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UTSA receives $1.6 million as Naval Engineering Education Consortium founding member
(June 23, 2010)--The University of Texas at San Antonio has joined 14 universities from across the nation to form the Naval Engineering Education Consortium (NEEC), an initiative to develop and train a pipeline of diverse and highly-qualified students at all levels to meet the Navy future workforce needs. Over the next six years, UTSA is slated to receive $1.6 million from the consortium, dependent on the consortium receipt of $50 million from the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). NAVSEA designs and builds the Navy fleet of ships.
"We are very pleased to join the naval engineering community in this effort," said Brent Nowak, UTSA associate professor of mechanical engineering and the principal investigator for the UTSA NEEC initiative. "UTSA has a strong tradition in education and research, and we are proud to have this opportunity to support the Navy. We are eager to begin working with our partners to develop the next generation of naval engineers."
The NEEC will be led by faculty at the University of Michigan and includes the nation top engineering universities. As such, UTSA will join Virginia Tech, MIT, Penn State, Georgia Tech, Webb Institute, Florida State University and others. The consortium also will team with the U.S. Navy Center for Innovation in Ship Design (CISD) at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division.
NEEC will pursue a variety of initiatives to prepare the next generation of Naval engineers. Engineering students participating in NEEC will receive tuition scholarships and stipends in return for Navy service. Faculty from NEEC universities will collaborate to develop new engineering curricula tailored to the Navy training needs.
Additionally, NEEC undergraduates, graduates and faculty will work with practicing NAVSEA engineers to address some of the Navy most prominent challenges. Those projects will focus on the use of alterative energy sources, energy conservation, reduction in total ownership costs, use of unmanned vehicles, advanced ship design methods and reduction in vessel maintenance.
In addition to partnering with NAVSEA, the consortium will partner with the Department of Defense highly competitive Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) program, which supports students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and will include an outreach component for K-12 schools.


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After Duodenal Switch Surgery, Keep Workouts StimulatingPosted: Jul 15 in Uncategorized by Staff
Repeating the same activity day in and day out can get boring fast. However, after duodenal switch surgery it is important to work on your fitness as you focus on developing a healthier lifestyle. Making sure your workouts are varied and fun can stop your body from adapting and your fitness results from plateauing before and after your duodenal switch procedure. [Read more]
How to Make Workouts More Fun after Duodenal SwitchPosted: Jun 27 in Uncategorized by Staff
Though exercise is an essential part of losing weight and staying healthy, it can also be exciting. With the right approach, your workouts after duodenal switch can be an opportunity to not only become more fit, but have some fun as well. By choosing activities you love and making your exercise sessions more enjoyable, you can make every workout something to look forward to. [Read more]
Cook Well and Save Time after Duodenal SwitchPosted: Jun 20 in Uncategorized by Staff
There are many ways to save time and effort in the kitchen without giving in to the temptation of the drive-thru window. By reassessing your cooking space and methods, you can make it much easier to cook healthy meals for you and your family after duodenal switch without spending the whole night stooped over the stove. [Read more]
Learning to Love Fitness after DS SurgeryPosted: Jun 13 in Uncategorized by Staff
It is time to get excited about fitness. Exercise might not have been a big part of your life before, but you don't need to let your history with exercise affect your future. Starting out slow and pushing yourself gradually into more challenging activities will let you work around these sorts of problems as you become stronger, fitter and more confident in who you are. [Read more]
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Diet, exercise and duodenal switch will help you lose weight in Dallas or Ft. Worth, but healthy habits become much harder without a good night's sleep. Starting each day bleary-eyed and groggy will make it much harder to motivate yourself to exercise, while you may also choose a couple worn-out hours on the couch over cooking the nutritious meals you'll need to stay healthy after duodenal switch surgery. [Read more]
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When just starting out with your new diet plan it can be a bit overwhelming to remember what is healthy and what should be avoided. Luckily for you, nutrition labels are posted everywhere—including every bag, box and bottle of food and drink that you will come across. [Read more]


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Friday night won't be Callaway football coach Daryl Jones' first time bringing a football team to Starkville.
As the head coach at Columbus, Jones and his Falcons had to play the Yellowjackets on the road, then prior to the 2010 season, the Callaway Chargers and Starkville met in a preseason jamboree at Mississippi State.
Jones said it won't be totally strange when the Chargers and Jackets meet again at 7 p.m.
"I'm somewhat familiar with the area, the Starkville tradition and with coach Mitchell because we played them in the preseason jamboree," Jones said. "We were able to watch them on film as well."
Callaway stands at 3-6 overall and 1-4 in Class 5A, Region 2, District 6 and after two-straight years of making the playoffs, may not get there this season.
"We've had our ups and downs," Jones said. "We have a young team this year and haven't been as successful as we'd like to have been this season.
"When I left Columbus, I didn't coach for one year and I was in administration so I've been coaching the last three years. The previous two years we were fortunate enough to get to the playoffs, but were unable to advance because of the New Hope Trojans. We think we're headed in the right direction."
Jones has some young players in key positions such as sophomore quarterback T.J. Washington, who has 1,233 yards passing and 462 yards rushing for Callaway. Washington had made his share of mistakes by with four lost fumbles and 15 interceptions.
"We do have some good players that once they grow up, we're looking to be a good football program," Jones said.
Jones knows that on-the-job training could be tough against the Jackets, but believes the Chargers are capable of giving a good effort.
"(Starkville has) some very athletic guys who are long, rangy and can throw the ball fairly well," Jones said. "We're going to have things cut out for us. We feel like if we play our best football, we can win the football game."
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We are less than a month away from our Jays Care Videogame Fundraiser so it seems like a good time to announce some prizing! *Please note that we have not decided exactly how we will be awarding these prizes but will make you aware as details become known
Autographed Baseball
We will have a signed baseball from the best hitter in the game, Jose Bautista! Unfortunately he won't be able to hand deliver it to you.
100 Things Blue Jays Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
Author Steve Clarke has agreed to donate "a couple" signed copies of his recently released Blue Jays book 100 Things Blue Jays Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die. This sounds like a must-read for all Blue Jays fan!
Tall Boys Gift Certificate
A favourite bar for many Blue Jays fans, Tall Boys Craft Beer House, has agreed to donate a $100 gift certificate and some Tall Boys schwag! A perfect prize for any fan who attends their monthly Jays Days Beer Club events.
Two Blue Jays Tickets
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Donated for fans, by a fan! Friend of Back in Blue, Kayla has generously offered two tickets to a home Blue Jays game. If you win these tickets, on Sunday May 5th you will watching the Seattle Mariners from two rows above the Blue Jays bullpen!
Baseball Card Prize Pack
Part-time BIB blogger and baseball card guru Matt Ross from Retro Jays Cards has dug into his collection and offered up some gems!
