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Broke U.S. Resumes Spending
Will the government ever fix its errant ways?
What would you think of a person who earned $24,000 a year but spent $35,000? Suppose on top of that, he was already $170,000 in debt. You'd tell him to get his act together -- stop spending so much or he'd destroy his family, impoverish his kids and wreck their future. Of course, no individual could live so irresponsibly for long.
But tack on eight more zeroes to that budget and you have the checkbook for our out-of-control, big-spending federal government.
Yet when Congress and President Obama agreed on a deal last week to raise the debt ceiling and resume government spending, people reacted as if a disaster was averted -- instead of reacting as if a disaster had resumed. It has. And it continues.
Congratulating ourselves for raising the debt ceiling once again, the way we do every time this drama plays out, is like congratulating an alcoholic for talking the bartender out of cutting him off.
As with alcoholics, there's a deeper problem here. It's not just that America is addicted to debt. Everyone agrees we should pay our bills, just not when or how. The deeper addiction is to government.
For most of the history of America, federal spending never took up more than 5 percent of the economy. Spending increased during wars, but after World Wars I and II, spending dropped back to prewar levels.
Then came Presidents Johnson and Nixon and the "great society." From then on, spending rose even in peacetime. Now, if you include local government, government spending makes up more than 40 percent of the economy.
"Government has exploded in size," warned economist Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute. It happens because of "politicians promising things they cannot deliver and imposing tax burdens that are crippling private sectors."
Politicians from both parties criticize spending when they're out of power. But then they increase spending once they're in power.
I'd forgotten that when Obama campaigned for the presidency, he was very upset about his predecessor's deficits. Sen. Obama complained, "The way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the bank of China. ... We now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back. ... That is irresponsible."
I agree! $9 trillion in debt is totally irresponsible. That makes it all the more remarkable that just a few years later, under President Obama, debt increased to $17 trillion. But now, suddenly, this vast debt is no longer irresponsible. Today the president says what is irresponsible is for Congress not to constantly raise the debt ceiling.
The problem isn't just politicians. I showed people on the street a chart that documented America's unsustainable spending. People were horrified and said government "should make cuts." But when I asked, "What programs would you cut?" most could not name a single significant program.
So let me make some suggestions: Eliminate NPR and PBS funding. Cut foreign aid. End the war on drugs. Kill Fannie and Freddie, which financed America's mortgages and helped cause the financial crisis. Eliminate cabinet departments like Commerce, Energy, Agriculture and Education, all activities that happen without any need for the federal government. (Education is a local function, and the department spending $100 billion a year hasn't raised test scores one bit.)
Shrink the military by reducing our overseas commitments. Reform Social Security by raising the retirement age. And instead of increasing government involvement in health care, turn Medicare into a self-sustaining insurance program.
But to save America from bankruptcy, we don't even need to make all those cuts. We could grow our way out of debt if Congress simply froze spending. They won't do that either, but if they limited spending growth to 2 percent per year, we could balance the budget in just three years.
Limiting government growth is politically difficult, but if we don't do it, America is doomed.
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It's quite simple. We stop spending more than we can handle, or we bust the economy. It will happen.
Anything that can't go on forever, won't.
The Forever Whore.
Of course this can go on forever. They don't even need linen and ink to make money anymore.
If you don't understand where money comes from, you don't understand the national debt.
The converse is also true.
When I was a teenager, I went out with a girl who actually said this seriously.
In my defense, she was pretty hot.
Then she'll have all the funding she needs.
Until she is no longer young and hot, you ProL...
All enterprises must take advantage of their earning years. Rising whore to cash cow, you know.
You have a way with words sir...
This is kind of like getting an alcoholic who owns a liquor store to stop drinking.
There can be no sugar coating it: there's a discrepancy between revenues and outlays.
That household analogy doesn't work Stossel, because really smart economists say so:
It's true. The household analogy doesn't work because households can't pay bills with money they print in their basements, and households can't steal from other households. So yeah. It totally doesn't work because governments while can engage in fraud and theft, households cannot.
*while governments*
I've never understood that "it isn't like a household budget" criticism, for exactly the reason you point out. The analogy does fail, but not in some flattering way for the statists... so why do they keep bringing it up?
(Also, although this might go under the "fraud" category, they can jiggle with the interest rates that they pay as well).
When you don't understand the distinction between wealth and money, it's easy to believe that governments can create wealth by printing money. When you're a liberal shill pretending to be an economist, it's easy to feed that misconception.
Pop quiz. Who said this?
I say, imagine in your private life if you decided that, I'm not going to pay my mortgage for a month or two. First of all, you're not saving money by not paying your mortgage; you're just a deadbeat. And you can anticipate that will hurt your credit, which means that in addition to debt collectors calling, you're going to have trouble borrowing in the future. And if you are able to borrow in the future, you're going to have to borrow at a higher rate. Well, what's true for individuals is also true for nations -- even the most powerful nation on Earth.
And this?
"Families across this country understand what it takes to manage a budget. Well, it's time Washington acted as responsibly as our families do."
Spiro Agnew?
Damn, that was on final jeopardy last night...
If you had some terminal illness, and didn't have anyone you cared about to inherit your estate, it'd be smart to go a couple or three months without paying your mortgage.
When Keynes said in the long run we are all dead.....
I knew people say that, but holy crap, do they really think "the federal government is able to roll over debt and issue its own currency" are answers to the problem?!
Also, their "actual economists say" bit is unintentionally funny. I'd never heard of L. Randall Wray, so I looked him up. One of the first pieces of writing by him I found said
Economic Terrorists in Washington hold our government hostage. These terrorists do not care that government is largely shut down.
Another piece is titled "HOW WALL STREET'S RENT-SEEKING VAMPIRE SQUID SUCKS ALL LIFE OUT OF THE ECONOMY".
Oh yeah, that guy totally doesn't look like a screaming partisan shill...
As a drastic solution, which we are close approaching emergency levels, implement an emergency manager. Or at least publicly elect a temporary group on a national level budget managers. Make it known it will only exist for two years and will be then gone forever. Then you will not have careerists or people bent on popularity. Force every spending bill through this board make every roll of toilet paper be justified not just tanks and buildings. Forcing a Congressmen to explain why Miles city, Montana needs $20 million dollars for an airport 12 people a year will use, would be entertaining for us all, like the bloopers from the American Idol try-outs. Maybe then when these congressmen are personally held accountable to the other 300 million Americans they do not represent that paid for their votes, they would not be so quick to spend other people's money
A temporary dictator? Can we call him Caesar?
To be sure, the dictator was a constitutional office for six months. Caesar left the reservation by extending it.
Because it is totally in accord with human nature to give someone absolute power for six months, and the ability to use that power to make the absolute power permanent, and to walk away from all that power.
And the sort of people who apply for that temporary power will totally not be the kind who will try to make it permanent.
I'm not advocating that we do it, I'm just saying how it worked for the Republic. They had a good number of dictators over the years.
They were often appointed for a specific purpose--"Go and rid us of those turbulent Sabines"--which may have helped keep the office from turning into something permanent. And, of course, they had a built-in aversion to kings, which helped keep things in check for a while.
I believe Sulla beat him to the punch.
Sulla extended his time in office and seized pretty much absolute power for a time, but he also took Lord Humungus' advice and just walked away. Not that Sulla was a good guy, but it looks like he tried to reform the system so no one could do what he did, as odd as that sounds. Didn't work, of course, and his precedent was a deadly example to later generations.
Didn't Sulla "walk away" because he went voices-in-the-head insane? Or am I misremembering?
I think it was something like that, at least health-related. I've come to bury Sulla, not to praise him, though,
I would never expect you to be here defending Sulla - I was just curious because it would be interesting to hear that he came to his senses and gave up his power, nevertheless laying the groundwork for later tyranny.
Knowing what I know of him, I actually wouldn't be surprised either way - seems like he was an unpredictable type.
Wouldn't this "emergency manager" exactly be Wesley Mouch from Atlas Shrugged?
Mouch was an emergency manager for the entire economy, with absolute administrative power.
The above suggestion is more of an office with line-item veto power over the budget, and nothing else.
Nice idea, but out of touch with reality. Proof that people will hang onto power until their last breath can be seen in our own Congress. Congressmen will do whatever they must to retain that sliver of power they have. If you want a more ghastly example, the Enabling Act that gave Hitler plenary power was temporary for four years.
