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SHERRY STEWARD is, to use the gender-neutral term, a food server. But that's not how she thinks of herself.
"I'm old school. You can call me a waitress. I don't care," Steward said.
I like waitresses. What's not to like about a woman who brings you food? I've even read a book about diner waitresses, titled "Counter Culture," which offers insights into these women whose skills are often underappreciated.
I met Steward recently - I'll explain the circumstances in a minute - and we hit it off. Her story seemed worth sharing.
She's been at her trade 35 years, starting at age 17 at the former Bob's Big Boy in Pomona. Her mother had told her to get a job over summer break before her senior year.
"I lied on my application and said I was 18 so I could get the job," Steward confided. (Fibbing was her mother's idea too.)
She made $20 to $30 a night, big money in 1977. She learned the tricks of the trade, like balancing plates on her forearms. And she wised up after an incident in which a short-change artist scammed her out of $20 at the register.
"I should have known when he used a $100 bill to pay for two 30-cent doughnuts," she said ruefully.
Thanks to hard work and an exodus of staff, she was head waitress in three months.
Steward never looked back, continuing to waitress at Bob's all through her senior year and after. Well, there was a brief period where she was a cafeteria lady in Chino schools, but after she was laid off she went back to waitressing.
She worked at Michael J's, in both Upland and Ontario, infamous for the waitresses' short skirts. The past 20 years, she served customers at a chain restaurant in Upland.
She asked me not to say where. She recently left for a new gig and doesn't want any trouble. I talked her into letting me take her photo because that way old customers might recognize her.
People do. Like a local celebrity, she's often approached while on errands: "Don't I know you from somewhere...?"
She's now employed at a startup restaurant, Sammy's Cafe in Upland.
The owner, Sammy Pacheco, began at the same chain restaurant as a busboy, became a waiter and now joined with a cousin, Nicky Cortes, to open his own diner, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Like Steward, close to a dozen staffers from their former place of employment made the jump to Sammy's (131 W. Foothill Blvd). Pacheco obviously engendered a lot of loyalty.
"He moved from being my busboy to being my boss," Steward told me. "I have nothing but respect and admiration for him, and pride."
Steward thought she was being hired as a waitress. Instead, she's a manager, in charge of the wait staff.
We were talking because an acquaintance connected with the restaurant invited me over to hear about it. He introduced me to Steward. What initially grabbed me was how so many people had left the same restaurant to come to Sammy's. Steward scotched that angle, worried about creating bad feelings, and I respected her wishes.
But I kept thinking of questions and she kept answering them. Learning that she'd been doing this 35 years, and that she was now a manager, seemed like a good angle too.
She's excited by her role, in which she interviewed applicants and hired all the servers. (No need to apply: All openings are filled.) But the responsibilities are new to her.
"Hiring people is hard. I hated telling people no," Steward admitted.
A few days later, she was having to deal with what she termed "drama" among some of the younger staffers. It's the sort of thing she would have ignored as a waitress, chalking it up to youth and inexperience, but now she has to step in.
On this morning, Steward was wearing a red blouse and glasses on a chain around her neck, giving her that perfect Flo look, for those who remember the "Alice" sitcom. I can't imagine Steward telling anyone to kiss her grits, though.
"She's the greatest," customer Ann Villa told me while having breakfast with friend Diane Verdugo. "We don't even have to tell her what we want. She knows. She's well-liked by everybody."
Another diner who's known Steward for years is Norm Martin. The retired aerospace engineer seems to have switched his allegiance to Sammy's.
Steward takes credit for drawing him out of his shell to joke with her. He said they have a good rapport.
"She works so hard for her customers," Martin said. "She tries hard to please us."
(Like a good retiree should, Martin was wearing suspenders and a checkered shirt and eats at the same place every day for breakfast and dinner. This might be me in 25 years.)
Steward takes her work as seriously as any professional person might.
"Waitressing isn't a prestigious job, but I take a lot of pride in it," Steward said.
"I love what I do. The interaction with people," she said.
(Because talking to customers all day is exhausting, she said she keeps phone conversations short in her off-hours.)
She likes the tips, of course; they helped her raise three sons until she remarried. Tips are also an affirmation that she did a good job. The occasional negative feedback nags at her.
"If you have one customer out of 10 who didn't like you, that will bug you all day. You're supposed to do a good job. It just deflates me," Steward said. "I'd hate to think I was a bad waitress. That's not what I've spent 35 years doing."
Mistakes happen, of course. Unlike elephants, waitresses forget.
"Sometimes I say, `Third time's a charm. I'll remember. I'll bring your straw."'
Sometimes she forgets for hours.
"I'll wake up in the middle of the night and think, `I forgot to bring him the butter.' Really, customers wouldn't think we'd remember things like that, but we do," Steward said. "And I feel bad. Long after the customer has forgotten about it.
"Any server who reads this," she added, "will know exactly what I'm talking about."
This might be why I'm such a low-maintenance customer, requesting little more than a drink refill. A sensitive sort, I'd hate to make a nice waitress worry.
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Contradictions of biomass projectDecember 08,2013The Dec. 31 deadline for a $40 million federal tax credit for the North Springfield biomass plant is approaching. As the deadline draws near, the explanations and statements by the developers representatives and town officials get stranger and stranger.
So odd, in fact, that it appears at times that the right hand doesnt always know what the left hand is doing. The latest example appeared in the Rutland Herald and Times Argus on Sunday, Dec. 1.
The article to which I refer provides one of a number of examples of the scramble to build a wood-burning power plant in Vermont while government tax credits are still ripe for the picking. Allow me to recount just a couple of red flags that continue to appear to forewarn of what we will have in store if this deal is ever consummated.
The hearing officer for the Public Service Board ruled last month that the North Springfield Energy Project be denied a certificate of public good. (Access to the 124-page decision is on the website of the Vermont Public Service Board.)
Among numerous shortcomings of the project, the hearing officer ruled that insufficient road access to the site posed a fatal flaw to the power plant which would be located in the residential area of North Springfield.
The hearing officer concluded in his recommendation to the PSB that the project would inhibit the orderly economic development of the area.
The hearing officer and everyone who is familiar with this proposal also knows that the builder was well aware of the restricted access to the site. We know this because residents pointed it out after the project was put before the public in February 2012. As a result of public outcry, the developer came forth with a new plan to front $1.5 million to the town of Springfield to build a new road.
Will this $1.5 million loan come from the $40 million the developer will get from us, in the form of taxpayer funds that the project seeks from the federal government?
Now comes the rub. The town of Springfield, its lawyer Steve Ankuda and our Select Board have tried for the last 22 months to convince residents of Springfield that they are not taking a position in favor of or in opposition to the project, (Rutland Herald and Times Argus, Dec. 1).
This quotation is odd since the New Hampshire-based attorney for the developer, Peter Van Oot, stated quite the opposite to the Herald in the same article, namely that the developers and the town were working in good faith to build the new access road to the site of the plant. When I read last Sundays article, it sure appeared to me that the developer believes, and is acting as if, they have support from the town.
In the same article is found the following: Van Oot said the town and the developers were trying to meet their mutual commitments (to build the road) under the memorandum of understanding, an agreement the town reached with the developers in June.
If I have read this right, the Springfield town attorney and the developer seem, in fact, to be sharing a jointly held, positive position on the building of the biomass plant road. Can we assume that if the town is in on the road to the power plant they probably also concur on the power plant? The jointly held position of the town of Springfield and the developer is a position that is contrary to the position taken by the PSB hearing officer.
We also read in Susan Smallheers article that (town) officials earlier this year estimated that the biomass project would increase the towns tax base by 15 percent. But wait, didnt we also read in the article that the town would be giving the developer a $1.5 million offset (to) the projects future (town) tax bill for the building the road?
This deal appears to be cutting both ways, both of them good for the developer, neither of them good for us residents, taxpayers and home owners. First, the developer will get $40 million federal tax dollars. Then 15 percent of the tax revenues that are going to the town will go back to the developer as an offset (payback for the road loan?). Sounds to me like one hand giveth and the other hand taketh away. So what does the town really end up with?
