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The burly delivery truck driver moved a linebacker on the blitz play. In the time it took me to load a grocery cart onto the Fort Bragg Food Bank truck"s lift, this driver has unloaded a gigantic cart full of fluffy packaged white bread? and wrangled it into Safeway; he left at a fast jog.
Over the past five years of writing the Season of Sharing stories, I"ve seen people and businesses come and go, while the grocery business moves at a steady, if frenetic speed. Local grocers create a bigger economy than we see in the stores and they are always among the most generous givers to the Food Bank.
"Every morning [except Sunday] our drivers go to Safeway and Harvest Market. They also go at least weekly to: D"Aurelio"s, Purity Market, Colombi"s, Starbucks, the Cookie Company, Thanksgiving Coffee, Harvest Market at Mendosa"s, Corners of the Mouth, Cafe Beaujolais and the Mendocino Bakery," said Food Bank Executive Director Nancy Severy.
"All these food-related establishments donate a wonderful variety of foods that are approaching the best-if-sold-by date, but that are still in good condition. We receive around 25 percent of all the food we distribute from this local source. Wow we are grateful!" she said.
While Harvest and Safeway give the vast majority of the food, clients wait for special treats. About 30 pounds of coveted Thanksgiving Coffee comes in per week. Cafe Beaujolais gives lots of gourmet breads. Many clients search for that special bread even if it is old enough to need freshening in the microwave.
Fort Bragg Food Bank driver Doug Duncan and I get three 20-gallon bags of fresh pizza dough from D"Aurelio"s. Repackaged by the Food Bank into smaller bags, the crust gets eagerly chosen by hundreds of clients in the food line, which offers a half-dozen either-or-choices.
The route has added a few stops over the years. The Food Bank itself has grown a lot and expanded its mission to include anything and everything clients need for free. The Food Bank has installed a potable water spigot, had a portable toilet put out front and offered giveaways of furniture. One new weekly stop is at the new Paul Bunyan Thrift Store, where half a truck of clothes are redonated. "These are really good clothes, many designer labels and in great shape," said Duncan.
Duncan is usually the kind of guy one can"t walk past without smiling. Those who try are likely to get a generous greeting, a joke or at least a big smile. Most people smile proactively when they see Duncan coming.
Last year, Duncan and I had all the elderly and mostly female residents of local senior housing laughing, joking and shaking their heads as we delivered massive Christmas turkey baskets.
As I followed Duncan on his morning pickup route on Monday through Harvest and Safeway, folks smiled or gave him a big greeting, not noticing he was missing his usual smile. His wife has been in the hospital for more than a week, battling a still dangerous infection.
"We are very fortunate to have the life we have here. Right now, it"s just our turn to take a hit," he said.
At Safeway, Aaron Giannini and I finally manage to drag Duncan into a little joviality. Duncan and I then get a little laugh of some of the items donated by the big grocer, an unclaimed three-foot-wide birthday cake and boxes of "Martha Wrap" featuring a picture of Martha, who somehow must have seemed less desirable than old man "Reynolds."
As we chugged about in the 20-foot bobtail truck, perhaps the biggest change at the Food Bank is that two big trucks are now in nearly constant use.
"Every week we go down to the Redwood Empire Food Bank in Santa Rosa. This food bank is a regional hub, serving several counties including Mendocino, Sonoma, Lake and Humboldt. With our wonderful new truck we can pick up 9,000 pounds of food from there each week," said Severy.
The new truck, purchased last year with community donations carries nearly twice as much as the old one, meaning dollars go further now.
"Due to the operating efficiencies allowed by the higher payload and good fuel mileage, our per-pound food transport costs have dropped considerably," Severy said.
The two-truck fleet has allowed the Fort Bragg Food Bank to share its bounty even beyond the Coast.
"Once each month we deliver USDA Commodities to smaller food pantries in Ukiah, Willits, Gualala, Point Arena, Anderson Valley, Leggett, Laytonville and Round Valley, as well as to soup kitchens in Fort Bragg, Ukiah and Willits. We also provide food to Hospitality House and to Primary Purpose [in Albion]," Severy said.
Along our "salvage" route is a woman who used to live on the streets and frequent the Food Bank. The nonprofit I lead, MendoPower Employment Services, employed her for temporary work. Now she works full-time, has a home and is never seen at the Food Bank, but I always get a smile.
Another former temporary worker and food banker showed up recently on drugs, teeth missing, and frightening those who tried to help. Duncan and I discuss the ups and downs we see and feel as we drive down Franklin. Behind Rite Aid an apparently homeless man with an I-Pod is jamming, with legs and arms churning at different speeds in a compelling rhythm.
"I"d like to think that is pure happiness in the moment," I say.
"He is a one-man rock concert," observes Duncan.
Those who don"t try to hide the truth do better, we agree. He tells me how his wife, Debbie Duncan, had to have her prosthetic knee removed when the infection spread there.
"It"s rough, it"s really rough," he said.
I tell him the matter can be kept out of the article for privacy"s sake.
"No, I think telling the story is a good thing." He says their church family and the Food Bank family are helping the couple make it through. Those I"ve seen make it out of painful poverty often give credit to community-wide efforts available here.
"Debbie had colon cancer a few years ago and the doctors didn"t give her much of a chance. But the prayer warriors we know went to work and she got entirely better."
Season of Sharing
Since the 1996 holiday season, the Advocate-News and The Mendocino Beacon have raised roughly $ 284,000 through the "Season of Sharing fundraiser every cent taken in by the newspapers goes to the Food Bank.
"The Food Bank addresses the most basic problem facing hundreds of individuals and families hunger," said Publisher Sharon DiMauro. " The goal is to give the Food Bank money it can use year-round, not just during the holidays."
Checks should be written out to The Mendocino County Community Foundation. Mail them to the Advocate-News at P.O. Box 1188, Fort Bragg, CA 95437 or bring them to the newspaper office, located at 450 N. Franklin St., Fort Bragg, just north of City Hall.
The fundraiser runs through December 31. The names of all donors who contribute through the newspapers will be printed each week, unless they request to remain anonymous. If you have any questions, please call us at 964-5642.
This week"s donations come from Jane Vartanian, D. Pyorre, Dr. P.P. Coukoulis, Janice and Robert Ball, Roderick and Kathleen Cameron, Linda Jupiter, and the Mendocino Coast Gem & Mineral Society. Donations to date total $1, 560.


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Installing Hypertech's Hyperpac On An '06 Dodge
When most of us began wrenching on cars, we thought working on musclecars was much easier than working on anything new. Improving performance was simple back then; we simply bolted on headers, swapped the camshaft for something a little more radical, or added a performance intake and carburetor to increase the power in our car. Yeah, the days before computers controlled everything on a car were great; we had it made. Or did we? While slaving for hours in our garages did net improvements in the performance of our vehicles, we spent many man-hours just to gain a few tenths of a second in the quarter-mile. maybe improving the performance of our musclecar wasn't that easy after all.
There are still gains to be had in modern vehicles by swapping intakes, adding headers, or changing the camshaft, but there's also an easy, cost-effective way to improve power without even breaking open the tool box. Since parameters such as ignition timing, fuel injector pulse width, shift points, and top speed are all controlled by the computer in a modern car, reprogramming these parameters with an aftermarket computer can show dramatic performance gains. To illustrate this, we decided to install Hypertech's new Hyperpac performance Automotive computer on our '06 Dodge Magnum.
If you've driven or ridden in one of Dodge's new Hemi-powered vehicles, you already know they outperform just about anything else on the road these days. So when the guys at Hypertech told us their Hyperpac computer would not only improve our Magnum's performance, but also monitor engine parameters and diagnostic codes, serve as a dynamometer, and give us quarter-mile and incremental times just like a dragstrip, we had to try it.
One of the first things we noticed upon receiving our Hyperpac was the ease of installation. Once the computer touch screen was mounted to the dash with the supplied brackets, the unit was simply connected to our car's data acquisition port under the dash with a supplied single cable. While we did exaggerate about not needing tools for the installation (you'll need a Phillips screwdriver), we didn't exaggerate about the ease of installing the Hyperpac. All told, we had the unit installed in a matter of minutes.
Once installed, the Hyperpac walked us through the easy procedure of locking itself to the car's on-board computer. Since the Magnum we're testing isn't quite stock, it also prompted us to enter the size of our aftermarket wheels and tires, as well as our vehicle's weight and any other modifications to the engine, transmission, or differential. After taking the ten minutes or so to perform these steps, we were ready to reprogram our car's computer for additional performance.
The Hyperpac gives several options for upgrading performance, depending on the octane of the fuel you're using. Since the owner of our Magnum always runs premium, we decided to test the unit on its most powerful setting for premium fuel. After following prompts, it took about five minutes for the Hyperpac to reprogram our car's computer. since we installed the Hyperpac while testing at Bradenton Motorsports Park, we were able to put hard numbers to the improvements the Hyperpac made. Before installing the new computer, and with just a cat-back exhaust and cold-air kit, our Magnum ran the quarter-mile in the consistent 14.80-second range. After reprogramming the computer, elapsed times dropped to consistent 14.40s. That's right, nearly four-tenths of a second simply by reprogramming the computer. Since it's hard to get that kind of gain in a musclecar without major mechanical work, maybe we were wrong about these new vehicles being hard to work on!
