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Bobbie Wygant Interviews Robert Duvall for Tender Mercies from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.I could read to you from this stack of press releases for big-deal Thursday happenings ("Boone Pickens, Mayor Leppert, Chief Brown unveil New Jubilee Park Buildings" and "Mayor Leppert, Dr. Hinojosa to launch first-o ... More >>
Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *The Texas Rangers' slogan this season: "It's Time". The Texas Rangers' situation on September 3: "It's Over." With 29 games remaining, the Rangers could go 14-15 and the A's would have to go 24- ... More >>
Patrick MichelsOn his birthday, Mayor Tom Leppert gets to meet Ernie, an American alligator, at the Dallas ZooEven if he'd secretly been hoping for a pony on his birthday, Mayor Tom Leppert was all smiles this morning at the Dallas Zoo, where the formalities of a press conference quickly gave ... More >>
The only thing that could make this any more creepyweirdfunny is if it was hand-delivered by a cleaveage-baring dragon wearing a Jim Kern jersey whilst talking in a sing-songy Australian accent. I get some crazy stuff. Nothing beats this one. In my mailbox at the Dallas Observer yesterday I ... More >>
Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *As for August's PPM radio ratings - surprise! - 1310 AM The Ticket continues to dominate. Among men 25-54, The Ticket remains No. 1 in the market leading every hour from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. ... More >>
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From DeGolyer Library Collection, SMU Billie Marcus, left, and Stanley Marcus with Coco Chanel before the first Neiman Marcus Fortnight in 1957 Swear, I will not turn Unfair Park into a 24-7 Marcus House drive-thru; in fact, this will likely be our last posting on the subject as it moves its way in ... More >>
Marcus House I finally spoke this afternoon with Debbi Head, spokesperson for the Texas Historical Commission, who says the state's historic preservation agency was stunned to receive at the end of July Mark and Patty Lovvorn's request to demolish the 70-year-old Marcus House. "This came as a real s ... More >>
Who in music will join the Choir Invisible this year? Let's bet.
The Modern knows My Best Friend
Being an ass-clown ain't so bad
Jim Carrey's brand of fun warms a reheated Dick and Jane
The Truth is, Egoyan's latest is B-movie noir, with killer performances
Totally kooky, totally European, totally fun: Stereo Total
Spider Woman wraps Uptown Players in her spell; Dinner with Friends and Artificial Jungle feel like traps
It's a sure bet with Marx
Jim Carrey has the power in Bruce Almighty
Spielberg, once more, is caught up in the thrill of the chase
Have we lost the art of drinking?
The SSSound of Mmmusic (Emperor Norton)
Made, a wannabe mob comedy, won't be furthering anyone's career
Low culture meets high concept at Plush and Purple Orchid
Harold Ramis paves an uneven road to hell over the classic Bedazzled
Or: How a critic gets to play the fool
Irene lets rubber-faced freak Carrey on one more time
Gatti's back; Pagan's out; 900 Ft Jesus bathes; Records due for release
In the spirit of Chaplin, Roberto Benigni takes on the Holocaust in Life Is Beautiful
Usual suspects, small wonders, and the new Bertolucci at the Montreal and Toronto film fests
The cocktail party never ends in le cinema du Henry Jaglom
In The Truman Show, a hypernormal Jim Carrey dives into the world of TV--and brings us a "message film" that almost works
La Mirabelle serves up fine French fare and holds the snootiness
Radiohead: The story of a would-be one-hit wonder
In this lifeless comedy, the corpses have more charm than the actors
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Murphy shows acting muscle, but The Nutty Professor weighs him down
The Cable Guy spoofs TV culture; Moll Flanders spooks a classic novel
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Welcome back, we knew you couldn't stay away, we are like Lays Potato Chips!
Somebody has to speak for these people. Y'all got on this boat for different reasons, but y'all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything, I know thisthey will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people...better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave. Mal Reynolds Serenity/Firefly
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Unorthodox weapons? There was the "Grand Panjandrum", A Big wheel that was to roll up on the beach to clear minefields. When tested, it wound up going the other way before tipping over in a rather spectacular fireworks display
Unorthodox weapons? There was the "Grand Panjandrum", A Big wheel that was to roll up on the beach to clear minefields. When tested, it wound up going the other way before tipping over in a rather spectacular fireworks display
It was actually supposed to breach Hitler's "Atlantic Wall"......an unsuccessful weapon for a threat that never actually existed! In engineering it's called "A complex solution searching for a problem to solve!". While rather spectacular.....the Panjandrum was a side-show even by DMWD standards, and the amount of effort expended on it was quite minimal. What they spent a rather more significant amount of time on, concurrent with Panjandrum was developing Dr. Barnes-Wallis "Dam-Busting" skip bomb......DMWD took it from an interesting "bench scale" idea to a successful and effective full-sized weapon in a matter of weeks. In point of fact, it was DMWD's Nevile Norway....the chap usually seen in the films trying (unsuccessfully!) to steer the Panjandrum across the beach, that significantly changed the design of the Barnes-Wallis skip-bomb that allowed it to become a practical weapon (the original design was round like a monstrous beach ball that couldn't have been carried in any existing aircraft.....Norway got even better results by converting it to a cylinder that tucked quite nicely in a Lanc! Oh! Norway had a rather successful post-war career....not as an engineer, but as the best-selling novelist, Nevil Shute! And before you scoff much more John..."Hedgehog" was another of DMWD's "unorthodox" weapons that went a long way to making crewing a U-Boat a less survivable job than flying a Kamikaze!
