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By Liz Cox Barrett May 6, 2008 at 02:42 PM
The Guardian reports (via Gawker): The Economist's bid to appeal to more youthful readers seems to be paying off after... More
The CW on Bloggers and She-Candidates
By Liz Cox Barrett May 6, 2008 at 12:24 PM
Back in March, Mark Leibovich drew up for the New York Times a "Scorecard On Conventional Wisdom" this election season.... More
Wright Out-NewsMakes Everyone and Everything!
By Liz Cox Barrett May 6, 2008 at 11:54 AM
Can't get snatches of Rev. Wright's sermons and speeches out of your head? The Project for Excellence in Journalism explains... More
Why No HageeGate? Russert Explains
By Liz Cox Barrett May 6, 2008 at 09:34 AM
On Imus in the Morning yesterday, Tim Russert supplied an answer to that question -- bubbling online and, yesterday, on... More
NYT's Front-Page Insight
By Liz Cox Barrett May 6, 2008 at 08:28 AM
The New York Times' veteran political reporter, Adam Nagourney, summons his expertise to tip readers to "three possible outcomes to... More
Got Friedman Fatigue?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2008 at 02:26 PM
If you, too, are experiencing Dowd dread, expand your op-ed horizons by checking out the Council on Foreign Relations new... More
Let Them Eat (Cheesecake Factory) Cake
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2008 at 09:34 AM
If all I thought I did in my career was to help rich people decide where to eat, I'd be... More
Media "Easier" on One Candidate?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2008 at 09:09 AM
From the latest New York Times/CBS News poll (not to distract you from all of its WrightGate-related findings and the... More
I'd Rather Be…
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2008 at 08:19 AM
It's been an incredibly long campaign...even for those of us in journalism...it's like one of those long bus rides home... More
Sobering "Sketch" From Milbank
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 24, 2008 at 10:58 AM
Don't miss Dana Milbank's "Washington Sketch" today which begins: Lt. Col. Billy Hall, one of the most senior officers to... More
Reuters On The Rocks
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 24, 2008 at 10:39 AM
If not by scoring some Hollywood armcandy for the White House Correspondents dinner on Saturday, how else might a news... More
Follow-Up to NYT's "Miitary Analysts" Piece?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 24, 2008 at 09:04 AM
Josh Marshall wonders if any networks (cable or broadcast) have followed up on David Barsow's "blockbuster article detailing how the... More
Euthanize CBS News?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 24, 2008 at 08:09 AM
Another day, another "let's put evening network newscasts out of their misery" piece that begins with a crack about their... More
Impatient? Who, Us?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 23, 2008 at 03:06 PM
Among the Wake Us When It's Over, Are We Theeere Yet? headlines* today: "Clinton v. Obama: When Will The Race... More
NYT's Arresting Lede
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 23, 2008 at 02:21 PM
Yes, my eyes first went to all that colorful confetti falling (whee!) in the large photo of the Hillary and... More
Mutiny on the Staight Talk Express?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 23, 2008 at 01:21 PM
Kevin Drum foresees a future Mutiny on The Straight Talk Express: [G]o ahead, call me an optimist — I suspect... More
Mitchell, Miscast
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 23, 2008 at 11:51 AM
Personally, I don't like my Morning Joe with Mitchell --Andrea Mitchell, who is subbing today for Joe Scarborough's usual Joe... More
Two Media Big-Wigs Put Their (Blue Collared) Heads Together?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 23, 2008 at 10:23 AM
Last night on MSNBC, Tim Russert said (with one of his Man, I'm plugged-in -- or maybe I LOVE this... More
Enter, the Exit Poll
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 23, 2008 at 09:03 AM
What's the proper analogy? Asking a Clinton voter, as he's exiting the polling place on primary day, whether he would... More
A Pundit's Hunch. Better Than a Poll!
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 23, 2008 at 08:24 AM
Polls (polling data in the hands of cable pundits in particular) have earned a particularly bad name this election season.... More
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How to check if that viral video is true - Journalists don't always verify user-generated content, so readers need to learn how to verify what they see online
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Brick by brick - After years of shrinking ambition at The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos has the paper thinking global domination
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Are female journalists up to the job of a Jill Abramson interview? (7)
For Detroit's alt-weekly, rising ambition and a few questionable decisions (5)
Email blasts from CJR writers and editors
How to be a decent entertainment reporter (Eric Danton)
"Here's how not to suck at it: Don't write like an entertainment reporter"
A First Look update (First Look Media)
"[R]ather than immediately launching a large collection of digital 'magazines' based on strong, expert journalists with their own followings, as we imagined earlier, we'll begin by building out the two we've started and then explore adding new ones as we learn"
The White House deploys minders to interviews all the time (WaPo)
"Almost every officially sanctioned exchange between reporters and the proverbial 'senior administration officials' is conducted in the presence of a press staffer"
The down-and-dirty history of TMZ (BuzzFeed)
"TMZ's real engine — what defines its mission, what legitimizes it and sets it apart — is a unique and controversial mix of scandal mongering and investigative journalism"
Greg Marx discusses democracy and news with Tom Rosenstiel of the American Press Institute
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
Gawker's so-far successful experiment in making office chats public – Are group chat rooms a waste of time or essential to running a modern newsroom?
After 29 years, Freep is indefinitely halting its high school journalism program (UPDATED) – It has long been a pipeline, sending local, diverse talent to prominent journalism careers
Your head will spin: Uses of 'naught,' 'aught,' and 'ought' – Time to start writing some tongue-twisters


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New anarchist-led program at CIIS aims to help Bay Area social justice groups
"It's the only department like it in the United States," Grubacic says. "This is going to be one of the few places where anarchism is going to be studied."
"So anarchist social theory, anarchist education, anarchist ideas in general. We are going to study them, seriously, because they need to be recognized seriously. It's a beautiful history, it's a beautiful tradition," he says. "How important it is, I think, is revealed, by the recent rediscovery or reinvention of anarchism at Occupy. So I think that it's more relevant than ever to create a space where anarchism will be studied."
A CIIS education doesn't come cheap. Two years in the masters program costs at least $35,000, and to earn a PhD will cost more than $60,000. Scholarships and financial aid are available, but Grubacic called the question of access to this program "a huge question."
"It's troubled me from the very beginning," he says. "We are creating an experiment. It's a social justice, community-based program in a private school."
He hopes, however, that students will learn applicable skills in the program. Classes on radio, film, and writing, Grubacic says, will give students practical skills. "They will be able to continue, either as academics and go to get their PhDs, or to join the non-governmental sector, to work with NGOs, to work with community groups, to work with labor groups."
Not the most lucrative professions, perhaps, but likely the chosen fields for many Anthropology and Social Change students.
Grubacic calls creating a program based on teaching grassroots and subversive knowledge in an elite institution "a paradox," and one he's not alone in. Grubacic got advice on the issue, he said, from Anibal Quihano, a Peruvian scholar known for his theories on colonial power who now teaches sociology at the Binghamton University in New York.
