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A Memorable Finish. Bolder Boulder Race Coverage.
It brought tears to the eyes of some and whether or not you're an emotional person, all were touched by the outcome of the professional men's race. Some witnesses are saying it was the most memorable and sportsmanlike finish the Bolder Boulder has ever seen. In case you weren't the 50,000 participants and observers to watch the finale you may not know it was an Ethiopian dominated race. But what's so special about the outcome is the three friends who crossed the finish line abreast and holding hands. Lelisa Desisa, Tilahun Regassa and Tadese Tola (friends from Ethiopia) made it difficult for officials to declare a winner as they were linked together through the finish. What a truly amazing sight to witness. For more coverage information, click here. Read the rest of this entry »


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I live in Fairfield county Connecticut and every one I know is a Giant fan. We all have season tickets and go to the games. I see giant flags, hats and shirts every where. After all the Big Blue played at the Yale bowl and practiced in Fairfield. Don't some of the Maras live in Ct. Why are we being left out?

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Manny Wilkins and Morgan Mahalak both say they have been dreaming for years about getting a chance to play major college football. And with their senior seasons still ahead of them, the Marin County high school quarterbacks could be resting comfortably knowing that dream is within reach, as each have received multiple scholarship offers.
But resting just isn't part of the plan for the former Pop Warner youth football teammates.
With the spring and summer football camp season already under way, both San Marin's Wilkins and Marin Catholic's Mahalak will soon be back on the field trying to open a few more eyes. The goal is to soak up as much as they can from camp instructors and quarterbacks and secure a scholarship to a program where they are sure they will fit in.
"It's definitely a monkey off your back," Wilkins said of having already received scholarship offers, which in his case have come from Arizona and Utah State. "I had a monkey on my back waiting for my first offer and now it's just a matter of where I'm going to be going to school for four years after my senior year (of high school). That's going to be sitting on my shoulder until it happens."
Mahalak, too, could be satisfied with what's available to him. In his case, the scholarship offers have come from South Alabama, Idaho, Oregon State, Duke and North Carolina State. But like Wilkins, he is being patient.
"I'm going to take my time and I hope that some things will come through soon," Mahalak said. "And if I can make a decision before summer, I'll be able to do that. We'll see, though, because I'm not really in a rush. I'm kind of focused on getting better as an individual and getting better as a team."
How the two stars got to where they are is a tale of modern-day athletics. Each has worked with a highly regarded quarterbacks coach — Wilkins with former Cal head coach Roger Theder, and Mahalak with former pro quarterback Will Hewlett — and both have worked hard with their high school staffs.
But the two players really made a name for themselves last summer at Nike's Elite 11 camp at Chabot College. There, working with coaches and some of the top high school quarterbacks on the West Coast, they showed they could more than hold their own.
For Mahalak, the Elite 11 experience followed a successful season as Marin Catholic's JV quarterback. He said he was initially unsure what to expect at the camp but gradually got comfortable.
"Thankfully I was doing well out there," Mahalak recalled. "And they were like, 'OK, so who's this kid?' And that's when the recruiting process kind of started for me. I did well at the Elite 11 and another camp and gained some attention, which was cool. And since then, coaches have stayed in contact with me and continued to build relationships and that's where it kind of took off."
Marin Catholic coach Mazi Moayed said he's not surprised to see Mahalak getting so much attention, despite the fact that Mahalak will be entering his senior season next fall having thrown only 20 passes with the Wildcats varsity after last season serving as a backup to record-setting quarterback Jared Goff, who is now competing for playing time at Cal.
"The main thing with Morgan is that he's got the tools," Moayed said. "He's got the arm, he's got the athleticism, and he's got the size and frame to be a big-time player. "... The main things that everybody looks at besides his performance are his tools. Can his tools be applied at our level which is the Pac-12 level and up? And the answer to that is yes, (schools and recruiters) have liked what they have seen. So that's what has helped him a lot is his athleticism and his arm."
Like Mahalak, Wilkins also was a relative unknown in the college football recruiting circles before the 2012 Elite 11 camp in the East Bay. And like Mahalak, he made a favorable impression at the camp. After throwing a bit with one group, he was quickly moved into a higher-caliber crowd that included Goff and other highly touted passers.
To Wilkins, that was no big deal.
"I wasn't a recruit, unlike some of those guys, so I had nothing to be nervous about," Wilkins said. "There was no, 'What if I don't do well? Then this school's going to back away from me.' I didn't have any pressure on me. So I went out there comfortable and held my head high and was slinging the ball.
"I was definitely surprised that I got pushed into a group with guys that have offers and a bunch of guys that were committed to big-time schools. And it was just a cool experience to get out there and compete with them. You know, my competitive mind-set is that I can be the best that I can be and I'm going to be the best guy out there."
Former San Marin coach Dan Hickey said Wilkins still has even more upside to show recruiters.
"He's an outstanding athlete, so I'm not surprised by the attention that he is getting," Hickey said. "I mean, he's a great athlete who is athletic in all endeavors. "... But there are the little things that he'll even get better at. He'll learn to not try to do too much on his own, to trust the guys around him, and then let his natural ability take over.
"I think earlier on, he tried to do a lot to compensate for things that were happening around him and took on a little too much on his own and got into a little trouble. That's fading away, though, because he realizes where to push it and where to give the ball up and let somebody else take some of the load for him."
Getting better, Mahalak and Wilkins agreed, is the goal for this summer. And with that in mind, both will be back at the Elite 11 camp, which this year will take place at the 49ers' practice facility.
"The advice I was given is just to compete with yourself and focus on yourself," Mahalak said. "If I compete at my highest level and compete against myself, then I can be right there at the top and be one of those top guys. "... Pretty much all it takes is one big day and you're set."
"There's always something to prove," Wilkins added. "I'm not No. 1 yet. I'm pretty high up there on the rankings — the Scout.com and the Rivals.com — but even if I do get the chance to be No. 1 in my class, it will never stop because guys just get better and better and better. There are a lot of kids who aren't ranked and even recruits who just haven't gotten a chance to strut their stuff. So the ground never stops moving; it's never going to be easy."
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Physical specs: 6 feet 3 inches, 185 pounds
Scout.com national ranking for QBs in Class of 2014: 15
Current scholarship offers: Arizona, Utah State.
2012 passing stats: 135-271-10, 2,335 yards, 19 TDs.
2012 rushing stats: 152 carries, 567 yards, 7 TDs.
2011 passing stats: 10-22-3, 122 yards, 1 TD.
2011 rushing stats: 34 carries, 56 yards.
