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Skyline Spartans volleyteam team spikes another foe, stays unbeaten
October 9, 2012
By Lillian O'Rorke
In the middle of the third game of the Oct. 2 volleyball match, Skyline High School's Molly Mounsey came from behind the middle and outside hitters to drive a set from Meghan Wedeking straight past Inglemoor's blockers.
"It's not the traditional one," said Mounsey, who was beaming afterward about her perfectly executed attack. "It's not something the blockers on the other team expect us to do, so it can be more successful."
That kill by 6-foot, 1-inch Mounsey was one of many successful three-touch plays that led the Skyline Spartans to secure the win against the Inglemoor Vikings within the first three games.
"We are a tall team," coach Callie Wesson said.
Seven of Skyline's players are between the height of 5 feet 10-inches and 6 feet 2-inches. Inglemoor has three.
"We have a lot of hitting options, blocking options — being able to use that height to our advantage is our biggest asset," Wesson said.
The Vikings struggled to gain control in the first game and sent several freeballs over the net. And the Spartans capitalized on the soft returns, transitioning into place to carry out various plays. With point after point going up on the scoreboard for Skyline, the deficit between the two teams continued to grow until it reached a victorious 25-13.
"They know what needs to happen when you get certain balls, like freeballs," Wesson said, who added she was impressed that the plays the team runs in practice came automatic during the match. "It's nice to see that they are learning in practice … We want to serve tough at everybody and definitely pass well, because once we do that we can run all of our hitting options."
The Spartans started the second game off with a scoring run, rolling out seven straight points that included an ace by server Katy Valencia. The sophomore at Skyline kept the run going during one rally when she dove on the floor for a save. With the assistance of senior Kennedy Stoat, the ball was kept alive and the play continued.
The Vikings attempted a comeback later in the game when Skyline sent over a few sloppy freeballs. But a kill here and a kill there was not enough to catch the Spartans, who quickly refocused and won the game, 25-14.
"A lot of us are just focusing on a positive mentality," senior outside hitter and team captain Halle Erdahl said, adding that one of the challenges is keeping the energy up even when there is not a big threat on the other side of the net.
Talking and cheering throughout helps, she said, but the team also visualizes before the match.
"We just visualize ourselves making an amazing kill, getting a good pass on receive, defensive plays — things like that," she said.
Inglewood got off to a stronger start in the third game by putting the first two points on the board. The two opponents went back and forth after that, tying the score several times until they reached 7-6.
Skyline tied it up with a sideout and libero Emily Anne Owen stepped up to serve. The serve of the 5-feet, 4-inch junior beelined over the net. Kate Richardson, a freshman at Skyline, helped her team pull ahead with a 2-point lead with a tip and a kill block on the next play. Then, with a kill by Erdahl the Spartans were ahead, 10-7.
Skyline ran with the lead all the way to a 25-11 win that was finished off by a kill by sophomore outside hitter Chloe Epker.
"The girls played well today. We've been struggling with Monday games," Wesson said. So to get the players ready for competition after the weekend, she held a short practice after school that day. "This was our first time doing it, testing it out, and I like it a lot … It got them in the volleyball frame of mind earlier rather than later."
When it was all said and done, senior Emily Harris had five aces to her name, Erdahl made 11 kills, and Mounsey and Crystal Anderson both had nine kills. Mounsey and Anderson, who is 6 feet 2 inches, also worked well at the net, blocking several of Inglemoor's hits. Setter Valencia made 18 assists.
The victory over Inglemoor brought Skyline's season record to 4-1-0. The Spartans are set to take on Garfield at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 in a home match.
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Moylan field goal sink Cowboys
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- August 18, 2014
A MATT Moylan field goal with 90 seconds remaining has handed Penrith a vital 23-22 win over North Queenland.
Moylan calmly slotted the matchwinner on Monday night in the same manner he had done so earlier this season against Brisbane in round 18, after Jamie Soward had starred for the home side.
Soward scored two first half tries, had a hand in both of the Panthers' other four pointers and dished off to Moylan for the matchwinner.
The win moves the Panthers up to third spot on the NRL ladder, while the Cowboys slipped to seventh in windy and rainy conditions before a crowd of 7,276.
A late ankle injury to James Segeyaro could be a major worry for the Panthers who are without playmakers Peter Wallace and Tyrone Peachey for the rest of the season.
Johnathan Thurston and Robert Lui combined well in the halves for the visitors in the second half after they trailed by four points at the break.
A Lui try early in the second half put the Cowboys ahead before Josh Mansour regained the ascendancy for the Panthers courtesy of a great long ball from Soward.
A flying Antonio Winterstein tied things up at 22-all in the 68th minute.
Thurston missed the sideline conversion before Moylan struck true.
With a strong wind at their backs the visitors opened the scoring in just the third minute when Thurston put Kane Linnett over to lead 6-0 with the conversion.
But from their the home side dominated the majority of the first half with a favourable penalty count and Cowboys errors helping them.
So too did the Panthers aptitude, led by Soward.
Some clever passing on the Panthers right hand side with Dallin Watene-Zeleniak created the Panthers' half-back's first try in the 11th minute.
A Soward penalty goal in the 19th minute tied the scores up at 6-all before the former Dragon scored his second try in a great individual effort when he took on the Cowboys goal line defence in the 27th minute.
When Jamal Idris tapped back a Soward kick for Jeremy Latimore to score a converted try the Panthers led 16-6, six minutes out from the break.
A Glenn Hall try from a Gavin Cooper offload just before half-time pegged the Panthers lead back to 16-12.
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Thurston Hype of N.Q. Posted at 3:10 PM August 20, 2014
The problem is the officials want to influence the result. Every week you see team get back into game by penalty square ups. The most annoying part of the 10min sin bin was Soward basically did a voluntary tackle to avoid running close to the sideline. How can Soward then be allowed a quick play the ball? Smart players go to ground to avoid being put into touch but they shouldn't get rewarded with a quick play the ball and not standing up.
Warren BUTTERWORTH of TOWNSVILLE Posted at 4:16 PM August 19, 2014
My apologies "Beaves of Brisvegas" obviously us dumb country folk are not as smart as those in the Brisbane. I did not read the article, but was informed that the Field Goal was kicked in extra time, so in future I'll check on the information. Anyhow, have put forward my opinion on the extra time during fixtures and final series.
joe of tsv Posted at 3:00 PM August 19, 2014
Charles its called league..not rugby..thats the other game with a similar shaped ball.

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SOM Alumni Reunion Banquet 2015 - 50th Reunion
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Class of 1964
Each year, New York Medical College and the Alumni Association of New York Medical College create a special occasion for cherished friends to reunite and share their favorite memories and proudest accomplishments for a gala evening of cocktails, dinner and dancing. In addition to reuniting all members of five-year classes, we celebrate the anniversaries of our 50th-year alumni, who are presented with Gold Diplomas, and our 25th-year alumni, who receive Silver Diplomas.
