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|Lifeloc Technologies is working on the country's first marijuana breathalyzer.
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|Suspect filmed the incident on cell phone camera and later uploaded it to YouTube with claims of police harassment.
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Tenn. man busted for drugs after pocket-dial
|Police arrested a man for drugs after he pocket-dialed 911 and dispatchers heard him talking about getting high and going to a drug dealer's house.
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Ohio pursuit ends in fatal crash
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|The officer, and her partner, tried to arrest several people for smoking marijuana in East Harlem on Sunday.
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Former RCMP officer invents marijuana breathalyzer
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Fla. woman eats pot in back of squad
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Pack up for a howling fun movie adventure filled with action, laughs, and tender moments as Kate and Humphrey take their pups on their first family vacation! The wolves are ready for a relaxing getaway to Alfred Creek Falls - until they discover trappers on their trail. To outwit the trappers and get to safety, Kate and Humphrey will need the help of a wild and wonderful group of animal friends in this unforgettable story of family togetherness.
Stinky is an alpha male and the self-proclaimed future leader of the pack.
Claudette is an alpha female who thinks anything you can do, a girl can do better.
Runt is, well, the runt of the litter, an omega, born one minute after his two competitive siblings. He prides himself on his unique ability to bring opposing factions together – usually his brother and sister.
Kate is the alpha wolf mom, a strong, serious leader in charge of hunting and finding food for her pack.
Humphrey, on the other hand, is the omega wolf dad, always ready to crack a joke. His job is to keep this things fun.
Brent is Stinky's best bear bro. He is a jock of a grizzly cub with a few "phobias"… That is why he has Agnes!
Agnes is Brent's porcupine life coach. She is the only one who can connect with him when he is having an episode.
Marcel is a French-Canadian golfing goose. He is never seen without his best duck friend, Paddy. They are the godparents of Stinky, Claudette, and Runt.
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Are the Google Phone Rumors an Elaborate Apple Hoax?
My friend Rob over at phandroid has been a skeptic of a potential Google Phone for quite some time now. Recently, he's warmed to the idea that a phone might
Dazzboard Launches Drag and Drop Media Management for Android
Social media webtop tool, Dazzboard, has announced the release of their Android Universal Media Management (UMM) for full Android and PC integration. Similar to other Dazzboard versions, the Android system
Video of G1 Booting Nexus One ROM
Youtube user MLIGN posted a video of his G1 starting up the Nexus One ROM. It takes a while to load. In fact, it takes all of 4 minutes to
Android Market Doubles to 20,000 Apps in 5 Months
The Android Market has doubled its size over the last five month, going from 10,000 to 20,000 apps. According to Androlib, the number of apps hit the milestone earlier today
App Review: A World of Photo
A World of Photo sells itself as a "fun casual, geo multiplayer online game†but to say it's a game is maybe pushing it slightly. The basic premise is that
Developers Waste Little Time Porting Android 2.1 to Droid
In a move that comes as little surprise, some crafty developers have managed to extract Android 2.1 from a Nexus One handset to port it to the Motorola Droid. Does
Change the Way You Exercise With 'runstar'
Being an avid runner who typically runs 30-60 miles a week and is an ardent fan of Android, I love to see apps that bring the two worlds together. runstarâ"¢
Two new shots of the Nexus One (Google Phone)
The Boy Genius Report managed to grab a couple of new shots of the Nexus One (a.k.a Google Phone). What's different about these two new shots from the myriad of shots
All Non 2.0 Devices Get Facebook Update
Finally, all of us who don't have a Droid get to have the newest version of Facebook for Android. When you open the application, you can choose which of the
Motorola MT710 is a 3.7″ OPhone Beauty
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Motorola's XT800 'Zeppelin' Head to China
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Acer's Early 2010 Roadmap Includes Half Dozen Android Handsets
As it stands already, 2010 will have a very Android green tint to it. Acer understands what's at stake and has a plan to compete for a sizable piece of
Motorola Building Chip That Will Support Both T-Mobile and AT&T 3G
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Kevin Hart and Drake Play Paintball
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All-around funny man, Kevin Hart, recently played paintball against music artist Drake in Toronto, Canada. In the video above, it seems like both groups had a great time playing woodsball. Hart does not mention what field they played at, but it's good to see more celebrities playing paintball; as it brings awareness to the sport. They appeared to be following the proper safety guidelines while still having a good time. The only thing that I believe may throw some people off is all of the CGI bombs, explosions and bullet ricochets that appear in the video. While it's obviously fake, they don't present it that way and some people may take it as being a real part of playing paintball.
Below is Hart's video description from Youtube.
While on the Let Me Explain tour we made a stop in Toronto Canada. I decided to call my friend Drake and challenge him to a paintball competition. It was a good idea until I realized neither me or anybody else on my team had ever been paintballing before. Needless to say..it didn't turn out like i thought it would….
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Nov 30, 2012
I'll steer clear of Sons of anything. Thanks for all your help! I learned a lot anyway. Hopefully this Saturday's puzzle will be more doable for me, I have things to do!
I thought I'd add a last minute note of appreciation to our puzzle writers for contributing to these comments from time to time. I see it as their expression of appreciation to their many fans, and that's cool.
On to the next Saturday puzzle. I knew basenji from reading a book years ago that took place in a Florida swamp where someone owned one (had never heard of a barkless basenji). And the word cozen is familiar to me, but I also thought it was spelled cozzen. My mother lived in Texas as a girl and I always assumed it was one of those Texas words. Now to learn it is Pennsylvanian (where I live!).
JR: it gets easier. And you'll find some formats are easier for you than others. I struggle with 'vicious circles' and am trying to work on one now. Anagramming gets easier, too. Follow the advice I was given on this blog; separate the letters into vowels and consonants, and look at them. I also put them in alphabetical order. It doesn't sound like it would help, but it does!
JR...don't make me shoot you! (ha ha) While I have spent my share of time drinking I have also spent time among books and words. I actually was delayed getting that answer for a little because I was checking the dictionary for "cozzen" not realizing I had it misspelled.
I'll pass on the terrible joke likening your experience to a certain presidential ad campaign but I will congratulate you on finishing the puzzle. It is not teeth one is supposed to lose when doing it the first time!
