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Hey, I'm Black Too! So, Where Do I Fit In?
Hey, I'm Black Too! So, Where Do I Fit In?
|By: Mama Edie McLoud Armstrong
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Mama Edie's new friend, Renee, grew up in a predominately white community during the Civil Rights years. When Renee attends college she learns the pain of being treated as an outsider by some of the other African American students.
Discussion Questions
- Have you ever been in a situation where people made you feel that you were unwelcomed and that you didn't belong? Describe the situation. How did it make you feel? How did you respond to it? Did anyone stand by your right to be there? If so, who? Did you continue your friendship?
- Have you ever been a "pioneer," the "only one" or one of only a few like you in a situation, in your neighborhood or school? If so, what was the situation and describe what it was like.
- Are you comfortable in the skin you're in? Are you proud to be a part of your cultural group? If so, why? If not, why not?
- Have you ever had the opportunity to stand up for someone who was being bullied or treated unfairly? Did you? How do you feel about your decision and what was the end result? Looking back now, might you have responded differently?
- African American Wisdom Edited by Reginald McKnight. Famous proverbs and anonymous quotes by African Americans from the time of Reconstruction through the 1990's to inspire courage, pride, self-love, a strong work ethic, discretion and a thirst for knowledge.
- The Importance of Pot Liquor by Jackie Torrence. Especially useful for children (and adults) who did not grow up in typical African American communities and may have missed out on some of the cultural wisdom and humor that has helped this culture to survive in especially trying times.
- Brown Girl in the Ring: An Anthology of Song Games from the Eastern Caribbean Collected by Alan Lomax, J.D. Elder & Bess Lomax Hawes. A celebration of Afro-Caribbeans through songs and games that serve to keep African Descendant cultures connected, proud and alive.
- The Life & Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar Collected by Lida Keck Wiggins. Poems written in African American Dialect and Standard English that demonstrate the creative skill required of African Americans not formally educated to bring feelings and images to life using blended linguistic influences of various cultures.
- African American/Africans
- Bullying
- Civil Rights Movement
- Crossing Cultures
- Education and Life Lessons
- Family and Childhood
- Housing/Neighborhoods
- Stereotypes and Discrimination
- Taking a Stand and Peacemaking
Hi, my name is Mama Edie McLoud Armstrong. Going away to college in the 60s was so exciting. So much was going on. There were all kinds of things: political ideas, and spiritual ideas, many ideas to explore, new ideas to explore, but also old realities
to reckon with.
For example, as a child growing up in a racially changing neighborhood, every now and then I didn't feel quite like I quite fit in. And sometimes it was very difficult. Even sometimes the way the teachers would pit the black children against the white
children. Ah, I mean, there was nothing that was spoken, but you felt this favoritism being shared towards the white children, which made us feel kind of bad. And I was seven years old or so, you're not quite understanding what's going on. All you
know is that it just doesn't feel good.
And the same kind of thing happened in high school. But even sometimes as the white children were leaving the neighborhoods, then they started pitting the lighter complexioned children against the darker complexioned children so that the lighter complexioned
children got favoritism, which caused a rift and a problem. And sometimes even the lighter complexioned children were beaten up and called words like "high yella," which made them feel bad. And all they wanted to do also was to just fit in.
Well, in high school, sometimes there were specific things that would happen that just let us know that some of the teachers were just not happy that we were there. And they seemed determined to put blocks in our way.
For example, having a session of guidance, a counseling session with my guidance counselor in high school, she suggested that, um, I not consider college because she didn't think I'd make it there. So, she suggested that I try secretarial school. Well,
I went on and I got accepted into Northern Illinois University anyway.
But even while there, in another guidance counseling session, the director of my program at that time told me that speech pathology, audiology were really not fields for black people but I was a nice person, and then I might want to consider social work.
Now social work is a noble profession, and, in fact, I had considered it at one time but it wasn't what I had selected then. I went on and got my Master's Degree in Speech Pathology anyhow. Sure wish I coulda come back and found both of those teachers,
show 'em my diploma, my degrees. But it was an interesting time too, in that I was starting to meet children who were coming from places I had never heard of. I guess I thought that most black people in America lived in cities like Chicago, and Detroit,
and L.A., and down south. Then I started hearin' about places like Rock Island and Cairo. Well, I had actually heard about Cairo because clearly the Welcome Wagon was not rolled out for children of African descent in cities like Cairo. And, in fact,
cities like Cairo were those places, uh, uh, that we called, sometimes "up south"
because of the attitudes that were still there.
But meeting some of the students from those places helped me to understand, as I was learning more about the great migration, that African-Americans ended up in all kinds of places: west, and to the north, and cities large and small. Now the great migration
was a period that took place roughly between 1914 and the 1970s. And what had happened, you know, (as the kids say what happened was) the European American immigrants were being sent to war. And with the rapidly building industry, there was still
a need for people to fill those positions for cheap labor. And so African-Americans were typically not welcome in the military services. So, the opportunity was there. So, they came in droves from all over the south, all over the slave south trying
to escape situations like, uh, the Jim Crow laws. Those laws that kept us separate… that had us in separate schools, and separate swimming pools and, and unable to even attend theaters where we might perform.
And it was a difficult time, even once they arrived up in the north, and tryin' to find some place to live was also challenging because many people in cities like Chicago, and, especially, in Chicago, only wanted to welcome in people who we would normally
call white Anglo-Saxons. Now that was a problem for African-Americans. There was nothin' about most of them that resembled the white Anglo-Saxons. However, in an interesting way, those very, very light-complexioned African-Americans who managed to
purchase property in certain areas because they passed or looked like they could pass, actually opened the way, opened the door for others to move into some of those communities. And what a surprise that was when these little brown complexioned people
started showing up in the neighborhood.
But there was a policy called redlining that was intended to keep children of African descent, and other minorities as well, from being able to purchase property in certain areas. And so, it was decided in 1990… in 1966 that there would be a march in
a neighborhood of, on the South Side of Chicago called Marquette Park. And I remember that day, um, and it was really an amazing situation. Um, and… but many things happened as a result of the march in Marquette Park that opened up doors, opened up
the doors of the universities as well as the neighborhoods.
So, enter my friend Renee. Now, Renee was a person who had been born in Chicago. But at the age of nine, her father had gotten transferred to another city, one of those cities I had never heard of, but she was the first African-American in her elementary
and high school. Pioneering, definitely! And so, uh, understandably, she learned to speak like her white contemporaries. Uh, she even moved and, and danced like them. But when it was time for her to come into college, she was so excited because she
had many good friends among her Euro-American counterparts in her town. However, she was hungry for interactions with children of African descent. So, she was so excited about going to Northern, and meeting, and mixing, and mingling with these kids.
But here she comes. "Hi. My name is Renee. What's yours?"
Well, people were kinda looking at her like, "So what's with her?"
And so, it's easy to assume that she was what we would sometimes call a "wanna be," somebody who would prefer to be white. And that just wasn't the case. She was, when I first met her, she was warm and bubbly. And she was friendly, and she was very smart,
but that even became a problem because sometimes we'd be in class, and she was sometimes a little bit too eager to be the first one to answer. "Oh, well, that's because such and such, and, and what have you."
And so, some of the other students would look at her like, "Okay, so now not only is she a "wanna be," but now she's a Miss Know-It-All too!"
Poor Renee. Her popularity was taking a serious nose dive. Well, one particular day, we were having a meal together, which we often did. And you have to consider the timing. In 1969 when I went away to school, this was the time when we had just lost people
like Dr. Martin Luther King, John and Bobby Kennedy, Malcolm X. Um, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark of the Black Panther Party were brutally shot in their beds as they slept on the West Side of Chicago under the inspiration of J. Edgar Hoover by 14 Chicago
police officers. So, there was a lot of anger at that time. So, the idea of a black girl comin' along lookin' like she'd rather be a white girl was not going to get any points. So, here we are, Renee and I sitting there at the dining, in the dining
hall of the dormitory, and we were just about to finish our meal. Now I had noticed some other African-American students a little bit in the distance at a table beyond Renee, but she couldn't see them because they were to
her back. But I saw them
with their heads together, whispering, and talking, and pointing, and gesturing, and I was like, "Oh, Lord. Here comes trouble."
So, I was hoping that they wouldn't say anything. But just as we were about to leave, they got up, and they came over. And without even looking at her, they looked directly at me, and they said, "Whachoo doin' witheh? She thank she white. She don even
know she black. You know, I, I don even know, understa… understand… why you talkin' to her?"
And I was just about to respond. But Renee in her very direct and confident way, she stood up and she said, "I do so know that I am black. You just don't know that I am black. And Edie is still here because she's my friend, and I could be your friend
too. But it's your loss." And then she said, "Come on, Edie."
Ha, ha, ha! And so, it's like, okay, she took care of that. So, ha, ha, so I got up and I was about to leave, and they looked at me, and they said, "So, so, what's so… why are you with her?"
And I say, "Like she said, we're friends, and she's a nice girl. So, if you would prefer not to look into that and to see her as the person that she is, that is your loss. So, um, I'll see you all later."
Now I was pretty well liked, and what have you, among many circles on the campus. So, we didn't have any problems. So, I walked away ca… uh, Renee and I walked away, but she was fuming. We went back to the dorm, and I managed to kind of decompress her.
And we talked about the situation, but then we went on, and prepared to go to the dance at the University Union that night. And when we did, we had a good time. And I watched her doin' her little white girl dance, eh, heh, which was really just kinda
comical to me, but she was a sweet girl.
She continues to be a sweet girl. And, in fact, she moved away to a state far away, but she came back to Chicago to be in my wedding. And 40 years later, we're still friends.