Physical specs: 6 feet 3 inches, 190 pounds
Scout.com national ranking among for QBs in Class of 2014: 45
Current scholarship offers: South Alabama, Idaho, Oregon State, Duke, North Carolina State.
2012 passing stats: 11-20-0 180 yards, 2 TDs.
2012 rushing stats: 25 carries,106 yards, 3 TDs.
2012 receiving stats: 19 receptions, 293 yards, 2 TDs.


text: As the Phoenix's media writer, I spend a lot of time writing about the struggles of other news outlets--in particular, the woes of the Boston Globe, whose very existence is currently in question. And I'm periodically asked by other journalists: "So, how are things at the Phoenix?" My response tends to be vague, and to reflect my (intentional) lack of knowledge about my employer's finances: Like every other print publication, I think we're hurting a bit--but so far we haven't had any layoffs, knock on wood. Or words to that effect.It's time to update that answer. A few minutes ago, Stephen Mindich, the Phoenix Media/Communication Group's publisher/CEO/chairman, announced an array of cuts at the Phoenix and elsewhere in the company in an email to employees. Our 401K matches, which just began a few months ago, are being suspended. Six people are being laid off, two in editorial. (I'd include their names, but don't want their family and friends to learn the news from me.) And every employee is going to have his/her salary cut, with the highest-paid giving up considerably more than the lowest. (The range is 10 percent to 2 percent, with some top brass giving up a bigger amount; see the memo below.)Obviously, I'm worried about how the loss of income will affect me and my family. But I'm also relieved--and grateful--to still have a job, and a very good one, at a moment when so many journalists are losing theirs. And I take genuine pride in the fact that the PMC/G's best-paid employees are sacrificing more of their salaries, proportionally speaking, than their more modestly compensated colleagues. That's the kind of company you want to work for.Finally--strange as this may sound--I think experiencing this unpleasantness firsthand might make my do my job a bit differently. Until now, I've been insulated from the unpleasant realities I write about pretty much every day. Now, unfortunately, I'll have a different perspective--more immediate, more visceral--when I write about layoffs, or salary cuts, or the bigger economic developments that make these things necessary. In all honestly, that's empathy I'd rather not have. But if it makes me proceed a bit more cautiously, or leavens my harsher judgments ever so slightly, that might won't be a bad thing.Here's Mindich's memo:-------This is an extremely difficult letter for me to write to all of you. But I must tell you that the economic climate in which we're operating has finally caught up with us. Our ability to outmaneuver adversity has been strained as it's never been strained before and in order to run our company effectively and guarantee our collective future, we must take action today.Despite the hard work, commitment and imagination of so many, we are now going to have to make sacrifices. Consequently we have no choice but to impose a number of cost and wage - saving measures including across-the-board reductions in pay for all and the suspension of our 401K match for '09. No one is exempt, not me, Brad, Rick or anyone else. I'm spelling this out to reassure everyone that the immense sacrifice from all of you is being shared by everyone.As everyone knows we, of course, are not alone in taking these steps. Companies small and large – in virtually every business endeavor, and not just the media, have had to reduce their costs in order to stay the course and remain viable.A significant difference between us and so many other media companies, and which is indicative of our potentially healthy future, is that we are not taking these steps because we have an audience issue or a circulation issue problem. What we do have, however, is an overall cost structure issue brought on and exacerbated by our national recession - and that is what we are rectifying through these actions.Unlike many companies, however, who simply put into place the same percentage reduction for all employees, our salary reductions will be graduated -- divided into eleven diminishing steps ranging from 50% to 2%. In other words, top management will take the biggest cuts. Salary decreases will be scaled according to categories with those earning the least receiving the smallest cuts.These will take effect in the next pay period. Your supervisor will soon relate the specific details to you personally.Additionally, we unfortunately have had to do a very limited number of layoffs and these were made only after all other options to reduce costs were taken. There is also the likelihood that in a few months we could implement a temporary fixed reduction in your regular workweek due to today's economic conditions. If this is to take place, you will be notified in advance by your managers.Over our 42 year history we have had to do layoffs two other times and it is truly one of the most painful experiences I can recall. That said, over the years we have been fortunate to hire many people back and my hope is that this will be the case this time as well.It is important to repeat that we are instituting these wage reductions and limited layoffs now in order to preserve as many jobs as possible. The goal here is to stabilize the costs of the company while minimizing the number of lost jobs. And we fervently believe through these steps we will accomplish our goal.Like so many other companies in and out of the media business, we're in a tough spot. But I have every faith in the future. I have no doubt that we have the collective ability to out think our competition and out last these challenging circumstances. Companies that succeed today will be in an extraordinary position tomorrow; we intend and expect to be one of those companies.I will also note that we will be looking monthly at the various changes we have made in the compensation program and other reductions, and if we can reverse anything we will at the earliest possible moment.Finally, I want everyone to know, and everyone who knows me, knows this, none of what we are doing was decided upon lightly. I have tapped every personal and corporate resource possible before taking these steps – and took them only after being convinced that they are all necessary steps which will ensure our future success.Of course, if any of you would like to speak with me or Brad personally, please reach out to us. Stephen M. Mindich


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A vacant rental home was broken into and used for parties, police say.
The property owner reported damage to the home at about 2:15 p.m. on Monday. Sometime over the past couple of weeks, the residence, on the 700-block of 10th Street, had had a side door forced open and had apparently been used as a party location. There was damage to the walls and carpet.
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HSH739 - International Perspectives on Health Policy and Planning
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This unit focuses on differences between cultures, nation states, government environments, regions and sectors in their considerations of planning and policy development and implementation for health. We will take a broad, ecological and global perspective. This means we will explore the worldwide context for health and endeavour to extrapolate this context to local circumstances. Health perspectives and developments in different cultures and countries will be presented, and students will engage actively in sharing insights about local and international health systems. This will include a critical perspective on the political economies and social determinants of health. From establishing a common theoretical and conceptual foundation for our deliberations the unit will evolve into a project driven environment in which students will actively contribute to furthering global public health. The unit endeavours to familiarise students with the applicability of political theory to international, transnational and global health issues.
Assessment task 1: Analysis of two journal articles and summary of main messages (300 words) 10%
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ON A FARTHER SHORE: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson. William Souder. xii + 496 pp. Crown Publishers, 2012. $30.
