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BEST sandwiches I have ever had!! we are visiting St Louis from San Jose, someone told us to go to McLozzi's, so we took a cab from Downtown to McLozzi's. tried their Cuban Sandwich...out of this world!!! I have never had one of those before. The next day we went out there again and the little guy told us to try the Comfort sandwich, I was alittle ify about trying it becasuse meatloaf is not one of my favorites. But I sure am glad I tried it! I also had to sneak in a Cuban again and we shared a McLozzi. Sandwiches are tasty, fresh and addicting. Wish they were closer to San Jose!!!
Best Delicatessen St. Louis 2007 - McLozzi Deli & Marketplace
Here's a good rule of thumb: Don't trust a deli that doesn't make a good sandwich. McLozzi Deli & Marketplace named for its location at the corner of McNair Avenue and Pestalozzi Street in Benton Park makes a damn good sandwich. Several of them, in fact, including a delicious grilled Italian cold-cut sandwich and the "Gobbler," a turkey-cranberry sauce-stuffing-cream cheese concoction so good you'll want to celebrate Thanksgiving year-round. Want to build a great sandwich of your own? McLozzi provides the meats and cheeses as well as the sides and gooey butter cake you need to make a terrific meal. You can eat in McLozzi's cozy environs, but you'll be tempted to grab a six-pack of beer or a bottle of wine from the small-but-nice selection and have a picnic in your back yard.
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We stopped in before a Cubs/Cards game. Great sandwiches and the perfect place to grab lunch before the Cubs beat the Cardinals.
McLozzi's is the best kept secret south of Highway 40! I am proud to say I ate the first Gobbler sandwich at McLozzi's and have had many, many more! It is great to see the dream come true for Dan and Mark. Buona Fortuna!!!!


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More than 660 people caught watching TV without a licence in Lincoln in 2012
Posted: February 21, 2013|
More than 660 people were caught watching TV without a licence in Lincoln last year.
This compares with more than 340 people in Gainsborough and more than 110 people in Sleaford.
TV Licensing also revealed the average evasion rate is just over 5 per cent, which means almost 95 per cent of homes in Lincolnshire are properly licensed.
Mark Whitehouse, TV Licensing spokesman for East Anglia, said: "The data released shows evasion remains at historically low levels of approximately 5 per cent.
"That means the overwhelming majority of people have ensured they are correctly licensed.
"In order to be fair to the law-abiding majority who do pay for their licence, we'll continue to pursue the small minority of people who do not pay.
"We do understand some people may find it difficult to pay in one go, which is why we offer numerous ways to spread the cost."
A colour TV licence currently costs £145.50 and is required by anyone watching or recording TV programmes on TV or a computer.
People who do so without a licence are risking court prosecution and a fine of up to £1,000.

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|Ernest Gene Walker
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Ernest Gene Walker, 72, of Tompkinsville, KY, passed away, Saturday, December 22nd, at his home On Decemeber 12, 1963, he married Glenda Sue Walker, who precedes him in death. Ernest was born in Tompkinsville, Ky on August 2, 1940, a son of the late Gracie Ellen (Tinsley) and Clarence Everett Walker. Ernest was a member of the NRA and worked as a farmer.
Ernest is survived by two daughters, Jennifer (Bobby) Shirley, of Tompkinsville, KY; Jessica (Danny) Norris, of Toledo, OH; and a son, Jeffrey Walker, of Tompkinsville, KY; Ernest is also survived by a brother, Ray Walker.
Graveside Services will be conducted at the Brown Cemetery at 11:00 A.M. on Thursday, December 27th, with Charles Walker officiating.
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CA$H is a grants program designed by artists for artists to support professionally oriented theatre and dance artists and small companies with budgets under $100,000, is a program of Theatre Bay Area in partnership with Dancers' Group. Its purpose is to spark a creative surge throughout Northern California's theatre and dance community by providing grants to artists ($2,000) and small-sized organizations ($4,000). Funding decisions are made by a rotating five-member panel.
Check back for the next application deadline.
Below are the guidelines and application from the Spring 2015 round:
The program is open to Bay Area theatre and dance ARTISTS, and small ORGANIZATIONS that create and perform theatre or dance works. The Bay Area includes all of Theatre Bay Area's Northern California service area, which stretches north to Fort Bragg, east to the Sierra Foothills and south to Salinas.
* ARTISTS must be at least 18 years old, working in the art form of the proposed project, and able to document at least one professionally oriented production that was presented publicly in the last two years. Artists may apply either as individuals or as a collaborative team. (No other member of your collaborative team can apply in the same round.)
* ORGANIZATIONS, incorporated or not, must have a yearly operational budget under $100,000, and be able to document at least two professionally oriented works that were presented publicly in the last two years.
Sorry, no applications from students or CA$H personnel, or from organizations that are primarily presenters, performance venues, nonprofessional (pastime/hobby) companies or arts education programs. Applicants can only submit one proposal per granting round. Also, members of the panel pool may not apply to any round in which they are serving on the panel. Previous grantees may reapply, but must first sit out one round of their discipline as well as submit a self-evaluation on the project for which they were funded. Requests for funding to retire debts from current or past performances are discouraged.
Grants will support artistic and organizational development projects.
- ARTISTS may apply for $2,000 in support of an artistic project.
- ORGANIZATIONS may apply for $4,000 in support of an artistic project or for an organizationaldevelopment project that will improve their ability to create/present art. Requests for organizational development should specify the purpose (e.g., website, computer purchase, marketing initiative, etc.) and describe how it will improve the organization's ability to create or present art.
Priority will go to work that:
- has an impact on the artist, the organization, the community or the field
- is innovative and take creative risks with the potential of excellence
- will result in some kind of tangible creative activity
How Decisions are Made
CA$H is designed to be an entirely artist-driven program and, in line with that, the program's administrators assemble a randomly selected group of five artists to review each round of applications and make all granting decisions. It is our commitment to gather a group that is diverse in all aspects (ethnicity, geography, discipline, experience, etc.). Every panelist must go through training on the panel process; all are empowered to interpret the priority criteria through the filter of their own personal experiences and artistic views, while always staying true to guiding principles on which the program was founded.
Awards will be announced within seven weeks of the application deadline. All applicants will be notified by mail. While there is no specific grant period in which the funds must be used, grantees will begin receiving requests for a final report approximately six months after receiving a grant.
Grantees must provide a simple self-evaluation of the funded project, including how the money was spent, the number of artists involved in carrying it out, and the number of people who attended a performance, if applicable.
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June 5, 2013
The incongruity of the woman at the centre of the image is striking; dressed in a red cotton summer dress, shopping bag over one shoulder, she appears almost to have wandered into the scene by accident.
The photograph of an unnamed woman wearing a red dress being pepper sprayed by police in Turkey has since gone viral and has become a symbol of the "Occupy Gezi" protests.
Endlessly shared on social media and replicated as a cartoon on posters and stickers, the image of the woman in red has become the leitmotif for female protesters during days of violent anti-government demonstrations in Istanbul.
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To the Editor:
I found it very painful to read Francis Golffing's article on Hitler ("What Manner of Man Was Hitler?" February 1953). Here was a detached, objective study of the Butcher of Berchtesgaden, a study from which the depraved beast emerges absolved of many a failing imputed to him and cleansed of many a stigma. We learn, for example, that he was by no means "a semi-literate fool" but that, on the contrary, he "was certainly intelligent" and that "his mind was well, and not at all oddly, endowed." Nor was he even a "bluff," as many had supposed. Nowhere in the essay are we told that he was, in the final analysis, a subhuman global gangster. . . .
Let the Germans who only yesterday yelped demoniacally their frenzied heils to Hitler—let them re-evaluate dispassionately and objectively the nightmare of Nazism and the demon that spawned it. To us they are anathema, utterly muktzah, unmentionable! . . .
