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Does Failure Lead To Success?
Does Failure Lead To Success? What are your thoughts? How does this quote from Michael Jordan relate to you?
Homeless Man Sues Parents For “Too Little Love.”
He blames his parents — for everything!
A Brooklyn man slapped his mom and dad with a $200,000 lawsuit that blames them for leaving him homeless and destitute because they allegedly raised him and his sibling in a poor household — and didn’t love him enough.
Bernard Anderson Bey, 32, claims he never got enough affection or support from parents Vickie and Bernard Manley — so now he wants them to mortgage their share of a Bedford-Stuyvesant home so their family can buy two Domino’s Pizza franchises to employ them all, according to the bizarre suit.
“Our whole family is really poor, and my father doesn’t care about the situation,” Bey said yesterday. “I feel unloved and abandoned.”
BERNARD BEY
Wants to make parents pay.
Bey claims in the self-filed Brooklyn Supreme Court suit that as a child his father beat him, called him “bastard” and “motherf–ker” and did drugs right in front of him.
“Defendant Bernard Manley informed the plaintiff he was entitled to nothing, which is true,” Bey wrote in the suit. “I am not entitled to receive anything from an asset he owns. I only thought he might find pleasure in seeing his children become successful.”
Bey’s mother, Vickie Anderson, said yesterday she was scared of her eldest son.
“I live in the projects. You want to sue me? What’s next, you coming to shoot up my door?” the mother said sadly.
“He’s 32 years old. That speaks for itself. Welcome to America. Everyone in America has the same opportunity. Don’t blame the parents at this point. The choice is yours. You’re an adult.”
Manley said Bey was his stepson and dismissed the suit. “He’s not related to me. He’s not my son,” Manley said.
While Bey claimed each of his five younger siblings are on public assistance because of their parents’ neglect, a sister called him “crazy” and “a pathological liar.”
“I’m not on public assistance. My parents were not terrible. They did the best they could. He chose the life he’s leading now.”
In the Brooklyn Supreme Court suit, Bey said he demanded his parents mortgage their share in the home part-owned by the father so their family can “break the bonds of poverty” by buying two franchises like Domino’s.
Bey wrote the suit on a laptop in the Downtown Brooklyn homeless shelter where he flops.
The ne’er-do-well said he has been arrested on drug charges in the past but is trying to turn his life around and now attends an automotive trade school.
jsaul@nypost.com
Chopper Strike
In this game, each player manoeuvres a fleet of helicopters and a fleet of jeeps (equipped with AA guns), trying to gain air or ground superiority. That is to say, you win by wiping out all of your opponent’s choppers or all of his jeeps.
A d3 indicates how many pieces you will move, and a d6 how far each one will move. Choppers move on the elevated “air” board, whilst jeeps stick to the ground. Terrain obstacles complicate matters for the jeeps at the players’ “border”. Choppers take choppers out by jumping over them (à la checkers); they can also take jeeps out by bombing them (stopping right above them). Jeeps take jeeps out by landing on them; they can also take choppers out using their AA guns (stopping right below them).
I would love to play this game again!
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Makes you want to rush out and buy one huh. LOL
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98 Frugal Date Ideas. Happy Valentines Day!
Going on dates doesn’t always have to mean draining your wallet at fancy restaurants. There are plenty of affordable and entertaining dates you can go on with your beloved. After all, it’s really the time you spend with your sweetheart that matters and not how much you’re spending on the dates. Here are 98 frugal dates for you to try:
- Cook each other’s family recipes for each other.
- Nostalgia movie night. Watch your favorite movies from during your school years.
- Watch a free improv show.
- Go for a hike in a beautiful park.
- Picnic outdoors and prep delicious foods to feed each other with.
- Explore the farmers market together, and share some juicy fruits or tasty snacks to munch on.
- Take a tour around a museum the both of you haven’t been to (preferably on free museum day!).
- Go to open mic night and sing your heart out.
- Visit a board game cafe and play games to your heart’s content.
- Pal up with your partner for trivia nights in neighborhood bars.