FWIW, the "rocket grapple" that the US Rangers used to scale the Pont du Hoc at Normandy was another DMWD creation!
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Got a smart phone? It's not called a smart phone for nothing, your speed and location is available to any govt agency. Everybody is watching and tracking you.
I get sooooo irked walking through Walmart or the supermarket and come up to some broad blocking the aisle while talking. And at the Frickin' doctor's office ...... someone gets a call, they can't step outside, they have to talk so loud that one can't even read a magazine. I would NEVER want to have a conversation where 10 other people can listen in.
Social media? Facebook? Never on your life. Not after our FBI man told us of a local guy raided because on FB he mentioned that he was looking for some "fertilizer". Hey, he was a FARMER.
Guess I'm just OLD fashioned.
Certified Internet Warrior Status: Achieved.
Your worried about your car? How about your computer? Oh, you erase your browser history? Well that doesn't affect your ISP. They know where you've been. Use a computer at work? Your boss knows where you've been. Got a nifty iPhone. They not only know where you are, they know where you've been and who you've been calling. From where and when. Next time you're out and about, let someone else drive. Then count how many 'security cameras' you can see. Then double that number just to get a SWAG. Walk past the front of a store, a camera INSIDE that store probably has you on tape.
Only way your 'privacy' won't be invaded today in one form or another is to stay in your house and live completely off the grid.
"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe, while Congress is in session." Mark Twain
The profound difference is Dan, that if you in your "official capacity" want to look at those records...you need a warrant, which given the current state of our legal system, isn't much of a protection.....but it's a damn-site better than nothing. THIS situation is a cop accessing personal data without even politely asking for permission, let alone obtaining a search warrant, using said questionably obtained data as evidence in court, and having it stick! That, as my Grandpa would have said, is the herring in the buttermilk!
Here is the deal for those with what you think is OLD cell phones....be sure the GPS is turned OFF. Then they are dumb phones.
Sorry Dude.....my "Dumb Phone" has absolutely NO GPS function to turn off!
The collection of the data is here to stay either as an artifact of the computer processing it or as a "feature" to "enhance" your driving experience
There may be court rulings saying a search warrant is required or someone may develop and market a "Memory Wiper" but don't get your hopes up.
As soon as push comes to shove on this issue, you can expect an "implied consent" law governing access to a car's "black box" and making any attempt to alter or erase that box's memory a crime.
Your insurance company's lawyer will still have to subpoena the data from the schmuck who T-boned you.
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Check out all our latest news and stories in the October Newsletter – Statistics show SKIP kids do better!!
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Check out all our latest news and stories in the October Newsletter – Statistics show SKIP kids do better!!
Check out all our latest news and stories in the October Newsletter – Statistics show SKIP kids do better!!
For several years, here in SKIP, we have been working with families to promote holistic-learning and foster autonomy. This year we continued to develop a very important project which builds empowerment through workshops for parents and carers who have been with the organisation a long time, so that they may become primary school classroom assistants.
Training is held once a month exploring a different theme in order to get people more involved not just in the project, but also in the academic results of their children, and furthermore to give a place for learning and reflecting.
The parents and carers who volunteer as teaching assistants have demonstrated the knowledge they have acquired throughout all their years of training, and they have offered complex and positive reflections, on what is considered to be essential for adequate teamwork.
Within these sessions we have concluded that:
• The team needs to have a common and clear objective to foster group bonding. In our case we have concluded that the objective is to promote individualised and professional attention in order to help our students become better people and to achieve more and better academic learning.
• Commitment, Involvement and Responsibility unite us and make us stronger as a group.
• This bonding is achieved through solidarity, cooperation and empathy
• We need to put a guide in place that will foster this liaison.
• Accurate and positive communication is what will allow us understand each other and move us forward in our objectives.
Through group dynamics we have generated an atmosphere of harmony, happiness, love and mutual respect.
Volunteers and parents both have demonstrated a high level of involvement and participation in the project, as well as the love and absolute dedication necessary to achieve the longed for objective: to learn and to be happy.
In SKIP we continue with enthusiasm on this parents and carers classroom assistant project in order to improve it every year.
¡¡We will achieve this together!!
Vanessa Bellón Santamaría (Primary Education Coordinator)
The Alianza Francesa (French Alliance) is a cultural center in downtown Trujillo that features artwork and cultural events helping to spread knowledge and understanding in a cross-cultural exchange. Approximately every 4-6 weeks, the center opens its doors to local vendors on Saturday mornings to sell their goods. SKIP has been using this opportunity to sell products made in our creative Economic Development workshops. Normally there are a wide range of vendors, ranging from fair-trade clothing and other NGO's to organic food vendors and artists.
There is a good deal of camaraderie between the vendors, as we sample each other's wares, eat and share coffee, as well as information about our products and organizations. Overall it is a very festive atmosphere and a good opportunity for marketing our products as well as for friendly networking between like-minded individuals and organisations.
The staff at Alianza Francesa has always been extremely helpful and friendly, from Ana, the Cultural Coordinator, to the ever present French families who founded it and keep it running . I have met several other similar NGO's after working in the Alianza Francesa, giving me the opportunity to learn about how they operate and where many of them sell their goods. In addition, I have been able to meet people from larger umbrella NGO's who work with local NGO's like ours in marketing our products and reaching a broader network of people and organizations in our field. Overall the Allianza Francesa is a fun time and a great opportunity for SKIP!
