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WEST WINDSOR — Colonial Valley Conference ice hockey comes down to one big thing that separates the elite teams from the rest of the league right now: the ability of teams to roll more than two lines out on the ice for extended periods of game time.
Robbinsville High School is one of the teams that can roll out three or four lines on any given night, and that was the difference yesterday as the Ravens beat West Windsor-Plainsboro North 9-3, scoring four of the last five goals to break open a close game.
"We were able to roll three lines, and they were rolling two for the most part," said Ravens head coach Dan Bergan.
The Knights, although their record does not show it, are much improved from the first few weeks of the season, but their lack of depth means they wear down in games. That has not stopped head coach Andrew Ferencevych from staying positive about the team.
"Robbinsville is a very good hockey team, and we were able to stick with them for two periods," Ferencevych said. "One problem we have, though, is we can't stick with a team that has been able to roll three lines all game. I think that hurt us in the third period. We had a lot of tired guys, and that led to some breakdowns that Robbinsville was able to capitalize."
Matt Reed and Anthony Pluchino were two of the Ravens that capitalized later in the game. Pluchino scored his first varsity goal at the end of the second period to make the score 6-2. Reed opened the scoring in the second period, then scored two goals in the third as he tallied his first career varsity hat trick.
"It feels really good," Pluchino said of his first goal. "I am so excited right now. That was a tough game today. We have a lot of tough ones coming up as well. We have the heart to go out there and win them; we just have to keep showing it on the ice."
"This was a good game today," Reed said. "I thought both teams played well for much of the game. North held it close for two periods. My teammates did a good job feeding me the puck today. Our line was in good position all game, and it worked out well."
Bergan was pleased to see the whole squad chip in.
"Anytime you can involve all the kids, it makes for a happy locker room," Bergan said. "The kids that get more ice time enjoy seeing the other guys out there. We have a good group of guys, very unselfish."
Robbinsville is entering a run of tough games. Its next game is Friday against Princeton, which is a much-anticipated matchup on the CVC calendar, and will go a long way toward determining who stays in the race for the Colonial Division title.
"Oh man — huge," Bergan said. "Friday is a huge game. I talked to the guys about today being a little bit of a trap game. So it was important to win today's game, with North right in front of us, not the game that is down the road."
FIRST PERIOD — R: Shawn Camisa (Matt Reed, Dom Rubino) 9:43; W: Gordon Sine (Alex Richman, Tyler Birch) 8:54; R: Eric Hildebrand (Coleman Anker, Dan Cox) 4:34; R: Coleman Anker 2:33. SECOND PERIOD — R: Matt Reed (Anthony Pluchino) 14:27; R: Coleman Anker (Keith Allen, John Martin) 7:33; W: Greg Olsson 4:31; R: Anthony Pluchino (Matt Reed, Matt Carlin) 2:39. THIRD PERIOD — R: Eric Hildebrand (Keith Allen, Coleman Anker) pp 12:17; R: Matt Reed (Shawn Camisa, Kevin Cifelli) 9:48; W: Greg Olsson 8:19; R: Matt Reed (Cole Sousa, Rich Francis) 3:14.
SAVES — R: Kyle Perez 6, Alex Sherman 6; W: Ian Schwartz 15.
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The House is expected to consider a tribal-state gambling compact that would allow the Navajo Nation to open three additional casinos.
House Speaker W. Ken Martinez of Grants said lawmakers will debate and vote on the proposal on Tuesday.
The Navajos operate two Las Vegas-style casinos in New Mexico under a compact expiring next year and a third casino offers low-stakes gambling not subject to state regulation.
The proposed compact would permit the state's largest tribe to phase in three new casinos over 15 years.
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ENGLEWOOD — A city teenager who went missing in July was found safe Thursday after she was arrested in the Bronx, authorities said.
Caroline Starkman, 18, left her parents home voluntarily and had been staying in New York City ever since, according to Englewood Police Chief Arthur O'Keefe.
She had left the home on several occasions in the past, and authorities assumed that her latest disappearance was also her decision.
"There was nothing to indicate she was in any danger. She simply didn't want to be in the family household," O'Keefe said.
Starkman's disappearance did not become public until early this month, when her parents made a public plea through their synagogue, Ahavath Torah.
Rabbi Shmuel Goldin sent a letter to parishioners and the media, asking for help in finding the girl they described as "a beautiful 18-year-old Touro College student from a modern Orthodox Jewish family."
Ahavath Torah also offered a $10,000 reward for information that would help authorities in locating her.
Starkman was reportedly released Thursday night and reunited with her parents shortly thereafter.
O'Keefe said Englewood police are investigating the circumstances that have led Starkman to repeatedly flee their home.
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The Penn State University Board of Trustees will meet this weekend to discuss the NCAA sanctions and the search for a new university president.
The sanctions included a four-year bowl ban and a $60 million fine.
"I believe that the NCAA overstepped its authority. We as a board have never adopted or accepted the Freeh Report that appears to be the basis for those sanctions. Only time will tell how that gets resolved," said Penn State Trustee Anthony Lubrano.
Rodney Erickson, who took over as president when Graham Spanier left under pressure, has said he's not coming back after his contract expires in 2014.
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How to Create a Virtual Skateboard
March 5, 2011
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Today we all came in as usual, waiting to see what was in store for us. At first, most of us thought that it was just going to be another day on Second Life (not that that's a bad thing or anything, but isn't it nice when something you don't expect to happen, well, happens?)
Imagine our collective surprise when our professor, who teaches computer animation and is a character designer, showed us many of his creative character designs. He then proceeded to teach us how to build characters in a professional, character-building animation program called Maya. Maya is software used by the likes of huge names such as Walt Disney Animation and Dreamworks, and is hugely popular in the filmmaking industry.
The program, our professor described, is like a ball of clay – one starts from scratch, and molds the clay into a figure. Maya works the same way – a basic shape is chosen, and then molded into something familiar. Today, we were to mold our "clay" into a character.
Many of us caught on to the program fast, while some of us needed a bit of help along the way. But at the end, our professor admitted that most (if not all) of us were already really good at making our characters come to life, despite being beginners at the program.
After breaking for lunch, we moved on to working in Second Life. Today most of us were to begin building for the first time. One of our classmates, who is already really awesome at building things in Second Life, stood at the front of the class and began to lecture us on how build.
After some fooling around and getting used to the controls, the instructor gave us a new assignment: build an object that resembles a form of transport, in 45 minutes.
Again, many of us had trouble getting started, but with help from the instructor and advice from our neighbors, all of us were able to create something in the given amount of time. Boats, spaceships, rockets, cars, trucks and all sorts of other things were made, but definitely the best and most creative creation was a gigantic, colorful skateboard using only basic shapes and a couple of editing tricks.
