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A/N: OMG! Read the latest chapter of Fairy Tail Right now! Otherwise, you will be hopelessly confused! Also, you will know at what point that the crossover, first begins, as opposed to the actual canon storyline. Also, and might I add, that I now officialy HATE the Twilight Ogre Guild? Arrogant self-righteous bunch of bastards that they are; I figured they could do with much-needed good 'ol ass kicking, wouldn't you agree, Fairy Tail fans?
A young boy saw the smoke in the faroff distance and wondered at it. Hadn't there been an island there, a moment ago? An island with a giant tree? He blinked, scrubbed at his eyes with the back of a hand, and sat back down in the rowboat. Strange. Very strange. For a boy of twelve years, it was certainly the strangest sight he'd ever seen. He blinked, squinted up into the sunlight, and, for a moment, saw a huge, massive shadow.
It was as if all the light had been blotted out from existence. He winced, winced as a massive beast swept overhead, nearly dislodging him from his place in the raft. Yelping in disbelief, he stumbled backward and flopped out of the boat, landing in the waters with a mighty splash. And still, spluttering and coughing, he couldn't bring himself to tear a single lid from it, from the majestic creature that had overtaken him and-mockingly-overturned his craft.
"Acnologia." He breathed in disbelief, recognizing the glinting, golden markings upon the dragon. "Oi! Wait! Acnologia!" He raised a hand after it, his fingers straining for it as it soared above him and roared, high overhead and into the clouds. "You have to tell me! You have to tell me where she went! Please! Wait! Aconologia!" He cried out after it, even when it receded into the distance and vanished from his sight. Even then, even though he wept and spat and moaned, it did not answer. Even then...
...the Dragon did not reply.
In the end, as he pulled himself back into the boat, there was only silence.
(Seven Years Later)
The door opened to Fairy Tail opened swiftly, and slammed shut just as quickly, shutting out the harsh light of the afternoon. A stranger stepped through these doors, his eyes darker than the deep blue sea, his hair brighter than the shining sun itself. All eyes fell upon him; this strange lad, wrapped in a matte-black cloak, garbed as if for the coming of winter, not the middle of spring. He pulled back his hood, revealing the likeness of a face that had not been seen for seven years.
He was a handsome youth, if intense. His blond hair was disheveled, his blue eyes intelligent, his features balanced. Whisker marks tripled each cheek cheeks that might have dimpled with a constantly bright and enthused grin; no matter the situation or mission. Now, he was intense, his visage free of the baby fat that had cursed him in his younger years. Chiseled and nigh but expressionless, that face squinted against the sunlight and peered through the door, wondering at the strange sight that lay within. Furniture had been viciously overturned, bottles broken, and, as he looked on, he realized that the destruction had come to a sudden halt; most likely due to his sudden entrance.
"Is this Fairy Tail?" These were the first words out of his mouth.
"Huh?" Everyone gawked at him.
"This is Fairy Tail...right?" The young man asked, his eyes sweeping across the room. "This is Natsu's guild, isn't it?" When no one answered him, he stepped over the threshold, allowing the door to swing shut behind him. Noting the intense looks of displeasure levied upon him by a number of curiously garbed individuals, he blinked, offering his shoulders in recompense for his temerity.
"I am interrupting something? He asked pleasantly, as if that were not painfully obvious. "If so, I can come back later...
"Who the hell do you think you are?" One of them asked. The blond turned towards him. He was a tall, lanky looking man, and, at the moment, his face was twisted as though someone had wrenched it into a permanent grimace. "This is Twilight Ogre turf, pal." He jerked a thumb toward the door, not even bothering to approach. "If you know what's good for ya, you'll get lost, if ya get my meaning."
The blond took one look at the club strapped to the man's back, and blinked.
"Twilight Ogre?" The blond frowned, once more proving oblivious to the obvious. "Sorry, but I don't have any business with you. I came here to join Magnolia's greatest guild." He turned, pointing to the weathered banner that hung over the hearth. "I came here, to join Fairy Tail." Turning toward the assembled members of Fairy Tail, he asked, "Say, could one of you point me toward your Guild Master? I'm really anxious to meet him-
"OI!" The club-wielding man known as Teebo shouted, interrupting him. "Weren't you listening to what I said earlier?"
"Not really, no." The blond answered blandly, earning a series of shocked gasps from those of Fairy Tail. "If you're not from Magnolia's greatest guild, then I really don't have anything to say to you right now."
"Have you been living under a rock or somethin', buddy?" Teebo scoffed. "Fairy Tail hasn't been the greatest guild in Fiorre for the last five years! Twilight Ogre runs this town now, you get me? If you had any sorta sense, you'd be joining our guild, not theirs!"
"But that's just it," The blond repeated flatly, the sudden lack of enthusiasm betraying his words. "I've already been to your guild! And it's boring! I don't want anything to do with it! No, I'd much rather join Fairy Tail." He let the statment hang, unadorned between them. "That's not a problem, is it?" He asked-quiet-his eyes narrowing slightly, ever so slightly.
"And what if it is?" Teebo sneered.
"Well, in that case, I don't much care what you have a problem with and what you don't." The boy answered simply. "Is it any business of yours which guild I join and which I don't?" Even as he said this, he brushed the club-wielding mage aside, the man already forgotten, in his mind. "Now, I wonder who the master is-
"Hey!" Teebo snarled, seizing the boy's shoulder. "We're not finished yet!"
The blond mage stopped in his tracks, his face slowly appearing over his shoulder as he curiously regarded his once fallen opponent. A look of irritation crossed his single eye as it regarded the self-serving servant behind him.
"You're bothering me." The blond stated swiftly, his composure slipping somewhat. "Please, step away."
"And if I don't?"
The blond mage looked Teebo directly in the eye and released a dense wave of magical energy.
Teebo's mouth hung open in shock as he and those members of Twilight Ogre surrounding him fell to their knees. His eyes were staring straight into Naruto's, the expression on his face a mixture of fear, fury, confusion and defeated dejection. His jaw started working but he couldn't force any sound to come out. Everyone gawped. Gawped, as the mysterious blond took three steps forward, and brought himself face to face with his fellow mage. He frowned down on the men, severely.
"Speak again at your own peril, fools." He warned, all of his earlier composure falling to the wayside. "I'd rather not kill you, but unfortunately, I'm not feeling very merciful at the moment."
One of them scoffed.
"You wouldn't dare!" One of the grunts said, turning his gaze toward their leader. "Ain't that right, Teebo-san? Fairy Tail wouldn't dare lift a finger against Twilight Ogre!"
"Is that so?" The blond mage-to-be smiled. "But you seem to have forgotten something."
