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by T.W. Budig ECM Capitol Reporter One Republican fewer is running for Congress in the 6th Congressional District. Sen. John Pederson, of St. Cloud, has dropped out of the scramble to replace Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. In a statement, Pederson said he could not balance the priorities...Read More
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FORT WALTON BEACH — The end of one longstanding program at Choice High School and Technical Center will help bolster other programs there.
Friday and Saturday, longtime instructor Sandy Lichauer will oversee the sale of hundreds of plants, shrubs and trees cultivated by him and students over the last three decades in the school's horticulture program.
"Anything we can sell, I'm selling it," Lichauer said Thursday as he took a break from tending hibiscus plants in the school's greenhouse. "We want it to go."
A variety of perennials, tropicals, ornamental grasses and exotic flowers will be available during the two-day sale. Stepping stones and lawn ornaments also will be sold.
All the money will go to help other programs at the school, according to Al Gardner, who oversees Choice.
Gardner said the school decided to end the certification program this year because of lack of interest and Lichauer's pending retirement.
"We've struggled over the past few years with enrollment," Gardner said. "It's just not one of those programs that has a lot of appeal for young people."
High schoolers or adults enrolled in horticulture can choose another program at the school, he said.
Current and former students were sad about the program ending, and many have stepped up to purchase plants.
On Thursday, student Lawrence Gurly was picking up some bamboos he'd helped plant and a few other odds and ends.
"Where are you going with that?" Lichauer asked Gurly as he watched him heft up a large plant.
"I'm buying it," replied Gurly, who plans to make a career out of horticulture and landscaping.
Lichauer, who always has been drawn to gardening, said it took some effort for the Okaloosa County School District to persuade him to teach horticulture, but he has never regretted it.
Through the years, he's taught courses ranging from landscaping to ecology to nursery management.
"I truly have loved every minute of it," he said. "I've had a lot of fun."
CHECK IT OUT: The plant sale will be from noon to 5 p.m. Friday and from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Choice High School and Technical Center at 1976 Lewis Turner Blvd, in Fort Walton Beach.
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I'm a son of New Jersey, born and bred in the northern province of Bergen County. It's a place where I drag raced in the '60s and knew a lot of people who were into that life -racers and the guys who helped them see the light. By the mid '70s (we called it the Disco Biscuit Era) I was in a basement room at Great Adventure II, a party house on rural route 537 filled with dragons and imps whose names you wouldn't know, except for maybe Danny Jesel.
Now here was a farsighted, levelheaded individual, one who'd smile wide and wag his head at our antics. He'd either be commanding his Competition Machine Service in Freehold (not far from Englishtown) or drinking brown water late at night in the Wild Turkey Room and venting on my Pinto wagon until its poor head gasket collapsed. But Danny was special. Unlike the rest of us wastrels, he had a plan. He'd seen the Moser four-cam, small-block Chevy conversion on a cover of Hot Rod and wanted to do something as prominent and be in history for his contribution to the race.
One warm day, on the way to the track with his brother Wayne, we rode past a beautifully sculpted property bordered by white slat fences that seemed to wind and stretch endlessly into the sun. Behind the slat fences were sleek, fluid thoroughbreds. Wayne told us the Stavola brothers, Bill and Mickey, owned the place. If you were born prior to 1990 you might remember them as the Grand National racing crew that hosted, among other notables, Bobby Allison and his win at the 1988 Daytona 500. This activity had yet to grasp the younger Stavolas: Jason and Chris.
Certainly the elders had a race shop in North Carolina. In the late '90s many of the Cup vendors relocated there to ride the hub of its commerce. One such was Detroit Speed and Engineering, having cleared out of that part of Michigan to be just as close to the action in Mooresville. DSE runs like a war machine steadily producing high-end, low-volume, handily crafted early Camaros imbued with stock, elemental sheetmetal but with the equivalent of an armed cavalry division thundering underneath.
Grown out of Pro Touring, now the DSE vision is to build street-able autocross and road course tools, and Kyle Tucker and his fantastic crew has been doing them the same way since the company was formed. He and wife, Stacy, began as chassis/suspension engineers at GM, a path they have since perfected along with an appearance that is signature.
