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I've been meaning to write this post for a while. I've been back in the States for about a month and a half now, and I guess I've just been pre-occupying myself with other things. It'll be a little strange to readers to see a jump between contacting me in Ethiopia and the dreaded 'ETing' post. I actually wrote several posts while I was at site, had almost no Internet access in country. When I did, it was limited and slow, so I spent most of my Internet time checking my email or facebook. If I wasn't doing this, then I was trying to catch up on a month's worth of news as I also had very little access to English language news stations. I've debated putting some of these posts up after the fact. I may still do it, but for now I guess I owe you all an explanation for why I find myself back home.
ETing is never an easy decision; you put so much into the process of getting into Peace Corps from the months of desperately waiting by the phone or inbox (or both), to getting ready to leave, and everything in between. For me, the hardest part was just getting on the damn plane in Atlanta. When you're waiting around in the American airport, knowing that this is the last time for a long time that you'll be on American soil, it all hits home: the gravity of what you're about to do. You're leaving everything that you know and love behind. Standing in this place that has no other purpose but transition, you call everyone you know and hear their voices for what feels like the last time. Then you hope to pass out on the plane. When you wake up, you're in a new place and the transition has really begun.
But this post isn't about a plane flight. It just starts there. What happened next was exhilarating and frustrating; painful, and amazing. I made wonderful friends along the way and got to do some crazy things, but at the end of the day I was drowning. This could be a very long post, as there was no single thing that drove me home. There were many things that pilled on each other that made staying impossible. I'll give you all a few examples, though, and explain why I made the decision to leave.
A lot of it started with training. I was going through my own set of problems; problems that are common to many PCV's. I wasn't unique, though for some reason I was treated that way by the office. I cried in public once or twice, which again wasn't unusual. I had left a boyfriend that I loved, and I was having some problems with other volunteers. This was compounded with the sheer stress of moving to a place like Ethiopia. It would get overwhelming at times.
The first incident happened on the Fourth of July when I spent the night at a volunteer's house rather than going home to my host family. I had told them days in advance and they were totally fine with it. I didn't realize that though Peace Corps had been telling us to not go home by ourselves after dark, this only applies to volunteers, _not_ trainees. It got back to my PST Coordinator, and he pulled me out of my language class to basically threaten me with sending me home. I had no idea that what I had done was wrong. In fact, I thought I was doing the responsible thing as my host family lived 1.5 miles away, and we had a lot of hyenas on our street. Fun fact: hyenas are man-eaters! Yeah… so this was part of the reason that I didn't want to go home by myself in the dark. I explained this to my PST Coordinator and told him that had I known that I wasn't supposed to do this, I would've gone home instead of spending the night at the PCV's. I was so shocked that I was a little teary-eyed about it. He accepted my apology and told me that if something like this happened again, he'd have to write a report and send it to the Country Director to "make a decision," which was a veiled threat.
All of this got back to my PCMO, so he decided to have a little sit-down with me. I was exhausted that day because I hadn't slept for a few nights due to the dog barking directly outside my window night after night. The stupid animal had this uncanny ability to know right when I was drifting back to sleep and right at that moment he would start barking again, scaring the shit out of me. So, when my PCMO found me to have our talk, I had my head down on a table taking a nap while everyone else was out having lunch. This is apparently super odd in Ethiopian culture, so he thought I was depressed rather than sleeping. I think that was the first 20 minutes of solid sleep that I had had in 3 nights, too.
We start talking, and he asks me if I'm doing OK. I told him that aside from the cold I was dealing with and the lack of sleep, I felt like I was doing fine. He then tells me that he's had a few reports about me crying in public (which is totally taboo in Ethiopian culture – also didn't know this until that moment), and he was concerned about it. I told him, yeah, I was stressed about some of the stuff that I had been dealing with, but it's nothing to be concerned about. The next thing that he said was incredibly shocking and painful. He said, "You don't have any friends! Doesn't that bother you??"
I didn't really know what to say. First off, I did have a lot of friends, they just happened to be at other host family sites. Second, just because of the way that I'm built, I know that there are some people that I have a hard time getting along with. It's not that I get into fights with these people, I just don't really know what to say to them. These also happened to be the majority of the 10 PCT's at my host family site. To me, that is not a problem as, like I said, there were plenty of other people in our group that I got along with really well. Finally, I was more successful in integrating into the Ethiopian culture at my host family site than any of the other PCT's. I had a lot of Ethiopian friends. I literally couldn't walk down the street without bumping into a few people that I knew really well, which wasn't the case for anyone else at my host family site. So to me, I was succeeding in my job.
I explained this to my PCMO, and told him that I'm comfortable with my friend situation. He seemed to be cool with this, and told me that he just wanted to talk to me about it before someone else with decision-making power came up to me to let me know I wasn't going to be sworn in. He also mentioned that a few people in the office had been trying to figure out if I should be sworn in at all. Honestly, I didn't understand what has happening, and why we were having this conversation. I was shocked, exhausted and deeply hurt. I still don't know why I was singled out in this way, as I was not doing anything wrong, nor was I acting any different than any other volunteer. That night I got a raging stomach ache due to the stress of it all, and spent most of the night on the phone with friends and my APCD.