Dollars to doughnuts, we will end up with higher taxes. Here is one likely scenario. One question still outstanding involves the plant access roads, their costs and who is really paying. Many have already begun to ask where the money will come from for maintaining new access roads to the power plant site. Springfield already has the second most paved roadway in Vermont.
One authority stated to me that the town budget two years ago was $200,000 for maintenance and repair of our roads. Seems like a lot of money. However that same year the town really needed $800,000 to keep the roads in proper order. I will leave it to the reader to decide the likely result for users of a 75 percent shortfall in the highway budget that year.
Every taxpayer in Springfield and in the neighboring towns should wonder who is going to pay for the roads, not just the new power plant-inspired ones, but the upkeep of the roads leading to North Springfield under the pressure of voluminous tractor-trailer traffic, when we cant afford the roads we already have?
One final point on the subject of Springfield tax lists. The estimate by professionals, based on experience, is that property values within a 5-mile radius of wood-burning plants typically decline by an average of 7 percent or more. I wonder if anyone has any idea of how many of the 300 or so homeowners in the area will be seeking a reassessment of their property values in the face of a biomass plant. Some homeowners have already begun to question reassessment options for homes in the greater Springfield area.
Officials in Springfield have been publicly ducking this topic for two years now since this project was announced. We know that in this case, where the public has no vote, silence is acceptance. Silence, as the strategy of the Select Board, is tantamount to approval of the project since absent opposition, this project will be approved. If this stinker (when McNeil in Burlington was built, people complained of odors from the plant) is foisted on Springfield, the elected officials are going to own it.
Six hundred people in the greater Springfield area have not been silent. We have read about biomass over the last 20 months and are against it for reasons that include health, the environment, greenhouse gas and other emissions, public safety, quality of life and the branding and economic future of our area. We hope that the Public Service Board will conclude likewise.
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The murder trial of a man accused of shooting a Chautauqua County school superintendent to death is giving us a pretty clear picture of the difficulties of dispensing justice in 2013.
In this case the problem has been pre-trial publicity; you can hardly blame folks, especially in a small town, for hanging on every detail of the story of a man who allegedly drove up from Virginia to shoot a superintendent believing that he had had an affair with the man's wife.
The judge in the case seems to want to err on the side of caution and often potential jurors were excused because they had already heard about the case.
That led to a jury selection process that went on for weeks and later a request from the defense to either move the trial out of town or bring in an outside jury.
Eventually enough jurors were scraped together in Chautauqua County to allow the trial to move forward.
The easy answer is to blame the big bad TV cameras and indeed we deserve some of that because both the Erie and Buffalo markets covered the western New York case extensively.
But this is an information age like no other and while traditional news operations do their damage so do Twitter accounts and Facebook pages and text alerts.
If it's a big enough situation, you can bet that one way or another, we've heard it before.
Judges of the future must find a way to balance the need to present facts in a pristine environment against the flood of information sweeping in us each and every day.
In a perfect world you could find 12 people who have never seen the news, or a smart phone or a computer.
We may live in an interesting world but it's certainly not a perfect one.
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Christopher M. Sassetti, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology & physiological systems, is uncovering the fundamental physiology of mycobacterium tuberculosis, one of the most devastating diseases in the world, in order to identify new biological targets for potential anti-microbial compounds.
Commonly referred to as TB, tuberculosis infects roughly one third of the world's population and as many as two million people die from the respiratory infection each year. Treatment for TB is complicated by the six-to-nine months of daily antibiotics necessary to kill the bacteria, a course of treatment that is difficult to deliver in many parts of the world.
In order to more efficiently attack TB, Sassetti is investigating how the bacterium adapts to its host and what functions are important for its survival. In particular, Sassetti is researching how TB uses cholesterol as a source of nutrient while inside cells. "We've discovered that TB has the unusual ability to degrade cholesterol, an ability we don't have, and use it as an energy source," said Sassetti. "In defining that ability, we believe we've identified a number of new and interesting targets for anti-microbial compounds."
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It must seem incorrect to say that it is more difficult to redesign an existing iconic car than it is to design a completely new model.
But that is the truth!
The weight on the shoulders of designers becomes very heavy indeed when they are given the mandate to deliver the next generation of an extremely popular, iconic and revered model in an automobile brand's line-up.
To retain brand identity, to retain its time-tested sense of proportions, to reinterpret its design for today's buyers and yet retain its old-world charm, and adding to those now is the need for the design to help meet current day pedestrian and vehicle safety norms. The designer's job is tough.
It must have been a similarly daunting task for Gerry McGovern and his team in Land Rover to redesign and launch the all-new Range Rover. For nearly 40 years, the Range Rover has been the epitome of capable luxury off-roading. This is a vehicle so iconic that it must have been quite intimidating to tamper with its original design.
The new Range Rover is the fourth generation of this extremely capable and arguably most luxurious sport utility vehicle (SUV) in the market. The new generation's design faithfully reproduces much of the original's simple parallel lines style. So, it is instantly recognisable as a Range Rover, but quite a few new design inspirations are also evident.
Much of the changes are still subtle and elegant, clearly attempting to retain the original's inimitable style and road-presence. Some of the new elements of modernity such as the floating roof, which gradually slopes downwards at the rear, and the new combination LED headlamp and tail-lamp clusters, seem to have been inspired by the Evoque – the brand's luxury compact SUV which has seen tremendous success since its launch last year.
The new Range Rover has a very similar footprint to the current model and stands at just under 5 metres in length. Sporting the classic short front and long rear overhangs, the new Range Rover's side profile is still stunning, now with the floating roof even more evident thanks to 8 new roof colour options. It is not as tall as the outgoing model and is about 20mm lower.
The signature clamshell bonnet and the classic grille design are there too, but they have been reinterpreted carefully to meet pedestrian safety norms and to gel with the overall redesign. The other all-time favourite design element in the Range Rover, which gave it the rugged and powerful look, was the side fender vents or the fins. The fins are there still in the new Range Rover, only they have now been executed on the surface of the front doors. They are now there only for decoration and don't perform the job of air vents.
In the absence of these vents and to retain the legendary prowess of the Range Rover for water wading, the engineers at Solihull have now incorporated discrete vents at the top edge of the bonnet. Lift up the clam shell and the vents become visible. The wading depth capability has now improved significantly to 900mm from 700mm previously.
Body and cabin
Unlike the first and second generation Range Rovers which had ladder chassis, but just like the outgoing (third gen) model, the new-gen also sports a monocoque body construction. But what is absolutely new is the all-aluminium body, a first amongst SUVs.
The use of aluminium has dramatically reduced the weight of the vehicle's body-in-white and that in turn has lead to a weight reduction of many of the other related components like the sub-frames and suspension parts in what Range Rover engineers call the virtuous cycle.
The aluminium structure is 39 per cent lighter than steel and just the body in white is 180 kgs lighter than the current model. This is said to be 23 kgs lighter than the BMW 3 Series and about 85 kgs lighter than the Audi Q5. Together with the other lighter aluminium parts, the new Range Rover has shaved off a full 420 kgs in weight.
Automatic soft closing doors and powered upper and lower tailgates are now part of the package. The elongated headlamps and tail-lamps seemed a bit odd when I saw the teaser photos that Land Rover had shared earlier, but in the flesh these look just fine and actually give the new Range Rover a new character. With its panoramic sunroof, the new model also has one of the largest glass areas amongst all SUVs.
The interior of the all new Range Rover is also likely to be as special and luxurious as the brand has always known to be. Taking the level of luxury a notch higher is a whole new set of premium materials double stitched leather, high gloss veneer and metallic inserts that have been integrated into the cabin. The centre piece of the cabin is the bold intersection between the strong horizontal elements of the instrument panel and the vertical design lines of the centre stack.
The number of switches in the cabin has been reduced in half compared to the current Range Rover and yet there has apparently not been any reduction in the level of intuitiveness and usability. I am guessing a number of functions would have been integrated into the touchscreen.
