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Notes On And Recommended Analyses Of Take This Waltz
In my two preceding posts on The Unrealized Potential of Cohen's Take This Waltz in The Gin Game,1 the specific content of the song, Take This Waltz, was a secondary consideration.
Some readers have expressed interest in the song itself. While my own need to analyze2 Take This Waltz has been adequately sated by those last two blog entries, I can offer some notes and direction.
Leonard Cohen On Lorca
Take This Waltz is an especially important song in the Leonard Cohen canon, in large part because the lyrics derive from Pequeño Vals Vienès ("Little Viennese Waltz"), a poem written in Spanish by Federico Garcia Lorca (pictured on right).
Cohen has commented on his discovery of Lorca's poem and its significance in numerous concerts and interviews. These quotations are representative.
From the Reykjavik Concert (24 June 1988)
Here of all places I don't have to explain how I fell in love with the poet Federico Garcia Lorca. I was 15 years old and I was wandering through the bookstores of Montreal and I fell upon one of his books,and I opened it,and my eyes saw those lines "I want to pass through the Arches of Elvira,to see her thighs and begin weeping". I thought "This is where I want to be"… I read alone "Green I want you green "I turned another page "The morning through fistfuls of ants in your face" I turned another page "Her thighs slipped away like school of silver minnows". I knew that I had come home. So it is with a great sense of gratitude that I am able to repay my debt to Federico Garcia, at least a corner, a fragment, a crumb, a hair, an electron of my debt by dedicating this song, this translation of his great poem "Little Viennese Waltz", "Take This Waltz".
You've just heard Take This Waltz, which is a translation I did of a very great poem by Federico Garcia Lorca, a poet who touched me very deeply, a poet who provided a landscape which I could inhabit, and people have been kind enough to say that I've done the same for them.
From the Nurnberg Concert (10 May 1988)
It was about 300 years ago today that I stumbled on a book by a Spanish poet. A book that was to alter my life completely. You see I was destined to be a brain surgeon or a forest ranger or even just to go into the family clothing business. But in this old bookstore I opened a book and I read the lines "I want to pass through the arches of Elvira, to see your thighs and begin weeping." I turned to the cover of the book, it was written by a Spanish poet by the name of Federico Garcia Lorca, and for the first time I understood that there was another world and I wanted to be in it. So it was a great honour for me when I was asked to translate one of his great poems into English and to set it to music. The poem is Little Viennese Waltz which I called Take This Waltz.
From the Austin Concert (31 October 1988)
Long time ago I was about 15 in my hometown of Montreal, I was rumbling through….or rambling as you say down here. We say "rumbling" .Actually we don't say that at all. I was rumbling through this bookstore in Montreal. And I came upon this old book, a second-hand book of poems by a Spanish poet. I opened it up and I read these lines : "I want to pass through the arches of Elvira, to see your thighs and begin weeping". Well that certainly was a refreshing sentiment. I began my own search for those arches those thighs and those tears….Another line "The morning threw fistfuls of ants at my face" It's a terrible idea. But this was a universe I understood thoroughly and I began to pursue it, I began to follow it and I began to live in it. And now these many years later, it is my great privilege to be able to offer my tiny homage to this great Spanish poet, the anniversary of whose assassination was celebrated two years ago. He was killed by the Civil Guards in Spain in 1936. But my real homage to this poet was naming my own daughter Lorca. It was Federico Garcia Lorca. I set one of his poems to music and translated it. He called it "Little Vienese Waltz". My song is called "Take this Waltz".
From a 1997 Interview, "Morning Becomes Eclectic", KCRW Radio
YF: You're known as a pretty fair interpreter yourself, given your handling of Lorca. Is it difficult for you?
LC: Unfortunately, all my efforts are painstaking. I'd prefer it if I were gifted and spontaneous and swift, but my work requires a great deal of painstaking. That's no guarantee of its quality, but it does. With the Lorca poem, the translation took 150 hours, just to get it into English that resembled–I would never presume to say duplicated–the greatness of Lorca's poem. It was a long, drawn-out affair, and the only reason I would even attempt it is my love for Lorca. I loved him as a kid; I named my daughter Lorca, so you can see this is not a casual figure in my life. She wears the same name beautifully; she is a very strange and eccentric soul…
Leonard Cohen's affection for the poet led him to name his daughter after him.
From the concert at The Hague 18 May 1993)
My daughter dyed her hair blue and I didn't mind,and she put this ring in her nose : I didn't mind that either.And she put this stud through her tongue.That was a little hard for a father to take but I didn't really feel like doing violence to her relationship just because you put a nail through a tongue. There are things you have to accept.Then she said she want to move to Amsterdam. That's when I put my foot down.( all this is my way of introducing a song ).My daughter was named after a great poet that touched me very much when I was her age. His name is Federico Garcia Lorca.My daughter's name is Lorca.And this is the song for him.
Pequeno Vals Vienes and its Translations
A side-by-side comparison of Leonard Cohen's Take This Waltz and a more literal English translation of Lorca's Little Viennese Waltz can be viewed on the Speaking Cohen site and Lorca's original poem, Pequeno Vals Vienes, in Spanish is available at Pequeno Vals Vienes
The 800 Pound Gorilla
While I lack statistical evidence, the most frequently referenced analysis of Take This Waltz appears to be Re-membering the Love Song: Ambivalence and Cohen's "Take This Waltz" by Charlene Diehl-Jones. This is a dense, sometimes abstruse, often challenging, and consistently impressive piece of scholarship. I've excerpted the opening,
After the opening four-measure instrumental lead of "Take This Waltz," we hear Cohen's voice, earthy, sometimes unbeautiful, with that lingering possibility of a sardonic undercurrent:
Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women. There's a shoulder where
Death comes to cry. There's a lobby with nine hundred windows.
There's a tree where the doves go to die.
Add to that voice — and its conspicuous hyperbole — the thumping insistence of a barrel-organ oom-pa-pa background, and you wonder what you might salvage, if there's anything to remain after the acid has pocked the surfaces here. Still, there's something disarmingly direct about this stylized waltz, something potent and compelling. It is, I would say, a love song. Or perhaps more accurately a love song from the other side: it doesn't pretend another Edenic beginning, but assumes — and even advertises — the borrowed nature of the lover's position, the conventions that make a love song possible. The necessary ambivalence, you might say, of the lover's stance in a textual/musical world which admits to its multiple layers of inscription.
