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There are many myths told about the Irish: that they're fighters, they're stupid, they're belligerent, or that they never forget. Nonsense. The truth about the Irish is much harder to pin, and much more elusive than they're given credit for. Even the great Sigmund Freud himself thought it pointless. "This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever," he wrote.
So how can you tell the reality from all the myths? Well you can start here, with IrishCentral's top ten myths about the Irish.
1. The Irish are always friendly
Many Irish people will happily give you the shirt off their back, but others would much prefer sue you for it (especially if there's a disputed family will in the mix somewhere). Usually the Irish are genuinely friendly, but like anywhere a lot depends on who you are, where you are and what you are.
Quibbling aside, the land of a hundred, thousand welcomes deserves its reputation because the truth is that most Irish people can be so kind and considerate it will take your breath away. But like anywhere, a few nettles sprout among all the roses, so tread carefully betimes.
2. The Irish are religious
Even avowed Irish atheists will call upon all the angles and saints when there's a crisis or they're in danger. But that doesn't mean they're deeply religious, it's just a reflex hardwired into them from birth. You trip, you sprain your ankle, you'll call the Lord's name (and many others).
The truth is most Irish people are much closer in spirit to Father Ted than to Rome, and they always have been. James Joyce, as always, put it best: "O Ireland, my first, my only love/Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove." If you can reconcile those two opposing forces and learn to live with them without giving it another thought, you're well on your way to being Irish yourself.
3. The Irish can sing
Two words: Ronan Keating. Make those three words: Chris De Burgh. Let's face it, even housewives favorite Daniel O'Donnell is no threat to Luciano Pavarotti - and he's dead. Not every Irish man can sing a rousing rebel song on request, despite what you see every time in the movies.
Irish people can however reduce you to heaving sobs with their songs about lost love, lost land and faded hopes. Be warned: otherwise perfect social evenings can be brought to a standstill by the power of just one Irish ballad competently sung. Your guests may weep copiously or begin to think about snow falling faintly, and faintly falling, and if it does happen just go with it, it's the Irish way.
4. The Irish are stupid
Pull the other one. You're in the native land of the scholar (the saints, like the snakes, were evicted long ago). Trust me, all those Paddy the Irishman jokes you heard growing up (about the guy who always gets it wrong) are an expression of anxiety, not contempt. People have been calling the Irish thick for centuries. They're fools.
Take Edmund Spenser, the Elizabethan poet, for example. He tried to denigrate the Irish in his genocidal pamphlet "A View of the Present State of Ireland," written in the early 1590's. Spenser's propaganda pamphlet argued that Ireland would never be totally pacified by the English until its language and customs had been completely destroyed, if necessary by violence. (Irish rebels, possibly acting on his own advice, later drove him from his County Cork home).
For many contemporary scholars Ireland's James Joyce is the true heir to William Shakespeare simply in terms of his influence and cultural impact.
5. The Irish are charming
Anyone who has ever ordered a cheese sandwich from the joyless drudges who staff the Bus Aras canteen in County Monaghan knows this is not true. The Irish are not always charming. In fact some Irish people have perfected a stare of such hostility and perfect contempt that the memory of it will never leave you.
6. The Irish have red hair and freckles
Just as not all Irish women are tempestuous redheads crying out to be tamed by an avuncular John Wayne stand-in, not all redheaded Irish men are leading donkeys carrying turf bags to the fair.
There are quite a few blonds (bottle and natural) knocking about the old sod; black hair and brown or blue eyes are a common feature too (think of Cillian Murphy or Jonathan Rhys Meyers). Nowadays Ireland has become a much more intercultural place, so it may be time to update your image of it.
7. The Irish are happy to start a fight
Whilst it's fair to say the Irish are a passionate lot, it's wrong to assume they're always spoiling for a knockdown fight. In fact when someone makes a fool of himself by acting belligerently in public most Irish people will cringe and designate him a fool – and when an Irish person comes to that conclusion about you, you'll be considered a fool all your days.


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Ellen Wilson First Spouse Gold Coin
First Lady, 1913 — 1914
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson was born May 15, 1860, in Savannah, Georgia, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister. Her future husband and president, Woodrow Wilson, whose father was also a Presbyterian minister, was about six years old when he met her as an infant. They met again in 1883 when he was a lawyer in Atlanta, and they married two years later. When they arrived at the White House in 1913 after his long career in academia and as governor of New Jersey, she installed her own art studio there. An accomplished artist who sketched and painted landscapes and portraits, her artwork was displayed in shows while she was serving as first lady. Mrs. Wilson supported various causes, including the need for child labor laws and education projects in Appalachia. She is probably best known for initiating and overseeing the creation of the famous White House Rose Garden. She died in 1914 of Bright's Disease.
Reverse Design
The reverse features an image of roses with the White House in the background, a tribute to Mrs. Wilson's creation of the White House Rose Garden.
Obverse: ELLEN WILSON, IN GOD WE TRUST, LIBERTY, 2013, 28th and 1913 – 1914.
Reverse: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, E PLURIBUS UNUM, $10, 1/2 OZ., and .9999 FINE GOLD.


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Wallabies on the loose in Austria. Yes, Austria
Published: Friday, April 19, 2013 at 8:49 a.m.
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VIENNA (AP) — Volunteers are searching for a pair of wallabies hopping through Austria — yes, Austria.
The kangaroo-like marsupials, which are smaller than "roos" and primarily found in Australia, escaped from a farm in the Upper Austrian countryside, about 180 kilometers (about 110 miles) northwest of Vienna. Thursday was the third day of the quest to find them.
There are actually three wallabies on the loose — owner Gabrielle Schrammel says the female has a joey in her pouch.
Austrians often express irritation at being confused for Australians while abroad, and mail meant for Australia occasionally surfaces in this central European Alpine country.
Those Vienna souvenir shops selling T-shirts with the slogan "No kangaroos in Austria" might have to start a recall campaign.
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I can still remember my first LUG meeting; the Greater London Linux User Group at the GND building, London. I met developers, end users, geeks, sysadmins, and a magazine editor who, although neither of us knew it at the time, would later publish my first articles on Linux. These were people with intelligence, soul, and consideration. I had finally found a like-minded milieu for my free software tendancies.
To contrast, in my capacity as the local "geek about town", I recently attended a one-off event intended to bring together the local geek community to examine the future of the Web 2.0 technology platform. Of all the people present I met only three geeks. Everyone else was a corporate schill wanting to tell me of how their corporate strategy was going to change the face of Web 2.0. Or a marketroid relentless pushing their closed-source buzzword-compliant platform. Or bourgeois recruiters intent solely on badmouthing every employer they didn't represent. Or a hanger-on, desperate for free beer. Alas, this was not the first geek event hijacked by corporate import.
So what happened to the community?
In my mind, there have been two changes: the decrease in popularity of the LUG as a place for users to meet, and an increase in corporate events aimed at promoting [insert arbitrary technology or company here]. There are only so many evenings in the week, and so the LUG is squeezed out.
Demise of the LUG
So where has the LUG gone wrong? In truth, probably nowhere. I think that times have just moved on. In the beginning, a 28.8 dial-up connection was cutting edge, Google didn't exist, desktop wars involved the preference of LF over CRLF, and it took longer to download a PDF than it did to walk to the shop and buy the equivalent book.
In those days, the only way of learning the opinions, thoughts, solutions, and situations involved in GNU/Linux was to work with a mentor. Installation is now so easy that even my boss can do it, and any problems can be solved by disengaged the brain and typing google.com. Who needs humans?
In those days, attending a LUG was the cheapest way to get a complete Linux distribution, either on disk or CD. And that would include the train fare. Now, with broadband being incredibly common, there's less need for the sellers.
In those days, everyone was a newbie. To some extent, at least, since GNU/Linux was still quite a new operating system. But it's been around for so long, that now the difference between the most experienced in the group, and the least, is so large that you have splinter groups of each ability level in the same crowd. Only, you don't! A lot of newbies get turned off by the over-their-heads chatter of the uber-geeks, and many of the top brass are bored with the newbies who should FAQ off first. Many of these users have opted instead to organize their own meetings outside of the LUG, leaving only would-be learners from which no one can, er, learn.
In those days, everyone was new to the LUG, and every stranger was a new friend that hadn't been met. Now, the old hands huddle together in their allotted groups to exchange gossip of the month, as new users are left without a friend or mentor-to-be. Those that do try to integrate often get side-lined quickly because they have no starting reference point, or try and pitch themselves above their station and annoy those already there.