The more Cryptics worked the easier they become...but it really does take probably a years worth of work to really get the hang of the various wordplays. There are standard cryptics that exist that are more crossword like without threads or patches; the HEX cryptics add another level with an added thematic level. Just be forewarned that when the puzzle Son Of Asteroids appears it is time to run for either the hills or the Oort Cloud!
The whole thing was pulling teeth for me. I finished, only because my many new friends gave me super easy hints and as the noose tightened, flat out gave me the answers. But I appreciate it, being this my first crack at one of these cryptics.
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By EDNA GUNDERSEN
The odds favor the oddest couple in recent Grammy memory. By almost every measure, former Led Zeppelin howler Robert Plant and bluegrass darling Alison Krauss have a lock on the Grammy for album of the year, music's highest honor.
This year's field, widely hailed as a solid reflection of 2008's worthiest works, pits the duo's "Raising Sand" against Coldplay's "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends," Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III," Ne-Yo's "Year of the Gentleman" and Radiohead's "In Rainbows."
All enjoyed critical hosannas and commercial success, but the Grammy victor is often determined by byzantine variables that weigh artistic merit along with popularity, familiarity, past performance, overdue recognition and comfort levels. The probability rises when an album appeals to multiple constituencies, avoids controversy and evokes a bygone era.
"Plant and Krauss will win," predicts Paul Grein, a veteran Grammy prognosticator and Yahoo's Chart Watch columnist. "You have two respected veterans from vastly different fields, which reminds me of last year's winner, Herbie Hancock doing the songs of Joni Mitchell.
"Voters like rootsy music. We saw that when "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" won. There's deep support for this album."
What may hurt "Sand "is its arrival three weeks into the eligibility period of Oct. 1, 2007, through Sept. 30, 2008. "That's the only downside," Grein says. "Some of the punch is gone."
"Sand," no longer on "Billboard"'s album chart, has sold 1.2 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. "Carter," 2008's top seller and still No. 25, has sold 3 million copies since its June 10 release. "Gentleman" is close behind at No. 29 but with far fewer sales: 857,000 since Sept. 16. "Viva," out since June 17, is No. 45 and past 2.2 million. "Rainbows," released as a CD in early 2008, is No. 198 with sales of 689,000, but that excludes downloads racked up during an innovative tip-jar campaign launched Oct. 10, 2007. A year later, publisher Warner Chappell reported digital and physical sales at 3 million.
"Plant/Krauss probably has the best chance," says "Spin "editor Doug Brod. "Last year, they gave it to an underdog that nobody heard. In this case, they'd honor two lifers for an album that got unanimous critical acclaim."
"Sand "seems unbeatable. Plant is a rock legend who was overlooked in his prime. Krauss has more Grammys than any female artist. Their partnership reflects the show's tradition of "Grammy moments," and their hypnotic duets are adventurous but not too edgy for conservative tastes.
But an upset isn't impossible.
"Coldplay made an album that's even more successful at a time when no one was buying records," Brod says. "Everyone's heard it."
Grein agrees that "Coldplay has broad appeal," but he sees the British rock band running second in the race.
"They'll probably win song and record of the year (for "Viva La Vida"), but I don't think they'll get all top three awards," Grein says. "Even U2 didn't do that, and Coldplay isn't quite at U2's level."
He places Ne-Yo third and credits his placement in the marquee category to "being ingenious enough to put the word "gentleman' in the title. Voters are nervous about the thuggish nature of contemporary R&B. He has plenty of chances to win later."
While Radiohead is widely respected, "In Rainbows" may suffer as "a symbol of the downloading crisis," Grein theorizes.
Brod suggests voters will regard it "as a little opaque, artsy and less deserving. It's admirable that the industry nominated them, but it feels like they're being rewarded for writing their own business model."
Where does that leave Lil Wayne, this year's leader with eight nominations? Weezy's hit-packed opus, which topped multiple critics' lists, was the only 2008 release to exceed opening-week sales of 1 million copies.
Grein ranks it dead last in the best-album sprint.
"It's too extreme, too explicit," he says. "Grammy voters like rap if it's Outkast. Kanye (West) is as far as they'll go, and even he didn't win last year."
West, in fact, has lost the best-album contest three times. Eminem lost twice.
Brod recalls huge anticipation for Lil Wayne's album. "Even before it came out, people were calling it the best of the year."
They didn't have a Grammy calculator.
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Brendan Cowell is a Sydney-born actor, director, screenwriter and notable Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks rugby supporter. Though best known as Tom on the multiple AFI Award winner Love My Way (2005-2007), Cowell's talents extend way beyond the small screen. He won the Patrick White Playwrights' Award for his play Bed and has had prominent roles in a broad range of films, from the 2010 war drama Beneath Hill 60 to Peter Helliar's rom-com I Love You Too. Cowell won rave reviews for his portrayal of Austin in Sydney Theatre Company's production of Sam Shepard's True West, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. He recently published his first novel, How It Feels. Between stints as a Renaissance man par excellence, we met up with Cowell long enough to record his impressions on some of his favourite hotels.
"The Prince Hotel in Melbourne is a little favourite of mine. I stay there by choice if I can – when I am down south. Located in St Kilda it's close to all the groovy outlets plus has excellent skin products in the bathroom. I also love the fact that it has a fancy restaurant upstairs, Circa, and a grungy pub, The Prince of Wales, downstairs. Everything for everyone."
"The Tolarno, just up the road from The Prince, is also a Melbourne favourite. The owners are really nice and I always feel comfortable there. Especially when I get the basement rooms and can really stretch out and work as well on the big tables. The front bar has lost a little atmosphere in the renovation but the food is excellent at Mirka and the staff play great tunes and will talk to you when you are on your own so you do not feel like a loser alcoholic."
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"St Martins Lane Hotel in London is a seriously hectic 5 star joint. The rooms are tiny but quite fun, the restaurant and bar downstairs are energetic and hip, but it's the nightly lights display on the facade wall that seriously rocks. It's kind of thrilling to stay at St Martins, if only because it's right in the middle of the Theatre district, with feeling and life all around you."
"The Ritz Carlton Central Park in New York City is an obvious choice but man do I have some fond memories of this joint. I stayed on the top floor of the Ritz in the middle of winter and looked out through the curtains at the falling snow as the horse and carts clip-clopped their way in to the park. An exquisite, old-fashioned joint, and who doesn't appreciate having the entranceway doors opened by men in high hats."