1. George Bell 2012 Topps Tier One – relic card w/ piece of game used bat (#'d out of 150)
2. Adam Lind 2012 Topps Golden Moments – AUTOGRAPHED!
3. Brett Lawrie 2012 Allen and Ginter's – ROOKIE CARD!
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NEW! Bachelor/Bachelorette Twelve Game Package NEW!
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Season ticket holder and Twitter-er extraordinaire Rallycap Andy has offered Back in Blue his single seat for TWELVE different Blue Jays games! You will be entitled to two games per month – one Friday game and one Saturday game (excluding Farrell's Return and Final Home Game). You can be a bleacher creature and make some new friends all while keeping the seat warm for Andy!
NEW! Two Blue Jays Tickets and a Back in Blue T-Shirt NEW!
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Previously we were going to draw a name for the BIB shirt but things just got better! Thanks to Blue Jays fan Mark, any fan who donates before April 1st will have their name entered into a draw for two tickets on Sunday April 7th vs. the Boston Red Sox! This is a pre-event prize so if you want to attend the game, get your name into the draw!
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Prominent Johanson Berenson Partners Join Jackson Lewis
WHITE PLAINS, NY (January 24, 2012) - Jackson Lewis LLP, one of the country's largest and fastest-growing workplace law firms, is pleased to announce that five attorneys from the prominent employee benefits, tax, and litigation law boutique Johanson Berenson LLP have joined the firm. Nationally recognized benefits/ESOP/ERISA practitioner and defense litigator David R. Johanson will service clients in our Napa, CA location and practice in the firm's Los Angeles office along with Associate Monica Patel. Partner Rachel Markun and Associate Teresa Huang also will continue to service clients in our Napa, CA location. Douglas Rubel, an experienced benefits and ERISA litigator, has joined Jackson Lewis' office in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Commenting on the developments, Firm-wide Managing Partner Patrick L. Vaccaro said, "This outstanding group of professionals will enhance our expertise in this important area of the law and will enable us to offer our clients the broadest range of services. We now have a deep bench of some 35 seasoned professionals with knowledge of every facet of employee benefits."
Michael Jacobster, Chair of the Jackson Lewis Employee Benefits Practice Group, added, "We are honored that partners of David's and Rachel's stature have joined the firm. Not only will they greatly contribute to our expertise in the ESOP, stock ownership and executive compensation fields, but they and their group will be a valuable resource to service clients nationally, as well as on the West Coast."
David Johanson's practice concentrates in employee ownership and benefit matters, with an emphasis on executive compensation, equity incentive plans, non-qualified deferred compensation, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), ESOP transactions, benefits and ERISA issues in mergers and acquisitions, and related business and tax planning matters. He advises publicly-traded and closely-held companies and their compensation committees regarding the design, documentation, implementation, and administration of various types of executive compensations plans and related disclosure issues. Mr. Johanson also frequently appears on behalf of clients in business and employment and employee ownership-oriented and ERISA defense litigation in state and federal courts throughout the country, before regulatory agencies (e.g., U.S. Department of Labor, California Labor Commissioner, and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), in tax controversies before the Internal Revenue Service and comparable state regulatory agencies and in dispute resolutions of various kinds. He is a past chair of the legislative and regulatory advisory committee of The ESOP Association and of its advisory committee chairs counsel and is a former member of its Board of Directors. Mr. Johanson also served on the Board of Directors of The National Center for Employee Ownership and as its general counsel for more than ten years. He is a widely-published author in the ESOP and ERISA fiduciary area. He has been honored in Who's Who in American Law as someone who has demonstrated outstanding achievements in their field and has been a member of Martindale-Hubbell's Preeminent Bar Register for more than ten years with an A-V rating. Mr. Johanson also is a frequent lecturer for the University of Southern California Law School.
Rachel Markun, formerly a partner in the benefits group at Morrison and Foerster, is recognized for her practice accomplishments in the corporate, tax and fiduciary issues relating to ESOPs and employee benefit plans. She has represented plan fiduciaries and financial institutions in connection with legislative and regulatory initiatives relating to the Internal Revenue Code, ERISA, and the federal securities laws. She has extensive tax expertise relating to tax-exempt entities including matters involving unrelated business tax issues. She has an active practice in addressing ERISA issues in litigation matters and in addressing regulatory matters involving ESOPs. She has extensive experience in substantive ERISA issues and in preparing defense strategies for ERISA cases. She counsels ESOP companies and fiduciaries regarding a range of compliance and best practices issues. Ms. Markun is a frequent lecturer for The ESOP Association, The National Center for Employee Ownership, the National Employment Law Institute, the Practicing Law Institute, the American Bar Association, the Institute for Fiduciary Education and the National Council of Investment Law Attorneys. She is the co-author of The Fiduciary Responsibilities of Employee Benefit Plan Fiduciaries under ERISA (Institutional Real Estate, Inc. Publications 1996) and the Attorney's Guide to Pension and Profit-Sharing Plans (California Continuing Education of the Bar 1994.)
About Jackson Lewis
Founded in 1958, Jackson Lewis, dedicated to representing management exclusively in workplace law, is one of the fastest growing workplace law firms in the U.S., with almost 700 attorneys practicing in 48 cities nationwide. We have a wide-range of specialized practice areas, including: Affirmative Action and OFCCP Planning and Counseling; Disability, Leave and Health Management; Employee Benefits, including Complex ERISA Litigation and Executive Compensation; Global Immigration; Labor, including Preventive Practices; Litigation, including Class Actions, Complex Litigation and e-Discovery; Trade Secrets, Non-Competes and Workplace Technology; Wage and Hour Compliance; Workplace Safety Compliance and Corporate Diversity Counseling. In addition, Jackson Lewis provides advice nationally in other workplace law areas, including: Reductions in Force, WARN Act; Corporate Governance and Internal Investigations; Drug Testing and Substance Abuse Management; International Employment Issues; Management Education, including e-Based Training; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Public Sector Issues; Government Relations; Collegiate and Professional Sports; and Privacy, Social Media and Information Management.
For the 10th consecutive year, Jackson Lewis has been recognized for delivering client service excellence to the world's largest corporations. Representing a decade of excellence, we have once again earned a spot on the BTI Client Service A-Team. Jackson Lewis has also been recognized by in-house counsel of Fortune 1000 companies after a comprehensive survey, as "the single highest-ranked firm clients want by their side in employment battles." In addition, Jackson Lewis is ranked in the First Tier nationally in the categories of both Employment Law and Labor Law on behalf of Management in the U.S. News – Best Lawyers ® "Best Law Firms." Jackson Lewis has one of the most active employment litigation practices in the United States, with a current caseload of over 5000 litigations and approximately 300 class actions; over 2100 litigations were brought to the firm in 2010 alone. And finally, Jackson Lewis is affiliated with L & E Global Employers' Counsel Worldwide.
