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With increasing hydro-climatic risks in Africa all water resources will be affected (Vorosmarty et al. 2010; IPCC 2012). But the response to climate variability of groundwater will be slower than that of surface water. Groundwater resources are more resilient due to aquifer storage which acts as a buffer during periods of little or no rainfall. Despite the significant availability of groundwater resources across the major geological formations in Africa, the quantitative and qualitative distribution remains partly understood (MacDonald et al. 2012). Adapting to environmental change will likely require increasing use of groundwater for both domestic and productive uses. Information costs in recording longitudinal data on aquifer recharge and use are prohibitively high and point estimates from a limited sample of verifiable drilling sites provides partial information on whether shifting patterns of groundwater availability are attributable to environmental or operational fact ...
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Volume 41, Issue 7 , pp 773-776
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- 2012-11-01
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Aidan O'Brien believes there is a "big chance" Ryan Moore will keep the ride on Chester Vase hero Orchestra in the Investec Derby at Epsom.
The Galileo colt justified favouritism with a narrow victory on the Roodee last week and looks set to join stable companion and hot favourite Australia at Epsom on June 7, with O'Brien expecting considerable improvement.
"We were happy with him. He travelled well and was just ready to start," said the trainer.
"Ryan said when he got the gap he had to go, around Chester, but ideally he would have waited longer as he needed the run. He quickened but got tired.
"The way he travelled he should have no problem with Epsom and Ryan was happy with him.
"There is a big chance Ryan will ride at Epsom."
Orchestra could be part of a significant Ballydoyle supporting cast to Australia on the Downs.
Last year's Beresford Stakes winner Geoffrey Chaucer could be counted a little unlucky when third on his return to action in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown and could now head to Epsom.
Mekong River was unable to cement his Derby claims in the Lingfield Derby Trial on Saturday, but his disappointing run is easily explained by his trainer.
O'Brien said: "Lingfield was a disaster. The blinkers slipped down over his eyes and you could see halfway through the race he started stepping as he couldn't see."
Reflecting on Geoffrey Chaucer's Leopardstown return, O'Brien said: "They walked first of all at and then it was bumping cars in the straight. It was just a pity.
"You're happy enough when you get beat if you learn something but nobody learned anything.
"We are very happy with him. He's doing everything very well. We've got four weeks now and he got a day out.
"There was plenty of hustle and bustle and he won't get that at Epsom."
Perhaps the last of the significant Derby trials takes place at York on Thursday, with Table Rock O'Brien's only entry.
However, he appears unlikely to make the trip to the Knavesmire and is not entered at Epsom.
O'Brien said: "I'm not sure if he'll run in the Dante as it looks like it will be soft ground.
"Some of the other trial races often suit us better as they are a bit further out."
Having saddled four previous winners of the Epsom Classic in Galileo (2001), High Chaparral (2002), Camelot (2012) and last year's hero Ruler Of The World, O'Brien is better placed than most to assess what is required to win the race.
He said: "It's the hardest race for a thoroughbred to win. It takes speed, staying and you have to adapt to tactics and the undulations. It's the ultimate test.
"Some horses don't survive it and don't do anything after.
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For a few days now there has been panic in the Streets over, wait, it's coming, Oh IT'S WINTER. We are being warned about this MONSTER from THE NORTH POLE, the DREADED POLAR VORTEX. Guess what, it's to Winter what Hurricanes are to Summer. In Momma Nature's normal fashion, called weather, the world does get hot, and the world does get cold. I've seen these winter outbreaks of cold all the time. Today's biggest laugh from the purveyor's of weather panic, the GlowBall Warming Phanatics, like Algore, the Polar Vortex is a new phenomena caused by Glowball Warming. This is as hilarious as the GlowBall Warming hunters going to Antarctica looking for existence of GlowBall Warming in the height of the Southern Hemisphere's SUMMER, only to get stuck in the ICE, the rescue ship from China is now stuck in the ice, and another rescue ship from Australia decided not to get stuck. But America to the rescue with its super Ice Breaker called the Polar Star. The world is closing today and tomorrow. GlowBall Warming's Icy Winds and Temperature are just too cold. My friends in Finland Laugh at this which is their normal winter. After all, who can't handle -20C, -4F?
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I would give as much help to "warmests" trapped in ice than I would to anti-gun nuts caught in Chicago. I fail to understand why guys like us are perpetually bailing out leftist jerk offs when the get caught in their own bull shit. You know, if we just let them abort their children, have queer marriage and get trapped in ice after a few years they're gone! Let'em die already. They aren't worth crap alive anyway.
If you like your ice, you can keep it, Period!
So Glowball warming is just another of the leftist lies. Whooda thought? Actually they have a pretty good record of continuous lies since Wilson. At least these commies are consistent. Deadly, but consistent.
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Monday, 6 January 2014 at 23:46I would give as much help to "warmests" trapped in ice than I would to anti-gun nuts caught in Chicago. I fail to understand why guys like us are perpetually bailing out leftist jerk offs when the get caught in their own bull shit. You know, if we just let them abort their children, have queer marriage and get trapped in ice after a few years they're gone! Let'em die already. They aren't worth crap alive anyway. …"
Unfortunately, the mindset of the leftist fascist shitpeople is not such that they can live with the alternative of you tolerantly letting them have their way while calmly watching them smash their emotionally contorted faces into the brick wall they insist on head-butting.
Yes, it's true that their claim is that all knowledge is relative and that there are no absolutes or obligatory moral truths. There is nonetheless one thing they do know with absolute certainty. It is that if they want, and if you exist, you therefore exist to provide them with what they want. It doesn't after all, have to be true in the old-fashioned sense. They just have to make it true now with their liberal, evolution-shaping, ballot box super powers.
"Abandon all traditional inhibitions Ye who would be like gods on earth; to make man in Your neotenous image and Your soft-handed likeness" (The secret to expressing this power – shhhh – is bureaucratic totalitarianism and herd culling)
Like I've observed many times before, the socialist proposition, as I was told directly by a socialist, is an "all society proposition"; one unlimited in scope, in reach, or in sway. That means: "One god in three expressions: society, government, and the holy and world-forming word of the bureaucrat; reigning everywhere and always, without hinder or let, unending and without exit, over everyone, all value forming acts, thoughts, and relations; forever and ever. Amen."
You presence is therefore required at the Liberal Social Solidarity Exposition and Moral Lepers Orgy. Midnight tonight, in front of the statue of the Goddess of Government Love. All ages included. No demurrers accepted. Remember: The individual mandate is now the law.
How come everyone has ice breakers when Kyoto said global warming was settled science?
If Global Warming wasn't a scam it's self-promoting and well-compensated professional advocates wouldn't have to stoop to the wholesale manufacture of fake evidence in order to justify keeping their snouts rooted in the public trough.
Clearly, if the study of Climate Change teaches us anything it's that Earth's climate is constantly changing. And, since we get our warmth from the sun, it doesn't take a genius to understand that variations in the sun's output produce temperature variations here on the planet's surface. QED.
But, straight thinking doesn't result in taxpayer funded grants to academic climate change cheerleaders, nor does it give Obama's overzealous EPA regulators license to hobble the US economy, nor does ordinary common sense provide a suitable pretext for unscrupulous UN Chicken Littles to line their pockets by taxing Western democracies for an entirely imaginary catastrophe.
So, bottom line, as long as American taxpayers will continue to sit still for it, the International coalition of self-interested climate change snake oil salesmen will continue to loot the treasury, use climate change as an excuse to stifle US economic recovery, and provide the rational for greedy UN bureaucrats to confiscate our national wealth.
Global Warming is a purely political agenda. The left wingers lost the Cold War, now they need a new means to cow the public into giving them more power and control. As HL Mencken once said:
The whole aim of practical politics is to menace the public with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
Eric, thanks for the quote. I know Mencken is one of your favorites. Are you aware of any insight he might have offered into how the national media functions in-concert to keep the population malleable?


