Today's Quote

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill







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Today's Quote 8-18-10

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose." - Tennessee Williams









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Today's Quote

"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things." - Anthony Robbins







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Today's Quote 8-15-2010

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul." - Saint Augustine



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Jose Aviles

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MY FATHER, MY DAD Marine Corps CPL Jose D. Aviles

Today I visited the grave site of Marine Corps CPL Jose D. Aviles AKA My Father. I found out this past Friday July 9, 2010 that on June 8, 2009 My Father passed away in a Veteran Affairs Hospital in Bronx, New York. I haven't seen and/or heard from my Dad since 2001. What makes me feel worse than anything is that in April of 2007 I moved to New York and lived less than 30 miles away from the Hospital where he spent the last minutes of his life. I feel so bad, I feel terrible and now I wonder (think)"Did I do everything in my power to find him?", "Did I exhaust all means to find him?". Those questions are going to be with me forever and I just don't have an answer to them and probably never will have one. Thanks to my awesome Wife I was able to track him down to an address in the Bronx and when I thought that I would find him I got the phone call from the Hospital to answer my questions and later told that he was gone. When I heard that it felt as if the ground was pulled from under my feet, then and only then I realized that the last time I heard his voice telling me that he witnessed the September 11 attacks in New York City was the last time that I heard his voice, that the week he spent with me in late 2000 or early 2001 was the last time that I would see him and now I would give anything to see him again. He was alone when he passed away and was buried with Military honors and a Chaplain and I wasn't there to pay him my respects. He was hardly around when I was growing up but no matter what, he was MY FATHER, MY DAD and I wish I would've seen him again. Today when I saw his name engraved in the headstone I realized that it was true that he was gone (until then I was kind of in denial). No matter what happened through our lives when I was growing up, nothing matters as far as why you wasn't around, what matters to me is that you are gone and will never forgive myself for not finding you earlier, for not doing whatever it took to find you, but above all you were and will always be MY DAD. DAD I LOVE YOU and I MISS YOU.


V/R,


Jose A. Aviles
SSG, US Army

LOVE YOU ALWAYS




Jose Aviles

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Good 4th of July

Well,
Today was a good 4th of July. Didn't do much during the day but in the afternoon my wife and I went to do a little shopping and came back home. I made myself a snow cone with Blueberry syrup and played the Nintendo Wii while my wife watched her favorite TV series on DVD (Charmed). After playing th Wii for a little while my wife and I went to eat at Olive Garden. We came back home and same routine, play Wii and watch "Charmed" (makes me feel like Charmed is more important than me). Now we are laying in the bed watching Charmed while our Puppy Precious is bothering us and walking all over the bed. Precious is bad (in a good, funny sort of way) but fun at the same time. I guess it's until tomorrow.

PS.

Precious won't be still on the bed, maybe it's time for her to go to her own bed.

Jose Aviles

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Life!!

Well here we are and nothing has changed!!! Why is that? Why is life so difficult? Why is life so complicated? Why is life......life??? I certainly don't know, I would love to know so the quest continues. It is late, real late and here I am thinking about life, thinking if I am the problem, if I am the cause of my own pain. Most of it is self-inflicted pain and some of it is not. What would have happened if nothing happened long time ago? Would I still in the same predicament? Would I still be going through the same? Who knows? All I know is that I want what I had before, I want it and I won't stop until I get it back.

Jose Aviles

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GEN McChrystal scoop goes viral before Rolling Stone publishes

On Tuesday morning, Rolling Stone's explosive profile of Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal dominated the news cycle. McChrystal's dismissive remarks about President Obama and some senior White House figures are still leading the New York Times and Washington Post websites — and buzzing around Twitter and the blogosphere — at this writing. Politico even published the entire article online. But for many hours, one place you couldn't read about the Rolling Stone piece was on Rolling Stone's own website.

Magazine spokesman Mark Neschis told Yahoo! News that Rolling Stone generally does not put entire national affairs stories online, instead running them only in the print magazine. (One recent exception was Tim Dickinson's investigative piece this month on the BP oil spill.)

