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Best Mexican restaurants in Chicago
From Rick Bayless' empire to tiny taco joints, these are the best Mexican restaurants Chicago has to offer
Chicago has a thriving Mexican food scene that ranges from high-end dishes at Rick Bayless' Mexican restaurants to single al pastor tacos in Pilsen to tamales peddled in coolers at bars. Whether you're looking for spicy moles, cemitas, the best tacos or margaritas in Chicago, your next great Mexican meal isn't far.
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Mixteco Grill
The mole at this bustling BYOB steals the show. Seafood tamales are topped with Oaxacan yellow mole, and the wood-grilled chicken breast is served with mole verde. In truth, we don't really need any of the proteins here. All we need is some mole, a bowl to put it in, and some handmade tortillas to sop it all up.Read more
This swanky Mexican spot is known for perfect margaritas and chef Priscila Satkoff's traditional salsas, queso fundido and earthy mole served with handmade tortillas. A weekly specials menu brings seasonal change, with offerings like grilled duck breast with Oaxacan black mole or squash blossoms stuffed with goat cheese. Take some time with the massive tequila menu or impressive wine list, which the staff knows from front to back.Book now Read more
Birrieria de la Torre
What this counter-seat-only birria (goat stew) joint lacks in size, it makes up for in flavor. Though all of the soups (birria, posole and menudo) are way better than average, it's the carne en su jugo that kills. A rich broth, chock-full of creamy beans, bacon and chopped-up skirt steak, hits the spot every time. Tacos and tortas round out the tiny menu but seem completely unnecessary when faced with a giant bowl of steak soup. If the restaurant has them, order the homemade tortillas and fashion your own bacon-steak tacos.Read more
La Oaxaqueña
With hundreds of Mexican joints to choose from, why do we love this one? Maybe it's the Huatulco torta, a sandwich that layers housemade chorizo, caramelized onions, a slather of pinto beans and fresh avocado atop cecina, thin beef that's marinated for two days and then grilled. Or maybe it's the roasted Cornish hen smothered in Oaxacan mole or the crispy red snapper hiding under pickled red onions. Maybe there are too many reasons to count.Read more
Sol de Mexico
Clementina Flores is a mole goddess, a woman sent from the heavens to create sauces so rich and complex, you'll want to ingest them with a straw. Formerly the mole master at Chilpancingo and Ixcapuzalco, she now combines her mole with chef Carlos Tello's food, and magic happens. For each season, mole-doused entrées take on new flavors. Try the signature borrego en mole negro, which matches a New Zealand rack of lamb with a classic Oaxacan black mole sauce, mashed potatoes, jack cheese and green beans.Book now Read more
Breakfast at Rick Bayless's most casual spot yet is quiet perfection: a cup of masterfully concocted hot chocolate, a flaky egg empanada, one hell of a sugar-and-cocoa-coated churro. Lunch here is no less delicious, but it's a frenzy: Lines extend out the door for tortas filled with fatty, crispy pork carnitas. The crowds keep up at dinner, when caldos like braised-short-rib soup and chicken stew with toothsome posole are the ideal prelude to… another churro.Read more
Birrieria Zaragoza
Thick handmade tortillas, salsas made to order, cinnamon-laced coffee. You can get all of that here. Their only purpose, however, is to accompany this restaurant's signature platters of chopped goat meat. As opposed to other birrierias, this goat doesn't touch a consommé until it's plated, when some of the tomato-based broth is spooned over it. At that point, a good dousing of the restaurant's intricate hot sauce, and maybe a squeeze of lime and some onions, is all you need for one of the city's best goat tacos.Read more
Las Quecas
Tucked in the back of La Catedral Cafe & Restaurant is Las Quecas, the only Chicago outpost of the quesadilla chain (there are also locations in Carpentersville and Melrose Park). The tortillas are made right in front of you and it shows—they're thick, fresh and perfect vessels for fillings that range from carne asada to squash blossom. Chicharrons are tender and cloaked with a vibrant salsa roja that ofers a slow burn, while a spin through the salsa bar reveals some excellent, piquant sauces.Read more
Topolobampo is the most sophisticated and upscale of Rick Bayless's restaurants, and the one most frequented by President Obama and his family. As with all of Bayless's restaurants, the products used here are local and seasonal. So whether you're eating fresh oysters or ceviche or one of the beautiful moles, you know you're eating the best the season has to offer. An ever-changing menu means it's hard to predict exactly what will be on offer day to day—but because Bayless is involved, it never really feels like a gamble.Book now Read more
Birrieria Reyes de Ocotlan
There are a few birrierias (spots that specialize in Mexican goat stew) sprinkled throughout the city, but all it takes is one visit to this one before you stop caring about the rest. The scope of the menu may not win you over at first—this joint serves only about half a dozen items—but after trying the delectable tongue tacos, the cabeza tacos full of luscious beef cheeks, the simple yet rich goat consommé or the goat tacos bursting with sumptuous meat, you'll find you won't want for anything else.Read more
Carnitas Uruapan
At this tiny Pilsen storefront, regulars get special treatment (a.k.a. refried beans, not always on offer), newcomers just get blank stares, and everybody gets the carnitas. Ordered by the pound, the juicy pork is served to you on a platter with nothing but a side of corn tortillas and a spicy salsa verde so that you can concoct your own tacos. Not leaving any part of the pig to waste, the limited menu also includes fresh, warm, delicious pork rinds.Read more
Cemitas Puebla West Loop
The West Loop location is a bit sleeker than the original, now closed, outpost in Humboldt Park (which is relocating in 2015 to Logan Square), with artwork like skulls and a giant Coke sign made of army figures. The menu is the same, so score specialties such as tacos arabes, pork tacos with thick, pitalike wrappers that are the result of Puebla's Lebanese influence. Here, these chipotle-spiked beauties and their friend the cemita milanesa (a breaded pork steak with cheese and avocado on a sesame-studded bun) are among the best of the menu.Read more
La Chaparrita
Chicago's best all-around taqueria specializes in tacos de fritangas, or fried meaty things cooked on a wide metal stovetop called a charola. You seriously can't go wrong with anything on the menu, from the extra beefy suadero to the intricately spiced longaniza sausage. But the showstopper—and perhaps the best taco in the city—is the tripa. Order it crispy, and these little hunks from the cow's intestine (not, as you would assume, the stomach) arrive as golden-hued and glistening crunchy nuggets.Read more
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Joseph C. Hacker , age 54, of Sleepy Eye, MN died on March 3, 2013, at Sleepy Eye Medical Center.