As we seek to orient ourselves within the world, the question of how scientific evidence might help us do so has historically been a vexed one. In 1861, for example, amid partisan controversies over Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, economist Henry Fawcett publicly defended its scientific integrity. That integrity was sound, although others chose to interpret the book's meaning differently in relation to religion and other perspectives. In a letter of thanks to Fawcett, Darwin wrote: "How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be made for or against some view if it is to be of any service." More recently, a 2012 report by the Union of Concerned Scientists criticized News Corporation, one of the world's largest media companies, for misleading the public about the integrity of scientific evidence for anthropogenic climate change by conflating conflicts about facts with what are often, instead, clashes between worldviews.
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, William Souder's deeply studied, well-written biography of Rachel Carson (1907–1964), helps us see her life work as crafting a narrative in which science is used to care for Earth, a narrative that eventually came into conflict with one in which science is used to dominate Earth. Carson understood herself foremost as a writer. As an undergraduate she discovered that biology gave her "something to write about" and that her work would be entwined with the sea. After performing a research stint at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and earning a master's degree in zoology from Johns Hopkins in 1932, she wrote about Atlantic Coast fishes for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries. One of her assignments, "Undersea," was published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1937, launching her literary career. She was an ambitious, demanding author; in 1952, Souder relates, she wrote to her editor Paul Brooks at Houghton Mifflin, "reminding Brooks that they had agreed she was to be 'free to develop the book in what seems to be my own peculiar style.'" Employing that style, she wrote four bestsellers: Under the Sea-Wind (1941), The Sea Around Us (1951), The Edge of the Sea (1955) and, most famously, Silent Spring (1962). Her slow process of gathering countless "kernels of fact," as she put it, and transforming them through multiple revisions into literary prose sometimes caused her to "suffer tortures." Carson's able editors and equally skilled agent, Marie Rodell, learned to work well with her by sensitively pressing her about deadlines and providing perspective without limiting a project's outcome.
As a writer, Carson was most at home at the library, where she conducted meticulous research and corresponded with scientific experts and literary authors. Among the many portraits of influence Souder draws are ornithologist and underwater diver William Beebe, and two English authors: Richard Jefferies, whom Carson called her literary grandfather, and Henry Williamson, who was a generation younger than Jefferies. Carson, who went diving only once herself, explored the ocean aboard research and fishing vessels and, most intimately, from Atlantic island shores, especially those of Maine's Southport Island. There, in 1952, she built a summer home and, as Souder gently relates, met the love of her life, neighbor Dorothy Freeman. With Freeman, she explored beauty—a liminal cave hung with "little elfin starfish," a symphony by Gustav Mahler, a poem of T. S. Eliot's. Such delving was vital to Carson's gracefully embracing writing. Her thoughts went "down through the water," she wrote, and through her research and imagination she discovered the lives of the creatures she was studying accurately and wholly—in the totality of their relationships. In her sea storytelling, time ranges from ephemeral to geological. Space reaches from abyss to stars and from southern marshland to Arctic tundra. Life is a continuum, forever changing and not changing—evolving, migrating, eddying in currents, eating and being eaten, with humans enmeshed within it all.
In 1958, Carson admitted to having "shut her mind" to the redirection of wartime technologies toward peacetime uses. She now opened it to courageously face the deeply troubling ways in which arrogant applications of science—part of the narrative of human control over Earth—were overwhelming the natural world she had believed was "forever beyond the tampering reach of man." In a chapter titled "Earth on Fire," Souder evokes the painfully disorienting "twin fears of the modern age"—radioactive bomb fallout and liberal pesticide use—and concludes with author E. B. White urging Carson to write about them. In the process of doing so, Carson explored ways to use science less crudely, corresponding about pesticide alternatives with experts including E. O. Wilson. Wilson recommended British ecologist Charles Elton's new book The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants, an important influence on Carson's work that Souder unfortunately neglects. Elton's earlier work on food relationships had shaped American literary scientist Aldo Leopold's ethical vision of "land health"—the capacity of the community of life for self-renewal—with which Carson was familiar. Elton's later work, in turn influenced by Leopold, similarly encouraged Carson's recognition of the vitality of biological variety to the health and wealth of ecological communities, an alternative to a chemical "rain of death," in Elton's words, as spraying with DDT and other pesticides was coming to be perceived.
Herring gulls can see phosphorescent dots on the sides of otherwise translucent big-eyed shrimp drifting below the surface of a nighttime sea, as Carson described in Under the Sea-Wind. In Silent Spring, with similarly sharp eyes, she made visible to an uninformed public the bodies of scientific evidence indicating that the hasty, widespread dissemination of radiation and pesticides was causing collateral damage to organisms that share, as Souder puts it, "a common biochemical evolutionary history"—in other words, all of us. Carson showed, now with volatile grace, how these poisons weave their ways through interconnected ecological food chains that include humans, threatening everyone's health. The book's reception was explosively polarized. It won awards and initiated the environmental movement, which led to legislation including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act. Strongly negative reactions came mostly from industry and government representatives with economic and political stakes in the matter—as Souder writes, "self-protective enclaves within what President Eisenhower had called the 'military-industrial complex.'"
The scientific evidence in Silent Spring held up under intense scrutiny. Carson was right, Souder reminds us, and even some early, outspoken skeptics conceded that she was. It's also worth remembering that Carson did not call for a complete end to chemical uses, as some detractors accused her of doing, but for use with precaution.
Another common criticism was one-sidedness. Recounting a point-counterpoint–style report aired on CBS in 1963, Souder shows how Carson could present her work as providing the missing piece on pesticide threats in a mosaic of opinions that otherwise overemphasized the chemicals' safety and benefits for agriculture and disease control without accounting for costs such as evolving pest resistance and harms to health via biomagnification. Carson, who was suffering from the effects of radiation treatment for breast cancer, countered the arguments of government officials and industry spokespeople with calm and precision, winning the debate. Although many people admitted that she got the facts right, they nonetheless did not always embrace her overarching narrative. The battle her story ignited was not so much over the integrity of scientific knowledge as the worldviews that shaped responses to it.
Souder claims that environmentalism, with its core concern for health, need not have become a partisan issue, but that it did so because it began with Silent Spring and the fierce attacks it sparked. If this supposition is true, Sounder inspires the conclusion that it is because Carson's outlook meant that health was a matter encompassing the totality of the world of life, thus requiring collective care, if not loving reverence, for Earth. This perspective threatened the predominant acceptance of violent control of nature as a means of speedily increasing economic wealth, and thus it evoked strong, if not always clearly reasoned, conflict. Carson was calling for a profound transformation of attitudes—one that would require not only fewer poisons but also a humbler worldview. "I truly believe," she wrote, "that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery not of nature, but of ourselves."