In those days, the speakers hadn't spoken. Every talk was a first draft. Now, they've done the circuit so many times I could probably give their presentation for them. And when speakers originate from within the group, it only takes a few months before you start at the top of the list again. Familiarity breeds boredom and non-attendance, rather than contempt.
Rise of the junket
Nowadays, companies have discovered that there's money in them thar hills. So companies are providing technical speakers to deliver marketing spiels to whichever corporate event might turn them a short term profit, ignoring the grass roots support they used to gain by engaging the community directly.
Nowadays, the technical problems have been solved, documented, and printed onto t-shirts. Our next problem is to monetize, and corporate events help facilitate that. This is the domain of money men and business brains; something very few old school geeks have.
Nowadays, us humans are comfortable with virtual meetings and discussions, so we have less need for meetings.
But personally, I would die without at least two geek-oriented pub meetings a month. The buzz of technology got me into this industry, and the LUGs have kept my buzz alive for the last ten years. I can feel a direct correlation between my internal buzz-o-meter, and the fervor of LUG meetings.
Don't let the junket dominate.
this is the second waste of
this is the second waste of time i've read this morning. what purpose do you serve by falsely declaring LUGs as dead when what they need is positive coverage to encourage users to attend?
i'll tell you what has really happened. at some point in the past few years the media has begun hyping the need for linux to become more like windows while at the same time making it sound like it's time for the average end-use to abandon MS and install linux.
windows users are the most arrogant, ignorant, demanding, impatient and lazy jerks on this planet and as you've seen, linux geeks want nothing to do with them.
so, you gave yourself a clue in the first paragraph of your article, at the meeting you attended, you met 3 geeks. okay, find where the other geeks are and you will have the address of your next LUG meeting.
i've been using linux for just over a year now and for the past 8 months i've been actively helping other newbies in forums and irc. not so much anymore, i can't stand the new version of newbie who act like they just paid me $400 for a new OS and $120 an hour to install and configure it while also teaching them how to use it, instead of $0 for the OS and volunteers offering help.
for some reason the same media has also made it bad form to use the term RTFM. But guess what, that's exactly what they need to do and also learn to use google and be patient and courteous to the help.
ease up a little
I think you need to ease up a little here (and also find the Shift key when starting a sentence :o) ).
By my reading, Steve is not declaring LUGs are dead but lamenting that they have lost their place in a tried and trusted learning curve for new GNU/Linux users.
Some (not all as you imply) Windows users are arrogant but no more so than some of the Free Software users I've come across and that applies across all skill levels.
If some of those Windows users are ignorant and lazy it's not always their fault and blindly telling them to RTFM is not helpful at all. For a start they may not even know where the FM is! IME experience those users that are ignorant and lazy are generally those who a) believe the sales hype from Microsoft and others and b) have bought into the (mistaken) ideal that a computer is a consumer electrical device like a TV or Radio.
What they need to learn (and probably don't know it) is that - with freedom - PCs can be a lot more fun that changing the red-eye on your holiday snaps. What they need is patience (on both sides), what they need is someone with time (and the desire to spend it on them), what they need is mentor, what they need is what used to be provided at LUG meetings. In that respect Steve is right to lament the LUG - particularly in it's "replacement" by the corporate junket.
Yes newbies can be annoying and frustrating and all those other things but - like learner drivers - most of us start life as one and we would do well to remember it. We need to teach them how not to be annoying and frustrating (just like we are? :o) ) and that takes time and patience. Some of them won't want to change - that's fine let them pay Microsoft then but the others are some of the "strangers waiting to become friends".
LUG meetings *have* changed but it was kind of inevitable that they would as the nature of the LUG changed. A lot of LUG activity now takes place in mailing lists and IRC. In the end though if LUGs have changed it's because the members have grown and changed. That is not unique to Linus User Groups and it is likely to be the case for a while.
People are like savings accounts. if you want any interest you have invest something.
I got a job and got a life.
The main reason I participate less in LUGs is because I work now and have a family. I don't have nearly as much free time as I did when I was younger. I still try to drop into different LUG mailing lists and online forums now and then and throw out some useful information but I don't have a lot of time to invest in doing this anymore. Also, I've found that my experience has gone beyond what most newbies can appreciate so that if I get involved in conversation with other ubergeeks it's just over the heads of newbies and even most normal geeks. I throw down useful tidbits of knowledge now and then when I see people stuck on some issue but usually the geeks help each other and newbies and I'm no longer needed. With this exclusion from the normal people combined with a lot of unrelated chatter about politics, religion, etc there just isn't a lot of reason to interact with those people. Finally, I've moved around a lot over the years and that has made it difficult to get really comfortable in local LUGs.
On the other hand, I now influence decisions in the work place so we've switched a lot of our systems to opensource and Linux. I get to give co-workers useful knowledge that once I would have spent time giving to LUG members.
Rather than sitting around chatting about how to install a program I'd rather get together and go bowling, play paint ball, or even sit down and build robots and fight them against each other. If any fellow ubergeeks, geeks, or even newbies want to get together for something less dorky than sitting in an empty classroom discussion yum versus apt then maybe I'd be interested.
half an Amen.
Posters might find the parent comment harsh, but it does tell some truth.
I hear lots of Linux users saying "We need to convert more Windows users." as if it were that easy. Truth is, the human race will have to go on many more decades before the Luddites die off and assertive computing is no longer synonymous with witchcraft. In the mean time, a new Linux user ends up with the experience just like the parent comment: having buckled down and done the work and earned their reward, they are now confronted with the expectation that they have to humor every loud-mouth troll accusing them of being elitist.
Political democracy is earned, not bestowed from On High, through hard work - it is maintained with vigilance and continuous strife. You don't just sit back and ride; you have to participate in your own and the public's continued well-being. Technology freedom will prove to be no different. And yes, really, people SHOULD read the manual - it's how the rest of us got where we are.
What a radical proposition! Work==reward! I await the arrival of the lynch mob.
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Geeks belong to the epoch when Linux users was a elite, in my opinion.
Now, there are Linux distros like *Ubuntu that everyone can install and more people delude himself to be a geek.
Real geeks laugh off coming to the aid of poor users ...
... So, elite groups come back, or better they are ever being forgotten! :-)
Similar lament
Our local LUG is still having regular meetings, and we are even going to participate in an installfest being sponsored by the local Ubuntu UG (UUG? ;-). However, we are struggling to get speakers for the meetings. We had a little bit of discussion about other events, but that withered on the vine.
My impression of LUGs (at least the 4 I have attended over the past decade) is that they are mostly (geek) boy's (and a lamentable few girl's) night out. We get to talk tech with people who understand what we're talking about. But then we go home to our real lives. And if it weren't for a handful of volunteers running the website and scheduling meetings, even that much wouldn't happen.
Except for a few LUGs with really enthusiatic members, I believe that is all it ever was. The installfests were fun, but a lot more work than most could manage more than 2 or 3 times.
If you are really looking for geek cameradery with with a purpose, I suggest you start a FOSS business. At least then you get to set the topic of conversations.
Later . . . Jim
LUGs perfect for lonely girls.
Whenever I find a woman lamenting about being unable to find any single, intelligent, nice guys I send them to the local LUG. It's the perfect place for slightly desperate women to meet guys with decent earning potential and the ability to overlook that extra ten pounds and weird laugh.
It's a funny idea but there are worse ways to hook up than by talking about computers. To often I think that intelligent, less-than-cool, people have trouble meeting likeminded people so there is definately room for geeky social events.
Maybe some LUG groups should put up fliers at womens gyms and places like that?
Not neccessarily so...
I was one of a handful of chicks at a LUG that I attended for years, thinking the same thing that "geeky girls can snag geeky guys at a LUG". I had heard that it happened, was intrigued by it. I wasn't deperate but wanted a like mind because its tough to explain that you're not ignoring them and exactly why you're always at the computer when XYZ is on TV...
And you know what?! That group of guys wasn't so much for girls as it was for the guys. In the beginning yes, there were many active call for "women to participate" they calls occured to other men, never directly to women... Mind you, women did attend but always in noticable minorities.
My take after the experience is that women don't do LUGs so much because (a) the stylish guys are weird - i.e. gay (b) the straight guys are weirder - i.e. straight, geek'd, stragly, pale and marked by skin desease (c) not to mention all the woman biting that occurs if she happens to be pretty and linux aware...