I would like to note here that my APCD was an amazing person. She talked to me well into the night, and she was equally shocked that this was happening to me, as no one had talked to her about it. To her mind, I was acting no different then any other volunteer, and she didn't know why I was being singled out, either. She told me to keep her informed and if I needed any help, I could contact her at any time. It was a very hard night.
Fast-forward two months. I made it to swearing in, despite spending the night at an Ethiopian hospital a day before with a very bad case of dysentery. I made it to site, and was welcomed by my counterpart's girlfriend and everyone else on the compound (my counterpart was off in another town for about a month or two going to classes). I got along with everyone on my compound very well. I honestly thought they were amazing people, and my counterpart's girlfriend quickly became my best friend in town. However, I was living in a truck-stop town in a region that is notoriously guarded against outsiders. Integrating into life there was much more difficult than at my host family site. Almost right away I was dealing with physical harassment. We were warned during training that we would deal with a lot of verbal harassment, and I had already dealt with some of that at my host family site, but it was the physical harassment that was hard to handle.
There was something new happening every week. One of the first incidents happened after I'd been at site for a week or two. I was walking with my counterpart's girlfriend, Almaz, and her cousin, Helen, to a shop to get wicks for her portable stove. As we were walking, a guy with a bamboo stick came up behind us and shoved his hand between me and Almaz and started making the universal "give me money" sign. We told him several times that we didn't have any money, yet he wouldn't go away. He started tapping me on the shoulder and saying "frengi, birr sitching," – foreigner, give me money. Again, I told him "birr yellegnem," – I don't have any money, but then added "hed! Hed!" -go away! Go away! He apparently didn't like this answer, so he smacked me over the head with his bamboo stick and ran. I chased after him, yelled at him not to touch me, and threw a few swears at him. A lot of Americans will think this is the wrong reaction, but I had been told more than once by habasha (Ethiopians) that if someone does something to you, then you should humiliate them. This didn't work the way I thought it would, and instead of people getting mad at the guy for hitting me with a stick, they all started laughing and mocking me. After leaving the store, I got several other people coming up to me asking for money and trying to get me to flip out. It was not fun.
There was another incident where I got groped by an old man. My town had another PCV that had been there for almost 2 years at that point. When I got to site, she was in the States to see her sister's wedding, so I spent time with her counterpart, Fatima. She was walking me down to Samantha's boy's home that was under construction when this old man comes up to us and started shacking my hand. It was a little difficult to tell if he was being friendly or aggressive, as he wasn't smiling and seemed to have an angry look on his face. He invited us in for coffee, but Fatima said no, we shouldn't in because he's a little crazy. So we left, saw her boy's home, and forgot about it. We were having a lot of fun goofing around on our walk back when the same old guy came back up to us and grab my hand again. This time he wouldn't let go, even though I started pulling away. He was trying to drag us into his house, saying he'd hosted the Chinese and they gave him the weird hat that he was wearing. It was _very aggressive_, and I felt very threatened. As I was trying to pull away, he pulled me closer and grabbed my chest. Hard. At this point, Fatima shoved herself between the man and me and pushed him off. She told him that she was going to get the cops.
She then turns me around and we got a Bajaj (a Bajaj is basically a motorized rickshaw). She told the Bajaj driver what happened and that she wanted to go to the police. The guy said it really sucked, but the police couldn't do anything about it because we didn't grab the guy and bring him down to the station. Yes, folks, that's how it works in Ethiopia. If you're attacked, you have to grab your attacker, make him stand with you while you wait for a Bajaj, and bring him down to the police station yourself. Otherwise, well, they didn't see it, so what are they going to do about it? So Fatima asked me if I wanted to go back and get him. My American readers will understand why I said, ah… no. The last thing I wanted to do was confront this guy again by myself and try to convince him to get in a Bajaj with me to go to the police station. So we went home instead.
There were several more incidents like this of varying degrees of violence. I didn't report any of it to my APCD because I had gotten the impression that if I said anything, I'd be seen as a whiner. After what I'd gone through in training, I didn't really trust my office either. So I just sucked it up and told myself that this was just part of life at site, and I was expected to adapt to it. About two weeks before I decided to leave, I was called to the next town by my APCD since she was going to be there doing site visit for another PCV. She wanted to give me some invitations to hand out to key people in town for my own site visit the following week. While the three of us were sitting there having a nice lunch, she asked us point-blank: "how is the harassment in your towns?" I told her, you know, I have my days were it's good and nothing happens, and then there are days were people just feel the need to touch me in inappropriate ways. On my way over to see her I had two separate incidents within an hour span, so I was feeling frustrated. But again, I thought this was life at site, so I told her "chiger yellem," – no problem.
