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The anti-affirmative action guy is Ward Connerly. Ward Churchill is a garden variety "9/11: America Deserved It" guy.
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I'm going to make this zucchini bread with my godson tonight! Thanks for the recipe.
Oh dear. I knew this vegetarian thing would devolve into hippie bread at some point.
What #1 said...ECB you've got your Wards really badly confused...but in a peculiarly ironic way.
4 words: Chocolate Zucchini Bread. Yum!
There are about forty more interesting things you can do with zucchini than bread (cake, really).
Agreed with Fnarf. Zucchini stuffed with bulgar wheat, tomatoes, sauteed onions, and parsley topped with a warm yogurt-garlic sauce, for instance. (Lebanese recipe)
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Yes, yes, of course. But my 6-year-old godson will eat zucchini bread.
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And what's with calling Bundy's argument idiocy? I don't agree with him, but he tried to make a rational argument based on his take of the data. The best you can come up with in response is to call him names? Weak...
Well, not *only* in Texas. Kansas has done crap like that, too. We need to just give up on the -as states.
Zucchini bread = hippy bread? They've been making zucchini bread ever since they realized that that weed will take over your garden and grow its fruit like no one's business.
Fnarf, it's really a big muffin, not a cake or bread. And while you can do more interesting things with it, you can't do anything more interesting that also solves the problem of what to do with all that goddamn zucchini in the first place.
#6 - The reasons are endless. To me buses don't give any environmental benefit because for anyone to actually use buses we need nothing short of bus corridors. The only decent info in that paper is that I am not for tunnels anymore.
Gee... what form of transportation doesn't require much street space OR tunnels? Oh that's right Sound Transit and their bitch the Seattle Times combined to kill off the rational, sane transportation system with half truths and propaganda.
Oh yeah - and you bike freaks I'm glad you do what you do but it's hilly and rainy here. The numbers bad-asses that do brave Seattle commuting via bike are always going to be smaller then other parts of the world.
You need a zucchini prevention policy. Snap off the blossoms and cook them as described earlier this week.
Ukraine. Not THE Ukraine. Ukraine.
yayyyyyy for ward churchill being fired. what an embarassment.
Matt from Denver: OK, it's a muffin. Muffins are for people who hate food. They're a million times worse than even cake. In fact, I would go so far as to say that nothing on the earth is as bad as a muffin.
Fnarf, I'm glad my childhood wasn't anything like yours, as only some muffin trauma can account for a pleasure-denying attitude such as yours. Feel free to send me any zucchini bread that comes your way.
@ 16, I've done squash blossom recipes before and while they're delicious they're also an enormous pain in the ass. Picking, washing and drying all those blossoms takes so much time it's hardly worth the effort. But thanks for the suggestion.
If you read the article, you would have noted that what Emory Bundy calls "the best possible transportation mode" is the same one that you and I often use to get to work: the bicycle. He uses it, too.
This makes him an idiot?
@2 - thanks, but the fact that Rove is going to have to speak under OATH is what has me excited today, plus the US AG going down on criminal charges ...
Will in Seattle @ 22,
Sorry, neither will happen since we have a "Justice" Department that's as corrupt and contemptuous of the rule of law as the criminals they're supposed to be prosecuting.
In the old days, we might have had people who would put their country and Constitution before their party and political power, but those folks are long gone.
i couldn't deal with the veggie artist's website long enough to figure out his point. aren't those veggies just what actual vegetables look like when not sorted out to be sold in stores to people who freak out if their peppers aren't "pepper-shaped"? his intro page was kind of internet-conspiracy theory level gobbeldy-gook. (is "gobbeldy-gook" one of those weird secret racist terms or not?)
LOL @1,6 ... yet another display of ECB's respect for detail.
Hey, what about that cute little cat the predicts death? It is all over yahoo. Imgine all those old folks saying... "Oh look at the cute little kitty coming up on my bed. WAIT!! CAT OF DEATH GET OFF ME!!!" I can see why Egyptians worshiped them now.
Any native Northwesterner knows exactly what to do with enormous quantities of surplus zucchini. You leave it surreptiously on your neighbors' porches in brown paper sacks. When you run out of neighbors, you start doing the same thing in the break rooms at work.
Oh, and @7 - Chocolate Zucchini Bread is not four words. Chocolate Pot Zucchini Bread is, which explains a great deal.
"Gee... what form of transportation doesn't require much street space OR tunnels? Oh that's right Sound Transit and their bitch the Seattle Times combined to kill off the rational, sane transportation system with half truths and propaganda. "
You have got to be kidding, right Chill Pill?
The Seattle Times has been editorializing and railing against Sound Transit since the day they discarded an alignment that went right by Seattle Times World Headquarters on Fairview years and years ago (opting instead for the dense populations of Capitol Hill).
Chill Pill, go back to the Times Editorial page in 2004 - after Sound Transit had broken ground and committed over a billion dollars in light rail contracts - and you can find the Times Editorial Board stating plainly that the project should STILL be stopped. Yeah, it sure is obvious the Times was in Sound Transit's back pocket. What an idiotic conspiracy theory...sounds like something half-sane Emory Bundy would come up with!
Besides Blethen, Ramsey and Vesely's hatred of rail transit, even Seattle Time transportation writer Mike Lindblom (who fawned over the Monorail, treating that project with kid gloves) has got into the propaganda act http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003788710_soundtransit14m.html .
It took the Tacoma News Tribune to out him. www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/story/112516.html
For the record, Emory Bundy is an idiot.