~Daniel Weaver
On the 13th of September we celebrated Youth Day in SKIP with all the young people from the secondary programme.
The whole Secondary team were really excited about the event and had spent time preparing their activities. We also made a few artistic creations for the office to dress it up a little and make sure that it was a special moment for everyone. It was a day to get to know each other better, have a little fun and let go, outside of the classrooms where we normally spend time together.
As part of the theme, "Together we can do it" we spent some fun time with the young people and, of course, it was a fun time for us SKIP volunteers too. The objective was to work as a team, develop listening skills, respect, communication skills and, of course love.
After all the games we took to the dance floor and everyone had took a turn to show off their moves. Some groups preferred to talk while others were happy to watch or looked for volunteers to chat to. The bravest danced in the middle of the patio while others watched on.
So there were smiles all round and the loveliest comments from the kids, "Profe, can we have more days like this?" "I'm embarrassed to dance, but I'd like to try"
"Profe, Together, we can do it!"
A day filled with joy and happiness for adults and young people alike.
You can see more photos of Youth Day on our facebook
In June of 2014 SKIP began a new group for women who are part of the programme "Compromiso de Mujer" (Women's Meeting Group) a name selected by participants in the first session. In addition to introducing ourselves, we established the basis of this new initiative in El Porvenir, the foundations of a new home that we will build together.
In respect to that task, here we continue 3 months later, with meetings every fortnight on Fridays, where we lay new building blocks of knowledge, cement our trust to build a safe place, where we share experiences, knowledge, skills, and together confront our individual difficulties. Giving value to what everyone knows and to what everyone has, we multiply it when we add it to what others know and have.
The sessions are facilitated by the Social Work Programme, with help and support of the Psychology Programme. They assume the role of revitalisers and facilitators, promoting participation from everyone, generating ideas and increasing the power of individuals which collectively enriches them to weave a net of mutual support that cushions falls, that cares, that accompanies, that generates ties, that builds communities, and that promotes the empowerment of each and every woman.
A space of learning, reflection and knowledge, where we talk, where we talk a lot! We converse, we debate various subjects of interest of the group. From how to talk to teenagers, to education strategies for younger children. We also talk about gender violence, where to go for help, what to do, how to help each other, how to improve our self-confidence, how to be assertive, our sexual and reproductive health, community resources, and there are still many meetings and many more interesting chats!
There is so much to learn together, lots to share like when we talked about violence which was facilitated by Iris and Rosa, two of SKIP's participants who have trained as neighbourhood leaders in the El Porvenir Emergency Center for Women, and wanted to share their experience and knowledge with other women. I'll leave you with a picture of that Friday!
~by Veronica Garcia, SKIP Psychology Programme Coordinator
Hello! I'm George and I volunteered with SKIP for my Year Abroad as part of my languages degree at the University of East Anglia so I was fortunate enough to spend a whole nine months as a SKIP Primary Teacher.
Being only 20 years old when I arrived and with limited Spanish at the time I was a little daunted at the prospect of being responsible for a class of fifteen children teaching literacy and maths but upon arrival I received great training from the Coordinators and advice from other Primary Teacher volunteers and I settled into the position amazingly quickly. The children are all amazingly welcoming too and they want to know everything there is to know about you on your first day so the ice is broken really quickly. It's great to be surrounded by such enthusiasm from both the children as well as the other volunteers and there are so many fun characters about that no one day is ever the same. I started off as an assistant in one class and by the end of my time with SKIP I was the Primary Teacher for two different classes which just goes to show how easy it is to learn and also see personal progression.
The curriculum written by SKIP is so easy to follow and addresses not only literacy and maths but other important subjects such as community values and personal development. It is also really open so you can incorporate some of your own ideas too and really get creative. All the activities are interactive and encourage the children to share thoughts, beliefs, experiences and work as a team which is such a refreshing change from their normal school day. Primary also holds regular meetings so volunteers can share teaching ideas and suggest activities that have worked well with their own classes. Loads of the public holidays and important calendar dates are part of Primary Teaching at SKIP and it's a fantastic opportunity to learn about Peruvian culture and values making posters and wall displays to share our work with the whole SKIP community.
Primary Teaching isn't just about being in the classroom everyday as there are so many opportunities to be outside, go out on day trips (I was lucky enough to take my classes to the beach and a world-touring circus during my time) as well as the end of term celebrations where classes, small groups, pairs or individuals can present their achievements and show off their crazy amazing talents, whether that be singing, drama, poetry or dance. A number of the children are nominated to receive individual recognition for their efforts and achievements and being a Primary Teacher I was full of pride to see my students go up and receive their certificates in front of their SKIP classmates as well as parents.
It's not until I've come to write all this down that I realise how difficult it is to really put into words what it means to be a part of SKIP as a Primary Teacher. It's a school and a community like no other but most of all it's all about positivity and FUN. With all the happy memories, smiles and laughter and friends I made whilst volunteering in SKIP I am definitely assured that it was the best way have spent my Year Abroad. I just wish it didn't fly by so quickly!
Read all our lates updates in the August Newsletter – See the our latest project develop as we build two new classrooms and find out about what our volunteers really think about their international volunteering experience with SKIP….