Members of the 25th and 50th anniversary classes also come together to form special Alumni Reunion Committees. The charge of these committees is to encourage reunion class members to attend the celebratory reunion banquet and contribute toward a class gift. Please join us in making this the best NYMC Alumni Reunion ever.
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The Reno Police Department has released photographs of a suspect in a Thursday robbery of a southeast Reno convenience store.
Police said the man walked into the 7-Eleven at Neil Road and Peckham Lane at about 4 a.m. on Thursday and acted as if he had a handgun and demanded money, leaving the store and going south.
Police described him as black, 5 feet, 7 inches to 5 feet, 9 inches tall, 170 pounds to 190 pounds and wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with a white tab at the top of the hood with baggy denim pans and gray shoes.
Police do not think it is related to the robbery of an AM/PM on Sixth Street.
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Investigators say an 18-year-old man shot and killed his father Tuesday morning in a south Sacramento apartment.
Sacramento County Deputies are investigating the shooting near South Watt Avenue and Jackson Road. Detectives say Daniel Cartwright, 18, made the 911 a few hours after supposedly killing his father.
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Democrats see a chance to regain a majority on the Hamilton County Commissioners board. Sort of.
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After last month's battle between the city and Hamilton County's Republican Commissioners over funds to fix Music Hall and Union Terminal, Democrats sense an opportunity to unseat Commissioner Chris Monzel in the upcoming November election.
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Democrats Highlight Higher Education Expense
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City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld and other Democrats held an event June 27 near the University of Cincinnati criticizing Gov. John Kasich and the Ohio legislature for the low level of funding available for higher education in the state.
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GOP Approves Election Changes
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Republican state officials on Feb. 21 signed off on various controversial election measures.
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Parking plan targets budget, GOP could restrict early voting, e-cigarette bill advances
Mayor John Cranley says his parking plan intends to alleviate Cincinnati's ongoing budget woes by increasing parking revenue, but the plan will need approval from a majority of City Council to become law. The plan wouldn't increase parking meter rates downtown, but it would increase neighborhood rates by 25 cents to 75 cents an hour. The plan would also increase enforcement at parking meters, which could lead to more tickets, and extend enforcement hours to 9 p.m. around the University of Cincinnati, Short Vine in Corryville, Over-the-Rhine and downtown. But the plan would not give control of the city's parking meter rates and hours to outside entities, like the parking privatization plan did. Cranley plans to send the proposal to the Neighborhood Committee, with a full council vote possible in two weeks.An Ohio House committee yesterday cleared a pair of controversial election bills that would reduce the state's early voting period by one week — effectively eliminating a "Golden Week" in which voters can register and vote at the same time — and restrict counties' abilities to mail out absentee ballot applications. The bills wouldn't go into effect until after the May 6 primary. Democrats say the bills are blatant attempts at voter suppression, but Republicans, some of whom acknowledge they politically benefit from reduced access to voting, say the reform is necessary to eliminate voting disparities between urban and rural counties. The bills still need approval from the Republican-controlled Ohio House and Republican Gov. John Kasich to become law.A bill placing age requirements on electronic cigarettes yesterday passed an Ohio Senate committee. Critics of the bill argue it doesn't go far enough because it puts e-cigarettes in a different category than tobacco, which exempts e-cigarettes from higher taxes and stricter regulations even though they contain addictive substances and potential health risks. Kasich and the rest of the legislature need to OK the proposal before it becomes law.Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center reopened three school-based health clinics closed after Neighborhood Health Care's abrupt shutdown.A poll worker in Avondale allegedly voted twice, according to the Hamilton County Board of Elections.The Ohio Department of Education plans to increase the number of weeks schools can administer state tests to alleviate time concerns brought on by excessive snow days.Meanwhile, the Ohio House plans to vote on a bill that would let schools take on more snow days this year.A Christian university located south of Columbus gets public dollars to teach "biblical truth," an Akron Beacon Journal investigation found. And the school's president and lobbyist just happen to sit on the Ohio Board of Education.NBC correspondent Tom Brokaw revealed he has cancer.RoboCop isn't that far off from reality.Follow CityBeat on Twitter:• Main: @CityBeatCincy • News: @CityBeat_News • Music: @CityBeatMusic • German Lopez: @germanrlopezGot any news tips? Email them to email@example.com.
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Ohio House Moves to Allow Armed Teachers in Schools
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0 Comments · Wednesday, January 29, 2014
The Republican-controlled Ohio House on Jan. 22 approved a bill that would allow school boards to designate some school employees to carry concealed firearms.
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Early Voting Could Move From Downtown to Suburbs
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The Hamilton County Board of Elections on Jan. 27 split along party lines over whether the board should move its offices and early voting from downtown to Mount Airy.
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Democrats and Republicans clash on moving elections offices to Mount Airy
The Hamilton County Board of Elections on Monday split along party lines over whether the board should move its offices and early voting from downtown, Cincinnati's urban core, to Mount Airy, where only one bus line runs. The two Democrats on the board dispute the move. They claim the move would make voting less accessible to voters who rely on public transportation to make it to the ballot box. Republicans on the board argue the move would make voting more accessible to suburban voters and provide free parking that's scarcely available at the current downtown offices. They call the move "good government" because it would consolidate some county services at Mount Airy, where county officials plan to build a crime lab as long as the Board of Elections moves with the coroner's office and provides the critical mass necessary to financially justify renovations at a former hospital. Republicans cautioned their proposed motion would keep early voting downtown through the 2016 presidential elections. After that, the board's offices would move, along with early voting. Ohio's secretary of state — Republican Jon Husted — normally breaks tie votes on county boards of elections. The secretary of state's office claims Husted will remain undecided on the issue until he reviews documents from the Board of Elections explaining both sides of the tie vote. But spokesperson Matt McClellan says Husted would like to see the Board of Elections reach a compromise before he is forced to intervene.The board's vote followed a contentious back-and-forth between public speakers and board members regarding the looming decision. Most speakers spoke against the move and labeled it "voter suppression." Some dissenters supported the move for its fiscal prudence. Alex Triantafilou, a Republican on the Board of Elections, accused Democrats of "playing politics" with the move. He claims Democrats just want to keep early voting in a Democratic stronghold like downtown.Democrats Tim Burke and Caleb Faux countered that, along the same lines, the Mount Airy facility would benefit Republicans by making early voting more accessible to Republican-leaning suburban voters and less accessible to Democrat-leaning urban voters. State Rep. Alicia Reece, a local Democrat who spoke at the meeting, rebuked accusations of partisan politics and reiterated an argument she made to reporters on Thursday. "The reality is the Board of Elections at its current location has declared both Democrat and Republican winners of elections," Reece previously said. "I think the focus is to just make sure that we have a facility that everyone can have access to, whether you're driving or whether you're on the bus." Mayor John Cranley, a Democrat, on Thursday offered free space at the Shillito's building in an attempt to keep early voting downtown. But Hamilton County Commissioner Greg Hartmann, a Republican, told CityBeat the offer is not enough to satisfy the county's occupancy needs at Mount Airy, even if the city moves some police services, such as SWAT operations, to the Mount Airy facility to help fill out the 500,000 square foot building. "Without the Board of Elections coming with the crime lab, that's not enough occupancy," Hartmann said. "There would be some good potential co-location opportunities with the city (at the Mount Airy facility), but not enough to take up 400,000 square feet." County officials expect the crime lab to take up 100,000 square feet at the Mount Airy facility, and the Board of Elections would occupy another 100,000 square feet. So the county needs to fill 300,000 square feet to fully utilize the Mount Airy facility, even if the Board of Elections moves.This story was updated with comments from the secretary of state's office.