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Overview of the Shen Keqin papers
Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Archives Staff.
Hoover Institution Archives© 2009
434 Galvez Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, 94305-6010
(650) 723-3563
Title: Shen Keqin papers
Date (inclusive): 1944-2009
Collection Number: 2008C11
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Archives
Language of Material: Mainly in Chinese.
Physical Description: 8 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box (3.8 linear feet)
Abstract: Speeches and writings, correspondence, printed matter, and photographs, relating to General Sun Liren, Chinese military operations in Burma during World War II, the Chinese Civil War, and political conditions in Taiwan. Includes papers of Sun Liren.
Creator: Shen, Keqin, 1923-
Collection is open for research.
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Shen Keqin (1921- ) was Republic of China representative to Thailand (1975-89) and director of the Executive Yuan (1989-90).
From 1949 to 1953, Shen served as secretary to Sun Liren (1899-1990), a general in Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalist Army. Sun's major military achievements-defeating the Japanese in Burma during World War II and leading the First Army to Manchuria to fight the Chinese Communists-earned him the nickname of "ever victorious general." A graduate of Purdue University and the Virginia Military Institute, Sun also served under the command of General Joseph W. Stilwell and was deemed "one of the ablest, bravest as well as one of the most 'Western-minded' leaders in the Chinese Nationalist high command" by Time magazine. In 1955, while serving as chief of staff, Sun was accused of conspiring to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek's regime in Taiwan. For more than thirty-three years, until his exoneration in 1988, Sun remained under house arrest in Taichung, Taiwan. Not until 2001 did the Control Yuan release a report that posthumously cleared Sun of all charges of wrongdoing and declared there was no evidence to support his involvement in the coup d'etat plot.
Scope and Content of Collection
Shen Keqin's papers primarily concern Sun Liren. Included are Sun's personal and official correspondence, printed matter, strategic maps, confidential reports and pictorials of the Burma Campaign, military directives and instructions, daily activity reports (March-December 1950 and January-October 1951) with notations by Shen, and photographs that depict Sun's military activities. Also included is a manuscript of Shen's publication Sun Liren Zhuan (A Biography of Sun Liren) and research materials used to prepare the book, such as photocopies of official government documents from the Wang Shancong case (i.e., the Case of Sun) and telegrams exchanged between Sun, General Douglas MacArthur, and Chiang Kai-shek.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Sun, Liren, 1900-
China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949.
Taiwan--Politics and government--1945-
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Burma.
World War, 1939-1945--China.


