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The meeting last week between county commissioners and the School Board didn't settle what to do about Mills River Elementary School.
But it did have one outcome that bodes well for the school's future. The tone made it clear that a spirit of cooperation between the two boards is returning to the process of deciding how best to serve the county's school children.
The commissioners' decision to scratch the Mills River school from a $51 million capital plan brought renewal of the finger-pointing from the mid '90s.
Commissioners had little choice but to pull the project when a low bid came in at $13 million -- $3 million over projections.
The School Board made matters worse when it showed video that included a leaky roof at Hillandale Elementary School to justify asking for more maintenance money than commissioners had budgeted. The pictures prompted an angry reaction from commissioners who remembered the roof had been used to justify last year's maintenance request and from upset taxpayers who thought the repairs had not been done.
School Board Chairman Ervin Bazzle had a good explanation. The board tried several times to fix the leak without replacing the entire roof, he said, because replacing the roof on a school targeted for replacement would waste money.
"I do not know of any specific instance where you have given us money to do a project and it did not get done," Bazzle said, adding the only exceptions were projects that were over budget or displaced by higher priorities.
School Board member Betsy Copolillo said the issue boils down to trust.
"It bothers me you are asking us to justify how we use every penny," she said. "We're accountable to our constituents who voted us in, and if they don't like what we're doing, they'll throw us out."
Commissioners backed away from their micro-management of the maintenance and repair budget. The School Board agreed to make quarterly reports so commissioners would know that projects have been done.
Accountability without looking at every gutter repair and painting contract was the common-sense solution -- something that would have eluded the two boards back during the hostilities a decade ago.
The agreement will accomplish two things. It will improve communications between the two boards, and anytime the two can communicate better the county's taxpayers and school children are the winners. And it makes both boards more accountable to the public.
In a previous meeting, commissioners sat up on their dais. In last week's meeting, they came down and sat around the same table with School Board members. That made for a more collegial atmosphere, too.
Working together, the School Board and commissioners have made great strides in replacing old, unsafe schools and making sure the system has the classrooms to handle growth. That spirit of cooperation must continue if the two boards are going to make workable plans for the ongoing school construction, renovation and replacement needs.
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New Book Reveals Lover Who Gave Poet Yehuda Amichai His Name
The best known Israeli poet in the world changed his name from Yehuda Pfeuffer thanks to his lover, Ruth.
In the spring of 1947, Yehuda Pfeuffer was a young teacher who had just been accepted to the faculty of the Geula School in Haifa. As was the custom in some Jewish schools in those days, the principal asked Pfeuffer to change his name to a Hebrew one.
Pfeuffer returned from his meeting with the principal to his lover, Ruth. He thought about a literal translation of the German word pfeuffer, which means pepper - pilpel in Hebrew. But Ruth, whom Pfeuffer was planning to marry and settle down with in Haifa, suggested "Amichai."
"Yehuda Amichai - isn't that too bombastic?" Pfeuffer asked. "Yehuda Amichai is the name of a great poet," his lover answered. And that is how Yehuda Amichai, the best-known Israeli poet in the world, got his name.
The woman who chose it for him, Ruth Z., was his lover before he entered the Palmach, a pre-state militia. Their love affair, which was only hinted at in a few lines in one of Amichai's poems, ended in April 1948, a month before the state was established, because Ruth had moved to the United States. But Amichai eventually married twice, and wrote many love poems.
According to Prof. Nili Scharf Gold, an expert on Amichai, the poet's lost love made an indelible imprint on his poems and sheds light on some of his early work. In her biographical book "Amichai: The Making of Israel's National Poet," Gold devoted several chapters to the affair with Ruth, revealing 98 letters he wrote her in 1947.
For more than 50 years, the letters rested in a cookie tin in Ruth's home in New York. After reading them once, she did not dare open them again, she said. Only after Gold met her and gained her confidence did the letters see the light of day.
The book is being published in the United States; the letters themselves have been donated to Ben-Gurion University. According to Prof. Yigal Schwartz, chairman of the university's Hebrew literature department, "the letters Amichai wrote are a treasure trove. They reopen the interpretation of his poetry and of Israeli culture in general."
Gold got to know Amichai about 20 years ago, when she wrote her Ph.D. on his poetry. "Every time he was in New York, we'd go out together," said Gold, who has been living in New York for the past 30 years. "In 1997, we were at a lecture at Columbia University. He suddenly nudged me and whispered: 'Do you see that woman? Her name is Ruth. I wrote the poem 'The rustle of history's wings' about her."
That poem, which appears in the book "Great Tranquility: Questions and Answers," speaks of a woman who "fled to America ... and left me with my new name."
In 2002, about two years after Amichai died, Gold ran into Ruth during a condolence call. "I remembered her face and name," Gold said, adding that the hostess, a mutual friend, introduced them by saying: "You two have something to talk about. You both know Amichai." Gold said that Ruth "almost fainted," but when Gold asked if she would meet with her, she agreed.
Ruth eventually told Gold her life story. She was born in England to a German family and served in the British army as a tank mechanic. "She took out an album and showed me her pictures with Amichai," Gold said.
Ruth told Gold that she met Amichai at a party in 1946, while both were attending a teacher training course for demobilized British soldiers. At first, Ruth said, she was not enthusiastic, but she found him "very interesting."
Gold said his overtures were rebuffed until he showed Ruth a story he had written. That changed her mind about him, even though "she did not think he was handsome or athletic." The two began to date.
Then, Gold related, one day after she and Ruth had finished lunch, Ruth told her: "I have letters."
The letters were written after Ruth went to the U.S. to study, in August 1947. "He wrote her almost three times a week," Gold said. And besides the love story they reveal, the letters to Ruth document young Amichai's transformation into a poet.
"It was always said that he began to write relatively late, at age 25, spurred on by the fighting," Gold said. "But here I see in the letters, and from the conversation with Ruth, that he was reading poems to her as early as 1946, long before the war broke out."
While he was corresponding with Ruth, Amichai had not yet joined the Palmach; he was still teaching. "He wrote her that he had bought a little notebook in which he wrote down everything that came to mind."
"I am waiting for you and we will come together like two rivers," he wrote Ruth in December 1947. Gold said he begged Ruth to come back and wrote her much more often than she wrote him.
Out of the cookie tin also came a notebook on which was written, "Benyamina, 1947." It opens with the words "we loved here." Those same words were the title of a cycle of sonnets that Amichai wrote in 1955. According to Gold, "in an interview in the 1970s, Amichai said the whole cycle was a birthday gift for his first wife, Tamar. But I believe that many of the songs have to do with the love between him and Ruth."