In the year between Silent Spring's publication, now just over 50 years ago, and her death from cancer in 1964, Carson deepened her investigation into global climate change, a longtime interest of hers. A newly released report by the Conservation Foundation warned that heavy fossil fuel burning, which released the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere, was likely to be accompanied by higher global temperatures, melting ice, rising sea levels and changes in distributions of marine species. We know now, based on strong scientific evidence, that these predictions and more are coming to pass. Like the still-rampant, careless dispersal of other pollutants, excessive greenhouse gas emissions by humans is a collective problem for Earth's health today—which all the more urgently requires the daring exercise of just, collective care.
Julianne Lutz Warren teaches environmental studies at New York University; she received her Ph.D. in wildlife ecology and conservation biology from the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Aldo Leopold's Odyssey (Island Press, 2006) and the recipient of a 2013 NYU Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award.
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I'm considering mixing honey with some of my maple syrup this year. I believe the flavors would mix well, and I wonder if the antibacterial properties of honey would reduce the potential of mold in the maple syrup.
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Re: st: time in xtmixed
Jeph Herrin <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: time in xtmixed
Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:39:21 -0400
I'll just add one thought to the other useful replies here. Though we still don't know what units -time- is measured in, you probably want to recenter it by substracting the smallest value. For example, if time is in years (2000, 2005, 2010), and you enter it as a continuous variable, then you are examining an effect relative to t=0, ie, the year 1BC, and so even if it is "borderline significant" it may not be very meaningful. Instead, one would want to subtract either the minimum (2000) or the mean (2005) from all time values so that the effect of the continuous variable has some reasonable interpretation. This is also true if you are using Stata elapsed dates.
On 3/25/2013 9:24 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
You could e.g. try a model without time, calculate residuals and then
look at the distributions of residuals separated by time values.
Which do you expect to a better model of the process? Do you expect,
scientifically (medically, biologically, whatever), linear effects in
time? What do you expect scientifically?
Thought for the day from Leland Wilkinson.The last sentence can bite:
"It is not always convenient to remember that the right model for a
population can fit a sample of data worse than a wrong model—even a
wrong model with fewer parameters. We cannot rely on statistical
diagnostics to save us, especially with small samples. We must think
about what our models mean, regardless of fit, or we will promulgate
Leland Wilkinson. 2005. The Grammar of Graphics. New York: Springer,
2005, p.354.
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 1:12 PM, megan rossi <email@example.com> wrote:
How is this for confusing, when time is as a continuous variable (ie. option a)the association between depvar and indepvar is significant (time is borderline sig p=0.055), however as a categorical variable, option b, the relationship between depvar and indepvar becomes insignificant...and time 1 and 2 become very insignificant (p=0.55 and 0.17)
In both scenarios the overall significance of the model is <0.0001 and log likelihoods are the same. The interaction between indepvar and time is only significant at time 0 not 1 or 2.
If I did go with option a, could I really say that independent of time depvar and indepvar are association?
David Hoaglin
To expand on Maarten's reply, i.time will give you separate effects
for the second and third time points (and the effect at the first time
point will be part of the constant term). If you use time as a
"continuous" predictor, its coefficient will be the slope of depvar
against time (adjusted for the contribution of indepvar), and the
constant term will correspond to time = 0. The second model is
simpler, but it assumes that the contribution of time is linear.
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 3:06 AM, megan rossi <email@example.com> wrote:
Can anyone advise me on whether I need to include time variable as a categorical variable (ie. have a prefix i.) in xtmixed or can it be treated as a continous variable even though the data was collected at only three time points (evenly spaced). My research question: is depvar associated with indepvar independent of time ie. is syntax a or b most appropriate:
a) xtmixed depvar indepvar time||ptid:time,cov(uns)
b) xtmixed depvar indepvar i.time||ptid:time,cov(uns)
I noticed that the stata youtube video on this doesn't include i. however it was from 9 time points, not 3.
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That just seems like good football.
I guess you're happy when we stand around and watch Romo take 3 knees unchallenged, dispite his history of fumble snaps under pressure.
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
I just had a really funny debate with a friend of mine. lol
She said she just read an article about how there is less than 15 mins of actual action in football. and how "man and ppl say baseball is bad".
So I said, let me use math to show you how ****ing boring baseball is.
IF you consider "Action" the following:
-the release of a pitch, all the way to hitting a catcher's glove (not even a full second)
-pickoff moves/throwovers
-watching a fielder wait for a popped up ball fall to their location
Then baseball is JUST BARELY 15 minutes of action.
And that's with me being generous to how many actual hits there are per game, and how many pitches are thrown by each team.
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Will Obama Seize Americans Savings?
Supposedly in order to stave off an economic apocalypsereminiscent of the banshee Barack Obamas recent sequestration road showCyprus called for a taxthat is, confiscationof between six and ten percent of its citizens bank accounts.
Yesterday, they floated the idea of nationalizingthat is, confiscatingpensions.
Today, the European Union is pushing to freezethat is confiscate bank accounts of the bad banksforget about six and ten percent; theyre talking about forty percent!
Will Obama Seize Americans Savings
They use terms like tax, freeze, or nationalize; but the operative word here is confiscation.
Obama would call it paying their fair share.
Although theft would be the word most would use.
The whole fiasco matters little as far as Cyprus is concerned. Were talking about the EU wanting to freeze $13 billion. America spends that much funding Obamas endless golf outings.
But when Americans heard that the European Union could force a sovereign nation to confiscate private citizens bank accounts, there was a collective gasp. Our economy is intimately tied with the European Union; and in fact, Americans have largely funded the endless bailouts through our having to pony up funds for the IMF. So when it was heard that the EU could confiscate private citizens bank accounts or pensions, we knew they could do it to virtually any country in the EUand in fact, many now are talking about a tax of 15% on Italians savings. What country is next? Germany? The UK?
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Far fetched?
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Under the auspices of a bailout for Big Labors bankrupt pensionsthe same Big Labor that has donated half a billion dollars to Obamas endless campaignDemocrats were planning on confiscating Americans retirement accounts and funneling the money to their Big Labor backers. The cover was the creation of what they called a Guaranteed Retirement AccountGRAanother government takeover that dwarves ObamaCares takeover of the healthcare industry.
Is this something a radicalized Obama administration floated, then rejected, in 2010?
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Of course, this employer mandate sounds oddly similar to ObamaCares mandate to buy health insurance, which is nothing more than a Trojan Horse for single-payerthat is, socialized healthcare.
And the Automatic IRA will be a Trojan Horse for nationalizing retirement accounts.