There's a straight-forward way to start doing this --- require that Congressional Districts be drawn by a non-partisan commission. Right now Districts are drawn so that they're sinecures. Breaking that up will force Representatives to do things such as justify their spending.
The only way you are getting the federal government to stop spending, is if we have enough libertarians in DC to be able to stop it. Otherwise, spending will increase exponentially. 50 trillion in debt is just a few years away, and that still will not stop them. They will create more and more new agencies and create new entitlements and all of those will seek to grow as much as possible. When it all falls apart, the team purple establishment hoes will be seen getting on flights out of the country will bags full of dollars to exchange for some currency that still has value, and the rest of us will be living in a 3rd world rat hole.
I not sure who among the H&R commentariat coined the term, but I find Team Be Ruled* a more apt description of our current gaggle of pols than Team Purple.
*For those not in the know, Team Red + Team Blue = Team Be Ruled.
I think it was me, during my anagram phase. I was known then as Patriot Rebel.
It was a good line. Sums up my feelings about how both parties are basically offense and defense for the same team.
Or maybe it was El Top Arbiter? Bare Otter Lip? I forget.
Have I mentioned I like Stossel?
What would you think of a person who earned $24,000 a year but spent $35,000? Suppose on top of that, he was already $170,000 in debt. You'd tell him to get his act together -- stop spending so much or he'd destroy his family, impoverish his kids and wreck their future.
Governments are not housholds. Households can't print money.
Prog Congressanyone in the federal government
Governments are not housholds. Households can't print money.
Households also need to produce some sort of value to someone else in order to earn that income.
Not if they just run a protection racket in their neighborhood and operate a counterfeiting operation.
Ok, ok, ok...
Non-libertarian households also need to produce some sort of value to someone else in order to earn that income.
The libertarian households are all flush with money gained by their lucrative monopoly of the slave tears market.
They won't do that either, but if they limited spending growth to 2 percent per year, we could balance the budget in just three years.
Are you projecting explosive economic growth -- double digit growth per year -- in the next three years?
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"Will the government ever fix its errant ways?"
Not until we make them.
The progressive "liberals" love the idea of spending especially when they think it costs everyone else and "not them".
Maybe we should just give them the whole bill they have created.
That wouldn't be fair.
That "Article V Convention" sounds pretty good right now.
This has probably been posted before but somehow it just seems appropriate.
Under the fiat system -- the Federal Reserve system -- money is only valuable if its production is tightly controlled.
It can only live so long on trust and future notes.
This fucking shit is fucking out of fucking control.
The dollar -- and the U.S. economy -- will fail. They have to.
And it didn't start with this president, though he has ramped it up.
Every time I hear Sean Hannity praise George W. Bush, I want to fuck him in his tight little Catholic ass with a branding iron.
Yup. Bush II gets credit for one thing though. At least he tried to talk about privatizing SS. He wimped out in a hurry and the thundering sheep of America couldn't wait to stampede the idea, but I'll give him credit for at least bringing it up.
As I recall, Bush was serious. But even the thought of privatizing a small part of the Social Security scam was pilloried by the public, and the Congress.
We have become such an entitled nation that rationality has no place at the table.
People want theirs, and they want it now, foresight, planning and rationality be damned.
Again, we are doomed. Fucking doomed.
Disabuse yourself of the notion that progressives don't understand money or markets.
They do. All too well.
And that's what makes them so fucking dangerous.
You can't just take an axe to these Departments, For example, Commerce contains the National Weather Service and NOAA (who make nautical charts). Energy maintains nuclear weapons and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. It's highly unlikely that Medicare could survive as a self-sustaining insurance program. Older people need more medical care and that means higher premiums. For that to work you'd need to include younger workers to absorb some of the risk. That brings you mighty close to the fundamental bases of Obamacare.
Oh my GOD, the HORROR!
Government workers, out on their asses? Workers without jobs, trained to do something important that has just opened up as a lucrative and fast-growing business opportunity?
Every job we axe in government can and will be taken up by the private sector. At least, as long as it was worth having in the first place.
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The Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival may be an annual Coastside tradition celebrating is 42nd year, but this year there are some new things happening that you'll not want to miss.
Of course we all look forward to the annual events that have become such an ingrained part of the world-famous festival like the weigh-off, pumpkin pie eating contest, pumpkin patches, parade, and pumpkin pancake breakfast, and of course the famous Highway 92 traffic ... well, maybe not that so much.
But the festival is the Coast's very own holiday and is also a fundraiser for so many local nonprofits, from schools and sport teams to organizations for seniors and veterans. It wouldn't be Half Moon Bay without celebrating our pumpkins and community.
So in addition to all of the wonderful annual events that we expect to experience year after year at the Pumpkin Festival, here are five new things not to miss this year:
1. Special $25K bonus mega prize for world's first 1-ton pumpkin
For the first time ever, a special $25K bonus mega prize will be awarded for the world's first 1-ton pumpkin or $10K for a new world record entered at Half Moon Bay. The 39th Annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off is today, Monday, Oct. 8, from 7 to 11 a.m. on the IDES Grounds, 735 Main Street, Half Moon Bay.
2. All-time 49er great Steve Young to serve as Great Pumpkin Parade Grand Marshal
It's the ultimate old-fashioned small town parade down Main Street featuring the huge weigh-off champion pumpkin and grower, floats, marching band, Halloween costumes, and classic cars. But this year Half Moon Bay will have a star in the parade: Hall of Fame quarterback, Super Bowl MVP and all time 49er Steve Young, who will serve as honorary Grand Marshal of the Great Pumpkin Parade. The parade is on Saturday, Oct. 13, at noon, on Main Street.
3. Arists Peter's Hazel's mosaic-style pumpkin
On Saturday's parade, there will be quite a spectacle to behold when sculptor Peter Hazel's 7-by-12-foot 7,000-pound pumpkin made of concrete and rebar and covered in bright orange tile pieces and green stems and leaves passes by. The Half Moon Bay Beautification Committee will announce a permanent spot for the sculpture.
4. "Made on the Coast" art show
To highlight local artists at the festival, "Made on the Coast" is a special one-day art show, featuring 18 Coastside artists representing a wide variety of artistic mediums from ceramics, sculptures, watercolors and oil painting to jewelry, photography and glass-blowing creations. Sixteen booths will be set up on Main Street between Kelly Avenue and Mill Street from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 14.
5. Spider Jump bungee jump
Kids of all ages will love this new attraction at the Pumpkin Festival. But what is a Spider Jump exactly? Bungee jumping has traditionally been an attraction that is more admired than executed. Trampolines are a more common activity but require a safe setting. Now, however, these activities are combined, producing a new, safe and exhilarating interactive sport: Spider Jump. While on a trampoline, the jumper is connected by special elastics to the structure. These elastics increase the height and velocity of the jump while stabilizing the jump.
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Two connected modular office buildings will be installed facing the side of Frelinghuysen Middle School, across a parking lot from the main building with sports fields behind them, to free up space for five classrooms in the main building amid increasing enrollment, school officials said Monday.
Child Study Team offices and offices for The Community School would be moved to the modular buildings and the existing office space would be converted to classrooms. Plans to add classrooms to the West Hanover Avenue facility were announced last month, and the project had a fast-tracked courtesy review hearing before the Morris Township Planning Board on Monday night to get the board's comments on the plans.
School District Business Administrator Christine Kelly said the district sought to have the hearing process sped up so it can go out to bid on the project in time to have the additional classroom space available by the start of next school year. Letters about the meeting were hand-delivered to residents around the school Friday morning, she said, which meant residents had less notice than ususal to review the plans and attend the meeting.
Planning board members said they had some concerns that residents adjactent to the property did not have enough time to review the plans or attend the meeting, but said the location of the buildings and the presence of trees between the nearest houses led them to believe there would not be major concerns.
If township officials become aware there are residents who have questions or concerns that were not able to be raised for Monday's courtesy review, the board could try to have school district officials discuss the project at another meeting.
The Wayne firm of Di Cara-Rubino Architects provided the design work for the new classrooms and members of the firm were on hand Monday to talk about the project, as was Kelly and Frelinghuysen Principal Mark Manning.
The project also includes the installation of a generator that could heat the building in the event of long-term power outages, such as those the middle school endured after Superstorm Sandy and Tropical Storm Irene. While the generator could heat the main building, buying a generator to provide full power to the building is cost prohibitive, Kelly said.
