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Over at Eater.com, they're terribly impressed by this new(ish) invention by Englishman (and, we're guessing, problem drinker) James Nash . In case you can't figure
Over at Eater.com, they're terribly impressed by this new(ish) invention by Englishman (and, we're guessing, problem drinker) James Nash. In case you can't figure it out from the picture, they're plastic, single-serving wine glasses with tear-off lids. And in case you're not up on your BBC reality show history, they were the idea of a former contestant on Dragons' Den (like Shark Tank with a British accent, where inventors go to show off their harebrained contraptions to a panel of business people and investors) who, according to Eater's reportage, was more or less laughed off the show because who in the world would ever go for wine you could drink in your car? Brilliant!
Thing is, people have been "inventing" various methods for taking your booze with you for years now. And I'm not just talking about filling a coffee thermos full of kahlua and bringing it with you to your job at the post office, either.
No, we've got Sofia (champagne in a can! That comes with its own straw!) for those who feel the need to toast things even when in church or during bail hearings.
And then there's those crazy Japanese who can find a way to make pretty much anything small and portable.
Then there are Pocket Shots, which have the power to make even the worst movie, opera or funeral suddenly a thousand times more fun.
And don't forget juice box wine--which was huge for about fifteen minutes a couple years ago, and remains so among certain crowds of stroller-slinging mommies who've learned that junior's antics are always more charming when mommy has a buzz on.
The thing that made this particular version of grab-and-go booze a story? That high-end British department store Marks & Spencer apparently can't keep these grown-up sippy cups on the shelves. They're selling like crazy-go-nuts. According to the Daily Mail article linked above, "An M&S spokesman said: 'The glasses are merchandised in our 'Food on the Move' section, which is obviously the aisle people on the go head to - particularly office workers."
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Greenlawn Home Care netted a big victory Thursday, June 7 demolishing the Atmore Utilities Board in a 12-3, 5-inning blowout.
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Jason Derülo, Jordin Sparks and 3OH!3 are all young hitmaking artists, but it wasn't too long ago that the stars were worried about their rides, fueling rivalries and rocking out in class.
"I loved school, but I always wanted to be out singing," Jordin Sparks said in the latest episode of '"When I Was 17," which premiered Saturday. "I was that one in school that just was always looking at the clock, like, wishing I was kind of somewhere else. I was always singing in class, too. Like I'd be reading the assignments and singing and the teacher would be like, 'Jordin, Jordin, Jordin!' I'd be like, 'What?' She's like, 'Shh! People are reading!' and I was like, 'Oh, sorry.' "
Jordin may have felt a little embarrassment in the classroom, but Jason Derülo nearly lost major cool points when he busted a tire on his raggedy car, nicknamed '"The White Jellybean," while cruising on a date.
"We're good, we're flowing, we're riding," Derülo remembered. "Suddenly I hear it go 'boom, boom, boom, boom.' I just try to keep going. We're still riding … but I know that we got a flat tire. But I also know [that] I don't know how to change the tire."
The guys in 3OH!3 grew up to make sunny hip-hop-infused pop jams together, but back in the day the duo were not cool with each other.
"We went to rival high schools," Nat Motte said. "Junior year of high school, we beat the Fairview Knights 17-10 [in football], and we lost consecutively in all other sports afterwards. But we would still chant '17-10!' "
Even a bitter sports rivalry couldn't keep the pair apart, and they were eventually brought together by their love of absurd guerilla-style TV.
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Hey everyone.. Im new to the group and was suggested to join because my daughter (six and half months old) has been having blood in her poop diapers for the past few months now. although its not every time, its still there and doesnt sit well with me. We did allergy tests with her ped and her blood work came up normal/negative. then he suggested visiting a GI dr... Do any of you have any suggestions or ideas? I am currently breastfeeding and have found it to be extremely difficult to cut things out of my diet (like soy, dairy eggs, etc). Nearly EVERYTHING has these ingredients in them!
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My daughter had the same exact issue from week 2 or 3. At the time I was nursing, and we were referred to a Pediatric GI specialist when DD was 9 weeks. The specialist tested some of her poopy diapers and found that there was blood in her stool. She started DD on Similac Alimentum right away. She said if I wanted to continue nursing, I would have to cut out ALL dairy, which, as you have found out, is really quite difficult. Breastfeeding was not a great experience for me or my daughter, and as soon as I switched, she was a completely different baby. She is now 6 1/2 months and is doing great. In terms of baby food, we have to make sure we buy all dairy free, and our DR wants us to use all Beech-Nut products which she says are the most hypoallergenic.
I would suggest visiting a Pedi GI and see where you go from there.