Gold also believes the book "In the Public Garden" stems from Amichai's love for Ruth. "'In the Public Garden' is the story of his and Ruth's break-up," Gold said. "I discovered that he wrote the book in the summer of 1947, although he published it 12 years later. No one knew that these poems were written before the poems about the battles."
From letter to letter, the situation in the future state of Israel grew worse. One Friday in November 1947, while he was sitting in a bus going down Mount Carmel, the bus was fired on. "The man sitting behind him took a bullet to the stomach and was killed. His name was Haim Goldman, and this was Amichai's first encounter with death," Gold said.
After the United Nations Partition Plan passed on November 29, 1947, shooting incidents in Haifa became more frequent.
"Our little wounded school is dying," he wrote, during the period when he had begun training with another pre-state militia, the Haganah, and taking part in missions. The school closed in April 1948, and Amichai became a full-time soldier.
At the end of the War of Independence, Amichai wrote the poem "I want to die in my bed," which became a symbol of his anti-heroic poetry. In another letter, he admitted: "I don't want to be a general."
With time, the letters to Ruth became shorter and shorter. For her birthday, Amichai sent her a scarf and a book of poems by Heinrich Heine. But her letters to him became less frequent. Amichai blamed the inefficiency of the mail, but it seems he knew their love was coming to an end, Gold said.
On April 11, Ruth wrote to Amichai that she was going to marry a man she had met in the U.S., a refugee from Germany who had lost his family in the Holocaust. Later, Ruth's husband became a spice merchant. "This was the worst period of the fighting in Haifa," Gold noted.
When the War of Independence broke out, Amichai joined the Palmach and fought in the Negev Brigade. In his last letter to Ruth, written in April 1948, he wrote that a chapter in his life, as a teacher and a lover, had ended. His friends were worried that his heartbreak would lead him to suicide. But he wrote that her engagement would not "destroy him," because he knew that he was "destined" to be a poet.
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The gameplay trailer that Rockstar released yesterday for Grand Theft Auto V was all kinds of impressive, and hype levels are unsurprisingly at critical mass. We're swept up in it, too, and we gave five reasons why — if you had to pick just one — to choose GTA V over Saints Row IV.
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Keith David has been certifiably badass in a number of different film and television roles for over 30 years, but gamers might know him best as the voice of Captain David Anderson in the Mass Effect series, or the Arbiter in Halo 2 and 3. He's got a voice that'll grow hair on your knuckles and brow just by hearing it, and this concentrated mass of machismo is your Number Two.
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[T]he Fantasy of Being Thin is not just about becoming small enough to be perceived as more acceptable. It is about becoming an entirely different person – one with far more courage, confidence, and luck than the fat you has.I recently watched Erik Chopin's "Confessions of a Reality Show Loser" on the Discovery Health channel (I know! They took out time from the "The uterus is a mystery chamber filled with surprises and drama!" programming!) and the fantasy of being thin was in full evidence. The erstwhile season three winner was within a few pounds of his pre-reality show weight, and he cited his weight (re)gain as the cause for everything from his strained marriage to his career woes to his self-esteem troubles. And he actually said, more than once, that the problems would go away once the weight did (again). The fantasy is pernicious, because it disempowers people at their current weight and it leaves them unable to comprehend that their problems will still be there when the weight is gone. -- Leaving its contestants unequipped to handle responsible health maintenance after the show. Reading this account of Kai Hibbard's post-show life was pitiable:
When she got pregnant, the power of her hunger petrified her. She would eat, and then run hard. The doctor told her to tone down her workouts but she kept them up, and that caused bleeding. Soon she was confined to bed.How is being afraid of your gestation-induced appetite, and exercising so much you're endangering your health supposed to be "healthy"? If this is the legacy the show leaves with its competitors, it's only preparing them for a lifelong struggle with the fantasy of being thin. So why is this a feminist issue if TBL showcases male and female contestants? Because an estimated 72% of TBL's audience is female, and of those female viewers, three-quarters are ages 18-54. Because this show and its attendant empire of products are all aimed at women shoppers. Because this show underlines and reinforces the pernicious pseudofitness philosophy put forth in women's service magazines. I love me some celebration of human potential made manifest through physical activity. I do! But you're not going to find that on TBL. I'll be back Thursday to tell you where you can look for it instead. Stay tuned ...
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Sarah Brown replied on
There's vomiting and dehydration in the show? I'm so glad I don't watch it. Somehow, I always suspected it wasn't a paragon of high-quality television programming.
It's not that bad of a show
Alli replied on
I'm not a super fan of the show. I like to watch it when there is nothing else on, but it's not that bad of a show. I don't think they necessarily take the best approach to weightloss, but they are still teaching the contestants, as well as the viewers about how to live a healthy lifestyle. How to workout, how to eat healthier, how to eat healthy while dining out.
I dont' agree with how they break down the contestants, but with alot of them, they weigh over 400lbs. In those cases, they may need to be broken down, just to realize that they are killing themselves.
I don't know. I'm certainly not a health or weightloss expert, but I can see pro's and con's of the show. I think it's better to work off the weight, while learning about a healthier lifestyle, than go and get a surgery or lipo.
That's my two cents.
I like that you mentioned
macleaha replied on
I like that you mentioned the "circus sideshow freaks" aspect of TBL. I feel the same way about the obesity shows on TLC. A kinder, saner show is X-Weighted. It's Canadian, and it helps people make better decisions, it's not about shock value. Usually there's a fitness expert, nutritionist, and therapist involved. There's no competition, and people get to stay in their own homes. Sometimes people lose weight, but sometimes they don't, just like real life.
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I agree with everything you've said here except for the part about fat = unhealthy being a myth. It's true that being somewhat overweight doesn't necessarily equal ill health in all cases, and it's definitely true that being thin doesn't, on its own, always (or even usually) mean one is healthy. However, the people on this show, well, there can't be any denying that the amount of extra fat they're carrying is unhealthy. Weighing 300 or 400 or 500 pounds puts extreme stress on your heart and other organs, not to mention your bones and muscles. Of course you're right that how you go about losing it can also be harmful, but that doesn't negate the fact that the fat in these cases does equal unhealthy.
The Biggest Loser is such a
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The Biggest Loser is such a terrible influence on viewers. It promotes the idea that you can and should lose weight in an incredibly short amount of time when in reality, this is a very dangerous practice that can lead to major health issues. The show should instead promote healthy eating and a manageable workout schedule that would work for each individual contestant. The show tells women that they need to work themselves half to death and vomit in order for a workout to be effective. There are serious problems with this show and it needs to be revised.