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Over the next five posts, I will discuss five key strategies for improving academic writing. I have chosen these five simply because they are the ones that I most frequently turn to in my work with students. I have ordered them roughly from global to local, starting with a strategy for overall coherence and ending with common sentence problems. It is generally more efficient to treat broader structural issues before spending time on individual sentences; the structural edit, done right, can dramatically change a text. You do not want to expend energy on sentence-level improvements before making some broader decisions about what will stay and what will go.
The first strategy—and definitely my favourite—is the reverse outline. Reverse outlines are outlines that we create from an existing text. Regardless of whether you create an outline before you write, creating one after you have written a first draft can be invaluable. A reverse outline will reveal the structure—and thus the structural problems—of a text. The steps to creating a reverse outlines are simple:
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7. Go back to your answers in 2a and 2b to help you create topic sentences and cohesion in your paragraphs.
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You will be aware from the news that UK high street retailer HMV has officially gone in to administration. Since November 2012, we've sold both £10 and £20 denominations of HMV gift cards at 120 Asda stores.
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Tread Lightly in Card Growth Strategy
ARLINGTON, Va. -- Credit unions should continue to build their credit card portfolios even in the current economic downturn, analysts said, but they should be careful to target growth efforts.
"There has been a very strong emphasis on card growth for some time," observed Ondine Irving, a card consultant who acknowledged that she has strongly advised CUs in the past to take steps to grow their card portfolios. "I still think card growth is important, but I am unsure about whether it might be more prudent to put some card growth strategies on hold for a few months."
Irving and other analysts are concerned that consumer behavior regarding credit cards is changing during a time when the economy is slowing and other sources of liquidity, such as a home equity, have been drying up or disappearing. These changing conditions, Irving and others suggest, might make credit unions reconsider some tried and true card portfolio growth tactics like credit line increases, upgrades in the card platforms, balance transfer programs or other card marketing incentives.
"I want to stress that I am not out to rain on anyone's parade or anything, and I am not talking about abandoning these things altogether, but just letting them lay low for a while until we see how things are shaking out economically," she said.
Nationally, economists said people used to use their credit cards primarily for bigger purchases like a new television, but now that has shifted to using credit cards to meet more day to day expenses, like groceries.
According to Money Management International, a large debt counseling service in the New York City-area, one in five people have turned to credit for basic necessities. Debt counselors are noticing this trend more and more.
"You're finding a lot more people rather than using their credit cards for vacations or rental cars, something that would be more of a luxurious type, now you're seeing it for a more necessity-based groceries, to put clothes on their children's backs," said Colin Nupp of Debt Counseling Corp., another New York area debt counseling firm.
Irving worries that credit unions, which have increasingly realized the values of the card programs, could fall into a trap from this sort of card behavior if they move forward with aggressive card promotion efforts.
But other executives with CU card CUSOs and associations advised that while CUs should remain prudent about their card growth, they should keep the programs moving forward. At times like these, the executives said, such card programs could represent opportunity and even necessity as credit union members with otherwise strong credit scores found their usual credit sources drying up.
"I definitely would not favor an across the board credit line increase at any credit union right now," said Tom Chandler, director of Strategic Portfolio Consulting for PSCU Financial Services. "But I think this would be a good time for a targeted credit line increase program where a credit union looked closely and carefully at its portfolio and other metrics before moving forward." PSCU is a payments processing CUSO for more than 500 credit unions that use the First Data Corp. platform to process their transactions.
Chandler recommended that credit unions considering different card growth promotions not abandon them but, instead, evaluate them in the light of the particular membership and circumstances.
"For instance, if a CU had been considering a credit line increase for all of its card holders with FICO scores over 680, maybe they might pull that score up some and increase the credit lines for card holders over 720," Chandler said. Other tactics might include making smaller credit lines increases to lower credit scores or looking at other parameters before making a decision, he added.
Bill Lehman, assistant vice president for portfolio consulting for Card Services for Credit Unions, agreed that a targeted approach looking at a CU's individual circumstances would be the path forward these days.
"There are a number of different account metrics that a credit union could look at in making a card decision," he noted. "Credit scores would be one, but so might the length of time that a cardholder has had the CU's card, so might the use of credit overall, so might the number of other products the member has," Lehman said.
Bill Hampel, chief economist for CUNA, agreed that targeted approaches to card growth would be the most prudent course but also encouraged CUs to see their card programs as an opportunity during the downturn.
"One definition of a credit crunch is when people who would otherwise not have any problem getting loans suddenly stop being able to borrow money," Hampel said. "In those circumstances, credit unions could do a lot by stepping forward to help them, particularly when these are people who are good credit risks and will be good risks into the future," he added.
Hampel also pointed out that the impact of the downturn has not been uniform across the country. Credit unions in California, Arizona, Nevada, Florida and to some extent Michigan, Ohio and states of the upper Midwest, are in parts of the country that have borne the brunt of the downturn, Hampel said. "Much of the rest of the country has not been nearly as affected," he added.
Both Hampel and Lehman acknowledged that the economic downturn might mean that credit unions change some of their card marketing strategies. For example, in a classic case, a CU cardholder who paid their bill on time but routinely bumped up against their credit limit might have been a relatively easy candidate for a credit line increase.
But now, Hampel and Lehman said that a CU might want to take a closer look at the availability of the cardholder's credit overall to get an idea of whether this is a cardholder just chasing a lower rate in the credit union card or someone who is using their credit to meet daily expenses. In the case of the latter, Hampel said, a credit union line increase might be a bad idea.
In general, the analysts said, the current downturn provided credit unions with a mixture of opportunities and challenges in their card programs. Credit unions willing to act carefully and thoughtfully in growing their card portfolios can still find cards a useful and profitable tool to serve their members, the analysts said.


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The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament is about to begin, and there will definitely be times when collectively we might say, "That didn't just happen, did it?" So we thought we'd tell a few stories from OSU's past to elicit a similar response of disbelief:
Saints and Sinners
It may be hard to imagine but when the University first opened, there were only seven faculty members and about two dozen students. More incredibly, many of the first faculty members resided in University Hall, along with many of the college's first male students. The faculty's quarters were mostly on the upper floors, known as the "Saints' Roost," and many of the students lived in the cellar, otherwise known as "Purgatory." Of course, sharing close quarters was bound to lead to some disturbances. One former student's account mentioned that residents of Purgatory occasionally made their way up the stairs at night; they formed a line and the leader would tap on certain faculty members' doors at odd hours of the night. When the unsuspecting faculty member opened the door, the line would start forward and each passing student would hit the Saint with a pillow until he shut the door. Sounds like fun, huh? Clearly, the Internet had not yet been invented.
