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"A long climb that will test your legs and lungs, followed by a drop into a gorgeous shady drainage."
— Cory Harelson on May 11, 2013
|17.428.0 milesKilometers
|3,232'985 m Ascent
|5,629'1,716 m High
|7% Avg Grade (4°)
|90% Singletrack
|-3,233'-985 m Descent
|3,319'1,012 m Low
|25% Max Grade (14°)
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A steep and challenging yet not very technical climb up Hard Guy leads you out of the high desert and into the pine trees. Then a short jaunt on the Boise Ridge Road leads to the start of one of the better descents in the foothills, Dry Creek.
Need To KnowThe ride up Hard Guy is steep, and there isn't much shade until near the top, while the descent has lots of shade. So if it's going to be a hot day it pays to start early and get the climb over with before it warms up.
DescriptionFrom the Miller Gulch Trailhead (you can also start about 1/2 mile "down" Boise Ridge Road at the Corrals Trail trailhead, which cuts out a little climbing), climb the initial hill to where the connector trail meets up with Corrals Trail. Hang a left on Corrals and enjoy the mellow cruise while it lasts. There is short a "frontage singletrack" that cuts off to your right at one point. Take this if you want to increase your singletrack/doubletrack ratio.
Eventually there will be a left turn for Hard Guy. Take this and drop down a short distance to where the steep climb begins. Pedal, pedal harder, and pedal some more. If it's a hot day there are a few shade trees towards the top of the trail. Don't forget to look at the nice view behind you.
Eventually Hard Guy ends at the Boise Ridge Road. Hang a left and follow the Ridge Road for a couple miles of rolling terrain. Keep an eye out for a trail that cuts off to your left (there will probably be bike tire tracks on it). Note that this is unmarked and is the second possible left. It's a short distance after the first left which I believe ends in a dead-end on a ridge (but I haven't investigated).
This is the start of Dry Creek. Follow this trail out onto the ridge. After a couple minutes the trail makes a sharp turn to the right and there will be a fainter trail that breaks off to the left. GO RIGHT (left is Shingle Creek Trail). As soon as you turn, the trail starts dropping. Get ready for a winding trail through the trees, some rocks and drops, a few washed out corners, and LOTS of creek crossings which are all rideable. Plan on getting your feet wet! The fun just keeps coming all the way down.
Eventually you reach a fork where the Dry Creek Trail cuts up a slope to the right and leaves the creek. You can take this all the way back to Bogus Basin Boulevard, which you can ride downhill back to where your car is parked. This lower section of dry creek is of a different character than the upper portion, with lots of ups and downs, and with technical bits that seem to mostly come on the ups.
Another option, and the way I chose to go, is to go left at the fork, and cut across the creek one last time to a connector trail which takes you up and meets up with the bottom portion of Hard Guy. While this requires a short but steep climb to get back up to the ridge that Hard Guy follows, it prevents you from having to ride the sometimes busy Bogus Basin Boulevard back down (nice if you ride with your mutts like me :) ).
If you took the connector just reverse your tracks when you get back to the bottom of Hard Guy (right on hard guy, down, up a short climb to Corrals, right on Corrals, right on the connector back to Miller Gulch Trailhead).
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3.3 from 3 votesFlowers and pine trees towards the top of Hard Guy (Boise, ID)
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Lee's note: This email was originally sent to a friend who shared it with me but asked that they and the author remain anonymous.
It's touching beyond words, and speaks to yet another benefit of hunting with suppressors — a benefit I hadn't even considered.
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Subject: Suppressor/safety/autism/thank you
My name is xxxxxx, I am a Florida licence holder xxxxxx, a full time Florida resident, and an avid hunter and fisherman. Other then that I'm just a regular guy no one has heard of, but most importantly I am a father.
My greatest love in life other then my wife and child is the love of the great Florida outdoors, and I assure you, we utilize every aspect of the outdoors. We annually hunt archery, muzzeloader, and gun seasons. We apply every year for alligator season, and we also have a annual state parks pass that we often use off season. In addition to hunting and camping we also fish as often as possible.
The reason for this email is to let you know how pleased I am with the FWC's decision to allow hunting with a suppressor. I would like to explain why. While I'm sure their are some people who will think suppressors will be used for the wrong reasons, I want to assure you that most people are ethical sportsman that will use them legally and safely. The main reason I am so pleased is this new law opens not just more opportunities for me but for my young family as well.
My personal opinion of a suppressor is simply a safety measure. We would not send our children to play football with no helmets of padding. Nor would we let them even ride a bike without the proper safety equipment. So then why would we send them afield without a suppressor to quiet some of the sound made by firearms.
I, of course due to my love of the outdoors want to share it with everyone including my family. My son, xxxxxx was born autistic he is high functioning and really a pretty normal kid, his autism does have some drawbacks, he is withdrawn in large groups, has a speech impediment, and absolutely cannot tolerate loud noises. We have tried shooting but he just cannot handle the sound of a gun even with proper ear protection this deeply saddened me because I had envisioned taking him hunting with me.
It is with tears in my eyes that FWC has given my son and I the opportunity to go hunting together in a manner in which he can enjoy and not fear the sport. The combination of a suppressor and hearing protection will make it viable for him to go with me. My wife and I agree that we can take him shooting and hunting without the fear of hurting his hearing or making him altogether uninterested in the sport.
We also plan to take advantage of FWC's Hunter safety course as soon as he is age eligeable.
Please feel free to share this e-mail with whomever was involved for giving my son and I the opportunity to be together in the field.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays.
Thank you
XXXXXXXX and family
Is the League of Women Voters behind the lawsuit to stop suppressor hunting?
It appears the League of Women Voters of Florida may be behind — or at least heavily involved in — a lawsuit filed against the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, which seeks to stop FWC from lifting its ban on the use of suppressors for hunting in Florida.
Last month, FWC commissioners voted to remove the ban, opening up the use of suppressors on pistols and rifles for all hunting in the state.
Those involved in the lawsuit, which was filed this week, raise questions about the League's involvement.
One of the three named plaintiffs in the suit is Chuck O'Neal, who serves on the Board of Directors of the Florida League of Women Voters, and is the chair of the Natural Resources Committees of both the Florida League of Women Voters and the League of Women Voters of Orange County.