What would be the impetus for collaboration between DSE and the Stavolas? That caveman hangover that none of us can quit-sibling rivalry. Says Tucker: "We'd built a '68 convertible for Jason's brother Chris. Jason wanted his brother to have the second-coolest Camaro in New Jersey. This car belonged to one of the Stavola crew chiefs, and he sold it to a young Jason many moons back. Both of these guys worked on their junk and learned together before bringing it to DSE."
Beginning at ground level, DSE applied its subframe assembly and Quadra-Link in the rear, subframe connectors, half-height solid body mounts, and its eight-point rollcage. The only things left from the original form are the spindles, which accept tubular upper and lower control arms surrounding in-house twin-tube shock absorbers inside specific-rate coil springs. Aft, the four-link rear assembly wraps around a 9-inch axle and is tended by a similar coilover treatment. This hefty combination reduced ride height in front by 3 inches and by 3 inches in rear.
Big brakes and gargantuan rubber always attend such DSE conversions, putting in a concerted effort with 14-inch Baer rotors and 6S six-caliper assemblies posted at each corner of the Camaro. For this build the rollers are comprised of 18-inch Schott G5 wheels, 10 and 12 inches wide, respectively, wound with BFG KDW 275/35 and 335/30 pavement stranglers.


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Oppositional Defiant Disorder
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
It is common for children and teenagers to display bouts of irritability, frustration, and disobedience over the course of their growth and development. For example, the 4 year old who throws a tantrum because she has to stop playing; the 8 year old who picks on his younger sister; the 13 year old who argues with her mother about going to a movie. Still, there are many families who struggle with child behavior that goes beyond stubbornness or occasional talking back. Some children and teens have such an inflexible and hostile nature and their behavior can be so uncooperative and defiant that they disrupt the functioning of whole households and classrooms, not to mention their own learning and well-being in relationships. One out of every ten children or teenagers displays this type of disposition and behavior with such regularity that they are thought to have Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD).
According to the American Psychiatric Association, ODD is characterized by a chronic pattern of negativity, hostility, and non-compliant child behavior that is most often directed toward authority figures and has existed for at least 6 months. This behavior is severe enough that it interferes with everyday functioning at home and, in some cases, at school and other activities, and it stands out as more severe compared with children of the same age and developmental level. Signs and symptoms of ODD:
Act angry or resentful toward others
Deliberately try to annoy or upset other people
Be touchy or easily annoyed by others
Lose his or her temper and throw tantrums
Argue with adults
Actively defy or refuse to comply with adults' requests or rules
Act spiteful or seek revenge on others
Blame others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior
The exact cause of ODD is not known. Research suggests that it evolves out of a complex interaction of many different factors related to the basic biological, psychological, and social nature of the child and his or her relationships with the family and other environments, such as school. Also, it is not uncommon for children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD), depression, or anxiety to display symptoms of ODD.
Effect on Families & Relationships
Parenting a child with ODD can be a tremendous challenge not only because he or she may seem so willing to defy adult authority, but also because intervention strategies that work with most children, such as time-outs, removal of privileges, and grounding, often do not work with ODD. Studies actually indicate that these children may not respond well to punishments. Other studies have found that children and teens with severe cases of ODD and/or aggression may feel threatened by situations where there are unclear messages, rules, or expectations, which can trigger hostile reactions. In addition, they often have poor frustration tolerance, which only makes it more difficult for them to get through situations where they feel uncomfortable, threatened, or where they may see little pay-off for their efforts. The result of these factors are children and teens who seem to be easily annoyed or angered, yet are difficult to soothe and calm.
This pattern of behavior can leave many families feeling powerless, as if they have to "walk on eggshells" out of fear that one wrong move can cause a serious tantrum. It can also leave the child or teen feeling isolated, anxious, and unsure of herself as others anticipate her irritability and explosive behavior even before it occurs. They likely will be aware of any feelings of disappointment and resentment that other family members feel toward them due to their oppositional and defiant behavior. Unfortunately, it is not enough to help change the behavior.
Parenting Tip: Be Decisive
It is easy for parents who feel like they have to walk on eggshells to become wishy-washy; they are often unsure of when, where, and how, to give directions or enforce rules with their children and teens. However, wishy-washiness can actually be a trigger for ODD behavior. It is important to be decisive!