The Chemistry Building curse?
OSU's chemistry department got off to a rocky start: Originally housed on the third floor of University Hall, it was soon moved to a newly constructed building on the site of, most recently, Brown Hall. When a fire started in the building in 1887, the whole structure burned down because of a lack of water to extinguish the flames.
The next chemistry building was built two years later on the site of the present Derby Hall.
It burned down in 1904. A recounting of the incident said there were "ludicrous happenings due to excitement" that occurred that night.
Apparently the firefighters were afraid of the chemicals housed in the building, so they did not try to put out the flames (whether or not the chemicals were a threat is not known). However, that did not stop students from entering the burning building and attempting to save the contents, including bottles of distilled water.
The third chemistry building, now known as Derby Hall, was rebuilt in 1906 on the site of its predecessor. It too, caught fire soon after it was completed; however the building was saved. Its first addition was, of course, a fire-proof storage shed for the chemicals. No doubt this helped to break the curse.
Hairy men in dresses
It's likely someone has written a thesis about why people laugh when men dress up in women's clothing. The entertainment method surely worked for OSU audiences during the first half of the 20th century, given the long run of a student acting group called Scarlet Mask. The men's musical comedy club that later evolved into an honorary dramatic organization was started in 1919 by a group of five OSU students. Most of the plays were comedies, and they were a source of entertainment for students and local residents before the advent of television. Some of the early plays (prior to 1925) were penned by none other than humorist James Thurber. One of the group's signature pieces was to have very big, hairy men—such as members of the football team—come out on stage dressed in frilly women's clothing. Another key member was Milton Caniff, creator of long-running comic strips, "Terry and the Pirates" and "Steve Canyon." Who knows? If he had not become a renowned cartoonist, he might have his career on stage. The Scarlet Mask Club disbanded in the 1930s, primarily due to a lack of funding, but the club was periodically resurrected for the next decade or so. Its last run ended in 1953.


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Side Effects Of Truvada/Isentress???
Hi all, I was diagnosed 5 months ago with a CD4 count of 300. I swiftly started treatment and truvada/isentress was prescribed by my doc as this combo was supposed to have little or no side effects, seeing as i operate heavy machinery on a daily basis. I was living abroad when diagnosed and it came as a massive shock. I felt very alone and isolated and drank very heavily of an evening to try n numb my brain i guess.... i dont really know why... but thats how i dealt with it initially. After 2 months of wreckin myself i decided to fly home(UK) in hope of finding some motivation to 'care' again and sort myself out. Thankfully this has been a good move as i am now a lot more positive being around friends and family and am into month 3 with no booze and no cigarettes!!! Anyways, i had completed one month of meds before i left and the results were great. VL went down from 6000 to <20 in 4 weeks. But since stopping the drinking i have Really struggled to sleep. I expected this for a few weeks seeing as i was drinking myself to sleep previously... but it has got worse as the weeks have turned into months. I suffer from really restless sleep with such vivid dreams often about work!?(Sad i know!!!) They are so life-like that i wake up feeling that iv already done a days work before iv stood up!! I am beginning to think this could be a side effect of the meds and all the drinking was masking it as i was drunk going to bed and feeling 'hungover' when i got up the next day. I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced anything similar off the truvada/isentress combo?? Its just so hard to get up and go at the moment... i was kinda hoping someone might be able to tell me it goes away after a while!!!!! lol. Thanks for reading and any feedback will be much appreciated!
Insomnia is a known side effect of Isentress. Discuss with your doctor if it becomes too bothersome. There are other medications with little/no side effects that you could take or you may try a sleep aid recommended by your doctor.
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I'm on Isentress and the major side effect listed on their site is a 4% rate of "disturbed sleep" -- mine is similar to yours in that it's not so much nightmares with scary snakes or anything, but intense scenarios that I call, for lack of a better description, "crisis dreams". They're benign up to a point, but then at some point there's a crisis of some sorts and I actually have to wake up, get out of bed, and force myself to urinate. Then I go back to bed and sleep fine.I'll also add that this doesn't happen every night, but it does happen perhaps once a week. And it's worse if I'm having anxiety about something. So I suppose it could be a combination of anxiety and medication side effect. It's hard to discern such things often, but since it's a known side effect it would make sense for you to try another regimen -- and you'd only be switching out the Isentress for something else, and staying on Truvada. If you still have sleep issues after say a month on the new medication you can probably assume you have excessive anxiety causing sleep issues.
I am the same regimen the but never had any problems with sleep. But I am also prone to low blood pressure, so I fall asleep as soon as I hit the bed. But I noticed, I have some spots on my skin. They appear in different places of my chest and back. I put the cream, and it helps but another spot shows up in another place... Is it a side effect too?
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- LEAP Commerce launches the website version of its iOS app Best Decision™ today, brings the best shopping experience just in time for Cyber Monday. Live on www.getbestdecision.com today, the Best Decision e-commerce beta site brings millions of exciting products to consumers from their favorite sites in a beautiful new user interface, including Universal cart.
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Lorien Eck M'06, of Los Angeles, CA, has received certification from the National Board for
Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS). She is one of 7,700 teachers nationwide to
achieve National Board Certification in 2006, and the only known St. Lawrence
graduate to receive the certification.
Eck is a visual arts teacher at John Muir Middle School and earned her bachelor's
degree at San Francisco State University.
According to the NBPTS, certification is "a voluntary process established by the
NBPTS, achieved through a rigorous, performance-based assessment that typically
takes more than a year to complete and measures what accomplished teachers should
know and be able to do. Teachers who earn this advanced teaching credential are
among the best-qualified in the nation to improve instruction, raise student
achievement, and improve teaching practices in their classrooms, schools and
Eck was named Los Angeles Teacher of the Year in 2005-2006; she participated in her
professional semester at St. Lawrence in 2001, as a graduate student.
More information: St. Lawrence University Education Department
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Spitzer Urges Major Changes In State Lobbying Law
Attorney General Spitzer called on the State Legislature to adopt sweeping changes to New York's lobbying laws, noting that such reforms are necessary to restore the public's confidence in government.