The attorney who filed the suit, Christopher Byrd, has led workshops sponsored by the League on the suppressor ban, including one which proposed to tell attendees that they "can do about this threat to public safety."
Patricia Brigham, who chair's the League's gun safety committee, said in a Tweet that while the League is not a party in the suit, they do support its goals. The League has said it opposes the use of suppressors for hunting.
Florida FWC Executive Director Nick Wiley said who the plaintiffs are doesn't really matter.
"We're not looking at who's involved," he said. "We're looking at how best to address it."
Wiley doesn't describe the Commissioners' actions as "lifting a ban."
"From our perspective, we had restrictions on suppressors. We have removed the restrictions. A 'ban' connotes something bad. We don't view it that way," he said late Thursday.
The lawsuit, Wiley said, hasn't altered the fact that suppressors are now legal for all hunting in Florida.
"The use of suppressors for any taking of game has been legal since that commission meeting," he said. "It (the lawsuit) won't stop or slow anything down. I don't see our agency being inclined to do anything immediate. We always follow the judicial process, but we believe what we did was appropriate and we're not inclined to back away."
Officials with the League of Women Voters did not immediately return calls Thursday night.
Pennsylvania blocks Florida non-resident concealed carry licenses
Having lived near Philly for years, I doubt the Pennsylvanians holding Florida non-resident concealed carry licenses were the cause of much crime.
From the Associated Press:
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania officials are closing what they call a gun-law "loophole" that lets residents get concealed-carry permits online from Florida.
Both states deny permits to felons, but Pennsylvania also lets police reject suspects under investigation or people with long arrest records.
Attorney General Kathleen Kane announced the decision Friday in crime-plagued North Philadelphia, weeks after taking office.
Kane says about 4,000 Pennsylvanians have gotten the Florida permits since 2001. She says some of them had first been denied permits at home.
Philadelphia Police Chief Charles Ramsey calls the measure "a bold step" that will save lives.
The Florida permit holders in Pennsylvania will have four months to get a valid state permit.


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At the hospital where Ning Liu was watching over her newborn baby, a specialist in genetics entered the room and planted her feet. "Your child will not have a normal life span," she said flatly. Liu looked down at her daughter, still only three weeks old, and began to weep.
"How long?" the anguished mother inquired. "I haven't even taken my baby home yet."
The everyday miracle of birthmarks the severing of the physical bond between mother and child, and the opening of a new connection based on an understanding rich in the marrow of trust: No matter what it takes, I will protect you.
Now imagine if you had to save your child's life every day.
Every hour.
Every minute.
Meet Amy Wang. Today she is 832 days old, and battling for every second of borrowed time. For her to have any chance at a normal life span, her parents must produce a suitable bone marrow donor by having another child — and soon.
The first child of Ning Liu and her husband, Xiaoqing Wang, Amy was born with Fanconi anemia, a rare genetic disorder that's considered a pediatric disease primarily because most patients don't live to adulthood. If there were a poster child for today's inaugural Fanconi Anemia Day — intended to create awareness of the disease, which occurs once in every 350,000 births, and raise funding for research — it would be Amy Wang.
Every day or two after she was born, a doctor would walk into the neonatal intensive care unit at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital — where she spent the first two months of her life — and announce to Amy's parents that something new was desperately wrong with their baby. "I cried every day," Liu recalls. "My husband told me, 'You'll become blind.' But you can imagine. You feel like the world is ending."
In addition to Fanconi anemia — which causes bone marrow failure — Amy was diagnosed with an undersized head (microcephaly) and an accompanying brain malformation. After that came microphthalmia (small eyes), which resulted in partial blindness, then moderate to profound hearing loss in both ears. She had a paralyzed left vocal chord, which meant she might never speak, and because of severe apnea she couldn't sleep more than a few hours at a time.
She has already endured surgery to repair a malformation of the heart, and because most Fanconi kids are born without fully formed thumbs, a finger on her right hand recently was transplanted to the thumb position. The first thing she did with her new thumb was suck it.
Perhaps most striking is Amy's ever-present backpack. It's black, not Hello Kitty pink. Inside, liquids are pumped directly into her stomach by a feeding tube. Her stomach is so small that she has never taken a bite of solid food, and likely never will.
One of Amy's first doctors — she's had dozens — suggested to her parents that they consider not treating her medical conditions at all. "He told us he didn't think it was worthwhile," says Xiaoqing. They were told she might never walk, and most likely wouldn't talk because her inability to eat would impair the development of oral muscles.
Walking and talking
"Let her die?" Dr. Michael Jeng, Amy's hematologist at Lucile Packard, asks rhetorically. "I know some people think that. But even some of my colleagues have been very inspired by her. People say to me in the hallways, 'Wow, look how far Amy has come.' I remember when she first started signing words, I almost didn't believe it."
That's right: In addition to charging around the family's apartment as fearlessly as any 2-year-old, and enthusiastically calling out "Orange tiger!" and "Yellow dog!" when she sees them, Amy has learned an eight-fingered version of American Sign Language. To teach her words, her parents made flashcards out of junk mail, and she puts her tiny face right up to the picture, then burbles the correct answer in an excited voice. At the end of every such exercise, Amy looks up — she is only 31 inches tall — and produces a smile that seems bigger than she is.
Xiaoqing, an electrical engineer at Intel, and Ning — who has a doctorate in material science and engineering but chose to stay home with Amy — will move from their apartment in Santa Clara to one in Cupertino, so Amy can go to that city's better schools when, and if, the time comes. Her unbreakable will to survive — and thrive — has removed any doubt about whether she should get a lifesaving bone marrow transplant.
"To be honest, I used to wonder about her quality of life, and how well she would do with a transplant," says Jeng. "And now I really have no question that she could have a very good quality of life."
Prolonging Amy's life will require a Herculean effort that involves complex ethical choices and enormous expense. Last November, Liu decided to begin an exhausting process called in vitro fertilization with pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (IVF/PGD), which requires frequent hormone injections and costs close to $20,000 for each attempt. The goal is a designer embryo that does not carry the Fanconi gene, but does produce a marrow match. They are now on their third round of the procedure.
"Bone marrow transplant is the only treatment to save her life," says Xiaoqing. A bone marrow registry search failed to turn up a suitable donor, which meant the clock had begun ticking on how long Amy has to live.