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The author of a book about Doris Day will speak about the actress and book and will show memorabilia at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Eckhart Public Library in Auburn.
Mary Anne Barothy's book is "Day at a Time: An Indiana Girl's Sentimental Journey to Doris Day's Hollywood and Beyond."
Barothy, who works as assistant development director for the Little Sisters of the Poor order in Indianapolis, has been a Doris Day fan since age 10, she said in an e-mail. As a young woman, she moved to Los Angeles, met Day, worked as her secretary for four years and lived at Day's home for two years.


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Breakfast Coming to Classrooms
Posted: December 2, 2012 at 2:47 a.m.
It's frequently called the most important meal of the day, and Springdale school officials don't want students to skip it.
At A Glance
Breakfast In The Classroom
Springdale will become the second district in Arkansas, after Little
Rock, to participate in a district-wide breakfast program. The program
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The second in Kathleen Tucker's two-part series about her first cod jigging experience
On the Northern Peninsula, a meal of fish and potatoes always means cod and potatoes. If any other kind of fish is used, then it's called by its proper name: mackerel or salmon or halibut.
In Part I of my column, "The Fish Eye", I wrote about catching my very first codfish and the beady look he gave me from the end of the hook. In Part II, I attempt to fry up a meal of fish and potatoes in my own kitchen.
I grew up only 40 miles east of the Pacific Ocean, but I might as well have lived a hundred miles away when it came to fishing. Langley was a farm-and-fruit-growing district; fish appeared in grocery stores on Styrofoam trays wrapped tightly in cellophane, with price tags affixed. Occasionally, if I visited Vancouver, a delivery truck blew past me, a sign emblazoned on the side: The fish you see on your plate today slept last night in Boundary Bay; meaning, I suppose, that the fish was fresh.
So, now I conjectured, if I had a fish, what would I do with it? It occurred to me that the frying of fish and potatoes involved more than just tossing a piece of fish into a frying pan. I figured in order for me to get it right, I would have to get some assistance from a cross-section of fishers and cooks. So, that's what I did.
For instance, if Scott and Glenda hadn't taken us out in their boat, and if Caleb hadn't insisted on dropping a line to catch a fish, and if Len hadn't been adamant that I try my hand at catching my own fish, then likely fish still wouldn't be on the menu.
Then there was Betty, who presented me with an open-ended offer: anytime I needed a lifejacket, I was to help myself. What a blessing.
After I caught my first cod, it was Scott who took the time to fillet the fish, presenting me with deboned fillets as well as britches and jowls. I took that cod straight over to Delilah and Selby (Mom & Dad Tucker) and she demonstrated how to fry the salt pork in a cast iron frying pan, roll the fish in flour, and fry it to crisp perfection, while he regaled us with tales of the fishery long ago. We sat down to a nice meal of fish and potatoes, and Selby was quite happy to finish off the britches and jowls on my behalf, and I was quite happy to let him.
Later in the week, Betty fried up a couple of fish fillets in vegetable oil, with onions, and brought them over with a side of mashed potatoes and corn. The fish was crisp and tender, and the meal was delicious.
Then, a niggling thought intruded: could I fry up my own mess of fish and potatoes, and where was I going to find a fish? After all, we didn't have a boat.
Sunday morning I drove through Ship Cove to see what was what. A mist rose from the sea, gulls soared and scolded, ducks paddled along the shoreline, a tethered speedboat rose and fell on the waves, and clusters of hemlock, wildflowers and buttercups waved amidst sparkling, dew-wet beach grass. I had just turned around to go home when Pearce drove by in his truck, rolled down his window, and offered me a codfish. "Get Len to clean it," he said, and drove off.
At home, Len took one look at the codfish staring up at him from the bag and said, "I think you should ask John."
John took the fish to the beach, along with a sharp knife that flashed expertly in the sun, and in five minutes handed me a beautifully filleted cod.
So now it was fish or cut bait.
I got out the cast iron frying pan, cubed the salt pork, fried it, rolled the fish in flour, and gently placed the pieces in the sizzling fat. The cats, smelling the cod, came out to the kitchen, angling for a handout. When the fish was crispy and brown, I scooped out a helping of potatoes, served up the fish with a dollop of tartar sauce, and we sat down to eat. The fish was tender and flaky, the scrunchions were crisp and flavourful, and the potatoes were awesome. It was the best scoff ever.
As a matter of fact, that Fish Fry was so good, I could honestly declare, "The fish I saw on my plate today, slept last night in Sacred Bay."


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Ann Romney spoke of the challenges faced by working mothers.
TAMPA, Florida: Republicans overwhelmingly nominated Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan to challenge President Barack Obama, painting a gauzy portrait of their candidate, playing to the deep economic anxiety of U.S. voters and promising to end what they called Obama's "era of absentee leadership."
With only fleeting signs of the concerns many expressed about Romney's conservative credentials, delegates rocked the convention hall Tuesday night with enthusiasm for the multimillionaire former Massachusetts governor, ending his yearlong quest for the party's top honor.
The Republican festival played out against a backdrop of polling that shows the race a dead even.
Voters say they trust Romney more on economic issues but find Obama the more likable candidate.
Keynote speaker Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, propelled Romney toward the Nov. 6 election with a characteristically blunt message.
"It's time to end this era of absentee leadership in the Oval Office and send real leaders to the White House," Christie thundered. "Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to put us back on the path to growth and create good paying private-sector jobs again in America."
Republican exuberance was tempered as Hurricane Isaac hit the southern Louisiana coast just as the evening festivities began, driving a wall of water nearly 3 meters high inland before heading on to New Orleans.
Proceedings were also marred Tuesday when two attendees were ejected from the convention after they threw nuts at a black CNN camerawoman and said "this is how we feed animals," the network reported, and the convention confirmed the incident in a statement late Tuesday.
"Two attendees tonight exhibited deplorable behavior. Their conduct was inexcusable and unacceptable. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated," organizers said.
But the convention continued as planned. The first full day built toward a crescendo – Ann Romney brought a message aimed toward women voters, speaking lovingly of the candidate's virtues as husband and father.
Her mission was to humanize Romney, who has been painted by the Obama campaign as out of touch with the difficult lives of average Americans.
She lovingly talked of her 43-year marriage, noting her experiences battling muscular sclerosis and cancer.
She spoke about the struggles of working families: "If you listen carefully, you'll hear the women sighing a little bit more than the men. It's how it is, isn't it? It's the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right."
Her mission was clear: to soften the image of a man who remains a mystery to most Americans and who consistently lags behind Obama among women voters in polls.
In the Obama-Romney contest, voters face a clash of ideologies.
Romney, more conservative on social issues such as gay marriage and abortion, favors cutting taxes, reining in government regulations and repealing Obama's signature health care overhaul – even though it was modeled after one of his own programs as governor.