- Create your own city tour, and visit historic landmarks.
- Pick a documentary, and discuss it after watching.
- Have a book club date night. Choose a book to read together, and hold an intimate book club meeting for two when you’re both done with it.
- Volunteer together at the pound, homeless shelter, or your favorite nonprofit.
- Go swimming together.
- Stargaze and try to name the constellations you’re staring at with the help of an app or book.
- Watch birds and wildlife, and try to identify them with a book or app.
- Pick fruit from a farm, and find recipes to cook the fruit.
- Plan a trip together, and share pretty pictures and hot-spot descriptions with each other.
- Buy a travel book of your dream travel destination, and read it together.
- Visit the library, and read books together.
- Take a free meditation class together.
- Bike around the city.
- Bring $5 to the mall and see who ends up with the best buy.
- Rollerblade together or go to a roller skating rink.
- Try ice skating.
- Go on a free factory tour.
- Go bowling.
- Play a sport together.
- Make desserts for each other.
- Become a kid again, and play games at the arcade.
- Throw a fondue night, and experiment with unique ingredients.
- Go fishing.
- Watch a movie in a drive-in theater, and make a sundae or a root beer float to consume at home before going.
- Visit the zoo.
- Go to a jazz bar.
- Build a jigsaw puzzle together.
- Go to a local festival.
- Visit a flea market or thrift store, and try to find things you can restore together.
- Walk around Ikea, and get a meal there after exploring.
- Miniature golf.
- Attend a tasting of your favorite liquor.
- Check out an art exhibit.
- Paint together.
- Try to fold challenging origami pieces.
- Design mugs for each other.
- Go to a playground, and exchange childhood memories.
- Visit a dog park with your dog.
- Attend a pet show or meetup in your area.
- Make a scrapbook of your best memories together.
- Practice photo shoots if one of you is into photography.
- Attend free lectures.
- Go to a book signing.
- Doing crossword puzzles together.
- Take a dance class.
- Go to ’80s or ’90s night at a club or bar in your city, and dress up in clothes from that era.
- Paint ceramics together.
- Take a scenic road trip.
- Play video games from your childhood.
- Go to an airport, and watch planes take off together.
- Make and experiment with cocktails. Come up with your own names for the concoctions.
- Take a ferry ride.
- Camp in your room, and make blanket forts. Make s’mores with your microwave. Tell ghost stories.
- Fly a kite together. Perhaps even make the kite together before flying it.
- Play truth or dare with each other.
- Go on a coffee date.
- Visit movie locations in your city, and watch the movies after your tour.
- Go to the beach, and enjoy activities like building sandcastles and skipping rocks.
- Do a spa night at home, and give each other massages.
- Learn a new skill together from YouTube tutorials.
- Start watching a TV series together.
- Start a blog together.
- Go to the rooftop of a very high building and enjoy the view. Bring some sparklers to play with.
- Tackle an upcycling project. See this list of 200 suggestions.
- Write out your bucket list with each other.
- Admire the architecture in your city.
- Watch a play together. There are plenty of affordable plays hosted by colleges and local community groups.
- Pet-sit together.
- Go to a dive bar, and challenge each other to a game of pool, darts, or shuffleboard.
- Go open-house-hopping together.
- Check out an indoor rock climbing gym.
- Play in the snow. Make snow angels and snowmen. Start a snowball fight, and slide down a hill on a sled.
- Check out a local band.
- Redeem a daily deal together.
- Visit a candy store or ice cream parlor, and spend time talking and enjoying sweets.
- Watch a sports game together.
- Attend a poetry reading.
- Participate in a Nerf war.
- Attend free mixers in your city.
- Explore a haunted house.
- Go on a bus or train and get off at a random destination, then spend time exploring that neighborhood.
- Make a pizza together with all your favorite toppings. Get creative, and attempt to make a dessert pizza.
- Watch a high school or college sport together.
- Go to a foreign film night. They usually host one at a school or the library.
- Volunteer at an archeological dig.
- Attend a Home Depot workshop.
- Learn a language together.
- Go geochaching together.