So, yeah today was a pretty great day in Digital WAVE! We learned a lot, both in Maya and Second Life!


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More than halfway through the season, the playoff picture is beginning to take shape. Chicago and Miami have continued to pull away as the top two teams, while coming off a recent six-game win streak keep knocking on the door.
On the flip side of the coin, Philadelphia has lost eight of ten while in Orlando the trade talk surrounding Dwight Howard is reaching epic proportions.
Here are the latest installments of the power rankings as teams kick off the second half and prepare for the home stretch of the season.


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Imagine this: two small, skinny boys named Stevie and Stanley were identical twins born on April Fools' Day. They grew up in a metal house where they constantly shocked each other. In high school they had identical grade point averages. When they grew up they married women with the same first name.
Sounds like a zany children's book, right? Yes, but it's also the true story of Stanley and Stephen Toompas, who recently published their funny childhood memories as "I'm the One the Other Isn't: The Stevie-Stanley Stories."
"The book has already sold 400 copies in eight weeks," Stanley Toompas, an optometrist in Philippi, said this week. "People are laughing like crazy. People call me and say, 'My face hurts.' I say, 'Why?' They say, 'From laughing.'"
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Brothers Stephen and Stanley Toompas recall memories from their childhood in their new book 'I'm the One the Other Isn't:?The Stevie-Stanley Stories.' Barbour County natives, the duo have lived lives of continuous similarities.
He and his twin brother Stephen, a pharmacist and drug store owner in Bridgeport, began telling stories of their childhood to their own children as bedtime tales.
"At bedtime my son would say, 'Hey, Dad, tell me a story about Uncle Stevie.' Later on we realized that both his kids and my kids called them the 'Stevie-Stanley Stories,'" Stanley said.
"Eventually we said, 'We need to turn these stories into a book.' It was a great idea, but 1993 quickly turned into 2011 - the years just go by," he said. "Eventually I told my brother we needed to write the book before time passed us by. So I started and showed him what I'd done, and he loved it and started writing as well."
The twins grew up in Clarksburg in the 1960s and '70s. The house they were raised in was made entirely of metal, one of a small number of experimental model homes in the area.
"We really were constantly shocking each other while we were kids. Everything in the house was metal," Stanley said. "We always said that's why we have no common sense."
After a fun childhood of riding their Stingray bicycles through town and having unusual adventures - such as running away from storms with their mother - the boys graduated as co-salutatorians of the 1976 class at Roosevelt Wilson High School in Nutter Fort.
"People always find that interesting, identical twins with identical grades, but we did not have the exact same grades," Stanley said. "We would take the same class and one would get an A and the other a B, and vice versa. But it was really close to identical. And when they averaged it all out, we tied."
The title of the book comes from the twins' high school days.
"People would run up to one of us and say, 'Hey, Toompas, which one are you?' We'd say, 'What do you mean? I'm the one the other isn't!' And then we'd walk away," Stanley said.
Each brother married a woman named Kim, and they each have two children.
"Sometimes people think we're making it all up, or at least that we're exaggerating, but we've just had funny lives," Stanley said. "All the stories are true."
And there's more on the way.
"We've got a sequel already written," he said. "Our publisher says if we can sell 1,000 copies we can do a sequel, so we're doing book signings and trying to get the word out. We're getting such great feedback from people, they're really enjoying it and asking for more. So we really want to do another one!"
The Toompas' book is available on Amazon.com and at headlinebooks.com.
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Vivendi may need money for NBC U stake to pay for Brazil deal
A bidding war for a Brazilian telephone company may have provided the last push that Comcast and General Electric needed to get to the handshake point this week on a deal that would see the cabler take a controlling stake in NBC Universal.
The complex joint venture being negotiated between Comcast and GE hinges in large part on whether France's Vivendi decides to sell its 20% stake in NBC Universal back to GE. On Friday, Gallic telco giant Vivendi triumphed in a two-month battle with Spanish media giant Telefonica for a controlling interest in Brazilian telco provider GVT.
Vivendi's hot pursuit of the $4.1 billion deal, which gives it a majority stake in the Brazilian telco provider, has Wall Street convinced that Vivendi will use the proceeds from the NBC U stake sale to pay for the GVT deal. Vivendi and GE have been in discussions about the pricetag for Vivendi's stake for weeks.
Per the terms of its sale of Universal Studios to GE in 2004, Vivendi has a three-week window each year in which it has to inform GE whether it intends to keep the 20% stake, compel GE to buy it back or put it on the market as an IPO. That window opened Sunday.
There have been reports that Gallic telco giant Vivendi, which owns Universal Music Group, has been dissatisfied with the roughly $30 billion valuation that GE and Comcast have agreed on for NBC U, which would value Vivendi's stake at around $6 billion. But Vivendi may be more inclined to cut a deal now that it is looking at finalizing a more strategic deal for GVT.
"Vivendi's purchase of GVT is a clear signal they'll sell their NBC stake," Emmanuel Soupre, money manager at Paris-based Neuflize OBC, told Bloomberg News on Sunday.
Meanwhile, talks between Comcast and GE continued to move toward the completion of a deal, pending the final word from Vivendi. While the sides are believed to have worked out the broad strokes of the agreement, industry sources cautioned that with so many moving parts, there was no certainty that an agreement could be reached, but the sides were said to be working toward an announcement by the middle of this week.
The deal as outlined would call for Comcast to contribute $4 billion-$6 billion in cash plus its existing cable nets, including E! Style, G4, Golf Channel and several regional sports cablers, to a joint venture with GE. Comcast would have a 51% interest and managing control of the new NBC U, which would take on as much as $12 billion in debt as part of the transaction. GE would have the right to sell back more of its stake to Comcast over the next seven years.
NBC U CEO Jeff Zucker is said to be assured of remaining at the helm of the enlarged company, which would be a cable programming powerhouse, putting Comcast's channels under the same roof as USA, Syfy, Bravo, CNBC, MSNBC and other Peacock cablers.
Although insiders on both sides of the negotiating table have been quick to affirm Zucker's role post-merger, that hasn't quieted biz speculation about how Comcast's heavy hitters could fit into the NBC U management picture. The enlarged NBC U will have its own board of directors, but Comcast boss Brian Roberts and his lieutenants will undoubtedly exert their influence.
Comcast chief operating officer Stephen Burke previously worked as a senior exec at Disney and as prexy of the ABC broadcast net before joining Comcast in 1998.
Ted Harbert, prexy-CEO of Comcast Entertainment Group, spent 20 years at ABC Entertainment, rising to prexy of the division in the mid-to-late 1990s. Before joining Comcast in 2004, Harbert worked with Zucker at NBC as prexy of the NBC Studios production unit.