Obama is liberal on social issues, wants to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans and sees government as a potential force for good.
In advance of Ryan's speech to the convention Wednesday, the Obama campaign released a video targeting him as a politician from a "bygone era."
The video criticizes Ryan for being the architect of a budget that would overhaul the health care system for seniors and for seeking to defund Planned Parenthood, a national non-governmental organization that provides health care to poor women and counsels those seeking abortions.
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Chernobyl birds prefer to breed in sites with low radioactivity
Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com
April 3, 2007
Previous studies have suggest that wildlife is flourishing in the area around Chernobyl, and may actually be higher after the nuclear meltdown than before the disaster. Now A.P. Møller of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and T.A. Mousseau of the University of South Carolina have examined the impact of radiation levels on nest selection.
Placing nest boxes in areas differing in levels of background radiation, Møller and Mousseau found that the Great tit (Parus major) and pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) "significantly avoided nest boxes in heavily contaminated areas."
The researchers propose that this observation may reflect improved fitness levels in birds exposed to lower levels of radiation.
"Individuals in highly contaminated areas have reduced levels of antioxidants in plasma and liver," they wrote. "Such individuals have reduced body condition, reproduce less frequently, and produce reduced clutch and brood size when compared with individuals breeding in highly contaminated areas. Therefore, we hypothesize a similar mechanism for hole nesting species, with individuals breeding in highly contaminated areas suffering from reduced antioxidant levels, thereby reducing the frequency of reproduction. If individuals differ in condition, with late breeding individuals suffering more from poor condition than early breeders, then we would expect dose effects to be more severe late during the breeding season.... Indeed, we found such effects for hatching success in the pied flycatcher."
The researchers say their work lays the groundwork for future studies.
"To the best of our knowledge, there are no previous study investigating the relationship between radiation and distribution and abundance of plants or animals," they wrote. "This study has implications for future studies."
CITATION: A.P. Møller and T.A. Mousseau (2007). Birds prefer to breed in sites with low radioactivity in Chernobyl. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: 27 March-03 April, 2007
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After a winter that introduced huge swaths of the country to the term polar vortex, this summer was one worth waiting for. And wait we have. For everything from Shakespeare to craft beer. And even with the autumnal equinox bearing down Monday afternoon, and with it the formal end to Summer 2014, some of the season's final queues were in place in a hardly unfamiliar location: outside Apple Stores.
On the pages that follow, check out some of the places where MarketWatch reporters and editors and our sources have observed — and often joined — the sometimes surprising and sometimes predictable summertime hordes.
In the comments field below, tell us what you waited in line for this summer. And whether the wait was worth it.
Just encase
In Chicago, the big foodie wait of summer 2014 has been for the artisanal hot dogs at Hot Doug's on the northwest side. In a city whose traditional all-beef hot dog is a veritable garden on a bun, the self-styled Sausage Superstore and Encased-Meat Emporium, with a classically trained chef at the helm, raised the bar considerably when it opened 13 years ago.
One recent Friday's specials, for example, included an apple-and-cinnamon pork sausage with foie gras rouille, sheep's-milk Brigante cheese and an apricot drizzle ($10). The place has something for everyone, including a world-class (for what it's worth) vegetarian hot dog that's so good it's often paired (unironically) with Hot Doug's famed duck-fat fries.
Lengthening the lines, and delaying the gratification ad absurdum, in recent months is the fact that charismatic owner Doug Sohn — whose schtick behind the counter nestles comfortably into the city's improv tradition — has decided to shutter the shop for good on Oct. 3.
Different animal
The braver of crowds shown here may be downing a sandwich that Hot Doug and company might dub an encased-meat delivery mechanism, but his is from Asia Dog, at the twice-weekly Smorgasburg food-stall confab in Brooklyn. So popular has the concept proven that the Smorgasburg founders, with the Brooklyn Flea also to their previous credit, have this month opened a 9,000-square-foot beer hall called Berg'n in the Crown Heights section of the borough.
Jeni, I got your number
Singling out just one purveyor of icy-creamy delectables at a time when the category is widening and deepening and spawning new categories and subcategories by the month, from small-batch gelatos to 16-handle self-swirl yogurt emporia, is a fool's errand.
So here goes: Jeni's operates shops in Chicago and New York as well as Nashville; Charleston, S.C.; and Atlanta, in addition to Columbus and Cincinnati in its home state of Ohio, and, by most if not all accounts, the locations are typically thronged and do reliably measure up to the hype and price.
Proposing a toast
It's brilliant in its simplicity. Or, alternatively, it's frightening in the brazenness with which it courts unflattering fin-de-siecle correlation. It is, in short, artisanal toast. It goes for $4 to $7 per order. And paying customers have been lining up for it. In fact, it's sweeping, well, the Bay Area — and a few less plausible locales. "This," opines the Gawker site Jezebel, "is a step too far, [h]ipsters."
Cracking the Vault
While it is among the most mundane, toast is not alone among prandial perennials in recently being run up the foodie flagpole. For crying out loud, the cocktail bar Aviary in Chicago has an ice chef, who toils frigidly toward perfecting the establishment's ice "program." Not far from the Aviary, in fact, stands the Doughnut Vault, which for three years and change, and in all types of weather (inclusive of polar vortices) and despite rising (apologies) competition, has had Chicagoans and tourists cheerfully embarking on hour-plus waits for $3 glazeds, along with such daily specials as pink peppercorn old fashioneds and horchata doughnuts. It helps that we — that is, ahem, they — can track the depletion of the daily inventory via social media during the wait in line, for, when the bakery racks are emptied, the day is done at this tiny shop in the city's design district.
Hoya snacks-a
Gourmet cupcakes were a bubble, and that bubble has popped. So goes the oft-repeated chronicling of the baked good's fall from grace. Cupcakes have gone from the most pleasurable of guilty pleasures to something that no one wants to be caught eating, let alone lining up to purchase. The demise of Crumbs fit that narrative tidily. But try telling it to Magnolia Bakery, arguably the instigator of the long-running trend and the successful operator today of a handful of New York locations plus Los Angeles and Chicago outposts, or Georgetown Cupcakes in Washington, which, after expanding to suburban Maryland as well as to Boston, New York and L.A., is still growing. An Atlanta location is set to open this fall.
Pizza hut
'Sorry, we're open'? That's the kind of humor and atmosphere you'll find at the Original Antonio's Pizzeria on Santa Catalina Island off the Southern California coast.
The restaurant is no Grimaldi's or Malnati's and, in fact, may not be well-known outside the tiny village of Avalon — which, like the restaurant, is a throwback to more innocent days in the 1950s and 1960s — but to locals it's the place for pizza or an informal Italian dinner. Island visitors find it's the eatery they remember most, whether it be the pizza or Antonio's specialty dish, Mamma Mia's Day Old Spaghetti.
