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Portland >Food & Dining > Thai Ginger Inc
2020 N Portland Blvd, Portland, OR | Directions 9721745.569809 -122.644880
Neighborhoods: Woodlawn
Good Place – We went here for lunch and it was great. The service was quick and attentive, the food was good and the portions were good. Definitely recommend it!
Delicious and fast! – It was like I got my food before I even had a chance to sit down.. And it was GOOOOOD!
Fast, courteous and outstanding food! – Fast and courteous service and food is outstanding! I love this restaurant. We are so spoiled that we live close by- so we go here often. And I am kind of a food snob from the East Coast so believe me when I tell you I have never been disappointed by the food here. I love the pad thai- not greasy and the mixed veggie stir fry has a wonderful light and fresh sauce! I have never written a review before but this restaurant inspired me. Go here!
Thai food lover proclaims to the sky: BEST THAI FOOD IN PORTLAND OREGON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! – I love love love love love love love this place.
The staff is almost always amazing. (Every once and a while they will be a little off their game.... rarely)
The food is ALWAYS amazing. They have it down to a science there. Literally. I have NEVER gone away unhappy... and I would estimate that I have eaten here almost 200 times. Not as much anymore since it is up in NOPO, but it is worth the drive.
Not to mention, the food always comes out crazy fast.
Anyway. There is a ton of mediocre thai food in Ptown, a fair amount of good thai food in ptown and only ONE THAI GINGER with the BEST thai food in Ptown. And Kah (? probably NOT how you spell that) is the best server.
Good food, great prices, always good service. – I have been to Thai Ginger for eat-in, take-out, with kids, without kids and have never been disappointed. The prices are reasonable and the food is consistently good. The service is always good too. Love the pumpkin curry and the fresh salad rolls.
Great Take Out! – I have never dined in the restaurant, but my family gets take out from here at least once a week. The food is always fabulous and is ready so quickly, we call to order and then head over right away to pick it up. Everytime we have guests at our house we get take out from here and all who have had the food love it! Friends who have spent time in Thailand(months at a clip) have all been very impressed with the authenticity.....all I know is I crave it! Great curry and noodle dishes...pad kee mao(spell?) is great! Yummy!
Dont know the meaning of customer service – The worst restaurant experience I have ever had in the Portland Metro area. Went to lunch with a group of friends and we all ordered at the same time. Everyone in the group ordered Pad Thai and my friends all recieved their orders and I was told that mine was on the way by our waiter. After 10 minutes I inquired with the waiter about my ordered and was told again it was coming. At this time my lunch group is already a quarter to half done with thier meals. 5 more minutes pass and the waiter brings me the wrong order. I have recieved no apology for the long wait and inquire what has happened to my simple order of Pad That that everyone at my table is eating. I am told at that time that my order was given to another customer. I have still recieved no apology from the waiter and after my lunch group has finished thier lunch my order finally arrives with a to go box in his hand. If I wanted my meal to go I would have ordered it to go. Due to the mistakes of the restaurant I ask for a discount on the price of the meal and was given none and still no apology and the staff take no responsibility of thier mistakes. I refused to pay for the meal and got up to leave. As I leave I hear the waiter offer a person in my lunch group my meal for free. This upset me the most in that the restaurant staff takes no responsibility for thier lack of the word service. They were not willing to give me, an African American customer, a discount for thier lack of service but offered my White co worker my meal for free.
Good food is only part of what makes a good restaurant. Good service is also a huge part in the experience and when you recieve none, the food does not taste that good anymore. I have been to hundreds of restaurants and have run into mistakes happening. At every other place I have dined the staff always apologized for the mistake and took responsibility. Thai Ginger does not know what the word personal responsibility is and the food is just ok.
Third Time's a Charm.. or NOT! – I have ordered to go orders from these guys three times. "Every" time they have gotten the order wrong. Personally I think it is because they play their music so loud that conversation is impossible. They definitely won't be seeing me back there again.
One of my favorites – My family have been regular patrons of Thai Ginger for a few years now. While a recent change of ownership has, in my opinion, resulted in a slight lessening in the quality of the food, it's still one of the best Thai restaurants I've been to in Portland. To describe it another way, Thai Ginger used to be my favorite Thai restaurant in town; it is now perhaps my second favorite. Despite the different ownership, however, many of the wait staff are the same, and they are always happy to see us. I have never had anything but good experiences there, both in terms of the food and in terms of the service.
I do wish they'd move to a nicer location, though. ;)
Disappointed... – I have been a loyal and frequent patron of Thai Ginger since I moved into the North Portland neighborhood (about 2 years now) and recently I received such awful service that I will NEVER be back nor will I recommend this restaurant to anyone. A friend and I went into Thai Ginger on a busy Friday evening... we expected that we might have to wait for a table, but when a table came available (after waiting 20 minutes) a group of people that came in after us were seated first. We were not asked if we would mind waiting longer for a table, we were simply told that another table would be opening up soon. There are far too many good Thai restaurants in the Portland area to be offending loyal customers. I recommend going somewhere else, that's what we did.
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iancorporate said 26 weeks agoI'll give it a shot. I got a cool Dr. Who shirt last time.
DRCallum95 said 26 weeks agoIm hoping for either a supernatural shirt or Doctor who shirt c;
snowfire said 26 weeks agoLooks like fun--I'm just worried about getting something I can't wear at work. When you drive a school bus you really have to be careful what you wear, if I can't wear it well then I can pass it on to one of my sons or maybe a niece or nephew.
ginger_dalek said 26 weeks agoWoo hoo! I bought 2! I got a pretty sweet Breaking Bad/ Superman shirt last time.
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said: Im hoping for either a supernatural shirt or Doctor who shirt c;
Me too! That would be EPIC!
Badpenny said 26 weeks agoI just bought two. These are for Christmas, depends on what I get as to who gets them, but it's a start.
pixelated said 26 weeks agoDefinitely ordering this. It may be my only way to get the "I know nothing!!" shirt for a while, and I could kick myself for missing it...
OohToodles said 26 weeks agoMan! Great price... I missed the first run of "Attack on the Wall," I'm hoping I get it and another great tee!
nickieg89 said 26 weeks agoI really hope I get a NBC shirt I missed all of them before all I know is I really don't want a Dr. Who or Breaking Bad I'm not a big fan of either show.
darkknightdg said 26 weeks agoCaptain Jack or one of the other Dr.Who ones, Meganlara's Hannibal design, the fringe design was cool, or anything GoT or Firefly.
Sresla said 26 weeks agoWhen was that Sherlock design printed? It looks suspiciously like Megan Lara's style but I don't see it when I search her.
Wolfyd said 26 weeks agomeow, I didn't like the last one I got, but I suppose I'll give it another shot, hopefully I get something I like this time ^^ I really hope I get Pokemon or Ghibli! I don't wanna get another shirt that nobody wants >=
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said: When was that Sherlock design printed? It looks suspiciously like Megan Lara's style but I don't see it when I search her.
Mid-September, and it was a MeganLara design :)
LunarWing said 26 weeks agoI'm hoping to get a pony shirt. ;3;
ClevaGurl said 26 weeks agoSHIRT DAAAAAYEEE!!!