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My DD started having blood in her diapers at 8 weeks and it quickly built up to every dirty diaper. I completely gave up dairy and soy, and a month later the blood was gone. It is really hard to give it all up, but I like to cook so I have found a bunch of recipes that are safe and have been cooking pretty much every day. I didn't eat a lot of processed food, so that made things easier. Since there is a lot of time between your DD's bloody diapers, you might want to keep a food journal to see if you can find a pattern. Once the protein cleared from our systems and DD healed, if I ate any dairy or soy her diapers would go "bad" about three days later.


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Ok, this is a great day. I managed to implement my files in a custom MPQ that works! That means that now I do not have to import my models into maps - I can just start warcraft III and select nerubians as a playabale race. Actually, I am using modifyed humans as you might notice, but that is to go soon, since I am going to import the rest of the models this week (once I have time). I still do not know if those low-poly creeps are worthy of making them actual, so, they are going to be used in demo-maps only.
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San Jose, California: A federal judge appeared ready to trim millions from a $1.05 billion jury verdict Apple Inc won over Samsung Electronics this summer as she urged the top two smartphone companies to settle their myriad legal actions around the world.
US District Judge Lucy Koh said Thursday she would issue a series of rulings over the next several weeks resolving the many legal issues raised at the hearing Thursday. Samsung is seeking a new trial or a reduction of the verdict that resulted from a lawsuit Apple filed in 2011. Apple, on the other hand, urged the judge to add millions more to the award and permanently ban the US sales of eight Samsung smartphone models a jury in August said illegally used Apple technology.
Koh gave no indication on how she would rule on the sales ban request nor by what amount she would cut from the $1 billion award. Samsung was demanding that she cut the award by more than half, but Koh gave no hint that she sided with that argument or Apple's separate argument for an increase in the award.
Apple filed a second lawsuit earlier this year, alleging that Samsung's newer products are unfairly using Apple's technology. That's set for trial in 2014. In addition, the two companies are locked in legal battles in several other countries.
"I think it's time for global peace," Koh said at an end of a nearly four-hour hearing in San Jose.
Lawyers for each company responded by casting aspersions on the other side.
Apple lawyer Harold McElhinny claimed that Samsung "willfully" made a business decision to copy Apple's iPad and iPhone, and he called the jury's $1.05 billion award a "slap in the wrist." McElhinny said Apple intended to keep on fighting Samsung in court until it changed its business ways.
In turn, Samsung lawyer Charles Verhoeven responded that Apple was attempting to "compete through the courthouse instead of the marketplace." He said Apple wants to tie up Samsung in courts around the world rather than competing with it head-on.
In the third quarter of 2012, Samsung sold 55 million smartphones to Apple's 23.6 million sales worldwide, representing 32.5 percent of the market for Samsung compared with Apple's 14 percent.
Earlier in the hearing, Koh appeared ready to rework some of the jury's damage calculations. The jurors filled out a verdict form listing the amount of damages Samsung owed Apple for 26 separate products. For instance, the jurors said Samsung owed Apple nearly $58 million for sales of its Prevail smartphone found to have used Apple's "tap-and-zoom" technology. But the type of patent violation the jury found doesn't lend itself to that big of an award for the product, Koh said, musing that it appeared that Apple could recover perhaps $8 million over the Prevail dispute.
That was just one of 26 line items Koh is reviewing when it comes to considering the jury's $1.05 billion verdict.
She is also considering Samsung's demand for the verdict to be completely wiped out and for a new trial to be held. Samsung raises a host of legal issues in arguing it was deprived of a fair trial in a courthouse a dozen miles from Apple's Cupertino, California, headquarters. One of it arguments is that jury foreman Velvin Hogan committed misconduct when he didn't divulge he had been sued by his former employer, Seagate Technology, in 1993. Samsung is a large investor in Seagate.
Koh showed no indication of what she thought of the argument, and most legal experts said Samsung had no chance of prevailing on that issue because it happened more than 20 years ago and Hogan wasn't specifically asked about it.
"The connection here is tenuous," said Christopher V. Carani, a Chicago patent attorney who has closely followed the case. "I would be surprised if Judge Koh accepted this argument and scrapped the jury's entire finding."
Koh's decision will help shape the ultimate result of the case, but this bitter legal battle is expected to land before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Washington, D.-based court that decides patent disputes, if not the US Supreme Court.
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April 22, 2015 by Teresa Jacobson
This past weekend, The Garden Club of Savannah celebrated the 40th Anniversary of it's Tour of Hidden Gardens. Visitors were granted access to eight private gardens throughout the Historic District as well as the Massie Heritage Center Gardens. The gardens ranged from expansive green space to small courtyards all brimming with beautiful native garden species and unique decor. Just in case you missed it, we took pictures all along the way to share with you.
The Platt Garden – East Hall Street
The Platt Garden has generous private green space in the heart of Savannah's Historic District. A massive oak offers shade to the entire garden and reaches out over the sidewalk down Hall Street.
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The Murse/Kern Garden – East Huntington Street
Cherokee Roses drap the gate at the entrance of the Murse/Kern garden. Recent renovations to this garden include a beautiful fountain and built-in brick planters. We found a mother robin nesting in a potted lemon tree.
