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I have some friends that I call "divers" – not those who sport scuba gear and submerge themselves into the sea; rather, those who love eating in dives. There are dive bars and there are dive restaurants, cheap little places that are far from fancy but serve good, cheap food; in other words, a hole in the wall. Restaurants in this category include Countryside, Soms, Munchen near Ermita, Chariya's (now closed), and Top Spice, otherwise known as the no-name Hunan restaurant behind Rockwell. One woman's dive might be another man's pricey place but dives these places are to me.
My latest dive discovery would make my diver friends happy, and is a contradiction of sorts on several levels. First, it's spitting distance from Makati's seedy underbelly, P. Burgos and its environs, but the restaurant's interiors belie that fact. Secondly, its name: Combos Bread. It sounds like a bakery and indeed, its signage reads Combos Bread Company Bakery & Café but the neon sign flashing "Turkish Restaurant" is really more apt.
The owner, Mehmet Temizyurek, is a Turkish man who has called Manila home for six years after several spent in Singapore as an expat. Lean and lithe, he's very amiable and in between orders (he does almost all the cooking), often sits outside his restaurant waiting for the next customer. He has over 25 years' experience in making bread which might be why his 10 month-old restaurant is named so.
Turkish deli products to eat, hookahs to smoke (P250/P350)
The open air but covered space is very pleasant – as I mention, it's not what I expect to find in this neighborhood. Wicker table sets and chairs, solidly made and of very good quality furnish the dining room; there are vases of fresh flowers on almost every surface. Paintings adorn the painted-over cement walls, renderings of bucolic life in the Philippines, and ceiling fans and lights are strategically positioned. There's a more private space at back but for groups, there's a long table nearer the front where an LCD tv holds court.
There's Mehmet in the yellow shirt, making my dinner.
The open kitchen is impressive – in this neighborhood or anywhere else. A symphony of stainless steel, the high-end equipment boasts of ovens and high-powered burners, and of course the glass chillers. It's a veritable deli of Turkish delights, everything from fig preserves, juices, yogurt, and more. Other shelves hold packs of bulgur grains with hookah pipes draped lazily over them, and alcohol, lots and lots of alcohol, and the better bottles too. Think: Jack Daniel's, Johnnie Walker Black Label, and J&B.
Turkish cuisine has influences from Central Asian, Middle Eastern and Balkan Cuisines. It's also very regional, with each area boasting its own specialties. Combos Bread offers dishes from the Southeast of Turkey, thus kebabs and baklavas. The menu is very limited which is fine. The main components used here are chopped up beef, sliced chicken, and a duo of soups. The entire menu is built on permutations of the first two so if you order everything on the menu – a possibility if you are four or more – dishes will taste the same but look different.
Mehmet is quick to recommend the Chicken Kebab Pasta With Butter (P200), a surprise since I expect him to steer us straight to the kebabs. It's my first time to see spiralini, pasta spirals that remind me of bed springs or the slinkies I used to play with as a kid. Slippery with butter and touched with the tang of yogurt, the grilled chicken strips play hide and seek with parsley and paprika. It's a satisfying dish made even more so when I slurp the spiralini. Once you order any kebab dish, one of Mehmet's staff members will hie to the front where a red grill prominently hangs about. It seems wrong to be here and not order kebabs so don't miss this – have the beef or chicken kebabs with either bread or rice.
If you like heat, ask for these.
A very popular dish in Turkey is the Iskender Kebap (P500), which is traditionally made with lamb. Here, slices of beef sit atop a bed of diced bread slathered with a mild tomato sauce touched with just a bit of butter. The bread is moistened by the beef which possesses a very robust, beefy flavor. It's like eating a very, very juicy hamburger made even better by smearing globs of the yogurt that come on the side. (Yogurt is quite the staple in the Turkish diet and it goes very well with these dishes). If you like heat, as I do, ask for the bottles of Turkish pickled peppers and chili sauce. They escalate the excitement of this dish to fiery levels. "… is good enough for the two of you," Mehmet tells us and it is, but we order more.
The Shawarma Sandwich (P250) uses the same beef as in the Iskender Kebap ensconced in the bread that Mehmet calls his baguette. More like a panini really and cooked in a panini grill, the slices of fresh tomato are a refreshing counterpoint to the exceptional yogurt-garlic sauce that comes on the side.
At Combos Bread, all meals come with raisin juice or a softdrink of choice, served in those tiny, vintage 8-ounce bottles. The staff seems to change every time I come here and thus, they're not very knowledgeable about the menu right off the bat, but they're helpful and that's what's important. I like coming here in the early evening when it's cooler and before the heavy drinkers take over. I've never tried the baklava (it's displayed in the back) but I intend to soon, as well as the Turkish coffee. I also always buy some of the bread to take home, whether it's a baguette, buns, or loaves. It's the same bread really – chewy crust and soft crumb – just different shapes and they make wonderful sandwiches.
Combos Bread
5911-B Matilde Street
Barangay Poblacion, Makati
Coming from Rockwell and headed toward Kalayaan, go straight. You'll pass Grilla (the same street Soms is on) and a chuckle-inducing salon named Be Beautiful For Him. Combos Bread is on the next block. Park on Kalayaan Avenue or in front of Combos Bread, although as of this writing, Matilde Street was being re-paved.
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Water is a major resource that we all take for granted. With approximately 70% of the Earth covered in salt water oceans, it's easy to forget that there are places in the world that are without water. National Geographic is also concerned with how much water we use here in the United States and how that affects rivers, lakes, wetlands, underground aquifers, and freshwater species.
That's why they've introduced the Water Footprint Calculator, an online questionnaire that asks questions about the way water is consumed in your home. National Geographic states:
"We live in a watery world, with the average American lifestyle fueled by nearly 2,000 gallons of H2O a day. What may come as a surprise is that very little of that—only five percent—runs through toilets, taps, and garden hoses at home. Nearly 95 percent of your water footprint is hidden in the food you eat, energy you use, products you buy, and services you rely on."
The National Geographic Society encourages you to find out your Water Footprint and the "pledge to cut your water footprint and help return more water to rivers, lakes, wetlands, underground aquifers, and freshwater species."

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Project Description & Motivation: Velodyne's HDL-32 LiDAR sensor features a 360° unmatched vertical field of view with a range of 100 meters and typical accuracy of ±2 cm. Rotating at 10 Hz, this sensor produces upwards of 700,000 points per second over an Ethernet connection in UDP packets from 32 individual lasers and sources. GPS information is also be included and used for clock synchronization. Capturing and converting these packets into usable points is something that, until now, customers in academia and industry, have done themselves with code integrated from their own research projects. Velodyne wishes to significantly expand the reach and audience for the HDL sensor products by making the these sensors Plug-n-Play -- attach the sensor to a system, load the drivers, and capture point clouds in PCL formats within minutes - thereby leveraging the significant and growing availability of PCL viewers.
The most apt description of this sprint is that we want to make the HDL series into the "Kinect- equivalent" for LiDAR systems -- a Plug-n-Play interface will make these sensors much easier to use and the high-density point clouds easily accessible by developers. The advantages of Velodyne's products, speed of collection and high resolution point clouds, will motivate new, innovative uses beyond mapping. A sensor that is easier to use will inevitably lead to enabling new, exciting applications resulting in more sales and lower prices for the good of the vision community as a whole.
Project Goals:
Velodyne will provide a current, compilable source code which outputs all the data from the sensor in PCAP format. This code does all geometric transforms and calibration calculations and outputs the point cloud data for visualization.