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The NBA Draft Stock Report checks in on which college basketball players have made a name for themselves in the past week; either helping or hurting their future draft position. Click here for The Sports Bank's 2012 NBA Mock Draft. BUYING:Jeff Withey, C, Kansas, Jr. Dude is playing out of his mind right now. Check out his last three stat lines: -25 points, 5 rebounds, 3 blocked shots versus Baylor -18 points, 20 rebounds, 7 blocked shots against Oklahoma State -18 points, 11 rebounds, 9 blocked shots versus Kansas State Wow, right? If those type of numbers don't draw the attention of NBA scouts, I am not sure what will. Withey is a true seven-footer and has gotten exponentially better as the season has progressed. He is deceptively athletic but needs to get stronger. It is unlikely he turns pro after this season as his offensive game could use some more seasoning but since he is a redshirt junior, Withey might be tempted to leave after this season. NBA teams are always looki...
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I also think that anyone who is homofobic just don't really know what love is.
I don't think that's the case. My parents have been married and in love for 24 years now, yet they are extremely homophobic.
There are other reasons why people are homophobic. Mostly it's religion (Which also bans a TON of other stuff, too, but since most people do that stuff, it was always "meant as a metaphor"). Other reasons are "it isn't natural" (Homosexuality is found in more than 250 species...), "it's an illness" (Which it isn't), "It's wrong and gross" (I find mucus gross, but you don't see me going around hating and beating people who blow their noses...), and the list goes on. There are a lot of reasons why people are homophobic, all of them stupid. But I think those all are just there to hide the real reason, the real reason being "I have a box on my head that says I should blindly hate gays, but that's stupid so I'll come up with some idiotic reasons since I'm too stubborn and stupid to take the box off".
Well... at least that's why I think people are homophobic.
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Robert J. Lefkowitz Papers
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|Contains professional papers of Robert J. Lefkowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in the Department of Biochemistry at Duke University Medical Center. Types of materials include conference materials, speeches, memoranda, committee materials, and former employee files. Major subjects include Duke University Dept. of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Materials range in date from 1974 to 2007.
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Robert J. Lefkowitz was born on April 15, 1943, in New York City. He attended Columbia College from which he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1962. He graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1966 (M.D.). After serving an internship and one year of general medical residency at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, he served as a Clinical and Research Associate with Drs. Jesse Roth and Ira Pastan at the National Institutes of Health from 1968 to 1970. From 1970 to 1973 he was at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, where he completed his medical residency and research and clinical training in cardiovascular disease. During this time, he continued his research in the laboratories of Dr. Edgar Haber and was a teaching fellow at Harvard Medical School. Upon completing this training in 1973, he was appointed associate professor of medicine and assistant professor of biochemistry at the Duke University Medical Center. In 1977 he was promoted to professor of medicine and in 1982 to James B. Duke Professor of Medicine. Lefkowitz has been an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1976 and was an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association from 1973 to 1976. Dr. Lefkowitz has received numerous awards and honors including Phi Beta Kappa (1962), Roche Prize for Excellence in Medical Studies (1964), Alpha Omega Alpha (1965), Janeway Prize (1966), Established Investigator of the American Heart Association (1973-1976), Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (1976), Young Scientist Award of the Passano Foundation (1978), John J. Abel Award in Pharmacology of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (1978), Young Investigator Award, American College of Clinical Pharmacology (1979), George W. Thorn Award for Scientific Excellence of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1979), Ernst Oppenheimer Memorial Award of the Endocrine Society (1982), Gordon Wilson Medal (1982), American Clinical and Climatological Association (1983), Lita Annenberg Hazen Award for Excellence in Clinical Research (1985), Award for Outstanding Research of the International Society for Heart Research (1985), Goodman and Gilman Award of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (1986), Harry B. van Dyke Award for Excellence in Medical Research from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University (1986), Steven C. 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Lefkowitz has served on the editorial boards of ten leading journals in the fields of biochemistry, pharmacology and clinical investigation and as the president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. Lefkowitz has published more than 700 articles, authored or co-authored three books including the seventh edition of the Principles of Biochemistry and given many named and honorary lectures throughout the country and abroad. [From: http://lefkowitz-symposium.mc.duke.edu/symposium/biosketch.htm]Back to Top
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In an off-year election that garnered the highest turnout since 2005, one Clark County race remained so close Thursday that it will likely trigger an automatic recount, elections officials said.
Also Thursday, Bill Turlay was declared the apparent winner for a seat on the Vancouver City Council.
Just two votes separate Washougal City Councilor Rod Morris and challenger Caryn Plinski in Thursday's returns. She holds the miniscule lead with 1,474 votes to his 1,472 votes. Should the candidates finish within one-half of 1 percent of each other, an automatic recount would be triggered, Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey said.
Kimsey said that he called Turlay to tell him he is the apparent winner in his race against Anne McEnerny-Ogle for a spot on the city council, with 51.67 percent of the vote as of Thursday.
The elections office has received a little more than 109,400 ballots, which translates to about 48.3 percent of registered voters, Kimsey said. The turnout was about 5 percent higher than the elections staff predicted in the run-up to Tuesday's voting.
"We were pleasantly surprised to see that kind of turnout," Kimsey said.
Off-year elections in 2009 (which included the Vancouver mayor's race) and 2007 drew 43.5 percent and 43.3 percent turnouts, respectively.
About 1,000 to 1,200 ballots remain to be counted, he said.
All other races have wide enough margins that it would be difficult for the underdog to overcome the margin, including the Battle Ground City Council race where Deputy Mayor Phil Haberthur trails challenger Shane Bowman by 115 votes.
A candidate can also request a recount, even if the contest does not fall in the mandatory recount range of one-half of 1 percent, Clark County Elections Supervisor Tim Likness said.
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To let you know where my priorities are, the first thing I did when I got done with the phone interview was to see where the closest velodrome was. Toronto's seems to be the closest velodrome. Then I checked to see how many bike stores were in the area. Then I saw that 28 was the avg. February temperature. ewww.


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A funeral Mass for Sister Mary Leona Miller will be at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 20 at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 6600 Highland Drive. She will be buried at Mother Joseph Cemetery, near Interstate 5 and Fourth Plain Boulevard.
A funeral Mass for Sister Mary Leona Miller will be at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 20 at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 6600 Highland Drive. She will be buried at Mother Joseph Cemetery, near Interstate 5 and Fourth Plain Boulevard.
Sister Mary Leona Miller, whose decades of teaching included 35 years in Vancouver, died Tuesday in Seattle.
The 92-year-old nun recently celebrated 70 years with the Sisters of Providence.
She was a fixture in her first-grade classroom at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School in Vancouver.
Suzanne Roberti said her sons Marco and Anthony were taught by Sister Mary Leona more than 30 years ago.
"We've remained friends ever since," Roberti said. "She knew that there were two things children can't ask for but need: love and discipline."
At the end of each school day, Roberti said, Anthony would be the last child to leave the classroom.