Besides parroting Krazy Right Winger Kemper Freeman's lies about cars being just as efficient as transit (all the blue blood old money Seattle dinosaurs seem to hold this opinion), Bundy IS AN IDIOT because he always hides his real agenda http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit
I mean, Bundy quit his job at the Bullitt Foundation to spend all his waking hours obsessing over new ways to kill light rail...but like most Snake Oil Salesmen, Bundy isn't about to tell you what he's actually FOR....but others have outed his weird ideas in the past:
"Personal rapid transit is one technology that holds great promise for urban transit systems."
-Emory Bundy, Seattle political scientist.
Light-rail foe has rival-rail link Conflicts?
May 19, 2002
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Since the 1980s, years before he emerged as a civic-minded general in the battle to kill light rail, Seattleite Emory Bundy has been a corporate officer of a fledgling transit company that touts itself as a low-cost alternative to light rail. This financial stake - in what the influential critic dismisses as a corporation with no product, no venture capital and no payroll - surprised longtime friends and foes alike last week.
Most wished he'd disclosed it all along. Then the public could judge its effect, if any, on his credibility as a critic, as a plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against light rail and as a dissident member of the official citizen committee that reviewed and endorsed the 1996 ballot measure that created Sound Transit.
Members of that committee say - and meeting notes and minutes confirm - Bundy didn't tell his fellow panel members about his stake in Pathfinder Systems Inc., a developer of so-called personal rapid transit, or PRT. Not on Feb. 8, 1996, when he talked up PRT at a committee meeting. Not on March 5, 1996, when he arranged for a business partner to brief the committee about the PRT concept.
The committee's chairman, Seattle attorney Dick Ford, said it "troubles me" to have been unaware of the business relationship. Other light-rail backers, including state transportation commissioner Aubrey Davis, also see Bundy's silence as problematic.....
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I made that zuke bread recipe with my 6-year-old godson last night. It was a ton of fun, and he was totally into it the entire time. We skipped some of the more exotic ingredients, but if I make this again I'll definitely use the curry powder and nuts and stuff.
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If the new formula is adopted by the American Heart Association, it will change the advice doctors give their patients, he says. The predicted maximum heart rate reflects what people should achieve when they do their physical activity.
"Heart rate is a reasonably good indicator of the target rate at which any level of athlete should be exercising, but it tends to be variable based on your physical shape," says Manoukian. "If you're in bad shape, your heart rate jumps up quickly; if you're in good shape, it tends to be harder to achieve."
As a rule of thumb, he says, for someone first starting an exercise program, "we would advise working to 50% of your maximum heart rate, then gradually up to 75 or 85%. With healthy adults, we advise to keep challenging themselves to exhaustion."
Even more importantly, the new formula would affect exercise stress tests that cardiologists give to people with heart problems.
"If you came into my office with chest pain, I would put you on a treadmill and monitor your ECG -- I would like to get your heart rate up to 85% of your predicted maximum heart rate," says Manoukian. "Only at that level can a cardiologist provide any significant information about heart function. If I'm inaccurately calculating what maximal is for you, I may not be getting the maximal test."
Also, those with heart disease -- especially if they're over 50 and 60 -- may also be able to exercise at higher heart rates than previously thought, Manoukian tells WebMD.
For most healthy adults without heart problems, the American Heart Association's FIT (frequency, intensity, and time of exercise) recommendations are: frequency of five times week, intensity that is "somewhat hard," and 30-60 minutes of exercise at a time, he says.
"I often tell people to exercise to the point where it feels challenging, that you could have a conversation but exercise might make you somewhat breathless," says Manoukian. "If you're not breathless, you're not exerting enough. You should perceive the exercise to be somewhat difficult."
The American Heart Association has no plans to change its current policy endorsing the 220 - age formula, says Gerald Fletcher, MD, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., and a member of the AHA's Council on Clinical Cardiology. "There are many ways to look at maximal heart rate, and the current formula still gives a reasonable prediction," he tells WebMD. "This might in the future help us look at things differently, but right now we're going to stay with it."


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The total topaz weight is approximately 5.7ct. The necklace measures 20"L x 1"W and includes a 2" extender. It comes in a decorative purple wooden presentation box with a purple felt interior and romance card.
Part of the Prestige Pearls collection. Made in China. Do not use jewelry cleaners to clean, use warm water. Put jewelry on last after hair products, make up and perfume. Cultured pearls are a product of mother nature and will have natural birthmarks resembling pores. Size, color and shape may vary slightly. Actual amount of pearls may vary. Necklace length may vary up to 1" due to different size pearls and knotting. All weights pertaining to gemstones, including diamonds, are minimum weights. Additionally, please note that many gemstones are treated to enhance their beauty. Click here for important information about gemstone enhancements and special care requirements.
Sterling silver, also called fine silver, is a beautifully lustrous cool-toned precious metal favored in fine jewelry among other products. The most reflective of all metals (excluding mercury), sterling silver looks stunning by itself and brings out the best hues in an array of colorful gemstones.
Sterling silver can be polished to a higher sheen than platinum. In fact, Ag, the chemical symbol for silver, comes from a word that means "white and shining." The surface of silver can boast that shiny, polished appearance, or can be brushed, satin, matte, sandblasted, antiqued or oxidized (chemically blackened).
In order to be called sterling silver, a metal must be made up of a minimum of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% alloy (meaning other metals), including but not limited to copper and nickel. The alloy is added to pure silver to make the metal more durable, tougher and harder. Sterling silver is designated a fineness of "925." Pieces with sterling silver may be marked "sterling."
Finishes on Sterling Silver
Finishing, or plating, is a common treatment with sterling silver. Popular types of plating are rhodium plating, gold plating and anti-tarnish plating. Plating is used to extend the life and sheen of the jewelry. After sizing or buffing a piece of jewelry with a machine, it must be re-plated to restore the finish.