The cost of the project won't be known until a construction company is designated for the project, but district officials say the project will be paid for with existing funds in the district's capital reserve. Using modular buildings detached from the main school building is meant to keep costs low, Kelly said.


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By ROB W. ANDERSON
Staff Writer
To convey the significance of a person or an event in history, the details have to be put into proper context.
Historians say studying the events and people of the past helps modern people understand one another and other cultures. That's one reason Northeastern State University hosted the National History Day District 8 Contest Tuesday. The theme, "Turning Points In History," prompted students to explain their chosen history topics.
More than 130 students from seven different schools competed in categories including research papers, group and individual exhibits, group and individual websites, group and individual documentaries, as well as group and individual performances.
Winners qualified for the State History Day Contest, expected to be held at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City in early May.
Muskogee High School history teacher Diane Walker has brought students to the History Day contest for about 10 years. She believes students still find an interest in the past, despite the influence of today's futuristic and virtual intentions.
"I think that even though you have all this electronic media or this instant gratification, students still love a good story, and that's what history is – only it happened for real," Walker said. "I have students who [come to history day] every year. The project is required in class, but to come to regionals is not required. They want to come. In fact, I have students here today who are working for the college. To me, that shows that, yes, History Day planted a seed, and yes, they're interested. That's neat, and this is the first year that's happened. I'm finally getting old enough, I guess."
Claremore High School sophomore Hailey Seago presented "The 1920s: Where There's Smoke There's Fire" as an individual exhibit, because the era represents a time when women began to have a voice and become more visible in society.
"I felt like it was a strong turning point in American history. It pretty much was the building block for women," she said. "They got more education. More women got into sports. A lot of the technology we use today was started in the 1920s, like the car and the radio. And also the 1920s was the jazz age. So dancing, like the Charleston, was very popular. Women cut their hair and went on to a new look."
Muskogee High School sophomore Logan Dean selected the computer-software company the world knows as Apple Inc. to present as an individual exhibit.
"They were a majoring turning point because they've changed not only the way we interact with our technology, but the way we interact in education," he said. "The Apple II was the second line of computers that they came out with. It was the first to ever be in a school for students to interact, do reports, play games and stuff like that."
As students remain interested in people and events that changed the course of life, NSU Professor of History Dr. Brad Agnew observed that students remain faced with the need to evolve research skills and broaden their limited perspectives.
"They tend to focus exclusively on their topic. They don't relate it to the broader theme. Some of the students had good topics, but they didn't relate to the theme," he said. "I really believe in History Day. It teaches maturity. It helps the students get over the stage fright, and it really prepares them for life."
Agnew noted its easy for a student to be a big fish in a small pond at contests like Tuesday's, but added that with History Day, many of those big fish find themselves sharing crowded waters.
"It shows them there's a wider world out there, and that they need to dig a little deeper and work a little harder to be the best in the bigger pond," he said. "I think at every level, it gets more competitive."
Agnew's NSU history colleague, Dr. Suzanne Farmer, said exhibits she judged showed true interest in history, and she likes the direction school curriculum is expected to take.
"I think it's good for them to have to show their work in a public forum and get them used to defending what they're doing. The public speaking - that's really good for them," she said. "They don't seem to get much social interaction other than behind a computer screen these days. [History day competitions] forces them to deal with people. They do need to investigate much further into why [the event or person they chose is] important. Put it into context. What actually changed because of this particular event. They seem to be good at finding the information, which is true of this generation. They're the information age, but they don't really know how to make those connections as to why it's so important."
Tahlequah Middle School student Vidya Desai presented Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi as an individual exhibit. She said the History Day competition prompted her to learn more about the man she heard about from her grandmother.
"I learned the basics about him, but when I heard about the History Day competition, I decided to pursue more information and research so I could learn more about him," she said. "I enjoy history. I enjoy learning about all the different things that happened. This [competition] is pretty nerve-racking. The judges - they ask you all these questions that you might not know the answers to."
NSU History Day winners from Cherokee County
Junior Individual Exhibit
First: Rachel C. Walker, TMS, "The Signing of the 19th Amendment."
Second: Vidya Desai, TMS, "Gandhi's Civil Disobedience
Third: Allison Woitte, TMS, "Great Balls of Fire."
Junior Group Exhibit
Second: Dillan Lyman, Bradley Soliman and Dustin Hicks, TMS, "Polio Vaccine."
Third: Kadi Brewer and Sarah Cordle, TMS, "Elvis Presley Changed Music History."
Junior Group Performance
Second: Tia Ramirez, Brina Thomas, Chloe Castillo, Joey Davis and Maribel Balderas-Vega, TMS, "Rosa Parks."
Third: Kyra Jumper, Macey Matthews and Kennedy Payton, TMS, "Roe vs. Wade."
Junior Group Website
First: Holland Smith, Alyssa McKee and Valkyrie Reed, TMS, "Early American Jazz."
Second: Lyric Peterson, Josh Stroud and Jessie Pool, TMS, "Wright Brothers."
Third: Kyler Jones and John Andrews, TMS, "Transcontinental Railroad."
Senior Historical Papers
First: Olivia Smeets, Keys High School, "The Black Plague."
Senior Group Exhibit
Second: Sara] Ryals, Sierra Cox and Mikah Whitecloud, Keys HS, "Invention of TV."
Senior Group Documentary
Second: Riki Wescott, Sarah Winburn, Jessica Ice and Amber Tobey, Tahlequah High School, "The Telephone."
Third: Wyatt Hammond and Luke Bigby, THS, "The Fall of Constantinople."
Senior Group Website
First: Autumn Craig and Johnathan Ozturk, KHS, "The Civil Rights Act of 1964."
Sweepstakes Awards
Junior Division: Tahlequah Middle School; teachers Shelly Bailey and Cindy Robertson.


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The single-girl status definitely suits our girl Vanessa; she looks absolutely gorgeous outside of New York City's fashion week, even stopping to blow our camera a quick kiss. You made our night Ms. Hudgens!
The Beastly actress was sexy and sleek draped in a black velvet coat while security sashayed her through the crowds and to her seat, which we're guessing, is directly in front of the runway.
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From June 10-13, Jessamine County attended the 2014 state FFA convention at the Lexington Center, where members competed against FFA chapters from all over Kentucky. Several members of the Jessamine County chapter received awards for competitions and special honors.
The state convention is held each year in Lexington and was attended by over 2,300 FFA members, advisors, and guests from around the state. The convention included general sessions, leadership workshops, state contest finals, the state awards program, a delegate business session, an agriculture career show and a day of service as well as motivational speakers and educational programs.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (July 15, 2014) — Cigarette use among Kentucky's high school students has significantly decreased. The state, which ranked first in 2011 by the Centers for Disease Control Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System report for most high school smokers, was ranked sixth in the 2013 report.
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This week, in our ever first podcast and second show, we talk about our sudden bump from the radio, Detroit, a drunk guy at a taqueria and fish.
I talk to Tyler Green, of Modern Art Notes and one of the most respected arts journalists around, about "A Day for Detroit." Santiago Cucullu reflects on the work of Evan Gruzis at the Haggerty Museum of Art. And Adam Carr, producer of Art City, meets up with Jeremy Novy under a bridge to talk about his street art.
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By Andrew Gans
09 May 2012
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Young, who also won Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World awards, will play July 3-Sept. 30 at the August Wilson Theatre.
He will be joined on Broadway by Matt Bogart (Nick Massi), Quinn VanAntwerp (Bob Gaudio) and Andy Karl (Tommy DeVito) as The Four Seasons; with Peter Gregus and Mark Lotito. The cast also includes Miles Aubrey, Erik Bates, Jared Bradshaw, Cara Cooper, Ken Dow, John Edwards, Russell Fischer, Katie O'Toole, Joe Payne, Jessica Rush, Dominic Scaglione Jr., Nathan Scherich, Sara Schmidt and Taylor Sternberg.
Jersey Boys is written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, direction by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff and choreography by Sergio Trujillo.
Jersey Boys is the recipient of the 2006 Tony Award for Best Musical and the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Musical. The Original Broadway Cast Recording, produced by Bob Gaudio, received the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and has been certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The Broadway production also won the 2006 Outer Critics Circle & Drama League Awards for Best Musical.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Association of Indiana Counties (AIC) announced that Rush County Treasurer Mary Ann Beard received an AIC Institute for Excellence in County Government Life time Achievement Certificate.
