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Cleveland will be Ground Zero for women's basketball over the next week. The Division I NCAA Final Four playoff series hits the hardwood of Quicken Loans Arena on Sunday. Those games are part of a series of events that will put a national spotlight on Cleveland. Local officials predict that the thousands of visitors will leave millions of dollars in the local economy. ideastream's David C. Barnett has more on the potential impact of the Women's Final Four.
Dennis Roche says something very unusual is happening in Cleveland this weekend.
Dennis Roche: All of the downtown hotels are booked solid. And, as far away as the airport, and Strongsville, and so forth - they're all filled up.
The reason is basketball. Not a match-up pitting LeBron James against Allen Iverson, but rather Kia Vaughn vs. Sylvia Fowles.
Quicken Loans Arena is sold out for both the Women's college semi-finals on Sunday and the championship game on Tuesday. As head of the Cleveland Convention and Visitor's Bureau, Dennis Roche has seen any number of men's sporting events fill arena and stadium seats, but it's relatively rare in women's sports.
Dennis Roche: Characteristically, the men's events attract wider attention, and therefore wider audiences. But the women's events are growing. In the case of the Women's Final Four, the women's coaches will simultaneously be holding a convention here during that period of time, and frankly that convention is as large as most of the conventions that we have here in town.
Between 2 & 3,000 attendees are expected for the annual Women's Basketball Coaches Association convention. The city will also be playing host to the Women's National Basketball Association draft. And all of these visitors will be spending their money in area stores, restaurants and hotels. Renaissance Hotel Marketing director John Zangas expects a busy weekend.
John Zangas: In groups related to the Final Four, we're at a total of 2,600 room nights, over a period of about four or five days, so an economic impact to the hotel of over $600,000.
Popular downtown watering hole Fat Fish Blue is an easy walk from "The Q" and is also expecting a lot of extra business this coming week. Operations Director Scott St. Clair says they've been getting bookings for group events. For instance, a contingent of visiting coaches.
Scott St. Clair: I just talked to them about a half hour ago, they booked a party on Friday. They're having their strategy meetings for the games coming up this weekend.
St. Clair says he's been asked to stay open late on the play-off nights, because the games won't start until 9:30. He doesn't have any problem with that because this extra, post-game business will come on a Sunday and a Tuesday night - both traditionally slow evenings in the restaurant business.
As the home of the NCAA, Indianapolis regularly hosts either the men's or women's Final Four championships. Kimberly Harms of that city's Convention and Visitor's Association says the Women's Finals back in 2005, brought about 25,000 people to town who spent between 17 and 20 million dollars. But, she says there's another benefit that you can't measure in money.
Kimberly Harms: Because, you have all of these role models and, especially at the college level, they're still playing for the love of the sport. They're not playing for a dollar amount or a contract.
The last time that Cleveland was the focus of a national hoops hoopla was ten years ago, when the NBA All-Stars were "in the house" at the former Gund Arena.
And while, the players in the 2007 NCAA Women's Final Four may not have the star power of 1997's Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippin, Cleveland Convention and Visitor's Bureau chief Dennis Roche says this weekend's events will bring plenty of paying fans to town.
Dennis Roche: We would expect roughly 20,000 fans and supporters from the teams that are coming, and maybe 3,000 local attendees. This is as big an event as we've seen in Cleveland in some time. We would estimate an overall impact of about 25 million.
But, money aside, if providing role models and heart-felt play is one intangible bonus of the games coming here, there's another benefit that's also hard to put a price tag on. It's that blimp shot of the city skyline being broadcast across the country, inviting other national events to give Cleveland a try. David C. Barnett, 90.3.


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The other day I walked into the office where I work in the mornings and the first thing I noticed was a gorgeous vase stuffed with some sort of natural filler. I was immediately taken by the look. Curious, I inquired where it came from. I was expecting the answer to be perhaps the cute little design boutique downtown, or maybe someplace like Pier One.
Nope. It didn't come from a store.
I was delighted to find out that the vase filler was actually a large bunch of dead flower stems! My boss' father had cut them out of his garden in preparation for winter and subsequently used then as packing material to send a gift in the mail. (Another genius use for yard waste!) They were so pretty that they ended up in a vase rather than in the garbage, bringing a wonderful fall touch to the office. There were even some extra stems, so I brought them home for myself! Now I just need to find the perfect vase and I can add some of this natural beauty to my decor at home as well!

