and a sufficiently thick vodka haze makes your home keys literally impossible to find. However, memory is a notoriously fickle bastard that operates on many levels. On the lowest of them all, we find none other but our subconscious. And according to scientists, alcohol and subconscious memory like to hook up and go to town.
Not a metaphor. This photo was taken in 1988.
It goes back to the basic chemistry that makes drinking enjoyable. The happy buzz you receive from drinking is achieved when the booze cheats your brain into releasing dopamine, the body's very own "Fuck yeah!" hormone. The thing is, it doesn't stop there. Although perfectly capable of giving you a sense of happiness, dopamine is at its core not a pleasure hormone -- it's a learning hormone. The more dopamine you have in your body, the more receptive you become to learning and remembering everything around you ... at a subconscious level.
Your subconscious memory views the feel-good fix that dopamine delivers as a reward it gets from learning as much shit as it can. And boy, it can learn. When your conscious thoughts are drunkenly slurring obscenities at the dude who objected to your tabletop performance of the "Gangnam Style" dance, your subconscious memory is busy being acutely aware of its surroundings, forming all sorts of memory tricks and repeatable habits like no tomorrow.
"Hold my calls. I'm studying for that sales presentation."
The various components of this process are still being explored, but researchers have already gone so far as to suggest that alcoholics may actually not be addicted to alcohol itself, but rather to the memory of the tuned-in state that booze gives to their subconscious. You're forming memories at a faster rate than ever, but instead of anything useful, all you're retaining is the memory that drinking made you feel awesome. Once again, the biggest enabler of your bad habits is that big squishy asshole between your ears.
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Honey-Mustard Tenderloin
Source: National Pork Board
Succulent pork tenderloin flavored with honey-mustard and brown sugar.
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Nutrition Facts
Makes 4 servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories 166.4
Total Carbs 6.8 g
Dietary Fiber 0.0 g
Sugars 6.0 g
Total Fat 2.8 g
Saturated Fat 0.9 g
Unsaturated Fat 0.5 g
Potassium 470.7 mg
Protein 26.9 g
Sodium 158.2 mg
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1 lb Pork, tenderloin, lean, raw
4 tbsp honey
2 tbsp cider vinegar
2 tbsp brown sugar
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1. Combine all ingredients but tenderloin. Coat tenderloin well with sauce.
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When Nick really gets into a rant he tends to gesticulate a lot, often with humorous outcomes if someone has a camera.
Taken at the Emergency London.pm social meet for Jesse.
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brilliant! :)
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That is a perfect capture of one the aspects of nick's character.
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Did someone ask when perl6 was due out?
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It's a great looking, fun-filled game that has plenty of visceral thrills and absolutely, positively the biggest battles in any shooter to date.
Reviewed: March 26, 2001
You'd be hard-pressed to come up with a game that's anywhere near as intense as Serious Sam, from Croatian developer Croteam. It's an extremely fast-paced first-person shooter, featuring a great variety of weapons and monsters. It's got a good sense of humor and a distinct style, and it also boasts a very impressive 3D engine that's especially noteworthy for its ability to display a huge number of 3D characters onscreen simultaneously. Actually, the sheer numbers of foes you'll face is probably the single most remarkable thing about Serious Sam. Then again, the game has a lot of other great qualities, such as its excellent multiplayer mode, its good sound effects, and even its low retail price. It's undoubtedly a simple game at heart--but Serious Sam does an excellent job with all the core gameplay elements that are essential to any action game.
Enemies swarm from all directions...
One look at the box--it features Sam wielding a gigantic chaingun against a horde of monsters--and you'll get a pretty good idea of what the game's all about. There's some context to why the game is set around the ancient pyramids in Egypt, why Sam's facing an alien menace all by himself, and why his enemies can teleport into the vicinity without any notice. But all this is only to loosely justify the nerve-wracking action sequences in the game, as well as the consistency in the level design. The levels in Serious Sam are progressively more challenging, but most of them are very similar in their basic style. In this way, the game is reminiscent of countless classic arcade games--Asteroids, Centipede, Galaxian, and so forth--where the reward for successfully completing a stage was the opportunity to fight your way through something even more difficult. Indeed, much like in these older games, Serious Sam even tallies a score for you based on your kills. It's a rather risky approach--ever since Valve's revolutionary Half-Life in 1998, most shooters have focused on trying to justify everything about themselves, in an attempt to give you some sort of reason for all the shooting that's happening. But Serious Sam is much more straightforward, like the '80s arcade classics but also like the classic '90s first-person shooters Doom and Duke Nukem 3D. It completely succeeds in its simplicity, because the game looks great, the controls are very responsive, and the monsters are a real challenge to fight.
Serious Sam plays much like any other recent shooter, but faster. Most players will find that the default keyboard controls for movement and mouse controls for shooting and aiming are ideal. Even the weakest enemies in the game shoot fast, so you'll immediately find that quick reflexes are necessary to survive in Serious Sam. Fortunately, all of Sam's weapons are very direct--each new one you find seems bigger and stronger than the last--and you need never worry about manually reloading them, using alternate modes of fire, or anything of the sort. There's no time for these things, since you're almost always busy fending off hordes of quick, deadly monsters. Some of these will fire at you from a distance, while many will simply rush towards you. All are utterly relentless. The comical monsters in Serious Sam stand in stark contrast to the beautiful if sparse Egyptian settings in the game. Still, many of the different monsters in Serious Sam are a pleasure to battle again and again. They lunge at you so ferociously that, every time you manage to dodge them, it's a near miss.
...and the opponents come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes
Serious Sam would be nothing without its proprietary 3D engine. It renders large, wide-open spaces and indoor environments equally well, and always very smoothly on a mid-range or high-end system. Although the level architecture in Serious Sam is fairly basic--you'll quickly lose track of all the wide-open arenas you fight through--such settings are perfect for the game's large-scale confrontations. In between skirmishes, when you do get a chance to admire your surroundings, you'll notice some of the impressive details in the 3D engine. All the environments in the game are drawn using very clear, colorful texture maps that look great even when you get right up close to them. Realistic lighting effects, which are used in the game to depict different times of day among other things, make the levels more true to life. The engine also has a few unique effects, such as pools of water that reflect shimmering light onto the walls nearby. You'll be especially impressed with the sheer size of the levels. Your character runs very quickly, but you'll still feel like you're moving quite a distance to get from one end of a level to the other. And what with hundreds of bad guys standing between you and the exit, once you finally get to the end of the level, you'll feel a real sense of accomplishment.
The great number of enemies is also possible only because of the engine used to make the game. The monsters in Serious Sam aren't the most detailed in any shooter to date, but they do look fairly good and are animated smoothly. It practically goes without saying that they bleed like crazy when you shoot them. It's incredible that the game can throw dozens upon dozens of them at you at a time, with hardly any compromise in the smooth frame rate. Since many of these monsters are fast, accurate, and powerful, having to take on so many of them at once is an experience that you won't soon forget.
Serious Sam doesn't just look good. Its use of sound is effective, though the sounds themselves are fairly terse. Most all of your weapons, from your basic six-shooters on up through double-barreled shotguns, chainguns, and rocket launchers, sound about as mean as they look. You'll almost immediately learn to identify each of your enemies by the distinctive sound it makes. Oftentimes--as with the screaming kamikaze troopers who blow themselves up when they get close enough to you--you'll need to listen carefully to gauge not just how close your enemies are, but where they're coming from. The music in Serious Sam is chock-full of bass riffs that play steadily in the background, and the soundtrack picks up when you're in combat and lets off when you aren't fighting. There are a good number of different music tracks, and though you probably won't pay them too much notice in the middle of all the carnage, they're actually quite catchy and help maintain the fast pacing of the game. Sam's also got a few choice one-liners he'll say during the course of the game, which give him character and otherwise help make the levels more interesting.
Even Sam's relatively weak weapons pack a lot of punch
The levels in Serious Sam are essentially there to let you engage in its countless battles against ridiculous odds. Their design is never confusing. For the most part, you'll always know exactly where to go next, while retreating and other such tactical considerations generally aren't possible, since you usually must kill all your enemies in the area before the next part of the level even opens up. The levels are usually balanced such that, once you finish off a horde of bad guys, you'll come across an area where you can pick up ammo and health power-ups to replenish your dwindling reserves of either one. The game also uses a certain gimmick over and over in its level design: Pretty much whenever you see a bunch of health and ammo lying around, you're going to need it, because grabbing power-ups usually triggers an onslaught of monsters to head your way. Though this can become very predictable in itself--you may find yourself saving the game whenever you happen across a tempting item of some kind--there's actually enough variety in the encounters that it never really gets old, mostly because the fighting is just so much fun. Since the basic action in Serious Sam is so well done, and rewards skill and timing, don't be surprised to find yourself replaying its levels over and over. It's even better on the higher difficulty settings, which somehow manage to make the odds even less favorable and will test the mettle of even the most experienced players.
If all this weren't enough, Serious Sam also features a robust multiplayer mode. For one thing, you can have up to four players play cooperatively or against each other on a single computer, using a split-screen mode. This won't be practical for most players, but it is still suggestive of the power of the game's engine, which readily handles the multiple simultaneous views. Otherwise the game has a built-in player-matching feature, and with it you can already find plenty of Serious Sam servers running on the Internet. Serious Sam is fast and stable over the Internet, and while the deathmatch modes can be fun, going through the single-player levels cooperatively with other live players is especially enjoyable. The game offers a very amusing selection of character models to choose from for multiplayer, all of which are like Serious Sam rejects: guys like Pirate Pete, Hilarious Harry, and so on.
You'll need to learn which guns work best in which situations
It's also worth pointing out that Serious Sam even comes packaged with proprietary level editing and 3D modeling tools for those players who're interested in building on the game's great foundation. Given how enjoyable the game is, and given that it retails for less than $20, there's no question that it'll spawn countless player-made maps, character models, and modes of play, extending the game's already impressive replay value indefinitely.
Serious Sam is essentially perfect for what it is. It's a great looking, fun-filled game that has plenty of visceral thrills and absolutely, positively the biggest battles in any shooter to date. Its single-player mode has a lot of depth thanks to the numerous secrets hidden in each level and the different difficulty options available. And the game's multiplayer mode, especially the cooperative option, rivals that of the most popular shooters available. Serious Sam may not suit those players who prefer more deliberate, more story-driven, or otherwise more serious first-person games such as Thief: The Dark Project or Deus Ex; but even these players owe it to themselves to give the game a try. Ultimately, Serious Sam is a clear lesson in what elements are necessary to make a game enjoyable. It's an unquestionably fun game from an unquestionably talented development team.
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Pep Guardiola must target victory at the Etihad stadium tonight
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Josep Guardiola, who made his reputation as a very successful manager at Barcelona, will be hoping for victory as his current side Bayern Munich take on Manchester City tonight.
After staying away from the benches for a year, the former Catalans manager decided to take over the German side.
A difficult task if you consider that Bayern were coming off a tremendous season winning the title both in German Bundesliga and DFB Cup (the German Cup) and at the same time winning the title in UEFA Champions League with Jupp Heynckes as manager.
Since then there have mixed feeling about Guardiola. The majority of the fans was very pleased from his arrival at the club and believed that their team, with his guidance, will establish its domination in European football for many years.
On the other hand there were a few that were worried and questioned the abilities of the manager claiming that his former team Barcelona maintained their high football standards even though Guardiola left the club.
They stated that with a squad like the one of Barcelona's and the participation of any manager was unnecessary and therefore Guardiola had a small part in the team’s development. These complaints were increased after the not so good start of Bayern Munich at this season’s Bundesliga with Guardiola sitting at the bench.
The results may have been satisfying with six wins and one draw in seven matches but team’s performance is nowhere to the expected standards at the start of the season. So this is a great opportunity for Guardiola and his team to show that they are working towards something good and at the same time get back the faith of the fans that started to question the capabilities of this season’s squad.
They are facing Manchester City a team full of potential with an extraordinary squad but with very little European experience, a team that still struggles to find its way, a team that is adjusting to the plans of their new coach, Manuel Pellegrini, after the departure of Roberto Mancini and finally a team that probably will not have available their big star, Sergio “Kun” Aguero, and is coming off a tough defeat in last weekend’s league match against Aston Vila.
So a big chance ahead, will it be met with success or the complaints will grow even more?
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When SSDs arrived on the consumer scene, they hit with a bang. The numbers that we were able to achieve blew the average PC user's mind. Load times were cut to seconds and transfer speeds were able to actually meet some theoretical numbers. One of the first reviews that I read on an SSD involved RAIDing them. The speed scaling while RAIDed astounded me. Then came the videos of people going from mechanical to flash drives. The most impressive thing was the boot and load times. Computers actually FELT fast and responsive. As of today, it is one of the single most important upgrades that can speed up an entire system. Sadly, they are still horribly expensive when compared to platter drives.
A bit about Corsair; "Founded as Corsair Microsystems in 1994, Corsair originally developed Level 2 cache modules for OEMs. After Intel incorporated the L2 cache in the processor with the release of its Pentium Pro processor family, Corsair changed its focus to DRAM modules, primarily in the server market. In 2002, Corsair began shipping DRAM modules that were specifically designed to appeal to computer overclocking enthusiasts. From its roots in high-performance memory, Corsair has expanded its award-winning product portfolio to include ultra-efficient power supplies, builder-friendly cases, ground-breaking CPU coolers, blazing-fast solid-state drives, and other key system components."
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Attic ConversionCarick Home Improvements
How have you attached the inset lights and did it require extensive drilling into the beams? Thank you
Which faux beam product did you use?
This look is exactly what I'm looking for. I would love to know which faux beam product you went with and how was it attached to the angle
What size beams did you use?
I'm putting beams in my great room and this is the look I'm going for. Looks awesome !
No, the lights did not need extensive drilling as the beams were decorative and not load bearing beams
Lights in beams for loft area
Light up the box beam! Neat.
Can we do beams like this?
Lights in beams. Wall of storage.
the beams are a unique idea!!
GreenwoodOliver Designs
Ceiling height & slope with beams - nice
What is the ceiling angle - 22 degrees, 45 degrees, etc? thanks!
does the furniture has to match the pine beamed ceiling?
Hi i have a ceiling like that but i don't particularly want to match my furniture with it is it possible would light creamy
do you have an updated picture of the walls done ? would it be okay if I did the ceiling and the walls the same color so it looks like a continuation of the ceiling giving the impression of a bigger room?
love the color of the wood beams
love this color and the beams
like the dark beams, door transom
Oz ArchitectsDon Ziebell
Beam color here matches kitchen beams.
Love these beams, just not so many of them.
Ceiling beams - rough hewn but smooth
like the wood used for beams
The beams and piano (but with different color scheme/
Ceiling beams and the flooring
Reclaimed wood ceiling beams
living room ceiling beams
sloped ceiling; note curtain placement
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beams and wall color.
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wood beams Interiors by Karen Salveson, Miss Conception Design
of the beam above the door?
Like how the wood beams are in the doorway too...like how it all ties in.
Front entry look to match cedar ceiling
Beams for great room
Door opening with beam
exposed ceiling beams in foyer
beam over interior door
reclaimed wood beams
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these beams (width and depth) as well as spacing between?
The wood beams are made of sugar pine.
What type of wood are the beams made of please? Very beautiful?
Michelle, The beams are new. They are made of sugar pine and the stain is called Smokey Mountain. Thanks!
I love the color of the wood beams
center beam 14" wide x 16" tall; cross beams 10" wide x 12" tall
Size of beams - seam real
great room floor plan, ceiling, materials....
Kitsilano Heritage RestorationJDL Homes Vancouver
structural beams from the original home, sandblasted them to a gorgeous patina and reinstalled them in the cathedral ceiling of the master bedroom to bring a bit of the old house into the new space. The bedroom is bright and open with vaulted ceilings and a small juliette balcony with french doors overlooking
only beam style - rough and aged
balance of beige, white and pecan colored furniture.
Gabriel BuildersGabriel Builders Inc.
Cathedral ceilings with tongue and groove wood and beams. Windows along baack wall overlooking the lake. Large stone fireplace.
Are the beams support beams or decorative. Is the wood on the ceiling real and how is it installed?
Are the beams structural? What is the product used on the ceiling, how is it installed, is there drywall under the ceiling?
what color stain on ceiling and type of wood?
Can you tell me who makes the ceiling fan with uplight? Thanks!
Such a lovely, lovely room. So many elements are just perfect...the stonework on the chimney, the ceiling and beams, the floor (swoon).
What is the color of the stain on the ceiling ?
what is the kind of wood and what stain color is used on the ceiling?
English Country in NorthomeMurphy & Co. Design
What is this ceiling height? Husband is 6'4" but would love to do this in kitchen...but our ceiling is only 8'.....would you recommend since its not taller?
exposed beams on the ceiling real wood or faux styrofoam?
Can you tell me the size and spacing of these beams?
The ceilings are approx. 10' tall with approx. 7" high beams. This layout could be used in shorter ceilings as well. Thank you.
00 per beam and they are gorgous.
I am wondering if anyone can give me an approximate price that a contractor would charge to install wood beams similar to this (excluding the cost of the material as I will do the research on either salvaged wood or faux wood beams)......just looking to see if there
install such beams? my LR/Kitchen area is 41' x 15'wide and because of spacing for lights etc I am thinking i would need to do 7-8 beams. any guidance/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Country French KitchenJoani Stewart-Georgi - Montana Ave. Interiors
with high ceilings, custom hewn beams, beautiful dining area with lots of light and tons of storage space.
is the ceiling v-groove? thanks so much love the width of the boards!
) The ceiling height above the cabinets is 9ft. The kitchen is narrow and long. In the kitchen before, the clients had beams that started at 8 ft. and kept the ceiling low. It was a shame. Now the room has stature and classic lines. We also custom made the beams and used the fleur de lis symbol in the
The ceiling is original to the house. We installed the beams only. I don't know if the ceiling is a v groove, but I don't think so . . .
Ceiling beams & Tounge & Groove ceiling (bead board) Beam color to be white
beams with wood ceiling for den
East MountainD. D. Ford Construction, Inc
How far apart are the beams?
Would these beams work for a lake home livingroom w/19 ft ceiling peak
Love the ceiling, how wide is each plank and is it a tongue and groove item? It looks like all the planks are the same size in length too.
What lights are used in the ceiling? I am working on a similar room and really like the look of these lights.
Lovely. How high are the walls and then to the peak of the ceiling? Thanks!
of the ceiling just under 13'. Hope this helps...
The trusse beams are about 8' apart.
The ceiling planking is a 5 1/2" width tongue and groove. All the lengths are cut to land on the supporting collar ties so yes they appear to be the same length. Hope this is helpful.
would like this ceiling with combo of white and wood beams going across
Private Residences - MediterraneanFusch Architects, Inc.
Beams w curve piece at the end?
elaborate wooden beams that make the room look bigger
timber with vaulted ceiling
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Ceiling detail beams
Beams, fireplace, stained doors
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is the ceiling made out of? how was it made?
What brand is the ceiling fan? How large? Thanks!
photos! The ceiling itself is constructed from circle sawn Blue Pine from Hunt's Timbers with a light umber stain to even out some of the variations in color followed by a clear coat. The beams are faux beams (made of real hardwood but hollow and non-structural) by Excel Finishers. Hope this helps!
hardwood faux beam using a molded Plexiglas bracket fabricated by the beam manufacturers and painted to blend seamlessly with the beam. The mounting hardware (screws, etc) are relatively standard. Hope this helps.
love ceiling without beams, wall color, floor?
Like the dark beams against our similar
coffered ceiling with semi flush mount lights
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'Why are you saving that," asked eight-year-old houseguest Debbie when she saw I was folding the aluminum foil I'd just taken from the oven. "It can be used again and it's wasteful to throw something away because it was used once," I explained. She looked puzzled and I'm sure no one in her family would have considered doing anything like re-use aluminum foil. But because I lived on a very limited budget, I was careful not to squander resources. That incident happened almost 35 years ago.
I remembered this event when I read the recent Kitsap Sun article entitled, "Leading a Full Life — While Living on Less." A Seattle paper's Sunday magazine that same day ran a story titled, "Secrets of Thrifty Families." It seems the message to readers everywhere was that families are struggling to meet the increasing costs we're all experiencing because of high energy prices, which are driving up the price tag on everything from gasoline for cars to food for the table.
Both articles were interesting and included a number of suggestions on how to conserve resources while making the best of limited resources. One of the ideas submitted by a reader from the Kitsap Sun was to "Buy only the home and car you can afford." What a concept! If money is tight, it makes little sense to spend it on expensive pre-made meals or designer clothes. Another idea said it all, "live within your means."
I'm hoping all the common sense suggestions already have been adopted by most and didn't come as a revelation to many. "Learn to cook, watch for sales, substitute homemade food for processed foods, bundle your stops into one trip, take your lunch to work, cut out cigarettes, gambling and alcohol." Other suggestions I found odd included cutting your own hair and showering only when needed. I hesitate to think what that might mean.
A reader suggested doing away with one particularly wasteful item: Mariners tickets. This season already is over. And one of my favorite ideas was to "vote no on money proposals." Governments at all levels will try to convince voters that their latest need is greater than ours. Balderdash!
But with all the gloomy economic news constantly bombarding us, I'm left wondering why recreational movies and gadgets seem to be breaking all records. They're hardly life's necessities. Last weekend, "The Dark Knight" premiered across the nation. It's the latest Batman movie, starring the recently departed Heath Ledger as the Joker. Through Saturday, it had grossed over $66 million, a record. CBS reported that tickets appeared on Craigslist and were bid up from $11 to over $50. Some people interviewed said they'd pay $150 so they don't have to wait to see the film.
Several weeks ago, Apple's newest "iPhone" debuted. Across the country customers were lined up outside stores as early as 5 a.m. to purchase this item. This hi-tech gadget starts at $200. That's just the beginning. Then there's the exclusive contract with AT&T that runs more than $200 for two years, not to mention the cheapest "family plan" of 700 minutes for about $130 a month. And these devices are selling like hot cakes. Between the success of Apple's "iPhone" and the hordes attending "The Dark Knight," I wonder how sincerely concerned many Americans are about their financial condition.
The price of oil and faltering dollar has fueled the current bout with increased inflation. It's responsible for driving up food prices, adversely affecting all. The response should be to increase the supply of all energy sources from oil to coal to oil shale to nuclear to alternatives like solar, wind and geothermal. Unfortunately that's not what's happening. We continue to have a moratorium on drilling off the outer-continental shelf where there are large known reserves of oil.
Instead, the latest suggestion by the Carbon-Free-Commander-In-Chief, Al Gore, is to "...end our reliance on carbon-based fuels within 10 years." Long term, the Alliance for Climate Protection, a group headed by Gore, indicated the cost for their plan would be $1.5 trillion to $3 trillion. That's right, TRILLION. Imagine what that will do to the cost of everything from transportation to food.
While we apply common sense solutions to manage our own current expenses, we need to ask our elected officials to do the same. Increasing the supply of oil, the commodity which drives our economy, is the solution to the higher prices we're currently experiencing. Not addressing this fact leaves us vulnerable to escalating costs and at the mercy of unfriendly nations.
While Congress dithers, we're left with adopting those common sense approaches to controlling our own everyday expenditures. I'm not sure if Debbie, who now would be 43, re-uses aluminum foil. It might not work for her, but it still it works for me after all these years.
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dahl#245857 writes:
To start with, ethanol is a corny idea.
rhettorick writes:
Pam you said: “And one of my favorite ideas was to "vote no on money proposals." Governments at all levels will try to convince voters that their latest need is greater than ours. Balderdash!”
I don’t understand their need verses our need. They are us. We elect our government representatives to represent us. Money proposals are not all bad as they included much needed infrastructure repair and construction. What is bad and a huge waste of money let alone opportunity for corruption is the military industrial complex.
Our country spends more on military than ALL the other countries in the world COMBINED. Most goes to no bid contracts for Halliburton, Exxon, Blackwater, GE, etc. All these corps are showing record profits while we taxpayers are struggling. Think of all the good we could do if we rerouted some of that defense spending to feeding the starving in this country or providing health care to all our children. It is sad that you will listen to the big corps and let them use our tax money to buy bombs but turn your back when children are starving or needing health care.
While republican used to mean conservative, it hasn’t since Reagan. The current con’s in the White House just sent out incentive checks so we could SPEND, SPEND. They aren’t encouraging us to pay off debts but to SPEND. To artificially boost the economy for another couple of years. Meanwhile they borrow hundreds of billions from communist China. Who is going to pay that debt? Our country wasn’t in debt in 2000 and now eight years later, we are the biggest debtor nation in the world.
JoeMama writes:
Nice one!
As far as offshore drilling goes... if it was economical, oil companies would be drilling the unexplored leases that they already have access too... why give them more access, when they're not using the leases they already have?
Eaton_Dogfud writes:
Oh really? Simple supply and demand at work here? If that's true, show me the tripling in demand to account for the tripling in prices since Bush took the helm.
Conversely, according to this simplistic theory, if we want to cut prices in half, we must DOUBLE world production of oil. The US in best case scenario has the ability to affect global production by a few percent at the most.
Pam - we cannot drill our way out of this mess.
dlacrosse writes:
A novel idea indeed, Pam!
If you are lecturing to them "tax and spend librals", you are truly preaching to the choir.
It's the "borrow and spend" guys you need to talk to. I think you know who they are.
Interesting that you ridicule Mr. Gore, while in the previous paragraph advocating his ideas.
