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It seems like the healthier we try to eat, the more expensive it gets!
That's probably one of the biggest reasons so many Americans fall into the overweight or obese category. The food that fills our grocery stores these days is filled with unhealthy garbage.
We hear so many things about what to eat and what not to eat that it starts to get a bit overwhelming!
Here are a few simple tips and tricks to help you get on the right path to eating healthier on a budget.
First off, the most important thing to remember is to eat as close to a raw, natural & organic food diet as possible. Try to think about the food items that would be available to us in nature on plants or in the ground. Another good trick is to check the ingredients, the fewer the better.
Also, remember to eat in season. If you can grow it in June, eat it in June. If you really want to get into what's good and what's not, here's a good Raw Food Diet Conversion Chart.
Basically, you want to stay away from pesticides, added hormones, chemicals, processed meats, etc. The list is long, which is why it's so hard to handle. It's not easy to get away from all of the unhealthy food since we are surrounded by it. Sometimes it can even be deceiving.
Take a tomato for example…
During the fall and winter months, most tomatoes you eat are coming from Florida where they are grown in sand and treated with an abundance of pesticides.
Then unripened tomatoes are given gas treatment to turn them red. In his book Tomatoland, author Barry Estabrook reveals how industrial farming has destroyed this tasty fruit.
"Fields are sprayed with more than 100 different herbicides and pesticides. Tomatoes are picked hard and green and artificially gassed until their skins acquire a marketable hue. Modern plant breeding has tripled yields, but produces fruits with a fraction of the calcium, Vitamin A, and Vitamin C, and 14 times as much sodium as the tomatoes our parents enjoyed. The relentless drive for low costs has fostered a thriving modern-day slave trade in the United States."
So just when we think we're eating healthy, we're still actually putting unhealthy things into our bodies. This is why it is so important to eat raw, natural and organic food.
Three Ways to Eat Healthy When Money is Tight
1) Grow your own garden
Obviously, there are a ton of fruits and veggies that can be grown in the spring and summer. But many people can also grow their own food in the fall and winter months!
Gardening is fun and gratifying. It's a good way to spend time as a family outdoors, and it can be good exercise too. Best of all, it's inexpensive and you will harvest delicious rewards!
If you live somewhere cold and/or snowy that doesn't mean you have to pack up the garden. There are plenty of cold weather crops to get you through the fall and winter. An article from TLC called, Winter Gardening: Crops You Can Grow in Cold Weather does a good job of pointing out the cold weather crops.
There are also a variety of fruits and veggies that can be grown indoors in containers. It's such a satisfying feeling to grow your own healthy food at a fraction of the cost, especially because you know where it's coming from and how it was taken care of. If you're not interested in winter gardening, but you still want to eat crops that are not in season, learn how to can your fruits and veggies.
2) Buy local and in bulk
If you're going to eat meat and dairy, the best thing to do is get it from a family farm where the animals are grass-fed. This is usually less expensive than going to a whole foods store. Also, taking a stroll through your local farmers market is a smart and enjoyable idea. Most of the time you will be able to find a nearby winter farmers market too!
Buying directly from a local farmer can help you save money on organically grown items because you're cutting costs connected to shipping the food and running a grocery store, where it gets marked up even more.
Check out LocalHarvest.org to find the best organic food that's grown closest to you. You should be able to find a family farm using this site where you can start getting your meat.
Money-saving tip: Go in with a couple of people to buy a quarter or half a cow and you could get your meat for as little as $2 and change per pound.
3) Eat less Food
Let's face it, we love to eat! It's hard to have the "eat to live not live to eat" philosophy when there are so many yummy manufactured and processed foods out there, right?
Well, what if everyone just ate 10% less? If you cut your daily calories by 10%, you'd also be cutting 10% off your grocery food bill and probably even 10% off your weight. It's a win-win situation. A practitioner of a calorie restriction diet, Dean Pomerleau, explains in an article, Eat Less, Live Longer? :
"Based on data from the animal studies, every calorie you avoid is worth about 30 seconds of extra life. I'm more than willing to give up a piece of pizza to live another three hours."
Studies from the same article mention that people who eat less have a lower risk of heart disease, stroke or getting diabetes. And the money-saver: If your weekly grocery bill is typically $150 and you cut your calories by 10%, you'll save $60 a month!. In addition to the health benefits you will gain, just imagine the extra pounds you might lose!
So, if you're really in a hurry and end up at the grocery store anyway, there are some things that are safer than others. The Environmental Working Group put out a shopper's guide that labels the Dirty Dozen™ and the Clean Fifteen™. Here you will find a list of produce that you should buy organic no matter what and what are lowest in pesticides.
Either way you look at it, the most cost-effective things to do is keep yourself and your family as healthy as possible, because hospital bills or diabetic supplies aren't cheap either. Along with eating natural and organic, it's also a good idea to supplement your diet with fish oil, a multivitamin, probiotics, and vitamin D among other things.
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This is a guest post from Ashley Steinbrinck, a health and nutrition blogger for the Natural Healthy Concepts Blog, which covers a variety of health topics. Natural Healthy Concepts also offers vitamins, nutrition supplements, herbs and homeopathic remedies which are derived from the highest quality ingredients.