I was in London a couple of weeks ago to witness the unveiling of the new Range Rover in the presence of British Olympians, celebrities and international media persons. I just got to sit in the new Range Rover and so until I get a chance to drive one, I am going to have to depend on the info given by Land Rover officials regarding the new model's driving prowess and dynamics.
The most important change is the new next-gen version of Land Rover's Terrain Response system. The Terrain Response 2 Auto features an automatic setting which uses 'intelligent' systems to analyse the current driving conditions and automatically select the most suitable terrain program.
Adding to the terrain behaviour for the new Range Rover is the new light weight suspension setup, which is simultaneously 30 per cent stiffer and more rigid. Performance of the suspension is said to be further enhanced by the use of advanced chassis tech including the latest two-channel Dynamic Response active lean control system and Adaptive Dynamics, featuring continuously variable dampers.
A new low range option is also now available in the two-speed transfer box for difficult off-road conditions.
The new Range Rover will be available with two petrol V8 engines, one diesel V8 and for the first time a new 3-litre TDV6 diesel engine. The top of the line petrol is the 5-litre LR-V8 supercharged engine that puts out a huge 510PS of peak power and clocks 0 to 100 kmph in 5.1 seconds, about 0.8 seconds faster than the outgoing model with the same engine.
The 339PS 4.4-litre SDV8 'super diesel' engine designed exclusively for the Range Rover now gets a 9 per cent boost in power and helps accelerate a full second faster than the current Range Rover in the 0 to 100 kmph run. Emissions have also been reduced by 10 per cent.
The most interesting in the line-up is the new ultra-efficient 3-litre TDV6 diesel engine that is likely to be the choice for India too. The engine delivers 258PS of peak power and manages to match the outgoing TDV8 model with its 7.4 second run from 0 to 100 kmph. At the same time the new mill manages to cut fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by an amazing 22 per cent when it is equipped with Start/Stop.
All the engines in the new Range Rover range are paired with the electronically controlled ZF 8HP70 eight-speed automatic gearbox. Next year, a diesel hybrid powertrain promising CO2 emissions of just 169 gms per km is also expected to makes its debut.
The UK pricing for the new Range Rover is expected to start at about 72,000 pounds, on a par with the current model. Prices for the India-spec model will be announced closer to the launch date in December this year or early next year.


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Nearly 25 years after its formation, Megadeth is making its most brilliant work, a feat that some acts find unthinkablemaybe impossibleafter half that time. When Mustaine sings about politics it's never in the abstract, faraway sense; his lyrics are riddled with references to the here and nowthe boundaries and bombs that make the threat of waror the threat of doom real. So it's no real surprise that this release features lyrics liberally peppered with references (more…)


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If you bought a Powerball ticket for the more $550 million jackpot on Nov. 28 in Missouri or Arizona, you should might want to check your ticket.
Winning tickets were purchased by two separate people: one in Missouri and one in Arizona, according to the Powerball website.
The Powerball winning numbers for the Nov. 28 drawing are 5, 16, 22, 23, 29 and Powerball of 6.
While only two people will divide the jackpot, a total of 8,924,125 people won Powerball prizes on Nov. 28, the website notes.
ABC News reported lottery officials expected to sell more than 105,000 tickets every minute before the drawing. Despite the long odds for the big jackpot, the overall odds of winning a prize are considerably better at 1 in 55.
In an article on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, one St. Louis-area man is quoted as saying, "I've lost a lot of money on it. I could just throw it down the toilet, but I can dream just like the rest of them."
The estimated jackpot for the next drawing sits at $40 million, with an estimated cashout value of $26.2 million.
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We recently reported that Apple is expected to announce its annual Back to School promo in the coming week and now BGR is reporting that this years educational deal could be announced during WWDC. It has been rumoured that the promotion could be extended to include iPad 2 as well. The … Read the Full Story →
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AppleInsider reported that according to their sources Apple's annual back to school promotion will kick off early next week. The school promotion is expected to be one of the topics during the 10th anniversary Apple Store retail meetings on May 22nd. Apple as early as next week will once again … Read the Full Story →
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ACWORTH, Ga. (AP) - A metro Atlanta soldier who was killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan on Dec. 17 has been laid to rest at the Georgia National Cemetery in Canton.A memorial service was held Saturday for Sgt. 1st Class Omar Forde, 28, of Marietta.Forde was based in Fort Riley, Kan. He died in the crash on Dec. 17 along with five other soldiers.The Marietta Daily Journal reports one of Forde's close friends delivered the eulogy and recalled Forde's days as a defensive back on the Kennesaw Mountain High School football team.Army officials have said Forde enlisted in 2005. He had been deployed to Iraq twice, and was serving his first deployment to Afghanistan at the time of the crash.Copyright 2013 The Associated Press modified. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Critics of high-speed rail prepare for next chapter
Original post made on Jul 17, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, July 16, 2012, 11:00 AM
on Jul 17, 2012 at 8:48 am
on Jul 17, 2012 at 2:21 pm
I want it to go through, because it WILL be a failure. Then we have a billions and billions and billions of dollars told-ya-so trump card.
on Jul 17, 2012 at 6:14 pm
Let's see.
Caltrain is near bankruptcy, dependent on taxes.
We pay tax money for B.A.R.T., but do not have a station for the system.
There are planned extensions for B.A.R.T. to locations that do not pay into the system.
If Caltrain and B.A.R.T. are not paying their way, what hope does a taxpayer supported system have?
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"People Are Going To Die"
So that's it then. George W. Bush can put his hand on his Holy Bible and repeat as often as he likes that "war" is his "last option" in his obsession with "disarming Saddam." Truth is, the people who matter most in the most powerful military state in history are determined to launch a massive and devastating assault on a weak and impoverished nation that poses minimal risk to its own neighbors, much less the American people. Even in the antiwar movement, many of us candidly can't see how Mad King George W. Bush can back down now from his imminent "war," really a massacre under any likely scenario. He has painted himself into a very ugly corner, making the successful slaughter of Iraqis a requirement for American imperial, "credibility" and the success of his regressive domestic agenda.
As Air Force General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff put it Tuesday, "people are going to die." By "people," Myers means droves of innocent Iraqi civilians, slated for elimination in what he calls a "shock and awe" campaign to quickly overwhelm Iraqi opposition. The guiding idea, taken from military strategist Harlan Ullman, is to "unleash 3,000 precision-guided bombs and missiles in the first 48 hours of the campaign" (New York Times, March 5, 2003, A1). "It's not going to be like 1991," Myers told reporters Tuesday, warning them to "be very, very careful about how you do your business" (Chicago Sun Times, March 5, 2003, p.6) in Iraq.
The "campaign" is modeled on the atomic terror attacks in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, both of which were supposedly launched in order to "save lives" by speeding Japanese surrender at the end of World War II. The plan is to jolt the Iraqi leadership into rapid submission, thereby reducing damage to people, buildings, and infrastructure – an expression of loving kindness from an administration whose leader claims to pray for the children of Baghdad. We can start dusting off a special new spot for George W. Bush in the War Criminals' Hall of Fame, right next to Daddy 41.
A New Low
Last night, in a painfully dull-witted prime-time press conference – a miserable new low in the public presentation of the American Presidency – Bush trotted out the standard justifications. We heard that the White House wants to protect Americans and the civilized world from the threat of terrorism, to rid the Middle East of a terrible tyrant, to free the Iraqi people, and to stop the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Again and again, as if he were trying to convince himself, the president strained to make the great, false Orwellian link – the one that draws a firm line between Saddam, September 11,th weapons of mass destruction, al Qaeda and international terrorism. Again and again, as if he had a hard time believing it, Bush repeated his faith-based belief that Saddam is a serious threat to "the American people."
He refused to directly answer reporters' questions about the reasons for mass opposition to his Iraq policy at home and abroad. Following standard White House doctrine, he told us how lucky we are to possess the right to protest, as if this were granted to us by benevolent masters and not a freedom to be asserted as our birthright. And as if it was seriously endangered by Saddam Hussein instead of the Fundamentalist Confederacy enthusiast John Ashcroft and other sponsors of the Patriot Acts I and II and Total Information Awareness.