"The public recognizes that our legislative process is broken, and that our weak lobbying laws are a major part of the problem," said Attorney General Spitzer. "Because the problems are so fundamental, we cannot adopt timid or partial reforms. Instead, the reforms must be bold and comprehensive."
The Attorney General's proposed reforms include the following:
- Prohibit lobbying on government contracts;
- Prohibit lobbyists from giving gifts to government officials;
- Extend the Lobbying Act which currently applies only to attempts to influence legislation to cover all forms of government decision-making;
- Expand the ban on retainer agreements that tie compensation to the success of the lobbying effort; and
- Significantly increase penalties for violations of the Lobbying Act.
Spitzer's proposals were made in written testimony submitted to the New York State Lobbying Commission. Commission staff has proposed a series of changes to the Lobbying Act, and the Commission is holding a hearing on Monday, November 29 to consider the staff proposals. Spitzer applauded the Commission for holding the hearing, and was supportive of some of the staff proposals. Like Spitzer, the Commission staff recommended extending the Lobbying Act to cover non-legislative issues, expanding the ban on contingent retainers, and increasing penalties.
However, Spitzer asserted that some of the staff recommendations were too timid, and others were counterproductive. For example, the Attorney General recommended a complete ban on procurement lobbying, and proposed that companies violating the ban should be automatically disqualified from obtaining the contract.
"When lobbyists circumvent established procedures, and seek to alter contracting decisions, it causes the public to question the fairness of the entire procurement process," Spitzer said. "If bidders know that improper lobbying will cause them to lose a contract, they will not engage in such lobbying, and instead will spend their time and energy on submitting the best possible proposal."
Spitzer also sharply criticized the recommendation from Commission staff to eliminate the cap on gifts from lobbyists. Under current law, lobbyists can give gifts up to $75, and this is a "per gift" cap, so lobbyists can give multiple gifts below that threshold, even though the payments could total hundreds or thousands of dollars per year. The Commission staff recommended eliminating that cap, thereby allowing unlimited gifts of unlimited amounts.
"Simply stated, that is one of the most counter-productive proposals I have ever heard," said the Attorney General. "The public already believes that monied interests have an undue influence over government decision-making, and they want the existing practices reformed, not exacerbated."
Instead, Spitzer called for a ban on any gifts of more than nominal value, noting that he had imposed such a ban in the Attorney General's Office when he took office in 1999.
"We need to eliminate any accusations that decisions are made based on money rather than substance," said Spitzer. "That is the only way to restore the public's confidence in the integrity of the legislative process."
A copy of Attorney General Spitzer's written testimony is attached. The testimony is limited to proposed lobbying reforms, and does not cover other areas of needed reform such as budgeting, ethics, debt practices, campaign finance and public authorities.
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Newer diesel trucks, like the Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD with the LML Duramax engine, use highly refined and advanced powerplants. They also boast the latest state-of-the-art emissions equipment, including SCR (urea injection) which are illegal to remove to make power the more traditional ways. Even with power numbers approaching 400 horsepower and 800 ft-lb of torque, there are still a lot of us diesel enthusiasts looking for more power. But the road to making more power has changed a bit to keep your rig emissions legal. Fortunately there are aftermarket manufacturers working within the rules and confines of the regulations to help make more power while satisfying emissions requirements. CARB OE exemptions are relatively new to the diesel performance side of things and are becoming the "smog legal" benchmark. So opting for aftermarket goodies with the CARB stamp of approval is a great first step toward keeping your rig legal. Based on the need and number of trucks on the road, several manufacturers have stepped up to the challenge of making emissions-friendly parts. The drawback to CARB EO certification is that the process is lengthy and expensive. The three products shown here did not have CARB OE exemptions as of our deadline, but by the letter of the law are emissions legal since they do not remove or bypass the emission control components. To make some more power on this 2012 Chevy Silverado 3500 HD, we turned to the experts at Thoroughbred Diesel in Winchester, Kentucky. To help the LML Duramax engine inhale better we chose a K&N 63-Series air intake kit. We also opted for a MagnaFlow 4-inch diameter stainless steel DPF-back exhaust system in their new black ceramic-coated finish to match the truck. And to address fuel and timing issues, the crew installed the new H&S Performance Mini Maxx Street Tuner to electronically enhance the engine's tuning. Before any of the parts were installed, Wade McGinnis and Adam Mattingly strapped the dually down to Thoroughbred's Mustang chassis dyno to get baseline performance numbers. As we anticipated, the LML was no slouch from the factory. We measured peaks of 343.7 horsepower and 626.5 ft-lb of torque. But, we all know there's more potential in the 6.6L Duramax engine just waiting to be unleashed and we were on a mission to see if we could make more power without messing with or removing the emissions equipment. After the dyno runs, McGinnis and Mattingly went to work on the truck starting with the K&N intake system. The system features K&N's new diesel-specific high-flow washable/reusable air filter with 50 percent more filter material. It includes all of the hoses, tubes and clamps needed to install it in the truck, along with a metal heat shield to make sure the open-element filter pulls in as much cool outside air as possible. The installation is very straightforward and following the provided installation instructions makes it almost foolproof; it can easily be done in your garage or driveway with basic hand tools. McGinnis and Mattingly also installed the H&S A-pillar and Mini Maxx Street Tuner in the truck with ease. Swapping out the pillar is easy and gives the Mini Maxx a good mounting location where it's easily visible to the driver. Installation is straightforward with few connections, including plugging in the OBD adaptor, running a wire under the hood for power, and then routing the HDMI cable up the A-pillar for the Street Tuner. The final piece of the upgrade puzzle for the LML Chevy was the MagnaFlow DPF-back exhaust system. The system installed on this truck features the black ceramic coating over the 4-inch diameter mandrel-bent stainless steel tubing with a 5-inch diameter cooled exhaust tip. Keep in mind, though, that this is largely a cosmetic and sonic upgrade, since there's not a restrictive muffler being replaced and the tubing diameter is the same. It does however sound good and the exhaust tip is in arguably a better position with the tip protruding slightly beyond the edge of the bed rather than being tucked up under the bed and bumper in the stock location. You'll need a reciprocating saw and a long blade to cut the factory exhaust; otherwise it's a simple bolt-on installation. When the upgrades were finished, McGinnis and Mattingly strapped the big black Chevy back down to the Mustang chassis dyno for some more pulls. Peak horsepower rose to 417.7 with 743.9 ft-lb of torque with the new parts installed and the Street level tune uploaded to the truck. This is a significant improvement of 74 horsepower and 117.4 ft-lb of torque at peak output. Looking at the dyno graphs, the new setup provides more power across the board with a very significant bump in performance across the upper rpm range from about 2,600 rpm on up. The following photos highlight the installation of all the parts. If you plan to do the install yourself, you can accomplish the mods in less than a day.