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Pictured: Beth Ann Proudfoot (left) and Rachael Mellor interviewed at Forever Broadcasting.
FRANKLIN – Two up-and-coming performers from the region are headed to New York City next month in hopes of becoming the newest singing sensations on NBC's hit talent competition The Voice. Twenty-nine-year-old Rachael Mellor, of Grove City, and 22-year-old Beth Ann Proudfoot, of Franklin, will be in New York July 27th and 28th.
"I just kind of sing all over the area. I sing in Franklin and Grove City," says Mellor.
Mellor, who works in the Grove City Outlets, and Proudfoot, a bartender, are both single mothers who are no strangers to the stage. Proudfoot won last year's Taste of Franklin competition… Mellor is a previous winner of Idol Night at the Commons and both have participated in American Idol.
Proudfoot says she and Mellor have been singing in the same competitions for years.
"We get to hang out together in the dressing rooms and cheer each other on, which is a lot of fun," Proudfoot says.
Local restaurants have organized fundraisers for the women's trips. In Franklin, the French Creek Café will be donating a percentage of the daily sales on Saturday, June 15 from 8 to four.
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CAS Registry No.: 75-09-2
Other Names: Dichloromethane, Methylene dichloride, DCM
Main Uses: Solvent, paint stripper, chemical and food processing.
Appearance: Colourless liquid.
Odour: Sweet
Canadian TDG: UN1593
D1B - Toxic; D2A - Very Toxic (Carcinogenicity); D2B - Toxic (Skin irritant; Eye irritant)
Emergency Overview: Colourless liquid. Sweet odour. Can ignite if strongly heated. Can form very hazardous decomposition products. CONFINED SPACE HAZARD. SUSPECT CANCER HAZARD. Suspected of causing cancer. TOXIC if inhaled. May cause drowsiness and dizziness. IRRITANT. Causes moderate or severe eye and skin irritation.
Main Routes of Exposure: Inhalation; skin contact; eye contact.
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC): Group 2B - Possibly carcinogenic to humans.
American Conference for Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH): A3 - Confirmed animal carcinogen.
Inhalation: Take precautions to ensure your own safety before attempting rescue (e.g. wear appropriate protective equipment). Move victim to fresh air. Call a Poison Centre or doctor.
Skin Contact: Avoid direct contact. Wear chemical protective clothing if necessary. Take off contaminated clothing, shoes and leather goods (e.g. watchbands, belts). Immediately flush with lukewarm, gently flowing water for 15-20 minutes. Call a Poison Centre or doctor. Double bag, seal, label and leave contaminated clothing, shoes and leather goods at the scene for safe disposal.
Eye Contact: Avoid direct contact. Wear chemical protective gloves if necessary. Immediately flush the contaminated eye(s) with lukewarm, gently flowing water for 15-20 minutes, while holding the eyelid(s) open. If a contact lens is present, DO NOT delay flushing or attempt to remove the lens. If irritation or pain persists, see a doctor.
Ingestion: Have victim rinse mouth with water. Immediately call a Poison Centre or doctor.
First Aid Comments: If exposed or concerned, see a doctor for medical advice. All first aid procedures should be periodically reviewed by a doctor familiar with the chemical and its conditions of use in the workplace.
Note to Physicians: This chemical forms carbon monoxide in the body.
Flammable Properties: Can ignite if strongly heated.
Suitable Extinguishing Media: Carbon dioxide, dry chemical powder, appropriate foam, water spray or fog. Foam manufacturers should be consulted for recommendations regarding types of foams and application rates.
Specific Hazards Arising from the Chemical: Forms corrosive chemicals on contact with water. Vapour may accumulate in hazardous amounts in low-lying areas especially inside confined spaces, resulting in a toxicity hazard. Closed containers may rupture violently when heated releasing contents. In a fire, the following hazardous materials may be generated: very toxic carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide; corrosive hydrogen chloride; corrosive chlorine; corrosive phosgene.
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Methods for Containment and Clean-up: Do not touch spilled material. Stop or reduce leak if safe to do so. Ventilate the area to prevent the gas from accumulating, especially in confined spaces. Small spills or leaks: contain and soak up spill with absorbent that does not react with spilled product. Place used absorbent into suitable, covered, labelled containers for disposal. Contaminated absorbent poses the same hazard as the spilled product. Large spills or leaks: contact emergency services and manufacturer/supplier for advice.
Other Information: Contact supplier, local fire and emergency services for help.
Handling: Before handling, it is important that all engineering controls are operating and that protective equipment requirements and personal hygiene measures are being followed. Only trained personnel should work with this product. In event of a spill or leak, immediately put on escape-type respirator and exit the area. Immediately report leaks, spills or failures of the safety equipment (e.g. ventilation system). Avoid generating vapours or mists. Prevent accidental contact with incompatible chemicals. Do not use near welding operations or other high energy sources. Do not weld, cut or perform hot work on empty container until all traces of product have been removed.
Storage: Store in an area that is: cool, dry, well-ventilated, out of direct sunlight and away from heat and ignition sources, separate from incompatible materials. Keep amount in storage to a minimum. Store in the original, labelled, shipping container. Avoid bulk storage indoors.
ACGIH® TLV® - TWA: 50 ppm A3
Exposure Guideline Comments: TLV® = Threshold Limit Value. TWA = Time-Weighted Average. A3 = Animal carcinogen.
Engineering Controls: Do not allow product to accumulate in the air in work or storage areas, or in confined spaces. Use a local exhaust ventilation and enclosure, if necessary, to control amount in the air. Provide eyewash and safety shower if contact or splash hazard exists.
Eye/Face Protection: Wear chemical safety goggles. A face shield (with safety goggles) may also be necessary.
Skin Protection: Wear chemical protective clothing e.g. gloves, aprons, boots. Suitable materials include: polyvinyl alcohol, Silver Shield/4H® (PE/EVAL/PE), Trellchem® HPS, Trellchem® VPS, Tychem® Responder, Tychem® TK.
Respiratory Protection: Any detectable concentration: wear a NIOSH approved self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) or supplied air respirator. ESCAPE: gas mask with organic vapour canister, or escape type SCBA.
Document last updated on November 5, 2013
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Polybius is a fictional arcade game that was supposedly part of a secret government experiment and caused players to hallucinate, have nightmares or become suicidal.
The earliest known reference article about Polybius was first added to game repository Coinop.org[1] on August 3rd, 1998. The original submission[2] provided little information regarding the history of the game, aside from the description of an abstract puzzle/space shooter game named after a Greek historian[7] that was only released in one or two arcades outside of Portland. The article also noted that the machine was regularly visited by men in black coats who would come to collect "records," citing the account of one of the arcades' alleged owners who suspected they were part of a paramilitary technology group. In addition, the entry included a photograph of the title screen bearing the text "© 1981 Sinneslöschen" (loosely translated as "sensory-extinguishing" in German) as well as mysterious reports of children suffering from amnesia, sleeping disorders or inexplicable trauma after playing the game. The best answer if it's fake (IF), is that it was based off an obscure, and rare German arcade cabinet called "Poly-Play" which was a collection of eight games including a puzzler and space shooter.
The first archived inquiry about the game was posted to the Usenet group rec.games.video.arcade.collecting on February 27th, 2000.[11] In another thread posted in the same newsgroup over a year later on April 11th, 2001, a poster named Al Kossow claimed[4] that the legend was created by Christian Oliver Windler[5], known by his Usenet handle CyberYogi. However, Windler never publicly admitted to creating the story.
Would someone please shoot this story in the head? It was put there by net kook 'CYBERYOGI' who was also responsible for an annoying April Fools prank last year.