No. Wrong. This actually is very much a problem, she told me. Yes, we're going to have to deal with verbal harassment, but we should feel safe walking down the street. We had a long conversation about it, and I told her several things that had happened to me, and she told me that I should make a list of each incident so she could talk to some folks next week during my site visit. She wanted to get a feel for my town and see if she could do anything to change it. I also got the feeling that she might move me to another site, and though what I was dealing with sucked, I didn't want to move to another site, either, as I was honestly just tired of moving and starting over again and again. I spent the weekend thinking about it and writing my list. It was longer than even I thought it was going to be. I also spent a lot of time talking to both my good PCV friends and the peer-support network. They were very supportive, but told me that this happens everywhere in Ethiopia. It sounds like I was dealing with it more than at other sites, but physical harassment of that sort is actually pretty common.
But there were two other conversations that left me really unsettled. The first one was with Samantha, who was now back from the States and getting ready to move to another town for her third year extension. I told her about some of the things that had happened, and about my conversation with my APCD. She basically told me to have patients, and that they're just looking for a reaction, so don't give it to them. But what left me really unsettled was that she was really pissed when I told her that I had talked to my APCD about it. She told me not to tell anyone at the office about stuff that happens at site, because it builds a record. If a site has a record, then they probably wont send someone to replace them once the current PCV leaves. She didn't want to see that happen because she really liked the town, and thought it needed the help. Though I totally understood this, I felt like she was basically telling me to deal with this on my own, and this was more than I could really handle. It also left me feeling guilty, as if I had ruined all of her hard work just by answering a question honestly.
The next conversation I had was two days later, Monday, with my PCMO. All of the literature we are given says that if you're having emotional problems then we should call the PCMO. I spent the better part of the weekend debating with myself if I should make this call, as I wasn't sure how he would react. But I felt like I needed to talk to someone who didn't have decision-making power, but was still in the office, about what I was dealing with and how to solve the problem. At this point, all of the stress that I had been repressing from these encounters was boiling to the surface along with the guilt I was feeling about talking to my APCD at all, and the fear of moving to another site. All of this was mixed in with the memory of my last sit-down with the PCMO when he told me I didn't have any friends. It was not an easy phone call to make.
Nor, as it would turn out, was it an easy phone call to have. It should be noted here that up until this point, I still wasn't thinking about ETing. But this phone call did lead to my decision to leave. I told him what was going on, explaining a few incidents that had happened (the ones outlined above plus the two that I had on my way to see my APCD). We talked about where some of this happened. Yes, there was a part of town where it was about 5-10% more likely to happen, but I had had incidents all over the place. And, it wasn't like I had no need to go to that part of town, either, as that is where the police station, bus station and the only stationary store in town are. Not to mention the market and post office. However, he told me to avoid this area, and anywhere else that it happens, and to avoid the times of day when it happens. This translated to: since it happens pretty much everywhere, avoid the entire town, and because you live in a truck-stop town, it happens pretty much all day and night, so basically don't leave your house. The habasha told me to make sure to go out with an habasha, but all of my friends worked during the day, so it amounted to the same thing.
If this wasn't hard enough to hear, what he said next left me shell shocked. He asked me why I was calling him. Had I talked to other PCV's in my group about this, or the peer-support network? And don't I have a PCV living in my town? Have I talked to her? I should get advice from her, why haven't I done that? Do I even get along with her? Again, I was put in the position of defending myself in a situation that should not have been about accusations. And again, I did not understand why he was suddenly asking me all of this. I had been talking to other PCV's and the peer-support network about this, and trying to come up with good solutions. I had tried to get advice from Samantha, too, but she was often gone, busy finishing her project, or simply not interested in helping me. Many PCV's develop an attitude that newbies need to learn to figure this out on their own, and I always got the sense that she had this feeling towards me. She had been pretty unhelpful. I think I saw her a grand total of three times the entire time I was at site.
It should also be noted that though Samantha did deal with a lot of things when she first got to site, it was mainly from children. When I told her that I was dealing with primarily adult men harassing me, and explained some of the things that happened, she was surprised, as she didn't deal with the same things. This was mainly for one reason: you could tell by looking at Samantha's long hair that she was American. However, to the habasha, I looked Chinese because I have white skin and short hair. Neither hair and eye color, nor eye shape seemed to mean anything to them. There are a lot of issues between the Chinese and the habasha, and because of the massive industrialization that China is doing in their country, many Ethiopians _hate_ the Chinese. So, because of the way I looked, and mistaken identity politics, I was dealing with more and worse harassment than what Samantha had gone through. She didn't really have any advice to give.
I hung up the phone with my PCMO feeling more hurt and insecure than when I had first called. On that beautiful fall day, I picked the phone back up, called a trusted member of the peer-support network and told her what had just happened. I never talked about wanting to ET, even at this point I hadn't made that decision yet, but she could hear it in my voice. She brought it up, and we talked about what it would mean. We talked a long time about the process of making the decision, if it was right for me, and if I should wait a while, perhaps until after IST, or make the decision sooner than that. She was perhaps the most helpful person I had talked to about the entire situation that I was in. She explained that this really is part of Ethiopian culture, and that I would need to decide if I was willing to put up with it, or if it was too much. Either decision was fine, as I had dealt with perhaps more than my fair share.