One of our fantastic volunteers, Hatty Farnham, had a thought provoking article published this week reflecting on her experiences volunteering in Peru with SKIP. There is an excerpt from the article below or you can read the full article on the Abstract Magazine website
"…Before we are able to change the lives of others we must change our own. There is an ugly double standard in the colonial arrogance which allows willing yet unexperienced western volunteers to believe that they may teach children, work in medical clinics, or "change a life" simply by offering their time. Would we allow untrained medical students to operate on our grandparents in the UK? Would we be comfortable with adults entering a nursery or school without training or background checks at home? Or with groups of tourists photographing orphans in a care home in London? It's so easy for us to excuse these bad practices abroad because without them, without foreign aid, even in the form of volunteer tourism, the reality may be even worse."
Since the secondary programme began and as the years have gone by we have seen the children finish, and have followed what they have gone on to do in their lives for their families and for themselves when they have been into the office on occasions for advice and information.
Over the past years, we began to think about the possibility of involving them once again in SKIP. Why not call them again to see if they want to take part as volunteers? Who better to take on the role of assistants than those who have been in the classrooms? What better example for the children than other classmates who have already finished and are moving forward with their dreams? Why not someone who has been here before and who knows the programme?
After several calls and meetings arranged through the families, in April we began this new graduate project. Three meetings were held with everyone who was interested, and we established the objectives of this new project, the activities they wanted to develop, their availability and interest in returning.
The idea is that on the one hand they will take part as classroom assistants and on the other they will be able to take the class they like most. At the same time we want to create a communication area which can be used to carry on learning but can also work as an information exchange, a place to bring ideas which can be enjoyed, an information point for concerns that might arise….a space that can be used to teach from their own reality, their personal experience of life based on everything they learnt as they passed through the classrooms at SKIP.
To see that it is possible to follow dreams such as being a dance teacher, lawyer, doctor, police officer, school teacher, to combine their studies with giving their free time to the place they enjoyed not so long ago.
Jennifer, Marco, Carlos, Johny, Ada, Rosa, Jordan, Toushman,… Thank you for joining our-your team and for making this dream a reality!
All our latest updates here in the SKIP Newsletter for June including funding success with an amazing $15,000 grant and another chance to see the SKIP Director Liz Wilson giving a TEDx Talk earlier this year.


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text: FacebookTwitterGoogle+E-mail Bismillah walhamdolillah. On July 11, Allah gave me tawfeeq through an online article to find new respect for my profession, and specifically for that segment of the profession in which I have been toiling since I took the leap and joined the ranks of practicing attorneys in the US. Shortly after the capture of Ratko Mladic we wrote a short piece on the political/legal issues surrounding "the G-wordâ€: genocide. But there is a fascinating e-discovery element to these war crimes proceedings, and how the United Nations faces the need to manage the accumulation, organization, and access to evidence relating to war crimes. The UN team that is responsible for gathering and handling the information to be used in such trials faces the challenge of making millions of documents in many formats and many languages available to prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, and other court stakeholders.  This war crimes evidence originates in multiple formats from disparate sources, for example — TV program tapes, radio broadcasts, news and military photographs, home movies, home photos, recorded telephone communications, and other rich media formats in addition to masses of paper documents and the standard electronic text of emails and other natively electronic documents. The article by "Project Counsel" is very well written, masha'Allah: "Prosecuting the unspeakable: how e-discovery aids war crimes trials." Given that many readers of MM will have NO CLUE what e-discovery means, please allow me to offer a different explanatory title: "Prosecuting the unspeakable: how one of the least glamorous sides of the legal profession aids war crimes trials." Image used with permission- please do not reuse And not just any war crimes — the article is about how attorneys are using advanced technology to analyze vast amounts of evidence, in some 13 languages, to help bring to justice the war criminals responsible for the atrocities committed in the Balkans, including the attempted extermination of all Bosnian Muslims, mostly by Serb-nationalists. A video embedded in the article has subtitles in many languages, including Arabic and English.  Worth reading and watching! Note: All excerpts and links used with permission of Project Counsel. FacebookTwitterGoogle+E-mail 2 Responses Shuaib Mansoori July 12, 2011 Assalamu Alaikum Tariq Bhai :) SubhanAllah a truly commendable effort. I think the alternative title to "e-discovery" that you provided (right above the pic of the mass grave) is missing something. Just wanted to bring that to your attention Your profession is indeed a respectable one Masha Allah :) 0 0 Reply Tariq Nisar Ahmed July 12, 2011 Jazakumullahu khayran, Shuaib. Think something was lost in the process of getting the piece on-line. Khayr, inshaAllah. 0 0 Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply


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Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire have arrived!
Check BNN and Bulbanews for up-to-date Pokémon news and discuss it on the forums or in our IRC channel.
Warning: Flyingspaghettimonsters. I mean LOAD WARNING!!
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If only there was a pic of Lucian's Girafarig!
Pokemon classification
This is more in depth than my main profile
Bird-like Pokemon
- Pidgey → Pidgeotto → Pidgeot; Togepi → Togetic → Togekiss: Columbiformes (col-um-bih-FOR-meez)
- Spearow → Fearow: Falconiformes? (fal-con-ih-FOR-meez); Lugia?