Two years later in July 2003, a thread about the game appeared on the Snopes] message board, where researchers arrived at the conclusion that it was not a real game. The next month, another thread was started on the Above Top Secret[10] message board. In May 2004, the story was featured on the Museum of Hoaxes[8] one month after a photo of a supposed Polybius cabinet was uploaded to Arcade-Museum.[9] Also in 2004, the website The Polybius Theory[20] was created to collect all available information about the game. A few weeks later, a member of the Guru3D forums[13] claimed to be in possession of an emulator of the game, but later said it was an .EXE file that "simulated" a Windows directory deletion.
The legend of the game has been compiled by a variety of nerd culture blogs including SkepticBlog[14], Den of Geek[15], Cracked[16], Yahoo! Voices[17], Motherboard[18] and Joystick.[19] Additionally, the Internet legend was referenced in the September 24th, 2006 episode of The Simpsons[12] in a scene where Bart enters an arcade and walks up to a machine adjacent to Polybius, which is marked as "property of the U.S. Government."
Steven Roach
On March 20th, 2006, Steven Roach posted a supposed explanation for the mystery about the game to the Coinop.com Polybius page[1], followed by a repost[21] on the Retro Gamer message board two days later. Roach claimed that the game was created for a South American company who wanted to take a "new approach" to the gaming industry. Six days after the game's limited release began, a thirteen-year-old boy from Portland, Oregon had an epileptic seizure while playing the game and they had to quickly pull the seven cabinets out of the arcades. Roach went on to explain the gameplay[22], saying it centered around a moonbase with six sets of different aliens to defeat and as the levels progressed, the game moved more quickly.
In April 2006 Roach did an interview with Gamespot (now bitparade.co.uk)[23], but was found to have inconsistencies[24], as the Usenet part of his story seemed to have been lifted from the Wikipedia article on the game. It was revealed in September 2007 that Steven Roach, as well as a few other accounts that posted in the Retro Gamer thread, were all dummy accounts created by the same person.[25]
On YouTube
Since 2007, YouTubers have uploaded videos claiming to be from Polybius either through remakes, emulators or "found" cabinets. As of July 2012, there are 1890 video results[26] for Polybius.
Search Interest
External References
[2]Coinop Polybius Page – Archive
[3]Usenet Archive – Polybius?? – strange…
[4]Usenet Archive – Kossow's Response
[6]Snopes Message Board – Polybius
[8]Museum of Hoaxes – The Mystery of Polybius
[10]Above Top Secret – Polybius: Myth or Government Mind Control Arcade Game
[12]Wikipedia – Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em
[13]Guru3D – I have the game Polybius!
[14]SkepticBlog – Polybius: Video Game of Death
[15]Den of Gek – The Cosmos' Most Ridiculously Implausible Videogames: Polybius – the most mysterious game of all time?
[17]Yahoo! Voices – Polybius: A Video Game that Killed Players! Fact or Fiction?
[18]Motherboard – The Legend of Polybius, The Haunted Arcade Game
[19]Joystick – The Legend of Polybius
[21]Retro Gamer Forum – Polybius – The Truth
[22]Retro Gamer Forum – stevenroach explains gameplay
[23]bitparade.co.uk – Polybius
[24]Polybius Wiki – Steven Roach
[25]Retro Gamer – SirClive's post on IP use
[26]YouTube – Results for "Polybius


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POSTED: Monday, March 22, 2010 - 7:55pm
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Michael Irvin Coming to Gilmer
It will be a big night in Buckeye Land.
Former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver and Hall of Famer Michael Irvin will be the keynote speaker for the Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Gilmer Buckeyes Ring Ceremony presented by Brookshires on Saturday, March 27, at the Gilmer Civic Center. A silent auction of memoribilia will begin at 5:30 and the ceremony will start at 7:00 p.m.
Former Gilmer Buckeye and current Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Manual Johnson, along with former Longview Lobo and current Washington Redskins wide receiver Malcolm Kelly are also scheduled to appear.
The ceremony will present the 2009 state championship rings to the Buckeyes' football team including Darian "Stump" Godfrey, the 2009 "Built Ford Tough" 3A Player of the Year and the Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine's "Mr. Texas Football" who signed a letter of intent with the University of New Mexico last month.
Other Buckeyes including Tristan Holt and Braylon Webb, who signed with the University of Missouri; Jacob Jenkins, who signed with Oklahoma State University; and Vance Green, who signed with Colorado State University will receive their rings.


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What Joe Garcia remembers most are the limitations imposed by the concrete-locked campus and the students' subsequent resourcefulness. "We didn't have an athletic field," he explains, "so the gym teacher would say, �Run a lap around the building,' and we, of course, would cut through the alleys."
Some of the corners cut by the students crossed the line from inventiveness to larceny -- for example, the notorious final-exam scandal of 1980. One alum, who asked not to be identified, remembers the first time he heard a name he and the rest of South Florida would grow to know well. "I crammed for all of my tests and did pretty well," he recalls. "Then I found out I had to take all my exams over again because a guy named Humberto Hernandez and some other people had stolen copies prior to the final-exam day."
Hernandez had taken advantage of the Little Havana building's antiquated design -- which included hard-to-lock windows and doors -- to gain entry to the offices where the tests were kept. The exams were surreptitiously distributed, along with the answers, to various students.
"Twenty minutes into the chemistry final," chuckles Garcia, "a guy with a 40 average gets up from his seat and starts walking toward the front of the auditorium. We can't believe it. We're grabbing for him, telling him to sit back down so he won't give us away." The test proctor, though, didn't catch on until the exam was nearly over, and then only with the help of divine intervention. Or something like that. "One guy was so stupid he couldn't memorize the answers," Garcia recalls, allowing himself all these years later to relish the moment of the caper's collapse. "He actually brought a copy of the exam to the test, then dropped it on the floor by accident."
The tests were readministered to the students; Hernandez was allowed to graduate. After Belén, "Bert," as his classmates still refer to him, attended college and law school and in 1996 successfully ran for the Miami City Commission. The source of the youthful Hernandez's appeal with voters, particularly elderly Cubans, was a naughty-niño-next-door charm: prep-school manners coupled with back-alley smarts. In 1998 the popular politician was found guilty of vote fraud in the 1997 city elections, then later convicted of unrelated bank-fraud charges. He was sentenced to four years in the federal penitentiary at Pensacola.
Garcia, then the state's Public Service Commission chairman, was in Tallahassee when Hernandez's legal troubles began. He recalls a curious exchange he had at the time with his assistant, also a Belén grad. "When we heard [Hernandez] had been indicted," Garcia says, "my aide screamed, �Yes!' and I looked at him like, �Coño, why would seeing Bert in this situation make you happy?'" Because, the aide answered, "that guy stole my sneakers in eighth grade."
The anecdote, both funny and revealing, suggests the poetic continuity between the Belén schoolyard and the political jungle of Miami, illustrating not just the degree to which, in Hernandez's case, the child is the father of the man but the extent to which relationships and opinions forged at the school persist among its graduates.
Certainly all the alumni trace their interest in government and passion for politics to their days at the school. "Student government was something real at Belén," says Garcia. "We'd go to Washington, D.C., as part of the Close-Up Program, and while students from other schools were sightseeing, the Belén guys wanted to go to the National Archives and listen to the Nixon tapes." The point of the yearly trips to the nation's capital, which began in 1975, and of the school's emphasis on civics, says government teacher Pat Collins, was a practical one: "I thought our job was to bring these [Cuban] boys into the political mainstream as expeditiously as possible."
By 1993 Collins's ex-students had done more than simply join the political mainstream. They had stormed it. In that year's District 11 Miami-Dade County Commission race, Miguel Diaz de la Portilla defeated a field composed of not only Joe Garcia ("I was supposed to win that election") but fellow Belén alumni Jorge Alvarez and Justo Luis Pozo. Fittingly the district the ex-Belemitas fought over included the school itself, which in 1981 moved from Little Havana to a 30-acre campus in Westchester.