As for the IPod thing- just instant gratification
for the grasshoppers in our society. Everything new attracts them- shiny, you know, but hardly worth much attention.
dahl#245857 writes:
Three reasons they don't drill where they have leases. (1)There is no oil there (2)Environmental controls would make the cost of retrieving this oil prohibitive (3)There is not enough oil in the lands of these leases to make it profitable to drill.
rick57 writes:
Pam said "Long term, the Alliance for Climate Protection, a group headed by Gore, indicated the cost for their plan would be $1.5 trillion to $3 trillion. That's right, TRILLION. Imagine what that will do to the cost of everything from transportation to food." Gee Pam what do you think the cost will be to look for and drill oil, increase coal and shale production and build numerous nuclear power plants? That going to be free? You make it sound that all of Gore's ideas (some are the same as yours) will come directly out of the tax payers pockets , where do you think the money will come from for your ideas? Gore may not have all the right ideas, but give us a break and stop listening to Rush as your source of information.
rick57 writes:
PS. What do you think the final bill will be on the Iraq war? At least a Trillion. What are we getting out of that? Guess we only talk about nasty things like improving the environment or taking care of the sick and needy instead of invading countries as examples of wasteful spending.
lattelady63#248148 writes:
..."Increasing the supply of oil, the commodity which drives our economy, is the solution to the higher prices we're currently experiencing"...Ms. Dazma's statement smacks of smug ugly american, and assumes that there will ALWAYS be oil to drill for. The Peak Oil movement has evidence that the world oil supply is dwindling, and the oil that is available for drilling is harder to get to, and not high quality. Good point Eaton- we can't drill ourselves out of this problem. We need to be more resourceful and conservative in our gas use. Besides which, Americans need to quit complaining about the cost of gas- its $8.00 a gallon in Europe. How do people cope there? They drive smaller, more fuel efficient cars, and have efficient and convenient public transportation.
Elliott writes:
What a great idea, Pam. When we start to exhaust the supplies of a finite resource like oil, let's use it up faster! I can just imagine the Donner Party saying "Shortage of food? So what? Let's eat it all now! I'm sure we'll find a way to survive!" or the Apollo 13 flight controllers telling the astronauts to use up their oxygen faster by doing jumping jacks. Silly me - I thought conservatives actually believed in conserving things.
As for the cost of weaning us from dependence on foreign oil, I know where we can save a few bucks. Get our troops out of Iraq. We've spent over $539 billion dollars so far to invade and occupy a country that (1) didn't attack us on 9-11, (2) had little or nothing to do with those who DID attack us on 9-11, and (3) thanks to the UN sanctions, posed little or no direct threat to us or its neighbors. Bringing the troops home from Iraq could save as much as $300 million dollars PER DAY.
For the week ending July 18, 2008, this country imported 12.8 million barrels of oil. The average price of crude oil was about $136 per barrel worldwide that week. So the United States spent $1.7 BILLION dollars in just one week on imported oil. Even if oil prices never go up again, this country would be saving over $90 billion a year by weaning ourselves off oil.
By getting us out of an unecessary occupation of Iraq and counting the savings from not buying foreign oil, we'd recoup our expenses in moving away from oil in less than 15 years, without increasing governmental expenses from where they are today.
NSR writes:
In order to reign in the current rise of inflation, the cost for gas has got to reverse. If not, it will become a major financial issue all around, especially for the poorest segment of our society.
One person exclaimed that they pay $8 per gallon in Europe. Hmmm....if I remember right, we live in America. If you want to take your not so smug American attitude somewhere else, take it there so you can ride the great transportation system they are suppose to have. But be aware that most European countries are fighting back against high tax rates and out of control spending like here. So Socialism does not appear to make all people happy.....sound familiar?
Think about this…why do they only pay $1.74 for a gallon of gas in Puerto Rico? And Russia is $2.10. But the best is Venezuela at $0.12…..oh to dream!
As Pam states, me must look to all energy sources….she is only referring to oil in the near term. As for off shore drilling….you can’t go where you are not allowed to go, but it will help in the eventual future.
Elliott writes:
One more point. "Living within our means" is a noble objective. How does drilling more and more oil meet that objective?
rhettorick writes:
The oil companies control the price of oil. When they raise the price then they ask to be able to reduce environmental restrictions they are blackmailing us.
The oil in the Alaskan wildlife refuge wouldn't be available for a decade and then most likely be sold to China. The oil companies run this country. Cheney and Bush are both oil guys. Cheney still gets money from Halliburton.
General Motors had a quiet, cute little electric car in 1996 but killed it because of pressure from the oil companies and their own greed.
lattelady63#248148 writes:
Ms. Dazma seems quite proud that she reuses foil so as "not to squander resources" yet she promotes
increasing the supply of oil to deal with the current crisis? What about conserving oil?
dlacrosse writes:
A bit of strong language there, dannavy, but pretty darn correct.
My money says you didn't stand in line for an IPod.
rick57 writes:
Dan Dan Dan - What you neglect to see is the biggest reason of all for these hard times are mostly due to GWB. So if you voted for him once and especially twice add yourself to the "you idiot" column also.
dzama#215603 writes:
Latte lady 63, I appreciate your comments and thank you for reading my column. My last name is spelled DZAMA. I'm sorry you consider my comments as those posed by an "ugly American". I've been overseas and seen those folks up-close and objected to their arrogance. I'm not one of them. I'm sure Brazil would be shocked at the "Peak Oil" predictions after what they found off their coast. And, about Europeans spending so much on gasoline...most of the cost is in taxes and the distances traveled are much closer than what we're used to driving. As for conserving oil and gasoline, my husband and I have had one (1) car for over 25 years and it's a small one. Please don't suggest we're wasting resources. Thanks again for reading my column. Pam
rick57 writes:
That the best you got Pam? Lot of other points made you don't seem to want address. Have to wait for ammo from your radio friends?
dardena writes:
Once again, nice opinion piece, Pam, you sure ruffled some feathers this time! Last time I saw this much regurgitated lib-speak was when Rob Woutat insisted the second amendment didn’t count for citizens.
But then of course then, unlike Rob, you are correct.
The reason progressives like Al Gore ignore real solutions like nuclear and hydro power is (IMO) simple: they have spend decades convincing their contemporaries that these technologies are “bad,” and now that we need them, he (and others) are unwilling to admit they were wrong. (Kinda like Woutat)
The solution to our so-called energy crisis is obvious: enhance contemporary resources like oil and hydro, and conservation, while developing the new age energy sources such as wind, solar, and nuclear.
Anyway, thanks for the point of view.
dantheman writes:
Pam- I appreciate that you understand the need for us to live within our means, and that you are practicing it in your own life. However, as a doctrinaire conservative, there is only so much that you can say. Rule #1 for today's conservative is to Support The Corporate Agenda, which means among other things never criticizing anything anyone in the business world does. It also means that your solution for high energy costs is the oil company solution, and that you ignore the corporate elephant in the room, which is advertising.
Remember the Protestant Work Ethic? Work hard, live frugally (well below your means) and save and invest the surplus? Well, it was and still is the basic formula for accumulating wealth, as anyone who has read The Millionaire Next Door or listened to Dave Ramsey can attest. A century ago, it was the norm- but in the 1920's, with the rise of department stores and mass production it was decided that the economy would only keep growing if people were stimulated into buying more and more stuff. The advertising industry exploded with their new task of creating and exploiting new wants and desires, by creating a level of anxiety that could only be soothed by buying more and more crap. We may be idiots for falling for it- but it takes a certain amount of character to resist the crowds and engaging in what is now a countercultural activity- living simply.
The rich folks out there- at least the ones who actually earned their wealth through hard work, are still practicing the Protestant Work Ethic to some extent, while all the suckers out there are making them rich by spending way too much money on way too much crap that they don't need. It even begins to feel like our duty to spend money, as we are constantly reminded that consumer spending is 2/3 of our economy, and if we let up just a little bit, the economy will plunge into recession.
Not only are we violating the PWE by not being frugal- we also dream of getting rich without working hard. There are casinos everywhere, and whole TV networks that glorify the lifestyles of heiresses and movie stars and financial speculators and poker players that got very wealthy very fast. This glorification has increased as the media has become more concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, a key part of the Corporate Agenda that conservatives promote, even as they protest the ensuing vulgarity. The culture becomes more conservative and crass at the same time. Remember what Bedford Falls was like in the alternate universe where coldhearted businessman Potter owns everything because George Bailey was never around to fight for the little guy? Another huge elephant that Pam has ignored.
I wonder how many elephants she will ignore in her next column!
yeomalt writes:
The gas station squeegee- used on windows, headlights and taillights- reduces the need for a complete car wash.
rhettorick writes:
bu$h* inherited a $128 BILLION DOLLAR SURPLUS and leaves with record deficit of $490 billion ....without an addition of $80 billion more for the Iraq war.
So the republicans spent $10 billion a year more than they took in. They cut taxes but continued to spend at a record rate. Much was wasted on sweet "no bid" contracts for their friends.
Much of the debt is in the hands of the communist Chinese. Who will pay that back? I bet it won't be the rich republicans.
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Oral History Interview With: Pat Morrison
Interviewer: Amy Larrabee
Place: Waterman Elementary School, Harrisonburg, VA
Date: April 21, 2006
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General topic of interview: This interview discusses the narrator's childhood in Harrisonburg, VA, her marriage, her children and her work experience.
NARRATOR: Pat Morrison
DATE: April 21, 2006
PLACE: Waterman Elementary School in Harrisonburg, Va
Birthdate: Max Meadows, VA
Spouse: None
Occupation: Food Service Technician
Pat Morrison grew up in Harrisonburg, Va with her mother and four siblings. She married at 17 and moved to Fairfax, Va for a year before her husband and she moved to Germany for his military career. She had two children by her husband before they divorced. She began work in food service after her divorce and has remained in that field ever since.
This interview covers the narrator's youth in Harrisonburg, Va in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The narrator discusses changes to Harrisonburg, including the integration of schools, building of I-81, the expansion of JMU, as the development of strip malls, and changes to the school lunch program. The interview also covers such matters as marriage, health, and insurance as they pertain to the narrator.
Larrabee: Hi this is Amy Larrabee its April 21st at 4:30 and I'm interviewing Pat
Morrison at the Waterman Elementary School- Hi Pat thanks for meeting with me
Morrison: Hi Amy
L: Um, and can I have you agree on record to being recorded today?
M: I agree to be recorded.
L: Ok, super. So to get started on sort of on your background information- where, where were you born?
M: I was born in a little place called Max Meadows, Va. it's down in SW Va., near Woodville, below Roanoke...
L: Ok, like by car how long would it take to get there?
M: Probably about three and a half hours, something like that.
L: Ok. And tell me about your parents, their names, you know where they grew up maybe.
M: Ok, my mother's name was Mary Edna Talbert Golden and my father's name was James Harvey Goldman and they were from there- that area. Basically when I was born my mother lived in a small town named Hillsville, Va., which is just adjacent to Max Meadows.
L: Sure.
M: Um, her parents were farmers and her mother was a full Cherokee Indian from NC and my parents were divorced when I was 4 and we moved here.
L: With your mom?
M: With my mom.
L: Did you have siblings?
M: I have two brothers and two sisters- two sisters are older, one brother is older and one brother is younger than me.
L: Now did you keep in contact with your father at all?
M: No, my father moved across the country and we lost contact.
L: Ok. And what brought your mother up to the Harrisonburg area?
M: Well, basically I asked that- I asked my sister that yesterday because I really couldn't remember- my mother has passed away- she said that we were actually going to Baltimore, MD where we had relatives- and when we got to Harrisonburg the bus broke down and my mother apparently met a lady who offered her a position and we just kinda stayed here.
L: Wow.
M: Yeah.
L: And so what was the position?
M: Uh, she worked in a restaurant, she was a restaurant waitress.
L: Now did she ever remarry?
M: No.
L: So what was uh, what was life like growing up in your household- with your mom and your siblings here in Harrisonburg?
M: Um my mother worked a lot- my oldest sister, she's actually about thirteen years older than me, so she was, she was getting ready she did work too- and then my younger sister kind of took care of me and my bothers we just kinda stayed at home, and um...
L: And how old were you when you moved here, again?
M: I was about four.
L: You were about four, ok- do you remember having- I can imagine with your mom gone there was a lot of work to be done around the house- did you have certain chores that you were assigned to, or?
M: Basically I think that we had to do - uh, you know help with the cooking, help with the cleaning- just pick-up, you know, I don't remember doing laundry or anything. And, I know that where we lived there were a lot of kids in the neighborhood, so I recall being outside a lot, we were outside a lot.
L: And, um, where did you first live when you moved to this area?
M: We lived on a street called Broad Street, which has really gone downhill in the last few years. It's, really- I was by there not too long ago and its not in very good condition now- but it was a pretty nice street back then, yeah.
L: Super- and you know I forgot at the very beginning to ask you when you were born. What year you were born?
M: I was born in 1951, so I'm 55 now.
L: Ok and you moved to Harrisonburg when you were about 4
M: About four.
L: Ok, um, what do you remember about other relatives- besides your mom? You know, you moved away and you didn't get to Baltimore so...
M: Right. My Mother had three brothers and two sisters- one of the sisters died before I was born, so I never knew her. My other Aunt lived in Baltimore, and I did know her, you know through my growing up years. She passed away in 1975, so I remember going to her house and she actually had a club foot- you know what that is? It's where your foot is backwards.
L: All the way?
M: Uh, huh.
L: Oh my goodness!
M: Your foot is actually backwards- and back then they did not have an operation for that- so she - she lived her whole life with a club foot. My Uncles- um, my one Uncle and Aunt who lived in? Va. - Which is still in SW Va. I saw them fairly often- and he didn't pass away until- probably about - I'm trying to remember now probably about '92- so he was around for a long time and we were pretty close. My other two Uncles I didn't have a lot of contact with, but my mother went to see them occasionally after we were older.
L: Uh, now you said your grandmother on your mother's side- right? Was Cherokee, full-blood?
M: Uh, huh.
L: Do you remember stories wither from your mother or siblings- anyone who remembers stories maybe about any discrimination she faced?
M: I don't think that she actually did in that area- it was- the place that I'm from is not too far from the NC border- and I think that there were probably a lot of people there- if she did it was when she was younger and I never heard that.
L: Ok.
M: No, never heard that- and she actually passed away before I was born too, so I did not know her- and so did my grandfather- they both passed away in the late '40s so I didn't know them. I was very interested to find out after my mother passed away- we came across a picture of her and her siblings when they were younger.
L: Yeah.
M: And the sister who died when she was- before I was born- looked exactly like my older sister when she was young- and I never knew that.
L: Wow.
M: It was almost identical the way that they looked.
L: That's interesting.
M: So- that was interesting to find out.
L: That is interesting.
M: Yeah.
L: Wow- uh, ok, so what was uh, what was school like here in Harrisonburg when you first moved? Did you like it? - was it...
M: I actually went to Main Street Elementary- which is now the municipal building- I went there till was in second grade and I really liked it- although my first grade teacher, I can still remember, she used to hit one of the students on the hand with a ruler- until the little girl's hand was bright red- and I've never forgotten that. And my second grade teacher was great- and actually in second grade we went to the library and if you could write your name you could get a library card. And that's - that- I got a library card in the second grade and spent a lot of time in the library after that.
L: Uh, huh- now is the library the same location as it was...?
M: It's just right around the corner- it still has the original building at the back but right around the front they build a new building onto it-
L: Oh, ok.
M: So, and I always thought it was cool 'cause the library was built the same year I was born- I always liked that.
L: Very cool.
M: Yeah.
L: Uh, so what sorts of- did you spend a lot of time with friends? Were allowed to go out with friends a lot, or?
M: Well, we had quite a group of young kids in the neighborhood and we played a lot. I remember my mother used to have to have to practically beat us to make us come in at night, you know. Back then, excuse me, in Harrisonburg you really didn't have to watch your kids like you do now. And I remember when I was little I could walk to the library by myself, I mean my mom would let me do that. Now, I would never have let my daughter walk to the library alone and I always felt like, you know, it's really a shame that the world is so different now- because we knew the alleyways and the bi-ways and the candy stores and- you know, we had a lot of freedom.
L: Uh, huh.
M: We really did- and we would get up in the morning and play with the pets and go outside and hang out with our friends and get the boys to eat mud pies and... and just have a good time. And we could run around the neighborhood and you didn't have to worry about some guy picking you up- I mean I'm sure it happened- but we didn't think about it and my mother didn't worry about it like I- like I did.
L: With your - your daughter.
M: So- it was sort of a carefree childhood I would say- even though we probably- looking back on it- we were probably what you would consider poor. We had food, we had shelter, we had clothing and, you know, so everything was good in our world.
L: Exactly.
M: We had what we needed, yeah.
L: Super... I'm gonna [check the recorder].
M: Ok.
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L: Ok, we're back. Um, so tell me about your young adulthood- so I- you know- sort of into like junior high and high school years and how that changed- and maybe friendships were changing... or?
M: Well, after second grade they actually built a new school, called Spotswood Elementary, which is here in town, uh, so I started to go to school there. I went there from third grade to seventh grade- we did not have a junior high then- and we had no buses in Harrisonburg for school buses so you walked to school, unless your parents drove you. And we went to school even when it snowed. We did not have snow days, because...
L: Because you could walk and not have to drive.
M: Yeah- and basically we walked to school. Uh, I really enjoyed school we had a great time- I had some really good teachers. In fact my fourth grade teacher actually taught here at Waterman and just retired a few years ago- she was great. And um, I - I think I just really have good memories about that. I had a couple of friends who lived near me who went to the same school so we hung out together- and um, in fifth grade- fifth grade was a good year- I didn't really care for my teacher but we had a good year that year. Sixth grade we actually worked on a magazine for the school year- for Spotswood. We worked on a magazine and wrote stories and everything for that, and that was fun. Seventh grade the Beatles came to America, and all the girls went Beatles crazy-so we drove our man teacher, which was the first man teacher I ever had- we drove him nuts because we decided that each of us in our little group would take one of the Beatles names, and I was John- -I remember that. And we used to- we even put pictures up in the wall- he would go out of the room and we would put pictures of the Beatles up on the wall and he'd come back in and, "Oh why did you girls do that?" So, we kind of drove Mr. Lowe nuts for a while, but we had a good time with that, and um we enjoyed it. And we all went to high school then in eighth grade, we started high school- so we were all kind of together- and loving it because all the senior boys were so cute, you know and... - that was like in '63, so it was still- I would have to say back in '63 it was still I guess what you would say innocent time, and innocent time the drug craze hadn't hit the sixties hadn't gone nuts yet, and um...
L: What was the, um - what were race relations like in this area at that time? Around your growing up?
M: Yeah. In eighth grade I don't recall having any black students in our school. In ninth grade I think we got our first black students- and excuse me- I personally don't recall any problem with it, because I had always- I mean where I lived there was a black community adjacent to it so we had always known black people- we had always, you know...
L: But they had been in their own separate school?
M: They had been in their own separate school, which was Lucy Simms, um, I think they called it Effinger (?) School and then it became Lucy Simms school- but I mean if there was tension I don't recall it- at that particular time. I think later on a few years down the road there was some tension. And I think the students who actually started there were older- they weren't like freshmen or eighth graders, they were like maybe juniors or seniors.
L: Sure, 'cause that would have been a hard transition anyway- let alone the race.
M: And then it just kinda seemed like, you know, every year there were more students there and for me personally it never bothered me, you know, because I guess I'd always been around people of different races and my mother never really said, you know, these guys are bad or those guys are bad or whatever- so it didn't bother me, I was just like, "Ok, they're kids, they go to our school, big deal."
L: Right. So you said a few years down the road there started to be some tensions? Do you remember any specific...?
M: I think later on- I think it was just a combination of everything that was happening at that time in America, you know Vietnam and people protesting, and people starting to take drugs and then you know you started getting people speaking out about discrimination- they started coming forward more, and I think really, in a lot of towns that made it worse.
L: Sure.
M: To hear about it.
L: Sure.
M: I think if they would have been more low key about it.
L: Sort of not stirring things up.
M: Yeah, I think it kind of stirred it up in some of the towns. I don't recall it ever being bad to the point that, you know, anybody was hurt...
L: Do you remember any specific incidents?
M: I do remember a fight, but it was actually between two black girls- they were fighting each other- so, you know.
L: Oh, ok!
M... It was like, "Ok, we don't care." And I remember, in fact I was talking to somebody just the other day about her at Spotswood elementary- and it's kinda weird I ended up in food service- the manager at Spotswood Elementary was a small little black lady and, you know, she was very, very, nice and I never thought anything about it- so, it just, you know. I guess, basically when I look at a person I don't really see their color, you know, and I don't really dislike or like someone because of what other color- but, you know, if they're crappy to me- I don't like 'em! - whether they're pink, purple, black or green, you know, I'm just not gonna like them.
L: Yeah.
M: So I didn't really, I guess I really didn't pay that much attention to it. I think another thing that happened back then, as more and more black kids came into the school- I think what caused some of the problem was that some of the girls- white girls and black guys stated going out together- and some of the people did not care for that back then, you know.
L: Yeah.
M: It, it- I think that caused some of the tension.
L: Uh, huh.
M: But again, I don't think it ever escalated to, you know, anybody getting beat up or hurt- it was probably just, you know, verbal talking, so.
L: Ok. Um, how about your first boyfriend, do you remember your first boyfriend?
M: I didn't have a lot of boyfriends, I was kind of a- happier staying home reading a book. And I know on Sundays a lot I watched football- my Dolphins- and -we had sports day today, that's why we're dressed like this-
L: Oh, ok.
M: Um, I remember many Sundays sitting in front of the TV watching football and doing homework, you know, and I was fine with that. I think I actually didn't even have a boyfriend 'till maybe a junior- and it wasn't an intense relationship it was just kind of, you know, like we would go out to the movies or something or.
L: Yeah.
M: We used to have these places here in town like the burger joints.
L: Uh, huh.
M: And you could drive around them, you know, they were drive-throughs. And the big thing was to drive over to Kenny Burgers and drive around Kenny Burgers 50 times or, you know, drive to drive to Biff Burger and drive around Biff Burger and see who was sitting there. And kids would park there and sit on their cars, you know, and you drive by and go, "hey." You know see who was out and maybe if you had money you go in and buy something but um... we didn't have money very often, I know out where Buffalo Wild Wings is now, there was a place called College Esso- it was a service station.
L: Uh, huh.
M: And we used to go in there and count our pennies to buy gas, because gas was like a quarter a gallon, you know.
L: Yeah.
M: And we'd get a gallon of gas- and it would us around Kenny Burger the rest of the evening so, it was kind of like, boring, but that's what everybody did- we just kind of drove around Kenny Burger and then- if you knew somebody who worked there you could go in and maybe they would let you have a burger for a little less.
L: Right, right.
M: So it was kind of boring- it was kind of like what you see in the movies, you know, where the cars drive in and- and drive around.
L: Yeah.
M: And Harrisonburg was so much smaller then, I mean, what you see now is just an explosion of what Harrisonburg was. Downtown had stores
L: Yeah.
M: It had clothing stores, it had five and dimes, it had, you know, shoe stores and - you went down town, we didn't have a mall.
L: Right.
M: We had no mall- and now, before you actually get to the mall, um- there was nothing out there, I mean it was just like our town stopped and there was nothing out there except farmland and open areas and so, you know, town was small, it was compact- and, so it was really kinda cool to have a small town like that- it kind of- I don't really like what's happened to Harrisonburg, I really don't. And um, it was a very good town back then, I think - for me, anyway, I enjoyed it... so...
L: Um, you mentioned drugs, and I notice- a lot of times- watching TV around here it seems that there's quite a drug culture.
M: There is now.
L: Ok. When do you think that sort of sprang up?
M: My personal opinion- and this could be, I mean this is just only my opinion and it's probably just what I observed- JMU used to be Madison College and it was all girls. And I personally feel like it started when they went co-ed. I think that when they went co-ed a lot of people started coming in from the bigger cities it seemed like to me.
L: Makes sense.
M: And I think that's when, when they started bringing them from the larger places.
L: That was the '70s?
M: It would have been before that, I think they went co-ed in... I'm trying to think
L: I go to school there and I don't even know.
M: I think they went co-ed about- was it about '68 maybe, maybe '69, I'm thinking '68, something like that.
L: Ok, and so that must have been a dramatic change in the population here- do you remember?
M: I don' t think that it blew up too quickly- but, you know, suddenly you've got- you know, its not Madison College, just the little girl's school that it was- I don't even know what the population of the school was then but it was pretty small- I would think it would be pretty small and uh, I think that when the guys started coming in- I don't know whether they advertised more and people started coming in- I, I don't know how that whole thing worked.
L: Yeah.
M: That they started getting more and more and more students and bigger and bigger and bigger and became a university and the whole thing- but I think that- the few people I met from there through friends, you know, and... I think they were the kind of guys who...
L: Uh, huh.
M: You know, had connections and maybe knew some people who, you know- I think that they probably came from high schools where there had been a lot of drugs.
L: Sure.
M: I'm sure that Harrisonburg high had drugs too, but I think it was small at that time- I mean , I just don't remember people having drugs, and it could have been that just my friends didn't have drugs 'cause we were broke, but um- I don't remember them, I mean.
L: Now what about I-81- I hear some people saying a lot of it maybe is because of this major highway-
M: I remember when I-81 was built.
L: And when was that?
M: Oh- good grief- I can't remember what year exactly but I remember when they were building it.
L: Uh, huh.