Most parents with children and teens with ODD have learned the hard way that it is much better to say "no" than to say "we'll see" if "no" is the answer they really mean. The child may throw a tantrum with either response; however, telling the child "we'll see" only heightens the intensity of her reaction because it gives her hope that she can still get what she wants. She is then likely to badger the parents until she gets her way or is finally told "no," with the meltdown that follows being even more intense. So, go ahead and say "no" and stick to it; your child will learn over time that you mean what you say and that goes a long way to curbing anxiety and increasing compliant behavior. This also applies to setting plans for any activity, such as going to school, taking a trip, or running errands. Be clear about what is going to happen and alert and prepare the child before any changes to the plan take effect.
When to Seek Help
It may never be too soon to seek help for your child or teen if they are displaying the type of behavior associated with ODD, as it can be difficult to know whether it is a part of typical development or a problem that needs treatment. The more frequent and severe your child displays the symptoms listed above, the more likely there is to be intense family conflict and the more likely he or she is to have problems with peers, have difficulty maintaining friendships, and suffer academic problems.
The key to successful interventions for ODD is parent involvement. It is critical that parents be firm and consistent not only with their discipline strategies, but also with the love and acceptance in their responses to the child. The most effective interventions are considered to be those that emphasize Parent Training, which provide a framework for understanding the nature of ODD in children and teens and help reinforce specific parenting skills, as well as teach creative strategies for managing ODD behavior.
Parents who are not able to respond to ODD behavior in a manner that can calm and soothe the child only add fuel to the fire. It is a lot to ask of a parent who is constantly under attack from oppositional behavior to react calmly, and it probably seems impossible if you are feeling demoralized and exasperated. This is why it is often a good idea to seek the help of a mental health professional, such as a marriage and family therapist (MFT), who can not only help you learn strategies to confront this kind of extreme behavior, but also learn ways of coping with the stress of parenting in the face of such difficult circumstances.
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MFTs can be a source of significant support and direction for those struggling with a child with ODD. An MFT can help strengthen your parenting techniques as you adapt to meet the challenges presented by ODD. MFTs are specially trained to improve the emotional connectedness and harmony among family members. This is a critical point of intervention, as it is important to have emotional resources and support when dealing with high-intensity, high-demand behavior.
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Backpacks are no longer a back to school only staple. Trendy and practical, the Camino backpack can be worn as a hobo or a backpack.
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I recently purchased this bag & I think it is beautiful. It's a very different kind for me & wasn't sure I would like but I do. It's also quite big compared to my other bags but sometimes that will be good. The stitching is gorgeous, quality overall is excellent & I love how you can wear it in so many different ways.
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I adore this beauty! I got the "Wine Feather Patch" Pattern at my local mall, and it literally could not be more perfect for my style. I've rocked a mini backpack in summers before, but now I will be bringing this leather gorgeousness along with me in every season of New England (I did make sure to place a waterproof seal on the exterior, just in case)! No complaints so far, this fits all of my things and has more than enough pockets for those little makeup items. Also, I've enjoyed how versatile it is being both a backpack and shoulder bag! Love, love, love!
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The Great Society's Next Frontier
As The Washington Post's Ezra Klein declared shortly after voters re-elected President Barack Obama, one of the major winners last week was health-care reform. With Democrats holding on to the Senate and the White House, Republicans will be unable to repeal the law before all of its provisions go into effect in 2014—after which, the theory goes, the public will come to accept that government has the responsibility to ensure health care is available for all.
This is the end of a long battle for progressives: Health care has been the major missing piece of our welfare state for nearly a century, and for decades making it part of our system of social insurance has been a primary goal of politicians, think tanks, and activists. With this piece of the progressive puzzle in place, the natural question to ask is, What's next for the welfare state?
One useful way of thinking broadly about what the welfare state should provide comes from Lane Kenworthy, a sociologist and political scientist at Arizona State University. According to Kenworthy, the welfare state should accomplish three things: It should act as a safety net, providing a basic level of security for the poor and protecting citizens from sharp declines in income or unanticipated expenses; like a springboard, it should create opportunities for upward mobility; and, like an escalator, it should ensure that living standards rise across the board as the economy grows. Below are ways that liberals could fix the holes in the current safety net, expand opportunity, and make sure a growing economy benefits everyone.
