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Serve the tempeh mixture tucked into warmed fajita wraps with salsa and guacamole.
Serves 4
8 oz. block tempeh, any variety
4 T. fajita seasoning (reserve 2 T. for cooking)
2 T. vegetable oil
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6 sweet peppers, a combination of green, yellow, orange, and red
2 medium-sized yellow onions
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Cut tempeh block in half lengthwise, then slice into 1/4- to 1/2-inch wide strips. Place in a lidded plastic container, add two tablespoons of the vegetable oil and two tablespoons of the fajita seasoning. Cover container and turn to coat. Tempeh will be completely marinated and ready to cook in approximately 35 minutes, but improves if marinated up to 6-8 hours.
Heat oil in a large skillet (preferably cast iron) until hot but not smoking. Fry marinated tempeh until golden brown, then add roughly chopped seeded peppers and onions.
Turn up the heat slightly and stir fry the peppers to lock in flavors. Cook for about 10 minutes or until peppers start to blacken. If necessary add a bit more oil while cooking and season with reserved fajita spice to taste.
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The last time Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Shane Mosley hooked up, it was as advesaries when Mayweather defeated Mosley by unanimous decision in a welterweight bout in May of 2010.
But on May 3, two days before each of them engage in separate, mega bouts at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the boxers will be fighting as one for another cause.
The Floyd Mayweather Jr. Foundation and the Sugar Shane Mosley's Diamond's Love Foundation will present "Spring Of Style," an entertainment and fashion show that will take place at the MGM Grand's Talent Pool.
Mayweather's foundation is aimed at empowering and promoting the social development and advancement of struggling adults and adolescents, focusing on community health and wellness, economic growth and development and youth education.
"I am committed to giving back to the community and this fundraiser will assist my foundation's continued efforts to do so. Shane and I are both fighting for our careers in the ring," said Mayweather.
"But we are blessed to be in a position to help those less fortunate and support causes outside the ring too. I know the entire boxing world will be in town for my fight, and I expect a great turnout for the event."
Mosley's organization was formed to honor Mosley's nephew, Diamond J. Johnson, and is focused on implementing a child car seat safety program, establishing programs which assist single fathers, holding youth summer boxing camps nationwide and establishing centers for children at risk.
"I am thrilled to be a part of this fight and have the opportunity to work with Floyd outside of the ring to support our charities," said Mosley. "We both feel strongly about helping at-risk youth, so the two of us coming together to better the community is a great opportunity."
Tickets are on sale and priced at $75.00 and $100.00. The first fee covers entry and hors d'oevres service, and the second also includes a souvenir program book and an open bar with a pre-set menue. Tickets are available online at www.tfmjf.org.
"Everyone who is in town for the weekend can buy a ticket to attend the event," said Mayweather. "Working together works, and through the support of each and every one of us, something really positive can happen."
On Saturday night in an HBO Pay Per View-televised event, Mayweather (42-0 26 knockouts) will challenge WBA junior middleweight titleholder, Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KOs), and Mosley (46-7-1, 39 KOs), WBC junior middleweight belt owned by Saul Alvarez (39-0-1, 29 KOs).
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ANTIOCH -- Access denied ... still.
Antioch leaders gave the go-ahead earlier this month to extend the closure of two stretches of rural road as a blockade against blight.
Empire Mine Road, between Mesa Ridge Drive and Deer Valley Road, and McElheny Road, between East Sixth Street and Fulton Shipyard Road, will continue to be closed until September 2014.
The City Council re-evaluates the closures every 18 months.
Empire Mine, located in the rural hills southeast of the city, has been closed to vehicle traffic since 2005. McElheny, near the waterfront by Fulton Shipyard, was closed in 2011.
City officials say the closing of the stretch of McElheny has helped curb criminal activity, including homeless encampments and the illegal dumping of vessels, construction materials and oil.
Antioch police have responded to 14 calls for service in the area in the past 18 months, compared with 53 the previous five years.
"To date, we think it's been successful as far as keeping folks out of there that shouldn't be there," said Ron Bernal, the city's public works director. .
Councilman Gary Agopian points out it was the businesses near McElheny that requested the area be cordoned off.
"It works. It helps really reduce the blight in the area," he said.
Empire Mine, once a popular Antioch teen hangout because of urban legends surrounding a small "gravity hill," "slaughterhouse," and "Gates of Hell," was closed by both the city and county because the secluded area attracted vandals, target shooting, arson and drug and alcohol use.
Rancher Jack Roddy asked that it be closed, giving several reasons for the request, including cattle being shot and killed, crime and violence among teenagers, the greens at Roddy Ranch golf course being torn up and dozens of piles of dumped trash.
"We don't have the vandalism there anymore," said Roddy, noting that it looks better, and pedestrians and bicyclists can use the road. "It's saving the city a tremendous amount of money."
Antioch can extend the closure of Empire Mine four additional times and McElheny eight more before permanent decisions must be made, according to state law.
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I want to express my thanks to all who participated in the Meander Kick-Off and Meandering River Walk theater performance. The commitment
and dedication was evident by all of those who volunteered to perform our unique story, which reminds each of us why Granite Falls is such a wonderful place to live.
We had progressive community members then and still have them now, and they encourage us to come together and do what we can to make Granite Falls grow.
Thanks so much for all who took part, and to the city bus for giving me a ride.
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By Amy Guckeen Tolson, Staff Writer Redstone RocketNovember 16, 2011
REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala.--They do things that no one else can quite understand -- visiting Alaska in minus 62 degree temperatures just for a chance to see their child, keeping up the Christmas tree and decorations long after the holidays have passed, and retracing the spot where their son had etched his initials on the brick of their home every two weeks. But for the Blue Star Mothers of Morgan County, as military moms, it's a sense of understanding that unites them.
"This is a grief," said Marie Pierce, whose son Spc. Timothy Pierce is serving with the 1165th Military Police Company, Army National Guard in Kabul, Afghanistan. "It's a grief, and to just be around regular friends and family, they have no way of knowing, I can't express what it is, but I can go to Blue Stars and I don't have to say a word. I don't have to say a word but I know that they're there and they understand."
