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But the team's organizers -- headed up by key local investors Michael Mannion and Brian Matthews -- hope that the IBL will become the new second-best basketball league on the planet. The IBL shift occurred, in large part, to take advantage of the larger markets that the league is offering. St. Louis is the second-largest region buying into the plan, just ahead of Baltimore and just behind San Diego in population. The early response from season-ticketholders, according to RCBC marketing chief Russell Brightman, has been solid, and the response from players has been overwhelming, with "over 100 players calling about tryouts."
Because of that interest, the RCBC squad that takes the court when the league debuts next fall might have a distinctly local flavor. Brightman cautions, however: "If it comes down to a 12th player and it's (former St. Louis University star) Erwin Claggett or John Doe, if he's the better player, you'll take John Doe. The key is winning." But winning with some local character is obviously River City's first choice.
And there's plenty of regional talent floating around the non-NBA tiers of pro basketball. In just the past few seasons, SLU, Mizzou and Illinois have produced a dozen or more players who have been passing, shooting and dribbling around the world in hopes of making a career in the pro game: Claggett, H Waldman, Julian Winfield, Byron Irvin, Melvin Robinson, Donnie Dobbs, Paul O'Liney, Chris Gandy, Kiwane Garris, Deon Thomas, David Robinson, Jason Sutherland. They've found a way to keep playing post-collegiate ball, whether on European squads and traveling teams or in the well-established CBA.
Take, for example, Collinsville's Richard Keene.
The former standout guard for the University of Illinois has seen a share of that world already. Since leaving Illinois after the 1996 season -- after three NCAA tourney appearances, one NIT bid and four years in the starting lineup -- he's done time in a variety of programs.
"I basically went to the CBA my first year, a team in Fort Wayne," he says. "There were a lot of high-profile players on that team. It was hard to crack a position, and they suggested going overseas to get playing time. So I was there till December and took an opportunity to go to Finland. I left the team and was ready to leave for Europe, but things didn't work out, and I got stuck at home."
The CBA, the 6-foot-6 Keene says, gets a bad rap, though he admits that there is a certain level of "me-first" play in the league. "There's a little bit of that," he says. "It's more of an isolation game, more one-on-one. You've got to be athletic and strong. Most of the players that just miss the NBA are in the CBA. People don't understand that it's been the second-best league in the world." And jobs are scarce, says Keene: "There are only eight to 10 players on a team and around 10 teams in the league."
Even before his CBA experience, Keene had a brief glimpse of the meat markets of pre-NBA tryout camps, attending one league-wide "look-see" camp in Portsmouth, Va., and receiving an invitation to train with the Milwaukee Bucks. He'd also suffered through the trials of not being drafted after hearing the whispers.
"They brought me into the Portsmouth camp, and I had a decent week but nothing big," he says. "NBA teams had been looking at me, and you hear that somebody 'might take you in the second round.' I went to the Milwaukee camp, but nothing really panned out."
Rounding out that first season away from Champaign, he hooked up with an American touring team that competed for more than a month in Dubai, playing such teams as the host United Arab Emirates and Bulgaria.
"It was interesting being there," Keene says, "especially thinking of the Middle East, the problems that we've had there in the past. We played in 7,000-seat arenas, in front of good crowds. It's different having sheiks in the audience -- kind of intimidating -- but, for the most part, it was no different than being in some high-school gyms."
His 1997-98 season was wiped out by a medial-cruciate-ligament tear, which, he says, took longer to heal "not being around the training staff day in, day out." Although Keene says his knee is now "perfect," the latest challenge facing him is finding some games that'll help his play.
"You stay in the weightroom, use the treadmill, but it's hard because there's no place to play to get the competition you need. You can go down to the high school, but it's not the same. I was up in Champaign this summer and worked out with the team, and that helped a lot, getting the knee in better shape."
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Thanks to each and every one of you in Acadiana! The event was a huge success…We collected over 5000lbs of frozen food!
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In the fall, the Opelousas Lighthouse Mission collects frozen processed game and fish from the previous season to help feed our neighbors in need in Acadiana and the surrounding areas. The Hunters for the Hungry food drive is held annually and local sportsmen and their families are invited to "clean out their freezers" to donate more than 5,000 pounds of frozen processed game and fish to help provide more than 35,000 meals to the impoverished in these communities. This year's Hunters for Hungry Chairman Bob Giles said, "This is such a worthy cause, meat is the most difficult food item to provide to the needy as it is expensive and hard to preserve." You don't have to be a hunter to donate food for this drive and to help this worthy cause.
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does any one know where I can purchase malted milk powder in San Francisco?
Rainbow Grocery has real barley malt powder (in the bulk section)... great for malted milk, milkshakes, baking, etc, etc.
Its much better than the Horlicks or the Carnation brand stuff that has hydrogenated oils and stuff in it.
We split off some replies about cooking with malted milk powder and barley milk powder to a new thread on the Home Cooking board. You can find that thread here: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/572347
I pondered this question a couple months ago.
