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Illinois has the fourth-highest minimum wage in the country, tied with Connecticut and Washington, D.C., at $8.25 per hour. Earlier this year, Gov. Pat Quinn proposed a minimum-wage increase to $10 per hour a move that would skyrocket Illinois past the state of Washington, which at $9.19 per hour boasts the highest minimum wage in the country today. But none of that will matter if a pair of congressmen get their way.
Unemployment is falling across the country some places faster than others.That much remains apparent in Chicago, where joblessness for the metropolitan area came in at 9.1 percent in April, two percentage points above the national rate.
In the Chicago area, 13.2 percent of commuters spend 60 minutes or more getting to work each day. That's the highest rate in the Midwest and ninth overall among American metros.
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Heralded as the wave of the future by science-fiction writers and coffee-shop squatters, telecommuting has yet to take root with much of the American workforce.
It should come as little surprise to see local employment projections favoring jobs in tech, health care and business services in 2013. Recent history shows a diversification of Chicago's workforce with the emergence of those sectors.
Several of the Chicago area's most important job sectors have seen marginal gains in the past 12 months. Crain's analyzed data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to determine which industries are gaining and losing jobs as part of its ongoing look at Chicago employment.
The unemployment rate in Illinois continues to show modest improvement. From October 2011 to October 2012, it fell 1.2 percentage points, joining 18 other states showing statistically significant changes. But the state is a long way from recovery. How far? That was the question that led us to this month's jobs report.
Crain's mapped data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey to find the most educated residents of the state.
Chicago's gaining jobs in the old industry of moving freight. The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning has a new site that looks at how gains at logistics companies affect others in the region.
As we head into the home stretch of the presidential election, job creation and loss are sure to be on the minds of voters and pundits alike. President Obama's home state of Illinois lost the third most jobs between December 2008 and May 2012, the most recent month for which these figures are available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Higher taxes on beer consumption could have an impact on an industry that employs directly or indirectly -- 71,000 resident comprising roughly 1.7 percent of all jobs in Illinois.
Summer employment this year at Illinois restaurants is projected to reach its highest level in at least a decade, according to the National Restaurant Association.
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The number of Chicago-area workers who live farther than 90 miles outside Cook County grew by more than 40 percent during the last decade, in line with a trend among the 10 largest U.S. metropolitan areas.
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Meditation quiets the mind and calms the body. But doing it takes patience and practice.
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"My mom used to give me candy in the morning if I would meditate," Ham said. "Eventually, I got to the point where I wasn't getting candy anymore, but I was still meditating."
Her practice, and her involvement with the Science of Spirituality's Sawan Kirpal Meditation Center in Bowling Green, made her an oddity at Caroline High School, she said.
"I was considered weird," Ham said. "Not by everyone, but it was so amazing to get to college and have people go, 'Wow, meditation is cool.'"
Two years ago, she helped start an informal meditation club on campus. Meetings are open to anyone. The group started out small but has grown, she said, as students realize meditation can relieve stress and get them in a calm mind-set to study.
"Last year, we got a couple of e-mails from dormitories that wanted us to come during exam week and do a stress-related meditation," Ham said.
Ham said she's finished her coursework and will graduate with a bachelor's degree in the spring--with honors. She attributes much of her success to meditating.
"When you come out of meditation, you feel really peaceful and really happy, and that stays with you," Ham said.
Ham's style of meditation involves repeating a mantra and gazing with her eyes closed.
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Glasgow Celtic's season was left in ruins after they were sensationally dumped out of the Scottish Cup semi final by Ross County.
Second half goals by Steven Craig in the 54th minute and a second from Martin Scott two minutes from time were enough to send the huge underdogs through to the final.
The Irn-Bru First Division side was given little change before that game against their illustrious opponents, but this latest setback means the Bhoys will finish without a trophy for the first time in seven seasons.
Caretaker manager Neil Lennon could not rouse his troops or change the game effectively, and this defeat could have a huge impact on his chances of getting the job on a full-time basis.
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''Words can't describe this, it's Roy of the Rovers stuff,'' goalscorer Steven Craig, told Sky Sports.
For Ross County, it is a win that will long live in the memory. For Celtic, is it is a loss that caps a forgettable season.
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Tel. 03-9227795
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Muldan restaurant takes its name from its first location, which was across the street from the Dan Tel-Aviv hotel. The restaurant became so popular, the Dan hotel could have called itself Mul-Muldan.