Caring for Sterling Silver
Sterling silver becomes tarnished as the result of a natural chemical process that occurs when sterling silver is exposed to chemicals in the air, rubber, wool and latex. Humidity also plays a role in accelerating tarnishing. It's easy to keep your sterling silver sparkling, though, by taking a few steps to prevent tarnish and other wear and tear.
Often referred to as a gift from the sea, pearl's origin has been an object of folklore throughout history. Early Chinese myths told of pearls falling from the sky when dragons fought. Ancient Persian legend said that pearls were tears of the gods. In classical times, it was believed that pearls were formed when moonbeams lit upon shellfish, while Indian mythology suggested pearls were formed when dewdrops fell from the heavens into the sea.
In truth, pearls are lustrous gems with an organic origin. They are formed inside mollusks such as oysters, clams and mussels when an irritant such as a tiny stone, grain of sand or small parasite enters the mollusk's shell. To protect its soft inner body, the mollusk secretes a smooth, lustrous substance called nacre around the foreign object. Layer upon layer of nacre coats the irritant and hardens, ultimately forming a pearl.
This process of building a solid pearl can take up to seven or eight years. Generally, the thicker the nacre becomes, the richer the "glow" of the pearl and greater its value. While pearls that have formed on the inside of the shell (called blister pearls) are usually irregular in shape and have little commercial value, those that are formed within the tissue of the mollusk are either spherical or pear-shaped and are highly sought-after for jewelry. Most pearls on the market measure 7.0-7.5mm in diameter, but can be found as small as 1mm or as large as 20mm.
Although some pearls are found naturally in mollusks (considered the most valuable), the vast majority of pearls are grown, or cultured, on pearl farms. To instigate this culturing process, a small shell bead, or nucleus, is surgically inserted into the mantle of an oyster. Despite the fact that pearls are harvested in great quantities on pearl farms, producing a quality pearl is an extremely rare event. It is estimated that half of all nucleated oysters do not survive and, from those that do, only 20 percent create marketable pearls.
Cultured and natural pearls can be distinguished from imitation pearls by rubbing them gently against the edge of a tooth. Cultured and natural pearls will feel slightly rough, like fine sandpaper, because of the texture of natural nacre. Imitations will feel quite smooth because their surfaces are merely molded or painted on smooth beads. Since nacre is organic, pearls are quite "soft" and rank only a 2.5-4.5 on the Mohs Scale. The gems are very sensitive and special care should be taken when wearing and storing them.
The value of a pearl is judged by several factors, and high-quality pearl strands should feature pearls well-matched in these factors: "orient," the lustrous iridescence that's produced when light is reflected from the nacre, should glow with a soft brilliance; the nacre's texture should be clean and smooth, absent of spots, bumps or cracks; the shape of a pearl should be symmetrical and generally the rounder a pearl is, the higher its value; and although pearls come in many different colors (depending on the environment and species of mollusk), the most favored are those that have a rose-tinted hue.
Pearls are cultured in a variety of sizes, shapes and colors. Akoya pearls are the classic round pearls found in most pearl jewelry. They are mainly grown in the waters off Japan and are found in a range of hues, including white, cream, pink and peach. Mabe pearls are grown in Japan, Indonesia, French Polynesia and Australia. They are usually flat-backed and often called blister pearls because they form against the inside shells of oysters rather than within oysters' bodies. Tahitian pearls are grown in French Polynesia and come in a range of colors, including gray and black with green, purple or rose overtones. Because of their large size and unique dark colors, they command very high prices. Also prized for their large size, white South Sea pearls are grown in Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines and other areas of the South Pacific.
Freshwater pearls come in various colors and are grown in bays, lakes and rivers primarily in Japan, China, Europe and the United States (Mississippi River). They are often irregularly shaped and less lustrous than saltwater cultured pearls, making them substantially less expensive.
Pearls have been treasured throughout ancient folklore and history. Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, considered pearls to be sacred. The Greeks prized the gems for their beauty and believed that wearing pearls would promote marital bliss and prevent newlywed women from crying. In ancient Rome, pearls were considered the ultimate symbol of wealth and status. The ancient Egyptians were buried with them and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra favored pearls immensely. It is said that while dining with Mark Anthony, she purposely dropped a pearl into her drink to demonstrate the wealth of her rule.
As early as 2000 B.C., pearls have been used as medicine in China, where it was believed to represent wealth, power and longevity. Even today, low-grade pearls are ground for use as medicine in the Orient. Arabs and Persians also believed it was a cure for various kinds of diseases, as well as insanity.
Long ago, when pearls were not cultured and thousands of oysters had to be searched for only one pearl, the gems were important financial assets, comparable in price to real estate. Some European countries even banned all but nobility from the right to wear them. Medieval knights wore them in battle as a talisman against injury, while warriors in India encrusted pearls into their sword handles to symbolize the tears that swords can bring.
Today, the pearl is a universal symbol of innocence and purity. It is the birthstone for June and is considered the traditional gift for couples celebrating their 3rd and 30th wedding anniversaries. Many believe the gem gives wisdom through experience, quickens the laws of karma and cements engagements and love relationships. It is also considered to offer the powers of wealth, protection and luck.
The largest pearl in the world is approximately 3" long and 2" wide, weighing one-third of a pound. Called the Pearl of Asia, it was a gift from India's Shah Jahan to his favorite wife, for whom he also built the Taj Mahal. Another famous pearl is called "La Peregrina," or "the Wanderer," and is considered by experts to be the most beautiful pearl in the world. Pear-shaped and measuring 1-1/2" in length, it is said that 400 years ago the pearl was found by a slave in Panama, who gave it up in return for his freedom. In 1570, the conquistadors sent the pearl to King Philip II of Spain. The pearl was passed to Mary I of England, who gave it to Prince Louis Napoleon of France, who sold it to the British Marquis of Abercon. After disappearing for a century, the pearl turned up once again in 1969 at a New York auction house. It was purchased by actor Richard Burton for his wife, Elizabeth Taylor.
