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11112 W National Ave, Milwaukee, WI | Directions 5322742.991910 -88.050375
I've had horrible service here more than once and the food isn't even that good, definitely not Authentic Mexican food. I live right across the street and I would much rather travel to get the good stuff.
Just alright! – Margarita Paradise was just alright. Service was good, and the restaurant was clean. The food was barely average. If you are looking for a new favorite place, this is NOT it. The food was luke warm and a little bland and tasteless. Not really what I expected. There are lots of other Mexican restaurants in the area, go to one of them instead.
Love it! – This is by far my favorite mexican place to eat. They have never messed up my order. They are friendly, sometimes they do stay gone for awhile if you need something. The ambiance is great, dimly lite with nice mexican decorations. They have a great patio also. My bridal shower was on the patio and they were just fabulous, the owner even came out to give me a good luck drink on the house.
The seafood enchiladas are awesome. I also get the shredded beef ones with red mole.
The Margaritas, are always fresh, and the mango ones are excellent.
We have been to this location, as well as Casa De Lara in Fitchburg many times. The food and drinks have ALWAYS been excellent. We have not been to Margarita Paradise for months and were craving their Mexican Fish Fry and blueberry margaritas. Disappointed! My jumbo margarita was too much sweeter than usual and there was no alcohol present what-so-ever. Both our fish fries came extremely burnt. When this was mentioned to our waitress, she shrugged her shoulders, said sorry, then said thank you, walked away and we didn't see her until she came with the bill.
Margarita's Paradise Mexican Restaurant – We live in Kenosha County and travel frequently to Margarita's Paradise on National Avenue to have our Mexican Food. The food there is always excellant, the drinks are always superb. The staff is overly friendly.
I enjoy Pina' Coladas and they serve the very best Pina' Coladas there of anywhere I have ever been . We look forward to driving an hour to go dine at this very Exquisite Restaurant. We always feel like family instead of just a customer while there. We have traveled in blizzard conditions to get there and back home.
The portions are excellant we leave there stuffed and very happy to have been there. We love the chips and dip before the meal as well, the flour tortillias are excellant. Our favorites there are Frihita's and Chili Relleno. Magnificant Place to dine and relax. The lighting is perfect for quiet dining. We have NEVER been dissatisfied.
MMM GOOD! – They have the best service I have experienced in a long time. The waitress gave our kids some of the extra foods that they liked vs. just what was on the menu so they were satisfied along with us adults. The overall attitude of all of the employees is excellent. If there is ever a problem with your order, they bring the manager over right away, no request needed, and he completly corrects the errors with some sort of reasonable compensation to you. The food is everything you pay for and the taste is just like home cooking. We will be back
Great Drinks – My husband and I went to Margarita Paradise for the first time this winter.
The food was good, large portions, but it was the Margarita's that will get us to come back.
They had any kind of flavor that you could possibly want, our personal favorite was the Rasberry, it tasted so fresh and the drink was delightfully sweet and tart.
The service was average.
I do highly recommend their drinks and we will return again.
Sunday & Mike Keller
Absolutely wonderful! – Margarita Paradise is one of the finest values in Milwaukee. On weekend nights, there is a live musician circulating. Very romantic! The food is excellent; the bar margaritas are excellent and inexpensive; the only thing lacking a bit is the service. I recommend it highly!
Nopolitos & Posole! – Two great items on the menu are Nopolitas Con Queso (spelling?) which is a delicious blend of chicken, shrimp, cactus & cheese to place in tortillas and a great hearty soup with hominy - both are fantastic! (Margaritas are good also)
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PORTLAND — Drastically reducing carbon emissions would likely slow the negative effects of climate change on the Gulf of Maine lobster industry, leaders of the Maine environmental, scientific and business communities said Tuesday.
A coalition of Maine business and environmental groups say pollutants and warming ocean water threaten Maine's lobster industry.
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Scientists have said climate change is producing rising water temperature and increased acidification in the Gulf of Maine. As those changes play out, disease and life-cycle changes occur in lobsters and other shellfish. This has raised concerns about the state's most lucrative fishery, said environmental advocates from the Natural Resources Council of Maine and marine scientist Rick Wahle, a University of Maine zoologist in the School of Marine Sciences.
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But the lobster glut in the Gulf of Maine is no reason for complacency, marine biologists have warned.
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Well, the Wine and Chocolate festival was a huge success. We tripled our anticipated attendance with 203 attendees. There were 18 children, 15 non- drinkers, 40 with receipts of $100 from Ouray venues on Yule night and many happy people reporting they over dosed on some of the best in chocolate they ever had. Many praised the talent of our local vendors. We saw all sorts of delights to include cheesecake, key lime pie, fondue and a special debut of Woody Creek Wineries Colorado Champagne.
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Most Creative Dessert – Khris Dunham with Khristopher's Culiniare
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I,ve been required in the past to use a sweep (long-turn 90) where you have the regular 90 coming off the trap. Also,
under the UPC, you need a cleanout, and the slip-joint nuts need to remain accessible.
I was hoping someone could look at this and see if it passes the "giggle test." I am finishing my basement and had to make provisions for a vent since the length of pipe (2" diameter) running under the slab is more than than 5 feet (I'm in South Dakota and they follow the UPC.) I realize the trap is a little higher than the drain right now; I will lower that down when I go to glue.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
I,ve been required in the past to use a sweep (long-turn 90) where you have the regular 90 coming off the trap. Also,
under the UPC, you need a cleanout, and the slip-joint nuts need to remain accessible.
Thanks for the reply!
From what I read, I thought a medium 90 was sufficient since I wasn't changing elevation direction at all (such as going from horizontal to vertical.) The med 90 is in the same plane as the trap arm and the drain line itself.
I must of read something wrong somewhere else because I thought a cleanout was required if there was more than 90 degrees (on a 2" line) bend after the trap arm.
This whole area will remain accessible since the backside of this tub wall will be in a bedroom closet.