In Part 2, we'll review the installation step by step.
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Araki, Atsuko1; Kawai, Toshio2; Eitaki, Yoko2; Kanazawa, Ayako1; Morimoto, Kanehisa3; Nakayama, Kunio3; Shibata, Eiji4; Tanaka, Masatoshi5; Takigawa, Tomoko6; Yoshimura, Takesumi7; Chikara, Hisao7; Saijo, Yasuaki8; Kishi, Reiko1
1Department of Public Health Sciences, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan; 2Osaka Occupational Health Service Center, Osaka, Japan; 3Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan; 4Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Aichi, Japan; 5Fukushima College, Fukushima, Japan; 6Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan; 7Fukuoka Institute of Health and Environmental Sciences, Dazaifu, Japan; and 8Asahikawa Medical College, Asahikawa, Japan.
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Microbial volatile organic compounds (MVOC) are a range of volatile organic compounds produced by microorganisms. According to previous reports, exposure to various MVOC at school was associated with asthmatic symptoms in pupils and a history of asthma among school employees. However, the relationship between MVOC exposure at home and allergies in inhabitants remains unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between allergic symptoms and selected MVOC exposure in single family homes.
This study is based on a survey conducted in 2006. Subjects were 624 inhabitants of 182 detached houses in 6 cities of Japan. Air samples were collected using diffusive samplers for 48 hours, and the concentrations of 8 selected compounds were analyzed by Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer (SIM). All inhabitants of the dwellings were given a self-administered questionnaire on age, sex, and medications for bronchial asthma, atopic dermatitis, and allergic rhinitis within the past 2 years. Adult inhabitants were also asked to fill out questions regarding housing characteristics.
The most frequently detected MVOC was 1-pentanol at a median concentration of 0.60 μg/m3. Among the 609 subjects who completed questions about allergies, the prevalence of asthma, atopic dermatitis, and allergic rhinitis was 4.8%, 9.9%, and 18.2%, respectively. No difference was found among genders, but a higher prevalence was obtained among younger subjects. A significant association between rhinitis and 1-octen-3-ol (per log10-unit: odds ratio, 2.02; 95% confidence interval: 1.05–3.87) was obtained after adjusting for age, sex, environmental tobacco smoke, and dampness index. No MVOC was related to asthma or atopic dermatitis after adjustment.
According to the results of experimental volunteer 1-octen-3-ol exposure, mucosal irritation of airways was observed. Although indoor air concentrations of 1-octen-3-ol in this study were relatively low, exposure may cause irritation in inhabitants and evoke a rhinitis.
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Waksman, Gabriel and Meng, G.Y. and St. Geme, J.W. (2008) Repetitive architecture of the Haemophilus influenzae hia trimeric autotransporter. Journal of Molecular Biology 384 (4), pp. 824-836. ISSN 0022-2836.Full text not available from this repository.
The Hia autotransporter of Haemophilus influenzae belongs to the trimeric autotransporter subfamily and mediates bacterial adherence to the respiratory epithelium. In this report, we show that the structure of Hia is characterized by a modular architecture containing repeats of structurally distinct domains. Comparison of the structures of HiaBD1 and HiaBD2 adhesive repeats and a nonadhesive repeat (a novel fold) shed light on the structural determinants of Hia adhesive function. Examination of the structure of an extended version of the Hia translocator domain revealed the structural transition between the C-terminal translocator domain and the N-terminal passenger domain, highlighting a highly intertwined domain that is ubiquitous among trimeric autotransporters. Overall, this study provides important insights into the mechanism of Hia adhesive activity and the overall structure of trimeric autotransporters.
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Volume 90, Issue 9, 26 February 2007
The authors present the results of heteroepitaxialgrowth of single-crystalline ZnSnanowire arrays on CdSnanoribbon substrates by the metal-catalyzed vapor-liquid-solidgrowth method. ZnSnanowire arrays were vertically or crosswise aligned to the surface of CdSnanoribbon substrates. Room-temperature lasing from ZnSnanowire arrays was demonstrated. The present synthesis provides a new approach to the rational design of building blocks for nanodevices.
Optimization of high responsivity waveguide photodiode with a thin absorption layer90(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2709944View Description Hide Description
The optimization of a waveguidephotodiode (WGPD) having a thin absorption layer is discussed. With an absorption layer thickness of less than , responsivity of was achieved for lensed-fiber coupling. For flat-ended fiber coupling, responsivity of was achieved. An absorption layer thickness of more than is required for high responsivity and low polarization dependency. A formula for frequency response in a WGPD with a thin absorption layer is also obtained. This formula gives the optimized WGPD structure for high speed operation with high responsivity.
Enhanced light outcoupling in a thin film by texturing meshed surfaces90(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2709920View Description Hide Description
The authors demonstrate a method of texturing a meshed surface on a poly(dimethyl siloxane) (PDMS) film for improving light extraction. This meshed surface is fabricated through a casting process by using a self-organized porous film as a template. Experimental results show that the light outcoupling efficiency increases on the meshed surface of a freestanding PDMS film with large incident angles. The external quantum efficiency of an organic light-emitting diode with the texturedPDMS film was also demonstrated to have an enhancement of 46%.
Pretilt angle effects on critical voltage and dynamic response of pi cell90(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2709994View Description Hide Description
The critical voltage with an arbitrary pretilt angle is given analytically which is consistent with the numerical results [Acosta et al., Liq. Cryst.27, 977 (2000)]. The author's results show that the critical voltage is dependent on the parameters of liquid crystal and pretilt angle but is independent of the cell gap. By numerical simulation the authors find that the on time of pi cell decreases with the increasing pretilt at the same voltage, and the off time of the cell driven by the undershoot method is much faster than that of the normal driven method for the cell with nonzero critical voltage.