S1nned said 26 weeks agoGot seriously burned last go around; bought 4 and all were bottom-of-the-barrel designs. Think I'll pass this time.
Lulimon said 26 weeks agoAre the recent Pacific Rim tees included in this grab bag? I hope so! I'm really sad that I missed the Iron Jaeger one.
sedempsey said 26 weeks agoHoping to get a Doctor Who, Hannibal, or Firefly tee!
lizzfizzle said 26 weeks agoI kinda want to do it, but I'm so worried about getting something I just don't like at all.
MiranyHunter said 26 weeks agoBought 5 cause of the great price. If I don't like any of them, I'm sure I'll find at least one friend/family member to give them to for Christmas. Cheapest presents I've ever come across :P
Avatard956 said 26 weeks agoIf anyones not happy with their design ill buy it off you, especially if its dr who or games of thrones, and if ANYONE gets the breaking bad ones in an extra large, ill pay you for it:D
Joshua Nensey said 26 weeks agoThere is only one shirt I want out of those, and I am sure I would not get it. I would love to try, but I do not know anyone I could give any of these others to if it was not the one I wanted.
DevonLaBelle said 26 weeks agoI really hope I can get the x-files shirt, Nightmare Before Christmas or Doctor Who. There were so many Who shirts this month that it might be in my favor.
JMWolves said 26 weeks agoAnother 5 tees ordered for me! would love any Nightmare before christmas ones. Christmas presents sorted if i dont like any ( which is rare) lol
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Reno >Crops > Peppermill Resort Spa Casino Featuring The Tuscany Tower
2707 S. Virginia Street, Reno, NV | Directions 8950239.498838 -119.800738
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Neighborhoods: Ward 2
Very nice place - a bit expensive though – If you can wade your way through the cigarette smoke in the Peppermill, this is a very nice place to go. They have excellent meals and good service! It is busy on weekends so reservations would be recommened.
Nasty, Nasty, Nasty – Where to start about how miserable this hotel is. First, they gave away our room with a confirmed late arrival, then the front desk staff wouldn't tell us where the room they placed us was at, we had to walk with our luggage through two buildings and a construction site to get to the room (bellmen are so rare it's a joke), then we were placed us in a room so small the fold away bed (dropped off by housekeeping, but never set up) wouldn't fit until we placed the furtniture in the hallway. They did move us after the first night, but only after considerable effort. In the second room we found a used "personal item" under the bed the first night and grapes in the couch on the second. We had not brought either item into the room.
House keeping brought one sheet when we asked for linens to make up the fold away bed. The valet took 15 minutes or more to bring your car and almost as long to take your keys. Garbage and spills were all over the place and in several cases were still present several hours later or even the next morning in one case. The vast majority of the staff was difficult to find if you needed anything, the place has a dated decor (it screams skin flick with the heavy use of mirrors in the rooms, the color choices, and whirlpool tubs in the middle of some rooms), and the staff's standards in regards to customer service are low. Like other reviewers I will also say that the main floor is a mess of mirrors, exits, and neon that can make getting around confusing.
On the positive side, maintenance did promptly come to repair the toilet. The food service staff were great and the pastery chef made two incredible cakes for a family event, but that's not enough to outweight the cons of staying here. This will be one of my last choices on my next trip to Reno.
Editorial Review – Located in the Peppermill casino, this sushi and oyster bar offers a variety of wines and sakes.
Gotcha! at checkout! – The only hotel in Reno that I know of to add a special daily $3.00 "energy surcharge" on to the bill at check-out. This was never disclosed when making the reservation, or upon checking in. There is no excuse for this, as this is not common practice in Reno where the electric and gas rates are among the most reasonable in the counrty. The outdoor pool is fabulous. Avoid The Annex where the rooms are creaky, dark, and dank. The other reviewer with the comments about all the mirrors and neon in the casino was correct; if you ever want a great migraine, just walk through the Peppermill casino.
not nice employees – the attitude is very poor and the food was at best okay.
R U kidding me?? – This place is a neon/mirror mess!! You can't find your way from one side to the other. It is a fun house filled with a 1000 mirrors and neon to distract you the rest of the way. The line for the players club was too long to even wait for. I like Reno, but not here.
Always a good bet. – Whether you win a bid on 4 * hotel on Hotwire, or book with their telephone reservations for the later postcard offering, the Peppermill offer great value. The pool and tub are always ready.
The upgraded rooms (business class), and spa suites, and corner rooms are truly unique.
Self Parking is average. The well lit main lot has music pumped in, a true treat.
The higher level rooms have a wonderful view of the mtns, or the city.
The coffee shop is one of the last signature pieces. All of the California based Peppermill Coffee Shops have closed, and all we are left with is Reno, and Las Vegas.
A great time!
The best in Reno – I have been staying at the Peppermill for many years after having stayed at many other hotels in Reno. The Peppermill has spacious, clean rooms and excellent restaurants. Their buffets are great too, especially the seafood one on Friday nights. The casino is roomy and has a huge choice of slots and games. Their "comps" are generous and the staff generally very helpful. Their pool and hot tub is open year round also. It deserves to be in the top 10 !!
Video poker machines – They have the worst video poker machines I have ever played. If you like the game, save your money. Don't play it at the Peppermill. The machines they have installed over the past year probably have about a 50% pay back, if that. I have played this game 24 yrs. I would never play there again.
AWFUL – They runied my daughters honeymoon. The desk people were rude and unfriendly. They did not try to help solve the problem that they apparently created. They called them liers. The room was reserved and paid for as a gift for their honeymoon and they stated they could not accept payment that way over the phone when the reservations were made. NEVER go there!!!
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How are your zones separated. Valves, pumps, ??? If valves are they stuck open? If pumps are they running same as main or HW pump?
I have 5 zones in my house and now that it is spring none of them are calling for heat except for my hot water superstore. Unfortunately the hot water is passing into the other zones. I did have to replace my taco relay last year due to a lighting strike. Any help?
How are your zones separated. Valves, pumps, ??? If valves are they stuck open? If pumps are they running same as main or HW pump?
I have circulators. Keep in mind that all of the zones are getting hot. The circulators are not running when this happens. I tested circulators. No power from relay when this is happening. I labeled every wire when I replaced the board after the lightning strike so I'm almost positive that its not a wiring issue, however I'm not ruling that out. What about flow valves. The hot water is passing through the circulators when they are not on. Kind of like siphoning I guess. My house is 4 years old.
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When you turn a thermostat up does a circulator run?
If no than you either have a thermostat problem (not likely) or the zone relay is bad (likely)
If the zone gets hot and the thermostat is not calling and the relay is not energized than your check valve is open (very likely)
If your check valve appears to be closed but water is still getting by then the valve is stuck (bap it smartly with a hammer)
I suspect however that you need to replace the zone controller as the lightning strike probably fried the priority circuit so that only the water heater will run.
Im not sure if i do or do not have a check valve? I have a 1 1/2" pipe coming out of the top of my boiler passed the low water cutoff through the airtrol and into the manifold dividing the circulators.