In fact, Grubacic practically convened a conference of post-colonial and anarchist scholars to help develop Anthropology and Social Change. Grubacic sent the program's description around to everyone from his buddy Chomsky to Immanuel Wallerstein to World Social Forum organizer Boaventura de Sousa Santos. He got advice, too, from organizers at the Popular University of Quebec and the Popular University of Social Movements, a school in São Paulo, Brazil run by the landless workers' movement there.
"The deciding thing about our own methodology was that we would like to listen, both to the voices coming from the past, so people who are doing similar things before us, and to people who are doing similar things right now," Grubacic said. "We also went — and this is the third form, let's say, of listening — to the people in the community."
He reached out to contacts and friends of professors in the university, as well as hanging out in gathering places and striking up conversations with those who showed up. He told one story of doing this covert outreach in the Tenderloin National Forest, the botanical garden and neighborhood spot just 10 blocks from CIIS's building on Mission and 11th streets.
"Some people were completely uninterested and thought, what's the purpose? Who are you, with this weird accent? Go home," Grubacic laughed. Some, though, were more receptive, including a woman who said the program could help with those fighting against San Francisco's problem of environmental racism.
"This person told me that she thinks activists can come to a particular community, do an ethnography, do research, and then present that research to people in the city, and show the people who have power in the city to make decisions why such behavior is unjust," Grubacic said.
In the end, that is essentially how the program will work. Students will partner with local organizations, neighborhood groups, or other affiliated people working on social justice goals, doing research to help further their goals.
"We hate the government, the government should give us more money because we are entitled to it because we represent dozens of people who hate the government."
So hilarious.
This is laughable considering that the original Anthropology program did what Grubacic claims to have "developed". What has really been created is a Sociology program masquerading as an "Anthropology" department where education serves one purpose, to professionalize radicalism, ignore institutionalized issues of racism, sexism, classism, and transphobia, while turning a blind eye to the ways an anarchist joins forces with a assimilationist and dominance-driven administration. Clearly it helps to have friends in the media, because this piece of writing actually makes the 'new' department sound like it's doing something 'new' with education.
yes, and the original anthropology department was completely fucked up, inbred, and cultish. this department will actually be new and open, and possibly even healthy.
maybe the new department won't be fucked up and dysfunctional.
wow, cool!
Yet another "new" program that has not considered the history of CIIS. Nothing new here. Great ideas but not new, CIIS has been dedicated to just such transformative learning since it began.
Yes, CIIS is a great place. This program is a welcome addition to an already great school.
Convivial Approach to Communication of Knowledge
We offer several forms of convivia, or convivial spaces of knowledge communication:
Emergency Library is a space that affirms the original meaning of the library as a communal institution: it is a convivial space of exchange of books, poetry, and ideas. In this convivia, we exchange ideas, skills, and organizing knowledge with the communities outside the Institute. We are scholars on call, responding to the emergent needs of the communities in struggle, who might be in need of legal advice, activist companionship, scholarly input, or a media suggestion. We bring this information not as impositions but as gifts, in the spirit of exchange and mutual aid, learning from the communities in the process.
Political Laboratory is held once each semester as a weekend-long convivial encounter of local or international scholars working on a particular project, students, and selected participants from the local community. Together they think collectively about a particular idea, book, concept, or project.
Atelier of Insurrectionary Imagination is a space of occasional magic, where artistic production is combined with political imagination, and subversive creativity. Here, artists inspire students and members of the community to dream collectively and explore the unsettling alchemy of art and social justice.
Autonomous Classroom is an experimental class created convivially by MA and PhD students, a class where the world is turned upside down, students become teachers, teachers become students, and all graduate students autonomously design a class that they teach and self-manage over the course of one semester.
Guerrilla Workshop is an improvised event-space where students, faculty, or students and faculty, present on their current work. This includes papers to be presented at various conferences, report backs from academic or activist events, and dialogues relevant to anthropology, social justice, and critical theory.
Dialogues and Interrogations. Instead of interrogating people, in this public convivia we interrogate ideas. This takes form of a bi-monthly conversation between activist journalists and prominent organizers and activist intellectuals.
snooze..... this "program" is such a joke in regards to some of the anarchist institutions/free skools that have been in SF/Oakland for years now. Academic recuperation is always a shame to see.
Best program in the world. Haters gonna hate...
People, research the history of this school, and what they did to the previous SCA department. You say a cultish department? How about a cultish school? For realz.
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ROCK HILL — The first accumulating snowfall in nearly two years is forecast for the area Thursday night, as part of a potent storm system.
But meteorologists stress that the seasons first winter storm will not have much cold air to work with, and the snow could miss some areas.
The National Weather Service is predicting up to an inch of snow in the Rock Hill beginning tonight.
Forecasters say 1 to 2 inches of rain are likely during the day Thursday, with enough cold air funneling into the system for a window one to three hours, perhaps of snow in the evening.
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While I spend 10 minutes or so writing this post, Apple will pile up another $1 million in cash.
Not revenues. Cash.
In the March quarter, Apple's mountain of cash and securities increased $12.6 billion to $110.2 billion, up from $97.6 billion one quarter earlier.
That's an increase of:
And that's actually a slower rate of accumulation than in the December quarter, when the company benefits from the holiday shopping season.
The company has now piled up $28.6 billion in cash in just the last six months alone.
For the six months combined, the cash has been piling up at a rate of…
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Yoga Teacher, Amateur Cyclist, and Clergy
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Today I find myself struggling with understanding the idea of how we are in fact being selfless and not identifying with the ego if we base our actions on hopes of "good karma" bringing us to a happier existence in the next life or even in this life... it seems that if you act with compassion only to further your own agenda, is that not still selfishness to some degree? Are there any Buddhist teachings that touch on this? Thank you for your thoughts.
To the person asking about meditation before or after exercise: I've always found it helpful to stretch before exercise to loosen everything, stretch after to decrease soreness then at the end of the day before I wish to go to bed I meditate because I'll be more likely to be able to focus when my body is tired and I want to go to sleep. I picture scrubbing a floor as my symbol for clearing my mind :) hope this helps anyone!
I desperately want to start juicing, but I'm a college student with little to no income. Is there a way to juice on a budget?
Hello there! :) I've recently discovered Tumblr and your blog here - it's brilliant, you help people a lot. I feel glad for witnessing such generosity. I have also been living through body, mind and spirit for eighteen years of my life. As much as I can say, it is a real spectacle, of course. Since I'm approaching to the crossroad of my life, it would be very nice, I think, if you could share your perspectives on concentration and discipline. I truly need it. Thank you.
I have become very skilled at being able to forgive and not hold hostility in my heart. However, do you have any advice on how to avoid regressing back to a person? My kindness is my greatest strength and also my greatest weakness. I'm not sure where I should draw a line, or if a line should be drawn at all.
blackwhitecupcake said:: what about all the psychological aspects that take part in the formation of "self".Your answer made me realize that the way we experience reality depends on our past experiences, how we were brought up and the image we have of ourselves.
Lyndon:: Our past definitely shapes our experience of reality, but the idea of past is just another mental formation. It doesn't exist outside of the storehouse of our memory anymore than the future. So we don't have to be held hostage to it or bound by it. We can choose differently any time. We don't have to keep replaying the same old footage, reliving the same tired old dramas. We can see them for what they are, let go, and move on. There is only the present moment, as we perceive it.