Whatever the religious policy of a Yiddish newspaper may be, it will not dare print on its women's page recipes for pig's knuckles or pâté de pore. No more do we expect a Jewish publication to treat us to a dispassionate analysis of the "personality" of the brown-shirted dovor acher. No, not until we have first forgiven Amalek and whitewashed Torquemada, Pobiedonostzev, and Petlura.
Isidore Goldstick
London, Canada
To the Editor:
Unlike Mr. Goldstick, who seems at no loss for words, I hardly know what to say. No doubt my essay is vulnerable in many respects, as well as incomplete, but to read it as a thinly disguised apologia for Hitler betrays a rare degree of insensitiveness.
In a section of my article omitted from the printed version I claimed that men who, for better or worse, have made history are liable to a special kind of consideration usually denied public figures of less consequence. That consideration must be surgically cold, freezing the whole area of passion that would naturally surround such a subject. Hitler's ghastliness was not the issue here (though I believe I managed to convey an adequate sense of horror) but his mind, his beliefs, his probable motives. I am ready to be controverted on any of these heads. To write yet another piece of horrified rant would simply have added to the aura of taboo around Hitler which Mr. Goldstick, on his own showing, wishes to thicken and—to the detriment of understanding—perpetuate.
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This category includes tax penalties associated with vehicle use and purchase, as well as tax incentives related to the production, purchase or lease of green vehicles. Note that tax penalties and incentives related to fuels rather than vehicles are included in the Renewable energy & fuels section.
Of the 21 countries analyzed for this Index, all except two (Argentina and Russia) have some sort of tax penalty and/or incentive related to green vehicles.
Several of the countries identified here as the most active in green vehicle tax policy (Japan, France, the US and China) are also among the world's top 10 net oil importers according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).1 It could therefore be argued, that these countries in particular could benefit from reducing oil consumption by transport.
It should be noted that many governments are also using non-tax approaches, such as direct subsidies to green vehicle industries. These have not been factored into the scoring of the Index but some examples are provided.
The background to burgeoning green vehicle tax policy is rapid growth in demand for road transport. In its 2012 World Energy Outlook, the IEA predicted that the number of passenger cars will double between 2011 and 2035 to 1.7 billion, and demand for road freight will also increase rapidly. Much of the increase will be driven by demand from developing countries and the growth of the 'global middle class'.
Transport already accounts for well over half (62 percent) of world oil consumption, up from only 45 percent in 1972, and the IEA predicts this share will increase.
These trends present governments, especially those that are net importers of oil, with a challenge: how to continue to satisfy demand for transportation in a world where fossil fuel markets are increasingly volatile and unpredictable, prices of oil are rising almost continuously and security of supply is an increasing concern.
Furthermore, many governments also face challenges from severe city pollution due to fossil fuelled vehicles, and the impacts of climate change, to which transportation is a major contributor.
According to the Asian Development Bank, transportation accounts for 23 percent of energy-related CO2 emissions and many experts predict a three to five-fold increase in emissions from transportation in Asian countries by 2030.2
Vehicle-related tax penalties in Japan are numerous and include oil, petroleum and gas taxes, and taxes related to vehicle size, type and use. Owners of automobiles pay an annual tax based on engine size. For private passenger vehicles with engine displacement of between 1500 and 2000, the tax rate is JPY39,500 (USD420) per year. There is also an additional tax on the purchase of a private vehicle payable at the time of new registration or transfer registration. A reduction in this tax rate is available for certain fuel efficient vehicles, but the current (at the time of writing) rate for private cars (before the reduction) is 5 percent of the vehicle's value at the time of acquisition.
An additional motor vehicle tonnage tax is payable at the time of inspection or registration. Tax rates vary according to the type of vehicle, weight of vehicle and the intended use of the vehicle. For example, the tax rate for private passenger vehicles weighing not more than a ton is JPY8,200 (USD87) per year. Additional motor vehicle tonnage tax allowances are provided if vehicles satisfy certain requirements.
Tax incentives specific to vehicles include a capital allowance for certain refueling equipment. Alternative refueling equipment is included in Japan's capital allowance of 30 percent of the cost of new advanced low-carbon and energy saving equipment, provided that the asset is purchased or produced in the period from 1 June 2011 to 31 March 2016 and put in use by business in Japan within a year.
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France penalizes the use of vehicles heavily. In fact, the country imposes four types of penalties. The tax penalties include a surcharge on the acquisition of a polluting vehicle, applicable to passenger cars registered for the first time in France. The amount of the surcharge varies depending on the CO2 emission rate (g/km) of the vehicle and rates are reduced by 40 percent for vehicles that use super-ethanol E85 (except for vehicles producing more than 250g/km CO2). As from 2013, the amount of the surcharge has been significantly increased compared with the previous year.
In common with Belgium, the UK and some others, France also taxes company cars , though certain hybrids are exempt. Any passenger car used by a business in France is subject to the tax, no matter which country the company is registered in. The rates of the tax vary according to the CO2 emission rates (g/km) of the vehicle. In addition, capital allowance rates for polluting tourism vehicles are limited to EUR9,900 (USD12,860) versus EUR18,300 (USD23,770) for other vehicles. Trucks are also taxed, depending on maximum loaded weight excesses of 3.5 tons.
The UK also has an annual car tax calculated on CO2 emissions and fuel type. The most polluting vehicles, emitting over 255g CO2/km, are taxed at GBP475 (USD723) per year whereas vehicles emitting 100g or less of CO2/km are exempt.3
Company cars in the UK are taxed, again with rates determined by the type of vehicle, fuel type and CO2 emissions. The UK also provides a 100 percent first year capital allowance for vehicles meeting low-emission requirements (less than 110g CO2/km).
London charges a congestion charge fee of GBP10 (USD15) per day from which low-emission vehicles are exempt.
In common with many countries analyzed in this Index, the US taxes large vehicles ('gas guzzlers'). The US government established its Gas Guzzler Tax as part of the Energy Tax Act of 1978 in order to discourage the production and purchase of fuel-inefficient vehicles. The Gas Guzzler Tax is assessed on new cars that do not meet required fuel economy levels, currently 22.5 miles per gallon. These taxes apply only to passenger cars. Trucks, minivans, and sport utility vehicles (SUV) are not covered because these vehicle types were not widely available in 1978 and were rarely used for non-commercial purposes. The US Internal Revenue Service is responsible for administering the Gas Guzzler program and collecting the taxes from car manufacturers or importers. The amount of tax is posted on the window stickers of new cars - the lower the fuel economy, the higher the tax.
The Gas Guzzler Tax for each vehicle is based on its combined city and highway fuel economy value. Fuel economy values are calculated before sales begin for the model year. The total amount of the tax is determined later and is based on the total number of 'gas guzzler' vehicles sold that year. It is assessed after production has ended for the model year and is paid by the vehicle manufacturer or importer.
Incentives enacted in the US include a tax credit for qualified fuel cell vehicles, varying in amount from USD4,000 to USD40,000, depending on vehicle weight and date of purchase. An additional USD1,000 to USD4,000 credit for the purchase of fuel efficient vehicles, such as electric vehicles, also exists. The credit is not permanent and various provisions are set to expire by 2014. In addition, the US (like Japan) provides a tax credit, which is set to expire at the end of 2013, for alternative vehicle refueling equipment. The credit amount is calculated as 30 percent of the cost of the equipment, but is limited to no more than USD30,000 per taxpayer.
Belgium penalizes companies for providing environmentally unfriendly vehicles to employees. The penalty rate is linked to the vehicle's CO2 emissions.
Accelerated capital allowances of 100 percent in the year of expenditure are available in Ireland for equipment purchased to manufacture certain energy efficient vehicles, such as electric, plug-in, lean burn and hybrids. In addition, Ireland provides lowered vehicle registration taxes for more fuel efficient/low-emission vehicles.
The Spanish government, in common with many other countries, offers preferential registration tax rates on lower emission vehicles. Preferential rates for greener vehicles can also apply to the Mechanical Traction Tax, Spain's second vehicle tax for which rates are set by local governments.