"I ain't a part of Fairy Tail yet, kono yarou." The blond snapped back, his gorgeous white grin streaking across his mouth as he inhaled sharply. "Even so, you lot have insulted this guild for the last time!" Another oppressive wave of magical power burst froth from him, the sheer force of such a power serving as to drive them back several steps. Back they went, staggering, stumbling, struggling to reclaim their footing as the wind abruptly tore the boy's cloak open and revealed him for who he truly was.
"Suiryū no...
A blue magic seal burst before his lips, inviting a torrent of azure energy to the heart of the guild. The boy inhaled and his stomach swelled, then his chest, then his cheeks, as all the while the magic worked its way upward through his body, building into a blinding surge. He thrust his face forward, his lips parted in a defiant scream that rippled forth, from his lips, bursting forth in a sea of cerulean light that caused everyone's eyes-Twilight Ogre and Fairy Tail alike-to bulge in comprehension.
Within a gash of blinding light, his breath tore forward and slammed into the mages from Twilight Ogre.
By the time the whole of Fairy Tail did think to drop to the floor, a screen of blue was discharged without warning. While everyone felt the strong pull of the massive tidal wave the only ones who absorbed the worse of it were the mages from Twilight Ogre. Unable to believe their eyes nor their ears, the unlucky magicians were flung clear out of both bar and battle, sent flying across the next street where they caromed off the steps leading to the guild hall, landing in a gaggle of arms and legs and mud.
Yet strangely, the only one that was left standing was the mysterious stranger who seemed unharmed by the sudden surge. It almost seemd as if the cone of destruction might have originated from his very flesh. But that was impossible. The only one's who could perform such a spell were those who knew Dragon Slayer magic. And yet, was this not what they had just seen? But it had been years since they'd last seen such a magic! It had been nearly seven years!
Seven, long, arduous years.
Back then, three others had wielded this very same type of magic. Back then, Fairy Tail had been a brighter, happier place. Back then, they would never have allowed themselves to fall so far as they had fallen now. Now, as a boy-a man-bearing such an ability appeared before them; wielding the very same magic said to have been banished from the face of the earth for almost a decade, their shock was overwhelming.
Now, as the water retreated, turning itself to mist, roiling, boiling, baring its fangs with a mind numbing intensity, they began to understand. With a soft, squelching sound he turned his attention toward them, the waters retreated inward, dissipating before their very eyes.
"Sorry about the mess," the cloaked stranger apologized to the shocked guild. "Did I...overdo it a little?" He scratched at the back of his head and adjusted the muffler across his neck. "Damn, I did, didn't I!" He swore profusely, his words emerging as little more than a frenzied blur. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to do that much damage its just that I'm not used to using that much magic at once and they were wrecking everything and I...I...I'm so sorry!"
His mouth opened and closed several times, but no words made their way from it. His shoulders pumped up and down heavily as he breathed, his face dragging the floor as he shoved his head down further and knelt, prostrate before them.
"Please forgive me!"
Everyone sweatdropped at his sudden departure from normality.
'Is this guy for real?'
But before anyone could hope to voice her opinion on the matter, Laki stepped forward. She crossed the threshohold between them and the newcomer, approaching him with out any of the hesistation expressed by the other members of the guild. She knelt before the enstranged blond and reached forward, cupping his chin, tipping it upward so as to get a better look at him. Briefly, his eyes found hers once more. They were no longer the same, shimmering blue they'd been previously she realized, though the thought of staring into these light, glassy orbs of sapphire brought her little comfort. She could still see the anger, the confusion burning beyond his vision. At length, she smiled. It was a soft, watery, smile, this one, bellying the element she'd seen him so blatantly release upon those from Twilight Ogre.
"Thank you." She said softly. "For doing that."
"You're welcome." The boy muttered weakly. "They had it coming."
'They certainly did.' she mused to herself, but instead asked:
"What's your name?"
"My name?" The boy blinked. "You mean...nobody never mentioned me?" When this was greeted by silence, he seemed about to dissolve into begging for forgiveness again-a trait that eerily reminded everyone of another Dragon Slayer that they knew-but Laki's shake of the head seemed to dispel this concern, somewhat. Straightening, bending at the knees, he stood woodenly and not taking enough care.
"M-My name is Uzumaki Naruto." He stammered, hesitantly. "M-Might I...ask your name?"
"Laki Olietta." Laki introduced herself. "Say, just now, was that...Dragon Slayer Magic?"
Naruto nodded, albeit hesitantly.
"Yes it was," He began, his words growing steadily stronger with every syllable. "Lady Tsukiumi taught it to me. Seven years ago, she told me that I'd find Dragon Slayers like myself here, eventually, but I kinda got lost...for the last seven years."
Everyone facefaulted.
"For seven years!"
Laki sweatdropped.
"Here we go again...
A/N: That's right! Naruto is the Dragon Slayer of Water! I couldn't really think of anything else to give him, seeing as Air, Fire, Steel, Poison, and Lightning were all already taken! Also, read the lastest chapter of Fairy Tail to understand what has happened! I will eventually reveal how Naruto came to be in possesion of Dragon Slayer Magic, etc so on and so forth, and don't worry, updates for this chapter will be swift and steady! This will be (somewhat) following the manga and such!
Here's hoping that Natsu and co. are alive and well!