M: And I think that- that kind of put Harrisonburg more on the map- because we started getting more traffic, we started getting- I think that the dramatic amount of people who were traveling through here, because- well I don't even know when 95 was built, I don't know if they had 95 then, but you know-- just the smallness of the town that I recall I think people would drive through on 11 and just keep going, or 42.
L: Right.
M: And then 33 of course- we kind of have all those roads here- but I think that when 81 came it started bringing more commerce- of course, even the crews that came in here to build 81, you know, that was an influx of people.
L: Yeah.
M: So, I think that did have a dramatic effect on Harrisonburg, yeah.
L: Yeah, I would imagine.
M: Well more people, you know, suddenly we have a sign out on the interstate- have a sign, you know.
L: Yeah.
M: So, if you've got a sign people are going to stop- sooner or later.
L: You've got those burger joints...!
M: Yeah- and then again you started- I guess we started getting more restaurants to handle more people coming through because tourists are going to stop. And there are- I'm sure that people did come through here because we have the Civil War things that people are going to come to- it's a beautiful area.
L: Yeah.
M: So, you know, we started opening up for campers and things like that, I guess.
L: Uh, huh.
M: And- I think it did have a dramatic change- effect on Harrisonburg- which is not a good thing, in my opinion- I like the little town.
L: Yeah.
M: I really did.
L: Yeah- so what do you think of Staunton in comparison to Harrisonburg today?
M: I think Staunton has been able to stay smaller longer- but I think they're on the upswing now, I think it's starting to really build up up there--'cause if you go up there now, even if you go downtown, I mean, you know, two seconds later here's a mall, here's a mall, here's a mall, Wal-Mart, you know- it's just expanding like Harrisonburg did, but I think they managed to maintain it much longer.
L: Uh, huh.
M: There's a little town about six miles from here called Bridgewater, have you ever been there?
L: Yes, yeah.
M: Bridgewater is starting to do the same thing that I think Harrisonburg did- a few years ago in Bridgewater they did not have any fast food restaurants at all- now they have McDonald's, now they have Hardy's, so I think it's starting to come there, yeah. If you want to see a town that reminded me of Harrisonburg back when- except for the fact that they don't have the commerce that we had downtown- it would be like Dayton.
L: Yeah.
M: Dayton is still small...
L: So cute.
M: Yeah and the main street there is just kind of, you know, calm and- and that's how Harrisonburg used to be here -- I was just broken hearted when Woolworth's closed.
L: Where was Woolworth's?
M: It was downtown where Calhoun's - Calhoun's restaurant was...
L: Yup.
M: And it was there for years, and years, and years, you know, and if you needed something you could go to Woolworth's and get it- and then we had a five and dime called McCoy's which is where the Kids Museum used to be- and then we had the Charles Store next to that. And the big building across the street from WHSV used to be- that whole building used to be a clothing store called Jo-Ney's (?).
L: Oh, it was?
M: Yeah, top to bottom, all of it.
L: Oh, my goodness.
M: Yeah, top to bottom that was Jo-Ney's, so- it was lovely- it was a lot different yeah- you could, you know, stroll downtown- now you go downtown you see maybe ten people- on a good day.
L: Seriously.
M: I miss the good old days- but then I didn't live here for a long time so, a lot of it changed while I was gone.
L: Oh, now where did you go?
M: Well, when I got married my husband was in the military.
L: And how old were you when you got married?
M: Uh, 21.
L: And how did you meet him- just go back a little-
M: Just at a party.
L: Ok.
M: We met at a party- in Staunton yeah.
L: Ok.
M: And he joined the military soon after.
L: Ok.
M: And then when he finished his training, and all that, we got married in 1972 and then we moved to Arlington- he was stationed at the Pentagon.
L: Ok.
M: When we moved to Arlington and we lived there for a year and then we went to Germany yeah- we were over there until '76 - and my son was born in Germany he was born in '75 in Germany - in V (??) -- that famous hospital you see where they take everybody-
L: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
M: Yeah, he was born there.
L: And what's his name?
M: His name is Michael Morrison.
L: And what's your husband's name?
M: His name is Forrest Morrison- and we are divorced.
L: You're divorced, ok.
M: Yeah, so- and then we lived in Germany until '76- then we came back and we actually lived in Annandale, because he went back to the Pentagon.
L: Oh, ok.
M: Annandale's in Northern Va.
L: Ok.
M: He went back to the Pentagon and uh, his parents lived in Roanoke so when we would visit we would kind of stop here- go to Roanoke- come back and go home.-- and we lived down there for- till about '79 and then we moved to a town called Dale City, which is near Woodbridge, VA.
L: Ok.
M: And we lived there till '86 when we got divorced.
L: Now did he change jobs, is that how you moved to...?
M: No, we just decided to buy a house, instead of live in an apartment.
L: Ok.
M: So we bought a house in Dale City. And it was a community that was planned out to kind of just be a commuter community.
L: Ok.
M: The guy set it up where there was A area, B area, C area, D area as you went down the road- um it was like- we lived in Forrest Dale (?) which was F- and the day we moved into our house- further out the road, where they were starting to build more houses two ladies were killed in a trailer.
L: Oh my
M: The day we moved into the house two ladies were murdered- and they were with the real estate office that was selling the new houses- so it didn't make me feel too safe there.
L: Oh my goodness.
M: But it was a nice community and we actually lived on a cul-de-sac- where the kids- I had my daughter there in 1980-
L: Ok.
M: And they had tons of friends, tons of friends, you know, their age- and it was just great there. I did not work, a lot of ladies did not work there and so...
L: So once you got married you didn't work at all?
M: I worked the first year till we went to Germany.
L: Ok, and what did you do?
M: I, I worked at- well where we lived in Arlington- we lived in a high-rise and then right below us there was a shopping center so I worked at Best Products- I worked there for a year- and I helped with the displays and labeling and freight and all that kind of stuff.
L: Uh, huh.
M: And I liked that Best, it was fun- but then after we came back my son was little so I did not work- until we got divorced- I did not work at all.
L: Now did you miss being out working or interacting- I mean did you get to get out a lot, or was it...?
M: No, we didn't go out that much. We did have friends in- you know, and we, we had some people we had met in Germany actually which were sent back here- so we knew them. The area where we lived most of the couples were around our age- most of them had, you know, a couple of kids so there was a lot of, you know, there was a lot of social interaction there.
L: Uh, huh and did you keep in touch still at this time with your girlfriends from high school- and junior high?
M: No, we kind of drifted apart.
L: Yeah?
M: Yeah, we kind of drifted apart.
L: Did they get, married around the same age as you? Do you know, or?
M: Um, one of them got pregnant.
L: Uh, huh.
M: And got married straight out of high school- and I see her occasionally here now, you know, but we're kind of like - "Well we need to get together and have lunch or dinner or something." But it never happens.
L: Yeah.
M: And another friend that I know- she lives in a little town called Linville- I see her every now and then- she's married with no children and, you know, it's always, "I'll call you, we'll get together, I'll send you and email, we'll talk," but- you know, it kind of never happens either, so... our lives are different.
L: Sure.
M: Yeah.
L: Sure.
M: And I really enjoyed being a mom - I loved it - I just liked being the stay at home mom, I loved to cook, I loved to sew and I would make the kids clothes and um, I really enjoyed trying new recipes so, you know, I became really really good at cooking, I, you know, I even considered going to a school and becoming a chef because I really enjoyed it so much but- that never transpired so...
L: Um, so what led to.....? [Someone came into the room] so what did you do for work after the divorce?
M: Well basically I started this- I started this because it was- back then...
L: And you moved at that time...?
M: Well when we got divorced my husband actually was being sent back to Germany so we agreed to kind of hold off on the divorce until the kids, you know,- till he came back and he could be here and we could, you know, work it out between us and the kids were not upset everything.
L: How old were the kids when you?
M: Six and eleven and so he went off to Germany and I said well I think I'll move back to Harrisonburg- which upset my kids greatly- they really didn't want to move.
L: Right- all their friends...
M: My son was in middle school and he really did not want to go back to elementary because at that time 6th grade was still in elementary here- and the schools down there were a little more advanced- so he would come home and say, "We've already done this- we've already done what we did in school," you know, "I'm furious" and his friends that he had known since he was three he had to leave- and he was- he became very depressed- he suffered from a great deal of depression. My daughter was easier because she- she's she has a more outgoing, extroverted personality and so she was great, you know, she was fine- made new friends and was happy- my son for that year really did not make any friends- at all. He went to seventh grade- we were living with my mom for a while-he went to seventh grade and he would come home and throw his books and just, you know, "I hate this place, I wanna go home." You know, very furious and then toward the middle of seventh grade he started making some friends and he'd, you know he began to be better - but for a while there we had a really bad time with him.
L: Do you think a big part of that may have been the divorce and not having his dad around, or?
M: Well, he and his dad were never that close, Michael's- he, I think the fact that he was- his first five years were spent mostly with me, you know, and we didn't have, we didn't have his sister then- I think that he was closer to me, you know, so - no, I don't think it was so much his dad as leaving his friends- leaving the world that he knew and- we moved there when he was three so- that was his world from three to eleven- and that was tough leaving what he'd known for eight years.
L: Definitely.
M: And then, you know, he was doing violin - he'd been doing that for two years and then we came down here and of course the schools here did not have violin- at all. I had a terrible time trying to find him a teacher- I did find him a teacher for a while, and then she moved away- so that was another thing that was taken from him, you know, so he just- he felt like he lost his whole support system there-- and I mean he really loved the family and being near the family- but I think that was his biggest problem was just losing what he had, you know, so...
L: Right. Wow. So you- did you come to work at this school, at that time?
M: No.
L: No.
M: No, I actually went to Spotswood where I went to elementary school- I worked there for a year and a half.
L: Uh, huh.
M: And then a position at Harrisonburg High School came open and I went there- and I was until last year.
L: Oh.
M: This is my first year here.
L: Oh, ok.
M: Yeah.
L: So how long were you ay Harrisonburg High?
M: From- well, let's see I worked there from (?) I was there probably from '90 until 2005.
L: And what made you decide to leave?
M: Well they opened the new high school.
L: Oh, that's right.
M: Out on- whatever the name of that road is I'm not even sure.
L: Yeah.
M: And its way out of town and I- I was getting older and the work over there is very difficult- the high school is very difficult to work at its a lot of heavy lifting - a lot of, you know, rushing around very intense work- you don't get much of a break or anything- so I just said, you know, "I'm getting a little older, I'm tired." And another thing is the kitchen over there is really tiny.
L: Really, in the new school?
M: And- really- it's really small- so just at that time.
L: It's alright we're getting the real sounds in the background.
M: Yeah, but at that time I just decided I wanted a change so I went and talked to Andrea who's our director- and just told her I didn't feel like I really wanted to go out there, you know, they were getting a lot of new personnel- a lot of new people were coming- and I said, you know, at the high school we had a huge turn-over of people anyway and I talked to her and I said, you know, I think its time for me to either move on or move somewhere else- and I said, you know, if nothing comes open I think I'll be quitting and trying something different- and so she said, "Well don't quit now, you know, we'll see how things work out." And it just so happened that the day I was down at her office Mr. Painter who's the principal here had emailed her and said I think we need more help next year- so there actually was only a part time position open here.
L: Uh, huh.
M: And she said- she called me and said I'm making it full time and its for you- so I said, well, I'll give it a shot, you know.
L: Wow.
M: So and its worked out fine here, I like it here- it's much less intense- its, you know, much easier on the body.
L: Sure- and it must be- what's the difference working with such a different age group?
M: Well I really really liked the high school kids.
L: Oh really?
M: I really did- and in all the years that I worked there I would have to say that I had a problem with maybe a handful of kids.
L: Yeah.
M: They were great- I mean the kids who went through there I know they get a bad rap.
L: Yeah.
M: But they're not- they're really aren't - they were always sweet to me and I think you get back what you give - we shared a good rapport and I, you know, I think that you have to treat them the way you would like to be treated and I never really saw those kids- except, you know, a few times you'd see a fight break out, out in the eating area- but not where I was.
L: Yeah.
M: And the majority of them were very polite, very friendly, you know, I even see some of the kids now and they go, "Hey how are you doing," you know. And of course my son was there for a while when I was there- but he was, you know, "That's not my mom."
L: Right, right.
M: And then when my daughter came, you know, she was like "this is my mommy" you know, everybody knew I was her mommy- she loved it and of course all of her friends would say, "hi mommy"- so I became Katie's mom, not Pat anymore.
L: Right.
M: So, it was good there, I really liked it but again- it is more labor intensive, it's a harder job.
L: Now why is it- why is it more labor intensive- why is...?
M: Well there's- there are a lot more things that you fix and there are a lot of things that you have to do that are kind of unnecessary but you have to do them because they tell you to do them.
L: Like what?
M: Well for one thing we had a freezer here- like down the hall- and then we had a little freezer like that one in the kitchen- well everyday we would have to take all food from here and move it to here so that the next day we could move it from here to here and prepare it.
L: Instead of waiting to the next day and getting it from the one...
M: Right- so, you know, your back here and your picking up 300 pounds of boxes and putting them on a cart and taking them and picking up 300 pounds of boxes again and putting them in another freezer- so.
L: Just to take them out the next day and prepare them...
M: And it's my understanding that even though at the new school they have a freezer here and a freezer here, she still makes you take the food from here to here so that it can go here the next day- go figure.
L: Yeah, ok- extra work.
M: There were just a lot of things that needed to be done that were kinda silly- but the manager was...
L: And how long was that manager at...
M: Oh she'd always- she was always there the whole time so...
L: Did you get along with her?
M: Yeah, because I can pretty much get along with anybody if I have to- and, you know, I was actually the oldest employee there- because people would come in and work a day or two and go, "This is not for me, this is hard"- you know, they didn't- they thought you came in and stand there and you put a little food on the tray and.
L: Right.
M: .go away, you know.
L: Right.
M: They didn't realize you had to sweep and mop and do dishes and, you know, fix food and lift heavy pans and, you know, things that were very labor intensive and so they would come in and work a couple days or two weeks or a month and they're out of there- I think that the whole time I was there- there were maybe one or two people who are actually still working for food service.
L: Wow.
M: And staying more than a couple of years, I mean it was just like you never knew- and there were days when I would go in there and the manager would be there and I would show up and until the part time showed up at 10:30 it was her and me- so, you know, that's difficult because you're trying to get everything done and you're always rushing- always rushing around, you know, some days you had no break, some days you had a five minute break.
L: Oh my gosh.
M: And yeah- so it was just a situation that I though it was time I got out of- so last year - I mean year before that- my daughter and I actually went to Blue Ridge and took some classes, you know, so I got certified as an administrative medical office assistant- and I thought well, my daughter's working as one now, and I thought, you know, maybe its just time I did something different - I think the reason I started this job was because the kids were small, and I really couldn't afford babysitters- and this job was advertised for housewives who wanted to work while their kids were in school- that's the way this job used to be advertised.
L: Oh, ok.
M: You know, you don't want to pay a babysitter, you wanna work outside the home.
L: School hours.
M: School hours, yeah- and you're off when your kids are out of school, spring break, Christmas, you know, you're off.
L: Yeah, my mom worked in the schools when I was growing up.
M: Yeah, so it's really good for that kind of situation, so now the kids are both grown- its not so important anymore.
L: Sure.
M: And I think another reason I took this job was because I knew how to cook, I knew how to clean- these are things that you know if you're a housewife type person- and even though my husband- my ex-husband was a computer programmer systems analyst and we were one of the first people to have a little home computer, you know, they didn't have the internet back then but we, we did have a home computer- the world had changed, you know- when I quit work nobody had a computer, they still had typewriters.
L: Oh yeah, right.
M: You know, and nobody knew what those were- and even though I could type a little bit, you know, I'm like "I'm not touching a computer, I don't know what to do, I'll break it"- so you know it was a totally different work environment that I would have had to gone into.
L: Sure.
M: And there aren't a lot of resources if your, you know, getting divorced and you don't have a lot of money there aren't a lot of resources to suddenly go back to school and learn something different so I kind was like - I can do that, I'll do that.
L: So hard was the decision to get divorced, I mean how did that...?
M: Well it actually became pretty easy after a while because I found out that he had actually impregnated another women.
L: Oh my gosh.
M: Yeah so it was pretty easy it was like, "Ok we're done, we're not going to wait till you come home, its over, its finished." You know...
L: Had there been some sort of relationship going on for a long time...or?
M: Well there had been a relationship that I actually never had any proof of but I suspected that there had been a relationship- yeah, so, you know, when I found that out I was like huh I don't think there's any reason to wait till you come back...
L: And did he tell you?
M: No he actually didn't I found out by myself which was, you know, not much fun yeah so... but...
L: So it was an easy decision?
M: Yeah, it was an easy decision.
L: It had to be done.
M: Yeah- it was easy for me it wasn't really easy for the kids.
L: No, I can imagine- and did you tell them, or did he tell them?
M: He never even told them when he got married again- he had the kid and got married and actually came back to the states because his mother had a- she had cancer and his mother had she had an aneurism in her brain that hemorrhaged and went into a comma and we were, you know, with her and at her bedside and he flew back in and he had already remarried and had the kid and just a few days before he had had the baby and he never told the kids at all.
L: So is that the first time they saw him?
M: It was the first time saw him since he had left - they found out about it much later.
L: Uh, huh.
M: Yeah, actually they found out about it after he came back to the states and wanted to have visitation - and he's kinda like, "Well I guess I have to tell you know because you are coming to my house that you have a half sister and a step mother," which didn't make for the nicest situation there and they never bonded and they well- it just didn't work out.
L: So they don't really have much contact with him?
M: None- now my daughter still has contact with her half sister and her half brother, but not the parents- no, no and the half sister is calling my daughter and telling her that her situation is very difficult right now, yeah- so my - my daughter is very upset about that- but she turns 18 in a year and her boyfriend actually is going to JMU now. They live in Dale City- oddly enough they moved back there.
L: Huh.
M: Yeah, so my daughter is still in contact with the kids but not the adults, they don't want any contact with the adults- so, yeah.
L: God, that must have been very hard for the kids, I can imagine-
M: Well, they're both grown now and my son he'll be 31 this year- he graduated from JMU actually, yeah.
L: What did he study?
M: He was an English major- and my niece who's a teacher told him not to become a teacher- she said, "Don't be a teacher." He's- he likes- ultimately would like to be a writer, wants to be a writer but right now he- while he went to college and after he got out of high school he worked at Costco and so now he's a supervisor at Costco and he's making more than teachers make- so he's going to stay there for now- and he writes on the side and, you know, stuff like that so.... he's out at- he's actually out at JMU at lot he's involved with still a lot of groups out there - guilds and whatever they have out there I don't what they are, yeah.
L: And how about your daughter... you said she's...?
M: She's 26 now and she works at a doctor's office here in Harrisonburg and she's not married, she lives with her boyfriend- she's not married. My son is not married either- he just bought a house though so he's in the area- but he's not married either- I don't think whether of them are in a hurry to get married- which they had such a good example why, why rush, you know.
L: Yeah - do you think - do you see uh- notice like a different trend- I mean even though your kids, ok their not married and your thinking it's something to do with their parents- but a trend today with young people at the marriage age waiting longer and longer?
M: Oh yes.
L: And why do you think that is?
M: I think some of them are career oriented and some of them don't want children- and I think it used to be years ago that they wanted you to be married to have children, you know, there was a stigma attached to not having children in a marriage. And a lot of people don't want children now- my son says he does not want children. And he has a girlfriend, you know, and she's actually a JMU student but- I don't think he's in any rush to make the relationship legal. And I think that probably if he did want children it might change his mind- he probably would say, you know, lets get married- but at this point, you know, I don't think he's in any hurry- and my sister bothers my daughter all the time she'll say, "Why don't you two get married, you've been together, you know six years whatever." And my daughter just says, "I don't want to get married, I'm not interested in getting married." You know, and her boyfriend is a nice guy he's a karate instructor- and you know, they- they're happy together, so why mess it up? And it's easier to get out of that kind of relationship- not messy, it's not expensive.
L: Uh, huh.
M: You know- I went broke getting divorced.
L: Now does she want kids someday?
M: I think she will- maybe one, not more, no I don't think she'll have more than one, possible two but she's not into a big family, no.
L: To sorta change gears, because I was just thinking about this, did you have any uh, that you can think of- role models when you were young, you know when you were a teenager or before, like growing up- someone you looked up to- either personal or on the national- famous person or...
M: No, I really don't recall anybody.
L: And do you remember any- you know, like any defining moments like something you know major that happened in your youth that sort of changed your outlook on things in some capacity?
M: I don't know how much it changed my outlook but I know when President Kennedy was shot- I can still remember that day so vividly I was on school patrol back then they had school crossing- you know, safety guards- and they came and got us out of our room- we were in 7th grade then.
L: Yeah.
M: And they came and got us out of our room cause back then every room did not have a TV- we only had one room that had a TV and they took us down to the TV room to watch it and then, you know, we sat there and the coverage was very disjointed and, you know, nobody knew what was going on and everything- and then they came on and announced that the president was shot- and we had to go- two of us- myself and another girl had to go outside and put the flag at half mast- and when we went outside it started to rain- and that day is just, it's just imprinted on my memory because, you know, it was such a horrific thing to happen- and we were so young and of course, you know before that when he was doing, you know we always had those mock elections at school
L: Sure.
M: Remember those?
L: Sure.
M: And we had had the big mock election, you know and everyone was like, "Don't vote for that creep over there." You know we want him, and you know, I remember I thought he's the first presidents' been cute- they were all so old and ugly- "We like him." And I remember that that was just a devastating event for the rest of the year- everybody was just really down about that an, you know, I think at that time except for the early war news that was coming back- because it was very small back then um, I think we were sending advisors maybe and that's all there were- you didn't see a lot of violence going on- we were starting to get into some riots you know, some black things that were going on but it was small, it was small it was just starting and it wasn't the media age that it is now-
L: Yeah.
M: I mean we didn't- here in Harrisonburg we had one station and then the cable moved in and I think you had maybe five or six stations so we didn't have CNN we didn't have FOX news and all those- and we were just not, you know, everyday we were just not inundated with all that, you know, people were killed here- a plane crashed here-and everything. So I would have to say that seeing something like that on TV was an impact because we had not really seen much of that.
L: Yeah.
M: Of course as time went on it got worse and worse and worse but - and now its just like, you know, people go, "Things are so horrible." And I say, "Things have always been horrible- you just didn't know about it."
L: Yeah.
M: You know, they always had earthquakes in Pakistan- but we didn't know about it in Harrisonburg- we didn't, we weren't aware of it until you know...
L: Didn't have that live coverage.
M: Yeah, maybe a week later you might see a little blurb in the newspaper and but you haven't see a mountain of dirt and rubble on top of children- so so that was - I think that would really have to be something I saw that I don't think I'd ever seen before was media coverage of a big event like that-yeah.
L: How about, when Watergate happened do you remember having feelings?
M: I remember Watergate- well I was not happy with Nixon anyway because as soon as we went to Germany .
L: Yeah.
M: The week I arrived in Germany the first time- he deval- he devalued the dollar against the mark so my money was worth less, so I was not happy with him anyway- and I arrived in Germany and they're like, "You used to get four marks for a dollar and now you get three and a half." So I was poorer already- and I always kind of looked at Nixon and thought he's talking out of the side of his mouth, you know, and he was not one of my favorite people ever.
L: Uh, huh.
M: So yeah that was a big scandal but it didn't really make the impact on me because I think I thought he was a crook from the beginning.
L: Really?
M: I never really cared for him- and then of course then there was so much going on- and I think the year that he actually retired was when my son was born- or the year before that so I had a lot going on in my life- and then again we were in Germany.
L: Yeah, right.
M: So it wasn't a big issue with us the way that it was here in the states- it wasn't really, you know.
L: Sure.
M: Pushed that much over there, I think they kept it low key among the Americans-
L: So what year again did you come back to the states?
M: I came back to the states in '76 late '76.
L: The oil crisis?
M: Yeah, oh yeah I remember the odd even days- if you had a odd license you could get gas one day and if you had even another day and you were limited to a certain amount and we've come full circle because here we are again- you know, its very difficult for people- I've been- I was really depressed this year because of the price of oil - I have oil heat and it was very expensive and I though, you know, thank god that I ended up with enough money to pay it... but so many people- I just wonder how they made it.
L: Yeah.
M: Have to wonder how they made it- because I probably paid double what I paid last year, yeah- yeah it was very very expensive and I just- how do some of the elderly people even heat? So we're back there again- and we have our war again so, you know- it just keeps- I guess its true life is a circle.
L: Yeah.
M: You know, cause we're back here again and history repeats itself- clichés but they're true.
L: Yeah.
M: And now we're back there again and my kids are going through some of what I went through- which is sad- and of course, you know, we had the draft back then, you know, I did know a young man who was drafted, went to Vietnam and was killed. And a couple of years ago when my niece and I went to the Holocaust Museum I went to the Wall and saw his name, which is very sad - it's a sad place,
L: Yeah.
M: You know, and the Holocaust Museum's a sad place too.
L: I know it's a very powerful....