A symbol of strength and intelligence, topaz derives its name from Topazios, an island in the Red Sea that is known today as Zabargad. The Greek word "topazios" means "to seek," since the island was covered with a thick fog and difficult to find. Gemstones found on the island were called topaz, although the stones were eventually found to actually be peridot. The real gem of topaz is found throughout the world, with different occurrences producing specific colors.
Brown, yellow, orange and red topaz are found in Brazil, Sri Lanka and Siberia. Most brownish topaz is heated to produce a permanent and glamorous pink color. Following the discovery of pink topaz in Russia during the 19th century, Imperial topaz was found. Featuring a sherry red, deep pink or reddish-orange color, the gem was so coveted that its ownership was restricted to the Czar, his family and those who received it as a royal gift. Today, Imperial shades are the most rare and, therefore, the most valuable.
Blue topaz is rarely found in nature and is most often created through a combination of heat treatment and irradiation. It is found in Brazil, Sri Lanka, Nigeria and China. Topaz is often colorless, too, and can be found in the United States, Mexico, Russia and Pakistan. In 1998, a new type of enhanced topaz made its appearance with a greenish-blue or emerald green color. All colors of topaz rank an 8.0 on the Mohs Scale of hardness.
Yellow topaz is November's birthstone and blue topaz is December's birthstone. Blue topaz is also the traditional gift for 4th and 19th wedding anniversaries, while Imperial topaz is celebrated as a 23rd anniversary gift. Perhaps the most famous topaz is a large, colorless stone known as the Braganza. It was discovered in Brazil in 1740 and was originally thought to be a priceless diamond. Today, the giant 1,680.00ct stone is set in the Portuguese Crown.
The mystery and allure of topaz goes back thousands of years. To the ancients, it was a symbol of love and affection and was thought to ward off sudden death. The Romans associated topaz with Jupiter, the god of the sun. The Greeks called it the Stone of Strength, believing it had the power to increase strength and make its wearer invisible in times of emergency. The Egyptians said the gem was colored with the golden glow of the sun god, Ra, making topaz a powerful amulet that protected its wearer against harm.
Topaz's mystical curative powers were believed to wax and wane with the phases of the moon. The gem was said to change color in the presence of poisoned food or drink and falcons were carved on the stones to help earn the goodwill of kings and magnates. During the spread of the Bubonic plague in 1347-1400, the clergy touched topaz to people's sores. Also in medieval times, the gem was thought to prevent death and heal physical and mental disorders. The stones were ground into powder and added to wine to prevent asthma and insomnia.
Today, topaz is said to be the gem that has the widest range of curative powers. It is believed to dispel enchantment, improve eyesight and protect against negative emotions such as depression, anger, fear, greed and envy. Its properties are supposedly enhanced when the gem is mounted in gold. Because of this association with gold, topaz is used to bring or enhance the wearer's money-gathering abilities and has long been used in money and wealth rituals.
Wearing topaz is said to improve and deepen relationships, promote patience, ensure fidelity and enhance the ability to love. The gem is also believed to bring friendship, intelligence, long life, beauty and a pleasant disposition.


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City denied new sponsorship deal.
Manchester City Football Club announced today that it has failed in its bid in securing a major airline sponsorship deal for the club and its supporters. A spokesperson stated that several airline companies had rejected their business plan as the club and its supporters were highly unlikely to be travelling to Europe over the next few years.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
A Yahoo! User Dec 29, 2006 07:35 Flag
They always come out of the woodwork do'nt they till they lose the league to chelsea and slide out of europe and then you can't get two words from them .
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redevilmatt redevilmatt Dec 30, 2006 08:30 Flag
But at least we are challenging for the league, and in Europe EVERY season, and not fighting relegation every season.
Somerville Somerville Dec 29, 2006 00:45 Flag
Ha, Ha, oh so very funny, my sides are aching, pick me up off the floor, please no more funny messages like that, it must have taken you years to think that one ( if it is original) Oh, by the way, this is me being sarcastic, because a thicko red like you would never have known, until I told you. Keep to your own saddo sites, and leave the rest alone.
A Yahoo! User Dec 10, 2006 02:50 Flag
sounds like you are another super red who is not from manchester never been to manchester never mind old trafford
can we all please note this fools country of residence. I rest my case.
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Somerville Somerville Dec 29, 2006 00:50 Flag
I did notice that, but hey maybe more of his fellow reds will join him.
A Yahoo! User Dec 5, 2006 04:28 Flag
I could have said Easy Jet in and out of Europe in 90 minutes. And what does country of residence have to do with it??????? Maybe Im a multi millionaire and can afford to travel to Utd games or there again maybe not.


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first of 20,000 steering wheel tags, to reinforce key road
safety messages to tourist drivers visiting New Zealand, was
fitted in Queenstown yesterday to launch a two-month trial.
If successful the project will be rolled out nationally.
The steering wheel tag is the first of 42 initiatives
proposed by a governance group, formed earlier this year as
part of a project aimed at improving road safety for
tourists, as part of the Government's Safer Journeys strategy
and also introduces the ''Safe System'' to New Zealand.
That recognised while mistakes were inevitable, deaths and
serious injuries from road crashes were not.