Savior sibling
The only plausible option is what medical ethicists have dubbed a "savior sibling."
There was a 25 percent chance that any child the couple had would be born with Fanconi anemia. But without a savior sibling — born with an umbilical cord rich with marrow cells — Amy had zero chance of survival. "We want to have a child," Liu says, "but we also need a sibling donor to save her."
That baby — bioengineered by implanting what Liu refers to as a "golden embryo" — would likely extend Amy's life by years. But creating a life in order to harvest tissue has sometimes raised troubling ethical questions. "There is nothing more desperate than a desperate parent," says Hank Greely, director of Stanford's Center for Law and the Biosciences. "So you have to worry about people in that situation doing desperate things."
Greely, who doesn't know Amy's parents, believes that with proper safeguards, IVF/PGD is a good thing. "The potential downside is that you're creating a baby not because you want a baby, but because you want to use the second child as a spare parts repository for the first," he says. "What happens if the first child dies? Will that color the parents' relationship with the second child?"
Next week, Liu will learn the results from her third round of the embryo harvesting procedure. They remain hopeful, even though they have only a 9 percent chance of success. "Each time you try to select for something more specific" — in this case, the absence of a Fanconi gene mutation and a perfect donor match — "you have less chance of finding a good embryo," says Jeng.
Because Amy refuses to give up, her parents can't either. That was the deal. "We just want her to enjoy every moment," Liu says. "She works so hard to survive."
Contact Bruce Newman at 408-920-5004.
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To learn more about Fanconi anemia or make a tax-deductible contribution to the Fanconi Research Fund, go to www.fanconi.org. To follow Amy Wang"s story on her blog, go to www.caringbridge.org/visit/amywang.


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SANTA CLARA -- Linebacker Patrick Willis sustained a fracture in his right hand during the 49ers' practice Wednesday but will be ready to play in the Sept. 8 regular-season opener, according to an ESPN report.
Willis has broken the same hand twice earlier in his career, and he played with a cast in both his 2007 rookie season and late in the 2010 season. He also wore a cast on his right hand most of his penultimate college season at Mississippi,
Coach Jim Harbaugh will address the media after Thursday's practice, which is slated from noon to about 3 p.m. Harbaugh typically refrains from commenting on players' injuries.
Willis' status for the four exhibition games is uncertain but it's doubtful the 49ers would risk playing the All-Pro linebacker in those contests, starting with an Aug. 8 game against the Denver Broncos at Candlestick Park.
Michael Wilhoite took Willis' spot on the first-string defense in Wednesday's team drills and likely will continue to line up there next to NaVorro Bowman, who is also battling an injury, believed to be a groin strain.
"Michael's coming along great," Willis said earlier this week. "Every time he gets an opportunity to be out there, he performs the way he's supposed to, and he gets more comfortable the more reps he gets."
The 6-foot, 240-pound Wilhoite appeared in five games last season as a special-teams call-up from the practice quad, where he had been since late in the 2011 season. Last season, Wilhoite won the team's Thomas Herrion Award, given annually to a rookie or first-year player who takes advantages of his opportunities and "made their dream turn into reality."
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"You've always got to remember he was a defensive safety in college until his last year there," defensive coordinator Vic Fangio said of Moody. "So, he's relatively new as a linebacker and that shows up at times. And, then other times his talent shows up and makes you think he can be an NFL linebacker."
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- February 14, 2013
CONTROVERSIAL right wing anti-Islamic Dutch politician Geert Wilders says Australia has nothing to fear from him when he visits the country next week.
Mr Wilders, speaking on the ABC's Lateline on Wednesday, said he was on a global jihad to preserve freedom.
He said he wants to warn Australia against allowing the mass immigration of people from Muslim countries "because Islam and freedom are incompatible".
"I believe with mass immigration into our free societies, those societies will change, and they will change for the worse," Mr Wilders said.
The leader of the Party for Freedom holds the balance of power in the Dutch parliament after receiving around 10 per cent of the national vote.
He wants to tell Australians that we must learn from the mistakes they made in Europe and be vigilant of Islam.
"It is not a religion of peace - it is a totalitarian ideology," Mr Wilders said.
He conceded that the majority of Muslims living in Europe were moderates but their religion of Islam was totalitarian that has no room for anything but Islam.
Mr Wilders said that when he visits Australia next week he not only wanted to talk to people who agreed with him but to those who did not.
"I am a lawmaker not a law breaker," he said.
When asked if he would be accompanied by Dutch Security Service he said that he could not talk about security arrangements or he would make himself more vulnerable.
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Steve from Canberra Posted at 10:09 PM February 14, 2013
Welcome Geert. Our freedom of speech in Australia is being attacked, particularly when it comes to discussing Islam. This is a discussion we need to have without being labelled racist. I have a real issue with the Islamic faith for the same reason, it it not a faith that is compatible with freedom or democracy.