Be careful what you wish for... you might get it...
A matter of time
Yes, it's a matter of time.
I'd like to work in my free software project, I'd like to study my favourite subject, I'd like to assemble and I'd like to disassemble my dear personal computer nonstop, I'd like (why not) to work together with LUGs members because I believe in these groups, of course, and so on.
The main problem is the time that it takes.
I have to study, I have to drive from home to university (three hours a day, not so much!), I have to solve my problem and I'd like to meet with my friends ... That's right; like everyone, I have to survive in this world!
The main problem remains the same, the time.
I need to drive more than one hour to take part in LUGs and I come back to home at night; sometimes I do it, sometimes I prefer to stay home because next morning I need to get up early.
Geeks, in my opinion, are really engaged in any kind of projects and they are really busy! So, more "simple" boys (and lamentable girls) have a part in LUGs meeting, but they don't know what it's means, what is it! They have Linux, of course, maybe they don't are aware of what ls or cd command does and they are KDE- o Gnome-addicted, someone uses Linux because it's latest fashion ...
This is the problem: geeks don't have time as much as no-geeks ones!
Of course, I hope to mistake! :-)
Dead? Poliiice!!
Why should LUG be dead? Here in Italy LUGs are healthy. we have LUG in every city and in some village too ;-) LUG-guys and LUG-ladies are actives in the propaganda of freesoftware(we say "software libero") into society. For example, in the Trentino Alto-Adige(an italian county) the local LUG converted the school system software from MyKroStuff to GNU/Linux and administrative-educative freesoftware. The low chamber of the national parliament adopted in these days a rule to permit parlamentarian administration to migrate to GNU/Linux thanks to the lobbing of the freesoftware supporters. There other examples like these, but the point is that LUG is not dead, not here at least...
So long and sorry for my euroenglish.
Fight back in the .ORG Village at LinuxExpo 2007 - Exhibit FREE!
This is a chance for LUGs/ Open Source projects/ Campaigns to stand toe-to-toe with the industry big guns and show that most of the excitement in Open Source comes from the people not the corporate giants:
Thanks to generous sponsorship space is available once again, FREE of charge, in the .Org Village for Linux projects, groups & campaigns.
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo will take place over two days, 23 & 24th October 2007 at the Olympia Exhibition Centre in London, UK.
Sadly space is limited at the Expo. However unlike other LinuxWorld Expo's we do not allocate space on a first come first served basis or based on the perceived size of you .Org.
Submissions are welcome up until the 31st July. At that time we will announce which entrants have been accepted. Whilst some priority will be made to UK based .Orgs the size of your Org will not be either a benefit or hindrance. Some space will be reserved specifically for small or new Orgs.
Please submit your application at http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk
Any decisions made will be based on numerous factors but specifically on their relevance to a UK Linux expo.
Your project/ group/ campaign will be provided with exhibition space including electrics, storage etc. at no cost.
This is a great opportunity to promote your project to a large audience at minimal (no) cost, and also to help make the .Org Village a lively discussion and meeting place for the whole Linux and Open Source community.
For further details on the exhibition see www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk
If you know of any worthy projects, please pass this information to them and ask them to apply.
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Not dead. Just invisible under the Corporate glares
I don't know why. But whenever I raised this issue in our local LUG [www.ilug-cochin.org] there were oppositions. I used to point out the lack of spirit the newcomers display. Some people just don't want to agree the play times are over. Linux is mature now. Its the new thingy in the corporate world!
Of late, a friend of mine migrated to Ubuntu Fiesty (the easiest you can get these days) after years of my persuasion. He also joined for a Linux certification programme to gain familiarity with the system. He ringed me for a solution to a display problem. When I told him to edit xorg.conf, he was quizzing me of his options of switching the distros — one which don't exhibit any "troubles". He says its too much of a head-ache to actually "edit" conf files. The reason he switched was to compensate the problems his XP box showed.
What good these people do if they attend any LUG? I used to see many of these new-era newbies. "Can't take Linux -- won't work well with my SoundBlaster!". Even if there are solutions, they don't want to touch the command-line. For them, its worse than leprosy!! What you've to compile this so-called tarball? Aargh!!
All I do now is sit at home and think about the nostalgic past; when at the next LUG meeting someone would teach you how to add a new kernel module, or get to try out distcc to compile the kernel source, or ... whatever!
Therefore, its not the LUG that is dead, just the old timers are! They have migrated to more lucrative (shall I say greener pastures) opportunities. The new-era newbie don't want to "learn". They have to outwit some other lamer in a forum and show off. Or get their name in every other wiki on this planet.
Or get "Linux" in their resume and hope for a big fish to hire them. For them, Linux is just a cash cow. Boost their geek factor, earn them good job. There's no time to tweak the kernel, tune the fs, or anything that you do to "learn". Actually.
Of course, I wouldn't imply all the old-timer geeks have died and gone to Mars or anything. They are just gone missing...
... Or not visible under the Evil Corporate glares!


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Tarleton Outdoors takes place in the Stephenville City Park and is a FREE, fun event where children are taught about wildlife, plants, and the aspects of the outdoors.
Activities at Tarleton Outdoors include safety in archery and shooting, plant identification, arts and crafts, fish printing, and casting lessons. Other attractions include Ducks Unlimited, mystery boxes, fire trucks, Smokey the Bear, birds of prey display, state park information operation game thief wall of shame, and more.
Children and parents are free to come anytime during these hours. A free hotdog lunch with drinks and chips will be provided.


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Following the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, we hold loved ones, including our animals, a bit closer a bit longer. Roxie the big black lab has lost her human partner, teacher and hero Victoria Soto, becoming an icon for affected companion animals. Shocked and numb, humans once again face questions and soul searching about violence and prevention. Why must the innocent suffer and die?
Virtually from its beginnings, animal welfare has championed the two most helpless members of society: children and animals. The American Humane Association sheltered children as well as animals into the 20th century. The list of animal protection bills introduced into the 2012 California State Legislature, with comment on those that passed, failed, and one which was vetoed, was going to be the subject of this week's column. It was to be a look at the values today's citizens hold and how hard it is to get representation through the political process. Instead, here are words to read again with resolve that - with unified perseverance, education and compassion - we will effect consensus and action to protect the ones we love.
"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be," J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater," J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart," Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
"Bless the Beasts and the Children"
(Lyrics by Barry De Vorzon and Perry L. Botkin)
Bless the beasts and the children
For in this world they have no voice
They have no choice
Bless the beasts and the children
For the world can never be
The world they see
Light their way
When the darkness surrounds them
Give them love
Let it shine all around them
Bless the beasts and the children
Give them shelter from a storm
Keep them safe
Keep them warm-
- Provided by the Lake Tahoe Humane Society and Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to help "Keep Tahoe Kind." Dawn Armstrong is the executive director.


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May be oneshots, or full stories if you feel inspired.
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Published: Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, January 11, 2013 at 4:26 p.m.
After the University of Alabama football teams's 42-14 victory in the BCS National Championship Game, no one was too concerned when one of the computer rankings used to determine the BCS Championship Game participants still had Notre Dame ranked No. 1. However, it did lead one smart-alecky tweeter to quip that by Alabama standards, that would qualify as a national championship.
No less than our own Cecil Hurt lamented that the 1941 "National Championship" had struck again. Hurt isn't the only one to take note that the '41 "title" has been used to delegitimize all of the championships claimed prior to 1936, when the Associated Press began ranking teams and awarding national championships.
Fans of some other teams have virtually made careers of nitpicking Alabama's football championships. That's OK, because one of college football's great virtues is the endless argument it spawns over who is best in a sport without a playoff where head-to-head comparisons aren't always possible.
But regarding the 1941 championship, they have a point. It was a year in which Alabama lost to Vanderbilt and Mississippi State (both strong teams that year) and finished third in the SEC. Ending the season with a Cotton Bowl victory over Texas A&M, Alabama had a good year. But was it really a championship year?
The 1941 title was added to the Crimson Tide's long list of championships in the early 1980s when former UA Sports Information Director Wayne Atcheson discovered that it had been awarded to Alabama by the Houlgate System. It was an obscure fact that would better have been left lost in the jungle of archaic sports trivia.