I got off the phone with her and it hit like a ton of bricks… I just couldn't do it anymore. What it really came down to was not so much that it was part of the culture, but rather that I would always feel like I wouldn't be able to get the support I needed to make it through this. Not only had I become annoyed and frustrated with my town, in that I _always_ had to be on my guard, but I also felt like I couldn't turn to anyone in the office to report what was happening to me. The reactions were too extreme, either I was being accused of not being able to cope, or I felt like I would be undermining either Samantha's work or my own in the future. And the truth was, I wasn't coping with it. I was trying really hard to, but it was just too much. Not to mention the idea of staying in my house all the time was just absurd to me. I didn't fly 8,000 miles across the planet to stay in a small 15 x 20 room for two years. What I wanted was a way to create a solution to the problem, not accusations or being moved. I was tired. I didn't want to be touched again. I wanted to feel safe, and I wanted to feel like I could move towards solutions. It's possible that I could have worked it out, I know that, but I was also at the point were it had happened so many times that I would probably spend the next two years wondering if someone was going to touch me again. And that's exhausting.
I told my APCD that day, and went into the capitol the following day. She gave me a day to hang out and enjoy town (I do love Addis Ababa, so I was really happy about this). Six days after I told her, I was packed and on a plane heading home. It was a bit surreal, especially walking down the quite streets of Seattle, but it feels good to be able to walk around without getting harassed. I don't regret my decision to leave. That's the biggest lie they tell you to keep volunteers from ETing. It's not easy, and yes, there are days when I miss my friends out there, PCV's and habasha alike, but I don't regret the decision I made. It was the right one for me, and it's not like I didn't try to make it work. I was there for 5 months, and I felt like I was battling everyday to make it work out. In the end, it didn't. I learned a lot from it, and it has drastically changed the way I view the world, and at the end of the day, that's a major reason why I joined the Peace Corps. But there is only so much that one human can take, and I had reached my limit.
But I want to leave you with this: I don't regret my decision to go to Ethiopia, either. This is a sad post to write, but I also had many amazing, beautiful moments. I have an entire family waiting for me out there, people that I will hold in my heart forever. I did things that most other Americans or Westerners can never dream of doing, and in one town, at least, I became habasha. I learned about the politics of living in a dictatorship, and how despite everything, people have beautiful, open hearts. No matter how hard it was, no matter how painful I felt it was, I met people who had dealt with worse and come out stronger. They are my inspiration, and I wouldn't trade that for anything in the world.


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6:21 PM EDT, July 19, 2013
Running off at the typewriter. …
Did you see the story the other day where Daunte Culpepper lost his $3.6-million house in South Florida to foreclosure? It would be sad if it turns out Culpepper is yet another in a long line of professional athletes who were multi-millionaires during their playing careers but ended up having money troubles when they retired. So many athletes make bad investments and trust the wrong the people. Most of us regular working schlubs don't understand how they could make tens of millions of dollars in their careers and not have anything saved. Three words that all pro athletes should memorize: Certificate of Deposit. … Speaking of fiscal issues, I'm not buying the hunky-dory story that longtime Orlando Predators owner Brett Bouchy is selling his interest in the team just so he can pursue other interests. Sounds to me like the Preds have some serious financial problems. …
Former University of Florida and Jacksonville Jaguar player Monty Grow was arrested a few days ago after he left a kid in the car so he could go to a strip club. Immoral dilemma: Is it worse leaving a kid in the car to go into a strip club or taking the kid into the strip club with you? … Next time I write something that is controversial and unpopular, I'm just going to identify myself as Columnist B-37. … I'm thinking the signing of Jason Maxiell will take the Magic from a 20-win team to a 21-win team. Blue and White, Sit Tight! … The hottest book out right now is entitled "The Cuckoo's Calling" and I'm thinking it's about a football recruit's telephone communication with LSU coach Les Miles …
Three of my favorite quotes from SEC Media Days: (1) Will Muschamp on Ohio State turning in the Gators for an NCAA non-violation: "We appreciate our friends from Ohio making sure we are compliant with NCAA rules. They certainly know something about NCAA rules." Nick Saban on the media picking Alabama to win the SEC title: "In the last 21 seasons, you as the media have only picked the right team four times to win the SEC. Now, if I was 4¿17 as a coach, I would be back in West Virginia pumping gas at my daddy's gas station." (2) Miles on why he doesn't ban his players from Twitter: "It would be like saying when cars were first invented, 'I'm not allowing any of my players to drive cars. Why? Well, I like my old buggy. It's safer. The horse is a problem, but as long as you keep the horse pointed in the right direction, you're OK.' " …
By the way, I saw ESPN's Joe Schad at SEC Media Days and was reminded of the days he covered the University of Florida for the Orlando Sentinel. Former UF coach Ron Zook once referred to Joe as "Jumper Cables" because Zooker said he was always trying to start something. … Hard to believe Mariano Rivera was named the MVP of the Major League All-Star Game for getting three outs -- two of them on fairly hard hit balls. And herein lies the problem with baseball: The hottest young star in the game (Yasiel Puig) doesn't play in the All-Star Game even though he deserves to, and an aging relief pitcher gets the MVP when he doesn't deserve to. … Johnny Manziel says he gets so much media scrutiny that sometimes he thinks he's Justin Bieber. In related news, Justin Bieber says he drinks so much Natty Light that sometimes he thinks he's Johnny Manziel. …And did you see where Tim Tebow left a voice mail message for Johnny Manziel the other day? I'm guessing he wanted to tell Johnny Highball to stop using his Heisman as a beer bong. … There were 243 media members who voted for the All-SEC team and 20 of them left South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney off their ballots. Just call these 20 Bozos: "Clowns Against Clowney." …
Last word: "We are proud to say that Los Angeles has one of the lowest crime rates of any major city. You know why? We don't have an NFL team." – Jay Leno
Open Mike:
Don't forget, you can click on OrlandoSentinel.com and read the wildly popular Open Mike blog and interactive extravaganza to get my freshest takes on what's happening in the world of sports. Here's a blog on former Magic coach Stan Van Gundy lauding the Houston Rockets for rebuilding without having to go into the tank to do it.