M: I remember going to Germany and I thought, you know, I 'm not going to like these people, I'm not going to like them at all- because, you know, I was a history buff and I really, you know, had read about it and knew about it and I thought these people are just gonna- yuck, they're gonna suck - they're gonna be awful- and they're not, they're great, they're great. I - we lived in a very small town called Vick(?) the first , you know, while we were there and we were the only Americans in the town and we lived in the basement of a fairly new house- they had put a basement apartment in to rent- it was an older couple who had an eight year old son- and he had exquisite manners, he was an amazing kid. And they didn't speak English and we didn't speak German and we got along like a house on fire, I mean it was great. And my husband had gone away for 17 days on a field exercise which they called (?) and I was alone with these people and we had a blast- I mean they fed me, they took me to carnivals- we had a great time.
L: Wow.
M: Yeah they were awesome people- and he would bring down his pictures- he was actually a prisoner of war in Russia during the second world war he was just, you know, wehrmacht he was a foot soldier guy- he had to do what they told him- he hated the Russians- they were great, they were great people and I love them we had a ball there. And you know, that's a preconceived notion that you go there and you think- "they had to know about it, you know, they let it happen."
L: Yeah right.
M: And then you get there and you're just like, "These people are awesome they're just like you and me and they, you know, they did what they were ordered to do so they really didn't have a choice either."
L: But you could never actually talk with them about it directly because you had the language barrier?
M: Yeah, and my ex-husband was a fan of Hitler's - I hate to say that- but he was something of a war buff and he, he really did not hate Hitler because he was raised in a family where his mother would make slurs on other people and cultures and he would do the same thing, so it really didn't bother him, you know. I think he was kind of like a lot of people- "Oh it was all a hoax- it really didn't happen." Yeah.
L: Wow.
M: So he,
L: Did that bother you?
M: Yeah, greatly because I was like "uh uh, no." So we had kind of agreed to disagree on that.
L: Yeah.
M: He was also a Civil War buff- which you know, I liked that part- we would go around and visit Antietam and places like that- but.
L: Sure.
M: We kind of agreed on that- but the German thing- uh uh. So but the people were great, they treated me great and, you know I really enjoyed Germany- it's an awesome country, a beautiful, beautiful country.
L: So if you could go back and visit you'd go back...?
M: In a minute, in a minute - yeah I'd love to take my son there and let him see- because he actually had dual citizenship.
L: Does he still?
M: Yes.
L: That's interesting.
M: When you're born there, even if you're born in an American hospital you get a German birth certificate, you're a German citizen, yeah.
L: Does he have a desire to see... to go?
M: I think that he would love it- but he doesn't like flying- he just flew to Seattle for a job interview and he said- I said, "Mike how'd you like flying?" He said, "Flying was ok but I'm still not sure men were meant to do it"- so, you know, yeah - no he's not fond of flying but maybe if we drugged him- you know- give him something he'd fly- - I think he would really enjoy it and he's into all that medieval stuff, so, you know, the castles and all that.
L: Yeah.
M: He would really get a kick out of those
L: Yeah, yeah- I meant to ask you before- so the most of the time when you were married you were- you were staying at home taking care of the kids- did you husband ever help out with any- anything around the house -chores or taking care of the kids- I don't know- diaper changing or anything like that?
M: I learned to be a plumber and a carpenter- I could do anything you wanted done- I could do plumbing I could do carpentry if there was a repair needed to be done I could do it- I would replace the wall sockets, the light switches- I can still do it now but I have severe arthritis so it a little harder, but yeah- I learned all that because no - he was not Harry the Homebody- he couldn't do it. He was the intellectual - he was very intelligent but my mother said that he had no common sense and he was the dumbest smart man she ever met- yeah that's how she...
L: Did she say that in the beginning or at the end of the....
M: Well after she knew him a little better - in the end she offered to kill him- she said, "I'm an old lady I won't live much longer - let me kill him" I said, "No mother you can't go to the after life with that on your conscience."
L: Oh man!
M: Yeah- she did offer that, but I wouldn't let her.
L: So what was your - what was your wedding like was it big was it small?
M: It was very small - it was a small wedding- and just basically a few friends and family- and then we just had a very small wedding trip- we went to Williamsburg stayed for a week and came back home and actually we went to Arlington because he was already there- and we went to Arlington and lived there- and we did- we were poor- we actually - the first year that we were there for a while we had blow-up furniture in the living room.
L: Interesting.
M: Do you remember that? Its back again- its come back yeah we used to laugh about that we had blow-up furniture- we had an armchair and a couch- it was blow-up red furniture so.
L: But you liked the DC area?
M: Yeah, we lived in a high rise- which I had never lived in a high rise before on the 7th floor and you could look out the window and see the Washington Monument and 95 was like kind of down below us- and so- it was nice, yeah I liked it down there.
L: And you were there about a year?
M: A little more than a year and then he got transferred from the Pentagon to Germany-
L: Now when you came back here to work -after the divorce -what was the pay like- I mean was it enough to- that you felt....?
M: No, no I could never taken this job if he had not been paying child support- because when I started here the pay was like $4.25- yeah and I had to start part time-
L: So you didn't get benefits.
M: No, no benefits, so for about- well the kids still had benefits through him- yeah, they had benefits and for about - well until '90- that was like '89 when I started here -cause I didn't work- I did a couple of small jobs before I started here like a telemarketer and stuff like that- but when I started here, from '89 basically from the time we separated and got divorced I didn't have any insurance or benefits or anything until like '96.
L: Wow.
M: 'Cause you couldn't afford them here- they're expensive- yeah so yeah, I was kind of like in limbo land and if I had become very ill I would have been in a lot of trouble, yeah.
L: So as a part time employee you couldn't get benefits- when did you go full time?
M: I went full time in '93 because back then when I first started people stayed- and then suddenly it seemed like the older people left and then when they started getting a lot of younger people in that's when the turnover was tremendous- it was very, very, you know, kind of like a turnstile- people would come in and people would go out- you barely got them trained before they left- so yeah it took me- now you can kind of come in most of the time and get full time-
L: Yeah.
M: But back then.
L: So once you went full time you had the option to get benefits?
M: You had the option to get benefits, yeah- the pay didn't go up a lot but-
L: Right.
L: Now did the- -did the school system pay, you know, was it sorta like they pay half and you pay half?
M: Uh, huh-
L: Ok.
M: They still do.
L: Ok.
M: Although I started getting insurance in '93 and since that time my part of the payment has more than doubled- yeah in- well '96 I got insurance so- in ten years it's more than doubled.
L: Wow- did they change carriers?
M: No, I think they kept the same carrier- I think what happened was it started expanding and started getting more and more and more employees and more and more and more people started getting older and having kids and so they're, you know, its like a closed system- what we pay in is what we take out- its just managed by Anthem- and so if we have a shortfall then next year they raise the premium and then of course one year they came up with the gastric by-pass and so a lot of people had that and it tremendously expensive- really hurt our insurance a lot- and that year our insurance went up 20%- and this year they actually announced that we've done ok, they're not paying for the gastric by-pass anymore , they've taken that off the table- it will not be approved by our insurance carrier - and so its not going up this year.
L: Do you have a prescription plan with that - is that - do you think it's good?
M: When it started it was petty cheap - its gone up some now but compared to a lot its very good- compared to some other plans its excellent coverage - they're pretty good about paying anything diagnostic stuff like that-- I've been real lucky even though I've had a lot of health problems I have not had to be in the hospital since my daughter was born except you know like in and out surgery. So I've been really blessed with that just keep on chugging along thing.
L: Now do you foresee retirement in the near future? Or is it just something you're not thinking about yet?
M: I'm kinda probably gonna take it year to year now-this year went pretty good its almost over - and I felt like after I got back into the elementary school routine - I felt pretty comfortable here - and so next year I'm gonna start the year out here, see what happens- so unless something drastic happens I'll probably stay next year -its more a combination of --my health if I can continue to physically be able to do it.
L: Sure.
M: If I'm physically able to do it I'll probably do it 'cause I really like the hours - I really like the hours and the thing that allows me to work here even though the pay here is very bad - it really is, it's very poor pay for what you do.
L: Yeah probably for the amount of years you got in this business.
M: They average like fifty cents raise a year- one time a year its very poor pay - the hours and the insurance are factors that keep me here - but um thee thing that allows me to stay here is my ex is paying. I had a really bad lawyer and he got away for thirteen years without paying me. Yeah- I was pretty much on my own for thirteen years he did pay child support but he wouldn't give me any of the benefits that I was well actually I was entitled to some of his retirement is what he's paying - about 2000 I got in contact with a lawyer right outside of Dale City, VA who was awesome and he said were gonna fix this. So he fixed it and so you know he did tell me he said and soon as I told him the judge I had - he said you don't have to say another word there's no way a woman ever got a fair shake in his court.
L: Oh my gosh.
M: He said he never ever ever gave a woman a fair shake - and he said that when that judge retired his office threw a party.
L: This is down in?
M: [?] in right outside well right outside of Dale City Woodbridge area and he told me he said when Sheldon Smith retired we threw a party he said we were so happy he was off the bench because he was just hated. And I was like he might with my luck I get the one crappy judge who hates women you know so all that stuff through for all those years of duking it out because he actually asked for custody of the children - we went through a huge custody battle - and if he had won custody my mother would've killed him because I would have let her.
L: You wouldn't stop her for that?
M: I would've let her- yeah so it everything I got from the sale of the house - lawyers and much more than that - so.
L: So now in 2000?
M: It took me thirteen years to get back to court to get a settlement from him to start getting a part of his military retirement - he's retired, yeah.
L: Yeah.
M: So that's the only reason I can really afford to work here - that's coming - now if he croaks and its stops I'm outta here.
L: So when he dies?
M: when he dies its gone - he has to pay till he dies - but I did my lawyer my lawyer did get a backup that if he dies before a certain time I get like a third of his life insurance so we do have that in writing - to make up on the back portion that he owed me so that that covered the back portion that he owed me.
L: I see, I see.
M: So don't get ever get married and divorced - make sure before you get married.
L: It's tough.
M: It is- you mean you're going along and your life is ok and then the next thing you know bam - its different and I think the hardest thing is trying to get back into the job - when the world is different - the world has passed you by and I told my daughters that you know when I made her go she went to the college for a year and quit - it wasn't her thing.
L: Sure.
M: When I made her go back to school and learn something - I - this is not going to go away - there will always be healthcare - you know - you're gonna have some sort of healthcare forever.
L: Yeah.
M: And even if you get married - if you get divorced you can support yourself - go back to work and support yourself - so - I never wanted to see her in the position I was in where the world was so different you now- I didn't even know how to turn a computer on - really and now when my son bought his first computer, I turned it on one day and didn't know how to shut it down - and I thought he'll never know I touched it - I didn't know you had to shut it down - he came in and he's like, "Turned on on my computer didn't you mom ." I said, "How'd you know that." He said, "This is what you do - so he said touch it all you want if you break something I'll fix it." So I taught myself how to do computers - I just got on there and fooled around with it and said this is how you do stuff and I'm gonna learn it and so I did.
L: Yeah.
M: Yeah and then a couple a years after that we got computers here - now we used to have the old NCR things.
L: Yeah I noticed out front there's a computer at the checkout.
M: Uh, huh so we got computers here, you know, and that's another reason my boss at the high school liked me around because I knew hw to do the computer and she didn't, you know, she'd say, "I have to download a file come here and do it." So I just taught myself how to do it, and I figure you gotta learn it because it's out there.
L: I'm still not a very technical myself, I mean I..
M: I didn't mean the technical side as much as using it, so I could not fix it, but Michael has a friend who can - so if anything goes wrong, it's actually one of the first friends he made here, they're still good friends- I call him and say get your butt over here Griff? I need ya, so he'll come over and work on it for me
L: Uh huh, super.
M: And the kids have, I'd day after they adjusted you know and made friends - they had a fairly good childhood except for the fact that they had to go visit their father.
L: How long did that go on?
M: It went on until my daughter was 18.
L: And they would never enjoy it?
M: They would cry, scream, miss things, you know, there would be something they wanted to do and he wouldn't give them...
L: How long were these visits?
M: A weekend.
L: How often?
M: Every other week.
L: Oh you're - oh wow.
M: Twice a month yeah - see my son got to stop a lot earlier than my daughter.
L: Right.
M: And he quit, and the bad thing was never really did anything with them down there, they would say he watches football, we just hang out - so it was hard on them but when they were home it was my mission to make sure they were okay like my son - there were times we setup to three in the morning, just you know talking you know and calming him down and just letting him vent, 'cause he needed to.
L: Yeah.
M: Yeah, so you know, I guess you could say I devoted all my free time to them - yeah, now they're gone, they're out on their own and I have my cat, which my son stuck me with.
L: It was his cat?
M: Yeah he stuck me with it.
L: So how was it having them leave? Was that hard?
M: No I think he was ready to leave, he stayed home a little longer than some because he went to college and quit and then went back to college , so he was kinda like I'm hanging out here cause I have no money, so he was actually 24 when he moved out - and I think he was really ready to go cause I was you know not - he didn't have the freedom that he really needs, and he actually moved back home a little while last year, because his lease ran out and he wanted to go to another town but that fell through, so he's like, "My lease ran out I have nowhere to live." So he moved back in for a while, and believe me when he bought his house he was ready to move out, yeah he was ready to go.
L: Yeah right.
M: He's a night person; I'm a morning person, so we didn't, we weren't on the same schedule there - but we get along really well, he's a lot like me, loves books loves to read you know. And my daughter she moved out when she was about 21 and lived wither some girls for a while, did that whole thing, so yeah I think she was ready to move too.
L: But they both live in the same area still so you get to see them around?
M: Yeah they were over for Easter dinner, and I said all the foods on the table pack it up and take it home, cause I can't eat it, I have what's called psylliac (?) disease, and its an autoimmune disease, you can't have anything that has glutton in it - and glutton is the protein found in wheat, rye, barley, and oats.
L: So like everything?
M: Like in everything.
L: Oh man.
M: It's like in everything.
L: How long have you had this?
M: Well basically I've had it - I've been diagnosed with it since 2000, but I probably had it a long time before that, I had symptoms of it but they say that on average it takes about 11 years to get diagnosed with this because doctors didn't know it, its a disease that's very, very old, I think that the first mention of it is 200 AD or something, it was first mentioned in a medical book or something, but doctors discount it, they don't really diagnose it.
L: Yeah.
M: And now, I had never heard of it, I'm like what? I have what? I've never heard of this, now in the last couple years though it's really, really becoming advertised and getting a lot of publicity so.
L: So people recognize what they have?
M: They're recognizing it now, we have a teacher here whose son has it.
L: Now, what happens if you were to eat something with gluten?
M: I get sick.
L: Really sick?
M: Various things, I , it has a lot of side effects, I get stomach problems with, or I have the skin form too so I'll breakout, that's called dermatitis hepetaforimus (?), so I'll actually get a skin rash, I get the intestinal problems, but if you don't stop eating it - it can cause a lot of things like lymphoma of the small intestines, you know, it has a lot of things that go with it, it can cause peripheral neuropathy you know nerve problems, left untreated some people even become schizophrenic, you know it has all kinds of you know just horrible things, they give you the worst case scenario.
L: Yeah.
M: There's like a million things you can get from it, it was difficult to adjust to, because I was just getting to the point where I lived on my own and didn't cook anymore and I could do the microwave meals, and suddenly I can't do the microwave meals, you know. I have to go to the health food store- no bread, no cereal, no soup, no pasta which killed me, so now you know I have rice pasta, I have potato pasta, I have bread made out of alternative grains like rice and sorghum and soy and stuff like that.
L: Wow.
M: Yeah.
L: That's gotta be a lot more expensive?
M: It is expensive and for a while there when I was first diagnosed the doctor just told go home and go gluten free and I'm like, you know, "What?" Gluten to me was what you develop in the bread to make to it elastic, you know, 'cause I was a baker- and he's like, "Go home and don't eat gluten." So thankfully, through a couple of the health food stores, I met a couple of people in the area who have it -and they kinda guided me a little bit for a while. They were very helpful, and then I found out we have the-- out in Seattle they have a gluten society, they have one in Nebraska, they even have a support group at UVA, so, but I mean it's- it's out there now, people know it, but they've actually said that a study that a doctor at the University of Maryland did says that one - one out of every 133 people in America is an undiagnosed psilliac.
L: Out of, one of out how many?
M: 133.
L: Wow.
M: So that's a lot of people to have it, it's actually, you have to have the gene to have it - yeah, I figure I got it through my mother's side because my grandfather was of Irish descent, very big in Ireland, very big in Italy oddly enough with all the pasta.
L: Yeah.
M: Very, those are two countries were there's a lot of it.
L: That's interesting - speaking of help, I was curious what you think of the program, the meal programs in the schools you've worked at.
M: I've seen them become more and more fast-food as years have gone along; we made a lot more food when I first came.
L: Okay.
M: We made a lot a more stuff from scratch, we would get ingredients and put it together.
L: Like what sorts of things would you make that now you don't?
M: Well we used to make spaghetti from scratch, we used to make lasagna from scratch, we used to make you know.
L: You'd actually make the pasta for spaghetti?
M: No, no, no.
L: Oh.
M: I mean like the sauces and stuff.
L: Oh ok.
M: We used sauces in cans, and we didn't have as many chicken nuggets and stuff as we do now, you know, it just seems like suddenly you've got more pre-made food coming in.
L: Yeah.
M: Yeah, at one time we even got pre-made pizza crust in but then we would put the toppings on and make the actually pizza, now its all frozen, it just seems like things are more gearing toward more fast-food, and I know they're trying to turn it around a little bit to get more fresh vegetables and more fresh fruit, you know in the diet, but for a while there I think it was like chicken nuggets a lot, a lot of sandwiches, hamburger, hotdog, more convenience foods, and.
L: So things like mash potatoes were probably instant and.
M: There was a time when they used to actually do the potato peels.
L: Yeah right.
M: And yeah now they're instant, the gravies come in instant, the canned green beans, the frozen corn, so it's a little you know, which I guess its ok because we have less staff and we have less time.
L: Yeah.
M: We do still make the rolls, we make the bread, we make that, but they added things like breadsticks which are frozen, basically the only thing we make from scratch is probably the rolls.
L: What do you think about the health food for the kids, I mean, has it become this more packaged, prepackaged, is it less healthy?
M: Well I, I -we don't fry anymore, we really don't fry foods anymore, we don't fry the chicken, we don't fry the chicken nuggets, they're all baked, we don't even fry the french fries.
L: Huh.
M: And the new director has pulled french fries pretty much off the menu except well now here we only have them maybe once every month and a half. We have them very rarely, the high school I think has cut back to like two days a week, and they do still fry them, but its only like two days a week, so I think she's trying to get rid of fried foods, even the chips the they put in the vending machine are baked now. They don't put like you know the fried chips, they're all baked, and we still give them the chocolate milk and everything but they don't realize it's like one percent milk.
L: Oh yeah right.
M: The chocolate milk is low fat.
L: The chocolate flavor so they're.
M: Like chocolate milk, but its like one percent milk, so it's very close to skim.
L: Sure do they still have whole milk though?
M: No, they do not have whole milk here, we have fat free milk, low fat milk, chocolate milk, and then they brought out a flavored milk, which is also low fat milk, but it just has a flavor like strawberry or vanilla and then sometimes we get orange, it's all low fat.
L: Now how about soy?
M: Well they don't really have soy milk, if we had a child who requested it I think we can get it.
L: Sure.
M: But at this point I don't think anyone has requested it.
L: Sure.
M: We do have a few kids who are lactose intolerant so we give them juice as opposed to milk, but I think she's trying, some of the burgers now, some of the sausages now, they have soy in them, they're not all beef, they have vegetable protein, and soy and stuff in them, and the hotdogs are actually turkey.
L: Wow really.
M: They're not beef anymore, they're turkey.
L: Wow - do they taste like turkey? or do they? Or are they flavored?
M: I don't know, I haven't eaten one.
L: Are they injecting them with some kind of flavor that's.
M: The kids love them so they must taste pretty good, I don't eat meat cause I'm a vegetarian.
L: Gluten free vegetarian?
M: Gluten free vegetarian, that's darn hard, it was like what do I eat, but you know down through the last six or so years I've come up with a lot of stuff and the internet's really helped cause I can go on there and pull up a hundred recipes on the webpage, but the kids love the hotdogs and you know like today they had the chicken nuggets shaped like stars, so she's trying to lure them into you know eat the stuff, but the thing that bothers me is that so many kids don't eat it, they just don't eat they're lunch. A lot of food gets thrown away - that kinda bothers me, either they're socializing, or they'll go, "I don't like that." And, you know, they might eat the same thing at home but they won't eat it here, so.
L: Do a lot of kids bring their own lunch?
M: Not too many.
L: So they majority are definitely.
M: The majority eat, absolutely, they get the lunch but whether they eat or not is a different story.
L: And what about the prices? Do you think the prices are fair?
M: The prices have gone up a little bit I think every year for like the last six or seven years, but they haven't gone up drastically, you known its been like a nickel or a dime every year, and the, it well, its common news its in the newspaper all the time, the majority of the kids in Harrisonburg are on the free lunch program, there's a huge number of kids who get free lunch, and that's the news that's in the newspaper, its no secret, they publish that, so, a lot of families, you know there are some kids that you look at them you're gonna know that that's their meal, they need it.
L: Wow.
M: So they do eat it, but the kids are great here, they're really sweet, they really are. I've liked it and enjoyed it, the other day a little girl brought me a picture, my first picture, I've been here all year and she handed me a picture and she always brings the manager a picture and I said, "I'll give this to Miss Mary for you." She said, "No that's for you.". "Is that for me? Finally? After all these months I get a picture?" - I liked that, they're cute.
L: That's great.
M: I'll probably just do it year to year and see how it goes, see if my arthritis does me in or something else, if I can't do it, I'll quit.
L: Will you miss it? Will you miss the interaction? The daily.
M: I think I'll probably miss the kids, yeah.
L: But you'll be happy to stop working eventually.
M: Yeah well I probably wouldn't be able to stop working totally, but I'd probably have to go to something else, something less physical, yeah but I think I would miss the kids, I think that seeing the new kids come in and the old kids leave all the time, I mean I've seen so many kids go through that high school system its just amazing, you know you kinda wonder.
L: Sure.
M: Some of them you run into years later, oh I'm married and I have three kids, I'm like oh my god I'm so old now, you know because they're married and have three kids and you knew them when they were.
L: Yeah.
M: .twelve, so its a shock, its fun, I do wish sometimes I had not stayed as long as I did, I think I could've done something different and then I was just kinda like well I got into that rut where I kept going back.
L: You mean, like the ten years you were at.
M: Yeah, yeah, I actually told my daughter the year she was a junior I said I'm quitting and I'm not coming back and she said oh mom come back until I'm gone.
L: Senior year?
M: "Yeah, you gotta be there till I'm gone." And then I made the mistake of doing that.
L: Get sucked back in.
M: Sucked right back in, so I kinda, I was ready to go that year, ready to get out-listened to my daughter- don't listen to your kids, they'll ruin your life!
L: Now, do you have any regrets in life?
M: Yeah I do, I wish that, I , I wish that I'd gone to college for one, I really do. I think that what happened there was, where my family comes from, they weren't big on education back there and back then, and so I was never really that encouraged, you know, to get educated.
L: It makes such a difference to get that support.
M: Yeah, that's important, and back when I was actually in school I was one of the students who was you know a good student and made good grades but not really in the group that was shepherded through school, and so I was just kinda fell by the wayside in school. If there had been somebody there like a mentor who had said we can do this, we can get you grants, we can, they do that now.
L: Yep.
M: They take kids who are, I guess, at risk kids and they mentor them and get them through that, and even like now they have the technical schools you know. We didn't have that, we didn't have any options, even of going and a learning a trade back then, so I think if somebody there in my life had said.
L: Sure.
M: .do this different I probably would have, and I do regret that, and I kinda regret that I came back here.
L: To Harrisonburg?
M: Yeah, there were a lot more opportunities in Northern Virginia, for the kids, and I think there would have been more for me down there, and so at the time I was an emotional wreck and depressed, and I don't think you should make major decisions when you're in that position, but I did, and so.
L: But you had your family, your mom?
M: Yeah and I don't regret the fact that I did get to be close to my mother, you know, all those years- because losing her has been really hard, so I think I did get to spend that time with her, you know, and I'm glad bout that - and I kinda regret that there was nobody there when I got divorced to say the world has changed but you don't have to be you know the housewife and go to work at a cafeteria and become a cafeteria lady. You can learn something [said goodbye to someone], but you know at the time again it was desperation time, had to have money, had to have something to do, and so I kinda fell into this because it was best for the kids.
L: Sure.
M: And then you know, you get in a rut and you keep going back year after year after year after year, so I do kinda regret that. I don't really regret my marriage because it gave me the kids and they're great, they're great kids, you know. And we've had, the three of us together have had a good life, we've been happy. For a while there I did work two jobs, that was tough on them, but they were older, they were older kids then. And then of course with my daughter when she went to school here, I was working but if she would get sick they wouldn't call me, they would call my mother, and she was retired then and my mother would just come and get her. When I got home she'd call and say, "I have Katie" - so I was lucky to have that support system.
L: Sure.
M: I think that there was the road not taken back when I was younger and if that road had been taken I wonder you know what would've happened years later but you know, so I, that's one of the reasons that you know when I got divorced the kids became my top priority to take care of them because I wanted them their lives to be better, and the depression that my son, he really just needed time, and with me, and talking and, and, so, I do kinda really regret that but, that's in the past, and it's, it's, it's, something that I think about but I don't dwell on it, you know.
L: What do you most look forward to?
M: Sleeping! I do lot of that, I really do, you know I have a very small life now, I think, I pretty much come to work, go home talk to the cats, and fix some something to eat, do the dishes, do the laundry, I have a small circle friends and we go out sometimes -it's hard for me to go to a restaurant to eat.