Any other opinions out there on what can be done better?
I think i see what you're referring to as far as the long sweep 90:
706.3 Horizontal drainage lines connecting with other horizontal drainage lines shall enter through 45 degree (0.79 rad) wye branches, combination wye and one-eighth (1/8) bend branches, or other approved fittings of equivalent sweep.
quote; under the UPC, you need a cleanout, and the slip-joint nuts need to remain accessible
If that were true, then there are "millions" of tubs installed "illegally". The cleanout, if needed, is usually on the vertical riser the drain connects to, and I have NEVER made provision to access any slip joint nuts on a tub drain. When there are a tub and shower "back to back" it would be impossible anyway. But, I would never use a sch. 40 "P" trap with a union nut in any case, or anywhere. It appears that the "Y" could have been moved back and the "P" trap attached to it, rather than use the elbow.
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So you wouldn't use this type of p-trap? What are the disadvantages over a standard one that gets glued (besides the slight price difference)?
I tried to not use the elbow but I couldn't get it all to line up right. Also, I was worried about the minimum distance (4") required between the trap and the vent.
Thanks again for the reply.
The medium 90 is fine on a trap arm, which is what that is.
A solvent weld p-trap is easier to install and less chance of a problem later on.
That's great news. The medium 90 fits way better. I will go get a solvent weld if thats the better way to go. Thanks for the advice.
The trap might have worked if the "Y" were positioned further back and don't worry about the "4 inch separation for the vent". That is a theoetical figure which has little relevence in the real world. Over time the nut on that trap can crack and come loose.
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How critical is the 5' max distance to the trap? I'm at roughly 6' from the "Y" in the pic to the sink vent.
quote; How critical is the 5' max distance
Do you want the technical answer or the "real world" one. Technically, it is inflexible. "Real world" you are fine.
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"We don't have everything nailed down, but we want to see if we can find a basis for this project," Brown said.
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One of the sculptures, titled Bad Decision, depicts a cowboy roping a struggling deer, which stands 15 feet high, is 13 feet wide and 7 feet deep. A second sculpture titled Where Eagles Dare shows a bear that just caught a salmon with her cubs, and eagles swooping in to try to steal the fish. The sculpture is 18 feet high, 11 feet wide and 7 feet deep. The third sculpture, titled Memories, is 12 feet high by 12 feet wide with a 7.5 foot base.
If a buyer happened to come along for one of the pieces, Brown said part of the agreement with the owner is that another piece would be cast from the same mold and donated to the city. The owner would pay for transportation and initial placement of the pieces, Brown said.
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House Republicans have churned out their latest myths and scare tactics about health insurance reform. In fact, they took time to produce a list of distortions about the Affordable Health Care for America Act before they even released their own ideas--a substitute bill that USA Today calls "a missed opportunity." Here's a myth-by-myth response to the Republican Study Committee.
MYTH: H.R. 3962 harms small businesses by raising taxes and making them cover workers.
FACT: Both claims are wrong. The House bill is good for small businesses and for working Americans - allowing them access to affordable, large-group rates in their health insurance policies and insurance plans with better benefits, and eliminating discriminatory rating practices.
According to the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), the surcharge would not affect 98.8 percent of all small businesses. Only 1.2 percent of the wealthiest Americans with any income from a sole proprietorship, a partnership or an s corporation would be affected by the health care surcharge. The 1.2 percent wealthiest small business owners will only be subject to the health care surcharge on dollars earned above $1 million for a couple and $500,000 for an individual.
Approximately 86 percent of all businesses are exempt from the shared responsibility requirement to cover or contribute to coverage for their workers and family members - all small businesses with payrolls up to $500,000. Those small businesses with payrolls up to $750,000 pay only a graduated fee for not meeting the shared responsibility requirement.Those businesses that are subject to the requirement or that choose to offer coverage will have access to the insurance reforms and other consumer protections, transparency and lower administrative costs in the Exchange to make coverage more affordable and meaningful for everyone. Additionally, many small businesses will be eligible for a new tax credit to help firms provide health coverage.
MYTH: Burdensome medical device tax is a "wheelchair tax."
FACT: In providing health insurance to 36 million more Americans, this legislation will improve patient access to medical devices and bring significant financial benefit to the medical device industry. The bill raises $20 billion over ten years to help cover the cost of expanding insurance through an excise tax on an industry that will generate an estimated $1.5 trillion in revenue over that time period. Sales of wheelchairs and other medical devices to individuals are exempt from the tax; the tax only applies to sales of medical devices to health care institutions, such as hospitals.
MYTH: New taxes on Health Savings Accounts.
FACT: The legislation allows Americans to keep HSAs and FSA's, and continue to use these tax-free dollars to make payments for reimbursement for doctor, hospital, and prescription drug expenses. H.R. 3962 eliminates a tax loophole most Americans don't get for the purchase of over-the-counter medications through health flexible spending accounts (health FSAs), health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), and health savings accounts (HSAs). Currently, such accounts can be used for the tax-free payment of medicine available without a prescription, such as aspirin, sunscreen, laxatives, cough and cold medicine, antacid tablets, allergy medication, etc. These are items that most Americans use throughout the year but that are only available using tax-free dollars to those who can afford to make contributions to an HSA or a health FSA (if their employer even offers a health FSA), or those whose employer offers an HRA benefit.
The savings generated by closing this loophole amounts to $5 billion over the next 10 years. H.R. 3962 uses these and other savings to improve the health care system by providing tax credits to small employers who want to offer coverage to their employees and by providing affordability credits to those who do not have access to employer-sponsored health insurance.
MYTH: The bill creates a new "voluntary" payroll tax to fund a new long-term care program--requiring mandatory spending--aka a new entitlement.
FACT: The bill creates a new, voluntary benefit to provide long-term care assistance: the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) program. The program will provide benefits to adults who become functionally disabled. It will be funded through voluntary premium contributions which may be deducted from enrollees' paychecks. There is no requirement that any individual or business pay for or take part in this program. It is not a tax.