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Speaking
I have several friends who are very wise in the way they speak. When they do speak up, everyone listens attentively because their words are always wise, well-timed, and worthwhile. Their righteous lives and careful use of words blesses and nourishes all who listen. There are others, however, that are constantly talking about everything and spending little or no time practicing what they preach. Their words are discounted as nothing more than their own desire to hear their own opinions about matters on which they know nothing—-Phil Ware
33% Of Fish Mislabeled
Seafood fraud is being blamed in a study that revealed 33 percent of fish is mislabeled. The study, conducted between 2010 and 2012, revealed that one-third of seafood sold in the US was labeled incorrectly.
The research was conducted by international advocacy group Oceana. The non-profit organization is dedicated to ocean conservation. Oceana conducted the study in an effort to expose seafood fraud and discourage overfishing.
As stated in the study, Oceana collected 1,215 seafood samples from 674 retailers across the nation. Retail locations included grocery stores, restaurants, and sushi vendors. The samples were submitted for DNA testing to determine if the seafood matched labels on the packaging.
The study revealed widespread seafood fraud as 33 percent of the samples were mislabeled. Packages labeled as “red snapper” or “tuna” were found to be mislabeled most often. DNA testing revealed that only seven of 120 “red snapper” packages actually contained red snapper.
As reported by heraldonline.com, of the areas included in the study, Southern California had the most instances of mislabeled fish. More than 50 percent of fish from Southern California was labeled incorrectly. Seafood fraud is not only misleading; it can lead to much bigger problems including health concerns.
Samples collected in New York, New York labeled as “halibut” and “red snapper” were found to include tilefish. The FDA has listed tilefish as containing high levels of mercury, which can be dangerous. In South Florida, king mackerel was sold as “grouper.” Like tilefish, king mackerel is included in the FDA “Do Not Eat” list due to high levels of mercury. Numerous packages of “white tuna” from all areas were found to be escolar. The FDA advises against consuming escolar as it can cause serious gastrointestinal illness.
The FDA has released documentation in an effort to educate consumers about seafood fraud. As 33 percent of fish is mislabeled, the documentation includes guides to assist with visual identification.
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/535855/seafood-fraud-33-percent-of-fish-mislabeled-video/#AQ7WuPgI5Fm7odZQ.99
Headache
Players move their men around the board while trying to capture the other player’s men. Pieces are cones that are stacked when captured. The winner captures all of his opponent’s men. This was one of my favorite games growing up. Ok I will never grow up 😉
911 Calls
BELIEVE it or not, These are REAL 911 Calls!
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is your emergency?
Caller: I heard what sounded like gunshots coming from the brown house on the corner.
Dispatcher: Do you have an address?
Caller: No, I have on a blouse and slacks, why?
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is your emergency?
Caller: Someone broke into my house and took a bite out of my ham and cheese sandwich.
Dispatcher: Excuse me?
Caller: I made a ham and cheese sandwich and left it on the kitchen table and when I came back from the bathroom, someone had taken a bite out of it.
Dispatcher: Was anything else taken?
Caller: No, but this has happened to me before and I’m sick and tired of it!
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is the nature of your emergency?
Caller: I’m trying to reach nine eleven but my phone doesn’t have an eleven on it.
Dispatcher: This is nine eleven .
Caller: I thought you just said it was nine-one-one
Dispatcher: Yes, ma’am nine-one-one and nine-eleven are the same thing.
Caller: Honey, I may be old, but I’m not stupid.
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What’s the nature of your emergency?
Caller: My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart
Dispatcher: Is this her first child?
Caller: No, you idiot! This is her husband!
And the winner is……….
Dispatcher: 9-1-1
Caller: Yeah, I’m having trouble breathing. I’m all out of breath. Darn….I think I’m going to pass out.
Dispatcher: Sir, where are you calling from?
Caller: I’m at a pay phone. North and Foster.
Dispatcher: Sir, an ambulance is on the way. Are you an asthmatic?
Caller: No
Dispatcher: What were you doing before you started having trouble breathing?
Caller: Running from the Police
Just Me Being Me 