We heard that Bush sleeps well at night, soothed by his daily dialogue with a "comforting" God, who tells him, apparently, that the road to heaven is paved with the mangled bodies of Arab children.
"The Single Sustainable Model" of Proper National Development
Throughout the whole crisis, we have been lectured over and over about the greatness and benevolence of the United States. We are instructed that America seeks to export the beautiful, inseparably linked benefits of democracy, free markets and freedom – great virtues that find their homeland and guardian in the United States of America. Last night, Bush repeated a favorite Orwellian White House line, claiming that those virtues were the terrorists' real targets on September 11th, 2001. The jetliner attacks, he wants us to believe, had nothing to do with US empire in the Middle East.
Bush did not make any reference last night to his administration's declared belief that the United States represents and epitomizes the "single sustainable model" of social and political development. That idea, however, lurked behind his comments. Bush has received a heavy dose of the American power elite's narcissistic belief that their nation is the embodiment of social and human existence at its very best. His faith in the US as the "single sustainable model" of social development reflects a deeply rooted American faith that America is a God-ordained City on a Hill, one that "stands taller and sees farther" (as Madeline Albright put it years ago) than the rest of the world. It is a belief shared by past American rulers of considerably greater intellectual capacity, including John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton.
In trying to forge a coherent basis for lasting and powerful opposition to all of this, we should remember that domestic ("homeland" in current parlance) inequality and repression is the "taproot" (in J.A. Hobson's excellent word-choice) of imperialism.
Forget for a moment, if you can, that Japan was already defeated and seeking surrender before the A-bombs fell; that Saddam poses no serious threat to the United States or anyone else beyond his own subject population; that US troops are being needlessly placed in harms way. Forget, briefly, if you can, that the United States is both the greatest source of the world's weapons, including the mass destruction variety; that America is the main state for initiating and sustaining the cancer of proliferation; that the "democracy" the Bush gang seeks to impose on Iraq and the rest of the planet is the sort that deepens inequality of wealth and power within and between nations, pushing the non-wealthy majority to the margins and handing the world's resources over to American and other western investors. Forget for a minute the large number of terrorists (for instance John Negroponte, of Central American shame) the Bush administration employs, the numerous war criminals the US harbors, and the terrorist regimes (Columbia, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia for starters) that are sponsored and protected by the US. Forget that North Korea poses a monumentally greater threat to world security than Iraq. And forget, for a moment, the farcical nature of the notion that one nation could impose "democracy" on another through savage bombardment, invasion and occupation.
A Look in the Mirror: "The Way Life Should Be"
Put all these and other foreign policy absurdities aside, just for a moment, to scrutinize the idea that the internal American society represents democracy, freedom, and sustainable, happiness-generating social and political development. Reverse the evasive, permanent frontier- seeking flight mechanism at the heart of the imperial impulse (see William Appleman Williams, The Great Evasion, 1964) and hold America up in front of the mirror. It is a moment, one would hope, for something that Bush claims to abhor (see USA TODAY's obsequious interview with Bush in the February 28th edition of "The National Newspaper"): "introspection." As Bush prepares to shed Iraqi blood and further destabilize an already dangerous world in the declared name of American "democracy" and "freedom," Americans would do well to consider some unflattering facts of life in the nation that claims to shows the world "the way," as Senator Fay Hutchinson put it last summer, "life should be." Consider:
Even prior to the passage of George W. Bush's regressive 2001 tax cut, which gives the top 1% of taxpayers a nearly 40 percent of a tax reduction that will cost the US Treasury at least $1.8 trillion, the US was the most unequal of all industrialized societies. The richest 10 percent of the population own more than 70 percent of the nation's wealth and the richest 5 percent of families receive as much income as the bottom 50 percent.
In 2000, at the peak of the heralded Clinton economic "boom," 11 million households (10.5 percent of all US households) were food insecure; Black and Hispanic households had hunger and food insecurity rates three times greater than those of whites. Things have worsened considerably since the onset of the Bush administration.
More than 12 million or 17 percent of US children live in poverty, including more than 4 million under the age of six and the US child poverty rate is substantially higher than that of other industrialized nations.
More than one in three US children live in or near poverty and more than 8 million people, including 3 million children live in homes that frequently skip meals or eat too little
America's Second Harvest, the nation's leading network of food banks, reports that more than 23 million Americans rely on their agencies; 40 percent of those came from working families.
One in eight US households has reduced the quality of their diet to utilize financial resources in other essential areas (rent, day care, clothing, medical care, transportation and utilities).
As much as 20 percent of America's food goes to waste annually, with an estimated value of $31 million in lost food being thrown out.
42 million Americans, more than or 16 percent of the population, including more than 8 million children, lack health insurance.
Nearly eight of every ten US adults (79 percent) think that their health care system requires either fundamental reform (51 percent) or complete rebuilding (28 percent).
American have the longest working hours in the industrial world, exacerbating widespread job dissatisfaction among the U.S. population.
Under the rules of the plutocratic American mode of politics, the leading predictors of election success are (1) total campaign spending and (2) being an incumbent. As it happens, incumbents out-raise challengers by more than 4 to 1 in the House of Representatives and more than 5 to 1 the Senate, reflecting the greater ability of current office holders to raise funds from corporations and people seeking to shape policy.
The winners of the political finance race (the "wealth primary" in the words of American campaign finance reformers) win 92 percent of the races for the US House of Representatives and 88 percent of the races for the US Senate.
The average amount spent by the winners in the US Senate races of 2000 was $7.2 million; the average spent by losers was 3.8 million.
George W. Bush raised more than $191 million, compared to just over $133 million by Gore.
Less than 1 percent of the U.S. population contributes more than of 80 percent of all money in federal elections in amounts of $200 or more. The vast majority of such wealthy contributors are wealthy white men with annual family incomes higher than $100,000.
American have the longest working hours in the industrialized world, further degrading capacities for civic engagement that are already gravely challenged by corporate media and the wildly disproportionate political and ideological influence exercise by the wealthy owners and managers of giant corporations.
Nine corporations own more than 50 percent of all American media (including both print and electronic), exercising a degree of concentrated private influence over public information, imagery, and consciousness that is without historical precedent.
Reflecting mass disillusionment with big-money and media dominated politics, American citizens boycott the ballot box in huge numbers, exhibiting the lowest voter turnout in the "democratic" world. By the 1990s, US turnout even in presidential elections fell to less than half of the adult population.
While white men make up 43 percent of the Fortune 2000 workforce, they hold 95 percent of the Fortune 2000 senior management jobs.
American schools and communities are so racially segregated that the average American black child's school is 57 percent black even though blacks make up 12 percent of the nation's population.
A typical black individual lives in a neighborhood that is only 33 percent white and more than 50 percent black.
African-Americans are twice as likely to be unemployed as whites. To attain equal employment in the U.S. between blacks and whites, 700,000 more African-Americans would have to be moved out of unemployment and nearly two million African-Americans would have to be promoted into higher paying positions.
The poverty rate for blacks in the US is more than twice the poverty rate for whites.
Black families' median household net worth is less than 10 percent that of whites. The average white household has a net worth of $84,000 but the average black household is worth only $7,500.
Nearly three-fourths of white families but less than half of black families own their homes.
In 1999, there were 28, 784 gun-related deaths in the U.S. – over 80 such fatalities each day. Fifty-eight percent of these deaths were suicides and 38 percent were homicides.
Firearms killed 3,365 children and teens age 19 and under in 1999. Of these, 1,990 were murdered, 1,078 committed suicide, and 214 were victims of accidental shootings. Everyday in the U.S., 9 children are killed by gun violence.
In 1997, 6,416 young people 15-24 years old were murdered and 6 percent of students reported carrying a firearm at least once in the previous 30 days.
Almost two-thirds of children 7 to 10 years old in the U.S. fear that they might die young.
Domestic violence is the single greatest cause of injury to women and four American women are murdered by a relative or a partner each day in the US.