"We're going through the same thing and it helps to know that there are other people in the world who know what we're going through," Theresa Groves said. "Even though we don't spend a lot of time talking about that, I think it's better to have something to do, an activity, a physical movement. We feel like we're contributing something."
That contribution is monthly care packages the group sends to troops overseas, the organization of military mothers' primary outreach. From hand warmers to blankets, bags of popcorn to miniature Christmas trees for the holidays, the moms are proud to send a little piece of home to far off lands. Currently around 50 servicemembers receive a little love from Morgan County every month; the group is accepting addresses to expand that list.
"It makes me feel like I have some control, because no matter where he is in the world, mama can still love him," Pierce said.
While the monthly care packages are a concrete sign of their outreach, for the women that make up the group, the connection they feel to one another is just as important, if not more so. While it is not the path they dreamt of when they gave birth to their baby boys, it is the road they find themselves walking now.
"None of us is here by choice," Pierce said. "Our children made this choice and we're here because of those choices that they made. None of us would want to be in this. Even though that's not what I would've chosen for him, he has to be who he's called to be, and that is a Soldier."
Shelby Powell always knew that her son Josh would enter the Air Force. "In his mind there was never a choice," Powell said. Even though her maternal instinct has at times hoped that choice would change, as many of the other mothers in the group have felt, the joy and pride they feel in who their children have become is indescribable.
"You can't describe it," Powell said. "Every day I tell Josh, I don't think I could be any more proud of you than I am today. But then tomorrow I'm more proud than I was yesterday."
"We all understand each other's pride," said Violet Kaylor, whose son, Cpl. Jon-Erik Loney was killed in Iraq in 2006. "Nobody else can understand."
It is those feelings that no one else can quite understand, the worry, anxiety, fear and frustration, that unites them, like the anger that can at times bubble up doing something as simple as standing in the checkout line at Walmart, watching as the rest of the world goes about with their daily lives, as the moms struggle with missing their children, or longing just to hear their voice. Even though they only meet once a month, the group is in constant contact with each other, calling, emailing and texting, their bond so strong that they can even sense when another mother is having a bad day.
"It's hard to put this into words because it's all so unspoken," Pierce said of the group's bond as military moms.
"And it's always on our brain, all the time," Groves added.
"It's sort of like you live it and breathe it," Powell said.
For more information about the Blue Star Mothers of Morgan County, visit www.bluestarmothersofmorgancounty.com. The group meets the first Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at East Highland Baptist Church, 1030 Main Street East, Hartselle. Monetary donations or addresses of servicemembers serving overseas may be sent to P.O. Box 712, Hartselle, AL, 35640.


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Singer/songwriter Billy Joe Shaver was found not guilty of aggravated assault on April 9 for a 2007 shooting incident in a Texas bar.
The often cantankerous Texas singer, best known for songs like "Georgia on a Fast Train" and "Live Forever," admitted to shooting a man at a bar near Waco, Texas, in 2007, but claimed that the incident was in self-defense.
Billy Joe testified in a Waco courtroom that the man in question, Billy Bryant Coker, was rude to him and his former wife Wanda. He told prosecutors that he felt threatened when Coker demanded that he come outside the bar. "I felt he was gonna kill me," Billy Joe told the court.
He further noted that he confronted Coker because to walk away would have been "chicken shit." After they went outside, Billy Joe aimed a .22 revolver at Coker's cheek, shot him, and rode away in his truck.
The jury deliberated for less than two hours and decided that Billy Joe acted in self-defense. Willie Nelson and actor Robert Duvall were among the celebrities attending the trial.
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Star-studded music line-up announced for the Human Race Festival of Sport
British Rock band, Reef, best known for their number 1 smash hit "Place your hands", have been announced as the headline music act for the 3 day long Human Race Festival of Sport, alongside a host of Britain's best music talent.
Reef will perform alongside a stellar line-up of music acts in front of the stunning backdrop of St Michael's Mount in Cornwall on 14th & 15th September. Sportsmen and women, as well as music fans, will travel from all over the UK to attend the unique festival event in its debut year.
Forming in 1993, Reef encountered their greatest success in 1997, releasing their second album GLOW, which included the single 'Place Your Hands' and saw the band storm the UK Charts at Number 1.
Always a favourite at shows and Festivals alike, the band have made high profile appearances, including Glastonbury and Reading festival, as well as playing shows with the Rolling Stones and Paul Weller. Now the band are set to be experiencing something new as they perform on the beach front setting, in Cornwall, at the Human Race Festival of Sport.
English Folk Rock band, Dry the River, have also been confirmed to perform at the event and will take to the stage as the final act on the 1st night of the festival. Since forming in 2009 the band have toured extensively in the UK and Europe including Glastonbury, Great Escape, iTunes Festival, Latitude, Summer Sundae, Green Man, Bestival and Reading and Leeds.
The band released their debut album Shallow Bed in March, earlier this year and are being touted by many the music press as Britain's the next big band, earning them a slot on this year's BBC Sound of 2012 list.
Also confirmed in the line-up is indie-folk troubadour Ruarri Joseph. The Cornwall based performer has a focused vision of his career and music. In 2008 Atlantic Records released his critically acclaimed debut 'Tales of Grime and Grit' but then the singer opted out of his deal to retain creative control of his music, releasing his second record 'Both Sides of the Coin' and the superbly rootsy 'Shoulder to the Wheel' under his own label PIP.
2012 will see the release of his beautifully heart felt fourth album 'Brother'. Recorded, for the first time out of his shed and in David Gray's Church Studios in Crouch End with his live band, the album is a love letter to his friend and fellow musician Matt Upsher who sadly passed away whilst surfing last year.
Reef, Dry the River & Ruarri Joseph will be part of a 10 strong music line-up which also includes, Kezia, Moonlet & The Love Monks, Patrick James Pearson Band, Brother & Bones, The Struts , Karima Francis & Steve Smyth.
Reef's lead singer, Gary Stringer, said, "a gig by the beach in Cornwall, this sounds like a perfect fit for REEF; what an amazing location. It looks like there's tons going on too, original vibes. I'm looking forward to rocking out at this show, ROLL ON SEPTEMBER!'