Safety Net
In a recent paper, Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker and Yale law student Nathaniel Loewentheil give an outline of the holes in the current safety net that need patching. The two pieces in need of the most attention? Health care and retirement security.
Democratic Senator Tom Harkin called Obamacare a "starter home" that will require future work. The program will still leave millions without health insurance, and it may fail, due to its complicated design, to contain costs. Introducing a public option into the state exchanges when they come online in 2014 would go a long way toward controlling costs. As Hacker notes, a public option will build on the successful parts of Medicare while serving as a simple, affordable benchmark that private plans would need to compete with on both costs and quality. Outside of Obamacare, Medicare reform will require budget goals and payment reforms, which is essential for containing spending without shifting costs onto consumers.
The system for retirement security will also need some fixes. Policy wonks talk about the "three-legged" stool of retirement: Social Security, employer-retirement accounts, and personal savings. Government needs to step in to counter the decline of the traditional company pension. The government currently gives large tax breaks to private retirement savings accounts like 401(k)s, breaks that overwhelmingly go to the top 20 percent of workers. It could instead use its resources to provide a universal IRA with an automatic enrollment to all Americans, as well shifting 401(k)s over to a public-private, defined-benefit plan. This would boost the savings of those with less income while also providing greater retirement security.
Despite conservative claims, there's no immediate crisis in Social Security finances. If a solution is needed, it is important to remember that as inequality has grown, the "cap" on Social Security taxes has reduced the program's tax base. Eliminating it, or extending it to, say, capital-gains income would reduce any potential long-term Social Security shortfall.
Another way to boost our current safety net is by expanding the parts that don't reach everyone. For instance, unemployment insurance has kept millions of people out of poverty in this recession and functions as an important tool of macroeconomic stabilization by getting money into people's hands when the economy tanks. Unemployment insurance, however, only covers around 40 percent of the unemployed due to a variety of state-level eligibility rules. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that low-wage workers, in particular, are half as likely to receive unemployment insurance. Expanding unemployment insurance would provide greater security to those with more precarious employment who don't currently qualify.
Total equality of opportunity is a phantom goal. What the welfare state should accomplish, according to Kenworthy, is making sure each person has the most opportunity possible. As our economy continues to change, commitments to developing opportunities for people will require investment in education as well as a commitment to gender equity in the workplace.
Given that women are more likely to work jobs that don't provide health insurance, Obamacare already helps with gender equity in the workplace. The next step is to require policies protecting family leave. The United States, Swaziland, and Papua New Guinea are the only three countries in the world that do not have guaranteed paid leave for new mothers. Paid leave makes it easier for mothers to return to work after a child is born as well as to maintain and continue their careers. It can also be expanded to cover both parents, a move that will strengthen women's access to the labor market even more.
Providing universal pre-K is another important step in ensuring all Americans have the most opportunity available. As New America fellow Dana Goldstein writes, "If we want to fight poverty and equalize educational opportunity, we cannot ignore the disparities that develop before a child ever enters the public education system." According to University of Chicago economist James Heckman, early educational intervention produces both positive and long-lasting effects on school achievement, job performance, and social behaviors for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Universal preschool should be universally available for children age three and older, and feature well-trained teachers working with small groups of children, focusing on a full range of development. This will also benefit women who want to work, creating opportunities for both those women and the children who will gain access to much-needed early education.
The final component of strengthening the social safety net is the escalator, making sure that as we become a richer country, rising growth benefits all workers. Since the late 1970s, wages for the median worker have stagnated while inequality has skyrocketed. How can the welfare state help ensure that growth is broadly shared and the economy works for the benefit of all? This difficult question will likely take decades to tackle, and there are already three conflicting ideas about what should be done.
Kenworthy argues that the best way to address inequality is to aggressively expand tax credits like the earned income tax credit (EITC), which boosts the wages of lower-income workers—particularly those with children. It is a form of wage subsidy that encourages work because one needs to be in the labor force to take advantage of it. Given trends in the global economy, Kenworthy argues that even if we get unemployment below 4 percent, it is unlikely that wages at the bottom end of the distribution would grow. Instead, he calls for using the EITC to subsidize wages. The EITC, he argues, could be used to boost wages even in the middle class, say, for workers making up to $80,000, and indexed to increases in GDP or average worker compensation. This would use the tax code to boost the stagnant wages of average Americans.