Beard was one of 15 county officials from across Indiana who completed requirements in 2012 to receive an AIC Institute for Excellence in County Government certificate. The professional development program was established in 1993.
The AIC is dedicated to assisting county government officials and employees in becoming more efficient, solving tough problems, and finding the resources they need to serve their constituents. The AIC believes that education is the beginning of any successful endeavor, especially within the public service sector.
AIC and Vectren Corporation are helping county officials to continue pursuing their educational goals through webinar classes. Offering classes via a virtual classroom helps county officials to reduce the burden of travel expenses and time out of the office. To learn more about the AIC Institute visit www.indianacounties.org.
The Association of Indiana Counties, Inc. is a nonprofit organization established in 1957 for the betterment of county government. The various functions of the AIC include lobbying the Indiana General Assembly on behalf of counties, serving as liaison among counties, state and federal agencies as well as providing technical assistance and training to county officials and employees.


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Services for Daniel P. Capers will be held Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013 at 1 p.m. at Millwood Primitive Baptist Church with Rev. Willie Pringle officiating. Burial will be in Bethlehem Cemetery in Edna, Ala. with Weatherly-Studdard Memorial Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Capers, 56, of Pennington, died Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013 at Choctaw General Hospital.
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On Thursday evening, Okashi Barkery held a fundraiser for Doggie Protective Services of Palo Alto, generating $826 for of the $1600 needed for a dog's hip surgery.
At $10 a pop, 30 people visited the Campbell store -- which specializes dog treats and clothes-- for their own goodies: cheese, deserts and wine.
"My teeny, tiny store was jammed packed," said owner Joanne Gutowski-Joplin.
The highlight of the event for Gutowski-Joplin was an unexpected one: a woman locked eyes with a pup that needed to be adopted, and carried him home that night.
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My late father used to say that no quality of human life was more important than dignity. That wisdom came to mind the other night when I sat with my wife watching CNN as the exhausted passengers finally began debarking from the cruise ship Carnival Triumph.
The ship had been adrift five days in the Gulf of Mexico. A fire cut the power, and that meant no propulsion, no air conditioning, no communications, no sanitation.
Think of that: no sanitation. Social historians tell us that no inventions have been more vital to extending human life than the flush toilet and the closed sewer. In the United States, we can scarcely imagine life without them. But the passengers on the Carnival Triumph had no choice. The CNN anchor, commenting on the ordeal, said in passing that she was sure those leaving the ship were looking forward to a little dignity.
The word isn't much used today, perhaps because it conjures images of stuffiness. That's too bad, because my father was right. Dignity is crucial to human flourishing. We need more of it.
Alas, we live in an era largely bereft of dignity. We inhabit instead a world of shabby entertainment, of nasty and unserious politics. (I assume that I need cite no examples.)
To be sure, entertainers and politicians, along with their apologists, will tell you that they are limited by the public's taste.
This feeble excuse is nothing new and hasn't improved with age. Thus we find a critic writing in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in 1836: "It is undignified to pander to a weak and depraved taste, and then querulously to lament that it is no higher."
Dignity in this sense comes into English from French, but its ultimate root is the Latin dignus, meaning "worthy." Thus the Oxford English Dictionary, as its top-line definition, offers the following: "The quality of being worthy or honourable; worthiness, worth, nobleness, excellence."
Alas, this sense of the word dignity is the one that has largely faded. But there is another sense of the word dignity, popularized by philosophers, that ought still to engage our interest. That is the notion of dignity as attaching not to a particular mode of behavior but to our very humanity.
In his final book, "Justice for Hedgehogs," legal theorist Ronald Dworkin called for a closer attention to the ethics of dignity. Our search for the good life, he argued, should always be governed by an important constraint: "Acts are wrong if they insult the dignity of others."
My father would have agreed. He spent his career battling against the ravages of poverty – because it was an insult to dignity. He explained his opposition to the death penalty by pointing to the indignity: the helplessness, the weeping, even the loss of control of bodily functions.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan contended that capital punishment was inconsistent with the Eighth Amendment's premise "that even the vilest criminal remains a human being possessed of common human dignity."
I don't mean to suggest that all who care about dignity will reach the same conclusions. In his book "For Capital Punishment," political philosopher Walter Berns wrote in a reply to Brennan that the justice's argument ignored important moral differences between men such as Abraham Lincoln and those such as Charles Manson: "To say that these men, some great and some unspeakably vile, equally possess human dignity is to demonstrate an inability to make a moral judgment derived from or based on the idea of human dignity."
Notice that Berns is using the word in the OED sense of an aspect that is earned; whereas Brennan is using it in Dworkin's sense of an aspect of personhood. But they aren't really talking past each other. The two senses converge – and that convergence is important for our politics.
The Carnival passengers lacked dignity in both senses. They were forced by the conditions aboard ship to behave in a manner that was undignified, and the conditions themselves constituted an affront to their human dignity.
Dignity isn't stuffy. Dignity is crucial to the idea of civilization. Dworkin worried that we have corrupted the word by allowing it to slip into every party platform or covenant. But the basic concept, in both of its senses, should be the centerpiece of political and ethical conversation.
This shouldn't be a left-right issue. A closer attention to dignity would change only the terms of our debates, not necessarily their outcomes: Does abortion protect the dignity of the pregnant woman or invade the dignity of the unborn child? Do union seniority rules preserve the dignity of those who have put in long careers or curtail the dignity of those starting out?
A politics centered on dignity would mark a vast improvement over the kindergarten babble that passes for serious argument these days. Indeed, we could do a lot worse than choosing our leaders based on who carries themselves with the greatest degree of dignity. And we could do a lot worse than making policy based on its effect on the dignity of those whose lives and futures it would affect.
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Emmaus Borough Councilman Nathan Brown got some upsetting news when he checked in with the Emmaus Fire Department Wednesday morning to see how the guys are holding up in the days following Hurricane Sandy's visit.
Brown learned from Emmaus Fire Chief Jim Reiss that the two new generators that the borough had purchased for the fire department last year had been stolen. They were being used to power traffic lights in the borough and the chains that were used to attach them to the traffic light poles had been cut.
According to Brown, Reiss had told him that the generators were taken at about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday. As a result of the theft, Brown said, the borough decided to remove the remaining four generators powering traffic lights in the borough.
The borough is not legally obligated to power the traffic lights, Brown explained. It had merely been using the generators in the name of public safety.
Brown said that as far as he knows, the only traffic light in the borough that was still functioning is at Cedar Crest and Chestnut streets. He said that light may be powered by the emergency power at the Weis Market.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Orb is back after a two-month escape from New York, and trainer Shug McGaughey is hoping his Kentucky Derby star returns to his winning ways in the $1 million Travers Stakes on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course.
After the Derby extended his win streak to five, Orb ran fourth in the Preakness and third in the Belmont Stakes on June 8. The next morning, the 3-year-old colt was vanned to Fair Hill Training Center in Elkton, Md., for rest and relaxation following the Triple Crown grind.
It remains to be seen if the change of scenery was the right call. McGaughey, though, likes everything he's seen in his colt since Orb arrived at the Spa two weeks ago. Even though Orb is the third choice at 4-1 behind the Todd Pletcher duo of 2-1 favorite Verrazano and 5-2 Palace Malice, McGaughey is expecting a big effort.
"He got bigger, and probably put on some more weight, and mentally he's probably a lot sharper than he was," McGaughey said, referring to his strapping son of Malibu Moon. "We'll find out Saturday whether the experiment worked or didn't work ... I'm looking forward to running Orb, and I think you'll see him run a very good race."
Also entered in the Grade 1, 1 1/4-mile Travers are Romansh, Golden Soul, Will Take Charge, Moreno, War Dancer and Transparent.
While Orb was regrouping in Maryland, Pletcher's two colts were running themselves right into the 3-year-old championship picture. After Palace Malice's breakthrough win in the Belmont — he lost six of his first seven career starts — the Dogwood Stable-owned horse posted a 1-length victory in the Jim Dandy at Saratoga on July 27. Verrazano, meanwhile, rebounded from the only loss of his seven-race career — 14th in the Derby after a rough trip over a sloppy track — with blowout wins in the Pegasus and the Haskell Invitational by a combined 19 lengths.