MYTH: The government will fund abortions.
FACT: The House bill continues longstanding federal policy, which bars federal funding for abortions except in the case of rape, incest, or to save the life of the woman. The bill also explicitly prohibits abortion services from being included in the basic benefits package on the Exchange. Each private insurance plan can decide on its own whether to cover abortion beyond those cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the woman. For plans that chose to cover those abortions, only private premium dollars - not taxpayer dollars -- may be used to cover the service.
MYTH: Members of Congress are exempt from the "Public Option."
FACT: To the contrary, provisions were added to the bill to ensure that Members of Congress have the choice to enter the "public option" on the Health Insurance Exchange (rather than automatically being in the current Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan. If these provisions had not been added, Members would have automatically been in their employer-provided plan. It is true that the bill does not require Members of Congress to enroll in the public option. However, the bill does not require ANYONE to enroll in the public health insurance option.
MYTH: Health reform uses budget gimmicks, and leaves reimbursement rates for doctors up in the air.
FACT: The health care reform legislation is fully paid for, and will, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, create a budget surplus over the next decade.
Absent Congressional action, doctors in Medicare will face a 21 percent cut in their reimbursement rates followed by several more years of drastic cuts. Instead of simply averting similar cuts one year at a time as Republicans did for many years, companion legislation to H.R. 3962 will permanently and comprehensively fix the physician payment formula.
The Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act, H.R. 3961, will repeal the fee reduction scheduled for 2010 and replace the current payment formula with a more rational and stable system. The new payment formula will support primary care and encourage coordination among providers, while holding physicians accountable for spending growth. Statutory PAYGO legislation will be included with H.R. 3961 when it is considered by the House.
MYTH: Health reform will decrease affordability credits and expand Medicaid.
FACT: Unlike the Republican alternative, H.R. 3692 contains affordability credits to help low- and middle-income families purchase health insurance. To make coverage affordable for individuals with incomes below $16,200 and families of 4 with incomes below $33,400, H.R. 3962 guarantees coverage through Medicaid. To make coverage affordable for individuals and families with incomes above those levels who do not have coverage through their employers, H.R. 3962 creates affordability credits to reduce the cost of premiums for plans offered through the new health insurance exchange. The combination of Medicaid and affordability credits is a main reason why the bill is able to reduce the number of uninsured Americans by 36 million in 2019. Right now, uninsured Americans add more than $1,000 each year to the average American families' health care costs.
MYTH: Health reform will mean that Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage will be more expensive for seniors.
FACT: To the contrary, H.R. 3962 includes many provisions that will make prescription drugs less expensive for seniors. It's one of the reasons the nearly 40 million strong AARP has endorsed the bill. It reduces the size of the donut hole by $500 immediately, and eliminates the donut hole by 2019. Until the donut hole is eliminated, seniors will receive a 50% discount on all brand name drugs they purchase in the donut hole. By the time H.R. 3962 eliminates the donut hole, Part D out-of-pocket spending for a senior who is prescribed drugs that cost $1,000/month would be, on an annual basis approximately $6,000 lower than under current law.
Congressional Republicans falsely claim that seniors would pay more for their Part D coverage. According to CBO, most seniors will see their overall prescription drug costs go down.
MYTH: Health reform has no real medical liability reform.
FACT: Real medical liability reform needs to include protections for patients - so that restrictions on legal recourse don't lead to poorer quality care for patients. As proposed by House Republicans, medical malpractice reform would go too far in restricting legitimate claims, and do nothing to promote patient safety or foster communication between doctors and their patients.
H.R. 3962, coupled with Administration efforts, provides for strong medical malpractice and evidence-based patient safety reforms, to encourage pre-court settlements and medical expert review of potential cases. We believe there is room for improvement in the medical liability system, but not at the expense of patients' rights.


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Ross and Emily get married,
One of the most popular television programs worldwide, this smart, sophisticated comedy about a group of young adult friends offers a hilarious look at the anxieties and absurdities of becoming true adults. From Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions.
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Ross and Emily get married,
Rachel finally tells Ross her feelings.
Phoebe goes into labor.
The gang discovers that Phoebe hates PBS.
Ross has to tell Rachel that he can't be friends with her anymore
Emily demands a divorce.
Phoebe dates a health inspector.
It's Thanksgiving. Chandler tells Monica that he loves her.
Ross becomes upset when someone at work takes his sandwich from the refrigerator
Rachel is disturbed by her date's inappropriate relationship with his sister.
The friends all make New Year's resolutions.
An upset Ross dates Janice after discovering that Emily is getting remarried.
Phoebe meets her father at her grandmother's funeral.
Ross rents an apartment with a window facing Monica and Rachel's place.
Joey's girlfriend likes to punch him.
After Phoebe finds a police badge, she uses it to do good deeds.
Rachel accidentally kisses the man interviewing her for a job.
Monica and Phoebe plan a surprise birthday party for Rachel.
Ross tries to flirt with the pizza delivery girl, with horrible results.
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RALEIGH — The N.C. Association of Educators and six teachers, including one from Johnston County, filed suit on Tuesday, challenging the end of tenure for public school teachers in North Carolina.
The legislature this year passed a budget that eliminates tenure in 2018. In the meantime, school districts will offer the top 25 percent of teachers four-year contracts and $500 annually to relinquish their status.
The state teachers' group seeks to keep tenure for those teachers who have already earned it and to restore the possibility for those in the pipeline.
Since 1971, teachers who made it beyond a four-year probationary period earned "career status," more commonly referred to as tenure. Though the designation did not equate to a lifetime job guarantee, it did come with certain job protections, including the right to a hearing in the event of dismissal.
One of the plaintiffs, Rich Nixon, teaches history at Corinth Holders High School. A 34-year teacher, he is president of the Johnston County Association of Educators.