Velodyne's current C++ source code for packet capture and conversion uses signals and threads to decouple packet capture from transformation and output. This may be used as a basis for this sprint or as a point of departure for a fully functional interface that has the following features:
- Optimize Velodyne's code - including all calculations
- Focus on through-put by using state-of-the-art algorithms to support functionalty such as wireless ethernet transmission (via compression, sampling, or other heuristics)
- Maintain an easy to implement user environment
- Plug-n-Play on at least two Operating Systems (e.g. Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Android) by leveraging the VTK toolset
- Demonstrate data capture, visualization/animation, logging using PCL and the VTK library
- PCL to standardize metadata identifiers
Desired characteristics:
- written in C++ (interfaces for other languages would be a bonus)
- compiled & tested w/ GCC, .Net, others
Items provided by Velodyne:
- Velodyne C++ source library with current means of capturing visualizable packets in PCAP format
- Access to a sensor for real time data capture
Potential candidates should submit the following information to firstname.lastname@example.com:
- a brief resume
- a list of existing PCL contributions (if any)
- a list of projects (emphasis on open source projects please) that they contributed to in the past


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Scientific Publications
Our team of neuroscientists has authored dozens of scientific and opinion papers addressing a range of topics, from challenges in accelerating drug repurposing to evaluations of evidence surrounding dementia prevention strategies.
Findings from the National Memory Screening Day program
Screening for cognitive impairment in community settings yielded results consistent with expected effects of age and education. The event attracted a large proportion of individuals with memory concerns; 88.1% were told that they did not have memory problems detectable with the tests used. Further studies are needed to assess how participants respond to and use screening information, whether this information ultimately influences decision-making or outcomes, and whether memory screening programs outside healthcare settings have public health value.
Alzheimer's disease research and development: a call for a new research roadmap
Epidemiological projections of the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias, the rapidly expanding population over the age of 65, and the enormous societal consequence on health, economics and community foretell of a looming global public health crisis. Currently available treatments for AD are symptomatic, with modest effect sizes and limited impact on longer term disease outcomes. There have been no newly approved pharmaceutical treatments in the last decade, despite enormous efforts to develop disease-modifying treatments directed at Alzheimer's-associated pathology. An unprecedented collaborative effort of government, regulators, industry, academia, and the community at-large is needed to address this crisis and to develop an actionable plan for rapid progress toward successfully developing effective treatments.
Report on milestones for the US National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease
With increasing numbers of people with Alzheimer's and other dementias across the globe, many countries have developed national plans to deal with the resulting challenges. In the United States, the National Alzheimer's Project Act, signed into law in 2011, required the creation of such a plan with annual updates thereafter. Pursuant to this, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease in 2012, including an ambitious research goal of preventing and effectively treating Alzheimer's disease by 2025.
Evidence needs to be translated, whether or not it is complete
Every medical decision should be based on the best available scientific evidence. This goal motivates evidence-based medicine, a movement with undisputable value that improves the rigor of research available for medical decisions. While not the original goal of evidence-based medicine, randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have not simply become the gold standard of confidence but have overshadowed and limited the use of other sources of useful information. As stated by Kaplan et al, "over-reliance on RCTs is similar to resting all of health care evidence on a one-legged stool."
Current evidence for the use of coffee and caffeine to prevent age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease
Though lacking conclusive proof, decades of research suggests that specific approaches, including the consumption of coffee, may be effective in preventing age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease. Coffee and caffeine are known to enhance short-term memory and cognition, and some limited research suggests that long-term use may protect against cognitive decline or dementia.
Unintended benefits: the potential economic impact of addressing risk factors to prevent Alzheimer's disease
Certain chronic conditions appear to be modifiable risk factors of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. To understand the potential health and economic impacts of addressing those risk factors, we used data on a Medicare cohort to simulate four scenarios: a 10 percent reduction in the prevalence of diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, respectively, and a 10 percent reduction in body mass index among beneficiaries who were overweight or obese. Our simulation demonstrated that reducing the prevalence of these conditions may yield "unintended benefits" by lowering the risk, delaying the onset, reducing the duration, and lowering the costs of dementia.
Developing Novel Blood-Based Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease is the public health crisis of the 21st century. There is a clear need for a widely available, inexpensive and reliable method to diagnosis Alzheimer's disease in the earliest stages, track disease progression, and accelerate clinical development of new therapeutics. One avenue of research being explored is blood based biomarkers.
Overcoming obstacles to repurposing for neurodegenerative disease
Repurposing Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs for a new indication may offer an accelerated pathway for new treatments but is also fraught with significant commercial, regulatory and reimbursement challenges. The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation and the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research convened an advisory panel in October 2013 to better understand stakeholder perspectives related to repurposing FDA-approved drugs for neurodegerative diseases. In the resulting paper, the foundations explore opportunities for philanthropy, industry and government to begin to address these challenges, promote policy changes and develop targeted funding strategies to accelerate drug repurposing.
Frontotemporal degeneration: the next therapeutic frontier
Frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) is a common cause of dementia for which there are currently no approved therapies. Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of knowledge about the biology and clinical features of FTD that has identified a number of promising therapeutic targets as well as animal models in which to develop drugs. The close association of some forms of FTD with neuropathological accumulation of tau protein or increased neuroinflammation due to progranulin protein deficiency suggests that a drug's success in treating FTD may predict efficacy in more common diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. A variety of regulatory incentives, clinical features of FTD such as rapid disease progression, and relatively pure molecular pathology suggest that there are advantages to developing drugs for FTD as compared with other more common neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.
The advantages of frontotemporal degeneration drug development
Frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) encompasses a spectrum of related neurodegenerative disorders with behavioral, language, and motor phenotypes for which there are currently no effective therapies. This is the second of two articles that summarize the presentations and discussions that occurred at two symposia in 2011 sponsored by the Frontotemporal Degeneration Treatment Study Group, a collaborative group of academic and industry researchers that is devoted to developing treatments for FTD. This article discusses the current status of FTD clinical research that is relevant to the conduct of clinical trials, and why FTD research may be an attractive pathway for developing therapies for neurodegenerative disorders.
Improving dementia care: the role of screening and detection of cognitive impairment
The value of screening for cognitive impairment, including dementia and Alzheimer's disease, has been debated for decades. Recent research on causes of and treatments for cognitive impairment has converged to challenge previous thinking about screening for cognitive impairment. Consequently, changes have occurred in health care policies and priorities, including the establishment of the annual wellness visit, which requires detection of any cognitive impairment for Medicare enrollees. In response to these changes, the Alzheimer's Foundation of America and the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation convened a work group to review evidence for screening implementation and to evaluate the implications of routine dementia detection for health care redesign. The primary domains reviewed were consideration of the benefits, harms, and impact of cognitive screening on health care quality.
Current evidence that long-chain omega-3 (n-3) fatty acids may protect against brain aging and Alzheimer's disease
This review condenses the available scientific evidence with practical information on the available sources of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids and the research steps needed to prove their efficacy in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
Optimizing the use of CROs by academia and small companies
This editorial provides recommendations to scientists on the process of selecting and managing a contract with an external vendor or contract research organization. Contract research organizations (CROs) are required by scientists to provide industry standard services for drug discovery and development programs. This editorial is the outcome of a one day advisory panel convened by the ADDF.
Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations Among Medicare Beneficiaries with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
Individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders (ADRD) have more frequent hospitalizations than individuals without ADRD, and some of these admissions may be preventable with proactive outpatient care. This study was a cross-sectional analysis of Medicare claims data from 195,024 fee-for-service ADRD beneficiaries aged ≥65 years and an equal number of matched non-ADRD controls drawn from the 5% random sample of Medicare beneficiaries in 2007-2008.
Diverse Therapeutic Targets and Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias
This meeting report from our 13th International Conference on Alzheimer's Drug Discovery provides an overview on a number of programs funded by the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation.