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When Dean Erwin Griswold asked each woman, "Why are you at Harvard Law School, taking the place of a man?" Schroeder was infuriated, and still is to this day. "I was sitting there thinking, 'What am I going to say that's profound?'" she recalls. But before she had the chance, her classmate Ann Cronkhite Goldblatt--now a bioethicist at the University of Chicago--said that she'd come to Harvard because Yale turned her down.
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Published in January, "Pinstripes & Pearls" went into its second printing only six weeks later. Not bad, considering Hope nearly gave up on it after her daughter, Miranda, gave her first draft a scathing review.
"She trashed it," Hope said during a visit to HLS in February to promote the book. While Hope had been focused on how much she and her classmates had overcome--the gender discrimination in school, at law firms and in courtrooms--she'd overlooked the impact that such obstacles had had on their lives. Miranda, she said, remembered the countless nights that Hope had come home exhausted or angry at being passed over for a job. "You haven't told the whole story," she said to her mother.
Hope was devastated at first and put the book aside for nearly two years. But after hundreds of hours of interviews with classmates, Hope found the whole story. Along with their many triumphs, the women interviewed candidly share some of their darkest moments in "trying to do it all": the career setbacks they suffered in order to raise their children, the stress of juggling high-powered, high-profile jobs and the myriad details of home and family, and even--in one case--the brief contemplation of suicide.
On a recent book tour, Hope learned that the book has had resonance with a younger generation of women professionals and women law students: "I have been told again and again that our histories are giving them new perspectives, helping them make it through their own challenging lives, and giving them optimism about their efforts to juggle the requirements of a demanding profession and the very real needs of their families."
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"It's the same struggle: Women have a limited time in which they can have children, and that's not true for men," she says. "Women also have a limited time in which they can build a career. The tough thing is, it's the same time. While some women can now work from home and raise a family, many women still can't work from home--doctors, engineers, lawyers. You can't do it, so you're constantly in this tug-of-war between your desire to have a fulfilling and productive career and your desire to raise wonderful children. Most of the women in my class did both. I felt we had a story to tell that would be of help and maybe an inspiration to young women today.
"I don't really know whether young women today don't know or have forgotten, but I think its standard operating procedure to believe that things have basically always been relatively open. But it wasn't always this way. It's important to remember because you have to be vigilant."
For many of the women, the lifelong friendships--the "Old-Girl Network"--that formed amid the pressure of law school have sustained them to this day: "For us, it meant everything," Hope says. "Is it still as powerful? Yes. Do younger women understand the vital need to help each other? I don't think so. Men have strong networks, and they really help each other. When women do that, it really makes a difference, and they should. There is the old saying, 'If you don't hang together, you'll hang separately.' There is really strength in numbers."
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April 9-14 has been designated as National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week in Stafford. The Board of Supervisors presented a proclamation to some of the emergency communications staff last week.
But, who are these "telecommunicators"?
They are the voice that answers the phone when you call 9-1-1, when you need help, during your worst days. They are counselors, crisis managers, negotiators, and a calm voice during chaos. They support first responders in the sheriff's office and fire and rescue department. They are the "unseen" first responders.
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Since 2006, call volume has increased — 25 percent due to wireless (cell) phones, which increases the length of call time by 5 percent since no address is attached to a phone number. The center takes 305,000 calls per year.
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The number of sworn deputies has gone up by 27; the number of fire and rescue staff has gone up by 26. Zero dispatchers have been added since 2006. This all comes from information presented at Thursday's public safety committee meeting by Carol Adams, Stafford's emergency communications director. "We stretch our folks now so we're able to keep staffing levels at a workable level," she said.
Supervisors may consider earmarking $200,000 in the upcoming fiscal budget to create four Shift Supervisors positions, based on conversations at Thursday's meeting. Sheriff Charles Jett said this would just be a "small bandaid," but a first step to help the department.
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In 1877 James A. Lynch and his family settle in a
Valley 48 miles west of Fort Worth. Tired of hauling water from the nearby Brazos River, Mr. Lynch had a well
dug on his property. The water had a funny taste and at first was believed to be poison. Mrs. Lynch continued
to drink the water and found it did not harm her, in fact, the water seemed to cure her rheumatism. The word
spread and many came to see if they could also receive a cure.
The third well dug was made famous from the fact that a woman who suffered epilepsy drank the water daily. Legend says that after she drank the water she was cured and they named the well the Crazy Woman Well, later just the Crazy Well.
