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Happy Birthday, USA! Have a hot dog (or 70)July 3, 2014: 9:30 AM ET
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul R. La Monica. Other than Time Warner, the parent of CNNMoney, Abbott Laboratories and AbbVie, La Monica does not own positions in any individual stocks.
Fireworks may be the ultimate Independence Day tradition. But thanks in large part to ESPN, Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest has quickly become a fun way to celebrate America's birthday as well.
Joey Chestnut has won the event for the past seven years. He set a new record in 2013, downing 69 frankfurters at the Nathan's in Coney Island. Three cheers for Brooklyn!
Most people will be watching on Friday to see if Chestnut can emerge victorious for the eighth straight year ... and perhaps top the 70 wiener mark. It would be the most disgusting "athletic" accomplishment ever. Apologies if the image below makes any of you queasy. I found it on SportsGif.com and felt compelled to include it here.
Update 7/4: Chestnut won again! He scarfed down "only" 61 hot dogs this time. He also proposed to his girlfriend ... and she said yes. I hope he didn't hide the ring in a bun!
But I'm a stock dork. And Nathan's Famous (NATH) is actually a publicly traded company that I've written about before. So now's the perfect time of year for an update.
Due to the growing popularity of competitive eating, I first decided to look at Nathan's Famous back in 2006. At the time, I noted that the stock was not followed by any mainstream analysts and was very thinly traded. So that made it a bit of a gamble.
However, I also pointed out that the stock was trading at a reasonable valuation and that earnings were growing rapidly. So I concluded that the stock might be a good bet "if you're a sultan of sauerkraut with a healthy appetite for risk."
Related: Hot dogs and beer: See what $20 buys you at MLB stadiums
I did another piece on the stock in 2012. And proving that I have no shame whatsoever, I wrote that "Nathan's stock may add some relish to your portfolio."
I wish I had followed my own advice. Nathan's shares are up more than 80% in the past two years and have surged 300% since 2006. To put that in context, the S&P 500 is up just 45% since 2012 and 56% in the past eight years.
Hot dog! (Which is also one of the more underrated ... albeit goofy ... Led Zeppelin songs by the way. Let's take a listen to this 1979 live version.)
Nathan's has also outperformed other well-known fast food stocks like McDonald's (MCD) and Yum! Brands (YUM) since 2006 and 2012. And Nathan's has even beaten Chipotle (CMG), Wall Street's momentum restaurant darling, over the past two years. (Chipotle has been a better stock since 2006 though.)
So what now? Is Nathan's still a buy?
Even though the stock has been pretty much going straight up for the past eight years, the story hasn't changed all that much since 2006.
Nathan's is still a small company. Its market value is about $240 million. It's still not covered by any Wall Street firms. And the volume is still miniscule: only about 10,000 shares exchange hands on an average trading day.
Related: Buffalo Wild Wings is a World Cup winner
The stock may still be worth a look though because the fundamentals remain attractive.
While Nathan's was hit hard by Superstorm Sandy in 2012 -- the flagship store at Coney Island was closed for seven months -- it has bounced back and seems stronger than ever. Sales were up 16% in the fiscal year that ended in March. Profits rose nearly 12%.
Nathan's also continues to have the backing of some big investment firms. Hedge fund Steel Partners (SPLP), Mario Gabelli's GAMCO and Dimensional Fund Advisors were big holders of Nathan's two years ago ... and still are.
The one notable thing that has changed since I last wrote about Nathan's is that it no longer has a nasty legal battle over licensing with SMG, its top hot dog supplier.
All that is over. Nathan's replaced SMG as its exclusive supplier this March with John Morrell & Co., which will be paying Nathan's a bigger guaranteed annual minimum royalty and a higher percentage of net sales than SMG did.
Related: Which baseball stadiums charge you the most?
The only major concern is a lack of any estimates to help investors figure out where the company is going. Because there are no analysts covering the stock, investors have to look at profits for the past year to judge it instead of valuing it on expected future performance.
Nathan's is not the cheapest stock out there, trading at about 30 times earnings per share from its last fiscal year. That makes it more expensive than McDonald's on this basis. But it is more of a bargain than Yum! and Chipotle.
So even though stuffing 70 Nathan's hot dogs in your mouth in 10 minutes may make you sick, buying this quintessentially American stock probably won't give you an upset stomach.
Say like Bill Pullman ... "Today we celebrate our Independence Day!" If the hot dog eating contest is too revolting for you, might I suggest a musical about revolting? One of my best friends has the cool tradition of watching the movie version of "1776" on the morning of the 4th. Not so cool? He also sings. (My name is Richard Henry Lee! Virginia is my home.)
Happy 4th of July, readers! Here's a bonus song for you: an aptly titled tune by Soundgarden off their classic Superunknown album ... which just got a fancy 20th anniversary re-release. (I'm old!)
Reader Comment of the Week ... and time for a Buzz vacation! I cited a tune covered by Metallica in Tuesday's column about Facebook (FB).
That prompted one Twitter follower to make a clever allusion to Facebook's COO with a slight alteration to the title of one of Metallica's most well-known songs. (Hint: It was the intro music for the greatest reliever in baseball: Mariano Rivera.)
Nice work, LifeSciencesMkt. Say your prayers little one. And congrats! This is your third RCOTW win this year and fifth since last November. You might be the Mo of snark! (Sorry @BostonBroker33, you can be the Koji Uehara of sarcasm. Or Papbelon? Not the same. I know.)
Anyway, this is my last column until Tuesday, July 15. I'm pulling a Springsteen and heading to the Jersey Shore next week. But I'll be back tweeting on Monday the 14th ... one day after the World Cup final. Will France be celebrating more than just Bastille Day then? Hmm. What's that? You want to hear Bastille Day by Rush? Okay! Buh-bye!