Progress in Novel Cognitive Enhancers for Cognitive Aging and Alzheimer's Disease
Increased knowledge about the biology of synaptic function has led to the development of novel cognitive-enhancing therapeutic strategies with the potential for increased efficacy and safety. This editorial highlights a diverse array of approaches currently being explored to target cognitive dysfunction due to aging and/or Alzheimer's disease.
Translating current knowledge into dementia prevention
Considerable knowledge has been gained from epidemiologic studies and randomized clinical trials regarding risk factors for dementia, including Alzheimer disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VaD). Most identified risk factors for dementia are similar to vascular disease risk factors for heart disease and stroke. In 2010, the National Institutes of Health Conference concluded that there are no validated modifiable factors to reduce the incidence of AD or to change its course. This research perspective specifically concerning AD disregards the fact that in community-dwelling elderly, the most common forms of dementia involve the cerebral macrovasculature and microvasculature, manifesting as VaD and mixed dementia (the combination of VaD and AD) in autopsy-confirmed cases. Thus, prevention of dementia in clinical practice should be considered from this broader and more relevant view and not just a research perspective on "pure" AD. Practicing clinicians can reasonably state to patients that, although more definitive research is clearly needed, the management and treatment of vascular disease risk factors are likely beneficial not only to prevent heart disease and stroke, but also common forms of dementia in the community.
Workgroup on NAPA's scientific agenda for a national initiative on Alzheimer's disease
This report outlines a goal-directed scientific agenda for a national initiative to overcome the Alzheimer's disease (AD) crisis. The statement, which reflects the collective views and recommendations of leaders in AD research, is intended to aid the implementation of the National Alzheimer's Project Act (NAPA)'s National Plan to defeat AD.
A call for transparent reporting to optimize the predictive value of preclinical research
The US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke convened major stakeholders in June 2012 to discuss how to improve the methodological reporting of animal studies in grant applications and publications. The main workshop recommendation is that at a minimum studies should report on sample-size estimation, whether and how animals were randomized, whether investigators were blind to the treatment, and the handling of data. We recognize that achieving a meaningful improvement in the quality of reporting will require a concerted effort by investigators, reviewers, funding agencies and journal editors. Requiring better reporting of animal studies will raise awareness of the importance of rigorous study design to accelerate scientific progress.
Beyond Amyloid: A Diverse Portfolio of Novel Drug Discovery Programs for Alzheimer's and Related Dementias
Although the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and other related neurodegenerative diseases remain unclear, accumulation of misfolded proteins, neuroinflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction and perturbed calcium homeostasis have been identified as key events leading to neuronal loss during neurodegeneration.
Clinical trials: new opportunities
Human cognitive aging has been too long neglected and underappreciated for its critical importance to quality of life in old age. The articles in this session present novel approaches to improving cognitive function in normal aging persons with drugs and interventions that are based on findings in epidemiology, studies in aged animals, and in vitro research. In addition, since aging is the primary risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, these studies also have implications as interventions for prevention and treatment.
An analysis of global research funding for frontotemporal dementias
To better understand the status of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) research, and identify opportunities to accelerate translational research, we analyzed international funding for FTD and related dementias between 1998 and 2008. Search terms were compiled to define the clinical spectrum of FTD and all known mechanisms. Funders were asked to return grants that contained these search terms in the title or abstract.
Beyond amyloid: the future of therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease
Currently, the field is awaiting the results of several pivotal Phase III clinical Alzheimer's disease (AD) trials that target amyloid-β (Aβ). In light of the recent biomarker studies that indicate Aβ levels are at their most dynamic 5-10 years before the onset of clinical symptoms, it is becoming uncertain whether direct approaches to target Aβ will achieve desired clinical efficacy. AD is a complex neurodegenerative disease caused by dysregulation of numerous neurobiological networks and cellular functions, resulting in synaptic loss, neuronal loss, and ultimately impaired memory.
Best practices for preclinical animal studies
Animal models have contributed significantly to our understanding of the underlying biological mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease (AD). As a result, over 300 interventions have been investigated and reported to mitigate pathological phenotypes or improve behavior in AD animal models or both. To date, however, very few of these findings have resulted in target validation in humans or successful translation to disease-modifying therapies.
Therapeutics for cognitive aging
This review summarizes the scientific talks presented at the conference "Therapeutics for Cognitive Aging," hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences and the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation on May 15, 2009. Attended by scientists from industry and academia and a number of lay people, the conference specifically tackled the many aspects of developing therapeutic interventions for cognitive impairment. Discussion also focused on how to define cognitive aging and whether it should be considered a treatable, tractable disease.
A diverse portfolio of novel drug discovery targets for Alzheimer's disease
While Alzheimer's disease researchers continue to debate the underlying cause(s) of the disease, most agree that a diverse, multi-target approach to treatment will be necessary. To this end, the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) hosted its 11th International Conference on Alzheimer's Drug Discovery to highlight the array of exciting efforts from the ADDF's funded investigators.
A Multi-Targeted Approach for a Complex Multi-Faceted Disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD), as with other late life diseases, is undoubtedly caused by a multitude of factors that are influenced by stochastic events, an individual's genetic makeup and environmental exposures. Combination therapy; including preventative treatments, disease modifying therapies, symptomatic agents and lifestyle changes may be our best hope at eradicating Alzheimer's disease from our society.
Meeting the Unique Challenges of Drug Discovery for Alzheimer's Disease
These proceedings highlight new approaches to address and overcome the specific challenges of drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases that were discussed at the 3rd Drug Discovery for Neurodegenerative Conference (held February 2-3, 2009 in Washington, DC). This conference was hosted by the ADDF, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health, to advance drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases by educating scientists on the process of translating basic research into novel therapies.
Novel Strategies for the Prevention of Dementia from Alzheimer's Disease
In order to significantly tackle the most catastrophic and devastating symptom of Alzheimer's disease (AD) we must be able to detect the disease prior to the onset of clinical symptoms, and be able to offer patients preventative treatments that block or significantly slow disease progression. This review summarizes a variety of the most promising early detection methods for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) that could be used to identify those at high risk of developing the disease.
Practicality of a computerized system for cognitive assessment in the elderly
Early detection and diagnosis are critical to dementia care. However, many early cases remain undiagnosed as a result of the impracticality of neuropsychological testing, particularly in primary care. Mindstreams is an office-based computerized system for measuring cognitive function in multiple domains, with demonstrated validity, test-retest reliability, and sensitivity to treatment effects. This study evaluated its feasibility for assessment of the elderly.
Drug discovery for Alzheimer's disease: Filling the Pipeline
This issue highlights advances in the field of drug discovery for Alzheimer's disease that were discussed at the 7th International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease Drug Discovery (held on October 12-13, 2006 in New York) following previous conferences on similar theme.
FTD landscape analysis
To better understand the status of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) research, and identify opportunities to accelerate translational research, we analyzed international funding for FTD and related dementias between 1998 and 2008. FTD received moderate funding over the past decade, which has decreased almost five-fold during this period. A sizable proportion of FTD funding supported mechanisms shared with Alzheimer's disease.


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The York College Athletic Department, in conjunction with the York College Alumni Office, is proud to announce the Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2012. This year's class is comprised of men's basketball player Dave Martins, women's cross country runner Beth Ann Hooper and men's soccer forward Matt Shealer. The class is the 22nd in the hall's history and the three honorees bring the total number of former Spartan standouts enshrined to 79.
Martins was a three-time All-Capital Athletic Conference selection during his career at York. He played in 104 games, starting 84 of those contests, including 81 straight starts to end his career. Martins tallied 1,421 points, good for tenth on the Spartans' all-time scoring list. He shot 52.8% for his career from the field and 70.9% from the free throw line. He pulled in 656 career rebounds while he posted 121 career blocked shots including a school-record tying eight in a January 1997 game against Catholic.