More than 40 percent of US rivers, lakes and estuaries are too polluted for safe fishing or swimming and industry was allowed to legally dump more than 260 million tons of toxic chemicals directly into American waters in 2000.
Each year, an estimated 18 million Americans suffer from depression and more than half of these people have major or clinical depression. Depression costs U.S. business an estimated $70 billion in medical expenditures, lost productivity and other costs.
Suicide took the lives of 29,350 Americans in 2000 and suicide was the 11th highest cause of death for all Americans but the 3rd highest cause for 10-14 year olds, 15-19 year olds, and 20-24 year olds.
Sixty percent of marriages in the U.S. end in divorce.
Every year, 40,000 Americans, including 7,000 teenagers die in automobile accidents.
Only China, Saudi Arabia and Iran execute more prisoners than the U.S.
The U.S. has highest known death row population in the world: thousands await execution.
The nation that proclaims itself the homeland and headquarters of world freedom comprises 5 percent of the world's population but houses more than 25 percent of the world's prisoners.
The rate of incarceration in the US is 699 per 100,000, up from roughly 100 per 100,000 in 1970. The next highest rate in the world is Russia at 644 and the American rate is six times higher than those of Britain, Canada, or France. "No other Western democratic country has ever imprisoned this proportion of its population," says Norval Morris, a professor emeritus at University of Chicago Law School. He considers the high number of people held behind bars in the United States America to be "appalling."
Blacks are 12.3 percent of US population, but they comprise roughly half of the roughly 2 million Americans currently behind bars.
On any given day, 30 percent of African-America males ages 20 to 29 are "under correctional supervision" — either in jail or prison or on probation or parole
In particular, huge numbers of Americans today are locked up for drug offenses and other transgressions that would not have met with the same punishment 20 years ago.
Nearly one in five black men has a prison record, an "astounding" one in three black men now possesses a felony record, and one in four black adult males is an ex-felon.
Blacks use roughly 15 percent of the illegal narcotics in the US but make up 60 percent of the nation's drug prisoners.
George W. Bush owes his presence in the White House to the illegal removal of thousands of black ex-felons from voter rolls in Florida, a state run by his brother Jeb Bush. This pivotal purge, curiously downplayed by liberals who can't stop blaming Ralph Nader for the outcome of the 2000 elections, is recounted in sickening detail in the first chapter of Greg Palast's astonishingly good book The Best Democracy That Money Can Buy (London: Pluto Press, 2002).
"How You Gonna Export Something You Ain't Even Got At Home"?
The lists of social, economic, political, psychological, and ecological failures and of unmet civic and social needs in the US go on and on. These are enough, however, to suggest that America's power elite is in no legitimate position to make decisions of life, death, and socio-political development for the masses of the Middle East or anywhere else. What, after all, does it say about their plans for Iraqis and other world citizens when the Bush administration views a society with such grave internal problems (their own) as the "single sustainable model" of human and social development – the "beacon to the world," in Hutchinson's words, "of the way life should be?"
On page 6 of Wednesday's Chicago Sun Times, I learned that "U.S. Will 'Shock and Awe' Iraq: General Says Civilians Almost Certain to Die." Further down, on page 22, I learned that "Chicago Will Choke." The more deeply buried story reported that the disappearance of open space, a decrease in public transit use and the addition of 1 millions cars will push the Chicago metropolitan area over the brink of ecological livability by 2030.
The United States, it seems to me, has got a few things to take care of at home – dance club and rock concert safety, for example – before it has anything to tell others about how to pursue life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. As a doorman named Tony said to me the other day in a brief conversation about Bush's declared desire to bring democracy and freedom to the Iraqi people: "How you gonna export something you ain't even got at home?" Tony lives in a 95 percent African American neighborhood on Chicago's West Side, home to massive poverty, endemic violence, and five of the ten city zip codes that together receive nearly a fourth of Illinois' 20,000 released prisoners each year.
Last January, President Bush flew over the West Side on his way to a lakeshore meeting of the "Members Only" Chicago Economic Club. There he unveiled his plans to slash corporate and other taxes on the super-rich, throwing the country further into deficit even as he escalated the expensive, taxpayer-financed investment expected to bear fruit its initial return in the form of untold numbers of Iraqi corpses. Tony is from one of America's many invisible neighborhoods, bereft of campaign-finance clout, lacking lobbyists' pull. Like the invisible masses of Iraq, his community is not taken seriously by the regime that rules his "homeland." His community, too, is ready to have its already considerable difficulties exacerbated by the plutocrats in the White House – the Great White Men who, with their assistants of color, scorn the habit of introspection. These power members of the "elite" see no use for the mirror other than to reflect a blinding light on the terrible truths of our time.
"How you gonna export something you ain't even got at home?" It's a damn good question, far better than anything I hear from people with advanced and professional degrees, crippled by the ideological discipline inculcated in those trusted with hierarchy's "creative" tasks of supervision, indoctrination and strategic planning.
As we do our best to stop and, failing that, scale-back Mad King George's murderous attack on Iraq, we must also work to prevent future imperial projects by building a real and lasting democracy at home. For the good of the world at home and abroad, we Americans need to rip Hobson's taproot out of the ground. We need to create a genuinely democratic and sustainable model for all, starting with ourselves.
Paul Street is a ZNet Commentator in Chicago, Illinois. He can be reached at [email protected].


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Got this as a part of a gift - it's a fairly gentle product but if you recently got a reaction to the skin (be it a blemish, sunburn, REALLYY dry skin from REALLYY cold weather #canadianproblems) I find that, well, IT BURNS.
I wish you got much more product in the bottle. You only need a little, but I almost feel bad using it, because there's such a small amount in the bottle! haha.
Give it a try, I'd say this is very dependent on your skin type and the climatic "norm" where ya live around!
Very light and pleasing to apply; however,the results aren't all that impressive given its price: it moisturizes pretty well, but doesn't do much to control oily zones. Would buy it again if it goes on sale.
This product came to around 20 dollars after tax and I thought that was quite pricey. Now don't get me wrong I am willing to pay more than 20 dollars for a good night time serum, this just isn't it.
Not only did it not hydrate my skin enough, it made me skin feel almost sticky... I knew that was not a good sign immediately. I decided to give this product the benefit of the doubt because it was expensive.. I gave it a couple more weeks... not only did I break out everywhere my skin was starting to look discoloured and blotchy. I was stupid and gave it another week because I thought it was just something I ate... my skin was looking worst than ever. Now after about 2 or 3 nights not using this serum my skin has cleared up immensely.. I still have some blemishes that are still clearing up, but after I stopped using it my skin actually feels like it can breathe..
Short version: I will never buy this product again because it is poorly made and my skin did not handle it well. Caused blemishes, discolouration, and milia bumps.. Product was also pricey and didn't do the job. Great packaging though, loved the pump
Bought this product a while ago during a sales event. I have gone through lots of night creams but have not found my HG yet. Unfortunately, this is not the one either.
Although I think it mattifies well and is really light, it does not give me enough hydration. As much as I love it in its gel like form, it is not heavy enough for me. My face still feels a bit tight and dry after applying this treatment. I abandonded it after using it for awhile but recently pick it up again. This time I apply it first and then put on a heavy layer of sleeping mask.
I definitely need to find a more nurishing night cream but if your skin is oily and acne-prone, it might be good for you.
Oh sweet lord this smells like fish. Yuck.
Well the first two weeks I felt like I'm a hero for continuing using it, it made my skin feel tight and like there's a layer of PVA glue on it.
Well then I thought I'll just put moisturizer on top of it and it does feel a lot better.
However I'm still not sure what it's supposed to do. My pores do look a bit better but since I also switched my face wash, I don't know whether this or the wash is to blame.
The pump bottle is good though, it gives out exactly the right amount to cover the entire face (if you gently squeeze, otherwise you'll get too much). So that's a plus!
So all in all I'd recommend moisturizer on top of this if you want to give it a go. I wouldn't buy it again though, I'll use the bottle up and that's it.