The town was originally named Ednaville but after the waters began to draw people, the town was renamed Mineral Wells. Many pavillions and hotels were built so that the thousands who came there had a place to stay. The Damion, Fairfield Inn, the Hexagon, the Oxford, the Period, and the Piedmont Hotel are just to name a few.
The Crazy Water Hotel was built where the Crazy Well is. After the first hotel burnt down, the Collins brothers from Fort Worth, Texas rebuilt the Crazy Hotel and planned to market the water.
Meanwhile a group of citizens in Mineral Wells didn't like the fact that outsiders were going to make a profit from their waters. They raised money to build their own hotel. That's when they got T. B. Baker to build the Baker Hotel.
Theodore Brasher Baker was born July 11, 1875 in Washington, Iowa. He was the youngest of 5 living children to William and Leoramia (Grayson) Baker.T. B. had three brothers, Martin C. Baker, W. R. Baker, Michael R. Baker and a sister Myla Baker. T.B. went to elementary school at Cawker City, Kansas. He completed High School in Beloit, Kansas. T.B. first business venture was a steam laundry in Beloit, Kansas. He later sold his interests to his partner Mr. Hegberg. His father was in the hotel business and T. B. Baker started his own career as a night clerk at the Ave Hotel in Beloit, Kansas. He was there for 18 months. He then went on to manage the Greenwood at Eureka, Kansas, The Whitely at Emporia, The Goodlander at Fort Scott, Kansas, The Kingfisher at Kingfisher, Oklahoma, and the Connor at Joplin, Missouri.
While vacationing in San Antonio in 1915 he acquired the lease on the St. Anthony Hotel, which began his operation in Texas.
While managing the Greenwood, T.B. married Miss Mayme Crawley, a native of Knoxville, Tennesse. They had one daughter Mary Louise Baker, she was born November 5, 1905 but she died in July of 1907.
The Connor, In Joplin, Missouri was opened in 1908 after almost 2 years construction. The Connor was a grand symbol of prosperity of the period in the mining boomtown that was Joplin. The 240 room hotel, featured an Italian white marble staircase overlooking the spacious lobby. Several cafe's, dinning rooms, billiard rooms, a barbershop and many other amenities were available at the Connor. The hotel closed for good in 1969. The building was finally demolished in 1978. The Conner didn't go quietly though, as part of the building fell on several men, killing them, while the building was being set up for demolition.
The St. Anthony Hotel was built in 1909 and is 10 stories high. This was the first fully air - conditioned hotel in the world. The grand front portico has floor-to-ceiling doors. The lobby, reminiscient of European luxury hotels, has white marble floors with fine paintings, European furnishings and bronze statues. The Lobby is known as The Peacock Alley. In 1924 T. B. Baker sold the St. Anthony to acquire the Gunter Hotel, also in San Antonio. The St. Anthony is today a Wyndham Historic Hotel and is a National Historic landmark in the middle of downtown San Antonio, Texas.
His next hotel in 1916 was the Menger, in San Antonio, Texas with 250 rooms. The Menger is the oldest hotel west of the Mississippi and has been in continual operation since it's opening. This hotel was orginally built in 1859 by Irish brewery proprieter William Menger. He built an Inn so his patrons could sleep off their drunkeness, and so they wouldn't fall off their horses on their way home. Teddy Roosevelt was known to recruit his Rough Ridders at the Bar in the Menger. Seven additons have since been added and today has 300 rooms. The Menger is now a Sterling Hotel, and on the list of National Historic Hotels of America.
In 1921 the Texas Hotel was opened in Ft. Worth, Texas with 600 rooms and was the only 15 story structure in Ft. Worth at the time. The firm of Wyatt C. Hedrick designed the hotel. The Texas hotel is on the National Register of Historic places and is now a the Radison Plaza Hotel. Ginger Rogers got her start in show business at this hotel by winning a Charleston dance competion at the Texas Hotel. The Texas Hotel hosted President John F. Kennedy on November 21, 1963, the night before his assassination in Dallas, Texas.
The Stephen F. Austin in Austin, Texas opened in 1923 with 250 rooms and was 10 stories tall. Five more floors were added by 1938. The architect firm of Wyatt C. Hedrick also designed this hotel. The Hotel is known as the "Stephen F." by native Austines. The hotel is in the heart of downtown Austin and was the social scene for legislators, businessmen, and educators. One of the features of the hotel was that it had running ice water in the rooms. The Stephen F. Austin is now an Inter-Continental Hotel.