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The Mastrianni/Hester Garden – East Gaston Street
A sculpture bought by the homeowners while on vacation in Europe is the centerpiece of this small courtyard garden. The art hangs above a mostly edible garden while colorful trumpet honeysuckle covers the wall of the garden.
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The Seabolt Garden – Abercorn Street
Another small courtyard garden built for lounging all year round. A covered patio adorned with small statues and planters looks over a sitting area with a working fireplace and corner fountain.
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Massie Heritage Center Gardens – East Gordon Street
The Massie Heritage Center is honored as Georgia's oldest school in continuous operation. The extensive grounds along Calhoun Square has a lovely courtyard surrounded by a brick wall draped in green vines.
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The Russell Garden – East Gordon Street
The Russell Garden got our vote for the most beautiful entrance. Brick columns in an iron fence covered in greens sets the stage for the lush drama of the garden within. A beautiful brick patio takes you through an arbor to a pond with a sculpture and fountain surrounded by bamboo. It's so lush, you feel like you've stepped into a jungle.
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The Chastulik Garden – West Gordon Street
Every step of the way through the garden and pathways of the Chastulik garden had fun garden treasures to see. We only scratched the surface with the photos. Walkways through two different patio area leads you to an open garden with a swimming pool. Two stories of screened in porches overlook this incredible space filled with enchanting creatures, decor, and planters. We weren't surprised to see a plaque from Hidden Garden Tours of years past throughout the garden.
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The Bolch Garden – West Perry Street
The Bolch garden is designed with walkways around two fountains and a patio with a stunning Italian white marble sculpture.
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The Salandi Garden – East Oglethorpe Avenue
The Salandi garden of the Ballastone Inn is a lovely space for guests to relax in. Moss dragonflies adorn the walls of this secret space hidden behind huge potted tea olives lining Oglethorpe Avenue.
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Azalea Inn Creates "Mini-Farm" in the Heart of Savannah, GA
June 12, 2011 by Teresa Jacobson
Guests and Savannah's SAFE Shelter benefit from this downtown Savannah Inn's harvest
Savannah, GA – Azalea Inn & Gardens brings on the greens and encourages you to leave the blues behind. Who'd imagine an inn located in a quiet historic urban neighborhood in Savannah, GA would support their own mini-farm? But with astute planning from Adam Mentzer, passionate local farmer and owner of Adam's Farm, the bounty is blooming at Azalea Inn and Gardens. Knowing that her mini-farm would produce beyond the needs of the guests, Azalea Inn & Gardens owner, Teresa Jacobson, set out to find a place where needy recipients could benefit from the garden. Having had friends benefit from the help of shelters for abused victims, Jacobson settled on the Savannah Area Family Emergency (SAFE) Shelter for abused people to receive produce from her garden. Today, both Mentzer and Jacobson are supplying the shelter's clients with excess fresh-grown food from their garden while teaching graduates of the SAFE Shelter program how a small-space garden can produce big benefits.
The Azalea Inn & Gardens has a long history of gardening fame. Their award-winning flower gardens have received media accolades for years. Yet never one to settle for status quo, Teresa Jacobson decided she wanted a bigger garden in 2011 when she was motivated by a "Meet Your Maker" dinner (where local artisans' and growers' produce, cheeses, meats were showcased.) It was here she made the acquaintance of local farmer Adam Mentzer, and soon the concept of the Azalea Inn mini-farm developed. While skeptical at first at what could be accomplished on a small lot in downtown Savannah, Mentzer refused to be daunted, knowing raised beds and container gardens could produce plenty. What followed was phenomenal: [nggallery id=20]
The list of varieties of herbs and produce growing in the mini-farm is astounding. Careful planning has allowed a long list of varieties to be grown, the likes of which you'd expect to find on a ten acre rural Georgia farm, including:
Hybrid Squash 8-Ball Hybrid Melon Galia Hybrid Melon Athena
Gourd Cucuzzi Snake Tomato Amana Orange Hybrid Tomato Supersweet
Okra Clemson Spineless Gourd Dipper Long Handled Hybrid Cucumber Tasty Green
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Tomato Cherokee Purple Hybrid Pepper Anastar Hybrid Pepper Aristocrat
Hybrid Zucchini Squash Kentucky Blue Pole Bean Yellow Bush Bean
Purple Bush Bean Fennel Zefa Fino Swiss Chard Magenta Sunset
Arugula Daikon Radish Miyashige Hybrid Turnip Scarlet Queen Red Stems
Greens Mache Strawberries Sequoia Strawberries Quinalt
Eggplant Black Beauty Eggplant Ichiban
Rosemary Oregano Stevia
Texas Terragon Onion Chives Lemon Balm
Curled Parsley Cilantro Potpourri Lavender
Spearmint Peppermint Rosemary
Fernleaf Dill Spicy Globe basil Thai Basil
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"I'm not sure what I'm more excited about," smiled Teresa Jacobson when asked about the new mini-farm, "all of this glorious produce and herbs, my new partnership with Adam or being able to offer those who've had to leave everything behind the taste of freshness from my garden," finished Jacobson. The response from the SAFE Shelter staff and clients has included an outpouring of gratitude.
