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That being said, what is the best material to use in my BB house?
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I have 8 dogs so I plan to use a lot of the downy fur from them (Siberian Huskies). I think that would be nice. The birds and the mice seem to love it!
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Bill did accordingly with his fajitas, carefully arranging the fixings atop the shrimp or sausage slices. He thought he might need an extra tortilla, but they were quite big, and he ended up using halves or quarters to wrap up the filling.
My chile rellenos were stuffed with Colby and jack cheese, dipped into a batter and lightly fried before being topped with enchilada sauce. The problem was that the batter absorbed too much of the sauce before it was served, and there was no pleasing crunch left on the chiles, as I've experienced elsewhere.
Despite our own over-stuffed feelings, we perused the desserts, which are usually fried ice cream or "churros," a cinnamon-dusted Mexican honeycomb pastry topped with chocolate sauce and whipped cream. A special that night was a cornbread shortcake, and with the waitress's enthusiasm for their particular whipped cream (not Cool Whip, but not real whipped cream, she explained), we decided to share the shortcake.
This was not a success, even though we ate quite a bit of it for the strawberry flavor. The idea of strawberries and cornbread is a nice innovation, but when there is only a strawberry sauce (without even frozen strawberries), and when the aforementioned "whipped cream" is so inedible (in the opinion of these three diners), the dish shouldn't be offered at all.
But again, Tortilla Flats is what it is: plenty of semi-Tex-Mex dishes, several New Orleans-styled listings, including blacked pan-fried catfish and Cajun chicken Alfredo; plus, burgers, pulled pork, BBQ ribs, and steak strips. Not to mention 35 different tequilas, many cervezas, five margaritas (even available in a 60-ounce pitcher), and a house sangria.
In keeping with its Steinbeck-inspired name, Tortilla Flats is just right for kicking back on a weekend and relaxing with friends: no fussy food, plenty of beer, and maybe a discussion of the photographic reproductions of pencil drawings of Steinbeck and "Doc" Ricketts, from Cannery Row, which are intended to set the tone for the restaurant.On the WebTortilla Flats:www.tortillaflatsri.com
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HB 2565 has passed both the House and the Senate ... unanimously. HB 2565 exempts on-the-farm honey producers from food license and registration, provided they produce 100% of the honey offered for sale. The honey offered for sale must comply with the 1974 law referred to as the Honey Sale and Labeling Act.
However...anyone is still subject to inspection. An inspection would most likely be prompted by someone getting sick on the product or complaint. Otherwise, an on- farm producer will likely never see an inspector.
The governor signed this legislation Oct 25th. It will take effect in 60 days. So... in January 2013, every honey producer that became a criminal over-night with Act 106 on Jan 1, 2011, will no longer be criminals again. How cool is that ! We will await any clarifications.


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Work on Gustave Eiffel's Paris landmark had barely begun in 1887 when all hell broke loose in the pages of Le Temps. A group of art establishment Parisians variously described the edifice as "baroque mercantile imaginations of a machine builder", "a gigantic black factory chimney" and "like an ink splotch". Eiffel hit back: "Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures?"
He went on to argue the tower would be beautiful because the mathematical calculations had determined it so. As an aesthetic line of reasoning it wasn't altogether convincing. But Eiffel won the day and the tower was soon regarded as a triumph of precision engineering, enshrining him as a great builder.
Eiffel's story is one of the better told in The Great Builders, edited by Kenneth Powell.
It profiles 40 canonical men (no women) and their structural legacies. Others don't fare so well, bogged down in dense biographical facts or arcane descriptions - "stalactite net pendentives", "quincunx of iron posts" - that may have some seeking the dictionary. The variation in style stems from the collection of historians, writers, academics and architects who have compiled the biographies. It can't be easy to condense the life's work of great men into five or six pages with photos and illustrations, but some contributors write with more flair and accessibility than others.
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As with all historical lists, there can be arguments about what has been left out. Where are Michelangelo, Donato Bramante and Andrea Palladio? There are surprises, too, in some of the inclusions - Francois Hennebique (reinforced concrete), James Bogardus (cast iron) and Frei Otto (tensile membrane).
But as an exploration of great building - whether it is bridges, churches, fortresses or skyscrapers; and whether the builders are supreme rulers (emperor Shah Jahan), artists (Brunelleschi), scientists (Wren), gardeners (Joseph Paxton), railway engineers (Brunel), architects (Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier) or today's starchitects (Frank Gehry, Norman Foster) - Builders provides an innovative take on 700 years of history.
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HD trailstar are a good PNW winter tire if you can afford $160 every 3 months? Light, sticky and burly sidewalls are awesome for low pressure slow greasy tech stuff... but they don't last especially the rear. They also tend to wash out when things get fast and aggressive (due to transition knobs). For me, most of the smaller transition knobs quickly sheared right off, and then the outer knobs eroded to 'useless' about 10 rides later.
I just mounted up a set of Butcher SX, and so far REALLY like them. Strangely they are also much lighter than the advertised 950 grams, mine are 827 (might need some digging into). SX's are also slightly bigger than the Butcher 'Control' version which are very narrow for a 2.3" And if you ride gnar don't even think about 'controls' they are paper thin.
SX are probably what most will call a Minion DHF copy... but I say wrong!! DHF roll like pigs in mud. If you pedal to the top SX are very respectable rollers, and won't have you cussing all the way up, lol. When you drop in...ride much bigger than any Minion Boss! You will be amazed!
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Before the 49ers say goodbye to Candlestick Park on Monday night, Dwight Clark plans to stand once more on the hallowed ground that changed his life.
Clark will plant his feet in the north end zone and soak in memories of "The Catch."
And he wants future generations to be able to do the same.
Clark said Wednesday that would love to see a plaque commemorating the site of the 49ers' signature play. A major
redevelopment project is planned for Candlestick Point -- with new homes and retail stores -- and Clark hopes the Lennar Corporation finds a way to celebrate the historic piece of real estate.
"I don't want it to sound too arrogant and think that it's such a big thing it should have some monument on it," he said. "But it would be cool if they did put some kind of plaque or something to say: This is where the 49ers made the play that started their run of success.
"Somebody more poetic than I am can come up with something nice to say. It's certainly not about recognizing me. It's about recognizing the 49ers' accomplishments that started on that day with that play on that spot."
Clark, now 56, hauled down the winning 6-yard pass from Joe Montana in the NFC championship game against the Dallas Cowboys on Jan. 10, 1982. His leaping grab in the back of the end zone gave the 49ers a 28-27 victory, and they went on to win the first of their five Super Bowls.
Clark said The Catch comes up every day of his life, whether it's on television, in conversation or through the mail. "And that's fine with me," he said.
The 49ers will salute his most famous grab Monday as part of Candlestick farewell festivities. The game against the Atlanta Falcons is the last scheduled game at the 49ers' home since 1971.