But this is only the beginning. Barack Obama and his gaggle of leftists are out for the motherlode: full-blown socialism.
Behind the scenes, the Obama administration is waiting for the European Union to collapse; waiting for the U.S. stock market to crash; and, like a vulture waiting for his prey to die, waiting for the U.S. economy itself to collapse.
Enter George Soros, dubbed The Man Who Broke the Bank of England, who funneled hundreds of millions of dollars out of the British economy with the collapse of the British pound and is now about to gut the European Union with the impending collapse of the Euro.
And now hes out for blood when the U.S. stock market collapses.
The stock market in recent weeks has been at record levels. Many have predicted a stock market crashlosing up to 90% of its valuealthough those on the hard Left, especially our friend George Soros, wont say it openly.
Soros, along with a gaggle of other banksters, have dumped most of their stock in the banking industry and are stockpiling a massive amount of gold.
And Obama and Soros have a secret that theyre keeping wraps on: If the stock market crashes, the economy itself will collapse.
Presto Chango!or in Obama speak, Change you can believe in!
When the stock market and economy collapse, Obamawith Soros no doubt at the helmwill call for nationalizing Americans retirement accountscoincidentally estimated to be close to the amount of the current national debt$18 trillionin order to, in Obamas words, Get our fiscal house in order.
And if retirement accounts are nationalizedthat is, stolenwhy not nationalize everythingthat is, why not have full blown Marxism?
Why not, indeed?
Of course, the American people wont go willingly. Those who cling to their guns and religion will fight Barack Obama tooth and nail.
Is this why the Obama administration has been on the war path trying to gut the Second Amendment?
Is this why the Obama administration has stockpiled two billion rounds of ammunition?
Is this why the Obama administration has been stockpiling light armored tanks, preparing for a literal civil war on the streets of America?
A civil war in America?
You betcha!
When the manufactured economic crisis is over, Obamas fundamental transformation of America will be complete, with a Marxist utopia safely in place.
Is this all a wild conspiracy theory?
Perhaps. Perhaps not.
Will Obama Seize Americansâ Savings? | Pakalert Press
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Report: Andrew Bogut expected to return to Warriors' lineup Monday night
By Ben Eagle
Offseason ankle surgery cost Andrew Bogut all but four games this season, but he's expected to return to the lineup Monday night in Toronto, reports the San Jose Mercury News.
Warriors starting center Andrew Bogut is aiming at coming back Monday night in Toronto. It will all depend on how he feels after pregame warmups. But multiple sources said Bogut is planning to give it ago.
The Warriors are being quiet on the matter and coach Mark Jackson maintains his stance that Bogut will come back when he is ready. Bogut doesn't want to create a big to-do, one source said, and ramp up
Acquired in a March 2012 deal that sent Monta Ellis to Milwaukee, Bogut has played in only four games total for the Warriors, averaging 6 points and 3.8 rebounds in 18.3 minutes. He has been plagued by injuries throughout his career, but helped Milwaukee finish as the fourth-ranked defense during the 2010-11 season. The surprising Warriors sit 5th in the West at 26-17, but their small-ball lineup has been exposed recently, yielding 57 second-chance points over their last two games. Bogut's return should provide a big boost on the boards and help improve a defense that ranks 12th in the NBA. Golden State was never considered a serious title contender, but a healthy Bogut should make them the team no one wants to face in the postseason.


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|Glen Davis knows he has to choose wisely
|04.19.11 at 2:54 pm ET
Celtics forward Glen Davis takes too many jumpshots. This past season he launched 4.6 times a game from between 16 and 23 feet, which is three and a half more attempts per game than he averaged last season and almost twice as many as the 2008-09 season when he first began to fall in love with the long shot.
Shooting the jumper isn't the problem. The Celtics offense generally takes their four men away from the post and out on to the perimeter (see: Kevin Garnett). They like to keep the floor spaced and the driving lanes open for Rajon Rondo and Paul Pierce.
The problem for Davis is that he didn't make very many of them this season, hitting at just a 35 percent clip. By way of comparison, Garnett made 47 percent of his long jump shots and was one of the best shooting big men from that range in the league.
And yet for all the criticism Davis takes for his offense, he has had a breakthrough season as the Celtics most important reserve and garnered serious attention early in the season as a top Sixth Man candidate in the league. He filled that role so well that it's easy to remember that just last season Davis was getting only 18 minutes a night and still trying to carve out a place for himself in the NBA beyond simply as a "rotation player."
Part of the reason Davis played so well this season is that he became far more effective inside where he upped his shooting percentage from 50 to 60 percent and increased his attempts. He was frustrated by how often he got his shot blocked last season and developed some counters, which have been successful.
But he has to get inside first. Davis took eight shots in Game 1 and missed seven of them. Half of his attempts were from 16-23 feet and he made just one. Oddly enough, some of that has to do with Amar'e Stoudemire, although not directly. The Knicks use one of three players alongside Stoudemire: Ronny Turiaf, Jared Jeffries and Shawne Williams.
Friend of Green Street, Gian Casimiro showed by way of video the effect those players, particularly Turiaf, have on the Celtics defense. Essentially, Jermaine O'Neal played way off Turiaf and protected the paint. Of the three options, Williams could cause the most damage because of his ability to shoot 3-pointers. Turiaf was also effective making four of five shots inside mainly because O'Neal was busy elsewhere, but the Celtics seem willing to make the trade.
With that in mind, I asked Davis about it after the team's shootaround this morning.
"They're different," Davis said. "When you guard Amar'e, he's hard to guard because he's so quick. Shawne Williams puts a lot of pressure on the next guy [the help defender] because he's stretching the floor. If a guy like me is posting on Shawne Williams that's a negative. But you know, other teams live with that. They'll live with me scoring if the ball is not in other player's hands. So I've got to pick wisely how I play the game."
That's why focusing on individual matchups like Garnett and Stoudemire is too simplistic. A great player like Stoudemire causes teams to make decisions and each decision has a counter-move. Davis is crucial for the Celtics in this series because of his versatility to matchup against whomever the Knicks put on the floor with Stoudemire. As he said, he needs to choose wisely.
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If there had been foreign troops on American soil for the last 50 years, would you approve of that?
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If a gang from the next town robbed your bank and shot the guards, would you go after the whole town, or just the gang?


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Mi amiga, Margaret over at Cachando Chile has invited me to play a game.
In this game, I am to simply share a post on my blog in each of these seven categories. (I totally cheated and chose more than one in each category though.) Click around as you wish!