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Oakley Women Test FA12 Tech Outerwear in Mammoth
As many resorts and mountain towns are closing down for the season and welcoming spring, last Monday, a crew of riders and skiers headed to Mammoth Lakes, California for a week on snow to perform the first functional tests of Fall 2012 technical outerwear. While spring riding usually means slushy snow and sunny skies, Mammoth Mountain wasn't ready to shake winter just yet and provided almost every type of weather imaginable during the week: from bluebird skies, to wind and fog, to a surprise powder day. The varied conditions were perfect for putting the new outerwear to the test; a single day could go from bright and warm to snowy and cold, and the testers were stoked to have Oakley outerwear on their backs, protecting them from the elements
Upon arrival, the crew of testing ladies met up with Oakley Team Riders, Gretchen Bleiler and Marie-France Roy , who were at Mammoth to perfect their Pro Series lines. Gretchen, Marie, and the snowboard testers rolled deep though South Park the first day, meeting up with locals Kelly Clark and Kimmy Fasani for some fun laps. The crew beelined for the triple set of jumps, stretching their limbs attempting crail grabs and tuck knee indys. The new, tailored silhouettes of Marie and Gretchen's pants allowed for even more style. Taking laps through the halfpipe, everyone was really stoked on the ample venting in their jackets and pants, so they could dump excess heat on the warm day.
The next two days were snowy and windy, so the ladies switched over to low-light Elevate goggles and made their way to the mountains. Tess Weaver, a seasoned backcountry skier, headed out with the men's group for a touring trip at nearby Convict Lake, where she skied from the summit all the way to the lakeshore. Inner and outer venting on the technical pants Tess wore, allowed her to remain cool while going up the mountain and a new packable puffy layering piece she put on before descending kept her warm while making turns.
The rest of the women went in-bounds, where they followed local Oakley Western US Regional Sales Manager Josh Hoyer around Mammoth, hopping lift-to-lift as chairs were taken off windhold. Some seriously waterproof 2012 pants kept the women dry the whole day as they searched for powder lines. Numerous first tracks were made that day; a quick hike up to a closed chair made for deep Euro-carves through open trees. It was epic, to say the least.
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French Quarter Favorites?
Simple as that, what are your favorite eats in/near the French Quarter? I'm looking for your top list, places that whether the person is a tourist or a local, it's a place they have to go to if they'll be visiting FQ. No bias whether it be a street side stand, a tiny hole in the wall, a quick take out, or classic fine dining, What are your favorites in/near FQ and why?
Here's my list of FQ faves over the course of my 5 previous visits....the atmosphere, the food, the service...they are all memorable
Bistro at Maison de Ville
K-Pauls - where blackened began....
Bayona - consistent
Mr. B's Bistro - amazing BBQ shrimp
Brennan's - for breakfast & bananas foster.....
Leah's Pralines - the best pralines in nola!
430 Dauphine St, New Orleans, LA 70112
Leah's Pralines
714 Saint Louis St, New Orleans, LA
Well, my "thunder" has been stolen.
My favs. are:
Galatoire's - fine dining in the best of New Orleans tradition
Stella! - exciting food with a New South bent, in an Old South setting
Bayona - New NOLA cuisine in a lovely setting
Brennan's - breakfast/brunch with elegant, attentive service
Original Coffee Pot - funky little breakfast restaurant, right next to Pat O'Brien's
Felix's - neat oyster and po-boy spot
NOLA - though it does not get much love here, they have delivered on the food and the service
G W Fins - local seafood done in many ways, a bunch traditional to NOLA
Coffee Pot Restaurant
714 Saint Peter St, New Orleans, LA 70116
430 Dauphine St, New Orleans, LA 70112
Galatoire's Restaurant
209 Bourbon St., New Orleans, LA 70130
Napoleon House for cheap eats, atmosphere and Pimm's Cups. Stella for fine dining. Muriel's for the beautiful view of Jackson Square on the balcony and the food, of course.
Napoleon House Bar & Cafe
500 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA 70130
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You make me want to go back, and give Muriel's one more go. The venue is lovely, especially on the balcony, and we DID dine there at events, albeit culinary events, so I need to give them another chance. Many love them, and maybe I just hit them on bad nights - events, regardless of the function, are not a true test.
Now, all I need is to sneak my wife off for about 3 weeks back in her home town...
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the view is nice, but IMO theyve never fired on all cylinders when it comes to food. definitely a step below places like Iris, Irene's, or most brennans spots. i must consider that to be management decision, going for tee-shirt-and-shorts-clad tourist volume.
but hey, they do have those goat cheese crepes.
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Sure, there are tourists there - how could there not be given the location? Have you not seen the tourists is Mr B's, Dickie Brennan's, Antoine's, Arnaid's, Galatoire's, etc, etc? As far as comparing to various Brennan family restaurants, Muriel's Executive Chef is Gus Martin, who has been Executive Chef at several of those, including Commander's. And if you are a local and hesitate to go there, we've never been turned away at the parking garage at Place d'Armes if we mention that we are dining at Muriel's.
Galatoire's Restaurant
209 Bourbon St., New Orleans, LA 70130
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in our experience, the tourists at Muriel's are beyond the others you mentioned. more tee shirts, more shorts and sandals, louder, etc..they seem to cater to it. that combined with underwhelming food and mediocre service have kept it off rotation. periodical return visits confirm.
nice space, love the upstairs bar and lounge. but food doesnt seem to be their focus.
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We had breakfast last week at Stanley. It was insanely good. The wait for both table and food was long (10am on a beautiful saturday likely had something to do with it), but it was well worth the wait.
Coop's -- cheap, huge portions $8-10, local hole-in-the-wall kind of place
Napoleon House -- cheap $8-12, old-world atmosphere, courtyard, and of course, Pimm's cups!
N'awlins Flavor Cafe -- inexpensive $8-20, large portions of true soul food, exceptionally warm folks
Acme Oyster House -- Oysters. Never met anyone that got sick from a raw one there
Yo Mama's -- $10 premium burger and potato, don't bother with Port of Call they are terrible
Salt n' Pepper -- Great Indian/Pakistani food, Banghra music videos spicy means HOT!!!
Market Cafe -- cheapest buffet with live jazz ($12?), outside, next to Joanie on a Pony, people watching
Little Red Trailer in French Market, weekends -- Vietnamese po-boy $5, must try unique to NOLA
Mona's on Frenchman -- Fresh Middle Eastern / Lebanese, very reasonable $5-12, int'l grocery too
Central Grocery -- Muffaletta. They invented it, highest quality ingredients, consistently good
Cafe Fleur de Lis -- Breakfast til 3pm, fresh and high quality, off the beaten path
Croissant D'or -- French pastries, good coffee, light lunch fare, comfortable feel in a neat space
Eat -- Fresh, good food, BYO drink no corkage fee, no 300% upcharge! Quieter area of the FQ
Deja Vu (the diner, not club) -- Cheap, 24 hour breakfast, $7 steak/potato, and fajita nights
Johnny's Po-Boy's -- Classic FQ po-boy place, super-friendly, not as cheap anymore but not bad ($10)
Well... there's a start. There are so many great little places... I'm starving now thinking about them :)
Napoleon House Bar & Cafe
500 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA 70130
Deja Vu Restaurant & Bar
400 Dauphine St, New Orleans, LA 70112
Port of Call
838 Esplanade Ave, New Orleans, LA 70116
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re: JazzyB
As opposed to the other $10 burger places, absolutely. Port of Call is dirty, dark, and ALWAYS has a long line for a dry, nasty, poorly made, Taco Bell quality burger and over cooked plain baked potato. All topings are 75 cents on top of that, and they never brought draft beer back and the bottled stuff is more expensive. My main point was Port of Call is terrible, if you are going to pay $10 for a burger you might as well get sour cream and caviar on it (Romanov), or blue cheese and bacon or something, and not have to pay five extra bucks to get a fully loaded potato.
Deja Vu diner is a great place for a burger too and costs $5-7
Deja Vu Restaurant & Bar
400 Dauphine St, New Orleans, LA 70112
Port of Call
838 Esplanade Ave, New Orleans, LA 70116
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Seriously? I have had BBQ shrimp at 4 different place in NOLA: Pascal's Manale (the original?) , Deanies, Besh Steakhouse & Mr. B's. Mr.B's is #1 & Besh #2, the others aren't in the same league. So excited to be dining there again next week...mmmm.