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Lower Dens' 2010 debut, Twin-Hand Movement, was a stunning evolution of guitar brilliance and murky emotiveness, while its 2012 follow-up, Nootropics, was a stark, textured paean to experimental bands of the krautrock era. Some of their previous influences remain (Wire, Televison, Neu!), along with others that come to mind (Echo & The Bunnymen, early U2, The Smiths), but these influences never overwhelm the work of a band that is one of the few truly innovative groups in this corner of the music world. It's difficult to name a single forebear for "Your Heart Still Beating", a song Hunter describes as "raw grief" but which contains one of the album's best beats and some of its finest guitar work. "Quo Vadis" ("a narcissist's love song") and "Non Grata" ("seduction and a suicide pact") are, again, physical. Songs are by turn commanding powerhouses ("Sucker's Shangri-La") and controlled chaos ("Company"), and there is no filler.
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Most of the time, investors are glad to see new money coming into a manager they've chosen because they're pleased to have their choices confirmed by others. It's even better if you know that the new money is smart money. That's why I smiled this summer when I read that the Church of England and my company, Altegris, share the same pew, so to speak. Both of us have money with David Harding of Winton Capital Management. The Church of England picked Winton and two other hedge fund managers (Bridgewater and Blackstone) in 2011 to manage some of its $1.7 billion pension fund, doubling its allocation to hedge funds in the process.
By necessity, it also confirms that your manager selection process works when others follow in your footsteps and recognize the same talent. Still, it would be an interesting exercise to see how the Church of England selected Winton. Its superb track record as a commodity trading advisor (managed futures manager) is no secret, but its proprietary mathematical algorithms and advanced statistical analysis of historical market data are most definitely confidential. In other words, at the final stages of its manager selection process, the Church of England had to make a leap of faith.
Altegris began investing with Winton in the late 1990s. I remember how we selected the firm. We looked at Winton (which is David Harding's middle name) from every conceivable angle—starting with having followed Harding's career since 1997, when the Cambridge-educated theoretical physicist left the Man Group (where I began my career) to form his own commodities futures trading firm with $1.6 million in assets.
We watched Winton grow into a $29 billion AUM firm with more than 100 researchers whose areas of expertise range from operations research to statistics, climatology, actuarial science, extragalactic astrophysics and financial mathematics. We studied Winton's computer models and its strategy of holding long and short positions in over 100 futures markets around the world. As with nearly all our managers, we insisted that Winton accord us full transparency so that we could monitor its trading activity and performance on a real-time basis. Even with transparency, however, the final decision came down to a combination of art and science because, in the end, you are judging a person's character and abilities. If they were being frank, I think every other Winton investor would say the same thing.
Volumes have been written about the manager selection process, evidence that no one yet has successfully broken the code. That's because manager selection, especially of the increasingly popular commodity trading advisors, is very difficult. Among other things, we conduct a "stress test" to see how a fund performs through a variety of market scenarios and extraordinary events. We want to make sure that a manager has not been guilty of improper data mining—that is, choosing only that portion of history that confirms a theory about investing. Models that managers rely on have to be truly and honestly researched. The buy and sell signals a manager points to as historical examples of how the model will work in the future have to be convincing to us from both a technical and "common sense" perspective. Above all, we want to avoid the bad version of curve-fitting—that is, forcing the data to conform to the model rather than the other way around.
Even when a manager is well-known to you, there are no shortcuts in the selection process if you decide to reinvest. For example, we have had a 10-year relationship with Capital Fund Management (CFM), a Paris-based commodity trading advisor as part of our hedge fund advisory business. When CFM made the decision to re-open in mid-2011, we approached the investment from a fresh perspective and re-validated our investment thesis, which was achieved by spending many hours reviewing CFM's models with its key research personnel. We drew upon years of live data from CFM's trading program to analyze its impact on our portfolio.
The two managers we have been discussing are both commodity trading advisors with proprietary algorithmic techniques, but the same rules apply to managers with more traditional or fundamental approaches. With fundamental managers, we drill deep to understand how they generate alpha. The selection process must involve exploring the manager's special approach, conducting operational due diligence and typically insisting on full transparency—in short, all the tools available to us. But in the end, all of the tools do not permit us to avoid the final question—is the manager worthy of our trust?


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How to become a MediaWiki hacker
This article is written to help developers learn the basic skills needed to contribute to development of MediaWiki core and MediaWiki extensions. Note that in most cases when working with MediaWiki, you do not want to hack MediaWiki core unless you really know what you're doing.
The main path to get started with Wikimedia development is to contribute to Wikimedia projects that offer mentoring. An alternative without mentoring is to fix a good first bug.
If you are an experienced developer who is familiar with using MediaWiki already, visit the Developer hub instead.
For other ways to get involved in the Wikimedia community, see How to contribute.
MediaWiki is the software that powers Wikipedia, its sister projects and thousands of wikis all over the world.
MediaWiki is written in the PHP programming language[1]. It uses jQuery as the client JavaScript library.
MediaWiki is primarily written for the LAMP platform[2] and runs on most operating systems. MediaWiki primarily uses the MySQL or MariaDB database servers.[3]
Development happens in an open source style[4], is largely coordinated online, and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, though volunteer community developers play a huge part as well.
- Development discussion happens on various mailing lists and IRC channels. The main developer list is wikitech-l. The main developer IRC channels are #mediawiki and #wikimedia-dev.
- Source code is managed using the Git revision control system.[5]
- Code review is performed on Gerrit. Follow this tutorial to set up Git and Gerrit in order to submit patches.
- Bug reports and tasks are managed on Phabricator.
This page should help you become a contributor to MediaWiki. It is not a tutorial; it just points you to various places where you can go learn whatever is necessary.
Set up your development environment
Most projects use Git and Gerrit. Follow the Gerrit tutorial to set up your developer account. Then you can move on to downloading our code, making changes, testing them, and submitting patches. There are two ways to set up your development environment: using a pre-configured virtual machine setup (Vagrant or Docker), or a manual configuration approach.
Virtual Machine with Vagrant
- Vagrant installation — These steps will install MediaWiki server with all the requirements inside a Linux virtual machine (can be used on Linux, Windows, or Mac hosts).
Docker development environment
- MediaWiki Docker – Run MediaWiki using Docker (can be used on Linux, Windows or macOS hosts).
Manual installation
- Installation requirements — Check hardware requirements, and install a LAMP, MAMP or WAMP server (Linux, Mac or Windows, plus Apache, MySQL/MariaDB and PHP).
- Download from Git — Download the latest source code from Git.