Another approach would create an unconditional basic income (UBI) that rises with GDP growth. The proposal gives every legal resident a cash stipend, usually targeted around the poverty level. This income is universal, so everyone gets it regardless of their income or work status, and it is unconditional. A UBI has support from across the political spectrum. Those on the left argue it will create greater egalitarianism by increasing the bargaining power of workers, force employers to find innovations that eliminate difficult and unpleasant work, and recognize the value of de-commodified caregiving and other cooperative, non-labor activities. Some on the right argue that it would allow for the removal of many government programs that either provide assistance or public services directly, folding them all under one that works entirely through cash payments.
These two approaches differ in one key respect: The EITC requires work participation, whereas the UBI would go to everyone whether they work or not. Kenworthy worries about the political and employment effects of providing everyone a basic income. That could make it politically unpopular while also affecting the tax revenues necessary to fund it.
Besides these two proposals, policymakers have suggested boosting wages directly by intervening in the labor markets. Policies that focus on "predistribution," to use Hacker's term, include a higher minimum wage, better rules for unionization, curbing the ways that big business uses the government to increase its profits (finance, copyright), as well as a greater emphasis on full employment. Predistributionists argue that additional, large-scale redistribution is politically difficult and fragile, particularly when workers have fewer resources and less organizational strength to demand and sustain it. In the end, though, predistribution and redistribution are likely to complement each other rather than cancel each other out.
The 40-year conservative project to dismantle the welfare state has failed. Ronald Regan couldn't reduce the size of the government (even his own), and the reactionary plans of George W. Bush and Paul Ryan to privatize Social Security and bleed out public health care have been rejected by voters. The slow-motion implosion of the conservative movement means that an abstract notion of a minimal state with no social insurance is not coming.
As Kenworthy notes, people value insurance more as they grow richer. Insurance provides protection against both the unknown and bad luck. And the welfare state is how social insurance is provided in the United States. As such it will take on a larger, not a smaller, role as our country grows richer. With the promise of health care completing the project of the 20th-century welfare state, liberals need to envision how to meet the needs of a new century.
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Unbelievable. There is no safety net left to repair for the poor. The fact that we still hear "liberals" talking about "repairing the holes in the safety net" shows that either they are oblivious to much of what has happened in recent decades, or more likely, that the very poor are simply no longer regarded as a legitimate part of the US population. This new "New Deal" is about appealing to the bourgeoisie alone, the more fortunate in a nation with limited resources. We are seeing the corruption of the New Deal, by a government that is of, for and by ONLY those above "a certain class." This is a New Deal country club style, exclusively for the golden middle class, a new social gated community to keep the "lower class" out. This shouldn't be such an issue to the middle class; after Clinton took a machete to the safety net for the poor, the life expectancy of our poor has been on a downhill slide, and fewer live long enough to benefit from Social Security/Medicare. Now that we cut the rungs off of that proverbial ladder out of poverty, people continue to fall out of the middle class while fewer and fewer are able to get back out of poverty, ensuring the continued shrinking of the middle class. This means all the more resources for the Americans who matter.
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It is sad but true that many poor often single women are doing a very poor job of raising children. To many children are bought up in chaotic homes fail to provide the basic social, intellectual, emotional or nutritional support children need.
By the time these children reach kindergarten, it is difficult or impossible to turn their lives around. The sooner society supports a child, the more effective it can be in seeing that he or she can live a decent life.
A dollar spent on pre-natal care and parenting skills training is probably more effective than 10 dollars spent on special education of 100 dollars spent on incarceration. Stepping is sooner to prevent problems is also the right thing to do.
Tue, 2012-11-20 10:39
After reading the article, I get the impression that "fixing the holes" MEANS restoring the safety net we (briefly) had that protected the poor. Actually, to continue the metaphor, we never finished knitting the net, before you-know-who (bad luck to say Lord V's name) started slashing the threads that were already there. One of the proposals in the "escalator" category would be an excellent replacement for some of the safety net and springboard programs: the UBI (known as the GAI, or guaranteed annual income, when Nixon (yes, Nixon!) first proposed it, before morphing into the EITC). As long as the UBI only goes up to the poverty level BY ITSELF, the right wing objections can be rebutted: can anyone other than the small minority of absolute losers think that they are "gaming" the system by settling for a POVERTY level existence ON PURPOSE? And is it better to let those losers support themselves by CRIME, or to swallow our righteous indignation and support them until they wise up? Yet people who suffer bad luck in losing a job, or being BORN into poverty, could do better temporarily on that than on NOTHING (legal, anyway) other than charity from friends or family who are not much better off themselves.