While the focus has always been on locavore cuisine at the Azalea Inn & Gardens, the new mini-farm will bring the property even closer to a totally sustainable model. Food scraps will be composted in 80-gallon Earth Machine compost bins and rainwater for watering plants is collected in 55 gallon cisterns, allowing nature's bounty to be reused to create healthier plants and a healthier planet. Additionally, low-volume irrigation and low volume water baths are utilized outside and in. At Azalea Inn, Earth Day is every day.
Inside, cotton/bamboo blend towels delight guests with their soft and eco-friendly texture. All lighting utilizes energy-saving CFL bulbs and plastic bottles for bath amenities have been replaced with dispensers for high quality eco-friendly shampoos, shower gels and conditioners. Guests are given the option to re-use towels to cut down on unnecessary detergents and energy use and as many papers and plastics as possible are recycled.
The décor of the inn emphasizes nature, and rooms have been designed to allow as much natural light as possible. Most rooms feature private balconies or patios allowing guests to "bring the outdoors in".
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Deliciously relaxing and lighthearted, the Azalea Inn and Gardens is a casually elegant Savannah bed and breakfast mansion offering vintage and award-winning gardens and its new mini-farm, historic 19th century architecture (complete with soulful imperfections) and a scrumptious, new and traditional southern cuisine breakfast. A hidden garden courtyard pool, modern comforts and free on-site parking sets Azalea Inn & Gardens apart and makes staying here easy and relaxing. Located in the Historic Landmark District of Savannah on brick-cobbled Huntingdon Street near Forsyth Park (Savannah's central park), the inn's atmosphere is characterized by fun, with an adventurous and decidedly eco-friendly focus. Yet the ultimate allure of this daffodil-colored Queen Anne Italianate inn is its owner's 21st century, whimsical and outgoing personality. You'll arrive ready for a break and leave with a new great friend.
For those seeking a green urban refuge, the Azalea Inn & Gardens is a delight. Learn more at www.azaleainn.com.
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2011 NOGS Tour of Hidden Gardens, WJCL and the Azalea Inn Gardens
April 26, 2011 by Teresa Jacobson
Join us this Friday and Saturday from 10 to 4 for the 2011 NOGS Tour of Hidden Gardens– a private glimpse into eight beautiful gardens that are not normally accessible to the public. These hidden gardens are north of Gwinnett Street (NOGS) in the historic district of Savannah and proceeds go to support the charitable works of the Garden Club of Savannah. Recently, WJCL interviewed Pat Ryan of the Garden Club and Teresa Jacobson of Azalea Inn and Gardens for a sneak preview of what garden enthusiasts can expect (click here to see the interview).
We think you will be amazed at the growth the produce gardens have achieved since the filming two weeks ago! Tomato plants are now 2 to 3 feet tall and some are setting blossoms; cucumbers are climbing and setting buds as are the cantaloupe and Galia melons. The herb garden has taken off as have our blueberry bushes and strawberry plants. Adam Mentzer of Adam's Farm came by last week and erected the climbers for tomato plants, cucumbers, melons and pole beans, so the visual is a bit amusing as you see a sea of white strings delicately holding up the tips of so many of our plants. The snake gourds have taken hold right next to the four Georgia blueberry bushes and delicate blue and pink trumpet vines scale the lattice at the front of the produce garden.
Azalea Inn has been at the forefront of the eco-friendly sustainability model for downtown Savannah bed and breakfast inns being the first inn to champion recycling several years before the city provide curbside service. It seemed logical to continue the trend by adding low volume drip and micro-drip irrigation throughout the two gardens, and to expand last year's 12×15 produce beds to encompass the entire back yard of the inn's neighboring plot. The amazement of our guests upon seeing the "mini-mini farm" we have sustained in the middle of an historic downtown city has been the source of inspiration for many.
Join us this Friday and Saturday and show your support for the many wonderful causes of Savannah's Garden Club. Tickets are $45 per person or $40 each for a group of ten or more. For further information, please visit their website at http://www.gcofsavnogstour.org/.
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Lodging – April 2011 NOGS Tour of Hidden Gardens of Savannah Georgia
March 1, 2011 by Teresa Jacobson
Distinctive bed and breakfast lodging for the April NOGS Tour of Hidden Gardens of Savannah Georgia is best savored at Azalea Inn and Gardens, also a select property on this year's tour. We were honored with the invitation to be a part of the Garden Club of Savannah's annual fund-raising event, and Jake, of course, was ecstatic! Despite the heavy freezes (and subsequent loss of vegetation) we have experienced this year, he barely blinked as he assured me that we would be ready by the scheduled dates, April 29 and 30, 2011. True to his meticulous nature, Jake has begun working on a map of the grounds marking the locations of the different flora and fauna so we can have identifying signs throughout making the tour of our gardens even more enlightening.