"This is not the little school that came to this country to take care of the needs of 100 or so students," says Father Marcelino Garcia, reflecting on just how much has changed since Belén offered classes at the Gesu Church in 1961. Indeed almost nothing about Belén today would qualify as "little." The school, already the recipient of several high-profile gifts in recent years, including one of two million dollars in 1997 from the estate of alum and late Coca-Cola chairman Roberto Goizueta, is in the midst of a ten-million-dollar fundraising campaign. An active alumni association of more than 4000 members should aid in achieving that goal. In the meantime several large-scale building projects, including the construction of a science pavilion, are under way.
If the school's campus is constantly evolving, the same cannot be said of the composition of its student body. Belén's enrollment of about 1000 boys, in grades six through twelve, no longer overwhelmingly Cuban, nevertheless remains overwhelmingly Latino and almost exclusively white. "It's been hard to raise the number of black students above a handful," says one administrator. "You're asking parents to send their kids across town to a white neighborhood to be surrounded by a classroom of white students." And while a fifth of Belén students receive some degree of financial aid -- totaling almost $600,000 per year -- the school's $7500 annual tuition undoubtedly remains an obstacle to racial and socioeconomic diversity. Entrance exams designed to select students who already have benefited from good schooling present another challenge. As for the possibility of admitting girls to Belén? It's been raised, say the school's directors, but it's not a serious consideration.


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What will you learn from Kitty Kelley's new Oprah biography?
(Read article summary)Excerpts of Kitty Kelley's new biography of Oprah Winfrey are leaking out but some complain that there are few real revelations.
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It's sure to be one of the most talked-about books this month, but will you really learn anything new from reading "Oprah: A Biography," Kitty Kelley's new unauthorized biography of television megastar Oprah Winfrey, due in bookstores tomorrow? Some readers who've seen leaked excerpts suggest that the answer is no.
Perhaps it's too late for a Winfrey tell-all," speculates Janet Maslin in The New York Times. "She has already said way too much about herself."
Maslin adds, "Some of the best-known parts of [Oprah's] story, like the dieting, have literally been discussed ad nauseam. And why would lengthy rehashes of well-known embarrassments (e.g., the James Frey/'A Million Little Pieces' flap) be interesting? Ms. Kelley simply replays the televised version. She has nothing new to add to these stories."
(Although the timing for the book is excellent – it comes out just as Winfrey is making headlines with the announcement that she will be starting her own cable network.)


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Bride's Parents
Paul and Elizabeth Intagliata
Groom's Parents
Dulce Annella Brooks and the late Robert Johnson Brooks
Background: Lisa is going on her 11th year as director of philanthropic projects and events at Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation. Phil, who goes by his last name of Brooks, has worked with Royal Caribbean cruise line for the last 20 years, in the food and-beverage industry. The couple will start their new life "on land" in their new house in Venice.
How they met: Brooks and Lisa met through friends while on board Royal Caribbean's Nordic Empress cruise ship. After just being friends, Brooks finally won Lisa over with "his smile, charm, patient listening and those beautiful paper roses."
The proposal: June 27, 2012
After Brooks gave Lisa several hints last summer that she would be surprised with something big soon, Brooks finally popped the question while he and Lisa were cruising on the Oasis of the Seas in June. He waited until halfway through the cruise and then took Lisa for an intimate Italian dinner at Giovanni's Table, a small Italian specialty restaurant onboard. After looking at his watch many times, he was finally relieved when several of his fellow crewmembers and the ship's florist all arrived to stand by his side while he got down on one knee and proposed.
The wedding: Lisa Intagliata and Phil Brooks were married Saturday, Feb. 16, in Fort Lauderdale after an eight-month engagement. The ceremony took place at The Church By The Sea in Fort Lauderdale and was co-officiated by the bride's cousin, Stephen Intagliata, who is the campus minister at Bluffton University in Ohio. Stephen wanted to leave Lisa and Brooks with a simple way of remembering the kind of love that can hold a marriage together and keep it growing strong, so he used an acronym of a word that both of them are familiar with: "CRUISE." "C" stands for compassion; "R" stands for respect; "U" stands for understanding; "I" stands for small i (to put the other first); "S" stands for sacrifice; and "E" stands for encourage.
The reception: Cocktails and a sit-down dinner, at the Lauderdale Yacht Club, followed the ceremony. Guests were greeted with purple signature "Love Boat" drinks and tropical steel drum music. Upon entering the reception outdoors, under the open-air pavilion facing the intercoastal waterway, guests were given small cruise ship place cards with their table name and number — tables were named after all of the cruise ships the couple has sailed on over the years.
The wedding colors were eggplant, black, white and silver, and the theme of the wedding was "Anchored by Love," a nod to the couple meeting aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship several years ago.
Tablescapes featured grape fortuny tablecloths with many decorative votives and large crystal chandelier centerpieces with large round deep-purple pomiander balls floating on the chandeliers, as if suspended in air.
The weather turned a bit colder than expected that day, so guests kept warm with specialty coffees, pashminas provided by the couple and dancing to music by Mark Zauss and the Z Street Band, from Orlando — the same band Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation booked for its Corinthian Gala last year.
Guests: More than 125 people were in attendance, including many friends and family who made the trip from Sarasota, such as Sally Schule, Susan Jones, Brent Greeno, Allen Tyre, Arnaldo Pernala, Alex Quarles, Adrian Gadd, Leigh Wilcox, Robert Brown, Arjun and Bethany Bhatia, David and Karen Rule, Richard and Jackie Keller, Jim and Mary Beth Bos, Erin Barker and Doug Christie. Other relatives came from California, Connecticut, New York and Honduras.
Bride and groom's first dance: The bride and groom danced their first dance to the song that Elvis made famous, "I Can't Help Falling in Love with You." They choose that song because Brooks sang that song to Lisa in front of crowds of people on the Nordic Empress cruise ship when they were first dating.
Honeymoon: The newlyweds honeymooned in Las Vegas, where they saw many shows, including Jubilee and Tony & Tina's Wedding. They dined at the famous Top of the World restaurant located 800 feet above the Las Vegas Strip at the top of the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino and also enjoyed catching up on their sleep after many months of wedding planning.
Fun facts: Lisa's father baked more than 450 homemade Italian biscotti (a nod to their Italian heritage) and had them in decorative glass jars for guests to enjoy along with their specialty coffee.
In place of a traditional guest book, guests were asked to sign a white life ring decorated with "bling" and the words "Just Married." Guests also left with a silver cruise ship luggage tag to remember the couple's special day.
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Posted on December 11, 2007 - by Hubba
The Elm Springs News
As the Holiday Season approaches a boil, Elm Springs and the surrounding area received a healthy blanket of snow Friday night and Saturday morning.
The Country Red Hat Ladies went to Rapid City Wednesday to tour the Old Governor's Mansion. CRH on the trip were Jean and Kellie Linn, Sandy Fields, Caroline Wilsey, Carolyn Anders, Twila Trask, Dorothy Anderson, Maxine Smith, Peggy Gravatt, Norma Pellegrin, Linda Tift, Betty Carlson and her two daughters-in-law. After the tour, several of the CRH went to visit Judith Olsen at Westhills Village.
On Saturday, Sandy Fields, Peggy Gravatt, and Jean and Kassandra Linn boarded the Wasta Pie Bus for the annual holiday trip to Pierre. Incidentally, they were given a tour of the New Governor's Mansion.
Matt Trask visited the Clyde Arneson residence Thursday night to help Clyde watch the NFR and drink egg nog.
Paul and Joy Elshere of Philip visited the Ryan Elshere residence one day, possibly last week. Jim and Lana Elshere of Midland visited the Ryan Elshere residence Monday for sure. On Saturday, the Ryan Elsheres met the JJ Elsheres, the Bill Eastmans, and Marcia Arneson at the Watiki Waterpark in Rapid City, where they spent the afternoon Watikiing around.
Brad Bookbinder visited the Larry Gravatt residence Saturday to help with the addition.