Hey! Love your blog (: I understand you're a Christian, have you got any tips for Christian teenagers trying to keep up their relationship with God and faith? I'm kinda struggling with this at the moment, especially as Christianity is becoming increasingly rare, noticeably in young people. Thanks!
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UPDATE 12:47 p.m.: Power has been restored to most of those affected in an outage along Route 34 this morning, officials said.
Jersey Central Power & Light is reporting that fewer than five customers are without power in Wall, following an outage that knocked out power to scads of buisinesses on Route 34 from Hurleys Pond Road to Belmar Boulevard.
Several Wall Patch readers have reported the power is back on. The traffic lights at Airport Road and Hurleys Pond Road are functional and police have vacated the intersections with the state highway.
Several hundred Wall residents and business owners are without power this morning as JCP&L deals with scattered outages throughout its coverage area.
Virtually every business was in the dark along Route 34, from Belmar Boulevard to Allenwood Road, at 11:45 a.m.
Police are directing traffic at Route 34's intersections with Hurleys Pond and Airport roads after the outage knocked out traffic lights.
JCP&L reports 654 customers without power in Wall this morning. "Crews are working to restore power to all affected areas as quickly and safely as possible," its website states.
The utility is experiencing scattered but limited outages in towns throughout Monmouth and Ocean counties this morning, although Wall is the only municipality with more than a few customers left in the dark.
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illustration by Samara Pearlstein
Once again, Major League Baseball is simply declaring a known fact. Miguel Cabrera: Most Valuable Player of Baseball.
PS: Wanna go back a couple years and remember when Justin Verlander was MVP of everything?
illustration by Samara Pearlstein
Once again, Major League Baseball is simply declaring a known fact. Miguel Cabrera: Most Valuable Player of Baseball.
PS: Wanna go back a couple years and remember when Justin Verlander was MVP of everything?
Posted in Miguel Cabrera
illustrations and photos by Samara Pearlstein
This past Saturday was Max Scherzer's 29th birthday. July 27 is always extra special, because not only is it Max Scherzer's birthday, it is also Mr. Dombrowski's birthday. This year it was extra extra special, because it was also a Max Scherzer start. It was extra extra EXTRA special because Max pitched with the blue eye, and it was extra extra EXTRA EXTRA special because his teammates all chipped in to get him 10 runs of support so that he could get his 15th win. A happy birthday for all.
The Tigers acquired Jose Veras. The excitement was infinite. Who needs an incontrovertible closer when you have 10,000 middle relievers? Not these cats.
On Sunday the great Tigers vs. Umpires War of Major League Baseball continued, as Miguel Cabrera was ejected in the third inning for no immediately and readily discernible reason. It soon turned out that Chad Fairchild, the homeplate ump, had taken a dislike to Miggy's dislike of his strike calling. Apparently Cabrera said something after the first pitch, Fairchild told him to can it, and when Miggy piped up again after the second pitch, Fairchild threw him out with great immediacy and extreme prejudice. Thing is, Cabrera had not even turned around to voice his complaints or show up the umpire in any way. Even if he really said something that bad, it was as much to himself as anything else. It was a totally uncalled-for ejection in the opinions of Miguel Cabrera and the entirety of the crowd, which proceeded to scream at Fairchild sporadically throughout the remainder of the game (a repeated opinion: "We didn't pay to see you, Chad!").
Also deeply unimpressed was Jim Leyland, who stormed onto the field and was ejected in his turn. Of course, his feelings about the umpires are well known.
I was at the game, and let me assure you, he was quite displeased.
On Tuesday Alex Avila hit the first grand slam of his career. Even if you were not watching the FSD broadcast, you already knew in your heart of hearts that Rod Allen called it a grand salami. You knew, and you were glad.
As I said, I was in Detroit this past weekend for the games. Both were highly enjoyable for a variety of reasons, but something extra special and exciting happened at the Saturday game. Here is a little preview:
But you will have to wait a little bit to get the full photographic report.
illustrations by Samara Pearlstein
Miguel Cabrera is a historically excellent hitter. Miguel Cabrera frightens opposing pitching. Miguel Cabrera must have a lineup constructed around him so as to minimize the number of times opposing pitchers walk him out of sheer terror. Miguel Cabrera went 4-for-4 yesterday with a walk and 3 runs, two of which were home runs. Most importantly: Miguel Cabrera has his own line of salsa.
Have any of you consumed this fine item yet? In general I think it's difficult to really badly screw up salsa, but this is not just any salsa– this is MIGGY'S SALSA. It could be filled with chopped up bits of Southpaw or flakes of Silver Slugger silver or some weird kind of bean grown only on the now sort-of vacant lot where Tiger Stadium once stood. You can buy the stuff online but there is no ingredient list so for all I know these speculative salsa-bits could all be reality.
It also comes in three varieties: Mild, Medium, and Hot. Does this refer to, as is typical for salsa, spiciness and mouth-feel? Or is it instructional, telling you which salsa you should turn your corn chips towards at any given time, based on how Miggy is doing at the plate?
If you have a report on this stuff please tell me. The People and Cats must know.
So like there was that game where a Tigers pitcher threw 17 strikeouts, a Detroit record, and that pitcher was neither Justin Verlander nor Max Scherzer. It was Anibal Sanchez. Everyone was sort of like, "Wait, what?" and then, "Oh, cool!" and then, "Man gimme some more of that salsa."
How many really long games have the Tigers had recently? I am sure it is actually something like 2, but I am not going to go look it up, and it feels like a whole heck of a lot of absurdly, unreasonably long games have been happening as of late. There are two possible images for this. One is me, passed out on my computer, drooling onto the keyboard while the cold bluish light of the game on some sort of screen washes over my pasty skin. The other is the cartoon above.
Also: Bruce Rondon got sent down and Phil Coke landed on the 15-day DL with a strained groin. I leave the potential cartoons of that last to your fertile imagination.
Posted in Anibal Sanchez, Miguel Cabrera, Terrible Cartoons
illustrations by Samara Pearlstein
Here we are at the tail end of Spring Training. It is a wonder that we have arrived at this point, is it not? Many of us are looking out our windows right now at piles of snow surrounding more or less indifferently cleared sidewalks, piles of snow obliterating perfectly good on-street parking spaces, piles of snow melting off of rooftops onto the unlucky, uncovered heads of passersby, piles of snow that someone's labradoodle has peed on. But real live Baseball That Counts is starting in two weeks. Truly it is enough to make one ponder the mysteries of the universe, or at least the mysteries of summer-associated sports played in April in northern climes.
In any event, things have been occurring. We all learned that Jhonny Peralta is allergic to shellfish, for instance. This vital information came to light after he consumed what he thought was clubhouse potato soup, later to be revealed as treacherously potato-white and potato-chunky clam chowder.