- Installation guide — Continue with the installation and initial configuration.
- Set up the various debug modes in your environment to display warning and errors early.
It's not necessary to download Wikipedia database dumps in order to develop MediaWiki features. In fact, in many cases it's easier to use a near-empty database with a few specially-crafted test pages. However, if for some reason you want to have a copy of Wikipedia, you can get a dump.
Communication tips and guidelines
Feedback, questions and support
- You are expected to do some basic research yourself first: Look at the code, try to get some understanding what it is supposed to do, read related documentation, try to find the probable place(s) where you need to make changes in order to fix the bug.
- In a Phabricator task, see the project tags in the side bar to find out which code repository a task is about.
- If you have general questions which are not tied to the specific task that you want to work on, use generic channels like IRC chat or mailing lists but not the specific task. Questions how to set up your development environment or how to use Gerrit are out of scope for a task.
- If you have a specific question about the bug itself, comment in the corresponding bug report (normally a task in Phabricator). "Can you give me more info how to fix this bug?" is not a good question to start with: The more specific your questions are, the more likely somebody can answer them quickly. If you have no idea at all how to fix the bug, maybe that bug is not (yet) for you – please consider finding an easier one first.
- When asking, explain what you have tried and found out already, so others can help at the right level. Be specific – for example, copy and paste your commands and their output (if not too long) instead of paraphrasing in your own words. This avoids misunderstandings.
- Do not ask if you can work on a task. Do not ask to assign a task to you.
- Avoid private email or support requests in our social media channels.
- Be patient when seeking input and comments. On IRC, don't ask to ask, just ask: most questions can be answered by other community members too if you ask on an IRC channel. If nobody answers, please ask on the bug report or wiki page related to the problem; don't just give up.
Communicate that you work on a task
Do not ask if you can work on a task. Do not ask to assign a task to you. You do not need to announce your plans before you start working on a bug, but it would be welcome. You are welcome to set yourself as the assignee in a task: Use the dropdown Add Action… → Assign/Claim in Phabricator. At the latest when you are close to proposing a patch for the task, it is good to announce in a comment that you are working on it. Your announcement helps others to not work on the bug at the same time and to not duplicate work.
Also note that if a task already has a recent link to a patch in Gerrit and has the project "Patch-For-Review" associated in Phabricator, choose a different task to work on instead – avoid duplicating work. If an existing patch in Gerrit has not been merged and has not seen any changes for a long time, you could also pick up that existing patch and improve it, based on the feedback in Gerrit and in the task.
If you stop working on a task, remove yourself as the assignee of the task, so others know that they can work on the task and don't expect you to still work on it.
By communicating early you will get more attention, feedback and help from community members.
MediaWiki is written in PHP, so you'll need to get familiar with PHP to hack MediaWiki's core.
- Learn PHP
- PHP tutorial — Available in many different languages. If you have no knowledge of PHP but know how to program in other object-oriented programming languages, PHP will be easy for you to learn.
- PHP Programming at Wikibooks.
- PHP topic at Wikiversity.
- PHP resources
- The PHP manual — Available in many different languages.
- PHP coding conventions within the MediaWiki community.
- Stuff to know
- The script
maintenance/eval.phpin MediaWiki provides a basic PHP interpreter with MediaWiki objects and classes loaded.
- Also, the script
maintenance/shell.phpin MediaWiki is a replacement of
maintenance/eval.phpbased on PsySH, see Manual:Shell.php.
- The script
Many features require some amount of database manipulation, so you'll often need to be familiar with MySQL/MariaDB.
- Learn MySQL/MariaDB
- MySQL tutorial — From the MySQL 5.0 reference manual.
- MySQL at Wikibooks.
- MySQL/MariaDB resources
- MySQL Reference Manuals — Available in many different languages.
- MariaDB Knowledge Base
- Database coding conventions within the MediaWiki community.
- Accessing the database
- Stuff to know
- Test your code with MySQL/MariaDB.
- MediaWiki currently uses MySQL and MariaDB as the primary database back-end. It also supports other DBMSes, such as PostgreSQL and SQLite. However, almost all developers use MySQL/MariaDB and don't test other DBs, which consequently break on a regular basis. You're therefore advised to use MySQL/MariaDB when testing patches, unless you're specifically trying to improve support for another DB. In the latter case, make sure you're careful not to break MySQL/MariaDB (or write queries that are horribly inefficient in it), since MySQL/MariaDB is what everybody else uses.
- Test your code with MySQL/MariaDB.
JavaScript and CSS
JavaScript and CSS have become omnipresent in front-end code. You don't have to be familiar with JavaScript, jQuery and CSS to work on MediaWiki, but you might need to, depending on what you choose to work on.
- Learn JavaScript and CSS
- JavaScript and CSS at Wikibooks.
- Getting Started with jQuery — A jQuery tutorial.
- Learning JavaScript — references and sources.
- JavaScript and CSS resources
- JavaScript coding conventions within the MediaWiki community.
- CSS coding conventions within the MediaWiki community.
The MediaWiki code base is large and some parts are ugly; don't be overwhelmed by it. When you're first starting off, aim to write features or fix bugs which only touch a small region of code.
- MediaWiki basics and must-reads
- MediaWiki architecture — A high-level overview of the main components of MediaWiki and how they work with each other.
- Security for developers — An overview of why and how to write secure code.
- MediaWiki resources
- Manual:Code — A list of important files and links to more detailed information.
- Manual:Hooks — A list of hooks. If you're trying to find what part of the codebase does something, often a good place to start is by searching for the related hooks.
- Manual:Coding conventions — An overview of general coding conventions within the MediaWiki community.
- Code documentation (class reference) — Automatically generated documentation from the code and code comments.
- Manual:How to debug — A guide to debugging MediaWiki.
- Manual:Eval.php — A tool to interact with MediaWiki objects live.
MediaWiki extensions
If you choose to work on MediaWiki extensions code, the following links provide more information.
- MediaWiki extensions basics
- Developing extensions — How to write an extension for MediaWiki.
- Extension writing tutorial
- MediaWiki extensions resources
- Best practices for extensions
- A brief introduction to MediaWiki extension development — A video presentation about how to create a MediaWiki extension (slides).