Deanie's Restaurant
1016 Annunciation St, New Orleans, LA 70130
re: Ben NOLA
yeah I gotta disagree -- if you go to Yo Mama's expecting premium you will be sorely disappointed. I used to enjoy the peanut butter bacon there but last time the bacon was cold pasteurized (or something) stuff, out of a container. I asked for it at least warmed and they just nuked the entire burger. the potato is stock and the buns squashed and sometimes stale.
sorry but Port of Call is much better. to compare its meat with taco bell is absurd...their daily meat supplier is way above average (I can see the truck in my head but not its name). in fact their filet is my second or third favorite in town, right after Mr. John's. I get my cheeseburger with a loaded potato and it's about 14 bucks. definitely not fast food prices, but on par with most the gastropub offerings. combined with the atmosphere (I like dark dim spaces), entertaining bartenders and the characters I meet, it's always a good time and a good value.
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Hear, hear! Couldn't agree with you more,kibbles. POC is one place that we've gone to more than once when in NOLA...not only because it's convenient to our lodgings, but because it's freakin' fantastic food and killer drinks. You're right...their burgers are NOT dry and one of the most tasty burgers we've ever tried. They cook them the way you want them. And I'm not even a baked potato fan, never order them anywhere else, but when hubby and I go there, we always split a burger, baked potato and schooner salad, and it is more than enough and DELICIOUS. If you're going to quibble on the cost of add-ons to your tater, better not go. Dirty? Really never seen anything that looks dirty there. Sure it's old and dark, but that's part of its charm. We love Port of Call!
Port of Call
838 Esplanade Ave, New Orleans, LA 70116
Don't think that I have ever seen one nice thing posted about it, but the restaurant "Galvez" is certainly worth trying. I don't know if they just started off badly or what, but we ate there several weeks ago and everything was pretty damn wonderful! If nothing else go there for the view of the river and a cocktail- the place will be close to empty so no problem getting a window seat.
I might be biased - but maybe we all are subjective based on our experiences but......
because I soooo adored our trip there a couple of weeks ago.....
Commander's Palace for the Jazz Brunch
Emerils - for the chef's table in the kitchen
Tops on our list - and I think we are discriminating more than most - you know we have that Ny'er "attitude" - NOT! :)
Great thread. Is Napoleon House good for a group of 10-20?
Would love additional suggestions that are reasonably priced with excellent food that could accommodate a group.
Cajun a big plus. Must be within walking distance of Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop (the closer the better).
Mr Taster
Napoleon House Bar & Cafe
500 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA 70130
re: Mr Taster
There are no Cajun restaurants in the French Quarter that I could recommend (google distinction between creole and cajun cuisine). Lafitte's is pretty much accessible from anywhere in the Quarter if you don't mind a 10 minute walk, although obviously closer to the lower Quarter. Mr. B's would be my recommendation.
re: fat harry
Thanks for the reply.... I started a new thread addressing my issue with further clarification as to what my group needs. (I also posted a link which helped a little to understand the difference between Creole and Cajun). I'd be curious to know what you think of the recommendations posted there.
Mr Taster
Without contradicting what others have said...
I'm a recent fan of EAT ... the service was laid back but exceptional, the food was a solid B+, the menu choices were nicely varied but stuck to a theme, and the atmosphere was lively without being obnoxious. Note that it's BYOB but there was no corkage fee (for the one bottle anyway, they advertise $15 for the second and beyond). They were entertaining a group in the back room the last time I was in. (I'm surprised I don't read more about EAT on CH ... is the BYOB thing a big hurdle?)
I always mention the Green Goddess in the context of FQ dining ... their food is solid and the wine program well thought out (and not stupidly priced). Service here has always been well above average and the (admittedly gimmicky sounding) bacon praline sundae is a top 10 anywhere dessert.
In terms of "have to go" ... the places I send people in the quarter are the Napolean House (for Pimms and a Muff), Tujagues bar for a Sazerac, the Carousel Bar for a Vieux Carre, and Bar Tonique for a Ramos Gin Fizz. I maintain that unless you've had these four drinks (done properly, please!) you haven't actually been to New Orleans. It's the same way others feel about Galatoire's; your mileage will vary.
Regarding the PoC ... I'm not sure that I think they have the best burger (I'll usually get my burger fix at Buffa's across the street) or potato but they cook up a mean rib eye for reasonable money and have an entertaining crew behind -- and often at -- the bar. You can't go for lunch at 12:30 without waiting but I've found that it's often the case that finding a couple seats at the bar is easy enough. Skip the sugary PoC "tropical" drinks and go with a boilermaker (I like an Abita & Maker's with a steak) ... if you're behaving, they pour shots with a heavy hand.
Galatoire's Restaurant
209 Bourbon St., New Orleans, LA 70130
Green Goddess
307 Exchange Place, New Orleans, LA 70130
823 Decatur Street, New Orleans, LA 70116
Vieux Carre Restaurant
201 Bourbon St, New Orleans, LA 70130
820 N Rampart St, New Orleans, LA 70116
We just got back from a long weekend trip and at at the following (mostly based on recommendations from this thread):
Cochon (not in the French quarter but only a 20-30 minute walk away)
Green Goddess
Royal Street Deli
Central Grocery
I think all were solid choices and we didn't break the bank at any of them (not by DC price standards, at least). Thanks for the recommendations!


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By Janet Jacobs
Corsicana Daily Sun
Halloween in Kerens had some scary moments when David Lee Menne, 64, was arrested and charged with three separate incidents.
The incident began when police were called to a suspected burglary in the 600 block of Highway 31 in Kerens. Before the officers could arrive, however, the suspect had fled, leaving much of the stuff he stole outside the building. The items stolen were a random mix of CDs, women's shoes, lawn and garden tools and "whatever he could put his hands on," explained Kerens Police Chief Bryan Miers, who was one of the officers responding, along with Officer Don Covey.
The alleged burglar ran across the highway into the Family Dollar store, whereupon he began flirting and then fondling the female clerk.
"No injuries were reported from the clerk, and the assault was classified as simple assault," Miers stated in a press release Monday.
"He's real friendly with the ladies in town, and he so happened to grab the clerk and she didn't take too kindly to it," Miers explained. "We happened to be there are the right time to snatch hold of him."
After having racked up two charges, Menne apparently decided to go for a third when he allegedly threatened Officer Covey on the way to jail.
"We get that quite often, but he's of the mindset that he could do it, or at least try," Miers said. "Retaliation gives him motive."
The charges and the bonds he needs to post in order to get out of jail are as follows: Burglary, $10,000 bond; terroristic threat, $20,000 bond; and simple assault, $500. As of Monday afternoon, he remained in the Navarro County Jail.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
© Copyright 2014 Albany Herald
AMERICUS -- The Georgia Southwestern Hurricanes, ranked No. 21 in the nation, knocked off North Georgia, 69-60, on Wednesday night to improve to 12-3 overall and 5-1 in the Peach Belt Conference.
Trayce Macon and Colin Slotter combined to make 15 of 20 shots from the field to lead the way. Macon scored 21 points, hitting 7-of-10 shots from the field, and Slotter dropped in 20, going 8-for-10.
GSW next plays at Columbus State at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday.
The Lady Hurricanes fell to North Georgia, 74-60, despite a big night from Jessica Bivins, who scored 17 points. They are now 8-7 overall and 2-4 in the PBC play. They play next at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday at Columbus State.
More like this story
- Swept away like a Hurricane: GSW basketball's Leeder named Coach of Year, Brown Player of Year and Slotter Freshman of Year ( March 4, 2011 )
- GSW men's hoops captures PBC West championship, first conference crown in any sport ( February 23, 2011 )
- GSW women's soccer coach leaves for Mercer ( February 24, 2012 )
- GSW NOTEBOOK: Hurricanes men's team, like women, picked to finish 9th in PBC preseason hoops poll ( October 27, 2010 )
- Injured GSW star Brown may still return to help struggling Hurricanes ( January 29, 2012 )


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Walker Russell joins Knicks' summer-league team
By Dan Feldman • 8:50 am • July 10, 2012
The Knicks released their summer-league roster, which includes:
Walker Russell, Jr.