Martins was a two-time Spartan team MVP while he also won the Daniel J. Klinedinst Award in 2000. That award signifies the outstanding York College senior male athlete of the year. He was also a two-time "Who's Who Among American College and Universities" honoree.
Martins currently serves as an Arlington County (Va.) police officer.
Hooper was one of the top runners in the history of the York College women's cross country program. She was a three-time All-Capital Athletic Conference honoree in addition to being the only York College female runner to earn All-Region accolades.
As a freshman, Hooper was York's top finisher in all seven of their invitational's during the year. She placed seventh at the CAC Championships at Goucher to earn her initial first-team honor. Hooper went on to place 27th at the Regional Championships, which at the time, was the highest finish for a Spartan women's runner at the event.
As a sophomore, Hooper picked up where she left off as a freshman. She was consistently York's top finisher, including picking up an individual championship at the Susquehanna Invitational in early October. She would then post a runner-up finish at the CAC championships to earn her second first-team All-CAC honor. Hooper then earned York's first women's all-regional award as she placed in the top 20 at the 1998 regional championships.
After studying abroad as a junior in the fall of 1999, Hooper made her return to the Spartans as a senior in 2000. She continued to be one of the best runners in the CAC as she finished second at the championships for the second time in three years. She closed out her career with a 13th place finish at the regional championships, earning all-regional accolades for the second time as a Spartan.
Shealer was a four-year starter for the Green and White and was a key part of the Spartans' first men's soccer Capital Athletic Conference tournament crown. After a freshman year that saw him record 10 points on three goals and four assists, Shealer had a big sophomore year as the Spartans won the conference title. The forward had 31 points on 13 goals and five assists as he earned second-team All-CAC accolades. At the time of his graduation, Shealer's 31 points were fourth on the single-season list and the 13 goals also left him ranked fourth.
As a junior, Shealer recorded 20 points on eight goals and four assists as he earned first-team All-CAC honors. He then concluded his career in 2000 with 12 goals and three assists for 27 points, including five game-winning goals. He earned his second straight first-team All-CAC honor while he also garnered an NSCAA All-Region third-team nod.
For his career, Shealer collected 88 points on 36 goals and 16 assists. At the time of his graduation, Shealer was second on the goal scoring list and also second on the all-time points list. He ranked behind fellow YCP Hall of Famer Jim May.
Shealer was the first Spartan men's soccer player to play professionally as he signed with the Reading Rage after graduation. He played for the Rage before moving onto the Harrisburg City Islanders. Shealer retired from competitive play and moved into the coaching realm. He was a graduate assistant at Lynchburg College before returning to York to begin his career in the joint replacement field with Zimmer, Randall, and Associates. Shealer has also coached various teams with York United and FC York.
Martins, Hooper, and Shealer will be inducted on April 28.


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New video may offer key clue in Northland vandalism
About a dozen cars damaged overnight in latest rampage
Police are asking the public for help after vandals again damage cars in Northland neighborhoods.
More than a dozen vehicles were damaged late Tuesday and early Wednesday, bringing the total to more than 100 since the rampages started. The attacks have happened over a wide area, from Zona Rosa to Briarcliff to neighborhoods near Liberty.
In most cases, the vandals have targeted cars using a BB gun.
"Some of these are more than just a vehicle's windshield. They get the side windows or the rear hatch windows, I just spoke to a gentleman today who had a work van that was damaged and it cost him about $1,700 to replace all those windows," said Detective Jim Keller of the Shoal Creek Patrol.
He said the vandals never take anything.
"It's kind of a joyride for them, you know what I mean? Nothing better to do, They're just gonna go out and wreak havoc on folks," he said.
Beverly Bozung said she woke up to the wrong kind of surprise in her neighborhood. Someone smashed the windows on her Nissan Versa.
"I was very angry, very upset, because we don't do anything wrong," she said. "That's kind of sad, actually, that somebody has nothing better to do with their time than to go and ruin somebody's property."
Keller said some of the victims have been targeted more than once.
"Those costs have added up and the monetary damage alone can be very frustrating," he said. "Folks are pretty frustrated. I think they'd like to see this come to an end."
Police said they got a break in the case Tuesday night when a home security camera captured images of a car that may belong to the vandals. The car, a black newer-model four-door sedan, was seen at the location of one of the attacks.
"If they don't stop on their own, they can be assured that we're not going to rest until we find them," Keller said.
Anyone with information that can help police is encouraged to call the Crime Stoppers TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.


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Back on February 28, 2011, I wrote a very brief post entitled "Quick Correction on last post on New FamilySearch." Remarkably, that one post has had over 26,000 visits over the years. The point raised in the post has long since become entirely irrelevant to anything going on today, so what is the huge draw of this post? Nothing else I have written has come close to the popularity of this short three paragraph post. If I could duplicate the draw of that one post, I might be rich and famous! But analyzing those three paragraphs has proved unproductive.
Wait a minute being both rich and famous has its definite drawbacks especially if you are a genealogical blogger where neither is particularly possible. I always say, being a famous genealogy blogger is sort-of like being the mayor of Nutrioso, Arizona (for those of you unacquainted with the Nutrioso Megaplex it has a recent population of 269). Oh, this is not to say that the mayor of Nutrioso isn't an important job (if there is one). I don't want to offend public officials (like I do everyone else).
I guess the vagaries of popularity have completely escaped me. I wake up thinking, what did I say in that one post to make it so popular? Should I start using the word "correction" in every blog post? It couldn't be the reference to either New.FamilySearch.org or FamilySearch since I seem to write about both regularly. Maybe it was my assumed humility in making a "quick correction." Perhaps I should start making intentional mistakes so that I can then quickly correct my way to popularity?
At this point it is probably entirely impossible to say anything remotely serious, but there is a real issue here. As I look at what I write, it seems that there is no rhyme or reason to why one blog post has a spectacular appeal and the next one barely scrapes up someone to click on it. I guess I could chalk it up to inconsistency, mine not yours.
OK, if you have been wondering, the old popular blog post referred to a link to find out what was new on New.FamilySearch.org. Well, since they stopped updating the program in December of 2010 the issue is and was moot, although I did not know it at the time.
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The Mystery Post -- what is the story here?
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So by writing this post, and including the link,you were fishing for additional hits on the mystery post.ReplyDelete
Hooked me...I have a few like that, I don't know why the will of Solomon Keyes was so popular, or why the 1940 US census ED Finder post continues to be popular on Genea-Musings.Replies
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After reading Shakespeare's Hamlet, students use visual and literary tools to identify, analyze, and explain how elements in Botticelli's painting The Birth of Venus and examples from the play illustrate the philosophy of Renaissance Humanism. Students analyze Botticelli's painting by sketching it and then taking notes in relation to specific elements in the painting. Next, students explore how literary elements in Hamlet reflect Renaissance Humanism. Finally, students explain in writing how the elements in The Birth of Venus and Hamlet establish them as examples of Renaissance Humanism. While this lesson focuses on Hamlet in its examples, any Shakespearean play could be substituted for the analysis.
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In the introduction of his Reading in the Dark, John Golden states, "Kids tend to be visually oriented, able to point out every significant image in a three-minute MTV music video, but when it comes to doing the same with a written text, they stare at it as if they are reading German." Golden goes on to state "the skills they use to decode the visual image are the same skills they use for a written text" (xiii). Golden's book outlines how to use film to help students practice their skills so they can then be transferred to written texts. The following lesson is based on the same principle but uses a work of art instead of a film to help students reinforce the same skills that are used to analyze a work of literature.