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Activists Push Voter Bill of Rights
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State Rep. Alicia Reece and other activists are mobilizing a campaign to get a "Voter Bill of Rights" on the Ohio ballot this November.
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The civil rights icon embraced many progressive causes
If his speeches and other comments are any indication, Martin Luther King Jr. would likely stand in sharp opposition to modern Ohio Republicans and many of their proposed policies. In reviewing King's work, speeches and quotes, it's clear he was a progressive on a wide range of issues — from voting rights to collective bargaining rights to reproductive rights. In contrast, modern Republicans are doing their best to dilute such rights and scale back progressive causes on a host of other issues. Given that it's Martin Luther King Jr. Day, what better time to look back at some of King's positions and analyze what they could mean in terms of today's politics? Warning: The results might upset some Republicans. On voting rights: "So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote, I do not possess myself," King said, according to PBS. "I cannot make up my mind — it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact — I can only submit to the edict of others."King and other civil rights activists saw the right to vote as the most crucial stepping stone to equality. In fact, one of the defining accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement was the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which attempted to ban discrimination in the voting booth. "Give us the ballot and we will transform the salient misdeeds of blood-thirsty mobs into calculated good deeds of orderly citizens," King said. More specifically, the Voting Rights Act helped undo several voting restrictions taken up against minority voters in the South. The restrictions rarely outright banned black voters; instead, Southerners took up backhanded standards, such as literacy tests and poll taxes, that many black voters couldn't meet. If that sounds familiar, it's because, by at least one top Ohio Republican's admission, growing restrictions on early voting also help curtail black voters — who, by the way, happen to vote for Democrats in droves. "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine," said Doug Preisse, chairman of the Franklin County Republican Party and close adviser to Gov. John Kasich, in an email to The Columbus Dispatch. In other states, Republicans are taking similarly restrictive approaches and passing stringent voter ID laws, even though one study found it discriminates against young, minority voters.Especially given Preisse's comments, it's clear King would not approve of Republican actions. King saw enough oppression in Southern voting booths to know better.On labor unions and "right to work": "In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right to work.' It is a law to rob us of our civil rights and job rights. Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining by which unions have improved wages and working conditions of everyone," King said, according to the Economic Policy Institute. "Wherever these laws have been passed, wages are lower, job opportunities are fewer and there are no civil rights. We do not intend to let them do this to us. We demand this fraud be stopped. Our weapon is our vote."In this statement, King unequivocally disavows restrictions on unions and collective bargaining rights. Meanwhile, Gov. Kasich and top Ohio Republicans remain mum on whether they support anti-union laws like "right to work," much to the chagrin of tea party groups that strongly support such efforts. But it's clear Kasich and Ohio Republicans support some restrictions on unions and collective bargaining. In 2011, the Republican-controlled legislature and governor approved Senate Bill 5, a bill that significantly curtailed public unions and their collective bargaining rights. Almost immediately, labor unions rallied in opposition to the effort and took the issue to referendum. Voters overwhelmingly rejected S.B. 5 the following November, dealing a major blow to Republicans and a huge political boost to unions and Democrats.Despite the rejection, some conservatives continue pushing anti-union causes. The tea party-backed group Ohioans for Workplace Freedom aims to get an anti-union "right to work" initiative on the ballot in 2014.Considering King's strong pro-union statements, it's clear he would stand against Ohio Republicans' and the tea party's anti-union efforts if he lived today. On the death penalty: "I do not think God approves the death penalty for any crime — rape and murder included," King said, according to Stanford University. "Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God."King's comment clearly disavows the death penalty, even for the gravest crimes, based on his religious perspective and study of criminology. Perhaps more than any other issue on this list, King's stance on the death penalty could upset some Democrats as much as some Republicans. But even though support for the death penalty crosses partisan lines, it's much more pronounced on the Republican side of the spectrum. In recent days, the debate over the death penalty reignited in Ohio after Gov. Kasich's administration took 26 minutes to execute a gasping, grunting convicted killer with a new cocktail of drugs that was never tried before in the United States. The prolonged execution, the longest since Ohio resumed use of the death penalty in 1999, led some legislative Democrats to push new limits or even an outright ban on capital punishment. It's expected the Republican majority will ignore the bills.Based on his claims, King would oppose the state-sanctioned killing of a convicted killer, and he certainly would reject any defense that touts vengeance as a justification for killing another human being.On health care: "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman," King said, according to Dr. Quentin Young, who attended King's speech at the 1966 convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights. Whether King's quote indicates support for Democrat-backed legislation like Obamacare or other measures, such as a single-payer system, is completely unclear. But King's rhetoric certainly comes closer to Democrats' support for universal access to health care than Republicans' opposition to governmental incursions into the U.S. health care system. To Gov. Kasich's credit, he helped alleviate the "inequality" and "injustice in health care" King referred to by aggressively pursuing the federally funded Medicaid expansion.But Kasich was in the minority of the Ohio Republican Party in his pursuit. The state legislature's Republican majority refused to approve the Medicaid expansion in the two-year state budget and later bills. When Kasich finally got the Medicaid expansion done through the seven-member Controlling Board, several legislative Republicans joined an unsuccessful lawsuit to reverse the decision.Accordingly, King would probably praise Kasich for opening up access to health care, and it's doubtful he would support Republicans in their attempts to block health care for the poor.On reproductive rights: "For the Negro, therefore, intelligent guides of family planning are a profoundly important ingredient in his quest for security and a decent life," King said, according to Planned Parenthood. "There are mountainous obstacles still separating Negroes from a normal existence. Yet one element in stabilizing his life would be an understanding of and easy access to the means to develop a family related in size to his community environment and to the income potential he can command."King's comments on reproductive rights came as he accepted the first round of the Margaret Sanger Awards from Planned Parenthood, an organization now demonized by Republicans for its support for abortion and reproductive rights. Now, nothing in King's comments implies he supported abortion rights, even though some historians believe King, a strong Christian, accepted a more liberal interpretation of the Bible.But King's comments — and even his mere acceptance of the Planned Parenthood award — show strong support for reproductive rights for low-income men and women. In that respect, King is clearly going against Ohio Republicans' pursuits. In the 2014-2015 state budget, a Republican majority passed new funding restrictions on Planned Parenthood and other comprehensive family planning centers. Some of the restrictions hit family planning clinics that don't offer abortions. Even though King's stance on abortion is unclear, his comments clearly contradict efforts to restrict access to family planning clinics and reproductive rights. Once again, he would not approve of the Republican agenda.