When Sister Mary Leona and Anthony were the only ones left in the room, Roberti said, "He would run up and give her a hug and say, 'I love you!'"
Sister Mary Leona was honored several times during her 47-year teaching career, earning national recognition in 1975 as an outstanding educator. She also was honored in 1991 as a Clark County Woman of Achievement.
Her younger sister, who also is a member of the Providence order, said that Sister Mary Leona quickly found her classroom niche.
"She taught first grade for almost 50 years," said Sister Virginia Miller. It reflected the work of Mother Joseph, the pioneering Providence nun who came to Vancouver in 1856.
"She compared it to Mother Joseph building the foundations of buildings," Sister Virginia said. In her first-grade classroom, Sister Mary Leona "established the foundations of character."
Jim Mains, one of her former pupils, said that Sister Mary Leona's influence didn't end when he left her classroom.
"I remember things over the years," Mains said. "When I was a sixth- or seventh-grader and got in trouble, I always went to Sister Mary Leona.
"As I got older and got into ministry in my 20s, she was a huge catalyst for me. She said that faith is so much bigger than anything else, that God is bigger than any religion. She was a Catholic nun, but she felt that spirituality was so much bigger than a brand. It was about embracing people of all faiths."
Sister Mary Leona, who grew up in Longview, started her teaching career in Tacoma in 1943 before she had formal training.
"She had a natural gift, and it was common then to not have a college education," Sister Virginia Miller said.
As the educational system got more sophisticated, Sister Mary Leona did earn her degree — taking college courses over the span of 10 consecutive summers.
After 47 years in the classroom, Sister Mary Leona influenced a lot of lives. As one story tells it, a fundraising group at Our Lady of Lourdes considered capitalizing on that notion by selling bumper stickers. "Honk if you had Sister Mary Leona."
In 2002, Sister Mary Leona was honored at a reception in Vancouver celebrating her 60th anniversary as a Providence nun.
She stood as long as she could, greeting old friends and former students, Suzanne Roberti. She finally sat down, and well-wishers started to line up for a chance to greet Sister Mary Leona.
Roberti recalled: "I told her it looked like the line for Santa Claus."
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Puff, puff, gasp, wheeze…. ah, better just let the perp go. "A U.S. district court ruled the twelve [female] officers who are all at least 40 years old must be reinstated until a final ruling, although they failed the physical fitness test, reported Colorado Springs outlet KRDO." [Casey Harper, Daily Caller]
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Schools roundup
- University of California deems it "microaggressions" to say these things. How many have you said today? [Eugene Volokh; related from Hans Bader on federal government's role]
- Regarding those conniptions among some University of Wisconsin faculty: "Despite what you've heard, tenure is unchanged." [Christian Schneider, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, via Ann Althouse]
- Indiana school board president: black market for sugar, salt observed in our schools after federal lunch mandate [Washington Free Beacon, B.K. Marcus/FEE via @farmerhayek (comparison to prisoner of war economy)]
- "Amherst's version of Kafka's 'The Trial'" [KC Johnson, Minding the Campus] Problems with Washington Post journalism on campus assault [KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor, Jr., Weekly Standard; Ashe Schow, D.C. Examiner]
- Judge rules against NYC teacher competence test that showed disparate impact against minorities [New York Times; Blake Neff, Daily Caller]
- Update: "Jury Rejects Unsuccessful Conservative Faculty Candidate's Discrimination Suit Against Univ. of Iowa Law School" [Caron/TaxProf, earlier here, etc.]
- Ethics regs forbid researchers to exercise "undue influence" over survey subjects' decision to answer their questions, and applications of that concept can be surprising [Nicholas Christakis on Berkeley instance via Zachary Schrag, IRB Blog]
Children and schools roundup
- Story of free-range Meitiv kids goes national, cont'd: "Bystanders are forced [sic] to step in and enforce discipline because the parents aren't around." [Slate via @bibliographing] Yes, the cited "National Association to Protect Children" is a real group, I looked it up [Washington Jewish Week] "Epidemic of moms getting arrested for leaving children in car 5 mins to run into store." [Kim Brooks, Salon via @Lorettamalakie]
- What got buried in a WaPo column arguing that standardized tests for schoolkids are "a civil right." [Ann Althouse] Testing issue allows teachers' unions to make friends on the conservative side [NYT via same]
- Legal costs exceed $100 per student at some Chicago-area public schools; $23 billed for one lawyer's phone message [Tribune via ABA Journal]
- Maintenance of Effort laws, meant to insulate school budgets against local voter control, might backfire [Free State Notes post by me, channeling my letter to the editor]
- A dissent on liberalizing school discipline policies [Paul Sperry, New York Post]
- Colorado school shootings: why is GOP leading push for emotion-driven, public-fisc-endangering lawsuits? [John Frank, Denver Post]
- Expensive new playground mandates [Paul Best and Lenore Skenazy, more from Skenazy, Tim Gill via Common Good]
DoJ sues Pennsylvania over trooper fitness tests
The tests "disproportionately screened out female applicants, resulting in a disparate impact against those applicants." Officers who are highly fit have more options in a situation where force is required — subduing a suspect without resort to a gun, for example. Still, courts have often gone along with demands to weaken tests and standards. [DoJ press release] More: TV and Treadmills (FBI uses higher standards than the ones DoJ is suing over).