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Not everyone is destined to be a Google Analytics expert, but armed with a little knowledge and access to a few standard reports you can learn more about your audience, their interests and how they engage with your brand.
Understand Your Customer
The work you're doing – whether it's a new ad campaign, an app or a fresh website design -- is for your customer or the potential customer you're trying to reach and engage. You need an understanding of your target audience by learning about their demographics, interests and buying habits.
The Audience reports in Google Analytics are great for helping you to understand your audience, offering valuable insight into how they can be reached, how they consume content and what their engagement is with your brand. The Audience reports in Google Analytics provide a detailed breakdown of:
- Age
- Gender
- Affinity Categories: Categorizes visitors based on their lifestyles -- technophiles, music lovers, gamers, etc.
- Other Categories: Categorizes visitors based on the content they consume and how recently/frequently they've consumed that content
Use this information to paint a clearer picture of who your site is currently reaching.
For example, in the screenshot below, we see our audience is predominantly males between the ages of 25-44 who identify as being interested in real estate. Based on this information we can make certain choices about the content we're creating, the communities we engage in, who we approach for guest posting opportunities, the cultural references we make and the problem they are coming to our site to solve.
Once you have this understanding of your audience, use Google Analytics to create an advanced customer segment that pulls out this customer's data [purchases from males aged 25-34] to see how those customers find your site, what they're reading before making a purchase, what their conversion cycle looks like and what they're viewing.
Advanced customer segments can be used to group visitors who share common characteristics -- from details about where they come from, the browser they use or the types of pages they view. Creating an advanced segment based on this user will help you use key psychographic data so you can optimize for their experience and attract more of this type of customer. KISSmetrics has a great post on using advanced customer segments for more information.
Drilling Down to Answer the Questions
Google Analytics contains data that can inform future decisions and help answer some of the many questions you may have.
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Filed under: opinion | Tags: citizenship, exile, homeland, Love, mother, patriotism, Pilipino, pride, symbols
More as devotion, this kind of love has no bearing on the common notion though it feels like one for me. Or how does one explain the enormity of emotions it draws out—so compelling that we agonize over this beloved's miseries, want to right the wrongs done to her, and even die for her sake? Yes, apparently it's mother, this "loved one" for Filipinos.
And to my mind, this kind of love does begin at birth when with twin mothers we're nourished in parallel yet dissimilar ways, one, with breast milk and the other, with the sun, air, sea, mountains, birds and flowers. Both as life-gifts, hence, taken for granted in our youth, until in a mysterious process, these rise from caverns within: first, as response in song, dance, and poetry, next, as work. While both revert to one's own need of expression first, and existence, even a future, second, in the end, like atoms these coagulate into a mass wherein without our being conscious of it, we're fused.
Drawn to symbols of her, like clarion calls or torches that flare in the dark, we're magnetized when poised on us; either her wins, or defeats or dangers become ours. Yet, that's not all—especially in exile whether or not of our choosing, longing for its gifts gnaws at us, seeing in alien landscapes her contours, grasping at likenesses in scents and sounds, envying the comforts and choices denied of her.
Or how would I explain the deep helplessness I felt at the Vancouver Public Library one afternoon over a sparse showcase consisting mostly of thin flash fiction volumes, CDs of telenovelas, children's books not labeled Pilipino but Tagalog, that puts this sub representation at the far end of country collections in a shelf shared with the Vietnamese? Akin to finding out how a mother dressed inappropriately has been pushed aside, I crept home, nursing a hurt.
When I cried over a documentary film on women desaparecidos as one by one their oh-so-engaging-smiles served as ironic bitter punch to their unknown suffering to this day, I couldn't explain why I did to a handful of Canadian women who had attended the small conference on an increased violation of rights. But they understood with their focus on the poignancy of the message spelled out in the constant juxtaposition of the country's beauty and the rawness of brutality.
And what about when I grabbed the microphone in another conference on women's history, and raved about the vastness of the Filipino's reach versus the European and North American episodes presented. We've crossed the same paths, I proclaimed, sensing that no one seemed that much aware.
Books identify 'love of country' as patriotism, a concept linked to further abstract terms like "cultural attachment to one's homeland" in varying contexts such as geography and political ideology. Could this be translated to my spasms of sorrow and pride in exile for what I would otherwise shrugged off had I stayed? Honestly, if I'm enraged over the evils the Philippines faces while its citizens scrape for a living, I wonder how I would respond to an accusation of not having the right, as I had traded my citizenship for another. Guilt does rankle in me at times, but I think this would absolve me: if I didn't leave, I wouldn't be as impassioned as I am now. More than it "does make the heart grow fonder" distance condenses the love-gifts of and for a mother.
Published in Peregrine Notes by Alegria Imperial, Market Monitor, February 16, 2015, Manila, Philippines
Filed under: opinion | Tags: ambulance siren, apartment, cherry blossoms, chestnut trees, city limits, condominium, deafness, decibels, insomniac, Marpole Place, Noise-induced Hearing Loss, North Shore, Vancouver BC, visible ear, whisper, YVR International Airport
"Ahhh…did you hear the racket in the sky, this morning?" Arlene had nudged me off my noonday stupor at an informal seniors philosopher's group at Marpole Place. "It felt so close, I was afraid the jet would land straight to my bed, not only shattering my ears but also burning me down," she had raised her voice. Well, at least you haven't turned deaf or suffered a heart attack, I could have told her but I sensed it wasn't the moment to allay her agitation.
Marpole where we live, and where she had grown up, sprawls right under the path of Boeing jets taking off and landing at YVR International Airport, a viewing distance west of us. Increased Air Canada flights and more berths for other international airlines, indeed, have raised noise levels these past few years. While Marpole is within city limits, it lies on the extreme south end where downtown hugs the mountains and the North Shore on the opposite side. Hence, residents of condominium, apartment rental, and free standing houses still hug a veritable peace from raucous movement of vehicles and people, as well as bars and late night pubs, downtown.