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"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
I had always been good at blending in among my peers. The vast majority of my life went toward pretending to be what I wasn't, just so that I could fit in. When I broke ties with the Lumiere, on one level, I had thought that would be over. I probably should have known better. But that realization comes later.
Before everything shifted again, I found myself packing snow into a tight ball before adding it to the newest pile I was building. I was on my fourth pile, each with exactly thirty snowballs. I knew because I kept recounting to be sure.
Yes, I was beyond bored. I was entering the land of no return. Brain cells were killing each other off just for something to do. I was going insane, which I suppose was still better than the alternative.
What felt like a lifetime ago, but was only twenty-eight days, I had been forced to fake my own death. The short version of a very long story starts with me walking away from the Lumiere.
The Lumiere is a powerful and large coven of white mages. They are also the same people who raised me when my mother died. However, through a series of events that would turn this shortened version of the story into the long one, they decided to make an enemy of me and practically banished me. Then they put a hit out on my head.
That was where the whole "faked death" thing came in. The only way to get them off my back once and for all was to convince them that their attempts to kill me had succeeded. Of course, that had all led to my making snowballs out of boredom. Trust me, it makes sense. Though, I supposed I skipped some steps.
Let's see…
Faked my death, went into hiding among the local vampire court. Their house of business was where they had hidden me, well away from the school I had been attending and all other signs of civilization.
Which brings me, once more, back to the snowballs. There was absolutely nothing to do. Oh, yeah, they had a television, but I wasn't big on sitting still for long periods of time. The same went for their state of the art computers. Of course, I didn't really have a clue what I was doing with those. After the second one started billowing out smoke, we all agreed it would be best for me not to touch them again.
They also had quite the collection of old spell books. Normally I would have delved into those head first and without a glance back. Of course, normally, I had Bambi, my lifelong friend badgering me into it.
Bambi, also known as Banzar by those who feared and respected him, had been taken by the Lumire when I "died." It had been the only way to fully convince the Lumiere that I was no longer a problem. Even knowing that Yiska was rescuing him at this moment didn't make me any happier about the whole thing, or miss Bambi any less.
Yiska, by the way, is my Deman servant. And yes, it's Deman, not a demon from hell, though he had some very demonic qualities.
There's another long story that I don't plan on getting into. Suffice it to say that there's a curse involved, and finding the cure was the only thing that kept me at the books for as long as I was. But eventually I couldn't focus no matter how hard I tried. It probably wouldn't have been so bad, if I'd had company. During the nights, I had gotten to know some of the vampires fairly well. Better than I wanted to in some cases. But that was only at night. During the day, I was left to my own devices. With, of course, the strict orders not to go anywhere.
I almost had enough to finish off my fourth pile. Don't ask what I planned to do with all those snowballs. I hadn't thought that far ahead. Maybe I would pack them into a sort of wall around the snowwoman I'd put together the day before. My vampire hosts had found her somewhat amusing. AT least, Lorenzo did. It was hard to tell with the others.
After awhile, vampires developed what I started calling their "court faces." They shed outward signs of emotion to keep their enemies from learning unnecessary information. I was almost positive I would never be able to do that. I was far too expressive. I had, however, gotten better at picking up on the more subtle vampire expressions.
"Going to war?" a familiar, annoying voice yanked me out of my thoughts. For a moment, I experienced an internal tug of war between joy at the company and the initial irritation I always experienced when I was confronted with Stephan Thatcher.
As my former roommate, Thatcher was one of the few non-vampires that knew I was still alive. Hell, he had even helped "kill" me. Without telling me what he was going to do beforehand, mind. I still hadn't forgiven him for that stunt.
Thatcher's hair and eyes were both pitch black. His bangs were a bit on the long side, falling into a narrow face with a sharp nose and strong chin. Thin, wire rimmed glasses framed his eyes, neither adding to nor taking away from his overall appearance.
As a black mage, he was the natural opposite of my white mage. It was, most likely, that reason why I always had a kneejerk urge to dislike him. The fact that he seemed to delight in irritating me didn't help much.
But he had proven in the past to be decent enough. He had, as I said, helped me evade the Lumiere. He had also cleared up some things I hadn't understood but would have known if I hadn't grown up in a cloistered mountain village. For whatever reason, he got a kick out of helping me despite the animosity I often displayed against him.
That, combined with my overwhelming desire for company, drowned out my annoyance and allowed my joy at seeing a semi-friendly face to win.
"Thatcher," I greeted him, trying not to seem as desperate as I really was for a distraction from the boredom. "What are you doing out here?"
This was the first I'd seen of my roommate since he drugged me so that my body would give off the indications of being dead. The reminder allowed me to scowl darkly at him. Helpful though it may have been, I would have liked a warning.
"I can't simply come to check on you?" he asked with an arched brow. Though the words were probably meant to convey concern, I could swear I detected an underlying mocking tone.
Though that might have just been my imagination.
"Did you?" I countered, expecting him to come clean. Thatcher was many things. Among them, generally, was honest. Of course, the whole drugging thing was an exception. Probably.
Bambi most likely would have yelled at me for even considering the possibility that anyone was honest, let alone Thatcher. But then Bambi tended to be more than a little on the paranoid side when it came to anything that could be a threat to my safety. You know… about everything.
"Yes, actually," my former roommate informed me, surprising me.
For a moment, I just gaped at him. I really truly hadn't expected him to admit to feeling concern for anyone, especially not me. After a moment, I managed to remember the manners my guardians had tried to drill into me.
"Want to come in?" I asked, no longer expecting anything. Knowing Thatcher, he'd find a way to screw with my head regardless of what I thought.
"Unless you're still making ammo?" he asked. Once again, I detected that underlying mockery. Of course, I had no clue what he was talking about, which didn't help.
"What?" I asked with a frown. Bambi probably would have known what Thatcher meant. He was good at reading and understanding people. Better than me, anyway.