Additionally, we tested the other functions of the Hyperpac and found them to be very user-friendly. When positioned properly, the touch screen makes the programmer easy to use, and it was fun to run through the various functions of the computer. The diagnostic page makes it easy to check for fault codes, and the dragstrip function also worked well, giving nearly identical times to the timers at the track. About the only downside of this system is that we felt like testing the dragstrip function at every stoplight, which is not good for our already poor driving record!
Overall, we were impressed by the performance and the functionality of the Hyperpac. The ease of installation and lower quarter-mile times have us thinking this is one of the best improvements that can be had for the money. Plus, it gives us a way to test our vehicle when there's not a track available. While we'd never encourage our readers to violate any traffic laws, the reaction, 60-foot, and 330 times will give a good indication of performance without exceeding posted speed limits. And for those of you living where there is no speed limit, the Hypertech tuner gives you plenty of power to go as fast as you want!

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As they promised they would, the adCenter product team continues to deliver important improvements at an impressive pace. People are beginning to be given the heads up on the imminent release for the U.S. market of another feature that brings adCenter even closer to Google AdWords parity: Broad Match Modifier.
Not only does this feature provide advertisers with much better control over the sometimes erratic behavior of the broad matching algorithms, but if this works anything like AdWords Modified Broad Match (and it should), then we should expect significant improvements on both Average Positions but also CTR, which translates into more clicks and conversions.
What is Broad Match Modifier (BMM)?
BMM allows advertisers to specify which terms within any given keyword must be present within the search query for the ad to qualify for auction. This is achieved by putting a PLUS symbol in front of the terms we want to qualify explicitly as "modified".
For example, let's imagine an advertiser bids on the broad match keyword Blue Acme Widgets, but our advertiser realizes loads of traffic is for the search query Blue BigCo Widgets. The trouble is, our advertiser doesn't sell BigCo widgets, so this traffic is wasted. Using modified broad match, our advertiser could make sure the competing brands Acme and BigCo will not be considered interchangeable by the adCenter broad match algorithms by simply adding the PLUS sign in front of ACME.
Blue +Acme Widgets
And if our advertiser only sells them in blue, then she could also limit the broad matching on Blue, like so:
+Blue +Acme Widgets
How To Make the Most of BMM?
1. Go Beyond Phrase & Exact
Savvy advertisers typically start campaigns with exact match keywords, slowly adding phrase match once they feel the exact match strategy is working. But many never move on to adding very many broad match keywords because broad match is inherently an unpredictable black box which of course carries a lot of risk.
The introduction of BMM by adCenter means advertisers gain a lot more control over how the matching algorithm will work with their broad match keywords. If you're one of those advertisers who has been scared of the seemingly random behavior of broad match, this is a new opportunity to move the needle on your existing campaigns.
2. Build Out Keyword Lists & Improve Bidding strategy
Since simply using Broad Match can be quite risky, many advertisers have not had the chance (or the budget!) to use it as a means to uncover search queries that work and to add them as new phrase and exact match keywords. But with the introduction of BMM, it is now much easier to try this very effective strategy in a controlled environment.
For example, if you sell Blue Widgets by many different brands, but only blue (no other colour), and only widgets (it's your specialty!), then you don't want to broad match blue widgets for fear of matching for irrelevant queries. But with BMM+Blue +Widgets will probably uncover opportunities like Discount Blue Acme Widgets – add Discount Blue Widgets as Broad Match with BMM (+Discount +Blue +Widgets) BigCo Widgets in Blue – add this search query as phrase match and exact match Where can I find fake blue widgets – add "fake" as negative
3. Protect Brand Terms
One important use of BMM is for those advertisers who need to be concerned with the matching of brand terms.
- Regulated Industries: Some industries are regulated and prohibit the use of brand terms in certain cases. This is the case for the pharmaceutical industry for example. BMM allows those advertisers to gain the benefit of using broad match to uncover new opportunities all the while controlling when adCenter matches queries to brand terms in their keywords.
- Prevent Unwanted Matches to Competitor Brand Queries: Your company is called Acme, your competitor is BigCo. Often, adCenter will treat both brands as synonyms and your ad will come up when someone searches for BigCo. For many advertisers, this can be problematic. You can prevent this by adding BMM to your brand term. The same solution applies in the case of a retailer who only carries Acme widgets.
Release: Any Day Now
At the time of writing this article the BMM was on the verge of being released to the general public in the U.S. This is an immediate opportunity to improve your results this month. Using a combination of negative keywords and BMM, most of you can make a real improvement to your overall results starting this month (if you make your move now!).
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Obviously, I need to fix or update something that has been changed/updated in the newer builds of ECWolf... but how do I find out what I need to fix?
EDIT: Fixed the first errors; the cause was that the "Mac version" items no longer seem to be included in ecwolf.pk3 ("macintosh.txt" is entirely gone from the actors folder there) so my mod referencing things like "MacGasTank" was crashing. I fixed it by re-adding "macintosh.txt" to my mod from the older ECWolf pk3 file (and changing a line that is now included in the N3D definitions instead, as far as I can tell). Now my mod loads up!
Second issue now, when I try to start Spear of Destiny... I get a crash with the error: "Expected Integer Constant but got Identifier instead"
The line it points to in my mod is a "things" section, and reads:
Has something changed in the code that I need to thus change my mod to reflect (i.e. replace "RedCeilingLight" with the 'integer' that seems to be expected in its place?) I noticed that the "class" column header there has changed to "newnum". I'm guessing I need to change the strings to the numbers associated with each "thing", found in their actor definition file?
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{63, RedCeilingLight, 0, 0, 0}
Forgive me, I'm a bit rusty returning to this again!


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When entering the 175-acre Forest Hills Gardens, one may think they are in an old English suburb. At Station Square and the towering Forest Hills Inn, four sectioned archways lead to winding streets and private parks. There are greater than 800 stately homes, 11 regal apartment houses, churches, and the West Side Tennis Club.
Development began in 1909, when the Russell Sage Foundation purchased land from the Cord Meyer Development Company. Architect Grosvenor Atterbury and Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. were appointed to design what became an internationally recognized model of urban planning, inspired by Sir Ebenezer Howard's Garden City Movement.
On June 2, the Forest Hills Gardens Taxpayers Association hosted "A Thanksgiving To The Russell Sage Foundation" and "A Celebration To Our Founding Documents" at The Community House. Nearly 100 residents participated in a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the covenants and restrictions that has preserved Forest Hills Gardens since 1913.
It also marked the 90th anniversary of the Russell Sage Foundation's assignment of the streets, parks, rights, and infrastructure to the community residents in 1923. The Forest Hills Gardens Corporation continues to hold the responsibility of preserving the community's historic character and quality of life.
During the event, William E. Coleman, president of the Forest Hills Gardens Taxpayers Association, presented a framed certificate to Eric Wanner, president of the Russell Sage Foundation. It was co-signed by Mitchell S. Cohen, President of the Forest Hills Gardens Corporation.
As a result of the Sage Homes Company's imposition of covenants, Forest Hills Gardens is largely a preservation success story. The restrictive covenants are also responsible for the Gardens' pristine restoration work.
Coleman noted the tiled roofs along Station Square, some homes along Greenway North and Puritan Avenue, the restoration of the "America's Cup" flagpole at Flagpole Green on Greenway Terrace, and the recreation of the Station Square gardens by Friends of Station Square.
Some residents and critics question whether past Architectural Committee members of the Forest Hills Gardens Corporation have been too lenient when it came to approving modifications to the community's original design elements, as well as the small quantity of new construction over the decades.
"Sometimes in the past century, the corporation's Architectural Committee was not as vigilant as they have been in recent years," said Coleman. "Some of the house designs, revisions, and extensions that were approved in the 1960s would receive much greater scrutiny today."
The Forest Hills Gardens Taxpayers Association has been going strong for 103 years.
"We were created originally as a voice of the residents to communicate with the Sage Homes Company, but when the Foundation withdrew from the Gardens in 1923 due to a shift in pursuits from building and planning, there was minimal communication," Coleman explained. "The residents became custodians of the Gardens Corporation. As a result, the Taxpayers Association would provide information about city taxes, tax assessments, and other city services."
In 2007, the association decided to build on its mission, and it became known as a cultural and educational group, oriented towards community history and preservation.
"Each year we invite residents to a lecture, which may include a book signing followed by a reception where it is possible to enjoy some fellowship and to meet the speaker," said Coleman.
In 2009, the Association presented "Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Forest Hills Gardens At 100," which featured a presentation by Susan Klaus. Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker lectured and signed copies of their book, "The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury."
Coleman shared his vision for a future lecture.
"From 1984 to 1985, Robert A.M. Stern's wonderful 'Pride of Place' series aired on public TV, and included a tour of the Forest Hills Gardens, where he calls Station Square 'one of the finest public places in America,'" he said. "I would love to have him return to hear what he has to say about Forest Hills three decades later."
The event earlier this month reinvigorated neighborhood pride. Bette Sheets takes pride in her lineage in Forest Hills Gardens for nearly a century. The Church-in-the-Gardens hosted her wedding, as well as that of her brother and parents, and her reception was held at the Forest Hills Inn's Tea Garden.
"I worked with an architect, and when I said where I lived, he said it's the most successfully planned community," she said. "I can't learn enough about our community."