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An official groundbreaking is scheduled for Wednesday, but work has already begun on the expansion and renovation of the Casco Bay Lines Ferry Terminal in Portland. WMTW News 8's Steve Minich reports.Video Transcript
(Port Harb) TAKING A LIVE LOOK OVER PORTLAND'S WATERFRONT WHERE A SIGNIFICANT CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IS GETTING UNDERWAY ..... WHILE THE OFFICIAL GROUND BREAKING ISN'T UNTIL TOMORROW,, WORK HAS ALREADY STARTED ON THE 3- MILLION DOLLAR EXPANSION AND RENOVATION TO THE "CASCO BAY FERRY LINES TERMINAL" ALONG COMMERCIAL STREET... WMTW NEWS EIGHT'S STEVE MINICH JOINS US NOW WITH A CLOSER LOOK,,,, STEVE.. IF THE BLUE PRINTS ARE ANY INDICATION,, EIGHT MONTHS FROM NOW YOU WON'T BEGIN TO RECOGNIZE THE FERRY TERMINAL..... BE PREPARED, THOUGH, BETWEEN NOW AND THEN THE CONSTRUCTION WORK COULD MAKE NAVIGATING THE TERMINAL A LITTLE TRICKY... ---nats of fence going up ---- "no questions there's going to be some inconvenience for everyone." FENCED IN WALKWAYS TO REACH THE BOATS -- THE WAITING ROOM SOON TO BE DEMOLISHED --- STILL, DESPITE THE POTENTIAL CHAOS CREWS ARE CONFIDENT ANY INCONVIENIENCE WILL BE KEPT TO A MINIMUM - PLANNING THEIR WORK AROUND THE FERRY SCHEDULE. "it seems to be a 15 to 20 minute influx of people so we're going to keep a real good eye on that. we're going to keep channeling people through and try to be as courteous and friendly as we can... WHEN FINISHED - GIANT GLASS PANELS WILL REPLACE CONCRETE WALLS GIVING WAITING PASSANGERS A PANORAMIC VIEW OF PORTLAND HARBOR..... --nats-- BUT ALL COSMETICS ASIDE,, CASCO BAY LINES SAYS THIS RENOVATION IS LONG OVERDUE -- THIS TERMINAL, BUILT BACK IN 1988 WAS DESIGNED TO HANDLE ABOUT 5-HUNDRED THOUSAND PASSENGERS A YEAR... "and we now do more than a million passengers annually so we've exceeded and stressed the capacity of the current facility." WHILE GENERAL MANAGER HANK BERG POINTS TO THE APPEAL OF ISLAND LIVING AS ONE REASON FOR DOUBLING THE NUMBER OF PASSENGERS - IT'S THE SUMMER TOURISTS, HE SAYS, THAT HAVE MADE THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE ... FOLKS LIKE LUCILLE TWADDEL WHO SIMPLY LOVE THE BAY.... "i think being out on the water has just a calming effect, it has a beautiful view and it's cool sometimes when it's warm." PLANS ARE TO BE FINISHED BY MAY JUST IN TIME FOR NEXT YEAR'S BUSY TOURIST SEASON... A NEW LOOK OUTSIDE -- AND INSIDE,,, A WAITING ROOM WITH TWICE THE SPACE.. "we feel the eight months should be plenty of time to pull this off.." ACTUALLY MUCH OF THE PLANNED CONSTRUCTION IS ALREADY COMPLETED,,, EARLIER THIS YEAR SOME 9-HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF IMPROVMENTS WERE MADE TO SECTIONS OF THE TERMINAL BELOW THE WATER LINE.. LIVE IN THE STUDIO, STEVE MINICH NEWS
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I know that the 90s are a big trend right now and I respect that.
Clueless, My So Called Life, Daria...whats not to like?
Angela Chase was my style icon for a good ten years; Add in my early love of Britney and you can picture my usual outfit: belly baring t-shirts (many had velvet elements), clunky black doc martin boots, oversized flannel button downs (unbuttoned of course) and jeans or some kind of ill-fitting skirt. And don't forget my frizzy hair and braces. You get the idea. I even had a baby blue, velvet, belly baring t-shirt. I know.
I have only just recovered from this tragedy.
Why is Alexander Wang forcing me to re-live this?!
If you like velvet and have a tiny, toned tummy than you'll love his FW 2010 collection. Otherwise you're probably a little disappointed with the wonder kid.
I did really love the thigh highs and his take on the little black dress...
On a slightly unrelated note I couldn't help but notice in the HQ shots of the show (particularly in the last one in the above set) that Natalia either didn't bother to shave her legs or she's got a case of lanugo. I'm choosing to believe that she's so confidant and fabulous that she doesn't feel the need to shave her legs!


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January 05, 2006
Something's In My Shoe
Happy New Year! Laziness has been preventing me from making an entry. But I've been working on the novel (I sound like a broken record).
This entry's title comes from a message someone once mysteriously left on my answering machine in college.
THANKS x 1000 to everyone who sent me other links to critics' "Top Ten" lists.
For today, here's a list of links to some excellent music videos for some favorite songs. Most of 'em are in QuickTime. Enjoy.
Isan, "Gunnera" (dir. Mark Allon)
Sigur Rós, "Untitled #1" (dir. Floria Sigismondi)
Sigur Rós, "Glósóli" (dir. Arni & Kinski)
Crescent, "Spring" (dir. Crescent)
Bowery Electric, "Fear of Flying" (dir. Ed Feldman)
Hood, "You Show No Emotion At All" (dir. Stephen Royle & Chris Coyle)
Mogwai, "Hunted By a Freak" (dir. Plates Animation)
The Album Leaf, "On Your Way" (dir. Fluorescent Hill)
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Oh sorry, I'm late, erm, whatever, happy new year to you and Michael :]
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Cheney Breaks a 50-50 Tie to Clear Bill
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Dec. 21, 2005 -- Millions of patients on Medicare and Medicaid are likely to see higher health care costs under a budget-cutting bill narrowly passed by the U.S. Senate Wednesday.
The plan trimmed $40 billion from the federal budget over the next five years and in so doing also cut $4.8 billion from the Medicaid health program for the poor. Much of the cost of the cuts was paid for by new rules allowing states to raise the share that recipients pay out of pocket for their care.
The bill also gives states more leeway in limiting covered benefits or paring back who qualifies for the program and makes it harder for low-income people to spend assets in an effort to qualify for coverage.
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Its no easy road
this struggle and strife
We find ourselves in the show of life
Whats on the schedule
Whats on your plan
Do you ever ignore
What you dont understand?
Dont ask me cause I dont know
I just fasten my seat belt wherever I go
Its been perfectly planned
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Waves of people
They come and they go
Shine for a while
Its a marvelous show
Its a limited time that we exist
We slowly make our way into the mist
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Id like to take this time to thank you all
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Dining for a cause
Food for the body is good, but food for the soul is great.
You have the opportunity to get both at these restaurants and cafés, which run vocational training programs for street kids. Good cause, good food, good idea. If you're in the area, why not try one out?
- Streets International has just one restaurant for now, but they envision taking this venture and replicating it on a global scale. The revenue of the commercial 'teaching' restaurant will ultimately support and fund the associated training facility, housing, medical and other community services for the street kid participants. The founder and president of Streets, Neal Bermas, has ties with the Institute of Culinary Education in Manhattan. The kids participating at the Streets restaurant will undergo the same training - and 18-month curriculum - as students at ICE. As they move through the program, they'll work in every area of the restaurant, from front-of-house duties to cooking to management. They'll also have a great support system with medical care, English lessons, and basic life skills courses. And when they're finished, the kids will graduate with certification that will allow them to apply for jobs in top hotels.