I do draw loads of settled wind in its grid streets of manicured front gardens, long lines of aged oaks and chestnut trees, and in the spring canopies of cherry blossoms. Hardly anyone loiters in the streets though from early to late evenings in the summer, I do meet couples strolling up and down the grass-trimmed sidewalks, conversing in whispers, except, when close to and passing by the school grounds on 68th Street, which is opened as a park in the summer, squeals of children in the slide and the swing somersault in the air. Other than that in passing, cawing crows, crying seagulls, or the brief call of mourning doves, no noise shatters the neighborhood. Until, planes begin to leave and arrive, and the cops carry out their planned bust.
When Gudrun Langolf, Marpole Oakridge Area Council Society's chair then, passed around a petition demanding YVR to lessen noise level by any means, I signed half-heartedly. Honestly, none of it bothers me. I lived Manila, haven't I? She couldn't have imagined what I've lived through in a city where noise seems as natural as breathing. Which explained, perhaps, my half-hesitance to sign the petition; honestly, either I'm rather impervious to occasional piercing sounds and the slight trembling that come with them or I do sleep as the cliché says, like a log—how vivid the image, isn't it?
Yet indeed, I should be concerned; I could be losing my hearing. Or should I? I can still hear a whisper, and the rustling of organza that hugs the legs, which from zero or total silence, the kind we often experience in mountain tops as a ringing in our ears, nakabinging tahimik, to 30 decibels of the softest whisper. And in normal conversations, already up 60 decibels, I hardly strain to catch a word. Yet, I should be affected when fired up spirited exchanges raise decibel levels 10 times, according to the Noise-induced Hearing Loss website; often I'm not though in bars and discos, where all sounds blare I'd leap out of a door as if from an ejection button.
But a shout or door alarm amid a din especially in enclosures does seem to shatter my ears, the decibel already up by another 10 decibels translated higher into millions through an exquisite process, which the pinna, our visible ear, catching sound that travels through tiny canals with esoteric sounding parts as waves in an inner furry tunnel of nerves to the brain. Learning in the site, too, that an ambulance siren at 120 decibels booms in trillions in the ear, I now understand Arlene's distraught state.
Her wailing though didn't end with such extreme exposure to loudness; as well though only muffled, the thump of a neighbor's teenage son playing his boom box until the wee hours, and an insomniac just above her bedroom scuttling around, hammering whatever on the floor has turned her into a nightly criminal with thoughts of choking both. Sustained, she could fall ill.
Apparently because of its invisibility, it often baffles us to hear of illnesses like psychological imbalance, heart disease and even death as caused by sustained exposure to extreme sound. Who hasn't experienced temporary deafness during take off and landing on a flight? Or heard of a homecoming seaman who worked in the engine room turned totally deaf. I knew an uncle-in-law, just out of the ICU recovering in a regular ward, died from the sound of a fire alarm due to a freak fire at Manila Doctor's Hospital.
Warnings about the dangers of "injected loud music" with iPhones and Androids though have seemingly fallen on deaf ears, pun intended. Constant review of anti-noise pollution laws— some going back to the 1930s like in Vancouver—through activism has yielded from City Hall a list of such unimagined culprits as fitness classes, idling vehicles, buskers and street musicians, and yes, school yards, with ancillary information on what office or agency to call if feeling endangered. Yet, told about it, Arlene had raised her brows, "who would have thought we've come to this?" she asked. I nodded, indeed.
Published in Peregrine Notes by Alegria Imperial, Business Mirror Philippines, August 17, 2013
Filed under: opinion, personal essay, travel | Tags: 19th century, Business Mirror Philippines, cottage, dirndl skirts, farmers' makrets, French windows, pancakes, peregrine notes, Robert Frost, rocking chair, Shaftsbury, Wilmington Vermont
What legacies we carry hardly ever figure out in our daily lives with bequeathals like mansions and other such obvious signs of wealth being the exceptions, of course; more common to us, like mine, in varying degrees hardly overwhelm or glitter. Often summarized in a word as 'values', which may include status either inherited or earned by noble action, even a way of life, families are their innate source. I would add that learning either from school or one's own pursuits broaden legacies, and even at times turn out as sources of more priceless legacies like history as well as peace and beauty in landscapes from travels, that ironically for most, are often less valued for their amorphous nature.
Such peregrinations wouldn't have fallen on me had I not traveled to Vermont farther north of New York last month. Or again, I didn't count on it, expecting instead, endless romps on green meadows that the Green Mountains let nestle on their bosom. Would but Nature was all I dwelt on: cloud shapes like grazing sheep on cheeks, mountain mist on waist of giant fir descending in diaphanous calm, expansive skies as if eternity were within one's tipped toes.
But haven't I viewed my own legacy of the heavens back in the islands where I'm from? How easy to sound as if that spot on earth where one might be instantly implanted were the most wondrous sight. More amazing is the realization that each spot is but a window to a land and sky or seascape configured by geological shifts and human history—the Philippine archipelago would draw gushes of awe from foreign visitors as much as a Filipino would of theirs like Vermont for me.
And so, as a traveler must zero in on destination, my friend and I drove for meal and bed in a century-old inn, which turned out as if we were unleashed into another time, again, one that I've merely conjured from art, books and the movies—the end of the 19th century preserved in Wilmington and lived by its people to the present day as effortlessly as waking up in both the dawns of their ancestors and their own. In the course of the trip, I discovered more of it, as the state of Vermont has simply resisted the physical corrosion of time. Apparently, families have carried on their legacies smoothly without seams.
My friend and I woke on our first day not just to a present of black-framed French windows thrown open to the mist seeping up rivers and streams that trickle around roots of flowering hydrangeas, the delicate picket fences of white balconied homes, farm estates rising on grassy knolls or glinting like an accent on foot hills but also a way of life as tactile as a child's first touch of a goat's horn or sinking fingertips into a sheep's coat, a moment as vibrant as the moo of cows in the glen. A few solid pillars of silos pivot on one's eyes, and sugar shacks divert one's glimpse off the sprawl.
During a brief pause after a breakfast of squash omelet, made of fresh picked vegetables and multi-grain pancakes doused in farm made maple syrup, we rocked on a wooden swing at the balcony of our century-old inn, taking in the breeze that brushed an unhurried town of laced windows and a clock tower with a rooster pointing its beak where the wind goes. Strolling on Main Street in a pace that would have asked of dirndl skirts and a parasol, I couldn't resist climbing a boardwalk that led to artists' workshops, where in one, if it were not Labor Day, I could have sat for a pencil portrait.