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July 31, 2000: James announces support of Woodbridge Mayor Jim McGreevey over U.S. Sen. Robert Torricelli as the Democratic nominee for governor.
Nov. 6, 2001: McGreevey defeats Republican gubernatorial candidate Bret Schundler.
Jan. 9, 2002: Central Ward Councilman Cory Booker announces plans to run against James.
Jan. 21: McGreevey makes promise to Newark residents: Re-elect James and get a $355 million arena for the Nets and Devils.
Jan. 23: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announces Newark has been designated part of "Renewal Communities," a program that promises to bring billions of dollars in tax incentives to promote jobs, stimulate growth and promote economic development for the next seven years.
Jan. 31: James gives his 16th State of the City address, using it to promote the city's progress and to stump. "Now, more than ever, we need experienced leadership. Now, more than ever, is no time to learn on the job," he says, quoting his campaign literature.
Feb. 5: Sisters Tasha and Destiny Martinez die in blaze to North Ward apartment building plagued with housing code violations. CitiPac, a political action committee in favor of Booker, begins to circulate literature blaming James for the deaths.
Feb. 22: Newark Housing Authority unveils $200 million redevelopment plan of 755 units of housing, two community buildings, a police substation, five parks, a 50-bed assisted-living residence and other projects for the Central Ward. James boasts the project is rebuilding a neighborhood, a shot at Booker's claims the mayor has neglected neigborhoods for city development.
Feb. 27: City and fire officers reach agreement to give fire officers raises and better work schedules - making sure Booker, who is endorsed by the firefighters' union, does not get the fire officers' endorsement.
March 7: State Senate passes James' bill that allows city to lease its water and sewer utilities to a nonprofit corporation that would float bonds and create revenue for the city. Deal could lead to millions of dollars so that James could offer tax relief, a campaign promise.
March 8: Meeting is held at Meadowlands Sheraton to discuss reviving James' campaign. In attendance are some of McGreevey's top consultants - Brad Lawrence and Steve DeMicco of Message & Media, James campaign manager James Benjamin, aide Calvin West, and consultant Ronald Lester.
March 18: James begins anew with fresh slogan - "The New Deal" - and begins running television campaign advertisements. The Rev. Jesse Jackson visits to campaign for James. Torricelli and Rep. Donald Payne come to Newark to announce they have secured $10 million in grants to shore up the city's security against terrorism. A hammer is thrown through the window of James' South Ward headquarters and Little City Hall at 1072 Bergen St.
March 28: James kicks off his campaign with a spirited 30-minute speech, music and appearance by McGreevey in the parking lot of Wynona Lipman Gardens, a public housing complex he considers a reflection of Newark's progress.
April 5: James' administration files complaints against Booker, third mayoral candidate Dwayne Smith and two council candidates for placing illegal campaign signs, stickers and posters on public property.
May 5: The Rev. Al Sharpton campaigns with James, visiting five churches with him and delivering a rousing speech at the mayor's pre-Mother's Day concert.
May 7: James receives the last of his major union endorsements, from the International Longshoremen. That night, James supporters - including a Senate aide - are arrested for stealing Booker signs.
May 8: McGreevey announces new arena deal for Newark.
May 12: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) and Sharpton stump for James.
May 13: The Assembly's Environmental Resources Committee approved James' Water Optimization Plan, which now goes for full Assembly vote.
May 14: James wins a record fifth mayoral term, defeating Booker 53 percent to 46 percent.


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Sacred places
The church of Santa María in the small town of Carrión de los Condes, on the Camino de Santiago in Palencia, Spain, is a crumbling, impressive twelfth-century romanesque wonder. It's where I discovered that a non-believer doesn't have to dislike churches.
With the big subjects, it's hard to know where to start. If you can't find a beginning, start in the middle.
Early evening, mid October 1996, Carrión de los Condes. It had been a wet day's walking. Water dripped from the lime trees outside the refugio, the hostel for pilgrims walking to Santiago de Compostela, which adjoined the church. The plaza, which must have been normally dusty and sandy, was churning mud. The refugio's occupants for that night were in the bar across the road, clustered round a bottle of red wine and a plate of chorizo slices. The old Swedish hippy, the Spanish bank manager, the Dutch psychiatrist, and me.
The refugio's fifth occupant, the young French airline executive, the only practising Catholic among us, had gone to early evening mass and would join us soon for dinner. Here he was, in fact. The old hippy waved him expansively to the empty seat and moved to fill his glass. But the young man hovered in the doorway.
"The priest has sent me to fetch you all for a tour of the church", he said. Oh. We thought we'd made it clear before mass. No. Really. H, the young Frenchman gave me a rueful look: "He'll be over here himself if you don't come. I don't think he takes no for an answer. He says all the pilgrims always…". He spoke in a mixture of Spanish and French, with me translating rapidly into English for the Swede and the Dutchman. We looked at one another and sighed. The priest and his sister were our hosts, a bed in the refugio free to anyone walking the Camino. We got to our weary feet, confided the wine and chorizo to the barman, who was smiling and nodding, filed out and across the square.
The priest was waiting, small in his black cassock and beret, dwarfed by the fine, ancient doorway. This, sharing his domain with the passing stream of strangers, was his joy. His quiet learning and love of every stone made it a very special tour. We ended beneath a small painted wooden Madonna in a high niche. He spoke of her age and history and of polychromatic technique. "I talk to her every day. She told me this morning that you would be coming", he beamed - almost, but not quite, self-mocking.
We were hooked. I was, certainly. I'd scarcely been inside a church since I left my Church of England primary school, where twice weekly attendance was compulsory. I loved romanesque architecture for its great age, its warm, enclosing curves, it's vivid carved men and beasts from a time and mind-set so far off they might be from another planet. This had been one of the Camino's attractions for me. I admired from outside, though, and never went in.
That day in Carrión gave me back the refuge of churches. Not the religion or the institution, but the spirit, the intimacy, the shades of those who built them and of all who'd prayed there down the ages. For the rest of the walk, I went into the churches and found there the same ineffable strength and mystery I found on the pilgrim path itself.
As for so many, so it was for me. The Camino began as a physical journey, but became a spiritual one; began as a journey of escape from myself and became a journey towards myself; began as a journey with a goal and became one whose purpose was in every moment of the way; began as a journey for a month and became a lifelong path. That is to say, it began as a journey and became a pilgrimage.
I'm not sure we ever know why, really. Perhaps it always goes deeper than the mind can stretch.