She boasted about the phenomenally tall trees that were precisely selected at the community's origins, and the cottages, cul-de-sacs, and rowhouses.
"The Forest Hills Gardens is a miracle, and I am so happy people are nurturing it," she said.


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Northern Route stage 02: Donostia/San Sebastián - Zarautz
Donostia-San Sebastian
This stage passes through...
Donostia/San Sebastián, Igeldo, Orio, Zarautz
Outstanding destinations
- Route belonging to:
- The Way of Saint James
- Name of route:
- Northern Route
- Distance:
- 22,80 km
- Mode of transport
- Bicycle
- Walking
- Main difficulties
- The route goes from sea level at the Ondarreta beach up to a height of 325 metres at the Venta de Orio. The steepest slope is on the way up to Igeldo, as the difference between the two points is 12 kilometres. After an abrupt descent down the cobbled streets of the San Nicolás district, pilgrims come out at the bridge over the N-634, and continue along this road until a local road which crosses the A-8 viaduct.
- Flora, fauna and crops
- All along the route pilgrims can see species of wild and marine flora, as the path follows the line of the cliffs. The most common trees are the strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo) with its typical red fruits, the Monterey and maritime pine, eucalyptus and oak, a species which previously covered most of the Basque Country. The grape varieties grown on the sides of the coastal mountain range are protected from the NW winds and are what give Txakoli wine its distinctive features. This is a clean young white wine, with a fruity, flowery bouquet which should be drunk within the year.
- Craft products
- The work of craftsmen is closely linked to the peoples and culture of Euskadi. It honours the ancestral customs and ways of life and opens channels to welcome new ideas. www.ereintza.com www.gabiltza.org
- Gastronomic products, cakes and pastries
- The vegetable gardens in the towns and villages compete to bring their freshest produce to the local kitchens. Broad beans, tender peas, spring onions, tomatoes… these are the stars of the local gastronomy, together with the pantxineta (typical confectionery) for special occasions.


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Anxiety Always. Edition of 5.
Anxiety Always. Edition of 5.
Mr Frivolous - Anxiety Always. Giclee print on 270gsm textured archival stock. Edition of 5. Marked with the official Mr Friv stamp and 'KIN embossing. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist. 59.4 X 42cm (A2).
Mr Frivolous, is a young artist from London. He works largely in portraiture (depicting friends, lovers, the odd celebrity and random people in Sainsburys) mixed with words and images from pop culture. His art; reminiscent of old school exercise book graffiti, or the casual vandalism of a compass point on a desk, expresses everything from snippets of dreams and random thoughts to quotes and snatches of song lyrics right through to more personal expressions of fear and a sometimes disarming emotional honesty.
These Giclee prints were selected by Friv in collaboration with 'KIN ART from work made in the last 6 or 7 years. Each piece is a limited edition of just 5 and comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Mr Frivolous' profile and reputation has had a welcome boost this month with the endorsement of the Moniker Art Fair who commissioned a special piece from him.


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An amendment to a civil lawsuit on Wednesday revealed explicit details about a former Tuscaloosa County High School student's allegations of sexual harassment by a former assistant principal at the school.
TUSCALOOSA | An amendment to a civil lawsuit on Wednesday revealed explicit details about a former Tuscaloosa County High School student's allegations of sexual harassment by a former assistant principal at the school.
Paul Patterson, the attorney for a student referred to as Jane Doe, said he amended the complaint, electronically filed in federal court on Jan. 7, to include more details about the allegations at the request of William "Butch" Young's attorney, John Saxon.
"We filed a motion to dismiss because the vagueness of the allegations gave us no idea what Butch Young was being asked to defend against," Saxon said.
The amended complaint states that the relationship between Young — who was assistant principal at Tuscaloosa County High from 2007 to 2009 before being transferred to Lloyd Wood Middle School — and Jane Doe, now a freshmen at a college outside of Alabama, started as a counseling/mentor type of relationship when she was a 16-year-old sophomore at County High.
The complaint states that Jane Doe's parents were going through a divorce and Young counseled her to help her cope.
As they grew closer, the complaint states that Young introduced conversations about sex into their discussion topics, for instance, asking Jane Doe how often her parents had sex.
"When Jane Doe would respond that she believed never, Dr. Young would assure her that once they were married, their sex life would be continuous and in his own words, 'It will be on,' " the complaint states.
In another conversation, the complaint states that Young told Jane Doe that it was OK to do things prohibited by her religion.
Young tried to convince Jane Doe that a person could "backslide" — engage in behavior prohibited by her religion — and still get into heaven, according to the complaint.
Young asked Jane Doe to lift up her shirt so he could kiss her navel piercing, the complaint states. Jane Doe refused and they later had a text message conversation on both subjects that the complaint states went as follows:
Young: "Hope you were okay with our talk today."
Jane Doe: "Yeah I am! I know my Bible and know what is in it."
Young: "You're the best ... But you have to say that so I'll recommend you for crap."
Jane Doe: "No I'm serious!! I really took what you said into consideration!"
Young: "About the belly button ring? :)"
Jane Doe: ":) I know scripture! I do read it! Hehe"
Young: "Bible thumper :)"
During her time at Tuscaloosa County High, Young and Jane Doe exchanged numerous text messages, according to the complaint. Many of the text messages provided in the complaint were of a sexual nature or had sexual overtones.
Patterson said he confirmed with Tuscaloosa County Schools Superintendent Frank Costanzo and Tuscaloosa County Board of Education attorney Ray Ward that the text messages were sent from Young's phone.
"Dr. Frank Costanzo said that he checked with his technology employees at the central office and confirmed that they were Butch Young's phone," Patterson said.
Saxon said he's read the amended complaint and the text messages. He said he stands by his previous statement that Young committed no inappropriate behavior.
Saxon said that the text messages sent to Jane Doe's cellphone weren't from Young.
"One of Dr. Young's duties as an assistant principal was to break up fights," Saxon said. "He had a board-appointed BlackBerry (smartphone) on his hip. He said he lost four BlackBerrys in the point of breaking up fights. Dr. Young said that after he broke up a fight, he looked down and his phone was gone. There should be a paper trail at the (Tuscaloosa County School System) central office showing that he lost a BlackBerry four times.
"So our position is not that they can prove that someone sent something from Butch Young's phone, it's that they have to prove that it came from Butch Young," he said. "The plaintiff is an attractive young lady and probably had a lot of boys who wanted to talk to her and get an administrator in trouble. So the fact that you have text messages doesn't mean squat to us."
The inappropriate things that Young allegedly said to Jane Doe weren't always communicated through text messages, according to the complaint. Some of the things Young allegedly said to Jane Doe happened in his office and sometimes, they had physical contact, according to the complaint.
The complaint states that on Oct. 16, 2009, the school's homecoming week, "Young pulled Jane Doe close to him, kissed her on the neck and ear region." He allegedly described the physical effect this had on him in graphic terms.
The complaint goes on to say that about two weeks after the homecoming incident, Young removed the student from class and took her to his office. He closed and locked the door, picked her up and fondled her sexually, according to the complaint.
The document also detailed other sexual contact that Dr. Young is alleged to term their "best hugs."
"This behavior became routine and consistent episodes of sexual harassment levied against the minor child, Jane Doe," the complaint states.
In addition to Saxon's motion to dismiss the suit as it was originally filed because of vagueness, Saxon said he also filed an opposition to Patterson's motion to keep Jane Doe's anonymity. However, U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Armstrong said he couldn't dismiss the motion for anonymity without knowing more, Saxon said.
Saxon said Jane Doe is now an adult and her real name should be used in the suit.
"If she's going to file it as an adult, she needs to be adult about it and tell the world who she is," Saxon said. "If you're not an adult and want to file a complaint, you file it under anonymity. You only get that though as a child or a minor."
Young resigned from his position as assistant principal of Hillcrest High School on Jan. 9. His resignation was approved unanimously by the school board.
Saxon said Young gave Costanzo his letter of resignation on Jan. 5 because Costanzo placed him on administrative leave in November without explaining why. Young remained on administrative leave until he resigned.
Young couldn't be reached for comment Thursday.
The lawsuit also accuses the Tuscaloosa County Board of Education, Tuscaloosa County Schools' senior director of human resources Steve Benson, who was principal of County High at the time, and Tuscaloosa County High School Principal Reba Caldwell, who was an assistant principal of County High at the time, of knowing about Young's alleged sexual misconduct and failing to make a report to law enforcement officials.
The complaint states that Jane Doe went to Benson and Caldwell her senior year and told them about Young. She also showed them the text messages, but Benson and Caldwell never took action to stop Young's behavior towards her, the complaint states.
Mark Boardman, an attorney with Birmingham law firm Boardman, Carr, Hutcheson & Bennett, is representing the county board of education, Benson and Caldwell.
Boardman said Benson, Caldwell and the board are not at fault.
"Basically, all I can say is that our investigation shows that the board has followed the law and done what is required of a board of education," he said. "The law requires them to take action and not be deliberately indifferent to claims of misconduct. The board complied to that."