Tenure is "part of the contract that teachers have had with the state since 1971, and now the legislator has arbitrarily just stripped all these teachers from that part of the contract," Nixon said. "It's about honoring contracts, it's about honoring teaching, and it's about living up to your word."
Teaching is a profession with high standards but few incentives, Nixon said, pointing specifically to low pay. Tenure offered some job security, and now that is gone too, he said.
"The thing about career status is that it allows teachers to speak out," Nixon said. "To speak their minds about the profession, to speak out on behalf of kids, to say when they disagree with policies that might be harmful for education."
Without tenure, teachers might be reluctant to sue when they have a grievance, Nixon said. "What I did today, without career status, would be a very dangerous move as far as the profession goes, because without career status, hiring and firing can become very political," he said.
Another plaintiff, Stephanie Wallace, 35, teaches English at East Forsyth High School in Kernersville. The legislature's message to teachers is that they are expendable, she said.
Teaching is all she ever wanted to do since she was an N.C. Teaching Fellow at UNC Greensboro. After 14 years in her high school classroom, Wallace said, she is paid the equivalent of a seven-year teacher's salary in some places.
To help pay medical bills for her son, who has a rare liver disease, Wallace teaches online for the state's virtual public school and for DeVry University. She also works as a private tutor and spends $300-$500 each summer for classroom supplies and granola bars for her low-income students who sometimes get hungry in class.
"I did everything you told me I had to do," Wallace said of the state's requirements. "I have never had an unsatisfactory review. I have a master's degree, I have AP certification, I am a Nationally Board Certified teacher. And you're going to tell me all of a sudden that I don't deserve career status any longer? I've done everything you've asked me to do. How is that fair? How is that legal?"
The lawsuit will claim that the state has broken a contract with teachers who took the job with the understanding that they could earn tenure, said Ann McColl, general counsel for the N.C. Association of Educators.
The idea under the old law was that poorly performing teachers would be weeded out during the four-year probationary period. The ones who made it past that point earned career status. But they could still be fired for 15 reasons outlined in the law, including inadequate performance, immorality, neglect of duty and a reduction in a district's teaching force.
Senate Leader Phil Berger, an Eden Republican who led the effort to phase out tenure, has said tenure is an impediment to removing bad teachers from the classroom. He cited data from the state that showed only 17 teachers were dismissed in North Carolina in 2011-12.
The N.C. School Boards Association supported eliminating tenure for future teachers, because of the cost and time involved in dismissing teachers. But the group wanted current teachers grandfathered into the law.
The new law would place all teachers on short-term contracts.
So, McColl said, teachers who have had career status for decades could be let go after a contract for no reason whatsoever and with no opportunity to challenge it.
"Because there's no right to a hearing, there's no way to know how they made a decision," she said of administrators and school boards. "There's no requirements for them making findings, so they decide to non-renew you, there's no record. There's nothing to look at. You have no right to be there when they make the decision; you have no right to provide information to support a renewal. You're just done."
Brian Link, 33, another plaintiff, started a second career as a teacher after practicing law in New York. He teaches world history, civics and economics at East Chapel Hill High, where he directs the school's Social Justice Academy and has won several teaching awards.
When looking for a teaching job, Link chose North Carolina over Florida because of the state's commitment to teachers, he said. This year would be the year he's eligible for tenure.
The promise of job security helped him make the tradeoff for a lower-paying job in the public sector, he said, but the rewrite of the law changes the equation.
"This is just another swipe at teachers, and it's going to make it very hard to keep highly qualified teachers in the classroom," he said.
At East Forsyth, Wallace instructs students in the N.C. Teacher Cadet program who aspire to be teachers someday.
That's one reason she joined the lawsuit, she said.
"I feel like I would be a hypocrite to continue to encourage people to come into this profession if I'm not willing to fight for it," Wallace said. "Career status is huge. It's a fight worth fighting."
Staff writer Paula Seligson contributed to this report.
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Jerome Sachs, First President of Northeastern Illinois University, Dies
Sachs Developed One of the Nation's First Programs for Nontraditional Students and Led Transition of NEIU from a Teachers College to a Comprehensive State University
CHICAGO – Jerome Sachs, Northeastern Illinois University's first president, has died. Dr. Sachs passed away peacefully at his home on Friday, October 12. He was 98.
A lifelong educator, Dr. Sachs was a professor of mathematics at Chicago Teachers College-South before being appointed in 1962 as head of Chicago Teachers College-North, which later became Northeastern Illinois University. During his administrative tenure, he saw the name of the institution change several times and led its transformation from a teachers college to a comprehensive university. He was installed as dean of Chicago Teachers College-North in 1962, which became Illinois Teachers College Chicago-North in 1965. He was installed as president in 1966 and led the college through the transition of becoming a comprehensive state institution of higher education, first named Northeastern Illinois State College in 1967 and Northeastern Illinois University in 1971.
Under Dr. Sachs' leadership, Northeastern Illinois University experienced enormous growth and change. He advocated for nontraditional and experimental degree programs, establishing the University Without Walls nontraditional degree program at a time long before other schools created special programs for this student population. During his tenure at Northeastern, many programs were added including the Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies, which was founded to help prepare new and experienced teachers for work in marginalized areas of the city, and El Centro program, established to focus on the city's Latino community. The University also founded the College of Arts and Sciences, the business program and the University's first graduate programs.
Sharon Hahs, current president of Northeastern Illinois University, said, "Dr. Sachs' legacy includes his spirit of innovation and experimentation, ideals that we continue to strive for today as higher education navigates new challenges. Northeastern Illinois University is the thriving place that it is in part due to his vision and commitment to urban leadership and excellence."
Outside of Northeastern Illinois University, Dr. Sachs championed new ideas for higher education. He was one of the founding members of the Union of Experimenting Colleges and Universities and served on various master plan committees of the Illinois Board of Higher Education. He also served as executive officer of the Illinois Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities.