Evidence of cascaded emission in a dual-wavelength quantum cascade laser90(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2709970View Description Hide Description
This letter reports on a quantum cascade laser that exhibits simultaneous dual-wavelength emission from two consecutive optical transitions in each active region. These "cascaded" transitions—a second-excited state to first-excited state and a first-excited state to ground state—yield light at and , respectively, in good agreement with simulations. The two lasing wavelengths have similar thresholds at the leading edge of a current pulse.
High , one-dimensional terahertz photonic waveguides90(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2710002View Description Hide Description
A one-dimensional (1D) photonic metal parallel plate waveguide is presented in the spectral range of that has high throughput and stop bands with up to the experimental limit of of dynamic range. By incorporating a defect into the periodic bottom plate of the waveguide, a transmission resonance is generated in the first stop band with a value of 120 and a dynamic range of over . The 1D geometry allows the utilization of the mode matching technique to analytically calculate the transmission of the photonicwaveguide.
Destruction of amplified spontaneous emission via chemical doping at low-work-function metal/conjugated polymer interfaces90(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2710188View Description Hide Description
The authors investigate how the use of different metal electrodes affects the ability of poly[2-methoxy-5-(-ethyl-hexyloxy)-1,4-phenylene vinylene] (MEH-PPV) films to undergo amplified spontaneous emission(ASE). High-work-function metals such as Ag or Au have little effect on the ASE threshold, but low-work-function metals such as Ca or Al completely shut off ASE.ASE is restored when a thin spacer layer, such as a few nanometers of polystyrene or oxidized Ca, is introduced between the MEH-PPV film and the Ca or Al electrode. This suggests that low-work-function metals chemically dope the polymer, creating polarons that destroy ASE not only by lowering the gain through emission quenching but primarily by increasing the loss via optical absorption. Thus, the exponential sensitivity of ASE to optical losses provides a spectroscopic probe of conjugated polymer/metal interfaces.
Emission of hybrid organic-inorganic exciton/plasmon mixed states90(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2695682View Description Hide Description
In this letter the authors experimentally demonstrate the strong coupling regime at room temperature between a surface plasmon and an exciton from an auto-organized quantum well. The sample is formed by a two dimensional layered perovskite-type semiconductor:, spin coated onto a silver film. The dispersion lines resulting from reflectometry experiments performed at room temperature in the Kretschmann geometry present an anticrossing with a Rabi splitting of . The emission of the low energy polariton is presented.
Temperature-dependent current injection and lasing in T-shaped quantum-wire laser diodes with perpendicular - and -doping layers90(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2709521View Description Hide Description
The authors measured the temperature dependence of the lasing properties of current-injection T-shaped quantum-wire (T-wire) lasers with perpendicular - and -doping layers. The T-wire lasers with high-reflectivity coatings on both cleaved facets achieved continuous-wave single-mode operation between 5 and . The lowest threshold current was at . The temperature dependences of differential quantum efficiency and threshold current were attributed mainly to that of current-injection efficiency.
Chirp in a transistor laser: Franz-Keldysh reduction of the linewidth enhancement90(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2709964View Description Hide Description
A quantum well(QW)transistor laser with the capability of high current density, a collector current ensuring minimal operational change (beyond laser threshold) in base QW carrier population, a favorable long narrow emitter laser geometry, and built-in base-collector Franz-Keldysh absorption (with ), is measured for chirp-related behavior. A relatively low transistor laser linewidth enhancement factor is obtained despite the resolution limitations of the measurement apparatus.
Very narrow-band ultraviolet photodetection based on strained -plane GaN films90(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2710769View Description Hide Description
The authors demonstrate a photodetection configuration where the responsivity in the ultraviolet spectral region is limited to a few nanometers, representing high-quality-factor, narrow-band detection together with polarization sensitivity. Both features are obtained by utilizing a polarization-sensitive photodectector in combination with a polarization filter made from two identical -plane GaN films on (100) substrate. The optical band gap of these films depends on the direction of the in-plane polarization vector of the incident light beam with respect to the axis. Electronic-band-structure calculations show that the naturally present anisotropic in-plane strain in these films is the crucial parameter to achieve both a high responsivity and a high polarization contrast.
Continuous-wave terahertz imaging with a hybrid system90(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2711183View Description Hide Description
The authors have developed a hybrid system for coherent raster-scan imaging at . It combines a high-power electronic source (a multiplied Gunn emitter) with a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser in order to achieve a high dynamic range via electro-optic detection. The single-scan dynamic range of at a lock-in time constant of is sufficient to permit detection of scattered terahertz radiation in addition to specularly reflected/transmitted light. Active synchronization of the electronic source and the laser is not needed because of the remarkably low jitter between the two radiationsources.
Self-diffracting effects in hybrid materials90(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2710786View Description Hide Description
The authors experimentally demonstrate self-diffraction effect in a hybrid material. Patterns at different light intensity levels were obtained. A dependence of the number of diffraction rings with the intensity of laser is observed.
Terahertz microcavity lasers with subwavelength mode volumes and thresholds in the milliampere range90(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2710754View Description Hide Description
The authors demonstrate terahertz microcavity lasers with ultralow current thresholds and with reduced mode volumes of , i.e., less than one cubic wavelength. A double metalwaveguide with reduced active core thickness is used to achieve confinement in the vertical direction, without compromising the laser performances. Confinement in the longitudinal direction is obtained using microdisk resonators. The guiding properties of surface plasmons are exploited to guide the mode with the metal contact. This makes the use of a resonator with vertical and smooth sidewalls unnecessary. The emission wavelength is . The devices lase up to in pulsed mode, and they achieve continuous-wave operation up to .
Low-threshold and high efficiency lasing upon band-edge excitation in a cholesteric liquid crystal90(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2710777View Description Hide Description
A low threshold and high efficiency laser based on dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs) is demonstrated using an input excitation with the same handedness of circular polarization as the helical structure of the sample at the shorter wavelength band edge of the reflection band. The responsible mechanism originates from the dramatic increase of the optical density of state (DOS) at the band edges. The calculated DOS of the CLC system confirms the authors' experimental results.
Tolerance of microfabricated wedge for the generation of geometrical stable optical vortex at focal vicinity90(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2539704View Description Hide Description
The geometrical stability of the optical vorticesgenerated by an optical wedge at the focal vicinity is investigated. It is found that an optical wedge generates an optical vortex beam in the free-space propagation for a wide range of imparted phase shift, however, it possesses a smaller tolerance zone of induced phase shift within which it generates structurally stable optical vortex at focal vicinity. Furthermore, the wedge was employed for the generation of the femtosecond optical vortex beam free from appreciable spatial chirp.