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The Knicks sucked tonight. Period. End of story. They never led in this game, they started the game with poor effort and they couldn't get a stop down the stretch. 10 missed free throws and 21 turnovers cost the Knicks this game. They were sloppy and played like an Isiah Thomas coached team tonight. New Orleans wanted it more and they got it. Before you read my anger filled post game, let me say something. I understand that this is only 1 out of 66 NBA games. I understand the Knicks came in a bit cocky and might even be exhausted from this constant media attention but there is NO excuse to blow a chance to get over .500 to a team like that. The Hornets had 3 starters (Gordon, Landry, Okafor) out and Jarrett Jack hardly played tonight. The Knicks remaining schedule only has 13 "should win" (in my opinion) games left. The Knicks have played most of their cupcake games this year. They need every win they can get and there is absolutely no excuse for losing to a banged up New Orleans team at home.
Here are my notes from the game:
- What on earth was Stoudemire doing tonight? His defense was atrocious. It may have been the worst I've seen Stoudemire play defense as a Knick. Not only is he poor in terms of his defensive technique and skill but HE DOES NOT EVEN TRY! He is flat out lazy defensively and it killed the Knicks. Stoudemire, the big New York star, could not stop Gustavo Ayon from recording a double-double! If you aren't a die hard NBA nerd or a Hornets fan, you have no idea who Gustavo Ayon is. I didn't even know who he was until he popped up on my 2k fantasy draft the other day. Against our big money star, Ayon, currently earning $1.9 million over 3 seasons, had 13 points and 11 boards. He ran the pick and roll with general Greivis Vazquez like this once dominant force who used to run it in Phoenix a couple years ago. Stoudemire had 26 tonight but he had to give up at least 30 on defense. The team was better tonight with Jared Jeffries on the court. I counted at least 4 defensive breakdowns in the last 5 minutes of the game on Stoudemire's account. Not only does he not try but he doesnt even pretend to be trying! He is flat out lazy defensively. His athleticism seems to be declining as well. He has has no explosiveness right now. Whether it is his back or his mental psyche, I have no idea but he is not right. He has not been right all season. As Dan from Knicksfanblog pointed out, the Knicks have no more amnesty clause. Stoudemire is going to be here for 5 years and his already deteriorating far quicker than anybody would have imagined. This season, he is shooting just 44.3% and scoring 18 points per game down from 50.2% and 25.3 ppg last season. He no longer is a dominant player and given the way he looks physically, I am not sure if he will ever get back there. This is not an overreaction. I have felt this concern all season but the last few games have really shown how far Stoudemire's explosiveness and athleticism has fallen off. I hope that I, along with many Knicks skeptics, are incorrect but I have my serious doubts about Stoudemire right now.
- Landry, Landry, Landry. I am a fan of Landry Fields. I like his long 6'7 frame and his athleticism. He is a smart player and he is solid defensively. Tonight, he was abysmal. Fields finished the game a -18 in the +/- statistic and he finished the game 1/8. Worse than his 1/8 shooting was his 2/4 from the free throw line. He missed a key free throw with 1:15 left in the game that would have put the Knicks down 3 as opposed to 4. The Knicks ended up having a possession down 4 with less than 5 seconds in the game. That single free throw took away an opportunity for the Knicks to tie the game. Now I understand that Knicks not named Landry Fields missed 8 free throws but they didn't miss free throws with a minute left in the game. Fields is a young player but he is not a rookie. There is no excuse to not make your free throws. If you miss your shots, so be it. Guys are going to have bad shooting nights. There is absolutely no reason why Fields cannot hit his free throws late in games. This is not the first time we have seen Fields struggle from the line. HE IS SHOOTING 62% FROM THE LINE! I have noted this many times. That is absolutely, positively unacceptable. He is a damn shooting guard and he's shooting 62% from the free throw line. This is a problem that Fields has to fix or else he eliminates his ability to play late in games. With the emergence of Shumpert and the additions of Melo and JR Smith to the lineup, I think Fields will begin to spend late game situations sitting on the bench.
- Novak was 1/7 from downtown tonight and 2/9 overall. He had numerous open 3's and he did not hit them. Novak failed to do his job tonight and it cost the Knicks. His presence did spread the floor for the Knicks and as a result, Novak's +/- statistic was a +13 tonight. Again this is only one game and he will not shoot 1/7 from downtown every game but it must be noted that Novak hurt the Knicks tonight.
- Billy Walker was 1/5 and 0/4 from downtown. Renaldo Balkman's bench seat won't cool down too much cause Walker will be sitting there soon enough with the addition of JR Smith.
- The Knicks shot 4/24 from downtown tonight. You read that correctly. 4/24. And people say that Melo and JR Smith will hurt the team? Give me a break. This team has struggled to shoot all season and that trend reared its ugly head tonight. This team also has struggled at times defending the perimeter and tonight they got killed from there. The Hornets were 7/12 from beyond the arc tonight. There is no way the Knicks can continue to win games shooting 4/24 and giving up 7/12 from beyond the arc. Horrible horrible job on the perimeter on both ends for the Knicks tonight.
- Now, onto Jeremy Lin. Before I get into my criticism's of Lin, I want to say this: The Knicks did NOT lose this game because of their new point guard. Lin did not play his best game but he played more than well enough to win. I thought this was Lin's best shooting game in this stretch of Linsanity. Granted in the Lakers game he put up 38 and in the Raptors game he scored the game winning 3 but tonight Lin made his living shooting the ball. He tried to get to the rim but he was turning the ball over and not getting calls from the officials. I thought he did a good job of shooting the ball when he was open and trying to get others involved. Lin only had 5 assists tonight but that was primarily because the Knicks shot 4/24 from downtown and 41.3% overall. He scored 26 points on 8/18 shooting and I thought he ultimately played well enough to win in the 2nd half. Onto the turnovers. The key stat on the night was 9 turnovers on Lin's behalf. He had 8 in the first half. Early in the game, Lin was pressing and New Orleans played strong interior defense. Often times, Lin found himself in the air with nowhere to go and that resulted in him throwing Rex Grossman-esq passes. Turnovers are a disease for a team. They are madly contagious. Lin had 9 turnovers and the Knicks as a team had 21 turnovers. As Lin struggled with turnovers, the entire team followed suit. This quality of play resulted to the Knicks digging themselves into a 14 point first quarter deficit that they could never recover from. There were multiple times tonight were Lin split the double team nicely but was unable to find an assist man or finish at the rim. Ultimately I do not think Lin's game was as bad as his stat line and the "experts" (such as Matt Moore of Hardwood Paroxysm) will say it was. He did not play a great game but he played well enough to lead the Knicks to victory. Tonight was a complete team loss. The Knicks couldn't shoot. They couldn't defend. They couldn't win tonight.


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On August 9, 2012, Badger Democracy wrote a story questioning the legitimacy of former Monona Mayor Robb Kahl running as a Democrat for the 47th Assembly District. Kahl easily won his primary as a Democrat, and is expected to easily defeat his Republican opponent Sandy Bakk in next Tuesday's General Election. Badger Democracy has obtained exclusive photos which every elector in Kahl's District must see before casting their ballot.
The photos confirm that Robb Kahl has hoodwinked not only his future constituents; but every good progressive Democrat and organization who has endorsed him. While fraud may be too harsh a term, Kahl can now truly be called a "Dem-in-name-only." Worse yet, his future constituents will have no idea who he will serve if elected. This writer's advice – vote for the Republican. At least you will be certain what she stands for. Every progressive who has endorsed Kahl should withdraw their support, and he should be shunned as a self-serving opportunist.
On the night of November 2, 2010 most Democratic candidates and voters were overwhelmed by the nature of the GOP/Tea Party surge in Wisconsin. Most were experiencing emotions running the gamut from anger to depression to shock. Where was Robb Kahl? Celebrating at a victory party. The party was not for a Democratic candidate. Not Tim Cullen, or Kathleen Vinehout. Kahl was celebrating a Scott Walker victory. And he wasn't celebrating in private. He was on stage – with Scott Walker.
The following photographs obtained by Badger Democracy show Robb Kahl in the back row, left hand side, as the victory confetti drops, holding his Scott Walker campaign sign over his head. He is above, and between Joel and Rebecca Kleefisch in the shot (sign is circled in black). This has been confirmed and is not photo-shopped:
Here is a closer view of Kahl after the confetti drop (Kahl is circled in black):
If you need one more view (again circled in black):
The archived video of the Walker speech from 11/2/10 can be viewed for confirmation. Kahl's campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
In case there is any doubt – a file photo of Kahl:
If you want more information on Kahl's ties with Walker since the 2010 election, the Badger Democracy article from August 9, 2012 referenced above provides the necessary background.
The question is – will Kahl be held to account by the electorate and those who have endorsed him under false pretenses?
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I asked you to show me your best rice dish for a chance to win a Zojirushi Neuro Fuzzy rice cooker, and show me you did. We received entries representing Mexico, Italy, India, Thailand, Korea, Japan, and some that were unique creations. Now comes the hard part. The judges (Bee, Alice, and I) will spend
I asked you to show me your best rice dish for a chance to win a Zojirushi Neuro Fuzzy rice cooker, and show me you did. We received entries representing Mexico, Italy, India, Thailand, Korea, Japan, and some that were unique creations.
Now comes the hard part. The judges (Bee, Alice, and I) will spend the next couple days deliberating, and have the tough job of deciding who has the most delicious looking/sounding dish. In the mean time, check out all the amazing entries below.