The spot is so popular that another, much larger Antonio's was built two blocks away, but the original remains jammed with patrons daily.
Stout fellows
For craft-beer fans, entry to the annual Dark Lord Day at Three Floyds Brewing Co. in Munster, Ind., is not only one of the hottest tickets in American beerdom (enabling, but not guaranteeing, purchase of the brewery's highly rated Russian imperial stout) but a sort of unofficial kickoff to the outdoor-consumption season.
According to an anecdotal Chicago Reader account, even with prepurchased tickets, the line to enter the festival grounds this year was an hour and a quarter long — "but thanks to the gonzo beers our fellow nerds were pouring around, the minutes flew by."
See: A beer worth listening to
Park life
To some, summer wouldn't be complete without the thrills that only amusement-park and carnival rides can provide. Opening day at the Kings Island theme park in Ohio reportedly brought two-hour waits for a new and stomach-turning roller coaster called Banshee and traffic jams throughout the park's vicinity.
Queue for 'cue
Everyone from a first-time visitor to the leader of the free world knows that Texas means barbecue. But if you're the latter, the queue to eat at Franklin Barbecue in Austin — which reportedly can stretch to five hours at times — will likely melt away before you.
"I know this is a long line," President Obama is reported to have observed during his July visit. "I feel real bad. But I'm going to cut."
Where ramen is all the rage
Ramen has come a long way in this country from its days as a four-packs-for-a-dollar staple of many an off-campus apartment's quasi-kitchen. In Chicago, loyalists posting Google reviews laud Logan Square's Wasabi as 100% authentic and "the stuff of legend," while Slurping Turtle makes the Thrillist ranking of the country's best, where it's joined by Tiger Den in Houston, Uncle in Denver, Cheu in Philly, Chuko in Brooklyn, Tsukushinbo in Seattle, Biwa in Portand and a dozen or so others. In San Francisco, meanwhile, a lunch-hour trip to the downtown Ramen Bar often requires well more than its allotted 60 minutes.
Give chickpeas a chance
Satisfying as the country's homegrown summertime traditions might be, Americans in great numbers do also venture abroad on holiday. And while taking in the sights of central Paris, thousands each year do join the throngs at L'As du Fallafel in the old Jewish quarter of the Marais district, if only to fortify themselves for further wanderings among the area's cultural and historical, as well as commercial, sites. What they get in addition to their falafels and Heineken cans is a well-rehearsed pantomime of pitched rivalry between the guidebook-favored shop and its archrival across the lane. Ultimately, there are plenty of euros for both.
A shoe-in
More peculiar as well as more protracted than the wait for a deliciously engorged pita in Paris is the practically unfathomable daily lineup for alpargatas, known elsewhere as espadrilles, at the shoes-and-rope (yes, rope) shop Hernanz in central Madrid.
Also see: Spouse take the kids on holiday and leave you to your own devices in the city this month? The Spanish have a word for that
A cultured crowd
More rarefied than encased meat, cupcakes and even a Parisian falafel — combined — is the Manhattan tradition of Shakespeare in the Park. Are there lines? Yes, and they can be epic. It's so perennially popular, in fact, that there's a ticket lottery.
Also see: Summer blockbusters — where are the comedies?
Summer's last lines
On Monday, with the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in their fourth day on the market, lines showed little sign of abating outside some Apple Store AAPL, -0.13% locations, including this one in Chicago's Lincoln Park area.
Monday, of course, also brought the curtain down on Summer 2014. The autumnal equinox arrived at 10:29 p.m. Eastern time.
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Grilled Peaches and Cream
-3 peaches
-Olive Oil
-6 ounces plain cream cheese
-2-4 tablespoons pecans, chopped
-3 tablespoons honey
1. First, pre-make cream. Place 6 ounces of plain cream cheese, 2-4 tablespoons of chopped pecans, and 1 tablespoon of honey into a mixing bowl. Combine with electric mixer and set aside.
2. Next, cut peaches in half and scoop out the pits.
3. Coat peaches in a little olive oil and place open-side up on a hot griddle or grill. Grill for about 2 minutes or until sugar begins to caramelize.
4. Flip peaches onto the other side, and drizzle with honey. Add a spoonful of cream cheese filling in each peach. Place on serving plate.
5. Finish by drizzling honey over the top.
*Makes about 6 servings.
Steven Brooks is the Executive Chef at Springdale Country Club. Chef Brooks offers monthly cooking classes at the club.
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Let's talk weeding. I know it's not sexy and it's not a part of gardening that most of us enjoy, but, like doing the dishes, life's a little better once the job is done.
I grew up in the midwest where weeds don't get much more than 6-8 inches high. Imagine my horror when I moved out to the Pacific Northwest and discovered weeds can grow as high as my chest. If there's a place more conducive to weed growth, I don't want to know about it.
You may think you don't need me to tell you how to weed. But when I was starting out gardening, I made things tougher than they needed to be. Over the last twelve years I've developed some pretty good strategies to make weeding as painless as possible.
12 Tips for Weeding the Garden
1. Put on your grubby clothes. Too often I think I'll just do a few minutes worth of weeding while still in my good office clothes. It never ends well.
2. Buy nice gardening gloves – more than one pair. I've found if I leave them outside, one of the neighborhood cats runs off with one of them in the middle of the night.
3. Also, if there are little people in your life, buy a few little pairs with ducks or Dora on them so you can have a helper. It's surprisingly easy to teach kids the difference between weeds and plants.
4. Wear long sleeves to protect yourself from scrapes and pokes. Also, a big sun hat is nice.
5. Use the two receptacle system. Have a small box or five gallon pail right next to you, then once it's full, empty it into your large yard waste bin. This is less getting up and down and gives you a sense of accomplishment. Avoid creating large piles of weeds to be picked up later. It takes too long to happen. In fact, it may never happen.
6. Pull the weeds before they go to seed. I've heard that weed seeds can stay around for seven years and I have no reason to doubt it based on my own struggles.
7. Wait for a good rain fall. In Portland, it's not a long wait. Weeds come out much easier after a good soak and you're more likely to get them by the roots, so they won't come back.
8. Get a small hand rake for small weeds and those that need prying in order to get the tap root.
9. Change positions frequently. Keep your back straight and your core muscles tight to prevent strain and injuries.
10. Don't squat for long periods of time. I don't know how to put this delicately…squatting can cause hemorrhoids.
11. Get your iPod and some headphones. Nothing makes the time go quickly like good tunes.
12. Mulch! Once you've got the weeds out, mulch your beds so the little bastards don't come back. My favorite method is landscape fabric with a thick bark dust on top. You can also use cardboard, leaves, straw, hazelnut shells etc.
Who else has good weeding tips? Are you keeping on top of the weeds this year?