L: Yeah right.
M: And then church and things like that but life is very calm and not exciting or anything like that now, TV, reading books, and I taught myself to crochet.
L: Oh good.
M: I always wanted to do that, I'm not very good at it, you know but I crochet little blankets for the cats and little blankets for my niece for her dolls, so nobody complains if they're crappy. Yeah I tried to learn that years ago and for some reason my brain could not you know look at it and say this is how you do it, and I would tell people I could make a chain to china but I can't go backward to make anything that's not a chain, so this past year for some reason, when I sat down and was doing it my mind said this is easy.
L: It was the right time.
M: Why didn't I get it twenty years ago, but, you know, I went back and it worked- so, you know, I crochet whole stuff and I used to sew a lot, I don't sew very much anymore, I used to make all my daughters clothes, when she was little, and I made clothes for my son and stuff like that, I really enjoyed that. I hang out with my little great nieces. My great niece and my great, great niece are the same the age oddly enough.
L: Oh my goodness.
M: Yeah so I hang out with them, you know they love me, yeah so no grandchildren but I have them, and they're both five.
L: But you still might have grandchildren in the future.?
M: Well I'll be too old and decrepit to take care of them. I told the kids when they have kids I'm moving to California, said you kids I'm moving to California 'cause I'm not babysitting. My daughter said I won't let you baby-sit because you'll fall asleep but.
L; You get to have fun with them and send them home.
M: Yeah, that's what I do with my nieces, you know, they come over and stay a couple hours- and then they go home.
L: Yeah, that's good.
M: So that's fun but, you know - I get to Church on Sunday, that's the big outing- shopping every now and then - Charlottesville to the doctor- so that's about it so, it's boring but it's calm.
L: You're content.
M: Yeah, I'm content and I can pretty much do whatever I want, you know, I don't have someone sitting there saying is dinner ready? Did you wash my socks? you know, so I enjoy that aspect of it- I really do- and if I want to leave I can leave and if I don't want to leave I don't have to- and so I like that.
L: Have you ever thought about dating?
M: No, I never really got into that again- I think at the beginning would have been the time for me to do that, if I was going to do it- and I think at this point that those years are gone.
L: No interest?
M: Not really, no because I told Stella the other day- I said- she said her brother just got divorced- I said Stella I did my time- they even let people out of prison after so long - I did my time, yeah so I'm not into that anymore.
L: I see.
M: I'm done with that- and I can just, you know, as long as I can take care of myself financially I think at this point I'd rather not.
L: Yeah.
M: You know, have somebody else around who's bugging me- if I wanna sleep I'll sleep- leave me alone.
L: Yeah right- without having to cook dinner or whatever.
M: Yeah, I like it.
L: Great- it was so nice talking to you and hearing your stories.
M: Well- it was kinda boring, I think.
L: No- its wonderful, I love it.
M: It was funny.
L: Thank you very, very much.
M: Oh, your welcome.
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Vampires and Lovers Ch. 05
Chapter 5: Newborn Love
Seamus smiled as he watched Vincent and Wyl walk together, blissfully oblivious to his scrutiny. He knew it had been the right thing to do to bring his family to the remote home of Mario and Roman. The villa was spacious, there were immaculately maintained gardens generously dotted with tall trees and it was set just a short walk into an ancient forest. Gabriel had spent time with Roman and his mate the previous evening becoming acquainted with it whilst the others had simply enjoyed sitting out under the star-encrusted skies; a luxury given their home was a city of man-made night light. He knew Vincent had not yet spoken about his imprisonment and it was his hope that in the quiet, relaxed environment his beloved friend would finally unburden himself. The love that the couple shared was apparent, but Seamus was not blind to an underlying anxiety that both men tried to hide.
He had caught glimpses of the pain Vincent was trying to conceal and all could see the way Vincent could hardly bear to be parted from his Chosen. However, as much as Wyl's presence seemed to settle the older Vampire, it was obviously not enough. It was equally apparent from the concern he could almost taste emanating from the youngest of their family that Wyl did not know how to help his mate. Something deep beneath the surface was eating away at Vincent and Seamus was determined that if he was not approached within the next couple of days, he would make the first move.
David grinned happily up at his Lycan mate. He received a warm smile in return as Gabriel's nostrils flared assimilating scents that were missing from urban life. Mario and Roman, Lycans themselves, had settled here to be able to enjoy running free in the forest and David had enjoyed relaxing whilst his lover and their hosts had taken a run the previous evening. It was clear to the petit Vampire that Gabriel was heading to a specific destination. The thought sent pleasurable shivers through his frame.
"Soon, angel."
The low, husky rasp had David stopping and giving his lover his best sultry look, smiling at the groan it wrenched from Gabriel's throat.
"Soon?" David purred, rubbing his body sensuously against the bigger male. He gave a gasp of delight as Gabriel's mouth quickly fastened at his neck, sucking hard as the Lycan growled softly.
"Very soon," Gabriel assured as he gazed with satisfaction at his mark against his mate's pale skin. He hurried his pace a little, still wanting David to be able to enjoy their surroundings, but keen to reach his destination. He had found a delightful clearing, just big enough to allow a couple to lie beneath the stars when making love.
It took just a few more minutes, the big Lycan urging his smaller mate through a thicket of decaying trunk and branches with verdant creeping vine that ran between some densely packed, ancient, living trees and their fallen comrade. As they emerged, Gabriel gave a wide smile of the gasp of appreciation from the man at his side,
David stared around. The living trees almost encircled a small clearing, with the dead wood and vines providing an entrance that was not apparent to an unknowing eye.
"Did Mario and Roman show you this?" David asked as he wandered to where a thick grassy knoll caught his eye.
"No, but I'm sure they know of it," Gabriel husked. His carefully controlled arousal was now free to set alight every cell and synapse and he felt his sex surge into hardness. He licked his lips as he stalked his prey and took David in his arms for a slow, deep kiss. As his tongue thrust eagerly past his lover's lips, Gabriel guided them to the ground, not breaking the kiss until he had thoroughly mapped every nuance of David's sweet mouth.
The shirt that inhibited access to the delectable chest was undone with an enthusiastic rapidity that had the blond smiling. Then Gabriel undid the zip on David's pants, slipping his hand inside and relishing the soft moan at his deft touch. The Lycan's long fingers encircled the eager erection stroking the steel-hard, satin-smooth length, as he plundered David's mouth. His tongue swept imperiously back inside the warm, wet cavern and left not a millimetre untouched.
The way that Gabriel ravished his mouth and caressed his flesh made David's slender form sink back onto the grassy knoll, ceding willingly to his alpha mate. The touches made him swell instantly, his hips arching for more of his mate's caresses. He pulled open Gabriel's shirt to run his fingers over the Lycan's chest, stroking the furred torso lovingly. He whispered Gabriel's name in a soft cry even as the bigger male resumed the plundering of his mouth.
As his lover's hand found a nipple and then moved to rub his upper body, Gabriel shrugged out of the shirt and gave a feral grin. He let David traverse his chest as the blond chose, placing gentle kisses over the forehead and cheeks of his petit lover. He let out a growl and leaned down to nip his mate's nipple with his teeth as David shivered with need.
"Gabriel, please take me."
"Soon, my love," Gabriel replied. He stood, his shirt tossed aside, as he began to unzip and snap open the stud of his jeans.
Watching Gabriel strip, David felt the irresistible heat of desire surging through him with every piece of clothing removed. His fingers were trembling as he wiggled his jeans past his hips. He pulled them off along with his briefs, socks and trainers as Gabriel kicked his boots and jeans to join the growing pile of discarded clothing. David moaned appreciatively as the dark male came back and lay between his spread thighs. Gabriel loomed over David, framing the golden Vampire's head with his large hands, pressing their erections together and swivelling his hips causing David to groan. The smaller man clutched his mate's shoulders.
"Gabriel, love you, want you," David whimpered softly, running his hands over the broad shoulders and down his back. He cupped Gabriel's muscled buttocks, kneading with preternatural strength.
"I love you, David, my angel,"
A groan left the Lycan's throat as he moved away slightly then Gabriel's mouth was placing searing kisses against pale skin. The bigger male's nimble tongue touched a hot-spot behind David's knee which caused the Vampire to tremble. He kissed the inside of a satin-smooth thigh and a soft moan left the blond's lips.
"I want to make you burn hot and fly high," the Lycan said, in a voice made husky by desire. Gabriel snaked his tongue out, flicking it against the base of David's erection, his right hand sliding down and cupping David's sac, rubbing and manipulating with a gentleness that belied the need that blazed through his larger form.
"I've only ever felt heat like this in your arms," David groaned, as Gabriel's tongue sent flickers of flame through his body. He whimpered as the Lycan caressed the hard orbs high in his sac.
"Want to fly higher?" Gabriel asked, in a low purr. His tongue slid with agonising slowness up David's turgid flesh. One hand slid over satin-sleek thighs, the other lovingly rolled the Vampire's orbs, keeping the blond trembling on the precipice. Gabriel then began a slow, deliberate swallow of David's erection applying suction as he reached its base. His fingers circled the tight entrance between the blond's cheeks, feeling the liquid desire that was oozing free. The touch to furled flesh had the rose beginning to bloom, the Vampire's body opening to accept its mate.
Arching upwards David let out a low moan of passion as Gabriel swallowed his hardness. He wriggled his hips, trying to encourage his mate to be inside him as he felt the teasing digit. His shaft was already in heaven enveloped in the warm wetness of his lover's mouth. Gabriel's finger pressed against his entrance caressing in circular motions, not quite penetrating and David' moans increased. There were no words, just heat, desire and love.
"Just relax," Gabriel whispered huskily, starting to press the tip of his finger into the beautiful golden form that was his own, personal angel on earth. Gabriel swallowed David's penis once again as he eased his finger deeper, he curled it and stroked the Vampire's sweet spot. A dulcet cry of his name left David's kiss-swollen lips.
Stars ignited behind David's eyes and he quivered helplessly as Gabriel's head moved up and down, the Lycan's long tongue swirling, tasting and teasing. His hands tightened and relaxed spasmodically against the broad shoulders of his mate. Pleasure seared through his veins sending him soaring out of control. His inner muscles clenched and unclenched around the welcome intruder as his lover encouraged his body to stretch to take Gabriel's rampant sex.
"Gabriel, what you do to me," he whispered
Sliding up the small, sleek body beneath him, Gabriel lay there a moment, gazing lovingly at his mate. David's eyes had darkened to indigo from his passion, his hair was a golden nimbus as his head thrashed and low moans escaped his lush lips. The Lycan continued to slide his finger gently in and out of the delectable form. He dropped his head and his teeth nibbled hungrily on a hardened nipple,
"I'm flying," David's voice was filled with joy and desire and his caresses light against Gabriel's shoulders. "I only feel this way with you, my love." He whimpered needily, his hips arching upwards as two fingers delved inside him and a fluttering kiss was placed against the base of his throat. David's moans became a gasp when a spike of heat slammed through his body as Gabriel tapped at his hidden jewel. His mate slid down his lithe form, nipping at his stomach, until he reached David's navel and dipped his tongue in, swirling it around. The Lycan pulled his fingers out of David's tight passage leaving the blond aching to be filled once more. David's hips arched encouragingly as Gabriel began to press the tip of his erection against his still-tight entrance.
"Love me, Gabriel."
"I do, David, I do and I always will," the Lycan groaned before he sealed his mouth over David's and pressed harder against the tight rose.
"More," David's command was as much a plea, his voice roughened with passion.
"Yes, my angel," Gabriel complied, as he slid all the way inside and stilled.
"More," David countered, his voice dropping, becoming sultry and low. He cupped Gabriel's face and pulled him down, his tongue slid against Gabriel's lower lip in a slow, sensuous motion.
With a groan, the Lycan pulled his hips back and thrust smoothly. David's body contracted around his hard length as he pushed deeper into the heated sheath. Their mouths met in heated passion, tongues dancing in an age old rhythm. Gabriel pulled David closer and growled deep into David's mouth as the blond dragged his fingers into the bigger male's skin, trying to get the Lycan to move faster and harder.
Gripping the slender hips of the younger man beneath him, Gabriel tilted them upwards, the angle allowing him to thrust deeper into the welcoming body. He deliberately stroked David's prostate with every movement, teasing the blond with a flurry of rapid snaps of his hips and then a slow, desultory grind. He draped the lithe legs over his elbows, spreading David wider, pounding into the willing form. Gabriel reached between them and took David's neglected erection in his hand. He stroked the hot, damp flesh hard and fast, his hips pumping with a feral speed. Gabriel grinned fiercely as David came screaming his name in shuddering convulsions. The blond's seed fountained over Gabriel's fingers as his body twitched uncontrollably beneath the purring Lycan.
"So very beautiful in your pleasure, my own sweet angel," Gabriel whispered. He continued to move slowly, languidly in David's body, still stroking his lover's sweet spot, raising his seed covered fingers towards his mouth. "David, watch me."
The Vampire's eyes opened and he watched as Gabriel began to lick each finger clean, slowly...deliberately...the gesture making his sated shaft twitch slowly back to life. His loins began to tighten and heat spread throughout his already highly-sensitised body as Gabriel's still-hard flesh repeatedly stimulated his jewel. The initial, almost frenzied, coupling slowed, becoming gentler, sweeter, more loving.
"Oh, Gabriel," David sighed as his lover's hard, thick rod glided in his slickened channel.
"What do you want, my love?" Gabriel asked, leaning down and brushing his lips over the softer ones beneath him. For the big Lycan, kissing his beloved was so addictive that he never wanted to stop.
"I want you to fill me, Gabriel. I want to see you come," David groaned as he arched upwards and captured Gabriel's mouth, ravishing the lips with his teeth and tongue.
"It will be my pleasure, angel," Gabriel whispered, His tongue swept back into David's mouth. Tilting slender hips higher, he shifted David's legs to his shoulders, allowing him to penetrate impossibly deeper. He began to thrust faster and harder into his mate. David's mewls spurred him on as he grunted and growled with mind-fracturing pleasure as the slick sheath contracted around his eager erection. The Lycan gave a low howl of triumph as David's sated flesh hardened once more.
David's moans increased exponentially to Gabriel's speed and force until the Lycan was ramming into him with all the preternatural force of his powerful haunches. He felt pleasure building on pleasure. It was addictive, sensual, two-becoming-one. He did not feel as if his orgasm had ceased from the moment he had initially spilt his seed. He still had residual aftershocks which were growing in intensity. He ground his lips against the Lycan's in a hungry, desperate kiss. Tongues duelled and teeth clashed, chests rubbed against each other and hands tangled in hair. David moaned incoherently, needing more, needing the shared release that would take them both to bliss.
Gabriel's eyes glittered with excitement in the dim light. The pleasure was reaching irresistible levels. He stroked David's resurrected rod, twisting his wrist at its apex to swirl his thumb over the dripping head. His hand matched his hips' furious rhythm, becoming a blur of speed. He swooped down and covered his lover's mouth with his own, tongue plunging immediately into the welcoming cavern. David's wail of completion was muffled by Gabriel's lips, the Lycan still mercilessly pounding as his mate's small frame shook with over-arousal. Although his lover's crème adorned both bodies, Gabriel continued to fist him.
"Come with me!" Gabriel barked. A high-pitched keening built up in David's throat as Gabriel's hips finally jerked erratically, his rhythm faltering. "David!" Gabriel roared out his climax, pumping his seed into David, and that sent the blond over the edge one last, effortful time.
David screamed to the sky as another orgasm tore like a tornado throughout his still shaking body. His channel contracted brutally against Gabriel's spurting flesh, but his own twitched dryly, the few scant drops in no way reflecting the magnitude of his final climax.
Gabriel came deep inside the blond beneath him. Still convulsing with the pleasurable aftershocks, the Lycan shivered and trembled. He rested his nose and lips against his mate's throat, biting down, marking the Vampire as his. His teeth pierced fragile flesh, tongue lapping languidly at the sweet essence of his mate as David mewled softly. He licked the tiny puncture marks closed before easing his satiated flesh from David's exhausted body. A low rumbling, deep purr accompanied the dark male's tongue bathing his lover's body as he lapped up every precious drop of David's crème. Effortlessly he flipped the pliant form, spreading satin-smooth cheeks. He buried his tongue deep inside savouring his lover's most intimate taste overlaid with his own seed.
David sighed his pleasure as he was finally settled to lie on top of Gabriel's body. He nosed through the abundant chest fur to suckle one thick, dark nub, then the other. He smiled as Gabriel tilted his head, offering his throat.
"Feed from me," Gabriel rasped.
David daintily fastened his teeth at the exposed flesh, drinking strength and power from the large Lycan. He hummed his joy as he licked closed the small wounds and nestled safely in Gabriel's arms.
"Can we stay here a while?" he asked. "It's so rare we get to spend time under the stars."
"We can stay as long as you wish, my angel," Gabriel replied, nuzzling his mate's temple, his hands roaming freely over David's slender back and buttocks. "I love you."
"Love you, too," David smiled. He kissed the Lycan rubbing affectionately at the well-trimmed goatee before snuggling his head into the junction of the bigger male's head and shoulders. He gazed up at the stars, listening to the low, rumbles from deep within Gabriel's chest and sighed in a mixture of satiation, completeness and love. He began a slow stroke of his lover's furred chest. He wanted them to make love again in the magical spot before returning to their family. He gave a feral smile as Gabriel's shaft began to twitch as his hand skimmed towards the muscular abdomen. He was quite sure his wish would soon be granted.
"Are you certain you will not take a walk with us, Vincent?" Seamus asked. He had hoped to get both men to accompany him as twilight was falling. Vincent had shown no inclination to speak to anyone willingly and as two days had passed, Seamus was now looking to break down the barriers himself.
"Not this time," Vincent said. It would be hard to let Wyl leave his side, but the blue-eyed blond knew that his heart-brother was likely to want him to speak and he was still unable to talk of his imprisonment. He occasionally revisited his ordeal in his memories, seeking to assure himself he had not been physically assaulted and that there had, in truth, been no way for him to have stopped Marcus. The big, red demon was a frequent visitor in his mind and Vincent felt he needed to work things through for himself before being able to speak of it to his family -- especially his Chosen.
"I can stay with you..." Wyl began, but was silenced by a soft kiss. He sighed, knowing he would cede to Vincent as he had done since they had reunited.
"I am happy to stay and chat with Mario and Roman," Vincent smiled, caressing Wyl's beautiful face, trying to smooth the lines of anxiety on the normally unmarked brow. He could also see the signs of shadows under espresso eyes and a shard of guilt cut through him. He had to act soon. That he was causing his Chosen pain was not acceptable. Another day and he would make himself speak. "Go and enjoy the forest. Gabriel and David enthuse about it." He moved to whisper hotly in Wyl's ear. "Find us a place where I can love you under the stars. I love you, Wyl. Never doubt I love you."
"I love you," Wyl whispered back, letting his body meld to the bigger Vampire's solid frame as Vincent hugged him hard. "I want to help you, Vincent," he added in a tiny voice.
"You do, you are," Vincent vowed. "Just a little while more, my Own, please."
Wyl nodded as he was released from Vincent's embrace. Perhaps some time alone was what his husband needed. He gave a small smile as Vincent headed towards the two big, blond Lycans that stood a respectful distance away.
"He'll be fine, Wyl," Seamus said as he wrapped an arm around a trim waist and began to lead them towards the forest. "He needs to come to terms with what happened and it's taking longer than we would like."
"I'd do anything for him, Seamus. Anything," Wyl said softly.
"I know, little one," the older Vampire replied. "And I know how hard it's been for you, too." He dropped a kiss into Wyl's dark tresses, earning a smile from the slender brunette. "I promise to take care of you both."
Wyl looked around with awe at the tall, majestic trees. He felt he had been transported back in time thousands of years to when a primordial world would have been covered with such flora. He inhaled deeply, taking in the scents of the forest. Everything seemed cleaner, crisper and even the greenery seemed brighter, verdant, more alive than he had ever experienced before. He caught a glimpse of the grin on Seamus' face.
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(Yeah hehehahaha, we goin platinum nigga! Plaahahatinum.)
Yeah, you got the Live Squad in this motherfucker
We got my nigga Treach from Naughty by Nature in this motherfucker
My nigga Apache up in this motherfucker
[Verse One: Tupac]
My Mossberg goes boom, gimme room, can I catch it
Talkin quick and then I vic just tryin to keep from gettin blasted
I had enough I put a hit upon them bastards
Boo-yaa! Turned a snitch into a casket
Now they after me, prowling for a niggaz bucks
Time to see, who's the G, with the bigger nuts
Buck buck, big up and livin reckless
Niggaz with a death wish step in with a Tec and I'll wet this
Yeah this shit is hyper
Two to one I'm writing representing and I'm striking like a viper
Huh, I got my mind made up, I got my nine
Ring the alarm, and strong arm must run
Some niggaz need to feel me with a passion
I'm old fashioned, run up on me nigga and get blasted
With five deadly venomz
(Yeah 'Pac, fuck that, still hittin em up with
That old deadly shit. Aiyyo Treach where you at?
Step up and hit they ass up with the wickedness.)
[Verse Two: Treach]
We come to hit you with a sock full of Brooklyn
To the Onyx of your nose, punk is funky like skunk blunts
Stunk like funk cunt
I come to take you on a war rough and rugged route
And if another doubts I blow your fuckin mother out
And that's the street scarred style
I shout I'm-de-MC-wit-de-nasty-mouf, and kick the bitch out
Sue me? I pay the lawyer for ya oh boy yeah
Plus my style's ten to twenty fuckin pounds more
I take you quicker than a picture of a punk ya pickin shit
Pickin pockets with a razor stoppin Russian rockets
Not shoplift, I'm liftin shop
Once you sound hot, cause if you ain't a perfect ten
My sign is stop!
It's twenty mother-crooked-fuckin styles in em
Like women I did em I'm in for deadly ready venom
[Verse Three: Live Squad]
Yeah, as I take a puff I get rough, Big Mad
To put it on, can't none come tougher see
I'm down with the sound of the Squad hard, boom!
Breakin em down, I make em see their doom
Coming straight from the dome where I roam it's a job to
Rob and steal and runnin from the coppers
Who hold a, boulder, turn the gun controller
Started from a punk now to be a high roller
Youngest, reckless, crazy, disaster
Mac-11 blaster, and I run faster
Than a lot of cops I can't be stopped till my head gets popped
A lot of fuckin bodies will drop
It's a disaster, I'm coming for the blood splatter
I make you scatter, leavin trails of brains and bladders
Blowin em out the frame with no shame
Game tight, drop a body then get out of sight
Count my loot after I shoot, leave my kicks up and it's
Something I don't wanna do, somethin that I never did
I try to get him, I think I hit em, I lit him
He's out! A poison, a deadly venom
(Yeah Mad, fuck that! You know how we do.
KnowhatI'msayin? Squad in effect, YG'z in effect.
Now you know a nigga like me gotta represent)
[Verse Four: Live Squad]
Once again, back to rip shit, quick on the flip tip
The psycho, represent the real to take the mic flow
Deadly, rock a head G, check the melody
Niggaz can't touch me when I wreckin G you better flee
Cause I'm gifted with a jab and a forty-four Mag
So nigga flip or take a trip in a body bag
Uhh, boom you slipped up, now you're zipped up
Yeah one more statistic, fronted and got ripped up
No joke, you be yolk, no matter how it sound
We're taking over eight niggaz back to the stomping grounds
Line em up single file, dome runnin in em
A nigga hit em with the venom, the fourth deadly venom
(Nigga, yaknowhatI'msayin? Fuck that!
I told you, we takin over, yo 'Pac.)
[Verse Five: 2Pac]
Five deadly venomz verse five be the livest
Strugglin and strive, keep a nine in my waistline
Take mine, you better bury me, G
Punk ass niggaz don't even worry me, see
I got a glock that say 'Pac run the block
Fuck the cops cause my gauge gets me... PAID
As I sit and reminesce about the old days
Hugging on my AK, fuck getting played, hey
I say niggaz need to get they mind right
Until they do I pop a clip and grip my nine tight
Now it's on everday could be my last day
That's why I blast on they ass as I past let the glass spray
First you had a mouth full of fronts
Now you're mouth's full of chunks, Pac's out puffin blunts
Deadly venomz
(Hahaha, yeah pass that shit over here.
Apache bout to clean shit up.)
[Verse Six: Apache]
Throw up your middle finger! Start the track for the maniac
Only thing I'm givin out is black donuts and dirty backs
Let me tell how you rough I get
I pop shit behind your back get in your face and pop the same shit
You can't get in because my gate's bigger I'ma snake nigga
My act guards me so hard I pull the fuckin trigger
I'm a section to clinch your porch is like a pinch
Test a rhyme I'll knock your hairline back an inch
Fuckin up pooh-butts, cut em like cold cuts
Choke em with my boot lace, then leave em hangin like old nuts
Clip up and move out, time to get em
That's the results of fuckin with the fifth venom in denim
(Yeah, yaknowhatI'msayin?
Five motherfuckin deadly venomz, in effect for ninety-three
Ninety-four ninety-five all that other shit.
We takin this motherfucker over this larger hit.
YaknowhatI'msayin? Follow us, come along. YaknowhatI'msayin?
We takin this motherfucker over. TRUST. We out.)
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Cleavage … The very word (let alone the image) goes right to the jugular, sending shivers straight to the minds and loins of men the world over, conjuring up all sorts of conflicting thoughts and scintillating fantasies.