1924 was the year T.B. Baker took over the Gunter in San Antonio, Texas with 550 rooms. The firm that built the Hotel Adolphus in Dallas designed this Hotel. The Hotel was built in 1909 and was the first steel structure built in San Antonio and at the time was the largest structure in San Antonio. Jot Gunter purchased the site for the hotel in 1907 at a cost of $190,000.00. Along with other investors the 8 story, 301 room hotel was built. Mr Gunter died before the Hotel was completed, the investors named the hotel The Gunter to honor Jot Gunter. The hotel was a place for cattleman to gather. The hotel had a seperate reception room for women with a private entry. The Hotel had it's own laundry, heating plant, barber shop, and water system with an artesian well in the basement. In 1917 a 9th story was added. in 1926 three more stories were added, included was the "Gunter Roof" with a Japanesse Garden. The Gunter was the home to the Army and Air Force during both World Wars. Earl M. Baker, nephew of T. B. Baker, son of M.C. Baker, was manager and later owner of the Gunter. The Hotel is now the Sheraton Gunter Hotel.
The following year 1925, T.B. opened the famous Baker Hotel in Dallas with 700 rooms. The Hotel was designed after the Peabody Hotel in Tennesse. This 18 story building was L shaped amd located in the middle of downtown Dallas, Texas. T. B. Baker's, nephew Fenton J. Baker, son of W. R. Baker became the manager and owner of this Baker. In 1948 he sold the Dallas Baker but remained there to work for many years. The Dallas Baker was famous for the 18th floor ballroom known as the Peacock Terrace. This room could seat up to 500 people, with a dome capped ceiling it had 6 crystal chandeliers. Many of the Big Bands played there and was the night spot to be. Saddly the Dallas Baker was demolished to make room for another building.
The Galvez in Galveston, Texas opened as a Baker Hotel in 1929. Built in 1911 at a cost of one million dollars after the great storm of 1900. The hotel faces the Gulf of Mexico and was named for Bernardo de Galvez the Spainish govenor in colonial times. The orginal building had a barber shop, candy shop, drug store, soda fountain and a gentlemen's bar and Grille. In 1918 the hotel was host to 400 guests a day and the room price began at $2.00 a night. In 1920 the hotel held it's first bathing beauty contest with contestants Joan Blondell and Dorothy Lamour participating. The Galvez, a premier Gulf Coast resort facility, was a seaside spa of presidents and celebrities from around the world. The hotel is now a Wyndham Historic Hotel.
The Edson in Beaumont, Texas was built by T. B. Baker and opened in 1929 with 250 rooms and was 20 stories high making it the tallest building in Beaumont. The Hotel opened on the Eve of the "Great Depression" but was inspired by the 1920's oil boom. The rooms had ceiling fans, servidors, running ice water, shower and tub baths. The building was bought by the Gulf States Utilites in 1955 and was used as headquarters until 1982. Gulf States gutted and walled up the bottom two floors. It now houses government offices and some Gulf State Ultilities offices.
The Thomas Jefferson Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama opened in 1929 as a Baker Hotel with 350 rooms and is 21 stories tall. It is located on 2nd Ave and 17th Street. Soon after the opening the "Great Depression" began. Burt Ordorff opened the new Thomas Jefferson Hotel as manager. Many businesses closed in the area and it became increasing difficult to keep the hotel open. The hotel was not in walking distance of anything and the hotel closed in 1983. Downtown Birmingham is being rediscoved and the hotel is to be converted into 65 luxury condos and 305 hotel units at a cost of $20 million. The renovation is to begin September of 2005 and should be completed by 2007. The building will be renamed "Leer Tower". The four condo layouts will be named for four U.S. presidents Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and George Washington. The rooftop will now include a swimming pool where a water tower once stood.
The Goodhue Hotel in Port Arthur, Texas opened as a Baker Hotel with 160 rooms and 11 floors. It was located at Waco Ave and the North West corner intersected with 5th Street. The Petroleum Room on the 2nd floor was the scene of a press conference with Janis Joplin on KJAC-TV. She was in Port Arthur, Texas at the time for her 1960 Class reunion of the Thomas Jefferson High School she attended when she lived in Port Arthur. In August of 1990 the hotel was demolished and remains a vacant lot today.