There are lessons to be learned here. The first one is for the kids still in school: don't make fun of your peers for food allergies, because that stuff is serious, and also they might one day grow up to be a Major League Baseball player and then won't you look dumb? You will. Be nice. Secondly: maybe the clubhouse spread should be labeled. Like, really clearly. With big black letters on brightly colored pieces of cardstock. In English and Spanish. Thirdly: Jhonny Peralta has a serious food allergy. This was not widely known information before this incident. Now you know.
Another thing that occurred: Miguel Cabrera was involved in a MLB Network video art project. It involved Rihanna and Adam Jones and the kind of digital video effects that one would in fact expect from video art created by, say, your average contemporary art student– a little more Ryan Trecartin than Nam June Paik, you know.
As much as I love Miguel Cabrera, obviously, I have to note that Adam Jones is near-criminally underused in this project. From his brief appearances it is clear that the man can, and more importantly, wants to (over)act, with a readiness and enthusiasm that all the props in the world cannot approximate. But while ruing our lost opportunities to see Adam Jones flower into his full performative potential, we must not fail to appreciate that which we are given, that being Miguel Cabrera flailing around in a scuba mask and having some sort of emotional moment with a baguette, for reasons that remain obscure even upon repeated viewings. I am sure you have all seen it by now, but I urge you to spend some more time with it: this is art that resists easy and immediate interpretation.
Another thing that occurred a while ago and it is just now showing up in this section of the internet because GRAD SKOOL: Spring Training, as we all know, is the period during which all the most important stories have the space and time to be written. The Detroit baseball writers stretch their fingers with ease in the humid Floridian air. Their minds are sharp, honed on a long offseason of laughing at the misfortunes of the hockey beat writers; sometimes this involves laughing at themselves, and this too serves to sharpen the mind. They are at the pinnacle of their unathletic game, and the athletes, lulled into a calm good mood by renewed baseball activities and covert clubhouse clam chowder, are willing to give them a little more attention than usual.
All this led to the most important reportage of the Tigers' Spring: Phil Coke (the relief pitcher) met and conversed with Phil Coke's Brain (the Twitter account).
MLive's Chris Iott is a gentleman and a scholar. Phil Coke is hilarious and a jolly good sport. His Brain abides.
One last thing: Brennan Boesch, he of the surfer-boy hair and dubious oblique and frustrating 2012 stats, was finally jettisoned from the team. Mr. D said many expected things about "moving forward" and "potential" and "a change of scenery" and all those related phrases that mean the team believes there might still be a cache of talent lurking somewhere within the corporeal person of Brennan Boesch, but they've tired of trying to coax it out of hiding and have decided that someone else can give it a shot if they're feeling feisty.
The Yankees are not feeling particularly feisty these days, but since they are already gunning hard for the prestigious Most Injured Outfield of 2013 award, they extended their grubby little Yankee paws and snatched Brennan up almost immediately. May he enjoy his time in New York, although not to the point where he's enjoying it because they are actually winning games of baseball.
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Triple Crown? Or one very fancy crown and two festive holiday hats? Given the season I think we can all figure out the appropriate answer to that question.
Happy Holidays from Terrible Cartoon Miguel Cabrera, and Roar of the Tigers!
One other holiday present from me to all you cats: Yahoo's Big League Stew recently had a joke list ranking MLB GMs by hotness. Dave Dombrowski made it into the top 10, at #6. There are some very debatable choices– Brian Cashman is absolutely not hotter than Dombrowski, and there is no WAY Kevin Towers is #1– and of course if Theo Epstein was still a GM instead of a President of Baseball Shenanigans or whatever his title is with the Cubs now, he'd be the undisputed champion. But Mr. D has still brought great pride to the city of Detroit with his magnificent hair and magisterial chin. Obviously this cannot go unremarked or uncartooned.
Striped polo shirts are so in.
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Major League Baseball has confirmed what we all already knew in our hearts. Miguel Cabrera: MVP.
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Miguel Cabrera: first Triple Crown winner since 1967.
Nothing else to be said. Miguel Cabrera. Triple Crown winner.
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I'm just going to lead with that one because it makes me happy in my optic nerves. Everyone in the wide world of Tigers fans has his or her own opinion about the team. There is naturally a great deal of disagreement. But there is one thing upon which we can all agree, one thing that may be safely and universally acknowledged as an unequivocally beautiful sight: Alex Avila, pleased with his own walk-off hit, being doused in purple Gatorade by an almost unhealthily giddy Papa Grande. It is a fine thing, a fine thing indeed.
Especially when Avila's jersey then gets all wet and it's all sticking to his torso and it's a home jersey so it's white and bits get translucent when soaked, and you get all mad at FSD for not getting longer and more torso-inclusive shots post-soaking, and now I've said too much. Thank you, Papa Grande.
This keeps on happening, and I suppose it too is a fine thing. Every silver lining, of course, has its cloud, and Scherzer's high K-counts are still tagging along with the logically attendant high pitch counts, but for now we will accept it.
Doug Fister injured his groin. The jokes came thick and fast and inevitably. Everyone is just real sorry about that, Mister Fister, but what do you expect from us? We are baseball fans. We are all ten years old.
Miguel Cabrera's ankle has been sore for a while, and Leyland is finally paying attention, giving him some DH time and just now a day off. I haven't seen anything more specific than "sore" to describe the State of Miggy's Ankle, aside from this Mothership blurb earlier in the month:
During the Boston series, Miguel Cabrera fouled a ball off his left shin and, as a result, the third baseman has been experiencing some "drainage" in his ankle, head athletic trainer Kevin Rand said on Sunday morning.
"He's just getting some drainage in his ankle from that," Rand said. "His [lower] leg gets sore just the more he's on it."
Jason Beck/Anthony Odoardi, DetroitTigers.com
What in the world does that mean? How can an ankle be experiencing 'drainage'? That sounds anatomically difficult and worrying. I cannot know, I can only draw.
Drew Smyly is back! He got a spot start and should be sticking around in the bullpen even when he gets bumped from the rotation.
The persistence of Delmon Young's mustache should be a source of concern for us all. But he has also been on a bit of a hitting tear lately. Does this… does this mean that the mustache is actually doing the hitting for him?? I think this is a possibility that we need to deeply consider. It would explain how that upper lip décor has hung around this long, despite (what must surely be) the strong recommendations of everyone who knows Delmon personally and also has eyes.
Just throwing this one in for good luck. The mantises have been back in attendance, all over MLB, and yes, they have been spotted– and occasionally photographed– in Detroit. Praise be!
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Dropping two to the Rangers was bad. But taking two from the Twinkies is good! We shall concentrate on the good.
–Those throwback uniforms, as depicted above. Still way into them. Stripes! Orange! Messing with the away uniform and not the home uni! Encouraging Miguel Cabrera to wear his socks up! It's all to the good, except for the orange hat logo with the white outline. That just looks messy. Everything else is great, though.
–I assume you all saw the Brandon Inge play by now, but just in case:
He dove for, and came up with, a ball, landing hard on his shoulder in the process. As he sat up, it became clear that his shoulder was dislocated. He was holding his arm awkwardly away from his body, like he couldn't put it down. So what does Brandon Inge do? He grabs his own arm, and freakin' pulls his own shoulder back into the socket. At this point I would probably be vomiting from pain and terror, because Roar of the Tigers is not Brandon Inge.