- Farfetch'd: Anseriformes (answer-ih-FOR-meez)
- Doduo → Dodrio: Struthioniformes (STROO-thee-on-ih-FOR-meez)
- Articuno: Trogoniformes? (TROH-gon-ih-FOR-meez)
- Zapdos; Moltres: Charadriiformes? (CHAR-rad-rih-FOR-meez) (they remind me of terns)
- Hoothoot → Noctowl: Strigiformes (stry-gih-FOR-meez)
- Natu → Xatu: Passeriformes? (PASS-err-ih-FOR-meez); Murkrow → Honchkrow; Tailow → Swellow → Gyrellow (made up, see sprite above); Starly → Staravia → Staraptor (definitely)
- Delibird; Piplup → Prinplup → Empoleon: Sphenisciformes (SFEN-ish-ih-FOR-meez)
- Skarmory → Fragmory (made up, see sprite above): Ciconiiformes? (SICK-con-ih-FOR-meez)
- Ho-Oh; Swablu → Altaria Psittaciformes? (SIH-tass-ih-FOR-meez); Chatot (definitely; see Masked Lovebird)
- Torchic → Combusken → Blaziken: Galliformes (GAL-ih-FOR-meez)
- Wingull → Pelipper: seems to be a mix of Procellariiformes (PRO-cell-lar-ih-FOR-meez) and Pelecaniformes (PEL-ih-can-ih-FOR-meez)
I kinda hate the anime, only specific episodes...
REASON: Roark is hot!
|This user's favorite anime episode is Shapes of Things to Come.
|This user's favorite anime episode is A Gruff Act to Follow.
|This user's favorite anime episode is Wild in the Streets!.
|This user's favorite anime episode is O'er the Rampardos we Watched.
REASON: See above
|This user's favorite anime episode is An Elite Meet and Greet.
REASON: Cynthia is so cool!
|This user's favorite anime episode is Top-Down Training!.
REASON: Maylene is kickass!
|This user's favorite anime episode is Lost Leader Strategy!.
|This user's favorite anime episode is Crossing the Battle Line!.
|This user's favorite anime episode is A Triple Fighting Chance!.
|This user's favorite anime episode is Enter Galactic!.
REASON: Hotness.........
|This user's favorite anime episode is Our Cup Runneth Over!.
I can't wait to see ep DP096, DP097, DP099, DP100. DP101, DP102, DP103 :)
|This user's favorite shipping is IkariShipping.
|This user thinks Lucian and Cynthia should be together..
|This user wants a signature from Aaron, too!
|This user thinks Pokemon should be more realistic
Hmm... hotness:
|♥ This user loves Volkner. ♥
|♥ This user loves Roark. ♥
|♥ This user loves Lucian. ♥
|♥ This user loves Aaron. ♥
NOT IN A GAY WAY!! Okay?:
|♥ This user loves Cynthia. ♥
|♥ This user loves Maylene. ♥
Sprites I've done
Some things I don't get about Pokemon
- "Gee, I'm hungry..." (Maylene)... What the?? There IS no food/drink in Pokemon and even if there was, where would it go?? (Unless you had to go behind a tree... XD)
- "Lucario laid an egg!"... OK, WTH? Seriously, only a few mammals lay eggs (echidnas and platypi)
- "Wailord used Dive!"... Umm this is a stupid principle. Why don't the people drown? And how come you can use fire types underwater?
- "Even though I've lost, I find myself with this silly grin!" (Bertha)... This is stupid too, there's only *ONE* emotion in the whole game: STRAIGHT-FACED.
Other things I've noticed:
- Shadows under the character AT NIGHT!
- Same shape for all Pokemon when surfing!
- Why can't every place rain at the same time?
- How come YOUR character can't talk? It ain't fair!!!
- There's no way you can change your clothes (oooh SMELLY XD)
- How do people have kids? :P
- HOW COME no TWO characters are DIFFERENT?! This PO's me!
Ways you can die:
- Lack of sleep
- Not being able to go to the bathroom
- Drowning/suffocating
- Diseases due to lack of doctors (lol)
- Hypothermia/Hyperthermia
I'm sure there's others, can't think of them ATM.
- I mostly play
|This user is a player of Pokémon Diamond Version.
- Sometimes play
|This user is a player of Pokémon FireRed Version.
|This user is a player of Pokémon LeafGreen Version.
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November 26, 2014
MADRID (AP) - A trash collectors' strike that left Madrid's streets piled high with garbage has ended after 13 days, with workers voting to accept a deal hammered out by trade unions and employers.
Unions called the strike when Madrid's municipal cleaning companies announced plans to lay off more than 1,000 workers and pay cuts for some 5,000 street cleaners, park workers and garbage collectors.
The return to work Sunday comes after the companies canceled the threatened layoffs in exchange for improved efficiency and a wage freeze until 2017.
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Update: 08/15/2010 6:18 p.m.
According to a Wood County Sheriff's Office press release, 66-year-old Roy George Hearn of St. Marys was pronounced dead on the scene of a motorcycle and vehicle accident Saturday.
Sheriff's Deputy B.A. Pickens said Hearn was involved in a poker run Saturday afternoon and when he was riding on West Virginia Route 31 near Jericho Road he approached an S- curve, went left of center and hit a pickup truck head on.
According to the Sheriff's Office, Hearn's son 43-year-old Roy Michael Hearn, who reportedly goes by "Michael," of St. Marys and daughter-in-law Kelly Hearn saw Roy George Hearn was losing control, attempted to swerve to the right and lost control of their motorcycle after part of it struck the ground. The motorcycle then went over an embankment through a fence partially ejecting Michael and Kelly Hearn. Both have been treated and released from Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital.