The Sam Johnstons took Austin Trask with them to the Wall Eagles basketball game in Philip. Wall won both games, and Austin and Calder Johnston got to play quite a bit. The Ryan Elsheres visited the Sam Johnston residence Sunday evening, bringing supper with them to help Cary celebrate her birthday.
JW and Dara Wrachford were supper guests at the Morris Linn residence Monday night. Morris hosted an NFR party Wednesday night. Bunny Bail and the girls were Thursday night guests at the Morris Linns to watch the NFR. Gene Hortness of Gettysburg was a Friday afternoon visitor, and Matt arrived Friday night to help Kassandra hang decorations on the Morris Linn Christmas tree and watch the NFR. On Saturday, Morris Linn and Scott Simons picked up Matt Trask at his house on their way to Rapid City, where they did some Christmas shopping before meeting Roger Shull and Gene and Rory Pluth at the Elk Creek Steakhouse for the annual trip to Deadwood, which fell on Morris' actual birthday this year. Morris, Matt and Scott returned Sunday about noon, while Shirrise attended a stamp party at the Dana Keffeler residence. Melissa Byrne of Viewfield visited the Morris Linns Sunday afternoon, and Nick Trask visited Sunday evening.
John Tines, Amanda Humphrey, Lainee Mae, and Truette Northup visited the Cary Tines residence Saturday afternoon. Dennis and Tanya Jensen and Treshelle Hall and kids visited the Cary Tines residence Sunday afternoon while out cutting Christmas trees.
Julie Trask left Tuesday for Ft. Collins, CO, to finish school. RoseMary and Maria Trask attended the Wall Lady Eagles basketball game in Wall Tuesday night. Nick attended the Dieter Brothers sale in Faulkton Wednesday, returning in time to join Pat and Steph at the Ag Appreciation banquet in Rapid City Thursday. Joe Trask went to Rapid City Saturday with Baxter Anders to take the ACT tests. Nick Trask spent Saturday and Sunday with Natasha Bentz of Billings MT, in Rapid City and the Black Hills. In addition to driving around, they met up with the Morris Linn party in Deadwood and visited Darci McManigal in Rapid City. Sunday visitors at the "Upland Trask" residence were Randy and John Rapp and Todd Jacquot, all of Rapid City.
Philip and Mary Kay hosted the First Lutheran Church of Wall choir for a Christmas party Sunday
Terry and Cheryl Hammerstom of Hereford are pleased to announce the birth of twin grandsons Tate Terry and Tanner Daniel Grabow, born November 29th to Todd and Tessa Grabow. The pair were born one month early, but are doing well.
Don't forget the Elm Springs Christmas program on Monday, December 17th at 5:30 pm at the Elm Springs Hall.
The kind citizens would like to extend their sympathies to Jeff Willert, whose femur was broken by a klutzy bronc in round 2 of the NFR.


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Economy adds 88k jobs in March
Report marks March as lowest number in nine months
The White House said that the budget sequester is partly to blame for the anemic employment numbers.
The economy added just 88,000 jobs in March, the fewest in nine months and a sharp drop after a period of stronger hiring.
Experts fear the new figures may forecast a weak Spring.
Government figures show employers added only about 88,000 jobs last month, about half as many as the previous six months.
The unemployment rate did fall to 7.6 percent, its lowest level in four years, but some experts said that's deceptive.
"Half a million Americans, one half of one million Americans, quit looking for jobs in March," said Yahoo! Finance 'Breakout' Host, Jeff Macke. "That means, they just gave up and they stopped looking so that's how you get the unemployment rate to look lower because you shrink the pool."
Some of the biggest cuts were in retail, where 24,000 jobs were eliminated, economists said, in part because of the weather.
Temperatures were well below normal, stranding Spring merchandise on store shelves.
And there could be more rough going ahead.
Economists said the full impact of the federal 'sequester' budget cuts won't be reflected in the jobs numbers until next month.
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Advice needed...NOISY, inconsiderate neighbors next door.
My neighborhood was a quiet place to live until a loud family moved into the house next to mine about two months ago. They are renters, and their landlord doesn't seem like the type that would get involved in doing something to stop any problems. When the new neighbors are not home, all is peaceful in the neighborhood once again.
Right from day one, these neighbors have been inconsiderate. My house is only about 12 feet away from their house, so we are close to each other. On the first night they moved in, a man (the husband?) stood on his front lawn from 10:45 PM to 11:15 PM talking on his cell phone like it's the middle of the day. The next night, from 1:45 AM to a bit after 2 AM, a man was hammering and drilling the bedroom walls that directly face my bedroom walls, and this woke me up...he couldn't wait until normal waking hours to install drapes. The next night someone was hammmering for a while after 10 PM. Okay, so I thought, maybe they don't realize that I can hear the loud hammering after hours or maybe they don't care. Hopefully, they'll get all settled in and things should be good, right? Wrong! Oh, one night at 12 AM, their visitors just had to beep the car horn while leaving.
The family who lives there consists of 6 people total: parents, 3 girls and a teenage son. Plus, they have people visiting at times, so there's more kids.
One afternoon, I heard a male voice outside, and when I looked out the window, I saw a man (the husband?) leaning over my front yard stockade fence with his arms hanging over my side of the fence while he talked on his cell phone...nice.
They blast heavy Rap music for a few (more or less) hours at a time on some days (not every day), and the stereo seems to be in one of the bedrooms that is next to my bedrooms. I am the only neighbor affected by the music because of the location of their stereo close to my house. The music fills my bedrooms and is very annoying. One morning, the blasting music woke me up at 8:30 AM and continued off and on until about 12:30 PM.
Several days a week, the 3 girls (and sometimes a kid that visits) ride and race up and down the street and circle around and around on their bikes for a good 4 to 5 hours or so straight, all the while screaming and squealing their heads off. They scream and scream and scream NONSTOP. The noise is insane, and even when they are not on their bikes just standing next to each other, every word has to be shouted. When the girls are inside the house, I can hear their loud voices through my bedroom walls.
I have seen one or more of the girls walk on the front of my property a few times and ride a bike up the curb and onto the very front of my lawn near the street. One of the girls sometimes rides alongside my stockade fence in their yard, and I have a foot of property that I own on their side of the fence so we can maintain the fence (I'm worried about possible damage to my fence and lawn). They have gone on other neighbor's yards. They cut through my neighbor's yard...none of the other kids in the neighborhood do this. One of my neighbors had to tell them to get off her property.
Oh, where are the parents? Nobody hardly ever sees them outside watching the girls. The parents seem oblivious and they obviously don't mind their girls screaming constantly for hours on end ruining the peace and quiet and taking over the street.
If a dog was constantly barking for one hour straight, some people would call the police because that is a nuisance. But what do you do when it's 3 girls taking over the street with their bikes, racing up and down the street and circling around and around while constantly screaming, hooting, and hollering for 4 to 5 hours straight? Plus, add the blasting Rap music into the mix. I know kids will be kids, but I have never experienced kids behaving like this.
This noise is interfering with the enjoyment of my home. I can hear them over my TV (I shouldn't have to keep a TV on to try to block out their yelling). I shouldn't have to close my bedroom doors to block out the noise (rap music and screams) from entering other areas of my house. I shouldn't have to close all my windows on a beautiful day to reduce the noise.
Please offer up any advice as to what to do about this situation. I would pay them to move away. And I'm not looking forward to when school is out for the summer. If you have experienced a similar situation, please feel free to share it with me.
There are no easy, convenient solutions to this problem. But the only sensible first step is to talk with one of the adults, preferably the "head of the household", and calmly tell them about the things that bother you. However they respond, listen to them as attentively as you wish to them to listen to you. And they will respond! If they respond in anger, just keep quiet until they "get winded". And then "parrot" back the most ridiculous things they said while angry, so that they will hear it again. But they may respond somewhat positively. Right now, your perception is that things were perfect before. These people have moved in and things are not perfect anymore. No matter what, things will be different so long as those people are there. Maybe a sensible conversation can make them somewhat better than they are at this moment.