Update 8.24.2010:
We have a winner! All the entries looked so good it was really tough doling out only 10 points. The first time I added up all my points I'd given out 14! But alas, I wrote the rules, so I had to stick by them, and pare it back to 10 points. There were also two other judges who had 10 points each, for a collective total of 30 points. With 8 points, Emiko from Kitchen M is the winner of the Zojirushi Neuro Fuzzy Rice cooker. Congratulations!
A big thanks to my two judges Bee, Alice, and to all of you who sent in an entry. They all sounded marvelous! P.S. if you've posted your recipes anywhere, send me the link and I'll link to it on this page.
Lemongrass Clay Pot-style Brown Rice – 8 pts. WINNER
"A more healthful, accessible Vietnamese Clay Pot-style dish recipe with a Japanese twist made in a rice cooker. Lemongrass makes the brown rice more aromatic by balancing the Chinese sausage and garlic flavors, while daikon sprouts add a hint of spiciness." _-Emiko from Kitchen M
Kabuli Lamb Pulao – 2pts.
"Kabuli Lamb Pulao, the national dish of Afghanistan, captures the warmth and the generosity of the Afghan people perfectly. It is a basmati rice pulao, fragrant with cinnamon and cumin, served with tender lamb, grated carrots, almonds and plump Sultana raisins. " _-Azmina from Lawyer Loves Lunch
Risotto all'Aragosta {Lobster Risotto} – 3 pts.
"Sexy, luxurious and oh so saucy "lobster risotto"! It's a blanket of creamy spicy goodness, topped off with succulent lobster, simply a feast for the senses." _-Paula from bell'alimento
Rice Nirvana – 1 pt.
"I don't want to admit how many times I tried to make this dish with "no recipe" since it's a little bit rice pudding, a little bit flan, a little bit cheesecake and a whole lot of Rock 'n Roll (although, my husband loved it even on its first iterations). This decadent desert includes copious amounts of steamed rice (which would have been better cooked in a Zojirushi Neuro Fuzzy rice cooker), crystallized ginger, lemon zest, kissed with ground cardamom, ground coriander seed and nutmeg and topped off with a creamy caramel sauce." _-Cheryl.
Enchilada Casserole.
"Cook multiple layers of enchilada sauce, tortillas, tofu chunks (or chicken) mixed with assorted vegetables, and shredded cheese for one cycle in a rice cooker. Easy to make, with no need to pre-dip the tortillas– turn out on a deep plate, garnished with twisted lime slices , lightly toasted tortilla strips and extra chunks of lime to squeeze." _-Tree from Tree Riesener
Down the Hatch Rice – 3.5 pts.
"Every August, the Hatch Chili Peppers from Hatch, New Mexico arrive in Dallas and so I've chosen to feature them with rice for the contest, hoping you'll appreciate the seasonality and simplicity of my dish. Cooked rice is combined with a sauté of corn and chopped Hatch peppers, then blended with a bay leaf & thyme béchamel sauce, stuffed into whole Hatch peppers, baked, and when sliced open, the creamy rice is topped with a few grilled shrimp." _-Becca from FROM 3906
Kimchi Fried Rice.
"My dish is my favorite comfort food. In another life I must have been Korean. It is Kimchee fried rice. I take rice that has been already made (PLEASE I NEED A RICE COOKER) and stir fry it with pork belly and rice and Kimchee. I then fry an egg and put that on top. You can really add anything that you want to it. It will make you feel happy (YES, english IS my first language)." _-Janis from Bite Me New England
Easy Peasy Boneless Chicken Byriani – 7 pts.
"The word Byriani scares many of us but I have taken this compex recipe and simplified it, hence the name "easy peasy"." _-Sara from OneTribeGourmet
Thai-style red curry fried rice – 1 pt.
"…spicy and really tasty with lots of good things a good fried rice should have." _-Limei from LimeCake
Double-Spiced Shrimp with Coconut Rice – 1.5 pts.
"Garlic and Thai chili marinated shrimp in sriracha-infused coconut milk served with Forbidden rice made with coconut milk and fresh ginger topped with lime zest for a little brightness." _-Courtney from Good Food Hunting
Thai Pineapple Fried Rice – 1 pt.
"Fried rice with grilled veggies and pineapple; stuffed into a cored out pineapple shell. It has both sweet and savory tastes!" _-Catherine from cat (sing-a) song's blog
"This dish is a perfect way to use up the last bits of rice that are left over in the rice cooker after a day or two. Rice and fresh yakisoba noodles are stir-fried in a mixture of bacon lardons, chopped kimchi, and beni shoga, then mixed with a sauce made of soy sauce, mirin, and oyster sauce. Each serving of noodles is topped with a fried egg. The creamy yolk tastes delicious with the fried bacon, rice and noodles, the bit of spice from the kimchi, and the vinegary tang from the beni shoga. Comfort food at its best." _-Rachael from La Fuji Mama
Forbidden Rice Bowl with Black Rice and Greens – 1 pt.
"A sumptuous meal-in-a-bowl, chewy, flavorful black "forbidden" rice is mixed with dark leafy greens, serrano chiles, and a bright citrus dressing. The rice is then topped with either a poached egg or avocado and sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds and nori for a crunchy, chewy, deliciously savory dish." _-Scrumptious S from In My Box
"I prepared Italian Arborio rice with stock and coconut milk; mixed in red curry paste, sauteed chicken, shrimp, peppers, and Asian veggies; finished with more coconut milk and chopped basil. Yum." _-Lisa from Karma Per Diem
"Its a very simple dish which as the name suggests has rice and and a lot of black pepper in it. Gluten free, Vegan, Vegetarian and perfect for a rice cooker." _-Prerna from IndianSimmer
"Homemade sushi is the best with friends to help prepare ingredients and make the sushi rolls. Then everyone can relax and enjoy!" -Rose.


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So this was America, cold and rainy and blanketed by a sea of unoccupied cars. People walked hurriedly, many with large coffee cups in hand, and dressed in a variety of formal and sloppy outfits.
The Mainali family was exhausted upon reaching Newark Liberty International Airport, but they eagerly absorbed the sights and sounds as they strolled through the New Jersey terminal.
Benu Mainali, 28, wearing a suit for this important day, led the way, accompanied by his wife, Leela, 20, in a sari. Following them were Benu's parents, Devi Charan Mainali, 67, in a long Nepali tunic, matching pants and an orange-colored cap, and Bishnu Maya Mainali, 62, with a red sari more vibrant than anything that could be found in the airport that dreary afternoon.
The Bhutanese refugees were more than 7,500 miles from their last home, a bamboo hut in a hot and humid United Nations refugee camp in southern Nepal, and 3,000 miles from the apartment that awaited them in East Oakland.
In the corner of the arrival gate, a young American couple was locked in passionate embrace. Bishnu Mainali took a long glance sideways as she walked, her curiosity partially concealed by the babushka-like scarf she wore around her head. Her son smiled and whispered that this would be the first of many cultural shocks.
"Will we find Nepali food here?" asked 22-year-old Rakesh Khadka, a friend of the Mainali family, shivering in his T-shirt and jeans. Not in the airport, he was told. Nor in the Howard Johnson hotel they'd be staying in tonight. But maybe in their new homes, where they could make a good dal bhat tarkari — a blend of lentils, rice and vegetables — for themselves.
There were 35 Bhutanese refugees traveling together. They had bonded in these last few days after leaving their camp May 14 but would soon split up as they took off for nine American cities. Khadka was heading to Newport News, Virginia. Other families were bound for Kentucky, Utah, Oregon and Tennessee. The Mainalis were moving to Oakland, joining two sons who had already moved there.
All of the families hailed from the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan but had been forced out in an ethnic conflict almost 20 years ago. They lived for years in a cluster of refugee camps, stranded because they could go nowhere else until America opened its doors.
For most of the refugees, the turboprop flight from Bhadrapur in the plains of southeastern Nepal to the capital, Katmandu, was their first airplane trip. The rough flight made many of its passengers nauseated, but it also afforded them a glimpse of the snow-capped Himalayas. They waited for a weekend of processing at a Katmandu transit center, hanging around their bunk beds and a busy mess hall and taking classes on American culture.
There, in the hours before the flight, a grandmother bound for Salt Lake City offered each of the 35 travelers a sip of dark honey from the forests of Sikkim. She could not take the bottle of honey on an international flight, and, besides, it had medicinal properties that would help them all stay healthy. It was a last familiar taste of home before flying across the world.
They flew to India, then Brussels, before they landed in Newark on the rainy, unseasonably cold afternoon of May 18.
Benu Mainali glanced over at the parking lot across the street from the airport. So many cars, he remarked, but so few people in them.
A shuttle bus pulled up to the curb and took the families through a gray industrial area to a Howard Johnson hotel. The Mainalis stumbled with the card key, then entered the most plush room they had ever seen, a far cry from the four-room hut the family shared in the refugee camp. Bishnu Mainali sat on the bed and bounced cheerily. Devi Mainali stared at the television, a rainbow-colored scarf haphazardly wrapped around his head for warmth.
A narrator intoned from the screen as a sport utility vehicle drove through a rugged terrain. On another channel, the sarcastic jokes of a teen sitcom were lost to the Mainalis. It was all an exotic blur. This was not the English that Benu and Leela thought they knew, the British-inflected English they studied in the camps since they were children. And Devi Mainali, who did not know any English, forgot at times that no one here understood Nepali.