His scholarly work includes several journal articles and two books that he authored: Basic College Mathematics (1960) and Exploring Mathematics (1961).
After devoting more than 36 years to higher education, Dr. Sachs retired from Northeastern Illinois University in 1973. The administration building at NEIU is named for him, the Jerome M. Sachs Administration Building.
A Chicago native, Dr. Sachs attended Hyde Park High School and earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Chicago. He also served in the U.S. Navy in World War II.
He is survived by a daughter, Jennifer Donovan; son and daughter-in-law, Jonathan and Katharine Sachs; grandchild Ayn Sachs; and great-grandchildren Es Swihart and Malachi Skjeie. He enjoyed two long, happy marriages, the first to Joan Frankenstein Sachs, and after her death, to Irene Gottilieb Sachs, who also predeceased him.
A memorial service will be held on Monday, November 5 at 3:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall at Northeastern Illinois University, 5500 N. St. Louis Ave. in Chicago. Memorial donations may be made to the NEIU Presidential Scholars Program through the Northeastern Illinois University Foundation, 5500 N. St. Louis Ave., Chicago, IL 60625.
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MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Automobile Dealers Association presented five "Best in Show" awards last week to companies that exhibited at the 2014 NADA and American Truck Dealers Convention & Expo in New Orleans.
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The first annual "Best in Show" awards, which are categorized by exhibit size, recognize companies for excellence in design and construction, including the use of innovative materials and creativity in color, lighting and attractions. The exhibits were also evaluated on branding, company imagery, messaging and incorporating the theme of the NADA convention.
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"It was an honor to present the first ever 'Best in Show' awards to this year's exhibitors," said Donovan Bertsch, chairman of NADA's convention committee for 2015 and owner of Theel, Inc., Chevrolet and Buick in Bottineau, N.D., who announced the winners on Jan. 27. "This award recognizes the dedication, creativity and significant investment that our convention exhibitors make each year to support the work of NADA and ATD on behalf of dealers."
There were 566 companies exhibiting at the 2014 NADA and ATD convention, which occupied 700,000 square feet on the Expo floor at the convention center in New Orleans from Jan. 24-27.
The winners were determined by officials from NADA and Freeman, a provider of integrated services for face-to-face marketing, specializing in convention and trade show management.
The "Best in Show" awards were a direct result of NADA's annual Wheelhouse Innovation Sessions, which is hosted by Freeman, and includes a cross-section of exhibitors for a roundtable discussion that explores new ways to make the convention and expo more valuable and relevant to all participants, said Connie Mikels, NADA director of Expositions.
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The 610 Stompers are dropping their 2014 Calendar like it's hot and you're invited! Join us at the Warehouse Grill on Saturday, November 16, at 8:00 pm for a night of calendar release revelry!
Your golden ticket gets you a complimentary 610 Stompers 2014 Calendar (valued at $20), Budweiser Draft while it lasts, DJ Hammer, and dancing with the best boys on the block, The 610 Stompers. The entire night's value...priceless. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door. There is a limited number, so get 'em while they're hot!
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If the Holy Spirit is at work in my life, shouldn't I be sinning less? Isn't that what sanctification means? If so, am I even a Christian when sin is still so present in my life?
As a former church planter I was desperate to establish my congregation. In the technical speak of the Book of Church Order, I wanted to see the mission work I pastored become particularized as a congregation.
Office Hours takes a brief break from our series on sanctification to talk with Dr. Michael S. Horton, J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics, about his most recent book entitled, Calvin on the Christian Life: Glorifying God and Enjoying Him Forever.
Dr. Godfrey, President of WSC, has just had a book review of Jacob Arminius: Theologian of Grace (Oxford: OUP, 2012) by Keith Stanglin and Thomas McCall.
I have never liked being wrong. However, I have reason to be thankful for multiple experiences of being blindingly, flamboyantly, and gloriously mistaken.


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Iran Conference Panel 4
The May 13 conference at the James West Alumni Center focused on Iran's relations both regionally and on the greater world stage. It was sponsored by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and the UCLA International Institute.
Published: Friday, May 27, 2011
Panel IV: The US and Iran
The Iran-US relationship is central to any major change in Iran's status within the world order. What should policy of the Obama administration—and any future American administration—be toward Iran? How can the US-Iranian relationship improve?
- Reuel Gerecht, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
- Paul Pillar, Georgetown University
- Gen. Wesley K. Clark, UCLA Burkle Center
- Trita Parsi, National Iranian American Council
Moderator: Mike Shuster, NPR


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Why We Need to Subsidize Journalism. An Exclusive Interview with Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols.
Robert W. McChesney teaches in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois. John Nichols is the Washington correspondent for The Nation and the associate editor of the Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin.
They're the co-founders, with Josh Silver, of the media reform group Free Press, and McChesney and Nichols have written several books together, none better or more urgent than their latest one, entitled "The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again."
Matthew Rothschild: Let's get to the heart of the current crisis, which is that newspapers, at least print newspapers, are dying. Why is that?
John Nichols: I can say, as someone who's been a print journalist since I was 11 years old that I don't think they're dying because people don't want news anymore but because of a lot of factors that we talk about in the book that are not talked about very much. The primary one is that the people who own most of the newspapers are not interested in civic or democratic values. They're interested in commercial and entertainment values, and primarily to make a lot of money. Many of them acquired big newspapers at huge costs; they paid more than they should have for them. And while they're still making money, it's not enough for them to post the 30 percent to 40 percent profits that they want. So rather than accepting that reality and readjusting, some of them are actually closing newspapers. We've seen the Seattle Post Intelligencer and the Rocky Mountain News close, as well as about 140 smaller papers last year. We have threats to big dailies in San Francisco, Detroit, Boston, and other places.