While a magazine understandably wants to reap the financial benefits of having a major, deeply reported story only available on the newsstand, the idea of holding breaking news for print doesn't easily mesh with the demands of the 24/7 online news cycle. Not to mention, with McChrystal summoned to the White House to discuss his comments made in front of reporter Michael Hastings, the public is going to want to know what he actually said.

Still, it's not as if Rolling Stone didn't want to generate buzz, as Neschis explained: "I gave an advancer to the AP."

The Associated Press got things going Monday afternoon, in a short piece about McChrystal's frustration with U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, but didn't go into all the gory details that would later surface.

NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell quickly tweeted: "Rolling Stone quotes Gen McChrystal says Amb(ret Gen) Eikenberry 'betrayed' him with leaked memo last yr doubting Karzai story is out fri."

Clearly, competitors can't wait until Friday to pick up a copy, especially when McChrystal has already been summoned to the White House. Neschis said that other news organizations requested a copy, and published more details from the magazine article. However, Neschis said that he did not provide a copy to Politico or to Time magazine's political writer Mark Halperin — but both published the entire story Tuesday.

Still, with the story published on Politico and elsewhere, the genie was out of the bottle. MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski read straight from the text of the article while Rolling Stone Executive Editor Eric Bates sat at the table for an interview. (Rolling Stone itself took a few more hours after the MSNBC broadcast to break down and post the piece on its own site.)

Bates, in the "Morning Joe" interview, said that the magazine had fact-checked the piece over the previous week and that there were no objections from McChrystal before publication. Considering that McChrystal has already apologized, presumably he won't later claim he was quoted out of context.

As to how Hastings got such caustic remarks out of McChrystal, Bates explained that Hastings got "really unprecedented access" with the general and his staff.

"We reported this story over the course of several months," Bates said. "We were with him on a trip in Europe that wound up getting extended because of the volcano in Iceland. So our reporter was kind of trapped with him for about two weeks in Paris and traveling from Paris to Berlin. They couldn't fly, so they had to take a bus. So we really spent a lot of time with him and really got to look behind the curtain, and hear how he and his men, top men, talk among themselves on their own."

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Lee DeWyze is new `American Idol'

LOS ANGELES – The new "American Idol" is Lee DeWyze, a paint store clerk who overcame his shyness and prevailed over soulful Crystal Bowersox in the singing contest's ninth season.

Host Ryan Seacrest said on Wednesday's finale that the 24-year-old DeWyze of Mount Prospect, Ill., edged Bowersox, also 24, of Toledo, Ohio, in viewer votes cast after Tuesday's performance show.

Although Bowersox drew higher marks from the judges for her performance this week, the panel had reaffirmed its respect for DeWyze's talent and his character — and the audience agreed. He'll release a single, "Beautiful Day."

Wednesday's finale also marked the departure of judge Simon Cowell, walking down memory lane through film clips, a parody song by Dane Clark and the return of ex-judge Paula Abdul.

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What can I do?

Well what can I do? It doesn't matter what I do it always seems that I'm doing it wrong. Just when I think that I'm doing good, in just 5 minutes I messed everything up. Damn if I do, damn if I don't. I just know that I have done everything in my power to do everything that I thought I was supposed to do. I LOVE her with everything I've got to offer and it just seems that is not good enough. I will never be able to be the Man that I'm supposed to be, I have tried to do everything that I can to shoe that I have changed and that I am willing to do anything to make it work. What can I do? What can I say? It is a loose-loose situation for me.

Jose Aviles

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What a life!!!

It is amazing how much we have to suffer in this life. One think that is doing the right thing and apparently one is not. Going above and beyond of what one think is expected it is not enough. What is easier? What is one to do? What can be done? Nobody really knows the answer, no one is perfect, no one and what makes it harder is LIFE. If both individuals are pulling the same direction there is no problems, but if they are pulling opposite directions that's where complications start. How do you fix it? How do you make it better? How can everyone get alone? That is the mystery........... That's the unknown.

Jose A. Aviles

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My 3rd Anniversary

Today is my 3rd Wedding Anniversary with my AWESOME wife. She means the world to me, she is everything in my life. I know she has my back and will always have my back. She is my friend, my confidant, my lover, she is everything that a man would want in it's life. Today marks the 3rd year from the day that we said "I DO" and will continue to "DO" forever. Sometimes I might act like I take her for granted but I don't, I know I have the best of the best and I try to cherish her every time I get a chance. I love to spoil her and I will continue to do just that because she deserves that and more. She deserves the best and one day I know that I will give her the world or I'll die trying.