Unfortunately for those uneducated in musicology, such as me, much of the paper deals with major and minor chords, tonality, and similar language that is, in effect, indecipherable. An example follows:
The structural ambivalence is echoed by the more immediately perceptible tonal ambivalence: "Take This Waltz" can hardly resist the lure of its own relative minor, and constantly swings between major and minor modes. The introductory four measures are securely positioned in the major, and though the voice enters in that key, by midway through the first line it is sketching the possibilities of the relative minor (Figure 1). (I have, for ease of reading, transposed these passages up a semitone, and sketched in the bass-line movement; for clarification of labeling techniques, and concepts of tonality and chord function, see especially Piston, 47-63.)
Well, thank goodness that she "transposed those passages up a semitone" for "ease of reading." Otherwise, I might have been up the proverbial creek. Clearly, I am unqualified to judge those music-centric portions of the essay.
My recommendation for those with a casual interest in Take This Waltz3 is to read through this work, blithely skip the music discussions unless those terms are familiar to you, and take the time to puzzle out portions that grab your interest.
Also Of Interest
Translation with a clamp on its jaws is actually a post about literal and free style translations that opens with a consideration of Nabokov's literal translation of "Eugene Onegin" and his free style translation of "Alice in Wonderland" and ends with the example of Federico Garcia Lorca's "Little Viennese Waltz," the literal translation by Greg Simon and Steven White, and the free translation by Leonard Cohen. It is well worth reading on its own merits as well as for a better understanding of Take This Waltz.
Finally, I recommend this excerpt from the Stylus Magazine article, Leonard Cohen: Take This Waltz.
"Take This Waltz," also from I'm Your Man, is about as close to singing as he got in the late 80s. Rare for Cohen, the lyrics are not his own; they are adapted from "Little Viennese Waltz" by Lorca. As with all of Cohen's work in this period, the backing is almost chintzy, especially the section where he and Jennifer Warnes start singing "this waltz, this waltz, this waltz." It sounds like something out of a bad Disney movie. Mostly Cohen just purrs over muted violin and beatless ambience. As is usual with his later work, it's hard to describe without sounding vaguely contemptuous. It shouldn't work, and it almost doesn't.
But then, you hear the way he sings "Oh my love, oh my love! / Take this waltz, take this waltz / It's yours now, it's all that there is." He sounds helpless, like a supplicant. And you think back to the weird fantasia of imagery, as much Cohen as Lorca:
"There's a piece that was torn from the morning, and it hangs in the Gallery of Frost"
"On a bed where the moon has been sweating, in a cry filled with footsteps and sand"
"And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise"
"Take this waltz, take this waltz, take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws"
And it becomes clear that the singer is hiding something. And, if you're me, you think back to "Chelsea Hotel #2", where Cohen was at his most forthright, singing "I need you / I don't need you / And all of that jivin' around." And suddenly, in those swirling six minutes as Cohen waltzes 'round Vienna, I see, clearly, that Cohen really hasn't changed, that he's still singing of the same old hurts and balms. There's still the push and pull of "I need you / I don't need you," but now there's this towering, Gothic edifice erected over it. Part of it is boredom, I imagine—when you keep your hand in for as long as Cohen has, you have to vary things a little. And part of it is probably protection, the sadness in Cohen's voice only tolerable for short periods.
But all that can be figured out. The beauty, the genius, the true devastation of the love song that is "Take This Waltz" is that as Cohen sings to Her "And you'll carry me down on your dancing to the pools that you lift on your wrist" (and it's always Her of course, the same Her), you really feel it, you feel all the ways that this massive construction doesn't just hide the deeper issues, but amplifies them, renders them rich and strange. I can hear now that Cohen's earlier work is necessary to understand his later, but it's the dream-like potency of those later excursions that have me addicted.
Credit Due Department: The painting, Hofball in Wien by Wilhelm Gause is from Wikipedia Commons.
- See Part 1: The Basics of the Play and Its Add-on Dance Scene and Part 2: The Tragic Poignancy Of Love Touched But Not Grasped [↩]
- The "need to analyze" is listed in a special edition of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs between the need to distinguish between sierra gold and amber sunshine and the need to catch a bowling ball dropped from a five story building in ones teeth [↩]
- "Casual interest" in this case includes the range that begins with curious and ends just before writing ones University of Chicago Ph.D. dissertation on The Conflicted Psychosociomusical Elements of Take This Waltz. [↩]


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Okay, this is going to be a rant about technical stuff having to do with web design. If you're not interested in poking through the guts of web sites to see how they work, I advise leaving now.
I'm writing a form that goes in a web page. What it's for isn't terribly important, but there are a couple of different places where you need to fill in a date for something -- like, "Needed By" and then you indicate a date in the future. Simple, straightforward, right?
HTML defines a fairly limited number of form input elements. You can have little text fields, big text areas, check boxes, radio buttons, drop-down select boxes, and (if you want) multiple select boxes. None of those are designed for dealing with date or time information.
The easiest solution, from a programmer's perspective, is to use a text field. Just have the end user of the form type the date in. They can do that, right? But then you have to deal with eight bazillion ways of entering dates. Here are some of the ways people might potentially enter the date of June 17th 2009:
June 17 2009
17 June 2009
Jun 17 2009
17 Jun 2009
... and all that doesn't even consider things like the day of the week, whether they add 'th' on the end, or internationalization issues. What do you do when some Copt comes to your page and tells you that he wants it by Amshir 19, 1725?
Unless you're a programmer of preternatural thoroughness, your program chokes, that's what!
So just a plain text field is NOT going to cut it. That means that you have to come up with some other way of doing it.
Great! So, how about this? We have a drop-down box where you can select the day of the month, another drop-down box for selecting the month (by full name), and then a drop-down box for picking the year. Hard to screw that up, eh?
But then you run into all kinds of issues. The months in our calendar have between 28 and 31 days each. If you put 31 days in the drop-box for picking the day, then that lets people specify imaginary dates like February 30th. And that means that you have to write code to make your program reject such imaginary dates.
A month drop-down box is pretty simple. But as for years -- they just keep coming, you know? So you have to write code to populate the list of years with every year starting from when the program was written and going on until .... untill .... until they stop using your program, and who knows how long that'll be? In the meantime, the select box gets longer every year.
But imagine that you've worked out the details, and it's going to work for the foreseeable future. Right? Well, then you have to start worrying about accessibility and usability issues.
Using three drop-down boxes is not terribly hard. If you have your sight, that is. If you're blind and you have to listen to the cruddy things being read aloud by your computer, then it gets harder. It's terribly important to provide clear, unambiguous labels for every form input, labels that screen reading software can read aloud so blind people will know what's what.