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ELK GIRLS HOCKEY Record — 13-4-1 conference, 20-7-1 overall All-conference — Abbie Canton (sr F), Breanna Simon (jr F), Madison Bizal (fr D), Kennedi Mitchell (so D) …. Honorable mention: Mikey Gould (jr G), Shea McLean (so F), Rae Korinek (so), Drea Westgaard (so), Tiffany LaFontaine (sr G) T...Read More
by Bruce Strand, Sports editor Kaylee Jondahl, known for her powerful tumbling and vaulting while starring in gymnastics at Elk River, has captured a national championship as a college gymnast. "Everything clicked for me Saturday," said Jondahl, a Wisconsin-Stout sophomore, abou...Read More
by Bruce Strand, Sports editor Gymnasts are typically beat-up at season's end. In Krista Kovar's case, she was hurting "everywhere" but still closer to being fully able-bodied than at any time since October. A talented three-sport junior coming off a concussion and ank...Read More
The Rogers gymnastics team had one state qualifier, Katelyn Hagel, while placing fourth among eight teams at the Section 5AA meet on Thursday at Irondale High School. Hagel, a freshman, placed fourth on vault with a 9.475 score to advance to state. She was seventh all-around with 35.625. Champlin Pa...Read More
Katelyn Hagel was all-around winner, leading Elk River-Rogers-Zimmerman to a 132.85 to 126.20 victory over Coon Rapids, in their final dual meet, Thursday evening in Elk River. Hagel scored 33.425 all-around, and won vault with 9.0 and balance beam with 8.55. Ashley Stewart placed third all-a...Read More
Champlin Park, the team that has ended Elk River-Rogers-Zimmerman's six-year reign as conference gymnastics champion, defeated the Elks 143.70 to 136.875 on Friday evening. The Elks posted their best score of the season, though, along with their best balance beam score, 34.40, at home. "...Read More
The Elk River-Rogers-Zimmerman gymnasts edged Centennial 134.225 to 133.300 on Friday evening at Centennial. Caitlyn Reeves led the Elks, placing second all-around with 34.65 and winning balance beam with 8.60. Andrea Gessner of Centennial won all-around with 34.90 and vault. There were four differe...Read More
The Elk River-Rogers-Zimmerman gymnastics squad finally had a breakout meet on Saturday at the Moorhead Invitational — after splitting apart for this event. The Rogers portion of the team won with 134.65 points, which tops any score the combined team has achieved this year. They were followed ...Read More
The Elk River-Rogers-Zimmerman gymnasts improved to 3-1 in dual meets, defeating Osseo 131.8 to 111 on Thursday evening at home. Three Elks were very close in scores with Alyssa George placing first all-around with 32.725, followed by Katelyn Hagel with 32.65 and Caitlyn Reeves 32.525. Meagan Otten ...Read More
The Maple Grove Crimson defeated Elk River-Rogers-Zimmerman 133.65 to 128.425 in gymnastics on Friday evening. Allie Korbel won all-around and all four events for the Crimson. Placing second for the Elks were Krista Kovar on vault, Megan Schaeffer on bars and Katelyn Hagel on floor exercise. ERZ, no...Read More
"Elk River Flip for the Cure Invitational" was the title of a new event started by new gymnastics head coach Jennie Vargas this year. This meet was held Saturday with Sartell placing first among eight schools and host Elk River-Rogers-Zimmerman fourth. Upon completion of the compe...Read More

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KNOXVILLE -- Florida will kill 'em.
Let's cut straight to the heart of it, OK? If the Tennessee Volunteers play like this next Saturday, Florida will kill 'em.
If quarterback Jonathan Crompton throws two interceptions, Florida will kill 'em.
If tight end Luke Stocker drops three balls that hit him in the hands, Florida will kill 'em.
If Tennessee stops itself with holding calls and illegal motion penalties, Florida will kill 'em.
"We can, we must and we will play better," said Tennessee coach Phil Fulmer.
Or -- all together now -- Florida will kill 'em.
And, yes, it's probably fair to acknowledge before this column goes much further that Tennessee did actually win Saturday, defeating UAB 35-3 in spiffed-up Neyland Stadium.
But the UAB game was never about UAB. It was always about Florida. UAB's offense reminded everyone of Florida's offense. UAB's quarterback reminded everyone of Florida's quarterback.
"We're trying to get in a rhythm and stay in a rhythm going into Florida next week," said Crompton, before the game.
"It was a challenge to get our offensive team in a rhythm," said Fulmer, afterward.
Which is not to say Tennessee didn't do some good things Saturday. The defense played well. Ellix Wilson, Eric Berry and DeAngelo Willingham all had interceptions, giving the Vols a total of seven in two games.
"We feel like we got to get the ball back to Jonathan and those guys so they can do what they do," said Wilson, overlooking a teensy-weensy problem: It's not clear what Jonathan and those guys do, especially Jonathan.
The guy sounded all upbeat after the game, as if everything was hunky-dory.
"We did a really good job of it," Crompton said. "It's coming along great."
Um, no. It's not coming along great. It's coming along in fits and starts and coughs and sputters.
The UAB defense is awful, even by Conference USA standards. Tulsa scored 45 points against UAB and Florida Atlantic scored 47.
Until midway through the third quarter, the Vols mustered just 14 points and two scoring drives.
An illegal motion penalty stopped one drive. A Crompton interception stopped another. When Crompton was on target with a pass, chances are Stocker (whoopsie) dropped it.
As you might expect, the offensive players vowed to do a better job after halftime. Whereupon they put together a drive that included a holding call, a sack and an interception.
The boos rained down pretty good after that. Fulmer marched over and had a chat with his quarterback. Chances are he did not say everything was hunky-dory.
"Our guys looked like that forgot what an intimidating drive was supposed to look like," Fulmer said.
They remembered after that. Arian Foster (100 yards) and Lennon Creer (93), especially. For the next quarter of football, the Vols looked the way the Vols are supposed to look, scoring three straight rushing touchdowns.
The hope is that it was a taste of what's to come, a sign that the offense has finally found itself. The fear is that it was just Tennessee running past an exhausted, overmatched opponent.
Last week, Tennessee had nine three-and-outs against a UCLA team that was smashed by BYU Saturday, 59-0. This week, the Vols became the first team not to score 40 against one of the worst defenses in the country.
"There's no doubt about it, we have to play better next week," said receiver Gerald Jones.
Or Florida will kill 'em.
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The Modesty Wars: Women and the Hasidim in Brooklyn
Via Flickr.Originally posted on openDemocracy.Until recently, you could have lived your entire life in the United States and never have bumped into any Jewish Orthodox Hasidim, who live in scattered communities, mostly in the New York's borough of Brooklyn. In the last few years, however, the media have publicized the Hasidim's cultural clashes with their non-fundamentalist neighbours. In each instance, the conflict has pitted the Hasidic view of women's modest traditional dress and their appropriate role in the family, on the streets, and in their community against the sexualized dress and behaviour of their neighbours.
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Patricia J. Williams, a professor of law at Columbia University, was born in Boston in 1951 and holds a BA from Wellesley College and a JD from Harvard Law School.
She was a fellow in the School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College and has been an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School Law School and its department of women's studies. Williams also worked as a consumer advocate in the office of the City Attorney in Los Angeles.
A member of the State Bar of California and the Federal Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Williams has served on the advisory council for the Medgar Evers Center for Law and Social Justice of the City University of New York and on the board of governors for the Society of American Law Teachers, among others.
Her publications include Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave, On Being the Object of Property, The Electronic Transformation of Law and And We Are Not Married: A Journal of Musings on Legal Language and the Ideology of Style. In 1993, Harvard University Press published Williams's The Alchemy of Race & Rights to widespread critical acclaim. She is also author of The Rooster's Egg (Harvard, 1995), Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race (Reith Lectures, 1997) (Noonday Press, 1998) and, most recently, Open House: On Family Food, Friends, Piano Lessons and The Search for a Room of My Own (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2004.)