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So I installed the new update for GTA 5 last night. I started the game, installed the update, started the game again, hit start, went to the game store, downloaded the Flight School update. Restarted, the update shows as installed, but nothing from the update is in the game, no planes or cars and no flight school missions.
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Everything you need to understand or teach Timeline by Michael Crichton.
"Timeline" is a 1999 novel by Michael Crichton, which involves the use of quantum mechanics to travel throughout the multiverse, to other universes existing simultaneously, but in different stages of time. The technology to do so is invented by the company International Technology Corporation, to bring authentic history to life in the present day. But things go terribly wrong when a professor and three graduate students become stuck in the year 1361, in a separate universe, and they must put their academic knowledge to the test to get back alive.
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Celebrate and reward the best-in-show on Halloween with this set of three Halloween Trophy awards. The Funniest Costume, Scariest Costume and Best Costume are all deserving of recognition - reward friends and family with these fun trophies. Halloween party hosts and hostesses will want to stock up…
When you want to raise awareness for a cause, a walkathon is a good idea, and so is the classic refrigerator/car magnet. Support awareness for the undeniable need to celebrate Halloween with the Support Halloween support magnet and start a marathon of people dressing in costumes!
Celebrate an award-winning Halloween costume with a trophy - this set of three silver and three hold trophies includes 8 sticker labels so you can craft and present an award for any costume idea you wish.
Equip yourself for Halloween with this authentic looking tube of fake blood. Call it the Vampire's Emergency Survival Kit or use it as part of your zombie nurse or mad scientist costume. One is good but more is better!
Every gentleman you see will gladly give their heart to you when you decide to wear the Heart Breaker Adult Women's Costumes. This black, red and gold dress is fit for royalty and features an attached petticoat and heart details on the skirt and collar, complete with a detachable black and red…
…Baby adult womens costume. The red, stretch knit corset-styled dress of this sexy womens costume features ruffle and bow detailing and an organza-ruffled skirt with metallic heart print. Removable and adjustable shoulder straps, matching wings and a bow and arrow complete this red-hot cupid costume.
Deck the halls in festivity with this Metallic Halloween Banner! Hang it on the wall, the ceiling, the staircase, or wherever else to give your house a little taste of the holiday.
Welcome friends and family when you line your driveway or walkway with this festive set of orange Halloween Pathway lights. Not only are they fun, they add an extra measure of safety for trick or treaters and help to keep people on the path and not on your lawn.
Bestow a little bit of Disney magic and Halloween glam when you reward trick or treaters with these fun Disney Princess temporary tattoos - perfect for Halloween goody bags or party favors.
Grab a knife and scare the pants off anyone in your path on Halloween when you wear the officially licensed Halloween 2 Michael Myers Full Mask. All you need is a boiler jumpsuit and a weapon (both sold separately) and you'll be on your way to a slashing good time!
He personifies menace, malice and madness. For him, every day is Halloween and every night is killing time. He is Jason Voorhees, and he is looking for his next victim. Hang this officially licensed Jason Voorhees Hanging Puppet Prop and run, before he gets you!
Feel and spread the love on Halloween when you don this breathtaking Aphrodite adult womens costume. The floor-length, aqua gown of this goddess costume features gold trim and comes complete with a matching headpiece. Let them worship your every move and soak it all up in this sexy costume!
Keep your treasure buried in this Spanish Pirate adult womens costume. The red, black and gold dress of this womens pirate costume features a lace-up bodice. A hat with feather and ruffle details, red and gold sleeves, a black belt and a skull-embellished pouch complete with sexy womens costume.
Rule with grace and serenity in this elegant Roman Beauty adult womens costume. The white and gold gown of this goddess costume features attached shoulder drapes and comes complete with a gold leaf headpiece. All will hail to your beauty when you arrive in this classic costume.
Waltz into the room or down the aisle in this dramatic and decidedly different Monster Bride adult womens costume. The thigh-length white dress of this bride costume features a knitted polyester bodice with white elbow-length sleeves, white lace center bodice overlay, white taffeta under skirt,…
Everyone knows you're only marrying him for his brains when you wear this Zombie Bride adult womens costume. The tattered white dress of this zombie costume comes complete with a matching veil hair piece and a black and white bouquet that has seen better days.
…bad as you want when you go outlaw in this Beautiful Bandida adult womens costume. The black and gold dress of this sexy womens costume features corset-like boning along with lace accents. A vinyl harness belt with an attached satin cape, gloves, a hat and a mask complete this womens bandit costume.
Take what you want on Halloween when you wear this Pirate Wench adult womens costume. The burgundy and black, 100% polyester dress of this womens pirate costume features a lace-up bodice and comes complete with a corset and head tie.
…this spellbinding Victorian Witch adult womens costume. The dazzling black and orange dress of this witch costume features puff sleeves, spider web and orange sequin organza overlay along with a mock lace-up bodice and bow and lace accents. A matching mini witch hat completes this sexy costume.
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Set children and adults alike screaming in fear in this classic Scream costume! Straight out of the frightening film, this scary kids costume includes a midnight-black robe with tattered sleeves and hem, matching belt, and the infamous ghostface mask--everything you need to haunt and horrify the…
Feel and spread the love on Halloween when you don this breathtaking Aphrodite adult womens costume. The white, toga-inspired mini dress of this goddess costume features Grecian details. Let them worship your every move and soak it all up!


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Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly San Diego hotel in Point Loma with free airport shuttle
This family-friendly San Diego hotel is located on the waterfront, within 1 mi (2 km) of Rock Church and NTC Promenade. Ocean Beach Park is 3 mi (4.8 km) away.
Hotel Features
This hotel features a restaurant, an outdoor pool, and a fitness center. Free WiFi in public areas and a free airport shuttle are also provided. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a poolside bar, and a spa tub are onsite.
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All 291 rooms provide conveniences like refrigerators and coffee makers, plus free WiFi and flat-screen TVs with cable channels. Room service, pillow menus, and free weekday newspapers are among the other amenities available to guests.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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In addition to an outdoor pool, Holiday Inn San Diego-Bayside provides a spa tub, a fitness center, and complimentary bicycles. The hotel offers a restaurant. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business-related amenities at this 3-star property consist of a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. This family-friendly hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and gift shops/newsstands. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary to guests (available 24 hours). Parking is available onsite for a surcharge. The property may provide extended parking privileges to guests after check-out (surcharge).
- Free airport transportation
- Total number of rooms - 291
- Number of floors - 5
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- Premium TV channels
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Where to Eat
Full breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning.
Point Loma Cafe - This family restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A children's menu is available.
Bayside Bar and Restauran - This poolside restaurant serves dinner only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An outdoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center and complimentary bicycles.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
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- Windsurfing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
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- Free bicycles on site
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Segway rental/tour nearby
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Miniature golf on site
- Water skiing on site
- Boat tours nearby
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Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-out time is noon
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 10 per night.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available.