But if those labels are
in the document, then that decreases its usability for sighted people. They start wondering "Why does it always label those as day, month, and year, when it's perfectly obvious what they are from how they look?"
So maybe you work out how to hide the labels, say, by using CSS positioning to move them off the screen. The labels are present and read aloud for the blind, but neatly swept under the rug so they don't clutter up the page visually for everybody who can see. And all is well.
UNTIL .... you have TWO dates to deal with. Suppose that in addition to "Needed By," your form needs another date, "Archived On." Then you're right back at the labels-versus-clutter issue, because you have to provide some way of distinguishing the dates from each other for the blind. If you've got two drop-down boxes that are both labeled "Day," then there has to be some way for a blind person to tell which one pertains to "Needed By" and which one pertains to "Archived On". Ditto for the two Month and Year drop-down boxes. You could do it with a fieldset and legend combination, but doing that every time you need a date introduces a lot of visual clutter, which decreases usability, but not doing it decreases accessibility, and ....
When I
of the countless hours I have wasted writing programs to deal with just
dates and times, and never mind actually
keeping track
of them, it makes me want to hurl things at the wall, scream insults at passing strangers, scale the nearest skyscraper and fling alarm clocks onto the unsuspecting masses below!
Why, why didn't the W3C in its wisdom define a "date/time" picker in the specification for HTML? Then three or four different companies could have built it into the web browsers directly, and saved thousands or
of hours of effort by web developers the world over. It makes me want to
Okay, I think I've got that out of my system for the moment. And I've got an idea to solve the problem that inspired this particular rant.
I'll just go waste some
time on time, shall I?
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There's a reason that the variety of Javascript date pickers out there are a web programmers best friend....
And yes, there's a reason why everyone's working on HTML 5...cause the current HTML is incomplete and a decade old
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Yeah yeah -- have you ever run one of those JavaScript date pickers through a screen reader? I have. Just tonight, in fact, I looked at
this one
. It suffered from several problems. I put a full post at the bottom of the blog post I just linked, but, in brief:
1) A blind user wont have any idea that the date picker is there.
2) If a blind user found it and activated it, they would hear several minutes of gibberish like "new: Tuesday, 3 slash VT pitch".
3) Once the date picker has loaded, its fully possible to control it via keyboard. But there's no way for the blind visitor to know which keys do what. And anyway, changing it via keyboard generates no audible output. So, any blind user who manages to find the date picker, open it, and sit through the resulting welter of gibberish, is not actually going to be able to select a date using it.
If you know of one that works with screen readers, I'd love to hear about it!
As for HTML 5, well, I'm happy that they're working on it. Maybe in another two or three years they'll finish the specification. Maybe another two or three years after that, the various web browsers on the market will have implemented enough of those features that we can actually use them with reasonable certainty that they'll work. So, good long term effort, I approve, but it ain't gonna relieve my woe any time soon.
Edit: Oh, and while I'm at it, the Drupal Forms API is a pain in the butt. Making it generate forms which don't look like crap is tedious and irritating -- it makes way too many assumptions about how I ought to want my forms to look. The form I'm dealing with now has nearly fifty fields to deal with, and looks like complete !@#%$ if I let Drupal have its own way. >.<
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Why don't you just ask them how many days they'd like it in? Then you can take the gregcalendar utility and add the days to it.
Tinalles wrote:
... and all that doesn't even consider things like the day of the week, whether they add 'th' on the end, or internationalization issues. What do you do when some Copt comes to your page and tells you that he wants it by Amshir 19, 1725?
Unless you're a programmer of preternatural thoroughness, your program chokes, that's what!
Illegal data type
the program just wipes the field and tells you to do it in the normal callendar.
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Squee is pretty positive there's a calendar widget out there that's nice with screen readers...Squee remembers finding one back in the day for use on something that never ended up happening.
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I'm inclined to think that asking how many days they need it in will force them to start doing arithmetic in their heads -- a clear violation of Krug's First Law of Usability. Also, it wouldn't work for the other two dates I need to track (date archived, date original item returned).
It's an interesting suggestion, though.
And I know you'd just handle the coptic date as an error, on the theory that it's way too much trouble to try and write a program capable of recognizing every date convention from every calendrical system in the entire world. It was just an example. :-Þ
I think I've settled on using a fieldset with an appropriate legend and hoping people can figure it out. I just hate spending so much time on the task -- just this weekend I've spent nearly 19 hours on just one form, when I've got a bazillion other things to do on the project.
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Maths is good for them, it will make them feel better about all those years spent at school studying the stuff.
Dang you Tin, now I feel the urge to go program something again. >_<
You could just make the text you want the screenreader to read the same colour as the background I supposed. :-/
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Hiding text from sighted users so that screen readers can still access it is easy. Thus:
.hidden { position: absolute; left: -999em; }
Extra info for screen readers, hidden from visual rendering.
The basic accessibility problem I'm facing is more to do with encoding information about the structure of the document in such a way that screen readers can access it. In each of the date picking things, I've got three separate select boxes:
- Day
- Month
- Year
Each of those has to be labeled individually. That's easy, here's a sample:
Year
<select id="edit-archive-year">
<option value="2008">2008</option>
<option value="2009">2009</option>
The ID on the select box gives it a unique identifier within the scope of the document. Then the "for" attribute on the label refers to that identifier, saying "this label is
edit-archive-year." Explicitly creating that association between the form element and its label means that screen readers never have to guess as to which label goes with which form element -- they always know, and speak the correct label aloud when a blind user encounters the form element.
The problem is that all three of the form elements
as a group
need a label, too. Although they're all separate elements within the form, they're also logically part and parcel of a larger unit (the date as a whole). And I need to make sure, in a document containing multiple dates, that people can tell which date elements are grouped together. For example, the three archive select boxes need to be labeled "Archive Date", and it needs to be done in such a way that the association between the label and the select boxes remains retrievable on demand by screen reading software.
Unfortunately, you can't assign more than one label to any one form input. Or rather, you can write HTML code that will
to do it:
Archive Date
Year
<select id="edit-archive-year">
<option value="2008">2008</option>
<option value="2009">2009</option>
... but screen readers won't actually read both labels if you try that. Usually the pick one and ignore the other.
HTML also offers the ability to group logically connected sets of form elements using a
. Like this:
<legend>Archive Date</legend>
Day
<select id="edit-archive-day">
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="31">31</option>
Month
<select id="edit-archive-month">
<option value="1">January</option>
<option value="12">December</option>
Year
<select id="edit-archive-year">
<option value="2008">2008</option>
<option value="2009">2009</option>
... and screen readers are able to extract that information on demand. A screen reader would read this as:
Fieldset: Archive Date.