In January 2012, China enacted a policy on purchase tax reduction or exemption for greener vehicles. Under the policy, purchase tax is reduced by 50 percent for eligible fuel-saving vehicles and exempted for eligible alternative fuel vehicles.
Many countries offer a variety of non-tax incentives aimed at promoting the uptake of greener, low-emission and alternative fuel vehicles.
Australia, for example, has a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Vehicle Scheme which is aimed to increase the use of LPG as a transport fuel. Grants are provided for conversion of registered vehicles to LPG (AUD1,000) (USD915) or the purchase of new LPG vehicles (AUD2,000) (USD1,830). Grants are capped to 25,000 eligible claims per financial year. This program started in July 2011.
Canada's Freight Technology Incentives Program provides cost shared funding to support the purchase and installation of proven technologies that can reduce the emissions of air pollutants and GHGs. Examples include hybrid switching locomotives, diesel anti-idling equipment and electronic speed control systems. The program requires a minimum funding request of CAD25,000 (USD24,439) — a maximum of 50 percent of project total eligible costs, or CAD500,000 (USD489,000) over a 2 year period.
China's 12th Five-Year Plan, announced in March 2011, identified clean energy cars as one of three key investment areas.4 In March 2013, it was reported that China would impose strict new fuel efficiency standards on new cars. The rules will cut average fuel consumption to 6.9 liters per 100km (34 miles per gallon) by 2015 and to 5 liters per 100km (47 miles per gallon) by 2020.5
China has implemented a pilot program of subsidies in five cities, including Shanghai and Shenzhen, where subsidies are paid to manufacturers in order to reduce the price for purchasers. Despite 'lackluster' sales due to high production costs, China has announced it will retain and fine tune the subsidy system.6
In Japan the government provides subsidies ranging from JPY70K (USD740) to JPY900K (USD9,500) to purchasers of new eco-friendly vehicles satisfying certain fuel efficiency standards, provided that the vehicles are purchased in the period from 20 December 2011 to 31 January 2013 and used for more than a year by the same individual. Japan allocated a budget of JPY300billion (USD3.2billion) for these subsidies.
In Spain the government approved a EUR72 million (USD103 million) fund to promote electric vehicles in May 2011. The incentives include direct subsidies for the acquisition of new electric cars for up to 25 percent of the purchase price, before tax, to a maximum of EUR6,000 per vehicle (USD8,600), and 25 percent of the gross purchase price of other electric vehicles such as buses and vans, with a maximum of EUR15,000 (USD19,300) or EUR30,000 (USD38,600) depending on the range and type of vehicles.
Since January 2011, the UK offers a plug-in car grant. The program provides a 25 percent grant towards the cost of new plug-in cars, capped at GBP5,000 (USD7,615). Vehicles must meet certain criteria including emissions levels, range, minimum top speed, warranty, battery performance and safety. The list of eligible vehicles is continually updated, and certain vans were recently included.
1 Asian Development Bank. July 2010. Reducing Carbon Emissions from Transport Projects.
2 https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tables. Accessed 23 March 2013.
3 http://www.kpmg.com/cn/en/IssuesAndInsights/ArticlesPublications/Documents/China-12th-Five-Year-Plan-Energy-201104.pdf. (PDF 400 KB) Accessed 23 March 2013.
4 http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/21/us-china-auto-fuel-idUKBRE92K03E20130321. Accessed 24 March 2013.
5 http://www.china.org.cn/business/2013-03/18/content_28274515.htm. Accessed 24 March 2013.
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Michigan women's swimming coach Jim Richardson claims that
this year's team has something different from all the past
teams he's coached.
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"They are fearless," Richardson said.
"We've changed the entire structure of our program over
the course of the season with new dry-land and water training, and
the team has committed every part of themselves to it."
This weekend, the Wolverines plan on defending
Richardson's claim at the Big Ten Championships at the
University of Minnesota Aquatic Center.
The meet, which begins today, consists of four days of
competition with trial final sessions everyday.
"Our toughest day of the meet will be Thursday,"
Richardson said. "The 50-yard freestyle event is scheduled
"It is going to be the marquee event of the weekend
because there are going to be 30 swimmers who all finish within .01
of a second apart. You have to swim the perfect race to
The conference meet will mark Richardson's 18th appearance
as Michigan's coach.
Since taking over the program in 1986, he has led the Wolverines
to 13 Big Ten titles, including 12 in a row from 1987 to 1998.
While Richardson has a reputation to live up to, so does the
team. The Wolverines have claimed 17 Big Ten Championships since
1974, tying Wisconsin's cross country team for the most Big
Ten titles won by a women's program.
Richardson is hopeful that another team title is just around the
corner, but his primary goal is for his athletes to swim fast and
exhibit the hard work they've put in since September.
"When it comes to performance, like other coaches,
I'm greedy," Richardson said. "I want them all to
swim fast and win. This is a sport where team wins aren't the
judge. It's based on how your swimmers do in three days of
championships, and sometimes you don't get justice. If it was
a for-sure thing, it would be boring.
"That's why this sport is a challenge."
The Big Ten team title will be difficult to capture because,
while a vast majority of the teams in the conference have graduated
top swimmers, they have made up losses with incoming freshmen.
Michigan is in the same situation, having lost its entire
"A" relay from last year.
But freshmen Susan Gilliam and Lindsey Smith have filled in well
for the Wolverines.
Gilliam is predicted to have top-10 performances in both the
500-and 1,650-yard freestyle. Smith, who recently qualified for the
2004 Olympic trials in the 200-meter freestyle, is expected to have
standout races in the 100-, 200- and 1,000-yard freestyle
"The freshmen usually have a difficult time getting
situated at their first Big Ten Championship," Richardson
said. "The toughest part is their ability to dissociate
between sessions."
Senior captain Sara Johnson — who won the 200-yard
individual medley at the championships last year — described
the excitement of the meet as overwhelming and hard to ignore.
"With all the noise and people, it's a scary
situation to enter," Johnson said. "If you don't
get nervous, there's something wrong with you."
Richardson understands all the tough factors present at the
meet, but believes the team is primed for the situation.
"We're ready," Richardson said.
"We've trained well, we've raced well and
we've rested well. This team deserves success."


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Developers in the District are placing their bets on the Southwest waterfront. On Thursday, they announced plans to build a $2 billion waterfront neighborhood there.
Planners are hoping the project will bring new life to the area.
After so much money was invested into the Nationals ball park and the surrounding neighborhood, there's hope this development will be a sign of things to come in the Southwest.
Developers said the project will produce $40 million in tax revenue and bring 1,500 jobs to the District.
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Thursday, January 30, 2014
Mojo continues in his investigative mode. His reading glasses are still perched on his head and his nose continues on the grindstone.
His zeal to be educated about education has been fueled by recent letters to the editor attacking the Common Core. One in particular from Judy Clarke, the President of the Georgetown Republican Womans Club, has given Mojo reason to think that there must be more behind the attacks than the Common Core itself.
According to Mojos research, the Common Core originated in 2009 when the National Governors Association and a group of educators versed in best practices representing the Council of State School Officers (state superintendents of education ...) got together. A working group recommended a core set of assessments for K-12. The bottom line was helping students throughout the country receive an education that prepares them for the workforce and/or higher education. The Common Core is not a national curriculum. Therein lies some of the misunderstanding.
The Core assessments include areas such as reading, writing, speaking and listening, math, language (including computer skills and math), ... Mojo was particularly pleased to find out that teaching methodology for the Core includes a heavy emphasis on problem solving, strategic thinking, and interdisciplinary studies (he has believed that the best work is done at the edges of disciplines as they come together). Mojo was impressed that the Core seems to champion an approach that puts a premium on a partnership between parents and teachers. And he really wagged his tail as he learned that there is a great deal of flexibility built into the suggested processes. One size does not fit all.