Yes, there does seem to be too much emphasis on what these programs do to help the middle class, because that is what it takes to SELL them politically. But a health care plan that ensures people can get medical help, in which doctors are encouraged to prod them gently into healthier living, along with a UBI to afford healthy food, public exercise facilities so the poor can get fitness assistance without expensive spa bills, good public transit so they can GET TO the good grocery stores and fitness facilities, etc. would protect the CURRENTLY middle class if they should ever need them.
Public education was meant to be a springboard, but today should include either college or a good college-transferrable technical or trade school; also, modernized job search assistance at unemployment centers (not just, how many random applications did you fill out last week? which actually HURTS chances of being hired in some fields), and retraining for people GOOD IN THEIR OLD JOB whose old job WENT AWAY, would help with the springboard.
But the ESCALATOR parts of the New Deal, protection of labor unions, minimum wage, anti-discrimination laws that actually work, enforcement of wage and hour laws, AND protection for banking, credit card and small investment consumers against "gotcha" fees and dirty tricks, need to be implemented and/or brought back; and could be paid for by higher marginal tax rates on upper incomes, closing BIG loopholes (one being carried interest, which treats financial ADVISER FEES as capital gains, AS IF the adviser had risked his own money!), and taxing only LONG TERM profits as capital gains. Oh, and for SS and Medicare, raise the cap on FICA payroll taxes (or better yet, make it a doughnut hole; pay on earned income up to the current, or a slightly higher, limit, THEN pay on ALL forms of income above, say two million a year).
But none of this will help unless we make our economy ECOLOGICALLY sustainable. I have sent the White House a suggestion for a means by which frivolous fossil fuel use could be made more expensive, while protecting the incomes of lower and middle income workers whose commutes would be made more expensive than their paychecks otherwise. If you hear about the ERG tax-and-rebate plan, that's my idea. If we don't do something soon, buy some oceanfront property in Valdosta, GA (check the map).
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There was nothing amusing, and barely any surprise, in Amy Winehouse's recent, notorious and possibly inadvertent public appearance: on a video released by an English tabloid, The Sun.January 24, 2008 artsReview
Disillusioned Diva With Glimmers of Soul
Amy Winehouse connected with her songs only intermittently, though when she did, she made a listener want more.May 10, 2007 artsReview
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Amy Winehouse ''Back to Black'' (Republic) At first the songs on Amy Winehouse's second album, ''Back to Black,'' could almost be unknown soul oldies from the 1950s and 1960s. The drums, strings and horns have a vintage production style, and Ms. Winehouse's tart voice and sly, sultry phrasing sound largely unprocessed. Then the anachronisms kick in, from current slang and beats that hint at hip-hop to four-letter words and blunt references to sex and drugs. A 23-year-old English songwriter, Ms. Winehouse is decades too young for '60s nostalgia, but she has come up with a wonderfully time-twisted batch of songs.March 12, 2007 artsNews
Amy Winehouse Documentary Lets Nobody Off the Hook
Those who decided to make a film about the soul singer's legacy may not have gotten exactly what they expected, especially her family.
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The world premiere draws critical raves.
May 16, 2015, Saturday
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Amy Winehouse Statue Is Unveiled in London
A statue of the British singer was unveiled on Sunday in London on what would have been her 31st birthday.
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Asif Kapadia, the director of the acclaimed documentary "Senna," will use previously unseen footage to tell the story of the troubled British soul singer.
April 25, 2013, Thursday
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Winehouse Foundation Gift to Help Brooklyn Conservatory Students
The $25,000 being donated will go to defray the expenses of needy children accepted into the academy's Teen Jazz Program.
January 16, 2013, Wednesday
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The coroner, Shirley Radcliffe, said the singer "voluntarily consumed alcohol -- a deliberate act that took an unexpected turn and led to her death."