Position: Guard
College: Jacksonville State
2011-12 Team: Pistons
NBA Years Pro: 1
The Pistons ran out of space for Walker Russell, but good for him. I hope he sticks with the Knicks, who were reportedly interested in him last year.
Players: Walker Russell
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Mediocre vacation photos? They're the bane of every traveler. Half Moon Bay Patch photographer Stuart Nafey shares simple tricks to help your shots win oohs and aahs instead of yawns.
• Fill the frame Get up close to your subjects and eliminate anything that does not add to the picture like empty sky or trash cans in the background. Move around until you get a well composed picture.
• Let your camera focus Before taking the picture, push the shutter release only half way down and then wait a few seconds. This is when the camera evaluates the scene, focuses on the subject and sets a good exposure. Do it before you tell your subjects to smile and you will be ready to get a good picture at the right moment.
• Look for the light If the sun is behind you, your subjects are squinting. Not good. Try to get the sun lighting the scene from an angle or from the side. If the sun is behind your subject, you will have even lighting on their faces and their hair will be lit around the edges for a nice effect. Or move your subjects into the shade for even lighting. Light reflecting off of a bright object like a white wall can help, too.
• Learn to turn the flash off and on If the sun is behind your subject, and your subject comes out too dark in the picture, turn the flash on to add light to their face. If you are in a museum, you should turn your flash off and look for ways to stabilize your camera so the low light pictures are in focus.
• Look for wildlife Wherever you go, there are bound to be critters different from what you see back home. Be alert and have your camera ready at all times. Take a shot before they move. If they don't move, slowly get closer, taking shots as you do. But don't try that with alligators or rattlesnakes.
• Give a camera to your kids As soon as they can understand what a camera is, include them in the vacation activity of photography. They will thank you today and for years to come with pictures from their unique perspective.
Share the best of your vacation photos here by uploading images to this article. Make sure to include a caption and your name for credit. Then, readers can vote for the photo they think is the best in the comments. The winner will receive recognition on Half Moon Bay Patch with an article, spotlighting their photography talent. You could win!
Photo entries and voting in the comments section will be open through 5 p.m., Monday, Sept. 3, and the winner will be announced bright and early Tuesday, Sept. 4!
- Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, who are 18 and older.
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Are We Having Fun Yet?
posted by Vincent Nunes
Tue, 02/12/2013 - 1:32pm
Good day, dear readers. I am still recovering from my "incident".
The title of this posting has to do with something that happened to me ages ago. It's a fun little story, but I'm going to tease you and save it for another time.
Unintended Consequences Only To The Brain-Dead (Updated with Scott Olsen contact info)
posted by Vincent Nunes
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 1:31pm
Last Friday, I visited a friend of mine who watches tons of television. The show 20/20 was on, and I caught most of the episode, which starred Stephanie Madoff Mack, the stepdaughter of Bernard Madoff. Stephanie was married to Mark Madoff, the son who committed suicide after turning in his father for his various malfeasances. She has put out a book, titled "The End Of Normal", which highlights the sequence of events that eventually led to the arrest and incarceration of Bernard Madoff.
My Sunday Best
posted by Vincent Nunes
Sun, 08/14/2011 - 9:00am
Happy Sunday to everyone.
It's been an interesting weekend - the full moon really came into play in the past few days. I found a very interesting video of which you may have perused. The past week has been an amusement ride/unnatural disaster for many of us - one of my co-workers mentioned to the dollar figure to what their 401K had devalued.
That was disheartening.
I think it's apparent where I stand in the Rock/Gatemouth debacle.
How Can I Resist?
posted by Vincent Nunes
Fri, 07/29/2011 - 10:08am
Happy Friday, dear readers!
We've four days until the end of America as we know it...that is, if you believe that:
Charles Barron Eloquently Speaks Truth To Power (Part Two of Two) - An Excellent Piece
posted by Vincent Nunes
Wed, 07/13/2011 - 2:18pm
I am really impressed with the second installment of Rock Hackshaw's piece on Charles Barron.
I want to make that known, so here it is.
I'll concentrate solely on the areas reprinted below:
I'm tired of this crap. I think we've reached the extreme of discordant discourse.
posted by JP
Sun, 05/23/2010 - 1:40am
"I am the one who has been subjected to JP's racial abuse for the past 5 plus years going back to Politicker . . . I am very protective of myself, family, relatives and true friends . . . I would carry a gun if I so choose; and it would be for for sickos like this." - Rock Hackshaw 05/22/2010 @ 09:44 AM
Gatemouth's last two columns have been very, very good, but unfortunately, the comments have been hijacked by Rock Hackshaw in an attempt to intimidate me, defame me, martyrize himself, and change history to a version that didn't really exist. Needless to say, I'm tired of being falsely labeled a racist, a "sicko", a "nutjob" and apparently, a threat to Hackshaw, his family, relatives, and true friends. Rock, with every escalation of words that you write, you're coming dangerously close to the elements of libel. Your combination of false allegations towards me, combined with the expressed desire you have of "outing" who I am and tying those false allegations to my person, combined with the obvious malicious intent of those actions, would constitute defamation. I am not in favor of censorship, but you better tread lightly. You better than anyone should know that your words on this site have consequences in the real world.
Draw 'em a picture, Rock
posted by nymaverick
Wed, 10/29/2008 - 7:31pm
Draw 'em a picture, Rock, in which they throw out those bums.
If there were ever polls to be believed, then believe the ones that say most of New York City believes their members of City Council last week showed their constituencies exactly what they think: That come November, voters exist to keep them in bespoke suits and taxpayer money.
We're not the only ones furious at this flat statement of elected officials' faith in their ability to flaunt the power their voters gave them. But without a constructive outlet, this energy will disperse like the mob at the scene of a car crash. So come on, Rock. Tell 'em how they're going to organize new political clubs, scare up candidates, drum up money. Write 'em a manual on how to get a voter list, go door to door and carry petitions. Help 'em figure out the campaign finance disclosure forms.
Two Years on Room Eight
posted by Rock Hackshaw
Thu, 02/14/2008 - 9:53am
Recently I sent a note to my editors (Ben Smith and Gur Tsabar) in which I requested a sense of their vision for this site. You see I have observed that Room Eight isn't attracting new blood or young blood. Out of the original writers in this colony many have left or stopped being productive. Plus, the site sometimes gets bogged down in crappy threads initiated by mischievous commenters. There is a perception out there that this site has lost some of its luster. Also, Ben Smith has lost his focus (understandably so; given his tremendous work for "Politico", on the current presidential primary campaign); Room Eight isn't as high on his priority-list as it was before. All this hurts this site.
They're So ... Post Rock
posted by admin
Thu, 03/30/2006 - 8:59am
Good to know that the New York Post followed Rock Hackshaw's lead ...
You know you've arrived when the Post follows you and doesn't give you credit, as they did today.
- Gur


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The following is a collection of weekly police activity prepared by the San Ramon Police Department. The document contains only items of note. The log contains incidents that occurred from May 25 to May 31.
Friday, May 25
Arrest during a traffic stop, collisions and a mentally ill person
2:06 a.m.--Suspect arrested during a traffic stop of the suspicious vehicle in the 2900 block of Montevideo Drive.
8:52 a.m.--Collision reported in the area of Crow Canyon and Highway 680 overpass.
10:54 a.m.--Mentally ill person hospitalized in the 10500 block of Albion Road.
3:15 p.m.--Collision reported in the area of Bunswick Way and St. Denis Drive.
8:37 p.m.--Collision reported in the 100 block of Sunset Drive.
Saturday, May 26
Arrests, hit-and-run collision and burglary
1:46 a.m.--Arrest made during a traffic stop on northbound I680 at Crow Canyon.
2:27 p.m.--Hit-and-run collision reported in the 500 block of Waterstone Place.
5:29 p.m.--Report taken of a burglary in the 3000 block of Lakemont Drive.
11:33 p.m.--Suspicious subject arrested in the 2400 block of San Ramon Valley Boulevard.
Sunday, May 27
Collision, suspicious subjects and credit card fraud
5:44 a.m.--Collision reported in the area of Bollinger Canyon Road and Market Place.
12:11 p.m.--Suspicious subject contacted in the area of Bollinger Canyon Road and Sunset Drive.
8:50 p.m.--Report taken of credit card fraud in the 2400 block of San Ramon Valley Boulevard.