Where should I look? Should I ask her out? Is she doing this on purpose? Am I just a hot-blooded male who can't control his urges? Help!!
Many women have cottoned on to the innate power of the simple act of showing a bit of chest flesh. And, while the fairer sex aren't exactly sure what chemical reactions are sparked in the minds of blokes at the mere sight of a little décolletage, nevertheless over time they've learnt one vital life lesson: a little cleavage goes a long way.
A screen grab from 'Tit for Tat' on You Tube.
A bit of bosom on show does something more powerful and more intoxicating to a bloke than any conversation, expensive gift or home-cooked meal.
And when it comes to the workplace, despite the fight for equal pay and equal rights, some women (many women) know that a good push-up bra is a better investment than any PhD. Besides, it sure as hell is something no man can ever attempt to compete with, no matter how many golf games or strip-club outings they organise for prospective clients. Women simply whip on a low-cut dress, some spindly stilettos and, voila! They're ahead of the game by a long shot.
But, of course, a little cleavage doesn't come without a load of consequence.
In the much-discussed article in this newspaper by Bettina Arndt titled "Busted: the politics of cleavage and a glance" – she debates the great cleavage paradox: should men really look if it is on display? Are women encouraging men to look at their chests if they are showing a little flesh, or are the blokes supposed to go against their biological urges and stare at their loafers instead?
In response to the article published last week, comments from readers, colleagues and my male friends came in fast and furiously.
An older male work colleague rang to tell me about the article and claimed Arndt was spot on the money:
"Women will wear cleavage to attract looks from men in a certain age bracket. If the woman is in her 20s, she only wants other men in their 20s and 30s looking at them. Anyone above that age, overweight or not within their 'standards' staring at their chest comes across as creepy, weird and unwanted."
One man in his 30s says a woman bearing cleavage is the ultimate cue for him to hit on to her.
"When you see a woman who has loads of cleavage and is a complete bombshell, the chase sets in. You just want to have her. But it doesn't mean you want a relationship with her. Not at all. It just means you're going to definitely ask her out and then see if you can have some fun together."
Herald reader Dom Archie concurs and writes this: "Just met a girl in the bank yesterday in home loans. Wore a low cut revealing top and yes I asked her out. She gets asked out all the time, has a partner but wears clothing that is going to get any man's attention."
Writes jayb1: "Breasts are like jewellery, besides their natural function, they are there to attract attention & a possible mate. Enhanced breasts even more so. ?So girls, 'reap what you sow', enjoy the attention. Your anger says more about you than the person whose eyes were attracted by your charms."
Which is exactly why Tc reckons too many single women are attracting the wrong types of men:
"As a male I often wonder how many 'Mr Rights' are out there, and do women really know what most men are looking for in a woman. If they think that their breasts will pull Mr Right - then perhaps, just perhaps, they will get the wrong Mr Right. I have been in meetings with women exposing large areas of their breasts, and have explained the situation I find myself in and where would they like me to look - at the floor or the ceiling. Women know exactly what they are doing when they dress this way."
Many of the women I polled for this story say they are extremely self-conscious when it comes to cleavage of their own. Flat-chested women, (especially in a sun-drenched country like ours), know all too well about the pains of having to go to the beach and compete with the ample-breasted women flouncing their double Ds as the men gawk, ogle and stare, ignoring the fact that the flat-chested femmes even exist.
"It's the absolute worst being flat," a friend said to me before she decided to opt for breast augmentation surgery. "You feel as though everyone is staring at your chest for all the wrong reasons. No men call you sexy, and you definitely don't get any wolf whistles. It brings down your entire self-esteem."
That's why, says Sheeva Tavakoli, the wife of well-known Sydney plastic surgeon Kourosh Tavakoli, the numbers of breast augmentations in Australia have grown astronomically in the past five years.
"I think most women would like to have more cleavage," she told me over the phone. "But it's not the only reason women opt for the operation. It's a self-improvement thing. We see a lot of patients who are mums and have just breast-fed and therefore have lost a lot of volume and tissue. They get the operation done to feel like a woman again."
I wondered if the increase had anything to do with pressure from husbands or boyfriends. But Tavakoli was quick to pooh-pooh that theory.
"No. To be honest, I don't see a lot of men encouraging their girlfriends to have it done. In fact, I hardly see any men saying they want their partner to have it done. It's mostly the woman's own decision. But 95 per cent of the partners are supportive in their girlfriend or wife's decision to undergo the procedure. But, no, I definitely don't see pressure from a male to have it done."
Would she have the procedure herself?
"Not yet, because I am currently pregnant," she replied. "I am waiting to have all my children before I have it done. But my situation is the same – breast-feeding means you lose a lot of volume and tissue, and, yes, I want to have more volume."
Let's get back to the politics of cleavage.
Whether fake or real, it undeniably empowers a woman, gives her a great sense of self-esteem, a colossal confidence boost and often gets her ahead of the men she's long been trying to compete with.
But if a woman does indeed decide to put her Betty Boops on show, are the men at fault for looking? Can only men of a certain age be allowed to take a peep? And is it really all that powerful that it deserves two entire columns on the subject?
Perhaps Herald reader Tc summed it up best when he wrote this in response to Arndt: "Perhaps men should go back to wearing codpieces to draw attention to themselves, and see how women deal with that, and where would they look."
Maybe, just maybe, he actually has a point ...
Samantha Brett is a journalist, TV and radio personality, and author of four books including bestsellers The Man Whisperer and The Chase.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has revealed his dream to be his country's first astronaut.
He said he was willing to sacrifice his life for Iran's space programme, which aims to send a man into space by 2020 and put an astronaut on the moon by 2025.
"I'm ready to be the first Iranian to be sacrificed by the scientists of my country and go into space, even though I know there are a lot of candidates," state news agency IRNA quoted him as saying.
Speaking at a ceremony to unveil two new satellites, Mr Ahmadinejad added that he was willing to "auction (himself) and donate" the money to the space programme, which has been hit by international economic sanctions over Tehran's controversial nuclear drive.
Iran claimed last week it had successfully sent a monkey named Pishgam - or Pioneer in Farsi - into space and brought it back alive.
However, doubts have been raised over the mission as before-and-after images appear to show two different animals.
In 2010, Iran said it launched a rocket into space carrying a mouse, turtle and worms, but an attempt the following year to put a monkey into space failed - although no official explanation was given.
Western nations have suggested the space tests could be a cover for the development of ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, but Tehran denies there is any link with its nuclear programme.
The UN Security Council has imposed an almost total embargo on the export of nuclear and space technology to Iran since 2007.
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Nomi Levy wrote:
Dear Rabbi,
Hi! We are some students from the San Diego Hebrew Day School. We are currently researching some things for a Haggadah we are working on in school, we have some questions and would like you to answer them for us.
In the Dayenu it states:
1. Had He split the sea for us, and not carried us through it in dryness, it would have been enough.
2. Had He carried us through it in dryness, and not drowned our opponents in it, it would have been enough.
3. Had He drowned our opponents in it, and not provided our needs in the desert for 40 years, it would have been enough.
Yet it wouldn't have been enough because:
1. Not carrying us in dryness would have drowned us or slowed us.
2. Had He not drowned our opponents they would have killed us.
3. Had He not gratified our needs in the desert we would have not survived.
Students of the San Diego Hebrew Day School.
Dear Students,
I hope I don't get in trouble for doing your homework for you, but here are some answers to the excellent questions you have posed.
Basically, Hashem has many ways of achieving any goal, and is not limited to any one specific course of action. For example:
1. Had the sea floor not been totally dry, it would have been enough. We could have escaped from the Egyptians even if our shoes had gotten a bit muddy.
2. Had the Egyptians not drowned, it would have been enough. They could have (and should have!) run away in terror at the sight of the sea opening up for the Jewish People! Their 'courage' in pursuing the Jewish People to the ocean's core was actually the greatest of all miracles. It showed Hashem's mastery over nature's every nuance ... even over the hearts and minds of thousands of individual soldiers.
3. Had Hashem not supplied us with Manna from heaven and water from a rock, it would have been enough. We had cattle to supply us with milk and meat, and enough money to buy food and water from the communities bordering the desert. As it was, the Jewish People engaged in trade with the neighboring nations during the 40 years in the desert, buying food and clothing. Good luck on your project!
• Kol Bo, Rashbam, Ramban, Shlah,
• Tractate Yoma 75b
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Alkaline phosphatase is an enzyme that is produced by the liver as well as the bone. In the setting of stable AST and ALT levels (which are enzymes specific to the liver), the rising alkaline phosphatase is more likely to be of bony origin. Alkaline phosphatase is typically released during periods of bone growth, and can rise and fall erratically with bone activity. If the patient has even a small amount of metastatic breast cancer in the bone, for example, the rising alkaline phosphatase could represent healing activity of the bone lesions.
All in all, the alkaline phosphatase is not specific enough to be relied upon on its own, and so I would recommend concentrating on the scans of the liver to make any assessments, as CAT scans and MRI scans are better for detection of suspicious lesions, and can be more specific than blood tests.
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1. CaliforniaCheez
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Since it is the bye week and things are slow...
I learned from watching the NFL network that the highest cap charge guy in the NFL is....
Kurt Warner why
He is being charged off at 11.72 milion dollars between the Rams, Giants and Cardinals. Peter Boulware, who is not with the Ravens, is costing the Ravens more than Favre's charge against the Packer salary cap.
I also learned that Brett is the 5th highest cap charge by a player against one team.
But as far as I've read, In recent years the Packers have not renegotiated Brett's contract as they wanted to his cap charges to drop. If his contract is in fact done at the end of 2007, it has been a good deal for both parties and I'd bet at a minimum Brett lives up to his contract.
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I bet he plays out his contract, too...!
So - we'll see at least two more years.. of good ol' Brett
Sorry about ya, Michael Irvin
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In the first week of February 2004, two related incidents occurred in Israel and America. Prime Minister Sharon announced his decision to evacuate the Jewish residents of Gaza and John Kerry won enough primaries to just about settle the issue of who will be the Democratic Party candidate in the upcoming American elections.
Here are a few less than publicized facts about Kerry:
- He is a graduate, like both President Bushes, of the occultic Yale University cabal, the Skull And Bones Society. So whoever Americans vote for, they get the same secret society determining their lives.
- Kerry, like Howard Dean, Wesley Clark and Joe Leiberman are all members of the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR). So whoever Americans choose to be the Democratic candidate, they will get the same CFR agenda.
- The well publicized CFR agenda insists on Israel withdrawing from Gaza, Judea and Samaria and half of Jerusalem, making Israel unviable as a state. To that end, like Dean before him, Kerry has promised to appoint Jimmy Carter (CFR) or Bill Clinton (CFR) as his administration's Middle East advisor.
- Not that Kerry will receive any new advice from either of them, since his campaign manager is Alan Solomant, an executive of Peace Now - America.
- Kerry is being protected from exposure of the ugly crime of participating in a massacre in Viet Nam.
- But as his prominence grew, so did the investigation of his past. And what did we recently discover; why Kerry is Jewish on his father's side. Somehow, he forgot the fact that his grandparents were prominent Jewish business people in Prague and that his father is 100% Jewish. Ask yourself, do you know anyone who doesn't know his father's religious background?
As rare as it must be, that affliction runs rampant in CFR circles. Former CFR Secretary-of-State Madeleine Albright also forget that both her parents were Jews, even though she was raised in the Jewish home of her relatives in London.
If you don't feel like voting Kerry, there is Wesley Clark waiting in the wings. Uncannily, he is also a CFR member who only discovered his father was Jewish while he was burning Bosnia to ashes.
Now how come, no matter which Democrat you choose, you get a CFR half-Jew who forgot all about it? The answer is found in the Sabbatean (also Shabbataian and similar spellings) policy of having their Jewish apostate followers converting and hiding their roots and beliefs.
Allow me to quickly summarize Sabbateanism/Frankism:
In my previous article, The Deutsch Devils, I revealed the findings of Rabbi Antelman in his books To Eliminate The Opiate Volumes I and II. His focus is the false messiah Shabtai Zvi, and the continuation of his evil ministry through the Turkish sect called the Donmeh. In the eighteenth century, Jacob Frank brought the Donmeh ideology to Europe and joined a fateful alliance. This was described in the article as:
Frankfurt at the time was the headquarters of the Jesuit, Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati, as well as Rothschild Brothers' financial empire. This is worth repeating: Frankfurt was the birthplace of both the Illuminati and the Rothschild empire. When Jacob Frank entered the city, the alliance between the two had already begun. Weishaupt provided the conspiratorial resources of the Jesuit Order, while the Rothschilds contributed the money. What was missing was a means to spread the agenda of the Illuminati and that the Frankists added with their network of agents throughout the Christian and Islamic worlds.
Jacob Frank became instantly wealthy because he was given a nice handout by the Rothschilds of Frankfurt. There is no other explanation.
And from this starting point, Rabbi Antelman gave us a blueprint for the war against Judaism and all its good, and indeed against humanity and all its moral treasures. A movement of complete evil now took hold. The Jesuits' goal was the destruction of the Protestant Reformation leading to a return of one pope sitting in judgement on all mankind. The Rothschilds goal was to control the wealth of the planet. And the Frankist vision was the destruction of Jewish ethics to be replaced by a religion based on the exact opposite of God's intentions. When these factions blended, a bloody war against humanity, with the Jews on the front lines, erupted and it is reaching its very pinnacle at this moment.
Rabbi Antelman traces the means of the worldwide reach of this ugliness. By the 1770s, the Illuminati was exposed and banned in Germany and then throughout Europe. Weishaupt made a strategic change that worked miracles for the international spread of his goals. He infiltrated agents into the Freemasonic lodges of England and Scotland, changing their highest tenets to his own, until every lodge in every nation accepted them. Thus, the Illuminati now had two centers of activity, Germany and Britain.
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Oh yeah. Welsh, wasn't he? Yes, famously so. But according to Terence Hawkes, emeritus professor of literature at Cardiff University, Thomas "played up to English notions of what a Welshman, and particularly a Welsh poet, should be like - a person addicted to singing, swinging and shagging, the three Welsh Ss".
Nothing wrong with that. "He's the romantic poet who drinks, who falls over and is sick, and puts his hand up ladies' skirts," Hawkes added.
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With the UK in Afghanistan for the long haul, and probably with a rump presence in Iraq for some time, that seems like a sensible assessment. Not to mention the likelihood of other "conflict resolutions" being required in future. Paradigm should indeed be able to offer a sound return to its investors, especially as the sat-bandwidth-hogging Predator-B/Reaper drone comes into UK service. That won't be the only thing needing to squirt a lot of data back and forth, either; and often enough for the military, satellite is the only option.
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I'm getting some odd/poor performance from a new build with an WD6401AALS. My spec's are:
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I wouldn't worry about the WEI. I'm getting a 5.9 as well with a V. Raptor and it really doesn't matter much by way of every day performance. Windows 7 is set up to only give above a 5.9 with solid state drives (for the most part). If you want more performance and better numbers, go with a SSD. Otherwise than that, I'd say you are fine, as the WD Black (that's what you have, correct?) is a good performing drive, regardless of what Windows says.
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Episode Title: Whatever Happened To Baby Gin?
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Posters: The Vadge
Even mispelled, the posters for "The Badge" are made up as a parody look of the FX cop show "The Shield."
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This is the third installation to the list of questions I wrote about in an earlier post. My friend had specifically asked me about injury or illness. We have all heard about the barracks creeping crud. It’s the infamous upper respiratory infection that seems to go around when you squeeze a ton of guys into cramped living quarters and work them to the point of exhaustion mixed with high stress. Mind you, we understand why it’s done, but wives, mothers, and girlfriends are going to worry. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it.
I want to caveat this with a new question that arose the other day. I got a call and was told “He asked me to send him his multivitamins and his vitamin C. Should I send it?” To which I emphatically replied “Absolutely, positively, NO way!”
She felt she shouldn’t either, but wasn’t sure after her soldier’s request. She received the form letter that most BCT Companies will send out warning you to not send pornography, drugs, or OTC meds including vitamins. It’s hard to refrain from sending them something that would be obviously beneficial during a time of training and stress, but sending them could at the very least get him smoked. I advised her, as I do anyone who asks what to send their soldier during BCT, to send only letters and send them regularly. Send them on plain white paper with plain white envelopes and no “frilly” stuff scribbled on the outside. I am only going by the tales of soldiers getting to do a push-up for every bunny and smiley face on an envelope. Life is hard in BCT we need not make it worse.
So, with those added ideas out of the way, let’s tackle the question at hand. What if my soldier gets sick or injured during BCT or AIT?
First if he is sick: Each morning in BCT a soldier is given the opportunity to go on “sick call.” When he says he needs sick call he will be given a chance to see medical staff who will determine the best course of treatment for his ailment. The doctor he sees can prescribe medication that your soldier can take at the barracks if he is sent back (these meds are approved and allowed since it’s the BCT doc who gives the script). The doctor may also give orders such as bed rest, sending your soldier to the infirmary or possibly admitting him into the hospital if necessary. The other good news and for you to bear in mind is the Drill Instructors are trained and know what to do in case of a medical emergency. The Army does not want your soldier sick or hurt any more than you do. Bear in mind that they want to mold and shape, not break and sink.
The doctors will contact you if they think it is necessary. Do not be angry if you are not contacted and your soldier has been very ill. The Army is not obligated to call you, technically, unless the illness or injury is life threatening. Don’t panic if they do call you, sometimes they do this as a courtesy to let you know your soldier is ill. Not all calls are for life threatening illnesses, but not all illnesses get a phone call home. Don’t panic yet.
If an illness keeps your soldier from being able to finish any of the required parts of training, or if they illness is long lasting, the chain of command may decide that it is in your soldier’s best interest to be recycled. Being recycled can be discouraging to you and your soldier. Now is a good time to encourage your soldier and reassure him/her that you will continue to be supportive and that you are still very proud of the work they are doing. Acknowledge the disappointment, but don’t let it bring your soldier down. Being recycled is not the worst thing to happen, but it can certainly feel that way in the moment.
Injuries are different and the outcome and how the Army will deal with it. My son had an old injury from Jr. High when he had suffered a fracture in his shoulder. The fracture was fully healed, but the added strain of push-ups caused him to have a severe case of tendinitis in that shoulder. His chain of command had him evaluated and my son was put on anti-inflammatory medications. He was also excused from the push ups for a few days while they got the inflammation under control. Once it was under control he was returned to his normal training and PT and had no more problems with it. He graduated on time. Another friend of his suffered a severe fracture due to some abnormalities in his foot that were previously unknown. The Army discharged the young man after treating him for his fractures. He was no longer eligible for service due to the unknown medical issues that surfaced.
AIT can be a little different in regards to illness/injury and what is done. It does depend on your soldier’s MOS and what the AIT school is equipped for. When my husband broke his femur during OCS training, he could not stay and be rehabbed. OCS does not have a rehab unit. Most (if not all?) AIT schools will have a way to rehab most injuries that occur. Of course there is never a guarantee, and every case has to be evaluated for what is best for both the Army and the soldier.
Hang in there and remember (the one thing that got me through) that TraDoc is a beast unto itself and day to day Army life is very different once training is over. Injuries and illnesses happen on any job, and the Army is not immune to them either. However, your soldier will be taken care of.
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2. What if someone runs into him and break his arm? Because it happened during a non army event will there be consequences?
3. Is he in TraDoc? If he is he will be recycled… which means he will be in HHC until his arm is healed enough… unless they feel the break has compromised and he will no longer be able to do pushups. It all depends on the severity of the break and his prognosis.
4. My son is in AIT at Fort Benning and during a field exercise his left Arm was dislocated..he has to wear a demobleizer for about 10 days..up til now he’s done great..do you think if the dr. releases him for full duty after the 10 days he’ll be able to grad. with his company or will he be recycled?
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Why don’t city’s public schools outperform charter schools?
Published: Tue, April 27, 2010 @ 12:00 a.m.
Why don’t city’s public schools outperform charter schools?
In 1998 Eagle Heights Academy opened as one of the largest charter schools in Ohio. Since then, it has become a benchmark in technology and has implemented research-based inquiry in the school curriculum. Utilizing a variety of teaching strategies, Eagle Heights Academy has offered the students of Youngstown a choice in education.
Before charter schools came on the scene like “gang busters” in the late 1990s, the children of our community had no choice of where they could go to school. Unless, of course, they happened to have a family that could afford to send them to a private or, in the case of the current president of the Youngstown City Schools, a parochial school.
Yes, that’s right. Anthony Catale, the current board president of the Youngstown City School District, who was quoted in an April 20 story advocating the closing of Eagle Heights, is a young adult in his early twenties who has never attended a Youngstown public school. As a youth he spent his days in popular parochial schools such as St. Brendan’s and Ursuline, never truly experiencing a day in the life of a city school student. Furthermore, Mr. Catale does not have a degree in education. He knows nothing of teaching strategies or children’s ability to learn.
Why does this bother me? Well, I’m sick and tired of all of these so-called experts passing judgment on what they think rather than on what they know. Yes, Eagle Heights has had its share of problems getting students to pass these standardized tests. Yes, its run is over come June 2010. However, Eagle Heights Academy has had the heart to go head-to-head with federal, state, and local politics to make a difference in the lives of the children in this community. That’s more than I can say about Youngstown city schools, which are still where they are today as they were when Eagle Heights Academy opened.
Why didn’t the city schools take the challenge to improve the students they had and “win” their students back from all of the charter schools that opened their doors over the past 12 years? Why are they still pointing fingers at everyone but themselves?
John Beitzel, Boardman
The writer is a teacher at Eagle Heights Academy.
1CShaughnessy(3 comments)posted 3 years, 10 months ago
In regards to the above article John Beitzel doesn't hesitate to make a slam againest his cousin Anthony Catale, is it maybe he's frustrated that the second charter school he has taught at is now closing because of poor academic standing? Also he comments about Anthony not attending Youngstown City Schools, as a youngster that was not Anthony's decision, but his parents who worked and struggled to pay for the Catholic faith education that they wanted him to have. And since when is John an authority on Youngstown City schools, John had the priveledge of growing up in Canfield and attended that school system all his life. Lastly, he knows nothing of Anthony's education, Anthony is a subsitute teacher in several area school districts, attending school currently for further teaching credentials, at 23 years old Anthony has more knowledge of the school system then many. John expresses winning the children back over the last twelve years, Anthony has only been on the board for two, you can't change a village over night, give them time and I'm sure they'll win them back!!!
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2chippewa3(6 comments)posted 3 years, 10 months ago
I was a teacher at Eagle Heights for many years and I , too, am deeply rooted in my faith. Believe me we were NOT underpaid, nor are we inexperienced. We've had behavior issues that some teachers did struggle with, even if the kids are supposedly hand-selected from Youngstown City's finest. I did a stint as a sub at Sheridan Elementary in Youngstown years ago , before EHA, and what a mess that was! Talk about tearing a substitute apart!
I applaud John ( who has won awards for his teaching) for speaking out against the bashing we've received for years just trying to do our jobs the best we can.
IF no other charter takes over EHA, YCS had better be ready to take in 750 students.I'm curious... Where are they going to put them? Who's going to teach them if they keep letting teachers go? Maxed out classes with 35 students in a room? How will that turn things around?
I sincerely hope the best for YCS. I hope Mr. Catale does turn the whole thing around. We do need more strong Christian men deeply rooted in their faith to come in and take over Youngstown. As Anthony knows Christ taught us to "love our neighbors as our selves".
Too often even Christians fail to live out those commands.
P.S. I went to Kirkmere, Volney, and Chaney.
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3TheSub(1 comment)posted 3 years, 10 months ago
Directed at Peggy6, I'll just start by saying that I, too, have subbed at Eagle Heights Academy. I have done so for the past 6 years. Unlike your daughter, I have had a much different experience at EHA. Though it is true that some students and classrooms can be unruly and out of control, I have NOT found this to be the norm. I think it is unfortunate that your daughter felt threatened by a student; however, I must say that most times administration has responded to any situations. I would also like to take the opportunity to compliment the staff at EHA who work very hard to improve the scores of these students. I have had the fortune of watching two of my own children succeed, and, although they attended schools of excellence, there are many of these teachers who would have been as good, if not better, teachers than the ones that taught my children.
To psyker99: If memory serves me, in the 2009 academic year EHA produced students with higher OAT (now OAA) scores than those of Youngstown City. So how are the public schools doing better?
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4isaacsmom(2 comments)posted 3 years, 10 months ago
Have any of you who are complaining about Eagle Heights Academy ever spent a day in our school or come to any of our events? If you had, you would see a quality education taking place. No matter what school you go to anywhere there are problems, but look at the education taking place. How many of EHA students get into Early College, Mooney and Ursuline? Many! My own children have attended EHA. I have lived many places in the US, and if there was not a quality education at EHA, my sons would not get their educational foundations here. My oldest son transitioned to Austintown without any problems.
Eagle Heights Academy teacher/parent
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5straycat(1 comment)posted 3 years, 10 months ago
I challenge any teacher, administrator, school board member or general member of society to spend one day walking in the shoes of those that work at Eagle Heights Academy. Most of you would likely not return because it is a challenge. The staff at EHA embrace the challenges set before them and give their all to educate the students in their classrooms. It's offensive when outsiders, those with no knowledge of the educational system or teachers within, make comments about the EHA being underqualified and inexperienced. There are staff members with Master's Degrees, National Board Certifications and 30 plus years experience within the walls of EHA. Parents choose to send their children to Eagle Heights because of the dedication it's staff members display. I am proud of every member of the Eagle Heights staff. It has been and honor to work with them and a privelage to teach the students that walk through those doors every day. Thank you to our dedicated and supportive parents.