- KOTO (Know One Teach One) is a stunning 4-storey café-restaurant overlooking the Temple of Literature. It offers local specialities, home comforts, real coffee, fruit shakes and free wi-fi.
- Hoa Sua is a shady retreat by day, a dignified diner by night, and an opportunity to experience the perfect blend of East and West. Hoa Sua trains a steady stream of disadvantaged kids for culinary careers.
- Café Smile, part of the Hoa Sua family, is a relaxed café-restaurant renowned for its cakes and pastries. But it also serves delicious Vietnamese and western dishes.
- Café Ket Noi, yet another branch of the Hoa Sua family, employs staff from ethnic minority groups. Head here for a bite to eat, or a coffee or beer.
Friends International operates four restaurants run by former street youth in training. Three of these are in Phnom Penh and one is in Laos. At these restaurants, students learn hospitality skills in a real restaurant environment. When you dine here you not only get a great meal but also help these students gain the skills and confidence to work in the hospitality industry.
- Friends the Restaurant, near the National Museum, is famous for its frozen shakes and daiquiris, its Asian and Western tapas and its incredibly friendly staff. After you've had your fill pop next door to the Friends and Stuff store to snap up a snazzy silk skirt or lamp made in the school just behind the shop front. Treat yourself to a manicure and know that your dollars are training someone with a career to keep them off the streets.
- Romdeng, also run by Friends, is set in a beautifully decorated colonial mansion with a leafy garden and swimming pool.
- Café du Centre, the third Friend's restaurant, is a French-style bistro in the gardens of the French Cultural Centre.
- Lotus Blanc serves fine French and Asian cuisine to support vocational training for children formerly surviving by scavenging the dump.
- Boddhi Tree Umma, opposite the harrowing Tuol Sleng Museum, will feed you up like the Buddha with a roasted aubergine, goat's cheese and mango chutney sandwich. They also offer guesthouse-style suites that allow you to stay off the beaten track and can include cookery courses and market tours. Staff often come here after family crises to be trained in this positive environment.
- The Green Orange Cafe in Battambang provides a safe alcohol- and drug-free space for children of all ages to meet and socialise. Green Orange staff are from the area and the café provides much needed employment to the village of Ksach Poy, as well as raising funds for other community projects. By using local ingredients, the Green Orange Café (named after the famous Battambang Orange) seeks to benefit the local economy in an environmentally responsible way.
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Pharmaceutical Scientist
Typical Day
Dr. Gilead ("Gil") Bristol-Myer squints at his face in the mirror and drapes a tape measure over his bald spot. It's bad news, according to that morning's verdict. He's still shedding his blond, wispy hairs by the bushel—well, that's what it feels like—and the spot is expanding nasty inch by nasty inch.
Gil groans. It's only 7am. And he doesn't have to roll into work till 8.30, so he's got time to indulge in old-fashioned self-pity. Gil plucks a stray hair. It comes out in his hand. Another strangled sigh. Why him? Why did male-pattern baldness hit him at age 18? Now that he's pushing 35, he's lucky to have any hair on his head. And to add insult to injury, Gil's fancy-shmancy job as a chief research scientist at one of the biggest, baddest pharmaceutical companies in the world isn't helping his hair situation one bit. Here, the company puts itself on the map with its miracle drug that puts the brakes on balding, and makes the company gad-zillions of dollars.
A fat lot of good it does him.
It's just his luck that the baldness-begone drug works wonders for thousands of baldies—except Gil. Well, it could, if it weren't for its ghastly side effects that turn Gil's skin jaundice yellow and his eyes blood-red, plus slap him with migraines. "That's drugs," Gil thinks. All "miracle drugs" have pros, but they do have their cons, all memorialized in the fine print of the "contraindications" listed in the information brochures packed with virtually every drug on the market.
Gil puts the finishing touches on his work getup: business casual clothes, tasteful briefcase, comfortable but stylish shoes. He adjusts his pince-nez—yes, he loves his eyepiece with its nose clip, because, face it, he knows he's brilliant and eccentric, and now everyone else knows, too. Everything's in order, and Gil heads out the door of his industrial-chic duplex.
Gill steels himself of a busy day at his Big Pharma employer. He's the big cheese on a Hepatitis C drug development project, and the company is getting restless. The project is in its 10th year, and even though Gil had been with the project for only a couple of years, the company honchos are getting antsy. They want results. Maybe by the second millennium. Gil laughs at the thought. Pharmaceutical research is not for the impatient or the impulsive.
Gil knows he shouldn't complain about little things like timing and pacing. He adores his job. What more could he hope for? Science and math are his first loves. He's fascinated by medicine and is passionate about helping people. But because he can't stand the sight of blood, it was off the medical doctor path and into scientific research. And he's never looked back. Life would be perfecto—except for that eensy-teensy matter of the hair thing.
Gil hops into his Mercedes, and it's off to the House of Big Pharma, as Gil affectionately calls it.
By 8:30am, Gil is staring at his laptop, sifting through the morning e-mails. Oh no! Another from a deranged man who accuses the company of making a drug that, when he took it for his chronic headaches, altered his eyes so he now sees dead people. Ouch. Delete. Gil scrolls quickly through the rest of the queue. Nothing he has to respond to immediately. Oops. An invitation to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "Teach-in" at 6pm that evening. Gil RSVPs "yes"—it's the best way to stay current on clinical research topics. Plus that talk would be interesting—"Does Thalidomide deserve its bad rap?—Its journey from fetal scourge to cancer patients' shining light of hope." "Geez, good stuff," Gil says to himself. But fire that copywriter.
Next, it's off to his lab, Hep C Heaven. The meeting with his research team is quick and to the point. His top researcher, Dr. Miki Mongoose, delivers the not-so great news.
"Doc, the research subjects are flaking on us," Miki says, tossing a pipette into the air in frustration. It's slow-burn time for Gil's most serious, uptight researcher. "Patient A is back on crystal meth. Patient B drinks her meals. Mad Dog 20-20, breakfast, Olde English is lunch. And dinner…uh, she doesn't remember."
Gil claps his hand to his head in frustration. Yikes. Don't. Another clump of hair falls out. Maybe this day wasn't going to turn out all that well. Gil tells Miki to dump the protocol, and start recruiting new patients.