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A perfect day in Savannah
October 23, 2009 by Teresa Jacobson
Steaming hot coffee on the wrap around porch of Azalea Inn and Gardens, early morning quiet along the brick-lined walkways of Huntingdon Street. A perfect beginning to a perfect day in Savannah.
Time now to slip inside the inn for a picture-perfect breakfast and some easy conversation around the communal table with the guests. What will we enjoy today? Ah, Banana Pancakes with Banana Caramel syrup, chicken-apple sausage, and a refreshing fruit cup of strawberries, black grapes and melon balls topped with blackberries and raspberries drizzled with a ginger-mint syrup, oh my! A little hot tea now to compliment my Savannah Sunrise – an Azalea Inn and Gardens breakfast specialty juice.
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FBI agents plan a third day of digging Wednesday in suburban Detroit for the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared 38 years ago.
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Authorities have pursued multiple leads into Hoffa's whereabouts since his disappearance in 1975. He was last seen outside an Oakland County restaurant where he was to meet with a New Jersey Teamsters boss and a Detroit Mafia captain.
The latest tip about Hoffa's remains came from reputed Mafia captain Tony Zerilli, who, through his lawyer, said Hoffa was buried beneath a concrete slab in a barn in Oakland Township, north of Detroit.
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On Tuesday, authorities used a backhoe to dig and move dirt around in the section of land. Authorities also called in forensic anthropologists from Michigan State University and cadaver dogs from the Michigan State Police.
Hoffa's rise in the Teamsters, his 1964 conviction for jury tampering and his presumed murder are Detroit's link to a time when organized crime, public corruption and mob hits held the nation's attention. Over the years, authorities have received various tips, leading the FBI to possible burial sites near and far.
In 2003, a backyard swimming pool was dug up 90 miles northwest of Detroit. Seven years ago, a tip from an ailing federal inmate led to a two-week search and excavation at a horse farm in the same region. Last year, soil samples were taken from under the concrete floor of a backyard shed north of the city. And detectives even pulled up floorboards at a Detroit house in 2004.
No evidence of Hoffa was found.
Other theories have suggested he was entombed in concrete at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, ground up and thrown in a Florida swamp or obliterated in a mob-owned fat-rendering plant.
Zerilli, now 85, was in prison for organized crime when Hoffa disappeared. But he told New York TV station WNBC in January that he was informed about Hoffa's whereabouts after his release. His attorney, David Chasnick, said Zerilli is "intimately involved" with people who know where the body is buried.
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The child is being detained on a preliminary complaint of reckless driving and is awaiting a court hearing.
The initial report to Bartholomew County sheriff's deputies came at 7:26 a.m. Friday from a caller who thought the child was being abducted, Capt. Greg Duke said.
The boy was driving a maroon passenger car out of Heritage Heights north on U.S. 31 and was seen by several other parents and children waiting for buses in the area.
A deputy on patrol spotted the boy driving west on Tannehill Road approaching Walnut Street, which is south of the school. As the deputy approached, the vehicle pulled out of the line of traffic, and the driver "floored it," Duke said.
Picking up speed, the car went east through an empty lot and hit a mobile sign there. It then struck a telephone junction box and then a street sign, Duke said.
Crossing the road, the car then struck a large utility pole, which caused extensive damage to the car. The vehicle then bounced off the pole and hit a tree, with the car's air bags deploying, Duke said.
The deputy who was following the vehicle stopped behind it and went to check on the boy, who was not hurt. The child was not wearing a seat belt, Duke said, as he probably wouldn't have been able to reach the pedals if he'd been strapped into the seat.
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Starting Friday, March 4th, more than 80 fans from AngelsWin.com arrived in Tempe, Arizona to catch a weekend of baseball and to kick off the season with their 6th annual Spring Training Fanfest. As the fans assembled for the game, the Angels prepared to take on the Chicago White Sox. Thanks to a mighty blow from Mark Trumbo, the fans left the ballpark happy with a 3-1 Angels victory.
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Minor League prospects Steven Geltz and Matt Oye came to attend the dinner and meet the fans. Both Geltz and Ove are pitchers in the organization and rising prospects. Steve had an incredible year in 2010, striking out 17.36 batters per 9.0 IP while Matt played at every level in the organization except the Major Leagues.
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This dish has two tasty variations; it can be prepared with either sautéed shrimp or, for extra flavor, marinated grilled shrimp.