January 8, 2013, Tuesday
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A coroner who recorded that the soul singer had died of accidental alcohol poisoning later resigned from her post amid questions about her qualifications.
December 17, 2012, Monday
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The play was to have opened on Jan. 30 in Denmark.
November 26, 2012, Monday
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The play, based on published materials and public appearances, is to open in January at the Red Room theater in Copenhagen.
October 26, 2012, Friday
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October 1, 2012, Monday
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Love it or loathe it, Dan Hayes' '72 Motion Moray GT Corvette is guaranteed to engender a strong response for those who lay eyes on it. Whether you're in the "yea" or "nay" crowd is a matter of personal taste. What you cannot sidestep, however, is this car's significant place in Corvette history. While any Motion Corvette is a scarce commodity by anyone's standards, this Moray GT is in the most rarified of company: its own. Think you've seen a car just like this before? Think again, because there aren't any other Corvettes like it. It is the singular example, the ever-elusive "one of one."
Proving the adage that you can find anything on eBay, Hayes stumbled upon this beast in 2005, almost completely at random. While much of its history remains murky, the Poplar Bluff, Missouri, detail-shop owner says the car had "changed hands approximately four times." And yet, despite this relatively high rate of turnover, the Corvette was in remarkably unmolested condition.
This Vette was a Motion Performance shop conversion, rather than a Baldwin-Motion car. That means the original owner brought the Ontario Orange C3 directly to Motion Performance for customization. Cars bearing the Baldwin-Motion tag were new cars sold through Long Island, New York's Baldwin Chevrolet. Buyers could choose from a list of high-performance and racing equipment a la carte, building stout 12-second street cars or full-boogie race machines guaranteed to run a number. Just about any of Chevy's performance cars were eligible, so Camaros, Chevelles, Corvettes, Novas, Impalas, and Biscaynes were all given the treatment.
Let's be honest. A car with a lesser pedigree could never pull it off. The Motion body mods are extreme. While they are undoubtedly not everyone's cup of tea, they do make a statement. According to Corvette authority and Motion representative Martyn Schorr, "It's part Manta Ray and part Maco Shark [not "Mako," which was the name given to two of GM's concept cars, and is therefore trademarked], customized using parts from two different kits Motion had been selling at the time. The kits were developed from the Maco Shark and Manta Ray custom Corvettes that had been built for customers. I don't believe [Motion Performance founder] Joel Rosen built any others like it." Rosen was instrumental in the restoration of this car, and would not authenticate it until every detail was complete and to his satisfaction.
Surprisingly, all of the original body mods were still in place and in good condition when Hayes bought the car. Somewhere along the line, though, it had been repainted a rather bland shade of maroon. The car was mostly disassembled for its restoration, but the body was not removed from the frame.
The Maco Shark front-end kit consisted of a tilting, one-piece nose-and-hood assembly,complete with fender flares, an integrated grille, and a large hood blister. When viewed in profile, the fender lines are raised almost to the point of being cartoonish. The grille in the nose of the car conceals the headlights and is one of the very few pieces that are not original. "The original grille was bashed to pieces," Hayes says. "We spent weeks trying to piece it back together before giving up and looking for an alternative." A conversation with Rosen over the fabrication of a replacement also led to the car's most notable modification: the hood grates.
The hood had two large, flat-topped protrusions, apparently meant to be cut out and filled with grates, but for some reason, this work had never been performed. With Rosen's blessing of the proposed design, Matt Smith was commissioned to craft the new billet grille and matching grates for the now-functional hood.
Out back, the Manta Ray treatment's most notable feature is its rear window. Grafted in place over the coupe's notch sail panels, the long, sloping section is reminiscent of the midyear fastbacks. Installation of this piece required the relocation of the fuel filler to the driver side and the addition of a Moon-style flip-up gas cap. A massive, blocky rear spoiler, similar to that found on the second-generation Camaro, was molded to the rear deck.
The rear-window panel also necessitated the reshaping of the B-pillars and required a rework of the T-top in order to make the bodylines flow, according to Hayes. Motion also replaced the outside rearview mirrors with body-color fiberglass racing replicas.