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Skip to comments.Like Chauncey Gardiner, Obama Is Profoundly Aloof
Posted on 06/27/2011 4:14:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
Which past leader does Barack Obama most closely resemble? His admirers, not all of them liberals, used to compare him to Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.
Well, Obama announced his candidacy in Lincoln's hometown two days before Abe's birthday, and he did expand the size and scope of government. But no one seriously compares him with Lincoln or FDR anymore.
Conservative critics have taken to comparing him, as you might imagine, to Jimmy Carter. The more cruel among them, like The Weekly Standard's Jay Cost, say the comparison is not to Obama's advantage.
But there is another comparison I think more appropriate for a president who, according to one of his foreign-policy staffers, prefers to "lead from behind." The man I have in mind is Chauncey Gardiner, the character played by Peter Sellers in the 1979 movie "Being There."
As you may remember, Gardiner is a clueless gardener who is mistaken for a Washington eminence and becomes a presidential adviser. Asked if you can stimulate growth through temporary incentives, Gardiner says, "As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all will be well in the garden."
"First comes the spring and summer," he explains, "but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again." The president is awed as Gardiner sums up, "There will be growth in the spring."
Kind of reminds you of Barack Obama's approach to the federal budget, doesn't it?
In preparing his February budget, Obama totally ignored the recommendations of his own fiscal commission headed by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. Others noticed: The Senate rejected the initial budget by a vote of 97-0.
Then, speaking in April at George Washington University, Obama said he was presenting a new budget with $4 trillion in long-term spending cuts. But there were no specifics.
Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf was asked last week if the CBO had prepared estimates of this budget. "We don't estimate speeches," Elmendorf, a Democrat, explained. "We need much more specificity than was provided in that speech for us to do our analysis."
Evidently "first we have the spring and summer" was not enough.
Then Obama deputed Vice President Joe Biden and congressional leaders to handle negotiations over raising the debt ceiling. Biden apparently did a good job of letting everyone set out their positions and interact.
But last Thursday two influential Republicans, Rep. Eric Cantor and Sen. Jon Kyl, left the bargaining table and said that they wouldn't return until Democrats dropped demands for tax increases. After all, if the Democrats hadn't been able to raise taxes on high earners when they had large majorities in December's lame duck session, what makes anyone think this more Republican Congress will raise them now?
Cantor said it was impossible to make progress unless Obama got personally involved. Top Senate Democrat Harry Reid said the same thing. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, fresh from making a bipartisan compromise on public employee benefits, offered succinct advice: "First, the president can show up."
Well, Obama has agreed to do that Monday. But while Chauncey Gardiner, in his befuddlement, tried to answer questions squarely, Obama has seemed less interested in the substance of public policy than in framing issues for the next presidential campaign.
That was plainly the case in the decisions on Afghanistan he announced Wednesday night. Regardless of conditions on the ground, the president promised that the last of the surge troops will be removed by September 2012, the month Democrats hold their national convention.
As for Libya, Obama pretends we're not involved in "hostilities" and has been content to "lead from behind." Another sop to the antiwar left.
Sometimes it seems he's president of the AFL-CIO, not the U.S.A. The man who said he wanted to double exports in five years has nothing to say about his National Labor Relations Board appointee's attempt to shut down a $1 billion plant being built by the nation's No. 1 exporter.
And don't forget the enviro types. Obama is releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, but his appointees are barring drilling in the Gulf and Alaska and refusing approval for a natural gas pipeline from Canada.
On all these issues, Obama seems oddly disengaged, aloof from the hard work of government, hesitant about making choices.
That doesn't sound like Lincoln. Or Roosevelt. Or even Jimmy Carter. More like "then we have fall and winter."
I believe nobama is comparable to an empty sack.
Obama is not Chauncey Gardner. He's Bill Clinton. Why doesn't anyone suggest that? He's the same old opportunistic, narcissistic, good-time Charlie who charmed his way into the White House, determined to milk the job for all it is worth. Unfortunately, even Clinton looks like Reagan compared to Obama.
obama has no sack and has nothing to put into one even if he did.
An empty sack? Not at all, empirical evidence indicates hims be a "blivet."
And like a spoiled brat, everything has to go his way
Did anyone ever seriously compare Hussein Obama to Lincoln or Roosevelt?