9:38 p.m.--Suspicious subject reported in the 21000 block of San Ramon Valley Boulevard.
11:31 p.m.--Suspect arrested during a traffic stop on I680 at Sycamore Valley Road.
Monday, May 28
Collision, runaway juvenile and a shoplifter
7:05 a.m.--Collision reported in the Bollinger Canyon Road and North Gale Ridge.
1:14 p.m.--Runaway juvenile reported in the 100 block of Valdivia Circle.
5:36 p.m.--Shoplifter arrested in the 7000 block of Bollinger Canyon Road.
Tuesday, May 29
Mental illness, vandalism, welfare check and an uncontrollable juvenile
2:54 a.m.--Mentally ill person hospitalized in the 2100 block of Canyon Lakes Drive.
9:25 a.m.--Report taken of vandalism in the7500 block of Blue Fox Way.
10:28 a.m.--Welfare check conducted in the 9700 block of Blue Mound Drive.
6:50 p.m.--Uncontrollable juvenile reported in the 3100 block of Riviera Way.
Wednesday, May 30
Suspicious subject, suspicious vehicle and an armed robbery and fatal shooting
7:52 a.m.--Suspicious subject reported in the area of Iron Horse Trail and Pine Valley Road.
12:08 p.m.--Suspicious vehicle stopped in the 9100 block of Alcosta Boulevard.
4:35 p.m.--Armed robbery reported in the 2500 block of San Ramon Valley Boulevard. One man was shot and killed during and attempted robbery of the jewelry store. One of the four suspects was arrested and two are still outstanding.
Thursday, May 31
Collision, battery, welfare check and a suspicious vehicle
10:10 a.m.--Collision reported in the area of I680 and Bollinger Canyon.
1:16 p.m.--Battery reported in the 9800 block of Broadmoor Drive.
4:12 p.m.--Welfare check conducted in the area of Marsh Drive and Mesa Vista Drive.
11:29 p.m.--Suspicious vehicle stopped in the 100 block of Athan Downs.
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A member of Kirk Ferentz's original coaching staff is leaving to pursue a career outside of football.
The QB logjam at Iowa appears to clearing up, with Cody Sokol reportedly looking elsewhere for his final year of eligibility.
De'Andre Johnson is dismissed from the Iowa football team. Another Iowa running back bites the dust.
Discussing Shane DiBona's decision to retire.
Discussing Jason White's transfer away from Iowa.
Gone Baby Gone: A.J. Derby To Transfer: Discussing the news about A.J. Derby deciding to transfer.
Gone Baby Gone: Marcus Coker Asks For Request From Iowa: Discussing Marcus Coker's departure.
Iowa Hawkeyes offensive lineman Riley Reiff has declared himself eligible for the NFL Draft.
Gone Baby Gone: Rick Kaczenski Leaves Iowa Football Staff: Discussing Rick Kaczenski's departure from the Iowa football staff.
Iowa Hawkeyes wide receiver Marcus Grant announced on Twitter that he intends to transfer for family reasons.
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Long Arm of the Law Snags 16 Arrests in Polk
CENTRAL FLORIDA, Fla. (970 WFLA.com)- As a result of a cooperative investigation between several central Florida retail loss prevention teams and the Polk County Sheriff's Office, detectives have arrested the following people:
In April 2013, Polk County Sheriff's Office detectives developed 35-year-old Malynda Ford of Lakeland as a suspect possibly involved in an organized retail theft ring operating in Polk County and surrounding counties after she had been observed by the Beall's Loss Prevention team in several Beall's stores acting suspiciously. Ford has been previously arrested numerous times for retail theft.
Detectives began an in-depth investigation, conducting surveillance and determining other suspects who may be involved with Ford regarding retail thefts. Over the course of the investigation, Ford was observed and video recorded stealing merchandise from numerous department store chains to include Beall's Stores and Outlets, Kohl's, Lowe's, Stein Mart, and Winn Dixie. She often uses other individuals to drive her to the stores because her driver's license has been suspended.
Investigators determined that Ford usually selects multiple items such as clothing and perfume, then conceals the items beneath her clothing and leaves the store without paying for the items. Ford and her associates would then either return the stolen merchandise for store merchandise return cards or would sell the merchandise to others.
Of the 16 suspects arrested during this operation, 9 are receiving government assistance to include food stamps (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP), disability and cash assistance. The approximate total monthly benefits being received by the suspects are $5,400.


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Reclaiming the Great Lakes as a Commons
November 29, 2012 | By Alexa Bradley & Julie Ristau
A new approach to protecting water for everyone--including future generations
Water Commons. Water Citizenship. Water Security.
August 3, 2012 | By Buenaventura Dargantes, Mary Ann Manahan, Daniel Moss, and V. Suresh
Tales of commons management from around the world
An Introduction to Animating the Commons
May 4, 2012 | By On the Commons Team
Who are commons animateurs--and how do they exercise leadership for social change?
Commons-Based Community Investment Strategies
June 30, 2011 | By On the Commons Team
Designing a framework for investing in local food systems
Three Tenets of the Commons
June 10, 2011 | By On the Commons
A new video with Jay Walljasper, author of All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons
What is Commoning, Anyway?
March 3, 2011 | By Julie Ristau
Activating the power of social cooperation to get things done-- and bring us together
The Commons is About 'Commoning'
April 28, 2009 | By David Bollier
Professor Louis Wolcher's impassioned video on the "meaning of the commons."
10 Water Commons Principles
July 11, 2012 | By Maude Barlow
A co-creative approach for protecting the planet's future
Participate in the Great Lakes Commons Initiative
April 24, 2013 | By On the Commons Team
The Commons Exchange: An Alternative to "Next Steps"
November 27, 2012 | By Ana Micka
A new way to galvanize ideas into action
A Framework for the Commons
July 10, 2012 | By On the Commons Team
Nine Core Commons Principles
April 30, 2012 | By On the Commons Team
The importance of belonging, participating, creating, restoring, redefining
How We Created a Commons-Based Food Council for Minneapolis
December 12, 2011 | By Julie Ristau
The foundational document for Homegrown Minneapolis


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Summer Olympics 2012: Closing Ceremony
The Spice Girls
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Posted at 2:39PM on October 25th 2013 by smashing top seo
lol. .. warning .. nice title .. .. inteiestrng post too .. and nice way to use images to illustrate your point .. you r dead set to make your blog appeal like doshdosh i suppose
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The honesty of your posting snhies through
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Dedicate a certain time for waiklng and do it, drink lots of water, and be around your grandkids, if you have them, I just got my first at age 54. I can see in pictures that Olivia has made me younger looking because i am happier. She definitely makes me happy. Being happy is a good anti-aging tip.
Posted at 11:12PM on October 29th 2012 by Sasha
I miss going to the zoo. my husband and I like to go, even as adltus. My favorite zoo I grew up going to and still love go to, when the chance arises, is the San Diego Zoo in California. No large zoos where we live now. Glad you all had a great time. Cute how your little one slept in all that fresh, warm air. I have some house flipping questions. I guess I'll ask them here...1. How many homes do you flip in a year? 2)What's the turn around time of doing the work itself before going on the market? 3) Did you start out with smaller houses, moving on to larger ones? 4) How do you do it all?! Raising kids, homeschooling, labor work in flipping houses, meals being cooked, etc. Can't think of anymore at the moment. Thank you! Andrea
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Absolutely love that first shot with them all langihug! I'm gonna book you one of these days soon, and I want a langihug shot FO SHO!!!
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Posted at 7:32AM on August 27th 2012 by SMITH
"David Cronenberg, you're my hero". "You are the wind beneath my wings". In my gut, my women's iuitntion, this will be the film that shuts critics up about Rob's Edward Cullen persona. If those critics still are negative about Rob's role in Cosmopolis, they are biased and have no business reviewing films. I have not seen a clip of this film, however, I just know this is the one that will finally have critics from around the globe talking about Rob's fabulous performance as Eric Packer. One more cliche for the road from Ms. Aretha Franklin, "I say a little prayer for you", that this film is successful both artistically and financially. Onto Cannes (crossing fingers).
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خيلي خوب بود
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Rob is as wonderful as they get even if he is having a hard time with swan
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Not pleased with closing Olympic program. So glad I changed what I watched.Opening. was a disappointment. I did enjoy watching the Olympic events.proud of USA..-
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