At yesterday's launch, attended by representatives from the
New Zealand Transport Agency, Tourism Industry Association,
New Zealand Police, the Queenstown Lakes District Council,
the Rental Vehicle Association and rental company
representatives, Queenstown Mayor Vanessa van Uden said the
group had a complex plan of short, medium and long-term
objectives which it would continue to pursue.
NZTA southern regional director Jim Harland said the tags
were designed in conjunction with the agency's traffic
behaviour unit and external consultants who specialised in
transport behaviour.
Because the tags would be removed from the steering wheels of
rental cars it meant the driver had to ''do something''.
At present the tags were printed only in English, with clear
images, but if the trial was successful they would be printed
in other languages, including Chinese and Indian.
During the trial, drivers would be surveyed and information
collected from police to see what effect, if any, the tags
''Sometimes we just have to back ourselves ... We believe it
can [help],'' Mr Harland said.
Otago rural acting area commander Inspector Andrew Burns said
the tag was ''probably the best thing I've seen''.
Police began noticing ''driving behaviour that was outside
the norm'' from a small group of people, Insp Burns said''[It
was] a very small group of people, but the risk that we saw
... was very, very high.''
Part of the problem was police had limited opportunities to
interact with tourist drivers and influence their driving
behaviour, he said.
Rental Vehicle Association chief executive Barry Kidd said
the issues were complex and there was no ''golden bullet''.
''Improving driver safety is an important issue ... It's
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FARGO, N.D. - Locked out workers from Cooper Tire and Rubber Co. in Findlay, Ohio arrived Feb. 21 here for the start of an historic 1,000-mile Journey for Justice that will wind its way across six states, ending up back in their home town.
The Cooper Tire workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 207L, have been locked out since Nov. 28 in what they say is part of a new wave of corporate attacks on workers and their unions.
They hooked up yesterday with four locked out workers from Fargo-based American Crystal Sugar Co., all members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union, on a six-day, six state journey to raise awareness about the new wave of corporate lockouts and the fighting spirit of locked out workers across North America.
An hour after the locked out workers gathered in the Labor Temple here, several of them called the PW to talk about their "journey."
"I'm here to stand in solidarity with my locked out brothers and sisters from American Crystal," declared locked out Cooper Tire worker John Greer. "We're sharing our stories, building solidarity and letting people know what is really going on in this country."
Greer, 55, with a wife and a 35 year-old-son, worked as an electrician at Cooper Tire for 22 years before he was locked out. Greer, along with Dave Burns, Theresa Brown and Linda Jones - the rest of the "Findlay, Four" - hit the ground running yesterday.
Almost immediately after touching down at Fargo's airport, they joined locked out sugar workers on the picket line outside Crystal Sugar's facility in nearby Moorhead, Minnesota where, with boos and jeers, they greeted replacement workers during a shift change.
The same union-busting firm, Strom Engineering, is providing replacement workers for both Crystal Sugar and Cooper Tire during their lockouts. Linda Jones, a tread trucker at Cooper Tire, said, "It's been hard watching poorly trained replacements trying to do work I've taken pride in for 36 years. It's heartbreaking to see how a company can treat their loyal employees so badly."
The union offered to work at Cooper under the old contract while negotiations continued for a new one but the company refused, locking everyone out.
Greer, who is the "rapid response political coordinator" for the union local at Findlay pointed out that it was hard to understand why the union offer was turned down and the company is now spending millions of dollars to keep workers out of their jobs.
"The only explanation." he said, "is that they are out to kill the union altogether. It's part of a coordinated anti-union effort nationwide. They used to force people out on strike, now they just lock them out," he said. Greer noted that for quite a while people in Findlay thought the workers were actually out on strike and that "we had to tell them, no, this is a lockout. When they learned that workers who wanted to work were being locked out they really came out to support us," he said.
This is not Greer's first trip across long distances to rally in the cause of his co-workers. Last month he travelled to Krucevec, Serbia, where Cooper Tire recently took over a production plant. Greer and other members of the Steelworkers union met with workers in the Serbian plant who, they said, offered their support during the lockout in America. "We learned what solidarity is all about," Greer said. "With the globalization of these companies, the only way we're going to maintain working conditions is if our unions go global too. This solidarity is what this Journey for Justice is all about."
Becki Jacobson, 48, a divorced mother of grown children, started working for American Crystal Sugar Co. 30 years ago, when she was just 18. "Loyalty didn't matter," she said "I was locked out like all the rest."
She described the sick feeling that came over workers in the last weeks before the lockout as they watched who would become their replacements enter some sections of the plant. "We knew they were our replacements but when we asked the bosses about it they denied it," she said. "One boss said, 'oh no, they're not your replacements, we're going to give you a big raise."
Jacobson added: "It's been tough but thank God in Minnesota we have unemployment benefits." Workers locked out at American Crustal in North Dakota are not eligible to collect jobless benefits.
Labor and community allies all over the Midwest have been running a major food bank operation to help locked out workers.
There will be a "rally for dignity and justice' in Moorehead today, after which the locked out workers will deliver to Crystal Sugar thousands of signatures demanding they be brought back to work. After North Dakota and Minnesota, the Journey for Justice will wind its way through Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana before getting back to Ohio.
Photo: Locket out workers are fighting back. Here, Becki Jacobson, a 30 year veteran at American Crystal Sugar, tells postal workers about her struggle. Becki Johnson // CC 2.0


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I think that I should see a
Virtual Wifi Miniport Adapter in
- the Network Connections area of the Control Panel or
- the Device Manager
but I do not. I'm wondering if there is a way to show it that I have missed...?