I am a fan of neither, so it would be charming to hear those comparisons.
Chance the Gardener was not clueless. I believe that is one of the peculiar truths about his character in THE GREAT Jerzy Kosinski's phenomenal script (which I was thrilled to discuss with he and Eric Bogosian many years ago.)
(This is one of the finest movies ever made, by the way.)
What Chance is, is honest and pure. Chance wins, and is trusted, because he is completely innocent, faithful, and devoid of subterfuge. He is truly Christ-like.
Obama is profoundly unlike Chauncy in almost every way:
Barone does not know what he's talking about.
Obama is Chance Gardner without the homburg.
"I know sh!t's bad right now with all that starvin' bullsh!t. And the dust storms. And we runnin' out of French Fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution. "
Like Chauncey, Hussein is a naive imbecile. The big difference between the two 'characters' is that Bozo read too many books about communism and how to kill capitalism.
"I like to watch TV."
or play golf
There is no comparison between the two, as you said:
What Chance is, is honest and pure. Chance wins, and is trusted, because he is completely innocent, faithful, and devoid of subterfuge. He is truly Christ-like.
The other one is the polar opposite in each regard.
"Being There" by Jerzy Kosinski, and "Network" by Paddy Chayefsky.
"Being There" for the nothingness that is Obama.
"Network" predicted the TV and Financial world we see to day. Look at the "reality" TV and the globalization of trade.
Especially when Jenzen tells Beale about Global Trade:
"You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples.
There are no nations.
There are no peoples.
There are no Russians.
There are no Arabs.
There are no Third Worlds.
There is no West.
There is only one holistic system of systems.
One vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars.
Petrol dollars, electro dollars, multi dollars. Reichsmarks, rins, roubles,pounds and shekels.
It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet.
That is the natural order of things today."
I used to think Obama was an empty suit but now I think he has filled his pants.
I think he is more like a puppet. A George Soros puppet
He definitely is full of it, and that is not a compliment
You are correct. It is Michelle (The Wookie) who wears the pants in this family and I believe is running the show. Zero shows up to just open his mouth and convert O2 into Co2.
Thank you for mentioning "Network" ! One of the greatest films ever, period.
I, and most of us here, are no doubt aware that people don't speak in monologues as masterfully as they do in Paddy Chayefsky's screenplay (a frequent criticism of the film), but who cares? "Network" is one of the greatest screeplays of all time, and acted to perfection by the entire cast.
"Network" is perhaps, IMHO, the most uncannialy presceient film ever made. Who can't picture a network (any of them, the MSM or the cable networks, FNC included), making some deal with a shawdoy terrorist orginazation for exclusive footage of some atrocity or another? Ratings and money are all that matter.
Thanks also for including in your post Jensens' monologue about the international financial system. As true today (if not more so) as it was back in the '70s.
I first saw this film on VHS when I was about 13 or so. It blew me away then, and it still does. I've used the film with Advanced English as Second Language students in the Czech Republic, and here in Germany as well. They love it, and it always leads to great discussions about the proper role of the media in society. Simply, do you report the news of the day, or do you try to create it?
Not so much predicted that, but made note of it. The public is, at best, slow to catch on, and often it never catches on. World leaders have been focused on globalization for centuries, with substantial boosts coming in the early 1900's (Wilson's presidency), the 1940's (FDR), and greatly facilitated by promoting the fiction that the press is either objective or two sided.
Oh, and sorry for any misspellings. When I get into a subject, my fingers fly faster than spell check. :-)
'The Dog Who Caught The Car'You know those dogs. Those little yappy things that run around loose chasing cars down a street yapping and yapping as they go along - but never catch one. And if they did, they'd have no idea of what to do next.
That's Barry O'DUmmie. He ran and ran for that car - the presidency - yapping and yapping all the way. But he never gave any thought of what he'd actually do IF he caught it.
Well. He 'caught it'. And since then has had no idea of what to actually do.
Just another Network fan chiming in—on top of the great story and script—fabulous acting all around. (How many great films was Robert Duvall in??)
ROTF! Great bumper sticker material!
"I believe nobama is comparable to an empty sack."
You vastly overrate him, an empty sack is ready to serve a purpose as soon as someone fills it.