Law schools roundup
- Under DoJ gun, LSAT agrees to end flagging of test scores taken with disabled accommodation, cough up more than $7 million [Justice press release, Caron/TaxProf roundup coverage]
- "Things law school trustees probably should not do: subpoena their own school's students for criticizing them" [@petersterne; Danielle Tcholakian, DNAInfo]
- Should law students graduate without studying the First Amendment? And other thoughts from Justice Scalia's William & Mary commencement speech [text via Will Baude]
- "Rank ordering the likelihood of law school reforms" [Prof. Bainbridge] ABA moves forward with law school accreditation changes; tenure, among other institutions, likely to remain sacrosanct [Caron/TaxProf, Fortune]
- Paul Horwitz reviews James R. Hackney Jr. book on contemporary legal academy [Journal of Legal Education via Prawfs]
- Alex Acosta dean case: should conservative legal academics steer clear of Florida? [Bainbridge]
- Orin Kerr vs. Erwin Chemerinsky and Carrie Menkel-Meadow on curricular reform [Volokh Conspiracy]
Disabled rights roundup
- "US Airways has agreed to pay $1.2 million in fines because it provided inadequate wheelchair service at the Charlotte and Philadelphia airports" [Charlotte Observer, USA Today; on abuses of the right to request wheelchair service at airports, see links in our post last May] Support animals on airplanes, cont'd [NYT]
- In New York, indefinite leave of absence may be deemed a reasonable accommodation that employer is obliged to grant [Erin McPhail Wetty, Seyfarth] Per Second Circuit in NYC case, timely attendance not essential job function [Mark Kittaka, Barnes & Thornburg]
- US disability rate fell 25 percent between 1977-87, then more than doubled [Tad DeHaven, Cato via Bryan Caplan] Has a Kentucky attorney found holes in the SSDI system? [Jillian Kay Melchior]
- Per EEOC, employer may be obliged to grant employee's request to work from home as reasonable accommodation [Johanna Wise, Seyfarth]
- Lawprof suspended for allegedly yelling at subordinates sues under ADA [Althouse, Above the Law]
- "None of the people who complained had even been into the store" [San Diego Reader]
- And yet more from EEOC: employer "integrity testing" meant to assess applicants' honesty, trustworthiness and dependability can run afoul of disabled-rights law [link]
Labor and employment roundup
- Great moments in union contracts: "Many Suburban Cops Allowed To Work 'Half Drunk'" [NBC Chicago]
- California high court imposes arbitrary damage-splitting rule on mixed-motive firings [Cheryl Miller, The Recorder]
- More tales of much-forgiven Broward County bus drivers [Sun-Sentinel, background]
- Sixth Circuit: SEIU robocalls to harass hospital CEO don't violate TCPA [Littler]
- Judge rejects EEOC position against alcohol testing of steelworkers in safety-sensitive posts [Paul Mirengoff, PowerLine, Reuters]
- "NYFD made written test impossible to fail, but diversity recruits in Academy can't meet physical standards either." [Ted Frank/PoL]
- "The March Toward a Bullying Cause of Action Continues" [Michael Fox, Employer's Lawyer; TheDenverChannel.com]
- T'wasn't easy for White House to find a new Labor Secretary to the left of Hilda Solis, but meet Tom Perez [WaPo]
Schools roundup
- "Background Checks for School Volunteers: Helpful or The Opposite?" [Lenore Skenazy, Free-Range Kids] And Kennedy interviews anti-helicopter mom Skenazy at Reason.tv;
- NAACP asks Department of Education to strike down entrance exam used by NYC for selective high schools [Roger Clegg, NRO]
- Even as feds restrict school lunch calories, they pump up new breakfast program. Both ways their power grows [James Bovard/USA Today, Ira Stoll] And here comes an expanded federal program of afterschool, weekend and holiday meals, relieving parents even further of responsibility [FRAC]
- If fiscal stringency is destroying U. Calif., you'd never guess from the diversity end of it [Heather Mac Donald, City Journal] Ilya Shapiro op-ed on Fisher v. University of Texas [Jurist, background] Why not let universities run themselves? [Richard Epstein]
- NYC: "Interesting that this all happened at the High School for *Legal Studies*." [Ann Althouse]
- Bill vetoed by California Gov. Brown would require state university professors seeking tenure to engage in "service." Research, teaching don't count? [John Leo, Minding the Campus; history]
- After Tucson's ethnic "solidarity" curriculum [New York Times via @NealMcCluskey]
"DOJ Intervenes In LSAT Disability Bias Class Action, Says 'Flagging' of Tests Violates ADA"
The U.S. Department of Justice is taking the position that it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act for the Law School Admission Council to inform law schools that test-takers got extra time or other accommodations after lodging demands under the ADA. The ABA is siding with disabled-rights activists in calling for an end to test score flagging. [ABA Journal]
Disabled rights roundup
- Lawprof's classic argument: you thought I was capable of going on a workplace rampage with a gun, and though that isn't true, it means you perceived me as mentally disabled so when you fired me you broke the ADA [Above the Law, ABA Journal, NLJ]
- "Fragrance-induced disabilities": "The most frequent MCS [Multiple Chemical Sensitivity] accommodation involves implementing a fragrance-free workplace [or workzone] policy" [Katie Carder McCoy, Washington Workplace Law, earlier here, etc.]
- Netflix seeks permission to appeal order in captioning accommodation case [NLJ, Social Media Law via Disabilities Law, earlier here, here and here]
- EEOC presses harder on ADA coverage for obesity [PoL, earlier here, here, here, etc.]
- Disability groups seek class action: "ADA Suit Claims Wal-Mart Checkout Terminals Are Too High for Wheelchair Users" [ABA Journal, Recorder]
- Crunch postponed until after election: "Despite delays, chair lifts coming to public pools" [NPR Morning Edition, earlier here, here, here, etc.] Punished for advocacy: disabled groups organize boycotts of "hotels whose leaders, they say, have participated in efforts to delay regulations." [USA Today]
- Disabled student sues St. Louis U. med school over failure to provide more time on tests [St. L. P-D]


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Lucille Bauer
October 25, 1928 - August 31, 2013
Lucille Bauer, 84, of Spooner entered Heaven's gates on Saturday, August 31, 2013.
Lucille was born October 25, 1928 to Clarence and Beulah Shingledecker in Hastings, MN.
Lucille married Richard Bauer July 12, 1947 in South St. Paul, MN. They also made their home in Hastings, MN, and Webster, WI. Richard died in 1980, and she moved to Spooner eleven years later.
Lucille had "Spunk". In her long working career she covered a range from: secretarial to commercial baking, running a poultry farm, waitressing, managing a lumber mill, assisting at an apple orchard, raising sheep, running a deli, and even a DJ for a radio station!
Lucille was a kind and generous person. She loved her family, friends, growing flowers and watching birds.
Lucille will be dearly missed by her children Larry of Tulsa, OK, Diane of Oshkosh, WI and Richard Jr. (Vickie) of Webster, WI; her grandchildren Katie, David, Melissa, Shauna, Cora, and Jessica; and eight great grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents, husband Richard, son Gordon, and siblings Glen, Ralph, Margaret and Lois.
The Mass of Christian Burial will be held Sunday, September 8, 2013, at 1pm, at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Spooner, WI with Father Ed Anderson officiating. Visitation will be held on Saturday, September 7, 2013, from 4-8pm, at the Dahl Funeral Home and also one hour prior to the service at the Church. Interment will be on Monday, September 9, 2013, at 10am, in the St. John's Cemetery in Webster, WI.
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Been reading the BMX forum for the last few days. I been searching for threads mostly for the recommendations for bigger/heavier riders. But it seems most of the recommendations for bigger/heavier riders were in the $500-600 range.
I'm 5'10", 180lbs, and would like a BMX-style bike to ride with my kids--at the park, doing jumps, and occasional tricks. But, I'd like to keep my investment below $300.00.
I think I've read enough to realize I don't want a cruiser-frame (i.e. DK General Lee 24"), so I'll be staying away from those.
I think I've read enough to realize I should be shopping for a BMX bike with a 20.5-20.75" top-tube.