There's my first ever visit to Spain, in 1973, when I was nineteen, with Z. We were two bright working-class girls, all at sea in Cambridge, which was much less cosmopolitan than it is now, but still most of our fellow students of modern languages had grown up in more than one country, while we had scarcely been out of England. We knew so little about anything, had no idea where we should go in our first long university summer vacation.
Z had been brought up Catholic and must have known about Santiago de Compostela. It must have been her idea, I think, to travel on the FEVE, the slow, extremely cheap narrow-gauge railway all along the north coast of Spain. I don't remember much detail of that journey, having then none of the assumptions or reference points I look for now. We found extremes of picturesque and horrible in Franco's Spain – fantastic kindness and closed minds, dusty poverty and smelly drains.
On the long, slow train journey we saw a few walker pilgrims, returning from Santiago. They were grimy and wind-burned, exotic. I can see them now. So it goes back as far as that.
More than twenty years later, the name of a much beloved novelist, David Lodge, as presenter made me watch a television documentary (he published soon after a novel featuring the Camino de Santiago, Therapy, wherein a successful but unhappy middle-aged man…). The Camino looked beautiful, interesting and in places intriguingly remote. I knew a lot of the world a little by then, and Spain quite well. But I'd never been back to the green, rural and industrial north.
But neither of these was the immediate reason. That was the commonest one: overwork, middle age and an inchoate longing for 'something else'. I'd been working twelve years for the politicians. We all worked terribly hard and never took our full quota of annual leave. I was owed several months, so requesting one month was not unreasonable. "I'd like the whole of October off", I was surprised to hear myself say.
Cheating on the first day
A good place to start, if you don't have time to begin as far away as Le Puy or Vézelay in central France, is St-Jean-Pied-de-Port, on the French side of the Pyrenees. You walk on the first day over the mountains, crossing the frontier into Spain, and spend the first night at the monastery in a place of great historic and literary resonance, Roncesvalles.
I knew St-Jean-Pied-de-Port, having visited there while on a seaside camping holiday at nearby St-Jean-de-Luz. A pretty, familiar town, it felt like an easy place to start. It is the hardest place to start: day one, on unaccustomed legs, with an unaccustomed backpack, right over the Pyrenees, with nowhere to stop until you reach the other side.
The road begins to climb right outside the town, and the scenery is glorious: rocky peaks, lush mountain grass and clean air. It's hard walking. Hours and hours, with still no sight of the summit and the pass into Spain. Painful breath and heavy legs. Oh god, I wasn't going to make this – all a terrible mistake!
I was sitting at the roadside when up drew a shepherd and his dog in what had once been a car. It still went, with a bump and clang, but had no doors. Did I want a lift to the pass - it was all downhill from there? I did. This was 'not allowed' of course, the whole point being to do it on your own two feet. But it was that or giving up on the first day. No one saw me hop in and hang on tight, or scramble out again a few minutes later and squint upwards as he pointed out a clump of trees and rocks: "that's the frontier; then it's all down hill through the forest".
It was all down hill then, indeed, a long and mysterious walk through the oak forests to Roncesvalles, with the fear of not making it to the summit replaced by the fear of getting lost among the ghosts of Charlemagne's warrior, Roland, and his army.
Towards a stream that flowed amid that land
Sones fell Gue into perdition black
All his sinews were strained until they snapped
And all the limbs were from his body dragged
On the green grass his clear blood gushed and ran
The first sight of the monastery's outline in the early evening. Oh! And then the shock of unisex dormitories. Cavernous and crowded with large, sweaty bodies, and some of these guys could snore for, well, for wherever they were from. I slept. It was fine. As much a rite of passage as reaching the mountain pass.
In retrospect, I don't think it was cheating to take that lift on the first day, the only lift I took. I wasn't going to make it, if he hadn't come along. The Spanish bank manager told me later how he'd been laid up for a day with a bad knee and then accepted a lift for twenty miles to catch up with his new friend, the Dutch psychiatrist, so they could continue the walk together. I don't think that, done for love, was cheating either.
Choiceless awareness
The Pyrenees are a hard start, but a great one because once you're over that (and over sleeping with twenty strange men), you pretty much know you'll continue. A great start, too, because they are silent, grandiose and soaringly lovely, and you know there are more such wild, joyous landscapes to come… although not for a while. For the first few days in Spain the landscape was very varied: green foothills, pretty villages, not-at-all pretty villages, much time spent walking through prickly brush and along melting, roaring main roads in the endless peripheries of Pamplona, not to mention the afternoon spent skirting an isolated factory, where murky, viscous effluent trickled all around and across the path. Gulp. Spain in its endless variety, and many forcible reminders of what an extremely hard, rocky, prickly country it is!
I don't drive a car and have always walked everywhere, in town and country. But the thing about a long, linear path is that it has to continue no matter what, so it takes you where you'd never normally choose to walk. And you keep going, no option. What a long walk has, though, is rhythm. It has joy and satisfaction, too, even on a bad day. A bad day is a good day when it's over. So the good/bad duality, the impulse to instant evaluation, starts to be eroded.
When I summon sensory memories of the Camino, so much comes rushing back: sand, rock, rain and heat, prickly scrub and panting uphill… and the texture of cheap, slightly sticky nylon bedspreads. Walkers' hostels that were free or extremely cheap, run by churches or local authorities, were sometimes furnished with loving care, more often a parade of the discarded and the tacky. They were sometimes not too clean, and you never knew who you might wake up next to. And they were palaces, cherished homes for a night, exquisite nests for exhausted bodies. Years later, I read in Buddhist texts about 'choiceless awareness' – just experiencing the stream of phenomena as they are, not rushing to classify and judge. It's a tough concept for the children of consumer societies. A difficult concept, but not so difficult in reality. Here is the only available bed in a one-horse place and you need to lie down on it now, soft or lumpy, clean or grubby, alone in a cavernous dormitory or cramped in dubious company. You have no choice. And it's fine. It's a liberation.
I went walking on the Camino alone, over forty, and not especially fit. A daft, graceless enterprise, it was, with low expectations. Of course, I'd limp and sigh and linger while taller, fitter, younger more experienced walkers would keep passing me and disappearing over the horizon. They did. And that was a liberation too. Only this path, this time, these aims and obstacles, and a miraculous, relieved arrival somewhere every day.
I'm glad I set off alone, for so many reasons. You aren't really alone, of course, on a path walked by so many. There were far fewer then than walk it now, but still I never went a day without meeting other pilgrims, walking and on bicycles. In October, outside the summer holiday season, some were young and unemployed; some, like the bank manager and the psychiatrist, had left their jobs and were unsure what came next; many were newly retired from work and free for the first time ever to leave home for many weeks, people like S and E, who left their house beside Lake Geneva on foot the day after E finished work on his sixtieth birthday. They set out accoutred with Swiss comfort and precision. By the time I met them several weeks later, they'd posted home their sleeping bags, all their books except the Spanish dictionary and most of their clothes. They each had one change of underwear and when it wore in holes they looked up the Spanish for knickers and bought another pair.