When I first tried this product, I didn't really like it. I used my regular cleanser, followed by the toner and then this serum (all of the seaweed line, from TBS). My skin felt a bit dehydrated at night and was crazy shiny in the morning. I don't mind the crazy shiny-ness in the morning (I wash it off, anyway) if I see good results in tone, texture or hydration, but I didn't see any of the above, so it seemed like a waste of money to me. I left it in the back of my drawer for a few months, and then noticed (through trial and error) that serums always work best (at least for me) if they're followed by a moisturizer. So, I decided to layer products. Again, I went for cleanser, toner, this serum, another serum (by avene, it fights blemishes) and then, I added the day-time mattifying moisturizer of the seaweed line. You wouldn't believe how great my skin is in the morning. It has improved the texture (smaller pores), it looks more even, the oil is better controlled and at the same time, I'm hydrated (thanks to the regular moisturizer). I'm so happy that I gave this product a second chance, so much that I'm almost out and I'll have to purchase a new bottle soon. If you have this serum and didn't like it, maybe you can try the layering method n_n. If you want to try it, I'd advice you to get a sample (or the travel size) of both the serum and the day-time moisturizer, and see if they work for you too. I hope this helps!
The last product of this line I used. It contributed to my break outs from the other products...
I wanted to love this, I've been looking for a night cream/serum to help with minor acne and dryness. For the first few nights, this helped out a lot. Then my skin exploded.
Would not repurchase.
I love this product, it gives my face a good feeling before I go to bed, and on days when I forget to use it I wake up in the morning with oily skin, it's a gross feeling... This helps a lot! It is rather expensive for the amount you get, but I like to stick with what works for me so I will be buying it again.
I want to love this product, because I use and love the day cream, but unfortunately.. I don't.
I've tried it now for about a month, and it still breaks me out.. The smell and texture and everything's fine but I don't feel like walking around with more pimples than usual.
Serums are supposed to distract the pollutions from the skin, but after over a month I really feel like it's not worth it..


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You've seen them on PBS and heard them on NPR. Now join the madcap men of the Reduced Shakespeare Company as they zip through everything you didn't get around to reading in school with a hilarious 90-minute tour of the world's greatest books from "1984" and "The Aeneid" to "The Wizard of Oz" and "Wuthering Heights."
The Reduced Shakespeare Company began in 1981 as a pass-the-hat act performing a 21-minute version of "Hamlet" at Renaissance fairs outside of Los Angeles and San Francisco where the entertainment slots allow a maximum performance time of 30 minutes. The company developed a fast, funny, and physical performance style to keep their audiences from walking away.
Since that time, the company has "abridged" America, the Bible, sports, Western civilization, Christmas, Hollywood and the bard himself, Shakespeare. "The Complete History of America (abridged)" and "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)" ran for nine record-breaking years at the Criterion Theatre, London West End, with the company's third show, "The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)," joining the lineup for the final three years of the London run. In November 2013, "The Complete History of Comedy (abridged)" will premiere with a seven-week run at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, with a month-long run at Merrimack Repertory Theatre to follow beginning in April 2014.
More information is at www.reducedshakespeare.com.
Tickets are $28 and are available at 303-987-7845, www.Lakewood.org/Tickets or the Lakewood Cultural Center Box Office, 470 S. Allison Parkway (Wadsworth and West Alameda Avenue). Student, senior and group discounts are available. Ample, free parking.
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Gov. Jay Nixon is asking the Army Corps of Engineers to continue providing water flow to the Mississippi River.
In a letter sent to the Assistant Secretary of the Army, Jo-Ellen Darcy, the governor urged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to continue providing water flow from the Missouri River to the Mississippi River.
According to the governor's office, the Corps' current plans would stop the release of water from the Missouri River's upstream reservoirs beginning December 1. The governor says this would negatively impact navigation the Mississippi River.
According to a spokesman for the governor, under normal conditions,
water from the Missouri River accounts for about 60 percent of the flow
in the Mississippi River. However, because of this year's significant
drought, the Mississippi River has received as much as 78 percent of its
water from the Missouri River.
Even with this support from the
Missouri River, the spokesman says the low water levels in the
Mississippi have forced barge operators to carry lighter loads. He says
this has decreased productivity and potentially reducing exports.
Without additional and continued support, America's barge and export
operations are at risk.
"The 2012 drought has caused a significant impact on water levels on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. With the continuing and projected lack of adequate precipitation, additional barge traffic restrictions on – or even closure of – the Mississippi River channel become imminent possibilities. I urge the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to avert potential economic disaster on this vital avenue American farmers use to get their goods into the world market," Gov. Nixon said in his letter.
Gov. Nixon noted in his letter that the Corps has the authority to provide the additional water, and cited previous occasions in which the Corps has deviated from its established plan in order to prevent adverse impacts.
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I am a Lightworker, an Angelic Messenger, and a Spirit Medium!! Or simply said…I receive clear and direct messages from the realms of LOVE existing beyond our commonly recognized field of vision. In all moments…I can take a deep breath ~ shift my focus ~ and then SEE, SENSE, FEEL, HEAR, and KNOW all that our Angels, Ancestors, and Spirit Guardians wish to share with us.
These "Messages of Love" (as I call them) are always inspiring, uplifting, and related to where we are at right now!! They bring through the guidance and support that can help to put us back on track…or to clear any challenges or blocks that may appear. These messages remind us of our great potential…and of the opportunities that surround us. They also can help us to build a strong and powerful connection with our own personal Spirit Guides and Guardians!!
And…since I know that this experience of DIVINE COMMUNICATION is fairly new to many of you…I'd like to share some of my personal beliefs and experiences with you now…in hopes that it will inspire greater understanding for my spiritual work and the healing opportunities that can be.
Once I recognized that I was blessed with this precious gift of clear sight and knowing…I held a sacred prayer in my heart that stated "Dear Spirit…Please help me to be your loving voice on this earth!!"
From that moment on…I've been creating Sacred Circles of Light and Truth…and welcoming in MESSAGES OF LOVE that can assist those around me. Whether in a group circle or a private session…I feel greatly blessed to channel through healing messages of support and guidance.
First I will begin with a Prayer!! This prayer elevates my beautiful human spirit to the higher vibrations of Divine Light!! It welcomes in ONLY energies of Love, Support, Guidance, Truth, Healing, and Light!! It sets the sacred space for us to genuinely receive in. And SO…I know that when I receive in that sacred space…all information comes from a pure source.
I ask for no information from you (or any soul being read). You may sit quietly and receive!! For truthfully…each message is bringing through much more energy than mere words can describe. Each sacred channeling session…offers an opportunity for your Angels and Guardians to work directly with your precious spiritual self.
Throughout the prayer…you'll FEEL the Love!! Your spirit will begin to see the BLESSINGS in your life…and the sense of limitation will fade. It is a natural truth that each brave human soul holds hidden fears or insecurities. Without sharing your story with me…I'll say the words that will bring guidance to your inner-most self!! Self-judgment and insecurity will transmute into recognition of your innocent BEAUTY and LIGHT!!
This guides me to highlight two points of truth. Firstly, my intent is not to appease or compliment any person with kind niceties. I will always share TRUTH!! So…Spirit will guide me to see the BRIGHTEST aspect of your soul…and encourage you to REMEMBER this aspect of yourself!! Beneath our self-judgment…we are BEAUTIFUL!!! Together…we'll awaken that great truth!!
And secondly, I'd like to remind everyone that I will never spy on your private or spiritual self!!! It is not even a possibility!! You have nothing to fear!! This can sometimes be a concern for those who are new to this experience…and don't understand how my gift works. I will never see your secrets or that which you wish to keep hidden!! All that I see comes from our Angels and Spirit Guides. I sit in MY sacred space…and welcome guidance and truth from all who love and support us in the spirit realm. I fully trust that all I receive is to BENEFIT you!! I do not search for information!! I humbly and compassionately RECEIVE…and then SHARE!!