My physical wireless card is a
ASUS PCE-N13 - Wireless PCI-Express Adapter - 802.11b/g/n. At the command line, it is indicated that this adapter does support use in a hosted network:
C:\Windows\system32>netsh wlan show drivers
Interface name: Wireless Network Connection
Driver : ASUS 802.11n Wireless LAN Card
Vendor : Pegatron corporation
Provider : Ralink Technology, Corp.
Date : 4/19/2011
Version : 126.96.36.199
INF file : C:\Windows\INF\oem115.inf
Files : 3 total
Type : Native Wi-Fi Driver
Radio types supported : 802.11b 802.11g 802.11n
FIPS 140-2 mode supported : Yes
Hosted network supported : Yes
Authentication and cipher supported in infrastructure mode:
Open None
Open WEP-40bit
Open WEP-104bit
Open WEP
Shared WEP-40bit
Shared WEP-104bit
Shared WEP
WPA-Enterprise TKIP
WPA-Enterprise CCMP
WPA-Personal TKIP
WPA-Personal CCMP
WPA2-Enterprise TKIP
WPA2-Enterprise CCMP
WPA2-Personal TKIP
WPA2-Personal CCMP
Vendor defined TKIP
Vendor defined CCMP
WPA2-Enterprise Vendor defined
WPA2-Enterprise Vendor defined
Vendor defined Vendor defined
Vendor defined Vendor defined
Vendor defined Vendor defined
Authentication and cipher supported in ad-hoc mode:
Open None
Open WEP-40bit
Open WEP-104bit
Open WEP
WPA2-Personal CCMP
Vendor defined Vendor defined
More details that probably don't matter. My end goal is to set up a wifi hotspot from my desktop (which houses the card mentioned above) that I can connect my laptop and Android phone to. I'm using an Ethernet card to connect to the internet, and am attempting to route the internet from there to my wireless card. This works fine for (what Windows calls) an ad hoc network, but my Android phone doesn't seem to see it. As a result, I've been looking into more convoluted alternatives, like this Virtual Wifi stuff.
What I've tried.
- Disabling and re-enabling my wireless card (to no effect)
- Showing hidden devices in the Device Manager (to no effect)
- Going through the console commands as if the Virtual Adapter were there (that is,
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allowthen
netsh wlan start hostednetwork, which tells me
The hosted network couldn't be started. The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation.)


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I am grateful to Susan Carl who located this picture in the Wyandotte County Museum, Bonner Springs, Kansas, and photographed it. James M. Michael (10 Feb 1830-13 July 1916), was born in Ohio. He was the son of Daniel R. Michael, b May 1799, and Margaret Elizabeth Floyd, b abt 1794 in KY. His siblings were William, b 1820 in VA; Paul, b 1822 in VA; David, b 1824 in VA; Sarah, b 1834, and Catherine, b 1838. James married twice. His first wife whom he married in Nobel County, Ohio on 26 June 1851, was Catherine McPeek,the daughter of Daniel R. and Elizabeth McPeek. They had these children: Mary, Rosanna, Addison, and Martha. Catherine died 15 Feb 1859. His second wife was Sarah A Marks Michael (4 Feb 1842-14 July 1904) whom he married in Ohio on 20 November 1862. They had these children: Eva, Daniel, David, Ulysses, Frances, James, and Monema. They moved to Missouri in 1865. James was a minister, dry goods store owner, postmaster, and farmer. He died in Wyandotte, Kansas.
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Sacramento Chain Grocers, 1924-1980
This is a list of all known chain grocery addresses in Sacramento between 1924 and 1980, complied from city directories, telephone books, and other sources. It is generated through a live Google Spreadsheet so it reflects the latest information I have. You may view the list in the frame below or open it in a new window, which will give you more viewing options and the ability to download it or add it to your own Google Drive.


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Skip to comments.Holiday Humor for Star Trek Geeks
Posted on 12/12/2011 3:53:01 PM PST by Winstons Julia
Have a Merry Trekkie Christmas.
That was good thanks
Thanks for the chuckle.
LOL nice.
This was so funny I had to post it three times...
Ensign cookie shirt!
That's fine...it's funny as hell!
Disposable crewpeople!!
Love it! I'm a huge Foxtrot fan. Especially Jason vs Paige .
However, his best one was a series of strips where Herbie the Dentist Elf and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer are summond to meet Elrond...
I'd never heard of the cartoon ... just thought this one was great.
Did that series of strips make it into any of the Foxtrot comic books?
Not sure, I only have the collections and still need one or two of those.
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I went here with friends in January, 2008. Even though I live in the area, I had only been here once before learning to snowboard (and toiling with that was enough to keep me occupied-I couldn't even get to the top of the bunny hill ropetow). Although it's the only ski area in the Saginaw Valley, most of the locals prefer to go up north to larger, more fun ski resorts such as Boyne Mountain or Caberfae.
---The skiing---
Here are some statistics about the lift to show you just how tiny this place is. The lift has a grand total of 15 chairs on it , including the cable that runs back to the bottom. This chairlift has only 3 lift towers. That being said, it only takes about a minute to ride up to the top, which is about the only pro I can think of pertaining to the skiing. Being just outside of Saginaw, MI, the view from the top consists of an ugly combination of factory chimneys dotting the horizon, the old boarded-up 'skyscrapers' of downtown Saginaw, and a large residential neighborhood about 30 feet directly below the top of the mountain. In the other direction, it's all farmland and highways. No natural beauty whatsoever.
Most to all of the snow is man-made meaning many a sticky mess. Even though they have a groomer, they don't even groom the entire thing, leaving some spots icy and miserable which sometimes would be challenging if the runs were over 40 feet long. There is only one large field on a slope. Although there are signs for 10 different runs (which by the way aren't even given names-just a number and a green circle, blue square, or black diamond) there are no trees or defining features between the runs, meaning you pretty much go down the same run all day.