Select Box: Day. The select box is set to 1.
Select Box: Month. The select box is set to January.
Select box: Year. The select box is set to 2008.
So, that works great for screen reader users.
But screen reader users constitute a vanishingly small percentage of the overall population. The default
visual appearance
of the fieldsets was designed with the assumption that there would be large numbers of related fields within one, and only a very few fieldsets present in any given form. Using one every single time I need to have somebody fill in a date really clutters up a form fast. I want to keep the visual appearance of the form as clean, simple, and uncluttered as possible.
I can do a lot of reformatting with CSS, but it's fiendishly difficult to get form elements to line up regularly while keeping the HTML as clean and accessible as possible. The inadequate labeling conventions for form elements, combined with the lack of a language
specifically designed
to handle web page layout pits accessibility for blind users against usability for sighted users.
It shouldn't be this way. Often it isn't, in fact -- in many cases, changes made for accessibility reasons wind up being helpful to everyone else, too. Think of all those curb cuts with slanted ramps at the corners of streets. They were initially installed for wheelchair users, but they're also handy for people pushing strollers, or carts full of boxes, or anyone on rollerblades or skateboards.
But in this case, it is that way -- no matter which I pick, serving one group of users is going to mean compromising the quality of service for another group, and it drives me nuts. I care about supporting blind users as a matter of principle, and as a memorial to a wonderful teacher I TA'ed for, who was blind and died of cancer last spring. I
having to compromise the form's accessibility to the blind in order to make it more easily usable by the sighted. But basically, the particular people who I know for sure are going to be using this all have their sight, and so I'm going to have to sacrifice principle for expediency. And then I'll wind up agonizing about it for days.
And all because the W3C didn't think to add date or time pickers as default form types ten years ago when they were hashing out the current version of the HTML standard. BAH.
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Squee honestly doesn't see why using a fieldset is all that bad....seems like a fairly simple solution to Squee.
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It's not so bad, really. I'm just a wild-eyed perfectionist.
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Absolutely fell in love with this dress. It flatters my body, and considering I am busty it didn't look provocative, but rather sexy and classy!
May 1, 2013
LOVE, Classy mixed with sexy
I don't know what the bad reviews were talking about. I love this dress. It flatters my body and the slit on top is still classy. It is about as short as bebe's other body con dresses.
March 14, 2013
I would buy this dress in multiple colors
I loved this dress, it was sexy yet classy. I would buy this dress in multiple colors
March 11, 2013
Sorry girls, I'm going to have to majorly disagree. I fell in love with this dress. The fabric is great, hugging you and all of the right places. I do agree that the slit in the top part is more exaggerated in person but isn't that kind of the look these days? The dress has such a high neckline and besides being short in length, you're really not showing that much skin in a provocative way. Check out Brandi Glanville on Watch what happens live, thats more of the look that this dress gives once you have it on. More cleavage yes, but hey it looks hot!
March 8, 2013
Looks better in the pictures than in person
The slit in the dress is much bigger than they show on the model in the picture which makes the dress not as classy looking.The dress runs skin tight and its short it would look good on really tall skinny girls but I don't recommend this dress to anyone unless they have a similar body type to the models in the above picture.It looks much classier in the picture when you try it on it looks more unclassy and nightclub appropriate.As far as the zipper and the design of the dress its a bit cheap looking .The zipper gets caught and snags frequently.I was surprised this dress sold out so fast it looks nice but it doesn't look the same way on wish it did.The design was a good concept bebe just didn't deliver.
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Polk County High School class of 1973 will hold its 40th class reunion on Sept. 21, at Savannah Oaks Winery in Delano. Classmates or teachers who plan to attend can call Becky Moorhouse Mirabella at 829-8906 by Aug. 28.
Bed Race Festival to benefit Family Promise of Bradley County will be Sept. 21. Family Promise responds to the growing need to provide shelter, meals, and comprehensive support services to homeless families. Incredible Detail in Dayton challenges other automobile detailing shops to register and race in this annual event. For more information or for registration forms, visit www.familypromisebradley.org.
A women's breakfast will be held on Sept. 28, at 9:30 a.m. at The Salvation Army, 437 Inman St. It will be a time of fellowship and an introduction to the "When Wallflowers Dance Women's Conference" which will be on Oct. 25 and 26. "When Wallflowers Dance" is a fresh challenge to women who have lived hesitant, cautious lives but long to break free and dance. It uses Scripture to address the attributes of "becoming" free. There is no cost to attend. To register, call 423-479-4905.
The 24th East Tennessee Auto Pl8s meet will be held on Sept. 28 at the Tri-State Exhibition Center in the Exhibit Hall, from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. Guests and prospective members are welcome to attend at no charge. For more information, call Joe Sharp at 559-0836.
Take Charge of Your Diabetes six-week course will begin Sept. 30 and continue Oct. 7, 14, 21 and 28, concluding Nov. 4. Classes are from 2 to 4 p.m. each day. The course is a fun, skill-building program designed for people with diabetes and is designed to help individuals take day-to-day responsibility for the care of their diabetes. Class size is limited. To register, contact the UT Extension-Bradley Office at 728-7001 by Sept. 26.
Everyone is invited to sing with the Salvation Army Community Choir and be a part of the worship celebration at Peerless Road Church on Oct. 3 from 6 to 9 p.m. For more information about practice schedules or the event, call Roxanne Corbett at 423-331-3780.
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The Common Threads Quilt Club is sponsoring a Quilt show on Oct. 11 and 12 at the Mount Olive Chuch of God Family Ministry Center, 3533 Harrison Pike. The event will be from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday. Food and crafts will be available for purchase. For more information, contact Cordie Davis at 472-7523 or 715-4033; or Ruth Phillips email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT 24 AUG 1972 MINING DIVISION UTAH INTERNATIONAL INC. Irvin International Inc. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT U.S. MEXICO DON M. IRVIN PRESIDENT 21 August 72 Dear Hugh- Your Dad gave me your address Saturday night when we were at the 49er charger game together. Dan Gorski is the geologist and I take care of the business aspect. Have just about finished the project for my major client in Mexico during the past year and would welcome any business you might send my way. Best- Don The two books in reference to the copper property were mailed to you this date! SOUTHWEST EXECUTIVE SUITE- TEL. 915-5200, P. O. BOX 18- EL PASO, TEXAS 79940 copper- Mexico 29 August 1972 Mr. Don M. Irvin President Irvin International Inc. P. 0. Box 18 El Paso, Texas 79940 Dear Don: Your letter arrived last week and the two-volume report on the Samalayuca copper mine arrived yesterday. I read all the material and have passed the report on to Bob Wheaton who is handling our exploration affairs in North America. The report is very thorough and well documented; I did have one question - - who owns the water rights? As I may have mentioned to you in La Jolla, Utah, at this time, has not decided to enter mining in Mexico. Our group has done several detailed studies on the mining and taxation implications for business in Mexico but with our interests in the United States, Australia and Canada absorbing our energy and capital, Mexico must be put in abeyance. However, something on the back burner can be moved to the front with a good mining prospect. I will let you know the reaction here. My many thanks for bringing the property to mine and Utah's attention. Yours sincerely, Hugh Douglas Manager Mineral Planning HD/nam
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Groupon founder, CEO Andrew Mason says 'I was fired today'
BY SANDRA GUY and MITCH DUDEK Staff Reporters February 28, 2013 1:30PM
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason speaks at an event last May. | Tom Cruze~Sun-Times
Bio of Andrew Mason
TITLE: Founder of Groupon Inc.; CEO until Thursday.