"I wish there could be one more playoff game there," Clark said Tuesday, "but the football gods would really have to be crazy to make that happen."
Clark said he is scheduled to do an end zone interview with ESPN's Chris Berman before the game. Berman was a broadcaster for the 1982 NFC title game.
Unlike many players and fans, Clark speaks nostalgically of the 49ers' condemned home, calling the final game at Candlestick "bittersweet."
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A number of protesters have been ejected from BP's Annual General Meeting after attempting to storm the stage.
The group, dressed in matching T-shirts, were carried out of the Excel Centre in east London by security guards as BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg was involved in a heated discussion over oil extraction in Canadian tar-sands.
The group approached the stage in the auditorium, where the entire BP board was sitting, but were prevented from climbing on to the platform. Mr Svanberg paused the meeting, attended by thousands of shareholders, while the activists were removed and added that there had been a "little excitement".
Louisiana shrimp fisherwoman Tracy Kuhns, speaking outside the meeting, said she was angry, frustrated and embarrassed at being refused entry to the AGM by security officials.
"It was humiliating, like being treated like a criminal. We aren't here to cause trouble. We just wanted to have our voices heard. The shareholders need to hear it. We understand a business is supposed to make money, but you have to pay your costs before you get your profits."
She said BP had damaged her community, its businesses, the environment and people's health, including through chemicals they had sprayed to disperse the oil, and was not paying for what it had done. Her shrimp boat has not been out fishing since the oil disaster last April.
She added: "I'm thinking they must be really scared of us, they don't want the stockholders to hear what's really happening. They haven't really cleaned it up, they're not paying all the loss of the businesses, they're not paying for the health damage."
Inside the meeting, Mr Svanberg tried to interrupt US activist and author Antonia Juhasz as she read a statement from Keith Jones, father of Gordon Jones, one of the 11 men who died when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded last April. In the statement, Mr Jones said the blow-out could have been prevented, and that completing the well safely would just have taken a little more time. And he accused BP of taking chances with the safety of those on the rig.
A BP spokesman said the group of affected fishermen and women had been excluded because: "We have responsibility to run an orderly meeting that allows our shareholders to vote on resolutions and engage with the board. If we believe allowing individuals in may put this at risk we are in our rights to refuse access."
Jess Worth, of the UK Tar Sands Network, said people from the group had attempted to stage a peaceful, silent protest against the extraction of heavy oil from the tar sands of Canada, which she described as the "most destructive project on Earth". One woman was arrested for breach of the peace, police confirmed.


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[quote user="JPizzack"][quote user="Kase-1"][quote user="JPizzack"][quote user="MattMeyerBud"][quote user="dezzzR"]lol You are so out of touch with reality, or the dating scene for that matter. Granted pizz was a bit aggressive, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with asking a person out at their place of business. After she said I dont date patients, pizz should of said "oh im sorry,* well if you change your mind, heres my number, I know a nice restaurant if you change your mind. Asking to go out for drinks sounds like you want to get her drunk and take advantage. It takes balls to ask a girl out. Im proud of pizzle.
yea.. i wasn't a good starting pitcher - i was just a closer
I hated just trying to start a convo.* Was the worst part of being single. But once the convo was going, i was all good.
lol i hear ya. that's why i recently just started talking to whatever girl i find attractive, or if i liked their personality or whatever. Once you learn that getting turned down doesnt mean anything bad, you can really just talk to people easier.

[/quote]It sounds like Pizz has finally seen the light!!!!!
but no fat chicks....never fat chicks.
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hey guys, hope you can help me with this one: i wanted to add fancy google maps to my dashboart on the iserver. but when i put more than one map on my dashboard only one map will load, the rest won't do anything. even if i put them on seperate tabs. how do i manage to put another map to my dashboard?
Map it (google maps) two times in a dashboard
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This is a known limitation of the framework for the way it emits specific DIV tags with HTML hard coded IDs in it. Since a dashboard (even with multiple tabs) is really all the same HTML page, the second time that same DIV tag is emitted, with an ID that already exists in the browser, you will not get the results you are looking for. A solution is to slightly modify the actual script code, and HTML Div IDs used by the framework so that each report has a unique name for the Google Maps container DIV.
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oh wow, thank you. i never thought it would be so easy to fix this issue.


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Judge Grants Stockton Bankruptcy Protection
A federal judge in California on Monday said the city of Stockton could restructure under bankruptcy protection, dealing a blow to its creditors and setting up a battle with its pension fund. Diana Marcum reports in the L.A. Times today:
During a three-day hearing that ended last week, Stockton officials testified that creditors had walked away from the table and refused to pay their share of negotiation fees because the city did not include cutting payments to the state's employee pension plan, CalPERS, in its reorganization plan.
The $900 million that Stockton owes to the California Public Employees Retirement System to cover pensions is its biggest debt, as is the case with many cities in California. Assured Guaranty, one of Stockton's major creditors, issued a statement Monday disagreeing with the judge's decision.
Much of this is incremental news as far as the muni market is concerned, as Stockton had filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection (the muni equivalent of Chapter 11) last June. But some worry about the precedent the case could set for pension plans, as Katy Stech reports for the Wall Street Journal:
Bondholder groups have argued that Stockton was unfairly trying to use bankruptcy to cut debt payments while leaving untouched its obligations to the California Public Employees' Retirement System, or Calpers, which holds city workers' retirement money.
Municipal experts and struggling cities in California and elsewhere have been closely watching the case to see whether a city's debt to its pension funds is immune from cuts imposed by a bankruptcy judge. A ruling against pension funds could inspire more cities to file for bankruptcy.
Here's Alan Schankel of Janney Montgomery Scott with his take:
Although the headline news of "largest US city to file" warrant investor attention, the bankruptcy news has been headline fodder since last summer's filing, and despite the judge's approval, the outcome is not a foregone conclusion. The city must negotiate a plan of adjustment with creditors, represented primarily by bond insurers Assured Guaranty and National as well as Franklin Advisors and the trustee Wells Fargo. In earlier negotiations, Stockton had not targeted CalPers, California's retirement system and the largest creditor of Stockton, for haircuts on amounts owed. The insurers argue that the retirement system should share in the financial pain.


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Arsenal Ladies manager Laura Harvey insists her side will have to win all their games if they are to have any chance of winning the inaugural FA Women's Super League - starting at Lincoln City on Wednesday.
The Gunners travel to the Lady Imps looking to bounce back from their 2-1 defeat to Birmingham City and Harvey has backed her side to improve on their last outing.
She said: "We have not been brilliant so far this season and now we have to get better.
"When we haven't been at our best it has only been mistakes that have cost us but now is the time we need to improve."
The result against league leaders Birmingham left the Gunners six points behind at the top of the table, albeit with a game in hand. Harvey believes her side will have to win all their remaining games if they are to have a chance of finishing top come the end of the season.
She added: "Our aim has got to be to win all our remaining games.