Each soul comes to me for a unique purpose…but I need not know what that purpose is before we begin!! I trust that all you most need to hear…will be shared (without you asking directly). After our prayer…I will share all I see, hear, and feel. You may ask for clarity during these original messages (if you wish)…and THEN you will be offered time to ask any and all questions you may have. Once you state the question…I will share all I see!! You may ask about Loved Ones who have crossed over…or decisions that weigh upon you. I do not need details….only your direct question. Spirit knows what you are asking for…and I will genuinely receive all they share.
If this experience is calling out to you…please honor your heart when the time is perfect and divine!! The gift of direction, clarity, healing, affirmation, and support is BEYOND that which I can convey. The PEACE touches you from within…and ignites a passion in your soul to REMEMBER who you are…and all that you wish to create, manifest, and experience on this earth!!
So many of us are SEEKING to connect more with Spirit ~ to meet our personal guides and guardians ~ to recognize the next step on our path ~ or to heal old and limited patterns of belief. Spirit's message to each soul is always unique and purposeful. They illuminate our greatest truths…and shatter all illusion!! They lovingly shift paths of challenge and struggle to one's of PROSPERITY!! Their messages are truly INSPIRING and DIVINE!!
So please…trust ME or another heart-centered Angelic Messenger to assist you on your journey!! Our gift is to be SHARED!! It has the ability to welcome HEAVEN to earth!!
And please feel free to ask me any other questions you may have about message circles and intuitive readings. I'd like to dispel doubt and myth…while encouraging acceptance of this healing opportunity!!
This form of healing can not interfere with your own spiritual or religious paths of faith!! I believe that GOD flows through all life…and all I do flows in harmony with this great and beautiful truth!! Your personal messages will always reflect the faithful space you are in. I honor your personal path to self-empowerment and LOVE!!
Thank YOU for allowing me to share!! I pray that I've brought some clarity to your curiosities!!
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Kara Ward has been dancing for as long as she can remember. In fact, people who know her believe Kara was born to be in the spotlight. "I was 3 when I started dancing," Kara explains. "I guess for me, it's really my release. It's the way I work out, the way I have fun."Kara learned to dance at Miss Becky's Dance Studio in Findlay, so it was really a sweet homecoming for her to become an instructor at the school that taught her so much. Kara says "Here at the studio we are a tight-knit family. We are friends, we are family, we are sisters. These girls take good care of me!" She's been especially grateful to have that support this year. Kara had noticed a small lump in her breast around the holidays and went to have the doctors check it out. She'd had a benign fibroid removed 6 months earlier and assumed the news would be the same. She was in Las Vegas on a business trip in February when her doctor called to tell her she had breast cancer at the age of 30. Kara immediately called her mom, who's a two-time breast cancer survivor. Kara remembers "Even that first day she said 'It's okay. We'll get through it one step at a time.'" Kara was a teenager when her mom was first diagnosed and although her family does not carry the breast cancer gene, her family history definitely played a part in her decision to have both breasts removed. "My mom has been diagnosed twice. She's a two time survivor. My aunt, my dad's sister was also diagnosed with breast cancer so I actually have it on both sides." Kara says. "For me, it was a no brainer. Get rid of the risk." But through her surgery and chemotherapy treatments, Kara was most worried about her dance students. They had lost an instructor to breast cancer just a few years earlier. Kara tears up when she thinks about it. "When I got sick, people got scared. The first thing I did was pulled my dancers and parents together and said I'm okay, and I'm going to be okay, and I want you guys to be here along the way. And they've been here every step of the way. All of them." The owner of the school, Meghan Woolley says "Kara brings energy and thoughtfulness and exuberance. She is a wonderful dancer and an even better instructor. And she educates her students about cancer." Education is important to Kara. She spent hours talking to doctors, and researching her options for treatment and care. She was impressed with the wealth of information available through Susan G. Komen for the Cure. "The very first place I turned was Komen," Kara says. "They have the most comprehensive list of research available." Kara's family had participated several times in the Columbus Race for the Cure to support her mom and aunt. Since they're from Carey, their team is called the "C-Town Survivors." She couldn't believe when she got the phone call telling her the very first Findlay Race for the Cure will be In Celebration Of Kara Ward."To bring it to Findlay is so exciting," Kara says. "It's the perfect place for it, the perfect town for it, the support is there. I think it's going to be very successful and I'm beyond excited to be part of it."Kara's boss, Andrea Wilcox has been completely impressed and inspired by the way she's handled her diagnosis and treatment. "Kara's never allowed cancer to be an excuse for anything," she says. "She shows up to work every day with a smile on her face, she looks sassy, she IS sassy!"Woolley agrees Kara is the right person to honor at the Race. "She handles it with power and grace. She's just an amazing person. Never lets anything stop her. There's no better person who deserves it."
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From our vantage point in the tower nearly 13 feet above the water, the motionless tripletail stood out like a neon bar light against the mocha-brown water. A pinpoint cast produced the desired reaction, and after a brief but spirited tussle, we released the 16-pounder.
"What did I tell you?" asked my host, Capt. Keith Grimes, as we resumed our hunt. "You can see everything from up here. The fish can run, but they definitely can't hide."
When Grimes started shopping for a replacement boat for his inshore charter operation (tarpontarpontarpon.com) last winter, he focused on midsize tower models. A pre-owned 2400 Bay Ranger with a folding custom aluminum tower ended his search. With upper station add-ons like a Morse single-lever electronic control, Yamaha push-button ignition, Garmin 178c chart plotter, dual rocket launchers and a canvas T-top below for shade, the boat makes the ideal fishing platform for his clients in the waters around Apalachicola, Florida.
"Adding a tower is not cheap," says Grimes. "With the options I have, you can expect to pay up to $18,000 extra. But for my style of fishing, where I search for bait and diving birds over the tarpon, it's perfect. And for tripletail, it's absolutely deadly. The tower expands my visible range and cuts down the surface glare because of the overhead angle. It really takes sight-fishing to a whole new level."
Using height to find more fish isn't new. Zane Grey had a special "crow's nest" installed on his boat to spot basking swordfish near Catalina Island in the 1920s. Tuna towers were instrumental in developing the bluefin fishery off the Bahamas decades later. That led to half-towers as the current standard for blue-water battlewagons. Now with anglers pursuing dolphin, cobia, snook, false albacore and other game fish by sight, towers are increasingly reshaping the profile of coastal craft.
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Constructed from heavy-gauge polished or powder-coated aluminum tubing, spotting or sport towers are typically mounted to fiberglass hardtops or the console and deck. As such, structural integration between the boat and the tower is paramount.
"Basically, a tower is an upside-down pendulum," says Ed Forbes, head of manufacturing for Engineered Metals and Composites in Columbia, South Carolina. "That's a lot of weight up in the air, and if it's not secure, stuff is going to start coming apart. When we design our towers, we always consider safety first and then the weight."


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Payments to Edwards' Mistress Raise Campaign Law Issues
Posted Aug 15, 2008 3:59 PM CDT
By Martha Neil
Payments made on behalf of former presidential candidate John Edwards to his admitted mistress may not have complied with campaign laws, experts say.
At least one says money paid by Fred Baron, a wealthy Dallas trial attorney who served as Edwards' national finance chairman, to Rielle Hunter could potentially present a legal issue, according to the Associated Press.
The money may not have been reported as campaign expenditures, as was probably required, says attorney Cleta Mitchell, who represents Republican candidates and conservative groups and specializes in campaign finance law. "That would undermine the purpose of the payments, which was to avoid public disclosure of the affair."
Baron has characterized his payments to Hunter as private transactions, according to the article, but did not respond to a request for comment.
Additionally, experts say, it would present a problem if the campaign spent political action committee money for Edwards' personal use. A $14,000 payment to Hunter for her video work on behalf of the presidential campaign, after she had already received a $100,000 payment, could be an issue in this regard: "Legal experts said it was important for Edwards to demonstrate the PAC wasn't paying Hunter merely to keep her quiet about the affair," the news agency writes.