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Self parking fee: USD 10 per night (in/out privileges)
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 10 per night
We should mention
This property offers transfers from the cruise terminal and airport. Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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VEXNEWS Investigators have uncovered another stunning new chapter in the Diane Anderson elder abuse scandal.
Her brother has stepped forward, making sensational claims about Diane, once an operative in the ALP who enjoyed the support of its Socialist Left faction, former Premiers John Cain, Joan Kirner and then Senator Barney Cooney.
David Carl Anderson's website was largely intended to rebut claims made on Diane's website, that includes first person claimed testimony from a cat that appears to have been written by Diane in a fit of rage.
Diane Anderson stands accused by her brother, an eminent lawyer and judicial candidate, of:
â– Having "untreated mental health issues" and a "pathological hatred" of her brother, a respected member of the community and his sister, a Michigan judge;
â– Committing acts of burglary and illegal entry that were reported to local Police, see Police reports here [pdf] and here [pdf].;
â– Regularly and blatantly perjuring herself in court;
â– Defrauding her mother of her retirement savings through misappropriation of many tens of thousands of dollars and systematically draining her mother of money to support her over twenty years for funds to purchase "clothing and books";
â– Allowing her frail and vulnerable mum to be injured while she was "blogging with her Labor comrades" in Australia when her mum was meant to be under her supervision;
â– Being a student radical including with the militant and violent sect Students for a Democratic Society;
â– Being "heavily involved with the drug culture" while at University in the late 1960s (LSD has much to answer for);
â– Being "chronically unemployable";
â– Having a fraught personal life, upon which we'd rather not elaborate on here, as a responsible and high-minded publisher;
â– Being a "pariah in Australian society"; and
â– Being sent to jail for contempt of court and being sanctioned with thousands of dollars in penalties for filing vexatious and harassing law suits in the United States.
The cat we wrote about last week was also not spared in Diane's brother's catalogue of accusations. The eminent lawyer explained the much-quoted cat "Toupee" was almost as vicious as Diane herself:
On at least two (2) different occasions, Diane Anderson allowed Jewell Anderson's cat to bite her, causing significant lacerations to Jewell Anderson's legs. During the second biting of Jewell Anderson by her cat, Jewell Anderson had a serious infection of her wound, which Diane Anderson allowed to go untreated and resulted in a need for medical intervention and significant doses of antibiotics.
The cat has been silent about these claims on Diane's website, possibly on the advice of counsel.
It gets worse though, and this shocking story certainly explains why Diane's distressed siblings were so worried:
Again while Diane Anderson was down in the basement using Jewell Anderson's computer, she allowed Jewell Anderson to take a bath, unattended, and when Jewell Anderson attempted to exit the bathtub, Jewell Anderson lost her balance and fell between the bathtub and the toilet commode, and was wedged in this area for a two (2) hour period, while Diane Anderson ignored her pleas for help. When questioned regarding how she could have allowed these injury events to occur while being with Jewell Anderson twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week, Diane Anderson simply shrugged her shoulders and said, "Old people get hurt.â€
The voice of compassion didn't seem to have much at all. And her brother – who knows the "con artist" well – explains her philosophy that many Victorian ALP members saw in action over a decade or so:
DIANE ANDERSON'S PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY – IF I CAN'T HAVE IT MY WAY, I'LL HURT EVERYBODY ELSE THAT STANDS IN MY WAY
Since being a little girl until the present, Diane Anderson has been a person who demands to get things her way, or else she ridicules, disparages, and hurts anyone that stands in the way of her objective.
While living in Australia, Diane Anderson violated the precepts of the Melbourne Unitarian Church. In addition to violating the tenants of the Melbourne Unitarian Church, Diane Anderson also treated her fellow church members in a totally disrespectful fashion, and attempted to get her way regarding disputed issues between she and the church members by using the same bullying, disparaging, and hurtful tactics she has used in her false elder abuse campaign against David Anderson and Martha Anderson.
The informed and strong people of Australia finally could not put up anymore with Diane Anderson's above-said tactics, and she was excommunicated from the Melbourne Unitarian Church and ostracized from the Australian community. Thoroughly chastised by the Australian citizenry, Diane Anderson returned to the United States an extremely bitter person with no friends to her name.
Excellent Socialist Lefistas Joan Kirner, John Cain, Rolf Sorensen and the cackling Margot Carroll might still count Diane Anderson as a friend, but in light of the above, it seems not unreasonable for them to question any previous political association. The Socialist Left – and people like Dean Mighell – were willing to take Anderson's vote at ALP State Conferences as late as 2006, as she would repeatedly accuse every Labor leader and every Labor government of selling out, being Liberal stooges or whatever madness spewed out of her mouth at the time. Perhaps they have evolved to the point where they will be a little more discerning in future.
Diane is a hoon. Why did the ALP ever put up with her?
Diane Anderson was once a barrister without briefs. Not the underwear kind (I have no idea whether or not she wears knickers) but the cases solicitors give to barristers that keeps them employed. Diane was too mad to engage.
Diane objects to elder abuse. Diane herself was very good at abusing both Steve Bracks and John Brumby. She took the ALP to court twice in the early 2000s. She also took the Unitarian Church to court several times. She's a very litigious lady. Let's hope her barristers got paid.
she should stick to self-abuse and not feline or elder abuse
May email from Diane Anderson to Higgins FEA
Dear Higgins Member:
The attachment is the May Higgins News. It was delayed following a close encounter of the cat kind on the stairs at night resulting in a tumble and a severely sprained wrist.
Diane Anderson
Diane Anderson – Tooronga ALP
2008 marks the 32nd year of my ALP membership. I have been an activist member from the start. I have served on the Admin Committee, the state and local POSC, myriad policy committees, the Higgins FEA Executive, and from 1979-2006, on the Tooronga (Camberwell/Malvern) Branch Executive. I have not been a seat warmer on any of these bodies. I have done all of this without ever joining a faction.
For 20 years I served as a delegate to the State Conference, for most of that time the only non-faction delegate. I arrived early and stayed for the duration of Conference. I always read the materials in advance. I was briefed by community groups as well as Party members and spoke on their behalf. In the name of democratic practice, the SL agreed to second my Motions meaning that important issues such as the debacle of our privatised energy industry could be aired. My non-faction status meant that I could critique all matters without fear of censorship.
In 2004, I agreed to become my Mother's caregiver following her diagnosis of early Alzheimer's Disease affecting her short-term memory. I was able to travel between Michigan and Australia, sometimes with Mother and sometimes alone. While I could not attend night time functions any more, I could participate as a Conference delegate.