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Courtney deal hinged on recovery of Wilberger
PORTLAND, Ore. - A plea deal struck with convicted killer Joel Courtney hinged on the recovery of Brooke Wilberger's remains, according to newly released court documents on Wednesday.
The agreement includes approval signatures of Oregon's Gov. Ted Kulongoski and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, ensuring Courtney would serve his sentence in New Mexico.
Serving his sentence in New Mexico was a major factor in Courtney agreeing to the plea deal because it would allow him to be near his family, Courtney's attorney Steven Gorham said Tuesday.
The plea agreement said if Courtney's "information fails to result in the recovery of Brooke Wilberber's remains" the "district attorney may reinstate all of the charges" including attempted murder, rape, and attempted kidnapping.
Courtney pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and concealing the commission of kidnapping.
A caveat to the deal: if Courtney gets in trouble in New Mexico's prison system, Oregon has to take him back at its own expense.

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A 70-yard score on offense plus a TD interception makes Camden County's J.J. Green our All Star of the Night.
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- Spinach must have at least 6 weeks of cool weather from seeding to harvest.
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Do you still have a Sunday dinner tradition when everyone sits down to eat as a family?
My mom always made a Sunday dinner when I was growing up. And I pretty much knew what it was going to be from week to week. That's because it was either roast beef, roast pork or fried chicken, usually served with mashed potatoes, some homemade bread dressing and a vegetable. And, of course, we always had gravy..
Each of the meals was special in itself, but I have to admit that the chicken was my favorite. And I'm not alone. According to a reader's poll conducted by the website about.com, fried chicken ranks among the top comfort foods of Americans.
I hadn't a good meal of fried chicken for a long time until the other night. Therese made some delicious "fried chicken" along with mashed potatoes and gravy that reminded me of Sunday meals my mom fixed when I was a kid.
Therese's fried chicken actually was oven-baked. The cut-up Hutterite chicken she prepared was dipped in milk and seasoned with just salt and pepper before being rolled in a combination of Chex cereal, Frying Magic and flour. She then put the chicken pieces on a Pam-sprayed cookie sheet, which then was covered with tin foil for the first 1½ hours of cooking. The foil then was removed for about another hour, which really crispened up the chicken.
Here is another "oven fried chicken" recipe that I found while perusing the Web.
Super-Crunchy Fried Chicken
½ cup fat-free buttermilk
1 large egg white
2 teaspoon hot red pepper sauce
4 (6 ounces) chicken breast halves, boneless and skinless
1 cup prepared cornflake cereal , crushed finely
2 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt
Olive oil cooking spray
In medium bowl, whisk buttermilk, egg white and hot sauce until blended; add chicken pieces and turn to coat. Let marinate at room temperature. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Meanwhile, line a baking sheet with nonstick foil. Combine cornflake crumbs, paprika, thyme, garlic powder and salt in a shallow pie plate or bowl.
Lift chicken pieces, one at a time, from buttermilk mixture and coat in seasoned crumb mixture. Place on prepared baking sheet. Lightly spray crumb coating with cooking spray.
Bake 16 to 18 minutes, until browned on the outside, chicken is no longer pink in thickest parts, and crumb coating is crusty.
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Soybean futures closed more than 24-cents lower. Soybean meal finished the week $7.90 lower per ton. Cotton futures closed the week $1.42 lower.
In livestock, fed cattle futures were down 80-cents. Feeder cattle closed 93-cents lower. The lean hog contract gained 15-cents.
In the financials, COMEX gold posted a $20 per ounce loss. The EURO closed 260 basis points lower against the dollar. And the CRB index finished the week more than five points lower to close at 209.25.
Here now to lend us his insight is one of our regular market analysts, Doug Hjort. Welcome back.
Hjort: Thank you, mark.
Pearson: All right. Let's get the question that's on everybody's mind. Is this bull market going to continue? Have we topped out? You know, what's the weather report saying? What's ahead? We know we don't have much of a wheat crop this year, at least as far as the soft red winter wheat crop is concerned, the spring wheat. What's ahead for wheat, Doug?