This presidential race leaves an odd sensation among those of us not having a television. Like the much-cited Kennedy-Nixon race, in which the camera was generally thought to have given Kennedy the visual edge, the Gore-Bush debates played very differently with the visuals suppressed. Listening to them, Gore sounded stilted, yes, and Bush sounded unbelievably evasive, no surprises there.
What's more interesting, however, is that the day after the first debate, I found myself unable to understand any of the follow-up commentary in the rest of the media. Matching suits? Jerking? Smirking? Orange lighting? Had Al Gore really been made up to look like Ronald Reagan? Even the now-famous sigh was mostly a visual event--a camera angle, a gesture of exasperation; it hadn't come across at all on radio.
I felt as though I'd missed out on some weird national Halloween party. Who had the best costume? Who won the monster mash dance contest? And who in the world was all this playing to?
I suppose that's why the candidates ended their campaign playing to undecided Missourians. You can't get more middle than that. No one in Harlem, where Gore started his campaign, is undecided. No one at Bob Jones University, where Bush began his, is undecided. And so the race ended with the contestants sashaying down the runway in a mock Mr. America contest, attired like the Blues Brothers in identical suits and ties, each spouting platitudes about education and the moral fortress that is marriage, each playing down differences so as to appeal to the kind of centrist whose taste runs no further to the right or left than boiled as opposed to mashed potatoes.
But as someone who listened rather than watched, I am really shaken by how little attention has been paid to what substantive disagreements there are between Gore and Bush. There was, for example, that revealing moment when Bush was pushed about affirmative action--not the right-wing version that equates affirmative action with quotas, but the actual, conservative version permitted by the Supreme Court. Bush responded with some nonsense about what he called "affirmative access," which as Gore pointed out, has no legal or political meaning. When Bush was asked directly whether he would support affirmative action without quotas, he retorted, "If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it." This was the kind of repeated evasion at which Bush is very practiced, but the kind of evasion that in fact speaks volumes. There are, I repeat, big differences between Bush and Gore when it comes to the issues about which most people are rarely undecided: race, gender, labor and environmental issues.
I suppose that most everyone except undecided Missourians understood that such games were being played in the debates. What worries me is the degree to which the recognition of this as masquerade has made some forget that it is also a game with high stakes. Impatience with the game-playing leads some to want to opt for someone who speaks passionately. But let's face it: Neither Nader nor Buchanan nor any other third party candidate has a prayer of winning this election. That's a mathematical certainty, folks. It's not the world I like--I wanted Bradley. But for now there are two choices given, and one will rule our lives.
We are choosing the world's most powerful leader. It is not an opinion poll, it is not a popularity contest and it is unlikely ever to be the vehicle for launching a progressive revolution. I find it distressing to see polls predicting that Nader voters will help Bush take Washington and Oregon. And I think voters in New York and Massachusetts are naïtve when they say they will vote for Nader because they feel their states are overwhelmingly Democratic anyway, so nothing will be lost if they register a protest vote for Nader. This is an election, not a market survey.
I get alarmed when I hear people say that maybe it will be better for progressives if Bush is elected. What kind of progressive wants a Bush appointee heading up the Office of Civil Rights? A Bush appointee deciding the fate of habeas corpus? A Bush appointee delivering the FDA to biotech companies? And will the progressive revolution occur before or after Bush hands over the last American wilderness to loggers and oil companies?
None of this means that I don't wish we had a wider range of pragmatic options. But I'll express that dissatisfaction by working for campaign finance reform. I'll work to see the infamous case of Buckley v. Valeo reversed (that's the decision that equated speech with money, thus making campaign spending a form of expression protected by the First Amendment). I'll work to see the inclusion of third party candidates in future debates. (And speaking of barring third party candidates from the debates, wouldn't it have been more interesting to have given Missourians who support Nader and Buchanan the chance to grill Gore and Bush?)
I wish all kinds of things were different--that we had more cumulative voting in the United States, that we entertained adopting certain features of parliamentary systems. I too find this offend-no-one, appeal-to-the-middle of a race infuriating. But it's also true that this campaign has been waged like the Gulf War. We the citizenry watch a big screen filled with talking heads holed up in the Baghdad Hilton--or a school auditorium in Iowa--but we must know that real missiles are exploding on the Rush Limbaugh Show or in Rupert Murdoch's New York Post or through the Christian Coalition's televangelized appeals. Within those forums, Republicans are not at all evasive, but mounting a frontal assault that equates public service with corruption, diversity with lowered standards, public schools with race wars, private schools with free enterprise, free enterprise with civil liberty, choice with self-segregation and the segregation of whites from blacks with opportunity. In the end, Pat Buchanan represents very little threat to George Bush because the right is smart enough to know which side its bread is buttered on. This is one heck of a moment for what's left of the left to allow itself to be divided and conquered by wasting a vote.
I'm surprised at how many otherwise thoughtful people seem convinced that this election "makes no difference." In my very first Nation column, I quoted Justice Antonin Scalia, who, during a 1997 visit to Columbia Law School, stated publicly that if Brown v. Board of Education came to him as a case of first impression, he would vote against the majority. Most of the federal judiciary are Reagan/Bush appointees. There are an unprecedented number of judicial openings right now because of the unprecedented blocking of Clinton appointees maneuvered by the Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee. A sense of urgency thus prompted me to cull an unscientific sampling of lawyers, writers and human rights activists--all of whom feel that this is an important election in which to make one's voice heard.
Charles Ogletree Jr., professor, Harvard Law School: "The most important election in recent memory will occur on November 7, 2000. George W. Bush, who favors Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, and Al Gore, who favors someone in the mold of Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, have radically different views of the next Supreme Court appointments. With Roe v. Wade, affirmative action and majority-minority districts at stake, there is no graver choice facing the nation than a progressive Gore Court or a reactionary Bush Court."
Reva Siegel, professor, Yale Law School: "Last term, the Court invalidated provisions of two different civil rights laws, holding that Congress lacked power to enact the antidiscrimination statutes--something the Court has not done since the nineteenth century. After these rulings, it is no longer clear how statutes like the Family and Medical Leave Act or the Pregnancy Discrimination Act can be enforced against state employers, or what kind of hate crimes legislation the Congress can enact. But more is at stake than the particular provisions of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act or the Violence Against Women Act, which the Court struck down last term, or the provisions of the Americans With Disabilities Act, which the Court is considering this term. The question is whether the Court continues to recognize and respect the federal government's power to prohibit discrimination as that power has been exercised by Congress in the decades since passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
Richard Matasar, dean, New York Law School: "Judicial appointment is the stealth issue of every national election. While abortion and crime occupy the attention of the press, the judiciary can also carry on a quiet revolution in its allocation of authority between state and federal government. The Republican judiciary has already significantly shifted the distribution of power between governments; this election can break or solidify that shift."