So Brandon Inge has just performed a medical procedure on himself right there on the field. The trainer comes out. Brandon Inge WAVES HIM OFF.
He then went on to get a hit and an RBI, which turned out to be the game-running run. With his self-repaired shoulder. Which has now landed him on the DL, because sanity and the human body eventually had to make themselves felt. In any event, Brandon Inge is a hero.
And yes, he is of course an Athletic now. But let's not even pretend that this blog has stopped caring about all things Brandon Inge.
–Andy Dirks is back, and is playing like he doesn't want to be forgotten and Toledo'd again any time soon.
–Omar Infante is at second base.
–The RotT little brother was recently at a Lakewood BlueClaws game, where apparently they have little photos of their 'alumni'. Including:
Aww, yay. Something seemed off, though…
Fixed it.
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I will be honest: although I did watch the entire game yesterday, after that top of the 10th I was quite thoroughly mired in Despair. It just seemed like the sort of thing that the Tigers absolutely do not overcome. I was resigned to my fate, willing to watch the sad final eep of the Tigers as they finished off the game, probably with something horrible like a weak groundout double play.
Then a whole bunch of magical baseball things happened, ending with MIGUEL CABRERA LEADING HIS FELID TROOPS TO VICTORY! Also, one of the most epic Super Best Friends hugs ever.
The pure, beautiful, boundless love between Prince and Miggy is one of the greatest things about this season and I think you will all agree.
Austin Jackson was instrumental in that last push to unexpected victory. He also had two triples on the day. Austin Jackson loves getting three bases at once and Comerica likes to reward him for that very specific affection.
The less said about Joe West, the better, but there had to be a cartoon.
Obligatory (?) Doug Fister with Hulk Hands doodle from Saturday's complete game Fiesta Tigres masterpiece.
I guess the Tigers acquired Jeff Baker from the Cubs at some point, with the idea that he will be the right-handed bat that Ryan Raburn (DL'd with a wonky thumb, or at least that's what they're saying; could be DL'd with Persistent Awfulness) never quite was this season. The Cubbie haul has not yet been named. Verdict: meh, but I am a little concerned on behalf of Quintin Berry for the reason illustrated above.
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World Tigers system is Danny Worth? He had been down, then he got called up, but now I think he's down again? Maybe? I actually have no idea. I doubt that Danny Worth even knows where he is anymore. He has been up and down and down and up so many times this season that he's practically two quarks, or at least this awkward yo-yo.


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Ashley gets gifts for her birthday.
I blasted My Chemical Romance out of my speakers. They were my favorite band. I loved them. And I love the fact that they can make me feel better. I went to the bathroom to get ready. I curled my long dark brown hair, put on my make up and my little black dress. Before I knew it I was dressed and all dolled up. I smiled at my reflection. I havent looked this way in a while. I looked...happy... The doorbell rang and I went downstairs to answer it. Big surprize it was Monica And Audrey. "Oh my gosh Ashley!" Monica said in shock "What are you listening to?!" I blushed I had completly forgot about the music. "It's just a little My Chemical Romance. You know I love them!" I said. "Go turn it off" Audrey said calmley "We have to get you to your party!" I smiled and ran to my bedroom to turn it off. But I'm defenatly taking my iPod with me. I HAVE to have something to listen to on the drive over!
We got to the club that my friends rented out for the night. It was full of my friends and family. I sat at a table with Audrey and Monica after greeting all my guests. I was happy to see my guests having a good time. I was just laying back letting 27 kick in fully. The party was a blur after a while of wacthing my family members bump and grind on the dance floor. I was just waiting for present time. I went to the front of the club after my cousin called me off of the d.j table. I got normal typical things. Clothes, drawing pads, gift cards, skecth pencils. Then came Monica and Audrey's gift. I was kind of excited. Hopefully it wasent a male stripper like last year.
"Ashley, Monica and I piched in to get this gift for you. We love you, happy 27th!" I was an envelope. I was releved it wasent a huge cake with a stripper inside. I opened it with hesitation. I froze. "Oh...my...gosh... You cannot be serious! These can't be real!" I studdered shockingly "Oh yes my dear they are real" Audrey said "Oh my gosh!!! TICKETS TO A MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE CONCERT!!!" I scremed at the top of my lungs. My parents were not amused. "Thank you girls so much!" I huged Monica and Audrey tightly. "No problem Granny. We were gonna get you another stripper but Audrey insisted on this" Monica confessed "And I thank you that you didn't" I smiled "were going with you we have our tickets at home" Audrey anounced. "But why are you going with me? I don't need an escourt" I said "Were going wih you to make sure you don't get drunk and sneak backstage!" Audrey said bluntley. "Thanks Audrey and Monica! This is the best present you could have EVER given me!"
The concert was in chicago and in order to get to the concert on time me and the girls would have to pack quickly and drive through the night. We live in Boston. Thats a far drive. But I didn't care. Nothing could bring me down. I was looking foreward to seeing My Chemical Romance in concert LIVE!!! And of course...seeing Gerard LIVE would be nice too...:)


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A middle aged man poured some inflammable substance on his body and set himself on fire outside the security tent in front of the Oslo courthouse even as the Anders Breivik trial was going on inside as reported in Australian dated 16th of May 2012.
The man has been seriously injured and the police have rescued him in time and sent him to the hospital.
Prima facie, it does not appear that there is any connection between the attempted suicide and the trial of Anders Breivik but, further investigations are in progress.
It was the 19th day of trials of Anders Breivik who had murdered 77 persons in cold blood on 22nd of July 2012 – eight of them were in a government building in Oslo and another 69 were the youths were participating in a Youth Camp in Utoya.
It may be recalled that Anders Breivik, a 39-year old right wing extremist has admitted to the murders but has not pleaded guilty – he is not repentant.
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By Andreas Unterberger
To date Austrian trade unions have organised two demonstrations outside the Plachutta restaurant chain. It is certainly something that should be cause for concern.
Mario Plachutta is a restaurant chain owner with a growing business and a number of locations, and like almost any other restaurant owner is also regularly a victim of theft. The immediate dismissal of the Slovakian over the theft of a half a kilo of sugar is certainly something that can be traced back to frustration over this situation. The fact that Plachutta personally managed to catch somebody himself while at the same time hundreds of others went unnoticed was also probably a factor in his swift reaction. And of course the fact that he has a somewhat choleric temperament.
And of course, as is to be expected, the waiter challenged the decision in an industrial tribunal, which is something that you would expect in a democracy (even if that is separate from the fact that the industrial tribunals almost certainly find in favour of the employee). But leaving that aside, the fact is that the courts are there in order for a decision to be made about such situations.
What then can be the motive of the trade union officials after winning at court then go on to organise demonstrations? Do they want to show that the Arbeiterkammer&Co (Chamber of Commerce) is indeed good for something? It should be pointed out at this point that the waiter could have gone to the industrial tribunal without them. Was it perhaps to cover up the fact that the Chamber of Commerce elections were almost completely ignored? Or was it perhaps simply that the restaurant is in a nice location and offers a great photo opportunity? Could it even be Plachutta's once family connection with a Freedom Party politician? (In 1999 Heinz-Christian Strache married Daniela Plachutta, the daughter of Ewald Plachutta).