In Oakland, I stopped at Food Mill on MacArthur. They had both Malted barley powder and malted milk powder. Which is when I finally realized malted milk powder is just malted barley with powdered milk.
Kind of expensive though. I wonder if malted barley powder is the same thing as the malted barley you can get at homebrew supply stores. If so, much cheaper at the homebrew places.
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Most of the commercial malted milk powders available (ie. Horlicks, Carnation) also contain transfats, not just malted barley powder and milk powder. I don't remember the source of the transfats as its been awhile since I've purchased those since I discovered the straight malted barley powder, but I remember being very disappointed that they were in there. Also, the malted barley powder is soooo good, I can dip my finger in it and eat it straight, though I usually don't! It certainly doesn't need embellishing by milk powder or anything else.


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Irish immigration to America discrimination On this St. Patrick's Day, with a black president in the White House, it is interesting – and maybe even somewhat inspiring – to look back on the way the Irish-American and African-American stories have coursed through our history on parallel lines, each struggling against terrific prejudices and slanders. In […]


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Lucas123 writes: As they announced their new 3D XPoint memory this week, Micron and Intel talked a lot about its performance being 1,000X that of NAND flash, but what they talked less about was how it also has the potential to have 1,000X the endurance of today's most popular non-volatile memories. NAND flash typically can sustain from 3,000 to 10,000 erase-write cycles — more with wear-leveling and ECC. If Micron and Intel's numbers are to be believed, 3D XPoint could exceed one million write cycles. The reason for that endurance involves the material used to create the XPoint architecture, which neither company will disclose. Unlike NAND flash, cross point resistive memory does not use charge trap technology that wears silicon oxide over time or a typical resistive memory filamentary architecture, which creates a statistical variation in how the filaments form each time you program them; that can slow ReRAM's performance and make it harder to scale. Russ Meyer, Micron's director of process integration, said 3D XPoint's architecture doesn't store electrons or use filaments. "The memory element itself is simply moving between two different resistance states," which means there's virtually no wear.


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The Jews: Their History, Culture and Religion, edited by Louis Finkelstein
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The Jews: Their History, Culture and Religion.
Edited by Louis Finkelstein.
New York, Harper. 2 Volumes. xxiii-1431 pp. $12.00.
In his prefatory letter to the Honorary President of the American Jewish Committee, which provided funds for these volumes, Dr. Finkelstein describes the contents and character of The Jews: Their History, Culture, and Religion: "This book is the first comprehensive description of Judaism and the Jews. While avoiding the anatomical structure and purely alphabetical organization of an encyclopedia, it is designed as a readable and unified sketch of a singular human phenomenon. The principal relevant facts concerning the people of Israel and its faith are summarized in a succession of essays, which form an ordered whole and afford penetrating glimpses into particular aspects of the subject. This book includes the first compact history of the Jews written by scholars specializing in the several fields; an appreciation of the rule of Judaism in world culture, seen from a wide variety of disciplines and skills; an initial effort toward a demography of the Jews in America; and a brief outline of the Jewish religion." This is a fair statement (though it sweepingly and surprisingly disregards the two volumes of the Central Yiddish Culture Organization's The Jewish People: Past and Present that have appeared in recent years); and indeed the substance of the work goes some way toward meeting the promise with which it is introduced. Certainly, this work makes available to the general reader, often for the first time, the fruits of Jewish scholarship in many specialized fields.
The text consists of thirty-five chapters, distributed among the four divisions Dr. Finkelstein lists. In the historical category, three chapters are outstanding in excellence. These are "The Biblical Period," by W. F. Albright (who seems to be the only Christian contributor); "The Historical Foundations of Postbiblical Judaism," by E. J. Bickerman; and "The Period of the Talmud," by Judah Goldin. Professor Albright's work is well known not only to scholars but also to the lay public; his chapter here is as good as anything he has ever written. Dr. Bickerman's treatment of the difficult period from 400 to 150 BCE combines erudition and thoughtfulness in a manner that must move every reader to respectful admiration; it is even better than his book, The Maccabees—more solid, more complex, and more subtle. In Professor Goldin's chapter on the twelve centuries of the Talmudic period it is hard to single out which is the more impressive, the feat of condensation or the lucid exposition of exceptionally intractable and resistant matter.
As the history comes closer in time and space, the quality lessens. Cecil Roth's two chapters, "The European Age in Jewish History (to 1648)" and "The Jews of Western Europe (from 1648)" are still very good, and he could not have made much better use of the thirty-five pages he was allowed for each. But the presence of Arieh Tartakower's "The Problem of European Jewry (1939-1945)" is bewildering; it is dated, representing the stocktaking and speculation that were common at the end of the war, and to retain it in a book published in 1950 was a mistake. With "The American Jewish Chronicle," by Anita Libman Lebeson, we touch bottom in the historical section. It is arch, breathless, and trite, unworthy of appearing in a book that starts with Albright, Bickerman, and Goldin. Moshe Davis's "Jewish Religious Life and Institutions in America," however, is meritorious, with a base in solid scholarship and original research; but it has marked bias for right-wing Conservative Judaism, and better editing would have suggested a redistribution of emphasis among the parts and the clarification of a number of statements that are only allusive as they stand now.