There is a 'terrain park' served by its own twin ropetows. However, at the top of the ropetows you had to take off your skis and hike up to the top of a mound of snow if you wanted to build up enough momentum to even have your tips pop off the ground on any of the three 'jumps'.
There was also a bunny hill which seemed like a long catwalk with one end raised 7 feet above the other. It was also served by a twin ropetow. I took a private snowboarding lesson there on an earlier visit, and my instructor was friendly and very helpful (even though I never really could get the knack down of even going up the ropetow). I enjoyed the lessons experience.
Overall, the skiing was a terrible experience, and I would recommend making the longer drive to Caberfae or Boyne Mountain as the much better skiing there makes it well worth it.
---The resort experience---
There is no hotel in the resort to speak of (there are in Saginaw). I haven't eaten at the fine dining restaurant or bar but I am told they are good. I have eaten in the cafeteria there, and the food there is pretty good, nothing special. The cafeteria provides a good view of the entire mountain, so you could probably watch your children on the slopes while you relax by the fire.
There is also a special events center for holding conferences or parties, and they will commonly host concerts and festivals there too. The special events center is well-furnished and quite nice inside.
In the summer, there is a golf course which I have never personally golfed but I am told it is very good.
---Overall verdict---
As far as skiing, skip it. As far as dinner, golf, or concerts go ahead.
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By Cathryn Domrose
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, disaster planners discovered the importance of creating an advance registry of emergency care providers, doing early evacuations and caring for peoples beloved pets. After a tornado struck St. Johns Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., during the spring of 2011, nurses learned to put shoes on patients after weather warnings so they wouldnt have to walk barefoot through glass-strewn hallways.
In preparation for last years Hurricane Irene, health organizations in the Northeast improved methods of tracking evacuated patients and created ways for staff to spend the night at their facilities so they wouldnt have to brave high winds and water to get to work.
And after Superstorm Sandy? "Were going to have a big, long list," said Shelly Raffle, manager of the emergency response system for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. "If there is a silver lining to these events, its the opportunity to prepare afterward."
Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, emergency preparedness has gone from being something healthcare administrators wished they could do to a top priority, said Carrie Kotecki, RN, MSN, director of emergency services at Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo, Mich., and an instructor at the Federal Emergency Management Agencys Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston, Ala. State and federal funds carry incentives to create and test emergency plans that meet certain standards. The Joint Commission requires accredited hospitals to have an emergency operations plan that includes preparations for situations in which a facility has no outside support for up to 96 hours.
After every disaster, organizations must re-evaluate and fine-tune their emergency plans. "I think there has been tremendous progress in the field of emergency preparedness and response," said Andrew Stevermer, RN, MSN, acting deputy director of regional emergency coordination for the federal Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations. Stevermer has been involved in the disaster preparedness field for 15 years. Nurses, he said, are playing increasingly important roles in emergency planning, both in the workplace and the community.
Stevermer and others have seen some major developments in disaster preparedness in the healthcare sector within the last 10 years:
• Partnerships among all players. Healthcare organizations, law enforcement, firefighters, utility companies and emergency responders have become better at coordinating efforts and assigning specific responsibilities, emergency planners said. Federal agencies are learning how to best support the efforts of state and local responders. "The importance of working together during a response cant be overemphasized," Stevermer said.
• A structured, designated command center. The idea of a central command taking over in an emergency situation originated among California law enforcement agencies in the 1970s, Kotecki said. The Hospital Incident Command System, which many facilities use, designates roles for those involved in disaster response, including operations, planning and risk assessment.
• Established contingency plans. Hospitals should have accessible plans for specific situations, including power outages, relocation, evacuation and patient census surges. Kotecki said that at her hospital, every work station has a plastic flip book with menu-style listings, outlining plans for various emergencies. During the Joplin tornado, nurses said, numerous emergency drills prepared them to keep patients safe. "Because we do practice frequently, it was very seamless," said Linda J. Knodel, RN, MHA, MSN, CPHQ, NE-BC, FACHE, vice president and CNO of Mercy Springfield Communities, a health system that includes St. Johns, which was destroyed in the tornado, and the newly opened Mercy Hospital Joplin.
Though Irene didnt do the damage many expected, it gave New York and New Jersey healthcare organizations a chance to work out kinks in their evacuation plans. As a result, two days before Sandy struck, Nassau University Medical Center on Long Island prepared to receive about 100 patients evacuated from Long Beach Medical Center and its affiliated nursing home, said Kathy Skarka, RN, MSN, CNA, NUMC senior vice president for patient care and CNO of the medical center. Everything went according to procedure, Skarka said. "We felt proud of ourselves. It went really smoothly. And then the hurricane came."
Though they had prepared for the evacuation, administrators at the Nassau hospital did not realize how the powerful storm would affect their staff or how long many in the community would be without power or housing. While many workers spent the night at their facilities before Sandy hit, about 30% of the staff couldnt get to work in the days after the storm, Skarka said. "We found we were depending on the same people over and over, and we worried about them," she said.
The hospitals normal daily census of about 360 patients rose to about 550, as people in shelters came to the ED when their oxygen tanks and medication supplies began to run out. People living without power brought generators or charcoal grills into their homes, inhaled poisonous fumes and needed to be treated in the hospitals hyperbaric chamber. A gasoline shortage kept staff from coming to work up to a week after the storm.
All the planning in the world wont stop a disaster from taking a toll, emergency preparedness experts said. Thats when nurses and emergency planners need to look beyond their plans and get creative, said Cheryl Peterson, RN, MSN, director of nursing practice and policy for the American Nurses Association.