"Yes, boss!" Miki rushes back to her lab bench, and starts processing samples.
The regulatory affairs-drug safety guy pops in from around the corner. Dr. Berne Measure gives Gil a friendly fist-bump. Oh no, there goes another of Gil's hairs.
"Hey, fella. Any more pow-wows with the FDA about Razorthin?" Berne is about to bump Gil again, but Gil stops the hand midair. Razorthin was a sore spot with the company. It was billed as the drug to end all weight loss diets, but the FDA put a kibosh on it when testing revealed that it did promote pounds-off, but only because it induced violent and intractable diarrhea. The FDA was not amused and has been hounding the company ever since.
Gil checks the time. Gosh, it's already 1pm and time for the fraud committee meeting. Gil rushes to the Green Room, where seven scientists are ready, willing, and waiting to get Gil's okay to track down a counterfeiting gang. Gil takes his place at the head of the table and adjusts his pince-nez.
Dr. Dan Turing, a round little man with a perpetual stoop, starts the PowerPoint presentation. The fuss is about a counterfeiting ring that got hold of the official company batch number, and slapped it on its fake products, Turing drones on in his monotone. Problem is—the fakes don't work, and no one knows which is what. Turning rocks back and forth on his squeaky shoes. "Big, big stink! Big recall. Bad revenues. People pissed!" Hungarian-born Turing keens, lapsing into his clipped Middle European accent.
"Ve must deal with media on this dis troublesome issue," Turing says, in conclusion, now sounding guttural in his outrage and forgetting to enunciate his "W's" and "Th's." He is sniffing in exasperation. "Zo, zo untidy!!" "There go the "S's," Gil thinks. He remembers that Turing likes life neat and orderly. Turing's lab is a masterpiece of anal-retentiveness. Everything was arranged in perfect right angles.
After an interminable discussion in which Turing is rendered bug-eyed and mute by his rage, Gil green-lights an investigation.
It's now 5pm, and Gil is off to the CDC information fest. Gil is in that kvetch frame of mind reserved for scientists like him who make six-figure incomes (well, he thinks, very low six figures), love all the ins and outs of Big Pharma, but still yearn to return to those days of pure research in the lab.
Gil drifts into a daydream. Maybe, maybe, when all is said and done, when he retires, he can go back to the laboratory he loves and work on a cure for male-pattern baldness that works for him. He pats his head. Another strand of hair dislodges itself and floats away.
Now that would be worth it.


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A Look Inside Fed's Balance Sheet — 8/20/09 Update
The Fed's balance sheet expanded back above $2 trillion in the latest week. The majority of the increase came from some $67 billion purchases of mortgage backed securities, as the makeup of the balance sheet continued to shift out of emergency facilities and into debt holdings. Treasurys and agency debt also continued their upward march. The Fed started a program in March to ramp up such acquisitions in order to push down long-term interest rates low. But as debt holding moved up, direct-bank lending dropped to nearly $250 billion, the lowest level since the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Central-bank liquidity swaps declined again, as overseas demand for dollars continues to abate. The commercial paper and money market facilities also dropped again and are at their lowest levels since inception, as companies decide to take their funds out and tap investors directly as sentiment in the market improves. The Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TALF, expanded following the Fed's announcement this week this it was extending the program aimed at boosting consumer lending.
In an effort to track the Fed's actions, Real Time Economics has created an interactive graphic that will mark the expansion of the central bank's balance sheet. Every Thursday afternoon, the chart will be updated with the latest data released by the Fed.
In an effort to simplify the composition of the balance sheet, some elements have been consolidated. Portfolios holding assets from the Bear Stearns and AIG rescues have been put into one category, as have facilities aimed at supporting commercial paper and money markets. The direct bank lending group includes term auction credit, as well as loans extended through the discount window and similar programs.
Central bank liquidity swaps refer to Fed programs with foreign central banks that allow the institutions to lend out foreign currency to their local banks. Repurchase agreements are short-term temporary purchases of securities from banks, which are looking for liquidity and agree to repurchase them on a specified date at a specified price.
Click and drag your mouse to zoom in on the chart. Clicking the check mark on categories can add or remove elements from the balance sheet.


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Name: David H. Lydick
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I have been teaching Business and Marketing Management (17 different courses) at Paul D. Camp Community College for the past 21 years. I have taught as an Adjunct Instructor at the Old Dominion University, Saint Leo University, Golden Gate University, Virginia Wesleyan College, Tidewater Community College and the Northern Virginia Community College since 1978.
Prior to teaching, my careers included 13 years with the Sales & Marketing Department of the Verizon Telephone Company, Assistant Credit Manager with Dominion Power Company, and the American Consulting Enterprises as a sole proprietor. I have been a manager, a union member (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers–IBEW, and the Communications Workers' of America–CWA) and a union shop steward. My career experiences give me a "real life"— view of our 21st century work place. I also served with the United States Army Security Agency for four years including one tour in the Republic of South Vietnam.
I have and continue to travel extensively, including trips to: Brazil, Bermuda, Canada, England, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Portugal, Scotland, Spain and Vietnam. There is a heavy international emphasis in most of the classes I teach here at Paul D. Camp and I will share many of my personal experiences with you!
I was not a good student in high school–almost didn't graduate. But, realizing that education is one key to a successful life, my college experience began as a part-time student at a community college while still in the Army and married and raising a family. So while I empathize with you I do not sympathize with you. I've been there and done it and so can you!


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It's not complicated. Toms foolishly rush in to rendezvous with a seductive hen. This turkey decoy has made it easier than ever to give gobblers what they are looking for in the spring woods. Using a photo taken of a hen just before she was bred, this breeding hen decoy sends an invitation no tom can turn down. It's the beginning of any classic love story. Guy meets girl. Guy falls for girl…well, we'll just let hunters holding the gun write the script. We bet it ends with feathers flying and rave reviews.
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1 pint (2 cups) ripe strawberries, hulled
2½ tablespoons sugar syrup
1 teaspoon Grand Marnier liqueur
6 orange zest strips, for garnish
1 (750-ml) bottle Prosecco, chilled
Place the strawberries in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade and purée until completely smooth. Pour the liquid through a fine-mesh sieve and press to make a seedless purée. Discard the seeds. Add the sugar syrup and Grand Marnier to the purée and refrigerate until very cold.