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Sheriff"s Deputy B.A. Pickens said the motorcyclist who died from a motorcycle and vehicle accident Saturday was Roy George Hearn.
Hearn's son, R. Michael Hearn, and daughter-in-law, Kelly Hearn were on a motorcycle behind him who reportedly saw him losing control, swerved to miss and went over an embankment. They were taken to Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital and were treated and released.
No other information was available at this time.
A man has died after a motorcycle and vehicle accident in Wood County Saturday.
Sheriff's Deputy B.A. Pickens said a motorcycle rider was involved in a poker run Saturday afternoon and when he was riding on West Virginia Route 31 near Jericho Road he approached an S- curve in the road, went left of center and hit a pickup truck.
The motorcyclist died from the accident.
Riders on a motorcycle behind him reportedly saw him losing control, swerved to miss and went over an embankment. Those two riders were taken to the hospital.
No names have been released.
All riders reportedly had helmets on.
Deputy Pickens said according to riders the first motorcyclist looked to be swerving to miss gravel from the berm that was on the road.
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Stocks start November on a positive noteBy KEN SWEET
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Trader Jeffrey Vazquez works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. Stock futures are heading lower after U.S. policy makers said they would maintain a massive economic stimulus program.NEW YORK The stock market started November on a strong note as investors reacted to an expansion in U.S. manufacturing last month.
The improvement came during what could have been a difficult month for the U.S. economy, with a partial government shutdown that lasted 16 days and a narrowly averted default on the U.S. governments debt, which could have rattled financial markets.
With what happened in the last two months, its amazing how strong this market has been, said Bob Doll, chief equity strategist at Nuveen Asset Management.
The Institute for Supply Management reported that its manufacturing index increased to 56.4, the highest level since April 2011. That was better than the 55.1 figure economists were expecting, according financial data provider FactSet.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 69.80 points, or 0.5 percent, to 15,615.55. The Standard & Poors 500 index rose 5.10 points, or 0.3 percent, to 1,761.64. The Nasdaq composite rose 2.34 points, or 0.1 percent, to 3,922.04.
Energy stocks lagged the market after Chevron reported that its third-quarter income fell 6 percent, missing analysts estimates, due to weakness in the companys oil refining business. Chevron fell $1.95, or 1.6 percent, to $118.01.
The energy sector was also weighed down by a drop in the price of oil. Crude oil fell $1.77, or 1.8 percent, to $94.61 a barrel.
The positive start to this months trading comes after a strong October for the stock market. The S&P 500 closed at a record high seven times during the month, most recently on Tuesday. It ended October with a gain of 4.5 percent.
However, some investors have expressed skepticism that stocks can keep up this rapid pace pace heading into the last two months of the year.
The S&P 500 is up 23 percent so far this year, while the average annual return on the S&P 500 is around 8 percent. Stocks are also starting to look expensive by some measures. Investors are paying more than $16 for every $1 of earnings in the S&P 500, the highest that ratio has been since February 2011.
I dont think this market is cheap by any means, said Brad McMillan, chief investment officer for Commonwealth Financial. Weve been urging caution for some time now.
In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.62 percent from 2.56 percent.
On Friday morning, the Nasdaqs options market was halted due to a technical glitch. Regular stock trading was not affected.
Among stocks making big moves:
The Container Store more than doubled on its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The company raised $225 million in its initial public offering, pricing 12.5 million shares at $18 each. The stock soared $18.20 to $36.20.
First Solar jumped $8.83, or 18 percent, to $59.14. The solar panel maker said it had an adjusted profit of $2.28 per share for the third quarter, blowing past analysts estimates of $1.13 per share, according FactSet.MORE IN National / World BusinessNEW YORK The stock market stayed at record levels on Monday as investors remained confident... Full StoryLOS ANGELES Against the team of hackers, the poor car stood no chance. Full StoryNEW YORK A procrastinators holiday wish come true: Presents ordered at the last minute can now... Full Story
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP/WVLT) -- A lottery official says 1 winning ticket has been sold in Florida for a record Powerball jackpot of more than $590 million.
Terry Rich, a lottery official in Iowa, confirmed the ticket matching all six numbers was sold in Florida. Rich told The Associated Press by telephone that details were expected to be announced later by Florida lottery officials about the actual ticket sold.
Powerball.com said the winner sold in Florida means the current estimated jackpot resets at $40 million or $25.1 million cash value.
The numbers drawn Saturday were: 10, 13, 14, 22, 52 and Powerball 11.
With four of every five possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone was almost certain to win the game's highest jackpot, though chances of winning remained astronomically low at 1 in 175.2 million.
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refills or billed a second time?
was recently at a moderate priced restaurant for a leisurely lunch, and know i should/could have asked but asked for another iced tea (which i do not think was even priced on the menu) and found it to be a second @$3.50 each with a $ 9.00 entree- suddenly a pricy lunch, i paid and left, but still wonder if it is correct not to be informed or just what is correct?. ps. new restaurant that i did enjoy except for that and now very doubtful about returning
I find some places offer free refills for some drinks and some charge. As often, I guess it all depends. Have to say, I've never asked and never been told either. I work on the basis that if I want a second drink, then I want it whether or not they're going to charge.