Actually he is the worst of Lyndon Johnson, Carter and Clinton all balled up with none of the better qualities of any of them and some other really sour Mugabe stuff thrown into the mix.
Blivet works too except it is on too small a scale, raise it by a factor of 1000 at least.
Paddy Chayefsky was simply one of the greatest writers of the past century. His science fiction was as good as his drama.
"I like to watch".
I completely disagree. Clinton was a policy wonk who knew his way around a lot of issues. Obama is nowhere near as knowledgeable. That is what Barone is getting at.
Agreed with you both. Paddy Chayefsky was one of the greatest writers of the last century, in both sci-fi and others.
And Robert Duvall; good Lord, I can't even count. I'd say pretty much everything starting with "To Kill a Mockingbird". Another great film of the 20th Century, by the way. Regardless of what you think of Gregory Peck's politics (and he was very liberal), in that film, he made being a lawyer seem like a truly noble calling. Atticus Finch (as a character) is a righteous man, who will always do the right thing, even if reluctant, or against popular opinion, because the character has a well-developed moral sensibility. And frankly, I can't picture ANYONE else in that role but Gregory Peck.
I remember a short Obama interview not long after he was inaugurated. He basically described his approach to being president. He would, he said, issue broad goals and objectives he wanted and let the underlings work out the details. Sound familiar?
I think the sh!t-for-brains is lazy, pure and simple. It's easy to conjure up faculty lounge policies and then give a speech or two. Then it's off to the links or a vacation while the little people do the spadework.
I don't see the comparison. Bill Clinton was not the ideologue, that was Hillary. Bill just wanted to "be the president", and was actually good at that role. When America panicked about Hillary's direction for the country and voted in the Republican majority, Hillary was blocked from radical policies. Because of that and of course the time taken defending himself from scandals, Bill settled into a nice Lazze-faire presidency, chasing women and "being the president," which made him perfectly happy.
In contrast, Obama doesn't seem to like "being the president," and is absolutely not good at it. His aloofnes from that role, and withdrawl to the golf course, is more of a sign to me that he does not like the job at all. Like Clinton, the Republicans were voted in again in a panic, and he has sort of retreated, but into a role that doesn't suit him, and he didn't want.
My favorite person to compare Clinton to is actually Zaphrod Beeblebrox, the president of the galaxy in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
The President in particular is very much a figurehead --- he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had --- he has already spent two of his ten Presidential years in prison for fraud. Very very few people realize that the President and the Government have virtually no power at all, and of these very few people only six know whence ultimate political power is wielded. Most of the others secretly believe that the ultimate decision-making process is handled by a computer. They couldn't be more wrong.
"Being There" was a 1971 novella written by Jerzy Kosinski..... the screenplay was co-authored by Kosinski.
Chance Gardner is a simpleton who works as a gardener. He knows nothing but what he sees on TV. And repeats phrases he hears there that liberals construe as something else. Gardner even becomes the confidant of a president.
Conservatives like the film b/c it makes wealthy, politically-connected liberals look stupid.......believing the simple Gardner is an intellectual——and that everything he says is politically savvy. It even stars some of Hollywood's well-known liberals-—Melvyn Douglas, and Shirley McClaine.
Rush Limbaugh 02/13/2008
Rush Endorses Obama Because He Is Anything You Want Him to Be
RUSH: So we just play these four audio sound bites of Obama, and you just heard them, and basically he's about "hope" and "the future." And, of course, everybody said, "Well, who's possibly against the future?"
Well, I'm not necessarily against the future, but somebody's gotta be for right now, and I am for right now. If you don't pay attention to right now, then the future could be bad. We're all for the future. I'm not necessarily against the future, but somebody gotta stand up for right now, and I am the man to stand up for right now. I want to grab a quick phone call because it sets up what's coming.
RUSH: This is Jack in Boston. Great to have you here. Welcome to the program, sir.
CALLER: Yeah. Rush, I never would have thought that it would actually come through but you remember the 1979 or 1980 movie Being There with Peter Sellers?
RUSH: Oh, yeah.
CALLER: There was a character, Chauncey Gardiner. Now, the way people reacted to Chauncey Gardiner is the same way people react to Barack Obama. He didn't say anything! He just talked about planting the seeds and it will grow to the future and good, and at the end of the movie I think he like walked on water.
RUSH: Walked on water.
CALLER: They believed anything he did.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: It was a very, very funny movie. People should see it.