Thatcher waved at my snow piles. "Looks like you're stocking up for a snowball war."
I stared at him for a long moment. In the past, I'd seen others flinging snowballs at one another. It had looked like a great deal of fun but I'd never joined in. I'd gotten the distinct impression that if I had tried, the fun would have stopped. I had always been borderline outcast. It's only recently that it became official and full.
I didn't know how to respond to Thatcher's suggestion. The answer should have been obvious. Who was I going to use the snowballs on out here? The vampires?
Now that was a tempting idea. Stupid, but tempting.
"I'll take your vacant stare as a denial," Thatcher decided while I was busy weighing the pros and cons of waging a snowball war on creatures far older, faster, and stronger than me.
"Let's go inside," I decided before the insanity boredom had planted took full root and I actually tried a suicide run.
Death by snowball. How humiliating.
Thatcher merely watched as I dusted myself off and led him into the house. Not needing much light to see, the vampires didn't believe in electric lights. Since I had come to live with them, though, they had invested in several oil lamps and matches. I probably could have done a spell that would have given me a source of light. I knew a few. However, thanks to a small mishap, the queen was a bit nervous about letting me use magic in her house. You blow up one room and they never forget.
I held back the urge to use my magic. It wasn't as hard as you'd think. Bambi had been a big believer in keeping all your weapons sharp and honed, and he considered magic only one of mine.
I led Thatcher inside and grabbed the oil lamp from where I had left it by the door. By now, I knew my way around the house. Just as I knew where I couldn't take my former roommate. Instead of leading him to one of the many open and unwelcoming sitting rooms, I led him to the bedroom I had been given. Unlike the rest of the house, the drapes were drawn back from the windows, allowing the natural sunlight to fill the room pleasantly. I blew out the flame in the lamp, to conserve oil, and set it aside before peeling off my winter coat and hanging it up. Thatcher followed my example and hung up his coat as well.
I frowned as I recognized the uniform from my old school. "You came straight from class or something?" I asked. I knew all too well that the boys at Dark Rivers Academy always shed their uniforms as soon as they could. Thatcher had never been an exception.
"Something similar," he confirmed, sitting on the edge of my bed. His eyes flicked toward my ear then over my form, no doubt taking the lack of Bambi and breast binder. I didn't mind the missing torture device, and I could understand Thatcher's notice. He hadn't seen me dress normally very often.
Confused? The shot version of a long story is that for as long as Thatcher had known me, I had been masquerading as a boy. The why goes into the long story.
"Bambi isn't back yet?" Thatcher asked, tactfully not commenting on my newfound freedoms. "I thought by now…"
"Me, too," I grumbled, flopping beside him on the bed. Depression and loneliness swamped irritation with Thatcher for the moment. "Yiska must be finding the Archives harder to get into than he thought."
The Archives were the secure underground vaults where the Lumiere kept all the magical artifacts they had collected over the generations.
Did I mention that Bambi is a demonic sword? No? Well… he is. Not just any sword, but the feared and notorious Banzar, the angel slayer. I called him Bambi, obviously. Another long story there.
Starting to pick up on a pattern yet? Good for you! There's a lot of long stories involved in my life lately.
"You're certain nothing has happened to him?" Thatcher asked with a frown, giving voice to a fear that had been nagging at me for the past couple weeks.
With more certainty than I felt, I shook my head. "Nothing's happened to Yiska. I can still feel him."
AS if to prove it, I focused on that corner of my mind where Yiska had set up residence when the curse bound us together. I could feel his emotions there, nudging at the back of my mind. Usually, he was angry or bored. For the past few days he had been feeling patient. Almost like a hunting cat hidden in the grass, waiting for just the right moment to pounce.
"I think he's biding his time," I added with a scowl. Yiska might have been feeling patient and willing to wait, but I was going out of my mind here. I absolutely hated being out of the loop on this.
"Have you tried talking to him?" Thatcher asked, peering down at me from his still sitting position. I glared at him.
"And how am I supposed to do that?" I snapped, irritation bubbling to the surface. I embraced it, glad for the familiarity of it. "Call up the Lumiere and ask them to hand the phone to the Deman lurking around the Archives?"
"Nothing so dramatic," Thatcher replied with a smirk. " I was just wondering if your bond would allow you to communicate across distances."
I gaped at him, struck dumb by the very possibility of the idea. Why hadn't I thought of that sooner? I could still monitor Yiska's emotions at this distance, so if I could communicate with him along the bond, then it should still work despite how far he was.
So the question was… should I even try? Yiska loathed the bond between us. He viewed it as a form of enslavement, which it was. I may not have tied us together intentionally, but that didn't change the fact that he had no choice but to obey my every order. I did my best to give him as much freedom and privacy as possible, but sometimes I couldn't help it.
Would speaking directly to him, the way Thatcher suggested, be an invasion of privacy? Was I in danger of opening a door I wouldn't be able to close? If I reached out to him, would he be able to stop me if he wanted? From what I knew of the bond, arrows pointed toward no.
Would it be fair for me to take that step without his permission? Just to satisfy my curiosity? Then again, I was very much in the dark and we were talking, more or less, about getting Bambi back.
I sat up and faced Thatcher, hoping I wasn't about to make a horrible mistake. "What do I do?" I asked, half expecting Thatcher to know, since it was his idea to begin with.
"How do you keep track of him normally?" he asked with an unhelpful shrug. Seeing that he was going to be more or less useless, I groaned and flopped back into a semi-laying position.
"I don't really do anything to keep track of him," I admitted, half thinking aloud. "He's just there in the back of my head. It's like tapping into your mental vaults, I guess. I only get emotions from him."
"And energy," Thatcher reminded me. I spared a half second to wonder how he knew that before dismissing it. He'd probably overheard me discussing it with Bambi or Yiska. Or I explained it to him. I couldn't really remember.
"Well, yeah, sometimes. When I don't close that door," I admitted. "But it goes both ways. He can feed from me whenever he wants." I had no control over that.
"Have you tried sending thoughts down that connection?" my former roommate asked, as if it was an obvious question. Maybe to him it was.
"What, like yelling through the doorway?" I asked with a frown. Everything active about this blasted connection seemed to revolve around that door. The emotions I got from Yiska were like water lapping at a beach. I didn't have to do anything to hear it because it was always there. I could "listen" or I could tune it out. What Thatcher was asking felt a bit trickier.
And involved opening the door wider than I wanted to. It had been wide open exactly twice since the curse had settled into place. Back when I didn't realize what it was, and the first time I tried to open it when I needed to tap into Yiska's reserves. Both times, energy had flooded into me like a jolt of adrenaline.
The first time I had soaked it up without any ill effects. Of course, I had been trying to catch up on several weeks of sleep and needed the overabundance. Long story. The second time had been different and had taught me to keep that opening to just a crack.