- Making a MediaWiki extension — Covers how to develop an extension for MediaWiki, best practices, and how to engage the MediaWiki community. From February 2011.
- Help for extension developers on the Developer Hub
See also
- Search for code across repositories
- Developer hub – When you've thoroughly read the information in this article, it's time to move on to the information in the developer hub.
- MediaWiki Developers Guide – a collection of related pages
- Code of Conduct
- ↑ Not all of MediaWiki is written in PHP. Some supporting tools are written in other languages, including batch files, shell scripts, makefiles and Python.
- ↑ MediaWiki runs on most platforms that can support PHP, however, the lack of certain utilities or operating system features may limit the functionality or performance of MediaWiki on non-LAMP platforms.
- ↑ MediaWiki has support for DBMS other than MySQL and MariaDB, including Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Microsoft SQL Server.
- ↑ Developers are a mix of volunteers and paid staff (or contractors) for various organizations. For a full list of who works on the MediaWiki code, read the Developers article.
- ↑ Browse the source code and revisions of code repositories at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/ or download the source code to your system by using Gerrit.


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BOSTON - Chris Kelly, Daniel Paille and Tyler Seguin have proved to be a winning combination for the Boston Bruins.
"I'm just a little ticked off that I didn't put them together sooner," Boston coach Claude Julien joked Tuesday.
Julien threw the line together in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup final and it has quickly become a thorn in the side of the Chicago Blackhawks.
Kelly scored to pull Boston even before Paille settled it in overtime. Paille scored the winning goal again in the 2-0 victory Monday, while he and Kelly drew penalties that ultimately led to Patrice Bergeron's insurance goal on the power play.
Julien credited their hard work on the Paille goal Monday.
"Great forechecking job forces a turnover. A guy in the open. Once the turnover is there, pass to the slot, good shot. But also staying on top of the puck, we won two battles right after that shot in order to score that goal."
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As the US U-23 team crashes out of Olympic qualifying after a failure to even emerge from an easy Concacaf group, many lessons can and should be learned.
It will take some time to let the dust settle from this stunning setback but once it does, and it will, here will be the overarching themes.
U-20 failure leads to Olympic failure
This team was built on the backbones of the 2009 and 2011 US U-20 teams and neither of those teams performed well. In 2009 the team qualified for the World Cup but didn't emerge out of group play after looking terrible against Germany and South Korea. In 2011, the team didn't even qualify for the World Cup.
In 2009 the U-20 team had Brek Shea, Mix Diskerud, Ike Opara, Jared Jeffrey, Sheanon Williams, Sean Johnson, and Jorge Villafana. The 2011 U-20 team had Amobi Okugo, Zarek Valentin, Perry Kitchen, and Joe Gyau.
The warning signs were written that this team was going to struggle and it all came to a head in Nashville.
So in four years as the US U-23 team prepares for qualifying for the Brazil games in 2016, pay attention to how the US U-20 teams do in 2013 and 2015.
MLS development must improve for Olympic success
It was only recently that MLS reestablished its reserve league and more money was pumped into development. It will take time for those results to come into effect.
But it is clear that with European clubs unwilling to release players to play in this Olympic qualifying tournament, the burden must be carried out by MLS players. That is just the nature of how it is right now and how it will be in the future.
The signs have been encouraging recently with the money being spent and the desire to grow the sport in this country. In fact, the will to grow the sport has never been higher in the United States. But whether or not that money and desire will be channeled wisely is another issue and one worth following in the years ahead.
The team did not play up to the sum of its parts
There is talent on this US U-23 team just as there was talent on the Mexican team in 2008 that did not get out of its Olympic qualifying group.
But it is crucial to look at why this is the case. This US team lacked a mental toughness to respond to adversity.
Against Canada, when it was clear that their opponents had a good game plan, the US team seemed to go into a panic. They continued to force their original approach when they needed to try something different. If Canada was clogging the middle, the US failed at exploiting the wings.
In the broader sense, this team was not tough. El Salvador is a dirty team and reports (and evidence) of punching and biting US players have surfaced. Still, that is the nature of soccer in some areas of the world. This is nothing new for Concacaf. The US cannot let those things take them out of games.
The US had more talent than El Salvador or Canada, but they need to be aggressive and allow their talent to dominate opponents. Mexico struggled with that for years. They failed to qualify for the 2008 Olympics, the 2009 U-20 World Cup, and the 2009 U-17 World Cup. Their problems during those years were largely mental and now the United States are in a similar situation.
Porter's lack of flexibility was an issue
Caleb Porter was hired last November because he achieved great success in the NCAA with Akron. It wasn't so much his titles that were impressive but it was his attacking style that made many think he would be a good fit with the US team.
The problem is that Porter was exposed in this tournament for not being flexible. In the loss to Canada, the opponents came out with a 4-3-2-1 formation to defend the middle. Instead of controlling the flanks, the US game plan was to have three central midfielders in Diskerud, Joe Corona, Jared Jeffrey and a left footed Adu start wide right - thereby forcing him into the middle.
The US fullbacks also hindered strong flank play as Zarek Valentin, Kofi Sarkodie, and Villafana showed limited ability in getting forward effectively.
Brek Shea received a lot of criticism for his play in these tournaments but he was the only true player who had good ability to control the outside. As a result, opponents had an easier time taking him out of games.
When it was clear the US was unable attack in the middle of the field, Porter's only adjustments was to change the players within the 4-3-3 but not change the formation itself. That hurt the team in the end.
It has been a long time since a US youth team had strong defenders
The US U-23 team did not play well defensively and this has been a growing problem for a long time with US youth national teams.
Perry Kitchen and Ike Opara did not have good tournaments in the middle of the field. Also in the defense, the fullbacks were unable to push forward into the attack or control the flanks.
This has been a reoccurring theme and it is now affecting the US senior team.
Look at the top defenders that Klinsmann relies on: Bocanegra, Onyewu, Chandler, Cherundolo, Goodson, Johnson, Parkhurst, and Ream. None of those have been developed within US youth soccer in a long time.