Mineral Wells, Texas was starting to grow because The mineral waters were beginning to be known world wide as a cure all for many types of illnesses. The water was big business. Nine citizens of Mineral Wells got together to raise money to build a large resort hotel. They raised $150,000.00 with the help of 253 stockholders.
All they needed was someone with the know how to get the project started. T. B. Baker of the Baker Hotels was contacted in 1925 and agreed to take over the project for the stockholders. Mr. Baker was one of the most sucessful entreprenuers in the state of Texas at the time. Familiar with the mineral bath concept in Mineral Wells, this gave T. B. Baker an opportunity to have a different kind of hotel catering to people seeking the benefit of the curing waters. The Mineral Wells Hotel Company was formed and headed by T.B. Baker. Wyatt C. Hedrick was hired as the architect to design the Hotel after the Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas, another hotel known for it's water and baths. The Mineral Wells hotel has similar designs to the Arlington Hotel. Mr Hedrick was not an architect but a structual engineer. Because of the lack of licensing back then he was able to work as a architect and practice that profession. Work began on the hotel in 1926 but was stopped after Mr. Baker made a trip to California. He had visited a hotel with a swimming pool and decided the new Baker Hotel must have one in the front of the hotel. The hotel site was then moved back and the existing structure of the basement was kept and the swimming pool was placed on top of the site where the hotel was to be built. This allowed the area under the pool to be utilized as work areas for the hotel and also a changing area for guests was placed under the pool. The pool was an olympic sized above the ground pool to be filled with the curing mineral waters. It was the first swimming pool built for a hotel in Texas. The Baker Hotel was to be 14 stories with 450 rooms for guests and was the first skyscraper to be built outside a major metropolitan area. The hotel was said to be a "Spainish Revial Commercial High Rise." Mr. Baker had many modern ideas for the hotel such as circulating ice water for the guest rooms which he used in many of his other hotels. The hotel was to be fully air conditioned which was a novelty during this time. Also the lights and fans were controlled by the key lock on the guest's room doors. When the guest left the room and locked the door the lights and fans went off. Valet doors were also installed so the guests might place clothing to be cleaned in them and not be distrubed by the employee that came to remove the items for cleaning. The Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells, opened it's doors November 9, 1929 and it's grand opeining was November 22, 1929 just two weeks after the great stock market crash. Even though this was a dark time in history the hotel opened with great fanfare with Tal Henry and his North Carolinas-Victor Recording Orchestra, cabret acts, a big dinner and dancing in the ballroom. The hotel continued to do well throughout the great depression bringing cattlemen to regain their health and widows to marry them. The Baker Hotel cost $1.2 million to build and employed a good deal of the population of Mineral Wells. The hotel was planned to host conventions to bring people to Mineral Wells and had a meeting capacity of 2,500 in a city with the population of 6,000. The first convention was the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs held November 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th in 1929 before the grand opening. This was just the first of many, many conventions. Many people would come for the conventions and stay for the baths and water. Burt Orndorf was the first manager of the Mineral Wells Baker Hotel and vice president of the Baker Hotels. He had started with the Baker Hotels in 1926. Henry Love was the assistant manager, and was born and raised in Ft. Worth, Texas. He joined the staff in 1920 at the Texas Hotel and later became the assistant manager of the Dallas Baker Hotel. The Baker Hotel of Mineral Wells had three areas for dancing and had some of the largest names of the time performed there. Jack Amlung, Herbie Kaye, Guy Lombardo, Mary Martin, Lawrence Welk, and Paul Whiteman, all performed at the Baker Hotel. The Ballroom on the 12th floor was named the cloud room because of the painted clouds on the ceiling and was busy every weekend with one band or another and became the place to be. The list of celebrities that might be found staying at the Baker at one time or another includes: Alvin Barkley, Clyde Barrow, Pat Boone, Jack Dempsy, Marlene Dietrich, Dale Evans, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Samuel Goldwyn, Jean Harlow, Lyndon Johnson, Carolyn Jones, Sammy Kay, Helen Keller, Dorothy Lamour, Dr. Charles Mayo, Gisele Mckinzie, Tom Mix, Clint Murchinson Sr., Bonnie Parker, General John J. Pershing, Sam Rayburn, Will Rodgers, Roy Rogers, Elliot Roosevelt, the Three Stooges, and Sophie Tucker. J. W. Neel, the owner of Maxwell House Coffee was fond of the Baker Hotel. U.S. Senator Ed Moore of Oklahoma was said to of visited the Baker so much that if you needed him that's where you would find him. In 1932 the Baker began to have money problems. The Baker never closed it's doors. The Hotel reorganized as the Resort Hotel Company with nephew Earl Maynard Baker helping to run the Hotel.