"If that's how you want to think about it," Thatcher shrugged, seeming unconcerned with the terminology.
I frowned for a moment before sighing. It couldn't hurt to try, right? With a muttered grumble, I shifted so that I was more comfortable. After a bit more fussing, I closed my eyes and tried to concentrate.
And felt Thatcher watching me, like a tangible touch against my skin. It was more than a little distracting and reminded me of another time Thatcher had been so close to me. I quickly buried the memory just as I had multiple times before, not wanting to think about it. Since he never brought the incident up, I could only assume he thought it had been a mistake as well. Either that or he hadn't thought much of it at the time and still didn't.
"Stop staring at me," I ordered, trying not to sound as uncomfortable as I felt. "It's distracting."
"If you insist," he murmured. If I hadn't known better, I would have said he sounded almost amused. Hell… I did know better. The bastard was amused.
I opened my eyes long enough to shoot a glare at him before trying to focus again. After a moment, the pressure of his gaze remained just as intent. "You're still staring," I told him without opening my eyes. The pressure vanished abruptly as he looked away.
Satisfied, I focused on the door in the back of my mind. It was closed at the moment, since I didn't need to draw on Yiska's energy. I really did try to avoid taking advantage of our bond. As stupid as it might sound, I wanted Yiska to like me and feel comfortable around me.
Usually, he put as much distance between us as a room would allow, while still maintaining the insistence that I be protected. He only ever touched me when it was necessary to keep me from doing something stupid, or getting myself killed. Or when he was trying to warn someone else off messing with me. I didn't think he hated me anymore, but I couldn't quite trick myself into thinking he liked me. The best I could hope for was indifference.
I pushed these thoughts out of my mind and focused on the door. I had never looked too closely at it, except to know it was there. Now that I examined it more closely, I saw that it kept shifting. I could practically feel Yiska on the other side, though it was a muted sensation.
With the mental equivalent of a deep breath, I opened the door just a crack and sent a tentative thought through it. Shock washed around me like a sudden blast of air. Then something yanked me right through that tiny crack.
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Since trainer thread is closed, I'm creating a new thread.
I get to te point in the game where I'm using the automatic grenade launcher while Psycho needs a minute to do other stuff, but the rush never copmes and nothing happens.
I have the trainer turned on when I get to this point, but I have also then tried woithout even the trainer running and still the same.
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Amid little fanfare, yesterday in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations headquarters in New York, a new document was released to the world. Called the San Jose Articles, the nine-part document has already been called "the most important pro-life document of our time."
The San Jose Articles begin simply, strongly, effectively:
As a matter of scientific fact, a new human life begins at conception.
U.N. officials and liberal American intellectuals have, in recent years, repeatedly told foreign governments that they must, under international law, liberalize their abortion laws. The CEDAW Committee (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women), which provides oversight for the international committee on women's rights, has interpreted some international documents to include abortion as a "right." Just recently, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Health issued a report to the Secretary General asserting that such a right exists under the "right to health."
Many governments—particularly those in nations which are dependent on international aid—have been swayed by the U.N.'s political pressure to relax protections for the unborn.
- In Colombia, based on the statements of a U.N. committee,
the high court struck down that country's abortion laws.
- In Mexico, two high court judges have expressed support for the U.N.'s skewed view of the "right to abortion."
- The African Union (AU), under pressure from U.N. agencies and non-governmental organizations, extended the controversial Maputo Plan of Action for an additional five years and expanded a new initiative called the Campaign on Accelerated Reduction on Maternal Mortality in Africa. Despite early recommendations to focus on issues such as skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care, U.N. Population Fund director Thoraya Obaid instead focused on "unsafe abortion," "reproductive rights," "reproductive health services" and "sexuality education."
The prejudice of the U.N.'s pro-abortion forces extends most particularly to Catholic countries such as Nicaragua, where the pressure to reject Church teaching and concede to U.N. demands is great.
The San Jose Articles clarify, however, that any interpretation of the U.N. Charter which suggests that abortion is a "right" is only an opinion, not a legal fact. In fact, the document says, "There exists no right to abortion under international law, either by way of treaty obligation or under customary international law. No United Nations treaty can accurately be cited as establishing or recognizing a right to abortion."
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Conversely, Article 5 of the San Jose Articles explains, the international treaty on the Rights of the Child specifically states that "the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth." (The U.S. has not ratified this treaty, because of a concern for parental rights.)
Article 7 of the San Jose Articles points out that "treaty monitoring bodies have no authority, either under the treaties that created them or under general international law, to interpret these treaties in ways that create new state obligations or that alter the substance of the treaties."
The San Jose Articles were introduced at the U.N. by Professor Robert George of Princeton and former U.S. Ambassador Grover Joseph Rees. Among the 29 esteemed signatories to the Articles were Professor John Finnis of Oxford; Professor John Haldane of the University of St. Andrews; Francisco Tatad, the former majority leader of the Philippine Senate; Javier Borrego, former judge of the European Court of Human Rights, and Professor Carter Snead of UNESCO's international committee on bioethics.
This new initiative reintroduces strong legal logic in defense of unborn life, and gives pro-life nations an important tool to insist that the protections currently extended to mothers and unborn children in their countries should be continued.
For more information on the San Jose Articles, read here.
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Detective Nancy Appleby is searching for a campus rapist. Masquerading as a co-ed and using her grandmother's maiden name, Crane, she enrolls in Blackthorne College. It is her duty to catch the culprit.
Professor Matt Bayfield does not have time for fantasies. He wishes to work in a research university where there will be doctoral students then he meets Nancy who entices him immensely.
A serial rapist has attacked four victims at Blackthorne College and for two weeks Nancy still has not apprehended the creep. She wonders why there were no rapes in June or July. Then there is Professor Bayfield who seems to come off a bit frosty at times. He hides behind a dark veil and she is eager to learn about him. Nancy especially wants to know about the victims that were part of his class. Not only had they frequented the same bar but also attended the Celtic culture lecture series. The more she digs, she gets nowhere. Matt does not get involved with students but Nancy intrigues him. He dabbles in his own investigation and learns she is no student. As they become familiar with each other, Nancy wonders can he be trusted. And how will Matt feel if he suspects she does not trust him?
Unmasking is an intriguing, action-packed thrilling ride with twists and turns around each corner. The chemistry between Nancy and Matt is quite exciting. I loved how they connected with each other as a bit of mystery between them is played within the storyline. Amanda Burns spins all the right elements with suspense, romance and a great plot to keep this reader mesmerized in the pages. She knows how to keep one entertained when trying to figure how who is responsible for the dastardly acts.