The Houston Rockets prove that you don't have to bottom out in order to make your climb toward the top.
Or so says former Magic coach Stan Van Gundy.
Van Gundy points to Houston GM Daryl Morey, who has chosen to always try to put a competitive product on the floor while the Rockets have built themselves into a contender. The Rockets have had six straight winning seasons and still have managed to acquire Dwight Howard and James Harden over the last two offseasons to make themselves a serious contender to win the Western Conference next season.
Van Gundy says former Magic GM Otis Smith had a similar philosophy to Morey's.
"Even the harshest critics would have to say one thing, and that's that every move Otis made was to try to make the team as good as possible and to try to win that year or the next year," Van Gundy said the other day on our critically acclaimed and wildly popular Open Mike radio show. "People get really critical of GMs who go that way while you see these guys (GMs) in these long-term building projects get praised.
"It's one of the reasons I'm really happy that Dwight went to Houston and they now have a chance to contend. I think it's accepted wisdom that the way you build a team now is to get as bad as you can and then build it back -- and that's the only way to do it. But that's not how Daryl Morey has done it. He has at no time made that effort. They (Rockets) have not had a top 10 draft pick and yet he's built this thing into now being a contender. There is another way to do it: You can try to win. You can try to give your fans a good product every year. I'm not saying the teams that go the other way are wrong; I'm just saying it's not the only way to do it."
Do you agree with Van Gundy or disagree?
Would you rather see the Magic rebuild on the fly like the Rockets or bottom out and try to rebuild that way?
Mail Bonding:
(Most interesting reader retorts, radio rabble, tangy tweets and message-board mockery of the week):
On the Magic signing of free agent journeyman Jason Maxiell: "He's exactly the type of player the Magic need to get one step closer to drafting Andrew Wiggins."
On LSU coach Les Miles using the term "legal entanglement" to describe the situation running back Jeremy Hill: "That's code for: simple battery charges after a previous sex crime conviction."
"I heard Papa lean toward Mama. I heard Papa tell Mama, 'Let that boy boogie-woogie.' Was ZZ Top talking about Johnny Manziel?"
Notable quotables:
(In honor of the Open Championship this weekend in Scotland, three of my favorite quotes about the British Open):
"Any time you leave the U.S.A., you're just camping out." – Sam Snead, on his losing streak at the British Open
"How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations and been divorced twice." -- Lee Trevino, on his prospects for winning the 1983 British Open.
"Would I have to learn the rules and all that crap? Then forget it." -- John Daly, after being asked to join the Royal and Ancient after winning the '95 British Open
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Born in Härnösand, Sweden, photographer Per Daniel Håkansson lives and works in Brooklyn. A graduate of the International Center of Photography, he has worked as a commercial photographer in New York since 2007. These works come from his series "I might be stupid but I'm not blind," inspired by philosopher Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle and also from "Mandala," which refers to the Buddhist concept of impermanence. Håkansson's latest work, "Enlightenment," was shot in forests in upstate New York and Sweden.


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You desperately want some extra money and then, you see an ad on TV: Save money by refinancing your car! Is this a good idea? Auto refinance can be a perfect way of saving money on your auto loan, if it is done correctly. It enables you to negotiate for better interest rates or extend the term of your loan in order to lower your monthly payments.
What is refinancing?
Refinancing requires you to transfer the official ownership or title of your car from a creditor to another creditor. According to the former Credit.com consumer education president, John Ulzheimer, the assumption is "that is it" when you apply for a car loan. However, it is possible for you to refinance it if you are still making payments for your car loan.
Ulzheimer said that it is important for you to refinance your auto loan if there is an improvement in your credit score even by a mere 50 points. Likewise, LendingTree.com advises that it is prudent for you to refinance if the interest rates have since reduced but they were high during the purchase of your car. You should consider refinancing even if it would simply lead to a reduction of the interest that you pay every year by approximately 1 percent. However, shopping around will be necessary if you are looking for a better rate.