An inner court shaded by cherry and apple trees, curves by the country store where the touch of woolen yarn from the local sheep triggered a picture I loved in my nursery book of a grandmother knitting on a rocking chair that was displayed, too, in a corner. We would later find in farmers' markets fruit preserves in mason jars and maple sugar in clay pots alongside apples named after their grower like Robert Frost's, yes, the poet we revered in our youth once lived in a cottage we did go to in nearby Shaftsbury, where he ventured, though failed, into farming.
Would this be a mere feast of travel memories? As a visitor, it's a thought that is quite valid. But this is where my consciousness tore in half—I began to live them even taking some as my own legacy while knowing it's but borrowed for a few days. Still, I realize, writing about it just now as stolen legacies from Wilmington locals, which by simply and staunchly preserving by living them have, unknowingly perhaps, enhanced their value by passing these on not to only to their children but to strangers who now claim a share like I have.
Published in Peregrine Notes by Alegria Imperial, Business Mirror Philippines, October 7, 2013
Filed under: opinion | Tags: Ala Moana Mall, Costco, FX express, home, homecoming, Honolulu, Kona coffee, Kuerig, Manila, retirement, the Philippines
The three-storey house has risen on soil she once called home. I've climbed it to the roof top where I scooped in volumes of sweetish tropical breeze, gazing at a perforated sky—I once read that the Philippines' latitude crowns it with a concentrated view of the constellations.
Unlike the old bungalow, as if furious for the absolute, my uncle had poured his dreams into this new house: Marble floors and wide ledges, windows from across each other for counter-flow, bathrooms adjacent to the bedroom outfitted with splatter-safe floors, and elevated to bar prying eyes from the street, a free-flowing living-dining kitchen furnished ala America on the first floor.
The old house also sprawls in light-splashed spaces from high ceilings and wide windows that siphon light, but its fewer bedrooms did pose a quandry over a sister's long-talked about retirement place. And then, horrible Andoy inundated this house almost to the roof top, washed off most of life he had stacked in books and memorabilia, and stayed as trauma dregs, which is why, in the new house, a climb begins at an elevation of tall six steps up the front door. The push for its construction came during his sister's yet another homecoming; this time, an architect and contractor had been called.
Still, two homecomings later, the sister kept dipping her toes and withdrawing them, like testing the pool for safety even comfort, as she silently pined for half her heart in Honolulu, her home of 30 years. Apparently, without her meaning to, her veins have rooted among undulating roads around Waikiki; how could Manila's roads in constant Gordian knot compare? At 80 years old, sustained by youthful spurts of wanting to check out a good deal at Ala Moana Mall or attend a bishop's noonday holy mass at the downtown cathedral, she had often felt stymied by warnings of black diesel smoke that could choke her and bad wolves prowling sunset streets of Manila in the few months of her stay.
Balikbayan boxes of her own appliances bundled and humped in a kitchen corner of the old house, notwithstanding, my aunt has not ceased refining her purchases to furnish the dream house—of late, a Kuerig coffee maker to replace a yet unpacked programmable-brewing-time Black and Decker. The Kuerig, she later worried, could conk out in one of those power surges or undetected fluctuations so common in Manila.
Stacks of food also trail her as if she had not known long ago how Philippine grain tastes, insisting that the 20 pound bag of brown rice from California tastes cleaner and nuttier. She had once brought 10 pounds of steak round, claiming local beef tastes ma-anggo. Concerned whether or not papaya or what other fibrous local fruit could be available as soon as she arrives, she would stock up on Costco's dried fruit bags and prunes to bring, not to mention, of course, those aromatic macadamia blends of Kona coffee. Several trips on buses that kneel would keep her occupied, finding more stuff to fill the dream home.
But unease have persisted each time she flew in. That first morning she and I had visited Manila, her creased forehead on waking warned me of a terrible day unfolding: she felt a blister inside her left cheek. Which dentist would see her promptly? Given her health concerns that her dentist in Honolulu would not have to review, would she get proper care? We had hang our heads on the breakfast table, despairing over seeming improbables like if no one could bring her, she would have to ride a tricycle to the gate first, flag an FX express and risk being suffocated by the redolence of bold fragrances, which office-goers wear, or worse, seated beside a svelte friendly lady whose deft wrists could magnetize valuables.
Visiting my sister and me at our hotel during a short trip to Honolulu, my aunt had complained of dizziness from sleeplessness, perhaps from the soda pop she had sipped in a children's party though she had just received a glowing reading of her last check-up, all paid for by health insurance, of course. Again, we had hang our heads, shivering as we confronted the day when her ailments might progress, God forbid, and who would then, take care of her?
You really have to go back home to Manila, Tia, I had gently proposed. She agreed as she picked up a bagful of alamang, dried dangit and espada, pusit, too, she had brought back from Manila she had promised to share with us. And three bags of Kona coffee, of which I first demured, but she insisted, saying she had more from another Balikabayan box about ready for pick up. I hugged her, rueful with gratitude.
Against my aunt's two lives and those of friends to which I've been privy, I realized what rends them apart when threatened by uprooting: As the landscape of security and comfort pushes forward, details as in forest trees, cloud the choice. Would hearth, which had birthed her, win out in the end? Among quite a number I've known, holding out too long turned out too late for a decision. Yet, I believe, the play of both lives sustained them, as it does my aunt.
Homecoming, Peregrine Notes by Alegria Imperial, Business Mirror, Philippines, November 3, 2013, Manila
When picnicking in my teens in Bacarra, we would dig a hole on the river shore, leave it for water to fill in, and voila, we had a sand-filtered drinking well. On rare days of water interruption in my growing up years, soon after a bandillo beating his tambor and playing a píccolo (flute) would come around where the main road forked to inner streets to announce it, neighbors with clay water jars balanced on the head and kerosene jars outfitted with a wooden handle would line up, braiding what's new about whom while inching up for their turn at the town artesian pump. Too, the wood cover of an old well, which I heard had existed since my paternal great grandfather's time, would be pushed aside, as the pail kept under the house among broken tools in a hutch, taken out, cleaned and refitted to the lever pulled down for dipping.