UA's football program also claims four other national championships in the pre-1936 era — 1925, 1926, 1930 and 1934. All four were undefeated teams and Rose Bowl champions (co-champions in the case of the 1926 team, which tied Stanford in Pasadena that year). In other words, they went undefeated and won the year's biggest football game.
Their claim to a national championship in those four years is as legitimate as any team's. But because those four championships occurred in an era before a universally recognized championship, Alabama's detractors use the dubious 1941 title to discredit all of them.
Some Alabama fans oppose dropping the 1941 title on the grounds that it makes up for championships the Crimson Tide should have been awarded. Few Alabama fans would argue that the Crimson Tide has a legitimate beef over its treatment in 1945, 1966 and 1977. But it's not like UA is looking for hardware to fill the shelves in its trophy case.
Alabama has more national championships in the post-1936 era, 10, than any other team. Its three BCS National Championships are more than any other team. Continuing to claim 1941 merely taints its otherwise incomparable record.
We hope the athletic department will choose to ditch it and be content with 14.
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STOCKTON - The San Joaquin County Coroner's Office has released the name of the teenage boy who died Monday in an apparent all-terrain vehicle crash.
The Coroner's Office identified the boy as Cesar Flores, 15, of Stockton. Authorities believe Flores died about 4:30 p.m. Monday when he crashed a three-wheel all-terrain vehicle into a drainage ditch while traveling north on the Highway 99 west frontage road just south of Mariposa Road.
The boy's body was found about 3 a.m. Tuesday after his family reported him missing.
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1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?
Successfully breastfed a baby. And visited an endocrinologist. Neither of which are particularly riveting conversation starter, but hey, you can't be witty all of the time.
2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
You know, I never make resolutions for the New Year, but this year I imagine that I will. This year I plan to:
Finish losing the baby weight.
Stop lactating.
Engage in a more heart healthy diet. Genetics, they don't lie.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
I did. March 30. Another bouncing baby boychild.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
5. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
Honestly, a full 8 hours of sleep. It's sad, but true. But if we're going for something more unattainable, I'm going to go with a tummy tuck. Ain't gonna happen til those tubes 'o' mine are tied.
6. What countries did you visit?
Shit, none. Unless you count my head. Lack of sleep can certainly make you feel like you're jet-lagged.
7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why:
March 30, 2007. My second child was born making me The Supreme Dictator of The Sausage Factory.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Punching holes in several walls. Oh, and destroying several box fans.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not mastering this whole "sleeping through the night" bullshit.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I'm a walking personal injury. Let's see: I scratched my cornea, suffered a first degree tear to my perineum, nearly broke a toe making a peanut butter sandwich, fell through the front door, did the splits while 34 weeks pregnant while slipping on a freshly washed floor, and it appears as though my Crohn's disease is making a fresh debut.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Sleeping pills. No, honestly.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
I've been doing this meme for shit, 4 years or so, and I always say something cornball about Dave or Ben. This year I am not.
My OWN behavior merits celebration. I have, with only minimal help, been up 3-12 times each night, netting only about 7-8 hours of non-consecutive sleep each night since March. I have punched exactly no one in the face due to this glaring lack of sleep, and only spend minimal time on the cross.
My father also merits some mad props. He is now sober and has been since his heart attack, and I am very, very proud of him.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
I actually don't have a real answer for this. Any suggestions?
14. Where did most of your money go?
Baby shwag. This doubles as my answer for "what takes up an insane amount of space in my home?"
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Not being pregnant any more. I am a TERRIBLE pregnant woman.
16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
"Eye of the Tiger," although not because I heard it, but because in my non-existent birth plan, I wanted to push the baby out while listening to it. Too bad I didn't actually enact it, but in hindsight, maybe that was a good thing, considering I was weeping copiously and boogery all over everything. Damn hormones.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder?
Is "sleepier" a choice?
ii. thinner or fatter?
I can honestly tell you that I don't know. I was pregnant last year, but I didn't keep track of my weight. Too depressing.
iii. richer or poorer?
Wait, wait, wait. I thought that it was a faux paus to discuss finances. Isn't it?
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Sleep. And have a freaking moment to myself.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Breastfeeding. I know it's not PC to say that I hate it, but I do and Aunt Becky would never lie to you.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
That's not relevant any longer, is it? I'll answer "what will I be doing on NYE?"
Nothing. Fucking nothing. I am a firm believer in the way you spend New Year's Eve being a precursor to how your year is. This year I plan to drink a bunch of champagne and watch movies WITHOUT talking to anyone so as to avoid a fight.
The year that Dave and I had a massive fight led to a nasty hard year. 2006. So no fighting whatsoever this year.
21. There was no #21. I don't know why there was no 21.
I'll make up my own question here, then. Hmmm….
What would cheer you up today?
Hearing from all of my lurkers out there. I have a feeling you are there but you're afraid of Aunt Becky, which will not do. Aunt Becky would like to say "hello, my sexxy bitches" to all of you. What would you like to say to Aunt Becky?
22. Did you fall in love in 2007?
I guess I could say I fell in love with Thing Two, my ickle Alex, but I admit that I loved him before I met him. Such is the way it goes with children. But hell, I was happy to finally meet him.
23. How many one-night stands?
Hahahahahahahah. Bwahahahahahahahaha.
(wipes tears from eyes)
Tons. More than you can even count.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
House, MD. My husband has a Man-Crush on Hugh Laurie and I suppose that I can see why.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Nope. Although I do routinely imbibe in "Hatorade," it's usually pretty non-specific.
26. What was the best book you read?
Duder, I have the attention span of a gnat, thanks to constant sleep deprivation. I sometimes slog through People Magazine.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Nothing. Nada. Zip.
28. What did you want and get?
To be not pregnant any more. And hey, my uterus is now vacant (although Alex may try to get back in again).
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Pan's Labyrinth.
Betcha thought I was gonna say "P.S. I Love You."
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you (optional)?
I turned 27 this year and due to unforseeable circumstances it was the worst birthday I've ever had.
Don't believe me? Go here.
See? I'm not just being melodramatic because I had to take over finishing our bathroom which was supposed to be my birthday present. Nope, no bitter pants here.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Sleep. And an occasional haircut. Oh, and losing the baby weight by now. I'm pretty hung up about the whole weight thing.
Do you think a haircut to my shoulders would make me look like Pinhead? Seriously, I need to know.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
Maternity chic. And "Damn, this doesn't fit EITHER. But hey, it doesn't smell."
34. What kept you sane?
Um…Hi, my name is Becky and I have a blog in which I call myself "Aunt Becky." Do I sound sane to you?
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Britney. Although she has become a trainwreck, she reminds me that my life could always be worse.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
I'm not very political, although I did get a bit sick of people protesting the new Planned Parenthood that went in. It was insane.
37. Whom did you miss?
My waistline.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
My cadre of Virtual Internet Pimps.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007:
"This is not an exit."
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"Gonna raise me an army of some tough sons-a-bitches
Gonna recruit my army at the orphanages"
"Sometimes you're up and sometimes you're down."
16 Responses to Year-In-Review 'Aught Seven
Well, Aunt Becky, you shamed me into delurking. I supposed if I am to partake of your hysterical wisdom, I must pay by revealing myself! New to blogging, new to reading blogs, and yours is one of my most favorites – found you through Niobe – where I also lurk :)!
I have a March babe, too. A girl, though.
Thanks for sharing your crazies – as they are my crazies, too!
Did I say new to blogging? Dur. Got the web addi all wrong!
Umm… I may be considered a lurker. Although I do comment occasionally so probably not. I read a lot more than I comment and this is, hands down, the best blog I've come across in ages. You could call yourself Grandpa Becky and I'd still read it. 🙂 And the baby sleeping (or rather, not sleeping) thing… if you ever find a fool-proof solution, I could use it.
Eye of the Tiger is my cellphone ring tone. Good thing I'm wildly unpopular with potential callers, or my coworkers would have to kill me.
Becks, I definitely think you should start calling yourself Grandpa Becky. That would rock.
A crazy old lady that I used to work with was at a dinner that I was at last week. She had "Hips Don't Lie" as her ringtone, and I almost peed my pants.
I only lurk if I feel that my response to what you've written might take up more space than what you've written…
2008 is going to be a rockin' year. And maybe we'll even manage to get the kids together so they can meet each other!