Fifty-one states and territories have bought into the Core. Federal grants are available to help states implement the effort. To my way of thinking, the grants are not unlike grants from the Federal government to help with infrastructure needs in our states.
Ms. Clarke urges everyone to learn about education, particular the Core. Mojo and I could not agree more. We followed her thinking until she took off on a conspiracy theory. Indeed, it was like watching a jet plane take off. You can follow it for awhile on the runway and then zoom. According to Ms. Clarke, and I assume the Republican women in Georgetown County, the Core might just be an attempt by the federal government to gain control of our childrens minds through centralized education. I wonder how that squares with the origins of the Core coming from the governors of the states? I wonder how that squares with the independent problem solver the approach hopes to develop?
Mojo thinks that the reaction of Ms. Clarke and those in the conspiracy camp comes out of fear, not rational thought. The big bad wolf at their door is always the federal government. The wolf is everywhere. (In fact, Mojo has sometimes been mistaken for the wolf). Thats too bad because in the long run our children do suffer. The reason our state ranks so low in education is the big bad wolf federal government not the need to take a look at our process of education. The reason companies seeking to relocate to SC have trouble finding an educated workforce is the big bad wolf.
Our founders, in their wisdom, did establish a system of checks and balances. But above all, Madison, Hamilton and the like, sought to establish a nation that was capable of meeting the needs of the day and not a loose confederation incapable of reacting as a people to challenges. To the founders, a mouse was a small rodent and a twitter was a bird. Globalization was placing a spherical map in your library. My hunch is that they would applaud the Core effort since it seeks to make our young people competitive on the world stage.
The Rev. Dr. Jim Watkins and Mojo
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Regular supervision of employees to ensure they are following instructions is important. Consider how your staff can keep in touch or be seen if you are away from the sales area by using intercoms, signals or CCTV systems.
Because it can be difficult to tell a customer's age, particularly those in their late teens, it is wise to challenge anyone who appears to be under 21 to prove their age. This is the basis of 'Challenge 21' and similar schemes used for alcohol and cigarettes. Consider adopting a similar policy in your store.
Unless it is beyond doubt that a buyer is over 18, you must take steps to check the buyer's age.
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In spite of the offense and defensive breakdowns, the Ravens can credit another area for their December swoon: Penalties.
With three games remaining, they've been penalized for 872 yards, second-most in the NFL. They were 24th one season ago with 742 penalty yards.
They're 0-2 in December going into Sunday's game against the Denver Broncos, though penalties have burdened them all season.
"A lot of it earlier in the year was pre-snap penalties on offense. We've had a couple games recently where there have been too many of those. That sets you back behind schedule – it came up in the Washington game," Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. "That's something that you really have to work on. That's not OK. We can't be going 1st-and-15. That's been a number of the penalties."
Penalties played a major factor in their two losses this month. Chris Johnson was called for pass interference on 3rd-and-6 against the Washington Redskins' final drive in regulation that resulted in an automatic first down.
The week before, linebacker Paul Kruger was hit with a 15-yard penalty for roughing the passer after a 10-yard completion for the Pittsburgh Steelers. The ball was advanced to the Ravens' 19 with less than two minutes left as they won the game on a last-second field goal.
That's 16 flags against the Ravens in the last two games, though Harbaugh points out that the first three games under replacement officials have inflated their numbers. There also have been questionable flags against safeties Ed Reed and Bernard Pollard for hitting defenseless receivers.
Defensive tackle Haloti Ngata was called for roughing the passer with the Redskins facing 2nd-and-13 near midfield that helped sustain a drive as they went up 14-7. Then on the Ravens' next drive at their own 33, left guard Jah Reid's false start on the first play led to a three-and-out.
Reid's false start in Pittsburgh on 2nd and 10 pushed the Ravens back as Justin Tucker missed a 41-yard field goal. He also had a false start on the Ravens' first drive at the San Diego Chargers on Nov. 25. They were at their own 40 and never recovered as they soon punted and the offense didn't find a groove for three quarters in that 16-13 comeback victory in overtime.
"There is no way in the world it's beneficial for us to be a highly-penalized team. It's not something that we're interested in," Harbaugh said. "I know some coaches say it's not important. If you look statistically over the years, it has not been a determiner for a win-loss record. But, we don't care. We think it's important, and we're going to try to play as clean as we can for the rest of the way."


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All the throwdowns from the current drama-filled season of Celebrity Fit Club seem like kids' stuff compared to the clip below. In the uncensored snippet from the episode that will air Sunday, Dustin and the grizzly drill sergeant Harvey go toe-to-toe when Dustin's weigh-in devolves into a screaming match. After Dustin threatens violence on Ant and then Harvey, Harvey goes ballistic with a multi-minute tirade in which he promises to "f*** [Dustin's] world up!" It's seriously amazing that his head didn't explode from the pressure.
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This activity explores the use of transparent electrodes made of carbon nanotube (CNT) networks in organic photovoltaics (PVs). CNT-based electrodes have several potential advantages over standard transparent electrodes (such as Indium Tin Oxide) including an extraordinarily large electron mobility, increased contact area, and higher flexibility. This group will study the influence of film roughness on charge collection, film adhesion on the polymer layer, and film work function of the polymer-based PVs. Novel high spatial resolution microscopy techniques will be used to determine limiting factors of film conductivity. The experiments will strive to understand basic causes of low-conductivity found in current CNT films. These measurements will guide the fabrication of future CNT films, as well as provide leads on other forms of graphitic carbon nanostructures that enhance or outperform nanotubes. In addition, the development of scanning probe techniques for the transparent electrodes used here may assist in the investigation of other fundamental processes in excitonic solar cells, such as diffusion and recombination in the active layers.
- Rowell, M. W., M. A. Topinka, M. D. McGehee, H. J. Prall, G. Dennler, N. S. Sariciftci, L. Hu, and G. Gruner. "Organic solar cells with carbon nanotube network electrodes." Applied Physics Letters 88 (23), 233506-1-3, doi:10.1063/1.2209887 (2006).


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If I had the time or cared enough I'd log on to websites in the cities where he's already performed to see if you've pimped your blog there. Pathetic.
The water department has nothing to do with this.
I must have missed it. Where in the article is the cost of the headquarters given? How do you know it is expensive?
I'm so sick of the constant comments. Why don't the posters start their own company instead of sitting here complaining? How about doing something instead of complaining?
"Trees and underbrush are already better sound proofing measures that the "sound barriers"? Uh.. no.
Where is this documented?
Who woke Voinovich up???
He hasn't done anything in years.
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Business 101 - You pay taxes on your net, not your gross. Net = Profit. 5 plumbers x $50,000 = $250,000. That's not net, it's gross. You'd probably need billings of nearly $1,000,000 to have a $250,000 net, and that's really doing well. You'd probably need billings of $2,000,000 or more to net that much. Please feel free to post again when you know what you're talking about.


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PDF layout issue
09 Sep 2010, 08:46
Sandip Bhattacharya (2 posts)
I am trying to view this book using the two page layout in Adobe Reader as suggested. However, it seems that the PDF is not optimal for reading this way. The text is appearing on the right hand page and the accompanying code is appearing on the left hand side of the next page, atleast for the first two chapters that I have read.
Is this a layout issue, or intentional but I am not able to use it well?
Thanks, Sandip
10 Sep 2010, 16:07
Christophe Porteneuve (63 posts)
Hey Sandip,
Sorry about that. In all likelihood, this is because it is based on odd/even page numbers, and we are one-off (in which case, perhaps tricking the book layout to add a blank page upfront solves that issue, I dunno, we've got to investigate).
The Adobe Reader is probably, by far, the worst way of viewing PDFs… Just another case of the cobbler's kids being shoeless, I guess. Are you by any chance on Mac, where you can use the built-in Preview app, that has a two-page mode (the non-continuous) one that works for this?
I hope this doesn't ruin the book too much for you.