It becomes problematic when you try to actually think of the last US youth player that had a significant impact on the US team. Jonathan Spector was age eligible for the 2008 Olympics but even his contribution to the US team has been inconsistent recently.
If the US wants make the needed improvements to youth development, it must start in the back.
There will be good players who come out of this age group
US head coach Jurgen Klinsmann said he wanted seven players to come out of this team to contend for roster spots on the senior team.
I am not sure that the team that was in Nashville will produce seven players into the senior team but the age group certainly will.
Jozy Altidore, Timothy Chandler, and Danny Williams are already regular US national team players who were not in Nashville.
Josh Gatt withdrew from the team to stay with his club and Juan Agudelo only played 45 minutes before getting injured. Gatt is still awaiting his first cap and Agudelo has seen time under Klinsmann but both have good chances to be regulars sooner than later.
Of the players who played significantly in Nashville, Joe Corona and Mix Diskerud were both inconsistent but made a case that they could get their first caps under Klinsmann this year.
Terrence Boyd and Joe Gyau looked good in their limited mintues and both could get fast tracked onto the national team in 2012. What must happen first is that they each need to play regular minutes with their club. Gyau and Boyd have both made the bench for their respective Bundesliga teams and both have shown promise. Still, until they can play first team soccer with some regularity, Klinsmann really won't be able to do much to get them into his team.
What is disappointing is that Bill Hamid, Sean Johnson, and Teal Bunbury have all earned callups recently to the full team but all three do not look like they will be contributing more in the near future
So is my list of players of this age group who are either able to contribute to national team now or who could contribute within a year. I am not considering players young enough to be able to contribute to the 2016 U-23 team.
Adu looked good at times but he has always looked good at youth tournaments. His success beyond this will be determined at the club level where he has yet to have much success
(*denotes players not involved with the U-23 qualifying team).
1) Timothy Chandler *
2) Jozy Altidore*
3) Danny Williams*
4) Brek Shea
5) Juan Agudelo
6) Josh Gatt*
7) Joe Corona
8) Mix Diskerud
9) Alfredo Morales*
9) Joe Gyau
10) Terrence Boyd
A quick look to 2016
It's almost impossible to predict how players in their teenage years will develop over the next four years but there are a few players who are showing positive signs.
Luis Gil is already one of the most promising young midfielders in MLS and Jason Kreis is doing a very good job with his development.
In defense, John Anthony Brooks already has a first team contract with Hertha Berlin and he turned down an offer from Bayern Munich last May. Will Packwood is playing central defense and he is showing signs that he may get first team minutes with Birmingham City in 2012 despite only being 18. Sean Cunningham's loan to Stabaek could see him become a first team regular in Norway's top flight.
If fullbacks Adam Henley, Danny Potts, or midfielder Fabian Hurzeler decide to play for the United States, they would be very significant pickups.
Forward Villyan Bijev and midfielder/left back Marc Pelosi are currently signed by Liverpool and it will be interesting to see their progression with the US U-20 team this year.
Final word
There are not many positives to take from the US U-23's failure. The Olympics may not be the biggest soccer tournament and it is still just a youth event. But they were rightfully given a priority by US Soccer.
Without a strong regional championship like in Europe or South America, there are not many opportunities for US players to gain international experience and the Olympics give a good opportunity for young American players who are about ready to make the transition into the full senior team.
So the failure to get out of the initial group is very alarming.
Will it set the program back significantly? No. There are still many effective players of this age group to keep the national team relevant for the years ahead.
Are there any radical changes that have to be made? Not at this time. The radical changes were made last August when Klinsmann was hired to run the national team and have significant power over all levels of US teams. The significant changes at MLS were also recently put into place so it's way too early to determine if they have been successful or not.
But that is perhaps what is of most concern. There have already been drastic steps taken within US Soccer. It is way too early to say that they have been failures but now it is clear what failure could look like, and it is not pretty.
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Friday April 6, 2012 3:53 am
It's not the US "Men's" National Team (or USMNT), it's the US National Team (or USNT.)
The US ladies side are the only one's who need a gender qualifier.
No? Don't think so?
Well then, does Wayne Rooney play for England's "Men's" National Team?
How about Messi? Does he play for Argentina's "Men's" National Team?
Thank you, come again.
Sunday April 1, 2012 5:02 pm
DO any of you guys think that this u-23 team would had done a better job under klinsman or his assistant rather than an amateur coach? I think US soccer needs some serious help in the administration side. It is time to put someone up top in the administration that has a true understanding of the game. You can not send amateur coach and expect him to be able to beat teams with players who are 2-3 years in to their professional careers playing year round once and some times twice a week against veterans in their domestic leagues. Even though we are not a soccer nation, us soccer is a very wealthy organization and should be in the hunt for some one to help guide this organization in the right direction, because in the end the one who looses the most is that diehard fan that is willing to pay any price and travel the country if not the world to support his nations team. The players, coaches, and the administration still get paid handsomely on pay day and the fans go home home disappointed to see their get dominated by teams that are considered inferior.
Juan from L.A.
Friday March 30, 2012 11:17 pm
The defense was horrible when 3 out of 4 players are bench players. Overall half the team was bench. Mexico had this 20/11 rule after their disasters noted above by Brian. This rule force mexican clubs to play and GIVE MINUTES to their young players. This rule worked. Its because of this rule that many of what is today's U-23 Mexican team look really good. Then they have a team like Chivas whose owner not only upholds the national pride and tradition of the club but injects a youth and let's build from the ground up. This is in complete contrast to clubs like NYRB who line up to 10 foreigners and a talented Agudelo pleads for minutes. So we are in trouble and its not a rosy picture if WE WANT to compete with Mexico (our arch-rival) in the upcoming years. Now if we are ok with being #2 that's a different story but I'm not.
Thursday March 29, 2012 7:32 am
Another large disappointment was the turnout. Less than 8,000 fans with half of those for El Salvador. Our teams don't get home games when they play Mexico or Central American teams in the US.
Where was the support and the fans?
Wednesday March 28, 2012 5:08 pm
Freddy Adu may or may not be good enough to make the senior USMNT but his performance in THIS tournament was very good and should be recognized. He performed well at the Gold Cup last Summer so I really can't agree with Mr. Sciaretta's dismissive statement that Adu somehow can only perform in youth tournaments.