The catch-all section on the role of Judaism in civilization, including twenty-nine chapters and covering almost seven hundred pages, is the longest. It could readily be subdivided into three further categories: Jewish cultural achievements; the contributions of Judaism and of Jewry in given historical situations (in contrast to individual persons who by coincidence were Jews) to general culture; and Jewish communal affairs. Under Jewish culture we may list Robert Gordis's "The Bible as a Cultural Monument"; Shalom Spiegel's "On Medieval Hebrew Poetry"; Hillel Bavli's "The Modern Renaissance of Hebrew Literature"; Abraham J. Heschel's "The Mystical ¦ Element in Judaism"; Ralph Marcus's "Hellenistic Jewish Literature"; Abraham S. Halkin's "Judeo-Arabic Literature"; Walter J. Fischel's "Israel in Iran"; Yudel Mark's "Yiddish Literature"; and Rachel Wischnitzer's "Judaism and Art." The chapters on the Jewish influence on world culture would include "The Influence of Jewish Law on the Development of the Common Law," by Jacob J. Rabinowitz; "Judaism and World Philosophy," by Alexander Altmann; "The Contribution of Judaism to World Ethics," by Mordecai M. Kaplan; "The Jewish Contribution to Music," by Eric Werner; "The Contributions of the Jews to Medicine," by Arturo Castiglioni; "Science and Judaism," by Charles Singer; "Judaism and the Democratic Ideal," by Milton R. Konvitz; "The Influence of the Bible on English Literature," by David Daiches; and "The Influence of the Bible on European Literature," by Frederick Lehner. Jewish communal matters would include Israel S. Chipkin's "Judaism and Social Welfare," Julius B. Mailer's "The Role of Education in Jewish History," and Simon Greenberg's "Jewish Educational Institutions."
The best chapters dealing with Jewish culture as such are those on Hellenistic Jewish literature, Judeo-Arabic literature, and art. The piece on the Bible as a cultural monument is diffuse, and reads at times almost like a testimonial statement. In comparison with Gershom Scholem's article on mysticism in The Jewish People: Past and Present, the corresponding chapter in the present work is disappointing. The account of Iranian Jewish literature deals with a subject so special and so removed from the main currents of Jewish life and thought that we must attribute its presence to the accident of the author's availability, not to its intrinsic importance. The brief history of Yiddish literature is better for the early than for the modern period, and the discussions of medieval Hebrew poetry and modern Hebrew literature are too uncritical.
Most experienced readers tend to shy away from proofs of "the Jewish contribution to civilization," having come to expect a kind of naive vulgarity that typically seeks either to find the chapter and verse of an ancient Jewish source that may be the direct origin of a clause in the Declaration of Independence, or to establish that the grandmother of somebody important was Jewish. To write well about Jewish contributions is unusual because it is difficult, and it is difficult because a proper notion of contributions requires of the writer learning, honesty, and sensitivity in an exceptional measure. The high average level of all the chapters in the section on Jewish contributions is therefore particularly to be praised. The best are Jacob Rabinowitz on the common law, Alexander Altmann on philosophy, Eric Werner on music, Arturo Castiglioni on medicine, Charles Singer on science, and David Daiches on the Bible and English literature.
Of the three chapters on communal matters, only Simon Greenberg's "Jewish Educational Institutions" is fair. "The Role of Jewish Education in History" is an extreme example of the solemn foolishness that unkind critics attribute to professors of education.
The third section, on the sociology and demography of the Jews, includes the following chapters: "Who Are the Jews?" by Melville J. Herskovits; "Sources of Jewish Statistics," by U. Z. Engelman; "Jewish Migrations, 18401946," by Jacob Lestchinsky; "The Economic Structure of Modern Jewry," by Nathan Reich; and "The [American] Jewish Community," by Samuel C. Kohs. All five authors have done a solid, workman-like job. The final section, on the Jewish religion, consists of one chapter—Dr. Finkelstein's "The Jewish Religion: Its Beliefs and Practices," a revised version of something he wrote previously. It has an engaging simplicity, warmth, and high-mindedness.
In his introduction, Dr. Finkelstein expresses the hope that a second edition will include chapters on major subjects that the exigencies of time and the disordered state of the world caused to be missing from the first. These are a history of the Jews in Moslem lands, the cultural life of the Jews in Eastern Europe in recent centuries, the Jewish influence on mathematics and astronomy, the cultural life of the Jews in the Middle Ages, Ladino literature, and the development of the Palestinian Jewish community into the State of Israel. The absence of a history of East European Jewry (political, economic, and communal, as well as cultural) and of Zionism from the edition before us is especially striking.