Maivan Clech Lam, professor, City University of New York Law School at Queens College: "The Supreme Court's rulings on state and federal power are very likely in the next years to determine issues of sovereignty important to indigenous Hawaiians and possibly all tribes in general."
Bob Wing, editor, ColorLines: "The prospect of an entrenched reactionary Supreme Court majority is awful.... However, I wish that I was more confident that Al Gore, who is associated with the Democratic Leadership Council's center-right wing of the Democratic Party, would reverse that trend."
Peter Gabel, president, New College School of Law: "I'm not sharply critical of those who want to vote for Gore to protect the Court, but I do think they overestimate the Court's role as an active progressive power and fail to see its essential commitment to maintaining a center (whether center-right or center-left). It is movements in society that motivate the Court to move. A real left needs to do the opposite of defending the empty center, which is perpetually self-erasing and actually blocks the development of a progressive movement. Instead, we must try to emerge into public visibility--visibility to one another!--by voting for Ralph Nader."
Jill Nelson, writer: "I've been thinking that it's the height of the ever-growing class-based disconnect in this society for people who consider themselves left or progressive or liberal to run the 'I'm going to vote for Nader because there's no difference between Gore and Bush.' Rest assured, I'm not happy with any of 'em, but I'm very clear about the importance of Supreme Court appointments and for that reason will vote for the lesser evil, which is the real, disappointing, difficult nature, it seems, of democracy as we know it. The alternative is for me to delude myself that an abstract notion of principle trumps class privilege, which it doesn't. Sure, no matter who's on the Court, me and mine can have abortions and hire top attorneys and otherwise have the possibility of buying ourselves out of whatever mess we're in, but that's not enough. For me, democracy is fundamentally about community, and to paraphrase Reagan in that movie, what about the rest of us?"
Sydelle Pittas, attorney: "In the course of work on a television series I produced for the Women's Bar Association on 'Your Legal Rights,' I interviewed almost all of Massachusetts' sitting federal judges. From them I learned a few things that showed me how important it is to have Justices who understand the experiences of real women. Justices are human beings, and while they are impressive in how mightily they strive to find the law rather than make it, how they make those findings necessarily comes from their own understanding, based at least in some part on their experience."
Bill Ong Hing, professor of Law and Asian-American Studies, University of California, Davis: "People of color and other traditionally subordinated groups have few institutions upon which they can rely. Their skepticism of the judicial system's desire to respond to their plight has reached a new high point, as the Court molded by Nixon-Ford-Reagan-Bush (Carter made no appointments) has come to dominate the nation's jurisprudence.... Whether and to what extent, if any, the Supreme Court serves as an agent or ally of social change is debatable. But a progressive voice of a Supreme Court majority--open to the views and experiences of those who have been marginalized--would foster a culture (and hope) for change in other mainstream institutions."
We don't have a TV at home, so we've missed the much-drubbed NBC Olympics coverage. So when a little friend of my son's said she'd been watching, I asked her if any of the events had inspired her to want to be an Olympic athlete when she grew older.
"Yeah!" she raved. "Just wait! I'm gonna be a rock star and I'll ride onto the field with my helmet on my head and my crossbow on my back and I'm gonna have a band and six backup singers, and then when they light the torch, all the soldiers I've been saving in my disk drive are gonna burst onto the screen and do a dance and then there'll be fireworks, fireworks, fireworks, boom, boom, kaBOOM! Like you've never seen before!"
Flushed from such imaginative exertions, this dangerous little person ran off with my precious son, she humming a tune by Britney Spears, he shouting a song by the Backstreet Boys. (It was a perfect fugue, by the way. Has anyone else noticed that Britney is just Lance hung upside down and played backwards?)
Each culture develops its own sense of sport, I suppose. When I travel, I confess I make up for the deprivation at home by watching a lot of hotel-room television. I am always fascinated to see the kinds of competitive sports that people will sit up late for in other parts of the world. I've been to Edinburgh during sheepherding finals (sort of a par course for sheepdogs grafted onto a running of the bulls, except with large shaggy rams. Like Babe, but vicious). I've spent time with friends in Minnesota where ice fishing--which is, I assure you, one of the slower sports known to mankind--took up Real Time in dinner party conversation.
Once I spent five days in a small German town in a university dormitory built on the site of what had been a Nazi bank vault. This being truly the belly of the beast, I was not at all surprised when the heat went out the moment I got there. Within hours, I fell sick with a raging fever, my body temperature rising with each degree the room temperature fell. As I lay shivering beneath the thin cotton blanket, I used my last ounce of strength to flick through the channels on the steel television set (which was bolted to a fixed rod hanging from the ceiling, like the ones in hospitals or prisons). Aside from the ubiquitous CNN, all the available stations were displaying the same sporting event--in German, Swiss German, Farsi, Turkish and Basque. The event in question appeared to be a particularly formal version of Austrian dressage: horses with knotted manes and beribboned tails prancing rigidly through backbreakingly unnatural placements and postures, two-stepping, then waltzing to martial music. The riders, who wore high hats and polished boots, put the animals through their paces with the reins tightened so as to hold the horses' necks upright, the bits so tight the horses looked as though they were leering. The riders were tense and ferocious. The horses were precise, wild-eyed, slobbering with foam.
In happier times, I've been to the far north, up around the Arctic Circle, where Icelandic log-tossing is what in other climes might be called "hot." These are not little logs we're talking about, if the broadcast I saw is any measure--contestants trained by hoisting Yugo minivans on their backs. Indeed, in a side event to the log-toss, they ran a course where every thirty feet or so they stopped to pick up a 350-pound block of stone and chuck it in a rain barrel. "These Icelandic strong men" the voiceover explained, "consume from eight thousand to ten thousand calories a day"--a conceivable goal if, like me, you're thinking of the energizing properties of Ring Dings and marshmallow fluff, but an impressively ambitious one when you learn that a professional log-tosser's diet is fat- and sugar-free.
In South Africa, I once watched a spoofy (I think) combat in which a white gladiator and a black gladiator battled each other up the sheer face of a wall, the goal being not just to reach the top first but to dislodge your opponent so that he has no chance of ever making it up.
Then there's Wisconsin, where, back in the eighties, I lived through three deer-hunting seasons. The season was only nine days long but with more than 600,000 licensed hunters on the prowl, around 260,000 deer could expect to meet their maker within that time. "I guess they have bad aim," said my sister dryly when she heard this bit of data, but the truth is they did indeed have exceedingly bad aim. If memory serves me, Wisconsin was the only state that actually gave blind people a license to shoot. I was told they had to wear a neon-red sign that said: blind hunter (thus giving other blind hunters the chance to duck, I suppose).