The circulators work for each individual zone when the thermostats activate them. So thats not a problem.
The relay board is brand new. I just put it in 3 months ago.
Should "check valves" be on each individual zone?
Yep, Taco 219 or it's equivalent. Heat rises and so does hot water. With no check valves, any time any zone runs, they all get hot.
Thats great thanks for the info. Where should i locate the check valve(s)?
Before or after the circulators? Im not sure why my plumber at the time did not do this. Could there be a rreason?
Confused again. If the check valves are placed after the circulators what stops the hot water from passing through them? Does the pressure from the circulators allow flow through the check valve, but stops water from passing into the zone when it is not being actuated?


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Problems with these senses have a big impact on our lives. Smell and taste contribute to our enjoyment of life by stimulating a desire to eat – which not only nourishes our bodies, but also enhances our social activities. When smell and taste become impaired, we eat poorly, socialize less, and feel worse. Smell and taste warn us of dangers, such as fire, poisonous fumes, and spoiled food. Loss of the sense of smell may indicate sinus disease, growths in the nasal passages, or, at times, brain tumors.
How do smell and taste work?
Smell and taste belong to our chemical sensing system (chemosensation). The complicated process of smelling and tasting begins when molecules released by the substances around us stimulate special nerve cells in the nose, mouth, or throat. These cells transmit messages to the brain, where specific smells or tastes are identified.
Our body's ability to sense chemicals is another chemosensory mechanism that contributes to our senses of smell and taste. In this system, thousands of free nerve endings—especially on the moist surfaces of the eyes, nose, mouth, and throat—identify sensations like the sting of ammonia, the coolness of menthol, and the "heat" of chili peppers.
What causes loss of smell and taste?
Scientists have found that the sense of smell is most accurate between the ages of 30 and 60 years. It begins to decline after age 60, and a large proportion of elderly persons lose their smelling ability. Women of all ages are generally more accurate than men in identifying odors.
Some people are born with a poor sense of smell or taste. Upper respiratory infections are blamed for some losses, and injury to the head can also cause smell or taste problems.
Loss of smell and taste may result from polyps in the nasal or sinus cavities, hormonal disturbances, or dental problems. They can also be caused by prolonged exposure to certain chemicals such as insecticides, and by some medicines.
Tobacco smoking is the most concentrated form of pollution that most people are exposed to. It impairs the ability to identify odors and diminishes the sense of taste. Quitting smoking improves the smell function.
Radiation therapy patients with cancers of the head and neck often complain of lost smell and taste. These senses can also be lost in the course of some diseases of the nervous system.
Patients who have lost their larynx (voice box) commonly complain of poor ability to smell and taste. Laryngectomy patients can use a special "bypass" tube to breathe through the nose again. The enhanced air flow through the nose helps smell and taste sensations to be re-established.
How are smell and taste loss diagnosed?
The extent of loss of smell or taste can be tested using the lowest concentration of a chemical that a person can detect and recognize. A patient may also be asked to compare the smells or tastes of different chemicals, and how the intensities of smells and tastes grow when a chemical concentration is increased.
Can these disorders be treated?
Sometimes certain medications are the cause of smell or taste disorders, and improvement occurs when that medicine is stopped or changed. Although certain medications can cause chemosensory problems, others—particularly anti-allergy drugs—seem to improve the senses of taste and smell. Some patients, notably those with serious respiratory infections or seasonal allergies, regain their smell or taste simply by waiting for their illness to run its course. In many cases, nasal obstructions, such as polyps, can be removed to restore airflow to the receptor area and can correct the loss of smell and taste. Occasionally, chemosenses return to normal just as spontaneously as they disappeared.
How do you cope with smell or taste problems?
If you experience problems in smelling or tasting, try to identify and record the circumstances surrounding it. When did you first become aware of it? Did you have a cold or flu then? A head injury? Were you exposed to air pollutants, pollens, danders, or dust to which you might be allergic? Is this a recurring problem? Does it come in any special season, like hayfever time?
Bring all this information with you when you visit a physician who deals with diseases of the nose and throat (an otolaryngologist—head and neck surgeon). Proper diagnosis by a trained professional can provide reassurance that your illness is not imaginary. You may even be surprised by the results. For example, what you may think is a taste problem could actually be a smell problem, because much of what you taste is really caused by smell.
Diagnosis may also lead to treatment of an underlying cause for the disturbance. Remember, many types of smell and taste disorders are reversible.
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Certain tastes combine with texture, temperature, and odor to produce a flavor that allows us to identify what we are eating.
Many flavors are recognized through the sense of smell. If you hold your nose while eating chocolate, for example, you will have trouble identifying the chocolate flavor, even though you can distinguish the food's sweetness or bitterness. This is because the familiar flavor of chocolate is sensed largely by odor. So is the well known flavor of coffee. This is why a person who wishes to fully savor a delicious flavor (e.g., an expert chef testing his own creation) will exhale through his nose after each swallow.
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Is any one going to leave vzw if the sgs2 comes without lte, and go to say tmobile? Or if for some reason it doesn't come to vzw at all?
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Regardless, I am going back to Sprint for my next phone. Verizon has a little bit better coverage, but their customer service and cost sucks.
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I care very little about 4G because 3G on Verizon is plenty fast for my needs. Thus, the S2 (Verizon version) lacking 4G would not really decrease its appeal in my eyes.
However, like the guy above me, I'm thinking of jumping ship to Sprint. IF I do that, then I would care about 4G a lot more b/c Sprint's 3G is not as fast as Verizon's in my area. It's noticeably slower. Thus, if I switch to Sprint, I would definitely prefer a phone with 4G (I live in a 4G city).
I care very much about 4G because although it is not yet in my area I'm confident it will be sorely missed before my contract is up.
I used lte 4g and it is very nice.
If the galaxy s2 had great battery life using 4g I would definitely stay.
If it's anything like the current crop of 4g verizon phones, not so much.
I have no interest in LTE at all.
3G is plenty fast, and by seeing how terrible battery life is on 4G LTE phones, it might be good.
HTC Incredible>Droid2>DroidX>HTC Thunderbolt>Back to Droid X>Droid 3>Prime?
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Simply put: If it's not 4g, I'd rather get the charge over it , or more likely, the Bionic.
If it does get Verizon 4g LTE on it however, the GSII will be the single best US phone this year, easily. As far as battery issues go, meh, my first two purchases are always the biggest SD card I can shove in there, and the biggest battery I can shove in there... I actually prefer to have a bit of weight to my phones.
Important if all tiered data is gonna be the same price... they are charging us more for something that's cheaper and better? Fun times, but I'm prolly best getting closer to my money's worth... lol
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Not important to me
If the Verizon 4G LTE is comparable to the others 4G, then I could care less about it now. There are no services runing at true 4G speeds that I am aware of.
4G: Myth Vs. Reality - Technology News Story - WKMG Orlando
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Until such time the infrastructure and/or technology gets to the point it can deliver the rated speeds for 4G, then its all hype.