Nick Rusling, CEO of event organiser Human Race, said "It is particularly important to us that the Human Race Festival of Sport is a festival in every sense of the word. With this in mind we are determined that the quality of the live music acts is equal in quality to the delivery of the sporting events taking place. Securing a line-up of with this amount of history and experience of world class festivals and chart success demonstrates this vision and we are all looking forward to seeing them in action!"
The festival, which takes place on September 14th – 16th 2012, will welcome sporting competitors of all abilities and music revellers to Marazion, in view of the beautiful St Michael's Mount for the new annual 3 day festival. The event will feature a combination of triathlon, sportive cycling (long distance cycling road race), Open Water Swimming and a Beach Run throughout the day times.
Alongside the main sporting activities, the Festival of Sport will deliver entertainment for both participants and visitors alike. Highlights will include live music and entertainment, locally sourced food by Jamie Oliver Fabulous Feasts, a beer tent and bar by Cornwall's award-winning independent family brewers, St Austell Brewery, a Sporting Expo and athlete seminars. Festival passes which allow people to come and enjoy the festivities are also available.
Wings for Life is the official charity partner and competitors will be encouraged to fundraise for their ground breaking spinal cord injury research. The charity will be providing training tips and bringing along some of their well-known supporters from the world of sport.
For more information about the Human Race Festival of Sport, please visit: www.festivalofsport.net


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Taste, Memory: The Trustees of Reservations presents author David Buchanan at the Westport Grange Hall, 6 p.m. Jan. 11. He will be talking about his new book, "Taste Memory: Forgotten Foods, Lost Flavors and Why They Matter," which describes the importance and pleasures of biodiversity and its essential role in sustainable food systems. For more information, visit www.thetrustees.org. 1132 Main Road, Westport.
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All eyes are looking at forecast models this afternoon, and will continue to monitor them through the next 24-36 hours as a powerful storm system looks like it will setup to our West tomorrow afternoon. When it's this warm in January, you know something is up. Read below to see the latest thinking.
SYNOPSIS: The Storm Prediction Center has upgraded the severe risk to "Moderate" for parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, and the Mississippi Delta. We are under a "Slight Risk" for now, but this could change. This storm system has both the Thermodynamic (energy) and Dynamic (wind flow) parameters in place for a pretty significant severe event to unfold over the Southern and Southeastern US tomorrow afternoon through Wednesday afternoon. There will be plenty of instability with CAPE (Convective Available Potential Energy) ranging between 500-1000 J/kg. Our dewpoints will be above 60 degrees (that's a commonly used threshold used when forecasting severe weather), and the atmosphere will be quite moist with Precipitable Water values close to 2 inches. (Precipitable water is how much water would fall to the earth if you condensed it all out of an imaginary column through the atmosphere (kind of weird, I know)). The upper level winds will also be howling, with 80 mph winds just above the surface, and 120 mph winds in the middle of the atmosphere. It won't take much to mix those kinds of winds down to the surface. So, without wanting to scare anyone, this is not your average, run of the mill low end risk event. It's nothing to lose sleep over, but take precautions, and we'll all get through it together just fine!
WHAT TO EXPECT: Tomorrow will be a breezy day leading up to the arrival of the storms. We'll see winds sustained in the 15-20 mph range, with gusts as high as 30 mph. The main risk from this system will be damaging straight line winds as a squall line develops back to our West. Remember that trees, power lines, and your house don't know the difference between a tornado and straight line winds, so if you go under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning, take it just as seriously as you would a Tornado Warning. That being said, the winds at the surface will be in a different direction than the winds aloft, so there will be the chance for storms embedded in the squall line to rotate, as well as storms that form ahead of the line, so there is a tornado risk. Be ready for heavy rain, 70 mph+ wind gusts, and a few tornadoes.
WHEN?: The storms should approach the western part of Mississippi before Midnight tomorrow night, but we should start seeing action around 2:00AM and lasting through a good portion of Wednesday morning before it clears our Western Alabama counties by about 6:00 AM or so. Timing is still the biggest question right now. Models have come into better agreement regarding timing over the past few runs, but there is still about a 3-6 hour window of discrepancy, so right now that is our best timing forecast, but look for it to change as we get more information.
WHAT DO I NEED TO DO?: The thing you don't need to do is worry or be scared. We've dealt with things like this before, and situations that have been way worse. The absolute number one thing you can do is to make sure you have a way of getting warnings. This event will take place during a time when most of us are asleep, so make sure you have your NOAA weather radio on, and have extra batteries incase you lose power (which is a real possibility). Other options include smartphone apps that can pinpoint where your phone is using GPS and bring you the new(ish) polygon based warnings. Brian and I of course will be here watching, so as soon as you get a warning, make sure to tune in, and we will be on as long as we need to be to track the storms down to your neighborhood.
ONE FINAL REMINDER: The absolute last thing I want to do is make people worry. Like I said, as long as you have a way to get warnings as soon as they're issued, we'll all be fine. Going ahead and reviewing your tornado safety plan for where you'll be early Wednesday morning will also help. Hopefully we won't have to put those plans into action, but it's best to be prepared.
Brian and I will have updates on all Newscenter 11 Newscasts, as well as frequent updates to the web whenever our thinking for this event changes. They will be posted to wtok.com, with a link to the forecast discussion on our Facebook page.
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GOSHEN — A City of Newburgh man was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison for a robbery in which he shot two victims, leaving one of them a quadriplegic.
Neither victim was present for the sentencing.
Jason Lowe, 26, pleaded guilty in August to first-degree robbery and admitted to causing serious injury in the Jan. 28, 2012, assault in the hallway of an apartment house on Liberty Street in the City of Newburgh.
According to court papers, Lowe robbed the intended target, a then-26-year-old man, of cash, PCP and a cellphone. A neighbor stepped into the hallway, and Lowe shot him in the chest and then shot the first victim in the neck.
Lowe's co-defendant in the robbery, Malcolm Rich, 24, also pleaded guilty to a robbery charge and is serving an eight-year prison sentence.