Myla Baker, T. B.'s sister lived at the Gunter in San Antonio. She was born September 17, 1879. Myla was 5'4" tall and had brown hair and brown eyes. On May 8, 1933 she moved to the Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells. She occuppied a suite on the 7th floor using rooms 714, 716, and 718. She would take trips alone to Europe and buy items to decorate the different hotels. She also helped at the hotel with different charity events. T. B. Baker decided to pass control of the Baker Hotel to his nephew Earl due to financial problems.
Earl M. Baker had already worked at the Baker as manager and also ran the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio. Earl was married to Gladys with two daughters, Dorothy Ann and Betty Jean, but kept a mistress named Virginia Brown at the Baker. Virginia had a suite of rooms on the 7th Floor. Virginia is said to still be there and often you will smell her perfume in her suite and throughout the hotel. When T. B. passed the Baker on to Earl he had Earl agree to make up a trust for his T.B.'s sister Myla agreeing to pay her $9,000.00 a year from the dividends of the Gunter Hotel. On October 13, 1940 Ft. Wolters was located in Mineral Wells and became the largest infantry replacement center during WWII. During this time the Baker Hotel was at it's peak and the population of Mineral Wells was well over 30,000. After the war Ft. Wolters reopened as a helicopter training center for the Air Force, this brought new life to the Baker Hotel during 1951. The state Republican convention was at the Baker during the years of 1952 and 1955. The Democratic convention was held during 1954 at the the Baker Hotel.
Earl Baker said that when his 70th birthday came he would close the doors of the Baker. True to his word on April 30, 1963 Earl closed the doors of the Baker Hotel. This put 250 people out of a job and ruined the social life of the citizens of Mineral Wells. In August of 1963 the Hotel went up on the auction block. Bidding was very light and nothing really came of it. In 1965 a group of local leaders formed the Civic Developement Corporation and reopened the Hotel paying Earl Baker monthly checks for the hotel. While visiting the hotel on December 3rd of 1967 Earl Baker was found in the Baker Suite on the floor after having a heart attack. He was rushed to the nearby Nazareth Hospital but died later that day. The Baker Hotel closed in 1972 due to slim profits. Today the Baker Hotel of Mineral Wells sits empty waiting for someone to give it new life. The stores on the ground floor were available to rent out and the lobby floor was rented out for weddings and meetings. Tours were given by volunteers well versed in the hotel's history. Saddly the roof of the hotel is in need of repairs and leaks have caused great damage to the "Grand Old Lady" of Mineral Wells. Many people fall in love with the Baker and have the desire to repair her but sadly to restore her would cost about thirty million dollars. So The Baker sits waiting for the day that someone will again restore her to her glory. Perhaps apartments, offices, a museum or even a retirement home would be a good choice to continue the life of the Baker. The current owner of the Baker Hotel is Greg Horn of Phoenix, Arizona.


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The airplane landed on a runway NOTAM'd to have 1/2 inch snow and ice and poor airplane braking for all types aircraft. The same report was on ATIS, and the same information was being provided by the ATC tower controller. The pilot said that when the airplane was slowing from 80 to 40 knots, braking was poor. He said that it was too late to execute a go-around. At 40 knots, the airplane did not seem to be slowing and the brakes were not effective. As the end of the runway was getting closer, the pilot elected to steer the airplane off the runway into a snow bank to avoid colliding with the runway's approach lights. The airplane's nose gear collapsed when the airplane collided with the snow bank.
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CEDAW and Country Laws
Often described as the international bill of rights for women, the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly. It is the most comprehensive international agreement imposing legally binding duties to eliminate violence against women. CEDAW expressly requires states to "take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women by any person, organisation or enterprise" (Article 2 (e)).
In 1992, the CEDAW Committee adopted General Recommendation 19 on "violence against women", which defined violence as a form of discrimination against women, and emphasises that governments are responsible for eliminating discrimination against women by any person, organisation or enterprise, and that governments are required to prevent violations of rights by any actor, punish these acts and provide compensation (paragraph 9).
The UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (1994) defines violence against women as:
"Any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life."