Not only did more deer die at that time of year than at any other, more Wisconsiners did too. So the real suspense of the daily television tally was always the human toll, not the animal. Lost bullets seeking their mark took shortcuts through people's breakfast nooks and open bathroom windows and attic hideaways. Stray bullets always caught people by surprise in the middle of some intensely private act. Not that every such death was a complete surprise: One year the sheriffs and game wardens got worried about hunters who shot across busy highways at deer on the other side. So they set up lots of deer decoys by the sides of lots of busy highways to catch the sort of people who would do such a thing. Many of us just hid in the basement until they thought the logic of that one over.
I'm optimistic that we humans will always express our sporting instincts in locally interesting and richly varied ways. Indeed, a recurring criticism of the NBC coverage has been precisely its homogenization of the Olympics--the sappy human interest, the weepy mood music, the breathlessly overdramatized replays. But when I think about what the youngest consumers of American sports culture are exposed to as routine athletic fare, I guess it's no wonder some of them would opt for the halftime song-and-dance act. They already know that too often the real action is played out in culturally revealing games like the Bobby Knight Memorial chair-tossing competition, Hide and Seek the Steroids, the Million Dollar Endorsement Dash, Soccer Mom Slugfest and Hockey Dad Death Match.
The month of June always makes me wistful. School's out. A half-liberated, half-sad seasonal sensation settles over me, a feeling I associate with childhood and summer vacation.
I was wandering around Harlem recently, late on a warm Sunday afternoon: I saw Dominican families chatting on stoops. I saw African-American families walking home from church.
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Patricia Williams will be on leave for the remainder of the year, returning to this space in January 2000.
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Pat Gudauskas's road to World Tour salvation hasn't been easy. Near misses and nagging injuries have played a roll, but as Gudauskas will tell you, that's all behind him now. After missing qualification in '08 by one spot, he came on strong in '09. "It's not easy to come that close and then have to refocus all your energy," he says. "The WQS is such a long season, and you put so much into it. Getting close and not making it hurt, but you have to use that as motivation." With a new sponsor on the nose of his board and a healthy outlook on life, motivation will not be an issue. His brothers will be traveling with him, and he's been around long enough to log quality water time at just about every spot on the schedule. Gudauskas is going to be dangerous just about everywhere but the golf course.
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Friendly staff and cozy spot, but really just mediocre given the tired/unchanging menu and dusty shelves at eye level on our window seat. If you want good French/fancy food go to Cavey's in Manchester (fabulous staff and seasonal cuisine).
While visiting friends in Branford over the weekend we were treated to a marvelous dinner at Le Petit Cafe for our birthdays (mine last week, my wife in May). The dining options made it difficult to choose, but everything was delicious and we all thoroughly enjoyed everything we had, from the Pate and Ahi tuna appetizers to all of the...
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We were part of the first seating, so we arrived an hour or so early to explore the town. If you come during the early summer the beautiful trees in town will have flowered a beautiful white. It was an amazing day.
For my birthday dinner, I wanted to dine here and I was thrilled to get reservations for a Saturday evening. I arrived at 5:20 for a 5:30 reservation and my date arrived right at 5:30 as the restaurant opened. My date was beautiful and she looked classy and elegant. We entered the smallish cafe and a woman took our coats...
This cute French restaurant is an absolute gem of Connecticut. It's hands down the best dining experience you'll find in the State and certainly in the greater New Haven area. Every time I'm in the area I have to make a stop here.
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Although there are some open slopes high up in Söll, and the prominent high-point of Hohe Salve is noticeably bare, most of the slopes are heavily wooded.
The piste map is better than it was, using arrows to show which way runs go where that is in doubt. We stick to the view, though, that it is hopelessly over-ambitious in trying to show the whole area in a single view; the result is simply inadequate for route finding, especially on the Zinsberg side of Hohe Salve and between Eiberg and Brandstadl. What's needed are separate maps for the main sectors.
Signposting is also criticized by readers, but we found it OK once you realize that the signs point out the direction to the next lift you want and that the signs use the number of the lift to indicate the colour of the run.
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Extent of the slopes
Short run network
The SkiWelt will easily keep an average intermediate amused for a week. The peaks are not high – with the exception of Hohe Salve they are all under 1700m. In good snow there are long red runs to be done to the valley, but most of the skiing is on the upper slopes where most runs are very short (often less than 300m vertical).
A gondola takes all but complete beginners up to the mid-mountain shelf of Hochsöll, where there are a couple of short lifts and connections in several directions. These include an eight-seat gondola to the high point of Hohe Salve. From here there are runs down to Kälbersalve, Rigi and Hopfgarten. Rigi can also be reached by chairs and runs without going to Hohe Salve – to which it is itself linked by chairs. Rigi is also the start of runs down to Itter and to Hopfgarten. From Kälbersalve you can head down south-facing runs to Brixen or up to Zinsberg and on towards Ellmau. From Brixen, a gondola goes up to Choralpe in Westendorf's area and a lovely north-facing red piste comes back down. From Choralpe you can also head off towards Kitzbühel.
Fast lifts
Gradual improvement
Lifts from the valley are mainly gondolas, with a growing number of fast chairs on the upper slopes. But there are still plenty of slow lifts.
Some high-season waits
Lift upgrades have greatly improved this once queue-prone area. In peak season getting out of Söll at ski-school time in the mornings remains a problem, and there are still some bottlenecks on the mountain. When snow is poor, the links between Zinsberg and Eiberg get crowded.
Terrain parks
Local and floodlit
Söll has its own park below Hochsöll with beginner and expert lines; features include boxes, frames and rails. It's floodlit for night riding.
For experts
Not a lot
The black runs from Hohe Salve are challenging pistes, the steepest of them including a short pitch that locals claim is steeper than Mayrhofen's Harakiri. The black run alongside the Brixen gondola also deserves respect. Those runs apart, the main challenges are gentle off-piste routes – from Brandstadl down to Söll, for example.
For intermediates
Mainly easy runs
When blessed with good snow the SkiWelt is a paradise for those who love easy cruising and don't mind short runs. It is a big area, and you really get a feeling of travelling around. There are lots of blue runs and many of the reds could be blue. In general the most difficult slopes are those from the mid-stations to the valleys – to Blaiken, Brixen and Söll, for example. For more challenging reds head for Westendorf (and don't miss the excellent red down to Brixen).