RUSH: Being There. That's an excellent, excellent suggestion, because that does nail it. Chauncey Gardiner. He's a streetwalker.
CALLER: Yeah, he was a servant. All he saw was what --
RUSH: Servant.
CALLER: -- he watched television; he didn't know anything.
RUSH: He got fired. In fact, he was fascinated with the television remote control.
CALLER: Yeah. What happened was, he was a servant to these wealthy people who passed away, and he never was out of the house, and he comes out -- and all he knows is what he's seen on television, and he says these platitudes that don't mean anything, and everybody thinks he's like a genius and they follow him and he becomes the president of the United States.
RUSH: Yeah, just like --
CALLER: Exactly.
RUSH: -- messianic.
CALLER: Yeah. The movie was hysterical.
RUSH: Other wealthy people bring him into their homes for the wisdom and the guidance that he's offering. That's an excellent --
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: -- excellent suggestion, Jack. Go out and rent it, buy it, whatever: Being There with Peter Sellers.
Heh——one of Chauncey's memorable lines.
You have got him patted right down, and I agree with you one hundred percent
GREAT line! bttt
The only reason I can think of why I missed it was it was released in 1979. And back then I was busy almost every waking moment. During the week it was; work, work, work, (chasing those promotions) and on weekends it was -- Party Time! So back then I don't think I went to a movie for years and years.
I'll have to check it out now.
Charles Krauthammer Friday, October 16th 2009
About the only thing more comical than Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was the reaction of those who deemed the award "premature," as if the brilliance of Obama's foreign policy is so self-evident and its success so assured that if only the Norway Five had waited a few years, his Nobel worthiness would have been universally acknowledged.
To believe this, you have to be a dreamy adolescent (preferably Scandinavian and a member of the Socialist International) or an indiscriminate imbiber of White House talking points. After all, this was precisely the spin on the President's various apology tours through Europe and the Middle East: National self-denigration - excuse me, outreach and understanding - is not meant to yield immediate results; it simply plants the seeds of good feeling from which foreign policy successes shall come.
Chauncey Gardiner could not have said it better. Well, at nine months, let's review.
.....and James Cagney.
Although he was draft-exempt due to a physical injury, actor William Lundigan enlisted into the Marines out of patriotism and served in Okinawa during WWII. Under contract to MGM at the time he enlisted, boss Louis B. Mayer was furious with him for enlisting just as the studio was promoting him as a star and he was dropped.In 1963 and 1964, William Lundigan joined fellow actors Walter Brennan, Chill Wills, and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., in making appearances on behalf of U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater, the Republican nominee in the campaign against U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
In 1947, Adolf Menjou cooperated with the House Committee on Un-American Activities in its hunt for Communists in Hollywood. Menjou was a leading member of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a group formed to oppose Communist influence in Hollywood. Other members included John Wayne, Barbara Stanwyck (with whom he co-starred in Forbidden in 1932 and Golden Boy in 1939) and her husband, actor Robert Taylor.
Because of his political sympathies, Menjou came into conflict with liberal actress Katharine Hepburn. Menjou appeared with her in the films Stage Door and State of the Union, which also starred Spencer Tracy. Hepburn was strongly opposed to Americans co-operating with the McCarthy hearings. It was reported by William Mann in his biography of Hepburn, Kate, that during the filming of State of the Union, she and Menjou only spoke to each other when required to in the film script.
In the 1940s, Charles Coburn served as vice-president of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a conservative group opposed to the Communist infiltration and proselytization in Hollywood during the Cold War.
The Hollywood blacklist was made up of anyone within the entertainment industry who supported the Communist Party and it resulted in many actors, writers and directors being forced out of their jobs. Other Hollywood supporters of the blacklist included Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Hedda Hopper, Adolphe Menjou, Ward Bond, Robert Taylor, and Ginger Rogers.
Shortly before his death in 1961, Coburn joined the Citizens Councils of America, an organization opposed to the desegration of public schools brought about by the 1954 Supreme Court ruling on Brown v. Board of Education.
Needless to say, Sellers was brilliant in the film-—nominated for the Academy Award and got other awards.