Hjort: Well, I think we'll see some higher prices for wheat. It was interesting this week and a little bit of last week; we started to see corn and wheat prices move pretty much together and ignoring what's been going on in the soybeans, partly because the soybeans have been so terribly volatile that why try -- why even try to stay up with them. And in the wheat market, really the fundamental is kind of quiet right now. The spring wheat crop is not in very good shape, but it varies a great deal. They do have some good crop, some bad. They got a little bit of relief from the weather this week. So I wouldn't think that crop deteriorated much this week, if at all. It didn't deteriorate very much last week either. Still, a very low rating and, therefore, puts the overall u.s. crop at, what, twenty-seven, thirty-year lows? The demand side of the question is still just a little bit suspect, although in the last two weeks, we've had pretty good export sales. I would expect those export sales to improve and be much better than they were last year, primarily because of weather problems in Canada, Australia, even India on their rice crop. Now, their wheat crop was a good one, but their rice crop is somewhat in suspect now because of the late monsoon and the wheat monsoon. And that would mean that they'd have less wheat for export, you see. Have to consume it domestically. So i think the wheat market has still got some more legs on it. How much more? I think it will follow corn. I think corn will go up a little bit too, but we do have harvest coming and that's going to keep some pressure on the corn market.
Pearson: This tightness, this drawdown, are we going to slow down demand? Let's look at the corn crop first. Are we going to slow that demand down? If we look at a 9.2- or 9.3-billion-bushel corn crop and 10-billion-bushel demand, there's going to be some rationing.
Hjort: Well, that's right. Some of those numbers start to come out this week. Some analysts were brave enough to print them.
Pearson: Yep.
Hjort: We've all been talking about them and thinking about them for some time. The interesting thing is, you look at our corn supply/demand balance, to really make it really, really tight, you have to reduce production almost a billion bushel this year. But look at the total world grain picture. You only have to bring the corn equivalent of that down 264 million bushels to become as tight a supply/demand -- or excuse me, to lower ending stocks as low as they were at the end of the '95-'96 season. Now, I'm sure we've already done that since those numbers were as of July, USDA report. I'm sure a combination of a little less spring wheat here, a little less corn, maybe a lot less corn. Other world production really hasn't gone up enough anyplace to offset that. As a matter of fact, it's come down some. We're setting ourselves up here in the corn and the wheat markets to have a real gangbuster's price scenario develop on us, primarily driven because supply is still relatively high but demand is at a level now that it is exceeding supply, even if world yields are quite high. And we are having some major problems in major producing areas, such as the United States, this year. So we still have harvest to get on through. So that's the big question, you know, on new crop: should I sell ahead of harvest or not. I think keep this in mind: it's very likely that we will not see an lDP on corn this year. So if you're selling new crop, you better come back and look at some sort of protection in case this market takes off and goes sharply higher after you've made that sale.
Pearson: All right. With those thoughts in mind, what are you telling your producers? How do we market into this thing?
Hjort: Right now I'm not selling anything into the new year. Now, on old crop, sure, we just use whatever comes here in the next few weeks to start working on cleaning out any old-crop inventories. But on the new crop, I want to be very careful, partly because of what I said before. Without an lDP out there and even if you really start to get bullish, maybe even eliminate this -- the other payment, the target price payment -- now, that's probably a bit of a stretch to expect that right now, because that's set up around 260 or something like that. That's the average for the whole marketing year. But you have to keep those things in mind when you're setting up a marketing plan for the new year. I'm not ready to start selling cash into that new year yet.
Pearson: All right. What about on the beans? You mentioned they have disengaged from the other two. They have been extremely volatile. What's your recommendation there?
Hjort: It's interesting. Today, on Friday that is, we saw the August futures down 17, 18, 19 points, whereas, the September was down 8 or 9. The November is what I meant to say. Here's the situation. We've got delivery against the august contract coming up next week. Commodity funds heavily long on the august contract. They started bailing out. Remember we did the same thing on corn futures first week of January -- of July. We sold that market off about 20 to 25 cents during that delivery period. And then the prices came back, went above that level. And on the close Friday, we were about the same as the peak we saw. I think the same thing will develop on the soybeans. Weather obviously will have a big key. But remember, even with trendline yields and the acreage we're working with now, we will use a few more bushels of soybeans next year than we will raise, drawing ending stocks down year to year. It's not what USDA numbers say right now. There's a small increase there year to year. But I think when we get through all the adjustments, we'll see a smaller stock a year from now than we will this fall and we will be below 200 million bushel at the end of this year as well.
Pearson: Okay. And project that out pricewise, Doug.