#1. Most Beautiful Post
Fuerza Mineros – A positive message after the rescue of the Chilean miners.
Days Like These – An ordinary day can be the most beautiful day of all.
Te Encontraré – How Carlos and I met, in 5 parts.
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Papitas and Escrituras y Diferencias. (Both were featured on the WordPress.com dashboard as "Freshly Pressed".)
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Is Gringo offensive?
Hablar o No Hablar?
Mexicans vs. Salvadorans
Rick Sanchez on Anglicizing
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A step-by-step guide to making a typical Salvadoran breakfast: How to Win a Salvadoreño's Corazón or … an easy, natural way to repel moscas: Plastic bag of water: Latin American superstition or science?
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When I blogged about my favorite telenovela, Herederos del Monte, (Los Herederos del Monte – gossip conmigo!), I had no idea how popular it would be. (It still gets comments!)
…Likewise my own real life telenovela became a phenomenon all its own – (the Clementino saga) – You guys like drama!
#6. A Post that Didn't Get the Attention I Felt It Deserved
My Most Embarrassing Spanish-Speaking Moment is worth reading, (go ahead! Laugh at my expense!)… and this post about how I Love Lucy shaped my life, (en serio!)
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I'm choosing this post (below) because I almost didn't hit the "publish" button on it. The stigma of labeling myself a "gringa gordita" married to a Latino cut so deep that I almost let it hold me down. In the end, I did find the courage to hit "publish" … And I'm proud of myself that I did.
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4. Vos
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Scarecrow and Mrs. King Synopsis
Goodbye, PTA…hello, foreign intrigue! Single mom Amanda King leads a quiet suburban life in Washington DC until the day a dashing stranger shoves a package in her hands with instructions to give it to the man in the red hat. In no time, Amanda is dodging bullets, foiling assassination plots – and finding herself drawn to the dashing stranger, agent Lee Stetson, aka Scarecrow. Of course, Scarecrow has no interest in a ditsy amateur spy, no matter how pretty. But she certainly is handy in a crisis! Share the Season One fun with stars Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner in this fast-paced 5-Disc, 21-Episode Set of the lighthearted series that proves laughs and romance are powerful weapons in the battle to protect national security.
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A fight to protect significant areas of native plants on privatised land has been won by Forest and Bird in the Environment Court.
The conservation group took the Waitaki District Council and Federated Farmers to court to overturn an exemption in the council's District Plan.
That exemption meant rules intended to protect native plants did not apply to land that had been privatised through a tenure review process.
Forest and Bird solicitor, Sally Gepp said the exemption in the District Plan allowed some farmers to freely clear native vegetation.
"There's still a real role for the district plan here, and the council has a duty to protect this vegetation and to control activities that would get rid of it," she said.
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There, I said it.
I stand with you and hope to shake the seriously bad karma I brought to the Reds with my post earlier this week. I want this monkey off my back!!! Sweep away!
What's the Drudge Report have to do with this? hmm
Go Reds!
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Im a normal guy blessed with the ability to hit a baseball. - Sean Casey
Okay, I'm pulling everything out of the bag
And all of these
These pants are now officially stinking. People are starting to pity me...it's sad. I was mentioned on our local hometown radio station today about my pants. The announcer was laughing out of control. He said I'd be wearing them until April of 07.
1st pick of the 2022 baseball amateur draft
I have a gut feeling that they are going to take it to San Diego. I just feel like the Reds batters are going to hit and the pitchers are going to pitch respectably.
dang it!
Go Reds!
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I think we'll take at least one.
"I saw Wedding Crashers accidentally. I bought a ticket for Grizzly Man and went into the wrong theater. After an hour, I figured I was in the wrong theater, but I kept waiting. Thats the thing about bear attacks. They come when you least expect it."-Dwight K. Schrute
The REDS have not lost in San Diego since May 13, 2004... approx.
838 days ago!
Last year's 3-game sweep at San Diego
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REDS starters - 1.80 ERA, 1.05 WHIP.
Small market fan... always hoping, but never expecting.
FLASH! Krivsky in San Diego sweep claim. Developing...
I blame this thread for the lack of sweepage.
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Direct Trade Coffee in Peru – Days 1 and 2
Day one in Peru was mostly spent getting to our final destination. After yet another 5:30 am wake up call, Paul and I hit the road back to the airport and boarded our flight to Piura. In the airport, our choices for coffee were Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts. I'll leave it a surprise where we went. This was followed by the swift realization that in my sleepy haze I had left my ATM card in the machine after taking my money and receipt (and also lost my awesome traveler points). No luck in recovering, it had already been eaten up. Now the fun game begins of trying to survive for a week one 100 dollars, but I think that I am up for the challenge (our travel budget will be lower than expected, always a plus).
After arriving in Piura and grabbing a quick breakfast, Paul and I took a tour of Cenfrocafe's milling and processing plant with manager Martin Dominguez, who works for Cepicafe, and Daniel Alberca La Torre, traffic manager for Cenfrocafe. We looked over their books, walked through the milling process, and checked that numbers matched up on bag tags. Overall the visit was a great success. The added bonus to that trip was seeing their cupping lab, where they do a final quality inspection before the coffee is exported. The manager of the lab was not there, but as we walked up the stairs we were greeted with the sweet smell of melting chocolate. We happened upon cacao tasting and analysis day, and got to watch them prepare raw melted cacao!
From Piura we set off again, this time towards our final destination, Jaen. The trip was uneventful, an easy 7 hour journey over the Andes, no sweat. We stopped about halfway through for lunch in a tiny roadside town, population 35, I would guess. Then we arrived in Jaen around 8 pm, tired out, and had a quick dinner with Elmer, a Cenfrocafe representative, and Felipe, the manager of Cenfrocafe.
Day two in Peru was another informative day. Paul and I departed around 9 this morning to go to a "meeting." We assumed this to be an introductory meeting for planning the agenda of our visit. Oh how wrong we were. Our driver dropped us off at the local elementary school, where we entered a gym full of around 50 producers awaiting our arrival. If we had known, we might have not taken so long to eat our eggs at breakfast. When we stepped in the door, we were greeted with a large applause, welcoming us. A little starry eyed and panic stricken, Paul and I took our seats in front of the room and were asked to quickly describe the state and future of the specialty coffee industry in the United States. Luckily, having had this conversation the night before, I had Paul's answers ready to go and translate for the crowd (although maybe not so prepared to do it into a microphone before a full gymnasium). The group we spoke with was the leaders of local associations that sell coffee to Cenfrocafe, representing over 2,000 individual growers.