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The process of refinancing is very simple if you get approval for it. Your new lender gives you a check, which you use for the payment of the old loan. You then start making monthly payments to your new lender.
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The potential advantages that refinancing has are twofold: It can help in lowering the overall cost of a car and reducing the monthly payments that you make.
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If it is affordable for you, securing a lower interest rate and the lower monthly payments that result from it but continuing with the payments that you making before is another strategy for refinancing. Since you would have reduced the total cost that you would have financed by refinancing at an interest rate that is much lower, this will help in shortening your loan.
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like someone else before said: kill all chapter marks at the very ending of the clips!!! if u find some -> they are waste!!! all vobulator problems disappeared when i checked all my videos and timelines again!
Einer meiner clips hatte ganz am ende eine Kapitelmarke! Nach dem ich diese gelöscht hab, kam dieses Problem nie wieder! womöglich führt dieser verweis ins nowhere
My Vobulator isn't working, I need a new BlockPlanner with 217 lines please. Adobe's is broken and after 3 years they can't work out how to fix it.
I have no chapters at all, and I've tried reverting all wav's back to original. Is that really all the suggestions we have?
If you would like to give complete details on your Project and your Assets, plus the navigation that you are attempting to put together, someone might be able to help you.
I would suggest starting a new thread, as this one has pretty much played itself out and all previous replies were from others with other Projects and possibly other problems. You can link back to this thread easily, in case there is discussion that you feel applies to your Project, other than the error message.
I assure you that you will get input, but without the details, no one can possibly tell what your problem is.
Good luck,
I found out it was due to selecting an image file as the video layer
in a menu, causes the error everytime. I just paste the image in with
'edit in photoshop' instead now. But thanks.
Glad that you got it sorted out.
I was putting together a slideshow for my nephew's funeral service today. I have been researching this on the web with no luck. Mine has no menu and no chapter markers. It turned out to be blank images in the slideshow. No idea how this happened, I burned once successfully. Tweaked a few things and got the error. Maybe someone else will be saved the frustration I have gone through with this.
Hi All,
It really dont seem to me the point of applying an end marker at the end of the clip.
I found this answer (below) in another thread. What does it mean exactly?
The only images (photos) I have is in a slideshow. My menu item is linked to SlideShow:Photo1.jpg
I do have cross fades. I CAN preview the entire DVD including the slideshow but burn to DVD or burn to image causes the error.
<<<I found out it was due to selecting an image file as the video layer
in a menu, causes the error everytime. I just paste the image in with
'edit in photoshop' instead now. But thanks.>>>
I don't know what it means either.
My assumption is that "video layer" means a motion background, but the menu (the PSD seen in photoshop) has a regular background layer which is replaced in Encore with the video layer.
Or they are referring to a poster thumbnail; again replaced in Encore.
You might start a new thread so we can look at your situation.
A common issue I noticed in many other threads relating to BlockPlanner.cpp, line 217 is the use of a slide show. I started experimenting with mine. The first thing I tried worked (maybe a coincidence). "Fit SlideShow to audio duration" was originally checked and default transition was "Cross Dissolve". I unchecked it, and changed to 'None'. No more error. I since rechecked Fit to Audio and still OK (still no transition). I was always able to preview but couldn't burn to disc or create image until now.
I also got the "Internal Software Error...Vobulator...Line 17" error in Encore CS6. One of my timelines had diagonal gray bars for the last 50 or so seconds and the culprit was the chapter marker I had placed within that (apparently) forbidden zone. Once I removed the errant marker (who needed that one anyway?) the error messgage disappeared.
For the record, I had eliminated everything in the but the First Play video (in other words the Main Menu, two timelines and a playlist did not appear in the Flow Chart) and I still got the error message. I tried renaming the timelines, using underscores instead of spaces, etc.
I also tried running Encore as an Administrator - didn't work.
Removing the chapter marker in the greyed out area at the end of a video clip was the only solution that worked.
Now if I could only figure out why the end of that clip - and only that one clip - was grayed out...
Now if I could only figure out why the end of that clip - and only that one clip - was grayed out...
The original clip that was used to create the timeline was shortened/replaced with a shorter clip. The timeline should have been shortened.
<The original clip that was used to create the timeline was shortened/replaced with a shorter clip.>
Thanks for the quick reply!
In this case the clip was not shortened or replaced. I created a new timeline based on the clip and that was it,; the gray lines have always been there.
When I used the Check Project utility no issues were found, but when I built the project this particular video froze (video only, audio kept playing) near the end - at the exact spot where the diagonal lines appear. On the Encore timeline the audio and video both play fine right up to the end.
Perhaps there is an error in the file itself? I guess I'll have to re-render the video to find out.
Dynamic link or file exported from PR?
I'd look back to PR to see what was happening at that point in the PR timeline.
I appreciate your suggestion, thank you. The video was exported from Vegas Pro so I'll re-render it. I rendered this particular movie as an .mpg as opposed to .m2t for the other movie used in the project.