Hjort: Pricewise not as bullish as I would be on the corn right now or the wheat, but i do see some price improvement. The problem is the next month. Weather is going to be very, very key. Look for a lot more of this sharp up-and-down volatile price action.
Pearson: Let's talk about livestock. Fed cattle market; we're in kind of the doldrums here. What's ahead? What's your take on fed cattle?
Hjort: Plenty of them out there. Heavyweights -- heavy carcass weights. Beef demand is running pretty good, but the supply is just a little too large. I believe it will take several weeks, perhaps to get this market to move on higher. I still think we can do $70 cattle this fall, but we've got to work on getting these weights down. We've got to get rid of those real heavy cattle. We've been placing heavy cattle into the feed yard, those over 800 pounds, more and more of them. That's one of the reasons our carcass weights remain so high. Once we get past that and start putting some lighter cattle on this fall, then we can start to project to see the fat cattle price improve. But the next three, four weeks, it's going to be a very sluggish period. I don't know what else to do but to just continue selling the cattle and try to get those weights down as much as we can.
Pearson: Let's talk about the hogs. Also again, there seems to be less concern about the fourth quarter. Is that the feeling you're getting, Doug? Is that your analysis?
Hjort: That's right. And I think the producers paid attention to some of those dire price predictions for the fourth quarter. The reason I think that is they brought their -- the weights down dramatically. We're running about the same weight now in the Iowa/Minnesota market on butchers that we were a year ago, whereas, a little as two months ago, we were running 4 and 5 pounds over. So I think that those low price predictions caused producers to take a look at it and say, "boy, I better get this down." Therefore, I think fall quarter -- or winter quarter will be much better on price.
Pearson: Some good news, Doug. Thanks much. And that will wrap up this edition of "market to market." Now, you can hear more of Doug's comments at our web site, so be sure to check that out. In the meantime, I'm Mark Pearson. Thanks for being with us. We'll talk to you next time on "Market To Market."
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Who is Fasts Larry
A friend told me to look up Fast Larry for pool lessons I checked out his site he's not far away is he a good instructor.I can't seem to find anyone that has taken lessons from him.
Your post was made for one of two reasons. Either you know who Fast Larry is and your stirring %&*$ or you dont know who he is and its an honest question.
Since I dont want to see a new poster insulted based on a guess Im going to assume you are asking an honest question and give you what little I know of him.
Larry is well known on the internet boards for being,,, well,,, sort of an ass. My personal oppinion (I met him years ago but dont know him) is that Larry has things to offer the billiard community and if he would stop trying to impress everyone he could probably help some people.
By what he has posted I think its safe to say he is a "my way or the highway" kind of instructor. He also states that he doesnt just take on anyone for a student and he basically has approve of you before you can take a lesson from him.
My suggestion would be talk to him online and see how you guys get along. Then, if you get his blessing /ccboard/images/graemlins/laugh.gif you might want to take a lesson and see how it goes. If you would like to talk to him you will find him HERE (http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/newbb/) . A good teacher can adapt the lesson around a player while still incorporating their core belief's on playing pool. See if you agree with what he teaches, give it an honest effort and see if it improves your game.
If after reading his posts and talking with him you dont feel he is the one for you come back and maybe someone can suggest someone else in your area. There are a few instructors that post on here that may be able to point you in the right direction.
I don't know Fast Larry,but after reading alot of his post he is seems to be very cocky.He like to talk about him self alot and I also read where his status in the billiard world has been questioned.Anyways I think I will give him a call and see what he has to say. Thanks
Woody, you are too trusting.
Theguys first post is "Who is Fast Larry".?
His third post is ,"Who is Fasts Larry".?
He posts first on the NPF just to make sure everyone sees it.
Tell him to search HERE or other billiards forums. Tell him to try Google! Believe me, it would take a Fast /ccboard/images/graemlins/grin.gif reader 2 years to read it all! Thats not an exageration. /ccboard/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Did'nt take you long and you know nothing about me.I'm looking to improve my pool game I've contacted people like Monica Webb but I did not feel like it whould be fair to he to ask about another instuctor. opinions are like ass holes every one has one.I just want to improve I've played in only 1 turnament I played as a c+ to start they raised me to a B before the turnament was over I did' place in the money.I enjoy the game in my free time and I'm just looking to improve.
Did'nt take you long and you know nothing about me