I could speak to most of the pilgrims in English, French or Spanish. Being much in demand as a translator made up for my slow pace and small daily distances. Fit, fast walkers could cover twenty-five or thirty miles in a day. I, on the hard, stony, uphill-downhill path, with my stuff on my back, could cover twelve or fifteen and more than once I had to stop for a day, my feet swollen, burning and leaden.
Quickly, though it was wonderful. New friends and new landscapes every day. Movement, achievement, variety sufficient unto themselves. Life reduced to the path, and the path as a metaphor for life. Just one foot in front of the other. Choiceless awareness.
As following a path inexorably becomes a metaphor for life, so, as in life, inexorably, bad stuff happens as well as good. My bad stuff happened one Sunday morning on a deserted path through scrubby woods not far from the city of Burgos .
I was humming happily, high on my detour to Silos, where landscape, church and the voices of the singing monks were golden, when a pale, meagre man, visibly high on something a lot nastier, appeared from behind a tree waving a big knife, took all my money and kept on wielding the knife for quite some time, while wildly threatening rape and violence. I was numb, paralysed by shock and unresponsive – boringly so, I think, as eventually he stopped raving, sheathed his knife and wandered off, leaving me to stomp onward to the next village and phone the guardia.
The guardias civiles, a lingering relic of pre-democratic Spain. In the 1990s still, though they must all be gone now, the older guardias were themselves left over from those times, as anomalous and as comic-but-menacing as their funny plastic tricornes. So I didn't relish calling them out, but, miles from anywhere with no money (though my assailant hadn't wanted my credit card – that would have meant the end of my trip), needing a lift to a cash machine and needing a crime report if I wanted to claim my lost money on my travel insurance, I had no choice.
So I marched – on automatic pilot still – to the next village and into the bar, and demanded their phone. The elderly guardia who came, accompanied by his wife, in an ancient jeep, was in a bad mood, having been called away from his family Sunday lunch. You can guess the burden of his discourse, I'm sure: a woman walking alone in the countryside was clearly 'asking for it'. The following several hours in the isolated barracks were almost as nasty as the attack. The difference between cuchillo (kitchen knife) and navaja (hunting knife) is engraved for ever on my mind – rattled, I first used the wrong word. "A gitano, a gypsy, was he?" "No, definitely not a gitano!", and much more such unhelpful discussion, along with the caricature of the rural policeman typing out his crime report very slowly with one finger. I was deeply grateful to the younger guardia who came on duty later, drove me back to Burgos to an ATM, and back again to the village and its refugio.
By unhappy chance, for the single time on my walk, I was the only pilgrim that night in the small, untended building with half a dozen beds. I locked the door and didn't sleep and wondered if I would be able to go on.
I did go on, the next morning, stiffly, wretchedly, through a flat agricultural landscape, thankful to be in open fields and trying not to look constantly over my shoulder in fear. It's extremely rare to be robbed on the Camino. I was unlucky, you might say. Well, as it turned out...
I began the next day alone, but wasn't alone for long. Squatting on my backpack under a hedge, eating a late breakfast of salami sandwich, I was overtaken by the first walker striding out early from Burgos, an oldish, energetic man from Toulouse, so pleased to meet someone he could talk to in French that he didn't mind slowing his pace to mine for a while.
We walked on, chatting, and the sun came out and somehow I didn't tell him what had happened the day before. The Camino was smiling, reasserting its positive spirit. I never did tell another pilgrim I'd been robbed. Why cast a shadow on their positive impressions? I couldn't. I told no one when I returned home either, and I've rarely spoken of it since.
But that didn't mean I buried the bad thing, hardened my heart. Far from it. It completely changed, for the better, the rest of my journey. I was so grateful thereafter for the company and friendship of other walkers, for the good spirit of the path, the spirit of those who had walked before us for more than a thousand years. My heart opened then to all of it. Without the shock of fear, I don't think that would have happened.
So we chatted along through flat, flourishing fields, and much later reached a straggling village whose pilgrim refugio, unusually, was offering lunch. As we slumped against the long table, waiting, other walkers came and the pile of backpacks in the corner grew. This was where I met the old hippy, the bank manager, the psychiatrist and others.
Lunch was long and we all set off again together, on a path that now followed a country road, winding through woods, and out again across the fields. I found myself talking, first, to the Dutchman. He was friendly, but made me feel obscurely uncomfortable (I found out later that he was a psychiatrist. Ah.) So after a while I fell back and into step with another new arrival. He was another Frenchman, tall and loose-limbed, with a long, shy, clever face. H. He'd walked from the Pyrenees to Burgos back in the summer, with his girlfriend, then had to return to his work as a busy, globe-trotting engineer employed by the French airline. Now he was back to continue the path – his first day's walking, still weary and stressed from work, and his feet hurt, so our strides were well matched.
We walked and talked all afternoon, and for the next week.
Blistering and despairing, he took off his boots and walked in his socks. I laughed at his very large, bright-blue feet tiptoeing on the stony road and he was indignant and indignation kept him going. My own trauma began to recede.
Castrojeriz was the next town we came to, and the next refugio. A quiet, dusty, rambling place, the road spiralling around a hill, and no sign of the hostel or by now of our fellow walkers, who had all left us behind. Finally, a woman with a shopping bag in the distance, and I pounded after her, panting under my backpack. "Señora, estamos perdidos – we're lost! Where is the refugio?". I had to ask her to repeat her instructions. My brain was busy computing what I'd said. I'd just become 'we'.
In the hostel kitchen, H produced camomile teabags and offered me one. We sat down and eyed one another through the fragrant steam rising from our cups. This was not a stranger. I felt familiarity, ease and affection, as I had never felt with someone I'd just met.
A communal meal was cooked in the ramshackle kitchen, and while some of us fell early into bed in the dormitory upstairs, others were still down there talking until very late. Lying in bed, sleepy, with voices drifting up the stairs, I felt safe, like a child in bed and hearing the adults of the family still awake and talking. H was in the next bunk. That night and the following nights, our eyes met and smiled before we slept.
H was many years younger and about a foot taller than me. "You go ahead", I would say every morning, "You don't want to walk at my pace". And off he would go, sometimes, but there he would be at the next village, the next crossroads, with a sight or a thought to share. So we shared the weather that rapidly changed from sun to rain and back, and the land that grew flatter and bleaker as we entered the meseta, and we shared conversations as long and as deep as I've ever known.