At the end of the day the reason is irrelevant. What is significant is when anybody, whether that is trade unionists or anti-fur trade opponents, decides to stage demonstrations directly in front of companies in a way that restricts their business activities. (Example in February 2000 flats belonging to ministers were blockaded for days (in opposition to the freedom party coalition government).
With activities like this the right to a demonstration is changed and becomes the right to threaten and to damage the business.
But this connection in our constitution here in Austria in contrast to other Western countries is treated far too one-sidedly. That's because the constantly to be defended right to have an opinion should not be so easily translated into threats, barricades and blackmail. But despite that, this is widely practised by the left.
What is also problematic is something that the Green party are doing ever more consistently – blockading streets for hours at a time even on busy roads like the city centre Ring Road. And that's simply for the fact that a few dozen of them have managed to sit on bikes or walk in the way of traffic. These people have the protection of the Constitution, even if there is only a handful of them causing massive disruptions to everybody else. Even if the carbon dioxide footprint of all that stationary traffic is enormous, because the drivers can't get to where they want to go, and have to sit with engines idling.
And while freedom of opinion is something that is worth fighting for, the more the focus is on this, the less the understanding seems to be when the right to demonstration is increasingly used as a way of breaking down opposition and winning the majority around to a different way of thinking. When that happens then this threatens the right to demonstrations in itself. Or should we allow people who are against cyclists being allowed on the ring or people who are critical of waiters who steal from their employer?
Perhaps it's okay to end up with a situation here, like the one we have in the Ukraine?
That at the end of the day is why we have courts, that is why we have numerous channels were we can give our opinion, that is why we have different people in our democracy with the right to different opinions. But we don't have the right to use aggression – not yet at least.
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Original recipe yields 2 dozen
- Warm the milk in a small saucepan until it bubbles, then remove from heat. Mix in the butter; stir until melted. Add water and let cool until lukewarm.
- In a large bowl, combine the milk mixture, yeast, white sugar, salt, eggs and 2 cups flour; stir well to combine. Stir in the remaining flour, 1/2 cup at a time, beating well after each addition. When the dough has pulled together, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic, about 8 minutes.
- Divide dough into two pieces. Roll each piece into a 12x9 inch rectangle. In a bowl, stir together the cinnamon and brown sugar. Spread each piece with half of the butter, half of the brown sugar and cinnamon mixture. Roll up dough, using a little water to seal the seam.
- Cut each roll into 12 slices using a very sharp knife or dental floss. Place rolls onto two 9x13 inch greased baking pans. Cover and let rise until almost doubled, about 1 hour. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes until golden brown.
- To make frosting; combine confectioner's sugar, cream cheese, butter and vanilla. Add milk gradually until frosting reaches a spreading consistency. Spread over warm (but not hot) cinnamon rolls.
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Great recipe - even easier to pull off the second time around. A few lessons I discovered: 1) As others mention, use 8oz of cream cheese in frosting, not 3 oz as listed in recipe. Turns out perfect with 8 oz. Must be a typo. 2) I let mine rise for about 3 hours, they got much larger and fluffier that way - 1 hour wasn't enough. May be a result of the yeast I used? 3) The dental floss trick mentioned in other reviews worked great. 4) I have no idea how one is can roll out a rectangle! I just did a big circle and pulled out the corners by hand. 5) Leave the far side (the one you are rolling the "worm" of dough toward) clear of any butter or sugar mixture. It is easier to seal the seam if you have about 1/2" of clean dough to work with along that seam edge.
This recipe is the best one I've ever tried for cinnamon rolls, and I'm really picky. I did, however, do a couple things differently: 1) let the stand mixer knead it, which transformed it from sticky to smooth dough in 10 min, eliminating the need for extra flour 2) let the dough rise after kneading for 2 HRS - this makes it pliable, silky, and very easy to roll out into rectangles (plus, much lighter), 3) after rolling and refrigerating overnight, let them rise for 2 more hours in the morning (I know, it's a lot of time, but it's soooo worth it!). The end results were rolls that were tender, fluffy, and soft even after they cooled off. The frosting was amazing too. Thanks for this recipe! It will definitely be a regular in my reportoire! p.s. - for those who don't have a stand mixer, try letting the mixture rest for 10 minutes before kneading it (a French method known as autolyse). Flour needs time to absorb water, which will help with the sticky dough problem.
This recipe is easily halved :) As for refrigerating the night before baking, I let the dough rise for an hour before I shape it into rolls. Then after shaped into rolls, I put in pan in fridge covered with plastic wrap. Then I turn the oven on in the morning and let them rise at room temperature/on top of oven for about 30 min-to an hour, until about doubled. Works wonderfully. And the frosting is sooooooo good!
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Amount Per Serving (24 total)
- Calories
- 331 cal
- 17%
- Fat
- 10.4 g
- 16%
- Carbs
- 55.5 g
- 18%
- Protein
- 4.7 g
- 9%
- Cholesterol
- 44 mg
- 15%
- Sodium
- 181 mg
- 7%
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"Our biggest reason for getting rid of them is the structure of their support organization," says a storage director at a large media company. "It's horrible."
Vendors know the problem
The good news is that vendors are aware that their technical support organizations are getting low marks. They know they must invest in technical support and upgrade their services to remain competitive. Today, vendors can't get away with selling a complex product and then walking away, forcing the user to turn to a high-priced consultant for help. At TheInfoPro, we're seeing positive feedback on customer ratings for vendor "management vision" and "technical innovation." However, one thing is certain: if Cisco Systems Inc., EMC, HP, IBM, NetApp, Sun and Symantec Corp. are unable to convert high ratings in these areas into superior product support, a more support-minded startup will be ready to replace them.
This was first published in May 2006


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Danville Correctional Center was placed on lockdown Thursday following an attack on a prison guard.
The Illinois Department of Corrections on Friday confirmed the attack, which took place early Thursday morning at the facility located east of Danville.
Tom Shaer, director of communications for the state corrections department, indicated in a release Friday afternoon that an investigation into the assault remained under way.
"This was an assault with, thankfully, no serious injury to our officer," the release indicated.
The inmate who committed the assault was convicted of aggravated domestic battery, according to Shaer. The prisoner had presented no other aggression during his time at Danville Correctional Center.
The Department of Corrections disputed accusations issued by AFSCME 31, which contended the prison guard was the only one on staff in a housing unit of 400 prisoners.
"The corrections officer who was assaulted was absolutely not the only officer with the inmates at the time," Shaer indicated in the release. "IDOC procedure calls for three: two officers and a control officer. That proven effective level of staffing was in place during the shift covering this assault."
"There are, in fact, 195 officers on staff at Danville," he said.


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By Bill Turque
The Washington Post
DES MOINES, Iowa — Meet Matt Reisetter, a weary and somewhat teed-off Iowa voter.