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Thai Court to Be Urged to Allow Larger Cigarette Warnings
BANGKOK – Thailand's Public Health Ministry plans to ask a Thai court to lift a temporary stay on a requirement that tobacco companies cover 85% of their cigarette packs with graphic warnings, which would result in the Southeast Asian country having the largest such warnings in the world.
Nopporn Chuenklin, deputy director of the ministry's Disease Control Department, said the ministry is planning to lodge an appeal on Tuesday, or Wednesday at the latest.
The health ministry set a deadline for the new rules for cigarette packs to go into effect on Oct. 2. However, a Thai court granted tobacco giant Philip Morris and two other companies a temporary stay late last month after they argued that the ministry "acted beyond its legal powers" and that the rule would hurt the Thai tobacco industry.
Mr. Nopporn said in an interview Monday that the government will contend that "the new requirement won't create any excessive burden or damage to tobacco companies."
Philip Morris (Thailand) Ltd. said on Monday it had no comment.
In a statement issued last month, Philip Morris said the ministry failed to consult with impacted stakeholders and that the measure will impair the ability of tobacco manufacturers to display their trademarks properly.
"Today's decision now clears the way for us to show the court that this measure is not only illegal but also unnecessary given that the health risks of smoking are universally known in Thailand," the statement said.
Mahidol University's Tobacco Research Center and Knowledge Management Center estimated that the tobacco industry contributed to 0.52% of the country's GDP in 2009, the most updated report available. The economic losses from diseases attributed to smoking accounts for 0.5% of the country's GDP.
Thailand Tobacco Monopoly (TTM), a state enterprise that manufactures and distributes tobacco products, owned 67% of the market share as of 2008, according to the study. Philip Morris has 27% of market share, the highest among foreign tobacco companies, and the share is projected to rise. Top three tobacco companies – TTM, Philip Morris and British American Tobacco – employ in total about 4,500 workers.
Currently, graphic warnings cover 55% of cigarette packs in Thailand. If the health ministry wins, Thailand would top Australia, which requires that warnings cover 82.5% of cigarette packages.
In the U.S., the Tobacco Control Act 2009 required that graphic warnings cover the top half of the front and back of cigarette packs and 20% of cigarette ads. But a Federal Court of Appeals in 2012 struck down the mandate given to the Food and Drug Administration, saying the requirements violated free speech protections.
The litigation between the Thai government and Philip Morris highlights an attempt by tobacco giants to challenge public policy to discourage smoking in Asia, one of the fastest growing tobacco markets in the world, said Bungon Ritthiphakdee, director of Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance, a Bangkok-based advocacy group promoting tobacco-control policies.
"Tobacco companies will fight a long battle to prevent other countries from following the Thai government's initiative on this," Ms. Bungon said in a telephone interview. "We believe that once this measure becomes effective, it will have a big impact on their sales."
As of 2011, 11.5 million Thais were smokers, or about 18% of Thailand's total population of 65 million, based on the study by Mahidol University's tobacco research center. About 50,000 Thais died of smoking-related diseases each year, according to the country's Statistics Bureau.
In 2011, smoking prevalence has increased for the first time after it had declined over the last two decades, according to the study. The number of occasional smokers has also steadily gone up.
"Each intervention measure is usually the most effective in the first six months after its launch. That's why it's necessary to introduce new intervention plan," said Siriwan Pitayarangsarit, director of the Tobacco Research Center and Knowledge Management Center.
The Thai Public Health Ministry said it will ask the court to allow tobacco companies to use a set of 10 new graphic warnings by its deadline next month, and also to allow the enlargement of the warning to cover 85% of a cigarette pack.
"According to the [World Health Organization's] recommendation, we should change graphic warnings every two to three years to make them effective, and printing isn't going cost that much," Mr. Nopporn said.
Mr. Nopporn said at least seven tobacco companies have already complied with the ministry's new requirement and printed larger graphic warnings for cigarette packs. The court's injunction, if not lifted, will cause damage to those companies, he said.
"We still want to keep reminding them of the dangers," Mr. Nopporn said. "A cigarette isn't a beautiful thing and we want to send out exactly that message to discourage any trying to sharing."


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"Dr Jim Kerr The Shaman of Springfield" Yankton by cochinjew
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Shabbat Greetings from South Dakota
9 December 2006
You can choose to pursue Money or Happiness, but not both
Said, Dr Jim Kerr, The Shaman of Springfield, South Dakota.
People of South Dakota who are farmers are naturally down to earth with no pretensions and exuding an innocent humanness.
The dinner was at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J...who wished to discuss and obtain comfort for the medical negligence that had led to enormous sufferings for everyone in the family. Mrs. J is stoic and is not easily duped by the establishment, a kind and concerned wife, who single handedly rescued her husband from ?pre meditated murder? of the Health Care Providers she had available in this remote part of South Dakota.
Mr. J, now recuperating (two sub continental doctors at Sioux Falls seem to have been his saviours, prompting Mrs. J to say.. when there are more doctors from India, may be the American doctors will learn some manners!) had invited his ageing parents to meet me, his mother still can remember the Czech language of her childhood, which none of her off springs speak. It does take only one generation to wipe out cultural memory.
What made Us Jews survive in a world so eager to integrate and assimilate? Our sense of responsibility to our kith and kin and concept of nationhood- the oft repeated but seldom experienced sense of community. I have had the pleasure of experiencing the sense of a strong Jewish community in Melbourne, Australia, where I came of age.
Now my community is more holistic and expanded into the entire world ( like American Indians, Jews also pray to the Great Spirit, Melech HaOlam, universal rather than geographic). News of Mahdi in Tunisia whence Benjamin Ben Yiju left in 1100 CE to Kerala is received with equal enthusiasm when I am told of the visit of Jack Kerouac to a Breton village caf� in recent memory. I am lucky that my partner is a Breton who can claim to be the oldest people in the continental Europe!, who until recent times resisted all efforts of integration in to the greater French Society, as they had done to the Roman Armorica, nearly two thousand years earlier. In France, Egalite, is the Freedom to be French, not really the freedom to be Breton. Many Many French Jews have also chosen this ?egalite?. What is true is that a culture cannot be wiped out by words or physical forces, look at American Indians, surviving as a distinct entity even after 300 to 500 years of cultural coercion. The Kinship system of the American Indians, the central themes of Judaism, the family ties of the Bretons all will outlive the current fashionable cultural hyphenation.