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter or margarine
- 1 pound jumbo shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground white pepper
- 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
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Heat a large skillet on a grill rack 4 to 6 inches from the heat or over moderately high heat on the stove. Melt butter in skillet. When foamy, add shrimp and sauté for 2 minutes.
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Add garlic, salt, pepper, and parsley and cook 1 minute more. Stir in lemon juice.
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Serve over cooked white rice.
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Nutritional Information(per serving)
- Calories: 127
- Fat: 7g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Cholesterol: 150mg
- Sodium: 423mg
- Carbs: 2g
- Protein: 15g
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Cat Stevens: Out of nowhere I became obsessed with "Wild World," and I tried to learn it on guitar. It turns out those little flourishes he does that sound simple enough are frigging hard to learn; He's a real good guitar player. I then figured out that he wrote "The First Cut is the Deepest," a song I never liked until I heard his original version. It's so true that in many ways it's hard to match that feeling of the first time one falls in love, but who would really say to his/her lover, "If you want I'll try to love again. I'll try to love again, but I know the first cut is the deepest?" He's just admitting to her that it isn't likely he'll be able to love her like he loved his first, and that's just amazing songwriting.


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These are not pleasant times for the Minneapolis Public Schools. In addition to a staggering dropout rate and a growing disparity in test scores between white and minority students, Minnesota's largest school district is still reeling from the loss of nearly 400 staff and teachers as part of a $25 million budget cut last May. And the hard decisions aren't over yet: Superintendent Carol Johnson and the MPS board are being criticized for its second wave of budget cuts arising out of increased healthcare and transportation costs and less-than-anticipated education funding from the state Legislature.
In late September Johnson and the board announced that they will close down three small schools and relocate at least two others at the end of the 2001-2002 school year. Now one of the state's most prominent education experts claims that the elimination of the small schools--defined as schools with fewer than 350 students--will deprive the district of one of the most reliable ways to improve the learning environment for Minneapolis students.
"The research is overwhelming that youngsters in smaller schools do better," says Joe Nathan, director of the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs Center for School Change at the University of Minnesota. "Kids are safer, more satisfied, and have higher achievement and graduation rates. Parents are more satisfied and teacher morale is higher. The U.S. Department of Education says that the benefits of small schools have been, and I quote, 'confirmed with a clarity and a level of confidence rare in the annals of education research.'"
District officials don't dispute Nathan's research, and they point out their recent history of support for small schools and more intimate learning environments. Many of the small schools now facing elimination were created within the past decade, when there was more flexibility in the budget. The district also is implementing more "school within a school" programs, including "small learning environments" in high schools.
"Closing schools and relocating students is never our first choice," says Johnson. "But we find ourselves in the situation of balancing the educational needs of our students with the bleak realities of our current financial situation."
Johnson and the board maintain that a variety of circumstances and financial realities made their decision to close some small schools necessary, if not inevitable. All but one of the five schools being eliminated or relocated are operating in a leased building--an untenable expense, now that construction of several new facilities in the city has been completed and enrollment has gradually begun to decline. Most of the affected schools were accepting students from throughout the district and thus had particularly high transportation costs.
Of the two downtown schools being closed, Mill City Montessori was essentially doomed last year when its decade-long patron, Target Corp., pulled out of the partnership. And, in addition to its high lease and transportation costs, the downtown Chiron Middle School--organized around a unique program of getting students out into the community for more hands-on learning experiences--wasn't able to sustain enough business support to employ its community-service model.
Finally, some basic economies of scale can't be attained at small schools. "There isn't much of a cost difference between maintaining a school with 300 students and one with 500 students, in terms of your utility costs and your janitorial and engineering costs," says Kay Sack, the assistant superintendent for district support services at MPS. "And your administrative salaries, for a principal and support staff, are pretty much the same, at least the way we're operating now."
Put simply, there are plenty of good reasons for the school board's actions. But that doesn't mean education won't suffer, and at a time when the district can least afford it. Although Mill City Montessori's program will be shifted to Armatage Elementary, there will be a net loss of 50 Montessori slots for a program that already has a waiting list. In recent years Chiron has served as an oasis of stability for many students struggling with poverty and homelessness; that refuge will be at least temporarily disrupted when the school closes this spring.
Then there is the passion and affection that comes through when principals at Chiron, Mill City, and Brookside Elementary talk about knowing, more than just by name, every single student in their schools, a unity that's reflected in the glowing research regarding small schools that Nathan cites.
Nathan, who has helped to found charter schools and worked with Twin Cities public-education officials for 30 years, acknowledges that declining enrollment and increased costs have tightened the MPS budget. "[But] the Legislature did not cut funding for education," he notes. "Every school district in the state is actually receiving more money per pupil." Moreover, he adds, closing schools may be penny wise and pound foolish if it compels parents to abandon the district for private schools. If, for example, the closing of a building being leased for $100,000 a year results in the loss of 20 students funded by the Legislature at approximately $5,000 per year, then the saving is negligible.