 It didnt take you long to get defensive.
Q...but you are right- it didnt take me long.
I 've just spoken with a pool room owner in Atlanta that knows Fast Larry.And he told Larry is a good guy that loves the game.I had him read the post here and he under stood why you whould think I was out to get this guy because someone else with an opinion talked trash about him and his ability.I don't know this person or persons I posted on the wrong form to begin with so I moved my post to the billiard side I mean no harm to anyone. I thought I was asking a simple question about lessons from someone close to my home. You think I'm setting up to bash someone I don't even know.So that tells me you like to judge people your self with out knowing anything about them.Good luck with the snooker Qtec.

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 Woody, you are too trusting.

Probably so Q, I know people like to bring up FL just to see where the thread goes. But if Im going to misread someone I would rather let someone that is trying to just stir up trouble get away with it instead of offending someone that may be really asking for help. Im not hurt either way, but I figure if someone is really asking for help and I dont take them seriously then I am the ass.
And I think your time period for reading through all of FL posts is WAY short /ccboard/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ccboard/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ccboard/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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 Your post was made for one of two reasons. Either you know who Fast Larry is and your stirring %&*$ or you dont know who he is and its an honest question.

Woody, you missed one... "...or you are Fast Larry reincarnated yet again!"
He is overdue, I think.

Quote FrankW:
 A friend told me to look up Fast Larry ...

In my opinion, he's no friend, but I'm biased in this matter.
There are two problems, Frank. The first is how Larry behaves on the internet. If you look around a little, you will see that it goes far beyond "cocky" as you put it before. He is so nasty, so abusive, so profane on-line that he has been banned from all the moderated sites. You really have to work at it to get banned. In the newsgroup http://groups.google.com/group/rec.sport.billiard , which is not moderated, he has gotten the name of "The Disease" and people there learn pretty quickly to ignore him. Maybe he's better in person. He could hardly be worse.
The other problem is a long history of people coming unannounced into discussion forums with the sole purpose of acting innocent but shilling for a product or individual. The way you have responded has all the earmarks of such a person.
Maybe you're legit, but it's really hard to tell on the internet.

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 I don't know Fast Larry,but after reading alot of his post he is seems to be very cocky.He like to talk about him self alot and I also read where his status in the billiard world has been questioned.Anyways I think I will give him a call and see what he has to say. Thanks

If you read "a lot" of his posts, and still say you want to call him, I'm amazed. There is a reason he has been banned from so many forums. With all the really good dedicated instructors available, why would you subject yourself to the kind of abuse he is so willing to dish out? There are at least a half dozen very good instructors who post regularly right here that will get high marks from a lot of folks here. California, Texas, Carolina, Oklahoma, Ohio are the homes of just a few...and then there is one who does nothing but travel the country teaching wherever he goes. If you want to learn something about the game, do a little research. I think you could make a more intelligent choice.
Scott Lee

Quote pooltchr:
 ...and then there is one who does nothing but travel the country teaching wherever he goes.

Gee Steve...who is that??? LOL See you next month in Charlotte!
Frank, I've never met Larry myself...but have lurked on this board for a little over 4 years now. All I've seen out of him ONLINE is just sensless egotism, which, after a post or two in reply, turns into outright maliciousness. I'm not sure who said it above, but if his posting online is any indication, he is deffinitely a "my way or the highway" type of person. There is no room for interpretation. Now, granted, I've never met him in person, and have no clue how he is as an instructor. He may just be like this online. But it's too easy to let one's true nature come through online for me to just dismiss his nature of his posts and actions on this board.
IMHO, you were on the right track looking to take lessons from Monica, or if he is in the area, Scott Lee. I've talked with Scott over the phone, as I was looking to take lessons myself. He is very knowledgable from the game, and, at least to me on the phone and in his posts on the board, is very gracious. There are other instructors down that way, but I think those two right there are your best bets for some top flight instruction. Scott will give you the benefit of years of instruction experience, and Monica is more often in the area. (when she isn't traveling to any WPBA events.) If I read correctly from Scott's post on this thread, he's goign to be in Charlotte soon, which is in your neck of the woods. I'm sure if he's headed south, he wouldn't mind stoppig by to give a lesson or two. Don't forget that Johnny Archer also lives in the area, though I'm not sure if he gives lessons, and if they are reasonably priced. (he's a quiet kinda guy, so wheras the amount of knowledge he has may be extraodinary, his ability to impart it to you, or teach to you could be somewhat hampered. Good players don't nessecarily make good instructors.) Good luck finding an instructor...any instruction you get will help, no matter what your skill level.
Having read many of Larry's toxic posts over the years and PLONKing as many of them as possible I'm sure it easily could have been a hoax but just in case it wasn't (okay trolls I'm biting) there were reports fairly recently that he had passed away. I just tried to confirm that before posting on this topic but couldn't.
Either way to the original poster, as has been said by others in this thread already, there are many high quality coaches/instructors that will treat and teach you much better.
I spoke with a few people at the local pool room last night about whom they whould choose to take lessons from in Atlanta most said Monica or Helena,Johny does not give lessons.Qtec I want to make it clear I have never talked trash about this guy Larry in any of my post nor will I.I don't talk about people that I don't know or never met.