Wednesday March 28, 2012 3:00 pm
The USA U-23s made their own bed in the pivotal match vs. El Salvador. When it was evident that the starting goalkeeper Hamid wasn't fit to continue due to his ankle injury, he should've been immediately substituted. Instead, a fitness test played out to see if Hamid could continue. Hamid couldn't, and allowed two quick goals because he lacked the foot speed to get to the near post quickly enough. This is probably the biggest reason the USA eventually lost the game. In addition the refereeing was scandalously bad and/or El Salvador U-23s are horrible cheaters. Adu booked because a lad fell down holding his face who was never touched? Boyd's nose bloodied by a punch to the face with the Mexican referee looking directly at the play with the result of only a free kick? CONCACAF has a lot of cleaning up to do, as the officiating is often quite dodgy. I can't blame the officials for the three goals the USA let in, but I have to think that third goal never happens if Boyd's assailant is properly sent off. That Johnson should've beaten away that third goal for a corner is indisputable. What a sad day for US Soccer, and in retrospect, for CONCACAF.
Wednesday March 28, 2012 2:51 pm
What you said is perfectly correct. Obviously he is no Xavi. When the US played Italy, we all saw how accurate and beautiful Pirlo could execute passes to strikers. No one would say Freddy is of their caliber. But I challenge anyone who says he is not capable, at times to passes of the type of quality they are making. We all have seen them. We also have seen our mediocre forwards mishandle many of them. Now name one other player who has put on a USMT uni in the last five years that has this incredible quality. Freddy also can handle the corner and set pieces as good as anyone else, yes as good or better than Donovan. So maybe the fact that he is only 23, means with the proper COACHING and MINUTES, he is our best chance at a lethal number 10, who is the guy that really runs the offense and sets up scores on champion teams, like Spain and Italy.
Wednesday March 28, 2012 12:33 pm
Adu? Really?! Why do most of you praise Adu as if he is the best player we have?! One he did not make it in Europe at all! He kept bouncing from club to club, not even a Greek team, yes a Greek team did not want him!! And second he doesn't even play regularly for Philadelphia! I have seen him play and he has nothing to show for... To be a good player you have be involved in plays... Majority of the games he goes invisible! Third he is just a average player and does not belong on the US national team! If you bring up that gold cup all I'm going to say is he played well 30 minutes than he got shut down by a average mexican defender! Stop putting him on a level with good footballers cause he really isn't.
Wednesday March 28, 2012 8:35 am
I believe the huge disappointment stems from the fact of how dangerous the United States would have been during the Olympics. I haven't seen a single article discussion this topic. As Brian already noted, we were not able to have our European based players participate during qualifying. If we were to have qualified we would have seen the additions of Altidore, Williams, Morales, Chandler, Gatt, and 3 possible overaged players whom possibily could have been Donovan, Dempsey, and Boca. However as poor as the defense was maybe another over age defender, perhaps Tim Ream or Goodsen. Yes this is a let down that a youth team has failed to qualify, but the more important was one of perhaps missing out on a medal. Shame, hope these kids use this as motivation ( I do not include Sarkodie, Villafana, Kitchen, or Opara) they will never see the USMNT shirt for a long time.
Wednesday March 28, 2012 7:28 am
I think everybody's more down than up after that recent tough loss and this article reflects that. But I choose to see the glass described in the article as half full and am very hopeful about the future of U.S. international soccer.
I watch a lot of these U.S. players in the German league (especially Hoffenheim) and am very impressed with them, whether or not they are on the U.S. team. That means that Klinsmann is attracting good players, young and older - and that's terrific, especially when you consider that so many could have chosen to play on other national teams. One observation is that the U.S. team experience in turn makes them better league players (smart clubs recognize this!), so it becomes a really positive chain of events - and that's what makes me optimistic.
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It's cool to get braces when you're old, because:
- Your peers congratulate you or sympathise - instead of calling you names and avoiding you
- Your kids think your new hardware is interesting, or even sparkly (my 4 year-old girl)
- You get to hear a thousand stories from people who've done it already.
I expected teeth too sore to chew hard or sticky foods, and to look strange.
I didn't expect cheeks so scraped by the braces that it hurts to suck down soft food. Or smile. Or talk. Apparently, it should get better...any day now.
Anyway, I can't chew. So I here's my chance to experiment with vegan astronaut food! The old-fashioned kind sucked out of a foil baggie, not the new gourmet style going to Mars.
So What Can I Eat?
Here's what braces-wearers can't eat. As a vegan, I won't be chewing meat off the bone any time soon. And while I enjoy chewy candies, it doesn't cramp my style much to avoid them.
But I can't eat a crunchy juicy apple or carrot! Right now I can't even bite a soft banana, because that knocks off the wax that stops the braces from shredding my cheeks into streaming ulcers.
My vegan astronaut diet so far
- Porridge - I processed my whole-grain oats into fine oatmeal because I can't chew.
- Apple/berry puree - another lucky bulk purchase because my subconscious was planning better than I was.
- Soy yoghurt
- Banana++ smoothies
- Refried beans and mashed potatoes - lucky I made those potatoes!
So far, pretty OK?
Well, last night we had Chinese food to celebrate my son's cross-country run. Rather, they had Chinese food. I had pumpkin and potato soup (thanks Mom!), kumara, and mashed potatoes blended with cooked broccoli, cauliflower, carrot, and cabbage.
(The olive is food styling - but I did manage to gum it down)
I have a whole lot of this. I think I'll thin it as soup next time, for an exciting taste sensation.
And one night I blended tomato, lettuce, and carrot into mashed potatoes and refried beans for a complete nutritious astronaut meal.
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I can't even bite my back teeth together yet, so I'm in this for the long haul.
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[Warning: This story contains spoilers from Tuesday's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Read at your own risk!]
It turns out Agent Coulson being dead was the least of the surprises Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. had in store for viewers upon the show's return.
When Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) and Coulson (Clark Gregg) get a lead on the former partner of the dead agent who apparently dropped Skye (Chloe Bennet) off at an orphanage, they uncover a scary truth about their fellow teammember: She is actually an 084 who may have powers, though the agents never saw her exhibit them.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: What really happened to Agent Coulson?