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i plant on useing sintra to make my armor. but im not really sure how to get it the correct shape? do i just use my own judge ment?
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i plant on useing sintra to make my armor. but im not really sure how to get it the correct shape? do i just use my own judge ment?
no way dude!!!!
what i did for mine was i got a nice dead on shot of the armor. Then i measured out all of the sides on the picture. Then i kinda eye balled the armor, i saw that a certain side would be in a certain spot on my body. I then measured how long i would want it to be on my body. The rest is math, say that one side on the picture is an inch long, the part you want on ur body is 6 inch long, that means that you multiply all the sides on the picture by 6. If the pictuer was 2 inch long and the same side was 6 inches on ur body then u would multiply all the sides by 3. Do you get what i mean? if not i will glady explain it more.
Then ther are the angles, just measure the angle on the paper, then transfer them to the real amor. ANgles never change no matter the size.
I believe that the armor is cut all from one solid piece, meaning that you can put all the pieces together like a puzzle (im not sure about that tho, its how it turned out with my armor)
Be sure to do it all on poster board first, then test it out, then work with the syntra. Good luck!!
Pretty much yeah , use your own judgement. Their are some blueprints available here, just check the old threads you should find a link wich can get you started. Stick around someone should post something for you or piont you to the right direction.
what about the bends in the armor? ist not just flat is it?
No, Jim. Good question. The armor is slightly concave/convex. With sintra, it seems as though most here have heated the piece in a pot of hot water, and shaped it on themselves while wearing a t-shirt(oddly enough, they say the sintra won't burn you).
Try looking around for a suitable printable set of blueprints and adjust them to your size/frame. The reference CD is the best source for the proper "look", and can be found in Secol Fett's signature here on the board.
None of this stuff is for sale, obviously. ;) ;) ;) ;)
they should help alot! thanks!
i got a question...
is the chest amor (belly, pecs, and collar) all cut from one piece? meaning that they were all connected once? Because it thats true you kinda only need one chest piece, from that u can make the other and the blly and collar.
I don't know that anyone has done it that way. I'm not sure that everything would line up with this method. Try it with cardboard mock-ups first.


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Ah Hah! Very tricky....But also very stupid..... (Laugh in reference)
Actually, not a bad idea. Most knotheads would see the empty safe, and maybe some empty ammo cans and conclude that there is nothing worth searching for...Then again, there are those with the criminal minds like me...
I do like the simple and straightforward method of throwing the vermin off the track. Sometimes, simple is best. For my part, local caches are the answer. Even if I can't get anything but my wife and kids out before all hell breaks loose, I do not care. I have those to fall back on.


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A type of pancake two blessthefall fan girls ordered at Denny's in Corpus Christi, TX on April 10, 2009 after the blessthefall, Silverstein, A Static Lullaby and Before Their Eyes show. Bless The Pancakes consist of BTF written in whipped cream and a heart made of cherries in the back. They all took pictures of the pancakes when they arrived and Beau Bokan posted the pic on his Twitter. It was AMAZING!
btf fan girl 1: We should so order pancakes that say BTF on them!!!
btf fan girl 2: Yes! We could call them...BLESS THE PANCAKES!
btf fan girl 2: Yes! We could call them...BLESS THE PANCAKES!
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L to R: Conor Curran; Fred Ptucha, Vietnam War veteran from Santa
Rosa; and Josh Stieber - all members of Veterans For Peace.
Stand up and repeat these words in marching cadence:
"I went down to the market
Where all the people shop
I pulled out my machete
And I began to chop
I went down to the park
Where all the children play
I took out my machine gun
And I began to spray"
This is a chant our young are taught to march to in our military today, and this is how two young veterans of the Iraq War begin their presentations to groups across the country.
Late last fall, Josh Stieber and Conor Curran spoke to a gathering of Veterans For Peace and civilian peace activists in San Francisco, as part of their six months of walking and biking from the East Coast to the West to engage in dialogue about war and to become involved in community service along the way.
Both young men are from small American heartland towns - Josh from Maryland and Conor from Ohio. They did not know each other until after they got themselves out of the military. They spoke of their motivations for joining the Marines, their experiences in Iraq and the turning points that made them reject violence.
The two called their cross-country odyssey, "The Contagious Love Experiment" - certainly a retro, '60s "Hippie Haight-Ashbury" moniker to more mature ears. The tag is both innocent and naive, but on a deeper level, it is their counterbalance to the brutality and disillusionment they experienced. Their story and reasoning are worth listening to.
Josh, a tall, blond, "all-American-type" in his early 20s, was in junior high school in Maryland when September 11th happened. His determination to, as he saw it, protect his country was initiated when his parents took him to see the damage at the Pentagon, and so he joined the Marines straight out of high school. Raised as a devout Christian, he pushed aside doubts while in basic training and forced himself to answer "yes" when asked, "Will you kill a 'hostile' even if lots of civilians are around who will get hurt?"
Conor, thin and tall with black curly hair, also became a Marine, but spoke more of being alienated during and after high school, wanting to fit in and be accepted, using "lots of drugs," getting into debt, and not having a skill or education to direct him. So at 20 years old, "The Few and The Proud" seemed to give him all the answers.
At the time, he said, being in the Marines helped him to change his values and gave him a "mission accomplished" feeling. He became a good soldier. But Conor's second tour was when 'it got heavy.'
Josh spoke frequently of his Christian upbringing that taught him principles in complete opposition to the killing, fear and hatred he learned in Iraq. (To say nothing of the disconnect of being told that America was "liberating Iraq and bringing Freedom and Democracy" and the "chop and spray" chant!)
He said fear of and hatred for the Iraqi people would build up in the troops to the point where ripping apart homes, wrecking gardens and property, and arresting and abusing prisoners became commonplace. On the street, going out of the way to run a truck through mud to spray old people, or, during house searches, taking the dolls of little girls, twisting their heads off then giving them back became acceptable behavior. "Why do we make the locals fear the U.S. military more than the insurgents?" he wanted to know. "We out-terrorized the terrorists!"
Josh vividly recalled pulling guard duty on a prisoner with another young American soldier right after coming from a church service. Josh thought of the moral and religious lessons he learned at home in Maryland: "blessed are the peace makers;" "turn the other cheek;" and "love thine enemy," as his buddy talked of how he was going to brutalize the prisoner. "Jesus wouldn't let himself get punked around," was his friend's reply when Josh objected on Christian principles.
The insanity of war gradually became apparent to Josh during his 14-month tour of duty, as when he and his squad detained a man with ample evidence that the Iraqi had been involved in attacks on American soldiers. This man turned out to be the mayor of the town, and U.S. military authorities' regular "payments" of school supplies and cash ensured a halt in attacks on Josh and his men, at least in that part of town. So much for "we will not negotiate with terrorists," he thought.
These revelations led this idealistic youth into a "bleak" period, he said, with feelings of hopelessness, "always looking over my shoulder," and the realization that he'd always let others tell him how to think and how to live up to their expectations.