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An alligator measuring over 9 feet was caught in a Boca Raton soccer field, police said.
Florida Fish and Wildlife officials were called to the Lake Wyman Park at 1500 Northeast 5th Avenue Tuesday to help in removing the animal, Boca Raton Police said.
Record-Breaking 723-Pound Alligator Caught
A trapper also arrived at the park to help capture the alligator. A short time after they arrived they were able to remove the gator from the park.
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12 Students Named to German Honor Society
Twelve students have been inducted into the Augustana chapter of Delta Phi Alpha, the national honor society for students of German. The induction ceremony was held at the Fellows' Presidential Residence on Saturday, May 7.
340 Students to Participate in 2011 Commencement
On Saturday, May 21, 340 students will participate in the 2011 commencement ceremony, set for 2 p.m. at the Sioux Falls Arena. Doors will open at 1 p.m. for seating. Jane Zaloudek, class of 1972; Lowell Stortz, class of 1980; and Trent Anderson, class of 2011, are the featured speakers.
12 Students Inducted into National Physics Honor Society
Twelve Augustana students have been inducted into the College's inaugural class of Sigma Pi Sigma, the national Physics Honor Society. The distinction honors their outstanding scholarship in physics, recognizes their service and celebrates their encouragement of exploration and discovery.
This Week in Viking Athletics
While Augustana concludes its Sesquicentennial year, its Viking student-athletes are continuing to make history. In an unprecedented line-up, the College's baseball, softball, women's tennis, women's golf, and track and field teams are all vying for championship titles. Follow the results with live stats
In the News: 'Augie Captures NSIC Softball Crown'
Augustana earned the No. 1 seed in the Central 1 Regional and will be one of 16 teams to host a three-day NCAA Regional Tournament. The Vikings will face No. 4-seeded Regis (Colo.) in the first round of the tournament Friday at 12 p.m., the NCAA announced Monday.
Syttende Mai Celebrations Set for May 17
In honor of the Augustana Sesquicentennial and in recognition of its Norwegian heritage, the College will celebrate Syttende Mai – Norwegian Constitution Day – on Tuesday, May 17. Commemorative events featuring speakers, Norwegian food and games will be held on campus and at First Lutheran Church.
In the News: 'Top Seeded Augustana Opens with Victory'
After clinching the regular-season conference title, the top-seeded Augustana softball team opened its bid for a Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference tournament crown with a 5-0 shutout of Mary on Thursday at Bowden Field.
Nine Students Inducted into French Honor Society
Augustana College today announced that nine students have been inducted into its Mu Alpha chapter of Pi Delta Phi, the National French Honor Society for undergraduate and graduate students at accredited public and private colleges and universities in the United States.
Sioux Falls Senior Wins Covenant Award for Service
Kayla Rockwell, a senior Business Administration and Classics major, is the recipient of the Augustana Covenant Award for Service, an honor that recognizes courageous students who are committed to making the community a better place through service.
Froemke Lecture Series to Discuss Impact of Simulation
Dr. Matthew Leininger '95, deputy for Advanced Technology Projects at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, will discuss "Changing the Scientific Method: the Impact of Simulation on Scientific Discovery" at the John A. Froemke Chemistry Lecture Series on Friday, May 6.


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Press Here: The App
What is it about?
**Having Trouble with the Music Box game? It's not broken! Just open it up and begin to tap the screen to add dots. Be sure the dots connect to one another. Eventually, you'll see a polka-dotted dot appear. Double tap that dot and the music will begin to play. **
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**Having Trouble with the Music Box game? It's not broken! Just open it up and begin to tap the screen to add dots. Be sure the dots connect to one another. Eventually, you'll see a polka-dotted dot appear. Double tap that dot and the music will begin to play. **
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Get the app inspired by Press Here, the interactive picture book that's been on the New York Times Bestseller List for more than 100 weeks! Press Here: The App includes 15 delightfully simple games and activities for kids of all ages.
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Games and Activities:
•Are You Coming? – Drag the dots into each other and try to combine them
•Free Play – Tap the dots to play sounds and bump them into each other to see what happens
•Get Inside – Try to get the little dot into the big circle
•Inside Goal – Play tabletop hockey with dots!
•Yum – Watch as the dots "eat" each other and grow…then tap to change colors and "eat" again
•Many Roads – Draw roads with your finger
•Fireworks – Launch the fireworks and watch them explode into sparkles
•Tap Tap – Tap to create dots everywhere
•Memory – Match the different dots and watch the matched pairs disappear
•Rain – Make it rain colors
•Music Box – Tap to play a tune
•Drawing – Free drawing and dot-making
•Press Here – Make lots of dots and then play with them
•Studio – Create dots and tilt them all around
•Photo – Draw a picture and then take a picture of it
When Hervé Tullet published the picture book Press Here in 2011, a phenomenon was born. Kids and kids at heart followed the instructions in the book and embarked upon a journey where colorful dots danced, swirled, and seemed to move around the page—all powered by their own imaginations.
Now this beloved book has inspired a brand-new entertainment app that is sure to dazzle kids of all ages. Picking up where the book left off, this app introduces children to a magical world of brightly winking, blinking, multiplying, and colliding dots that create visually rich, intuitive play. Screen-poking tots and fun-loving adults alike will giggle with delight as the dots multiply, change direction, and grow in size.
With 15 original games and activities offering unlimited hours of fun, the Press Here app is a must-have for admirers of the book and a great introduction to Hervé Tullet for new fans. Plus, it's available on the iPad and iPhone.
About the Picture Book:
Press Here by Hervé Tullet was first published in the U.S. by Chronicle Books in March 2011. The picture book has now been on the New York Times Best Sellers list for more than thirty weeks (and counting!) and has received starred reviews from School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews. Additionally it was named one of the best picture/children's books of the year in 2011 by Publishers Weekly, Amazon, Kirkus Reviews, and the Wall Street Journal.
About the Author:
Hervé Tullet has been an art director at various ad agencies, a magazine illustrator, and for the past 15 years, a creator of children's books.
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Your doctor may prescribe several types of medication to treat your asthma. Two of these are anti-inflammatories, and bronchodilators. Both anti-inflammatories and bronchodilators work to open up your airways, but they do so in different ways.
Anti-inflammatory medications decrease airway sensitivity caused by inflammation and reduce mucus production. Bronchodilators relax the constricted muscles around your airways. This action opens them up, making it easier to breathe and easier for the mucus to be expelled.
Both anti-inflammatories and bronchodilators can be prescribed as either controller medication - medicine that you take every day to prevent long-term sensitivity - or quick-relief medication, medicine for the relief of sudden asthma attacks.
In some cases, your healthcare provider may prescribe a combination medication that has the properties of both anti-inflammatories and bronchodilators. Combination medications can make your asthma management easier because you to only use one medication, instead of two.
One dose of a combination medicine does the job of both an anti-inflammatory and a bronchodilator. It decreases inflammation, reduces constriction and helps to loosen mucus. Loose mucus is easier to cough out of your system.
Like all medicines, asthma medications only work when you take them as prescribed. So review your prescriptions with your doctor or pharmacist and make sure you follow them correctly.
"I'm on a maintenance program right now - which is two clicks is what they call it - of Pulmicort®, which in three years I've only had one situation. I feel very good about that. But I have to take the Pulmicort® daily."
If your medications are not working as expected, or you feel you may be experiencing medication side effects, tell your doctor right away. Your medication plan may need to be changed.
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Hilda and Pearl: A Novel304
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To Frances, an only child living in McCarthy-era Brooklyn, her mother, Hilda, and her aunt Pearl seem as if they have always been friends. Frances does not question the love between the two women until her father's job as a teacher is threatened by anti-Communism, just as Frances begins to learn about her family's past. Why does Hilda refer to her "first pregnancy," as if Frances wasn't her only child? Whose baby shoes are hidden in Hilda's dresser drawer? Why is there tension when Pearl and her husband come to visit?