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Na'vi nouns are inflected according to the following template:
Gender is optional and uncommon, even for pronouns 'he' and 'she', but number and case are required. There are no articles like "a" or "the", though there is a suffix for "some" that appears before the case ending.
In Na'vi, plurals are only used if there are at least four objects.
Number Prefix 1 Singular (none) 2 Dual me+ 3 Trial pxe+ 4+ "Plural" ay+ or +
(ay- plus lenition, or just lenition)
Nouns show greater number distinctions than human languages do: besides singular and plural, they not only have special dual forms for two of an item (eyes, hands, lovers, etc.), which are not uncommon in human language (English has a remnant in "both"), but also trial forms for three of an item, which in human languages are only found with pronouns. A plural is more than dual or trial; that is, four or more. For example, in "the wings of a banshee", tsyal "wing" is plural (ikranä syal), because banshees (ikran) have four wings, but in "the wings of a bird", tsyal cannot be plural syal, but only dual mesyal, because birds have only two wings.
When number is unknown, for example when asking how many of something there are, the plural is used, as in English: Q: "How many children do you have?" A: "One." When quantity is specified with a number, then the singular form is used. (See Numbers.) And when number is established, it need not be repeated: Menga lu skxawng "you two are idiots"; aynga lu karyu "y'all are teachers" (plural haryu).
The prefixes trigger lenition, which is indicated in the table above by the "+" signs rather than the hyphens that usually mark prefix boundaries. Trials are not common, but occur for example in pxehilvan "the three rivers" (kilvan "river"). In nouns which undergo lenition, the plural prefix may be dropped, so the plural of tokx "body" may be either aysokx (the "full plural") or sokx (the "short plural"). In the dual and trial, lenition of a glottal stop may result in a sequence of two e's, in which case they contract: 'eveng "a child", pxeveng "three children".
Na'vi does not have grammatical gender. However, where desired, masculine individuals may be distinguished by the suffix -an, and feminine ones by -e :
Masculine -an Feminine -e
For example, tsmuk or tsmúktu is "sibling", tsmukán "brother", and tsmuké "sister".
However, gender is not generally used unless there is some reason for distinguishing it.
The suffix -o, which has the role of "some" in the pronouns tuteo "somebody" and 'uo "something", may be used with other nouns too, as with ketuwong "alien" in,
- Lu ketuwongo nì'aw.
- "It's just some alien."
Nouns are declined for case depending on their function in the sentence: subject (intr and erg), object (acc), recipient (dat), possessor (gen), and topic (top), like the English pronoun "I, me, my, mine". The case markers each have two to three forms (allomorphs), the distribution of which is somewhat variable:
Case forms full reduced Intransitive (intr) (unmarked) Ergative (erg) -ìl -l Accusative (acc) -it -ti
Genitive (gen) -ä, -yä Dative (dat) -ur -ru
Topical (top) -ìri -ri
Apart from the genitive, which does not follow the pattern of the other cases, the case suffixes have full (vowel-initial) forms after orthographic consonants (consonants, syllabic consonants, and diphthongs), and reduced (consonant-initial) forms after simple vowels. In addition, the accusative and dative cases have short forms in which their final vowel is dropped; this would appear to depend on the rhythm of speech and perhaps formality rather than anything grammatical.
Nouns are not double-marked for case. Attributives do not agree, in case or number, with the nouns they modify, and this holds for possessive pronouns and genitive nouns as much as it does for adjectives. So while "my spear" in citation form is oeyä tukru, in the ergative case it is oeyä tukrul, with only tukru "spear" marked for the ergative.
Subject and object[edit]
Core nouns are declined in a tripartite case system, which is quite rare among human languages, though found in Nez Perce. In a tripartite system, there are distinct forms for the object of a clause, as in "Neytiri hunted a hexapede"; the agent of a transitive clause which has such an object, as in "Neytiri hunted a hexapede"; and the argument ("subject") of an intransitive clause, which does not have an object, as in "Neytiri is sleeping".[1] An object is marked with the accusative suffix -it/-t/-ti, and an agent with the ergative suffix -ìl/-l, while an intransitive argument has no case suffix. That is, the ergative and accusative tend to occur as a pair, whereas a single argument has no case inflection. Translating our English examples:
|"Neytiri is sleeping"
Neytiri herahaw
|"Neytiri hunted a hexapede"
Neytiril yerikit tolaron
The use of such case forms leaves the word order of Na'vi largely free, for example, agent-object-verb (AOV) or object-verb-agent (OVA):
|Oeyä tukrul txe'lanit tivakuk
"Let my spear strike the heart"
|Katot täftxu oel
"I weave the rhythm"
When evident from context, the subject need not be stated:
"Oe trram na'rìng-mì tarmok. Tsole'a syetute-t.
"Yesterday I was in the forest, saw a Trapper".
The genitive[edit]
A genitive case in -ä/-yä can be seen in oeyä tukru "my spear" above. English expresses the genitive with either -'s (the pianist's hands) or with of (the hands of the clock). Unlike the other cases, the genitive shows the relationship of nouns to each other, rather than between a noun and a verb. Although sometimes called a "possessive", the genitive has a broader range of use than actual possession:
|Na'viyä luyu hapxì
|kifkeyit Eywa'evengä
|"You are part of the People"
|"the world of Pandora"
Multiple genitives may occur, one after the other, as in
- holpxay ayzekwäyä feyä
- "the number of their fingers"
- Aylì'ufa awngeyä 'eylanä a'ewan
- "In the words of our young friend"
Note that they do not occur in any particular order.
The dative[edit]
The dative is prototypically used for giving something to someone, marking a recipient, or doing something for someone, marking a benefactor:
Nga Na'viru yomtìyìng
"You will feed the people"
More generally, it is used for the direction or end point of an action, as in poru tìng-nari "look at him". However, it is also used in situations, so-called dative constructions, where an English speaker might not expect it:
|Oeru txoa livu.
"Forgive me"
|Ngaru lu fpom srak?
"Hello, how are you?"
|(Literally, "May there be forgiveness for me"
= "May I have forgiveness")
|(Literally, "Is there well-being for you?"
= "Do you have well-being?")
Such constructions contain verbs such as lu "be" that involve little overt action, including more concrete concepts of having. When one has something for someone, a double dative is used:
- Lu oeru aylì'u frapor.
- "I have something (= words) to say, to everyone."
Note that word order and context help clarify who has something to say to whom: lu oeru "I have" is the default word order for a possessive dative, in contrast to the recipient dative frapor. (See Word order in the chapter on Syntax.)
The dative is also used with objects/recipients of 'do' + noun constructions and causative verbs, which will be covered in the chapter on Verbs. That is, whereas in English one assists someone (accusative), in Na'vi fko si srung tuteoru one does assistance to someone (dative).
The topic and the topical case[edit]
A topic indicates the background context of a clause, and the topic marker -ri/-ìri is somewhat equivalent to (though much more common than) English "as for", "concerning", "regarding", etc. Topics are not grammatically required, but are used to structure the presentation of what one has to say. The topic marker preempts the case of the noun: that is, when a noun is made topical, it takes the -ri/-ìri suffix rather than the case suffix one would expect from its grammatical role. For example, in,
- Oeri ontu teya längu
- "My nose is full [of his distasteful smell]",
since the topic is "I", the subject "nose" is associated with "me": That is, it's understood to be "my nose" without stating that explicitly.[note 3] Note that "nose" itself is unmarked for case, as it's the subject of the intransitive verb "to be".
Such a topic-comment structure sets up the background of the sentence, what the speaker intends to speak about with the rest. (Thus the term 'topic-comment': what the speaker intends to talk about, followed by what s/he has to say about it.) This construction takes some of the pressure off of the case system, with the result that not too many nouns need to be marked with the same case:
- Sìpawmìri oe ngaru seiyi irayo
- "Thank you for the questions" (lit. "As for the questions, I thank you")
As with other cases, -ìri is restricted to the noun at the base of the noun phrase, regardless of the word order of that phrase:
- Lì'fyari leNa'vi 'Rrtamì, vay set 'almong a fra'u zera'u ta ngrrpongu.
lì'fya-ìri le-na'vi 'Rrta-mì vay set '‹alm›ong a fra-'u z‹er›a'u ta ngrr-pongu language-top adj-people Earth-in until now unfold‹past.pfv› sbrd every-thing come‹ipfv› from root-group
- "Everything that has gone on with Na'vi until now on Earth has come from a grassroots movement."
- (lit. "As for the Na'vi language on Earth, everything that until now has unfolded comes from a base group")
Here the word lì'fya "language" is modified by leNa'vi "Na'vi" and 'Rrtamì "on Earth", yet the suffix appears on that first word.[note 4]
This -ìri can also behave as a more typical case, linking the noun phrase to the verb, rather than setting up a topic as an introduction for the rest of clause to comment on:
- Pxan livu txo nì'aw oe ngari
- "Only if I am worthy of you" (lit. "Only if I be worthy in regard to you")
- Ngaru seiyi oe irayo ngeyä pxesìpawmìri
nga-ru s‹ei›i oe irayo ng[e]-yä pxe+tì-pawm-ìri you-dat do‹approb› I thank you-gen tri+nomz-question-top
- "I thank you for (in regards to) your three questions"
The absolutive[edit]
The absolutive form of a noun is an unmarked case form. In Na'vi, both the intransitive subject and the citation (dictionary) form are unmarked. However, the absolutive is also used after a preposition, as after ne "to" in kä ne kelku (also kä kelkune) "go home";[note 5] and it occurs when a noun stands in parallel (in apposition) to another, regardless of the case of the other noun. For example, in 'eylanur awngeyä Peyral "to our friend Beyral", 'eylan "friend" but not Peyral takes the dative case; compare awngeyä Peyralur "to our Beyral".
Case allomorphs[edit]
Except for the genitive, which is discussed below, and the "long" accusative, which is invariable, all case suffixes have a full form which begins with a vowel, and a reduced form in which that vowel is dropped. The full form is found after consonants and syllabic consonants, and the reduced form is found after simple vowels. Diphthongs take the shortest form that is syllabic; in the case of the dative, that means either the full of reduced form, -ur or -ru.[note 6]
Case form distribution (apart from gen) Case forms erg short acc long acc dat top full form after
hetuwongìl yerikit
'eylanur skxawngìri
after syllabic
syllabic form
after diphthong
tìngayìl kifkeyit payti payur
payri reduced form
after pure vowel
swiräti na'viru lì'fyari
The difference between the long and short forms of the accusative would appear to be one of register rather than of grammar. For instance, a quick response to the greeting oel ngati kameie "I See you", with the long form of the accusative, is kame ngat,[2] with the short form.[note 7] However, it may also provide for euphony, for example in aylì'ut horentisì "the words and rules (ACC)", from lì'u "word" and koren "rule".
The dative also has a long and short form, though apparently only on pronouns. For instance "to me" may be either oeru or oer, and "to them" foru or for.
There are a few exceptions to this pattern. Kemri "rule.top" is given as an alternate of kemìri in a proverb, where meter may play a role, just as sì "and" and lu "be" may be reduced to s and l before a vowel in song, without that being a general rule of the grammar. A colloquial contraction of tsa'u "that", tsaw, has case forms acc tsawt and top tsawri, but these may just be retentions of the forms of the full words, tsa'ut and tsa'uri, where they are regular.
The forms of the genitive pattern somewhat differently, and here it is an initial consonant of the suffix which drops. Nouns which end in a simple front or central vowel, i, ì, e, ä, a, take the suffix -yä, as in
- aymokriyä of voices, tsawkeyä of the sun, ayzekwäyä of fingers, tompayä of the rain,
but the suffix -ä appears after consonants, syllabic consonants, diphthongs, and the back/rounded vowels u, o:
- ayzìsìtä of the years, txonä of the night, trrä of the day, kifkeyä of the world, fìlì'uä of this word.
Changes in the noun stem occur in some nouns; in addition, the final a or o vowel of pronouns changes to e when genitive -yä is added:
- ngeyä your (from nga), feyä their (from fo).
The vocative[edit]
Na'vi does not have a case suffix for nouns used to address someone, a function called the vocative, but instead use a particle ma, which occurs before the name or term of address: Ma Neytiri, herahaw srak? "Neytiri, are you sleeping?", rather like archaic or poetic "O!" in English. It occurs before the noun phrase, and is never suffixed: Ma oeyä 'eylan! "My friend!"; ma smukan sì smuke "O brothers and sisters", ftu oe neto rikx, ma skxawng! "Get away from me, moron!".
Ma is obligatory with people and Eywa (God), but optional with animals. For example, it is used ceremonially with animals one has killed in a hunt,[note 8] but may be omitted when talking to one's pa'li (horse). It may thus indicate a degree of politeness vs. intimacy.
With collective nouns, such Na'vi "the People" and tsampongu "war party", in which the singular form is used for multiple people, a collective vocative suffix -ya is found as an alternative for ma: Mawey, na'viya, mawey! "Calm, people, calm!"; frapoya! "(hey) everybody!".
It is not clear if Na'vi has a regular system of diminutives, but there are some compounds with hì'i "little, small" that have this function. For example, tanhì "star" appears to derive from atan "light" and hì'i, and hì'ang "bug" appears to be similarly derived from ioang "animal". The words for "son" and "daughter", 'itan and 'ite, are based on a different root: they are the masculine and feminine derivations of 'it "a little, a bit".
Affectionate terms would appear to not be related. "Mommy" and "daddy" are sa'nu and sempu, short for sa'nok "mother" and sempul "father".
- ↑ See the appendix for an explanation of the glossing conventions used in these examples.
- ↑ Nga is in the intransitive case because there is no object to the verb—or rather, because the semantic object is incorporated into the verb, which thus becomes intransitive. With a simple verb tìng "to give", nga would become ergative: Ngal na'viru syuvet tìyìng "you will give food to the People".
- ↑ Compare oeyä tukru "my spear" above.
- ↑ The rest of the sentence will be explained in the remainder of this book.
- ↑ Note that this is not the case in English, where the pronoun in "by/from/for me" is in the accusative/dative case.
- ↑ The demonstrative pronoun tsaw is an exception, with tsawl, tsawt, and tsawr, possibly because it is a contraction of tsa'u, where these would be the expected case forms after u.
- ↑ Indeed, in the film, when the elders Eytukan and Mo'at speak to a public audience, they use the long -ti form of the accusative.
- ↑ Ma tsmukan, oeru txoa livu "my brother, forgive me"
- ↑ How to speak 'Avatar', MSNBC, 2009 Dec 30
- ↑ "Do You Speak Na'vi? Giving Voice To 'Avatar' Aliens". NPR, 2009 Dec. 15