At Carrión, before the lovely tour of the church, we had sat on a bench overlooking a precipice, with misty ruins and tall trees and a river far below, and talked of how the city and work were hard, too hard, sometimes. And we grew silent, looking over the steep drop, and we knew we both were thinking it wouldn't be a bad place to end all the busy-ness.
"I wish", H said one day, "that I could walk and walk until I stop thinking. I get so tired of the nagging, worried voice in my head". I stared, realising with amazement that I, who'd been walking longer, had actually found this state for brief periods. Thus the seed of meditation was planted.
It wasn't all taking ourselves so seriously. There was the bad-tempered, toad-faced hostel keeper who barked at the pilgrims and cooked us peculiar food. When we left next morning, his cross face loomed up in the window and he silently, grimly, waved. Bizarre. We looked at a each other and doubled up, giggling helplessly, floating away down the path on a cloud of incredulity and silliness.
But H's time was limited and he wanted to get to Santiago. One day, as I struggled to keep up with him and the old Swedish hippy, who was also tall and robust, resolve and generosity seized me. "That's it. I'm staying the night in the next town. You go on. Yes! Go!" And they went. And I checked into a cheap hotel, for there was no refugio, and cried, as I hadn't cried when I was robbed and threatened and frightened.
I don't know quite how I believe this, how I conceptualize it. But I do believe, on some level, that H was my guardian angel who came because I needed him.
Ending, unending
At the spanking new refugio in Burgo Ranero a note was pinned to the noticeboard from the sweet Spanish woman with whom I'd walked for a while back at the beginning. "Jim" [sic], she had written, passing through a day or two earlier, "I hope it goes well with you and you're loving the Camino as much as I am." Yes, I thought. Yes, in spite...
In Burgo Ranero I bumped into S and E again and their breezy wit swept me along towards León. We arrived there together. A lovely, cultured city, we thought, blinking a little, surprised to be in busy streets. In the cathedral we sat beneath the high rainbow windows and let the warm light fall through us. It felt good.
I was tired, though, tired from walking three hundred miles, but tired mostly from fear and then from love. Most of my month off work had passed, and I was barely two-thirds of the way to Santiago. As we were returning to the hostel that night after dinner, the cathedral's silhouette bent over us, it came to me that León could be, for now, my Santiago. I wasn't going to walk any further.
After spending a day or two there, I caught a bus to Madrid, which was hot still, at the beginning of November, and surprising and felt like another country.


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A step mother who is vicious and mean.
My step monster wont let me do what I want.
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Can you define these popular missing words?
The word used to identify a stepmother that you don't like, get along with, just plain despise. 1st coined in the film St. Elmo's Fire, used chiefly by Demi Moore's character, Jules.
Jules: I have to go. Did the hospital call? Did my stepmonster die?
po Tommyt Јул 29, 2008
A step mother who is a nightmare to the other children. Known to fight for the mother title in many sinister ways. Pouts when the real mother is in contact with the child or grandchildren. Has no concern about how that looks to anyone..kids, grandkids. A total "one-upper" in every breath
Dammit, my stepmonster Lisa wont leave my mother alone. I mean who do she thinks she is, she has never been and will never be a mother to me
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The flexible Drupal content management system (CMS) lets you build all kinds of websites, from simple blogs to complex giant multimedia extravaganzas. You've probably heard the buzz, but maybe you were nervous about trying to install and configure the software yourself. Drupal is well-documented, except for the basic steps to launch a new site. Don't worry – we'll walk through those steps together. With this howto, you just might literally build a new Drupal site in 30 minutes or less.
Everyone wants to know which is the best open source CMS. Most open source CMSes are more alike than different. They use the same LAMP (Linux, Apache or other HTTP server, MySQL or other database, PHP/Perl/Python) stack, and most are administered via a graphical web interface. If you know PHP, or whatever scripting language your CMS is written in, you can customize the software beyond the limitations of its graphical interface. I like Drupal because is it so flexible, and thanks to its giant community of developers cranking out countless themes and plugins, I can tart it up any way I like without having to dig into PHP files.
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March 6, 2000
The 3900 Series II V6 with 200hp and 225 ft.-lbs. of torque comes standard on the Regal. A supercharged version is optional with 240hp and 280 ft.-lbs. of torque at 5,200rpm.
The 4-speed automatic transmission with overdrive is electronically controlled to provide smooth, seamless shifting. There is a feature that comes standard on the GS model of the Regal that allows the driver to choose shift feel between normal and performance.
The most noticeable feature about the Regal is how quiet it is when you drive the car. One of my passengers asked if the car was running when we were parked. It was.
My test model came in a gold metallic color with taupe leather interior. The seats were heavily padded and came with 6-way power controls.
The Regal is an easy car to drive and to like. It is nice-looking, comfortable, the drive is smooth, it corners nicely, and it is spacious enough to accommodate passengers and cargo.
The dash is curved above the dials and slopes down on the passenger side. I did notice the sharp line on the back of the dash reflected in the window as a distraction several times.
The Tilt-Wheel adjustable steering wheel is standard. My test model came with the optional feature of radio controls on both sides. To honk the horn, you have to press the horn insignia, which is located on two places in the center of the steering wheel along with the air bag.
The power locks, power windows, and remote keyless entry are standard. A driver information center is a $75 optional feature that tells you your remaining oil, fuel range, and fuel economy.
A center console holds two cupholders and a very deep center compartment. An arm rest comes down in the center of the back seat and also has two cup holders.
The trunk is spacious and easily accessible with a low lift-over edge. The trunk space is expandable with one section, or the two back seats folded down.
Although my test model did not come with the OnStar service package option, you can have it added at the dealer's if you choose. This service allows you to call in to a center where a real person answers and knows immediately where your car is located. The center will automatically call for help if your air bag is deployed. They can remotely unlock the car if you are locked out, will give you on-the-spot information on how to get to where you want to go, track your car if it is stolen, and provide a variety of other services.
The base price for the Regal is $22,340. My test model came with the Touring Package, leather, sunroof, 16" chrome wheels, and driver information center, which drove the price up to $27,522, including the destination charge.
For most of Buick's history, the car has been synonymous with the feel of an older, wealthier crowd. Although my family was not wealthy, my first experience with a Buick was in 1958, when my mother bought a pink Buick convertible with large fenders. It was huge. I remember driving that car and feeling quite special. I still have a photo of that car in my scrapbook.
The 2000 Buick Regal LS is a good example of how the Buick brand name is reinventing itself to appeal to a younger, family-oriented audience, and the car with its look and features is definitely appealing for the price.
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text: It has never been quite established whether the origins of this ancient Valais species can be traced back to arrivals from Africa or if they are descended from the Italian "Kupferziege" goats, but the features remain recognisable today. In olden times, the half-black, half-white goats with the sturdy physique were mostly to be found in Lower Valais. The "glacier goat" is protected by the Pro specie rara organisation.