Renters and Tenant Buyers can sometimes push a neighbor or beighbors to their linits. You say they are renters, so; I assume there is an owner of the property. I would contact the owner, if you cannot reason with these neighbors. How can the property owner do anything if no one tells him or her the problem(s).
We lived across the street from noise renters and we were in a town that had noise ordinances. When there were problems, we called the police and gave as much detail as possible. The police didn't come out all the time, but there did quite frequently. Their appearance helped tremendously. Other neighbors also called.
Surely, the home on the other side of this one has had problems. Touch base with them and see if they'd side with you.
My neighborhood was not perfect before this family moved in, but it was a good neighborhood where people were considerate of each other (except for one neighbor who moved, but she doesn't compare in any way or form to the new family), and there were never any kids that screamed and hooted for hours on end and took over the street.
From what I've witnessed so far with the parents, they don't seem like people who care about being considerate. It's ususally one of the parents who blasts the rap music, because all their kids are at school when the music blasts. The parents were outside in the front yard with their company, and their girls and the other kids visiting them were all over the street doing the screaming/hollering bit, and the parents did nothing but encourage the behavior. It was a small circus. How did the girls learn that it's okay to behave the way they do? The other kids in the neighborhood aren't like this. From my experience, considerate neighbors typically don't act like this. They don't even respect their "rented" lawn, as the girls ride their bikes on it.
So the problems are not a once every now and then issue (I could deal with that, and I wouldn't be here writing this); rather, the nuisance happens several days a week for hours at a time.
I don't know the neighbors who live in the house on the other side of this family, but I'll consider finding out their thoughts on the situation. Another neighbor on the street feels that the girls are a nuisance, so I'm not the only one annoyed.
What stinks is that a complaint (either talking to the parents or landlord or cops) may lead to the problems worsening or never improving. Sad to say the cops here don't tend to take noise complaints seriously, even though there is a noise ordinance.
Pardon the length, mia, some tips based on my experience and perspective.
How can the property owner do anything if no one tells him or her the problem(s).
I am so glad you said that! I had renters in one house that by all accounts were OK, no notable trouble for me as a landlord. But apparently the ruckus they were causing in the neighborhood (loud parties, music, lots of 'outdoor' noise into the wee hours) was driving several adjacent neighbors batty. Only when tenants moved out and we spent a month doing upgrades at the house did I learn from various neighbors everything that went on into the wee hours, and I was shocked! I had no idea. (But then I didn't go by the house at midnight or later, never had a reason to). I most certainly would have had a talk with my tenants. I put a clause in my leases (these are houses, not apartments) that they will abide by civil codes (trash, noise) and not disturb the quiet enjoyment of others. If problems became serious enough to warrant police intervention for noise, or had persisted to where town codes were being violated, I would have encouraged neighbors to call the town code enforcer or police (it helps landlords to have a record if it comes down to lease violations of this nature).
Those neighbors mentioned above approached me nicely, one almost sheepishly. It's a nice quiet family-oriented neighborhood where everyone keeps an eye on everyone and lends a hand. The neighbors there treat me as one of them when I stop by to check on things or do a repair. They appreciate that I keep the property up and I appreciate that they are extra eyes and ears for me, but not in an intrusive way, if that makes sense. (One neighbor has kept me abreast of the utility company's tearing up the yard and repairing landscaping damage they did. Helps me out because I can't be there daily.) They are all good people and I truly felt bad (and angry and embarrassed) that my tenants had caused them discomfort and I had no knowledge of it. It won't happen again. On the flip side, I have another house where the neighbor is a whacko. There's no other way to put it. She moved in 7 years ago, started complaining right away. I did my best to make sure my tenants weren't disturbing her, but after keeping a closer eye on the house and lending that lulu neighbor an ear for a bit, it soon became clear it wasn't the tenants who had issues but rather her. Doesn't matter who lives in the house, family of 4 or single adult, this woman is just a chronic complainer with way too much time on her hands. I could fill pages with her antics. So things have flipped around to the point I have to make sure she's not causing my tenants discomfort and I completely tune her out when she approaches me. Giving her a cordial inch causes her to attempt to snatch a self-entitled mile and I simply refuse to waste any time or energy on her.
Noise is a tricky one to deal with, but there are ordinances for that, and most standard leases contain a clause requiring tenants not interfere with quiet enjoyment of neighbors.
I'd encourage you to approach the owner just as you would speak to any neighbor, or how you wish one would approach you. For productivity's sake, calm and civil. An angry or aggressive manner is only going to make the owner defensive . Also wouldn't start the talk with "Your tenants...". LL's are not parents to other adults and it can be bristling when someone approaches as if we were. Much as we wish we did, we don't have magic wands we can wave to make all things perfect (although lots of folks out there seem to think that's the case). Tenants have rights and entitlements and it might be our house but it's their home and we can't mold a tenant's behavior or personality into another's perceived concept of perfection. ;)
So keeping that in mind, I'd suggest something like "Hi, I'm mia and live next door to your property on Maple Street, and there are some activities going on there that are causing some disruption for others on the block that we were wondering if you could help out with..." (Use "we" instead of "I" so you don't sound like the sole complainer.) I would encourage you to word it in a way that conveys you are certainly able to tolerate typical family neighborhood noise and activity, but the situation is going above and beyond that. Hopefully the landlord/owner is a decent person who cares and ask these folks to show some respect for others. I would discourage you from amplifying small typical noises into nuisances as that can readily backfire. Also, do keep in mind that the owner has a costly investment in the property and one of his primary concerns is that it doesn't get damaged. So point out behaviors that might perk his ears up and send a red flag to him. Like "I know it takes time to get settled in, but all that drilling and hammering at 2AM woke me up and it went on for a couple hours I had to be at work early the next day..." (As an owner I'd start to wonder what the heck they were drilling holes in & pounding during the middle of the night??) Or "I do understand kids will be kids but when the children ride their bikes in the street and then race them across the lawns screaming at the top of their lungs it's hard to tell if one of them has gotten injured or something. Another neighbor has already had to request they not ride their bikes on her lawn." (I know kids will be kids, too, but if they're showing zero regard for neighbors' property it tells me as an owner they're probably showing the same regard for mine.) Toss in a "we're very concerned for these children's safety due to the hours they spend riding circles in the street". Again, not much a LL can due about that either, it's a matter of parental supervision, but it shows if they're not being supervised outside they're probably not being supervised inside and that = damage. Or "I know teens like their music but it can be heard on the block during the day while the kids are at school, although it has started as early as 8AM, and I've found it necessary to shut my windows and interior doors to muffle the deep thumps of the rap music..." (That one definitely impacts quiet enjoyment and noise codes.) IOW, any activity you can tie into behaviors that could be a potential liability or potentially causing damage or potentially having a code enforcer or other law enforcement out there are the key ones. Not much a LL can do about where and when a tenant chooses to talk on their cell phone. BUT, to make him aware of what this guy does you could mention as an aside that you've been having issues with some of your fence posts becoming weak and although replacing them is in your future plans, in the meantime you're concerned when the tenant leans over your fence to chat on his phone, but you'll take that up directly with him. (Be ready to take responsibility for actions that a LL can't control but that affect you directly. That way it shows you're not going to him looking for a babysitter, but rather to help deal with the more disrupting, potentially damaging or liability type behaviors. It also shows the owner in an indirect way, so as not to make it his problem, that the knucklehead isn't respecting your space.)
I hope that makes sense. ;) And I hope the owner listens. Already, as a LL I don't like the sound of things. I would bet there's been some neglect of some sort on the inside because they are displaying signs of not being able to respect other's presence or property.
Another option might be to send the landlord a note, again civil, outline the issues and just sign it 'Thanks from the neighbors of 123 Maple Street'.