I do find it curious that the video plays just fine from the Encore timeline and when previewing the project but not in the final DVD build.


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Can you love a sandwich so much you marry it? Jack in the Box and Secret Weapon think so.
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You look good enough to eat…
"If you love bacon, make it official." And sure enough the guy marries a BLT cheeseburger from Jack in the Box. At the wedding, the priest blesses the happy couple and his final line is no less priceless for being obvious: "You may eat the bride."
Doing a little research I discovered the commercial actually first ran on the Superbowl. How did I miss it? Maybe its silliness got lost in the shuffle. Maybe it ran pre-game, or regionally. Whatever. It's worth another look.
Bottom line the commercial is funny and it makes sense. Guys love bacon. A TV spot that takes this true love to its obvious conclusion is, well, on strategy. Think about it. For all the advertising that tries to sell bacon as the ultimate accouterment on a hamburger none, as far as I know, did the obvious. Congrats to Jack in the Box for doing so.
Over the years, Jack in the box has made some pretty damn fine commercials, using one of America's finest, if under the radar, creative agencies: Secret Weapon. While McDonalds and Burger King get all the publicity, JITB might be the better case study, creatively.
When I first started in this business my father gave me a small book, called "Obvious Adams." His then boss and now a living legend, Keith Reinhardt, had previously signed the copy. It said "All you need to know about advertising." I gotta find that f**king book! In any event, the story was about a newbie ad executive in New York who had the courage and wisdom to offer an obvious if at first unpopular solution to a package goods company, I forget which one. Anyway, it worked.
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Lunch Mon - Fri 12 pm - 4 pm
Dinner Sun - Thurs 5 pm - 10 pm
Dinner Fri - Sat 5 pm - 11 pm
Brunch Sat - Sun 12 pm - 4 pm
Neighborhoods: Vinegar Hill
The ambiance is decent but outside of that it was a pretty miserable experience. We stopped here for brunch in the afternoon. The waiter was polite but the service was terrible. Had to walk over and ask for water. Waited interminably for them to come take our order.
The food was okay. Not the best southern comfort food I've had but not terrible. The fries were really good. I'd also ordered Buffalo wings and like so many pretentious NYC restaurants, they don't actually know what Buffalo Wings are and their variation was terrible. Asked for extra Buffalo sauce and had to wait for 15 minutes while the wings grew cold.
Then had to go find the waiter to ask for the check. When the check came it had 20% in tips included!! For a party of 5 at brunch. There was no mention of required gratuity on the menu nor did the waiter mention it when he handed us the check, instead there was an additional space with recommended gratuity.
So mediocre establishment with very polite but dishonest waitstaff.
We attended a bat mitzvah party here recently Kids had a great time downstairs in the very cool Underwater Lounge altho they felt like they were held prisoner when trying to come up to see us, their parents. We were around 30 adults seated in the back of the restaurant, in back of the bar and outside the Roebling Room. One waitress was assigned to serve 30 people drinks and food. There was a pre-set menu that provided lots of good choices. The waitress, Bianca, was rude and obnoxious to the guests, at least at my end of the table. Service was extremely slow - it took about two hours after being seated to be served our main course. The waitress went missing at times which delayed us even more than the notion of having one waitstaff for such a large party. To top the evening off, the restaurant had set up drapes held up on two poles to separate the bar area from where we were sitting - lots of people sitting and standing at the bar watching the basketball game when all of a sudden, the drapes fell and a pole hit one of the bat mitzvah guests on the head. The manager, also a bit rude, came over and inquired if the patron was okay and whether an ambulance should be called then walked away and never came back to check. Not good management for sure. In the meantime the waitress came over to one of the young adults, an almost 19 year old and tried to insist that she go down to sing happy birthday. The young woman, concerned for the patron, wished to remain upstairs. Words were exchanged, mostly by the waitress which ended in the waitress telling this young woman she needed an attitude adjustment. Hmmm, whatever happened to the customer is right. The manager never returned to see how the patron was, was defensive and rather obnoxious when the mother of the young woman voiced her concern about how her daughter was treated and basically complained to the hostess about her guests. While the food was decent, the atmosphere was toxic. We will not be returning to the Water Street Restaurant.
This place is fun and exciting. A lovely Dumbo experience. Tastee food.
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GREAT!!!!!!! – My experience was Great top notch the staff was on top of everything - we kept a dinner for my close friend & i couldn't believe how well the manager who's name is Brian handle everything for me & even when he wasn't there he had reliable staff meeting any needs that we might have. I enjoyed myself so much the dinning experience & the after hour lounge........They get a A+ from me......will definitely be going back!!!!!