10 Sep 2010, 22:12
Sandip Bhattacharya (2 posts)
Hi Christophe,
No, I am on Ubuntu. I use Adobe Reader for any books I buy because many of the publishers (like apress) seem to recommend that. For all other stuff, I use the regular pdf viewer.
I took your suggestion and used the regular Document Viewer on Ubuntu. The current layout seems to work perfectly on this one. Just weird why Adobe Reader was having problems though.
Ditching the Adobe reader for your books from now on. :)
Thanks, Sandip
P.S. The book seems great! Waiting for the final version!
12 Sep 2010, 23:15
Christophe Porteneuve (63 posts)
Hey Sandip,
Glad the tip helped. In truth, Adobe's products are to PDF what Excel is to CSV: pretty much invented the stuff, then went on to have the crappiest support for it.
Glad you like the book!
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Sean Luckett (3 posts)
I know I'm late to the party, but I had the same problem with Adobe Reader on Ubuntu. I'm glad I wasn't alone and I like that we can use an alternative. Regardless of whatever feelings I may have about using Reader with Ubuntu, I solved this problem accidentally. The one-off is caused by the title page. That's right. The pretty artwork is confusing Reader and setting the pages wrong for "two-up" viewing.
To solve: View » Page Display » Show Cover Page During Two-up. The pages will display the way you want. I thought Reader offered more readable text, but it doesn't so the choice is up to you.
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Comment by Osiris on April 5, 2013 1:05 pm
does anyone know if old flour loses it's gluten content so it won't rise as well? my flour smelled fine, but it was over 2 years old! Organic unbleached white flour! It could be this reason when I let it rise, and then I went to touch it, shrink back to original size, and wouldn't rise again.
Comment by Osiris on April 16, 2013 11:29 am
used new flour today. tried window pane test and it was correct. left dough in covered bowl to rise, first hour it rose a little and i poke tested it was fine, second hour was too high and poke tested and it shrunk back! and the dough is really slimy and slippery too!
Comment by phil on April 17, 2013 9:17 am
So you're having the same problem with new flour that you did with old flour? How much volume is it gaining when it rises? Does it double in size? How much water and flour are you using? Slippery and slimy might be okay depending on the type of bread you are trying to make. You may find that a lower hydration ratio will be easier to work with though.
Comment by Osiris on April 23, 2013 9:34 am
yes I had the same problem last time with new flour. It rose 50% and held volume and then after the second hour it was double original size, but when I touched it, shrunk back to original size. I used 1 cup water and 3 eggs to make the dough with 4.5 cups flour. I think the yeast content overfermented, today I am going to just let it rise for 1 hour and not 2 because the second hour ruined it last time. It still rose 50% again in the oven when baking last time. But it was impossible to braid and make challah like the directions said after the first rise.
Comment by phil on April 29, 2013 10:57 pm
Yeah, I think the first loaf you were referring to overfermented since it shrank back down when you touched it.
How did your 2nd one turn out?
I haven't tried baking breads with eggs, such as challah, but perhaps you could try using more flour next time. According to a few recipes I found online (such as http://www.thefreshloaf.com/recipes/honeywholewheatchallah) you could probably have an extra 1 to 1.5 cups of flour to get your hydration down a bit. This should also slow the yeast's activity.
Are you using all-purpose flour? It's probably okay to do so, but just curious.
Comment by Osiris on May 2, 2013 3:15 pm
Last weeks loaf rose double in the oven, after shrinking beforehand like the week before. I don't know how I would get 2 more cups of flour in there. I thought adding too much flour, it wouldn't consolidate into a ball of dough. I always add just enough water to make sure I can make that ball. Maybe the recipe since it called for 1/4 cup sugar, that sugar was used to feed the yeast so it didn't eat too much gluten? Not sure if yeast picks and chooses what to eat while it's rising.
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Ashley Hebert ;is looking extra glowy these days — and it's not just from that Miami sunshine.
The Bachelorette star and her husband J.P. Rosenbaum, who moved to Florida together last month, are expecting their first son in the fall. What to do in the meantime? Show off that baby bump while running errands!
Ashley stepped out for a trip to the post office in Miami on August 16, looking ready to pop in black pants, a tight tank-top, sandals, sunglasses, and two purses. Practicing for those heavy diaper bags perhaps?
J.P. recently chatted with ABC News about Ashley's pregnancy. "She has not changed at all. She doesn't have cravings, but she's been on a bubble tea kick recently so we've been running out together. But there hasn't been an 11 p.m., 'I want ice cream; go get it' request. The fact that she doesn't makes me happier to do even more when she does ask."
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But Rotherham manager Steve Evans felt the award of the penalty that allowed the Sky Blues back into the game was "one of the worst decisions ever given."
Evans, whose side led up until that point courtesy of Joe Skarz's first-half goal, was left seething after 71 minutes when his skipper Craig Morgan received a straight red card for his tackle on Callum Wilson and Coventry captain Carl Baker equalised from the resulting spot-kick.
Franck Moussa then headed in Baker's corner to give the visitors the lead but Rotherham threw away the chance to rescue a point when Michael O'Connor's injury-time penalty was saved by Joe Murphy.
And with the Millers goalkeeper pushed up as they searched for an equaliser, Baker fired in Coventry's third goal from the halfway line in the 14th minute of added time.
Pressley, who was sent to the stands following his protests after Rotherham took the lead, said: "We spoke before the game about how difficult it was going to be. For us to deal with what they threw at us was remarkable. I was disappointed with us in the first half because I know we are better than that.
"It was outstanding in the second half because we played in our normal controlled manner. I thought for such a young team it was a great result. I asked the players for an inspirational performance and that is what I got.
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Men's tennis highlights from the NCAA Championships including interviews with Coach Diaz, Garrett Brasseaux and Nathan Pasha.
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ATHENS-----The eighth-ranked Georgia men's tennis team fell to No. 7 North Carolina, 4-2, in the NCAA Championships round of 16 Friday at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex.
The SEC champion Bulldogs end the season with an overall record of 18-8, while North Carolina improves to 27-5. The Tar Heels will face the No. 2 seed Oklahoma in the quarterfinals Sunday at 4 p.m.
"We fought a very good battle today," said Georgia head coach Manuel Diaz. "I think that North Carolina just outplayed us. They played a little bit better than we did, and they deserved to win. They did a much better job than we did taking care of their serves. It was not easy out there. It was windy, and I think it was difficult for both teams. They were just a little bit better, especially in the way that they took care of their serves. We broke, but we just couldn't seem to get enough traction. When we broke, we were usually breaking back. We weren't breaking and going ahead. They just outplayed us."
North Carolina won doubles matches at Nos. 1 and 3 to take a 1-0 lead. At No. 3, Jack Murray and Ronnie Schneider outlasted Garrett Bresseaux and Nick Wood in a tiebreaker, 8-7(1), then Brett Clark and Brayden Schnur won 8-6 over Hernus Pieters and Ben Wagland at No. 1 to clinch the point for the Tar Heels. The match at No. 2 featuring the Bulldog tandem of Eric Diaz and Austin Smith was tied at 6-6 when the doubles point was clinched.
Georgia - the No. 10 seed - retaliated in singles with wins at Nos. 6 and 4 to take a 2-1 lead. Pieters gave the Bulldogs their first point at No. 6 with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Nelson Vick, then seconds later, Wagland registered a 7-5, 6-3 win over Oystein Steiro at No. 4.
The Tar Heels closed the match with three consecutive wins at Nos. 2, 1 and 3 to seal the win. At No. 2, UNC's 33rd-ranked Ronnie Schneider rallied from a 5-1 deficit in the first set tiebreaker and defeated Nathan Pasha, 7-6(7), 6-3. At No. 1, 15th-ranked Schnur defeated No. 23 Austin Smith in three sets, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 to reclaim the lead for North Carolina. The match clincher came at No. 3 as Clark edged Brasseaux, 6-4, 7-6(3), snapping Georgia's 27-match home winning streak.