I opted for a 3G phone (Samsung Facinate) for this reason. I've been with Verizon for just over 3-4 weeks. The person I spoke to told me TRUE 4G speeds will not be around for at least a 18 months to 2 years, if then. By then I will be ready for anew phone anyways. So I opted to save my money and get a 3G phone.
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Anze Kopitar hurt his knee today and it sounds like he could be out for a few weeks. Why does that matter? Well, read on...
Congrats to team USA for capturing the Gold. They were led by a very mobile defense and a stellar goaltender in John Gibson. I wonder if Jonas Hiller is looking over his shoulder yet?
I thought the best player all tournament long was American defenseman Jacob Trouba. Controlled the play in all three zones whenever he was on the ice.
Canada and Russia played in an entertaining affair that once again highlighted Canada's deficiencies - defensive zone coverage, size up front, and the ability to stick to a game plan. The defensive play was atrocious from most of the defensemen, leaving both goaltenders out to dry.
And in some good news, it appears that CBA talks are once again headed in the right direction. If I hear the term 'cautious optimism' one more time, though....
Columbus prospect Cam Atkinson is currently third in the AHL in scoring with 35 points (trailing only Eberle and Schultz). Atkinson is going to get an opportunity in Columbus to be a go-to player for the team right out of the gate. He's ready for it, and the time in the AHL season this year will benefit him tremendously in the long run.
Another player having a strong AHL season is Zach Boychuk, who has 15 goals and 30 points for the Charlotte Checkers. Boychuk, after years of stalled development, needed this kind of season in a big way. Since turning pro back in 2009, he hasn't taken many strides forward with his game, leading some in Carolina to wonder about his NHL upside.
He had 21 goals in 64 games last season, and has 15 in just over half that amount in 2012-13. He is benefitting from better quality teammates on the ice, but he is also playing against better opposing players, as well.
And with the news that Tuomo Ruutu is out until May after undergoing hip surgery, the potential opportunity for Boychuk to step in to a top six or top nine role in Carolina increases.
Canada defenseman Griffin Reinhardt was given a four game suspension by the IIHF. He got his stick up on an American forward, although the play looked accidental to me (and anyone else with eyes).
"As I explained in my review today, as I was tripping I kind of lost balance and my stick rode up his stick and made accidental contact to the head," Reinhart explained. "The referees on the play thought it was a two-minute penalty, a two-minute minor, and I agreed with that.
Phoenix prospect Andy Miele had just five goals in the first 25 games of the season, but he has now scored five goals in his past seven contests. Miele is playing with Portland of the AHL.
Bitterness grows as the lockout wait continues, writes Elliotte Friedman. As usual, Friedman says what I want to, but more eloquently (and it saves me from having to write about the lockout once again).
Is it going to be so much better than what it looks like now that it's going to be worth it? And, if this season actually gets cancelled, is whatever happens in six to 10 months actually worth it? Because, if you don't think the damage and hatred from the fans and sponsors and media won't get exponentially worse in the next seven days, you're wrong.
Washington prospect Filip Forsberg shows off his ridiculous hands with some stickhandling magic.
Forsberg also scored a great goal against Russia that game, as well:
Semyon Varlamov hasn't gotten a ton of press (by me, at least) during the lockout, but he has been absolutely dominant in the KHL. The Avalanche could make some noise once the lockout is over. I'm still not sold on their defense, but they are very deep up front, and great goaltender can often mask defensive mistakes. Varlamov was great at times last year, but he relied too much on his athleticism. He'll learn to control that more and more as he gets more experience.
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This week I took a look back at 2012 across the various pro sports leagues over at the PlayNow Sports Blog. Here they are:
NHL (it seems so long ago, doesn't it)
New Jersey prospect Jon Merrill is ready to return to the Michigan lineup after suffering a fractured vertebrae earlier this season. When healthy, he is one of the best defensemen in college hockey, and a great prospect to boot.
Injury updates for a few Isles prospects. Brock Nelson and Kirill Kabanov have both been skating, while Travis Hamonic remains off the ice. Hamonic has been out since early December. I did some digging but couldn't find out exactly what is ailing him – he's a huge part of the Islanders defense (one could argue he is their best defenseman).
Hamonic doesn't really have much to prove at the AHL level, and the Islanders could just simply be resting him if/when the NHL returns.
The Islanders are going to have some great "problems" within the next few years. Tavares, Strome, Nielsen, and Cizikas are all great young centers. Brock Nelson surely factors into the mix, as well.
On the wing, Grabner, Okposo, and Moulson will be joined by the likes of Niederreiter (who as mentioned is having a great season), Kabanov, Ullstrom, and so on. The team has been bad for a while, and one of the outcomes of consistent ineptitude is a lot of draft picks. The Islanders have, for the most part, used theirs wisely.
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Its so easy to access the stadium via the NY subway its not even funny.
Maybe the revenue stream is not as good as it COULD be but things are looking up for Wang especially when you consider how badly Long Island screwed things up over the years.


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The IndyCar race in last night in Texas was one of the best, most rewarding races I have been involved with as an an official. After the unfortunate death of Dan Wheldon last year the drivers and the series have been reluctant to race on high speed, high banked ovals where pack racing in an open wheeled car can lead to big wrecks. It is debatable wether we should be on these types of tracks, that's a topic for another time. After the first drivers meeting the drivers wanted less downforce in the cars to reduce pack racing….we said "perfect" let's bring back the driver in the car and make the car a bit more difficult to drive so you can't just flat foot it around a high bank speedway… unless of course you have a really good car under you. After the first practice several of the drivers wanted the downforce back stating that they were hard to drive and that they couldn't go wide open and that it wouldn't be a good show for the fans…."What !" I was adamantly against giving them downforce back. IndyCar compromised and gave them a 1/8 inch wicker on the rear wing which didn't really add back all that much downforce. My hats off to the IndyCar technical department as it turned out to be a very nice level of downforce. The cars were good at the beginning of a fuel run and as the tires wore the cars became more difficult to drive, for some very difficult and for others not so much. It came down to what driver and team had the best package and to which drivers could could get the most out of their cars without putting them in the fence. It was great to watch and "the cream rose to the top" as Justin Wilson won in an exciting finish as Graham Rahal brushed the wall in the closing laps. As far as Will Power getting blacked flagged while leading… it was a pure and simple case of blocking, it was dangerous and clearly defined in the drivers meeting. It is great watching the drivers do what they do best and putting the emphasis back on the driver!
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A collection of deleted and extended scenes, entitled "Back Beyond" is the centerpiece of the bonus features collection. It's a hodgepodge of extra material, put together in a similar manner to "Blossoms and Blood," which appeared on the "Punch-Drunk Love" DVD. Less a rigid selection of deleted scenes than a kind of sprawl (scored by Johnny Greenwood), it expands the world of "The Master" to include material from the script that didn't make it into the final film, and other assorted doodles. While ostensibly stuff for-superfans-only, for those that are curious, it gives you a deeper understanding of the world of "The Master" and hints at a version of the movie more interested in narrative and propulsive plot than what ended up in the theaters – an exercise in mood and atmosphere and the way ill feelings hang in the air between people like a cloud of toxic gas.