For beginners
Not ideal
The big area of nursery slopes between the main road and the gondola station is fine when snow is good – gentle, spacious, uncrowded and free from good skiers whizzing past. But it can get icy or slushy. In poor snow the Hochsöll area may be used. None of the lifts is free, but points cards are available. Progression to longer runs is likely to be awkward – there aren't many blue runs in this part of the SkiWelt. One is the narrow blue from Hochsöll, on which fast learners can get home.
Great cruising
Söll is a good place to try out boarding: slopes are gentle and there are plenty of gondolas and chairs. And it has its own terrain park. For competent boarders it's more limited – the slopes of the SkiWelt are tame.
For cross country
Neighbouring villages are better
Söll has 30km of local trails, but they are less interesting than those between Hopfgarten and Kelchsau and around and beyond Ellmau. There is a total of 170km in the SkiWelt area. Lack of snow-cover can be a problem.
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11 May, 2015
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23 Apr, 2015
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2015
by Elyce Phillips Melbourne locals Seemingly Evil (Alice Tovey, Clare Rankine, Melissa Trancia, Sam Garlepp, Lachie McKenzie, Will Reinehr and John Liacopoulos) returned to MICF this year with a fresh bunch of sketches. As the title would suggest, Mix Tape is a grab bag of skits with no unifying theme. Some...
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22 Apr, 2015
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2015
By Luke Simmons Tim Hewitt's Suckerfish was a show run at the 2015 Melbourne International Comedy Festival that contained Hewitt and a revolving door of invited comedy acts. This reviewer went on the last night of the festival and it was clear that there was a party atmosphere in...
Tripod and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – This Gaming Life
20 Apr, 2015
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2015
By Elyce Phillips Tripod (Scott Edgar, Steven Gates and Simon Hall) have teamed up with legendary composer Austin Wintory and the MSO to produce a suite of songs about video games that sound as beautiful as they are hilarious. This Gaming Life spans the history of gaming, from the pixelated...
Kelly Fastuca – I Need An Adult
20 Apr, 2015
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2015
By Elyce Phillips Kelly Fastuca has spent the last five years living in New York. After some very authentic public transport experiences, she's returned with some killer material and an eerily perfected mid-western mom accent. Now she's back in Werribee, and while all her friends are starting to grow up...
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Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2015
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Ross Noble – Tangentleman
16 Apr, 2015
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2015
By Elyce Phillips It's difficult to know where to begin when reviewing a Ross Noble show. So much of his material is reliant on whatever he happens to notice in the crowd that opening night will no doubt be entirely different to the nights that follow. But the one constant...
Dave Callan – A Little Less Conversation 2: A Little More Less Conversation
16 Apr, 2015
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2015
By Lisa Clark Anyone who saw Dave Callan's A Little Less Conversation or has laughed at his astounding version of "All the Single Ladies" dance routine will understand the sort of work Dave will put into making dance funny for his audience. This is his most polished show yet...
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16 Apr, 2015
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2015
By Elyce Phillips We all remember things differently. Some of us might like to think we have near photographic memories, but we can never be certain we're recalling things exactly as they happened. We have a tendency to twist our personal histories into something that's more palatable. In School Camp,...
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16 Apr, 2015
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2015
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Details: Melbourne's longest-running and best-loved weekly impro comedy show.
Tickets: $19 ($15 conc)
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2015 Barry Nominees
This years nominees are :
Luisa Omielan for "What Would Beyonce Do?!"
John Kearns for "Schtick"
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Damien Power for "I Can't Believe I Cared"
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Corey White for "The Cane Toad Effect"
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Sam Campbell for "Cambo's On Top"
Heidi O'Loughlin for "A Woman Talking "
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Ben Russell for "The Tokyo Hotel"
Laura Davis for "Ghost Machine"
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By K on Friday, June 08, 2007
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"My husband and I purchased our Pilot after the birth of our second child because we needed more room. I had been driving a CRV, which I loved, before we bought the Pilot (and I hated to see the CRV go because it had been a great car). That was a year ago, and today we all love the Pilot. PROS: It is VERY roomy, very comfortable, and it looks great. Additionally, the price could not be beat when compared to comparable vehicles (we paid $23k for ours, new). We are pleased with the gas mileage that the Pilot gets, and it has plenty of power. There are power outlets all over the vehicle, which I also like. Also lots of storage space and cup holders. We got the cloth interior, and it (amazingly) cleans up pretty easily. The extra headrest storage in the back can double as wet storage (which you need if you have kids with wet swimsuits, muddy shoes, or a bucket of tadpoles that they insist MUST come home with them). CONS: The paint does seem to chip easily. I also noticed that the windshield cracks easily (I experienced that with my CRV, too). Even small rocks can leave a "bullseye" on my windshield. The spare tire is not full-sized, which seems silly for a car of this size - ya' need a full-size spare. Also, there is no fold-down armrest in the back seat (even the CRV had that). Overall, we are very pleased with the Pilot and love to drive it. Even my husband, a sports car guy, loves to drive and ride in the Pilot."
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By Perry on Friday, June 22, 2012
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 75,000overall rating 10 of 10rating details
Pros: "Most economical, reliable car ever!"
Cons: "No walk through to 3rd row and/or captains chairs"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"Compared to my old cars, and the cars of family members, this car is gold. Mind you, i am comparing to a new x5, passat, and most recently, my husband's 2012 bmw X3. My 8 year old pilot gives a much smoother, quieter ride than his! It is unbelievable. I bought it new 8 years ago and changed the oil every 3000 miles. Even that was inexpensive. I finally had to fix something at my last, 74,000 check up. I would only suggest getting an upgrade on tires if you live in an icy or snowy climate. I finally got new Michelin tires when we moved to a house with a steeper driveway, and new tires made a huge difference."
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By Jay on Wednesday, August 07, 2013
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 129,200overall rating 10 of 10rating details
Pros: "Fun to drive not bad on gas. V6 power"
Cons: "A little slow pulling something."