Delurking to say hello. Thanks for all of the kind words in the last few weeks. I agree, I hated being pregnant as well and didn't bask in any kind of glow (except for the glow of the nightlight at 3 am as I was puking in the toilet). Glad to have the baby outside of the uterus as well. 2008 has to be an improvement, right?
Love the list. Did you see I added you to my blogroll?
Not really a lurker but wanted to say that this meme was highly entertaining to read.
F'in great! I love this and may steal it for me own blog. 😉
While everyone is delurking I guess I will join the crowd. I actually stumbled across your blog last week (thank you Denise) and I have to say that it has become one of my favorites.
Lurker, front and center! *salutes smartly* Actually, I'm a new lurker as of this morning; I think I found you via a comment you left for The Flying Rat, and I've been devouring your archives ever since. LOVE this stuff!


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England in 1819 wants to transport fans
Published: Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 1:20 p.m.
When brothers Andrew and Dan Callaway put together a band with their father Liam, they chose to call it England in 1819.
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Who: England in 1819
When: 7 p.m. Monday
Where: The Coffee Bar, 188 W. Main St.
Info: 582-1227
The name was taken from the title of a Percy Bysshe Shelley sonnet that Andrew said they discovered while "flipping through a poetry book."
It wasn't so much the content of the poem as it was the title that grabbed the Callaways' attention.
"Our very first album we made was definitely (comprised of) this atmospheric, dream-like super slow music," Andrew said. "And we just thought (England in 1819) was a great name for that music because it had this kind of built in sense of space and time.
"It was far away in terms of place and in years, and that just seemed to incorporate the sense that we were trying to (convey) musically."
England in 1819 offers an atmospheric, ethereal sound that blends the pensiveness of British folk-rock with the dreaminess of shoegazing indie rock while also mixing in elements of everything from post-punk to classical. The term "chamber rock" has been used to describe the band's unique sound.
Although their family roots are in Athens, Ga., and they now call Baton Rouge, La., home, the Callaway brothers grew up in the United Kingdom, where their father taught U.S. Air Force bands. Andrew lived there from age 2 to 12, and Dan from birth to age 10.
"Like anybody's childhood, those years were just great," Andrew said. "For us, England will always represent these really fun years of our lives and will kind of be tied to a feeling of innocence and not having any stresses."
The family moved back to the United States in 1994, and Andrew and Dan enrolled in separated music conservatories in Ohio. Andrew studied composition, and Dan studied French horn.
England in 1819 began as an outlet for songs that Andrew composed. The group has released two albums, "Three Cheers for Bertie" and "Alma," and plans to put out an EP next spring.
Andrew said he draws inspiration from the early works of Radiohead and Coldplay as well as from newer electronic outfits such as Beach House and Future House.
Liam's involvement in the late '70s and early '80s Athens, Ga., scene that spawned the B-52s and R.E.M., also contributes to England in 1819's sound.
"My dad real big into music when (Dan and I) were kids, so we were constantly surrounded by it," Andrew said.
And their musical lineage goes back another generation. Liam's father, World War II veteran William Callaway, was a traveling musician during the late 1940s and early '50s.
"It was kind of like a big band type thing and my grandfather played trombone," Andrew said of Bill Callaway and the Counts. "They released one 45 (RPM single). We still have a few copies of it around somewhere."
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CORPUS CHRISTI – Jonathan Gonzales has been named the GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the Week, presented by Pepsi. Gonzales earned the award after recording a career night against Texas State in the series opener on Friday.
Jonathan Gonzales tied a school record for hits in a game on Friday night, going 6-for-6 with eight RBI against Texas State as the Islanders scored the second-most runs in school history during a 23-7 win over the Bobcats in seven innings.
He started the game with two doubles and then had four straight singles to end the night. The Islanders first baseman struck out just once on the weekend against a team that had averaged 8.5 Ks per game coming into the series and finished the series with a .538 batting average.
Next up for Gonzales and the Islanders baseball team will be four more games in four days, as they travel to Houston – Victoria on Thursday for the final pre-conference game of the year, and then play a three-game series against Sam Houston State on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It will be the first Southland Conference series of the year for both teams.
Keep up-to-date with GoIslanders.com each week to see who is named the GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the week, presented by Pepsi. Also, for the latest information, follow Islanders Athletics on Twitter (@Go_Islanders) and Facebook (Islanders Athletics).
2012-13 GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the week, presented by Pepsi Weekly Winners:
9-5-12: Shannon Hullum, Volleyball
9-11-12: Ivy Baresh, Volleyball
9-18-12: Tyger Holt, Volleyball
9-25-12: Peter Nagy, Men's Tennis and Maider Martin, Women's Tennis
10-2-12: Peter Nagy, Men's Tennis
10-9-12: Shannon Hullum, Volleyball
10-16-12: Vanessa Johnson, Women's Golf
10-23-12: Odon Barta, Men's Tennis
10-30-12: Patrick Kimeli, Men's Cross Country and BreAnna Briggs, Women's Cross Country
11-6-12: Micah Nolan, Volleyball
11-20-12: Hameed Ali, Men's Basketball
11-27-12: Nate Maxey, Men's Basketball
12-18-12: Brandon Pye, Men's Basketball
1-15-13: Daniel Barlow, Men's Track and Field
1-29-13: Maider Martin, Women's Tennis
2-5-13: Roger De La Cruz, Men's Track and Field
2-12-13: Joy Williamson, Men's Basketball
2-19-13: Trevor Foss, Baseball
2-26-13: Meagan McKinney, Softball
3-5-13: Peter Nagy, Men's Tennis
3-19-13: Jonathan Gonzales, Baseball


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The Gridley High School Softball team has embarked on a six game winning streak after three wins over Orland last week, and taking all three games at the Biggs tournament—including a victory in the final game against the hosting Lady Wolverines. Last Thursday in a home victory over Orland, the Lady Bulldogs won their third straight against the Trojans from Orland, 6-2. Junior Megan Anthony—who has the team high batting average at .400—went 3 for 4 with a double and two RBIs. Senior Fraine Cox hit 2 for 4, including two doubles and one RBI. Senior Sandra Dreesman went 3 for 3 with an RBI. In their first game at the Biggs Softball Tournament, the girls picked up a decisive 23-3 victory over Princeton and did not slow down after that. Fraine Cox finished 2 for 3 with a homerun and five RBIs, while Megan Anthony went 3 for 3 with a triple and four RBIs. Victoria Ingram finished 2 for 2 with a double and an RBI. Whitney Hall also picked up a double, as did Mikaela Ponciano who went 3 for 3. Megan Anthony went 2 for 4 with double in a victory over Portola. Ariel Ingram also picked up a double and finished 2 for 3. Sophomore Dominique Nelson stepped up behind the plate with seven strikeouts. In the final game against the hosting Biggs Lady Wolverines, Nelson took over behind the mound from Cox and struck out six straight to seal the victory over the tournament hosts. Ashtyn MacFarlane finished with three RBIs and a double after going 1 for 3, while Ariel Ingram went 2 for 4. Nelson finished 1 for 3, as did Victoria Ingram and Fraine Cox. The girls will play Wheatland on April 9, which could likely be their toughest game of the season.
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SANTA CLARA -- As the express train came hurtling toward the Santa Clara station, Philip Scholz was waiting on the raised platform for his train home when he saw a man down on the Caltrain tracks.
Scholz acted fast. He dropped his backpack, lay down on his belly and reached for the stranger on the tracks.
"As the train approached, the person did want to get out of the way," said his wife, Emily Scholz, "but between him and Phil, something happened and they were hit."
Scholz died on the tracks. The man he tried to help survived.
Speaking publicly on Friday for the first time since her husband's rescue attempt went wrong Monday evening, Emily Scholz said she learned he was dead -- and what he did -- when San Mateo County sheriff's deputies arrived at her doorstep that night to deliver the horrible news.
The only person who knows exactly what happened remains in critical condition at the hospital, unable to talk to investigators. Why he was on the tracks is still a mystery -- and it also isn't clear how he escaped death.
But based on surveillance footage, Caltrain knows that Scholz -- a popular Silicon Valley marketer -- was looking at the man on the tracks, maybe even talking to him before he made his last-ditch effort to pull the stranger to safety.
"It ... appears Mr. Scholz was attempting to help the surviving victim, based on preliminary information," said Christine Dunn, a Caltrain spokeswoman.