In late October 2007, Mother was hospitalised with a life threatening condition unrelated to her Alzheimer's. I slept on a chair by her bed the entire time she was in hospital acting as an unofficial nurse's aide. Upon discharge, Mum went to a rehab facility for three months. I was constantly at her side at the rehab centre. With the physical therapists, I helped design a physical therapy programme for Mum and then did all of the PT as her unofficial therapist under the scrutiny of the PTs. It has thus been a physically and emotionally draining time.
The change in Mother's physical health has meant that I have been unable to continue my regular travels between Michigan and Australia since her October hospitalisation. I thus had decided not to stand for re-election as an FEA State Conference delegate until I was asked to do so by individuals in the Higgins FEA concerned about the antics of the Labor Unity Faction in Higgins.
I do not have a history of giving an undertaking to do a particular job and then not doing it. I did miss the State Conference held
in early 2007 (that was actually the Spring 2006 State Conference; there were no 2007 State Conferences held in violation of the Victorian ALP Constitution). My failure to attend was due to the unexpected death of my brother Bruce three days after his 56th birthday. I don't apologise for putting family concerns ahead of attending that Conference, especially as it was not held at the scheduled time anyway and did not meet for even a full day.
I should not have agreed to run in FEA elections, this year, however. Another crisis involving Mum arose when I should have been in Australia campaigning. Instead, family matters meant that I had to run dead in the water at a time when LU apparatchiks had encouraged relatives who had never been concerned enough to join the ALP to suddenly sigh up and vote for LU. Not being in Australia meant that I could not meet new members. The best I was able to do was to make a handful of phone calls to some long time supporters.
It was from those long time supporters that I learned the games that LU had been up to. Some of my supporters had been told that I was never returning to Australia, that my Mother was dead, that I was not even running, etc.
While such tactics are despicable, it was nevertheless my responsibility to either run a genuine campaign or get out of the race. Instead, I did not even contact all of the people who traditionally vote for me. I failed to get across to the non-faction voters the importance of voting a straight ticket rather than splitting votes. In so doing, I let down the other people who had stood as non-faction candidates as well as the people who have voted for me over the years. While my duties to Mum have been time consuming, they do not excuse my failure to honour my commitment to the non-faction members to run as a genuine rather than as a paper candidate.
I don't know what the future will bring because of the uncertainty of family matters in the USA. I can assure the non-faction members that if circumstances allow me to run as a candidate in the 2009 FEA Elections, I will run as a genuine candidate with a proper campaign. In the meantime, I thank those people who have supported me over the years for allowing Higgins to be an FEA in which a non-faction voice was heard on the floor of Conference. I don't take you for granted and I treasure your friendship and the courage you have shown in promoting uncensored debate within the ALP.
Who could forget this article from Higgins News August 2007
Diane Anderson – Tooronga ALP
After perusing the previous articles, I believe the time has come to give Higgins members an update on the enforcement of the Rules in the Victorian ALP. In 2000, in accordance with Victorian Party Rules, I filed a charge against the then Premier Steve Bracks. My charge is that Bracks broke Party Rules which are binding on all Party members when he used his factional numbers at ALP State Conference to ram through an endorsement of the running of the Grand Prix in Albert Park.
In the ALP, policy has traditionally been made from the bottom up. The politicians have input into policy development through their local branches, through the policy committees and ultimately through State Conference. Unlike the Liberals, they don't make policy by themselves in isolation from the Party organisation.
The running of the Grand Prix in Albert Park violates 7 major areas of State Conference endorsed policy. If Steve wanted to endorse the Race in the Park, under the Rules he first had to consult with all of the relevant policy committees affected by that decision. He had to either convince the policy committee members to change the policies, hardly likely as these were all excellent policies with wide support throughout the Party, or else Steve could have acknowledged the harm the Race does to these policies and subsequently to the broader community and asked for an exemption. Steve chose to ignore both of these options. Instead, he chose to bypass the policy committees and used his factional mates at State Conference to support the Race in Albert Park.
The rule of law is the glue which holds representative democracies together. It used to be the glue that held the ALP together as well. I believe the rule of law within the ALP is a principle worth fighting for, and thus I charged the Premier with a breach of the Rules.
For 7 years, Steve's factional mates on the old Disputes Tribunal refused to hear the matter despite giving assurances that they would do so and despite taking and never returning my $100 deposit. (They have done the same thing with my money from another charge relating to the behaviour of the former Premier) When the Old Disputes Tribunal was abolished, the charge against Steve was put in the too hard box never to see the light of day again. The message sent by the LU faction heavies is clear: Conference determined policy is binding on the rank and file but not on the exalted politicians. Ditto the Rules. We now officially have two classes of ALP membership: the politicians/faction heavies and everybody else. Is it any wonder that ALP members and people in the wider community now refer to the ALP as the Alternative Liberal Party?
Stop your carping Diane. We need positive policies for a change.
In the US Diane comes from a family of Republicans. She told the Unitarian Church once her mother voted for Ike over the Unitarian Stevenson. It would make sense if Diane ever returns from America for her to join the Liberal Party.
Do you think the Liberal Party would have her?
She fooled Jeff Kennett once. He was going to make her his campaign director when he ran for Lord Mayor of Melbourne. It was comments on Vexnews that forced him to change his mind. It was the Vexnews exposure of Diane that told Kennett how much of a mental case she was.
you right wingers, attorneys and cats are all the same.
A slight amendment to my 2008 article. I did try to join the socialist left but they would not let me – in stead, the deal was that rolf would be allowed to join and that they would receive my support at state conferences.
Unfortunatly, I did not win last years because of those rightwingers. However, rolf still remains a member of the SL and does my bidding. he is a very loyal and trusted lieutenant. Next to my Barry, I trust him the most, then comes my Margot. Note Margot did vote socialist left when she was my proxy last year when I was too busy in america sorting out mom's financial and health issues no thanks to my right winger and attorney brother. who can beleive it he is even worse than race mathews.but only just.
Why oh why oh why doesn't anyone take notice of me? any more.


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SGI Members Meet in Fiji and Russia
On August 16, 2008, SGI-Fiji members gathered for a district meeting in Lautoka, the second largest city in Fiji. Two members shared how their Buddhist practice positively impacted their daily lives. SGI-Oceania Chair Richard Sasaki encouraged everyone to challenge to develop into a person who is trusted in society.
On September 6, SGI-Russia members met in Moscow to commemorate the 34th anniversary of SGI President Daisaku Ikeda's first visit to Russia. Some 100 members attended from St. Petersburg, Moscow, and even from cities several hundreds kilometers away, such as Nizhny Novgorod. SGI-Russia leaders Takeshi Yamakawa and Mariko Yashiki encouraged those attending to harmoniously unite for people's happiness and peace in the country.
[Adapted from articles in the September 10 and 20, 2008 issues of the Seikyo Shimbun, Soka Gakkai, Japan]