McCarthy never held hearings concerning the infiltration of communists into Hollywood. Those hearings were conducted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
McCarthy established a bond with the powerful Kennedy family, which had high visibility among Catholics. McCarthy became a close friend of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., himself a fervent anti-Communist, and was a frequent guest at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port. He dated two of Kennedy's daughters, Patricia and Eunice, and was godfather to Robert F. Kennedy's first child, Kathleen Kennedy. Robert was chosen by McCarthy as a counsel for his investigatory committee, but resigned after six months due to disagreements with McCarthy and Cohn. Joseph Kennedy had a national network of contacts and became a vocal supporter, building McCarthy's popularity among Catholics and making sizable contributions to McCarthy's campaigns. The Kennedy patriarch hoped that one of his sons would be president. Mindful of the anti-Catholic prejudice Al Smith faced during his 1928 campaign for that office, Joseph Kennedy supported McCarthy as a national Catholic politician who might pave the way for a younger Kennedy's presidential candidacy.
Unlike many Democrats, John F. Kennedy, who served in the Senate with McCarthy from 1953 until the latter's death in 1957, never attacked McCarthy. McCarthy had refused to campaign for Kennedy's 1952 opponent, Republican incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., due to his friendship with the Kennedys.[51] When a speaker at a February 1952 final club dinner stated that he was glad McCarthy had not attended Harvard College, an angry Kennedy jumped up, denounced the speaker, and left the event. Asked by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. why he avoided criticism of McCarthy, Kennedy said, "Hell, half my voters in Massachusetts look on McCarthy as a hero."
An idiotic assessment by Barone, and completely erroneous conclusion.
I'll say for the millionth time, don't confuse Obama's evil for incompetence.
Obama is Soros's hand-picked minion and is doing exactly as Soros orders. He is not clueless. He is not obtuse. He is deliberately installing socialism and destroying the institutions necessary to install US socialism.
Articles like this are stupid because they further the lie that Obama is incompetent. OK, maybe such articles have use to place doubt in the minds of the ignorant and weak-minded. Maybe such articles are useful to paint Obama as incompetent to the masses of sheeple who can't accept that he is an anti-American Muslim radical socialist who is doing Soros's bidding. To that extent, maybe it is better to propagate a useful lie than a useless truth.
But it is still a fact that Obama is evil, not incompetent. He is not clueless. He knows exactly what he is doing. While he is out golfing or goofing off or missing important meetings, he has an army of communist at every level of US government entrenching socialism by codifying policies, installing massive numbers of new regulations, and hiring socialists to key bureaucratic positions that the GOP will never ferret out.
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Residents in La Crosse will see a tiny increase to their taxes next year.
The City Council approved the city's 2014 operating budget Tuesday night. It includes a 3% wage increase for city staff and doesn't tap into the reserve funds.
Mayor Tim Kabat says they had to make compromises, but it avoids significant cuts to programs and services.
Earlier Tuesday, Mayor Kabat learned the city's assessed value dropped by nearly eight million dollars. That meant the city and council members needed to find a way to get to the desired tax rate. "But they didn't go to that next level of making an additional cut so we ended up with a budget that in essence holds the line, but increases the tax rate by two cents to make up for the difference and the loss of $7.9 million in value," said Mayor Kabat.
Bob Seaquist from District 8 is the lone council member to vote against the budget, saying he's opposed to the amount of cuts being made.


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This revolution started on the other side of the world in the Belgian city of Ghent. Last year, the Ghent city council signed a resolution to encourage its Belgian citizens to eat vegan one day a week. The idea has caught on and in the U.S. there are now Veggie Day mayoral declarations and school lunch programs offering more meatless meals.
A plant based diet is truly a green diet that reduces the serious ecological problems involved in livestock production. Animal agriculture is responsible for many of the worlds most serious environmental problems including global warming, water use and pollution, energy consumption, deforestation, loss of biodiversity and species, as well as the detrimental impact of fishing to our oceans.
A 2009 report from World Bank environmental advisors, Goodland and Anhang, called Livestock and Climate Change, revealed that farmed animals and their byproducts are responsible for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, or 51 percent of annual worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. Goodland, who was the lead environmental adviser for the World Bank for 23 years, and Anhang, also an affiliate of the World Bank as a research officer and environmental specialist, conclude that replacing animal products with soy-based and other alternatives would be the best strategy for reversing climate change. The report states, "This approach would have far more rapid effects on GHG emissions and their atmospheric concentrationsand thus, on the rate the climate is warmingthan actions to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy."