Three -Fifty for iced tea? That must be some pretty frakin' good iced tea. If a restaurant charged for tea refills here in Houston, it would be burned to the ground by the locals, as tea is the de facto drink of choice. What typye of restaurant was this? A nine dollar entree doesn't sound high end, so I would think not only should you be informed, but it simply shouldn't be done.
If there was any doubt (i.e., if it wasn't specified on the menu), I'd certainly ask before ordering.
That said, I have a friend who lunches every day at Denny's. It's always the same order, which includes three glasses of ice tea, for which he's billed separately. When he could order one ice tea and have unlimited free refills. Go figure.
re: Muskrat
Hi Muskrat, this confused me. Does your friend ask to be billed three separate times? Or is it that he demands a new glass each time?
If it's not specified, I don't assume. The one time I was seriously annoyed was at lunch at a restaurant in NYC some years ago. They had several interesting iced tea and house-made soda concoctions on the menu, and I ordered one. My glass was not quite empty when the waiter silently removed it and replaced it with a full one of the same, leading me to assume it was included, as I hadn't been asked if I needed or wanted it. When the bill came, I was charged for the second drink. I paid, but also wrote them a note about the practice.
If you are requesting another drink, it's up to you to ask, and you shouldn't assume anything.
When they offer to fill it for you, I think they should tell you if refills are free or not, but if they don't say, it's still up to you to ask.
If they don't ask but simply refill it, I don't think they should charge.
I always ask with any drink other than water if it is "free refills" when order it. If it is not, then I just get water if I am thirsty and know I will drink more than one glass. $3.50 for a glass of tea is absurd, and charging for a refill is even more ludicrous in a restaurant with $9 entrée. I would have sent an email or snail mail letter to the manager/owner telling them I would not be returning just because of this practice. They may want to rethink policy or lose repeat business quickly.
Iced tea refill charge should be illegal.
Cost less than a nickel for an iced tea. (let's not get into the labor or ice, etc.)
Years ago at a public golf course restaurant I ordered an iced tea ($2) with my meal and wanted a refill and the server told me it would be $2 for the refill. I called the owner of the concession over and asked him about the refill charge on iced tea. He told me he couldn't afford not to charge for the iced tea refills. I told him I'd never order iced tea anymore and only ice water. He shrugged his shoulder and walked away.
You'd figure he'd rather make $2 than nothing wouldn't you.
I run into this at chain places... there are NEVER prices for drinks on the menu!
Mom wanted to go to Friendly's for lunch the other day so, darling daughter that I am, I took her. No drink prices.
Pizzeria Uno with my sister last week... no drink prices on soft drink or grown up drinks.
Really... restaurants should put ALL prices on the menu. Then there is no guessing, no assuming, no "you should have asked". As a customer, why should I have to ask the price of something? Why isn't the business held accountable to posting prices?
A resto is a business and if they want to maintain the business then put prices on the menu. I cannot fathom what the big secret is. You want to charge for refills? Fine. Put it on the menu. Period. End of story.
re: iluvcookies
So who started the unlimited soda, coffee, iced tea, anyway?? Maybe the same cabal who are bent on turning the U.S. population into walking blimps!
Where else do you see this? Not in Italy, Germany, France, Mexico, etc.
Next to simplify things, in restaurants, we can have built in troughs at each booth and the attendant can just throw in a bucket of stuff.
Obviously, I am not a proponent of the "bottomless" whatever.
re: ospreycove
As ospreycove notes, in many European countries, refill drinks with a meal are usually charged. Refill coffee at the end of a meal varies from place to place - some will charge, others will not.
re: Harters
I may be mis-remembering, but European ice tea/soft drinks have a lot less ice so that's there's actually enough fluid in the serving to quench your thirst.. I've been to American restaurants that stick so much ice in the glass that it's hard to get more than three swallows of the beverage.
re: ospreycove
I want my bottomless water! I drink between 3-8 glasses of water with a meal out. As a person who is trying to watch what I eat I find that if I'm able to have water I won't be as likely to over eat.
Although I can remember years ago as a child drinking 9 of those huge mugs of water they used to serve at the Outback.
re: ospreycove
Since when is ice tea fattening ospreycove? Not everyone dumps a load of sugar (or any for that matter) in the glass.
re: iluvcookies
I'm with you on this, but I don't think that it will solve the problem. It is common practice for servers to take orders for drinks up front when they hand out menus and take customers' food orders when they return with the drinks. The average person ordering a soda or iced tea hasn't even glanced at the menu yet.
Because it has become increasingly common for restaurants (especially moderately priced ones) to offer "bottomless" glasses of iced tea at a reasonable price, some restaurants that charge for refills bank on the fact that many customers will incorrectly assume that refills are free. Is it legal to charge a small fortune for each glass of iced tea? Of course. Does it make good business sense when customers feel cheated (even if they could have asked)? I don't think so.
re: cheesemaestro
Cheese....Yes, you are right, for the restaurant, trying to capitalize on an accepted norm and hiding a legal but deceptive charge, there might be a better way to try and build "repeat business"......lol
Here in the NJ/NY area, I think it can be assumed that you will pay for a second drink; if a place actually offers free refills, they usually advertise it b/c it's not the norm. I don't think the same is true for other parts of the country...when I lived in New Orleans, I remember that ice tea refills were always free of charge--can't really remember if it was the same for soda, etc. Cocktails...a different story! :)
Unless the menu is clear on the point, the burden falls entirely upon you. Period.
re: Karl S
True... but the burden *should* be on the business establishment to provide clear pricing for the customer.
re: iluvcookies
I can probably name over 500 cocktails off the top of my head. Every menu should include the prices for all of those as well?
re: invinotheresverde
Within reason... a place like Friday's or pizzeria uno that has "featured cocktails". should put the prices for them. They should put the prices for draft/bottle beer as well. And obviously put the prices for soft drinks.