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The latest recipient of the Dick Risenhoover Award, former Tascosa wrestler Brandon Slay, stood in front of the stage talking with a boy and his family after the Panhandle Sports Hall of Fame ceremonies Sunday afternoon.
The boy is battling multiple sclerosis and the pair talked about life and wrestling for a couple of minutes as the crowd was filed from Amarillo College's Ordway Auditorium.
"He's from Dumas and loves wrestling, loves the sport," Slay said afterward. "His mother told me about him and asked if I could speak to him and I definitely wanted to. He's had, I think, three or four surgeries and he's definitely battling back."
Slay, a former three-time state champion at Tascosa and two-time NCAA finalist at the University of Pennsylvania, was given the Risenhoover Award for making it to the finals of the 167-pound class of the NCAA Wrestling Tournament for two consecutive years.
The award is presented to an area athlete that receives national recognition, or succeeds on the national level. Slay was both a gracious winner and an ambassador for the sport during and after the ceremonies.
During his acceptance speech, he talked about wanting to improve the exposure of wrestling throughout the state of Texas. Slay is only one of a handful of wrestlers from Texas that has ever advanced to a NCAA wrestling finals.
"I'm really trying to give back," Slay said. "So many people in this area, so many adults and past wrestlers that has done so much for me. That's something that's important to me now.
"I've learned more from being a wrestler than being a student. The lessons that I'm going to use for the rest of my life are going to come from what I learned in the wrestling room."
Slay, who graduated from Penn with a business degree, talked to his young fan about the four most important things of being a successful wrestler.
"It takes time and commitment, using the gifts God has given you to become a champion, being confident in yourself and wrestling year-around and not to take summers off," Slay said. "I just tried to speak to him - giving him some confidence that he could hold on to."
In college, Slay was a two-time All-American, and was the first Penn wrestler since 1943 to reach the NCAA finals. He is the only Penn wrestler to ever make back-to-back finals.
He finished his career as one of seven wrestlers in Ivy League history to earn first-team all-conference honors four years.
"He's a quality young man, such a class act," said Tascosa wrestling coach Johnny Cobb, Slay's high school coach. "He's well deserving of any award they could have given him. It's a positive thing for wrestling to recognize him. Because I really do feel like he probably one of the premier athletes to ever come out of the Panhandle of Texas."
Slay, who is training for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Colorado Springs, Colo., drove to the ceremonies on Saturday and went back to Colorado Sunday evening so he could make it to wrestling practice today.
He is slated to compete in the Dave Schultz Cup, starting Friday in Colorado Springs.
"It's probably the toughest tournament of the year," Slay said. "It's tougher than our national tournament because five or six international teams that are going to be there. I'm going to have some stiff competition. It's going to be a battle."
With two wrestlers - Dory Funk, Jr. and Terry Funk - being inducted into the Hall of Fame, Slay receiving the Risenhoover Award and the Tascosa wrestling team being giving a special achievement award for winning the 1998 state title, the sport of wrestling has probably never had such a presence in the annual ceremonies.
The Tascosa wrestling team, along with Sporting News editor and Borger native John Rawlings, marathon runner Rick Worley, the Amarillo High girls cross-country team that won the 5A title and the Amarillo 4.0 tennis team.
"We're just fighting for recognition of our sport," Cobb said. "That's the main thing. We didn't just represent Amarillo Tascosa but we respected all the wrestling programs in the whole Panhandle because they are so strong and so competitive. It's just a good shot for wrestling."
Other award winners on Sunday afternoon including the West Texas Flyers, which won the C.L. Duniven Jr. Super Team Award.
The Flyers are two-time national AAU girls basketball champions and will go for their third title this summer in the 17-and-under National AAU Tournament in Kingsport, Tennessee.
"It's a great honor for the team," said Flyers coach Tim Ritchie. "They've worked hard and they still have to work hard because everybody else is getting better across the country."
Wheeler's Michael Montgomery won the Leslie Cazzell "Big Play" Memorial Award. Montgomery blocked a PAT in the second OT to give the Mustangs a 28-27 win over Sudan in the regional round of the Class 1A football playoffs.
Pampa volleyball player and track runner Tandi Morton won the Dee Henry Memorial Award as she continued to compete after having a non-cancerous tumor behind her left eye. Julia Adkisson / Globe-NewsWheeler High School's Jim Verden was honored as high school coach of the year Sunday.
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i would be happy to trade as well
Ok. I made this thread because I saw 3 or 4 different threads about this, also, I checked search, nothing came up, so don't bitch to me saying "Omg use search noob lolz"
I have some friend vouchers and I'm willing to trade. PM me here and i'll add you.
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i would be happy to trade as well
Willing to trade (Has to be PAL version of the game though).
I've got 15.
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I'm up for some trading too - pal only, got about 7
i would also trade
I'll trade too. I added Prime123 to my Wii Address book.
Ive gt soooo many vouchers to trade just add me as a friend.
I guess I should post here. I want to trade friend vouchers. I have 15 atm.
PM me.
What are these vouchers for? Why do you trade them? I haven't picked up the game yet.
Hey, I got a few vouchers that i'm willing to trade. Pm and me and let me know.


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Not only did a gang of bikers terrorize a family during a high-speed chase on New York's West Side Highway over the weekend. One member of the biker gang videotaped the incident with a helmet cam and posted the evidence of the chase – and the later beat-down of the SUV dad – on YouTube, the New York Post reported.
BREAKING: Did New York City biker group also target the wife in stricken SUV?: Investigation continues, charges mount in road rage case (new video)
READ MORE: Will this one episode give all bikers a bad name?
Police are now trying to track down suspects, who authorizes say 'terrorized' a dad driving with his wife and baby daughter in the SUV during the chase, then dragged the man from the SUV to beat him by the side of the road.
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Uncover Captives with Barclays
'Captives Uncovered' is an initiative from Barclays Wealth and Investment Management to offer frank insights into the captives sector from industry experts.
Featuring a dedicated website and a LinkedIn networking group, 'Captives Uncovered' aims to help Captives professionals exchange views and information online and learn from industry experts.
Six new interviews have just been published on the Barclays website, with expert opinion from captive managers based in Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. Simon Phillips and Colleen McHugh, from Barclays' own captive insurance team, also feature.
"Putting together these interviews has provided valuable insight into the opportunities and challenges from across key captive jurisdictions," said Mr Phillips, who is Head of Captive Insurance for Barclays Wealth & Investment Management.
"Working with experts in each jurisdiction, it has been fascinating to see our correspondents picking up similar trends in each jurisdiction, whilst also recognising more localised themes.