It says, violence against women shall be understood to encompass, but not be limited to, the following:
- Physical, sexual and psychological violence occurring in the family, including battering, sexual abuse of female children in the household, dowry-related violence, marital rape, female genital mutilation and other traditional practices harmful to women, non-spousal violence and violence related to exploitation;
- Physical, sexual and psychological violence occurring within the general community, including rape, sexual abuse, sexual harassment and intimidation at work, in educational institutions and elsewhere, trafficking in women and forced prostitution;
- Physical, sexual and psychological violence perpetrated or condoned by the State, wherever it occurs.
Some other significant international legal instruments include:
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 1989
- Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (1993)
- The World Conference on Human Rights (1993)
- Plan of Action in the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) (1994)
- The Fourth World Conference on Women (1994)
- The Forty Ninth World Health Assembly (1996)
- The Eighth World Congress Against Sexual Exploitation of Children (1996)
- The Women 2000: Gender, Equality, Development and Peace for Twenty First Century (Beijing +5) (2000)
- The Convention on Transnational Organised Crime (2000)
- Islamabad Declaration Review and Future Action Celebrating Beijing Plus Tem (2005)
For details on which countries have ratified the CEDAW and other international legislation and what laws each country has been passed to combat violence against women, see


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Region: Laguna Beach
In anticipation of "Art Auction 2013: California Underground," the Laguna Art Museum hosts a preview week today through Saturday afternoon, allowing artsy types to peruse selected works by California artists and place their bids early. The big shindig isn't until next weekend, so if your art collection is itching for a new addition, don't miss this chance to view works by more than a hundred talented artists of all mediums and genres—before anyone else gets to. The Laguna Art Museum's annual art auction is one of the most exciting events in the South County art scene. The soiree raises money for the museum's exhibition and education programs—so help keep art institutions like this one going strong (and maybe find something to replace that Kinkade poster you've got hanging up).
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Flower still life by Vincent van Gogh rediscovered thanks to new research technique
Synchrotronstrahlungsexperiment belegt Echtheit eines Gemäldes
After lengthy research the Kröller-Müller Museum has another Van Gogh painting to its name: Still life with meadow flowers and roses. Its authenticity had been in doubt ever since it was added to the collection in 1974, due to the unusual size of the canvas and the anomalous signature among other things. The work was dismissed in 2003 and has been listed as "artist: anonymous" ever since. Now, nine years later, a team of researchers from the TU Delft, the University of Antwerp, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY in Hamburg, the Van Gogh Museum and the Kröller-Müller Museum has succeeded in confirming its authenticity. The results are now presented in the article "Rehabilitation of a flower still life in the Kröller-Müller Museum and a lost Antwerp painting by Van Gogh", a prepublication of "Van Gogh Studies 4". From today, for the first time in its history, the flower piece will be given a prominent position among other works by Vincent van Gogh in the museum's collection.
A brief history of the painting's development and of the voyage of discovery that eventually led to this cutting-edge insight follows below.
The story begins in Antwerp, where Van Gogh arrived in late November 1885 and enrolled at the art academy in January 1886. Part of the course was an exercise to paint a pair of wrestlers. Van Gogh's teacher urged him to purchase a large canvas, new brushes and paint, as Vincent wrote in a letter on 22 January. He himself had no money, but Theo enabled him to buy the materials. A week later he wrote 'This week I painted a large thing with two nude torsos – two wrestlers' and that he was delighted with the result. The large canvas was a standard format for figure paintings at the academy in Antwerp.
Van Gogh took the canvas with him when he went to live with his brother in Paris in late February 1886. There, he painted over the wrestlers several months later in a manner that was typical for him during this period, namely without first scraping off the first depiction or painting an intermediate layer over it: he painted immediately on top of it. The doubts about the authenticity of the flower piece were prompted in part by the unusual format for the subject: 100 x 80 cm. Van Gogh's Parisian flower still lifes are generally smaller, but here the size proved to be determined by the underlying academic piece. Another argument for its dismissal was the flower piece's uncharacteristic exuberance for Van Gogh, particularly the opulently filled foreground. But that too can be linked to the format and the fact that the artist had to paint over an entire wrestler on that spot.