The commuter train, however, was barreling through the station at 50 to 70 mph, Caltrain officials said. The express train didn't stop and plowed into the men about 5:30 p.m. on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Scholz, a 35-year-old Pleasanton resident who worked as a marketing manager for Santa Clara-based computer graphics company Nvidia, was dead at the scene. The identity of the man who survived has not been released.
Scholz's death left friends and co-workers stunned -- shocked to lose a well-loved and respected companion but not surprised to hear he died trying to save someone else. He helped people. That is what he did, they said, even to the extent of risking his life for someone he'd never met.
"That's totally Phil, putting someone else before himself," said Matt Conwell of Portland, Ore., who met Scholz 12 years ago in a professional capacity but became fast friends. "That's the way he was. I can only hope to live life like he did."
Nvidia co-founder Chris Malachowsky said the act "completely resonates with something consistent with the guy."
"He was confident, aggressive, capable, I could see that without a moment's hesitation, he's going to act," Malachowsky said. "I'm sure his knee-jerk, no hesitation to help someone else is what caused this -- he goes down as a hero in my book."
A Facebook page dedicated to remembering Scholz soon brimmed with more than 500 "likes," something Conwell called a "testament to how he lived, and how this guy was loved by friends and family."
Scholz grew up in Washington state, moving to the Bay Area after high school to attend Santa Clara University. That's where he met his wife, although they didn't start dating until after college, eventually moving to Pleasanton together a decade ago.
He made friends quickly at work, at gaming conventions and on the field playing a host of recreational sports. Despite his video-game related job, Scholz preferred off-screen endeavors, Emily Scholz said.
"Once in a while he might sneak away on a Friday night to play 'Call of Duty,' but I wouldn't identify him as a gamer," she said. "He was a huge A's fan, and very into sports. And more than just drinking beer and playing softball -- he played competitive baseball on a league."
But he meshed that competitive spirit with compassion and a genuine interest in others that made him very charismatic and "that guy you wanted to hang out with," Conwell said.
"I'm still in shock and disbelief," he said. "There's this residual feeling that this was just too soon, and not very fair."
Caltrain did not have any more information Friday about the man who survived.
Reeling from her sudden loss, Emily Scholz said she's not concerned with what investigators find out about why the man was on the tracks.
"It just doesn't matter at this point," she said in a tearful phone interview, instead reflecting on Philip's final act. "I just want people to know that he wasn't doing something stupid, or that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He wasn't in some kind of argument.
"He was doing the right thing when it happened."
Contact Eric Kurhi at 408-920-5852. Follow him at Twitter.com/erickurhi.
What: Services for Philip Scholz
When: 10 a.m. Feb. 10
Where: Veterans Memorial Building, 301 Main St., Pleasanton


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Turn Your Home into a Five-Star Resort with Tropical Fans
Whether your home is located in a tropical area or not, tropical ceiling fans lend a warm, exotic touch to any residence. Tropical fans, like conventional ceiling fans, rotate bamboo or paddle blades to circulate air in order to create a gentle and cooling breeze. These fans provide cooling comfort and are suitable for indoor or outdoor rooms, including hot tubs and saunas. However, homeowners purchasing tropical outdoor 52 ceiling fans should confirm the fans are UL-rated for damp or wet environments to ensure the longevity of the fan.
Tropical fans offer many of the same features as traditional ceiling fans including lighting and remote control options. Tropical small ceiling fans with lights create a calming breeze while providing functional task or mood lighting. These fans are ideal for bedrooms, casual dining areas or meditation spaces. Tropical ceiling fans with remote control allow residents to adjust the fan's lighting as well as speed, blade direction, and power. These remote control fans are ideal for hard to reach areas with inclined ceilings.
A Tropical Room in 5 Easy Steps
After a long day at work or school, many homeowners and residents look forward to unwinding at home, but relaxing amidst the distractions of the computer, telephone or television can be difficult. Here are a few tips to turning any room or space in your home into your personal retreat with the use of tropical ceiling fans.
Colors - Choose neutral wall colors like off-white, taupe, and tan that evoke the idea of sand. Use bold accent colors like coral and turquoise on throw pillows, rugs, and curtains.
Furniture - Select furniture made from natural materials like bamboo, rattan or wicker. Look for color-washed pieces for a more authentic look and feel.
Fabric - Curtains, pillows, cushions, and furniture coverings should be made from organic fabrics like linen or cotton, which feel more comfortable against the skin.
Decorations - Select decorations inspired by nature like shells, smooth stones and fossils. In addition, use flowers and plans, like orchids and bamboo, as natural ornaments.
- Ventilation - No tropical getaway is complete without a gentle, ocean breeze. If you cannot get to the ocean, at the very least let the breeze come to you with a tropical fan.


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Every now and then, the rhetoric I hear from certain politicians in Washington reminds me of something Dale Carnegie, the self-improvement guru, once said: �When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.�
Such is the case in THIS SITUATION:
After conservatives on Thursday brought down House Speakerr John Boehner's bill to address the border crisis, the new House Republican leadership team issued a joint statement declaring that President Obama should fix the problem himself.
�There are numerous steps the president can and should be taking right now, without the need for congressional action,� the leadership quartet proclaimed, �to secure our borders and ensure these children are returned swiftly and safely to their countries.�
Just the day before, House Republicans had voted to sue Obama for using his executive authority. They called him lawless, a usurper, a monarch, a tyrant � all for postponing deadlines in the implementation of Obamacare. Now they were begging him to take executive action to compensate for their own inability to act � even though, in this case, accelerating the deportation of thousands of unaccompanied children coming from Central America would likely require Obama to ignore a 2008 law.
This was not a momentary lapse but a wholesale upending of reason.


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strain 1
1 [with object] Force (a part of one's body or oneself) to make a strenuous or unusually great effort: I stopped and listened, straining my ears for any sound
More example sentences
- Anyone who forgot to bring the radio had to stand or strain themselves to listen to the game on somebody else's radio.
- He cries weakly, the effort clearly straining his feeble body.
- When one strained oneself to listen to the speaker one could make out that some important male writers were speaking in generalities.
1.1Injure (a limb, muscle, or organ) by overexerting it or twisting it awkwardly: on cold days you are more likely to strain a muscle glare from the screen can strain your eyes
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- I need to have wheels installed on this thing, she thought, straining her arm muscles and knocking her knees against its bulk as she walked.
- Aberfeldie last year learned the cost of attacking through one player when Minton-Connell strained his thigh muscle in the warm-up before the grand final.
- But because Gandy has favored the muscle, it has partially torn his right biceps and strained another muscle.
1.2 [no object] Make a strenuous and continuous effort: his voice was so quiet that I had to strain to hear it
More example sentences
- She whispered so softly that Heart had to strain to hear.
- Because I was taking notes and straining to hear what was being said on the tape, I didn't necessarily realise what was being said.
- Be quiet and excuse me; I am straining to hear a conversation and you are making it difficult for me to catch all of it.
struggle, labor, toil, make every effort, try very hard, break one's back, push/drive oneself to the limit
informal pull out all the stops, go all out, bust a gut
1.3Make severe or excessive demands on: he strained her tolerance to the limit
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- The Habsburg Monarchy was strained by the demands of different nationalities for autonomy.
- In the era of the Internet, the efficacy of the name suppression orders was always going to be severely strained, but some online publishers took the issue seriously.
- Relations between Chicago and Britain have been severely strained by the announcement, coming as it does weeks before an election.
overtax, overwork, overextend, overreach, drive too far;
exhaust, wear out;
overdo it
informal knock oneself out
1.4 [no object] Pull or push forcibly at something: the bear strained at the chain around its neck his stomach was swollen, straining against the thin shirt
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- It uses the pressure points on the shih-tzu's nose and head to apply pressure which stops the shih-tzu from pulling, jumping and straining against the leash.
- No matter how he twisted and pulled, straining against the straps, he could not free himself.
- Fenix jerked, straining against the cord - he wanted to murder the man!
1.5Stretch (something) tightly: the barbed wire fence was strained to posts six feet high
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- For the most part the structure is strained tightly together, and decorated, by spidery cross braces.
- During these works transmitting took place with the help of an antenna which was strained between the other tower and a small wood mast.
- It originally used as transmitting antenna a cage aerial, which was strained between two 60 meters tall wood towers.
1.6 archaic Embrace (someone) tightly: she strained the infant to her bosom again
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- When she blinked, she saw the boy fall down and the mother straining him and beating at him.