?And I, said the Jew, I?m a Jew?
To understand this one line monologue from the French author Marcel Ayme (1901-1963), one has to understand that many many Jews have suffered throughout the history for saying:
I am Jew.
The Egalite, then, is to proclaim, I am a Jew, member of a community. Am Israel. That which binds me to my brother Daniel Abouganem of Panama whose ancestors had arrived there from Morocco and through Cuba!
Or to the blessed memory of Dr Nataf, the renowned ophthalmologist of Tunis of yesteryear?
This universal connection is what the American Indians call ?spirituality?, it is to be experienced, and it is a sensation, not a ritual. Spirituality does not arise from a ritual whatever it may be, to whichever organized religion it may belong to. I know many people who are ritualistic (in more than one way) but are empty spiritually and before you seek Spirituality elsewhere, please seek it within yourself.
So on this Shabbat, like every one of it before, I light the candles, I say the Brachas, Say the Shema, Say the Kaddish for Nicole Remen, Morgan?s Aunt, my father, Eliyahu?s father. And think of each one of you who have given part of your heart to me. On this Friday night, a special kiss to my only daughter, Claudia who cant wait to begin her studies in Medicine in Cuba, so that she can follow the meritorious example of El Che, the Cuban revolutionary.
May the Spirits bless her and all the other children L Ladim of my extended Mischpochah:
Arielle, Avital, Benjamin in Portland
Ilyssa in Yakima
Jayda and Nadia in Miami
Fatso, Maeli, Maelis, Stevan, Marie, Melanie, Julie, Noemi in Brittany
Tin Tin, E Tho, Pa Pa in Myanmar
Mari I and Mari II , Chinita in Cuba
Affections scattered over continents.
The Three Stars appeared as I reached the town of Yankton in South Dakota. Where shall I light the candles? I recognized the ?Chinese? Restaurant, some Dragon or other, and went in; the owners are Robert from a village near Battambang in Cambodia and his wife, Cam To, from Ho Chi Minh City. All displaced, Pol Pot and Lyndon Johnson, to be thanked?
I ordered a dish, chicken in lemon grass and asked him to make it as Cambodian as possible, then as I settled down to taste it, he began relating stories of torture under Khmer Rouge, thus eliminating my appetite altogether!
Plans are to have dinner with Shimon my Younger Brother in Miami next weekend.
Then to Paris, to be with my Partner, with whom I will travel to Mumbai and Cochin, lighting a few candles in Miami, Paris, Mumbai and Cochin.
An absolutely ordinary town with absolutely ordinary people with a notorious medical community known for its greed and avarice. South Dakotans are generally nice people until they are infected by the globalization virus of greed.
- Pros:People with a touch to the land
- Cons:as Chatwin asked, what am I doing here?
- In a nutshell:Why?
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A-Rod's Admission Leaves Listeners Unsatisfied
Two days after Sports Illustrated reported that he'd tested positive for illegal steroids in 2003, Alex Rodriguez went to SI's rival, ESPN, to admit his use of performance-enhancing drugs between 2001 and 2003. The move was unquestionably a public-relations triumph compared to the unsuccessful public denials by alleged steroid users Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds. Whether it furthered our understanding of the steroids era, or helped Major League Baseball move on, is far from certain.
"Like any good hitter, Rodriguez studied the men who came before him, learning from their mistakes and adjusting accordingly for his turn at the plate," SI's Lee Jenkins writes. "As public relations strategies go, it is generally wise to look back at every choice Bonds has ever made, and then do exactly the opposite."
Baltimore Sun columnist Peter Schmuck says A-Rod has preserved his place in Cooperstown: "We'll eventually forgive — if not forget — and send A-Rod off to the Hall of Fame in 15 years or so. We'll do that because he got the right advice from his high-paid spin doctors. He came clean and threw himself on the mercy of a forgiving sports nation. He didn't squirm in front of Congress or allegedly lie to a grand jury."
But close listeners of A-Rod's interview with ESPN's Peter Gammons didn't hear all they wanted to. Rodriguez called the timeline of his steroids use, as posed by Gammons, "pretty accurate," which sounds like "mostly true" or "not very false." He was also vague about which drugs he used and how he got them, claiming he didn't know and referring to supplements stores. That rang false to experts contacted by the New York Daily News's Teri Thompson and Michael O'Keeffe, who told them the positive drug tests couldn't have originated with over-the-counter drugs.
And the notion the three-time MVP didn't know what he took rang false to an unnamed "friend" of Rodriguez, who told the Record's Bob Klapisch, "Alex is so meticulous about what he eats and drinks and puts in his body, if there's broccoli on his plate, he has to know where it was grown. For him to say he had no idea what was being put in front of him over a three-year period, that's just [bleep]."
Gammons failed to press him on such points, perhaps because he's more an expert in baseball than in the law or in performance-enhancing drugs. The lack of pointed follow-up questions tainted the interview for New York Daily News columnist Bob Raissman. Gammons also let A-Rod use the interview to bash SI's Selena Roberts, accusing her of using illegal means to expose the drug use. She thoroughly denied his accusations to Newsday's Arthur Staple.
Rodriguez has lied before. "He lied to Katie Couric in 2007 in saying he never used illegal performance enhancers, and to many reporters — me included — who directly asked him these questions over the past few years," Joel Sherman writes in the New York Post. And the absence of a suspension since MLB began enforcing its steroids ban doesn't prove anything, as Chicago Tribune columnist Phil Rogers points out: "Never lose sight of Marion Jones. She took more than 160 drug tests during her track and field career and never had a positive test confirmed. Yet she wound up serving six months in jail for lying to a grand jury and lost medals and records after being forced into an admission by federal investigators."
ESPN's Rob Neyer wishes he'd heard some straight talk from Rodriguez. "Alex, I forgive you. But I would feel better about it if you'd told us the truth, just this once. Other guys were doing it, and nobody was getting caught, and you were just one of them."