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Kerry Carron
My name is Kerry Carron and I have had a knack for graphics, layout, and design since being introduced to some of their applications during my high school journalism classes. Sometime around 2000, I realized that I really enjoyed working on my computer and thought that there had to be a way that I could use my computer to develop some kind of work from home business. Shortly thereafter, I began to dabble with web site creation.
I also found WordPress. As I became more and more familiar with WordPress and it's powerful applications, some of my friends started asking, and then paying me to build or upgrade their WordPress websites. I soon realized most of my friends really did not want or have time to learn HOW to do it, they just knew that they needed a website and they were willing to pay me for it. I started to think that this was the answer for me to be able to work from home.
It did not take long to realize I had finally found my passion in web site design and development. Since then, I have spent endless hours working on my computer (just ask my family) and educating myself about web site promotion, installation, setup, design, development, and internet marketing.
At the end of August 2009 when my employer dissolved my position (at a job that had nothing to do with computers, web site promotion and internet marketing), I was let go. I resolved that there was no better time than at that moment to begin working from home and build a business. I immediately focused my energy on ways to help others achieve their website needs while putting my own computer use and knowledge to use and turned what had been a passionate hobby into my business.
I was like many of you who still have this simple wish, "I wish I knew how to build my own site."
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Windows Phone 8.1 Floodgates Now Bursting Wide Open(VIDEO)February 11, 2014 No Comments
Windows Phone 8.1 leaks are sprouting out all over, and wile there is much to learn about the new update, what can be said is that this time around Microsoft just about covered all bases. Check out the video below from Winbeta.org showing off 12 minutes of the many innovations Microsoft included in the SDK build released early for developers:
We've managed to get our hands on a pre-release build of Windows Phone 8.1 in SDK form!
New features in WP8.1/Blue (as listed by MyNokiaBlog)
- VPN Support
- Battery Power Sense (think Data sense, but for battery tracking)
- Ability to change the default messaging app (like the ability to change the camera app).. oh the endless possibilities if this is done right
- OneDrive
- Separate Music and Video hubs
- A new podcast app (hopefully available globally)
- Apps can be installed to SD cards (option to be disabled as well), appears to be called "Storage Sense", screenshot below.
- Better multitasking (more like windows 8), where the back button freezes apps in the background rather than ending them, meaning that we should be seeing a lot less loading times.
- The new SDK includes "Universal App" support with templates to build Windows Store and Windows Phone Store apps from the same shared HTML and JavaScript code, which is the first step towards RT/Windows 8 and Windows Phone merging together.
- New Camera UI
- Swipe down to close apps
- Improved YouTube player in browser
- navigation bar color options
- Geofencing API for location-based reminders
- Background tasks: Bluetooth signal strength, Chat message notification, Device connection change, Device use trigger, Gatt characteristic notification, Location, Push notification, Rfcomm connection, System event, Timer
- Auto updates for Apps
- File Picker
- Deeper Twitter and Facebook integration
- Select multiple live tiles
WPCentral Listing Of New Discovered Features:
- NEW Audio/video transcoding, Hardware accelerated
- NEW Media editing: audio and video; Audio effects, video effects; Slow motion video
- NEW Apps can capture audio/video from themselves
- NEW Stereoscopic 3d support
- NEW Wi-Fi Direct, a Wi-Fi standard allowing direct peer-to-peer connections over Wi-Fi without an access point
- NEW Windows Phone 8.1 apps won't run on 8.0 devices until they upgrade
- NEW Documentation confirms ALL current Windows Phone 8 hardware to get 8.1
- NEW Dev tools: SemanticZoom, DatePicker, TimePicker
- NEW PlayTo support
- NEW Single sign-in for apps (like on Windows 8) with Microsoft Account; sign in will persist across devices + apps with permissions prompt
- NEW YouTube Player (see lede image) including HTML5 video support (video playback doesn't have to be full screen) And you get custom UI, so YouTube Closed Captions are in
- NEW File picker (see above image)
- NEW Geofencing API for location-based reminders
- NEW Background tasks: Bluetooth signal strength, Chat message notification, Device connection change, Device use trigger, Gatt characteristic notification, Location, Push notification, Rfcomm connection, System event, Timer
- NEW Slide down to close apps
- NEW Navigation bar color selection
- NEW USB choices
- NEW Updated camera layout, similar to Windows 8.1 (see photo below)
Check out more leaks at Reddit and across the internet .
Source: Reddit, MyNokiaBlog


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A short tract explaining who God is.
Do you know the true God? Not the god of man's imagination, but the God of the Bible? This is an important question, because Jesus teaches us that eternal life is knowing God and His Son, Jesus Christ (John 17:3). If you are to live with God forever in heaven, you must know Him.
If you are interested in knowing the true God, please consider the following.
(1) The True God
1. The true God is very great and glorious. He is so high and holy that nothing in all the world is like Him. He is the eternal, all-powerful, all-knowing, unchangeable God (Ps. 113:4-6).
2. The true God is the Creator of the world. In six days, He created the heaven and earth and all that they contain. God also created you (Gen. 1).
3. The true God is the Sustainer of the world. He upholds every creature by His almighty power. He gives you life, breath, and all things (Acts 17:25, 28).
4. The true God is the Absolute Ruler of the world. He brings to pass His eternal will by His almighty power. God is your Ruler and King (Dan. 4:34-35).
(2) God's Demand
1. Since God is your Creator, Sustainer and Ruler, to whom you owe your very life, He demands that you reverence Him as the only true God (Ps. 33:8).
2. God requires that you worship and serve Him from a heart that is filled with gratitude for all that He has done for you (Ps. 100).
3. In reverence, you must obey God's law as given in the Ten Commandments. This obedience must be complete and perfect (Ex. 20:3-17).
4. Your obedience must come from a heart of love. You must love God with all your being and you must love your neighbour as yourself (Matt. 22:37-40).
(3) Man's Failure
1. However, you do not keep God's commandments out of love for Him. You are a sinner who fails to do what God demands of you (Job 7:20; 13:23; 40:4).
2. You can do nothing that is truly good and pleasing to God. Even the best of your works are like filthy rags to God (Rom. 3:10-18).
3. Your sinful deeds come from a wicked heart. You were born with a corrupt inner nature (Gen. 6:5; Ps. 51:5; Jer. 17:9).
4. God is the holy One who hates sin and must punish sinners. Apart from God's grace, you will be condemned to the everlasting torments of hell forever (Matt. 13:49-50).
(4) God's Salvation
1. God is also the Saviour who has sent Jesus Christ into the world to save sinners from their sin and the everlasting torments of hell (Isa. 43:11).
2. In His death, Christ suffered the torments of hell in the place of all those who believe in Him. By His death, He paid their debt and earned for them the forgiveness of their sins (I Peter 3:18).
3. Christ fulfilled God's demand for believers by perfectly loving God and keeping God's law. God considers them to be righteous in Christ (Rom. 5:19).
4. Christ gives spiritual life to those whom God saves so that they believe in Him. They know God and enjoy His fellowship. They will live with the true God in heavenforever (I John 5:20).
(5) True Faith
1. Do you seek the forgiveness of your sins, the righteousness of Christ, and eternal fellowship with the true God? God says to you,'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house' (Acts 16:31).
2. Believe that God is your Creator, Sustainer and Ruler, who is worthy of your love and worship. Realise that you are a sinner who has failed to fulfil your God-given duty and who needs salvation. Trust God to save you from your sins through the atoning death and victorious resurrection of Jesus Christ.
3. True faith will cause you to repent of your sins. You will acknowledge that you are a sinner, sorrow over your sin and rebellion against God, and forsake your sin (Eze. 18:30).
4. True faith will make youobedient. It will cause you to seek to keep God's commandments and live a life of thanksgiving to Him (James 2:17-19).
5. True faith believes that salvation is not the work of man but the gift of God. The believer is saved by the grace of God alone (Eph. 2:8-9).
(6) Do You Know?
Do you know the true God and His Son Jesus Christ?
If not, obey the command of God to trust Christ for salvation.
Without the knowledge of the true God, which comes through faith, you do not have eternal life but face the everlasting torments of hell.