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6dreamcatcher52(140 comments)posted 3 years, 10 months ago
Eagle Heights has had the same challenges as YCS and has similar results. Their test scores are low, but as in YCS, that doesn't tell the whole story. I would have no problem with charter schools if they had to live by the same rules as public schools - accept all students that come to them, follow all the state requirements for Spec. Ed, etc.
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7toomuchapathy(14 comments)posted 3 years, 10 months ago
There are many assumptions in this letter that need to be addressed. No where in the country is there a "qualified" school board. Why? Because the school board is an elected position making administrative and political decisions. There are twenty somethings on the school board, like Catale and Hanni, who are undoubtedly using their position as a spring board to further political careers. There are also members who are construction workers, water department workers, (that also send their children to private schools) who use the post in other ways.
While Catale may substitute teach or be working toward certification, he would not be allowed to teach and be on the school board, conflict of interest. Not to mention trying to get a teaching job with his political background would be impossible, no principal wants a rival.
And furthermore, I think anyone living in the city limits would work to send their children to private schools if financially feasible... because the city schools and the charter school ARE NOT performing. It doesn't matter if you have heart or if you really care.
Sociologically speaking, a child's academic success is based on a variety of factors, and teacher and school quality are just a few of them. Youngstown needs to address a multitude of factors in order to help the schools and the community. Wendy Webb talks about how hard it is to educate a child when they are moving every nine weeks (because of evictions and bad housing). If you have ever moved, you could imagine how hard that would be for any parent or child and then to navigate switching schools.
Before getting a permanent position, I worked as a substitute at Eagle Heights, and it was not very different from any city school in curriculum, mood, or performance. Because of all the factors listed above.
Schooling is a societal issue, and until it is treated as such, we will continue to have this banter.
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8isaacsmom(2 comments)posted 3 years, 10 months ago
In response to dreamcatcher52, we at EHA are required to do exactly the same as YCS in regards to students. We have to accept anyone, if we have an opening, and are required to follow all state laws in every aspect of education.
Eagle Heights Academy teacher/parent
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9chippewa3(6 comments)posted 3 years, 10 months ago
How far we've come from truly being "teachers". When Jesus walked the earth He was called "Rabbi", or teacher, and considered the little children of the highest faith. So much so that he challenged us in the book of Mark to have faith such as them.In all this debate about charter schools vs. city schools the little children have gotten lost. We see money, hostility, and agendas; struggles for power and pridefulness over who's the best.How have we strayed so far from what is an age-old, yet crucial, profession? I hope that we will find our way back as a society to the simple ability of raising and teaching children as we were intended centuries ago...
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10ytownLADY79(26 comments)posted 3 years, 10 months ago
If this is the case, these two are pretty bold. This could also be the beginning of the end of any political career if they don't help fix the schools!
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Schmidt (Max Greenfield), to the gang:
Can we just take a moment to celebrate me? Schmidtty really did it this time. I mean, I’m having Indian every night.
12. Nick goes to some strange places when he “self-completes”...
Nick, seeing Jess in her winter gear:
Oh, I get it. It’s actually kind of a fantasy of mine. Could you say the following words out loud? “The ice roads are too dangerous. You’re gonna have to turn back, Chief.”
I’m not saying that.
11. How supportive
Schmidt, when he sees Cece running:
Oh, Cece, that sports bra is doing God’s work right now.
10. Apt metaphor
Cece, on her fling with Schmidt:
It wasn’t some big conspiracy. It was something that happened and then got out of control, sort of like poison oak.
9. They’re both in the wrong
Schmidt, a couple months ago I found Nick using your chenille throw as a napkin.
Schmidt, to Nick:
That is a microfiber blend from Pakistan, you heathen.
Stop quoting the catalogue like a weirdo.
8. $#*! Russian models say
Nadia, pointing at Schmidt and laughing:
Jew in the couch! Jew in the couch!
Nadia, American manners!
Sorry, Jew person in couch.
Schmidt, looking at Cece:
She’s not wrong.
7. It’s Jess!
Jess, to Schmidt and Cece:
Two moons have passed since you started doing it?
Winston (Lamorne Morris):
Why do you start talking like a Native American when you get angry?
Two moons have passed!
6. 21-year-old girls are scary creatures
Nick’s fling, Holly:
It’s my favorite scarf, because it’s a circle, so you never have to think about which end goes on the right or on the left. My therapist gave it to me. She’s Asian, but she’s the nicest.
5. Point to ponder
Why do all female runners look like old German women when they run?
4. We’re judging, too
Cece (in a flashback):
I had to give it a try, Jess. I mean, that was the same hand that was inside Elmo.
Jess, in a super judgy voice:
3. Close, Nick. Real close
Schmidt, while teaching Nick the ways of the d-bag:
Nick, you’re terrible at lying. So what we want to do, we want to focus on S.S.V. Short, simple... [points at Nick]
Vague, it’s actually vague.
2. The Jesus hawk excuse is the most plausible
Schmidt, pretending to be one of Nick’s girls:
Hey, what happened to your phone?
Jesus took it. A Jesus hawk on a speedboat. The environment. Bears!
1. Umbrella and everything
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C++ Tutorial: Getting Started
This tutorial shows you how to create, compile, and run a Native Client web application. The Native Client module you will create as part of the web application will be written in C++.
We recommend reading the Native Client Technical Overview prior to going through this tutorial.
Parts in a Native Client application
A Native Client web application consists of at least three parts:
• a web page (*.html)
• The web page can include HTML, JavaScript, and CSS (the JavaScript and CSS can also go in separate .js and .css files).
• a Native Client module (*.c or *.cc before compiling; *.nexe after compiling)
• Native Client modules can be written in C or C++. Modules use the Pepper API, included in the SDK, as a bridge between the browser and the modules.
• a manifest file (*.nmf)
• Browsers use an application's manifest file to determine which compiled Native Client module to load based on the instruction set architecture of the user's machine (e.g., x86-32, x86-64, or ARM).
What the application in this tutorial does
The application in this tutorial shows how to load a Native Client module in a web page, and how to send messages between JavaScript code and the C or C++ code in the Native Client module. In this simple application, the JavaScript code in the web page sends a 'hello' message to the Native Client module. When the Native Client module receives a message, it checks whether the message is equal to the string 'hello'. If it is, the Native Client module returns a message saying 'hello from NaCl'. A JavaScript alert panel displays the message received from the Native Client module.
This tutorial also shows you how to create a set of template files that you can use as a starting point for a Native Client application. The template code sets up a simple message handler on the Native Client side, and includes boilerplate code in the HTML file for adding an event listener to the web page to receive messages from the Native Client module.
Communication between JavaScript code and Native Client modules
Communication between JavaScript code in the browser and C or C++ code in a Native Client module is two-way: JavaScript code can send messages to the Native Client module; the C or C++ code can respond to messages from JavaScript, or it can initiate its own messages to JavaScript. In all cases, the communication is asynchronous: The caller (the JavaScript code in the browser or the C/C++ code in the Native Client module) sends a message, but the caller does not wait for, or may not even expect, a response. This behavior is analogous to client/server communication on the web, where the client posts a message to the server and returns immediately. The Native Client messaging system is part of the Pepper API, and is described in detail in the Messaging System chapter in the Developer's Guide.
Step 1: Download and install the Native Client SDK, Python, and Xcode Developer Tools (if necessary).
Follow the instructions on the Download page to download and install the Native Client SDK.
Important: A number of tools in the SDK require Python to run. Python is typically included on Mac and Linux systems, but not on Windows systems. To check whether you have Python installed on your system, enter the 'python' command on the command line; you should get the interactive Python prompt (>>>). On Mac systems, you also need to install 'make' in order to build and run the examples in the SDK; one easy way to get 'make', along with several other useful tools, is to install Xcode Developer Tools. Follow the instructions at the top of the Download page if you need to install Python and/or Xcode Developer Tools.
Step 2: Start a local server.
To protect against security vulnerabilities, you must load Native Client modules from a web server (either remote or local). Simply dragging and dropping Native Client files into the browser address bar will not work. For more information, read about the Same Origin Policy, which protects the user's file system from outside access.
The Native Client SDK includes a simple Python web server that you can use to run applications that you build (including the application in this tutorial). The server is located in the tools directory. To start the web server, go to the examples directory in the SDK bundle that you are using and run the script. For example, if you are using the pepper_30 bundle, run the following commands:
cd pepper_30/examples
python ../tools/
If you don't specify a port number, the server defaults to port 5103, and you can access the server at http://localhost:5103.
Of course, you don't have to use the server included in the SDK—any web server will do. If you prefer to use another web server already installed on your system, that's fine. Note also that there are ways to run Native Client applications during development without a server, but these techniques require you to create additional files for your application (see Running Native Client Applications for details). For this tutorial, your application must come from a server.
Step 3: Set up Google Chrome.
Set up the Chrome browser as follows:
1. Make sure you are using the minimum required version of Chrome.
• Your version of Chrome must be equal to or greater than the version of your Pepper bundle. For example, if you're developing with the pepper_30 bundle, you must use Google Chrome version 30 or greater. To find out what version of Chrome you're using, type about:chrome or about:version in the Chrome address bar.
2. Enable the Native Client flag in Chrome. (Native Client is enabled by default for applications distributed through the Chrome Web Store. To run Native Client applications that are not distributed through the Chrome Web Store, e.g., applications that you build and run locally, you must specifically enable the Native Client flag in Chrome.)
• Type about:flags in the Chrome address bar and scroll down to "Native Client".
• If the link below "Native Client" says "Disable", then Native Client is already enabled and you don't need to do anything else.
• If the link below "Native Client" says "Enable", click the "Enable" link, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click the "Relaunch Now" button. All browser windows will restart when you relaunch Chrome.
3. Disable the Chrome cache. (Chrome caches resources aggressively; you should disable the cache whenever you are developing a Native Client application in order to make sure Chrome loads new versions of your application.)
• Open Chrome's developer tools by clicking the menu icon menu icon and choosing Tools > Developer tools.
• Click the gear icon gear icon in the bottom right corner of the Chrome window.
• Under the "General" settings, check the box next to "Disable cache".
Step 4: Create a set of stub files for your application.
Create a set of stub files as follows:
1. Download
2. Unzip
• On Mac/Linux, run the command "unzip" in a Terminal window.
• On Windows, right-click on the .zip file and select "Extract All…". A dialog box will open; enter a location and click "Extract".
3. Unzipping creates a directory called hello_tutorial with the following files:
• hello_tutorial.html
• hello_tutorial.nmf
• Makefile
• make.bat (for Windows)
4. Move the hello_tutorial directory so that it's under the examples directory where you started the local server. Its location should be, e.g., pepper_30/examples/hello_tutorial.
• On Windows, depending on the location you entered when you unzipped the file, there may be two hello_tutorial directories—one nested within the other. Move only the inner (nested) directory to the examples directory.
Note regarding the location of project directories:
• In this tutorial, you are adding the hello_tutorial directory under the examples directory because the examples directory is where your local server is running, ready to serve your tutorial application. You can place your project directory anywhere on your file system, as long as that location is being served by your server.
• If you do place the hello_tutorial project directory in another location, you must set the environment variable NACL_SDK_ROOT to point to the top-level directory of the bundle you are using (e.g., <location-where-you-installed-the-SDK>/pepper_30) in order for the Makefile that's included in the project directory to work.
• If you use the location recommended above (pepper_30/examples/hello_tutorial), be careful when you update the SDK. The command 'naclsdk update pepper_30 --force' will overwrite the pepper_30 directory, so move any project directories you want to keep to another location.
Step 5: Compile the Native Client module and run the stub application.
The files you downloaded in the previous step constitute a stub application that simply loads a Native Client module into a web page and updates a <div> element on the page with the status of the module load.
To compile the Native Client module, run 'make':
cd pepper_30/examples/hello_tutorial
The 'make' command runs the necessary compile and link commands to produce three executable Native Client modules (for the x86-32, x86-64, and ARM architectures). The executable files are named as follows:
• hello_tutorial_x86_32.nexe
• hello_tutorial_x86_64.nexe
• hello_tutorial_arm.nexe
Assuming you are using the local server and the project directory specified above, you can load the hello_tutorial.html web page into Chrome by visiting the following URL: http://localhost:5103/hello_tutorial/hello_tutorial.html. If Chrome loads the Native Client module successfully, the Status display on the page should change from "LOADING..." to "SUCCESS".
Step 6: Review the code in the stub application.
The section highlights some of the code in the stub application.
Makefile contains the compile and link commands to build the executable Native Client modules (.nexe files) for your application. The Native Client SDK includes multiple GCC‑based toolchains to build modules for multiple architectures (x86 and ARM) using different implementations of the C library (newlib and glibc). The commands in the tutorial Makefile build the application using the newlib C library for the x86 and ARM architectures. The commands use the toolchains located in the pepper_30/toolchain/<platform>_x86_newlib and <platform>_arm_newlib directories. For information about how to use Makefiles and the 'make' command, see the GNU 'make' manual.
hello_tutorial.nmf is a Native Client manifest file that tells Chrome which compiled Native Client module (.nexe) to load based on the instruction set architecture of the user's machine (e.g., x86-32, x86-64, or ARM). For applications compiled using glibc, manifest files must also specify the shared libraries that the applications use.
hello_tutorial.html is the web page that corresponds to your application. The page includes an <embed> element that loads the compiled Native Client module:
<div id="listener">
<script type="text/javascript">
var listener = document.getElementById('listener');
listener.addEventListener('load', moduleDidLoad, true);
listener.addEventListener('message', handleMessage, true);
<embed name="nacl_module"
width=0 height=0
type="application/x-nacl" />
The src attribute in the <embed> element points to the Native Client manifest file, which tells the browser which .nexe file to load based on the instruction set architecture of the user's machine. The width and height attributes in the <embed> element are set to 0 because the Native Client module in this example does not have any graphical component. The type attribute declares the MIME type to be x-nacl, i.e., an executable Native Client module.
The <embed> element is wrapped inside a <div> element that has two event listeners attached—one for the 'load' event, which fires when the browser successfully loads the Native Client module, and one for the 'message' event, which fires when the Native Client module uses the PostMessage() method (in the pp::Instance class) to send a message to the JavaScript code in the application. This technique of attaching the event listeners to a parent <div> element (rather than directly to the <embed> element) is used to ensure that the event listeners are active before the module 'load' event fires.
The simple event handlers in this tutorial are implemented in the moduleDidLoad() and handleMessage() JavaScript functions. moduleDidLoad() changes the text inside the 'status_field' <div> element. handleMessage() displays the content of messages sent from the Native Client module in a browser alert panel. For a description of 'load', 'message', and other Native Client events, see the Progress Events chapter of the Developer's Guide.
Native Client includes the concept of modules and instances:
• A module is C or C++ code compiled into an executable .nexe file.
• An instance is a rectangle on a web page that is managed by a module. The rectangle can have dimensions 0x0, in which case the instance does not have a visual component on the web page. An instance is created by including an <embed> element in a web page. A module may be included in a web page multiple times by using multiple <embed> elements that refer to the module; in this case the Native Client runtime system loads the module once and creates multiple instances that are managed by the module.
The example in this tutorial includes one module (hello_tutorial_x86_32.nexe, hello_tutorial_x86_64.nexe, or hello_tutorial_arm.nexe, depending on the instruction set architecture of the user's machine), and one instance (one <embed> element that loads the module). The source code for the module is in the file This source code contains the minimum code required in a C++ Native Client module—an implementation of the Instance and Module classes. These implementations don't actually do anything yet.
Step 7: Modify the web page to send a message to the Native Client module.
In this step, you'll modify the web page (hello_tutorial.html) to send a message to the Native Client module after the page loads the module.
Look for the JavaScript function moduleDidLoad(), and add the new code below (indicated by boldface type) to send a 'hello' message to the Native Client module:
function moduleDidLoad() {
HelloTutorialModule = document.getElementById('hello_tutorial');
// Send a message to the NaCl module.
Step 8: Implement a message handler in the Native Client module.
In this step, you'll modify the Native Client module ( to respond to the message received from the JavaScript code in the application. Specifically, you'll:
• implement the HandleMessage() function for the module, and
• use the PostMessage() function to send a message from the module to the JavaScript code
First, add code to define the variables used by the Native Client module (the 'hello' string you're expecting to receive from JavaScript and the reply string you want to return to JavaScript as a response). In the file, add this code after the #include statements:
namespace {
// The expected string sent by the browser.
const char* const kHelloString = "hello";
// The string sent back to the browser upon receipt of a message
// containing "hello".
const char* const kReplyString = "hello from NaCl";
} // namespace
Now, implement the HandleMessage() method to check for kHelloString and return kReplyString. Look for the following line:
// TODO(sdk_user): 1. Make this function handle the incoming message.
Replace the above line with the boldface code below:
virtual void HandleMessage(const pp::Var& var_message) {
if (!var_message.is_string())
std::string message = var_message.AsString();
pp::Var var_reply;
if (message == kHelloString) {
var_reply = pp::Var(kReplyString);
See the Pepper API documentation for additional information about the pp::Instance.HandleMessage and pp::Instance.PostMessage methods.
Step 9: Compile the Native Client module and run the application again.
Compile the Native Client module by running the 'make' command again.
Run the application by reloading hello_tutorial.html in Chrome. (The page should be at http://localhost:5103/hello_tutorial/hello_tutorial.html assuming the setup described above.)
After Chrome loads the Native Client module, you should see an alert panel appear with the message sent from the module.
If your application doesn't run, see Step 3 above to verify that you've set up your environment correctly, including both the Chrome browser and the local server. Make sure that you're running a version of Chrome that is equal to or greater than the SDK bundle version you are using, that you've enabled the Native Client flag and relaunched Chrome, that you've disabled the Chrome cache, and that you're accessing your application from a local web server (rather than by dragging the HTML file into your browser).
For additional troubleshooting information, check the FAQ.
Next steps
• See the Application Structure chapter in the Developer's Guide for information about how to structure a Native Client module.
• Check the C++ Reference for details about how to use the Pepper APIs.
• Browse through the source code of the SDK examples (in the examples directory) to learn additional techniques for writing Native Client applications and using the Pepper APIs.
• See the Building, Running, and Debugging pages for information about how to build, run, and debug Native Client applications.
• Check the naclports project to see what libraries have been ported for use with Native Client. If you port an open-source library for your own use, we recommend adding it to naclports (see How to check code into naclports).
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An adjuvant (from Latin, adiuvare: to aid) is a pharmacological and/or immunological agent that modifies the effect of other agents. Adjuvants are inorganic or organic chemicals, macromolecules or entire cells of certain killed bacteria, which enhance the immune response to an antigen. They may be included in a vaccine to enhance the recipient's immune response to the supplied antigen, thus minimizing the amount of injected foreign material.[1][2] Adjuvants are also used in the production of antibodies from immunized animals. The most commonly used adjuvants include aluminum hydroxide and paraffin oil.[1][2]
Immunologic adjuvants[edit]
Immunologic adjuvants are added to vaccines to stimulate the immune system's response to the target antigen, but do not in themselves confer immunity. Adjuvants can act in various ways in presenting an antigen to the immune system. Adjuvants can act as a depot for the antigen, presenting the antigen over a long period of time, thus maximizing the immune response before the body clears the antigen. Examples of depot type adjuvants are oil emulsions. Adjuvants can also act as an irritant which causes the body to recruit and amplify its immune response.[3] A tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis vaccine, for example, contains minute quantities of toxins produced by each of the target bacteria, but also contains some aluminium hydroxide.[4] Such aluminium salts are common adjuvants in vaccines sold in the United States and have been used in vaccines for over 70 years.[5] The body's immune system develops an antitoxin to the bacteria's toxins, not to the aluminium, but would not respond enough without the help of the aluminium adjuvant.
Mechanisms of adjuvants[edit]
Adjuvants are needed to improve the routing and adaptive immune responses to antigens. This reaction is mediated by two main types of lymphocytes, B and T cells. Adjuvants can apply their effects through different mechanisms. Some adjuvants, such as alum, function as delivery systems by generating depots that trap antigens at the injection site, providing slow release in order to continue the stimulation of the immune system.[6]
Adjuvants as stabilizing agents[edit]
Although immunological adjuvants have traditionally been viewed as substances that aid the immune response to antigen, adjuvants have also evolved as substances that can aid in stabilizing formulations of antigens, especially for vaccines administered for animal health.[3]
Types of adjuvants[edit]
The mechanism of immune stimulation by adjuvants[edit]
Adjuvants can enhance the immune response to the antigen in different ways:
• extend the presence of antigen in the blood
• help absorb the antigen presenting cells antigen
• activate macrophages and lymphocytes
• support the production of cytokines
Alum as an adjuvant[edit]
Alum is the most commonly used adjuvant in human vaccination. It is found in numerous vaccines, including diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis, human papillomavirus, and hepatitis vaccines.[7]
See also[edit]
1. ^ a b "ABC News: Swine Flu Vaccine: What The Heck Is an Adjuvant, Anyway? (2009)". 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2010-06-14.
2. ^ a b "Definition of immunological adjuvant -- NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms". Retrieved 2010-08-27.
3. ^ a b "Adjuvants as stabilizing agents". Benchmark Biolabs, Inc. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
4. ^ "Boostrix Prescribing Information" (pdf). GlaxoSmithKline. 2009. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
5. ^ Clapp, Tanya; Siebert, Paul; Chen, Dexiang; Jones Braun, Latoya (2011). "Vaccines with aluminium-containing adjuvants: Optimizing vaccine efficacy and thermal stability". Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 100 (2): 388–401. doi:10.1002/jps.22284. PMID 20740674.
6. ^ Leroux-Roels G., 2010. Unmet needs in modern vaccinology adjuvants to improve the immune response. Vaccine. 28S(3):C25-3.
7. ^ Marrack, Philippa; Amy S. McKee; Michael W. Munks (2009). "Towards an understanding of the adjuvant action of aluminium". Nature Reviews Immunology 9 (4): 287–293. doi:10.1038/nri2510. ISSN 1474-1733.
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Agha Shorish Kashmiri
Born Abdul Karim Shorish
Lahore, British India
Died November 6, 1975(1975-11-06)
Lahore, Pakistan
Pen name Shorish
Occupation Journalist, orator, poet, political activist, historian
Nationality Pakistani
Citizenship Pakistani
Genres Nazm and articles
Agha Shorish Kashmiri (1917-1975) was a scholar, writer, debater, and leader of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam party. He was a figure of the freedom movement of undivided India, as well as the chief editor of the weekly Chattan.[1]
Kashmiri started his political career in 1935 when he delivered a historical speech at the Shaheed Ganj Mosque conference, during the presidency of Zafar Ali Khan. He was a student of Zafar Ali Khan, but was disappointed by the violence at the Shaheed Ganj Mosque in 1935.[2]
Kashmiri was impressed by Chaudhry Afzal Haq, who was a political leader of Indian sub-continent, so he joined All-India Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam and the struggle for Ahrar Party. Kashmiri was also impressed by his religious and political teacher in typical word murshad Ameer-e-Shariyyat Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari.[vague]
Kashmiri was elected as secretary General of All-India Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam in 1946. He played a role[3] in Tehreek-e-Khatme Nabuwwat in 1974.
1. ^ Aḥmad, Bashīr (1994). The Ahmadiyya Movement. Islamic Study Forum. pp. 356–358. OCLC 46733666.
2. ^ Mirza, Janbaz (December 2012). Masla Masjid Shaheed Ganj. Maktaba Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam. pp. 161–169.
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I come from a roughly similar background, I started out fresh out of high school in tech support, though had done some programming on the side.
I enjoyed programming more though, so gravitated towards that, and so glad I did. Most of the people I knew from my time in the support / admin trenches have similar stories to tell, apart from some exceptions doing large-scale work for Google, eBay, and telecoms.
On average I think programmers are compensated better, and generally enjoy a better work environment.
When you're seen as working in a cost center as sysadmin and network admin often is, you'll always have the spectre of downsizing/outsourcing hanging over you.
Just don't work permanently at a consultancy (ugh). If you must work permanently, do so for 2-3 year stints, and at product-focused places or places where software engineering isn't just doing crappy line of business apps.
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Tarantino Defends Use of the N-Word in ‘Django Unchained’
In an interview, Quentin Tarantino defended how many times he used the N-word in his slavery film, Django Unchained. He argued that it would be “ridiculous” to pull punches on the word despite the film’s setting of 1858 Mississippi. In another talk, Tarantino said that using the word is his way dealing “truthfully” with the time period.
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I got a disorderly conduct a few years back when I was young and stupid. The school sent me a form to fill out about arrest and conviction records and if I was ever convicted of a crime other than a minor traffic violation. Do I circle yes or no??
Has anyone not gotten into school b/c of this before? I've already been accepted!
Input is very appreciated!
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If you lie on that form and get caught.....I guarantee that you will get kicked out. Be honest.
If you lie now, what would prevent you from telling a lie on an anesthesia OR record? That is what the admissions committee will be thinking.
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I'm sure programs have seen their share of criminal records and that many people are forgiven prior transgressions. It will depend on the circumstances and the explanation you provide. Be honest, straightforward and take responsibility for your misdeeds.
If it was long enough ago, a minor infraction, or occurred while you were a minor, you might be able to get the record sealed. You would have to research your state laws and petition the court.