The story of a young girl in the fifties and her elders' coming-of-age in the unquiet thirties, this book resonates deeply, revealing in beautiful, clear language the complexities of friendship and loss.
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Alice Mattison is the award-winning author of four story collections and five novels, including Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn. She teaches fiction in the graduate writing program at Bennington College in Vermont and lives in New Haven, Connecticut.


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|This unique clip is designed to hold a Multiplying Billiard Ball safely under one's sport jacket or suit coat. Simply turn the side of ones body away from the audience (upstage), drop one's hand down to the edge of the coat, and secretly retrieve the ball. 001NUFud01050 or 051RUMMRBALLHOL_MET
|This is one of the best ungimmicked buckets that has ever been made for performing the Miser's Dream effect (producing coins from the fingertips). When the coins hit the bottom of the bucket, a clear and loud clang is produced that can be heard even in a large auditorium. The bucket is light-weight stainless steel construction that resists rust and corrosion, and most importantly has the all-important rolled lip around the top edge that makes it easy to hold. Instructions are not included since explanations for doing Miser's Dream routines can be found in many magic books. You can also use this bucket in conjunction with the Ultimate Coin Catcher and/or the Keller Coin Catcher listed below.
|The magician reaches up onto the air and produces a cigar at his fingertips! He reaches over with the other hand to take the cigar away, and the cigar multiplies into two! One of the cigars is put away, the hand reaches over to take the remaining cigar and it once again multiplies into two! This comical multiplication can be done over and over again. We supply the wooden cigars but using our simple instructions, the trick can be done with cigarettes, golf pencils, small candy canes, crayons, or any short slender object.
|The magician reaches up and plucks a cigarette out of thin air! He drops the cigarette into a bowl, hat, pail, or other recepticle. He reaches up again and plucks yet another cigarette from nothingness! He can continue this magical production endlessly, reaching behind his leg to produce a cigarette, under his elbow, from behind a spectator's ear, and so forth! In the end, the magician can turn the repecticle upside down and the cigarettes have vanished! Instead of a cigarette, the magician can produce candy canes, crayolas, or other short cylindrical object. 002RUMUDCIGARETTE
|This specially designed gimmick is designed to hold about a dozen coins securely, and yet enables the magician to retrieve them at will. This holder is designed to deliver a stack of coins to the magician's waiting hands allowing him to produce a shower of coins or even loading coins in his hand for dropping in a coin bucket as per traditional Miser's Dream routines. Fabricated from heavy metal sheet and rod, this device will hold US half dollars or similar sized coins. 003nufud01360
|If you do card manipulation, fanning powder is a must. This dry white powder provides the lubrication necessary to make cards glide apart for card fans and other card manipulation flourishes. One container will do a number of decks. 571nuffi00180
|The Keller Coin Catcher is an excellent way to produce half dollars (or half dollar size coins) at your finger tips. The gimmick makes performing the miser's dream effect a breeze. Spring loaded and flesh colored, this is the fine product made by Morissey Products and will hold a stack of half dollar coins. This one will still be working long after the inexpensive "india" verson of the gimmick craters!
|These beautiful manipulation and fanning cards are made by Vernet in Argentina. They allow the magician to perform beautiful card fanning and productions. The backs of the cards have brilliant colors so that fantastic combinations can be shown when fanning. Also the cards have indexes in all four corners and are also extra thin, which makes back palming them a cinch. 075nufve00110
|These cards have an original design from Vernet. Each card is flesh colored on the back with no white border to flash. The cards have indexes in all four corners and are extra thin. You can almost back palm the entire deck! Remember, these cards are extra thin, four cornered indexed, and have the all-important flesh colored back. 003nufve00050
|This is an excellent set of multiplying golf balls. The balls are a high glow yellow color like you might find at the miniature golf course. The balls are made of a sponge rubber material and therefore there is a great cling feature of the ball and shell. Recommended. 005FOLLF-0303
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Audio engineers across Consumer Electronics, Automotive, Communications, and other industries use MATLAB to design and validate audio processing algorithms, while developing new audio products or custom measurements.
Very often those algorithms need prototyping in real-time while parameters are tuned interactively, so they can be validated through listening, or evaluated on experimental setups. For many, turning MATLAB algorithms into real-time prototypes is a costly and time-consuming process, and it involves languages like C or C++.
In this webinar, we focus on creating real-time audio processing prototypes with MATLAB using the new Audio Toolbox. We show how to:
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GOSHEN — William Hecht, superintendent of the Wallkill School District, has been named the next superintendent of the Orange-Ulster BOCES district.
GOSHEN — William Hecht, superintendent of the Wallkill School District, has been named the next superintendent of the Orange-Ulster BOCES district.
He is expected to be appointed at the BOCES board's May meeting, and will start in the job on Aug. 1, BOCES board President Carl Onken wrote in a letter Friday to members of the focus group that helped the board pick Hecht.
Onken wrote that Hecht has been Wallkill superintendent for four years, held administrative positions in the Wallkill, Onteora and Highland school districts before that, and also used to be a special education teacher.
Terry Olivo, the current chief operating officer of BOCES, said earlier this year that he plans to leave in June. BOCES started to look for a superintendent late last year, after receiving a letter from the state Education Commissioner John King Jr., reproving them for not having had one since Robert Hanna left in 2007.
Olivo was named chief operating officer in 2010. Because of the difference in title, the state's cap on BOCES superintendents' salaries, which is now at $166,762 a year, didn't apply to him; his salary is $238,030 for the 2012-2013 school year. Olivo told the Times Herald-Record in January that he had planned to leave this year anyway, regardless of King's letter.
Olivo and Onken didn't return calls for comment Friday afternoon, and Hecht deferred comment to BOCES for now.


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Researchers Prove Desk Jobs Are Making Us Fat
A recent study published in the online October 5th 2010 Journal of Preventative Medicine adds to the ever increasing evidence that sedentary professions and lifestyles are the major contributor to our nation's growing waistlines and obesity affiliated illnesses.
Researcher Carl-Etienne Juneau of the University of Montreal stated that "People eat better and exercise more today than they did in the 1970's yet obesity rates continue to rise." Dr. Juneau believes that this historical contradiction can be explained by changes in work habits and work spaces.
The study measured caloric intake between 1972 and 2004 and leisure time physical activity during this time frame as well. Caloric intake decreased and physical activity actually increased. The area of contraindication exists within the work place where activity levels were shown to have dropped during the study period.
Study researchers concluded that a greater emphasis on movement during work hours would be a wise choice as echoed in a 2005 article published in the Journal of Science which found that obese individuals sit on average two hours more per day than height weight proportionate individuals.
Juneau and his colleagues used several Statistics Canada databases on the health of Canadians that included 17,000 to 132,000 respondents. He concluded that the lack of physical activity during office hours could explain the fact that obesity has increased 10 percent between 1978 and 2004.
A surprise findings was the increased healthy attitudes toward transportation. "As a result of urban sprawl we expected to see more car-dependent people," says Juneau. "Yet, both men and women increasingly adopted healthy behaviors such as walking and biking, which is definitely good news."
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Since the fall of the "iron rice bowl", China does not have the same wide-coverage social security safety net as the US. Recently they've scrambled to implement pension & social security reforms. However out of 1.35 billion people, only ~380 million are covered by the urban-rural residents social pension insurance, and ~100 million by State pensions for the elderly.
A basic social pension payout in China is RMB 55 per month ($8.73 USD). China has very high savings rate because you need to save money for your own retirement. If the women are retired at 50-55 and the men retire at 60, that actually benefits the men who can work longer and save more $ for their own retirement.