Neither young man spoke of killing anyone, and no one from the audience asked. But each spoke of turning points when they decided they could not continue as soldiers. For Josh this was a gradual process, but for Conor it came during his second tour while conducting random searches with his squad for weapons caches in Ramadi, without adequate intelligence. They set upon a home with an exceptionally beautiful garden and proceeded to tear it apart and dig it up. "Then the man of the house came out with a tray and served us all tea!" said Conor. "He spoke English and wanted to be our friend. He showed love to us and we were terrorizing him."
Thus the seed for "The Contagious Love Experiment" was planted.
Conor and Josh had many encounters along the roads of America since the spring, but the one that stood out for them was meeting a Vietnam War veteran who told them, "Instead of uniting against a common enemy, we should unite for a common goal - peace."
For more information, see: www.contagiousloveexperiment.wordpress.com [2] , also www.ivaw.org [3] (Iraq Veterans Against the War) and www.veteransforpeace.org [4]


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JoseCuervo wrote:i like how after tfrizz was protected, you pretty much all knew he was bad... then you voted with him for jays
sdm5055 wrote:MWB wrote:This was definitely the most frustrating game because of lack of participation and people asking to be voted off. Bad guys, did it frustrate you also, or not? I assume part of your strategy was to pick off the active players and be left with those not talking.
well dagny pulling what she did was a mess IMO I didnt understand it and still don't, but it didnt hurt us haha
although we would have kept her around since she was way off base
dagny wrote:tfrizz wrote:dagny wrote:So far, it's been beneficial for the baddies to keep me alive because it keeps suspicion focused on me. It's time to get rid of me to eliminate that, so you guys can try to actually salvage this game.
Unless there's a consensus on someone else, lynch dagny
I don't even know how to read this... it's either a brave move by a baddie, or a selfless move for the good of the village.
lynch dagny.
For example, this person wasn't even on my list, but this post could be a tell. This person seems to know I'm good, but wants to cover his *kittens* when that comes out.
Perhaps more info can be gleaned once it's confirmed I'm blue.
dagny wrote:jaysmiter wrote:the wicked child wrote:dags, I believe it was even though you quoted the KS stuff, you put that aside and said you were willing to vote for Loney or BadHands.
Now a few people are like "zomg Loney!"...
odd is all.
Seems to be a lot more evidence for kicksave over loney or bh...yet, she won't consider a vote for him?
I never said I wouldn't consider a vote for him. I said I was waiting for an answer, and there are like 5 people I'd like to vote for, but we can only vote for one. Do I have to keep repeating what is already posted?
You've got this agenda for me. Vote me off. You're annoying me enough that I'm happy to go if it means they take you out next. I'll even vote for myself. You're stuck on me, with nobody else in mind. That will not help the village. So, let's remove the confusion.
dagny wrote:I'm assuming jays got a package, unless the way he's posting is a ramification of something else.
But, after being told there was a recruit, we can't overlook that he's obviously got some kind of requirement he has to post under. I would think if he were the recruit, the game mod wouldn't give him a requirement that would stick out like a sore thumb, but we never know.
I'm leaning toward package.
jaysmiter wrote:unlynch twc
lynch jaysmiter
It's just best for the village
MWB wrote:Real nice job by malka... I thought you were good the whole time.
wallflower wrote:jaysmiter wrote:wallflower wrote:I thought it was pretty obvious what was going on when sdm came out at night and voted for jays. And then jays kept saying how "honest" he was and pointing out that sdm had also voted for him.
Regardless, it was too late anyway.
Eh...I would have done that no matter the plan.
It's only fair to the game that every vote is counted and done right, you know?
It made me laugh how you did it though. "Oh I'm such a nice and honest guy I'm going to point this out. Repeatedly."
jaysmiter wrote:Clearly you don't follow sports, dagny.
Don't you know that, if you want to get a reaction from me (or anyone), you should have asked if my mother was a prostitute.
jaysmiter wrote:Clearly you don't follow sports, dagny.
Don't you know that, if you want to get a reaction from me (or anyone), you should have asked if my mother was a prostitute.
dagny wrote:jaysmiter wrote:Clearly you don't follow sports, dagny.
Don't you know that, if you want to get a reaction from me (or anyone), you should have asked if my mother was a prostitute.
I think, now that the explanation is out there, and you know what I was really trying, that you'd understand best.
You had the unique perspective of seeing me in action before, making it up as I went along, flying by the seat of my pants, and being the only one who knew exactly what I was doing, when I had to come up the Tear of Tragedy story, in the game you modded.
This was a bit different, but I think people forget that not everything is what it seems in posts while the game is ongoing. You find out what was really going on in the person's head, after it's all over.
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text: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fju6elwZgCA This is footage of the game winning FG that Folk hit against BYU in September. This game is what prompted me to really notice him. The clock is in the upper left. Bad audio and not a great picture, but you get the idea. This is a 48 yard FG with 4 seconds left on the clock and you can see how high it clears the cross bar. He put 3 of 5 kickoffs beyond the endzone and punted 3 times for a 60 yard average in this game besides this game winner. Forget all of the above...Todd McShay has revealed that in fact he does NOT have a strong leg.


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It's an excellent true story, for those who haven't heard of it.
Prime example why we need the 2nd amendment.
It's an excellent true story, for those who haven't heard of it.
Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!
"If theyre going to come here illegally, apply for & receive assistance through a corrupted Government agency encouraging this lawless behavior, work under the table & send billions of dollars each year back to their families in Mexico, while bleeding local economies dry, protest in our streets waving their Mexican flags DEMANDING rights, while I have to press 1′ for English, then they need to be shipped back to where they came from!" -Chad Miller
You are right We do need the second Amendment, more than ever before. however as long as we have these morons, such as Obama, Biden. Boxer, Clinton Feinstien, schumer, and those alike that wish to butcher, and take aways our rights of the 2nd Amenment we are being put into harms way,By our very own Goverment! and what happens when one of gets hurt or murdered by these politicans actions just because they want our guns. Who will Answer for that? Im afraid no-one will.
The way I see things now we are left to defend ourselfs, Its not any fault of Lawenforcement Agencies, they are being affected as well. And there are some agencies that want to see total disarmement of citizans. But is it just me, or Do I see a Goverment so out of control, with spending, budget cuts,
not only to Medicare & Medicade to seniors and the disabled, But our own Military, and it appears now that we go from one country to another as if we are the worlds police. And Yet when We have a problem No-one shows up except our own people. no to keep mentioning Sept 11. But Im from NY Orgionally & bthe only thing I have seen happen to that state is going down hill and fast it will not be long before it becomes the East Coast Kommiefornia. it has already been proven by cuomo, when he obliterated the 2nd amendment rights of the citizans of New York. Politicans such as these are dangerious to our way of life and the danger will continue, until such time these gun grabing self rightous politicans are voted out of office and once they are out. Don't ever let them to return to public Office or have anyother goverment job wheather it be state ,Federal or countie Level. Its only asking to reinstate trouble and the same issues we face now.