Omnidirectional light emission via surface plasmon polaritons90(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2437053View Description Hide Description
The simulations and experiments on light emitters within a planar, metal/insulator/metal cavity demonstrate an omnidirectional resonance. This is a resonance for which the maximum decay rate enhancement in the cavity occurs at a well-defined wavelength independent of emission angle. It is shown numerically that the resonance occurs when the cavity thickness is a quarter of the surface plasmon wavelength. Experiments on a gold/blue-emitting polymer/gold cavity support this. Further simulations show that low loss omnidirectional cavities have an emission intensity that is largely independent of angle, which may find application for solid state light sources that require a broad emission cone.
Light emission and negative differential conductance of -type nanoporous silicon with buried -layer assistance90(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2709632View Description Hide Description
The light-emission and current-voltage properties of -type nanoporous silicon (-NPS) with a hole assistance of buried layer are explored. The influences of anodic current density on the formation, morphology, and properties of -NPS are measured. Such -NPS films have nanoscaled pores and high-aspect-ratio pillars. Since the anisotype junction is forward biased during the anodization process, many holes can drift straightupward from layer and participate in the electrochemical reaction. At room temperature, high peak-to-valley current ratios of about 117.3 can be obtained in negative difference conductance region as well as strong visible light emissions are clearly observed under ultraviolet excitation.
Ultrafast nonlinear optical tuning of photonic crystal cavities90(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2710080View Description Hide Description
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When Abercrombie Fails, Its CEO Makes $36.3 Million
The compensation package includes $810,000 for personal use of the company jet!
We recently learned that Michael Jeffries, the CEO of Abercrombie, would receive $4 million in exchange for limiting his yearly personal use of the company's private jet to $200,000 worth of travel. However, we didn't know how much Jeffries cost the company on personal travel last year ... until this very lucky and exciting morning! Turns out it was $640,000 plus $170,000 to cover taxes related to that personal travel. (This is still less than the $1.1 million he used for personal travel in 2008.) That $810,000 sum is included in the total value of Jeffries's compensation for 2009 — a dismal year for so many, Jeffries's company included. But he walked away with a pay package valued at $36.3 million, up from $23.2 million the year before.
While Abercrombie's sales fell 16 percent for that year and net income fell $254,000, the CEO got a salary of $1.5 million and $33.3 million in options rewards to fully vest by January 2014, when his contract runs out.
The big equity component "strongly aligns" Mr. Jeffries's interests with those of Abercrombie & Fitch shareholders, the spokesman said.
Jeffries didn't get a cash bonus because operating goals weren't met in either the spring or fall periods. However, he got about $120,000 for personal security, which, in light of these numbers and the nation's collective bitterness, was probably put to good use.


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Posted by Evan Herrnstadt on December 10, 2007
One of the most interesting aspects of Washington, DC, is the fact that any planning decision falls at a nexus of federal, local, and Maryland and Virginia state interests.
I've been reading The Great Society Subway, a history of the Washington Metro system written by George Mason historian Zachary Schrag. The book delves into the nitty-gritty of the planning process; some of the most interesting bits are the intense political struggles.
Washington is not the only American city that has built a postwar rapid transit system (see: BART). However, it is unique in that the federal government, local authorities, Maryland, and Virginia all held a dear interest in its design and construction. Building such a system reminds one of the importance of political economics. The relevant commissions and authorities could not simply design a system that optimized ridership while minimizing net costs and impose it on the region:
Even with the federal government paying the bulk of the expense, local jurisdictions still needed to divide up the local share of the cost. On the one hand, if each jurisdiction paid only for the portion of the system on its own territory, there would be an enormous incentive not to build, and instead to bus one's citizens to the county line and let them ride someone else's train into work. One the other hand, if each jurisdiction paid a fixed proportion of the total system regardless of the amount it chose to build itself, a tragedy of the commons would arise: each would be tempted to build as large and extensive a system as it could, knowing that the additional expense would be diffused across the region.
An intermediate cost-sharing solution was eventually designed, and the disproportionately common downtown DC infrastructure was folded into the project's general expenditures. Although DC faced unique political constraints on its urban policy, this is an instance in which the federal government's inherent interest made the process more tractable. Hmmm…are there any other tragedies of the commons to which this lesson might apply?


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A 4-session course at Germantown Jewish Centre with Yosef Goldman
Begins Sunday, February 3, 10:30 AM – 12 Noon
In this course we will listen to a variety of Israeli music as a window into the formation of Israeli national culture and identity. In particular we will look at and discuss the powerful and sometimes problematic place of "Eastern" music (Jewish music from the Middle East and North Africa) in the canon of Israeli music from the 1920s through today.
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This is a three day seminar but I will give you some bullets. First off, many of the companies I encounter have IT departments that are carrying a large amount of staff simply to support the myriad of skill sets required to keep all of the systems up and running and to make changes to the systems as the business requirements change. A Services Centric Architecture (SCA) moves the customization to a common technology. Whether it's a common component that will be shared by other applications or a custom portal application, you will no longer need to make changes to core application code. This removes the need to maintain these skills on staff for development. In one case, by implementing this sort of architecture, we are reducing the number of skill sets required to support the systems from 19 to 7. To understand some of the other benefits, it is important to understand the typical implementation of the architecture. A Services Centric Architecture is typically comprised of three major layers:
- The Application Layer - consisting of your core business application such as CRM, ERP, etc.
- The Infrastructure Services Layer
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- Shared Business Services - interfaces to the applications: requests for data, or business logic functionality
- Messaging & Brokering Services - core integration services: messaging, transport, workflow, brokering, etc.
- Shared Application Services - horizontal services and foundational components such as logging
- Portal-Based Custom Applications Layer - customer applications that are tailored to your business needs allowing you to make the changes you need to be unique and competitive.
The Application Layer can be kept vanilla because customized applications can be built elsewhere. This makes it easier to stay current with the vendor's upgrade cycle and makes applications easier to maintain.
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Join us in honoring three groups of Water Polo players! These athletes are an inspiration both in an out of the water and are examples of what can be achieved with hard work and dedication. We couldn't be prouder of our fine group of athletes.