MPS officials believe they have demonstrated diligence and flexibility in trying to make the best of a bad situation. The superintendent's original proposal was to close six schools and eliminate or break up most of the programs taking place in the affected facilities. But after holding two public meetings and soliciting feedback, Johnson and the school board made significant revisions to their plans: Shingle Creek Urban Environmental Elementary will remain in its current facility for at least one more year; and the Bottineau Early Education Center will be transferred relatively intact to either Holland or Pillsbury Elementary.
Still to be determined is the fate of the popular performing-arts program at Brookside Elementary. During the public hearings held by the board, Brookside received by far the most passionate community support. In response, Johnson and the school board decided to close the school--which is currently operating out of a leased building in St. Louis Park--but keep the performing-arts program alive by relocating it into two other schools, Cityview Community School in the north and Kenwood in the south.
The compromise did not mollify many parents, students, and school staff. "This is a Minneapolis school that is attracting people from as far away as Woodbury, one that parents and staff want to keep together," Nathan says. "I think it is sad that they are ripping it apart." According to school-board member Audrey Johnson, whose children also once attended the school, the administration and the board are considering other options. In any case, a decision must be made soon--the deadline for students to hand in their choice of schools to attend is January 15.
As important as the fate of Brookside may be to parents and staff, it's just a minor piece of a sobering financial puzzle that must be put together by the MPS administration and school board in the coming weeks. Having received voter approval just last year for additional monies to reduce class size in the schools, Minneapolis was one of the few districts not to put a tax increase for education on the ballot this year. With little or no additional money expected to come from the state or the feds in the near future, the district has to get more creative and more efficient with its resources. Still, all of the closings and relocations will save the district slightly less than $1 million next year, leaving another $8 million to be trimmed to stay within the budget. Some of that can be made up by the lower fuel prices for heating and transportation this winter.
To crunch the rest of the fiscal gap, MPS has been working with the well-respected consulting firm of McKinsey & Co., Inc., whose accountants and management personnel are going over the district's budget--free of charge--to identify other ways to trim its costs. The company's report will in turn be reviewed by a group of former and current Twin Cities CEOs, who will make their own recommendations. Progress reports and recommendations on the budgetary process will be given at the school-board meetings on November 30 and December 11. Whatever is eventually decided in the next few months will have a pronounced impact on all Minneapolis schools--big and small.
Editor's note: The author's son attended Brookside from 1993 to 1999, and the writer was among those who spoke in favor of retaining the school.
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American history is widely interpreted as the pre-eminent refutation of Karl Marx's social and political theories. Ironically, though, it was in the United States, between 1890 and 1915, that something very close to Marx's vision of class warfare unfolded--not, as Marx might have predicted, in the nation's industrial centers or financial capitals, but in the mining and logging camps of the West. Lacking a sizable middle class of farmers and shopkeepers (who would arrive only after World War I), and undergoing intense and rapid capitalist development, large portions of Colorado, Nevada, and Idaho became sharply polarized along class lines--"labor in one camp, the employers in another, no in-between camp, with government a football between the two," according to the final volume of John R. Commons and associates' venerable History of Labor in the United States.
Western miners and loggers defended themselves and their jobs with rifles and dynamite. They also created some of the most incendiary labor organizations ever seen, above all the Western Federation of Miners. Their employers were no less violence-prone. Timber magnates and mine owners deployed armed Pinkertons and strikebreakers as if they were baronial armies. When private force failed, employers persuaded local and state governments to suspend due process of law, arrest suspected troublemakers, initiate mass deportations, and crush strikes with National Guardsmen--using what Commons and his associates called all "the paraphernalia of dictatorship."
While writing Big Trouble, the late Pulitzer Prize-winner J. Anthony Lukas, who took his own life in June this year, may have sensed that readers in the conservative 1990s would resist being reminded about these ferocious, long-ago American upheavals. Lukas' penchant for epic had served him well in Common Ground, his account of racial turmoil in Boston during the '60s and '70s. But, by all reports, he was depressed about the prospects for a large tome about American class conflict.
The United States, after all, has been blessed (we are constantly told) with a dynamic, egalitarian sort of capitalism, one that has always rewarded individual initiative and confounded class distinctions. Lukas' book runs afoul of this conventional wisdom in two ways: first, by describing a world (as Woody West complains in a dismissive review of Big Trouble for the Weekly Standard) in which there was "no middle term" between plutocrats and wage slaves; and second, by appearing to ignore what West contends is "the most remarkable fact of the capital consolidation of those years, especially in the West: the permeable nature of 'class' in America." Lukas knew better about such pre-World War I hellholes as the Coeur d'Alenes district of Idaho; or Cripple Creek and Leadville in Colorado; or the Comstock mines of Nevada, as described by one Eliot Lord:
View their work! Descending from the surface in shaft-cages, they enter narrow galleries where the air is scarce respirable. By the dim light of their lanterns, a dingy rock surface, braced by rotting props, is visible. The stenches of decaying vegetable matter, hot foul water and human excretions intensify the effects of the heat. The men throw off their clothes. ... Only a light breech-cloth covers their hips and thick-soled shoes protect their feet from the scorching rocks and steaming rills of water.