Anyway, don't overlook your local code enforcer, the ones in local municipalities where our rentals are located take their jobs very seriously and if they find a complaint valid they don't let up, even if it's a couple weeds allowed to grow high. ;) The last thing I want is them bugging me, so I make sure never to let things go that far.
You may have some valid complaints, but by mentioning all of the little things, it makes it seem like you are way too picky and it invalidates the rest of your arguments.
Talking on the phone outside? Maybe a little annoying, but just close your windows when he's doing it.
A visitor tapped their horn once when they were leaving in the middle of the night? Wow, who cares!
Hammering and drilling when they first moved in? Annoying, but if it only happens once or twice forget about it.
Leaning on your fence that one time? If your fence can't handle that, then you should probably fix it so that you don't have a liability issue. Someone could get hurt because of your unsafe structure.
Riding bikes on their grass? Not your concern and I really doubt it's damaging the lawn.
Riding their bikes on your one foot wide strip of grass on the other side of the fence? Give me a break! Who cares!
Kids make noise. Are they making too much? Hard to tell since I'm not there, but since you are so picky about everything else that's going on, I'm leaning towards believing that you are being to picky on this issue too.
Moonshadow, thank you very much for all the helpful information you provided and for advising me on how to talk to the landlord of the tenants (if it comes to the point that I need to talk to the landlord). It's great for me to have the perspective of a landlord like yourself and to know how you would deal with valid complaints (not petty complaints). I think many times neighbors are afraid to tell a landlord that there's a problem (or wait until the problems get out of hand) because they don't know if talking to a landlord will make things worse or that the landlord will be willing to get involved, so they just try to live with the situation until the tenants move. Again, thank you so much for the advice and for your understanding...you've been a big help.
I'm sorry that some of you don't understand the situation in my neighborhood and are misunderstanding me as well. None of you live where I do, so please don't make assumptions and rude comments against me. I am not the only one annoyed by the noise situation. I came here asking for advice, but some of you were not nice...this is supposed to be a helpful web site.
There are plenty of kids in my neighborhood and they make kid noises and do kid things (nothing nobody would ever complain about), yet they don't scream up and down the street for 4 to 5 hours straight and ride bikes on other neighbors' properties like the kids next door. None of you here can make a determination as to how bad the noise is unless you witness it.
Lucy, I wrote the words "Rap music"...so what? If the tenants were playing rock music, I would have written "Rock music." I appologize for stating the specific type of music that is being blasted from next door. It really doesn't matter what type of music is being blasted, because music is music. I never said the tenants next door look different from the old neighbor who moved out - that is your assumption. Yeah, I would feel the same if the music being blasted was Frank Sinatra or my favorite music. Who the heck wants music being blasted into their home for hours?
I mentioned the other things like hammering at 2 AM and talking outside late at night to show that perhaps the parents are not considerate enough to think about the neighbors. And if that's the case, they may not care that their kids are being a nuisance, so it might be difficult to talk with them about the constant screaming. Therefore, I had a concern about how to approach the situation.
Do these people ever sleep? Find out when they sleep, and give them a taste of their own medicine. And make sure the noise you make is real loud, loud enough to wake them from their stupor. And do it often, not just once or twice. They'll get the message.
I'm afraid the suggestion I made earlier today is not very constructive, and reflects my own frustration with similar experiences. Some years ago, when we lived in an ethnically diverse neighborhood in Manhattan, we came to the realization that persons of different backgrounds do not share the same noise level and cleanliness standards, nor do they all share the same attitudes about boundaries. It was one of the considerations that led to our moving out of the city.
Perhaps the most outrageous example of lack of consideration of one's neighbors was of a fellow who wanted to hear his favorite music while washing his car, so he propped his radio on a window sill (the window was open) and played it at full volume.
Of course, these problems are not confined to urban settings. I think there's probably some truth to the view that 90% of these kinds of problems are caused by fewer than 10% of the population.
I feel for you. I think the only way to affect their behavior is if you AND OTHER NEIGHBORS AS A GROUP put together a statement citing their offenses and, if possible, document this by recordings on a camcorder or whatever, and go to the local police with the evidence. Another way of proceeding is to hire a lawyer if he can press the landlord to pressure the tenants to behave themselves, possibly under threat of eviction.
All of this assumes that there are laws or local codes on the books that these people are breaking. Local authorities usually don't like to get involved in these disputes. But if you can show a repeated pattern of violations of local codes, you can force them to act. You are entitled to enjoy a reasonable level of quiet and tranquility in your home. It will take a bit of doing and some legal expense, and it won't be pleasant, but you can make the local authorities act.
Another approach: These days on the Internet it's possible for nominal cost to do a background check on people. I would bet my eye teeth that these people have a history, probably a long paper trail. If you can establish that, you can go to the landlord and say to him, "Look what you've done to us. When their lease comes up for renewal, triple their rent and get rid of them."
Mia, I totally sympathize. I've had many renters next door and none of them were a problem except one. It was horrible, and unless you've experienced day in and day out noise and crazy behavior, you can't imagine how very insane it can get.
I like haus-proud's idea of giving them a taste of their own medicine. Maybe blast a tv out the window too. I'm not suggesting a feud, because that would make things worse. But some people just don't get it unless the shoe is on the other foot.
What I finally did was call the landlord and unload on him after about a year of craziness. He only got interested when I mentioned the dog that jumps in my car when I open my door. (Poor thing probably wanted to get away from there too.) I guess they had a no dog rule. Anyhow, when he went over and talked with them, he found they had trashed the house too, so he got rid of them. My guess is that people who don't respect the neighbors also don't respect the rental property.
I would try writing them an anonymous letter. State what your concerns are, loud music, children running wild, of course, you're concerned for their safety. But word it in such a way that it could have been written by either next door neighor, or back yard, or across the street neighbors. Basically, you want to make them aware there is a problem to start with, but not reveal who is writing. Then go out and get some fairing strips and put nails in them and line the edges of your lawn, bikes with flat tires are hard to ride. Get an air horn, and use it when the kids start their screaming, it should get their attention. Then you can ask them to keep the noise level down.
You also may want to check into your state laws concerning renting. Our state has laws that prevent this kind of behavior. If the renter is guilty of breaking the law, it makes it easier for the landlord to remove them. Do let the landlord know, too. Valid point that they may be trashing the property since they are so inconsiderate of everyone around them. Good luck. Get video and audio, too.
Then go out and get some fairing strips and put nails in them and line the edges of your lawn
NOT a good idea. someone steps on one and you will be responsible for hospital bills and a big lawsuit. you can use soemthign like that buried under ground for car tires, cause the ruts they cause would allow tire to nail contact. but to be effective against bikes it must be above ground and then someone else gets hurt.
as far a writing a letter, that does no good. usually it makes things worse. the mentality is that if they don't like it now, let me show them how i CAN do what i want.
Thank you all for the new advice and for being understanding. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about the situation, so I'll think carefully about the advice given here. I'm not going to put any spikes in the grass or anything on my property where someone might get hurt. It's a great idea to get other neighbors involved in complaining.
I'm unsure if they'll get the hint if I play my music really loud, however, then they may end up blasting their music more often and louder than before. Does fighting fire with fire work most of the time? I've never been the type to retaliate. At least they don't blast music every single day, though the last time was 2 days ago, and I could hear their music above the noise of my window air conditioner.
About a month ago, someone from that house vandalized my two year old fence that separates our yards. One of the wooden slats was forced forward towards my yard as if someone was trying to break it...there are marks in the wood where someone banged on the slat (the damage is too high up for a little kid to have done it). So a member of my family went to their house and spoke to the husband about the vandalism, that this time we will repair the damage but next time we will call the police. The man didn't have anything to say. We took pictures of the damage. Well, I don't understand why they did this to my fence since I don't even know them and have never spoken to them before the fence was vandalized. I think it's nasty what they did.