Four Bulldogs will compete in the singles and doubles portion of the NCAA Championships beginning Wednesday, May 21. Pasha and Smith were selected for the singles draw, while Pieters and Wagland will play in the 32-team doubles bracket. Matchups for the individual portion of the tournament will be announced on Tuesday.
#7 NORTH CAROLINA (27-5) def. #10 GEORGIA (18-8), 4-2 - Henry Feild Stadium
Doubles (Order of finish: 3,1)
1. #25 Brett Clark/Brayden Schnur (NORTH CAROLINA) def. #8 Hernus Pieters/Ben Wagland (GEORGIA), 8-6
2. Oystein Steiro/Nelson Vick (NORTH CAROLINA) vs. Eric Diaz/Austin Smith (GEORGIA), 6-6, unf.
3. Jack Murray/Ronnie Schneider (NORTH CAROLINA) def. Garrett Brasseaux/Nick Wood (GEORGIA), 8-7(1)
Singles (Order of finish: 6,4,2,1,3)
1. #15 Brayden Schnur (NORTH CAROLINA) def. #23 Austin Smith (GEORGIA), 6-2, 3-6, 6-2
2. #33 Ronnie Schneider (NORTH CAROLINA) def. #30 Nathan Pasha (GEORGIA), 7-6(7), 6-3
3. #78 Brett Clark (NORTH CAROLINA) def. #70 Garrett Brasseaux (GEORGIA), 6-4, 7-6(3)
4. #82 Ben Wagland (GEORGIA) def. Oystein Sterio (NORTH CAROLINA), 7-5, 6-3
5. Jack Murray (NORTH CAROLINA) vs. Nick Wood (GEORGIA), 7-5, 6-5, unf.
6. Hernus Pieters (GEORGIA) def. Nelson Vick (NORTH CAROLINA), 6-3, 6-3


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PLATTSBURGH - Cutthroat Logic is one of the newest bands in the local music scene but is one that's already developed a following.
The band started in late 2009 when guitarist John Cayea approached bassist Kenny Ackerman about the idea. The two teamed up and, after a few months and "a slew of different musicians playing in the band," said John, they happened upon vocalist Dave Grube Jr.
"I had done a short project with Dave in the past and decided that he had the sound that I was looking for," said Cayea.
Their sound was rough, at first, said John, until they brought in Brandon Cayea on drums. Then, things started falling into place, he said.
"The music clicked easily and we wrote songs with relative ease," said John.
It was only a few short months before the band had practiced enough to start playing shows around Plattsburgh. Their first gig in the city was at the former Coffee Camp on Margaret Street last July, which started the growth of the followers they have today.
"They are a great bunch of people," Dave said of Cutthroat Logic's fans. "They are supportive and are dedicated to the local music scene that we have in Plattsburgh. Without them, there would truly be no local music at all. It's them that make the show we play possible."
Prior to their Coffee Camp debut, the band played the "Warehouse Warzone" metal festival in Tupper Lake, establishing their "classical metal mixed with thrash and punk" presence outside Plattsburgh, said John.
The band's name, said Dave, came from a song he had written a while back during a jam session. "The song at the time, in my opinion, had a very confrontational in your face kinda punk rock sound," he said, "which fit the scheme for the lyrics I had written."
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First, out of the blue, the hat hanging on the back of a chair catches my eye when I enter the house. Always looking for an excuse to use my 8×10 camera, I want to photograph the hat. Next, David comes to mind. The hat belongs to David. Nothing interests people more than people. Nothing is more recognizable to the human eye, my son tells me, than the human form. And the human face? I set up the camera, loosely frame the shot, and then I ask David if he would let me take his picture. I expose two sheets of film. Before making the second exposure, I adjust the camera back to bring the hat into focus with the eyes. In the beginning, David's hat inspires this picture, but in the end, the picture is about David. First, David; then the hat.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Seimone Augustus had 22 points and the Minnesota Lynx beat the San Antonio Silver Stars 85-67 on Tuesday night for the first playoff series victory in franchise history.
Rebekkah Brunson added 15 points and nine rebounds and Maya Moore had 14 points, six rebounds and four assists for the Lynx, who advance to play the Phoenix Mercury in the Western Conference finals. Game 1 is Thursday in Minnesota.
Sophia Young scored 17 points for the Silver Stars on 7-of-8 shooting. San Antonio turned the ball over 17 times, leading to 24 Lynx points, and was outrebounded 36-21.
Becky Hammon added 15 points and five assists, but she was the only other Stars player in double figures.
The Lynx, who own home-court advantage throughout the playoffs after dominating the league during a 27-7 regular season, finally gave the tortured sports fans of Minnesota something to cheer about. The Vikings and Timberwolves were last-place teams and the Twins have the worst record in the American League.
So the fans are starting to rally around the Lynx, who finished six games better than any other team in the WNBA.
In the deciding Game 3, the Lynx overcame an uncharacteristically quiet game from star point guard Lindsay Whalen, who finished with four points and three assists. The hometown girl didn't make her first shot until early in the fourth quarter, but she had plenty of help.
Taj McWilliams-Franklin scored 16 points and the Lynx shot 51 percent from the game to turn a tense game in the first quarter into a rout.
The Lynx got off to another slow start in this one, falling behind 10-2 in the first three minutes against a Silver Stars team that gave them more trouble than any other team during their dominant regular season. San Antonio lost all four games in the season series, but twice took them down to the buzzer.
It was more of the same in the first two games of the playoffs, with Whalen getting a steal on an inbounds pass at the end of Game 1 to preserve a 66-65 victory before the Silver Stars cruised to an 84-75 win in Game 2 in San Antonio.
The Target Center crowd, stung by a long history of big-game disappointments from its other pro sports teams, started to get a little nervous as the team that steamrolled the league during the regular season struggled to hit shots and get stops early.
The Lynx shrugged off a 1-for-5 start to rip off runs of 10-0 and 17-0 over the next 11 minutes to build a 35-22 lead. McWilliams-Franklin, the 41-year-old center and emotional leader, got the team started, hitting a pair of jumpers from the left wing and diving on the floor to secure a loose ball and inject some much-needed energy.
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cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup
1 (5 ounce) jar
sliced green olives, drained
1 cup
coarsely chopped pecans
Quick, easy & yummy! I used light mayo and a tub of "whipped" cream cheese which made mixing this a breeze. Loved the combo with the olives (with pimento) and the pecans. Perfect on wheat crackers. I resisted the urge to add any seasonings/spices and was very happy at how tasty this is with just the four ingredients listed. This recipe is a keeper. Lowa, thanks for sharing your recipe!
I know I'm in the minority here, but I thought this was just ok. The flavor of the green olives was just too overwhelming, and this is coming from an olive lover! I didn't really receive any compliments on it.
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OMG!! This is so good and seriously addicting so watch out!! The only change I made was that I halved the recipe. I will definitely make this again.
Excellent! I was a little worried about the mayo, but I think it went really well in this. I used green olives with pimento because that's what I had - don't know if it was right or wrong, but it turned out great. I added a little flatleaf because I'm always adding it to stuff. This is also a great recipe to play with if you wanted to add different herbs or spices to it. Thanks LOWA!
This is sooooo good. I made it with Walnuts instead of pecans because that is what I had on hand. I added a little fresh cracked pepper. This one is going on the party/potluck list! Why can't they all be this easy?
I've been addicted to this dip since I found it here at Allrecipes! Seriously, it's always in the fridge. The only thing I've changed is , I use spicy olives. My husband got a recipe from a bartender friend of his. We all liked the spicy olives so much, I decided to use them in the dip. Perfection! I purchase the large "Queen Olives" from Costco. You pour out the olive juice and add a splash of lemon juice, fresh cracked black pepper and lots of Tapatio hot sauce. You can use any brand, we just like Tapatio flavor. Shake it all up and let it chill. There really good by themselves too. I use fat free cream cheese and fat free mayo. It still tastes great. Thanks for the recipe!