In telling of these American places, Lukas had to challenge some powerful reassuring myths about our past.
He decided to focus on a particular story: the murder, in 1905, of Idaho's former Democratic governor, 44-year-old Frank Steunenberg. Considered a moderate on labor issues, Steunenberg had been elected governor by a wide margin in 1896, with the support of the Populists and organized labor. Three years later, however, Steunenberg approved the deployment of black troops and the use of preventive detention "bull pens" to squelch labor unrest in the Coeur d'Alenes mining camps. Denied re-election in 1900, he retired to his hometown of Caldwell, about 30 miles west of Boise, forgotten by most of his fellow Idahoans--but not by the aggrieved miners. On the evening of Dec. 30, 1905, as he walked through his front gate, a bomb blast blew him to pieces. Idaho officials immediately suspected that militant miners were responsible.
The job of investigating the murder fell to the celebrated Pinkerton detective James McParland, who had broken up the notorious Molly Maguire labor terrorist groups in the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania 30 years earlier. In Caldwell, McParland quickly apprehended a drifter and sometime associate of various union miners who called himself Harry Orchard. In Orchard's hotel room, police discovered materials for rigging up a bomb. After prolonged coaxing by McParland, Orchard confessed to Steunenberg's murder--and, with the clear impression that he could save his own neck by naming others, he went on to implicate three executives of the Denver-based Western Federation of Miners, one of whom, William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood, had co-founded an even more notorious organization, the Industrial Workers of the World.
The arrest of Haywood and the others in Colorado and their removal on a secret train to Idaho (in what amounted to a legal kidnapping) brought an outraged response from such relatively conservative labor leaders as Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, as well as from such radicals as the socialist leader Eugene Debs. The defense, in turn, acquired the services of the nation's most famous lawyer, Clarence Darrow. And after a year and a half of legal wrangling and nationwide protest demonstrations, followed by a three-month trial, Darrow won an acquittal for Haywood, mainly on the grounds that Orchard's testimony was unreliable. A few months later, another jury acquitted one of the other WFM men, and charges against the third were then dropped. Only the wretched Orchard wound up getting convicted, and (following the commutation of his death sentence) he spent the rest of his life in an Idaho penitentiary.
It's easy to see what drew Lukas to the Steunenberg episode: a tale of murder that is still shrouded in mystery; along with a long-forgotten causecélèbre populated by such larger-than-life characters as Haywood, Darrow, and McParland; all wrapped around a history lesson about the class bitterness of a century ago. Indeed, Lukas was so drawn to the story and its details that he sometimes seems to have lost his bearings, trying to read significance into every little shard of information that his research had uncovered.


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While thumbing through an LGBT magazine, Josh Pagan, senior in LAS and vice president of the RSO Pride, doesn't see one image that matches his reflection. He sees an "idealized version" — one unlike the diverse LGBT community at the University, in his life and in reality.
But realizing that the skinny, predominately white males featured in the magazine are only one aspect of gay culture doesn't change the fact that Pagan, along with others in the community, does not feel represented.
"I think that's one of the biggest reasons why gay men who don't fit these images tend to have such horrible body image issues or just horrible perceptions of themselves," Pagan said. "They're finding that they're not fitting into these templates of gay life and they feel out of place and ashamed of themselves."
According to Michael Rogers, staff psychologist and visiting clinical counselor at the Counseling Center, gay men represent about 5 percent of the total male population.
Among men who have eating disorders, however, 42 percent identify as gay. This disparity is not as striking when comparing lesbian and bisexual women to heterosexual women, based on a 2007 study from Columbia University.
One reason for the imbalance could be that men tend to be more visually stimulated than women, Rogers said.
"Since men in the '70s and '80s started working out strongly — partially because of the AIDS epidemic — people wanted to have bodies that looked very healthy in order to counteract the idea that they may have contracted HIV," Rogers said. "It almost created this cliche that gay men look a certain way."
Though Pagan maintains a more positive self-image now, he believed this cliche when he was younger and struggled to appreciate his body as it was.
"My entire life, I've always been a bigger kid. That's always been the case, even before I knew I was gay," he said. "When I came out, I didn't really have a community or any resources to go to, so I looked at magazines and movies."
The transition came when Pagan arrived at the University in 2009. His confidence, self-image and identity all began to align when the gay people he met strayed from his preconceived notions.
He worried that he wouldn't fit in with the rest of the students at the LGBT Resource Center, but he found this was not the case.
Pagan became comfortable in his own skin, but he wishes that others in the LGBT community would find the same inner peace.
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