"Pani! Pani!" he blurted out the next morning, raising his hand in the air on the flight to Phoenix, the second-to-last leg of their journey. A flight attendant looked at him impatiently.
Bishnu Mainali tried to help.
"Wa-ter," she said. She had learned the word in Katmandu just a few days earlier — that and "Mango juice, please" and "Cup of tea, please" — phrases that might help on the plane.
Devi Mainali pretended to drink from an imaginary cup. The flight attendant understood.
'Everywhere there is light'
When they arrived to their boxy apartment in Oakland's Laurel district, they were pleased with its roominess. Modest by American standards, it was far more spacious than their tightly-built hut in Nepal, where the Mainalis had raised the youngest four of their nine children in cramped and difficult conditions.
Bishnu Mainali was overjoyed to finally see her youngest son, Yadhu, 22, who had lived alone in Oakland for more than a year; and her oldest, Kapil, 40, who had arrived earlier this year with his wife and three children. Kapil and his family lived in two rooms in an upstairs apartment. The five others would live in another two-bedroom apartment below. The other siblings and their spouses and children were now far away — two moved to upstate New York, two to Australia, and two married daughters had never left Bhutan.
A local agency, the International Rescue Committee, had arranged for the apartment to be furnished and stocked with food before they arrived.
The Mainalis welcomed a host of amenities they did not have in the refugees camps: electricity, television, carpets and a microwave, though some of these would take time getting used to.
"I think the U.S. is a hundred years ahead of Nepal in terms of technology," Benu Mainali said.
"There in Nepal, we have no light," Bishnu Mainali said, speaking of the lack of electricity in the camps. "When it gets dark, it's time to go to sleep. But here, everywhere there is light."
Less unusual to them was the neighborhood boy, a Burmese refugee, who wandered into the apartment on their first evening there, making himself at home — not unlike in Nepal, where such neighborly visits were normal and constant. America, it seemed, might not be as alienating a place as they had been warned.
The reunited Mainalis talked all night long, and Yadhu Mainali had some immediate advice for his older brother: Cut off the fingernail. A fashion statement in Nepal, Benu Mainali's inch-long pinkie nail could be misconstrued here as a sign he is a cocaine user. Yadhu Mainali had learned a lot in his first year in Oakland, sometimes the hard way, and he instructed his family members on how to be street smart and safe.
On their first morning in Oakland, the Mainalis took the public bus from their home in the foothills to the downtown office of the IRC, marveling at the sights — the joggers at Lake Merritt; the long line waiting to buy treats from a gourmet cupcake truck; the high-rises.
Bishnu Mainali said it would be nice if they could live downtown. It was bustling. In Nepal, the well-off lived in the cities; the poor lived in the hills.
At the IRC office, they sat in a waiting room with refugees from Africa, the Middle East and other parts of the world. They talked about what services they could access, what jobs the young couple might find. The office helped them put together resumes.
Because of their youth and their English language skills, Benu and Leela Mainali enrolled in a jobs training program where the goal was to get them employed and self-sufficient within four months.
The couple would get four months of financial support — $535 in monthly cash assistance and $289 in food stamps for the two of them, plus health care coverage and help paying the apartment rent — then would be on their own.
"What would you like to do as your first job in America?" asked Igor Radulovic, a job specialist at the IRC. "Even though the market is tough, it is hard to find jobs, there are jobs in restaurants, in retail, in security. We call them a survival job."
Benu Mainali had an impressive resume for a refugee — an education in math and science, a good grasp of English, and job experience as a teacher and at a call center.
"You don't have to go to ESL class. Your English is better than mine," Radulovic told him.
Leela Mainali, a shy 20-year-old, had less experience, but wanted to work with people, maybe as a nursing assistant. As a teenager in the camps, she used to cook and care for her large family, she told Radulovic.
"That's a skill. People don't do that here. If you have a family that, at 15, you're taking care of, that's a skill," he said.
The meeting with Radulovic was their first job interview. He would start working connections the IRC has built with local employers for years in hopes of finding a match.
Yet no one expected that in less than a month, Benu Mainali would have a job that he found on his own. A friend he knew from the camps in Nepal worked at Farmer Joe's, a gourmet grocery store on MacArthur Boulevard, and told him to apply for an opening as a shelf stocker.
"It will be tough for him at the beginning," said Dhana Kharel, 26, the friend who helped him get the job. "If you don't go fast, they won't keep you."
This was not Benu Mainali's dream job at $8.50 an hour — he wanted to be a teacher again, or find work as a refugee advocate, or maybe go back to school to study something new, such as radiology.
"Going for entry-level jobs, we will not rise up in our life," he said. "The money that I earn from my work is not sufficient."
His wife looked for nursing work, but was having a harder time. She enrolled in classes at The English Center in Jack London Square, a $100 investment for up to eight months of training in English and computer literacy.
One brother, Kapil, was still unemployed, while Yadhu had steady work at a thrift store in Hayward for more than a year, giving him enough money to buy a car and learn to drive. Benu Mainali hoped to do the same, enrolling in a driver's class. But when he tried practicing in the parking lot at home, he pulled Yadhu's car out of the parking spot and promptly crashed into a pole, leaving an expensive dent.
Their father, Devi Mainali, at 67, was old enough to be eligible for Social Security — elderly refugees are among the few immigrants who can get such benefits without citizenship — so his $845 per month helped them all get by.
Days of wonder
Early successes in adjusting to life in their new country allowed worry to give way to wonder for a time. It seemed as though all summer long, every day was a new adventure. There was their first supermarket, where Bishnu Mainali wandered the aisles and marveled at all the choices, everything looking so fresh and perfect. She looked incredulously at a bread-encrusted tilapia, finding it hard to believe that this was a fish.
Friends took them to the Oakland hills, where they gazed at the skyline and observed a wedding party outside the Mormon temple.
Bishnu Mainali, who suffers from high blood pressure, appreciated the cleanliness, temperate climate, beauty and modernity of Oakland, and everyone thought this new environment would be better for their health.
"The environment is so good for my parents," said Benu Mainali, who hoped it would give them a few more years of life. "Here, it's clean. She had not thought in her lifetime she'd be here in the U.S."
A volunteer took them to the Golden Gate Bridge after they reached a full month in California. At nearby Rodeo Beach, they dipped their feet into ocean waters for the first time in their lives, laughing and shouting as the unpredictable waves caught them by surprise. Benu Mainali was wearing a suit and almost fell in.
But the delight of new experiences faded as the reality of financial challenges grew.
"This is the last time IRC is paying for our rent," Benu Mainali said in mid-August. The check would last only through mid-September. He was nervous.
"Here, if we have no work, we will have nothing. No food. If we don't earn anything, we are on the street," he said.
To make a few extra dollars and pass the time, Devi Mainali began collecting cans and bottles in the Laurel neighborhood, piling them up in a bag in their apartment's small yard. He made $35 in three days — cigarette money, the family joked. The 67-year-old missed the cheap and unfiltered Bijuli brand cigarettes he smoked at home. His new practice was to buy Marlboros, pull out the tobacco and roll it in dried leaves he collected from the yard.
They also worried about losing the community connections that had come so easily in the camps, where everyone lived so close together and spoke the same language.
A poet on the side, Benu Mainali used to meet with fellow writers a few times a month. The group would gather to talk about Bhutanese and Nepali literature.
He continued to write late at night in his Oakland apartment — one lyrical poem recounted his long voyage from the hut to California, and the vast differences between Nepal and the United States. But none of Oakland's Bhutanese refugees seemed to share his literary interests.
"Here, I think I'm alone," he said.
A welcome link to home
Bishnu Mainali felt less isolated when another family of Bhutanese refugees, one of the first to arrive to Oakland in 2008, invited them over for a weekend puja, or prayer. There are now hundreds of Bhutanese refugees living across East Oakland and Alameda, and each weekend one family hosts visitors at their home for prayer.
The refugee families crowded into a second-story walk-up and sat down on the carpet, where a few women led them in Hindu songs. One beat a jhali, a tambourine-like instrument. The melodies were loud enough to be heard at the Vietnamese cafe beneath them and the small park across the street. Bishnu Mainali gripped a flower petal as she sang.
"Our families are not close to each other," said Bishnu Kharel, 23, a dental student whose family hosted the puja. "They live in Fruitvale, downtown, all different parts, and sometimes they feel scared of walking around."
This was a way to bring them together, especially the elders who are too old to find work, she said. The Mainalis were the newest arrivals and got a special welcome. Benu Mainali gave a short speech introducing his family. Some knew them. Some didn't, but they all had similar experiences — frightening memories of fleeing Bhutan, but also fond recollections of good times in the camps and shared challenges in getting adjusted to Oakland.
"I am happy you have not forgotten your culture," Benu Mainali told them in Nepali.
His mother watched quietly from a couch.
"She almost cried of happiness," said Damanta Kharel, 27, who greeted Bishnu Mainali when she walked into the puja moments earlier. "When she came in here, she saw all these people speaking the same language. She can share her feelings."
This new city, it seemed to Bishnu Mainali, was going to be all right.