After Sandy, healthcare workers exercised creativity. At the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, nurses rode bicycles, walked and took taxis to get to their patients. The agency set up trucks where staff could charge cell phones and used Facebook and Twitter to inform workers of open gas stations.
NUMC sent physicians to shelters with medications and oxygen tanks to help ease ED crowding, Skarka said. When it became clear the surge in patients would be protracted, hospital administrators contacted the federal government and got help from a Disaster Medical Assistance Team of 28 physicians, nurses and pharmacists. The hospital also worked with the county health commissioner to make sure discharged patients had safe shelter.
All these experiences will eventually be evaluated and incorporated into new disaster plans, Skarka said. "We never thought wed be doing this for a week. I think we will have a way better handle next time on how to do this [for a sustained period]," she said.
Since the Joplin tornado, Knodel said, her healthcare system keeps all the equipment for a mobile command center, such as phones and radios, in a storage unit separate from its hospitals and has made arrangements for an emergency day care center. Bronson Methodist has a contingency plan for staff pet and child care, Kotecki said.
Other major problems will take time to solve, emergency planners said, including how to care for people in the community who are elderly, frail, and homebound, and who may be reluctant to leave their homes. These people are the most vulnerable during a protracted power outage, Stevermer said. "Thats something we as a society have to think more about."
Although emergency plans will always need fine-tuning and improvement, they have come a long way from a decade ago, when most medical facilities had nothing in place, Kotecki said. "Its gone from an attitude of, 'This is not going to happen to me to 'Its not a matter of if, but a matter of when." •


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Over-Allocating Disk Space
Updated: March 28, 2003
Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2
Some tasks, such as moving large folders within a disk volume, require a user to temporarily allocate a large amount of disk space. This temporary space is more readily available if it is pulled from a large pool of space. Therefore, you need to allocate more space for each user than they need for long-term storage.
Determination of the total quantity of shared disk space to be made available to users is influenced by historical requirements, planned deployments of new servers and user accounts, and your hardware purchasing budget. Typically, the median disk usage is much higher than the average disk usage due to the varying allocations of disk space in a large group of users.
Requirements for Managing Disk Quotas
Disk quotas track and control disk space usage for user data that is stored on the network. You can set disk quotas by using Group Policy. When disk quotas are enabled in Group Policy, the settings affect all NTFS volumes on all computers running Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional, or Windows Server 2003 to which the GPO applies. Alternatively, you can manually set disk quotas on individual servers.
To administer disk quotas, you must be a member of the Administrators group. You can set quotas on local volumes, network volumes, and removable drives that are formatted with NTFS. The network volumes must be shared from the volume's root directory, and removable drives must be shared.
Recommendations for Using Disk Quotas
Apply disk quota limits according to the actual disk space your users need.
Try to estimate how much disk space various types of users will require and then categorize users according to their disk space requirements (for example, users who work with art programs might require a large amount of disk space).
Next, structure your disk volumes by those categories, and then use disk quotas to limit the amount of disk space allowed for the users on each volume.
Also, consider metadata. Each file stored on the volume can use up to 64 kilobytes (KB) of NTFS metadata that is not applied to a user's quota limit. To avoid running out of disk space, ensure that you provide sufficient disk space to accommodate this metadata.
Setting default quota limits
Set moderately restrictive default limits for all user accounts, and then modify the limits to allow more disk space to users who work with large files. You might want to increase disk quota limits for a few user accounts rather than to force some users to work with a quota limit that does not meet their needs. User policy settings occupy at least 2 MB of disk space, so you should set the default limits for all user accounts above 2 MB.
Setting limits that permit growth in disk space use
Set the quota level to allow for increasing use of disk space. Increase quota when necessary as a percentage of the current quota setting.
Group Policy for Disk Quotas
Table 7.19 lists the Group Policy settings for disk quotas. These settings are available in the Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Disk Quotas node.
Table 7.19 Disk Quota Policy Settings in Disk Quotas
|Policy Setting
Enable disk quotas
Enables and disables disk quota management on all NTFS volumes of the computer and prevents users from changing the setting.
Enforce disk quota limit
Determines whether disk quota limits are enforced and prevents users from changing the setting.
Default quota limit and warning level
Specifies the default disk quota limit and warning level for new users of the volume.
Log event when quota limit exceeded
Determines whether the system records an event in the local Application log when users reach their disk quota limit on a volume, and prevents users from changing the logging setting.
Log event when quota warning level exceeded
Determines whether the system records an event in the Application log when users reach their disk quota warning level on a volume.
Apply policy to removable media
Extends the disk quota policies in this folder to NTFS file system volumes on removable media.
Group Policy for Disk Quota Processing
Administrators can use Group Policy to specify how often disk quotas are applied. The Disk quota policy processing policy setting is available under Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Group Policy. This policy applies to all policy settings that use the disk quota component of Group Policy, such as those in Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Disk Quotas.
The Quota policy processing policy setting includes the following options:
Allow processing across a slow network connection. Updates the policies even when the update is being transmitted across a slow link. Updates across slow connections can cause significant delays.
Process even if the Group Policy objects have not changed. Updates and reapplies the policies even if the policies have not changed. Many policy implementations specify that they are updated only when changed. However, you might want to update unchanged policies, such as reapplying a setting in case a user has changed it.
Do not apply during periodic background processing. Prevents the system from updating affected policies in the background while the computer is in use.
Background updates can disrupt the user, cause a program to stop or operate abnormally, and, in rare cases, damage data.
- Background updates can disrupt the user, cause a program to stop or operate abnormally, and, in rare cases, damage data.
Administrators and users with rights to create computer objects can circumvent quota restrictions. This is because they can create any number of computer accounts, each with the default quota limit.