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When the work appeared in an auction in 1920, where the Kröllers purchased 26 (!) of the 48 Van Gogh paintings, this floral piece was not among their acquisitions. The painting ended up in various private collections and was not included in the Kröller-Müller collection until 1974. The work was purchased with support from the Rembrandt Association and the Prince Bernhard Fund, in order to 'save it for the nation'. Ellen Joosten, then senior curator of the museum described the work as both 'exceptional' and 'remarkable'. She found the large size, the abundance of flowers in their lush display of colour and the smooth, 'rather academic approach' highly unusual. In the 2003 file catalogue – The paintings of Vincent van Gogh in the collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum – new arguments were raised, adding to the existing doubts. The work was dismissed but remained in the collection.
New research technique
An X-ray image made in 1998 already revealed that the flower piece was painted over the other depiction: the scene with the torsos of two wrestlers grasping each other by the arms. This X-ray continued to fascinate researchers. The new research technique MA-XRF (Macro Scanning X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry) made it possible to analyze both paintings in greater detail. The experiments which were mainly conducted at DESY´s synchrotron radiation source DORIS in Hamburg revealed not only a defining characteristic of the academy in Antwerp, namely that the male models posed half naked in contrast to academies elsewhere, but that the pigments used correspond entirely with Van Gogh's palette at that time. Furthermore, it was also possible to recognize Van Gogh's typical brushstrokes in the now far more visible depiction.
These and other arguments explained in detail in the article leave no doubt that the wrestlers and the flower still life were painted by Van Gogh. The publication Rehabilitation of a flower still life in the Kröller-Müller Museum and a lost Antwerp painting by Van Gogh (authors: Luuk Struick van der Loeff, Matthias Alfeld, Teio Meedendorp, Joris Dik, Ella Hendriks, Geert van der Snickt, Koen Janssens and Meta Chavannes) is available as a prepublication in the museum shop (English language). Van Gogh: New Findings (Van Gogh Studies deel 4) will be available from June 2012 and is published by WBooks under the auspices of the Van Gogh Museum. Still life with meadow flowers and roses is on display from 20 March in the Kröller-Müller Museum, together with Van Gogh's Roses and peonies and Flowers in a blue vase.
Scientific contacts
Kröller-Müller Museum: Luuk Struick van der Loeff, firstname.lastname@example.com
TU Delft: Prof. Joris Dik, firstname.lastname@example.com
Van Gogh Museum: Dr. Ella Hendriks, email@example.com
University of Antwerp: Prof. Koen Janssens, firstname.lastname@example.com
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY: Dr. Karen Appel, email@example.com
Press materials
Information on the Kröller-Müller Museum is available from Sylvia Gentenaar, telephone +31 318 596152, +31 6 12506816 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
The prepublication is also available in digital form.
Press contacts
Kröller-Müller Museum: Sylvia Gentenaar, telephone +31 318 596152, +31 6 12506816 or email@example.com.
TU Delft: Michel van Baal, telephone +31 15 2785454 or email@example.com.
Van Gogh Museum: Eva Biesiot, telephone +31 20 5705 223 or email@example.com.
University of Antwerp: Peter De Meyer, telephone + 32 3 265 47 11 or email@example.com
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY: Thomas Zoufal, telephone +49 40 8998 1666 or email@example.com


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Are MMS and Chidambaram mainly responsible for averting a great economic catastrophe in India, like that has happened in US & Europe? If so will they not qualify to be called GENIUOS? Your views?
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Yes they did so by playing hard but i think the RBI & its official along with other Public sector bank top officials too deserve the credit for it. They showed how to rein in the economy when the tides were high & managed it well. Although they had to compromise on the growth front & we had to bear the brunt of inflation but its much better than a crisis!!Answered by dharamender nebhnani, 07 Mar '13 04:03 pm
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They did their part but scams and scandals overshadowed their good workAnswered by Quest, 07 Mar '13 02:37 pm
The whole congress govt .is responsibleAnswered by krish, 07 Mar '13 01:29 pm
MMS did it when he was the RBI - Governor, and Chidu accomplished what MMS designed.....but now both enjoy the status of a warrior whose hands are tied behind.....Answered by Pradipta pati, 07 Mar '13 01:29 pm
Though they both are genious but they use to keep them self mum after all scams ........ and not taking interest to take any action against the culprit ....... that's why they can't be termed as GENIOUS .......Answered by pradeep mishra, 07 Mar '13 01:25 pm
I think more than those named, it is the parallel economy in the country that is responsible for averting the great economic crisis and hence I would say Indians are GeniusAnswered by rajnikant raiyarela, 07 Mar '13 01:21 pm
Okay call them whatever. wil it help me no.Answered by shaakal, 07 Mar '13 01:20 pm