TWEET on Feb. 27: Three oranges in a meeting with four of us? No question — I give my oranges to the others. #leadership.
TWEET on Feb. 28: (Apparently, sharing oranges is necessary but insufficient #leadership).
EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in music from Northwestern University.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Founded Groupon in November 2008 and served as CEO until Thursday. Previously worked as a software developer with InnerWorkings Inc.
PERSONAL: Was once a keyboardist in a punk band.
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The Chicago tech community lost its biggest and brightest star Thursday when golden boy and Groupon founder Andrew Mason got knocked from his CEO throne. The markets seemed to like the move Friday, with the stock opening up 3 percent.
Critics and admirers alike said Mason, 32, will never lose his cult-like status for having created what Forbes called the "fastest growing ever" global commerce business.
"He's kind of like a folk hero," said Andrew Wenum, 25, who runs a GRP21 brand building website and worked as a video producer at Groupon.
The Northwestern University music major fell victim to a common technology-industry phenomenon: The wunderkind had the great idea, but not the skills to run his business as it ballooned into a big public company.
The firing came three months after the board of directors first discussed Mason's fate in the midst of Groupon's stock and performance freefall. Investors and analysts have long said the daily-deal emails were growing wearisome and spam-like, and questioned Groupon's struggle to grow with a variety of tactics.
The board on Thursday named two directors — founding investor and Executive Chairman Eric Lefkofsky and Vice Chairman Ted Leonsis — to the newly created "Office of the Chief Executive," until it finds a new CEO.
Mason's ouster followed the latest miserable earnings report. On Wednesday, the daily deal site announced a widening net loss and lower-than-expected forecast sales and operating results. On Thursday, shares plunged 24 percent, closing at $4.53 — 77 percent below its IPO price and all-time high.
Investors welcomed the change, sending the stock jumping 8 percent minutes after the 3:22 p.m. Central Time announcement.
In his trademark goofy yet smart-aleck way, Mason had tweeted a hint on Wednesday that he had given up his leadership post, saying, "Three oranges in a meeting with four of us. No question — I give my oranges to the others. #leadership"
On Thursday, he posted a memo to Jottit.com, saying, tongue-in-cheek, "I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding — I was fired today. … If you're wondering why... you haven't been paying attention." His tweet linking the memo said, "Apparently, sharing oranges is necessary but insufficient #leadership."
The loss of Mason as Chicago's most-acclaimed tech leader is bound to reverberate, but some say his contributions can't be undone.
"He framed the skills of other entrepreneurs who were catapulted to other startups or who started their own," Wenum said. "A place like this (1871 tech collaborative space) never would never exist without Groupon...he showed people it could be done."
Michael Landers, 52, founder of Pixme2, a digital entertainment communications network startup, is among those who expect Mason to rise again.
"He's going to do something again," he said. "He won't be able to sit idly by."
Matt Moog, founder of Viewpoints Network consumer review and product rating service, head of tech networking group BuiltInChicago.org and a key player in creating the 1871 tech hub at the Merchandise Mart, said he hopes Mason starts a new business here.
"There is no other person in Chicago who could say they were younger than 30 when they started a multi-billion-dollar company," Moog said, referring to Groupon's estimated valuation when it turned down a $6 billion takeover offer from Google in December 2010.
Moog said Groupon represents 5 percent of the greater Chicago area's digital-tech employment, and that several companies in the sector provide solid jobs and revenues.
"I don't think the fortunes of the digital tech community rise and fall on Groupon," he said.
Jason Kunesh, former director of user experience for the Obama campaign and director of product for the team's dashboard organizing tool, said the Chicago tech scene "will be great."
"There are a lot of good things happening in Chicago tech," he said. "We have a proven entrepreneur with experience on the street, and Groupon is rebooting its leadership."
Despite the fun, nonchalant image Mason portrayed, complaints hounded Groupon, with merchants saying they lost money and received little guidance on how to leverage the Groupon coupons, and former employees describing the company as a "white collar sweatshop" with a disorganized sales force. Groupon created some of its own headaches, too, with Mason talking out of turn during a so-called "quiet period" and the company being forced into financial accounting do-overs, before and after the IPO.
Experts in the corporate-office world said Groupon should hire from outside, even though Chief Operating Officer Kal Raman — promoted about the time talk of Mason's uncertain future grew — has been mentioned as a possible successor.
Lou Kerner, founder of the Social Internet Fund, a New York-based investor in tech companies who first told the Sun-Times of Mason's vulnerability last summer, said Groupon will look for "a big name, well known to the investment community" who can restore Wall Street's and investors' faith.
He speculated the new CEO might be a senior leader at Amazon, Google or another big tech company.
"It's a very tempting job," Kerner said. "It's a very big footprint on which to have an impact."
Kerner said he believes it's "unimaginable" that Groupon would pick an internal candidate.
"They've shown they have a long history of internal incompetence. It wouldn't give the investment community any faith," he said.
Ryan Stanton, director of the crisis and litigation group at Levick, a Washington, D.C.-based reputation management firm, said Groupon should hire an outsider with a track record of "taking startups to the next level" and who can communicate Groupon's competitive advantages.
"The board will be looking for a seasoned veteran who can bring a sense of maturity and reassure investors that the business model can thrive and succeed longterm," Stanton said.
Mary Kelly, an economist and author of "Fifteen Ways to Grown Your Business in Every Economy," said Groupon should hire someone from outside who has experience in satisfying customers — perhaps someone who has worked at a major restaurant or retailer.