It would be desirable for the second edition to show other improvements as well. The editors should watch the proofreading, introduce greater consistency in the technical apparatuses of the various chapters, help some of the contributors with their style and presentation, and completely rework or discard the few painfully inferior chapters and those that are already outdated. They might consider, too, the inclusion of an article on the relations between Jewish law and Greek and Roman law.
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The French Property Market: House Prices
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Houses in France: Property Market by Region and Department
New Properties in France
Cote d'Azur: South of France
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North of France: Normandy, Brittany, Pas de Calais
Life is what you make of it and now that we are into 2009 why not make the decision to go ahead and buy in France and take the lead on the very many potential purchasers who are just waiting for things to improve - which inevitably they will eventually.
Although there still seems a long way to go before things really improve in the UK, it seems a shame to put your dreams and hopes on hold for another year when there is every reason fulfil your dream of owning a property in France.
In most cases, prices in France have not plummeted as they have in the UK but vendors have become more accepting of lower offers as they realize the problems that the rest of the world is suffering.
However in France many people don't even have mortgages on their properties and if they do it is at a much lower percentage of the value and is a much lower percentage of their incomes so that generally they can afford their mortgages and are not in fear of losing their properties or forced to take knock-down prices.
The Euro is stronger, that is true, but how much better to invest in a country whose currency is strong and especially in these difficult times it seems a good idea to not have your eggs all in one basket i.e. investing in a different country could be a very prudent investment decision. The reductions or negotiated reductions in property prices mean that you will in fact be paying around the same Sterling price as you would have done when the Euro was weaker.
If you are in a position to buy now, either as a cash buyer or by taking a mortgage in France, then I believe you will do extremely well in terms of price and the choice of properties available to you.
You would then be in a position to enjoy your home in France for all your holidays next year, probably making a saving on normal holiday costs and possibly being able to negate these costs by renting out your property when you are not using it.
France is a large country and the property situation will differ to some extent from area to area.
The French property market has not stagnated as it has in the UK and many owners are taking the opportunity of moving up market to something bigger and more expensive whilst prices are at a standstill so that there is still a good supply of properties coming onto the market at present.
For new properties you may find that developers are willing to make reductions or include extras in order to attract buyers. At present I believe that they are cutting down on the number of new developments that are being released nation wide, so that when the market picks up there will definitely be a shortage of properties available. This happened the last time there was a turn down in the market and this led to an upsurge in prices later on, leaving the lucky people that bought in the quieter times with a nice capital gain.
If, for instance you are looking in the Cote d'Azur, you will know that this area appeals to a totally cosmopolitan group of people. This cushions the area somewhat from lower demand, as when one nationality is holding back there is another that finds they are in a stronger position to purchase.
You may also see some British owned properties for sale and their owners will be receiving more Sterling for their Euros making it possible for them to reduce prices.
In Aquitaine, covering such departments as Dordogne, Lot et Garonne, Gironde, Landes and Pyrenees Atlantiques you will find that in some areas people are not as aware of the general world financial problems although they will be noticing that far less buyers from overseas, particularly from UK. As fewer overseas purchasers are looking at present and according to the rules of supply and demand, vendors will be more likely to accept a lower offer, but as mentioned, in the main they are not desperate sellers and will be able to wait for a suitable reasonable offer. This is particularly true in the Gironde, Landes and Pyrenees Atlantiques, where there is generally a very domestic market with only a small amount of overseas buyers, which is keeping things ticking along almost as normal.
Languedoc Roussillon manages to hold its own even in the current financial climate. Originally Languedoc had just a domestic market but over the last few years it has attracted a huge following from the UK, probably helped by the many flights from the UK to the area. Prices were creeping up in the area previously, and are now more stable but with the popularity of the area within the domestic market it would be wise to think about buying now before things take off again.
A report in France stated that over the next 50 years there will be 30% more French people living in the region.
The department of the Aveyron became much more popular with the introduction of flights from the UK and prices were increasing gradually but it is a large area with lots of undiscovered properties, so that there is still a good supply of very reasonably priced properties.
The ski areas of the Alps always hold their own and particularly at this time of year become even more popular, however I think owners will think carefully before over valuing their properties, as was happening last year, in this very difficult market.
The North of France including Normandy, Brittany and Pas de Calais, continues to hold its own and remain popular with the British purchasers due to its proximity and wonderful selection of character properties at all prices. However the financial problems that we are having do have an effect on the market there as the numbers of buyers decrease, making it more of a buyers' market, giving the opportunity of buying a property at a lower price at present.
There is no doubt that the interest and intentions of the British has not receded at all as far as wanting to own a property in France but for some circumstances have dictated that it cannot be now and this gives those that are in a position to go ahead a real benefit in terms of price and choice.