It wasn't until after the fence was damaged that we politely told the little girls on two occasions to not ride bikes on our lawn or walk/run on our lawn, but they still do it at times. When they were screaming their heads off for a while right by my house, we asked them nicely to please tone down the constant screaming/hollering, but they ignored us and continued screaming. They ride their bikes across an elderly neighbor's lawn and up and down people's driveways as if it's their own home. I understand why the girls act the way they do. I mean, if their parents accept their behavior and never supervise them or get involved with them outdoors, the girls are just going to keep on behaving the way they do because they don't know any better.
Thanks again!
don't for a second think the damage to the fence could not be caused by kids. they could have been playing with a hammer or anything and just hit it until they broke it. a couple weeks back one of our tower sites went offline. turns out some hoodlum kids saw the electrical disconnect and turn it OFF jsut because. no reason, just because it was there. the disconnect is now locked in violation of local fire codes, but at least we won't have millions of dollars of communications equipment go offline due to some hyperactive kids with no impulse control.
Wow Mia - these are new neighbors?
I know you complained about a noisy neighbor with a single child in 2003, 2004, & again in 2006. And another neighbor with a pool in 2006.
You sure have had your share of bad luck with neighbors.
I sure hope it improves!
I would go to a good local lawyer and ask if a hi tech approach might work -- maybe a videorecording of the noisy activity, along with a device that measures the sound level WHERE YOU ARE, so that you can build a case with hard evidence to prove your allegations against these people. I would keep a daily log of the disturbances they create. It's the cumulative effect that is ruining your quality of life. That's the only way you can document it.
If these people are making you miserable, you need to fight back with all the legal means at your disposal, or move out.
I know you complained about a noisy neighbor with a single child in 2003, 2004, & again in 2006. And another neighbor with a pool in 2006.
You sure have had your share of bad luck with neighbors.
well now, that reminds me of a saying my grandmother had " if everyone around you has a problem, maybe you are the problem."
it is either that or just extremely bad luck with neighbors.
I know you complained about a noisy neighbor with a single child in 2003, 2004, & again in 2006. And another neighbor with a pool in 2006.
You sure have had your share of bad luck with neighbors.
davidandkasiewrote: well now, that reminds me of a saying my grandmother had " if everyone around you has a problem, maybe you are the problem."
it is either that or just extremely bad luck with neighbors.
Because of the above comments, I feel the need to mention that I came to this forum in the past seeking advice about my next door neighbor because of her screaming and neglecting her child on a daily basis for the whole time she lived there. Her boyfriend was arrested and the police were at her house for a warrant, so there was a lot of trouble at that house. She moved out and then this new family of 6 moved in, and they are the ones that I am asking advice about now. Other neighbors have talked to me about the problems with these 2 sets of neighbors, so it's not just me noticing the noise and blatant inconsiderateness. And my friends have made comments to me. Unfortunately, it's this one house next to me where the problems have been happening, and other neighbors have made remarks about it.
then it is definitely the 2nd part, bad luck!
sorry you have to go thru this.
maybe it is time to look for a new area to live. my grandmother's neighborhood was always nice and quiet, no probles for 30 years. now you cannot even leave your car unlocked while taking in the groceries!
my parent's neighborhood was one of the more upscale when we moved in during the late 80's, but now it is going downhill as well. the HOA pretty much dissolved and folks do what they want, rules prohibit renting any portion of any house, yet many are rented all teh time. gangs of kids roam and destroy things, i figure at the rate it is going it will be truly run down in 5-6 years.
Better they're renters than buyers though, maybe the 3rd sent of renters will be quieter. You'd really be sc***** if someone loud bought the place and stayed for years. Bad neighbors also own houses ya know.
You might ask the landlord to try to find a better quality of renter although he is restricted somewhat by law about questions he can ask.
davidandkasie, I'm so sorry about what has been happening with your grandmother's and parents' neighborhoods. It's sad to see a good neighborhood go downhill. As for the gangs of kids vandalizing things, why aren't the police putting a stop to this kind of thing?
marys1000, I'm glad that the people next door are renters, but they seem like they're here to stay for a while...they're settled in, they love the neighborhood. Of course, I can't see into the future.
The noise has become so bad lately that I can actually record it inside my home, and people who I'm talking with on my phone can hear the screaming. I've had to keep my windows closed, but the noise still enters my home. Since last week, the noise has been concentrated in one area from their back yard where they hang out every day now. The screaming, squealing, shreaking, yelling is CONSTANT and has been lasting from a few hours to eight hours straight almost every day that it doesn't rain. Last Friday, the noise was constant from 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM. And it happened again for about four hours straight on Saturday and Sunday. They are the only family in the whole neighborhood that is making noise like this. My other neighbor is glad they don't live right next door to them.
So I read the noise ordinances, and they specifically state that it is unlawful for a person to emit noise that goes beyond his or her property boundary that exceeds 55 decibels from 7 AM to 10 PM. By the way, 60 dB is normal speaking voice. So if the screaming or loud music reaches the dwelling of another person, then the noise ordinance has been broken. It states that there is a fine for each violation. I phoned the police department asking for advice on handling the situation, and the officer said I can have an officer come over to listen to the noise and possibly talk to the noisy neighbors. I'm not sure about involving the police yet, but I can't live like this. Unfortunately, the town noise ordinances are not well-enforced, and other people I know have had to deal with ongoing situations that were not helped by the cops.
Since your neighbors are making you so miserable, it's time for you to think about spending some money to resolve the situation. Find a lawyer who can help you figure out a way of forcing the TOWN to enforce the noise code. Another thing is that this kind of HIGHLY UNUSUAL noise-making that is as CONSTANT as you say it is seems to me is probably just the tip of an iceberg. Either a lawyer or a private investigator can do a search of computer records in the public domain and find out about these people. They probably have a paper trail that can fill several thick volumes. If you're computer savvy, you can probably do the search yourself. You can probably bet that the landlord did not bother to investigate these people -- not because he doesn't care, but because he just doesn't know how to go about such things. If you found a lot of damaging evidence about the reputation of these people, you can at least bring it to his attention, so that he'll be motivated to get them out when their lease runs out.
the cops do when they can catch them. problem is most of the time no one knows who it was. i should not have said gans, i should have said groups, cause it really is nto what some would consider a gang. it is jsut groups of kids roaming around and doing what they want. most of the kids who live inteh neighborhood are not the problem, it is usually visitors who cause issues.
Find a lawyer who can help you figure out a way of forcing the TOWN to enforce the noise code.
The unfortunate reality is that most (all) police department have limited resources and noise complaints tend to be low on the list of priorities. Most of us would agree that a burglary has a higher priority than noise (unless it's noisy burglar :-) ) The police have to be present when the offense happens too. Call, they come by 30 minutes later, no noise, no ticket.
Mia's best course of action, as you suggested, is to work with the landlord to either have the lease terminated or not renewed when it expires.
I echo an amalgamation of the responses I've read above:
You're correct in that it is frustrating sharing relative close proximity to people who don't share your same values of consideration and respect.
However, that is the risk one runs when living in a free nation- a "melting pot" of cultures. Anyone is allowed to live anywhere so long as they can afford to do so.
I certainly agree that you are obligated to at least try and speak to the tennants.
I caution going straight to the LL as it could have the very opposite effect you desire: You wind up with neighbors who see you as "that b tch next door" and/or a LL who sees you as someone cutting into his/her income by making it impossible to keep people in his/her house.
Calling the police probably won't do much more than annoy everyone- the police most of all. As mentioned, they have to "catch them in the act" which is unlikely unless you're willing to live by the phone and window like Mrs Kravitz from Bewitched, "AAABNER! AAAABNER!" Am I dating myself now?
Most of us have "that neighbor" that drives us crazy. My way of dealing with it is becoming their friend:
"Hey, I noticed you guys were up sooo late working on the house I was wondering if you needed any help? I know how frustrating and stressful it is when you lose sleep over those long nights of unpacking and putting stuff away..."


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