Just a thought to ponder, the whole world looks at us and what our goverment does. what dose the goverment think will hapen when thier is total disarmement, or better yet what will all the terroists say think and worst of all DO ?. I for one do not wish to find out. And even worse yet
the very people that are agaisnt the 2nd amendment, who are the first people they look for when they are in harms way, knowing the police cant be there is 20 secionds to stop a serious crime. they look for a neighbor with a gun!. to help them. There have been several occassions where my senior neighbors have called me in the middle of the night, because they heard someone outside around thier house snooping around and more than likely up to no-good. And Im more than happy to help my neighbors....Doc ( we all wonder what our purpose in life is maybe this is mine!...Be Safe Out There!
just remember it was big don who told us all "we make him sick"
Sprat and sprat1 are one and the same.
What I got out of this:
In addition to the Right to Keep and Bear Arms as Citizens, and therefore members of the Militia.
We need to retain the right to elect our leaders, the local commanders of the Militia. These leaders need to fulfill some primary criteria:
These points are not mine, but come from the common law of the Commonwealth of Virginia. These laws were overlooked or ignored during and after the Civil War. Many of the Militia were tried as criminals.
- They must be known to the Militia
- They must be trusted
- They receive their Commission from the People directly
- They know the limits of their Commission.
Funny how the Government ignores the law when it is not in their interest.
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Breezy Point Toastmasters group to host open house Jan. 14
The Out of Towners Toastmasters Club will host an open house from 8-9:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 14, at the Pelican Lakes Conservation Club (PLCC) in Breezy Point.
Attend to find out what Toastmasters is all about. Find out how to become a better communicator, learn leadership skills, gain confidence and find your voice.
The PLCC is one mile south of the Breezy Point Resort gates on County Road 4.
For more information, contact Marjorie Harris, club president, at 218-838-8354, or Jamie Lipke, vice president of membership, at 218-330-2251.
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#1 Thu 02 May 13 8:54am
Hi I am a new member and I live in Italy. I am always disappointed that when there is a programme about Italian food, my region, Abruzzo, never seems to get a mention. It's a real shame as the area is intensely beautiful, with both mountains and sea, two fabulous National parks and, most importantly a delicious local cuisine and some wonderful wines.
#2 Thu 02 May 13 1:47pm
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Re: Italy
our region deserves the same treatment mal comune mezzo gaudio dal Friuli, mandi
#3 Thu 02 May 13 1:48pm
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Can you share with us some dishes and culinary traditions from Abruzzo?
#4 Thu 02 May 13 8:54pm
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One delicious winter warmer is scripelle soup.
Basically you make very light thin pancakes and fill them, place in a soup bowl and pour over hot chicken stock.
The ones I have had were filled with grated Parmesan and rolled. The Parmesan melts in the heat and becomes gooey. Yum!
Of course as with most things how good the soup is will depend on how good the chicken stock is.
This is a very simple dish to make, even if you make your own chicken stock, and on a cold winters day it will warm the cockles of your heart.
#5 Fri 03 May 13 10:56am
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I have visited a lot of places in Abruzzo and found that they seem to mainly serve large pieces of roasted meats, steaks and things on a skewer. Have not seen lots of vegetables served there. Have you any veg dishes that are from this area specifically.
#6 Fri 03 May 13 10:00pm
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If you are talking restaurant food in the summer there is mostly fresh, locally grown salads and in winter again locally grown vegetables. One nice dish is bietola (chard), which is cooked with potato, then drained and squeezed to remove water and dressed with oil and salt and sometimes a little garlic.
The "things on skewers" is probably arrosticini, which is lamb or mutton on wooden skewers. The meat is cut small and they are cooked over a wood fired BBQ till the fat is rendered and the meat is tender. Sometimes the arrosticini are based with red wine, applied with a twig of rosemary. The end result is eaten with bread drizzled with fresh olive oil.
Of course many of the pasta dishes and gnocchi dishes are vegetable based like pasta primavera or gnocchi with asparagus but I'm not sue you could call these regional dishes.
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Born a princess, the daughter of King Bela IV of Hungary and Maria Laskaris. Niece of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, grand-niece of Saint Hedwig of Andechs, and younger sister of Blessed Cunegund of Poland, who raised her. Married to Duke Boleslas V, the devout prince of Kalishi, Pomerania; mother of three. Franciscan tertiary. Founded a Poor Clare convent in Gnesen, Poland. Widowed in 1279. She, one of her daughters, and Cunegund retired to a Poor Clare convent Cunegund had founded in Sandeck. Just before her death, Helen became superior of the convent she had founded in Gnesen.
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Microsoft's Xbox 360 has been morphing from a gaming console to an entertainment console, and Microsoft intends to capitalize on that in its future Xbox consoles. Although Microsoft has not confirmed that a next gen Xbox is in the works, details have still been leaked about a new console. SiliconANGLE Contributing Editor John Casaretto shared his knowledge regarding the source of the leaks, a person by the name of SuperDaE.
SuperDaE made headlines last year when he tried to sell a Durango development kit on eBay. Durango is allegedly the code name for the next gen Xbox project. Casaretto concluded, "He's got a lot of information, a lot of it seems really poignant, and he's a very credible source."
Casaretto named some of the new features of the new console, noting there are some interesting twists to them, such as the ability to run multiple games simultaneously, required game installations, and the compatiblity with a new, improved (and mandatory) Kinect sensor. He explained that some of the features that were previously optional are now unified into one grand Xbox.
Microsoft's senior VP of interactive entertainment, Yusuf Mehdi, claimed that the Xbox 360 is transitioning from a gaming console to an entertainment before their eyes. Casaretto believes this is a natural evolution and expects to see more gaming, more video content, and even more shopping coming through the Xbox, turning it into a genuine family entertainment center. He predicted, "I think we'll see this symbiosis of entertainment and gaming, and this will apply to Nintendo and Sony as well. They'll certainly follow suit."
There is also some speculation that Microsoft will expand its popular monthly subscription service, Xbox Live, to include original shows, just as Amazon and Netflix have done. Casaretto stated that their success in this area will depend on the type of content they put out. He said if they're trying to make completely original shows, such as sitcoms, it could easily turn into a money pit very quickly in trying to keep up with other popular shows out there. However, if it's in alignment with game releases and other events, he said it's possible Microsoft could be right on the money with this expansion idea, but it will take some time to establish their presence in this space.
Likewise, in other new media TV developments, Intel Media has confirmed they are currently working to launch internet television this year. The Verge reported that Intel Media plans to provide "live television, catch-up television, on-demand [and] a set of applications." Their hardware package will include a set-top box and a camera, which could be used for synchronized viewing with other viewers across the country.