We described our goals for direct trade coffee, and were met with reassuring nods and thoughtful questions about how our model would work. The only flop was Paul's witty retort to the question, "What do you think the market is going to do in the next year?" The growers did not find the response, "I think the market is definitely going to do something, either go up or down, but it definitely will move in one of those directions" especially amusing (but it did give me a good chuckle). We shared the Project Direct website with the farmers at the meeting, and were pleased with their interest and understanding with what we want to do. I can only imagine good things in our future relationship with the farmers and producers in northern Peru.
After the meeting, we were whisked off to Cenfrocafe headquarters in Jaen, where we cupped different lots to complete our pending shipment of coffees. We cupped with the office's 3 Q-certified graders, Elias, Alexander, and Ronny, all of us shockingly well calibrated. Cenfrocafe is working on training the younger generation early on how to grade coffee quality, with the hope that after an internship in Jaen they will return to their towns and establish cupping labs at origin. Paul and I were very impressed with this initiative, and we had the pleasure to cup with 3 of these teenagers who had just started cupping one week earlier. They all were very eager to learn, and listened intently to our conversations about each coffee after the cupping was over. Education and support for the younger generations is a primary initiative for Cenfrocafe, and their training process is very impressive.
Next up, after lunch (the Peruvian specialty of Lomo Saltado, for those of you interested in our gastronomic choices), Paul and I attented a feria. I know this word to mean a fair, as in, "hey, let's jump on the ferris wheel at the fair," so I was confused with our final destination. When we arrived, there was in fact a ferris wheel and carnival games, however we were led straight past the fun stuff into a meeting with different coffee cooperatives addressing the issue of internal coffee consumption in Peru. Paul and I were a little tired of meetings at this point, so with a great sigh (by me) we sat down and listened. As the microphone was passed around the circle, however, Paul's interest piqued, and he started to get fired up about the topic. By the time it was our turn in the roundtable discussion, Paul gave an articulate synopsis of how and why the US coffee market has grown so substantially over the past 20 years. Hopefully I captured his passion and eloquence in translating to the other participants. Fortunately, we ended with a brindis, or a toast, a word Paul definitely knows in Spanish, based on the look of glee that came over his face and his question, "Where?"
All in all we have had a very good past couple of days. Tomorrow we are headed to San Ignacio to visit the farms of the coffees that we liked in the cupping today. Stay tuned for more ….
Highlights of the day: Soaking our feet in the hotel pool after a long morning, witnessing a local carnival, cupping some really impressive coffees, and how comfortable this hotel bed is right now. Good night!
To lear more about Project Direct visit www.projectdirectcoffee.com


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Tender chicken breasts are simmered with brown sugar, cider vinegar and a hint of allspice, then dressed up with packaged stuffing mix and convenient canned peaches.—Theresa Stewart, New Oxford, Pennsylvania
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- 1 can (15-1/4 ounces) sliced peaches
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (4 ounces each)
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
- 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 package (6 ounces) chicken stuffing mix
- Drain peaches, reserving syrup. Set aside eight peach slices for garnish; dice the remaining peaches. Add enough water to the syrup to measure 1 cup. Set peaches and syrup aside.
- In a large skillet, cook chicken in oil for 4-5 minutes on each side or until a meat thermometer reads 170°. Add the butter, brown sugar, vinegar, allspice and reserved syrup.
- Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 5 minutes. Add dry stuffing mix and diced peaches. Remove from the heat; cover and let stand for 5 minutes. Serve with peach slices. Yield: 4 servings.
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American Country Style Beach Apartment! By the Surf Beach!
Size500 ft²
Floor No.1
- Kitchen
- Family/child friendly
- Air conditioning
- Internet/WiFi
- Towels
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The kitchen is very well equipped with all you need to whisk, stir, sauté, and boil your favorite dishes…..dinette table with 4 chairs and your favorite spices (Salt and Pepper)
The Bathroom includes tub and shower glass doors.
The Bedrooms boast with a very comfortable full size pillow top mattress with a natural wood bedroom furniture, and walk in closet.
House rules*No smoking in the apartment
*No pets
*No party of any kind
*Parking only on the street. ( Be aware Not to park in that side on Tuesdays from 8:30am to 10am
*$250 Deposit required by owner Via Pay pal or credit card
*Only the guests listed on the reservation are allow in the apartment
*The apartment is delivered clean, normal continuance is responsibility of the guest
* Check in time is at 3:00pm
* Check out is at 11:00am
Guest must to notify owner if check in time will be later than 3pm
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|Price for > 3 guests
|15 NZ$ per guest/night extra
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The place is amazing. The host is amazing. The location is amazing. Too bad the commute is so long. If you don't have to go the city everyday, this is the best experience I had and suggest.
What a great house in Rockaway, Close to NYC but totally different. Lovely couple that owns the house - highly recommended!!
Because of an extended stay in the bungalow we booked, Jen transferred our reservation to another apartment at the same location.
Although the new apartment was more expensive, she didn't charge us more!
The apartment and the whole complex is very nice and clean. It's just one block away from the stunning beach, the subway station and everything you need!
It's a calm change to the vibrating city which is not that far away ;-)
We can recommend Jen & Joe's apartments and we are going to stay there again when we come back one day!
There were 7 days for two in the apartment and it is really super nice and clean and decorated with love, you feel right at home (really looks like in the photos).
To the beach, supermarket and train there are less than 5 minutes and the connections to Brooklyn and Manhattan is good, even if you are of course a little longer and go at least once umsteigt.
In the kitchen everything is there what you need.
At Beachwalk There are several ways to eat tasty and cheap and near are also a couple of restaurants and a very nice wine bar.
Two of us had enough space (there is even a small walk-in closet, where you can stow everything well on luggage)!
At night, you do hear little from the airport. Downstairs there is a shared terrace with a barbecue, but where you can also sit relaxed when the other 3 apartments are inhabited.
One should not be deterred from the first sight of the front (uninhabited) house there.
Sorry, we do not even Jen Joe reached by phone, our "problem" has then but thank God quickly solved by itself. All important information on the apartment and the surrounding area had us in advance by mail and written in the apartment are flyers and cards of restaurants and a few other things in Rockaway Beach Jen.
Wir waren 7 Tage zu zweit in der Wohnung und sie ist wirklich Super schön und sauber und mit Liebe eingerichtet, man fühlt sich direkt wohl (sieht wirklich aus wie auf den Fotos).