He especially doesn't stand out among his Texas Rangers teammates during the years he admits to steroids use. Dallas Morning News columnist Kevin Sherrington constructs a hypothetical Rangers lineup of admitted or alleged users, and adds, "If you were using performance enhancers before you got to Texas, or if you wanted to start once you got here, no one stopped you."
San Antonio Express-News columnist Buck Harvey adds more context to the Rangers' dominance when it comes to steroid use, and nothing else; it helps to evaluate club owner Tom Hicks's professed outrage about A-Rod on Monday. "No matter the explanation, baseball has never had such concentrated misuse in one franchise," Harvey writes. "Three Rangers combined to win four MVP trophies after 1996, and all have been linked to steroids. The numbers were as striking when the Mitchell Report was released in 2007. Of the 75 active and former players named in the report, 16 had ties to the Rangers. One name missing then? Alex Rodriguez."
In the New York Times, Doug Glanville, a teammate of Rodriguez's with the Rangers, provides a glimpse at the superstar's psyche from within the clubhouse: He was talented, hard-working and terribly insecure.
The Yankees, A-Rod's next destination, have had their share of brushes with steroids use, including Clemens (alleged), Jason Giambi and Andy Pettitte (admitted). And though Rodriguez denies he used steroids after arriving in New York, Hartford Courant columnist Jeff Jacobs says the slugger's quest to break Barry Bonds's record for career home runs, and to "prove a god in pinstripes can do it naturally when no mortal in another uniform can," is irrevocably tainted. The Record's Ian O'Connor says the Yankees should fire A-Rod for misleading them about his past accomplishments.
If Rodriguez had his way, his interview with Gammons would end the story. "Professional athletes and ax murderers lead the world in their always immediate desire to put all transgressions behind them," Bill Dwyre writes in the Los Angeles Times. But there is more to the story. Now that A-Rod has joined them, Bonds, Clemens, et al have been elevated. "It was as if A-Rod were at the plate, and the bases were filled with cheaters," St. Petersburg Times columnist Gary Shelton writes of the ESPN interview. Meanwhile, anyone who hasn't been accused looks all the more suspicious today, Richard Justice writes in the Houston Chronicle.
Then there are the 103 other positive tests from 2003 that players believed were protected by a veneer of confidentiality that has been shattered by the A-Rod revelation. Washington Post columnist Mike Wise wants to know the other 103 names, particularly those of "the guy on the Triple-A fence who tested positive in 2003," who "was a premeditated dream-killer who robbed genuine workers of their stated goal, to someday play in the big leagues." (Fixer emeritus Jason Fry wrote eloquently on behalf of those genuine workers in 2007.)
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Phil Sheridan disagrees: "The players who submitted to those tests were assured the results would be confidential. As satisfying as it might be to know the results, that confidentiality should be sacrosanct. Unlike Bonds and Clemens, we are now crossing over to real witch-hunting." Hardball Times writers also warn of a witch hunt in their free-wheeling discussion about the story.
"Maybe the records from that time — which for all we know is still going on, since the cheaters are always ahead of the testers — are tainted," Salon's King Kaufman writes. "But they aren't any more tainted than the records from the time when baseball was segregated. The focus should be on ensuring the game is clean now and in the future, not on the rending of garments over past sins."
The Newark Star-Ledger's Steve Politi has another constructive, if unlikely, suggestion for A-Rod: "He needs to become the face of the anti-steroids movement."
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The so-called Border War between men's college-basketball teams from Missouri and Kansas lived up to the enormity of its name on Monday. Missouri improved to 21-4 overall and 15-0 at home with a 62-60 victory over its fellow Top 20 team. The Tigers won on a Zaire Taylor jump shot with a fortuitous bounce.
"The last few minutes were extraordinary — not because they were well-played (they were at times, weren't at others) but because it's just so much fun to see college kids play basketball that hard with the arena hot and loud and alive," Joe Posnanski writes in the Kansas City Star. Adds Bryan Burwell, in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "Now at long last the tension, drama and importance of basketball had returned to this sold-out building. The non-stop boos, derisive chants and comical hand-written signs were real and full of genuine venom, not the silly props on the wrong end of a lopsided rivalry."
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If the story of The Secret World of Arrietty sounds familiar, it's no wonder; this animated film from Japan is based on the children's book series The Borrowers by Mary Norton, which was also the basis for a 1997 American live-action comedy film starring John Goodman. But, as produced by Studio Ghibli, makers of Spirited Away and Ponyo, this adaptation is a different beast entirely.
In this version, 12-year-old Shawn (voiced by David Henrie) moves into a home also occupied by little people who live under the floorboards, among them spunky 14-year-old Arrietty (voice of Bridgit Mendler). Shawn is ill, so he doesn't go outside much, but as he becomes aware of Arrietty and forms a bond with her, his world changes. Arrietty and her family are "borrowers"—that is, tiny folk who "borrow" small quantities of what they need from big folk to survive.
Additional voice talent in this dubbed-to-English version comes from the likes of Carol Burnett (as the housekeeper hunting the borrowers), along with Will Arnett and Amy Poehler (as Arrietty's parents).
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News 12 at 6 o'clock, June 6, 2008
JOHNSTON, S.C.---Authorities found vandalism all across a small town, including smashed windows and spray-painted graffiti. Neighbors are upset after one of their most treasured landmarks is damaged.
"In a small town, this is, this is very noticeable," said Thomas Herlong. He grew up in Johnston and remembers when the town put up a mural 20 years ago in the center of town.
"I think if you had to pick one spot, it probably is a very strong place for them to make a statement," he said.
The landmark is now tagged with graffiti. It's hard to miss the bold markings since it's in the heart of downtown.
The mural's used to honor people who've made a difference to the community, but now the first thing the eye sees is the spray paint.
"It's a slap in the face when you have to ride by and look what somebody's done, that means a lot to everybody here," said Police Chief Chris Aston.
The city hopes to get rid of the graffiti very soon but is waiting for an insurance adjuster to figure out how much it will cost. They've spent more than $12,000 on the mural since it was created in 1988.
"The cost is a factor, but really I think that's not the main factor. I think the main thing is people just...the lack of respect, said Herlong.