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Oops I lost 6% in the stock today. This is surely a fun time in the market. and it is not even May.
Well, you just hang on for 3 years and you can kiss that 6% loss goodbye.
I will ride this pyuppy down and re-invest the dividends. I will not get out until the mid-30's, although that may not be a near-term event.
Sentiment: Hold
What a beauty! Silver down 14 cents. SLW down around 7%. Appears equitable. That's what JPM and GS said.


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A true Blues Brother: A UI law alumnus preserves an American treasure—and earns a 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award
Inside his office at the Blues Foundation in Memphis hangs a painting of Bonnie Raitt and a guitar signed by the late B.B. King. It's not every day that a person gets to work on behalf of his musical heroes, but not every person gets to be Jay Sieleman, president and chief executive officer of the Blues Foundation.
Sieleman graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1975 and a Juris Doctorate in 1978. On June 13, he returns to campus to accept one of this year's Distinguished Alumni Awards from the UI Alumni Association (UIAA).


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Michelini Co-Leader After Day One at Jones Invite
Feb. 24, 2014
SOMIS, Calif. - San Diego State's Riccardo Michelini (Carpi, Italy) is tied for the top spot on the individual leaderboard after firing a combined 1-under par 143 Monday during the first two rounds of the inaugural Jones Invitational at the 6,985-yard, par-72 Saticoy Country Club. As a team, the Aztecs find themselves in second place with a collective 13-over 589, four strokes in back of front-runner USC (+9).
Michelini carded a 70 in the morning session despite three bogeys over a four-hole stretch, sinking five birdies for the round, including his finishing hole, the par-5 No. 6. The SDSU sophomore followed with a 73 in the afternoon, draining two additional birdies to remain tied with USC's Anthony Paolucci heading into Tuesday's final round.
In addition, junior Xander Schauffele (San Diego, Calif.) sits two shots in back of the leaders at 1-over 145 after posting rounds of 73 and 72. The Scripps Ranch High alumnus registered five birdies on the day, including three in the second round to finish in a tie for the third position with Frederick Wedel of host Pepperdine.
Meanwhile, freshman Ricky DeSantis (Carlsbad, Calif.) wound up in a five-way logjam for 11th after shooting a combined 5-over 149. Despite four birdies, the Carlsbad High product struggled with consistency in the morning, recording six bogeys and a double-bogey en route to a 76. DeSantis regrouped with a 73 in the afternoon, posting just one bogey before sinking birdies at Nos. 16 and 18. However, his climb up the ladder was thwarted by a double-bogey on his final hole, the par-4 No. 5.
Elsewhere, Austin Kaiser (Atascadero, Calif.) remains three shots behind DeSantis in a tie for 23rd at 8-over 152, along with SDSU teammate James Holley (Chatsworth, Calif.), who entered the tournament as an individual competitor.
Kaiser ended the first round on a positive note with a birdie at No. 6, but four bogeys proved too much to overcome as he settled for 75. Despite two additional birdies, the Aztec senior was unable to generate momentum in round two, stumbling to a 77 after experiencing difficulty with five bogeys and a double-bogey on the par-5 18th.
Holley, meanwhile, managed to shave four strokes off his opening-round 78, offsetting four bogeys in the afternoon with a pair of birdies en route to a 74. The SDSU senior made three birdies in the morning as well, but seven bogeys and a double-bogey blemished his round.
Rounding out the SDSU starting five was freshman Nahum Mendoza III (San Diego, Calif.), who end the day in a tie for 53rd at 16-over 160 after carding a 78 and 82.
Following USC and the Aztecs, the University of San Diego (+16) remains third in the team standings, while Cal State Fullerton (+24) and Brigham Young (+24) are tied for the fourth spot.
SDSU will wrap up competition at the Jones Invitational on Tuesday, teeing off with USD and USC on hole No. 1, beginning at 8:34 a.m. PT.
Jones Invitational Saticoy C.C. Somis, Calif. Par 72, 6,985 yards Round Two Results
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Should i be worried that i have throat cancer? my throat feels sore and feels like i have something in it all the time
I haven't smoked since I was 17 years old. I have a pretty healthy life style and I was rencently diagosed with 4 pre- cancer nodules. My doctor put me on synthroid and due to thyroid issues. However, then it just turned into a goiter I had to under the knife I couldn't even swallow water anymore.

Pay very close attention ! It can and will turn into cancer. My nodule's did go away and I'm sure they will come back. It scares me sometimes because I'm so young and I take care of myself very well.
Symptoms: I was always coughing, Mucus in very thick, I stopped breathing a couple times while sleeping, it's hard to eat or swallow.
It probaly isnt but its defo worth getting it checked.

I smoke more than you and for longer than you have and I dont have that. Its probaly nothing serious but defo go and see about it! :-)
You should go see a doctor as the others have mentioned. It may or may not be cancer, the only way to find out is by doing some investigations.

Also try to quit smoking
go see a doctor about your throat and get a nicotine patch.
try hypnotism. And nicotine is a drug like any other drug...your body will have withdrawl symptoms and you just cant quit cold turkey. With a patch you will have your nicotine fix but your lungs and throat will be fine. You will slowly reduce smoking as you wont feel the NEED for it as your nicotine is getting supplied from elsewhere. Then you can get of the nicotine slowly.
You will have to give your body time to adjust to the detox.
get it checked with an endoscopy--very simple and painless. I go every year because i smoke too an dmy dad died of it. Likely not for you- could be aggrievated tonsils or thyroid problems---get checked for the peace of mind
I could say all then myself-excepy the brother- his vice is food
No. You should see a doctor and let the doc find out what it is.

Worrying when you don't know something usually doesn't help. And the point is, you can find out.
Go see a specialist. Only he can answer that question for you. Meanwhile stop smoking drinks lots of water and feel better!!!