Sameet Sinha, senior analyst at B. Riley and Co., said Groupon has the chance to hire someone who has managed a "multi-geographic sales team, preferably in the e-commerce industry, and to clean the slate at this point and start over, instead of missing out on promises made after the IPO. They have an option to write the story differently now."


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Kadner: Guns, politics and national madness
By Phil Kadner firstname.lastname@example.com February 1, 2013 9:08PM
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is behind blistering commercials appearing on local TV stations that attack former U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson's pro-gun record.
The commercials note that Halvorson, of Crete, a Democratic candidate for Jesse Jackson Jr.'s 2nd Congressional District seat, once received an "A" from the National Rifle Association while in office.
They say she opposed a ban on assault rifles, reducing the size of gun magazines and has supported measures that would allow criminals to cross state lines carrying concealed weapons.
The commercials are paid for by Independence USA PAC, founded by Bloomberg and primarily financed by him. The New York mayor is a billionaire.
I resent political action committees jumping into local elections in an attempt to sway voters. Based on the phone calls and emails I've received, there are a lot of voters in the 2nd District who feel the same way.
But the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that massive campaign spending by political action committees is free speech as defined by the First Amendment.
There's little chance that Halvorson, or any other candidate in the 2nd District race, could come up with the money to counter the spending of Independence USA PAC.
As for Halvorson, I'm not sure where she stands on gun control, or more important, how she would vote if elected.
Five years ago, when she represented a congressional district that didn't include Chicago, she took positions designed to curry favor with rural, pro-gun voters. That's when she won her "A" rating from the NRA.
She recently told another news organization that's she's altered her views slightly now that she's running in a district that includes Chicago's South Side and more gun control supporters. She still opposes a ban on assault weapons but would consider restrictions on the size of ammo magazines.
I believe that. For better or worse, Halvorson tailors her political philosophy to fit her constituency, as do most politicians.
I resent the fact that gun control has become a focal point of political debate.
In a recent discussion with a knowledgeable, veteran political operative, he told me "assault weapons had to be banned," and no right-thinking person could oppose such legislation.
So I asked him how he defined an assault rifle.
"A gun that fires multiple shots with one pull of the trigger," he said.
But that's not what lawmakers are talking about.
Those guns are automatic weapons that are tightly controlled by the federal government and require thorough background checks. It's not the type of rifle used by Adam Lanza when he killed 26 people, 20 of them young children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
When politicians refer to assault rifles, they're usually talking about semi-automatics that require a pull of the trigger for each round fired. But that's not what qualifies them as assault weapons.
As described in previous laws, an assault weapon is a semi-automatic rifle that has a bayonet attached, a flash suppression device, a folding stock or a pistol grip. The rifle wouldn't be banned. Just those features on a semi-automatic rifle.
That's what drives pro-gun types to the brink of incoherence when they try to talk to anti-gun people about this subject.
The words "assault rifle" describe nothing at all. It all depends on how such guns are described in specific legislation.
I stopped long enough to listen to the rants of the pro-gun folks, ignored the insults hurled my way and checked the facts regarding their complaints. They're right.
People discussing the pros and cons of gun control often don't know what they're talking about, even among themselves.
The reality is that children are often murdered in cold blood by other children for no apparent reason, with guns that do not fit the description of assault rifles.
The availability of guns on the streets of America plays a significant role in the bloodbath, but the pro-gun folks don't want to believe that.
On the other hand, the fact that people are so willing to use those guns to kill others is also significant, and the anti-gun folks refuse to address that topic.
So the debate comes down to this question: Should a crazy person be allowed 10 rounds per magazine or 30 rounds before he enters a school building?
Vice President Joe Biden is trying to negotiate an agreement on that issue with Republicans in Congress.
If you step back for a minute and overlook the little children dying, the debate over gun control almost seems comical.
On the one hand, there's all this concern over 30-round magazines and assault weapons, and on the other you have a U.S. appeals court ruling that Illinois' ban on carrying concealed weapons is unconstitutional.
Illinois is the only state that does not have a concealed-carry law, so the Legislature is under pressure to pass a law that allows civilians to carry guns so people supposedly can feel safer on the streets.
I don't know how this would have helped 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, of Chicago, who was murdered this past week while hanging around in a park with friends.
She has become the latest poster child for gun control, although no one claims the laws being proposed would have saved her life.
This country is living in denial — banning guns, reaching for guns, clutching at whatever is handy to avoid dealing with the real issue.
There's a sickness eating at the very core of the nation and killing our children.
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Nov 21, 2012This game is awesome :P I really enjoy myself during my game-play. Although there are some bugs or glitches but they don't effect my game experiences. I believe assassin's creed 3 is worth a 10 score
Nov 27, 2012Pretty good series, but not as good as the 2nd was. I missed something from it, maybe the good story. I've waited for it, but it's not as good, as I expected. Good graphics, good gameplay, but not the best story. The character of Connor is easy to forget, not like Ezio or Altair. I liked the game, but it's not the best in this series.
Nov 27, 2012I simply do not understand why people are so enthusiastic about this game. I hate games that take you by the hand and don't offer anything else besides the scripted linear path. The summary of my experience with this game comes to: "Hold E to skip cinematic" and "Follow the yellow dot to finish your goal". Extremely boring... moving on.
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Nov 23, 2012This game is not bad, but I'm already tired of the same cities in the game. Graphics of the game is even worse than in the second part. I think that this game is ported from the PS Vita.
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Nov 21, 2012This is a masterpiece and a new era of gaming... I've been gaming my whole life and I'm not quite into graphics usually, I want a decent gameplay and some combat sistems, but this game just blew me away. I've been playing the whole AC seriers amongst others. I am highly impressed and this is a game that you should buy. Hats down Ubisoft
Nov 22, 2012Well it couldn't match the success of previous games of Assassin's Creed series such as Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood but this really is a great game which is certainly worth your time.
Dec 4, 2012Great story and setting, very well told, but it contains quite a lot of bugs, and the controls can drive you really crazy at times, which is especially annoying in long missions, where you die at the end and are then placed at the start of the mission. Most missions do have checkpoints though, so it's only a few (really annoying) missions who suffer that problem.
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Nov 27, 2012It's only **** port of the console game [ps3/xbox360] , poor graphic options, poor keyboard controls, no aspect ratio 4.3 for resolution. Its good game on console's but **** game on PC.
Nov 22, 2012Excellent game. Great graphics and gameplay. Enjoying everything about it right now. I am reading few users complaining about glitches or game not being designed the way they wanted. So far in 5hr gameplay I haven't noticed any issue and am totally happy with the game.