The USA Water Polo Academic All American program was established to recognize the top high school scholar-athletes in the nation. The requirements to achieve Academic All American include having a 3.6 grade point average or greater, completed the 10th, 11th or 12th grade, and have had to participate in a nationally sponsored water polo tournament, such as Junior Olympics. Honored as Academic All Americans for the 2012-2013 academic year were:
- James Baker
- Blake Hallisey
- Hollis Jomo
- Jack Kerwin
- Matthew Otsuka
- Sander Profaci
- Emma Soderquist
- Alex Zim
Additionally, all these players were further recognized for "outstanding achievement" since they had a 4.0 or greater GPA. A pretty amazing accomplishment!
It is with great pleasure that we congratulate three (3) of our players that were selected as All-American players for their exemplary performance at the National Junior Olympics this past summer in Orange County, California. Honored as All Americans were:
- Julia Merrill – Selected as All-American for the 12U Girls age-group. Julia was our top utility player who helped her JO team nab seventh place out of twenty-four (24) teams. Julia was a leader both in and out of the water.
- Kayla Barone – Selected as All-American for the 12U Girls age-group. Kayla joined our team from Kingfish and was able to mesh with our team right away. Kalya was the lead scored for the team that received seventh place out of twenty-four (24) teams.
- Ally Furano – Selected as All-American for the 14U Girls age-group. Ally was a standout all-around player who helped her JO team reach eleventh place out of forty-eight (48) teams.
Thomas Dunstan was selected for the USA Youth National Water Polo Team. Fifteen year old, left-hander, Dunstan was one of only 13 players selected for the National Team and traveled to Argentina at the end of August to represent the United States at the 2013 UANA Championships. The team beat Canada twice, Uruguay, Argentina, Trinidad and Peru before taking home the Silver after a 9-8 loss to Brazil in the finals. Thomas was a starter on the team. We should all be keeping an eye out on Thomas as he should be making big waves at the national level.
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Movie B.S. with Bayer and Snider #173: 'Kick-Ass 2,' 'The Butler,' 'Paranoia'
[Have you listened to Movie B.S.? It's a podcast made out of my voice and Jeff Bayer's voice.]
Episode 173: 'Kick-Ass 2,' 'The Butler,' 'Paranoia,' final Summer Box Office Challenge update
0:00-5:25 – Introduction; it's humid today
5:25-7:20 – Our lunch sponsor: The 2 Cents Movie Podcast! It is another movie podcast besides the one that we are!
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Well, don't give up too quickly. Just as there are now can openers and ice cream scoops that are specially made for people who suffer from arthritis in their hands, now there are ergonomically designed tools for hand sewing that can take the pain out of the process, and help compensate for the stiffness and weakness that often goes along with arthritis. One of the most important inventions, along with cushion-handled scissors and ultra-lightweight irons are thimbles designed for arthritis suffers.
And there are several different models, so you can choose the one that works best for you. The first type is designed primarily for the sewer whose fingers have become so sensitive that pushing the needle through cloth is just too painful. These thimbles are soft and flexible, but have a firm tip that is broad angled tip to help you control the needle. The soft body will not cause painful pressure, and the firm tip protects you from needle sticks while not pressing too hard on the bone and muscles. Their soft body hugs the finger and they come in many different sizes, so that your finger muscles do not have to strain to keep the thimble in place. If your problem is that your fingers are no longer nimble enough to manipulate a needle properly, or to apply enough pressure to push it through the cloth, you may want to consider an alternative thimble that looks more like an old-fashioned awl. These have a large handle of wood or soft plastic, about the size of a broad-tip marker. Instead of curling your fingers around a tiny needle, you simply hold on to the comfortable handle. The handle is attached to a needle with two threading points. The lower one, closer to the handle, is used for general sewing, while the one further from the handle is used for making small tight stitches, or when the material is too thick to penetrate all the way to the end of the needle. Either of these devices can allow you to sew longer and more comfortably.
However, it is important to take good care of your hands, and not let these assistive devices tempt you to overdo it. Give your hands frequent breaks, and gently stretch your hands and forearms during these breaks. Don't try to go from a few minutes of sewing a day to a few hours all at once; build up gradually, a few minutes a day. Also, use your assistive thimble as just one of the tools to help relieve strain on your hands. Ergonomically designed scissors, threaders, seam straighteners, and other devices can enhance one another. You can create an entire sewing box of tools designed to keep you sewing for a long time to come.
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Top Teachers: Mesa Hinkle
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Mesa Hinkle found her inspiration as a student inside a Henrico County elementary school. Today, she shares it with her own students inside a Henrico County elementary school.
Hinkle has spent 29 years as part of the county's public school system – 13 as a student at Trevvett, Brookland Middle and Hermitage High and 16 as a teacher.
Now in her sixth year as a first-grade teacher at Glen Allen Elementary, following one year at Dumbarton E.S. and nine at Carver E.S., Hinkle is as excited as ever about what she does and about the children she teaches.
"It's really special to watch them grow from September though June," she said. "It's amazing to see the progress that they make with their reading and writing. They're so enthusiastic, and they get excited about everything and anything."
Hinkle recalled being called to a career in teaching when she was a first-grade student herself, in Suzanne Boswell's class at Trevvett Elementary years ago.
"She had a love of learning and was able to present things in different ways for different learners," Hinkle said. "She made learning fun."
Now, Hinkle is the one passing on those lessons to her own first-graders.
"She is a loving, guiding, nurturing teacher and it shows in her daily instruction and interactions with her students," one nominator wrote. "She makes learning fun while challenging her students to be the best they can be."
Said another: "Her high expectations and dedication to the success of each student has impacted my son, who is currently in her class. She is willing to try new things and use a variety of approaches to meet his needs."
Hinkle stays in regular contact with the parents of each student and uses small-group differentiated instruction as a way to effectively reach students who learn at different speeds or who have different needs. Her positive attitude and frequent encouragement to her students were cited by several nominators as strengths.
"As a former teacher, I recognize how positive she is in her dealings with children - accentuating the positive every day," one nominator wrote of Hinkle. "The reaction of my grandson is obvious. All teachers should have the commitment to their profession and respect for children that Mesa has."
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Entertainment Dec. 12 will be provided by the Laburnum Elementary School choir and the Henrico High School Mighty Marching Warriors band. Tree decorations crafted by students from Laburnum Elementary School and L. Douglas Wilder Middle School will be on display. Hot chocolate and cookies will be supplied by the Henrico High School football boosters. > Read more.
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