- I felt his arms straining me, could hear his laughter near me, could smell his stench.
2 [with object] Pour (a mainly liquid substance) through a porous or perforated device or material in order to separate out any solid matter: strain the custard into a bowl
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- Slowly strain the butter through a fine sieve into a clean pan, leaving the sediment behind.
- To finish, strain the infused milk into a clean saucepan, add the breadcrumbs and whisk over a medium heat for two to three minutes until thickened.
- Simmer for 10 minutes, leave to cool and then strain the mixture through a sieve into a large jug.
2.1Cause liquid to drain off (food that has been boiled, soaked, or canned) by pouring through a perforated device.
Example sentences
- Right whales are large baleen whales, meaning that instead of teeth they have bonelike plates, which they use to strain food from large gulps of water.
- Simmer for five minutes, then remove from heat and strain all ingredients.
- When you're ready to start cooking, strain the beef, reserving the marinade and the other ingredients.
2.2Drain off (liquid) by straining: strain off the surplus fat
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- This is the most successful part of the recipe. You strain the mussel liquid into a bowl, wipe out your pot, then re-add the liquid and bring it to a boil.
- It is at this point that you would want to strain off the residual liquid.
- After about three weeks strain off the liquid and water it around the roots of the plants.
1A force tending to pull or stretch something to an extreme or damaging degree: the usual type of chair puts an enormous strain on the spine aluminum may bend under strain
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- The structure of the ligamenta flava enables them to be stretched to high strains without damage.
- In addition to the pull of Jupiter's gravity, Io also feels the strain from the gravitational fields of Jupiter's other large moons.
- What is the impact of stresses and strains from external forces on our practice field?
1.1 Physics The magnitude of a deformation, equal to the change in the dimension of a deformed object divided by its original dimension.
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- At relatively low shear strains, deformation is apparent from the slight deformation of strain markers, such as the overturning of ice-wedge casts.
- In this paper we present new quantitative data on strain, deformation temperatures and vorticity of flow at the top of the Greater Himalayan Slab.
- The c-maximum fabric normal to foliation is typical of calcite rocks deformed experimentally to high strains in simple shear.
1.2An injury to a part of the body caused by overexertion or twisting a muscle awkwardly: he has a slight groin strain
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- The new automobile insurance system includes a limit of $4,000 on pain and suffering awards for a minor injury such as a strain, sprain or minor whiplash.
- The most common snow injuries are strains, sprains and fractures.
- Chronic knee injuries include things like strains, sprains and tendinitis.
injury, sprain, wrench, twist
2A severe or excessive demand on the strength, resources, or abilities of someone or something: the accusations put a strain on relations between the two countries she's obviously under considerable strain
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- This modification, while it suits the owner perfectly, put a strain on my ability to shoot small 25 yard groups.
- It is this population boom that has put a strain on the land resource in Zambia creating a breeding ground for desertification.
- Overweight and obese people are at far greater risk of a number of illnesses, including diabetes and heart disease, and an ever fatter population will put a strain on healthcare resources.
informal hassle
2.1A state of tension or exhaustion resulting from this: the telltale signs of nervous strain
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- Exhaustion, strain and tension are what hit you.
- This constant state of alert places high tension and strain on staff.
- As the first week passed by so did some strain and tension on the couple's relationship.
stress, (nervous) tension;
exhaustion, fatigue, pressure of work, overwork
3 (usually strains) The sound of a piece of music as it is played or performed: through the open windows came the strains of a hurdy-gurdy playing in the street
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- Baraka here is particularly interested in the differing timbres or tones that the two strains of music produced.
- In the Kiev Sports Palace gymnasium I watched Larissa go through her paces to the strains of music by Tchaikovsky.
- A fan turns slowly overhead, keeping time with the strains of Latino music.
sound, music;
melody, tune
at (full) strain
- archaic Using the utmost effort.Example sentences
- Recovery of stored electrochemical energy should enable moderate efficiencies to be achieved even at full strain.
- Operating an actuator of stack height at half its potential strain, compared to operating a stack of height at full strain, reduces power consumption by 50%.
- The manager finds himself on-board a 24-foot boat, careening into a wave-whipping southeast wind, sailing full strain.
strain every nerve
- see nerve.
strain at the leash
- see leash.
strainable adjective
- Example sentences
- Soft bodies are manufactured from strainable cotton or velours material and can be washed off damp.
- The pure aluminium is highly strainable and it induces a particularised texture, common to the material and to the used forming process.
- It's also strainable for quick clean-up on the cage floor.
Middle English (as a verb): from Old French estreindre, from Latin stringere 'draw tight'. Current senses of the noun arose in the mid 16th century.
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1A breed, stock, or variety of an animal or plant developed by breeding.
Example sentences
- Australia has been trying to breed better strains of plants and animals for ever.
- Individual species are also becoming standardized, experts say, with cultivated strains of animals and plants ousting local varieties.
- A survey of 13 domestic breeds and 3 inbred strains was carried out.
1.1A natural or cultured variety of a microorganism with a distinct form, biochemistry, or virulence.
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- Lesprit and coworkers investigated the impact of this system by comparing the virulence of two bacterial strains in a rat model of acute pneumonia.
- Prevnar protects against seven strains of Streptococcus pneumonia bacteria.
- When she went to hospital to have the wound examined she was informed that she was infected with a strain of staph bacteria, similar to the MRSA superbug.
2A particular tendency as part of a person's character: there was a powerful strain of insanity on her mother's side of the family
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- These are two warring but important strains to the national character, at tension with each other.
- Though not slapstick or of the knee-slapping variety, Hamer is droll and often wickedly subtle in his deadly strain of humour.
- Tense, haunted and melancholy, the composer's dark vision was only relieved by a mordant strain of humour.
trait, disposition
2.1A variety of a particular abstract thing: a strain of feminist thought
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- There is a strain of feminism that encourages women to behave as if we have arrived in some feminist Utopia where rape is impossible.
- What about the strain of radical feminism in the current government and the attitudes they create?
- There's a strain of feminism that comes out of the women's health movement of the seventies that is deeply suspicious of reproductive technology.
element, strand, vein, note, trace, touch, suggestion, hint
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE - When you get the pesky rock that hits your windshield, it creates a rock chip that has penetrated the first layer of your windshield. The integrity of the glass has been compromised.
The most preventive way to keep that rocking chip from spreading is to get to your auto glass company and get it repaired. Now if you can't do that right away, here are some steps to buy you some time:
• First, try to avoid running your defroster or heating element in your windshield (in the weather conditions here, that is tough to avoid).
• Second, try to avoid the car wash or putting hot water on your windshield in the winter, and vise versa in the summertime.
• Third, you can also purchase a rock and bug deflector from your local auto parts store (not full proof, but it does help).
• Lastly, no tailgating. After a fresh snow, Caltrans is going to lay down a mix of pea gravel and sand for traction on the roadway that is going to kick up from other vehicles tires. With a safe distance you can avoid being pelted by rocks.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Whether he likes it or not, Buster Posey is the face mask of the new Major League Baseball rules regarding home plate collisions.
But the misplay at the plate that opened the floodgates in Tuesday night's 5-0 loss to the Atlanta Braves had nothing to do with MLB's desire to protect catchers. Posey simply whiffed on what looked to be an easy tag, and the Giants spent the rest of the night waving harmlessly at Mike Minor's pitches.
The Giants had only five hits, but with Ryan Vogelsong continuing his May surge, they trailed just 1-0 after five innings. Jason Heyward reached on a leadoff single in the sixth and went to second on a deep fly ball. Freddie Freeman singled to right, and third-base coach Doug Dascenzo frantically -- and inexplicably -- waved Heyward home against Hunter Pence, who has one of the best right field rifles in the game.
When Posey caught the perfect throw and turned, Heyward was still about 20 feet from the plate. But he came in low and wide, ducking under Posey's two-handed tag attempt. Posey said he didn't think Heyward had a shot at getting around him.
"I thought I was in the right position," Posey said. "You don't really expect a big guy like that to move as well as he did."
Manager Bruce Bochy came out to challenge the call, but the decision was based more on hope than fact. The Giants thought there might be one angle that showed Posey nicking the back of Heyward's jersey, but it took just 35 seconds for umpires to confirm the safe call. It didn't take any time for Posey to know he had missed. As home plate umpire Ed Hickox threw up the safe sign, Posey quietly stared out at center field. There was no arguing the bang-bang play.