What size rims/tires would come "standard". And, are there other larger options?
Thanks in advance!


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Tear Away Windshields
Sorry, don't mean to interrupt all the political talk out here on the NASCAR MB…BUT…I do have a few questions regarding NASCAR. LOL :)
Last week I was at the TX race & the conversation turned to Windshields, Tear Aways & NASCAR safety issues because of all the BUGS. The sun setting during the race created many visibility issues for drivers but the real culprit was BUGS!!! It was comical to surf all the scanner channels and hear about all the drivers talking about all the bugs on their windshields and how they HAD to come in for a tear away. Everybody was saying the couldn't see because of all the bugs on their windshields & I admit it was bad. Seriously, many of the drivers sounded very concerned over their lack of visibility. So here are some of the questions that the conversation turned to……
1. How many Tear Aways does a NASCAR driver have?
2. When did NASCAR switch to Tear Aways & was it for Safety Reasons? If so what were those reasons for the changes?
3. How did they use to clean the windshields before Tear Aways & did it fall under over the wall procedures for a pit stop?
We genuinely did not know any of these answers. However, as fans, we really could not recall a race where the subject of visibility & bugs was discussed so much…LOL. Looking for a "CLEAR" answer :)Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
SAFELITE AUTO GLASS will tear away your life as you know it .......
I believe the first team to use the windshield tear-offs was the HMS #24 .... and the tear-off was a Dupont product.... the Lexan windshields were bad to get scratches and pitted so the tear-offs solved that problem
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Sounds good to me!
Sorry to interrupt this great convo with a response to the original post :-p -
Not sure of the exact number of tearaways but I would imagine at least 8-10 depending on how many pit stops they anticipate.
As far as when they switched and why, I don't remember exactly but probably sometime in the late 90's and it was probably just a case of a "better idea" that technology allowed rather than safety; it's a faster and more efficient method that someone came up with and soon everyone followed.
And ooh ooh ooh I know the answer to the last one! A rag and Windex or other window cleaner for an over the wall guy to do. I did it a couple times in ARCA in the early 90's for Jerry Churchill and I remember one time there was a chip in the windshield right in his line of sight that he pointed to after I got done and I went over it again but of course it didn't come out so he just had to deal with it :-)
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I believe the actual number of tear offs is five, Cliff. Any more than five and the wind drag begins to pull the stack of tabs from each other.
Safety concerns- The tear aways were developed to minimize the number of crew members over the wall during pit stops. One less crew member per team reduces the opportunity of accidental contact by 43 lives. Pulling a tear off from the windshield takes less than a second, while spraying window cleaner, wiping a rag through bug guts, then repeating the process in 13 seconds has become unfeasible. Smears are just as dangerous if not more so at 200mph. One quick tug and the driver's view has been restored.
Sweet Old Bob nailed it on the developer.
They put on as many tear aways as they can c thru. 5-6 roughly. Good question. So I have some questions for you. Do you all talk on this MB over the off season? What is the other board that is so much better? Is it a secret?
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Lisa - would love to see you there - I've found that a search for
"yahoo message board recreation racing"
brought it right up! (As I recall there were couple racing boards under the yahoo recreation heading - but this search should get you to the active one).
Thanks for the answer back Lisa :) I can't find the exact number anywhere. As for the other questions, I was for sure some people out here would know it….you would be surprised at the wealth of knowledge some people have hear on racing. Guess I will have to fact check the rest of it myself…if I can find it. As for the other MB, MoToR gave the best instructions on how to get there & many people go to the other MB because it is an easier format to follow than here & you can post links. They welcome everyone there & would love to have you. As for the "fighting" that goes on out here & the history of it …I don't have a clue why. I showed up here in spring of 2011 & these battles that exist began many years ago. I don't know anything about it & take no sides in it since I don't even know who started what & when or who said what first. Heck…I don't even really know who is who out here…I find I keep my "sanity" a lot better if I don't even try to figure it out…
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Skip to comments.Why can't we use executive fiat when we have the chance? [vanity]
Posted on 11/25/2012 12:03:08 PM PST by Feline_AIDS
What's to stop the next Republican president* from walking into the oval office and using executive fiat to immediately close the EPA, defund and/or cripple Obamacare, and phase out the foodstamp program, among other things? Or at least make the requirements insanely strict for foodstamps and disability to make sure it's only used by the truly indigent? Is it just that he/she would become insanely unpopular among 47% of people? Or is there some legal reason he/she couldn't? Because it seems Obama's administration has nothing stopping them from doing similar things.
*assuming he/she would be willing to do this
Good point. If the GOP acted like the Dems, we'd have an elected monarchy
Uh....because Republicans are weenies?
You have to be against Romneycare and homosexuals in the military to take action against them.
Putting aside the fact that we aren't going to have a GOP President in our lifetime (assuming the GOP elite still run the party), the Executive has no authority to do that. He can do a fair amount, but it would be in Court in an instant. States would sue. It would be politically untenable. This is the short version but, well . . . can't happen, won't happen, and is beyond the authority of the Executive Branch.
In other words, why didn't we elect Ron Paul?
Yeah, that's right! This would be the equivalent of actually making people buy health insurance weather they want it or not.
"Can't happen. Won't happen. Politically untenable."
These guys can and will do anything.
You vastly overestimate the power of the executive order.
Presidents from Thomas Jefferson through Richard Nixon claimed and exercised the power to impound and not spend funds appropriated by Congress. In 1972 Nixon refused to spend money for an environmental project he opposed. The Democrat Congress, believing Nixon was abusing the impoundment power, passed the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 which effectively removed the President's impoundment power.
Essentially, Democrats are all for executive orders and arbitrary actions when Democrat presidents are issuing the rules. When Republicans have control of the executive branch, the Democrats in Congress demand and often achieve limits on presidential power.
No doubt if a future Republican president tried to exercise power the way Obama is, he or she would be impeached by a Democrat Congress.
I'm still wondering why Boehner and the Republicans are not using the Constitutional power given to the House of Representatives to initiate all appropriations. The President can't spend a dime on Solyndra, czars, aid to the Muslim Brotherhood, or other giveaways without the money being appropriated by the House Republicans. Why do they continue to enable the spending? They could force a balanced budget tomorrow if they just exercised their power. The inaction tells me they either have no courage or they actually favor the spending.
1) there won't be another Republican president
2) a Republican president created the EPA.
Simple answer to this one...
It's called the Main Stream Media
The reason the next Republican president can't rule with fiat is because fiat can now be used to fix elections.
It's the opposite we've been seeing happen.
That statement right there makes your question null and void.
There WILL NEVER BE another Republican president. Conservative or otherwise. The libs have sewn up the 50+1% of the moocher class. It's over "Johnny"!