The longer sequences add context and scope. After Freddie jumps off the ship, he goes to a local party and falls in with a floozy, who he falls asleep with in the backseat of a car, his face pressed up against her bare breast. "I love you," he slurs. "I love, I love you." This is the reason that he misses getting back to his ship on time (bits of which are seen in the final movie), the camera tracking endlessly as he runs along the dock. There's another wonderful scene where Laura Dern's character audits Freddie, telling him about radioactivity and particles of dust, about how clothes and items from a different time period cast a spell. After attempting to ask him serious questions ("Can you recall something hurting you now?"), Freddie just stares at her and says, "I can smell your pussy from underneath your underwear and it's driving me fucking crazy."
Sometimes the footage is overlaid with dialogue – The Master chiding "Man is not an animal;" more of the army psychologist asking Freddie to identify what he sees in the Rorschach ink blots ("A pussy, a lady's pussy"); the flirty musical number that featured Anderson regular Melora Waters ("A tisket, a tasket, our past lives in a basket"); a cartoon that Freddie watches in the movie theater prior to being summoned to England.
The collection of scenes ends with a rare break – a scene where Freddie and the Master are discussing cigarettes (and constantly giggling) is interrupted with Anderson saying, "Do it again." They can't, and keep giggling. Then a title card cuts in: "The End."


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When a runaway train derailed in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, early Saturday, a series of explosions flattened the town's center.
Smoke rises from railway cars that were carrying crude oil after derailing in downtown Lac Megantic, Quebec, Canada, Saturday, July 6, 2013. A large swath of Lac Megantic was destroyed Saturday after a train carrying crude oil derailed, sparking several explosions and forcing the evacuation of up to 1,000 people. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)
A view of Lac-Megantic Saturday with smoke rising from the train derailment.
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What caused the blasts that left 13 people dead and dozens missing?
Government investigators and railroad officials have yet to say anything about the matter, leaving many to assume that the cause was the 73-car train's cargo of crude oil.
But Marie-Eve Boucher, who lives near the train yard that was at the center of the disaster, told the Toronto Star that she looked out her window after the ground began to shake and saw flames licking a tank car filled with propane.
She and her husband ran to a nearby shopping mall, about a mile from the downtown, and then heard an "enormous explosion."
Her account confirms what Kevin Burkholder sees when he studies photographs taken from the air Saturday while fire crews doused the smoldering wreckage.
The mainline track on which the train was traveling remained relatively intact, he said, but a side track, known as a "storage track," was torn apart by an explosion at the point where the mainline curves, said Burkholder, editor of Vermont-based Eastern Railroad News, an online magazine that covers the industry for rail enthusiasts.
He said it appears that the train derailed at the curve and slammed into railroad cars carrying liquid propane. He said a Lac-Megantic resident, a "rail fan" who monitors activity at the yard, told him that he saw four propane cars Friday on the same storage track.
Burkholder would not name his source, but said the Lac-Megantic resident had given accurate information about train movements in the past.
He said liquid propane is transported under pressure and is more likely than crude oil to create the kind of explosion that destroyed much of downtown Lac-Megantic. Crude oil is not transported under pressure, he said.
Burkholder said aerial photographs show that the vast majority of the tank cars carrying oil remain "intact and solid."
"It's very clear that the oil train itself didn't crash and blow up," he said. "It's what it crashed into."
Burkholder's analysis makes sense, said Chalmers "Chop" Hardenbergh of Freeport, who edits Atlantic Northeast Rails & Ports, a trade publication.
"Crude oil does not explode," Hardenbergh said. "Crude oil is not the problem here."
He said the same explosion might have happened if the train had been carrying any other cargo.
The transportation of oil by rail is drawing close attention as shale oil production outpaces pipeline construction.
The train that crashed Saturday, operated by the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, was hauling about 50,000 barrels of crude oil, according to the Reuters news service. It was one of about 10 such shipments a month that cross Maine to Saint John, New Brunswick.
The railroad has no lines in southern Maine.
Propane shipments by rail are also increasing. Propane production from natural-gas plants has more than doubled since September 2009 because of an increase in shale gas production.
In New England, the surging domestic supply has sparked unprecedented upgrading and construction of rail terminals and small storage tanks.
CHS Inc., an agribusiness co-op in the Midwest, just opened a terminal in Biddeford that can store 180,000 gallons of propane and move 20 million gallons a year.
On Portland's waterfront, NGL Supply Terminal Co. LLC recently finished renovating its rail and truck terminal on west Commercial Street.
According to NGL Supply, the terminal has 210,000 gallons of storage, three rail unloading towers and two truck loading bays with a capacity of 131 million gallons a year.
Cynthia Scarano, executive vice president of Pan Am Railways, which delivers propane to both terminals and transports crude oil through southern Maine to New Brunswick, said the railroad is a "common carrier" and transports anything customers want transported.
She said propane, like any gas, will explode under pressure.
"The product itself doesn't explode," she said. " It just burns."
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But now that the governor's proposed budget has been made public, Meehan, the president of Jacksonville State University, says a raise for college professors clearly isn't part of the plan.
"It would take more than $2 million to give 2.5 percent to our faculty and staff," Meehan said. "There's just not enough money there."
JSU would get $36 million in state money under the budget Bentley has proposed for the 2014 fiscal year. That's an increase of $686,000, or about 2 percent.
Most other colleges got similar increases in the governor's budget. The Education Trust Fund budget, which pays for schools, would grow by $277 million to $5.8 billion under the governor's plan, according to numbers released Wednesday by state Finance Director Marquita Davis.
Most non-education functions of government — including the once-growing Medicaid program — would get no more than last year. Bentley's proposal would grow the General Fund, which funds most state agencies, slightly to about $1.74 billion. The Education Trust Fund budget would grow by $277 million to $5.8 billion under the governor's plan.
The education budget would include a 2.5 percent pay raise for K-12 teachers and other education employees, which Davis said would cost about $83 million. Davis said the pay raise would replace the money teachers lost two years ago, when legislators voted to require education employees to pay an additional 2.5 percent of their pay toward their retirement.
"It does make up for what has been taken from them," Davis said. Employees in non-education state agencies would get no raise under the governor's plan.
The budget also includes a proposed increase of $12.5 million to the state's pre-kindergarten program, which currently gets $19 million per year. That $12.5 million figure echoes a request from pre-K advocates, who last year urged lawmakers to expand the program by $125 million over a 10-year period, eventually providing pre-K to all Alabama 4-year-olds.
Davis said she knew of no plan for future $12.5 million increases.
"We're going to give them $12.5 million this year, and we can talk about next year," she said.
Bentley's proposals level-funded most state agencies — including Medicaid, the joint state-federal program that provides health care for people whose income is below the poverty level. The state's cost for the program has grown considerably in recent years. counting the proceeds from a voter-approved raid on the Alabama Trust Fund, the program will get $615 million in 2014, state officials say. Bentley's budget gives the program the same amount.
State Health Officer Don Williamson had requested $675 million.
"This is going to be a very, very painful process," Williamson said.
He said the Medicaid Agency would likely handle the budget situation by searching for new sources of federal revenue that haven't been tapped yet. He also said the state might have to reduce its reimbursements to Medicaid providers.