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Dec 10, 2012**** Assassin's creed title yet. There is a lot to do, but absolutely nothing is fun. Combat is just silly and once you watch an hour of combat you have seen it all. Sidequests don't feel important. Stealth no longer feels important or fun for that matter. Connor is a dipsh*t. The story doesn't make sense.
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Nov 28, 2012THE BEST assassin's creed game to date... AWESOME graphics great story and magnificent game play!
IT is the best game i have played since Skyrim... The polished combat system, the new hunting play along with the naval missions has given Assassin's Creed a really unique look in a awesome way... and not to mention the DX11 graphics is mind blowing! 10/10 goes to UBI! -
Nov 21, 2012For me this is the best Assassin's Creed since the first game. Yes it's simple regarding combat and so on, but the story and game's world is so enrapturing I can't take my hands of it.
Nov 25, 2012AC3 is definitely a refreshing change to the already established mechanics of past AC games. An incredible soundtrack, graphically amazing, a predictable yet decent story and a new , likable protagonist, AC3 is surely a game to look into despite a few bugs and glitches.
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Dec 7, 2012Score of 0. Very poorly done and very poorly ported to PC. Horrible controls. Mouse accel is only acceptable on extremes for SP(10) and MP(1). Nothing like any previous games. Stealth is gone. Assassinations are gone. AC is gone. Turning into a COD clone with guns now. UBI robbed us of funds
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Feb 1, 2013This game doesn't work with 3D Vision at all, even though it should since it is advertised as working. For me, it's a definite goner. The thing with 3D Vision is, once you played games in S3D, you can't go back... sorry
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Dec 26, 2012COTSCENE kill 5.... COTSCENE walk 5 meters... COTSCENE press one button... COTSCENCE. 3 for the facial animations and the blood... fap fap fap +1 for the ship fights. the rest mehhhh. I am curious what's next on ASSASSins LOST!? Who's responsible ****
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Feb 11, 2013The game has become a soap film, you go and listen dialogues, sometimes you ride a horse, commanding fire, you can control the ship a minimum of action. No stealth and plot battle with 15 people. Conor listens some left people, carry out their orders, instead of himself all to understand and come up with a plan. Gameplay is very boring, all for the sake of the plot, sometimes very stupid.
Jan 19, 2013
Dec 3, 2012a good game but not great
and i really like connor story but totally dislike desmond in this series
I think in as2 series everything was perfect and i like ezio over connor as a real assasin
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Nov 29, 2012I have to give a 5 score to the AC3,if im not a fun of AC series i may give 0.It's terrible,really.I dont know whether the ubi did it for PC or not,see the lockpick system.All the experience gives me the fact that UBI only concerns about the results on console.
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Sep 1, 2013Worst game i have ever played. single player has like 5 million bugs multiplayer that doesn't work on ps3. Ubi give me my money back!!!!!!! if you like the AC series DO NOT BUY THIS PART.
Nov 17, 2013Worst game I have ever played. I played for about 1 hour and quit because I could not take it anymore. It really is that bad. I can't think of a single game out there that is worse than this one. Who the gives those "experts" the qualification to call themselves experts? I do not trust those "experts" who gave this piece of crap an eight.
Dec 29, 2012Expected much more than I got. It really is unfortunate that they'd incorporate such a bad ending in an attempt to milk the series in the future. Don't expect anything groundbreaking.
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May 18, 2013full synchronization rubbish makes this game so frustrating. playing a sequence over and over again is enraging.
storyline is of desmond is rubbish and written by a 3 year old.
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Jul 22, 2013The game is horrible. I am so disappointed being a AC1 hardcore fan. I rated AC1 10/10 AC2 9/10 and I am giving AC3 0/10.
Initially the game felt good. But then I realized that there isn't much to do. Story is boring. Anyway to cut a long story short people that rated 7+ /10 are obviously unfamiliar with AC 1 -
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Oct 16, 2013the game is out for quite some time now and still it keeps closing the tab of the game for me at random so i have to click back in and the map only works when it feels like are they actually serious about this? epic fail no were give about the PC users good job...
Nov 25, 2012the only lack of this game is optimization especially on AMD cards. Graphics the best of the series, gameplay the best and more dinamic , elements of batman AC and some RDR airs. Amazing story.
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Apr 23, 2013Ridiculously buggy to the point of not even being playable. As always, the storyline and voice acting are superb, but the majority of the game is action based and nothing ever, ever works properly. AC3 spits on the legacy of the franchise and should be ignored.
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Feb 13, 2013Hands down my favorite game in the series. On PC it is drop dead gorgeous. The story very much begins as an origin story for the new protagonist Connor. This is incredible, but completely replaying the game gets tedious due to the long handhold of an introduction. The new ship warfare and sailing is incredibly fun.
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Mar 5, 2013This game is a real dud of a game. The only two interesting game features in the game are the ship battles and the decent combat. All story and side missions suck and the game is full of bugs, waiting around and meaningless drivel. I am fan of AC2 and Revelations but this installment is completely skippable and uninteresting.
Nov 26, 2012It's a very good game. But not so good as an Assassin's Creed :/
It's different, the others opus were more "RPG"... here the story is our primary quest.
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Feb 6, 2013Assassin's Creed III proves to be, despite its promises, a rather indecisive game. It comes with so many strong elements, that it could have been the best Assassin's Creed ever, but it fails to harmonically balance those elements. [January 2013]
Jan 29, 2013Assassin's Creed 3 offers a spectacular way to fill in the blanks in your knowledge of the American Revolution - it never holds back on scope, drama or action.
Jan 23, 2013What, no French revolution? For Europeans, birth of the United States is not really very interesting time nor environment. And after Ezio (or Haytham Kenway), Connor is bland, irritating protagonist. Game is also full of chores that add very little to the experience. [Jan 2013]


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GREENVILLE, KY (2/17/14) — As Greenville Mayor Ed DeArmond prepares to retire, he says he now has time to reminiscence about his career and plan his future.
DeArmond played baseball and basketball for Hughes-Kirk High School, served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam era, and served a distinguished stint with the Kentucky State Police, from 1972 to 2002, where he assisted as a SWAT team negotiator in several cases.
Now, after serving as mayor of Greenville from 2006 to present, DeArmond will soon end 40 years of public service Dec. 2014, much of his time spent in Muhlenberg County.
He said he's ready to enjoy those golden years other friends have often told him about.
"I have a daughter and a two-year-old grandchild. I want to spend more time with them," DeArmond said. "Due to the many duty assignments during my tenure with KSP, I missed a lot of quality time with my daughter. This time I want to have plenty of time for both."