Quote theinel:
 there were reports fairly recently that he had passed away.

I know he posted on the internet yesterday, so either its not true or something really strange is going on LOL
"Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated!" Mark Twain/Fast Larry
Excellent post, Woody. Very fair to FL and straight-
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He started his speech by relating how he had been beaten nearly to death by Afghani villagers with rocks last December merely because he looked like an American. He didn't blame them, he said, because their village and loved ones had been decimated by bombs from our B-52s, which are not precise instruments for meting out justice, killing children and women as dead as they do terrorists. And their dead are scarcely even numbers in our news because American editors let their journalists know that accounts of civilian casualties in Operation Enduring Freedom were to be downplayed.
"I hate the 'what' and 'where' stories that leave out the why," Fisk said, continuing that in the U.S. coverage in the aftermath of Sept. 11, it was practically considered unpatriotic to ask why.
He had interviewed paratroopers in the Afghan invasion who had told him they were there simply to "fight terrorism." But these were Russian paratroopers in their invasion two decades ago, when one of the terrorists they were fighting was our "freedom fighter" Osama bin Laden. He related how some of the freedom-loving folks the U.S. had supported then would slaughter teachers for daring to educate girls.
Given several decades in which "the Arab world was humiliated and corrupted by the West," he said, there was no shortage of answers to "why?"
"To many Arabs who were appalled by the attacks on New York and the Pentagon, bin Laden does not sound insane," he said, citing our propping up corrupt Arab dictatorships, the children who have died as a result of our embargo against Iraq, and our unwavering support for Israel as reasons for genuine ire.
When an Israeli helicopter gunship blew up an ambulance containing two women and four children in 1996, it was Fisk who sifted through the wreckage to find the U.S. markings on the rocket they'd used. Though it was the deadliest incident of the day, Fisk said, the ambulance attack was downplayed in the U.S. press.
So it has always been, he claimed, citing how little coverage was given to the 1982 massacres in Lebanon presided over by Sharon. Now, he said, reporting has become so biased and deferential to Israel as to render it inconsequential. When our State Department shifts to referring to the West Bank's occupied territories as "disputed territories," the press follows suit without question. CNN has issued a memo that Israeli settlements—though illegal, according to the U.N.—are now to be referred to as "neighborhoods." Rather than mention Sharon's terrorist acts in Lebanon, he is called a "tough protagonist."
As a result, the American people have little idea of what is going on. The Arab press is worse, he said, never addressing their own governments' torture and corruption. Some of the best reporting, according to Fisk, is to be found in the writing of Israeli journalists such as Amos Oz. Fisk's own writing can be found at news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/.
We have no business playing Father Knows Best with any nation, any more than we'd like them paternally meddling with our affairs. We are so much a part of the problems in the Middle East, however, that we bear some responsibility to help find a solution, and we can't do that if Father Knows Shit.
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BAY VILLAGE -- A pair of Bay Village teens have been arrested on allegations they stole various items from unlocked vehicles.
The boys, both 17, will face charges in Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court.
The first teen was arrested after authorities saw him walking on Upland Road at 2:30 a.m. Police say he was found with a backpack filled with items that had been reported stolen.
The second suspect was arrested hiding near his home on Columbia Road a few hours later. He allegedly had stolen items in his home.
Approximately 13 residents residing between Columbia and Clague have filed reports.
The Bay Village Police Department is in possession of a large quantity of property that was likely stolen from unlocked vehicles between August 25 and August 28.
Any resident who has not reported a theft or is looking for property taken during this time period is encouraged to call the Bay Village Police Department Detective Bureau at 440-871-0773.
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Tweet "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom." -Malcom X Some 238 years ago, this Country's founding fathers wanted independence from Great Britain's rule of taxation and tyranny. On July 4, 1776 they made a stand! The Second Continental Congress, comprised of colonists like… Read More