Skye's whole family was murdered and the agents who saved her were all eventually bumped off by whomever killed Skye's family. S.H.I.E.L.D. then placed Skye in foster care and ordered her to be moved around every few months to keep her safe.
Fortunately, Coulson tells Skye the truth about her family fairly quickly, so we won't have to wait long for that reveal. But does she know her potential for powers? Is this Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attempt at putting the super in their super-less super series?
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State of the State: Local officials react with praise, questions
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As Gov. Andrew Cuomo touted tax breaks, the economy and education reform in his fourth annual State of the State speech, people in the North Country heard things they like and also things that raised questions.
Cuomo hailed his first three years in office as a turning point for New York's economy, and applauded the state government's ability during that time to pass budgets on time, reduce unemployment and welcome new businesses.
Cuomo also unleashed a slew of proposals - some new, some not-so-new - and said it was time to keep moving New York forward.
Among those proposals were a $2 billion bond referendum to update technology in public schools, cutting the corporate tax rate in upstate New York, a circuit breaker tax credit for low- and middle-income homeowners and implementing two-year property tax freeze for local governments that contain taxes and try to consolidate with others.
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Cuomo singled out the North Country and said it's a different place than it was three years ago. He gave a shout-out to a new, $35 million collaboration between Saranac Lake and Clarkson University and also stated his approval of the proposed Interstate 98 "Rooftop Highway" between Champlain and Watertown along U.S. Route 11. He said it would reduce travel time and speed up commerce.
"We've been hearing about it for years," Cuomo said. "Let's see if we can get DOT to do a study and make this project happen."
Assemblywoman Janet Duprey applauded Cuomo's proposals regarding tax breaks and education, but she said state officials should tread carefully when considering the Rooftop Highway.
"There's a study there that they can dust off and add to and make it more appropriate to today's economic growth," Duprey said.
"I think it would help the transportation of commerce, without a doubt, in getting truckers back and forth quicker."
Duprey said there's another side to a Rooftop Highway, though. When she was young, her family used to travel down U.S. Route 9 to visit her dad's family in New York City.
"My concern is, I go up and down the Northway now, and I see some of the small communities where we used to stop: Schroon Lake, Newcomb, North Hudson," Duprey said. "Some of these areas where we used to pull off and get lunch or have dinner have lost a lot with the Northway because people aren't stopping anymore. I think we have so many great, small towns in Franklin County, certainly with their history, and they have so many great things going for them. People get on these superhighways and just go from point A to point B."
Duprey said a feasibility study would have to address all of the advantages and the disadvantages of the highway, including how it would be paid for.
"If the federal government doesn't contribute to the cost, I don't see any way New York state taxpayers can afford it," Duprey said.
Overall, Duprey said the highway is a project worth looking at.
"Cautious optimism is what I'd say," Duprey said. "I think probably it has more benefits than not, but I think we'd be misrepresenting it if we said it would be all good."
Cuomo used the speech to announce a fourth round of Regional Economic Development Grants, and he also cited "a new hotel in Saranac Lake." The state has pledged $7 million to two Saranac Lake hotel projects: a new one and a renovation of the Hotel Saranac.
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Attracting businesses to the state was a major topic during Cuomo's speech. He said businesses have been fleeing in part because of the 7.1 percent corporate tax rate and proposed lowering that to 6.5 percent. Cuomo also suggested passing a manufacturers tax credit, good for 20 percent of a firm's property tax liability.
Cuomo proposed giving homeowners a break, too. A proposed property tax circuit breaker would provide $1 billion in tax relief to low- and middle-income homeowners who earn up to $200,000 a year. Those homeowners would pay an effective real property tax rate relative to income that exceeds their income tax rate.
"We raise $40 billion from income tax and $50 billion from property tax," Cuomo said. "New Yorkers pay the highest property tax in the U.S."
State Sen. Betty Little has been a longtime proponent of the circuit breaker and was happy with the announcement.
"I'm very happy to see the governor's tax reform commission propose their own circuit breaker proposal," Little said in a press release. "I look forward to learning more details in the proposed budget."
Cuomo again said New York has too many local government bodies.
"Taxes are so high because we have too many local governments and we've had them for too long," Cuomo said. "We have a proliferation of government that is exceedingly expensive and costly and we've assumed more local costs than the state government has ever done in modern political history. We are funding $700 million in aid to localities."
Cuomo said a law was passed to make consolidation easier for local governments, but only two have actually consolidated. As an incentive, he said localities that stay within the 2 percent tax cap and take efforts to reduce costs through consolidation could receive property tax breaks.
"It is time to stop making excuses and time to start making progress," Cuomo said. "We believe in linking the assistance to performance."
Cuomo said the best economic development strategy is to have the "best education system in the world."
Although he failed to mention the state's controversial Common Core standards, he did propose a $2 billion Smart Schools bond referendum that would provide money to increase technology to districts with an approved plan. The money could be used to purchase things like laptops, desktops, tablets and improved Internet connections.
"There's a great disparity in education," Cuomo said. "In some schools there are children who are on the Internet. Some schools, they don't even have a basketball net."
Cuomo also proposed creating a reward performance fund that would make teachers who are rated "highly effective" eligible to receive a $20,000 bonus.
He also wants to fund full-day universal pre-kindergarten.
"I'm glad to see the governor's focus on universal pre-K, but whether a commitment to funding matches the rhetoric remains to be seen," said Saranac Lake Teachers Association co-President Don Carlisto. "The bond (for technology upgrades) seems a good idea, as our district has for several years identified the need for significant upgrades to our technology infrastructure, libraries, etc."
However, Carlisto called the plan to give highly effective teachers a $20,000 bonus "troubling.
"Merit pay schemes like this are a distraction at a time when the focus should be on much more important areas, like helping kids succeed while we work to fix the mess that the Regents' Reform Agenda has become," Carlisto said.
Duprey applauded Cuomo's proposal of full-day universal pre-K.
"Full-day universal pre-K is a subject that is very near and dear to my heart," Duprey said. "Get our school children started in the right manner. New York state is going to have to come up with the funding for it, and they should."