The state's prison system is among the agencies that got an increase in the governor's proposal. The budget for the Department of Corrections will grow from $372 million to $393 million, under the proposal. Davis said the money would go toward inmate health care, increased insurance payments and construction projects and security cameras at Tutwiler Prison for Women.
The prison system has long held more prisoners than it was built for, and lawmakers have openly worried about the potential for a lawsuit that could lead to a court mandate to build more prisons or release inmates. Allegations of sexual abuse of inmates at Tutwiler — where an investigation found two former inmates were impregnated by prison employees — has heightened the tension.
Even in the education budget, most agencies got far less in the governor's budget than they requested. That's typical of the budget process. Jacksonville State asked for $44 million, and would get $8 million less in Bentley's plan.
Meehan said JSU would likely lobby for money to raise university pay by 2.5 percent.
"My point to the Legislature is that education also means higher education," he said.
Capitol & statewide reporter Tim Lockette: 256-294-4193. On Twitter @TLockette_Star.


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After decades of neglect the 49-year-old building will require much work and money to become useful again.
The 16,830 square-foot building at 430 Martin Luther King Blvd. was constructed in 1964 by Hobson City's Industrial Development Board. The board financed the build with a $250,000 bond, and over a period of 31 years five different textile companies operated there.
In return for enticing that first textile company, Genesco, to locate in Hobson City, the town agreed to sell the property to the company for $15,000 once Genesco paid off the bond in full. Genesco later sold the lease to Hillsbrook Co. for $109,000.
In 1985, the town's Industrial Development Board sold the property to Hillsbrook for $17,600. The last apparel manufacturer left the building in 1996, and it's been empty since then.
With just three businesses generating tax revenue for the town, Hobson City needs that building occupied, explained McCrory. Its roof is damaged and leaking, and the electrical wiring and air-conditioning units have all been stripped, but McCrory still holds out hope that repairs can be made.
"We do know that it will take a lot to repair it," she said, but she couldn't say for certain how much it would cost or where the money will come from.
Who owns it today?
Compass bank foreclosed on the property from a private individual and transferred ownership in August 2012 to Quantum Servicing Corporation, a Tampa-based mortgage servicing company, said a loan officer with Compass Bank.
Calhoun County Revenue Office records show Quantum Servicing as owner of the property.
Ross Vollmer, an asset manager at Quantum Servicing, said his company does not actually own real estate, but rather manages mortgages for clients. Citing company policy regarding confidentiality, Vollmer said he could not name the person, or group of investors, who own the property.
For a short period last year the building was placed into a receivership, a process in which a company takes over ownership of property during a loan default, with the Birmingham financial consulting firm Warren Averett. Hobson City made an offer to buy the property from Averett, but that offer was not accepted.
McCrory declined to say how much the town offered.
"There are some council members who think that maybe we talk too much about our vision and plans for the property, and maybe somebody will jump the gun on us," McCrory said.
According to tax records the property's appraised value is $229,420.
On April 4, Hobson City paid $2,484 in unpaid property taxes in hopes of buying the property from the state in a tax sale. Just 26 days later Quantum Servicing Corporation redeemed the property, paying all owed back taxes and reimbursing Hobson City.
McCrory said the town plans to continue trying to buy the property, and will be working toward finding ways to raise the money to repair it.
"We want the building back because it originally belonged to the city," McCrory said. "…I'm just going to be optimistic about it."
Staff writer Eddie Burkhalter: 256-235-3563. On Twitter @Burkhalter_Star.


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Hello, myself and my friend have started saving up for a trip to Japan next year. We're both students majoring in Game Design and we grew up on games from Japan. We'd LOVE to see a tour centered around gaming in Japan.
A few examples of things to do and see would be Akihibara and Harajuku, Japanese gaming arcades (like these: http://www.cnngo.com/tokyo/play/4-best-tokyo-arcades-424517 just for a list of location ideas, the article itself is kind of strange o.O), a game/anime museum (Ghibli Museum maybe?), perhaps a video game convention in Japan like the Tokyo Game Show: http://expo.nikkeibp.co.jp/tgs/2009/en/
And also there would be the more traditional tourist attractions like Tokyo Tower, temples, parks, hot springs, tea gardens, and nightlife (Roppongi!!)
Since anime and games go hand in hand there could be events centered around both!
I think it would be very popular! I know for sure at least 2 people will be booked for that one haha!


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A Touch of Dead
A Sookie Stackhouse Novel The Complete Stories
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Every Sookie Stackhouse short story ever written—in one special volume—from the New York Times bestselling author.
New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris has re-imagined the supernatural world with her "spunky" (Tampa Tribune) Southern Vampire novels starring telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse. Now, for the first time, here is every Sookie Stackhouse short story ever written— together in one volume.
Stories include "Fairy Dust," "One Word Answer," "Dracula Night," "Lucky," and "Giftwrap."
For years, Charlaine Harris has delighted fans with her mystery series featuring small-town waitress-turned- paranormal-sleuth Sookie Stackhouse. Now, Ace is pleased to republish her second novel in the series in hardcover. In this book, Sookie is pursued by a very sexy vampire—and a very deadly monster. With HBO and Alan Ball, creator of Six Feet Under, launching an all-new series, True Blood, based on the Southern Vampire novels, the demand for Charlaine Harris and Sookie Stackhouse is going to be bigger than ever.
The first time I was asked to write a short story about my heroine, Sookie Stackhouse, I wasn't sure I could do it. Sookie's life and history are so complex that I didn't know if I could create a coherent piece of short fiction that would do her justice.
I'm still not sure, but I've enjoyed trying. Some efforts have been more successful than others. It's been hard to fit the stories into Sookie's larger history without leaving seams. Sometimes I succeeded, sometimes not. In this edition, I've tried to smooth out the edges of the story that was the most fun to write, but wouldn't fit in its chronological hole no matter how I pounded ("Dracula Night").
In the order in which they occur in Sookie's life, the stories are:
"Fairy Dust" originally appeared in Powers of Detection. "Fairy Dust" is about the fairy triplets Claude, Claudine, and Claudette. Following the murder of Claudette, the Claude and Claudine seek Sookie's help in determining the guilty party. Claude acquires a valuable asset in this story. The action in "Fairy Dust" takes place after the events in Dead to the World.
In "Dracula Night," Eric invites Sookie to Fangtasia for the celebration of Dracula's birthday, an annual event that makes Eric almost over the top with anticipation, since Dracula is his hero. Unfortunately, the "Dracula" who unveils himself may or may not be the real thing. Eric celebrates "Dracula Night" before the action of Dead as a Doornail.
After Dead as a Doornail, the news of her Cousin Hadley's death reaches Sookie in "One Word Answer." She's informed of Hadley's demise by the half-demon lawyer Mr. Cataliades, who has a loathsome driver and an unexpected passenger in his limo.
"Lucky" is light-hearted story set in Bon Temps in the time period after All Together Dead. Witch Amelia Broadway and Sookie are on the hunt to find out who's sabotaging the town's insurance agents.