A stay-at-home dad in his mid-30s, he has long since unplugged his two land lines to stop the nonstop calls from campaigns reminding him to vote. But that hasn't blocked the three to four daily pieces of political mail.
When Reisetter arrived at the Polk County Election office early one morning last week, it seemed less an exercise of civic responsibility than a bid to finally get the 2012 campaign out of his life. And he didn't want to talk about who he voted for.
"It's like, enough," he said.
Iowans like Reisetter are suffering from what might be described as toxic levels of exposure to the 21st century political campaign. President Barack Obama's organization never really left after 2008. Republicans who competed in last January's precinct caucuses had begun stalking voters here soon after the 2010 midterm elections.
Iowa's status as a 2012 battleground state has meant a daily bombardment of television and radio ads, door knocks, candidate visits and celebrity events designed to entice laggards — or "highly valuable sporadic voters," as one Obama strategist calls them — to register. Jon Bon Jovi, for example, played concerts in Iowa City and Des Moines on Friday for the Obama campaign.
The state's 40-day early voting period began Sept. 27, and as of Thursday, 94,135 Iowans had cast their ballots. That amounts to roughly 6 percent of the electorate and more early voters so far than in all 49 other states and District of Columbia combined. Polk County Auditor Jamie Fitzgerald, who oversees voting, said Reisetter's complaint is familiar.
"I think you're seeing a lot of people here who just want to get their names off of the lists," said Fitzgerald, referring to the lists of voters who have ordered absentee ballots but who haven't mailed or walked them in.


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Welcome to 1066 Cake Stand,
Shelley and Kevin, proprietors.
Newsy news!!!! We are now offering a 15% discount to Hastings Card holders on own products- including celebration cakes!
Who We Are and What We Do
Shelley & Kev are two friends who run 1066 Cake Stand. We are based in Hastings, 1066 Country, and started our business with a market stall or "Cake Stand." After a while we decided that there was less weather inside, so we got ourselves a shop.
The shop also gave us the space to install 2 kitchens, a regular "wheaty" kitchen and a wheat and gluten free haven, which is where we make our gluten free cakes in an environment safe from accidental contamination. Both our kitchens are vegan, we use no egg, dairy, meat or honey so that more people can enjoy our goodies.
Cake Stand is a social enterprise.
Our Shop
We have a shop in Hastings, East Sussex. 82 Queens Road, TN34 1RL. Hastings is a lovely place to visit, full of seaside wonders, culture, more Morris sides than you can shake a stick at (see what we did there), and is very vegan friendly.
Opening Hours
11-3 Monday-Friday* 11-5 Saturdays* Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays.
* Get lucky, we are generally around 9-5 baking. If you pop by outside of our main opening hours feel free to ring the bell and we will come and see you if we can (our hands may be covered in cake goo, but we don't mind if you don't).
Accessibility: We have a temporary ramp, so if that would help with your access needs please ring the bell and we will put it down for you.
What's in the shop?
- We bake cakes and savoury treats fresh daily.
- We bake real bread from scratch on Fridays and Saturdays – our challah, gluten free loaf and sourdoughs are the most popular.
- We stock a range of vegan chocolate, including jokerz bars, non dairy cream alternative, jerky, biscuits, vegusto cheese alternative, ami pet food vegan marshmallows and candy.
- We are proud stockists of Hastings Brewery beer.
- We also make custom cakes, hire cake stands and sell a few cake decorating bits and bobs. Please browse our pages, or contact us for more info.
- We serve a range of herbal teas, some specially blended for us by Hastings Herbalist.
Occasionally we run recipe workshops, pop up suppers or toddle off to fairs and festivals. Take a look at the menu below for more info.
Find our Shop
Phone us: 01424 532103
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Santa's Journal
About Santas Journal
Tmin here,
In the past while Santas workshop switched to Apple computers. Recently Santa has asked that the technology elves create a little program for the Journal called a widget.
The widget displays the most recent post on Santas Journal. As well, Santa asked that there be countdown clock to Christmas so he can always know how many days left until his next big flight and so he can make sure that everything is on schedule. Santa said that he wanted this program be available to the rest of the world.
All the technology elves hope you like it. Keeping you posted,
Apple is providing links to these applications as a courtesy, and makes no representations regarding the applications or any information related thereto. Any questions, complaints or claims regarding the applications must be directed to the appropriate software vendor.


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JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes is hoping to use a new city ordinance to rid his neighborhood of blight.
Stokes says he wants to seize a house at the intersection of Dale and Flora streets. Neighbors who have been complaining about the property have already collected petitions.
Under the ordinance, the city has the ability to seize properties that are deemed to be drug houses.
"This is the tool the city has needed to make sure we get these properties in responsible hands", says Stokes.
Walter Allison, a nearby resident says, "It's been a problem, we call the police four to five times a day."
Stokes says he wants to give the house to a nearby church, but they say the house may need to be torn down.
Stokes plans to present the petitions to the council on Tuesday.
Under the old ordinance, the city could just demolish properties. Stokes says often times they would return months later, only to find an overgrown lot.
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aliskiren (generic name)
Tekturna (brand name)
- Addiction
- Arthritis
- Auto Immune Conditions
- Bladder & Kidney Health
- Brain & Nervous System
- Cancer
- Caregiving
- Care Transitions
- Cholesterol
- Dental Health
- Diabetes
- Emotional Health
- Eye Health
- Falls Prevention
- Financial Planning
- Fitness
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- Health Care Basics
- Healthy Living
- Hearing Loss
- Heart Health
- High Blood Pressure
- Life Transitions
- Lung Health
- Medications
- Memory
- Men's Health
- Nutrition & Weight Management
- Osteoporosis
- Pain Management
- Preventive Health
- Sexual Health
- Sleep
- Stomach & Digestive Health
- Stress & Anxiety
- Stroke
- Women's Health
What is this medicine?ALISKIREN (a lis KYE ren) is a renin inhibitor. This medicine is used to treat high blood pressure.
What should I tell my health care provider before I take this medicine?They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
- dehydration
- diabetes
- kidney disease
- an unusual or allergic reaction to aliskiren, other medicines, foods, dyes, or preservatives
- pregnant or trying to get pregnant
- breast-feeding
How should I use this medicine?Take this medicine by mouth with a glass of water. Follow the directions on your prescription label. You may take this medicine with or without food, but try to take it the same way every time. Take your doses at regular intervals. Do not take more medicine than directed. Do not stop taking this medicine except on the advice of your doctor or health care professional.
Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
What if I miss a dose?If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you can. If it is almost time for your next dose, take only that dose. Do not take double or extra doses.
What may interact with this medicine?
- atorvastatin
- furosemide
- irbesartan
- ketoconazole
- other medicines for high blood pressure
- potassium supplements
- salt substitutes with potassium
What should I watch for while using this medicine?Visit your doctor or health care professional for regular checks on your progress. Check your blood pressure as directed. Ask your doctor or health care professional what your blood pressure should be and when you should contact him or her.
If you have diabetes and are taking a medicine called an angiotensin-receptor-blocker (ARB) or angiotensin-converting-enzyme-inhibitor (ACE inhibitor), do not take this medicine. Talk to your doctor or health care professional for more information.