Otherwise, water from the faucet had seemed hardly ever absent. In high school, with lazy water flowing out of old faucets in the Home Economics building, we cooked our bean soup and guinataan to sell on the front windows to male classmates eager to please someone they couldn't talk to without an excuse. Breathless after softball or volleyball in Physical Education, we quenched our thirst by leaning onto a faucet, and catching the stream that overflowed to our cheek—we girls later realized why the boys patiently waited for their turn, facing us; we had been mindful of our necklines since.
Later in my job, on a coverage to Surigao del Norte for Philippines Today, an international magazine of the then National Media Production Center, our hosts, who toured photographer Tony Villaverde and me, carried bamboo tubes slung on their shoulders to gather water from a spring, which we drank by turns. Only once did I drink buko juice in place of water; on an overnight coverage of the doves that fly to Ursula Island in Palawan with then Tourist Officer Ellen Hagedorn, via a pump boat a young prince of Bataraza and his thin retinue sailed, she and I stole from a kerosene can half-filled with water to wash our face, leaving less for morning coffee and to drink.
Writing these, I feel none of it ever happened and as if I'm stealing others' idylls in books or long ago stories told to me. When did I last trust drinking water served on a pitcher or worse scooped from a well? But I recall, and I'm sure you do, horrifying scenarios underlying survival in Manila in the mid-80s when, along with rotating brownouts, water began to sputter or disappear in faucets. Water pumps had turned into a must-have though quite insufficient as Manilans in old areas often broke into small-scale wars over whose pump sucked out the most volume; one image triggered most of my nightmares—when away at work, my parents had to haul buckets of drinking water up three flights of fire escape from the first-floor neighbors' tap.
I can't remember though when I began to regress like a child sipping water from a plastic bottle. Could it have been around the 90s when global water wars on rights, distribution, and soon, commercialization of water, exploded? By the time I packed away my life in the Philippines and immigrated to Canada, I had lost all memory of scooping water from a spring with my hands so much so that I hesitated, even feared, stepping close to a stream deep in the forge fed by virgin falls of Lynne Valley, North Vancouver; I held on for comfort the bottled water in my backpack instead. A variety of water-in-a-bottle as well as refillable containers offers countless choices since.
Yet, if quite heavy to carry on an overnight trip, looking for bottled water could be an adventure even a saga like a friend's and mine last week during a nostalgic visit to Baltimore; at the hotel, finding for once, two 12-ounces of bottled water beside the ice bucket, which we thought as complimentary, we sighed our disappointment on reading an attached note—if consumed, we would be billed $2 each. Trusting what we once knew of the city, and from having bought larger-sized bottles for less in other states, we had set out to the closest grocery on Charles Street but found a sad unlit shadow of its old self.
We moved on, recalling a pair of convenience stores further down, but kept passing by tony facades of new buildings and no store. On to the Inner Harbor, we had hoped to get any size of water bottle at what we recalled the food court; it turned out in the years since we last visited, Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum had replaced it. My thirst had intensified by then, but still we stood fast by our conviction that water should not be priced like gold. Turning back up on St. Paul's Street, after a couple of miles and almost an hour, finally, we spotted a beacon in a 7-Eleven store, selling a dollar-a-liter of Deer Park.
As if to tease us, a drizzle started the rest of our way back to the hotel, streaming in runnels, while behind us Chesapeake Bay heaved voluminous water.
Peregrine Notes by Alegria Imperial, Opinion Page, Business Mirror Manila, June 7, 2014 (this post the unedited version)
Filed under: opinion, personal essay, travel | Tags: alegria imperial, basilica, Business Mirror Philippines, Castel Sant'Angelo, Filipino, Greco-Roman civilization, Michelangelo, Musei Vaticani, Pope Francesco, Prati B&B, Rome, Sistine Chapel, St John Paul, St Peter, University of Santo Tomas, Vatican, Via Giulio Cesare
'DI ba ang Vatican eh 'yung Basilica lang? Saan kayo tumira?" My sister asked on Facetime, catching me still awake from jet lag. "True, Citta del Vaticano, with its 800 inhabitants all working for the Holy See, has no place for pilgrims," I replied, and stuttered through details that would take me days to smoothen.
Eleanor and I landed in Eternal Rome, so like a dream that at the Prati B&B of Alessandra Bounaccorsi on Via degli Scipioni, the grinding of a dumpster bolted us out of bed. Later walking toward Citta del Vaticano nine minutes away, we had seemed afloat on streets perfumed by wisteria streaming from balconies like in a movie, through fashion boutiques, trattoria and garden shops. And suddenly, in a mercato, bunches of musot (bulaklak ng kalabasa), apparently used with mozzarella in a panini, transported me to my grandmother's table.
With driving à la Manila, we had dodged zooming cars as we crossed wide boulevards and, soon, waving off hustlers who offer "no lineup for a fee" to Vatican Square, spotting in us a kababayan they could perhaps inveigle. More of the unexpected in our Roman dream began; shortly, we bumped into a huddle of nuns. "Filipino?" asked one, and all three lit up as we nodded, "Oo!!" But "pilgrims all aren't we?" chirped the youngest. They belong to a convent of the Sacred Heart Order in Sicily.
Rome's goldish sun ushered us finally into Vatican Square by then packed with hundreds of herded tourists and pilgrims. So awed with our necks craned to heights scaled to eternity as in those childhood estampitas, we fell into a hush. We had to whirl around to take it all in, the basilica with its balcony from where the Pope emerges at Christmas and Easter on television to greet us in his urbi et orbi, its dome and the colonnade, the marble figures of Christ, the apostles and saints we know by heart poised in the wind—where we stood, a Roman necropolis in Nero's time, early Christians had been executed by him, Saint Peter among those crucified.
Inside the basilica, overwhelmed by the magnificence but especially a touching-distance to the Cathedra Petri, Saint Peter's papal chair, behind the baldachin, I resisted blinking. "Filipino? Yes, a Holy Mass will begin in a few minutes," the usher let us into a girded area facing the high altar, pulling us away from the thick flow of just-gawking crowds. "Dominus vobiscum" reverberated through the sung Mass concelebrated by about a dozen cardinals; Eleanor and I responded from memory, "Et cum espiritu tuo," even singing, "Pater Noster" and "Agnus Dei," transported to the dawn Masses in the dark brick churches of our youth.