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Review: PROS: A pleasant restaurant in picturesque Ludlow with attentive staff boasts menu options for most dietary requirements using fresh & often local produce, including separate sections for both vegetarian & vegan dishes. Evening menu for our visit - starters of homemade houmous & pitta bread or pea-&-bean soup of the day. Mains: Jamaican Sweet Potato Casserole; Red Lentil and Cashew Nut Bake; Red Pepper stuffed with Quinoa, Mint, Apricots & Courgettes served with a Butternut & Red Pepper Sauce; or a salad - all served with stir fried veg & potatoes. Three vegan cakes were available: spiced apple, apricot flapjack & chocolate cake; no soya cream/ice-cream/custard or soya milk on offer. The vegan food itself was tasty & beautifully presented, although small portions & medium to expensive price range. CONS: We had high expectations after such care for catering for different dietary needs was mentioned on their website, outside board & menu. However, none of the three staff on duty had any clue about veganism & delivered non-vegan food to us for every course! Distressing enough for ethical vegans, this is extremely dangerous for those with allergies, so if you wish to risk eating here please double-check at every stage of your meal, as we did. After checking the soup of the day was vegan & ordering from the vegan menu: - Complimentary covers of bread & olives arrived with obvious butter. On asking if the bread was vegan, we were told no & apologised to for giving us food we couldn't eat. - The kitchen had confirmed soup was fine; it was served without the advertised crusty roll (replacement pitta would have been nice). - Main course looked lovely, with Dauphinoise potatoes served in a separate dish. Initial bite tasted cheesy - we checked & were told it was dairy cheese. Replacement wild rice was delivered promptly but my comment on how dangerous/upsetting this was met with no comprehension. - A neighbouring diner came over to apologise for poor service; we thought she might have been the owner but she didn't assist the staff & the mistakes continued. - Dessert; we asked which were vegan & were told three interesting cakes. Upon asking if there was anything to accompany them, we were offered cream, custard or ice cream. To double-check, we asked they confirm these were all vegan: they were all dairy. - At the end of the meal, our bill came with two wrapped chocolates. These were non vegan too. Nice food but uncomfortable experience, so cannot recommend.
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Radford professor's death a 'cruel irony'
A bicyling enthusiast died Tuesday after being hit by a car while biking last week.
By Tim Thornton
Fess Green is dead.
The 67-year-old bicycling advocate died nearly a week after he and his bike collided with a car near the entrance to Radford's Bisset Park. The car cut across Green's path as the automobile entered the park. Green hit the side of the car. He was taken to Carilion New River Valley Medical Center and flown from there to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, where he died Tuesday.
The accident is still under investigation. No charges have been filed against Ryan Brinkley Sherman, the 20-year-old who was driving the car.
A member of Radford University's faculty for more than 20 years, Green -- his given name was Forrest -- was a driving force in the redevelopment of Radford's Wildwood Park, helping with the design and construction of trails and recruiting Radford students to help maintain them. In 1929, before it was named Wildwood, it was Radford's first city park, but it fell into disuse and disrepair. Volunteers such as Green helped bring it back.
"He's put in -- I can't even imagine -- thousands and thousands of hours in Wildwood Park," said Liz Altieri, president of Pathways, a group that promotes trails and bikeways in Radford and throughout western Virginia. "He was a tireless volunteer."
Just last month, Green helped write a grant proposal to get money to improve the entrance to Wildwood Park. If the grant comes through, Altieri said, that entrance may become a memorial site for Green. It will certainly be part of his legacy.
Green was part of the university's management department from 1987. Before that, he taught at Virginia Tech, where he earned his doctorate. He also taught at Appalachian State and Old Dominion University. Green served in Vietnam and retired from the Navy. He and his wife, Millie, have two grown daughters.
During summers from 1994 to 1998, Green biked the Wilderness Road, an 850-mile trail that ran from Philadelphia into Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley. Daniel Boone led the party that cut the trail in 1775, blazing the way for a stream of settlers.
Green peddled that path, kept a journal of his journey and married it with his research of the road's history to create "Wilderness Road Odyssey: A Cyclist's Journey Through Present and Past." The book was published in 2003.
"He was a real advocate for bicycling in Virginia, bicycling as alternate transportation," Altieri said. "The cruel irony -- here's somebody who so believed in bicycling as alternative transportation and that's the way he died."
"Since he's been hurt, you hear all these stories of things he's done to help people," Altieri said. "He was a remarkable man, and this community's going to miss him very much."
Millie Green said she plans to encourage people to contribute to Pathways' work at Wildwood Park rather than send the family flowers.
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Saatchi & Saatchi created a pair of spots for Duracell featuring NFL rivals the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers. Both spots carry the same message: "When the game's on the line, the NFL trusts Duracell Quantum to power their gameday communications." The difference is that one spot presents this from the... [GalleyCat]