But lying on any application is grounds for dismissal at any point. You don't want that hanging over your head throughout the program.
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I've known people with DUIs and other really bad records to get in. The factor that makes up for it was how long ago and what they have done since then. Those who had gotten in had really turned their life around.
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Ummm...you circle yes.
They are going to do a pretty good background check on you anyway, so they will most likely find out. The point is, there is no reason to lie. You have already been accepted, why even entertain the thought of screwing that up. And, as another poster stated, they will see it as if you are willing to lie now, what else will you or have you already lied about????
I understand how you feel. I got a DUI many years ago and have had to put it on every app since (nursing school, anesthesia school, and job apps). Makes you feel like crap to have to do it, but you have to own up to your mistakes and be accountable.
You will be fine.
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Someone has just given me a free mountain bike (No obvious branding on it, but its got a 21-speed Shimano gear system and a shock absorber between the front and back of the bike in the middle of the chassis). It's been sitting in a shed, un-touched for about 2-3 years.
It's clearly in need of a service (lubricating, replacing the brake cables as their ends are frayed). But is there anything in particular that I should look for which would indicate that it's not worth repairing and that I should give it to someone else for parts?
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BTW, frayed ends on the brake cables isn't really a problem. It just means that someone failed to install the little cable end crimp-on things when they installed the cables. Messy, but it does not indicate a problem with the cables themselves. – Daniel R Hicks Apr 10 '12 at 1:22
I think the answer would depend mostly if you are a mechanically oriented person or not. Taking the case of this bike as an exercise to learn about bikes is surely worth the challenge, but might not worth the trouble otherwise. – heltonbiker Apr 10 '12 at 1:31
Forgetting to say thank you? – zenbike Apr 10 '12 at 5:07
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It's probably worth riding, if you don't have another bike.
First, of course, simply wipe off the dust (or hose it down and wipe dry). Then examine for bad rust. If it's an inexpensive bike that was stored where it wasn't completely dry there's apt to be some rust spots here and there, which is OK. But gobs of rust around the bearings is a bad sign. If the chain is badly rusted that's not fatal, but not a great sign.
Air up the tires. (Once you decide you'll be a bike rider you'll want to get a bike pump of the full-sized "floor" variety.) Then pick up the bike and spin each tire -- they should spin freely, with no gritty feel in the bearings. Note that the brakes may drag, but that's not a serious problem.
Pick up the rear wheel (or hang the whole thing from ropes or some such) and then turn the pedals with your hand. The chain will likely clatter quite a bit, but by adjusting the shifters (and maybe "helping" the chain with your hand a bit) you should be able to get squarely onto gears front and rear and then turn the crank at a fair pace. There may still be clatter, but you shouldn't feel a gritty feeling in the bearings of the crank. (Note that if the chain is badly rusted with "frozen links" you won't be able to get beyond this point.)
Next, try the brakes. If the bike has been exposed to the weather the brake cables are apt to be badly rusted, but that not a big ticket item. But for a test ride you want at least one working brake.
If you get this far, try to adjust the seat to about your height (this may require an Allen wrench of the appropriate metric size, or a regular adjustable wrench for a bolt head). (Keep in mind that if anything on the bike is rusted it's apt to be the seat height adjustment, though.)
But if you can get the seat semi-adjusted, get on the bike and try riding a short distance. If you're brave you can try the shifters, but you're more feeling for a grinding feeling anywhere, in the pedals, wheels, or steering. And somewhere along the way examine the condition of the tires, looking in particular for cracks in the sidewalls.
At this point you may have no problems at all with the bike, in which case you can just ride it, though you should probably take it to a shop to be tuned up within a few weeks (or buy a good book on the topic and do it yourself).
Or you may have found something (rusted brake cables, bad shifting, rotten tires, etc) that isn't "fatal" but demands more immediate service. Almost certainly worth paying a shop to fix.
Or you may have found crunchy bearings, severe overall rust, or some other problem that makes the bike at best a "fixer upper". Only spend money on this one if you've got a "thing" for "lonely" machines.
One thing to note: If you decide, for whatever reason, that the bike is not for you, ask around for an organization that "recycles" them. In our area Christmas Anonymous and the Kiwanis Club will take bikes in any condition to be rehabbed for kids and needy adults. Bikes that are in too bad of shape to be rehabbed are stripped for spare parts and the rest is recycled.
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Wow, that's a very comprehensive checklist - thanks! This is going to be a great help. – Mark Henderson Apr 10 '12 at 1:45
+1 for the recycling tip. – Jahaziel Apr 10 '12 at 17:48
The only thing I would really add to this list is check the wheels for a serious 'wobble' and/or rubbing against the brakes unevenly. You can true a wheel most of the time, but if you don't have the tools and know how it can cost a bit of cash. – Benzo Apr 13 '12 at 20:14
A freebie bike is a good place to learn how to true wheels. – Daniel R Hicks Apr 14 '12 at 9:42
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Depends on what you want to use it for and how much you like working on bikes yourself.
No obvious branding may or may not be a problem - you might have a POS made with cheap, heavy steel and knock-off components, or a perfectly good name-brand bike with good components. If you're not sure of the difference, you should ask a bike shop or someone who knows bikes.
In my experience, a good quality bike is pretty robust: my two bikes are 20 and 25 years old and are going strong and have never needed more than minimal maintenance. I've got a couple other bikes that are the same age that I'll get around to fixing up some day and I don't expect any problems with them.
OTOH, a cheap POS bike is often a pain to maintain - there are usually lots of rusty "stainless" fasteners, everything's sloppier, etc. If the bike's in decent shape, it could still be ok, but long-term use is more of a problem.
Either way, the things to look at are:
First - frame damage: are there dents, rust or buckled tubes? If the bike has had a head-on collision, you may see a frame buckle near the head tube. Is the derailleur straight or is it or the hanger bent?
Next, is the bike is in good riding condition? Is the drivetrain is smooth, do the gears shift crisply, is the braking smooth and effective? Look at the cogs and chainrings for worn (pointed) teeth, look at the braking surface on the rims: do they look worn?
If the bike is mostly ok, lube it up and change the cables (or get a shop to do it), but if it is just a cheap "department store" bike, I wouldn't plan on doing much more than that. If it's a decent bike with good components and it's working well now, I'd expect it to give you many years of good service.
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Check the most expensive parts first.Inspect the frame for cracks at all the weld points.Check the shock,sit on the bike and bounce on the seat.Does the shock compress and then rebound smoothly?Does the swing arm pivot smoothly with out binding?Squeeze the front brake and compress the fork.Again does it compress smoothly and rebound evenly?Unless it is a highend bike any of these repairs could cost more than the bike is worth.If you feel you can do it safely take it for a short slowspeed ride.Note any issues with shifting,stopping,wheels being true and spinning freely.A handful of inexpensive issues can cost as much as a single large repair.
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The thing I would try to avoid with a 'free' bike would be getting too involved with it, depending on the starting quality. I can only speak for myself, but given a project I tend to go overboard with ordering parts, upgrading broken/missing components, and otherwise sinking a lot of money into something that wasn't worth it in the first place, like a Next / Walmart bike.
I'd assess realistically what you want to do with it and how much you're actually going to ride it, etc. Tune up issues and the things most people have mentioned here are cheap fixes and in general worth doing if you're going to ride it at all. I'd stop before it gets to replacing forks / wheels / drivetrain, etc.
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According to the CIA World Factbook, Mexico has a population of about 111 million people with a net migration of “-3.61 migrant(s)/1,000 population.” I may be wrong about this but that means every year about 400,000 people leave Mexico.
I’m guessing that some of those migrants end up in the United States of America.
According to the U.K. Guardian, El Presidente Felipe Calderón is muy agravado over this new law and “promised to raise it with President Barack Obama during a visit to Washington next week.”
This would be really funny: How about if Maryland State Troopers were to stop Calderón’s motorcade on its way in to the District of Columbia from Andrews Air Force Base and made everyone show their passports?
OK, that’s not funny. But this is: According to reporter Ewen MacAskill:
The Mexican foreign ministry, long used to warnings from the US state department about the risks of travelling to Mexico because of drug wars, retaliated by issuing an alert to Mexicans and migrant communities because of the “adverse political atmosphere” in Arizona.
UPI wrote that the warning “advised Mexican nationals to use ‘extreme caution’ traveling to Arizona — even before the law takes effect — and listed consulates where people can get help.”
Calderón told a group of migrants in Mexico City Monday that “criminalizing immigration, which is a social and economic phenomenon, this way opens the door to intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse in law enforcement.”
Sneaking into the United States has long been criminalized. This law applies to people who are illegal aliens who, because the word “illegal” is involved, would appear to have been involved in criminal activity in the first place.More importantly, it seems that migrants in the U.S. are much safer than migrants in … Mexico as this lead paragraph from another U.K. Guardian article shows:
The report on which that article was based, states: “Migrants in Mexico are facing a major human rights crisis leaving them with virtually no access to justice, fearing reprisals and deportation if they complain of abuses.”
And, before you roll your eyes thinking this was the work of some anti-Mexican hack with an ax to grind, the report was produced and released by Amnesty International — not exactly an organization known for embracing conservative causes.
So, Sr. Presidente, why don’t you deal with the social and economic phenomenon of immigration in Mexico and let us deal with the s & e p of immigration in the United States?
Until that, let’s have an informal agreement: No American citizens will come to Mexico, and no Mexican citizens will come to the U.S.
¿tenemos un reparto?
1. John says:
The Mexican President can keep citizens from sneaking into the US by just warning them that they may not be welcome??? Why has this not been done years ago? Was not the border wall a broad hint? And does this mean the criminal element in Mexico will no longer “welcome” American tourists?
3. Jan says:
Mexico should talk about what AZ is doing, they(Mexico) doesn’t allow illegals in their country.
4. ausman says:
Illegal immigration is wrong. But the Arizona law is unconstitutional and unbecoming of this nation, a clear violation of our stated principles. Two wrongs do not make a right. Isn’t it interesting that the libertarian wing of the Republican Party doesn’t see this as a violation of individual rights and a harsh intrusion of government power against the individual? The same people who resolutely oppose a national identification card support the right of the police to stop anyone on mere, unsubstantiated supposition that the person looks like an illegal alien. That same Republican Party opposes meaningful sanctions against corporations who hire illegal labor. An interesting–and telling–dichotomy.
5. What about the rights of an American to be secure in their property and lives?
What about the people who own the place?
WE just get stampeeded?
I think not!
Arizona is first more will follow!
6. If Obama dont like it, let him send the US Army to protect the US!
7. Troy Taxpayer says:
I’ll dismiss the idiotic idea of invading Mexico and overthrowing the government as just that.
But let me get this straight, you tea-party geniuses think the federal government should launch a full-scale military operation on US soil to defend us from the Mexican invaders, hire an army of border patrol and INS processing agents, build and staff additional federal detention facilities to incarcerate the violators while they are being processed. Oh, and you’d appreciate it if we could also step up our efforts to bomb the terrorizers back into the sand on the other side of the planet.
While the federal gubmint is paying for all this you’d also like them to drastically reduce taxes and lower the deficit.
It makes sense to me. Maybe we could borrow the money from China?
8. Jan says:
Looking at all the protests today, round them all up, probably most of them don’t belong here..deport them, there won’t be too many chances like this to find them all at one time.
9. hawkny says:
These illegals are advance scouts, spies, trained assassins, etc…infiltrating the United States through Arizona. Mexico’s aim here is to take back, by force if necessary, the lands we stole from that country 150 years ago.
10. Sane American says:
I’m surprised that strong moves to secure our borders haven’t happened yet. What is happening in Arizona is just one step in the process of making sure that those who do not belong in this country are kept out. The real issue we should look at is to expend efforts to make our borders “very” secure. Once that is done, it will be unnecessary to have laws like they just passed in Arizona.
To use a metaphor: If our boat is taking on water, then yes we do need to bail the water out of the boat. We can even make rules about what kind of bucket to use. This would be quite an expensive effort to keep up. Eventually however we had better look at the real issue of plugging the leak.
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It's a great time to be a fan of The Marked Men and its offshoots. Not only does the band play out here and there, Mark Ryan's Mind Spiders have a new album out called Inhumanistic, and there's a new band called Radioactivity, which is about to release its debut LP in a few weeks. Featuring Marked Men co-vocalist/songwriter Jeff Burke, it also features a lot of familiar faces, including Mark Ryan. Lead single "World of Pleasure" debuted yesterday on Vice.
We caught up with Mark about this new band and the differences between all of the other bands these guys play in.
How long has Radioactivity been around?
Maybe about six months. I think that would be about right. Hang on a sec, let me think about that. [laughs] Yeah, I'd say six months.
Has this coincided with how long Jeff has been back in town?
Yeah, Jeff got back last September, so about a year ago. He had been writing songs while he was living in Japan so he had several albums worth of material that he wants to record. All this stuff is Jeff's. If somebody knows The Marked Men and is familiar with Jeff's songwriting, it'll be really familiar to them. I'm a big fan even though I'm in the band. I'm playing bass for that band and Gregory Rutherford, who plays in Bad Sports, is playing drums. Right now we're between guitarists because we're about to take Stephen [Svacina] from Sweet Talk on tour with us to Europe. We're leaving on Monday, actually. He's playing guitar with us for that tour. Daniel [Fried] from Bad Sports is also playing guitar in that band. So it's the normal cast of characters. [laughs] We recorded an album this summer and it should be out October 29th.
This is coming out on Dirtnap, right?
Yeah, it's coming out on Dirtnap.
Was the Radioactivity record and the new Mind Spiders record done at Cool Devices, your new studio near Fort Worth?
The Novice was something Jeff had in Japan or was it something he had in the States?
The Novice was his band in Japan. Basically, The Novice and Radioactivity is the same band, but sort of isn't. It's Jeff's material. That band became sort of a functioning band and he didn't feel right about carrying that name over here.
This will probably be the most-asked question of Radioactivity: what would you say is the difference between Radioactivity and The Marked Men?
I don't know. I guess this a better question for Jeff because Jeff has a really particular songwriting style and sound. Everything he does sort of sounds like him. If people are fans of Jeff's music, then they're going to like this. It sounds like Jeff. That's the way I can explain it. The dynamics of The Marked Men aren't there in the exact same way in the sense that the same people aren't playing the same instruments. I'm the only one from The Marked Men, playing bass, playing a different instrument.
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Make up/tats/scars/piercings: I have two cartilage piercings in the top of ear each and two at the lobe and a tragus on the left ear and an industrial on the right. I also have a Monroe on the left side. I have a “MADE IN CHINA” tattoo on the bottom of my right foot and part of psalm 23 around my right ankle. I just got a I don't usually wear make up, unless I'm going out or something, but my everyday is black eyeliner and mascara. I have scars on my back from falling on a floor heater when I was young, they look like tiger stripes. My left index finger has a scar running straight down to the nail from the knuckle. My right hand has a line running from the palm around the topside and to wrist. I have a small pale circle on the top of my right foot from stepping on a rusty nail.
Personality: I’m crazy once I get to know you, but I’ll always be there for you. I'm tough, but I love to have a guy hold me or hug me, and I'm a bit outspoken. I usually let you know what I think even if it's not what you want to hear at the time. I'm not used to having family, so I'm not clingy, but I'm very friendly, if you don’t act like a moron/jerk the first time I met you. I'm usually pretty laid back, but when I need to be, I'm serious and I love my friends and what little family I get to call my own. I also am into riding motorcycles :) and I work as a mechanic part time. I let my conscious lay heavily on my decisions, so I tend to be impulsive and I like to believe in the good in people, but I usually get screwed over with that, so I've learned quite a few lessons in life.
Family History: I started out on my own really young because my parents left me to live with my grandmother when I was five until I was sixteen. I have a twin sister named Rose, but we're kind of a fucked up pair. We didn't really know each other well until HS because she lived with my Aunt. I was raised in a religious house, but don't believe in organized religion. I started a band in HS called Shadow of Death (From psalm 23) My sister played bass, until she had to leave because she got expelled from school (like 5 times) I played rhythm first, but then we found Dave(who was better) then I started playing bass, but we kinda flopped. I am currently studying to be a nurse. (If you need more of anything from my life I'm not scared of sharing)
Likes: : Coffee, Cigarettes (Marlboro reds), MCR, A7X, BVB, BFMV, Guys, Motorcycles, Cars, Guys, K-pop boy bands (don't judge >.< they're hot and can sing!) In N Out (Yuuummm!!) Starbucks, Doublemint Gum, Hello Kitty, Nature, Hiking, Swimming, Running, Dying my hair different Colors.
Dislikes: People who talk too much, Arrogance, Cats, Classes, Girls who try to smell like dessert, Rude people, Peppermint gum, Christina Aguilera, Country music.
Author's response
your one feisty lady! xD lol
I'm definitely gonna include you cos wow your character is amazing! what'd'ya say about being Bob's gf? Bob is gonna be part of the gang and he's 22 in this fic.
and I don't judge. Hell no. especially after being judged myself. and it bloody hurts. i can tell ya that
lina xo
(#) DeathDefying 2011-10-30 01:52:36 PM
sweet thanks so much !
you can pair August with anyone if you want. but anyways thanks alot
Author's response
OK THEN!! WILL DO! thanks again for auditioning!
lina xo
(#) xlostsoulx 2011-10-30 03:13:01 PM
Gang member
Name: Kimm Tuner
Age: whatever you want
Aperence: really short nothing fancy brown hair, almost 6ft tall, the 'perfect' female body, D cups, almost scary skinny, blue/grey eyed, super pale no matter what, long spindly fingers, does not look thretening, never wears makeup, scars everywhere, there is not a place on her body (other than her face) that does not have some sort of scar they all look different though, a blood red mark right beside one eye that really scares people becasue it looks like its bleeding, has the general weak damsel kind of look (and will use it to her advantage at times)
Dress: wears pants as a rule, likes all dark colths, dresses more on the masculin side but can really feminin when she wants to be, wears tons of rings, ears pirced but only in one place, doesnt wear band tees because the bands she listens to are that obscure, wears a studded belt as a rule,
Personality: smart and can see the flaws in every plan, doesnt look voilent but can pack a punch, likes knifes, quiet but will step or yell when nessary, has troble trusting boys, only dates girls, will punch anyone who demeans her, knows how to use her body to her advantage, understands and reads people well, has issues with self harm but hides it really well, amazing liar, feircly overprotective of those few she loves, hates being weak with a passion, a very dont mess with me person, has a tendency to shut down and lock herself in her room when she's upset, practicly throws herself into fights, tries to never let pain show, shows off how much pain she can handle, refuses to drink or do drugs because she never wants to be off gaurd, doesnt really beleive in good people, likes to scare people, sees her scars as art, a general fuck up, adores sarcausum, will never admit it but really doesnt want to keep on living alone (emotionally), hates asking for help
history: almost all of her family is dead, hates her mother (who is her only parent now), no siblings, was a loner through almost all of her school years, sort of raised herself, insert any kind of trama inflicted by males here
Things: sings but cant play instements, shocks people with her happy art and her depressing poetry, MUSIC (loves the stuff), can speak bits and peices of more languages than should be posible, loves reading, knows alot of first aid and will use it at any avalable time, uses lots of big words
Likes: art, music, friends, her girl friend, nature, books,
Dislikes: homophobes, racists, sexists, people trying to save her,
The girlfriend
Name: Sasha Means
Apperence: more curvy the Kimm, average height, dark tanned skin all the time, strong wierd masulin jaw, wide brown eyes, medeum leanth black hair, C cups, ears peirced, wears make up,
Dress: feminin, good sence of style, wears whatever the hell she wants, wears tons on jewery, tries to never dress like a slut, also wears mostly dark colors
Personality: also smart but in a more introspective way, loves helping people, will always stand up for what she beleives loudly, is bi, a generally happy person, is tough but not physicaly, doesnt get mad that easly, is the only person that keeps kimm sane, loyal, jokes alot, will show all of her emotions to every one but hates drama, likes feeling protected, honest, just wants to be happy, it willing to party and drink a little, loves talking to people
History: not much here, parents are still together and lover her, she has a younger brother, she always kind of knew she was bi, has always had some freinds through out her whole life, has never really been alone,
Things: dances alot at random times, loves people, doesnt play and insterment or sing, is a tiny bit bipolor in terms of energy, is determaned to fix people (including her girlfriend),
Likes: music, people, life, smoking, good food,
Dislikes: homophobes, being hurt, voilence, racists
Feel free to change any of this for your needs. I hope this is helpful.
Author's response
this is great! ok wow its actually really great cos i've got a HUGE rang of people to include. this is gunna be SOO fun to write!! I think i'll try and include you in the school groups aswell cos then you can get into some epic fights about your sexuality. i dont mean that in a bad way i mean like society is homophobic and main jock (Tyler Harris is his name) would be bound to pick on you. so EPIC FIGHTS AWAY :3 thanks so much for auditioning
lina xo
(#) midnight_star22 2011-10-30 04:50:21 PM
Part: badass gang member..could she have a romance?
Name: Arabella Accia
Age: whatever you need it to be
general- 5'8, tan skin, curvy, perfect teeth and complexion
hair- long raven hair that is worn mostly straight
eyes- bright green eyes but she wears red colored contacts to scare her enemies
makeup- she only wears red lipstick, mascara, and eyeliner
tattoos- bella vita on the back of her neck, a sleeve like this: , and a tribal star behind her left ear
piercings- industrial in right ear, lip pierced on bottom lip left side, and nose pierced
Clothing: Dresses very feminine: skirts and blouses, high heels, and panty hose. She is the reason why you don't judge a book by its cover!
Personality: She's extremely intelligent and has a good intuition. Her memory can rival an elephants! She's tough and malicious to her enemies and shows no mercy. She's proud of her Italian heritage so if you say anything bad about Italia, you better be running for the hills (not that it'll help cause she'll catch you). She has been known to cut a person and not think twice about it. Once Trixy gets into a fight, she goes into a blind rage and it's all over. But, to her gang, she's extremely loyal and would rather die than give away any information whatsoever. Most people are afraid of her because if you hit her, she'll laugh. If you cut her, she smirks. If you shoot her, you better hope it was a kill shot because she is coming after your ass!
Weapon of choice: Her last name translates to axe in english, so her preferred weapon to torture is an axe. Aside from that, her baby is her Glock 20 10mm automatic.
Family History: Her parents died when she was young, and left her quite a bit of money. She had hated them anyway and considered that their death was the biggest favor they could have done for her. She fell in with the gang when she was 6 and has been involved ever since.
Likes: working out, coffee, drawing, writing, being in the gang, animals, shopping, and getting new tattoos
Dislikes: homophobes, enemies, stupid people, and fake people.
Thanks for considering me! Good luck writing and I can't wait to read it, even if I don't get picked.
Author's response
you're in!! yes you can be an awesome friend (:
(#) midnight_star22 2011-10-30 04:56:03 PM
Ooh meant to ask if I could be an awesome friend as well? ^-^ pwweeese?
(#) MemoryWolf 2011-11-04 07:24:02 AM
Name: Wynter oh
Age: 17 (changeable)
Part : badass gang member :)
Looks: long straight black hair, fringe covers right eye slightly, black eyes, skinny, pale skinned, 5'6
Personality: she doesn't like to smile a lot, even when she smiles they're all fake smile(she rarely smiles sincerely) is nice once you get to know me, is really devoted to archery and taekwondo
Weapon : She's an expert in archery , like bow and arrow, she can shoot long range and short range, her beloved bow is named 'Fai' as in faith, she has custom made arrows some attached with bombs some with poison, some starts fire and such. She is also good in taekwondo for close combat.
Background: Her parents loved their work more than her so they are never home, they give her tons of money every week, buys her anything she wants but they never come back to celebrate her birthdays and such, so she's really lonely. She started learning archery and taekwondo since 5, she joined the gang when she was 10 because the gang was like family she felt loved.
Tattoos: she has a cute black with neon green bunny tattoo on her ankle, it's a small one, she got it to see whether her parents would react, but they didn't.
Clothes: black band hoodies or dark blue Windsor hoodie with black skinny jeans, or neon green T-shirt with black jacket and black skinny jeans, black and neon green converse.
Likes: Bass, Archery , taekwondo, chocolate, jelly beans, arts and craft.
Dislikes: Thunder and lightning, spiders.
Anything else: she's half Chinese, hense her name, she speaks Chinese when she's mad. Not alot of jocks or bitches dare to go near her cuz she will beat them up if they do.
Hope I get picked , I think this audition was too Late :0 but oh well :) good luck with the story :)
Author's response
ya'know what this is amazing. your in (:
lina xo
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Gender Male
Species Alien (unknown species)
Planet Earth (not originally)
Profession News Reporter for Channel √2 News
Relatives Wife: Fawn
First appearance A Big Piece of Garbage
Voiced by Maurice LaMarche
… Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed.
–Morbo, A Big Piece of Garbage
Morbo the Annihilator, better known as Morbo, is a recurring character on Futurama . He is a green, reptilian alien with a big, pulsating brain, who bides his time on Earth in the city of Los Angeles, anchoring "Entertainment and Earth Invasion Tonite" side by side with puny human co-host Linda, and awaiting the day on which the time would be ripe to destroy the inferior humans. He tends to call humans "puny" and "inferior" and blurts out "I will destroy you all!" He also has his own show called Tea with Titans, where he meets with many famous people, including Zapp Brannigan, Space Pope, Billionairebot, and Mom, and hosts the game show Who Dares to Be a Millionaire.
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