"I didn't feel anything (with my glove)," Posey said.
Instead of having two outs, a runner on second and a one-run deficit, Vogelsong found himself down 2-0 with a runner in scoring position and one out. A walk and two singles made it 4-0 and ended a night that started so well for Vogelsong. He struck out five the first time through the order and tied his career-high with eight strikeouts, but he was charged with four earned runs and took his second loss of the season.
"He threw the ball really well," Posey said. "He deserved better, for sure."
Vogelsong shouldered a large portion of the blame.
"He was safe, and it's my job to make pitches after that to get us out of there," he said of the sixth. "I didn't do it."
Even before a collision that cost Posey most of the 2011 season, the Giants taught their catchers to stay out of harm's way. Bochy said Tuesday's mistake would be added to the syllabus.
"These slides are getting creative," he said. "It wasn't the first time we've missed a tag. It's pretty simple, I think. At this point, whether it's second, third or home, they're doing hook slides. He went around him and ducked his shoulder. There's not a lot to say about the tag there. He was in a pretty good position.
"I think (Posey) thought he had him easily. You have to give (Heyward) credit -- he did a good job of avoiding the tag. We'll learn from this."
In the end, the missed tag was a talking point more than anything. The Giants left eight on base and never seriously threatened after the sixth.
"Their guy pitched well," Bochy said of Minor. "We didn't do hardly anything offensively."
Belt did take to Twitter after having two pins inserted in the thumb, tweeting: "Made it out alive!"
The Giants are expected to be without their slugging first baseman for about eight weeks, and in the first four days without Belt, four different players have started at first base: Posey, Joaquin Arias, Michael Morse and Hector Sanchez, who was 1 for 4 in his first career start at first.
For more on the Giants, see Alex Pavlovic's Giants Extra blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/Giants. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/AlexPavlovic.
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By Chris Kawalek-Oracle on Jul 18, 2014
Happy Friday!
It's been an exciting week here! If you haven't read Ronen Kofman's (@RonenKofman) excellent write-up about Mirantis, Oracle Linux, and Oracle VM, be sure to have a look.
And for our spotlight this week, I wanted to highlight a fantastic series of events coming up during August in Latin America:
Congratulations to the Latin America User Groups on assembling yet another great tour for 2014!!! Agendas are packed full of great topics from Oracle Database to Oracle Linux, Oracle VM, including Java and Cloud Solutions. If you find yourself in the region or live there, please register and reserve a seat. Talk to the experts, get hands on. No spin, just a great learning experience with experienced users!!
Brazil - August 2
Panamá - August 4
Chile - August 4 and 5
Costa Rica - August 6
Perú - August 7
México - August 8
Guatemala - August 11
Argentina - August 11 and 12
El Salvador - August 13
Uruguay - August 14 and 15
Colombia - August 15 and 16
Ecuador - August 18 and 19
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Stand on the middle of a resistance band, grab a handle in each hand, and lean forward at the hips. Press your arms straight back as high as you can, keeping your back flat and knees slightly bent. Next, bend your elbows, bringing your hands up to your shoulders, and then extend back again. Do three sets of 15 reps.
Lift your right leg a foot off the ground. Hold a weight in each hand, arms bent at a 90-degree angle, palms facing each other. Extend the weights down to the sides of your hips, then lift back up. Do 15 reps; switch sides. Complete three full sets on each side.
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There are many types of grinders and other tools to use with herbs. These are only a few of the better items currently available on the market.
All types of finest herb grinders
There are all types of fine herb grinders: grinders that are metal made from titanium, anodized aluminum, clear-top grinders, and wooden grinders to name only a few, ranging in size from massive to mini. They also sell other very unique items including lighters, pollen presses, storage containers and a lot more.
Patented scissor teeth
There are hundreds of ultra-sharp patented, scissor teeth on the Microplane herb mill that will superbly chop fresh herbs without blemishing or tearing the gentle leaves. Simply twist the ergonomic soft-touch handle to dispense and keep your hands free of herb moisture that is very aromatic. These blades are made in the United States and are safe to wash in a dishwasher.
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- Patented scissor teeth, ultra-sharp, for finely chop herbs with no blemishing and tearing of leaves
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Shopping for new grinder
When you are shopping for a new herb grinder, there are several things that you need to look for. First, made certain it is made from top quality materials. Most grinders are made out of aluminum, but not all aluminum quality is the same. Some aluminum grinders are coated with metallic alloys for added strength.
Lids and Rings
Next, consider the features that are important for you. Magnetic lids are great since they help to reduce spilling. Sharp teeth and glide rings make grinding easier as well as smoother. Some grinders have clear sides and tops so you are able to see how much of the bud is remaining.
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Additionally, you will need to take price and style into consideration. With price you usually get what you pay for, but there are tons of cool styles to choose from. From the sleek metallic grinder to the colorful to clear, there is a great style out on the market place for everyone.
Weed grinders are fairly simple tools and are easy to use.
Using a weed grinder
First step in using weed grinders is to remove the lid of the uppermost section and place your buds in the teeth in a circle midway in-between the center and outer edge. Putting all your bud in the center tends not to work well.
Then you will need to rotate the lid repeatedly to grind all the buds giving in about 5 good turns in each direction. You should then look to ensure that all the buds made it through to the next section.
The next step is prior to opening the grinder giving it a sideways shake to even out the ground up buds so that they do not spill out when you open it. This will also help with more kief falling into the kief catcher at the bottom.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Brian Wilson's decision to sign with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday might have come as a shock to much of the Giants fan base, but Wilson's former teammates were happy that the mercurial closer is getting another chance.
"I'm definitely curious to see what he's featuring," Tim Lincecum said.
Asked if he was talking about Wilson's on-field ability or his trademark black beard, Lincecum smiled.
"All of the above," he said.
Lincecum and the Giants should get an up-close look at Wilson before the season is through. The Giants go to Los Angeles on Sept. 12 and host the Dodgers during the season's last homestand.
Wilson had his second Tommy John surgery in April 2012 and has been rehabbing ever since. According to the Los Angeles Times, Wilson's $1 million contract is guaranteed and runs through the end of this season. He is expected to return to the big leagues in the middle of August.
After seven seasons with the Giants, Wilson is sure to draw an interesting reaction from those at AT&T Park, but his former teammates said the matchups won't be contentious.
"It's kind of a bittersweet thing," Matt Cain said. "He's with the Dodgers, our biggest rival, but I'm happy for him because he's back playing. Probably a lot of people thought he'd be done.
"You know that once he comes back, he might have some hard feelings from the fans. But just as many will be excited to see him back out there again."
Cain was one of several Giants to send Wilson a congratulatory text when news of the signing broke.
"I told him that hopefully he'll hang a slider if I get to hit off of him," Cain said.
Current Giants closer Sergio Romo also texted Wilson, offering support to a man who helped Romo adapt to the big leagues.
"I said it when he first got hurt, he was going to play again," Romo said. "He's the best example of willpower I've ever seen."
Romo has a bit of a history with Wilson's new team. During the last meeting between the rivals, Romo mocked Hanley Ramirez's celebratory gesture, then was yelled at by Ramirez and Yasiel Puig when the Dodgers stormed to a ninth-inning victory the next day. Still, Romo said it won't be weird to see Wilson in Dodger blue.
"I'm just happy he's got a job," Romo said. "To see him in another uniform is just seeing a friend playing baseball."
A day before the trade deadline, Wilson stole the headlines with his decision to switch to the other side of a storied rivalry. The move was even discussed in the home clubhouse at Citizens Bank Park, where the Giants began a three-game series with the Phillies on Tuesday night. Former Giant Kevin Frandsen said he had talked to Wilson, his former roommate.
"He's excited," Frandsen said. "He wants to compete. He wants to compete at the highest level. He made sure he was ready and made sure he was right."
Frandsen knows better than most what Wilson has been going through. The infielder grew up a Giants fan, but in a Phillies clubhouse swirling with trade rumors, he pointed out that this is simply the business side of the game.
"People are going to have their allegiances to the Giants," he said. "But put yourself in that situation. You understand that there's going to be a lot of hate. People 'can't believe he's doing that to us.' But at some point, people will realize that he was a great Giant. A great Giant."
For more on the Giants, see Alex Pavlovic's Giants Extra blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/Giants. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/AlexPavlovic.
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