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APA's Minority Fellowship Program's Sixth Annual Psychology Summer Institute (PSI)
The Minority Fellowship Program of the American Psychological Association is hosting its Sixth Annual Psychology Summer Institute (PSI), July 20–26, 2008, at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
PSI provides educational, professional development, and mentoring experiences to advanced doctoral students of psychology and psychologists who are in the early stage of their careers. Participants are guided through mentoring, networking, seminars, and workshops toward developing grant proposals, postdoctoral fellowships, dissertations, treatment programs, publications, or program evaluation projects. All projects must focus on issues affecting ethnic minority communities.
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Archive for the 'tow truck' tag
Four-Links – Italian one-off, Troy Oldsmobile Special, Opel's GT2, Louis Chevrolet celebration
* Bradley Price at Automobiliac this week enlightened us to the sleek little one-off (okay, two-off) built in 1968 by Neri & Bonacini using a mid-mounted Lancia V-4 engine. Story goes that they looked to go into production with it, but never attracted the interest and/or funding necessary for production. Shame.
* Charlie Beesley turned up a couple photos of the Oldsmobile-based sport custom roadster that Wally Troy built in the early 1950s, which now makes us want to go out and section any early 1950s GM product we come across. If the Troy name sounds familiar, it's because we've previously taken a look at his Troy Chevrolet Special.
* Opel sold quite a few GTs during that car's original run in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but never followed it up with a second generation (not counting the latter-day Solstice-based GTs). As IEDEI pointed out this week, however, Opel did at least consider a second-gen GT with its 1975 Opel GT2 concept.
* La-Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland gave the world plenty of watchmakers, the architect Le Corbusier, and of more importance to the automotive world, Louis Chevrolet. Now, more than 130 years after his birth there, the town is planning to celebrate its famous son with a giant steel bust of Chevrolet in one of its parks.
* Finally, reader Jim Barrett came across a nice collection of photos from the company that once ran Schell's Garage in Dayton, Ohio, showing the exploits of the garage's homemade tow truck.
(Phone Of)fender: The skeevy "threat" of a dozen-year-old toy car
The economy's in the toilet, we're fighting two or three wars, and apparently this constitutes a slow news day in Atlanta. How else can you explain a dozen-year-old Matchbox car making the "news" for having a phone sex line on its fender?
Of course, back in 2000 when the GMC tow truck was made, the phone number tampo'ed on the fender was unregistered; Mattel (maker of Hot Wheels and Matchbox) has long since stopped putting phone numbers of any sort on its die-cast vehicles, in case something ridiculous were to happen in a dozen years' time.
This wouldn't be the first time something like this happened: hardcore Hot Wheels collectors may recall that a tow truck introduced in the 1970s had the home phone number of designer Larry Wood tampo'd on the side.
Auction Pulse: Mary B. Justice has cars for you
Unless you've been in trouble with the IRS in Austin, there's no reason the name Mary B. Justice should mean anything to you. But with a name like that, how can I not put it in the headline? The IRS part comes in with Mary Beth Justice's title, Property Appraisal and Liquidation Specialist for the IRS, and she's the one auctioning the forfeited goods from AAA storage in Harlingen, Texas, on Thursday, including a really crummy 1972 Vette and two really outstanding Model T rod projects.
A K-code VIN says the Corvette is a base 200hp car, but I'm just not enough of a Corvette guy to be able to look at a small engine pic like this and call out any differences. I can see high options – AC, power brakes, AM/FM (maybe), tilt wheel. And is that Custom interior trim? Hard to tell. It's a heap, but at least it's a Texas heap.
The chunks of Ts have rat rod written all over them. Sure, they could be restored and this being Hemmings I am legally obligated to advise you that restoration is the only legitimate fate for these clunkers, but that's not going to happen here.
It looks as though the auction is for the entire lot, and also includes assorted tools, antiques and collectibles, a 1995 Suburban and two tow trucks, a 1991 F350 and 1991 Chevy 3500. So there could potentially be a 460 or 454 in there too. I like the idea of Ford power in your Ford hot rod.
Bidding starts at $3,000. Contact Justice at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Actually, M.B. Justice does have her own minor claim to fame – it was her Austin building into which Joe Stack flew his Piper Cherokee last winter. Justice, however, goes on undaunted.
Hemmings Find of the Day – 1923 Lincoln
In older photos, it's not uncommon to see cars like this 1923 Lincoln – once proud and elegant luxury cars converted into service vehicles or tow trucks due to their stout chassis and powerful engines. In fact, they're all over the place in the 1930s, yet you rarely, if ever, see one in person nowadays. Were they all scrapped during the war? Were they all converted back into luxury cars once they attained Full Classic status? Or have they all been hiding in storage for decades like this one? From the seller's description:
Lincoln 1923 service car, this touring was modified into a service car by a southern CA Lincoln dealer in the 1920s, needs a complete restoration but has great potential
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The Aiken Jaycees Christmas Parade and the North Augusta Lions Christmas Parade are Sunday.
Widely seen as an Aiken tradition, the Aiken parade will begin at 2 p.m. in downtown and will feature a variety of entries such as civic groups, churches, bands and nonprofit organizations plus a special appearance by Santa Claus.