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- Deacon Peckham's Hobby Horse
- May 27 – October 8, 2012
- East Building Ground Level
This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.
Overview: One of the most intriguing and often-reproduced American paintings in the collection of the National Gallery of Art—Deacon Robert Peckham's The Hobby Horse (c. 1840)—is the inspiration for this focus exhibition of nine children's portraits created for patrons among a newly thriving class of Massachusetts merchants and manufacturers in the mid-1800s. The works will be displayed along with a hide-covered rocking horse similar to the one Peckham (1785–1877) depicted in his painting.
Organization: Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Passes: Passes are not required for this exhibition.
- Peckham, Robert
- American
- , 1785 - 1877
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How bad was 2014 for Vancouver-based mining companies?
With coal prices stumbling along at 52-week lows, even the lumps in the stocking were a stinking money-loser.
Take mining heavyweight Teck Resources, which is better-positioned than most coal producers to weather low prices. While its six coal mines were profitable for the three months ended Sept. 30, third-quarter profit dropped largely due to lower metallurgical coal prices. The stock has slumped more than 40 per cent this year to $16 on the Toronto Stock Exchange, pushing its dividend yield up to nearly six per cent.
Gold looked to break even at about $1,200 US an ounce after hitting highs of $1,385 during 2014. As for the prices of other resources produced in B.C. — copper, molybdenum, natural gas — each finished the year lower as economic growth in China continued to slow.
However, it was Vancouver's mineral exploration companies — which rely on fresh capital infusions to continue their quest for buried treasure — that felt the most pain.
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite index — a bellwether of sorts for the junior exploration sector — finished the year at 690, comparable to levels at the height of the 2008 financial crisis. Several junior mining companies even gave up on mineral exploration and switched over to the burgeoning medical marijuana industry, while others closed their doors or hunkered down in cash-conservation mode.
But there were also bright spots — more mergers and acquisitions than in 2013, consolidations, projects advanced and work done behind the scenes laying the foundation for when the market eventually turns.
Those in the industry are looking ahead to the annual Roundup hosted by the Association for Mineral Exploration B.C. and hope the event — which runs from Jan. 26 to 29 at the Vancouver Convention Centre East — will be a catalyst for brighter times.
With an eye to 2015, here is a (highly subjective) look back at some of the deals and events that shaped Vancouver's mining industry in 2014.
Lundin picks some low-hanging fruta...
Resource tycoon Lukas Lundin is renowned for his ability to operate in challenging jurisdictions, as well as buying assets at low prices and selling high. Perhaps the best example of the latter was the 2010 sale of Red Back Mining and its Tasiast mine in Mauritania to Kinross Gold for $7.1 billion US (four and a half years later, Kinross's entire market capitalization is mired at $3.7 billion and it has written off billions on Tasiast). Kinross also figured in Lundin's latest move — the October acquisition of Kinross's high-grade Fruta del Norte gold deposit in Ecuador. Kinross paid $1.2 billion for Fruta del Norte in 2008, but did not develop it because of tax disputes with the government. The Lundin Group's Fortress Minerals purchased Fruta del Norte for $240 million US in stock and cash. Shares of Lundin Gold — the new company that will develop Fruta del Norte — began trading on the TSX on Dec. 19.
...and stakes a claim to Chilean copper
If Dr. Copper is still a proxy for the global economy, it could be a long and painful recovery: Cu started the year at about US$3.30 a pound and finished it at $2.90. But Lundin appears to be bullish: His Lundin Mining paid US$1.8 billion to purchase 80 per cent of the Candelaria copper mine in Chile from Freeport McMoRan. The mine churns out about 422 million pounds of copper annually, allowing Lundin Mining to more than double its copper production. Lundin financed the deal through an equity raise, debt and the sale of a gold-silver stream to Franco-Nevada.
A good year for Ross Beaty
Pan American Silver chairman Ross Beaty is one of Vancouver's most successful mining entrepreneurs. Beginning in the early 2000s, Beaty snapped up copper assets during depressed markets, developed them and sold to the highest bidder later in the supercycle. In June, Beaty unloaded the final Lumina Copper asset with the $470-million sale of the Taca Taca deposit in Argentina to First Quantum Minerals. Beaty is also executive chairman of renewable energy company Alterra Power. What has he been buying lately? 500,000 shares of Pan American Silver on Dec. 22, according to Canadian regulatory filings.
Imperial Metals' bad year hits industry, government
2014 was far from a writeoff for Imperial -- the B.C. miner built its Red Chris copper-gold mine and completed the Iskut extension to the Northwest Transmission Line. But it wasn't only the environment that took a big hit when a tailings dam collapsed at Imperial's Mount Polley copper-gold mine on Aug. 4, flushing millions of cubic metres of tailings waste and water into surrounding creeks and lakes. So did the reputations of the mining industry and of the provincial government as environmental protecter, not to mention Imperial's stock (down 35 per cent on the year). The timing could not have been worse for Imperial, which became known as an environmental offender rather than the builder of B.C.'s first new mine in several years. Mount Polley is closed indefinitely and Imperial has yet to finalize an impacts and benefits agreement with the Tahltan First Nation for Red Chris, now slated to open in 2015.
Know when to hold 'em
It was an unlikely year for a gold takeover battle, but that's what resulted in January when Goldcorp launched a hostile $2.6-billion takeover bid for Osisko Mining and its coveted Malartic gold mine in Quebec. Goldcorp raised its bid to $3.6 billion but walked away from the bidding war, leaving Malartic in the hands of a Yamana Gold-Agnico Eagle Mines consortium (which paid $3.9 billion). "Osisko had a higher value to them at this point in time than it had to us," Goldcorp chairman Ian Telfer told The Sun in a September interview. Osisko spinoff Osisko Gold Royalties, which has a five-per-cent royalty on Malartic production, has quickly become a force in the royalty/mine finance space, particularly if a merger with royalty play Virginia Mines goes through.
Pretium lands partner with deep pockets
I interviewed Pretium CEO Bob Quartermain earlier this year and he talked about the Chinese affinity for gold and the movement of the physical metal from the West to the East. On Dec. 8, Quartermain put a pile of money where his mouth was, announcing an $81-million financing from Zijin Mining Group, a billion-dollar precious and base metals miner and China's largest gold producer. The cash will help Pretium fund capital expenditures including camp infrastructure at Brucejack, its high-grade, advanced-stage gold project in northwestern B.C. The financing, which gives Zijin a 10-per-cent stake in the company and a seat on the board, caps a tumultuous period for Pretium, which saw its share price battered last October amid a resource estimate controversy.
Coup shakes up West African gold plays
A popular uprising in early November toppled longtime Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaoré and sent shockwaves through the head offices of several Canadian mining companies building gold mines there. Burkina Faso is the fastest-growing gold producer in Africa and — until the coup that saw an army general temporarily take control — had been considered one of the most stable and low-cost addresses on the continent. Vancouver-based mining companies with projects in Burkina Faso include B2Gold with its Kiaka project, and True Gold, which is building its funded/permitted Karma gold mine and still anticipates initial production by the end of 2015. Other firms with operating mines in Burkina Faso include Endeavour Mining, IAMGOLD, and Semafo — which was hit with a three-day "illegal work stoppage" at its Mana mine after the unrest, according to company press releases. A transitional government is in place — with the military overseeing mines and other cabinet posts — and elections are scheduled for 2015.
Duty to consult ... and accommodate
On June 26, the Supreme Court of Canada recognized Tsilhqot'in ownership of 1,750 square kilometres of land in the central Interior, increasing the clout of First Nations in a province where most of the land is subject to aboriginal title. "Governments and individuals proposing to use or exploit land, whether before or after a declaration of aboriginal title, can avoid a charge of infringement or failure to adequately consult by obtaining the consent of the interested aboriginal group." If mining companies doing business in the province needed another reason to put First Nations concerns front and centre, this court decision was it.
The federal government giveth...
On Dec. 19, Seabridge Gold got the green light for its high-grade KSM gold-copper deposit 65 kilometres northwest of Stewart, after a joint provincial/federal environmental assessment process. KSM is located in B.C.'s "golden triangle" and is one of the world's largest undeveloped deposits, with proven and probable reserves of 38 million ounces of gold and 9.9 billion pounds of copper, as well as silver and molybdenum. The mine would provide 1,800 direct jobs during construction and 1,000 jobs annually over a 52-year mine life, according to the company. The biggest hurdle, however, will undoubtedly be the price tag — an initial capital cost of $5.3 billion to build the mine, according to a preliminary feasibility study.
...and the federal government taketh
Taseko added a "New" to its Prosperity copper-gold project — another mammoth B.C. deposit — to address environmental and First Nations concerns, but the federal government shot down New Prosperity again, on environmental grounds. Taseko's initial application, which proposed turning Fish Lake into a tailings pond, had been rejected by Ottawa after getting the green light from Victoria. Taseko responded to the latest federal rejection by taking its case to the courts, arguing it did not receive fair process after spending $130 million to make its mine project more environmentally responsible. All was not lost for Taseko, however — in September it announced an all-share, $80-million takeover of Curis Resources — also a Hunter Dickinson company — and its advanced-stage Florence copper project in Arizona.