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Yes, women in the Philippines will satisfy me. By your logic, why shouldn't guys just stay in the West? That will provide plenty of challenge...
And yes, I know it is a promiscuous culture. But I think every culture available to Western men is. The ones that are not are not accessible for assimilating into. (And that, I'm sure, is why they remain traditional and not promiscuous.) China may be becoming a more outwardly authoritarian form of America. f**k. I'm in Liaoning. America is practically an object of adoration. Western culture is popular in this increasingly consumerist region.
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Can one "tame" the shrewish and overbearing Hong Kong (or Chinese) women the way Petruchio tames Katherina in Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew"?
As I recall, he "tames" his bride by using reverse psychology, regarding every harsh thing she says as knd and gentle, contradicts everything she says, forces her to agree with everything he says, no matter how ridiculous, and wears down her willpower. In the end, she becomes the compliant and obedient wife.
I wonder if the same technique is useable on the Hong Kong/Chinese women?
@ Kai- Well you asked for sources and you got them. Are you implying that women don't get to collect their pension at 50-55 and it is only like that on paper? I doubt that is the case. Why would the Chinese government make a law like that and not enforce it? In America they do things like that because a certain party will want to pass a law to appease certain voting blocs. But in China they would have no motivation to do something like that since it is ruled by one party with no elections to worry about. Obviously a lot of laws are worked around via bribing officials but that is a different story.
The fact of the matter is there ARE more men than woman and there IS a lot of competition for even the most unattractive Chinese women. This affects all men in China including foreigners. As I said before, I knew plenty of foreign guys who tried and had no luck with Chinese women. Some people on this forum agree with most of what I say about Chinese women and some guys on this forum had no luck with Chinese women either even though they tried. Even in this thread Ghost said China is not a good country to find a date. So I am by no means an anomaly.
And are you really implying that anyone who makes less than 50K in America is poor? You do realize that most young college educated guys make less than 50K these days, right? Most don't even make 50K in gross salary, let alone net. We're still in the middle of a recession and we're having a jobless recovery. I know you make 100K a year even though you are in your 20s but you're an anomaly. Either you have a rich and well connected family or you just got super lucky. You probably think you got to where you are mostly based on hard work, and while I'm certain you do work hard (only women can get through life easily without working hard) so does almost every other guy out there. It takes hard work, qualifications and luck to make a decent living as a man these days. For every guy in your financial situation there are plenty of guys like E Irizarry. For every guy that got a woman in China there are many guys like me, Ghost and ph_visitor. There were other guys who had no luck there as well but I can't remember all of their names.
Just remember all that luck you have could run out at a moment's notice. You live a much better life than almost every man I know but you could lose it all without even doing anything wrong. Your wife could leave you and take half. Your job could be outsourced or become obsolete.
1. You are misinterpreting China's system ONCE AGAIN!
A) That pension is only for government workers. Anyone that is not a CCP employee must buy their own retirement insurance if they want something like that.
B) Women should retire earlier than men because MEN are still the head of household and the breadwinner. They expect women to go back home and be grandmothers and to take care of the household. In fact women in China, traditionally speaking, are not supposed to work as hard as the men do even when younger. While this is somewhat changing, like most of the world is with the younger generation, this is still the norm there.
C) It is FEMINISM to preach gender equality. Only a hateful and ridiculous person like you, living selfishly without contributing back to society would desire equality with the females you hate so much. Who is the tool now huh? I can't wait to see how you try to squirm and avoid this one!
2. Foreigners are not having to compete with the local men. Stop trying to bullshit people in HA here with that garbage. No one else here that knows anything about Asia thinks this way. You are like the Bizzaro HA member. If we found something in a certain country as a 100% fact with supporting evidence, then you will state the complete opposite and try to support it with faulty logic. We have beaten that topic to death and there are newspaper and blog articles about this. I really do not need to slam you again on this.
Ghost had issues before leaving the US and comes off as Aspergers-ish and awkward. Always has. He has admitted to having some kind of issue, and nearly all of us leave him alone because he is still usually pretty respectful around here. You seem to be the same way because you seem to be terrible at social interaction with people in general. You are like Xiongmao but probably more like Mr. S 2.0 minus the truthful part with extra asshole features. If you have certain life constraints, it is very disingenuous not to provide a disclaimer about that, before telling people all kinds of negative things about places that they would not have to experience. If you honestly think you are very normal with no issues, then whatever, but don't expect any f***ing mercy from others when bullshit comes out of your mouth.
3. If you live in NY, anything under 50K is poor. 45K and less is now poverty level. There is an excellent article on the NYtimes on this. Under 50K in many places in the US is now lower to lower-middle class. This is a somewhat new development, so I cannot fault you for being too behind on the times. My family is not rich and I am not lucky. I earned my way up and above all that I am blessed by God. I have over 13 years experience in my field, so what I make is actually normal for that level. All of you are bless in Christ, the rest is up to you. Life and progress does not stop at salvation, learning more will help you go further in life. Professionally too.
E Irrizary will be joining guys like me very soon himself. Why? Because he got off his azz and did something about it.. If a plan is failing, make adjustments.
4. My life was not always wonderful like you think it is. My divorce pretty much ruined me and set me back several years, but God always has a plan for his children. That even means you too. I don't care about your system of luck. God never puts more on me than I can bear. If some enemy or circumstance takes anything away from me, God always restores it back always with more than before. I am walking evidence of that if you could see a picture history of my life.
We all know you hate China. Many China ex-pats hate it there after a while. Very few can stomach staying even a year and end up very jaded bitter and racist. You see them all over the place on the internet. On Chinasmack, blogs, BeijingCream, Expat forums, etc. That still does not mean you need to lie and make up shit about the place to express your hate. There is enough you can say about China that is true about it to scare others from living there easily. I am on record for not recommending the place long term myself and I even listed the reasons why.
Correction: I think the social pension is set up in a way that the CCP workers are automatically in there and some of them get alot more on top as well. The other part is for the public to buy into. They have to set up a 10 or 20 year plan on that or more.
What the f**k is this shit? I supposedly come off as having Asperger's now? f**k off! I had issues in the U.S. because of the culture just like just about the rest of everybody here. I am not awkward even around American women. I don't like the culture and that's why I left. I now see China has its own problems and dating is one of them. You're rich and good-looking, so any woman in any country will make time for you. Ooh, I'm shocked.
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Maybe I misunderstood one of your posts when you said you had issues then. China's dating issues are mostly for local Chinese men. Being black with money still makes me a "Scary African" in most places outside of the US. Hell, having a well paying job in the US as a black man still makes you invisible. Your own black women make fun of you and upper crust whites and Latinas turn their nose up at you. They would rather f**k Tyrone the garbage man or the College football player for fun because they know they cannot bring a "nagger" like that back home to ma and pa anyway. They wont f**k a clean cut nigger because they could never shake us out of their heads. Very few white women here in the US will. Look at Obama's ass. Michelle is upper 1% crust of black women due to her strong family background, but he was eligible for at least 70% of any white woman in the US when he was young and he is HALF white!
Like Kayne West once said, "Even if you in a Benz coupe, you still a nigger." The US disqualified me just off my skin color more or less and the rest of the world takes sterotypes from Hollywood about me. I went a abroad and STILL managed to fix that, even in a country where they say on English teacher job applications, that you must be white and American! You two got in on English teaching! So What's your god damned f***ing piece of shit excuse? Go ahead tell us!
You nor professor can find happiness anywhere because both of you lack vision, drive, and good mental focus.