"Regulation, such as Solvency II, has been a main focus, as have returns, with more and more captives looking at the options for increasing the yield on their assets within acceptable risk parameters and broader cost efficiencies."
Ms McHugh, captive insurance investment adviser at Barclays Wealth and Investment Management said: ""Investing doesn't mean that the captive has to take significant extra risk with its capital, as there are different investment strategies available depending upon their risk preference. What it does mean for a captive is an increased time commitment on their part to examine their investment options.
"Captives are outside their comfort zone and the pressure is on. It's created a conundrum –assets need to generate a higher return but at the end of the day what is the ultimate objective of the captive insurer?
"It has been really interesting to explore some of these issues with our experts and I am looking forward to expanding the campaign into new areas and tackling new topics."
Captive managers, advisors and other people connected with the sector can also join in the topical discussions by joining the 'Captives Uncovered' LinkedIn group.
"We are keen to provide a platform for people in the captives industry to network and share knowledge," said Mr Phillips.
The first four experts to feature in the series are:
John Neal, Managing Director of Symphony Management Limited, Bermuda
Charles Scott, Managing Director of Alternative Risk Management, Guernsey
Derek Patience, Head of Isle of Man Office, Marsh Management Services
Kevin Poole, Client Services Director, Kane, Cayman Islands
Practitioners can access the interviews at Barclays' website: https://wealth.barclays.com/en_gb/home/corporates-institutions/who-we-help/captive-insurance/captives-uncovered-series-2.html
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when a girl is suckin you off, you then cum in her mouth, when she pulls away you chop her in the throat..making her gag, the cum the comes flying out of her nose..resembling a white dragon
i did the white dragon to chrissy last nite...it was hilarious
jonny fierce tərəfindən 27 May 2010
a sexual act involving oral intercourse. When the man cums in the girls mouth he slaps her on the back so she spits it out her nose, hense looking like a dragon.
Damn, i just gave that hoe a white dragon, and she breathed fire all over my carpet, fuck.
Jimmy babby tərəfindən 22 İyun 2006
When a man cums into a womans mouth, then immediatly makes her laugh so hard that it comes out her nose.
Jack: So then i pulled a White Dragon on jill
John: Whoah! a White Dragon! It must have been all over her face!
John: Whoah! a White Dragon! It must have been all over her face!
annonomus man tərəfindən 11 Noyabr 2010
It when you are cumming into the girls mouth and then when she is not suspecting it and she thinks its over u hit her on the back of the head so she sneezes out cum like a dragon spurting out fire.
I gave RRRemy a white dragon, she was pissed though because the smack was unsuspected
Jill Fisher tərəfindən 05 Dekabr 2005
The act of punching a woman/man in the face with a fist full of the semen she/he didn't want to swallow.
"She made me cum into my hand, so I gave it to her again in the form of a White Dragon."
slop101 tərəfindən 15 Yanvar 2009
During sex the male cums in a female/male's mouth and punches her/him in the stomach, causing her/him to spit it out.
Last night I pulled a White Dragon on her!
Ed Schultzmanhieser tərəfindən 10 Dekabr 2008
A mixed drink containing Dragonberry Bacardi and Mountain Dew White Out.
Brian: "Dude that White Dragon we had last night tasted like candy and got me soo fucked up!"
Drew: "Yeah I know, my date loved it. That drink got me laid."
Drew: "Yeah I know, my date loved it. That drink got me laid."
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Military/Aerospace Articles
"Power supplies evolve to meet needs of boards and systems" -COTS Journal
As computing continues to become more dense, power has a direct impact on the size, cooling and mobility of a board or box-level system. Editor-in-Chief Jeff Child discusses the latest development in power supplies, such as new efficient products at the component, board and module levels, new partitioning strategies and advances in UPS technology.
- "Making a case for modified COTS" -Defense Tech Briefs
This informative article explores developing a modified COTS project that incorporates power protection and conversion. Important issues include ruggedization, environmental factors, and purchasing reliable components from proven products. A case study shows how a large military contactor and UPS company successfully designed a 12kVA power system with unique capabilities to be housed inside a HMMWV's shelter enclosure.
"Unique COTS application of the double-conversion on-line UPS" -Military Embedded Systems
Engineers often use a double-conversion on-line UPS for battery backup requirements. Yet, this technology offers more capabilities that are not often realized. It can be a real problem-solver for a systems design engineer looking to address challenging power issues with new military technology, including frequency conversion and the need for ultra-precision regulation.
"Online UPS and power distribution challenges" -Electronic Products
It is challenging to find the best solution to effectively and reliably power equipment in today's high technology military applications. There are multifunctional COTS online UPS and PDUs that can solve problems in specific environments, like dealing with unstable generator power, high temperature, harsh elements, shock, vibration, etc. This article covers the issues and features to consider when designing a solution for these applications.


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Primal pizza has been a difficult nut for me to crack. I tried a "fake flour" recipe and it turned out - well, I had to turn it into a casserole. Tasted okay though. And spreading toppings on eggplant or other veggies has been nixedin my house.
I get my produce at a place that caters to the hispanic market, and picked up a breadfruit. Never had it before, but I found this recipe: Vegan Breadfruit Pizza
Feel free to ignore the pumpkin seed "cheese" and the topping of carrot. But I'm intrigued about using breadfruit to make a pizza crust. Breadfruit is really high in carbs, and nutritionally it seems to be a lot like a potato. But I can't find any further info about anti-nutrients, phytic acid, oxalic acid, or whatevers. But - it's not a grain, and I'm thinking that the carbs are about the same as some of the "fake flour" recipes.
I'm not much of cook, but I was thinking about tweaking the recipe with an egg and a touch of coconut flour to help it stick together. Any ideas?


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Congress is back in session and some Democrats are pushing the unorthodox idea of doing nothing to stop the looming "fiscal cliff."
They say if the tax hikes and spending cuts are allowed to take effect Jan. 1, Republicans would have a weaker hand at the bargaining table.
"We will reach a point at the end of this year where all the tax cuts expire and we'll start over next year. And whatever we do will be a tax cut for whatever package we put together. That may be the way to get past this," Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., told ABC's "This Week."
The White House, however, said it wants a deal without falling off that "fiscal cliff."
President Barack Obama is looking to leverage his re-election into legislative victory in negotiations with Republicans.
House Speaker John Boehner has said his party is willing to consider some form of higher tax revenue, but only "under the right conditions."
Meanwhile, Reuters reports the budget deficit rose for the first month of the 2013 fiscal year, which began in October.
The October deficit was $120 billion, a 22 percent spike from $98 billion in October of 2011 and $7 billion more than economists predicted.
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