Bay Area News Group reporter Matt O'Brien and photojournalist Jane Tyska traveled to Bhutan and Nepal in the spring to report on the little-known plight of Bhutanese refugees who'd left their homes amid a political and ethnic conflict. These refugees, part of a Nepali-speaking minority called Lhotshampas, had lived for nearly two decades in camps run by the United Nations, but they are now being welcomed to the United States and other nations as political refugees. Hundreds are relocating to the East Bay. This is the second of a two-part series exploring the conflict and the experiences of the new immigrants. Read the entire series, funded by a fellowship from the South Asian Journalists Association, at InsideBayArea.com/Bhutan.
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Wrath of the Titans (2012)
Zeus: Hades, I am so sorry for having done this to you. Can you ever forgive me?
Hades: Why do you ask this?
Zeus: Because I forgive you, for this.
Hephaestus: One last godly deed...
[takes on Ares]
[from trailer]
Zeus: You will learn someday that being half human, makes you stronger than a god.
Zeus: Why are you doing this?
Hades: You want me to say it, brother? You want me to say I'm afraid? Doesn't that go without saying? When mortals die, their souls go somewhere - there's no place where gods go when they die! There's nothing, just oblivion...
Andromeda: We may not be gods. But we do what people say can't be done, we hope when there isn't any... whatever odds we face, we prevail.
[stuck in a labyrinth]
Perseus: We can't do this...
Agenor: [smacks him] Two days ago, I was locked up in a cell trying, I admit, to escape being the son of Poseidon! Look at me now: in the bowels of Tartarus, saving the universe. Just follow the Navigator.
Perseus: [chains the Chimera] What are you waiting for? Burn me!
Hades: All my power is spent. Who knows, I may be stronger without it...
Helius: It'll be nice to be back home. A fisherman doesn't sound so bad...
Perseus: There's no going home for us.
Hephaestus: You are Perseus, son of Zeus. 'Release the Kraken,' all of that.
[from trailer]
Hades: You're sweating like a human... next it will be tears.
Zeus: Thank you, my son.
Agenor: Oi, Helius! Come meet your uncle Navigator!
Perseus: Just fix my body... and leave my soul to me.
[the battle of Kronos has just begun with Kronos's monsters fighting with Agenor's men]
Agenor: [shouts to his fellow soldiers] LIGHT THE FIRES!
Hephaestus: [the entrance to the labryinth is prematurely closing while Perseus battles Ares] No! *Not Now!*


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ANAHEIM – Desperation time has arrived in the NHL playoff races with a handful of games left in this blur of a regular season. Columbus has had it for a while, the Ducks haven't and it showed on both accounts Wednesday night.
Fedor Tyutin's redirection got past Ducks goalie Viktor Fasth with 2:41 left in overtime, giving the Blue Jackets a 3-2 victory on Wednesday night at Honda Center to push past Detroit into eighth place in the Western Conference.
Meanwhile, the Ducks (27-10-6) took their third straight loss and are a pedestrian 5-3-2 since losing a season-high four in a row. Instead of streaking, they're stumbling toward a possible Pacific Division title with their playoff spot already clinched.
"I'm concerned," Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said. "Obviously you want to win all the time. It's a concern. We play a good game against L.A. Not so good against Dallas. Not so good against Colorado. And not so good against these guys.
"You can't use fatigue anymore as an excuse. It's the same for everybody. These guys, it was their fourth game in six nights. What are you going to do?"
Tyutin went toward the net and put his stick on a pass by Nick Foligno after Foligno spun the Ducks' Saku Koivu around to create space for himself. The soft goal ruined an otherwise solid night for Fasth, who made 25 saves.
David Steckel got his first goal as a Duck when his blocked shot took a fortunate bounce.
But Columbus has shown resilience during its late playoff push and it paid off at the 9:23 mark of the third when Brandon Dubinsky's work behind the net eventually led to a rebound goal by Matt Calvert.
Sami Vatanen, who was recalled from the minors Tuesday, put a hard snap shot by Sergei Bobrovsky for his first NHL goal.
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Annihilate the new Manono please
I wonder who "them" refers to in the title? Wiping out the men?
The guys have pea brains. It's pretty obvious here that from the edit and logical POV, these people will not make it to the end:Christina, Tarzan, Alicia.The only guy who has brains = TroyzanThe only girls playing the game = Kim, ChealseaThe others... Sabrina... are they trying to give her a greedy edit? She's always talking about what she has eaten at RC!
BUT, this season seems to have... no spoiler??
Quote from: Joab on April 05, 2012, 02:02:05 PMBUT, this season seems to have... no spoiler?? Maybe the spoiler provider thinks there's no need to present spoilers this season because almost everyone can figure it out.
Why did Christina and Alicia vote for Tarzan TOO??? Like, WTH? I'm lost.
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The Republican Seeking to Destroy Energy-Saving Lightbulbs
In today's edition of Meet Your Republican Committee Chairs, we look at Rep. Joe Barton — energy industry puppet, BP apologist. He wants to head the powerful Energy and Commerce committee. Why? To destroy those energy-saving lightbulbs that hippies love.
Barton has reached his term limit as ranking Republican member on the Energy and Commerce committee, but he's trying to build support among his colleagues in order to get a waiver allowing him to stay. He may not get what he wants — he and John Boehner don't really get along. But if he does... well, here you go:
The ranking member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and one of the men vying to be the next chair of the powerful panel when Republicans take over the House next year, Barton laid out his plan for, essentially, undoing most of what President Obama and Democrats accomplished in the past two years. He laid out the central fronts: the battle to repeal what he calls Obamacare, the fight against the EPA, backing the growing insurgency opposed to net neutrality regulations, taking on "environmental radicalism" and — of course — defending the "traditional, incandescent light bulb" against government regulators who want to replace it with what Barton called "the little, squiggly, pig-tailed ones."
Eh, go ahead. Those things break all the time.
Again, this is a very powerful committee that Joe Barton could realistically be put in charge of. It's amazing. Want more background? Here's a clip of Barton in committee last year thinking he'd stumped the Nobel Laureate energy secretary Steven Chu with his question, "Where does oil come from?" It's a classic. Enjoy.
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HELSINKI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Futuremark has announced that the next version of 3DMark, its popular benchmarking software, will offer cross platform testing capabilities on Windows, Windows RT, Android and iOS devices. With three all new tests Futuremark says 3DMark can be used with the full range of hardware from smartphones and tablets, to notebooks and home PCs, to the latest high-end, multi-GPU gaming desktops. Futuremark expects to launch the new 3DMark before the end of the year. http://www.futuremark.com/3dmark
3DMark is well known in PC circles as the go-to benchmark for testing the latest Windows gaming PCs and video cards. Today Futuremark announced that the next version of 3DMark will also be available on Android, iOS and Windows RT devices. Futuremark says 3DMark scores will be directly comparable across platforms providing valuable insight into the performance differences between competing devices and operating systems.
A new video for the 3DMark benchmark shows an impressively detailed test running on a range of devices including a Microsoft Surface for Windows RT, Google Nexus 7, ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime, Samsung GALAXY S III, Apple iPad 4th gen, iPad mini and an iPhone 5.
With three all new tests, Futuremark says 3DMark can be used to measure the performance of hardware from OpenGL ES 2.0 mobile devices to high-performance DirectX 11 gaming PCs and everything in between.
The Ice Storm test is designed for mobile devices and entry-level hardware. It includes two graphics tests focusing on GPU performance and a physics test designed to measure CPU performance. On Windows, Ice Storm uses a DirectX 11 engine limited to Direct3D feature level 9. On Android and iOS, Ice Storm uses OpenGL ES 2.0. The test content, settings and rendering resolution are the same on all platforms and scores can be compared across Windows, Windows RT, Android and iOS.
Cloud Gate is a new test that is designed for Windows notebooks and typical home PCs. Cloud Gate includes two graphics tests and a physics test. Cloud Gate uses a DirectX 11 engine limited to Direct3D feature level 10_0 making it suitable for testing DirectX 10 compatible hardware. Cloud Gate will initially only be available in the Windows version of 3DMark.
The Fire Strike test is designed for high-performance gaming PCs. Fire Strike includes two graphics tests, a physics test and a combined test that stresses both the CPU and GPU at the same time. Fire Strike uses a DirectX 11 engine and is designed for testing DirectX 11 compatible hardware. Fire Strike will initially only be available in the Windows version of 3DMark.