Casaretto observed that Microsoft has been very quiet about their new branding strategy with Xbox. He reminded viewers that Sony is expected to say something about their new Playstation soon, and he believes Microsoft is waiting to key off of Sony's announcement. See the entire segment with Kristin Feledy and John Casaretto on the Morning NewsDesk Show.


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What music video is your favorite?
*Holler Till You Pass Out
*Don't Trust Me
*Starstrukk (with Katy Perry)
*Still Around (yes they made a video for it)
*My First Kiss
*Touchin on My
*Double Vision
*You're Gonna Love This- Message from the President
Mine is probably Double Vision, it's so fun! But the You're Gonna Love This message was HILARIOUS!!!!!


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Yes, Helen, there can be excitement on the FORUM
Original post made by The Butcher, another community, on Jan 24, 2008
As you noted today, this FORUM has gotten fairly dull as Alamo neighbors returned to private, neighbor-to-neighbor communication.
So with the help of my pal, Alamo Ron, we kicked it up a notch for you. Bill Baker, a gentlemen very enjoyable in conversation, provided the topic and Alamo Ron and I provided some back-and-forth excitement for your entertainment.
You might not know that I arranged the murder of 2800 people for another dumb-ass Texan in another dumb-ass WAR, so it was a great pleasure to support Representative McNerney with humorous PURPOSE.
Join in, there is plenty of room!
The Butcher
One HAL of a Pal
US Army Viet Nam 1967
a resident of another community
on Jan 28, 2008 at 7:32 am
Dear Helen and neighbors,
Thank you for your good humor in listing very important issues you each recommended for Town Square Forum consideration. The humorous oxymorons among Alamo Ron and Oxymo Ron provided invitation to more serious consideration of national, state, county, community and neighborhood representation and needed resolve of very specific issues.
We can hope politics impacting our Alamo Region has understood such concerns and will be proactive in resolve. I can hope, along with Alamo Ron, that somehow the subjects were entertaining as well as informative.


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Michael Oberndorf, FloydReports.com
A little-noticed story in The Washington Times last week should scare the heck out of real Americans. George Soros, whose name should now be pretty familiar to most conservatives, is involved in a far-Left scheme to elect Secretaries of State, gaining control of each state's election machinery and thus, be in a position to influence the outcome of local, state, and national elections.
As many have learned, Soros is an unrepentant, apparently sociopathic fascist, who got his training from the Nazis during WWII, confiscating the property of fellow Jews who had been shipped off to the death camps. He is the man who made billions manipulating currencies and wrecking the Malaysian and British economies. Soros is a major source of money behind a number of radical leftist outfits, like MoveOn.org, the Center for American Progress, the now-defunct but reorganizing ACORN, Apollo Alliance, the National Council of La Raza, the Tides Foundation, The Huffington Post, Southern Poverty Law Center, Sojourners, People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood, and the National Organization for Women. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has participated in the Bilderberg Group.
The group in question here is the Secretaries of State Project (SSOP), formed in 2006, supposedly to "to stop Republicans from 'manipulating' election results." Over the years, it has become clear that when the Left accuses conservatives or Republicans of something, it is a sleight of hand move to cover up the fact that it is the very thing it is doing.
They have been far too successful with this strategy, having won 11 of 18 elections, including….


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|Rua Fernandes Tomás, 1200-179 Lisbon, Portugal
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Very close by just 2 minutes away, the Santa Catarina lookout also well known as Adamastor, where you can relax and enjoy a marvelous view of the Tagus river.
The apartment is extremely well located, you can easily walk downtown, to most of Lisbon's touristic attractions and the Tagus River.
You can also ride the tram 28, discover the famous hills of the city and climb up to São Jorge Castle where you can enjoy magnificent sights and get lost in other classic Lisbon quarters.
The T1 Apartment (max 4 pers.) is composed by: 1 bedroom with a double bed; 1 living room with a sofá (that you can open and have a double bed); 1 Closet; 1 kitchen; 1 toilet.
Walking down to Cais Sodré Station (7min walking) you can take a bus or a tram and quickly go to Belém, enjoy its magnificent monuments and gardens, walk by the river and eat a freshly baked Pastel de Belém.
In Cais Sodré Station it is also possible to take a train and go to the beautiful villages of Estoril and Cascais and enjoy golden, soft and sandy beaches with great conditions for surfing.
If you wish to know the historic and romantic village of Sintra, its amazing palaces and gardens, you just need to walk 12min to the beautiful Rossio Station and take a train that in 30min will drop you at your destiny.
House rules
- CHECK IN TIME: 16h
- CHECK OUT TIME: 12h
These times can be flexible depending on the other guests (before and after your dates).
I will need to charge you this new tax, when you check-in and transfer this fee to the Municipality.
This tax is applied to all the guests that overnight in Lisbon in tourist resorts and local accommodation establishments (hotels, hostels, local accommodation, etc).
The tax on overnight stays is applied to guests over the age of thirteen (13), per person and per overnight stay, up to a maximum of 7 nights per stay.
1€ per night up to a maximum of 7€ (7 overnight stays in a row, per person).
As of January 1st, 2016 - paid upon the overnight stay.
- Please respect the neighbors and try not to make noise after 22:00h. The apartment is on a residential building. Other apartments are used by full time residents.
-Please remember that this is a non-smoking house.
-Pets are not allowed.
Thank you.
|Weekly rate for up to 2 guests
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Daniel was very kind and attentive host. He was alwasy ready to communicat with us, and answer for our question. He gave us a lot of useful information about the surroundings of the flat. We felt as a local habitant in Daniel place. Only one week point is the wifi connection.
Thank you Daniel! We enjoyed our stay in your apartment and we will recommend it to everyone.
Me and my boyfriend stayed at Daniel's apt. for seven days. Daniel was a very nice and helpful host and was always in reach if we needed anything.
The apt. was clean and really lovely with pretty decoration, only a little small.
It is located in the centre of the city and you can reach all important places in a few minutes.
So if you like to have a nice stay in the centre of Lisbon, we can surely recommend Daniels apt.
The apartment is really nice! The location is just perfect: 5 min to the river Tejo, the station to catch trains, bus stations. It ist also close to supermarkets, pharmacy, and the nightlife of Lisbon. Everything was clean, the apartment is equipped very inviting and we felt comfortable during our stay.
Daniel is a really nice guy who welcomed us as friendly as possible and helped us where he could. He gave us all useful information (maps, tips, descritptions) and supported us locally.
I would definitely rent the apartment again and I will as soon as I can!
I spent 4 days with my family in this beautiful apartment, in a very convenient position. I would recomend it to young families as we are!
My husband and I had a wonderful stay in Daniels appt.
Everything we needed was available and the appt. was very clean.
Although it is very quiet at night, the appartment is close to public transport and centre.
We can really recommend the appartment and a stay in Lissabon.