Love You
V/R,

Mr. Jose A. Aviles

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The "Precious" one

She is the CUTEST.........

V/R,

Mr. Jose A. Aviles

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Health Care Bill

What is going to happen with this new health care bill? Nobody knows what's going to happen, nobody knows where this will end up? I don't think that this is going to be good. I can see a lot of debates ahead, lot of debates.

V/R,

Mr. Jose A. Aviles

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'Avatar' tops box office again; eyes 'Titanic' record

Science-fiction epic "Avatar" was poised to sink "Titanic" as the highest-grossing movie of all time after topping the North American box office for a sixth consecutive week, figures showed Monday.

Director James Cameron's groundbreaking 3-D film harvested another 34.9 million dollars at the weekend, raising its overall North American gross to 551.7 million and pushing its international earnings to almost 1.838 billion, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said.

Cameron's 1997 Oscar-winning "Titanic" remains the highest-grossing film of all time with 1.843 billion dollars.

But that mark was likely to fall sometime on Monday, Exhibitor Relations analyst Jeff Bock told AFP.

"I would say it's almost certain to beat 'Titanic' today once the international numbers are taken into account," Bock said.

"Avatar" is closing in on "Titanic's" North America record of 600.8 million dollars. It is now in second place, having surpassed the 533.3 million dollar mark set by 2008 Batman sequel "The Dark Knight.

Post-apocalyptic thriller "Legion," starring Dennis Quaid, opened this weekend in second place with 17.5 million dollars.

Denzel Washington's "Book of Eli," an action movie also set in a post-apocalyptic world took in 15.7 million dollars for third place and 60.7 million for its two-week run.

Dwayne Johnson comedy "The Tooth Fairy" opened in fourth place with 14 million dollars.

"Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson's latest film, "The Lovely Bones", an adaptation of Alice Sebold's acclaimed 2002 novel about a murdered schoolgirl who from the afterlife helps her family catch her killer, made 8.4 million dollars for fifth place.

In sixth place was "Sherlock Holmes" with 6.6 million dollars. Director Guy Ritchie's high-octane take on the adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary London detective, played by Robert Downey Junior, has taken 191 million dollars in five weeks.

Seventh place went to family film "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" with another 6.4 million dollars, pushing its take to 204 million in five weeks.

In eighth spot was "Extraordinary Measures," starring Harrison Ford as a scientist helping Brendan Fraser find a cure for his childrens' rare genetic disease. It scored a disappointing debut with six million dollars.

Love triangle comedy "It's Complicated," starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, dropped to ninth place, taking 5.8 million dollars.

Hong Kong film legend Jackie Chan weighed in at tenth place with his slapstick comedy "The Spy Next Door," which took 4.6 million dollars.

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Nicklaus: 2010 to be big year in majors for Tiger

Tiger Woods is four majors behind the record set by Jack Nicklaus going into a year in which three majors will be held on Woods' favorite courses — Augusta National, Pebble Beach and St. Andrews.

"If Tiger is going to pass my record, this is a big year for him in that regard," Nicklaus said Friday.

Woods has never missed a Masters or a U.S. Open since 1995.

"I don't know the answer what he's going to do and what he's going to play. He's the only one who can answer that," Nicklaus, who won 18 majors in his career, said during a conference call ahead of his 70th birthday on Jan. 21. "Certainly, this year with where the majors are ... he basically owns all three places.

"If he doesn't play this year, the chore will be a little tougher."

Woods has won 14 majors, with half of them coming at those three courses. He has won the Masters four times (the most recent in 2005), the British Open twice at St. Andrews by a combined 13 shots, and the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach by a record 15 shots.

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Brittany Murphy Dies

Brittany Murphy died early this morning after she went into full cardiac arrest and could not be revived.

She was 32.

A 911 call was made at 8:00 AM from a home in Los Angeles that is listed as belonging to her husband, Simon Monjack, the Los Angeles City Fire Department said.

We're told Murphy was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where she was pronounced dead on arrival. Her time of death was listed as 10:04 AM.