Brought back to the square by a gushing stream after Holy Mass, we plunged unknowingly into an expectant wave, crying out for "Papa Francesco!" Soon, from a window high above the colonnade, he addressed us, straining body-to-body to catch him, thumb-size from the ground, but suffused with his discernible smile, his warmth, reliving in me how I felt on first seeing Pope John Paul II, long ago it seems, as his open carriage wheeled through Magsaysay Boulevard in Manila.
A daunting line to Musei Vaticani almost crumbled our resolve next day. But we persevered from a tail that snaked uphill along the wall behind the basilica to papal palaces once, now museums of relics from Greco-Roman civilizations, through halls of ecclesiastical and classical art—the utmost being Michelangelo's stunning ceiling paintings of the Sistine Chapel so configured as the tour's climax. Amid such magnitude, suddenly I understood what perfection in art means decades after Humanities courses at the University of Santo Tomas—why shouldn't Art be the Church's legacy?
Still a palpable sense of vulnerability, yet impregnability pervade not only in the museums' telling of Church history but also in preserved structures, as in the massive Castel Sant'Angelo, first a mausoleum of pope-kings then a fort, that till now looms over the Tiber just outside Vatican walls. Saint Michael the Archangel's fierce vigilance from a tower still pierces peering eyes—he, whom Catholics invoke as shield from ruinous enemies and who Josie Darang calls when fear overtakes her, like in a cab hurtling through Manila's streets.
"Filipino kayo, Ate?" A salesgirl had caught us in a shop outside the walls, browsing for souvenirs that could extend our precious euros. She filled a basket with refrigerator magnets, and spangled her breast with nylon scarves for us to choose; the whole stretch had a Filipino vying to pull in a fellow Filipino, reminding me of Central Market's turo-turo aisles—a poignant note to an uplifting day.
After two days of pasta, Eleanor and I began to crave rice served only in a Pakistani restaurant as per tourist guides. But sauntering along Via Giulio Cesare, we had brushed by a hole-in-the-wall named Sarap. "Filipino kayo?" we asked the obvious; not only did we get a serving of rice but the all-male restaurant of young Pinoys also paired it with sarciadong salmon. The answer to my sister's question by then had taken a twist: Indeed, by just being Filipinos, we found unexpected parts of us at every turn in Citta del Vaticano and Rome outside of its walls.
Published in Peregrine Notes, Alegria Imperial, Business Mirror Philippines, April 19, 2014
Filed under: opinion | Tags: alegria imperial, business mirror, education, father, peregrine notes, Philets, Philippine Graphic, poetry, Poetry Reading, public relations, The Prince and the Pauper, travel page, University of Santo Tomas, writing
Often, intensely quiet in insulated spaces is how days unfold here, undistracted spaces that let roam vibrant memories like this week. As I write this piece midway through selecting my poems for a Poetry Reading event at the Chapters Bookstore downtown, my first ever, sponsored by Vancouver Haiku Group to which I belong, the late Serafin Albano, my father—a central figure in my writing life—looms largely.
If he did not impose his will on my choice of what I'd be, I could be languishing now in a dark even dank office somewhere in a turn-of-the century old building in Avenida where notaries get signed and sealed for a small fee if I didn't get a teaching job, that is. He lugged me instead led by the youngest of my mother's brothers, then in his junior year at UST's Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, to the office of the dean. I had waffled but in a quick turn of mind, I plunged into a future of writing. But I ended up neither a journalist nor a poet not until decades after graduation and long after he had died. Instead, I sneaked into a writing career via public relations, ghost-writing for years.
From a back glance this morning in a continent way across the Pacific, I feel that I had glossed over how my father felt through those years I got stalled in what he couldn't understand as tossing out words and images in anonymity. Picking through hints, I remember how he must have had great dreams of my name spangled on printed pages, as in his first wrapped gift on my eighth birthday, Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper that he dedicated with a noble quote beyond a child's grasp: "Education supplants intelligence but does not supply it." Telling me a book was easier to find, he had hoped this gift would inspire me to write more—I had a year before then, sent him, where he lived and worked in Manila, a four-line poem scrawled on grade two paper, a ruse to ask for a doll.
Yes, I did write but not feeling particularly inspired only fed with words, perhaps, from books he and my mother piled on me. Early in college, I wrote a hilarious narrative on how giggly, overacting, mostly spoiled girls in a dormitory run by nuns from across UST, my first published article in Philippine Graphic magazine, in its 'Student's Page' with my picture and a note on the author. It had so elated my father, he carried the issue opened on that page and showed it to everyone including waitresses. Some months later, I followed it up with an essay on fishes, which I used as a metaphor for the kinds of people we get to know in this "ocean of life". I made him so happy he treated me out, and my friends at the dorm to dinner almost weekly. But none came long after that.
In a sudden spurt, probably stimulated by my travels in my job at the then National Media Production Center, I began weaving words into lyrical pieces for Dick Pascual's travel page at the defunct Daily Express. My father brought each piece to Magallanes Drive, trudging his way through grime-textured air. Among the stash I dug out when clearing out stuff to immigrate to here, was a rough album he sewed on the side of those published pieces. And then again, I skidded into anonymity.
Still, we argued furiously about writing. Our last word-spars focused on my defunct Newsday lifestyle page, my first ever newspaper job. More critical and cutting than the late Teddy Berbano, then managing editor, my father devastated me by his correctness those evenings I dropped by to see him and my mother on my way to my own home—I had married by then. He had died by the time my page started shaping up and later when I wrote weekly full-page feature stories for Sunday lifestyle at Inquirer.
Once coming home from New York much later, I found the fiction writing paperback he kept sliding before me that I left unread, and cried and cried. The author, R. V. Cassill, also authored the Norton Anthology of Short Fiction from which my instructor in a writing course I took at NYU's Continuing Education program selected our readings. Leafing through the pages he dog-eared and underlined, I had realized it's exactly what I was learning. I've grappled with challenges he couldn't have imagined like writing in NY alongside native speakers of English. But each step of the way, I would find his imprint.
Could a father shape a child's destiny, carving a path like mine that I had long wavered to follow straight on? On the podium to read my published and award-winning poems here in Vancouver, a crowd their blond, blue, hazel, gray, maybe some black even green Irish eyes on me, I'm sure my father though invisible to all would be seated in the front row.