So whatever f***ing issues you and guys like Professor have, that shit is on you guys. Both of you have plenty of f***ing tools at your disposal. 100 times more than the average American man, because at least you know there are options out there. At least you have seen HA and Winston's message. At least your fatness was a choice, and his awkwardness and problems are self-inflicted. So if anyone can f**k off, it's you two, oh wait, I forgot, neither of you are capable of doing that as well.... so sad
Let me tell you two idiots one more thing as well. I worked my ass off as hard as I did because I had no other f***ing choice. It often takes 2 times the effort for black men of my age and older, to obtain whatever you guys can get sipping beer with a buddy on a golf course or a baseball game. I probably grew up poorer than you two, no one gave me shit nor was I lucky. So don't any of you dare assume that I am some silver spooned bitch with a bunch of luck. Anyone with 2 cents worth of brainpower and a modest upbringing can see you two are full of that bullshit and probably lazy and trifling as hell. Stop trying to save face and bullshit people. You two are not fooling anyone but yourselves.
Kai, you need to calm down...Just because people criticize certain aspects of China does not mean you need to take it so personally, bro. Everyone is entitled to their opinions--no matter how false or wrong you think they are..
And the attack on Ghost, I think, was not warranted. I think you are thinking of Abcdavid--when talking about Aspergers. He's the half-White/half-Asian poster on here.
It seems that people are somewhat split on China: about half and half...which sounds about right. Just like you have people who love America, and people who really hate it. I don't think any country is going to have a unanimous opinion about it from everyone....
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This guy was a straight up vagina. On his knees? Crying like a little bitch? Slap me once, smile and try to walk away. Slap me twice and you're going to sleep little girl. I would have laughed my ass off if this poor excuse for a man stood up and knocked the bitch out cold in front of everyone.
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Let's face it: being a black or white MALE in American society automatically puts you at the end of the line. What does it really matter if white men or black men are one space ahead in a line that is really long? I could argue that black men at least have a few advantages because of policies that favor hiring, admitting to college, or in some other way giving money because of skin color. But what does it matter? Men have it shitty in the States.
But you know what? When I realized that I would be very desirable for an ESL job in Asia because I'm white, I jumped on it! I wanted a way out, and anything that would help me I took. I wouldn't blame any black man for taking a job he got based on his skin color. The problem is that things are such a way that those things even matter. Even if you do work hard, that doesn't mean luck, race, or other factors didn't enter into to it.
I'm happier in China. The girls are far nicer here, generally, than in the States. But China is not great for dating, and for a number of reasons that are anything but easy to overcome. I've seen plenty of Africans in this city and they don't seem to be having any problems. I don't buy this "Oh I'm always a SCARY BLACK MAN no matter where I go!" Chinese people are shocked to see foreigners sometimes, and hell, I've even seen a girl cling to her boyfriend when she saw me walking by. Does that mean I'm suddenly a scary white man?
You're attractive and well-off. That makes dating easier for you no matter where you go. You know about how to date in China, but from your perspective, it was easy for you, so it should be easy for any man. You think I don't recognize difficulties you've had because of race. I don't think you recognize how much easier you have it because you are part of "Teh Hawt Guyz" club and are well-off.
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Hong Kong women, like most deep southern Chinese, are not Northeast Asian due to their near genetic similarity with Southeast Asians. A half-Cantonese half-European looks like Mexican or Hispanic, not physically different than Vietnamese Amerasians and Filipino Mestizos. They are also heavily Anglophilic, especially since they make up a significant part of the Chinese-American population. A lot of western men do find Cantonese women to be very attractive, however.


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Tuesday July 24 minor league recap.
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The AZL Cubs were at it again on Tuesday beating the AZL Indians 9-2. Jorge Soler did it again, hitting his second home run in four games. This one off the scoreboard in left. Soler would add another hit ending the night 2-for-4 with two runs scored and three RBIs. Ben Carhart continued his hot hitting going 2-for-4 with a double and a home run. He also drove in three and scored a run. Speaking of hot, Shawon Dunston Jr. had two more hits, a double and a triple plus he scored three runs from the lead off spot. Albert Alomora did not have a hit, but did drive two runs in and scored two. 2012 Comp. pick Paul Blackburn recorded his first win of the season, pitching two scoreless innings in relief. Another good win for the Cubs in the AZL.
Boise got another great pitching peformance out of their staff on Tuesday beating the Yakima Bears 2-1. Ian Dickson was tremendous thowing six no-hit innings before being removed in the seventh. Dickson struck out four en route to his second win of the season. Hunter Ackerman gave up a run, but struck out three in 2.1 innings and Michael Hamann closed it out recording his first save of the season. Jeimer Candelario had a nice night at the dish going 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI. In his first game as a Hawk, Dan Vogelbach was 2-for-4 with a double. Gioskar Amaya, Stephen Bruno, and Trey Martin each added a hit and Bruno scored a run. It is nice to see the Hawks pitching have a nice couple days here.
Daytona held on to beat Brevard County 4-3 on Tuesday night. Matt Loosen started and got the win pitching six innings while allowing two runs on only three hits. He also walked three and struck out eight, lowering his ERA to 2.81. Ryan Searle struck out two in the seventh and AJ Morris pitched the last two recording his first save of the season. Rubi Silva went 2-for-4 with a triple and two RBIs. Ronald Torreyes, Matt Szczur, Rebel Ridling, and Micah Gibbs all had a hit. Daytona will play two on Wednesday.
Tennessee was back in action Tuesday pounding Jacksonville 9-2. The Smokies showed some power hitting three home runs on the evening. Junior Lake was 2-for-5 with a double, a homer, and two RBIs. Greg Rohan added two hits of his own including a home run and Michael Brenly connected on his fifth homer of the year. Nelson Perez had his best day since going to Double-A as he went 3-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI. Michael Burgess also added two hits and scored two runs. Eric Jokisch got the start and the win for the Smokies giving up one run on four hits in five innings pitched while striking out eight. Brian Schlitter, Kevin Rhoderick, and Casey Weathers combined to pitch the last four innings allowing one run and striking out five. This is the way to come back after a day off.
Another day another bad loss for Iowa, losing 15-9 on Tuesday. Offensively Iowa couldn't have done much more on Tuesday scoring nine runs on twelve hits. Welington Castillo was 3-for-5 with a run scored and an RBI. Brett Jackson hit his 14th home run of the season and drove in two. Josh Vitters had one hit and also drove in two as did Alfredo Amezaga. Dave Sappelt and Diory Hernandez each had two hits as well. The pitching was terrible yet again on Tuesday. Rogrio Lopez got the start and promtly gave up eight runs in 3.2 innings pitched. Ryan Rowland-Smith took the loss as he gave up three more runs in just 1.2 innings. Iowa continues to struggle.
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"I won't scream"[edit]
Are you sure it's "I won't scream"? I always hear it "I want to scream". -- 18.104.22.168 12:42, 25 Mar 2005
- I wrote these quotes while playing the DVD, going over and over scenes to ensure I had exactly every syllable, so there's no way I could be wrong… well, probably none… Okay, I went back and checked again. ☺ Seriously, I can see how one might think she says "want to" — Tina Chen's lip does seem to move for one extra syllable. But she's clearly making a "oh" sound, not an "ah", and she doesn't seem to have an accent that would cause her to pronounce "wahnt" as "wohnt". It's also a more poignant word choice in an otherwise well-written screenplay, so I'm still pretty sure it's "won't". — Jeff Q (talk) 20:38, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I want to scream makes more sense to me but if she said I won't scream then I'm not sure what that means. --Gbleem 06:10, 28 October 2005 (UTC) I did a google and found a PDF of the script. The word is "won't". --Gbleem 06:29, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
- It's definitely "I won't scream." This is further confirmed by Joubert's response, which is "I know you won't." I believe she is just accepting of her fate and is putting on a brave face. UDScott 12:05, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
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