The apartment is very well located and Daniel is very helpful and flexible host. However the flat is in the ground floor of the street that occasionally cars pass by, so it is heard inside. Moreover it is pretty dark and as it only has on window plus window in doors. So if you only intend to sleep inside it is ok. Just around the corner there are two small shops/bars open till late, though those don't give any noise.
We spent a great time in Daniel's two-bedroom apartment which is located ideally for starting a walk through Lisbon. The tram stop of the famous Electrico 28 is just around the corner, metro stop and train station are close, too. You can find several small supermarkets nearby and a lot of good value bars and restaurants.
Daniel has been very helpful during our travel preparations and during our stay as well.
If you are looking for a nice, cosy apartment in old-town Lisbon (including cable TV and WiFi!) that's the one to choose!
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Better ways for teens to spend Halloween than vandalizing
Original post made by Randy Hill, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Nov 1, 2007
Our community needs to wake up and start paying attention to the hoodlums that are doing destructive things like this. Is anybody paying attention to what their kids are up to? Is there any supervision once they turn 16? I am really disappointed this morning. Thanks to whoever it was that felt the need to destroy something of mine to make themselves feel almighty and powerful. I know bad karma is coming your way. I hope you are prepared when it hits you.
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a resident of Amador Estates
on Sep 30, 2008 at 11:52 pm
OXYMORON...Your in a gated community with the HIGHEST SECURITY IN PTOWN! You are asking people to watch thier 16 year olds? THEY ARE YOUR NEIGHBORS! Your paid security is NOT doing thier jobs while the kids pull pranks. And you wonder where the parents are? You all throw so many boozing parties over there, the parents were probably at a neighbors party if not YOURS for cryin' out loud it was Halloween!! Everyone knows the Ruby Hill kids are spoiled rotten brats that are given Mercedes, hummers and new mustangs on their 16th birthdays and cut loose to terrorize Ptown with thier money, alcohol and drigs... Quit crying over something SOOOOOO stupid like a pumpkin prank that your private security rovers didn't catch and start worrying about real issues like all the REAL crime that's happening in Dublin, Pleasanton and Livermore. You are a superficial person for even posting this!! Go talk to your $500 a month HOA about security or download your security cameras...
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 1, 2008 at 9:17 am
Never Cease- YOU are amazing. So let me get this straight, you are assuming that Randy Hill is superficial because of where he lives. Is that how you teach your children? I didn't even catch the part about him being from Ruby Hills (does it matter anyways?) And if you would calm down and read slowly, you would see that he was willing to overlook the pumkins, but when he found his garden statuary smashed in the street, he felt victimized. Let me remind you that he wasn't asking for the police, or punishment... he simply asked where the parents are to these children. AND YOU reply by saying "Go talk to your $500 a month HOA about security..." IS THAT YOUR TRUE REACTION? So the parents are not responsible? I am getting more and more furious while I write this. For someone to read what was written, and draw that conclusion... you have major issues. I can tell that you're jealous of the "better off" people in town, but to rely on security gaurds to raise your children is really irresponsible of you.
And just for the record, Not all parents in Ruby Hills throw "boozing parties" and not of the kids are "spoiled brats"... they're just learning their way.... AND vandalizism and theft isn't a "Prank"...........its a crime....
a resident of Del Prado
on Oct 1, 2008 at 11:45 am
Where does it say Randy Hill lives in Ruby Hill?
"Never cease" has envy issues!
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A lot of questions drift through your head when you're at a gay bar in your underwear. Should I have gone with boxers? Are these singles too gross to tip with? Whoa, is that thing real? No. That thing's not real, is it? Shut up, no it's not.
You also experience mini-freakouts over the location of your phone, keys, ID, and pants. Oh yes, you reassure yourself, I put them all in a white shopping bag and gave it to that nice daddybear guy in the boxer briefs. That's where I got this wristband.
There's a nice sense of security in knowing that your pants are safe in a bag somewhere waiting for you. In fact, despite the host of questions that invariably pop up during the irregularly occurring Underbear evenings at the Alley, there's a pervasive sense of safety that warms the proceedings (a process aided, I'm sure, by the hundred or so large, hairy, half-naked men in attendance).
Part of this stems from the fact that the Alley is heir apparent to the similarly unmarked and hallowed halls of the late, often sticky, always cruisy 119 Merrimac and thus carries with it not just a weird tapehead-cleaner aroma but a degree of (all too scarce) privacy and seedy excitement that harks back to a time when being gay was more than a checkbox or a perfectly normal neighbor. The other part is that it's hard to feel too threatened by an IT administrator in SpongeBob boxers sipping a Long Island iced tea through a stir straw.
Indeed, if any force threatens the chummy waistband-snapping and Audubon-esque tentspotting that characterizes Underbear, it's the ceaseless miasma of heinous trance lobotomies on Journey songs and the Brokeback Mountain theme — they're so ball-shrinkingly awful, it's difficult to imagine anything remotely sex-related resulting from prolonged exposure. Fortunately, bears, more so than any subsect in gaydom, with their hirsute pursuit of balls-out (ahem) anti-beauty, are seasoned experts at tuning things out — or taking them off.
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It's a Jackson Winters' Christmas Miracle!
Jackson Winters comes homes for the holidays but still manages to stumble headlong into trouble when he sets out to fulfill the 12 Days of Christmas.
I'm sort of caught between thoughts as the doctor comes over; something about the sterility and quiet of an empty emergency room in the middle of the night just two days before Christmas has left me questioning the soundness of the last seven or so days.
It started simply enough; the stuffed partridge and pears, the two turtle doves—now named Larry and Bird—that are still cooing in my kitchen because of some inane return policy at the pet store. The colly birds were fine (though there were only three, one having died from the cold, I suppose, on the car ride over). And the rings, one for each finger, for each weekday; no real room to fuck up there.
But those swans…that's when it really started going sideways. I guess when you pack six of anything, particularly six very large and angry birds, into a car, things will start to fall apart.
"Mr. Winters…" the doctor breaks in.
"How is he?"
"Mr. Ross? He'll be fine. A little bruising, and he may need crutches for a week or two, but we gave him some painkillers and his wife is on her way."
I let out an uneasy sigh and look up toward the white ceiling, not wanting to make eye contact. What follows is a series of "ums" and "ahs" and looking around which the doctor perceives (rightfully so) as an uneasy admission of guilt and graciously breaks it up, seeing my obvious disinclination for words.
"Mr. Winters…do you realise this is the second time we've seen you here in five nights?"
Maybe not graciously.
"Would you mind explaining again just what exactly it is you're doing so that we might be prepared, say, tomorrow night for whatever misfortune befalls you?"
As stories go, this one starts off as most do, with a man questioning something about himself; it arcs with an attempt at a grand gesture, peaks with disproportionately disastrous results and ends, with any luck, without a lawsuit. Without delving too far into any of the details, character flaws and choice words that led to this, let me just say that for the past ten days I've been trying, with varying success, to reassemble the entire cast of "The 12 Days of Christmas."