Zum Strand, Supermarkt und zur Bahn sind es keine 5 Minuten und die Anbindung nach Brooklyn und Manhattan ist gut, auch wenn man natürlich ein wenig länger unterwegs ist und mindestens einmal umsteigt.
In der Küche ist alles vorhanden was man braucht.
Am Beachwalk gibt es mehrere Möglichkeiten lecker und günstig zu essen und in der Nähe sind auch ein paar Restaurants und eine sehr schöne Weinbar.
Zu zweit hatten wir genug Platz (es gibt sogar einen kleinen begehbaren Kleiderschrank, in dem man alles an Gepäck gut verstauen kann)!
Nachts hört man wirklich wenig, auch vom Flughafen. Unten gibt es eine Gemeinschafts-Terasse mit einem Grill, auf der man aber auch entspannt sitzen kann wenn die anderen 3 Appartments bewohnt sind.
Man sollte sich nicht vom ersten Anblick des vorderen (unbewohnten) Hauses abschrecken lassen.
Leider haben wir weder Jen noch Joe telefonisch erreicht, unser "Problem" hat sich dann aber Gott sei dank schnell von alleine gelöst. Alle wichtigen Infos zur Wohnung und Umgebung hatte Jen uns vorab per Mail geschrieben und im Appartement liegen Flyer und Karten von Restaurants und ein paar anderen Sachen in Rockaway Beach.
Small new bungalow/guesthouse behind older house. It's fine for two people.
Parking was possible right on the site.
Comfortable apartment near the beach for surfers, but far more than an hour from Manhattan. Metro station 5 minutes walk. House clean and tidy, Jen and Joe very nice and helpful, even if on departure became evident, and we left the keys at home. Too bad the distance, overall good experience.
Appartamento confortevole vicino alla spiaggia dei surfisti, ma distante più di un'ora da Manhattan. Fermata metro a 5 minuti a piedi. Casa pulita e in ordine, Jen e Joe molto simpatici e disponibili, anche se alla partenza non si sono fatti vedere ed abbiamo lasciato le chiavi in casa. Peccato la distanza, nel complesso bella esperienza.
A very nice apartment in a quiet location. Joe greeted us warmly. Who has no problem with that, 45 min. to drive to the center of New York is an ideal apartment to gain from the hustle and bustle in the city distance. Here we have the beach are not allowed to continue, since we were always in the evening at home, since one always has the feeling of missing something. S-Bahn station and a small supermarket about 5 minutes. walk away.
Eine sehr schöne Wohnung in ruhiger Lage. Joe empfing uns sehr herzlich. Wer kein Problem damit hat, 45 min. bis ins Zentrum von New York zu fahren ist das eine ideale Wohnung, um von der Hektik in der Stadt Abstand zu gewinnen. Leider haben wir den Strand nicht weiter nutzen können, da wir immer erst Abends zu hause waren, da man immer das Gefühl hat etwas zu verpassen. S-Bahn Station und ein kleiner Supermarkt ca. 5 min. zu Fuss entfernt.
We got a very warm welcome. The rooms were very clean and lovely furnished. In the evening we enjoyed the nice outside area for dinner. The car we could parking at the front court and the beach is just a minute away. Just perfect ! All in one, we felt very comfortable and had a nice time over 4days. Thanks a lot Jen & Joe, and also nice greetings from Nicole and Sarina !
The days on site were lovely, the apartment and our hosts sufficiently helpful. We felt comfortable in the clean aund sufficiently large apartment - we have spent almost a week for four in NYC. Gladly again
Die Tage vor Ort waren schön, das Appartment ausreichend und unsere Gastgeber hilfsbereit.
Wir haben uns wohlgefühlt im sauberen aund ausreichend großem Appartment - wir haben zu viert eine knappe Woche in NYC verbracht.
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The Pick Up: Date Women Out of Your League
Ever wondered what it takes to date a Playmate? Nick Savoy breaks it down.
If you treat a woman like you're on her level, you've got a chance with her. But if you act like she's out of your league, then she will be.
Let's say there are two guys at a party and they both like the same girl. Mr. Alpha walks right up to her and starts a conversation. Mr. Beta keeps glancing at her, but looks down every time she returns eye contact. After three drinks and an hour of psyching himself up, he finally approaches.
The woman doesn't know either of these guys. Mr. Alpha acted like he thinks he is on her level. She may or may not agree—she'll have to get to know him to find out. She doesn't know Mr. Beta either, but he knows himself best, and if he doesn't think he's on her level, who is she to disagree?
So, how do you tell a woman that you're on her level—even if she seems unattainable?
Be a challenge. Flirting is a game and she wants to play too. I know it's hard to be a challenge when you're really into someone; one thing I tell clients is to act as if you have ten other women in your social life who are just as pretty or amazing as her. Don't say this to her. Just act like a man with options and see how it changes your behavior. For example:
1) Tease and joke around with her
That unattainable woman you have a crush on is probably starved for someone to be genuine with her. Most people in her life probably resent her for her beauty, assume she's a bitch, or suck up to her because they want something from her.
Tease her and joke around, like you might do with a younger female cousin who you like hanging out with. Don't act like a jerk, but don't walk on eggshells around her either. If you had options, you wouldn't worry about accidentally offending someone.
2) Don't act too invested in her
Don't answer every phone call or text right away. Don't try to keep every conversation going until she ends it. A lot of guys get hurt or even resentful if a woman cancels on a date or doesn't call them back. That tells her right away that she's out of your league. You wouldn't do this if you had a ton of other women in your life; guys who are on her level would just call another girl.
I'm not saying you have to put up with behavior you don't like. But a guy with options wouldn't lecture her about it; he'd just stop calling her. A lot of the time, she will be the one who gets back in touch.
3) Project confidence
Speak slowly. Hold eye contact. Move deliberately and never waste a movement. Always act as if everything is going according to plan.
It's impossible to decide to be confident. But what you can do is project confidence. She won't know the difference. And when all else fails, remember those ten amazing women who want you so much.
4) Don't play tourist in her life
If you happen to meet the Playmate of the year or your favorite actress, don't waste that opportunity by interviewing her about her life.
She can't be attracted to you if she doesn't know anything about you. (And don't become the question guy.) If you connect with her, there will be plenty of time to learn every detail about her life later.
Most of the time, she isn't out of your league. Love Systems' clients have gone on to date supermodels, A-list actresses, even minor royalty. One great thing about being a man is your personality and lifestyle are more important to most women than your looks. Change the way you act and you'll change the results you get.
Nick Savoy is President and Founder of Love Systems, the largest and most successful dating coaching group for men. Follow him on twitter: @LS_Savoy