How to characterize such payments is a matter of interpretation, according to professor Richard Hasen of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
An unnamed Edwards associate told the news agency that Hunter was paid the final $14,000 only after she provided about 100 hours worth of what the AP describes as "cutting-room floor videotape excerpts" that had not previously been given to the campaign.
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Dutch Harbor
|Dutch Harbor
Natural-colour image of Dutch Harbor
|Coordinates: 53°53′20″N 166°31′38″W / 53.88889°N 166.52722°W
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|Unalaska, Alaska
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Dutch Harbor is a harbor located off of Amaknak Island in Unalaska, Alaska. It was the location of the Battle of Dutch Harbor in June 1942, and it was one of the few locations in American territory to be bombed by the Japanese during World War II.[1]
Dutch Harbor is now the home of an important fishing industry.[2]
Russian to American[edit]
Druzhinin, the commander of the Russian ship Zakharii I Elisaveta is credited for discovering the deep-water harbor now known as Dutch Harbor.
Dutch Harbor is located within the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, more precisely on Amaknak Island in the Fox Islands. A mile long spit extending from the south west of Amaknak Island makes Dutch Harbor a natural port, protecting ships from the waves and currents of the Bering Sea, although winds off the Bering Sea have tossed shipments from decks of ships ("stockpiles of lumber were tossed like toothpicks about Dutch Harbor.") Dutch Harbor is in a great location allowing ease of accesses to some of the richest fishing in the world and it is ice free.
The native people are known as the Aleut. The families or tribes would war with each other. When the Russians arrived they exploited the Aleut by taxing them in fur pelts.
The Aleut accepted the Russian Orthodox Church because it offered them support and educated their children.
The Russian-American Company operated 1799 through mid-1800 they would use Dutch Harbor to transport goods, mainly seal and sea otter fur.
In 1867 Russia sold Alaska to the United States. Russia was exhausted by the Crimean War, and they were having a tough time managing the extensive land of Alaska.
Fur was the main export in Alaska after the United States took control. Hutchinson, Kohl, & Company of San Francisco took over the assets on the Russian America Company in 1867, but it sold out in 1868 to the Alaska Commercial Company.
A decline in the sea otter population slowed trade in 1895.
The year 1897, brought a crowd of potential prospectors looking to get rich from the Alaska gold rush.[3]
World War II[edit]
World War II brought an entire army and supplies to Dutch Harbor. In June 1942, the Imperial Japanese navy bombed Dutch Harbor from two aircraft carriers.
During the war, Dutch Harbor was used as a home for refugees evacuated from the Aleutian Islands. U.S. Army troops and civilian workers alike spent time at "Blackies", the only bar in the area. This establishment had cheap beer and 50-cent shots of whiskey, but no stools or chairs as they "splintered too easily in event of a fight". Other entertainment was a brothel named "Pleasure Island", but this was closed in 1941 and replaced by part of the submarine base. The 500-man mess hall doubled as a theater. The tickets for military were 15 cents and 35 cents for civilian workers.[3]
By mid-1942, a small submarine base was in place, with a squadron of old U.S. Navy S-class submarines.
In early 1942, intelligence officers of the U.S. Navy predicted that there would be a Japanese attack in the North Pacific area, and naval codebreakers warned Dutch Harbor of the impending attack. On June 3, 1942, at 5:45 a.m., 20 Japanese planes bombed the radio station and the petroleum storage tanks. In May 1943, a peak of 10,151 sailors and 9,976 soldiers were stationed at the base.[citation needed]
In 1947, the last units of the U.S. Navy left Dutch Harbor and the base was decommissioned. In 1952 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers stored 232 surplus buildings on 448 acres of land of the Fort Mears Military Reservation. During the mid-1980s, the U.S. Army bulldozed and burned the old World War II barracks on Amaknak Island. The U.S. Navy scraped an air base on the rock.
Current events[edit]
As the economy and population grow, the town of Unalaska can have trouble meeting the needs of citizens and travelers. Infrastructure such as water plant treatment, landfills, doctors, and police are pushed to the limit. Unalaska is expanding to meet the need of its citizens, employees and travelers. The area expects more eco-tourism. The Elbow Room is ranked by Playboy magazine as the "roughest bar in the U.S."
Kloosterboer's facility is new for 2010 and provides processing, storage and logistics to the fishing industry.
In recent years, Dutch Harbor has become a full service port providing all the fishing industry needs.[4] It is the harbor featured in the Discovery Channel reality television series Deadliest Catch.
Dutch Harbor is ranked to be a top fishing port with more than a billion dollars are transferred each year. Huge harvests of pollock and cod in the Bering Sea are cause for these numbers. The Bering Sea has a continental shelf which is one of the world's largest, and supports a rich ecosystem.[5]
- ^ Unalaska - History of Unalaska
- ^ Unalaska - About Unalaska
- ^ a b Campbell, L. J., & Alaska Geographic Society. (1991). Unalaska/Dutch Harbor. Anchorage, Alaska: Alaska Geographic Society.
- ^ [Touza, A. (1994). Towns in transition -- dutch harbor: Playing catch-up. Alaska Business Monthly, 10(10), 50-50. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/233095499?accountid=10353]
- ^ [Kloosterboer dutch harbor; kloosterboer forecasts busy 2010 for expanded dutch harbor port facility. (2009). Leisure & Travel Week, , 31. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/201731337?accountid=10353]
External links[edit]
- Media related to Dutch Harbor at Wikimedia Commons


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2 each 1.5 lbs. live Maine Lobsters
1 lbs. of butter
2 large oranges
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1 lbs of fingerling potatoes
1 bunch of baby turnips
1 head of fresh whole garlic
1 cup of EVOO
1 Fresh Cinnamon Stick
Salt and Fresh Cracked Black Pepper.
- Cut your 2 to 3 lbs live lobsters in nice thick slices and reserve. Crack the claws and reserve them as well.
- Juice the equivalent of two oranges and reserve until needed.
- Take your fingerling potatoes and rinse them well. Cut them on the bius in nice chunks. Coat them in olive oil and season them with Salt and Pepper. Add a few sprigs of thyme as well as a few cloves of garlic. Roast them for about 20 minutes in a 350˚F oven until a nice golden color is obtained.
- Take your Baby turnips and rinse them well. Using a vegetable peeler peel them and give them a nice shape. Cut them in two lengthwise. Cook them in hot salted boiling water for about 3 minutes or until slightly al dente. Strain them and cool them down in an ice bath. Drain the water and reserve until later.
- Heat up some EVOO and add some sprigs of thyme, parsley, rosemary, oregano and some basil. Warm up and let infuse on the corner of your stove to get a nice flavored oil.
- Season your lobster with Salt, Fresh cracked black pepper and some fresh grated cinnamon.
- In a skillet heat up some olive oil and add your lobster. Color on both side and then deglaze with your fresh orange juice. Cover with the skillet lid and cook in the oven at 375 ˚ F for about 5 minutes.
- In the meantime roast your potatoes and your turnips in a pan with some fresh butter. Season well with salt and pepper. At the last minute add some fresh chopped chives and parsley. Dispose in your plate or platter.
- Take the lobster off the oven and arrange nicely over the turnips and potatoes mix.
- Put the skillet with the braising liquid from the lobster on the stove and reduce it for a few seconds. Monte with some fresh butter and check your seasoning.
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ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) - New Year's Day overtook betting favorite Havana deep in the stretch to win the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile by 1¼ lengths.
Ridden by Martin Garcia, New Year's Day covered 1 1/16 miles in 1:43.52 and paid $23.00, $9.20 and $6.60 on Saturday at Santa Anita. Havana, who went off as the 5-2 favorite, returned $4.60 and $3.40, while Strong Mandate paid $6 to show.
With the win, the 2-year-old colt stamps himself as the early Kentucky Derby favorite. Street Sense has been the only colt to pull off the Juvenile-Derby double.
It was the first Breeders' Cup win for Garcia and the ninth for trainer Bob Baffert, who has now won the Juvenile three times, the most recent coming in 2008 with Midshipman.
Havana's trainer Todd Pletcher was seeking his third Juvenile victory in the past four years.
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