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Sorry Messages for your Husband
One of the things that every human being has in common, is the ability to make mistakes. The human that had never made a mistake in his life, has not yet been born. But you see, the thing is not to avoid making mistakes since that is completely impossible, but to accept the consequences of your mistakes, and either move forward or try to improve them, but never dwell on the past. And one may ask, how could they fix something they have broken, to a point when they think it cannot be fixed. Well, a good place to start is a sincere apology. Some kind words, that come straight from your heart, explaining how sorry you feel and how much you want your husband back into your life. But I am sure that in order to set the mood, you need some sort of a template or some ideas. Well here are the best messages of apology you can send to your husband!
Sincere Sorry Messages for your Husband
- I just wanted to say I am sorry if I hurt you and I miss you a lot. Please forgive me.
- I am sorry, for what I did! But, I want you to know that I really love you… please forgive me!
- I am sorry from the bottom of my heart for whatever I did and for whatever I said. Please forgive me.
- All I can think of right now is what a complete screw up I've been all this time we've been together. I cannot imagine how you were able to put up with me for this long. Yet, I managed to annoy even the only person that could stand me, and even worse, the only person that ever loved me this much. So I can only ask for forgiveness. I love you.
- I have been many things throughout my life, but responsible has never been one of them. I failed to fulfill my duty and responsibility to make you happy. Yet, if you choose to forgive me, I promise to change. My love for you is too great to just let go. I love you.
- 20 Heartfelt Sorry Text Messages
- They say that you have to fight for the things you love, so I've let my ego aside, put on my armor, and I'm prepared to fight for you, because you are the love of my life. Please forgive me.
- I know it may be hard for you to believe right now, but I love you more than you could possibly imagine. You are the best thing that has happened to me, and it is sad to see you disappear from it like that, sad enough that I am unable to let go. Thus here I am, dropping all of my ego just to seek forgiveness. I love you.
- I am sorry for talking to you like that. I really should have considered your feelings more. I am really sorry. Please forgive me.
- No matter how many times you reject my apology, I will never surrender, I will never quit, until you decide to forgive me. Because my love for you is too strong to just let go.
- You are the only thing I cannot just simply dethatch from my everyday life. Even though my love for you is strong enough to split the earth into two, but my actions have been bad enough to split us into two. The only thing I want right now is for you to forgive me.
Heartfelt Sorry Images for your Husband
- Everything about you is perfect, your perfect smile, your beautiful eyes, your kind heart. Yet, I've managed to neglect all that and act stupidly, like I always do. Yet this time it broke your heart, and for that, I sincerely apologize and wish for you to take me back. I love you.
- In return for your never ending love and trust, I gave you betrayal and sorrow. I am really the worst wife this world has to offer, but at least I'm yours, and my love for you is too strong to let go. So please, forgive me. I love you.
- Apology Love Letter for your Boyfriend
- I wish life had a rewind button, so I could go back in time and erase all the stupid mistakes I did. Yet, since there is no such thing like that, all I can do is seek forgiveness. I love you.
- I know you've heard this before from me a million times, but I love you, and I truly apologize for all I've done. So please, forgive me for the millionth and one time! I love you.
- If it is a life without you, then it is a life I do not want to live. You truly are the love of my life, and I am terribly sorry for hurting you like that. Please forgive me.
- Letting the worst side of me come out like that, truly was the worst thing that could happen between us, which I promise not to ever let happen again if you only choose to forgive me. I love you.
- I want you to know that I did not mean all the things I said to you. And although I can justify you being mad at me, I cannot let this end like this. So please, forgive me my love, and let us live the rest of our lives together. I love you.
- One of these days, you will understand that you cannot stay mad at me for too long, yet for that to happen, I have to give to you my sincerest apology for everything that happened. So, please forgive me.
- Your heart has shattered to a million pieces, and it is me that is responsible. I sincerely regret everything, and all I can ask for, is forgiveness. I love you.
- I cannot believe something this beautiful can end in such an ugly and cruel way. Thus, I have to prevent it with all of my driving force. And the best place to start, is right here, right now, giving the most sincere apology I have given in my entire life. Please forgive me, I love you.
- Due to my foolishness, I have lost the thing that was the most precious to me, our relationship. But I love you too much just to let go, so please forgive me, and I promise from now on to make your life one worth living. I love you.


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Mike Sotelo has over 10 years of commercial real estate broker experience working at CBRE, Inc. and specializes in tenant and landlord representation of office/healthcare sales and leasing in the greater Sacramento area. Some of Mike's notable recent clients are Sutter Health, RadNet, Regional Cardiologist Associates & Quest Diagnostics. Mike also has experience servicing all of his client's commercial real estate needs through CBRE's expansive affiliate office network throughout California.
Prior to joining CBRE, Mike spent 13 years in management with AT&T in various departments, including sales. Mike earned a Marketing Masters in Business Administration from Golden Gate University and a Juris Doctorate with taxation specialization from UOP McGeorge Scholl of Law while working full-time at AT&T.
In a competitive marketplace, Mike's business management and specialized commercial real estate knowledge and experience has helped produce the desired results for his clients throughout the years. Working with CBRE's comprehensive resource departments such as research, appraisals, property management and investments, to name a few, Mike has been able to consistently provide the best commercial real estate support to his clients in any market.
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- RadNet, Inc. - Radiology
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- Residential West Senior Care
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Hi there fruit lovers!!
I need your help!!
I'm moving to the US (I'm from Italy) for work, starting next week.. Destination Houston :)
Could anyone give me any tips on where to buy large quantities of fruits??
I know about farmers markets but usually they have more veggies and local produce, I'm looking for lots of tropical fruits!!
Also if anyone loves Durians lets meet up! I need to find some when I'm there! Wish to have the Malaysian durian (frozen its fine) but I know its hard to get :(
Anyways if anyone cold give me some tips it would be very appreciated and if you want to meet up just send me a message!
Ciao! :)
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I don't live in Houston, but that's where Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram has her organic produce co-op. You can buy tons of organic fruit from that co-op in various parts of Houston.
Thank you! :)
Hey, man! I would recommend going to one of the asian markets in town. It's called Viet Hoa. They sell some Durians! Tastes pretty good, but it really does not compare to fresh picked ones!
I think I've been there already! :) they have the frozen ones but these are all from Thailand and usually the standard quality ones.. I'm soooooo craving D24!!!!!
Malaysia is the only place I've been so far where they have the best varieties! Loved it over there!! :)
I found them frozen last month when I was in China but no where else!! I paid like $25 for 500gr.. crazy!
The ones I find here are about $6 for that same quantity but have little taste.. :((
Some guy from Wholefoods advised me to go at Ranch99 market but hadn't tried it yet..
You are going to be sooooooooooo happy in Houston (well, fruit-wise, anyway, lol). I used to shop here 20+ years ago and if the yelp comments are anything to go by, the prices are even better. Actually, this store is just a tiny part of the actual markets that extend around it. All the green roofed buildings are established sellers. From memory, a lot of the trucks around the periphery and down the aisles are also sellers. You have to find parking where you can, out of anyone's way. Again, this is from memory so they may have tidied things up since then.
If it's too far to travel from where you'll be living, try these links.
Thank you so much Eva for the link to the market! I'll check it out this week! :)
Wow!! This market looks so much like home!! :) In Italy I always bought my fruits at farmers market, I love it there! :)) I left everyday with a smile.. grocery store shopping is just not the same thing ;)
Thank you again!! :)
Ciao ciao! :)
Did you ever make it out to the markets, Dustin? I'm curious whether the setup has changed and don't know anyone in Houston who could tell me first-hand.
Hey Eva, yes I did make it to the market.. Canino Market is very fun to buy at, makes you kinda feel you're out of the US for a moment ;) I did find some good deals there (mangoes and tomatoes mostly)
I also visited some Asian supermarkets which are loaded with cheap tropical fruits.. I was buying young coconuts at Central Market for 3.99 each, not I get them for about 1.20 each when I buy a case at Ranch99.. I've also found the whole ones at Hong Kong Market along with asian mangoes and other good stuff.. :)
I still mostly shop at Central Market, since its near to where I live and the quality is very good there.. Still I guess fruit season hasn't started all the way, peaches, apricots etc are still pretty expensive..
oh well.. I'll thrive on coconut water and bananas for now ;) hahah just kidding, but yeah coconut water is THE BEST! :)
Thank you again for the excellent tips you gave me!
So glad it's worked out for you, Dustin! I love bulk shopping and don't mind traveling to do it. We lived in Alief when I shopped there.
If you're feeling adventurous and there's something in season (I'm living on Aussie time now, lol) check out these links to pick-your-own farms. Most are probably within driving distance to make a day of it. Definitely check ahead of time if a location is still open or if hours have changed because I know King's Orchard is gone (and I cried a bit about it because it was a dream to pick at - plenty of variety, clean, organized and HUGE value for money at the time).
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Science shows urban density promotes social interaction
April 23, 2013 · by feetfirstphilly · in News, Walking · Leave a comment
It's no secret that dense, urban neighborhoods promote walkability, but now a scientific study shows even more benefits of density. Researchers at the University of Utah created a model to simulate social interaction based on possible live and work locations. What they found should come as no surprise: characteristics of urban sprawl, especially decentralization, significantly […]


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Safety functions which use the individual's biological belongings have been in use for quite a while now. The hospitality industry relies on folks and has less technological change happening just because the people who work there are what make that enterprise the way it is. You can't have robots serving folks drinks and meals and establish an environment of friendliness. Quite often the method of making post-event reviews can be a very time consuming job, nevertheless the usage of event software to assist handle this activity signifies that event managers are able to rapidly and easily see the outcomes of their occasions.
The downside being, if you do not embrace the current trends of know-how for all of your occasions and stage methods, your audience, or purchasers will dig for ways to use the expertise on their own! The second stage of educational know-how is related to the 'electronic revolution' with the introduction and institution of sophisticated hardware and software.
WST Middle occasions embody a fall welcome reception, a spring lunch celebrating WST college students and mentors, the spring WST Distinguished Lecture and Ladies's Consciousness Month event, and StrengthsFinders Workshops. Class begins with a ten minute synopsis of world and nationwide events delivered in a format that is appropriate for students. In an age of digital disruption, know-how firms face rising strain to improve time to market and guarantee their choices are greatest at school.
Similarly, in the education sector too, the impact of the developments in science and expertise is very commendable. Steaming media online allows real time data to be handed by means of web connections with out information delays being caused by the big quantities of reminiscence and knowledge that is stored by an online server. The channel displays educational shows, animated reveals, sporting events, documentaries and musical performances all in 3D, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The science and know-how has been responsible for the event of: agriculture, communications, credit score facilities, electrical energy, schooling, health, housing, infrastructure, industries, transportation, and so forth. In one other growth that may have a bearing on innovative science and know-how prospects for Indian corporations-on the sidelines of the climate change convention at Copenhagen, India's proposal for a worldwide network of innovation centres for climate-friendly technologies received vast consensus.