I've made this twice already and it's wonderful. It's best when you let it rest in the fridge for a little bit. The flavors marry nicely together. I also used the olives with the pimento in it. We like to drink dirty martinis and we always have a ton of olives leftover since we only use the olive juice. It's nice to find a recipe to use up ALL those olives in. We serve on water crackers. Perfection !
We LOVED this easy-to-make recipe. My suggestion would be to halve it since a little goes a long way. Serve it with a more bland cracker, like the heart-shaped ones. I couldn't find any ready-sliced olives, so I chopped up the large, pimiento-stuffed style. We thought it was better the next day, which even makes it an even more attractive choice for a party! Thanks, Lowa!
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Amount Per Serving
Calories: 208
Calories from Fat: 197
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Kenny Williams of the Texas Tech Red Raiders gets upended by Deon... News PhotoAmerican Football - Sport,Big 12,Gulf Coast States,Horizontal,Iowa State Cyclones,Jones AT&T Stadium,Lubbock,NCAA College Football,Sport,Stadium,Texas,Texas Tech Red Raiders,Texas Tech University,USAPhotographer John WeastCollection: Getty Images Sport 2013 Getty ImagesLUBBOCK, TX - OCTOBER 12:Kenny Williams #34 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders gets upended by Deon Broomfield #26 of the Iowa State Cyclones during game action on October 12, 2013 at AT&T Jones Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. Texas Tech won the game over Iowa State 42-35. (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images)


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Suicide of an Elite?
There is a tendency in books about the Vietnam war—notably David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest (1969) and now Patrick Lloyd Hatcher's The Suicide of an Elite (1990)1—to focus on the role of a not very precisely defined "elite" and/or "establishment." Thus, Hatcher speaks of the miraculous growth of "a small internationalist elite, operating on both major American political parties" which converted a staunchly "unilateralist" state—the America of 1783 to 1939—to the assertive internationalism of the World War II era and beyond, and then allegedly committed suicide in Vietnam. Similarly, according to Godfrey Hodgson in The Colonel: The Life and Wars of Henry Stimson (1990),2 these internationalists were a nonpartisan and "a self-recruiting group," who "exercised practical influence on the course of American defense and foreign policy." They included Stimson himself, Dean Acheson, Charles E. Bohlen, George F. Kennan, Robert A. Lovett, and John J. McCloy, whose composite careers were the substance of yet another book, The Wise Men by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas (1986).
These people, none of whom ever held elective office, found diplomacy particularly attractive because, as Henry Adams said in The Education, circa 1904, the conduct of foreign affairs was the most aristocratic branch of American government in that it was the least susceptible to popular pressures. (This, of course, later changed.) All of Adams's forebears had been active in diplomacy—two of them had also been elected President—and even he, resisting appointment and power, played the role of éminence grise to his close friend, John Hay, who was Secretary of State to Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. In Hodgson's "self-recruiting elite," Hay begat Elihu Root and Root begat Henry L. Stimson and Stimson begat McGeorge Bundy, who was the son of Harvey Bundy, who had served Stimson as Assistant Secretary of War in the Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt administrations.
Many of those men fitted loosely into the social category of patricians—characterized by Henry Adams's great-grandfather, John Adams, in the middle of the 18th century, as "men of family, property, and education." Lower levels of State Department personnel also reflected this pattern, owing mainly to the influence of Joseph C. Grew, a Philadelphia patrician who, very early in the 20th century, entered the diplomatic service rather than the family banking business. Through more than four decades in a variety of postings, Grew put his stamp on departmental personnel. He stood ready to disqualify applicants who might pass the written examinations mandated by the Rogers Act of 1924 but who did not conform to a type which was fixed by the right family, prepping at Groton or St. Paul's, and attendance at an Ivy League college. George F. Kennan, Princeton-educated but no patrician, personally insecure with a none-too-good academic record, believed that he owed his appointment to the mother of one of his classmates, who was a Cabot, and who hosted a dinner for Grew to which Kennan was invited. Seventy-five percent of embassy secretaries appointed between 1914 and 1922 were from Eastern preparatory schools and from Ivy League colleges. "A pretty good club," someone wrote of the State Department.
Members of the "club" were qualified by genealogy to appreciate the advice given by McGeorge Bundy in his 1968 Godkin lecture at Harvard. In choosing a career, Bundy said, "if there is a serious family tradition you should think twice before you turn away from it. . . . To succeed to an established role can save extremely valuable time. . . . I respect the reinforcement of tradition, and names like Adams and Roosevelt remind us that this is not an un-American notion."
But the year in which Bundy delivered this lecture, 1968, was rather late for the "club." On November 29, 1968, Henry Kissinger, not only foreign-born but Jewish, was named by President Richard Nixon as his Assistant for National Security Affairs. Why did Nixon appoint Kissinger who was, after all, a Rockefeller Republican, not a Nixon man? One reason is that Nixon was an outsider, or saw himself as such. He hated the establishment, which he viewed as constituted of highly educated and influential people who were also marked by intellectual arrogance, an obsession with style, fashion, and class, and a permissive attitude toward drugs. Nixon also blamed the establishment for the loss of the Vietnam war. At one point he instructed his aide, H.R. Haldeman, to "quit recruiting from any of the Ivy League schools." Nixon aspired to create a new group of foreign-policy administrators that was more open to middle-class people like himself and more sensitive to middle-class values to the extent that the latter could be defined.
Kissinger, then, commended himself to Nixon because he too was an outsider. Bundy, Kissinger recalled, tended "to treat me with the combination of politeness and subconscious condescension that upper-class Bostonians reserve for people of, by New England standards, exotic backgrounds and excessively intense personal style."
Yet Kissinger was also an insider to the extent that his rise was by way of traditional establishement paths: Harvard, the Council on Foreign Relations, Nelson Rockefeller. In this respect, he was a strange choice for Nixon. But Kissinger, in attempting to define the role of the National Security Council as an agency for the conduct of foreign policy that would bypass the State Department and center foreign policy in the White House, was simultaneously acting upon Nixon's complaint that the State Department was "dominated by the Ivy League colleges" and "liberalism."
Even before 1968, however, the number of Ph.D.'s in the State Department had been growing at the expense of the old establishment. "The years from 1947 to 1968," writes Hodgson, "were the heyday of the American foreign-policy establishment." Yet at the same time, Hodgson notes, "the geographical and sociological cachement [for the recruiting of State Department personnel] widened considerably, if for no other reason than that the GI bill enabled almost any keen young man of average intelligence to get into a good school." Hodgson might have added that lowering the discriminatory barriers in the Ivy League enabled men of foreign birth like Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski and native Americans of non-Wasp background to be admitted. They studied international relations, became eligible for faculty appointments, and were recruited as consultants to prestigious organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations.
This Ph.D. route gradually replaced law school and the Wall Street law firm as (in Hodgson's words) "the prime avenue to the seats of the establishment." The result was that the hubris of the traditional State Department establishment, grounded in genealogy, confronted the hubris of the political scientist with the somewhat questionable reputation of that discipline for problem-solving. (One is reminded of Max Weber's belief that bureaucracy ranks with democracy as an enemy of aristocracy.)
Brzezinski, like Kissinger, was an outsider with insider credentials: Harvard, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Columbia faculty, the Trilateral Commission. Like Kissinger in relation to Nixon, Brzezinski became National Security Adviser to an outsider President, Jimmy Carter of Plains, Georgia. Ever conscious of being of Polish origin and a Catholic, Brzezinski noted that Carter was not a member of the Wasp elite, "and it certainly was not easy for me to relate to it, either." Nevertheless, Carter balanced his appointment of Brzezinski by naming as his Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, a lawyer who qualified as an establishment figure and who was not overly fond of Brzezinski. Another foreign-policy patrician involved in the Carter administration, Averell Harriman, considered Brzezinski an ill-mannered Pole who wanted to involve the United States in a war with Russia. But Carter liked "Zbig" and so did his wife, Rosalynn.