On Christmas Eve, Sookie receives a very unexpected visitor in "Gift Wrap." She's been alone and feeling a little sorry for herself, when a wounded werewolf supplies her with a satisfying gift. I'm pleased she has such an interesting holiday before the grim events of Dead And Gone.
I had a good time writing all these stories. Some are totally light-hearted, and some are more serious, but they all shine a light on a little facet of Sookie's life and times that I haven't recorded in the books. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.
Let the good times roll,
Charlaine Harris
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New African Studies Center director seeks to dispel stereotypes
As the newest director of UCLA's James S. Coleman African Studies Center, and the first woman to hold the position in the center's 52 year history, Professor Françoise Lionnet is eager to build upon the center's successes and expand in new directions.
Published: Tuesday, November 08, 2011
When Americans hear the word "Africa," what often comes to mind are images of famine, war and abject poverty — the picture that mainstream media have long painted of Africa as a desolate continent. But Professor Françoise Lionnet wants to balance this with depictions of the region's rich history and culture, diverse populations, abundant natural resources and technological advances.


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As companies continue to remix their tablet offerings, providing a plethora of sizes and features that suit the market's appetite for these mobile devices, there is now a concerted effort to do battle over price.
Not only will the price equation further exacerbate uncertainty about which company will win the tablet wars, but price competition reveals what many electronics manufactures have already figured out: If they can't compete in the first tier of the tablet market, there is room to grab market share in the second or third tier.
Ever since Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) decided to drop the price of its TouchPad tablets and sell the product for $99, which sparked a fire sale one weekend during the summer of 2011, companies have been eying the possibility of offering a tablet with a $99 price tag.
A little over a year ago Lenovo introduced the Lenovo IdeaPad A1 7 inch for $199. We've also had products with fewer features that satisfy the lower end of the market such as the Amazon Kindle Fire, the Google Nexus 7, and the Samsung - Galaxy Tab 2 Tablet. These are products with fewer features such as screen resolution or storage space, but can still satisfy consumers who are looking for a tablet that sells for less than $200.
Now, Asus has introduced its 7-inch tablet, the Memo Pad ME172V, which will ship for $149. Acer has launched the 7-inch Iconia BI tablet in India and reports are that the company plans to introduce this tablet in the US with a $99 price tag. There are also rumors that Google is planning to unveil a $99 Nexus tablet sometime this year.
Let's face it; there is a market for lower-priced tablets. That said, companies like Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Korea: SEC) that have cornered the high-end market want as much market share as they can grab, and will be hard pressed to surrender market share to other competitors. The ripple effects of a change in market demand come with other unwanted consequences such as a possible rise in inventory levels as demand slows. Years of planning can be dashed when forecasts don't match the realities of retail sales. Already, Apple is trying to inoculate itself from such disruptions.
The introduction of the iPad Mini, for example, gives Apple the chance to break through the $499 price point of the larger iPad, giving consumers a 7.9-inch tablet at a lower price. However, the 16GB iPad Mini sells for $329, the 32GB model has a price tag of $429, and the 64GB sells for $529. It will be interesting to see if Apple decides to offer tablets below the $200 mark, but for now the company has decided to leave that battle to others in the market.
In the meantime, the slow sales of Microsoft's Surface RT tablet during the Christmas season indicates that the tablet market may not be as strong as many thought. Consumers may have settled on Apple or Samsung for their high-end products, and may not want to entertain another alternative that sells for around the same price and does much the same thing as other competing product. The Surface RT sells for $499 for the 32GB tablet, $599 for the 32GB tablet with a touch cover, and $699 for the 64GB version with touch cover.
As it begins to compete in the tablet market, one wonders if Microsoft might not have fared better if it had introduced a tablet at a lower price. It's always good to remember the lessons of the HP TouchPad when it sold for $99, and the enthusiastic sales that followed.
Price does matter. The question is how low will companies go to offer a price tag that grabs consumers, yet still covers supply chain costs while making a profit? I'm willing to bet we will see much cheaper tablets this year. How companies serving the high-end of the tablet market will react to this new reality is anyone's guess.
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At the Guadalajara International Book Fair, Enrique Peña Nieto, who is forty-five, boyishly handsome, and generally expected to be the next President of Mexico, was asked to name three books that had influenced him. He mentioned the Bible, or, at least, "some parts" (unspecified), and "The Eagle's Throne," a Carlos Fuentes novel (though he named the historian Enrique Krauze as the author). And, for a few excruciating minutes, that was all he could come up with. The crowd laughed wickedly. Peña Nieto's wife, a former soap-opera star, squirmed in the front row. His teen-age daughter didn't help matters when, in a tweet, she scorned "all of the idiots who form part of the proletariat and only criticize those they envy."
That debacle was in December. It did nothing to slow Peña Nieto's well-financed march toward the election, which will take place on July 1st, but it did provide a welcome distraction for Guadalajarans, who are justly proud of their annual book fair. It is the second largest in Latin America, drawing more than half a million visitors, nearly two thousand publishers, and hundreds of authors, including, over the years, Nadine Gordimer, William Styron, and Toni Morrison. Guadalajarans sometimes offer it up as Exhibit A for the case that the city is a civilized place where life goes on unmarked by the violence that disfigures large parts of Mexico.
By late 2011, that argument was hard to make. Two days before the fair opened, twenty-six corpses were dumped under the Millennium Arches, a downtown landmark. Near the bodies, which bore signs of torture, was a message—what is known as a narcomanta—signed by the Zetas, the most feared organized-crime group in Mexico. The message taunted the Sinaloa cartel, the country's biggest crime group, and its leader, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo (Shorty). Sinaloa has controlled Guadalajara, which is the capital of the western state of Jalisco, for decades. "We're in Jalisco and we are not leaving," the Zetas announced. "This is proof that we are deep inside the kitchen." Most narcomantas (which appear virtually every day somewhere in Mexico) are disinformation, their assertions dubious, their true authorship unknowable. But the Zetas have been pushing westward from their strongholds on the Gulf Coast, and they had already taken the neighboring state of Zacatecas, so there was no reason to doubt that they coveted Jalisco, a rich prize, or that this was indeed their atrocity and their message to Guadalajara.
In Mexico, it is often impossible to know who is behind something—a massacre, a candidacy, an assassination, the capture of a crime boss, a "discovery" of high-level corruption. Either the truth is too fluid and complex to define or it remains opaque to anyone not directly involved in manipulating events. This may help to explain how a city widely understood to be under the control of a leading international crime group—the U.S. Treasury Department recently labelled Guzmán, who is fifty-five, "the world's most powerful drug trafficker"—can regard itself as a jacaranda-shaded refuge of high culture and legitimate commercial vitality. Both descriptions are true, and both realities are under siege. When Mexicans discuss the news, they talk often about pantallas—screens, illusions, behind which are more screens, all created to obscure the facts. Peña Nieto is depicted, in cartoons, as a carnival mask behind which laughs Carlos Salinas de Gortari, a former President, who is still regarded as enormously powerful. I can't count the number of times I have asked someone about a news story and been told, "Pantalla."