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Chemistry is an enquiry-based discipline involving practical and investigational skills and consequently at the Cedars there is an emphasis on hands-on experimental work in our well-equipped laboratories.
From Year 9 Chemistry is taught as a separate subject by specialists. At GCSE Level, pupils are prepared for the AQA Chemistry specification. This specification contains a broad range of chemical topics that are designed to engage and stimulate students' interest in chemistry whilst providing the knowledge and understanding required for progression to A Level. The specification emphasises scientific knowledge, the application of science and the scientific process.
Topics include:
We have our own Science Enhancement Programme at the school and we take part in a wide range of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) events organised in London and beyond.
Chemistry GCSE Specification is below and Chemistry is also a popular subject at A Level where we also follow the AQA specification.
GCSE AQA Chemistry Specification
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Carrot juice colors the couscous a vibrant orange, creating an impressive yet simple side dish. You can prepare the couscous a day ahead and reheat it in the microwave before serving.
How to Make It
Bring first 4 ingredients to a simmer over medium-high heat; gradually stir in couscous. Remove from heat; cover and let stand 5 minutes. Drizzle with oil; fluff with a fork. Sprinkle with chives; toss to combine.


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You've all heard about them, right? Yeah, the little buggers sneak up on you, bite you, and—maybe—make you sick. Sometimes really sick.
They're not really bugs, of course, but tiny eight-legged critters remotely related to spiders but without the benefits spiders provide. (Note that adult females plump up like small grapes once they've satisfied their appetite.)
For today, we're considering blacklegged ticks, aka the deer tick—the name it was christened with years ago, before entomologists realized that tick is already here; has been for thousands of years—and it already has a name. Yes, we've got a couple of other ticks we can't ignore. But that's for another day.
So … the best reason for ditching the name "deer tick"? It suggests deer are the problem. OK, blacklegged ticks do infest deer and deer can travel widely, so yes, they carry them around in the literal sense and ticks will drop off here, there, most anywhere. But no, deer don't vector (aka "carry") Lyme disease. Look to mice, chipmunks, and shrews for that.
So. Back to the topic at hand. The youngest ticks are six-legged larvae, the size of the period at the end of this sentence—and with one exception, they don't vector disease. (More on that in another post.) After they feed on, say, a mouse or robin, they morph into nymphs and grow as large as poppy seeds. Since poppy seeds with legs are still darn small, they're the ones that most often nail us.
And the adults? They're more likely to vector Lyme and the co-infections that too often accompany it or act in its stead. After all, ticks have adapted to be secretive; to keep from being detected. But since by now they're the size of sesame seeds—still small, yes, but easier to see—you're more likely to get shed of them before they do damage.
No matter which life stage they're at, know how to protect yourself. Because you can't count on feeling them crawling on you. Here's the countdown:
Recognize and avoid tick habitat. Tick species differ in where they prefer to hang out, but it's possible to come too close for comfort to a tick anytime you leave the pavement. Sure, some parts of the state are home to orders of magnitude more ticks than others are, but that's no reason to think you're immune to those nasty little critters catching you unawares. And it's so easy to be unaware.
Daily Tick Check! Regardless how careful you are, you won't manage to steer clear of ticks 100 percent of the time. Perform daily tick checks even if you haven't been outdoors in a day or so. Get to know the spots and bumps on your skin so you can recognize new ones. New ones that just happen to have legs.
Dress the part. If you'll be in tick habitat (meaning you step off the pavement), take precautions by wearing light-colored, long pants tucked into your socks and a light-colored shirt tucked into pants. It'll be easier to see ticks crawling on you and more difficult for ticks to get to your skin.
Use repellents. Here's more on choosing the right repellent. and this guide from Consumer Reports.
Remove ticks safely. Only one method has been officially evaluated for its ability to safely remove ticks — using sharp tweezers, grab a tick as close to the skin as possible and gently pull up. Other methods could increase the risk of acquiring a tick-borne disease. To learn more, see "It's tick season. Put away the matches."
Which is all we'll say for now, other than on August 7 we're hosting a statewide conference on—you guessed it—ticks. Oh … and skeeters, too:
- Breaking the Cycle: Integrated Management of Ticks and Mosquitoes
- Tuesday, August 7, 2018, 9 AM
- Westchester County Center, 198 Central Ave, White Plains, New York


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Large crowd expected in O'Connor Park
One change to Offaly team to face Dublin in Leinster U-21 Hurling Final
The Offaly team to play Dublin in the Leinster U-21 hurling final tonight (July 6) shows one change from the team that defeated Carlow in the semi-final.
Conor Freeman from the Carrig & Riverstown Club comes into the side to replace the injured Cillian Kiely
The game in O'Connor Pk which throws in at 7.30pm.
The team is:
1 Eoghan Cahill Birr
2 Darren Healy Lusmagh
3 David O'Toole Greene Shamrocks (c)
4 Paddy Delaney Kinnitty
5 Dan Doughan Shinrone
6 Ben Conneely St Rynagh's
7 Adrian Cleary Shinrone
8 Darragh Wyer Ballinamere
9 Padraic Guinan Drumcullen
10 Johnny O'Toole Greene Shamrocks
11 Emmet Nolan Birr
12 Ronan Hughes St Rynagh's
13 Conor Freeman Carrig & Riverstown
14 Oisin Kelly Belmont
15 Dylan Murray Kilcormac/Killoughey


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Shelton riverfront festival to memorialize former resident who battled deadly illness
When Carlo Minasi became ill in Rome during his junior year in college abroad, it was an unexpected blow.
Carlo was a student at the University of Connecticut and had always been athletic, playing soccer and basketball.
He loved to drive his Subaru WRX and was licensed to drive a shuttle bus at college.
"My kid was the healthiest kid," said Carlo's mother, Leslie Minasi. "He never missed a day of school. He worked hard and he played hard."
The Minasis lived in Shelton when Carlo was born and later moved to Easton, where they've lived for 20 years. Carlo was a member of the ski team at Joel Barlow High School.
After falling ill in Italy, he was airlifted back to the United States and was diagnosed with a form of cancer called osteosarcoma, which was localized in the sacrum, the bone at the base of the spine.
Under the care of Dr. Robert Dawe in Fairfield, his sacrum was removed during a grueling two-day surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
"We lived in hospitals for three months," Leslie Minasi recalled, and Carlo was eventually transferred to Gaylord Hospital in Wallingford. "They're amazing there," she said.
Joined wheelchair basketball team
Carlo had to use a wheelchair to move about, but with help from physical therapists "he was getting better and stronger," his mother said. "The surgery compromised his ability to walk, and he needed to learn how to walk. He was using a walker."
Under the mentorship of Todd Johnson of the Dana Reeves Foundation, Carlo joined Connecticut Spokebenders, a wheelchair basketball team.
But his recovery was short lived, and despite 14 months of chemotherapy treatments, the cancer reappeared. "We still had hope," Leslie Minasi said, "but it didn't turn out the way it was supposed to."
Carlo died in August 2013 at age 22.
Bike ride and band performances
"The most important thing in my life right now is honoring my son," his mother said, and the Bike for Hope event in Shelton will take place in Carlo's memory on Saturday, Sept. 6.
"It helps us to keep his memory alive," she said.
The bike event will be run simultaneously with a Down By the River music festival at Veterans Memorial Park (the Riverwalk) on Canal Street.
Both events will benefit Moving with Hope, a Shelton-based nonprofit organization founded by Tad Duni, who is Bike for Hope Committee chairman and owns Life Designs, a Shelton therapy and exercise center.
Moving with Hope funds services for survivors of brain and spinal cord injuries, and "helps people rebuild their lives," Leslie Minasi said.
The nonprofit organization's services include physical therapy, socialization, and locating appropriate living facilities.
Before such help was available, "people were shut-ins," Minasi said, and medical insurance doesn't cover all rehabilitation costs.
'Quality of life'
Moving with Hope "helps them get a quality of life," she said. "My son had a lot of friends, but even with that, it can be very isolating."
Minasi knew Duni years ago when she belonged to a gym he owned and Carlo would tag along.
After Carlo's death, she was "reconnected" with Duni, a man she calls "altruistic."
Duni said he found himself "spending tens of thousands of dollars out of my salary" to help the patients at his health facility, and he decided to found Moving with Hope. "Patients are struggling for money," he said. "You can't cut back services."
'He was wise beyond his years'
Carlo would have wanted to help the people the Sept. 6 event will benefit, his mother said, and he would have loved the concept of a bike ride and music festival.
"He was a great kid and a wonderful person," she said. "He was very empathetic. He was there when his friends needed help. He was wise beyond his years. He was a big music lover and a festival-goer."
The music festival will run from 11 a.m.-7 p.m., and live bands will include Shakedown, a Grateful Dead cover band; The Bernadettes, playing electric rhythm and blues, and Shameless.
There also will be a beer garden; food, arts and crafts vendors, and children's activities including face painting and an inflatable bouncy house. Admission is free.
The event also features the fifth annual Doc Dowling Chili Cook-Off, with a $10 fee to sample the chili.
Bike rides of many lengths
Bike for Hope runs from 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and will occur in "three or four waves," starting at the corner of Howe Avenue and Cornell Street, Duni said.
There's a 50-mile ride to Waterbury and back; a 25-mile ride to Oxford and back; a 10-mile ride on the Housatonic River Greenway, and a 1- to 5-mile event for families.
Rides for hand cyclists are being planned for 5, 10, 15 and 30 miles.
Bike riders may join Team Carlo, headed up by Carlo's father Giuliano Minasi, or they can join another team or form a team.
Registration is at www.dbtr.org, and riders will find personal donation pages at the website.
The top fundraiser will receive a $1,500 Cannondale CAAD Bike donated by Class Cycles in Southbury.
'It's going to be a great day'
For each $35 gift to Moving with Hope, donors receive a Team Carlo T-shirt designed by the Minasi family.
"People are buying T-shirts all over the world," Duni said. "We're hoping 500 to 600 people will wear his shirt at the festival. It's going to be a great day."
Leslie Minasi hopes the event continues every year. "I'm hoping a lot of people turn out," she said. "I'd like to see a sea of Team Carlo shirts."
To register for the bike ride or donate to Moving with Hope, visit www.dbtr.org.