Brzezinski granted that Vance "epitomized that which is best in both the Anglo-American tradition and Wasp values." As a member of the "once-dominant Wasp elite" and the legal profession, continued Brzezinski, Vance functioned in accordance with "values and rules" which were of declining relevance both domestically and overseas. Vance, allegedly, was reluctant to use force in dealing with "thugs" on the international scene.
However, Brzezinski's one experience with the use of force—the attempt to free the American hostages held by Iran—foundered in the desert. Brzezinski had led Carter into this disastrous episode over the opposition of Vance, who resigned. This left an opening for Brzezinski to follow in Kissinger's footsteps into the position of Secretary of State. But the exigencies of domestic politics intervened. Confronted by the 1980 elections, Carter needed all the support he could muster, and Senator Edmund Muskie became Secretary of State. Brzezinski professed not to mind because Carter, Brzezinski said, really wanted to be his own Secretary of State.
Why did Vance fail to fight back against Brzezinski? According to two members of Vance's staff, Anthony Lake and Leslie Gelb (writing in collaboration with I.M. Destler), Vance neither knew nor wanted to learn how to do so: "Vance would live by the gentlemen's rules from the old era—and eventually be hit by the new rules. . . . He did not want to recognize the lengths to which Brzezinski and his allies would go in trying to win." Also, Vance might have been experiencing a spell of traditional patrician malaise, a failure of nerve which, decades earlier, the patrician man of letters, Charles Eliot Norton, had ascribed to the descendants of those who first came to these shores. Brzezinski sensed something of this sort when Vance was reluctant to provide the deposed Shah of Iran with a sanctuary in the U.S. He later wrote that over this issue
our national honor was at stake. It bothered me . . . that the one to speak up for American honor was a naturalized American. I wondered what this indicated about the current American elite and whether we were not seeing here symptoms of a deeper national problem.
Destler, Gelb, and Lake are sympathetic to Vance. They lament the passing of the
old establishment of relatively homogeneous, part-time, pragmatic, and mostly bipartisan Northeasterners [which] has been subsumed by a much larger, more diverse elite of fulltime foreign-policy professionals. Their diversity and expertise are valuable. But they are far more political and ideological than their predecessors.
The establishment, for all its shortcomings and tendency toward being doctrinaire, served as a brake on politics. It stood for common sense, a willingness to bear out and accommodate other views within a certain range, and a sense of responsibility and proportion about policies and institutions. Today's foreign-policy elites help to drive policy into domestic politics and push debates toward the extremes.
This is also Hodgson's opinion, expressed in his biography of Stimson. Professor F.C. Mosher, once editor of the Public Administration Review, lamented in 1968 the absence in the American public service of "an administrative class of gentlemen" who would serve as "generalists."
Yet as Destler, Gelb, and Lake admit, there is no returning to the days when the foreign policy of the United States could be conducted on a part-time basis by patricians or other establishment figures commuting between the law offices and board rooms of Wall Street and Washington. Professionals have become essential. And in any case, it is by no means clear that the old establishment was that much better than the new elite.
On the other hand, contrary to what both Kissinger and Brzezinski have alleged, the so-called Wasp establishment did possess a long view of American foreign policy, even an ideology. Defined by Henry Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, and John Hay, among others, its core was linkage to England in the context of Eurocentrism. Adams's concept of an Atlantic civilization halted at the Elbe, beyond which was the "barbarism" of Russia and China which Adams saw as a glacial mass threatening to crush Europe. In the context of the Atlantic system, Adams believed that geography had cast Germany as a consistent element of disquiet—not powerful enough to control Europe but sufficiently strong to try. Adams even predicted with uncanny accuracy the date of the outbreak of World War I, though he did not live long enough to see World War II. Significantly, it was in defense of NATO, the military extension of Atlanticism, that Kissinger in May 1971 assembled the "Old Guard"—among them John J. McCloy, George Ball, Henry Cabot Lodge, Robert Lovett, and others—which was to be, for some of them, a last public service.
Atlanticism originally presupposed a passive, undeveloped third world which Atlanticists believed should be more or less policed by the "civilized" nations. This aspect of what Vance characterizes as "our traditional understanding" he finds strained by the fact that "by the year 2000 eight of every ten people will live in the developing world." Vance does not propose a policy to deal with this situation, and neither does Brzezinski, who is also aware of the demographic facts.
One means of countering these facts is force. Brzezinski attacks Vance for preferring to "litigate issues endlessly, to shy away from the unavoidable ingredient of force in dealing with contemporary international realities," and for having an excessive faith that all issues can be resolved by compromise. "Unfortunately, in a revolutionary age, such an approach more often than not tends to be exploited by the Qaddafis, Khomeinis, or even the Brezhnevs or Begins of our age." This contrasts strikingly with Brzezinski's pleas for litigation and/or compromise prior to the war with Iraq and his shying away from the ingredient of force against Saddam Hussein.
Actually, the Wasp-patrician tradition of an Atlantic civilization, to which Brzezinski sees Vance as an heir, was not marked by a reluctance to use force. The essence of Atlanticism in the view of Theodore Roosevelt, that quintessential Wasp patrician, was the idea of a superior civilization and the willingness to defend it. Henry Stimson, nine years younger than Roosevelt, idolized the older man, and Hodgson's persistent emphasis in his biography of Stimson is upon the martial spirit that impelled this distinguished public servant. Stimson was Secretary of War for William Howard Taft, Secretary of State for Herbert Hoover, and again Secretary of War for Franklin Roosevelt. He saw frontline action in World War I at the age of fifty. "Colonel" was the title by which he preferred to be addressed. Theodore Roosevelt, Stimson, and very many other patricians disproportionately supported the preparedness movement prior to World War I, as well as the war itself. Before World War II, patricians were also disproportionately represented in the Committee to Defend America by Supporting the Allies. Finally, not to be found "soft" on Communism was an impelling circumstance dictating patrician support of the Vietnam war, which Kissinger identified with the foreign-policy establishment and which, he believes, contributed to its demise.
Everyman's tough guy, especially Hatcher's, is President Lyndon Johnson. But Johnson's determination to prosecute the Vietnam war was at least partly a creature of the influence of his patrician advisers, toward whom he felt a reluctant deference. To Johnson, the patricians in his entourage were, collectively, "Harvards," who had come into the world fully clothed, whereas he felt himself naked no matter how much power he had acquired. "My Daddy always told me," Johnson recalled, "that if I brushed up against the grindstone of life, I'd come away with far more polish than I could ever get at Harvard or Yale. I wanted to believe him, but somehow I never could. . . ."
The present Secretary of State, James A. Baker 3d, is a scion of old Texas money, educated at Princeton with a law degree from the University of Texas, rather than an advanced degree in international relations. His patrician status is affirmed by his friendship with George Herbert Walker Bush, and his Southwest origin is suggestive of where future patricians may be coming from. How much the stand of these men during the Persian Gulf crisis can be attributed to traditional patrician toughness, of the sort exhibited by Stimson—"somebody has got to show some guts"—is difficult to say. It is well known that George Bush has installed a portrait of Stimson's idol, Theodore Roosevelt, in the cabinet meeting room. It is not known to what extent, if any, Bush shares Roosevelt's belief that "civilized" nations should somehow control the "uncivilized."
In any case, none of this adds up to Hatcher's conception of elite "suicide." There has been change in the foreign-policy elite involving differences in training and background, but it is questionable whether there has been a decline or even whether foreign policy itself has been all that much affected. Finally, after victory in the Persian Gulf, George Bush's claim to have "kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all" eliminates what had been the prime cause of the alleged elite "suicide." George Bush is a true heir to the Theodore Roosevelt, Root, Stimson, and Acheson tradition, which is now in place in the State Department.
1 Stanford University Press, 429 pp., $35.00.
2 Knopf, 402 pp., $24.95.