DeArmond worked in Muhlenberg until 1980, was promoted to sergeant at the Madisonville KSP post, then was promoted again to KSP lieutenant before retiring in 2002.
"I started out working for KSP in Todd County. But then a trooper was killed in Christian County, so they transferred me there. Before long they had shipped me back home to Muhlenberg County," DeArmond said.
"For those four years before people started asking me to run for mayor of Greenville, the biggest decision I had to make was what time I got up," DeArmond said.
When asked what he's proudest moment was after taking the office of mayor, DeArmond said, without a doubt, "It was keeping a promise I made while running for office."
DeArmond said he promised during the campaign that, if elected, he would make sure there was a policeman in all of the school zones.
"And we did it. Within a couple of days of taking office, we went from what was total chaos … with buses, teachers and parents coming and going every which way. But the police did their job well, and officers still patrol school zones the way I planned it. For some reason, that is just something I feel really proud about," DeArmond said. "It was my first plan of action in office, and it worked."
So what does DeArmond plan to do now?
"I haven't had a vacation in five years. What do you think?" DeArmond said.
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Shop the Look: Chanel Spring 2013, As Seen Through the Eyes of Instagram
Karl Lagerfeld's lovely Chanel collection was packed with the label's time-honored signatures: nubby tweed jackets, gorgeous platform heels and pearls by the yard. Those luminescent precious gems turned up in jewelry form—chunky twisted collars and cluster-style bracelets—but they also dotted skirts, dresses and buttons. And with many jackets and knits done in a cropped length and the majority of party dresses shown sans straps, the emphasis was squarely on the shoulders and collarbone. All the better to show off those gleaming pearl chokers, we suppose.
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Kor-BQ specializes in Korean tacos, or "takos," whose myriad blasts of flavors seem to defy their simple construction. Marinated meats such as short rib, rib eye, and pork form the basis of these fusion delicacies, while a Korean fusion salsa and sesame seeds add the zesty kick. The tacos come three ways: with a cilantro and onion mix, dressed in lettuce slaw and drizzled with soy sauce vinaigrette, or "nude," a style that foregoes the fixings to avoid cilantro-shaped tan lines. Those who prefer to use a spoon instead of their hands can find similar sustenance in the rice bowls, which feature hearty mixes of marinated meat, sautéed vegetables, clear glass noodles, and lettuce slaw with vinaigrette.
If you haven't heard of Da Won, it's not for a lack of quality. According to D Magazine, when the restaurant first opened in 2010, Korean-born chef-owner June Lee took all the money she might have spent on advertising and instead funneled it into buying the best beef she could find. This dedication to freshness translates into everything Lee serves, especially banchan, the small side dishes her restaurant is known for. Instead of prepping each small bowl of homemade kimchi, tofu, steamed eggs, and savory pancakes in the morning like many restaurants, Lee makes two batches a day, ensuring that what hits the dining table is never more than a few hours old. Along with sushi and hibachi dishes, the restaurant serves a multitude of soups, including a Soon Tofu soup beloved by D Magazine.
Every table is its own little kitchen at Omi Korean Grill & Bar. At this Korean barbecue restaurant, beef short ribs, sliced pork, and beef tongue sizzle on tabletop grills, casting aromas—but not smoke, thanks to powerful vent hoods—around the table as diners partake in the ritual of preparing their own food. The name "Omi" refers to the five flavor elements essential to Korean cooking: sour, bitter, pungent, sweet, and salty. The cooks—and diners—harness these tastes in every dish, whether the dish comes to life in the dining room or, like the Dolsot Bibimbap—a hot and spicy rice and vegetable dish served in a stone pot—arrives piping hot from the kitchen. Meanwhile, the bar offers Korean flavors in the form of libations; bartenders stock exotic liquors such as soju and bokbunja alongside wine and beers from the U.S. and Japan.
After moving to America at 3 months old, Steve Shin didn?t have much time to learn the culinary traditions of his native South Korea. But when he returned for a year in 2001, he witnessed the cuisine's slimming properties firsthand. Though he consumed lots of food, his waistline shrank, most likely due to the minimal grease and fat content in South Korean cuisine. Inspired by his journey, he tried to eat a more healthy diet when he returned to the U.S, but after several rounds of salads and sandwiches, fast food lured him back to his old habits. Frustrated, he started brainstorming ways to build healthy and balanced meals, which led to B B Bop Seoul Kitchen. At his Asian-fusion restaurant, the menu is centered on wholesome bowls of rice, veggies, and protein, steering customers away from heavy, fatty meals, such as a giant butter sculpture. Customers are free to indulge if they wish as B B Bop also serves up dip ready roundhouses including kimchi fries and a wide selection of wings.
To whip up B B Bop Seoul Kitchen's signature entree, cooks line bowls with a rice of the customer's choice, from a jasmine-scented Thai type to a nutty, fiber-filled brown variety. Next, the customer selects a lean, flame-grilled protein from options including pulled pork, chicken breast, or marinated tofu. Veggies such as bell peppers and bean sprouts add color and crunch to the dish, and sauce?the finishing touch?comes in more than a half-dozen flavors, from spicy red pepper to sweet teriyaki.
The menu at Gui Korean Japanese Bistro & Bar shows off the time-honored culinary traditions of the restaurant's namesake nations. Miso soup, edamame dusted with sea salt, and seafood-topped rice bowls represent the eatery's Japanese roots. The Korean side of the menu tends toward hot and hearty dishes such as the spicy kimchi jji gae, flavored with scallions, pork, and, naturally, a liberal dose of kimchi.
The bistro's modern dining room contrasts sharply with the old-school cooking. Strands of lighted crystal beads dangle from the ceiling, dividing the space's two main seating areas. Track lights and conical pendant lamps cast a soft glow across the simple banquettes and gleaming sushi bar. Outside, stout wooden tables populate the bistro's patio seating area, which rests in the shade of a tall tree.
The best piping hot bowls of Pho can be found at Dallas' Pho is for Lovers. The menu doesn't include any low-fat items, so set aside some extra calories for your visit. Grab the kids when you head to Pho is for Lovers — its family-oriented menu and ambience all perfect for the whole clan. Pho is for Lovers offers a free wifi hot spot — perfect for surfing the web or getting a little work done.
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Open concept. The Freeman Storage collection is a modular system with mid-century modern style. Its open cabinets sit side-by-side on a double base to create low sideboards and shelving. Stack more to build the perfect storage solution for books, platters or speakers.
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