First, there would need to be an America, with an in tact Constitution, 4 years from now, before we start speculating about any "Republican" administration.
Don't count on it!
Uh..because nobody is interested in what he stands for.
Quite the opposite. Because Republicans have honor and respect for the law - things you will find in no Democrat... and particularly in this White House.
What car is that?
Without positive voter identification, either by photo ID or marking with indelible ink like the UN does, Democrats will bus people from one election station to the next to vote as many times as they can.
how do you ink the fingers of a computer program?
A moot question. No one should expect to see another Republican president, fraudulent voting having been honed to near perfection.
Interesting that you didn't consider the possibility of inking the fingers of the voters like the UN does like I said. Life is probably a pretty perplexing proposition for you.
If we had paper ballots, that would work
Today we have absentee voting, mail voting, eary voting for a month...
that ink needs to be pretty tough
290 votes in the house (just 50 more) and 66 votes in the Senate (just 19 more) could happen two years from now if conservatives got off their asses. At that point, vetoes can get overridden and the so called President can go to hell, assuming no feel good "across the isle" bs goes on. THIS IS CALLED A PLAN!
And, local votes are more difficult for the marxist/socialist/communist/msm cabal running this country to STEAL than NATIONAL Votes.
With Obamacare, death panels, Hobby Lobby type issues, printing money, devaluation of our money, massive unemployment, exploding debt, massive coming regulation (confiscation) and so on, I frankly don't see how violence on a massive scale is going to be avoided if REAL CHANGE is going to happen cuz these congress critters just ain't gonna do it. WE have control of 24 states, they have 13 and 11 are split with the 13 dictating to the 24. At some point Concord is going to happen again although this time it may be Montgomery or Beaumont or Charleston.
One thing is for sure and that is that WE need a leader. And, that LEADER damn sure is not the Republican Party. That leader (Sarah Palin?) must light a fire under the 24 states WE control and have the tenth ammendment become the battle line and hire whole divisions of "lawyers" not soldiers to carry the fight to Obama, Axelrod, Reid,Pelosi and Holder. When we lose the Supreme Court, and arguably we already have, then it is time to "just say No". Then it's the Cabal's turn to make the next move (i.e. fire the first shot!)
A set of balls.
Unfortunately, you are correct. Americans have shown that they prefer Obama. And so they deserve him.
The Republicans have the power of the purse now. They just refuse to use it.
All they would have to do is say : No more continuing resolutions and pass the required budget bills with the appropriate levels of funding.
If you don't want to sign this 50% reduction in the budget for the EPA Mr. President you can veto it and the EPA gets zero.
ya...clearly the choice was between Paul and Obama.....
Grow up!
The fringe stay at home, or Gary Johnson, or Ron Paul supporters are the ones who stuck America with Obama.
And the RED one is what obama deserves, a 1957 Fiat 500.
Their new model looks a lot like the old one.
Well, Romney didn't work out so well for you, did he? But more to the point, even if Romney had been elected do you really believe he would have done any of these things?
Did you know the news about the Executive Fiat? Fiat owns Chrysler and that allows them to begin building the Executive anew in Michigan.
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Gore's Campaign Struggling To Regain Primary Energy
By RICHARD L. BERKE
Published: May 15, 2000
NASHVILLE, May 12— Two months after Al Gore triumphantly claimed enough delegates for the Democratic presidential nomination, his campaign is struggling to reorient itself toward the general election, and many of the vice president's closest advisers concede that Gov. George W. Bush of Texas has outmaneuvered them in appealing to moderate voters.
Several senior Gore advisers interviewed at the campaign headquarters here and elsewhere in the country acknowledged that there was unease on several fronts. They said the campaign had drifted and lost focus since the primaries. They expressed concern that Mr. Bush's move to placate moderates after his sharp turn to the right in the primaries was more swift and successful than they expected.
Some Gore strategists expressed respect, albeit grudging, for Mr. Bush's stewardship of his organization, one that has been run entirely out of Austin, Tex., by a staff largely untested in national campaigns. And the strategists said they regretted that the Gore campaign for weeks allowed itself to become enveloped in the case of Elian Gonzalez.
Campaign officials accepted some responsibility for Mr. Gore's troubles, saying that at times they had failed to dispense appropriate advice and did not adequately fine-tune his message.
But mostly, they said, the vice president is suffering because Mr. Bush has moved more aggressively to lay out his agenda, and the public has not had a chance to compare his positions with Mr. Gore's.
Tony Coelho, the Gore campaign chairman, said in an interview here that while Mr. Gore had distanced himself months earlier from the Clinton administration on the Gonzalez matter, the campaign should have more effectively conveyed that when Mr. Gore spoke out in March, saying the Cuban boy should be granted permanent residency status.
''It was probably one of our biggest mistakes,'' Mr. Coelho said. ''When we articulated what we did in March, the media didn't know the evolution of his position through four or five months. So the media took it to be something very dramatic when it wasn't. And that was our mistake, not to have put it in perspective.''
Still, even the most negative Gore advisers insisted that they were not alarmed, and that with Election Day nearly six months away, there was time for the campaign to right itself. But their biggest fear, they said, was that if Mr. Gore does not move quickly to refine his message, impressions may be locked in place.
The campaign's difficulties have been magnified by several recent opinion polls that show Mr. Gore trailing Mr. Bush in virtually every demographic category. Many surveys have found that Mr. Bush is leading Mr. Gore among almost every age and income group nationally except for elderly voters; Mr. Bush has had more success drawing independents and, strikingly, he is even outperforming Mr. Gore among married women, traditionally a more Democratic constituency. In several important states that are usually reliably Democratic -- like Iowa, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin -- surveys show that the vice president faces unusually tight competition.
Privately, some Gore advisers said they worried that Republicans had rallied around Mr. Bush far more eagerly than Democrats around Mr. Gore because they were so determined to retake the White House.
But publicly, many Gore aides insisted it was too early to fret.
''You know what I keep telling my friends who are panicking over polls?'' asked Donna Brazile, the Gore campaign manager. ''That it's a summertime passion in Washington, D.C.'' Seeking to reassure Democrats, she added: ''The Republican Party cannot win from the right so they are trying to dance and shuffle to the middle. Well, the middle is ours. It's occupied.''
Carter Eskew, a top Gore strategist, said of Mr. Bush: ''The race has settled somewhat in his favor, but it is still a very close race. In terms of what Bush is doing, there's some good camouflage going on. It reflects a wearing off of some of the damage done to Bush in the primaries. But eventually voters will see through it.''
Acknowledging the faltering poll numbers, Mr. Coelho said: ''I am cognizant of the fact that with women we need to be better by the time November comes. The thing is that most of these women don't understand where George Bush is on a lot of these issues. The pollsters say the public is a lot more interested in vacations right now.'' But, he added, ''We have a challenge between here and November.''