Perhaps the most substantial deviation in the restoration process came when it was time to select a paint color. "I never photographed it when it was finished, as the paint came out less than nice, with green tones in the Pearl Yellow paint," Schorr says. "It's much more beautiful today." Hayes echoes Schorr's sentiments on the color: "We found some of the undesirable green beneath a trim piece in one of the doorjambs. Let's just say it was the nastiest color ima-ginable." Rayburn Pennington was asked to rectify the situation, and he obliged with a DuPont Hot Hues Lemon Yellow basecoat with gold pearl. Pennington also took care of the trademark black Stinger stripe.
One of the other non-original components was a set of American Racing "salt-flat"-style wheels. "They were way too big and had the wrong look. The wheels and tires made it look like a punk's car," Hayes says. Upon approaching Rosen for advice, Hayes was told he had two choices: either the American Turbine wheels, or the far more pedestrian American Racing Torq-Thrust Ds. "I felt the Turbine wheel was the correct choice for the car. When I finally found a set, they were on eBay, mounted to a mid-'80s Monte Carlo that was for sale. I offered the guy an obscene amount for the wheels [alone], and he wisely accepted. When the wheels arrived, I thought I had goofed. They were painted powder blue. It took a trip to the sand blaster and many painstaking hours of hand sanding and polishing to bring them back to life." With the wheels dolled up, it was time to dress them with one concession to progress: modern Goodyears that provide a sure-footed grip.


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Crikey. What a weekend! Most of us Brits are emotionally spent after an unbelievable 48 hours of Olympic glory – not just for our home-grown athletes, but for the occasion itself.
It's safe to say that the Games have silenced the cynics and the critics (and I count myself as well and truly silenced too) and this past weekend is one that many of us will be talking about for ages.
It was full of those moments that you will remember forever: Ennis, Rutherford, Farah, Copeland, Hosking, Murray, Pendleton, the list goes on and on and on.
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The 360° pattern adjustable micro sprayer is available with 1/4" barb. The adjustable micro sprayers have adjustable flow rates of 0 to 24 GPH @ 15 to 30 PSI with a spray pattern of up to 13' diameter in a 360 degree pattern. When the cap is rotated counter-clockwise the flow and the radius of the soaked area can be adjusted from a small diameter with gentle umbrella pattern up to 13' diameter full circle. This series of adjustable micro sprayers has no moving parts and can be used in home gardens for ground cover, flowerbeds, shrubs and trees. We suggest mounting the micro sprayer on one of our semi rigid PE risers.
The Drip Store has a wide range of adjustable micro sprayers and jets to meet all of today's requirements for micro irrigation needs. Built-in adjustable flow control to control the distance or radius can adjust the water flow from 0 to 24 GPH and the diameter up to 13'. The no moving parts adjustable micro sprayers can be used for a wide range of applications and are available with a 360° pattern for small to large diameter and for watering that requires small droplet size with low precipitation rates. This allows the changing of the flow rate for each individual sprayer from off to full flow. When low volume overhead irrigation is desired for an area where drip emitters are not practical and micro sprinkler diameters and moving parts are not required nor preferred, the adjustable micro sprayers may be what is needed. Like micro sprinklers, micro sprayers and jets are available in a wide variety of styles, flow rates, diameters, and configurations. Like micro sprinklers, they operate at low pressure and require a filter to protect the small orifice of the adjustable sprayer from clogging. The main advantage of adjustable micro sprayers to some users could be the lack of moving parts and the feature of adjustable flow rates.
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For the third year in a row, Saint Louis University has been named one of G.I. Jobs' "Military Friendly Schools." The publication's 2012 list honors the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools that are doing the most to embrace America's veterans as students.
Criteria for making the Military Friendly Schools list included efforts to recruit and retain military and veteran students, results in recruiting military and veteran students and academic accreditations. Learn more about the benefits SLU offers to student veterans at the Veterans Benefits web page.
Saint Louis University is a member of the Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges consortium, which expands higher education opportunities for men and women in the armed forces.
SLU also is a member of the Yellow Ribbon program, which is part of the Post-9/11 GI Bill and funds tuition expenses that exceed the highest public in-state undergraduate tuition rate.
In addition, SLU offers credit for military service, and the University's School of Professional Studies actively recruits from Scott Air Force Base.
The Military Friendly Schools list was compiled through exhaustive research and polling of more than 7,000 schools nationwide. The latest list is available online at the G.I. Jobs web site.
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