Murphy starred in such films as "Clueless," "8 Mile," and "Don't Say a Word." Murphy was reportedly fired from last film, "The Caller," after reports she was problematic on set.

UPDATE 3:11 PM ET -- Sources say that Brittany Murphy's mom discovered her unconscious in the shower. We're told when paramedics arrived, they quickly determined Murphy was in full cardiac arrest and immediately administered CPR. They continued CPR in route to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center -- several miles away -- and Murphy was unresponsive. She was pronounced dead at the hospital.

LA County Coroner's is picking up Murphy's body from Cedars later today and will launch a death investigation.

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Tiger Watch: Who's Who?

Call it the crash heard 'round the world. Tiger Woods' car accident has led to many stunning revelations and a lot of rumors that won't go away. The golf legend has made his mea culpa — for the rest of the story and gossip tidbits, people are looking online. Below, we take a look at some of the drama's key players in Yahoo! Search and their rumored roles.

Elin Nordegren
The wife of Tiger Woods has been thrust into the Search spotlight over the past week. While no stranger to gawkers (she was once a model, after all), this level of Search attention has elevated Ms. Nordegren to a whole new level of public scrutiny. Over the past week, Web lookups have soared an astounding 2,832%. Additionally, related Searches on "elin nordegren pictures" spiked to new heights. She has yet to release an official statement on the sordid affair.

Jaimee Grubbs
In Tiger's boilerplate apology statement, he mentions "transgressions" that have let his family down. Though Tiger hasn't named names, Jaimee Grubbs has more than volunteered to explain her part in the troublesome situation. A Los Angeles cocktail waitress and former participant on the VH1 reality show "Tool Academy," Ms. Grubbs claims to have had a lengthy affair with Woods. Additionally, she has gone on record as saying she has pictures, hundreds of risqué text messages, and even a "frantic voicemail" from the married golfer. Searches on "jaimee grubbs" and "jaimee grubbs photos" have both shot up from zip into the tens of thousands overnight. Last word: Claims to have had affair.

Rachel Uchitel
In contrast to Ms. Grubbs, Rachel Uchitel has strenuously denied the allegations that she and the world's best golfer have hooked up. Still, that hasn't stopped the Searches. Lookups on "rachel uchitel" and "who is rachel uchitel" have both rocked the Search box, as curious searchers seem unwilling to take her at her word. Time magazine has an interesting article on Ms. Uchitel. The 34-year-old nightclub promoter is reportedly "aggressive" when it comes to meeting celebrities (her mom claims she once dated Derek Jeter and A-Rod). However, in an exclusive interview with the New York Post, Uchitel has denied the allegations of a romance with Woods, even going so far as to offer to take a lie detector test. Last word: Denies affair.

Kalika Moquin
Lastly (or not?), there's Kalika Moquin. A relative newcomer to the Tiger watch, Ms. Moquin was named in Life & Style magazine as having romantic links to Tiger. As soon as that possible connection hit the Web, searches on Moquin roared into breakout status. Though her connection to Tiger is still just a rumor, folks clearly want to know more about her. Life & Style explains that she works as a marketing manager at a Las Vegas nightclub. According to the magazine, when Moquin was asked about an alleged affair, she neither confirmed not denied it, saying, "It's not appropriate for me to comment one way or the other." Last word: No comment.

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A special World

A special world for you and me
A special bond one cannot see
It wraps us up in its cocoon
And holds us fiercely in its womb.

Its fingers spread like fine spun gold
Gently nestling us to the fold
Like silken thread it holds us fast
Bonds like this are meant to last.

And though at times a thread may break
A new one forms in its wake
To bind us closer and keep us strong
In a special world, where we belong.



Jose,
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Kanye West ruins Taylor Swift's big moment

9:30pm - People are going nuts in here. They booed like crazy when Kanye leaped onstage. He responded by giving them all the finger on the way back to his seat. During commercial, Pink walked by him shaking her head in disgust. Even the show producers gave him a talking to. Not surprisingly, he didn't seem at all bothered by everyone's reactions, promptly grabbing his date Amber Rose and planting a kiss on her lips.

9:25pm - Kanye West ruins Taylor Swift's big moment. Further proof that he's on the Hennessy. In my humble opinion, that is.

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