But the more serious problem is with the papers that are staying open. The way these very large corporations keep them functioning, if you will, is by laying off journalists. Over the last two years, newspapers have been laying off or firing more than 1,000 reporters a month. Those numbers are just devastating. Those employees are the people who staff Washington bureaus, city hall bureaus, who cover our government, who really keep the lights on of our civic life.
What's happening with the death of newspapers—and really the death of radio journalism and a lot of TV journalism—is a shuttering of our democratic discourse. It's very unhealthy.
Robert McChesney: If I can add to that: We emphasize newspapers in the book because radio and television journalism is basically dead. That was slaughtered off by corporate conglomerate owners over the past two decades. It wasn't too long ago, we can all remember in the 1970s, when everyone thought TV journalism would somehow usurp the role of newspapers. Well, no one talks in those terms anymore.
The point John's making is crucial. A lot of the conventional wisdom thinks that the cause of the decline of journalism today is that the Internet killed it, and it destroyed the business model, or that the Great Recession took away advertising, and had the Internet not come along, or had the Great Recession not taken place, everything would be just fine and journalism would be quite strong. What we demonstrate in the book— and I think the evidence is fairly overwhelming—is that the crisis of journalism began decades ago. The profit motive ultimately is not compatible with the public service of journalism, particularly when it's sheathed in a conglomerate that makes its money by stripping newsrooms for parts of monopolistic environments.
Matthew Rothschild: In a lot of journalism forums, editors are saying if we'd only responded better to the Internet, if we'd only done this, that, or the other thing, we'd still be alive. That's not your analysis?
Robert McChesney: No, not at all. This crisis was in full throttle before the Internet affected it. And the Internet has basically made permanent the crisis and accelerated the crisis and made it irreversible.
John Nichols: On the flipside of blaming the Internet for the decline of newspapers is the fantasy that the Internet is somehow replacing the newspaper. There's a great new Pew study that is focused on Baltimore. It looked at all the news coverage from every outlet: on line, broadcast, print, and what they came up with was this: 4 percent of news stories were being broken by Internet news organizations. The overwhelming majority was coming from the print press, the Baltimore Sun.
But here's the problem: The study showed that the Baltimore Sun has dramatically fewer employees and was breaking roughly half as many stories as they were 20 years ago. So here's what we have: The shutting down of newspapers, the decline of newspapers, while at the same time with no real replacement by the Web. All the Web is doing is aggregating what little coverage is still done by the newspaper. It's a disastrous circumstance. If the Web was replacing newspapers, great, wonderful. But that's not happening. What we're doing is creating a void. The news we need as citizens is falling into that void.
Matthew Rothschild: That's the point you make in the book, that the death of newspapers is terrible for our democracy. Why is it? How is it?
Robert McChesney: This is a fundamental of democratic theory: that you have to have an informed citizenry if you're going to have not even self-government, but any semblance of the rule of law and a constitutional republic, because people in power will almost always gravitate to doing things to benefit themselves that will be to the harm of the Republic, unless they're held accountable, even if they're democratically elected. That's built into our constitutional system. And that's why the framers of the Constitution were obsessed with a free press; they were obsessed with understanding if you don't have a credible press system, the Constitution can't work. And that's why the Framers in the first several generations of the Republic, members of Congress and the President, put into place extraordinary press subsidies to create a press system that never would have existed had it been left to the market. In the book we chronicle these subsidies, and we do some original research and compile the great historical record that's been done over the past few decades. And I think anybody who reads the book is actually astounded at the extent to which we had a heavily subsidized press system for the first 75 years of the nation's history. If you took the postal subsidies and the printing subsidies just out of Washington alone and calculated what their value would be today as a percentage of GDP, if the federal government spent the same amount of money today subsidizing journalism, it would be $30 billion.
Matthew Rothschild: And that's a crucial antecedent to your point toward the end of your book about the need for press subsidies today. And I want to get to those in a little bit but I do want to talk a little more about the dying newspapers. The problem is, as you were suggesting, John, is who's going to be covering the stories? Who's going to breaking the stories? And what kind of institutional support do you need to break a story?
John Nichols: What happens when we decrease the number of paid reporters digging out stories, where does our news come from? Again I turn to this Pew study that just came out. What they found out in Baltimore is as you dramatically decrease the number of reporters covering local, state, even federal government at that level, more and more stories—in fact, a disproportionate amount of stories—is generated by government. The mayor says something . . . the governor says something. And that's the story. What you lose is the reporter who goes out and does an investigative story, or just digs on a daily basis, finds a story, breaks it, and then government has to respond. What we're really seeing is a reversal: Instead of journalists speaking truth to power, challenging power, hopefully pushing it to address important matters, we see government making statements, taking actions, and then journalists responding to it, this is a very, very unhealthy pattern in a democratic society.
Robert McChesney: In fact, John, if I could interject, that's even an optimistic look, because it's not just government. One of the things we did in the research for the book that was most striking to us was that we calculated the number of PR officials and the number of journalists per 100,000 people. And in the early 1960s, there were more journalists than PR people. By the early 1980s, there were more PR people than journalists. And the gap has increasingly grown. As the number of journalists per 100,000 has shrunk considerably, the number of PR agents has almost doubled and even tripled. And these PR agents include government people, but they also include the corporate community. And so the news on public affairs issues that affect corporate interests, like health care, like the environment, a lot of it's going to be coming increasingly from self-interested PR people.
Matthew Rothschild: We've talked about the problems. I want to talk about proposed solutions that are out there and why you don't think those are going to work and then get to the solutions that you yourself propose. The first proposed solution is from what you call the "Internet fabulists," who believe the Internet is going to solve everything. Why isn't the Internet going to solve the problem of reporting?
Robert McChesney: The problem with the Internet is that there is no evidence yet that there's going to be, through the marketplace, anywhere near the resources to generate the number of paid journalists that comes remotely close to what we've expected in this country in the past and what we need to make self-government journalism work. The number of paid journalists who make their income today through Internet journalism probably could fit into a small room. It's simply an almost nonexistent number: the number that earn it through the marketplace and are not bankrolled by some foundation.