Teaching Twins to Drive a Manual May Drive Father Insane in 'Stick Shift' for Subaru - Posted September 30, 2013
Carmichael Lynch's latest spot for Subaru spotlights a family with two Subarus: a new one and an old one, currently being used to teach a pair of twins to drive. "Stick Shift" plays up the humorous frustration of teaching teenagers (in this case two at once) to drive manual in lieu of... [GalleyCat]
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Today was the Dothan Rotary Club's 35th annual Christmas luncheon.
Rotary members served more than 800 seniors from across the Wiregrass a Christmas meal.
The event did more than just honor seniors, Rotarians made sure children in the Wiregrass will have a Merry Christmas as well.
The rotary club collected toys for 128 foster children in the Department of Human Resources.
"I think it is very nice for everyone who can to bring a gift for the children because there are so many children who don't have anything for Christmas and we are just blessed to help our children because you never know what that might mean to a child," said Pearl Exum, Cottonwood senior citizen.
Dothan Rotary Club President David Hanks says this luncheon is a good way for the seniors to get out and enjoy themselves
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Just as our troops are fighting the terrorists in Iraq so we don't have to face them here at home, I watched the Democratic Party presidential debate on Monday so you wouldn't need to let those egregious people into your own living rooms. (Although, obviously, our troops in Iraq face deadly duty, while I only face deadly dull duty.)
But I did learn a few things. For the first time Monday, CNN provided us with sustained close-up shots of Sen. John Edwards' haircut, and I can now understand why he paid between $400-$1,200 a cut. At middle range, it looks deceptively like your average $18 strip-mall haircut. And it seems to look the same from the left side of his face.
But the close up from his right side is a revelation. Girding the long side of his part is an extraordinary spring-like wedge of hair running from front to back. And though bouncy, every hair remains in place -- even during vigorous head shaking and bobbing. This gives his entire hairstyle a lively, youthful look. Most middle-aged men's hair just sits on the head like a wet rag. Admittedly, the bouncy wedge does look a little flouncy when viewed from the candidate's front right. But from any other angle and from all distances other than close up, it simply gives his entire visage a healthy, animated look. Well worth a thousand bucks a crack -- at least in his part of the two Americas.
However, in Edwards' only memorable comment of the night, he rather put his foot into it. Each of the candidates was asked to describe something he or she approves of and something he or she disapproves of regarding the candidate to the left. Sen. Hillary Clinton was to Edwards' left, and he expressed disapproval of her pink (or, perhaps, coral) sweater. The questioner was clearly looking for policy disagreements, so Edward's reflexive comment on her appearance rather reminded the audience of his reputation for excessive concern with matters of grooming. It also was suggestive of his inner sexism (despite his wife's claim that her husband is better than Hillary for the fairer sex) as he would hardly have commented on a male candidate's suit jacket.
Given Edwards' essential vacuity (tempered by his instinct for southern populist demagogy), he will test how far he can make his way on Arthur Miller's "smile and a shoe shine."
Blankley, who had been suffering from stomach cancer, died Saturday night at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, his wife, Lynda Davis, said Sunday.
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What do you think about a proposed ban on smoking in public places such as restaurants, bars and workplaces?
As much as I hate government interfering with our lives, I love the smoking ban. Going out in Lawrence is so nice without smelling cigarette smoke at your table while eating.
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Two years before I bought this late 1966 or early 1967 mazda T600. The only obvious difference with most(?) (if not all) of the K360s is the longer body. The engine works nicely. Mazda Greece has no parts at all besides it was a very popular three wheeler until mid seventies. The only NOS parts I finally found here are related with the block of the engine. The restoration goes very slowly as I got some other projects and I need some more parts before I start the body work. The car was bought for 1500 euros, plus 300 more for some spare, mostly used parts, the owners discovered at his shed latter on.
Some of the parts I bought. Fortunately the spare wheel "base" was included. This position of the spare wheel (at this position of the truck) has never been seen at any of mazda brochures or any K360/T600 photos so far. It's the iron thing at the left of the green car's boot.
The original hubcaps were also found by the owner and sold to me with the other parts.
Immaculate steering wheel from yahoo auctions jp
Another earlier example used as decoration at a flowers shop
A friend spot it recently at a mountainous little village. Was given to me for free. Not a lot of parts to pick up though.
There is an excellent site dedicated to the k360/t600 from a japanese guy, I think I "saw" him replying here. He must "appear" presenting us his excellent restored vehicles.
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