Why? Well, for the same reasons any relatively normal man would go miles out of his way to do something as hopelessly stupid as this: a woman.
If I had to pinpoint where it all went wrong, it would definitely be the introduction of progressively larger waterfowl. The first few birds were fine, though the hens caused a bit of a fuss at a farm a few miles from town:
Saturday, December 15th: The Day Before the Third Day of Christmas
"Are they French?"
"The hens…Are they French?"
"…They're hens."
These are the types of technicalities that can turn a perfectly thoughtful (though poorly planned) Christmas gift on its head. But to be fair, I was asking a lot; it was ten days before the 25th, I needed three French hens and I needed them now.
"Do you think she'll notice that they're not French?"
It's difficult to describe the look of a frazzled farm woman when you bend down to check under chickens as if down there, there might be some kind of clue, some telltale sign as to the make and model of these now quite frightened, flightless birds.
"They don't look French," I said, standing, now eyeballing them from afar.
"What do you mean, they don't look French!? Look, buddy, you come to my house at nine o'clock at night saying you need to borrow three of my birds but that they got to be French? No silly city girl is gonna know the difference between three French fucking hens and 12 Canadian cockatoos. Now, you best be on your way with these birds before I change my mind."
I suppose she was right. The intended recipient (at least for a little while) of these three "French hens" would not likely be up on all the poultry orders and phyla, let alone be able to distinguish between specific species, but having already received my rendition of a partridge, a pear tree and two turtle doves, she may be inclined to inquire as to their authenticity.
"All right, give me the damn chickens. Cornish, French, fuck it; if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, right?"
"Jesus, boy, what is wrong with you? These here are hens."
Relatively speaking, though, those hens were well received, with absolutely no questions asked as to their origin, and were returned without incident. Ditto the colly birds, save the one we had to perform Last Rights and a burial service for in the backyard with its brethren looking on.
It was the geese, really, that I had stuffed unceremoniously into the back of my car that signalled this was getting out of hand and also prompted my first visit to the hospital after one bit my ear, causing me to swerve off the road and into a ditch. Granted, the whole ordeal only required a tow truck, ten stitches and a tetanus shot to remedy; when Rachel (her name's Rachel) arrived at the hospital to pick me up she insisted that perhaps we forgo tomorrow's seven swans and also insinuated that if she woke up two days from now to find eight maids-a-milking on her front lawn she would be less than amused.
So we settled for dinner and a movie and were glad to be done with the great animal kingdom.
Friday, December 21st: The Ninth Day of Christmas
"Jackson, where are we?"
"Hey…HEY! Keep the blindfold on. We're almost there."
"Is that music?"
Ruby's is a strip club just outside of town, where in my more rambunctious days I was a regular, not because the girls were particularly pretty but because they had a Sunday lunch buffet and football on all the TVs. I'm still in good with the owner (my patronage was always appreciated), and so I got him to clear the place out for a half hour during their downtime.
"What's that smell?"
"Nothing…okay, Frank, start it up." The music goes on. The girls, their faces familiar, start dancing. "Take your blindfold off, baby."
She does. The next few seconds happen in slow motion. Her face at first is one of churning confusion, as if she's eaten something she's not quite sure has gone sour. She blinks several times, her eyes adjusting to the strobe lights and the shock of the scene in front of her. Between us there is silence, but I can see the gears of her brain turning over, slow to start. My eyes are wide, my smile stuck open, waiting for a response.
It doesn't come as intended. She turns without saying a word and storms back down the stairs. I call after her: "What? What's wrong?"
"Jesus, Jackson," is all I get, "this is a Strip Club."
"Right, I say, "nine ladies dancing," but she doesn't hear me as she sidles around the corner and I can hear the car door slam.
The doctor is looking at me now with an awful awestruck expression, not fully believing the story he's just heard. "You brought her to a strip club?"
"It was the only place I could think of on short notice that would have at least nine girls working, willing to dance."
"…And Mr. Ross?"
"Ten lords-a-leaping," we both say in unison, me rather listless, him with the realisation that comes with answering one's own question, of a light turning on. "He slipped on the ice outside her place," I continue, qualifying my own lack of foresight as if it weren't already a forgone conclusion.
We both sit in silence for what seems like some time.
"Well," he says, "you got, what, 11 pipers piping and 12 drummers drumming left? Shouldn't be…too…much…" He trails off, seeing me nod as if this part of the story has yet to be told.
"After the strip club, I decided to go out with a bang and get all the pipers and drummers together with the lords…the total fine for the noise complaint the neighbors filed came to about $500."
He laughs. He can't help it. I do too.
I leave the hospital, having seen Mr. Ross will be all right, and return home to find Rachel standing in the doorway. She asks about the flailing lord and I tell her it doesn't look like he'll sue. She says that's good and gives me a look like "You're an idiot, but I love you."
"Next year, Jackson, let's keep Christmas confined to one day."
"…With less leaping."
"And no feathers."


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Alaida Olivarez receives spring laptop award
By Tim Brownlee
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(May 18, 2009)--Alaida Olivarez, a May graduate earning a B.S. degree in biology, is the spring 2009 winner of the UTSA Office of Information Technology Laptop Award. The winner is selected from graduates of the Academic Development Program (ADP) in the UTSA's Tomas Rivera Center for Student Success.
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The 11th recipient of the Gateway laptop award, Olivarez is the first in her family to attend college and earn a bachelor's degree. Throughout much of her time at UTSA, she was employed by the scholarship office and participated in the Pre-Pharmacy Society for two years. Olivarez hopes to become a pharmacist, but until that goal is achieved, she plans to become a science teacher.
"What impressed the selection committee the most about Alaida was the perseverance that led to her graduation," said Cynthia Rodriguez, ADP director. "She has had personal ups and downs, but she feels fortunate for all of these experiences because they have made her a stronger person. She has excelled in the classroom."
According to her application essay, Olivarez said that preparation and hard work help her get through the difficult classes and labs. "One never knows what it is to work hard until one works hard," she said. "There is an appreciation of a day's rest when many days have been long hours of work."
A laptop computer and an award certificate were presented to Olivarez by Lee Gildon, COO of the UTSA Office of Information Technology; Ana Esquivel, executive director of development for the Hispanic Association of College and Universities (HACU); and Julius Gribou, UTSA executive vice provost and interim chief information officer. The program is co-sponsored by HACU and UTSA.
Olivarez acknowledged family members and friends who provided support during her time at UTSA. Attending the presentation ceremony were Olivarez' mother, Bridget Vieh; her sister, Jenna Olivarez; her sister's fiancé Chris Ames and a nephew, Jordan Vicente.
A winner is selected each fall and spring semester from ADP students who apply for the award. ADP students are admitted to UTSA on a provisional basis; laptop awardees are selected from participants in the program who have developed their academic standing and will graduate with a minimum 2.50 G.P.A. Applicants must submit an essay detailing their academic and work experience.