And if you add in the ones who are bankrolled by foundations, the number goes up to maybe 50 people. The idea that this number is going to expand to 100,000 people in our lifetimes is preposterous. All these organizations are scrambling for money. The truth of the matter is that journalism is a public good. It's one of those things that the market cannot satisfy. And the fact that advertising came along and supported it for 100 years and provided all its resources gave us the illusion that it was a market-driven phenomenon. Advertisers don't need journalism. They've jumped ship, and they're not coming back. So, if it's a public good, we can't count on the market, any more than the market will give us national parks, or national defense, or public education.
Matthew Rothschild: Some in the foundation world understand that. They think, maybe we should pour our money in here. They recognize that it's a public good that's failing us. Why won't foundations be able to pick up the slack?
John Nichols: Let me give you a notion here: They don't have enough money! Foundations just took it on the chin when we crashed the economy a year or so ago. In fact, so hard that some of our civic organizations that have big names—Common Cause, ACLU—have really been scrambling economically. At the end of the day, the notion that foundations or wealth individuals are going to come in and somehow subsidize journalism at the level we need it is absurd. And it is not just unrealistic; it is dangerous because it slows us down. It causes us to keep waiting for this fantastical result. It's almost as bad as waiting for the market to fix it, right? To say, "Let's wait for some noble individual, or noble group of individuals, to come solve our problems" is not a citizen-based response! A citizen-based response says, "No, we control our government. The government has immense resources. It just bailed out Wall Street. It just bailed out the auto industry in numbers far higher than anything we're talking about for saving journalism."
Matthew Rothschild: But you don't want it to bail out The New York Times or The Boston Globe?
Robert McChesney: No, not that at all. In this country, people would never say, "Hey, let's hope that Warren Buffett will bankroll our national defense, our police departments." People understand that this is something you have to have done, regardless of the cost. You do it first, and then you take care of the cost later. That's how journalism is. It's not something you do on the cheap. If you do, you don't have a free society.
Matthew Rothschild: And this idea that newspapers should just go nonprofit? The New York Times should go nonprofit and beg people for money, like I do at The Progressive.
John Nichols: Or like NPR does.
Robert McChesney: Again, it gets to the public good nature. That's a fine source of revenues, but it's not going to cover the job. From all the evidence we see, it's going to require a public subsidy to have journalism. The marketplace will not generate it. And there is not enough money in the donor camp to do so.
Matthew Rothschild: So let's talk about this public subsidy idea. But before we get into specifics, let's try to clear the threshold criticism that you're getting the government involved in the media and that's breaching the First Amendment.
John Nichols: Well, let me offer you, as a First Amendment absolutist, someone who is really passionate about it, a couple of answers. First off, we have heavily subsidized media in much of the world. And most studies would tell you that countries with the most heavily subsidized journalism—in Scandinavia, or Britain with the BBC—are very free societies. Scandinavian societies especially rank as freer than the United States. They have a broader, better public discourse than the United States. So that's your first model. But also, the second thing is, you say, "If the government gets involved, somehow it's going to taint it, somehow it's going to destroy it." Well, look: The government, whether we want to acknowledge it or not, is very involved in making religion function in the United States. You can deduct your contributions to churches. They don't pay taxes. And somehow in this country we have an incredibly diverse religious community, including folks who are very, very critical of the government. So this notion that the government getting engaged in setting up a landscape in which people can really practice journalism from a lot of different perspectives in a lot of different ways will somehow taint it or undermine it is disproven both in clear press models international and also domestically.
Matthew Rothschild: I want to bounce this over to Bob McChesney, because all your scholarship, Bob, has been based on the assumption, that you've proven over and over again, that the government has always been involved in the media to one extent or another.
Robert McChesney: You look at our news media over the last 30 years. Our television broadcasters exist, and our cable broadcasters exist, because of government monopoly licenses they received usually behind closed doors for free that are worth an enormous amount of money. So they're really not independent media.
John and I share the concern of government censorship as much as anyone. We probably would be the first to be censored. But it's ironic that people who are so concerned about this issue, which is a very legitimate issue, see nothing wrong with the fact that our television broadcasters who depend on the government for all sorts of benefits were basically printing government positions on the Gulf War and the Iraq War. Now suddenly there is a concern when we might do it out in the open, and set up independent news media that would be clear, visible, transparent, that their operations would be independent of any government control. Commercial media and private media prosper in Europe as a result of these subsidies. They're not threatened. In fact, Freedom House—this very pro-commercial, pro-private media organization, which rates press freedom every year around the world—puts the most heavily subsidized democracies in the world in the top six positions of having the most free private press. The United States ranks tied for twenty-first. So the evidence shows that the increase in public subsidies in Europe results in a feistier press, a more robust press, a stronger press, not a weaker, complacent press. That's why we get without press subsidies: We have journalists who are dependent on the government for handouts.
Matthew Rothschild: Let's get specific on the kind of subsidies you're talking about. Some are in the initial stage, "to stop the bleeding," as you call it, and what would that be?
Robert McChesney: Immediately what we have to do is put a lot more money into public and community radio and television. And specifically with a mandate to increase journalism particularly at the local level, where we have town after town with virtually no journalists and we have out of work journalists, and we have institutions in place ready to go.
Secondly, we're losing a generation of young people who not only consume journalism but produce it. We've got to use the AmeriCorps program to bankroll hundreds of thousands of kids who want to become journalists to go out and work in the media and get experience, sort of like the WPA in the 1930s. I teach journalism. We've lost a generation of kids and they're not necessarily coming back. We can't afford to lose young people. This is a crisis. I don't want to dwell on this, but I've got young people who don't know anything about the world because they haven't been exposed to journalism.
John Nichols: And let me offer just one, quick easy one that goes back to the founding of the Republic: The postal structure in this country makes it very, very hard for small journals of opinion to circulate.