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"I brought this 2006 Honda back in the middle of may of 2009 with 45000 miles and now it's has 129200 miles on it and still drives very good. I had a minor problem with it one time and other very little problems but it's was never repeated again. The paint still looks good because it's stays inside the garage a lot and I always try to park it in a shade or near a shady spot. I keep the paint waxed three times a year. I always service it myself I change the oil every 4000 miles I don't follow what the oil life says because from 100 percent to 15 percent oil life is too long about almost 8000 miles so I change the oil when the oil life says 40 percent and then I reset it back to 100 percent. I just don't feel comfortable passing 4000 miles for oil change. I used the best oil I can find. I change the transmission fluids every 15 to 20,000 miles myself its very easy and only cost 30 dollars myself. It's very easy to do all the services myself the only thing I can't do is the timing belt dealer will have to do that for me. I put on a nicer 17 inch alloy wheels from Honda and its really make the vehicle looks nicer having a little bigger wheels. I always use tires that helps save fuel and every time I need a new tires I watch for something that will help save gas because some tires can make your vehicle waste more fuel. I get about 20 to 21 mpg in city where a city that is flat but here in Colorado springs is very hilly I get 18 to 20 but mostly 19 in town. On the highway where it's flat sometimes I get 31 to 32 if driving 65 mph. But mostly between 26 to 28 on the highway. My pilot is a two wheel drive that why better mpg. Very roomy and comfortable and I can sleep in the back with all seats fold down and it's comfortable staying at camp grounds in Oregon, Washington, and in Colorado I feel safer camping in my own vehicle with doors locked. It's pull a camper trailer very good under 1500 pounds but over 2000 pounds it's very slow pulling camper trailer in steep mountains area so I decided to sell camper trailer because I feel like its hard on the vehicle. I only bring a tent with me or sleep in vehicle. AC is still cold for almost eight years. I am planning to keep this vehicle until its has almost 400,000 miles or maybe more. It's been a great vehicle and still is. The older it's getting I will be expecting a few problems showing up but I don't think big problems going to happen."
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By nickelectro on Tuesday, April 03, 2012
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 116,000overall rating 10 of 10rating details
Pros: "Extremely reliable, sure footed, solid."
Cons: "Gas mileage, at 22 hgwy, isn't too good."
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"I have owned my 2004 Pilot since new, and have done no repairs except a temp sensor replace at 55K, though all scheduled service was done, as well as oil every 3-4K. Very stable on dry roads, very nimble on wet and icy roads, and sure footed in snow. Used mainly to travel between New York and Maine, it has been an amazing vehicle."
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By Sharpshooter on Tuesday, September 10, 2013
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 215,000overall rating 9 of 10rating details
Pros: "RELIABLE. Easy to service avoiding costs."
Cons: "Handles bulky, both on corners and while braking"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"Bought this car with 205K miles on it, with no worries whatsoever. Every mechanic I spoke to had no qualms about purchasing a high mileage Honda pending a pre-purchase inspection, and thus far this vehicle has not disappointed. The previous owner made a point to do regular maintenance on the required intervals, and this vehicle acts as though it's just been broken in. Everything is original with no major maintenance, and even items like the seats and other high-touch items have handles wear well. Just completed the timing belt and spark pulgs at it's required 210k mile mark, and expect this vehicle to take me and my family onward for another 100K+. Couldn't be happier with this vehicle."
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(Folate Deficiency; Folacin Deficiency)
DefinitionFolic acid deficiency means that there is a lower than normal amount of folic acid in your blood. Folic acid is a water-soluble B vitamin, which means it cannot be stored in the body. You must get a continual supply of it.This B vitamin plays a role in:
- Building proteins in the body
- Producing DNA
- Helping to form red blood cells
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CausesThere are several causes of folic acid deficiency, including the following:
- Inadequate dietary intake of folic acid due to:
- Limited consumption of fresh, minimally cooked food
- Chronic alcoholism
- Long-term need for IV nutrition (total parenteral nutrition)
- Inadequate absorption of folic acid due to:
- Malabsorption syndromes, such as celiac disease
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Drug interactions, such as anticonvulsant medicines and oral contraceptives
- Bariatric surgery
- Increased need for folic acid due to:
- Pregnancy
- Lactation
- Infancy
- Malignancy, such as cancer
- Increased loss that can occur from hemodialysis
- Impaired use that can occur from certain medications, such as methotrexate
Risk FactorsFactors that may increase your risk of developing folic acid deficiency include:
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding
- Malignancy
- Liver disease
- Alcoholism
- Chronic hemolytic anemia
- Kidney dialysis treatment
- Celiac disease or other malabsorption disorders
- Need for certain medications, such as anticonvulsants and oral contraceptives
- Elevated homocysteine levels in the blood
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Sweet and Sour Beef
10 Oct 2011
|3 Ounce (15 g)
|Topside of beef
|3 Pound, trimmed of fat and cut into thin strips (1.5 kg)
|2 Medium, peeled and chopped
|Celery stalks
|6 , chopped
|Canned pineapple chunks
|28 Ounce (1 can, 800g)
|Beef stock
|1 Pint (600 ml)
|To Taste
|Freshly ground black pepper
|To Taste
|Corn flour
|60 Milliliter (4 tablespoons)
|Soy sauce
|30 Milliliter (2 tablespoons)
|Tomato ketchup
|30 Milliliter (2 tablespoons)
|90 Milliliter (6 tablespoons)
1.In a pan, heat the butter and saute beef in it until brown.
2.Put onions and celery in it and fry for 5 more minutes by stirring well.
3.Strain the juice from pineapple and mix it with water to make 600ml.
4.Add the juice to the pan.
5.Also add stock, salt and pepper to it and let it boil.
6.Once boiled, put the lid on and cook for 1 hour until soft.
7.Combine cornflour, soy sauce, tomato ketchup and vinegar and blend.
8. Add the mixture in the pan and add pineapple chunks along with it.
9.Boil and keep stirring.
10.Cook on low flame for 2-3 minutes until thick.
11.Serve or freeze for later use.
12.Serve with garnishing of cream.
13.If frozen, thaw at room temperature for 4 hours and reheat before serving.
Recipe Summary
Difficulty Level:Easy
Course:Main Dish
Dish:Dry Curry
Cook Time:20 Minutes
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Mr. David C. Thompson, age 58, of Buford, GA, passed away on September 19, 2006. Surviving are: Wife of 28 Years: Judy Mengwasser Thompson, Buford, GA; Step-Children: Judy Collins, Baton Rouge, LA, Jim and Sally Mengwasser, Buford, GA, Jeff Mengwasser, Buford, GA, John Mengwasser & Denise Smith, Lawrenceville, GA; Grandchildren: Ashley and Jim Mengwasser; Brother and Sister-in-Law: Dannie and Brenda Thompson, Knoxville, TN; Sister and Brother-in-Law: Patty and Howard Rhea, Sever County, TN. Mr. Thompson was born on January 29, 1948 in Loudon, Tennessee. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served in Viet Nam from 1969-1970 in the 25th Infantry Division. He was employed with American Isuzu Motors Sunbrand, Martin Sprocket Gear. He was a member of the Norcross Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite and Yaarab Temple. He was of the Baptist faith. Funeral service will be held on Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. at the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Marty Duren officiating. Graveside service will be held on Friday at 2:00 p.m. at the Georgia National Cemetery, Canton, GA. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Thursday from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Arrangements by Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home & Crematory, Buford, GA, 770-932-1133, www.flaniganfuneralhome.com.
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