Lineup for the parade will start around 1 p.m., and the route will follow Park Avenue, north on Laurens Street and will end near Trinity Lutheran Home.
The parade is free to the public, and hundreds of people typically attend each year. Attendees are encouraged to bring chairs or blankets to sit on.
This year, the parade's theme is Cartoon Christmas.
It will be televised on WJBF News Channel 6, according to the Aiken Jaycees.
The deadline for turning in applications to participate was Dec. 1.
Those who participate in the parade are asked to remember that neither candy nor literature can be thrown into the crowd per a City of Aiken ordinance. The ordinance will be enforced by the Aiken Department of Public Safety.
The North Augusta Lions Christmas Parade starts at 2 p.m., as well.
The parade, with the theme Dreams of Christmas, will be televised on WRDW-TV2 my12.
The deadline to submit an application to participate was Nov. 29. This year there are 96 entries, according to organizer Verlon McDowell, including local churches and Boy Scout troops.
The parade route will start at the K-Mart shopping center at the corner of Martintown Road, follow Georgia Avenue, and turn onto Buena Vista Avenue.
Last year, an estimated 4,000 people turned out to watch the parade. The parade is free, and attendees are encouraged to bring blankets or chairs to sit on.
Sunday's forecast is partly sunny with a high of 74 degrees.
Aiken Standard file photo The Southland Express Cloggers treated the audience to their clogging all the way through the Aiken parade last year.×
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Enter Dudley House at 6 P.M. on a weeknight, and there is barely a murmur. Some students eat quietly in small groups while others pour over 17th century translations of Dutch trading memoirs.
Harvard graduate students are the best of the best of the best.
To be accepted into the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) seems on the surface to be the college application process all over again. There are the test scores. The recommendations. The general application. The personal statement.
Just one thing: it's incredibly difficult to get in. Admissions rates are as low as three percent.
But those who are accepted and choose to spend the better part of more than years in Cambridge are richly rewarded.
They work mostly with world-renowned professors--and then go on to win Nobel Prizes. Tuition for many is fully-funded.
Though every applicant fills out a generic GSAS application, the admissions process itself is extremely individualized, from department to department and from person to person.
"The academic admissions decision is made by a committee of faculty in your field. There is no single admissions committee," said Russ E. Berg, GSAS's dean of financial aid.


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i dont know much about him
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he didnt like being alive
he was numb to all the stuff he had seen
i heard he didnt like anything green
he ate roman noodles everynight for supper
he always wore skinny jeans and black clothes
sometimes i seen him were tuxes and nice shoes
but lately he has been wearing band shirts
he wears converse shoes and uses and army bag for school
he always walks in the woods and never around town
i head hes very private
i know that he doesnt communicate throught talking only through his peoms or by lyrics from a song
i see him drawing or painting
when he tries to speak to anyone they always walk away and leave him alone
when he goes home he goes upstairs and smokes cutting himself till the blood drains from his skin
His family left him behind because he cant forget his past
sometimes he comtemplates the meaning behind his life
his favorite color is gray because his like is in black and white
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These useful online tools are a part of what is called "social media." Simply put, social media is any online tool or community that allows you to communicate, develop, and maintain relationships with different people, groups, and organizations. Who you decide to connect with is your choice.
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You have a computer and you are online (or you wouldn't be reading this) so you have everything you need.
Here is a list and brief explanations of the most popular social media tools we use to communicate with our clients, business profesionals, and anyone who is interested in what we do.
Currently the #1 social media site on the internet, Facebook allows users to create their own social environment and interact with old and new friends, join goups of people with similar interests. It's free, quick, and easy to get started.
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- Find other people on Facebook like friends, family members, old school mates, work associates, or people who just like the same brand of coffee you do
- Send messages (like email) to people you find
- Look at your friends' Facebook pages to see what they are up to and view their pictures
- Have a live online chat with a friend
- Post pictures of yourself, your vacation, etc.
- Write comments under yours and other people's pictures
- Post on your "Wall" (your Facebook profile page that others see) whatever you are currently doing or thinking about at the moment.
Connect with fi-Plan Partners on Facebook here and stay informed on financial updates, news, and events.
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Blogging gives anyone with access to the internet a place where they can write and post short articles about their interests, hobbies, activities, and expertise. There are blogs about everything from business, tips on being a mom, riding bikes, and traveling. The possibilities are unlimited!
How to Use:
- Find a blog about something you are interested in through a search engine like Google or Yahoo
- Subscribe by signing up for email notifications or RSS Feed (see explaination below )
- Read blogs at your leasure
Subscribe to our blog here and read articles that will give you financial insights about the financial world and how it affects you.
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Referred to as "micro-blogging" (see blogging above), Twitter is a social media tool that lets you post very short blogs (Tweets) which must be kept under 140 characters. Think of it as a live, real time email that is only seen by the people who have chosen to follow your Tweets. Tweets can have links to pictures and other related articles on the internet.