The chief isn't sure who did it, but says it may be the work of gang members.
"We're gonna take it serious because we can't afford to have the taxpayers property vandalized, and we're concerned about the public safety," said Chief Aston.
Herlong says he won't let this change how he feels about his hometown, but hopes others will rethink how they leave their mark on this city.
The vandals didn't just hit the town mural. They spray-painted cars and signs all around the city and also smashed in car windows.
If you know anything about these crimes, call the Johnston Police Department.


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Sheldon High School was the district's 5th high school and the 3rd in less than ten
years. The name is from the town of Sheldon on Grant Line Road, a place that had been active in
the Cosumnes River gold activity of the 1850s. Sheldon is where the wagons were made. Jared
Dixon Sheldon, for whom the town was named, was an amazing adventurer, entrepreneur, pioneer,
and farmer of the Cosumnes River Sloughhouse area. In 1846, Sheldon obtained title from the
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Union Atlas vs SL cap strap
Why is it my 11-12 Union SL fit perfect in cap strap position but my same year Union Atlas don't? I guess I should change the straps completely. :dunno:
The SL straps are leather and conform to the boot easier. The Atlas straps are made with something else. Its a little more rigid and doesn't let the strap conform as easy to the boot. I found it gets more broken in and takes the shape of your boot the more you use them. But yeah, the SL straps are the shit.
Thanks again!
Remove both toe straps and screw the SL toe straps onto your Altlas binsings. Try it then, that way you'll know for sure what the problem is.
It sounds like it might just be the material like Extremo said, but you can check by doing this.
If the new Atlas toe straps you sent for don't solve the problem, just put the SL straps on whichever bindings you plan on using for a day.
If the thread lock wears off the off the screws from doing this often you can always get some more really cheap from a hardware store. I personally use thread tape because it's easer to remove when old and easier to reapply. :)
The thing is with Union straps is that the DuPont resin goes all the way through the interior of the straps and directly connects the ratchet to the length adjuster. This design was to prevent stretching of straps over time, like you get with other brands that only have the strap padding between the 2 connection points.
So you can't stretch them. I would just get another set of SL straps or go with the switching option. If you tell C3 about the issue they should send you a pair without a problem!
If it was just the outer material like you said, than it might work. :thumbsup:
Hey all. Just an update. I noticed a good change in the material after leaving them ratcheted on to the max all night with a pair of boots. I just released them and re-strapped them to the boots and I should see some good improvement. Thanks all for your help. My SLs just fit perfect the first time so I guess I got worried after seeing the material sticking out. Tomorrow I finally get to ride these Atlas! :thumbsup:
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(image courtesy of Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital)
For movie and environment lovers in Washington D.C., this is the perfect chance to satisfy your movie crave. From March 16th to the 28th, 155 documentary, feature, animated, archival, experimental, and children's films on the theme of food and environment are at your palate. There are of course several films featuring climate change and its impacts on soil and food production. Recommended films include:
The Burning Season (Australia, 2009, 90 min.)
The Last Days of Shishmaref (Netherlands, 2008, 91 min.)
Soil in Good Heart (USA, 2008, 14 min.)
Climate Refugees (USA, 2010, 95 min.)
The Age of Stupid (United Kingdom, 2009, 93 min.)
Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (50 min. work-in-progress)
Carbon Nation (USA, 2010, 83 min.)
Click here for information on films, times, and locations.
The cost of a movie ticket is mostly free!
The cost of transportation is around….let's say….5 dollars.
Showing love for the environment and getting more knowledge on Climate change and food security is PRICELESS!
More events on environmental film:
03/24, American University: Student Environmental Short Film Festival
3/22-26, Filmmakers for Conservation: Film Submission to Wild Screen Festival


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Leeds rolls out new buy-to-let deals
Leeds Building Society has launched a 5 year fixed-rate buy-to-let deal at 4.99 per cent, available up to 70 per cent loan-to-value, which allows 10 per cent capital repayments each year without penalty and has no higher lending charge.
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Kim Rebecchi, sales and marketing director at Leeds Building Society, said: "Our new five-year buy-to-let product will attract professional landlords, who may wish to move onto a highly competitive rate and fix their monthly commitments.
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Leak Forces H-P To Release Estimates Ahead Of Schedule
Hewlett-Packard has suffered another notable leak of financial information, this time of its fiscal 2014 outlook.
The company was holding its analyst meeting talking about how its business is stabilizing and how it would finally return to growth. Meg Whitman, the company's CEO, kicked off the event with an upbeat assessment of the business. Any detailed financial projection was expected to come in a planned presentation by H-P's chief financial officer after lunch at the event, being held in San Jose, Calif.
Well before that, some detailed information began to appear about the company's outlook on news outlets that include Bloomberg, such as H-P's projected earnings per share for fiscal 2014. A little over an hour later, the company released the information officially.
An H-P spokesman said the company is investigating what happened.
Whitman has made a concerted effort to keep H-P's drama to a minimum, and the company's blunders out of the headlines. It's possible that era could be over.
This isn't the first time some potentially market-moving news from H-P has been released prematurely.
A little more than two years ago, the company was forced to hastily release its quarterly results after an internal memo from former Chief Executive Leo Apotheker leaked, saying H-P was in for "another tough quarter." "We must watch every penny and minimize all hiring," he wrote at the time.
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The act of fondling another's face with a cylindrical object, i.e. a rolled-up newspaper. This is done in conjunction with saying Redzone (in an awkward tone).
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A girl's vagina while she's on her period.
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A drink consisting of Sailor Jerry rum and Mountain Dew Code Red.