One top Gore aide was not as upbeat. ''We went into a lull after the primaries and the Bush campaign went right on script,'' the aide said. ''Gore obviously has to step up his game and differentiate himself. We have to sharpen our focus. We have not focused on the winning formula.''
Another senior campaign official put it this way: ''The big concern is if the impression in the media becomes that the campaign is adrift -- and that it gets to voters eventually.''
The belief that Mr. Gore needs to jump-start his operation has sparked internal debate over whether his strategy of ridiculing Mr. Bush's proposals, while successful in the primaries against former Senator Bill Bradley, threaten to make the vice president appear too harsh. Mr. Coelho, for his part, insisted that Mr. Gore would not shrink from his aggressive tone. ''The public wants somebody who will fight,'' he said.


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Nanchong Featured Food:
Sunqing Mutton Rice Noodle
Sunqing Mutton Rice Noodle is one of the famous snacks in Nanchong or in the northern Sichuan. Its history could date back to Qing dynasty, at that time there was a well-known restaurant of Sunqing mutton rice noodle called Zhu's mutton rice noodle restaurant. According to the recipe of Sunqing Mutton Rice Noodle, ripe rice noodle (made by rice) is cooked with mutton soup and stuffing, and added with condiments of quality. When done, the rice noodle tastes soft; the mutton stuffing savors tender but not grease; the soup looks milk white and boiling hot. So its feature is "san xian" (in Chinese, "san" means three, which here refers to the rice noodle, the mutton stuffing and the soup; "xian" means delicious). In the winter, eating a bowl of mutton rice noodle can make you feel warm and sweat out. It has been a habit for some people to eat it as a cure for cold.
Baoning White Sugar Steamed Bun
Baoning white sugar steamed bun is one of named brand food of langzhong. It is created by a Hui artificer named Ha Gongkui in the time of Emperor Qian Long of Qing dynasty. According to local county annuals, when you prepare for steamed buns, the Baoning wheat flour is the best choice. You have to grind and sift this flour carefully before it is steamed to buns. If the trippers make a long travel, they will take this kind of steamed stun with them. Because the outside of the steamed stun may mildew but it still keeps dry inside after a long time. When steaming it again, the mildew will be removed, and the steamed bun will keep the original color, savory, taste and shape. Many traveling merchants from other places purchase the steamed bun as a present in Baoning.
Yingshan Salty Duck
Yingshan Salty Duck was not well-known in Sichuan in a quite long time until Qing Dynasty. During the time of the Republic of China (1912-1949), it began to earn its reputation in the places far and near. The way to make Yingshan Salty Duck has some special points: No.1: particular time. The only suitable time is from the first day of winter (here it refers to a solar term in the Chinese lunar calendar) to the end of it. No.2: particular ducks. There three kinds of ducks can't be used: the male ducks that are not castrated; the old ducks that have lived through a winter; and the thin and weak ducks. And there are also three standards to choose ducks: the nice plump ducks; the ducks with bright feather; the ducks with liveliness and energy. No.3: particular courses. Ducks have to be killed, gotten rid of feather, airproofed, fumed and baked and so on. When done, the salty ducks look golden-colored, with appetizing savor. No.4: particular shapes of ducks. It is required 2 kinds of shap
Baoning Dried Beef
Baoning Dried Beef, also called Zhang Fei Beef, with a history of over 200 years, has been one of brand named food in Langzhong from the time of Emperor Qiang Long in Qing Dynasty. Its reputation has been widespread until today, since it was awarded "the high quality food" in a conference of business in Chengdu during the time of the Republic of China (1912-1949). Baoning Dried Beef have two types: raw and cooked. Row Dried Beef is also called air-dried beef, and made by the courses of bloating, smoking, air-drying, preserving. Cooked dried beef is made with best beef, and made by the courses of soaking, loosening, bloating, and daubing spice, cooing, drying. Baoning dried beef looks rose-colored, bright and tight, not too dried or too hard or too soft; it tastes dainty with five savors, and is full of country flavor. So it is often eaten with dinner or wine.
Northern Sichuan Bean Jerry
Northern Sichuan bean jerry's history could date back to Qing dynasty, at which time it has earned a high reputation for its typical Sichuan style: spicy, savory and tasty. It is said that there was a farmer named Xie Tangle (from Jiangba County, Nanchong), who made a living by selling bean jelly in a hut at ferry-place. He used his own special way to make bean berry so that the savory of his "Xie bean berry" was quite popular. Late, another farmer Chen Hongshun improved the recipe of "Xie bean berry". He chose the fresh white pea, grinded it carefully, and paid special attention to the time of stir. After those courses, added with new developed seasoning, the bean jerry was soft but springy, white but opaque, pliable but strong. Soon, "Chen bean jerry" was well-known in northern part of Sichuan, and then Sichuan northern bean jerry also became famous in other places. Nowadays, there are still a number of bean jerry restaurants using the title
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Zounds Demystified: Lyrics and Notes
by Steve Lake
This is part Steve's autobiography, part band history and part insiders story of the 1980's UK anarcho punk scene.
Zounds was formed around the nucleus of Steve Lake and evolved from a number of jamming sessions with other musicians and friends in Oxford, taking in influences from the Velvet Underground to the Sex Pistols. The band began performing gigs in 1977/78, and became more politicized owing to troubles with police and unfolding events of the cold war, and became more and more involved with free festivals, alongside The Mob, with whom they developed a close association.
They met up with fellow anarchists Crass when, legend has it, their van broke down on the road. They made their way to nearby Dial House, where Crass were based, who helped them with repairs. The two bands became friends, and although musically very divergent, they shared many common political views. After undergoing several line-up changes Zounds shortly afterwards released their first EP, Can't Cheat Karma, on the Crass Records label. The EP featured possibly their most well-known track "Subvert", a call to arms against the grind of daily life. The release of this EP and association with Crass led to an increase in the band's profile in the embryonic Anarcho-punk scene, touring with both Crass and the Poison Girls, as well as performing several squat gigs in West Berlin.
The band released their first album The Curse of Zounds on Rough Trade Records in 1981, recording and mixing the LP within five days. The cover art, by anarchist artist Clifford Harper, featured a painting of fire fighters apparently trying to put out a blaze at the Houses of Parliament in Westminster. However, the picture continued onto the back cover, which showed that in fact they are spraying the fire with petrol, thus feeding it. In this book Steve Lake, principle writer of the band Zounds, collects all the band's lyrics and illuminates each with a relevant commentary. It contains personal reminisces about how the band and their peers lived, it delves into the background of the lyrics and looks at the wider social context in which the band operated.
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