The easiest way to understand it is to try it. It's free, quick, and easy to get started. You can view our Twitter page here.
How to Use:
There are a million different ways to use Twitter. You can choose to only follow friends or family members (particularly good for staying in touch throughout the day with loved ones who do not live near you) or you can follow only the people who share your interests and hobbies.
- Set up a free account at Twitter
- Follow Twitter's tips on getting started
- Use search.twitter.com to find people with similar interests
- Read other Twitter users' tweets several times a day or whenever it's convenient
Beware! This can be addicting...
Connect with fi-Plan Partners by following us on Twitter here and receive short updates on the Stock Market, new blog posts, eNewsletters, and related links to other online resources. You can even set up your Twitter account to recieve our Tweets on your phone, giving you the ability to stay on top of the markets like never before.
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Think of Facebook for business people. LinkedIn allows you to develope an online community like Facebook but with a total business focus. People use LinkedIn to network, sell their products and services, improve their skills, increase business knowledge, and even look for jobs.
How to Use:
- Set up a free account at LinkedIn
- Follow their simple steps for getting started
- Connect with business professionals, groups, and organizations that are in the same or related business as yourself
Free videos online! You can view millions of videos posted by amatuers and professionals. Is there an old commercial from the 70's you miss seeing? Most likely someone has posted it on YouTube.
How to use:
- No account is needed to view unlimited videos
- If you want to post your own videos (ie. your vacation or holiday videos), create a free account and follow the instructions to upload your own videos
View our T.V. commercial below or on YouTube here.
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An acronym for "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary." Simply put, it is' a way for you to receive simple updates from your favorite blogs or websites whenever they post something new. This keeps you from having to log on to multiple websites everyday just to check for new things.
How to use:
- Decide if you want the RSS feed to come to your email or a "Feed Reader" like iGoogle or RSSReader.
- If you choose a reader, set up a free account at iGoogle or RSSReader
- When you find a website or blog that you enjoy, look for the RSS icon (orange square icon pictured above) or a subscribe link and you are on your way
- Login to your feed reader and you now have one place online to check for all your favorite website and blog updates
Subscribe to our updates for this website and blogs here.
If you have any question about how to get connected to fi-Plan Partners, email Chris Davis, Director of Integrated Communications here or call him at (205) 989-3498.


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Mitt Romney's advisers and congressional supporters said on Thursday they expect his initial focus in his first months in office would be on regulatory reform as part of his push to jump-start the economy.
"In terms of those first 100 days what Mitt Romney will focus on is how to get the economy going again, how to create jobs," Romney senior adviser Ed Gillespie said during a GOP convention-related event sponsored by National Journal and The Atlantic. "One of most obvious things he can do is lift the burdens of mandates" and regulations, particularly related to President Obama's health care law.
At a later panel discussion, a group of current and former GOP lawmakers echoed Gillespie. Regulatory reform is "something you can do" on Day 1 in office, former Rep. Vin Weber, R-Minn., said, noting that Romney likely would freeze the Obama administration's regulations so the new president can sort out what should be scrapped.
Other issues that Romney would focus on during his first days in office will likely include issuing waivers to the states to opt out of the health care law, as well as beginning work on tax reform, Romney economic adviser Glenn Hubbard said. "If you talk to business leaders, uncertainty over health care, over regulations, over tax policy is weighing on the expansion," he said.
Gillespie said another top priority for Romney would be approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline project, which the Obama administration rejected in its current form earlier this year.
And while debate over when or how to reform Medicare has dominated the presidential campaign since Romney picked Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., as his running mate earlier this month, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., said he doesn't expect it would be a top immediate priority for a Romney administration.
"My guess is, it's not on the agenda in the first 100 days," said Kyl, who is retiring from the Senate at the end of the year. "I would think at some point in his administration, when the political support can be gathered, he will do that."
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Blogger confidential is a series of 9 questions asked to 10 bloggers about the nitty gritty details of blogging. Everything from what prompts a blogger to pick up a book, to what happens when a book doesn't live up to its hype. This series was inspired by Wastepaper Prose's Author Insight series.
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|$12.01 - $18
|$7.01 - $12
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Posted by Anon on 02/06/2010
The food is delicious, but you need to actually go there to eat it. I've ordered delivery five times from there by chance thinking they'd ever been on time. Now, I've just waited 2 hours for my food. Nothing is good enough to wait for two hours.
Posted by hsin hsinner on 04/21/2009
Whether sipping on the luxuriously scented tea, or nibbling on perfectly fried pork rice it's hard not to get lost in the alluring, enigmatic far eastern atmosphere and cuisine offered at this fine Chinese establishment. Reviewed.
Posted by Matt on 02/25/2009
I love going to Hsin Hsin because of the nice service and free hot tea. I can't think of another place in backbay where you can get fried rice, sesame chicken, and eggdrop soup for 8 dollars! If you are in the mood for a tasty meal, definitely check out Hsin Hsin. You won't be disappointed.