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- Jun 3:
- Grieving fathers linked by killing rampage near UC Santa Barbara meet
- Jun 1:
- Santa Barbara rampage: Somber memorial in Fremont for David Wang
- May 31:
- Santa Barbara killings: Roommates didn't know of danger
- May 27:
- Mercury News editorial: Santa Barbara slayings revive mental health issues
- Lynbrook High remembers alum killed in Santa Barbara rampage
- UC Santa Barbara cancels classes, holds memorial Tuesday to remember victims of rampage
- Seth Rogen upset 'Neighbors' blamed for Santa Barbara shooting rampage
- May 26:
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- Elliot Rodger's parents made frantic dash to Santa Barbara but arrived too late
- May 25:
- Three fatal stabbing victims in Santa Barbara hailed from Bay Area
- Profiles of victims of Santa Barbara rampage
- Sheriff: Elliot Rodger was able to 'fly under the radar'
- Reconstruction: Denied again by people he hated, Elliot Rodger improvised
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- Isla Vista mass killer's videos reflect cold rage
- May 24:
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- Video vowing slaughter may be tied to shootings near UC Santa Barbara
- Sheriff: Gunman killed 3 people at home before going on rampage
SANTA BARBARA -- In a conciliatory gesture to a grieving family, authorities are dismissing a criminal complaint over "stolen candles" against Isla Vista stabbing victim Cheng Yuan "James" Hong, which stemmed from a bizarre January spat with roommate and eventual mass murderer Elliot Rodger.
Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce E. Dudley told this newspaper that late Friday morning, she filed a motion to dismiss the case involving Hong, one of six people Rodger killed one week earlier. She said the infraction was minor enough to be outweighed by the healing benefit to Hong's San Jose family.
"It's in the best interest of justice," Dudley said. "It's so small. I believe it's important to the Hongs that their son has no criminal history whatsoever. It's the right thing to do."
That's in line with the feelings of the family, which described the theft claim as overblown. It gained a wide profile when in the wake of the killings, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office reported Rodger initiated a citizen's arrest of Hong after accusing him of stealing $22 worth of candles. Hong was booked and released and later paid a fine.
But Hong's brother said Rodger initiated the conflict when he took away Hong's measuring cup out of annoyance over his cooking, and Hong responded by grabbing Rodger's candles to force a trade.
"In response, Elliot called the police," said Hong's brother, who asked not be named to protect his family's privacy. "What kind of person would call the police for such a petty argument?"
Dudley said she was willing to go as far as asking the governor to issue Hong a pardon and explored that option before determining she could clear Hong's record locally.
Hong, a Lynbrook High School alum, was one of three people stabbed to death by Rodger in their apartment the night of May 23 before Rodger got into his car and continued a rampage through Isla Vista where he shot and killed three people and injured more than a dozen others.
Contact Robert Salonga at 408-920-5002. Follow him at Twitter.com/robertsalonga.


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"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans." Woody Allen.
As a former fan of Woody Allen (former since another famous quote of his, "The heart wants what the heart wants," and associated unacceptable behavior), I was surprised to know this quote was his.
I think of Mr. Allen in connection with religion in the same vein as Mel Brooks' routine on Moses and the Israelites and the Ten Commandments: "The good news is I got the Big Guy down to ten. The bad news is, adultery is still in there."
My plan for my day in Atlanta on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 was to hit the gym, work at my desk in the morning on Irish Chamber of Atlanta matters, have some meetings with professors at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, just north of downtown, meet at 2pm in Buckhead (five miles north of downtown) with Consul General of Ireland Paul Gleeson and a couple of executives of an Irish/US educational company, meet at Fado Irish Pub at 5pm with two United Kingdom solicitors recommended to me by a good friend in Belfast, then on to a 7pm meeting at my parish in preparation for a Mission Trip to Kingston, Jamaica in February.
As Secret Agent 86, Maxwell Smart, might have said, "Missed it by THAT MUCH."
We had what we euphemistically call a "weather event."
I joke that Atlanta's forecasters have accurately predicted ten of the last three such events. Accusations are flying about who predicted what and who erred in not moving sooner, but Atlanta's wintry weather is unpredictable, there was more snow in the metropolitan area than predicted, and it fell quickly.
As the snow was falling in the late morning and early afternoon, all schoolchildren and workers were released, and like most newer American cities, most workers drive.
My spouse, a schoolteacher, left school after most of the children were gone, at 1.30pm; she arrived home, ten miles and eight hours later, at 9.30pm not having budged from the driver's seat of her car.
I arrived downtown at the law school in time to find a note on the front doors saying, "Closing at 12.30 due to weather."
I tried to make my way up Peachtree Street to the Consulate; it took me two hours to go four miles, as far as Fado, where I took advantage of my excused absence from the Consul General.
I thought I would wait an hour or two until the traffic cleared out and then head home.
I knew things were bad on the road.
My 5pm guests did not appear due to the weather. Thankfully, I met up with another good friend who is returning to Atlanta to work in the sports arena, and we had a pint or two. We also spent some time with Atlanta's best publican, Kieran McGill, CEO of Fado.
At 6pm I threw in the towel and headed home. The roads were gridlocked. Knowing Atlanta's roads and sidestreets and being experienced at driving in snow, I zigged and zagged, made good decisions and bad, and after an hour and a half had gotten to within about four miles of my home, but there was no getting closer.
I pulled onto a side street, parked and locked up, and spent the next hour plus walking home. It would have been nice to have an overcoat, rather than a sweater vest and a sports coat.
But these things happen in Atlanta.
In 1973, when I was home from college for Christmas break, I went to work as a hotel clerk one early January Sunday evening (3-11pm shift). An ice storm hit. I worked double shifts in the dark for the next four days in the same clothes, sleeping in a cold hotel room.
The ice took down hundreds of thousands of trees, all power lines, telephone service, etc. I got to go home Thursday. We had another event like the one this week in 1982. It took my spouse just five hours to make it home then, but the drive was shorter.
Two points: First, though hundreds of thousands of people were dramatically inconvenienced and in other cases really suffered, it was eerily quiet, except for small groups of people talking. No car horns, no yelling. Second, there was a lot of helping and cooperation.
Social media was in overdrive to make sure kids were fed and warm, diabetics got there insulin, etc. I have no doubt our governor and Mayor will make different decisions next time, but I also know them both to be good people who did their best based on the information they had.
The real problem in Atlanta? Members of the press and media, who clearly KNEW the snow was coming, failed to tell the Mayor and the Governor beforehand.
But I digress. I meant to write on the State of the Union Address.
To paraphrase Groucho, "The President gives good speeches. But this wasn't one of them."