Matthew Rothschild: Tell me about it!
John Nichols: You know it. We know it at The Nation. Let's intervene there. Let's make it cheap and easy for people to circulate a journal of opinion. But let's also do something else. Let's borrow an idea from Scandinavia. We want to give citizens some power in deciding what media should exist out there. So why shouldn't you be able to subscribe to two or three newspapers and three or four magazines, and take that off your taxes. Now that's going to take some money out of the government's treasury that it would have gotten. But there you have citizens picking the media they want to support, donating money to it, maybe donating to The Progressive, donating to a radio station, donating to a website and at a very low cost actually sustaining a lot of media with the government just in there just to do the tax structure.
Matthew Rothschild: A lot of these ideas are great, but almost all of them collide with the power structure in this country. These huge corporations and all their lobbyists: We've seen what they've done to health care reform; we've seen what they've done across the board. How do you expect to make these changes when you have these behemoths out there?
John Nichols: Not to rely on Noam Chomsky too much, but Chomsky always says you advance good public policy often when the elites divide. Today, we do have divided elites on some of these issues. Some of the biggest Internet players are worried about the loss of content. So there are openings here. But the real bottom line, as Bob and I have said for years, is we've got to counter organized money with organized people.
Robert McChesney: Also we're in a deep crisis. These are not normal times. We're in a period where journalism is disintegrating. It's a moment where people are looking for real solutions. I think the reason our book will be successful is that all the other stuff being bandied about is preposterous on the surface. This is a difficult road to go down, but it's the only road that's going to pay off.
Matthew Rothschild is the editor of The Progressive magazine. This is an edited transcript of the interview he did with McChesney and Nichols on January 13 for his syndicated radio program, Progressive Radio. You can listen to it here.
McChesney is on the editorial advisory board of The Progressive, and Nichols is a contributing writer for The Progressive.
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A group of Omaha entrepreneurs hopes to raise $1.3 million to restore a former Benson movie theater and transform it into an arts performance space and education center.
The Benalto Theater, 6054 Maple St., was built in 1923 as a combination vaudeville house, movie theater and community space. From 1927 to 1953 it was the Benson Theater, part of a chain of neighborhood movie theaters, seating about 400. It has been vacant for five years.
Amy Ryan, owner and operator of the Pizza Shoppe next door, is spearheading the project, which she sees as part of a self-sustaining community development concept for Benson.
The revamped theater would join a number of restaurants, bars and other businesses that have opened in the neighborhood in the past nine months or so, including Ella's, Lot 2 and Ethel Mae's restaurants and Krug Park bar. Beercade, a bar and arcade, is opening April 13. Another restaurant, Mantra, is expected to open soon, and a brewpub is in the works.
The Benson Theatre Project, a project of the Omaha Community Foundation, will try to raise $50,000 in the next 50 days to pay for 18 months of rent, insurance and overhead to secure the building, Ryan said.
Phase 2 would be raising $250,000 to buy the building from a development partnership, which purchased it two years ago. A deal for rental and purchase of the building is still under negotiation.
The final phase, about $900,000, would be the actual restoration. Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture has begun work on restoration plans.
The Pizza Shoppe will offer $20 brunches for the next six Sundays through Mother's Day, each from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., to help reach the initial $50,000 goal.
Ryan said strong community support could lead the restored building to open as early as fall 2013.
"I'm so excited to learn how many people love Benson as much as I do," Ryan said. "So many who have gone to Benson High, or they grew up here, or some relative lived here, they have a lot of love for this community."
Ryan envisions the theater being used as a workshop center during the day, offering classes on business education, finance and strategic planning for artists and startup entrepreneurs.
"Entrepreneurship is the new art form," she said. "People can learn these processes to succeed in business. We're hoping for corporate-sponsored classes offered free."
At night, the 200-seat sloped-floor theater, complete with an orchestra pit, fly space above the stage and state-of-the-art sound and lighting systems, would be booked for whatever the community needs, Ryan said: live theater, comedy, concerts, presentations by local filmmakers and more.
Ryan said the building will need new electrical, heating, cooling and plumbing systems, flooring, seating and a concerted effort to restore its historic architecture. No photos of the theater's interior have been found.
Most recently, Rick's Fitness used the building as a warehouse.
Other key activists in the effort, according to Ryan, are Raechel Achelpohl, Jesse Stanek, Sarah Wengert, Marq Manner, David Codr and Monty Eich.
The Omaha Community Foundation is providing fiscal sponsorship until the Benson Theatre Project secures its own nonprofit status for donors. Money donated now will be funneled through the foundation and is tax deductible.
"We think the plans for the theater are a great combination, visionary," said Mike Leighton, president and chief executive officer of the Omaha Community Foundation. "We have a great deal of confidence in the people behind the project."
Leighton said the plan fits the Omaha By Design initiative, which has promoted conservation and development in established parts of Omaha.
"This is part of the re-emergence of Benson as a thriving community," he said.
City Councilman Pete Festersen, who represents Benson, endorsed the project in a Monday letter to Ryan.
Jay Palu, an architect at Alley Poyner Macchietto, said projects that have a chance to help an emerging neighborhood take special attention and time.
"We're still exploring the capabilities of the building," he said. "Amy's intent is to go back to the original as much as possible. With buildings this old, it usually turns out to be a mix of what it was and what's feasible today."
With extensive renovation over the years, and incomplete records of what once was, he said, patience takes precedence.
"The goal will be to once again have a building that serves as a center of the Benson community," he said.
Ryan said Benson already has a lively music and bar-band scene. The Benson Theatre Project is a way to make sure all art forms are represented in Benson, she said.
"This vision for Benson as a cultural and entertainment district is really coming to fruition," said Shelley Kiel, manager of the Benson Business Improvement District. "This could be the crown jewel in the future of the Benson area."
She said there has been an outpouring of support for the project since it was posted on Facebook over the weekend, with more than 200 "likes" within 24 hours.
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