The Adirondacks
Despite Cuomo's attention to the Adirondacks over the last three years, the Adirondack Council's executive director, William Janeway, said he was concerned about the governor's announcements.
In a press release, Janeway said he liked the parts about improving rural infrastructure and tourism, but didn't hear much about the environment.
"We look forward to a state budget that will stand as proof of his commitment to the environment, because we didn't hear much about those issues today," he said.
Janeway said he hopes Cuomo's enthusiasm for the region translates to more attention to the Adirondacks' environmental needs.
"We are pleased that the governor mentioned the Environmental Protection Fund and took credit for adding money to it last session, for the first time in many years," Janeway said. "But more than 100 organizations will be calling on the governor to increase the EPF to $200 million this year. As for the governor's plans for regulatory reform, we caution him to seek reforms that will not damage the Adirondack Park's clean waters, clean air and open spaces. Those are not just environmental concerns, but economic ones. We need to keep the park forever wild for everyone."
Janeway said the council was also concerned about the proposed Rooftop Highway and said it could isolate the Adirondack Park from wildlife migration pathways to Canada and the Great Lakes.
In the legislative session ahead, Janeway said the Council will push for improvements to the Adirondack Park Agency Act and updates of the agency's 40-year-old rules for private land development, improvements to invasive species controls, measures to address greenhouses gas emissions and the impact of climate change on the Park's ecology and rural communities, and laws or regulations that keep all-terrain vehicles off of the Adirondack Forest Preserve.
Janeway also commented on Cuomo's decision to invite major political leaders to the Finger Lakes for the 2014 Bassmaster Classic. Last year he invited them to a rafting race in Indian Lake in the Adirondacks.
"With or without the governor, we hope there will be a 2014 Adirondack Challenge this summer that brings additional attention to the park's new public lands and waters - as well as bringing new business to the surrounding, gateway communities," Janeway said.


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These pages are so thin, I find I have turned two together again, must copy some of my "poems" into them. Mustn't waste paper in these days. Had a beastly cold or perhaps the 48 hour flu' Dr. M told Father was going about. Very nasty but no temperature he said. Well I was very hot and cold Thursday and kept Jean at home until 10.30. and was not too bad tho' about whacked by tea-time. Rather better Sat. morning and kept improving. Jean went to see how Rene was yesterday afternoon and found her very seedy. She has gone again now. As it was Sun I thought they would manage even if she was in bed. It is time she was back again as it will soon be dark. She has lamps and there is a slim new moon, but it won't give much light. The sea settles as if it was going to be a frost. Father has just been to cover his car down. It has been cold and showery today, rain and snow mixed, tho' at times the sun shone quite warmly. It gets a bit of power now in the middle of the day.
Jean just came back again. Rene is much better and says she shall be here early tomorrow ready for work after her rest? Think we had better have a quiet day. Young John Short (stockings) has gone in forces also Laurence. Her[bert] Fau[lkner] had to join H.G. Mary has 3 boys in forces now. Ray[mond] in Iraq. Ke[ith] is in Wales and now Laurence has gone. It will be an anxious time for them.
Had a long interesting letter from Ron on Thursday dated 11 Jan so only about 3 weeks coming. Very quiet I think. Says natives very dirty and ragged no shoes. He has 1000 francs in N.A.A.F.I as the boys had to lend money for stock. Sounds opulent but Jean thinks francs may be only worth 2D. Tobacco 10D oz Players cigs for 20 [?] and very good quality at that. Quite a smoker's paradise. They had had a sudden storm just a few puffs of wind then a terrible gale, torrents of rain and the worst lightning he has ever seen. It did not last long and the tents stood up to it and very little wet came in. His corner being quite dry. Tom says he hasn't seen a gale yet if the tents weren't blown down or quite away. Hope he doesn't. Says the tents are warm and comfortable and fitted with E.L. [electric light]. Tom thinks this is a luxury! Ron says natives have a lot of little donkeys which they pile up with loads, poor little beggars. He has seen camels but there aren't any where he is now.
Flora came to call for Jean to go to S.S. [Sunday school]. I gave her an apple, she was very pleased. Mrs Balding senr. brought me a few. Elsie G brought me 1doz eggs 3/1, they are lovely big ones. If we get any at the shops they are always small think they must shrink, as there must be a lot of big ones collected off the farms. Eff brought me 3 but would only take 6D for hers. They are nice and fresh but the farm eggs are best now as the hens get corn. Had Cant[erbury] lamb for dinner today and preserved kidney beans. I forgot them until after Xmas. They were put down in dry salt and kept perfectly. The lamb too was extra good. We opened a tin of Pork sau[sage] meat again this week and made sau. rolls, very good too. There is enough fat to make ¾ lb flour up. Must get another tin as they need only 9 points. Now 2/6 tin. Tinned fruit on sale tomorrow, must see what they have got and how many pts wanted. 60 pts a month don't go far and I am owing two from this week. Got ½ pound dates and ½ pound raisins yesterday. Grandma better again and as quirky as ever. Eff wished Jean Many Hap[py] Ret[urns] of her Birthday and Gma wished her M.H. Ret. of the year. Jean had to put her tea-party off as I was so seedy. Flora said "Mrs Hill would be badly as she was coming to tea." They must come this week. I gave her a pair of stockings for school and Rene a dark blue scarf 3/6½, cotton, the poorest thing. Jean chose it and it looks quite nice on.
John Short was nicknamed 'stockings' after the long black stockings he used to wear. He lived with his parents at 'Ashleigh Villa' near Tylers Bridge (see Village Map).
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I am sure you have already had the conversation in your troop. How can we be more "green" and eco-friendly? The Boy Scouts have been discussing this long before it became socially fashionable. Take a look at Leave No Trace, for example. Or the points of the Outdoor Code.
I recently received and email featuring a story about the generational differences of being green. I am sure this has been circulating about the internet for awhile already, but it was the first time I had seen it. I enjoyed reading it so I thought I would share it with you. I may even use this as a scoutmaster minute at the end of a troop meeting.
(Unfortunately, I do not know the author of this story.)
The Green Thing
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days." The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right — our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts — wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right. We didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks
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