Posted by Anonymous on 02/14/2009
After reading many reviews for Hsin Hsin I decided to check it out for myself. What a great place! Food amazing and the prices even better. The lunch specials are the best...they give you more then enough food. Lots of flavor, the best I have had yet in Boston. Worth checking it out!
Posted by disgusted on 06/01/2008
Terrible service on home delivery. Waited over 45 minutes and whenit arrived it wa the wrong order. Asked for mustard, got none. Asked for the Kung Pao to be extra spicy, was so bland I couldn't eat it. When will the BAck Bay get decent Chinese food
Posted by Back Bay regular on 03/26/2008
This is the best tasting Chinese delivery in Boston, and I have been here for over 8 years. My husband has been ordering from Hsin Hsin for over 10 years, 3-4 times a week. I recommend their mu shu, Mongolian beef, scallion pancakes, lo mein, and fried bean curd with brown sauce. They deliver in 20 minutes flat.
Posted by Satisfied on 08/27/2007
I spent my four years of college in Boston, and I haven't found a cheaper and tastier Chinese restaurant for the value. They make excellent food, fast, and they deliver quickly. They aren't open the latest, but when they are - they give generous portions for very cheap. I highly recommend the dinner and lunch specials (entree, fried or white rice, and soup or rangoon or egg roll for like 5-7 bucks). They have satisfied me for MANY a hungry night, and they make very authentic and tasty food. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!


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Editors's note: To celebrate New Latina's first birthday we're teaming up with a special guest contributor, Meadow Devor, financial expert and master money coach! This week, Meadow will be sharing a new article on New Latina and giving away one FREE COPY of her 30-Day Starter Kit (a $49 value) each day (Monday through Friday) at 8PM EST! That's five free Starter Kits shipped out to New Latina readers! And if that wasn't enough, we're also giving away 100 downloadable copies of Meadow's Money Love ebook ($9.99 value) from 12pm to 4pm EST on Saturday! Giveaway information is below!
Whether we want to earn more, or spend less, or get out of debt, or save more, or worry less, if we want to have a better relationship with money, there's only one thing we need to do to create lasting change.
It's not more complicated than that. We don't have to understand investments, banking, real estate, business, dividends, stocks, ROI's, percentages, budgets, spreadsheets, or exchange rates. We only need to understand the way our mind works. And, by the way… that's a big 'only.'
Money is a neutral thing. It can be proven to exist or not exist. It's a fact. It's a number. It can be a number on paper. It can be a number on your computer screen. It can be a number on a receipt. It can be a number on a dollar bill in your wallet. This money, this number, doesn't hold any power on its own. It has no emotional charge. It can't create pain and it can't create pleasure. It's just a number.
The only power it has is the power we give it. And we give it power through our stories.
And, boy-oh-boy, can we tell a good story about these numbers. We tell stories about not having enough of these numbers. We tell stories about how these numbers never stay with us. We tell stories saying how hard we work for these numbers. How difficult these numbers are. How painful these numbers are. We tell stories that we aren't given enough of these numbers. That other people are given more of these numbers.
If we only had more of these numbers we would feel better. Happier. Smarter. Safer. Hell, even sexier.
These stories roll around in our head day and night and they hold a lot of power over our bodies, our actions and our lives.
When we believe a stressful story, our brain tells our body to feel stress. This has nothing to do with the validity of the story. Whether our story is fiction or truth. Our bodies are servants to our minds. Our bodies respond with emotion. Stress, anxiety, overwhelm, worry, anger, hopelessness, fear, despair or joy, excitement, optimism, hope. Our bodies respond to the stories that we tell ourselves.
While we are feeling these emotions we live our lives. These feelings determine the way we act, and they color the way we do what we do.
With these feelings, we are constantly doing things.
Buying things.
Selling things.
Building things.
Destroying things.
Avoiding things.
Pretending things.
Drinking things.
Eating things.
Watching things.
Ignoring things.
And, these 'doings' add up to significant results.
These actions can create results of success or failure, of wealth or poverty, of savings or debt, of connection or disconnection. These actions can make us richer. They can also make us poorer. If you look around your life and do not like the results you see.
If you'd like to have more money, or less debt, or a better job, or a higher salary, or more money in savings: You have to change your thinking. That's where I come in.
I help with that big "only" of changing your mind.
Changing your mind takes practice. Most of us were never taught how to think. We weren't taught that our thinking leads to every result in our life. We weren't taught what to do with a negative thought or a negative feeling. We weren't taught to change our mind when we can't change our circumstances. We weren't taught that we have the choice to feel better – no matter what is happening around us.
These are skills to learn, understand, and practice. You can learn how to change your mind. You can change those old programs that you've been running in the back ground of your financial life; and you can permanently change the way you think about money. I've seen hundreds of my clients change their thinking, and I've seen the life changing results from their work.
I've done this work, and continue to do this work, and have lived the results myself.
They've done it.
I've done it.
And I know you can too.
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