To all the people who say it can't be smoking because you are so young...everyone is effected differently and some are more prone to damage via smoking. Go to see your doctor, buy some nicotine patches. Set your computer and phone wallpapers to pictures of dirty lungs, you're in for a tough few months. Good luck x
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Venturing a little further from Trefin there are a couple of short circular walks incorporating fine stretches of the coast path. One is to the picturesque harbour side hamlet of Abercastle visiting Carreg Samson, an impressive 4,500 year old burial chamber on the way. Samson built it with his little finger so they say. The route then heads west along the cliff tops before descending to the little cove of Aberfelin with its ruined water mill. It's then a short stroll up the hill to Trefin. The walk takes an hour or two, or longer if you'd like to borrow our old wicker picnic hamper and make a day of it.
If there was a list of the top ten strolls to characterful pubs, the walk from The Old School Hostel to the Sloop in Porthgain would be No.1 we reckon, though it's true that we may be a little biased. Porthgain is an interesting and unusual place with an industrial heritage and it's worth taking a bit of time to explore it fully. There are galleries and a tea-shop and 'The Shed', an unprepossessing name for an award winning restaurant specialising in sea food that they catch themselves that day. Pricey of course but great for that last night of your holidays treat. A footpath heads inland through fields and green lanes making a pleasant loop back to Trefin. There's also the Strumble Shuttle, a smashing little bus that meanders along the coast between St. David's and Fishguard. Thanks to this service it's perfectly possible to enjoy a car free holiday based here in Trefin. It takes you to the sort of places buses don't usually venture and it's great if you'd like a longer walk. We'd suggest taking it to Abereiddi with its Blue Lagoon or, in the other direction, to the secluded pebble beach at Aber Mawr. Catch the morning shuttle to Strumble Head if you'd like an exhilarating whole days walk back to Trefin.
St. David's with its Norman cathedral and the popular beach at Whitesands Bay, one of the finest in South West Wales, are only about 20 minutes away by car or bus. The area is a mecca for sea sports enthusiasts too with companies such as TYF, Preseli Venture and Newgale YMCA Activity Centre offering half and full day kayaking, surfing, coasteering and other adventure activities. Boat trips from St. Justinian's, near St. David's to the RSPB reserve of Ramsey Island are popular too.
If you're staying a little longer you may wish to venture further afield and discover some of the many other attractions Pembrokeshire has to offer. For the kids there are top theme parks, traditional seaside fun to be enjoyed in Tenby and they'll love Pembroke Castle where a family ticket is particularly good value for money. Further afield still, there's even the option of an inexpensive day trip on the catermaran from Fishguard to Southern Ireland. Prices start at £19 per person. One thing's for sure, you won't run out of things to do on holiday here in Trefin.
And, at the end of a long day?.. Well, southern Pembrokeshire has lots to offer but it is a lot busier than hereabouts. People say our part of the world is like Cornwall used to be perhaps about 40 years ago before it became 'super trendy' and people started to jet down there for the weekend. So, after all the sightseeing and when the kids have had their fill you can return to Trefin and just relax. Stroll down to the children friendly Ship for a drink or a meal in the beer garden, read a while or plan the next days adventure over a glass of wine in the lounge. It doesn't have a TV but you won't miss it, and surprisingly nor will the kids.
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Walk down any street in East Lansing and you'll run into all types of restaurants. Some focus more on food and others, more on alcohol. Both are money-makers at Buffalo Wild Wings.
"Obviously, the later you get, people are drinking more," said General Manager Aaron Weiner.
Throw in plenty of other bars and these streets fill up quickly into the early-morning hours with people looking for a drink. It begs the question, how much is too much?
It's a question the city was hoping to answer when it put a 180-day ban on the approval of new Downtown restaurants serving alcohol past midnight, back in March.
The focus was to figure out a way to keep overall capacity at a safe level, which city Manager George Lahanas is hoping a series of recommendations to city council will solve.
"The principle is that if council approves what we're asking that there will be no more establishments beyond midnight that add to that number," said Lahanas.
The recommendations would cap the total capacity of restaurants that serve alcohol past midnight at a little more than 3,000. They would also more strictly enforce a 50-50 food to alcohol sales ratio. The hope is easier overall enforcement for police.
"When younger people drink, it's been my experience that fights start, there's malicious destruction of property...", said East Lansing Police Capt. Jeff Murphy.
According to city records, last year, there were more than 754 fights and assaults in the downtown area alone, which is up from 662 in 2008. While East Lansing Police say that number is certainly manageable, the recommendations will keep things from getting out of hand.
"That's a real small percentage that happens to, but that small percentage takes up a lot of our resources," said Murphy.
The East Lansing City Council is beginning discussion of the recommendations at its Work Session, Tuesday night. Lahanas hopes to have new rules in place by August.


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DOTD says the bridge had to be closed for emergency mechanical repairs, and it will remain closed until Jan. 6.
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As of 2pm this afternoon, storms have begun developing back into Louisiana along and ahead of a cold front barreling in our direction. A tornado watch is up for all counties to our west, and this watch will most likely be expanding to include a portion of all of us within the next couple of hours.
SYNOPSIS: A strong cold front and associated upper level low is heading in our direction. Aloft, there is plenty of divergence which causes lift at the surface. Warm and humid air is being pumped northward from the Gulf of Mexico with winds east-southeast to southeasterly at the surface. All of this combines for a perfect severe weather set up with the potential for damaging winds and tornadoes.
The greatest tornado threat will be along and south of the warm front. The question that lingers this afternoon is how far north does the front get. Right now, it is sitting in southwest Mississippi and lifting northeastward. I believe the greatest threat for tornadoes will be along and south of I-20, but the atmosphere is primed for all of us to see the potential, as the Storm Prediction Center has highlighted the last two days.
TIMING: The storms to our west should begin arriving around 5pm or so for our western counties and exit our Alabama counties around midnight. The time of greatest impact looks to be between 7-10pm, especially along the Highway 15, Interstate 59, Highway 45, and Highway 17 corridors.
WHAT TO EXPECT: These storms will undoubtedly begin to rotate in a very supportive environment for rotating storms. Tornadoes are very possible along with winds up to about 70 mph. If a squall line can develop, our wind threat will increase with winds potentially reaching 80 mph.
Now is the time to make sure your NOAA Weather Radio is working and that you can receive warnings when issued. If you live in the mobile home, make arrangements to be in a sturdier location this afternoon/evening as these storms work through.
Jeff and I will provide updates as needed on Facebook and Twitter as well as on the air. Stay with Newscenter 11 for the very latest weather information.