Women should inform their doctor if they wish to become pregnant or think they might be pregnant. There is a potential for serious side effects to an unborn child. Talk to your health care professional or pharmacist for more information.
What side effects may I notice from receiving this medicine?Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible:
- allergic reactions like skin rash or hives, swelling of the hands, feet, face, lips, throat, or tongue
- breathing problems
- fast, irregular heartbeat
- feeling faint or lightheaded, falls
- fever or sore throat
- gout pain
- low blood pressure
- pain or difficulty passing urine
- pain, tingling, numbness in the hands or feet
- seizures
Side effects that usually do not require medical attention (report to your doctor or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome):
- cough
- diarrhea
- headache
- stomach upset
- tired
Where should I keep my medicine?Keep out of the reach of children.
Store at room temperature between 15 and 30 degrees C (59 and 86 degrees F). Protect from moisture. Throw away any unused medicine after the expiration date.
Remember, keep this and all other medicines out of the reach of children, never share your medicines with others, and use this medication only for the indication prescribed.


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I'm far from the first person to do this. Google "Twitter Unfollow" and you'll find a bunch of posts from people more interesting and high-profile than I am.
But quietly and without fanfare this weekend, I unfollowed all 34K people I was following (using SocialOomph if you're interested) so that I could reset and start over.
I was actually hoping I wouldn't have to write this post, and for most of you, you probably a) didn't notice, b) didn't care much if you did notice and c) have probably thought about doing something similar once or twice yourself.
But I'm getting just enough blowback and misunderstanding that I want to explain a few things about how Twitter works, why I bothered with this, and why it doesn't really make much difference at all in the grand scheme of things.
(If you're one of the ones who doesn't much care, skip this. I mean, it's a post about Twitter. Not exactly groundbreaking stuff here.)
Lists Are The Solution
You don't have to follow someone to see their posts. Most people don't realize this. You can put them on a list and see their posts just like always, and the lists help keep them at least contextual or topical.
I have *many* private lists I've created for my own use, from professional contacts to clients to interesting industry discussions and hashtags, along with personal interests like mental health and animal rescue.
THAT is how I see lots of people and conversations, discover new people, and shift my focus around as my needs change. I can turn the lists on and off, add new ones, and still pay attention to a diverse array of people and conversations all across Twitter. It's like a volume knob that I can turn up or down.
So why not just follow those people that I have on the lists?
Following = DM Access
The only reason to follow someone on Twitter is if you specifically need or want to communicate with them via Direct Message.
The people that DM me are mostly my closest circle of personal and professional acquaintances and then, on the other end of the spectrum, lots and lots and lots of people who fall for phishing scams or are pitching me their latest ebook.
We can talk to each other via @ reply until the cows come home and (gasp) we don't even have to follow each other. So it doesn't stifle public conversation in the least, which is where most of the Twitter action happens, at least for me. Want to connect with me? Start a conversation anytime. If you're conversational and we share mutual interests, I'll probably find you somewhere myself, even.
I don't feel like I'm obligated to provide DM access to others as part of my Twitter experience, and I don't believe it's a "courtesy" to just follow someone back. Especially if you're talking about someone who follows a lot of people, getting followed back means absolutely nothing. They're likely not keeping track of you in their main timeline anyway and instead using a few well-curated lists to effectively whittle their follow list down to a manageable number while avoiding pissing people off by unfollowing them (more on that in a minute).
If someone I'm not following needs to reach me privately, they simply send me a quick "hey would you mind following so I can send you a DM?" note or ask for my email, and I'm happy to oblige. 99% of the world has zero problem with this.
Then There Are the Butthurts…
I'm fascinated by the odd social dynamic of reciprocation on the web, and how sharply it's tied to some people's sense of self-worth.
If you care about your Klout score, it might matter to you that someone with a lot of followers is following you back. Then again, if you care about your Klout score, we probably have some pretty fundamental philosophical differences anyway and won't miss each other much.
I had one gentleman tweet publicly that I had unfollowed him, then he promptly blocked me. Cool by me, but that's quite a visceral reaction to such a tiny thing.
Let me explain this very clearly: a Twitter follow is not a validation of your worth as a human, nor is it a stamp of approval from someone online that you're awesome or not. If you even slightly see it that way, you might need reset some priorities.
Twitter is simply a tool, a mechanism. Everyone uses it differently, and heavy users like me need to rejig the system once in a while so it continues to work and stay manageable. In short, the system of follows and lists and DM access and what is useful to me to pay attention to is not about you. In this case, it's about me and what makes Twitter valuable for me personally.
You get to say the same thing about your experience, and you get to shape it according to your own needs. Hell, unfollow me and put me on a list (or don't) if you want. Your Twitter is yours to shape, and you don't owe me anything either. I'd wager that a good portion of the people I'm most interested in at a professional level don't follow me back. And who cares?
You don't owe anyone anything.
My System
If it helps, here's a glance at how I've set up Twitter to work for me (and you can probably see why this wouldn't work if I was still following 34K people).
Timeline: These are the people I actually follow. They're people I correspond with in Direct Message and mostly my main circles of personal and professional contacts. I'm still rebuilding this, obviously. It'll stay small.
Current: A private list I've created that allows me to follow interesting people more closely that aren't directly related to any of my professional or personal interests. Perhaps it's someone I had an interesting conversation with, or that I found in a chat, or that a friend retweeted. This is one of my discovery mechanisms and how I ensure that I always have the chance to meet someone new. I rotate people on and off this list all the time.
Professional Lists: I have lists of social business professionals and practitioners, agency leaders, smart people, and hashtags like #socbiz or other searches that are pertinent to my work. This is how I keep tabs on what's happening in social business on Twitter and find great resources and articles and such.
Personal Lists: I follow animal rescue groups, mental health organizations, book groups, etc. It changes often and I build and dismantle searches regularly. I have several lists separated out that I can turn off or on as I see fit.
Clients: Self-explanatory.
In all but the first list, I don't have to be following those people to see them.
A Closing Word about "Followers"
Twitter is full of fake accounts, spam accounts, idle and dead accounts, and various forms of flotsam and jetsam. The real, human-powered accounts that have any vested interest in anything other than blasting out their latest blog post are few and far between.
That means that the 53+K accounts that are following me look a lot more impressive on paper than they probably are in actuality. It's not a measure of my influence, it's a measure of how many times someone clicked the "follow" button. My potential reach is a section of that, and my actual reach is some subsection of that. My true influence – my ability to make those people take an action other than simply a retweet of a clever quip – is much smaller than that, and has to do with a lot more factors than my Twitter activity.
See where I'm going with this?
You have to take this stuff with a grain of salt.
Twitter is great, and it's probably my favorite social network. I've met a number of wonderful people that way (including my co-author Jay and my business partner Matt), and I'm sure I'll meet even more.
But if you're freaking out about follow reciprocation and all that jazz, I'd like to suggest you step back and think about why this really matters so much to you, and what significance you're hanging on electronic connections that take only a click of the finger to make or undo.
Everything changes. Twitter will too. And I promise that someday you'll wonder why anyone cared so much about who followed whom.


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