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I'm a runner in middle school and recently struggled with being underweight/obsessed with training. At one point, I was 5'4" and only 88 pounds. I recently came down with an injury dealing with a weak hip abductor and sciatic like symptoms and I haven't run in a month I am now working on gaining weight, but how can I gain the right type of weight since I am not running. Any advice?
Sorry to hear about your struggles. At 88 pounds and 5'4, any weight gain is the "right type." You are not getting enough calories to sustain yourself, much less to support your training. In order to stay injury free and run again, you will need to eat a balanced diet that is rich in nutritious foods. Focus on eating lots of protein, whole grains, and fresh vegetables. Make sure you get plenty of calcium to help your bones withstand the stress of training. If you don't eat a lot of dairy products, take calcium supplements.
Have you talked to anyone about this problem? Your parents? Your coach? Are you getting medical advice, nutritional advice, or counseling? Please get help with this if you have not done so already. Unless you can manage to eat well and gain some weight, you will keep getting injured and won't be able to run. You might even be risking worse health problems. I know it's VERY hard to not be able to train, but talk to your doctor about what exercises are safe to do while building up your health again. That should be your first priority.
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My parents and I have already been to the doctor for advice, and in the last two weeks I've gained about 7 pounds, so I'm getting there. It just stinks not being able to run!!!
I agree with everyone else. In addition, I suggest eating nuts-- lots of nuts! Almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, walnuts are all filled with protein and in the case of almonds, Vitamin A. Almond milk too, is delicious. It'll help you gain weight.


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I want to purchase more bobbins for my 9960. I went to the book and couldn't find a size #. I went to Singers web page for the information and it states class 15J. Then I went to the product description page where I purchased the machine and it states class 15. Can anyone shed a little light on this for me please?? Are they the same bobbins? Thanks
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As far as I know they are not the same. I believe the 15's are for some of the older model machines. I only used the 15J's in mine.
Thanks. Do you have the 9960?
15J plastic bobbins.
It never does say in the book but somewhere or another I found it, bought the 15J and they are the correct ones.
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15J's are a bit shorter than 15's and have very slightly downwards domed flanges, instead of flanges that are just straight across.
15J's are taller than 66's and even though their flanges are slightly domed, then are not as domed or curved as a 66.
15 and 15J, not the same because if you use a 15 in a machine that should have a 15J instead, it may be fine for a while, but sooner or later, sometimes when the thread is thrown over the bobbin for each stitch, it can get hooked under the taller, straight flange on a 15, in a way it would not on a 15J instead.
Thanks for commenting on the differences between the class 15J and the class 15. I wonder if the problems with the first generation of this model had to do with the discrepancey with the information provided by Singer and it's retailers. Singer clearly states on it's site that this machine uses class 15J and the spec sheet I printed out from when I purchased the machine online states class 15. There is no mention at all in the owners manual, or at least I was unable to find it.
Possibly and I do believe you are probably onto something there Just use a 15J one not a taller regular 15 one!!! If that is what they are telling you to use now, even if not before.
I know a whole lot of problems with the very first Singer Futura embroidery machines when they first came out, were because of people using class 15 bobbins in them, instead of class 15 J ones. And yes, the first of those machines were really shipped with class 15 bobbins, and only much later was it decided that a 15J would be a whole lot better in there!
Some people are probably still sewing along with 15 bobbins in those, and some people just even refuse to even believe there is any difference between a 15 v.s. 15J bobbin even.
I could stick in and use a 15 bobbin in any machine that a 15J one should be or whould be better in instead, and it would sew just fine for me, until my top thread got hooked under that class 15 bobbin flange. That could be months and months or years, instead maybe 10 min. Just luck of the draw there.
So I think if people want to use a class 15, when class 15J is what they should be using instead, then just depends on how lucky your are, but I personally don't like to trash bobbin cases and untime machines myself. That kind of thing I think is just kind of wasteful and expensive.
I think there are always more factors going on than just one though, even though I think you should always use the right kind of bobbin in a machine, and just to use a bobbin in any machine that is short enough so the top thread can't get hooked under a bobbin flange when the thread goes over it (because if not, that makes kind of a very sudden and forcefull and machine stopping kind of event when that happens, and does yank bobbin cases upwards and if the machine is kind of a strong one, maybe trashes the bobbon case and untimes the machine), but at the same time, to be fair, it also would depend on a whole bunch of other sewing kind of factors too, and people whom have never had a computerized machine or any embroidery machine before, and just get one in the mail someplace off the internet with no sit down training or anything, are always going to be the ones that sew the "worse" just at first, and treat them the hardest probably.
I think we were probably all the hardest on any first machine we ever sewed on, lack of sewing technique wise, and doing some not too good things when sewing and learning to sew too, so I think that all factors in there too, and probably in a way that did not before, internet sales existed and people bought a lot of new machines without any even sit down training on them at all.
Yes I do. Great machine. Wish I had more of them.
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Manny Machado won't be playing in front of a national audience this October, but it's clear the Orioles' star third baseman has made an imprint beyond Baltimore in his second big league season.
Major League Baseball released its list of the most popular jerseys that have been sold since the All-Star break, and Machado ranks fourth behind only Mariano Rivera, Matt Harvey and Yasiel Puig.
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The estates of an Economy couple killed in a murder-suicide two years ago sued drug company Pfizer Inc. Monday, saying its stop-smoking medicine Chantix caused the rage that prompted the event.
Sean Wain, 34, killed his wife Natalie, 33, and himself in an early morning shooting in May 2009. They left four children behind.
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by White Oak attorney Victor H. Pribanic said that consumers of Chantix were not sufficiently warned at the time that it can cause rage, hostility and suicide. Mr. Wain, according to the complaint, had been using Chantix for a week or two prior to his and Ms. Wain's deaths.
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It happened one afternoon in the late 1960s in Virginia's Tidewater country south of Richmond.
A friend and I were driving south to the Outer Banks when I noticed the car was in dire need of a fill-up. So I pulled into a station (can't remember what company) and waited for an attendant to come out and service the car.
There was no attendant. After a time I got out and wandered into the station, where a fellow informed me that this was one of those new-fangled self-service stations.
"Fill her up yourself and pay me," he said.
Thus did I, and per-haps all of you, enter into the second half of the 20th Century.
It was, I recall, a bit awkward fueling my own car. I had never done it before.
These days you just stick your credit card in the slot (works most of the time) and pick regular.
Stick the nozzle in the open tank and watch as the price zooms up to $25, $30, even north of that for a full tank.
Prices usually hang around $2.55 to $2.80 and most motorists do a little scouting.
If prices start to fall we tend to wait a day or two before we fill up. Most of us know where the best bargains can be found. The locations change from time to time, but we are usually on top of that.
Even in church on Sunday, folks may exchange a bit of information on where the cheapest prices for gasoline can be found. Cheap meaning a couple cents per gallon below most of the competition.