This is a problem for journalism. You fish for facts and instead pull up boatloads of speculation, some of it well informed, much of it trailing tangled agendas. You end up reporting not so much what happened as what people think or imagine or say happened. Then there is the entirely justified fear of speaking to the press, particularly to foreign journalists. I have had to offer anonymity, pseudonyms, and extraordinary assurances to many sources for this account. The reprisals that people are trying to avoid would come not only from crime groups but, in many cases, from factions within the Mexican government.
The six-year Presidency of Felipe Calderón is coming to an end, and this election can fairly be seen as a referendum on his military-led offensive against drug traffickers, which has cost some fifty thousand lives and left the country psychologically battered. Calderón's National Action Party (PAN) is far behind in the polls. Its Presidential candidate, Josefina Vázquez Mota, campaigns under the slogan "Josefina diferente," hoping to distance herself from Calderón, but she served in his Cabinet, and her proposals for restoring security are not notably different from current policies. Peña Nieto's security platform is nothing special, either. He might eventually return the Army to its barracks and, like virtually every recent President, revamp the federal police. His slogan is "Tú me conoces"—"You know me"—which many people find amusing, since they don't know him at all. He was the governor of Mexico State, a populous but small horseshoe around Mexico City, and his time as a national politician has been short and heavily stage-managed, with limited press access (and no more literacy tests). Mexicans do know his party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled the country from 1929 until 2000. Throwing out the corrupt, authoritarian PRI, in 2000, was a great moment for democracy in Latin America. Now it seems that Mexican voters are poised to bring the Party back.


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Helpful and professional! I had a problem with my glasses and Jazmyn helped me resolve my issues. She was knowledgeable and took her time to explain all of my options stating that Today's Vision wanted me to be happy with the final product.
Rude! Rude! Rude! – The worst experience I have ever had! The staff is terrible! They hate their job, I don't know what is going on in that office but those people are Mean! And the office manager is the worst. They act like you're bothering them coming in there and giving them business. They do not acknowldge you there a very defensive and rude. I went there and had to wait 2 1/2
hours to see the doctor they didnt want to use my insurance because I didnt have the card with me. I never have the card. It's VSP wchich they are a member
the office manager said I could get reimbursd from my insurance company file the claim myself. She just nasty and rude. Doesnt know how to commincate with people! I will Never give them any business again. If you notice when you drive by there are never any cars there however it always take 2 hours to see the doctor!
It sure was not like that when Dr. Glenz was there!
DO NOT PATRONIZE TODAY'S VISION! – I have never had a worse experience with a vision center. When something goes wrong with your order, watch out. The manager (Michelle) is the most rude individual, unwilling to help good paying customers. Buyer beware at this business.
AVOID!!! – Unless you want to spend your entire day here do not go. Every time we go we have to wait hours! Last year I was around 15 minutes late which I called and even warned them and I ended up waiting for my appointment for more than 4 hours! I wanted to leave desperately but I was home from school and didn't have another doctor or time to see a different one. I swore that was my last visit there. This year my brother thought he would bear it. They arrived early for his appointment and after over two hours are still there waiting! I just don't understand how the wait time can be so incredibly long every single visit. The actual appointment only takes around 20 minutes. It's unacceptable. Not to mention Everyone at the front desk is incredibly unhelpful and rude. The doctors are lovely, but everyone else there is awful. I will never go back and advise everyone to do the same.
Worst Customer Service Possible – The Todays Vision next to the Willowbrook Mall has been the worst at customer service for years.
They do not acknowledge you when you walk up to the counter. They act like you are inconveniencing them with their rude tone and body language. The wait time is unacceptable. Even if you have an appointment you wait forever.
They are way overpriced. My last two pairs of glasses were about $300 over my insurance Co-Pay
NEVER, EVER deal with these people. RUDE!!! – I have NEVER been treated this bad...anywhere! The attitude from the front office staff is absolutely the most rude, aggressive, arrogant, threatening I have ever experienced! I will NEVER go back. RIPOFF!!!
It is the policy of Today's Vision Willowbrook to provide customers courteous, prompt service. I apologize that our service was not up to expectation. I will continue to monitor and make corrections when necessary on the staff's behavior. We encourage customers to personally contact management or owner when service is not what it should be, so that we can quickly respond to the problem. It is not our desire that anyone should leave our office unhappy.
They take the "service" out of "customer service"! – The employees at Today's Vision are rude and aggressive. My insurance pays for the entire eye exam but TV charged me an extra $98 for a "contact exam fee". I told them that I have been wearing contacts for over twenty years and have never been double charged for an exam. The guy helping me turned red in the face and started talking, very loudly, over me saying they weren't double charging me and it was a standard fee. I told him no one else around charged that much for an exam and he just kept yelling over me. I was so embarrassed I just paid the extra.
When I tried to get a refund on it (after they wouldn't release my prescription to me so I could buy contacts elsewhere), the manager hollered across the room at me that I could have a refund when I brought the TRIAL PAIR back. I gave up and just contacted my insurance company who won't do anything about it anyway.
I wish I could file charges but I don't have that kind of time or money.
I will just warn everyone NOT to go to Today's Vision at Cutten Rd and FM 1960.
today's vision on 1960 W never go again! – Eye exam plus contact fitting cost is $375!!! I called for appointment with the name of my vision insurance. I have good insurance. They cover 100 % of exam and for contact lens fit @ materials I pay only amount which is over $100.
Well... people who works in this PLACE don't tell you costs till after the exam and fitting. And it was $375!
When it less than $100 in most of the places around Houston.
Waiting time and exam took 1 hour 40 min!!!!!!!!
Then I was charged $135 more than I should be charged IN ERROR! Girl didn't even say she was sorry...This error charge appears on my bank account...and will take 3 days to be cancelled!
Doctor was new and very sweet... but it is Bad place! Bad experience...would never recomend!
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The holiday season is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year, right? Well in college football, it's one of the most stressful as it's typically a period of hirings, firings and searches in the coaching world.
Earlier this week, Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart was one of two candidates up for the Auburn head coaching position. The Tigers ended up hiring Gus Malzahn, a former AU assistant, instead.
The latest Alabama assistant to be linked to another school is offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier. The Hattiesburg American is reporting that he is expected to interview for their open head coaching job this week, along with other offensive coordinators like North Carolina's Blake Anderson, Texas Tech's Neal Brown and Oklahoma State's Todd Monken.
Smart interviewed for the Southern Miss job last year.
Southern Miss recently fired Ellis Johnson. In his first season, the Golden Eagles went 0-12. Malzahn reportedly hired Johnson to be his new defensive coordinator Thursday.
Nussmeier, whose salary for 2012 was $590,000, spent three years as the offensive coordinator at Washington before replacing Jim McElwain, who left Alabama to become the head coach at Colorado State, in February.
Under Nussmeier, Alabama ranks 40th in the nation (fourth in the SEC) in total offense, averaging 439.08 yards per game. The Crimson Tide has been balanced all year, averaging 224.62 yards rushing and 214.46 yards passing per game.
When asked about his assistants interviewing for other jobs, Alabama head coach Nick Saban said last week that he wants all his coaches to "fulfill the goals and aspirations they have."
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