A diner that DH and I frequent has a small section on their menu of well known drinks such as gin and tonic, pina colada, martini along with prices for those few and the brands of liquor they offer. At least here you can get a sense of what things cost. Is this really such a horrible or unreasonable thing to provide to your customer?
re: iluvcookies
Above you said "ALL prices" should be on the menu.
At chains especially, the prices aren't hard to figure out. N/A drinks are around $3, mixed drinks about $7 and specialty cocktails around $8 or $9. Bottled beers are around $3.50 and draughts are about $5.
re: invinotheresverde
Ideally, yes all prices should be on the menu. In a supermarket all items have prices (or a shelf tag). The point here is why, as a customer, should I be left to guess about pricing in an establishment---despite how easy it may be to figure out. Would you walk into a car dealership and assume the price of one car because you know how much another is?
And if I'm traveling and hit a Friday's in another state, why should I assume the prices for a drink there are the same as the one by my house?
re: iluvcookies
Because they are, approximately.
My restaurant offers an almost limitless number of cocktails. I'd like to see the 1,000 page menu it'd take to list all of their prices.
re: invinotheresverde
Beers, wines, soft drinks and coffee/tea should be labeled. These are one ingredient drinks, ergo not up for sliding price. I have worked for many many bars that list "Tiers" of drink prices (house, call, super call) . It was just good practice.
re: gryphonskeeper
Gryphonskeeper, that sounds like a great way to present pricing.... kind of what I had in mind but didn't have the words for it.
Invinotheresverde, how do the servers/bartenders know how much to charge the customers? Surely there is some guideline/formula. Can't this be amended to present to the customer?
re: iluvcookies
They hit a button on the computer.
re: invinotheresverde
Fine... I concede.
re: iluvcookies
I'm trying to think if there's any other business that runs this way, just assumes that customers should know the price and accept whatever is charged. It's one thing to have an idea of what prices are if you're in the business and it's your livelihood but for everyone else, it's just another item in a list of hundreds we purchase. Added to which, restaurants do charge vastly different amounts. We just went to a place that served $6.50 iced teas, no price on the menu. Casual, everyday place and $26 right off the bat with four of us getting ice tea.
re: chowser
IIRC, the OP didn't say the menu lacked a price for iced tea.
re: Karl S
Karl S, what is IIRC? gryphonskeeper, I don't thonk $6.50 is out of line for a glass of iced tea, as long as there are free refills, for life.
re: James Cristinian
If I recall/remember correctly.
re: Karl S
Thanks, Karl S. I'm in the stone age on computer terminology.
re: Karl S
It's the subthread about menus not having the prices and customers should just know, in general, how much they are.
re: chowser
$6.50 for iced tea? Was is made with magic tea leaves from the bottom of fairy land cultivated by virgins? If not, its a huge rip off!!
re: gryphonskeeper
The indelible Chowhound figure of speech (created years ago by I can't recall which Hound) you might appreciate goes something like "picked by 12 year old virgins chanting at the full moon in Alice Waters' garden."....
re: gryphonskeeper
LOL, I never asked, but maybe next time I'll ask to see the qualifications of the virgins first! I was floored when we received the bill. This impromptu dinner out to try a new restaurant ended up more than we budgeted. Good thing we didn't order the unpriced desserts!
re: invinotheresverde
ok do it!
Paying $7 for iced tea to go with a $9 entree seems out of balance to me too. It could have been a server error, rather than a policy. I'm in south FL, unlimited ice tea is the norm, it may be a southern thing. (Along with sweet tea.) I also ask for water, and still have 2-3 glasses of tea. The best ettiquite would be drink prices and refill policies in the menu.
Many years ago, in Lausanne Switzerland, we ordered saddle of venison for dinner. After cleaning our plates, imagine the surprise when two new, completely filled plates arrived! The reason? "We thought you might still be hungry" the waiter replied. No, there was no additional charge.
re: Sherri
WOW... now that is service!
re: Sherri
That seems to be the norm for Swiss restaurants. I have encountered the same thing a couple of times in Switzerland.
re: Sherri
Nice... If that ever happened to me I would immediately assume my grandmother took over the kitchen!
re: Sherri
*moves to Switzerland*
i did try them again but for take-out. i really wanted to like this place (very convenient) . found the portions to be small and a bit pricey. would i go back again? no but primarily because of the drink incident, not the food or portion. when i looked at the printed menu again i noticed they managed to put a price next to each item except drinks. i grant you mixed drinks may be a bit much to list but tea, soda water, basics certainly could and should be priced on the menu. so for $3.50 lost a customer forevermore
re: rich51
I would still write them about it and tell them just that.
There's iced tea and there's iced tea. Was this just plain old from a tea bag tea or something fancy brewed with fresh tea leaves? If it is the latter, then I would expect that price and no refills.
re: rworange
nothing special ,glass was filled from a drink dispenser spigot. just like soda