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Three out of ten Portuguese entertainment correspondents agree: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI for short, is the surprise hit of the TV season! That is to say, this CBS program earned a Golden Globe nomination for best drama series, the only new program so honored (I know, I know, it could only have been homophobia that denied a similar nod to the oafish, and canceled, Normal, Ohio). Far more important, this program about forensic scientists on the prowl has secured a spot in the Top 20. Its heavily advertised lead-in, The Fugitive, was expected to win audiences, but viewers instead tuned in en masse after the would-be success left the air. All of which has earned CSI the dubious right to light out for Thursday night at 8:00 p.m., where giants stalk the land. Fortified by the Goliath of Survivor II, CSI now goes up against Will and Jack and David Spade. I wish it luck.
A few minutes' thought might suggest that of course this show would be a hit: CSI is TV that HAL could love. (What better year for it to get the big PR push than 2001?) Not just HAL, of course. But put it this way: This is the least sexy show ever to set down in Vegas, here glimpsed mostly as a blue-lighted night world of impersonal hotel corridors and warehouses peopled with the marginal, the forgotten, and the willfully extraneous. CSI's only concern with showgirls is how legible their fingerprints remain after being wiped from the rim of a tub. Consider also that this is a show whose very name dignifies process, whose dialogue at times appears to have been scripted by a computer screenwriting program, whose array of gadgets performs most of the intellectual work, and whose characters have as much personality as those little Windows "Help" icons. The most interesting thing of all about CSI might be that not much of this matters.
Morbid, creepy, sometimes downright yucky, CSI wraps stunning data crunching (yes, "stunning" data crunching) and brain-teasing thrills in a sleek package. It strides confidently past the cyborg and heads right for the machine. This show presents engaging visions of a post-human workplace, and I can't decide whether to be afraid or to rejoice. Maybe later this year, one episode will feature a robot arresting a human. Most of us will probably end up rooting for the robot.
Technology in the abstract and collective is the hero here, which should be recognized as a significant departure from the norm. Quincy, the program's most obvious forebear, centered on the prickly humanity of its protagonist. All that dissection just reinforced his sure instinct for settling slippery questions of human greed and anger. And though the various outposts of the Law & Order franchise dote on process, each show focuses on people, both good and bad, doing their best to carve out compassion and flexibility within an often intractable justice system. Even Knight Rider, one of the more machine-heavy shows to grace the tube thus far, endowed its wundercar with a persnickety personality of its own. Machines aspired to complement human beings rather than the reverse.
Whereas here, HAL wins. One recent CSI episode featured, among other gadgetry, DNA-typing machines, a voice-print identifier, an instant chemical separator, a fingerprint locator, and several databases. Each one did its thing surely, competently, and inevitably, and I for one couldn't wait to see whether the shapes of the two stress patterns on the voice-print identifier matched up or not. Sure, humans still collect and enter data, as well as make sense of it, but this show has set a course for their eventual exit, not to say extinction. In the ideal world of CSI, we would all be Homer Simpsons, snoozing blissfully as dials and levers toil thanklessly away beneath our raised feet.
None of which is to say that the show is no fun, or that its cast is wasted. Despite the worrisome presence of goonish blast-meister Jerry Bruckheimer as executive producer, a cool intelligence animates everything here. Credit creator Anthony Zuiker, whose already legendary promo job convinced dubious CBS veeps to give his brainchild a chance. Zuiker clearly scribbled feverishly and listened well during months of ride-alongs with the graveyard forensics shift, adroitly capturing both the horror and the humor of working among the decayed. His cast, many of them seasoned B-levelers (leads William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger have visited every spot on the dial between decent and dreck), hits its marks, gamboling from crime scene to crime scene with the slightly off-putting avidity of everyone whose job demands a certain degree of distancing. They wager on solutions and often seem more eager to find dead bodies than living ones. When Petersen finds an apparent suicide in a hotel bathtub, he closes the door to be alone with the corpse and "get his mojo working."
Yet these actors also know when to get out of the way of the bells and whistles. Some of the cast members have been allotted notional personality traits: Helgenberger's character used to be a stripper and has a daughter; maverick Warrick Brown (Gary Dougan) has a seemingly problematic gambling jones. Yet for the most part these folks are entirely satisfactory servants who ferry evidence back to the lab, then go out in search of more. Petersen's Gil Grissom bears what little narrative and emotional weight CSI strives to lift. (For all of the feminist brio Helgenberger's Catherine Willows incarnates, she's still a distant third in importance behind Grissom and the voice-pattern analyzer.) So far, we know that Grissom owns a Janet Reno pinup and has invented his own fingerprint technology: "Red Creeper. Serious case, serious print powder." More or less a cipher, Grissom may be a new kind of hero: technician as creative genius. By comparison, MacGyver was a Luddite.
Really, the most exciting moments here are tech tricks: often unreliable POV shots that depict the investigators' evolving solutions, more often than not wrong turns, in a grainy stock that quite smartly captures the deductive process. One shot even followed a bullet from gun barrel to innards, then out again. In all, I enjoy this show a great deal, but I can't help finding it more than a little disturbing--not just in the maggot-infested ways it strives to manipulate our response, but in its apparently wholesale, and probably unconscious, embrace of operating systems as principles of order, and more than that, of salvation.


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My how time fly's when your in Ireland! :)
So last weekend's trip was to county Kerry and county Cork. And it was a three day weekend due to a bank holiday, so that was great! Of course they were both beautiful places, full of friendly locals and beautiful scenery. I don't think I could ever get tired of
the scenery here...now the weather, that's a different story! It has started to get way colder, you can see your breath not only in the morning, but all day! I don't think I will like this winter.... (My relatives in Wisconsin, I don't know how you survive it!) But, since the weather has become increasingly worse, it gave me a good excuse to buy some cute new red rain boots! Yay! In Cork this weekend, there was a huge jazz festival going on. This made it impossible to book a room in Cork, so me and Alexia and Jean decided to stay in the neighboring county of Kerry (we stayed in a town called Killarney) and just do one day in Cork. The festival was crazy, the streets were packed with people (too many people for me!) and there were different bands playing on every street corner and in every pub and restaurant too. My favorite that we saw was an Irish Johnny Cash cover band! You could tell they really payed attention to detail, they all wore black, and the fake Johnny had a fake drawl and his talking voice actually sounded like Johnny's!
So this weekend is Halloween, and I'm going to be the American flag and the golden snitch from Harry Potter! For my flag outfit, I have a red and white stripped shirt and a blue skirt that I am somehow going to put stars on. And for the snitch I have a gold dress and I'm somehow going to make wings out of white fabric....if I can find any.... Also, Alexia's family is coming this weekend
to stay in Dublin with her, and I'm excited to meet them, because I will be staying with them for Christmas. Then the first weekend of November Alexia and I are going to county Monaghan to stay with our friend Ethine. And she said her parents are going to take us to Northern Ireland to see Belfast and the Giant's Causeway, and hopefully do some horseback riding! Then for the third week in November I will be in Rome for five days, staying with my old friend Francesca, and after that is Thanksgiving! Can't wait! :)
And today I got a package from home that contained two small paintings I did this summer, as well as very pretty scrapbooking paper and stickers, and a beautiful paper quilt my mom made! So this evening I just got done re-decorating my room and I love it!
It's really starting to feel like 'home' here. My room is cute and cozy, with a zil
lion pictures of my friends and family around me. I know how to take to bus like a pro, I don't forget my bags when I go grocery shopping anymore, I know a good sushi place with Monday night specials,and I know that O'Connell St, and Henry St. are the best places for shopping. :) Overall, life is good.
My new and improved room!


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Mon, 10 December 2012
All the answers to last weeks cliffhanger are revealed...
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Sat, 1 December 2012
This tape was made by Paul a man in New Jersey to let his family know that he didn't want them to interfere with his plans to go on a diet he hoped would cure him of AIDS. Logan Jaffe found this tape at a yard sale in Gainesville Florida.
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