A few of us can only sigh inwardly as we remember the days when gasoline was just 12 cents a gallon unless there was a price war raging.
Oh, how we loved price wars. Of course, you have to remember that a lot of our Detroit-made cars were getting only 8 to 10 miles a gallon.
Some customers would buy only premium gasoline, because they had much fancier cars that required this special kind of fuel. They really believed that premium provided the power to leave most other cars in the dust as they powered their way ahead when the traffic signal turned green.
Some of us can remember the almost ridiculous amount of service that drivers received at elaborate stations.
There were attendants who not only filled your tank, but kept busy cleaning your front and rear windows and checking your tire and oil pressure.
Most attendants wore company uniforms.
I always remember the Texaco advertising slogan that went: "You can trust your car to the man who wears the star." Texaco sponsored the Milton Berle show on TV, so it got that message out to a massive number of people.
Just as an afterthought, road maps were offered for free at most stations. Most drivers considered that their birthright.
The competition was fierce. Given a busy crossroads, there would be a gas station on each of the four corners. Now, there is usually a drug store on at least three of those corners.
The number of companies with stations was large. Texaco, Pure, Phillips, Sohio, Shell and Cities Services come to mind.
Each offered special additives that made their brand of gasoline superior. It was rather like a bootlegger telling you he aged his booze just a few hours longer than the competition did.
That meant your hangover would only be half as bad as it might if you bought your rotgut from another bootlegger.
I might add that gasoline stations had clean restrooms and lots of other services.
But after that day in Virginia, it seemed like an American tradition slowly died away.
There came a time when stations offered nothing but gasoline, and kept their restrooms locked and often not very clean.
A few years ago, the super station made a comeback. You still pump your own gasoline, but each station is really a mini-mart where you can pick up the peanuts and soft drinks you will consume as you drift down the highway.
Most of these stations now have very nice restrooms and specialize in various kinds of coffee. So things aren't all that bad.
Still, I sometimes miss that "man who wears the star."
At least I have a little on-board computer that tells me if my tire or oil pressure or coolant is in dire need of a fix. I just have to go to a specialty place to get those problems addressed.
We are driving much better cars than we used to, but we paid for it with the loss of all those service station goodies we used to have.
That includes 12 cents a gallon for gasoline.
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The water main broke at Northeast 76th Street and 3rd Place on Sunday.
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Just a couple of days in, and it seems Simon Cowell has already been softened by fatherhood.
"I never knew how much love and pride I would feel," wrote the new dad on Twitter alongside a photo of him holding his new baby. Cowell and girlfriend Lauren Silverman welcomed a son, Eric, on Friday.
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Don't expect Marcus Spears, Michael Huff to resurface with the Dallas Cowboys
IRVING — Marcus Spears and Michael Huff were cut by the Baltimore Ravens on Wednesday.
Could the defensive end and safety resurface in Dallas?
Despite the fact that each player has connections to the Cowboys or the Dallas area, the answer to that question, according to a source in the Cowboys organization, is no.
Spears, who played for the Cowboys from 2005 to 2012, has made a living in the NFL as a 3-4 defensive end. Primarily a run defender, he's never been a serious pass rusher and the most sacks he's ever produced in a single season is 2.5. The fact that Spears' skill set didn't fit in with the Cowboys' new defensive scheme is one of the reasons why they cut him in March.
The reasons for not going after Huff, the Irving native who played at Texas, seem pretty obvious.
Huff lost his starting job in Baltimore due to poor performance and thereafter was used mostly on special teams. The Cowboys would have to take a significant leap of faith to expect he would have a career revival in Dallas.
In this instance, considering the salary cap implications, the Cowboys don't want to take on any reclamation projects by picking up what the defending Super Bowl champs discarded. The Cowboys don't have much room — approximately $1.6 million — under the NFL's prescribed payroll ceiling and it's unclear if either Huff or Spears will provide the bang for the buck the Cowboys need.


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Attenborough Launches RADA & Old Vic Courses
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Lord Attenborough has also been instrumental in instigating the schedule, which will contain a fortnight course of workshops. The two theatrical institutions involved will offer the chance to study, practice, explore and experience the capital's theatre environment. A number of leading writers, directors, designers and actors will also be discussing aspects of production from scripting and acting to lighting and design.
RADA Enterprises Ltd (REL), the Academy's commercial arm, will manage the joint venture between RADA and The Old Vic. Its major aim is to generate additional income for RADA, a registered educational charity which still relies broadly on donations and sponsorship.
Commenting on the undertaking, Lord Attenborough said: 'Individually, RADA and The Old Vic represent two different strands of a great theatrical tradition. One has long trained and fostered some of the great classical actors and actresses of their time, while the very name of the other conjures up the most hallowed of stages on which each has aspired eventually to perform. Now, for the first time, these two world-renowned centres of excellence have joined forces and created an opportunity for short course students to benefit from the ethos of RADA in the unique atmosphere of The Old Vic. For those who love theatre and want to learn more, I cannot think of a more exciting or a more potent combination.'
RADA Course Director, William Richards, added: 'The London Scene is for people who are eager to know more about theatre... or anybody who wants to experience theatre in this unique and unforgettable way. By giving course participants the chance to watch a performance and then discuss it in person with the writer and director... we are hoping to create a much deeper understanding of theatre and how it works'.
RADA began life in 1904, when actor manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree established an academy at His Majesty's Theatre Haymarket. It later moved to Gower Street, with a management council which included George Bernard Shaw. John Gielgud studied there for a year, with the Academy later developing Jonathan Pryce, Alan Rickman, Anton Lesser and Kenneth Branagh among others.
The Old Vic first opened as The Regency in 1818, and is the only London theatre from that era still in operation. Legendary performances there include both Richard Burton and Laurence Oliver as Richard III and Peter O'Toole playing Hamlet.
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I recently had the opportunity to visit the European Parliament (not at the Kiwi taxpayers expense) and witnessed President's Question Time. It's very different to what we are used to back home. Each questioner is given 30 seconds to ask their 'question', which typically amounts to a statement with a short question at the end. The President then has 30 seconds to respond. The questioner then usually got 1 further supplementary.
The first half hour of question time roamed freely, whereas the second half was devoted to a particular topic, in this case the nuclear situation in Japan. It was a very civilized affair, with no interjections or interruptions (that in part can be attributed to the multitude of languages being used and the need for simultaneous translation). The Speaker played no role other than calling questioners.
My general sense was that the quality of the debate was higher than in a typical NZ parliamentary question time. I wonder how some of our PMs and Ministers would cope with an hour of intense scrutiny like that? It would certainly highlight pretty quickly who is on top of the details of their portfolios and who isn't. Something worth thinking about?