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Avoid at All Costs – I have never felt the need to write a negative review of any restaurant until I came here. I'll start with the positives: the food was pretty good for the price. Then come the negatives. We came here after a show at St. Ann's Warehouse, so naturally things were a bit busy as the crowd came in. They gave us water fairly quickly, but it took another ten minutes before we were able to flag down a waiter, who seemed annoyed that we asked for service and responded with a rather terse "I'll let your server know." That server, an aloof, bearded 20-something, came around fifteen minutes later, offering no apology for the fact that we'd been sitting there for half an hour without someone even taking a drink order. To this point, it was pretty much standard poor service. But the cherry on the cake came another half hour later, when the waiter finally came with our drinks. I'd ordered a Manhattan - nothing confusing about it. The server proceeded to spill half the drink from the shaker onto the table and floor (which he never cleaned up). When he'd finished pouring the glass about two-thirds full, he said (and as unbelievable as it is, this is a quote) "If you're still thirsty, you can sip up what's left on the floor," and walked away. I had to call him back to point out that this was not reasonable treatment concerning a ten dollar drink, and he begrudgingly brought it back to the bar to top it off. Fifteen minutes later, another server came by to let us know our appetizers would be there shortly (pretty much everyone else who came in after us had food already). Another fifteen minutes later, a server brought us our appetizers and entrees together, again failing to apologize for failing to abide by bare-minimum restaurant etiquette. At no point did anybody working at the restaurant apologize or try to make up for the absolutely abysmal service. I recommend that anybody considering this place go anywhere else - I'm sure there are plenty of restaurants in the neighborhood where they won't treat you like the scum on the bottom of their shoe.
Total Upset!! – lthough this place did look nice and was very near the Brooklyn Bridge, The service has yet to live up to its reputation. My best friend decided to have her wedding party celebrate their wedding brunch at this location because she had a Brooklyn bridge themed wedding. She had read good reviews. However, things always happen at weddings with a few delays so the party arrived about 45 min late to the restaurant. The manager came to the table and pulled the bride's sister and in front of all the guests let her know that this party has till 4pm due to another reservation and that he needed the bill to be paid. Firstly, the place was very empty and we were not savages to be spoken to in such a manner. The wedding party consisted of only 15 people and we were a quiet group. Not to mention the wait staff, although they were nice people, we had to search for them to be served because most of the time they were out of sight! Upon the bride's arrival the manager instead of welcoming her told her that we had to be out by 4pm and make sure we tip his staff well. HOW RUDE AND OBNOXIOUS!! The bride and groom's day was ruined by this establishment. They had no appetite from how unwelcome they felt. The bride was in tears and the wedding party was left with a sour taste as we were rushed out of the establishment. The only reason they even got a star was because the food was actually good. I would not recommend anyone to go to this place unless something is done about their management staff. What should have been the happiest day of their lives turned out to be the biggest failure. I am very upset to see such great people have to go through this. We had to cut the cake back at the bride's mother's house in New Jersey because all she wanted to do was get back to where she knew she would always be welcomed.
What a find! A friend & I stumbled on this charming restaurant & bar right under the Brooklyn Bridge last night and we had a GREAT time. When I first saw a huge bar with more beer selections than I could count I thought, OK, it's a bar and burger joint. So we weren't expecting an epicurian meal of any sort. But we still ordered Coconut Shrimp & an Eggplant Napolean appetizer - which were amazing! The shrimp was in a pineapple chutney that I could have taken home by the jar.
So far, so good. For dinner I had sea scallops with mushroom risotto and my buddy had stuffed chicken with sundried tomatoes, capers and mozzerella, smothered in tomato sauce and we both loved it.
For dessert we had the house special called murder by chocolate, it was a chocolate mousse cake with a big knife sticking out of it and raspberry sauce -- and I swear, it DID look like someone was murdered..and I could see why...if they tried to take it from me, I would have murdered someone too! It was THAT good.
I took a bunch of pix so you guys can all see what a great find this is. I also got a look at the Valentines Day menu. It looks great with things like champagne chicken and lobster ravioli...and if I didn't have to go back to Miami today I would have made a reservation. The staff is cool and attentive and they were telling me about a disco party coming up on the 19th, so I took a picture of that too...who knew Brooklyn could be so cool? I will definitely be back next time I am in town.
Just OK – The wait staff are pretty nice. The drinks are usually great and the service has always been prompt. The meals are not always good. Burgers are great. However, one evening my friend and I ordered the calamari appetizer and steaks for dinner. The steaks were tough and the calamari was chewy and undercooked. We were not charged for the food, but it makes for an awkward situation. It will be a while before we go back.
BAD Food – Ok, so me and my boyfriend like to go out once a week for dinner to some nice place.. We enjoy all kinds food, would it be American, Italian, French or Asian Fusion.. So, last Saturday, we decide to chill in Dumbo and try the Water Street Restaurant...WOW, what a mistake.. First, we order appetizers.. I order Fried Calamari...it was extremely chewy.. then I ask the waitress if they can change shrimp in shrimp languini to some other seafood..she tells me no...as the shrimp is already mixed in.. then I order a side order of onion rings which they dont have that day.. I finally ordered crab cakes with french fries.. My G_D..those crab cakes look like beef patties..that's how much they were overcooked..and the fries..you could have broken a tooth while eating them..So I sent the food back which I have never done before and we left.
The only good thing, I can say about this place is that they are drinks were not bad.. We had some black cherry drink that was good.. Don't go there.. Food is pre cooked..
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