Published in Peregrine Notes by Alegria Imperial, Business Mirror, Manila, June 24, 2013


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looks kinda like its inspired by IL2
This group is open to everyone who likes any kind of aircraft
looks kinda like its inspired by IL2
My first thought was Il 10 when I saw it up.
That Cessena in the corner, something is very wrong. The Caravan is supposed to deliver packages not DEATH!
Oh that Cessna Delivers Packages alright :P
As Far as the Air Tractor it Reminds me of the GLA lol
Reminds me there's a mod in Il-2 in which it's armed with.....A COUPLE OF GATLING GUNS
UAE Air Tractor AT-802i and Cessna AC-208 Caravan


text: 1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data My prof proposed a question for us. He gave us this information: if your body is inside an object (earth) and is located at 10% of the earth's radius, what is the acceleration? We are currently learning about newton's law of universal gravitation but I'm not sure I see how this question is related to the formula 2. Relevant equations force = gravity * Mass of earth * mass of object / (radius^2) = mg 3. The attempt at a solution I've tried plugging the numbers into the equation above but my problem is that the mass of the object is unknown. I'm assuming that since he didn't give us a specific mass, mass would not be an important part of the problem and should be a constant? Could I perhaps use a kinematics equation to solve for acceleration? Please help if you know of any way to figure this out! Thank you.


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- Popeye the Sailor Theatrical Cartoon Series
- Famous Studios
- Distributed by: Paramount Studios
- Cartoon Characters: Popeye, Giant, Goose, Poopeye, Pipeye, Pupeye, Peepeye, Cloud Taxi Driver, Giant, Henrietta.
- Originally Released in 1943.
- Black & White
- Running Time: 8:14 minutes.
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In a Spinach Victory Garden, Popeye is planting spinach everywhere. His four nephews are picking up worms to go fishing. Popeye gives a patriotic lecture, tells them the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk, and then takes a nap. He dreams that his nephews are planting some bean seeds and growing a giant beanstalk to the sky. Outside a castle, a sign reads: "Bed available for swing shift." Popeye realizes that the giant (who carries a batlike club and wears a tunic emblazoned with the legend "N.Y. Giants") is a hoarder of rationed home-front supplies, such as sugar and meat, butter, gasoline and "empty tooth paste tubes." He even has a goose which lays rubber tires. Popeye returns the "goods" for the "good of the cause," and awakes to find that the boys really did grow things for the effort: "pot'atoes," "can'alopes," "pine'nipples"- and a giant "shoe tree."
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Those dudes with swords for heads are so incredible
awesome one
Who the hell are the soldiers from the right ? They just rock !
Your art makes me think of Enki Bilal's.
yea zaAaAng^^ great scene
ouch, thats gonna hurt
Man, I love you work and the other concepts from this series, but this one is almost impossible to understand. The head makes it look like the cut up guy is standing in front of a structural column with a shoulder and arm sticking out of it. The angle needs to be tweaked so you can get a better idea of what the sword wielder is doing and what he looks like.
Oh yeah, and since the cut off forearm on the left is so close to the elbow of the guy behind it almost looks at first glance like it's his arm.
Holy shit, this is *wait for the joke* cutting edge! hurhurhur xD Nicely done, as always
That's a pretty cool POV shot.


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BRANDON — In Brandon on Wednesday, the Vermont Department of Health will unveil its plan to combat mosquitoes and the serious illnesses they carry.
Vermont Health Commissioner Dr. Harry Chen, along with other officials from both the Heath Department and the Agency of Agriculture, will unveil the state's 2013 Arbovirus Surveillance and Response Plan at a public meeting on Wednesday, July 10, from 5-7 p.m. at the Brandon Town Hall.
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BRANDON — The Brandon selectboard has made more spending cuts and approved yet another town budget and yet another vote date — its fourth in four months.
Following a marathon public meeting that lasted more than three and half hours this past Monday night, the board OK'd a $3,147,634 spending plan for the fiscal year that began July 1, with $2,331,134 to be raised by property taxes. That spending number represents an increase of 3.7 percent, or $84,084, from the budget for the year just ended.
LEICESTER — A fish die-off in Fern Lake earlier this month has gotten some publicity thanks to one resident's theory that mosquito pesticide is to blame, but there is no proof of that, yet.
State and local agriculture, fish and wildlife, and mosquito control officials believe the June 4 die-off of several different species of fish in Fern Lake was caused by unusually warm spring weather.
BRANDON — A pillar of the Brandon and Forest Dale communities was tragically killed last week, but hundreds of people who knew and loved Maxine Thurston put aside their grief to celebrate her life on Sunday.
Thurston, 81, co-owner of New England Woodcraft in Forest Dale, was killed on Thursday, June 13, in a head-on collision while driving on Route 7 near Otter Valley Union High School.
A GROUP OF Otter Valley Union High School seniors while away the final minutes before their commencement ceremony on June 8.
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BRANDON — Kirstyn Simonds was clear when asked how she felt about graduating from Otter Valley Union High School before the commencement ceremony this past Saturday morning.
"I don't want to grow up," she said with a nervous laugh.
Nevertheless, Simonds will attend Castleton State College in the fall with the goal of becoming an elementary school teacher, a vocation sure to keep her young.
OTTER PITCHER BRETT Patterson threw a one-hitter against visiting Lake Region last Thursday. The Otters won the game, 6-0, and advanced to the Division II semifinals Tuesday afternoon.
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BRANDON — As a Brandon lister and member of the Otter Valley Union High School Board, Maria Ammatuna already had her hands full. Now, she can add selectboard member to her resume.
The Brandon selectboard chose Ammatuna to fill the vacant board seat left when Richard Baker agreed to become interim town manager late last month. The appointment to the three-year seat expires on Town Meeting Day in March 2014.
BRANDON — There will be a re-vote on Brandon's municipal budget next month.
Organizers turned in petitions containing more than the required 564 signatures to Brandon Town Clerk Bill Dick on Monday, which amounts to at least 20 percent of the electorate as required by state statute.
On Monday night, the selectboard approved a motion to warn a re-vote election for Tuesday, April 30, pending availability of the Neshobe School polling place.
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