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text: Phil Kyle: From Brighton to Milan and Back... Part II By Phil Kyle So a few days later it's off to Milan tattoo convention... The 17th edition, already! This is another one of my favorite convention because you get to see everyone and yet again... another great time. This convention is always packed with kick-ass artists, the attendance is unreal and it's placed perfectly for folks from Switzerland, Germany, Austria and France to get there fairly easy...So it's Wednesday night... I am packed and ready to fly in the morning. Me, Adrian and Guen get the 4 a.m. bus to Gatwick. Ugh... Then Wednesday evening I go to a meeting with a bunch of local tattooers in Brighton. Then when that was over I caught the tail end of a metal show going on upstairs in the pub. I go home, lay down for an hour and drag my shit to the bus stop. It's dark out still and there are people out partying... Girls in high heels and drunken cackles throughout the streets. I was thinking, "Damn we should be out right now." Gotta catch a bus, ha-ha! So we are off... to meet Neil from Old Bones tattoo in Plymouth. We all go have a lil' stroll around after security check. Time to get on board... I luck out and have three seats to myself, time for a tw0-hour power nap. Some jerk sat next to Guen and hogged her zone! We arrived to snow! The view from the plane of the Alps was amazing. We got picked up by the shuttle provided by the Milano Convention. (Thanks so much!) Miki does such a great job every year with this convention, as well as the London convention. It's a lot of work between these two major events, and running Tattoo Life/Energy Magazines. That man is on top of things! So we get to the Quark Hotel where the convention is held. It's nice to stay in the same place you are working. Makes it easy to take a break and use your own toilet, ha-ha! We can't check in until 2:30. It's noon now... Pay no mind! The bar is open, ha-ha! So a few drinks and finally a nap in the room after check out its time to get this funky party started. I celebrated 20 years of tattooing on this convention weekend. Fuck man, that went by quick... Longest job I have ever had, and the best! Thank you tattooing, for everything! Anyway back to the jive... So Friday morning set up the booth and make a run for supplies. Paper towels, salami, beer, bread... you know, essentials. Get back doors open at 2 p.m. and the crowd rolls in. The place filled up as quick as a general admissions Who concert. The artist line-up was ridiculously amazing as always. Tattoo machines where rolling in no time. We tattooed our asses off and then went to dinner. Meat extravaganza. A steak you cook yourself on a heat rock plank with pizza and many other delights. We walked back in the snow and hit the lobby. Everyone is hanging out having a good time and annoying the shit out of the hotel staff, ha-ha! Saturday: Up... brush teeth, shower, deodorant, get dressed and time to boogie. Doors opened earlier on Saturday... Noon, I think. There were already loads of people walking around and the line to get in went all the way around the building. Folks drooling to come in and get tattooed. Everyone in the convention was making tattoos. I had some really fun appointments and walk-ups. Saturday night was awesome. We ordered 14 pizzas to be delivered to the hotel and went up and put on our own iPod karaoke. The room was jamming. Yes we are hooked... Karaoke Kings and Queens prevail! We rocked out the jams like no bodies business. Sunday last day of tattooing. Did my appointment and another tattoo then called it a day. Packed up talked to a bunch of folks and then exit stage left. Off to dinner with the crew, and back to the meat emporium... too damn good. After dinner and a couple of espresso's we head back to the hotel... Lots of C-Lo activity in the lobby... I dont play, I always lose. So then we all decided to have another mental karaoke jam back in our room. Me, Neil and Adrian. Hexa came along with Guen and Crystal and some random visits. Then it was bedtime. We had to get up early check out and get to Malpensa Airport. So I pull back my sheets and see that Adrian and Neil filled my bed with cereal and bread. Mmmmm comfy... Nothing like crumbs in a bed. Thanks bros!! Judas Priest karaoke was more fun, ha-ha! So up in the morning, shower, pack the rest of stuff in the room and off to the airport. Woofed down a couple last slices of Italian pizza at the airport and we were off. Back to Brighton... All that in like two-and-a-half weeks. Mental yes, but the best times and greatest memories of these conventions and guests will always be had. Two great conventions once again. Always impressed. Keeping it real! Hail The Dark Lord... (Phil Kyle is a tattooer and contributing blogger for Tattoo Artist Magazine. Phil can be found at Magnum Opus Tattoo in Brighton, England.) Related TAM Blog Post: Phil Kyle: From Brighton to Milan and Back… Part I (VIDEO)


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Hah! Om nom nom TREE CAKE!
Love it!
Have you selected your puppy yet? :)
Rock on!
Application has been submitted for puppy... looks like the one I doodled ;)
It'll be a few months, though, before I'm lamenting about a puppy teething on my headphones and piddling on the carpet while I'm raiding :D
Love the puppy! :D
Duh, obviously puppy needs to learn how to heal!!
was dat meeee?! I read everyday!
Is it your birthday, Mr. Attack?? ;)
It was on the 6th!and im pink with a sword!
But it's not TODAY... our previous ret pally was also pink with a sword ;)
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18. Erico: Mesh Bonding Network ConnectorThe Mesh Bonding Network Connector (MBNC) from ERICO allows for fast, simple and economical field connection of grounding and bonding wires. In addition to cross-wire bonding connections, the MBNC can accommodate additional pigtails that can be used to connect to building steel and equipment. The heavy-duty MBNC clamp features stainless steel hardware that is suitable for direct burial. It can be used with Universal Pedestal Clamp for bonding to various pedestal sizes for mesh bonding networks. The MBNC is NEC Article 250 code compliant and is UL 467 Listed. MSRP: $4.36/each Datasheet: Mesh Bonding Network Connector
19. ILSCO: NIMBUS4FLEX ConnectorNIMBUS4FLEX now accommodates the broadest range and size of conductor types, giving the marketplace the greatest flexibility of any pre-insulated product on the market today. The broad wire range accommodates from 750kcmil / 535.3 DLO - #14 AWG. Most pre-insulated products are limited to 350kcmil. NIMBUS4FLEX accepts B,C,H,I,K,M and DLO conductor classes and is currently available in 2, 3, 4 or 6 ports configurations. UL Listed, CSA Certified and dual rated for copper or aluminum conductors. Applications include motor leads, control panels, wiring trough, industrial and commercial construction. NIMBUS4FLEX Connector Product Information
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text: The Salt Sandwich Monday: The Butter & Sugar Burger November 26, 2012 For this week's Sandwich Monday, we make our own version of a special from Asia's Freshness Burger chain: The Butter And Sugar Burger. Spoiler alert: It has two ingredients, and they are butter and sugar. And it's on a bun.


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Art on the Web
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Welcome to Art on the Web! This is the latest, and probably last, iteration of a project that started in the late 1990s, before Google and other internet search engines existed. It began as a way of sharing sites that I had found interesting and bookmarked, and was expanded with additions found by Adeane Bregman and the Bapst Art Library staff. It has been years since the site was fully updated, but the College of Arts and Sciences' Web Service Center has cleaned up the non-functional links and given it a new look. I am glad that many have found it useful.
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Within twelve hours I heard the same question from three clients, so I suppose this question may be on the minds of more than three, "now that I've submitted my applications, what should I do?" The following are a list of suggestions of what you can do until those interview invitations come pouring in:
1. Continue to learn about each school by speaking with faculty, alumni and students. The more information you have the better. Be conscious of their limited time, so be thoughtful with the questions you ask. In addition, you may wind up with an unsolicited endorsement of your candidacy
2. Conduct more research on your intended goal in anticipation of an MBA interview invitation. If, for instance, your intended goal is consulting, read The McKinsey Way or BCG on Strategy. If you are an up and coming entrepreneur, Back of the Napkin or anything by Peter Drucker or Guy Kawasaki. If you are transitioning into marketing, check out Communities Dominate Brands or Marketing Strategy: A Decision-Focused Approach.
3. Attend any events the school may be having (including virtual events). Stay involved. Show your interest.
4. Make up for any gaps you may have in your application (quantitative skills, volunteer work).
5. Create new opportunities to add revenue, decrease costs, increase efficiency, increase market share, increase shareholder value, increase safety, increase satisfaction (customer or employee) at work.
6. Use your leadership skills with any opportunity you can imagine.
7. If you haven't been doing so yet, begin reading business press. You need to understand the jargon, the acumen, and what drives business today.
8. Now sit back and relax. Schools receive the largest number of apps in the second round and if they use student readers, the students are on vacation until sometime in January leaving a big bottleneck in the review process. Learn to be patient. A must-have in this process.
If you have additional questions or concerns about applications, please contact Accepted. My colleagues and I are available to consult with you.
By Natalie Grinblatt Epstein, an accomplished Accepted consultant/editor (since 2008) and entrepreneur. Natalie is a former MBA Admissions Dean and Director at Ross, Johnson, and Carey. Want Natalie help you get accepted to business school? Click here to get in touch!
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Sergio García Fernández (born 9 January 1980) is a Spanish professional golfer who plays on both the United States PGA Tour and the European Tour. He has spent much of his career in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings (over 300 weeks between 2000 and 2009). He reached a career high ranking of two after winning the HSBC Champions tournament in November 2008.
García began playing golf at the age of three and was taught by his father, Victor, who is a club professional. He was a star player as a junior, winning his club championship at age 12. Four years later, he set a record as the youngest player to make the cut at a European Tour event, the 1995 Turespaña Open Mediterranea. This record was broken by amateur Jason Hak in November 2008 at the UBS Hong Kong Open, beating García's record by 107 days. Also in 1995, García became the youngest player to win the European Amateur. He followed that with a win in the Boys Amateur Championship in 1997. He won a professional tournament, the 1997 Catalonian Open, on the European Challenge Tour, as an amateur. In 1998 he won The Amateur Championship, and reached the semifinals of the U.S. Amateur Championship.
García turned professional in 1999 after shooting the lowest amateur score in the 1999 Masters Tournament. His first title on the European Tour came in his sixth start as a professional, in July 1999 at the Irish Open. He first achieved worldwide prominence with a duel against Tiger Woods in the 1999 PGA Championship, where he eventually finished second. Late in the final round, García hit his most famous shot: with his ball up against a tree trunk in the right rough on the 16th hole, and the green hidden from view, he swung hard with his eyes shut and hit a low curving fade that ran up onto the green. As the shot traveled, he sprinted madly into the fairway and then scissor-kick jumped to see the result. Shortly afterwards he became the youngest player ever to compete in the Ryder Cup.