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'Jokowi effect' lifts PDI-P, graft drags Dems down to the depths
Yuliasri Perdani
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The popularity of Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, who was nominated by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) in last year's city election, has rubbed off on the party.
The PDI-P is now seen as the most electable political party in the country, an opinion poll has found.
The National Survey Institute (LSN) found that 20.5 percent of respondents would vote for the party if a legislative election was held today.
"The Jokowi effect" caused the party's popularity to rise sharply with 9.5 percent of people saying that the governor's affiliation with the PDI-P would persuade them to vote for the party.
A little over 20 percent of those who opted for the PDI-P chose the party because of its reputation as the party of the common people.
The leadership of Megawati Soekarnoputri has also contributed to the popularity of the party.
More than 7 percent of the PDI-P supporters said that they would vote for the party in the election because of Megawati's leadership.
"There are many media reports about Jokowi's great performance. This publicity has driven the public to admire him.
"Basically, this is not about his performance but more about the perception of his performance. This perception is built by the media," executive director of the LSN Umar Bakry said during a press conference in Jakarta on Sunday.
Looking at the numbers, Umar said that Jokowi would be better suited to being PDI-P's presidential candidate than Megawati, who is already a two-time loser in presidential elections.
"There is a gap of popularity between Jokowi and Megawati. Jokowi is the new party icon. If Megawati insists on running, she will not succeed," he suggested.
Jokowi, who was only elected Jakarta governor in September, has publicly opposed plans to nominate him for president.
Jokowi, has persistently claimed he wants to focus on Jakarta's manifold problems, principally traffic congestion to flooding.
Some PDI-P politicians, including the paty's secretary-general Tjahjo Kumolo, have hinted that the party might be warming to the idea of nominating Jokowi in 2014.
Aside from the Jokowi effect, the popularity of the PDI-P has been enhanced by its success in building a good image for itself as an opposition party with other parties like the People's Conscience (Hanura) Party and the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party.
A majority of those questioned believe the PDI-P, the NasDem Party and Gerindra have the most potential to bring about change.
The survey also found the Golkar Party and Gerindra in second and third places with approval ratings of 19.2 percent and 11.9 percent, respectively.
The nascent Hanura party collected 6.2 percent of preferences while the NasDems picked up 5.3 percent.
The survey shows the popularity of the ruling Democratic Party has plunged further from its failure to deal with numerous corruption scandals.
The party of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono got 4.3 percent approval, only slightly ahead of the National Mandate Party (PAN) with 4.1 percent.
The Muslim-based Prosperous Justice Party performed better than either of them with 4.6 percent approval.
The respondents considered the Democratic Party, the PKS and Golkar the most corrupt.
LSN interviewed 1,230 people from 33 provinces between Feb. 26 and March 15.
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RUTLAND - Morris H. Viner, 95, of 1 Pleasantdale Road, a life-long resident of Rutland, died Wednesday, March 1, 2006 in Oakdale Nursing Home.
His wife, Hazel M. (Harris) Viner, died in 1976. He leaves his daughter, Marjorie "Sue" A. Soucy of Rutland; a grandson, James Soucy of Rutland; a granddaughter, Sheryl Cuilla of Carmel, Ind.; five great-grandchildren, Matthew, Nicholas and Lauren Cuilla, and Jaimie and Cameron Soucy; and several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his son, Kenneth Viner, and sisters Marjorie Viner, Myrtle Ericson and Thelma Kostas, brothers Lloyd and Douglas.
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A new study suggests that telling teens about the negative effects of sun exposure on their appearance is more likely to convince them to use sunscreen than warning them about the risks of skin cancer.
The study included 50 high school students who were divided into two groups and shown different videos. Both videos provided information about the impact of ultraviolet light in the sun's rays and how to protect against it.
But one video outlined how UV exposure increases the risk of skin cancer, while the other emphasized how UV light can cause things such as premature wrinkles and aging of the skin.
Both groups of teens learned and remembered the same amount of information about UV light and sun-protection measures. But only the teens who watched the video about UV's effects on appearance showed a dramatic increase in sunscreen use, the University of Colorado Cancer Center researchers found.
The study was published online this month in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
"We see this anecdotally in the clinic," study author Dr. April Armstrong said in a cancer center news release. "The teens who come in, often it's because their parents are dragging them. A lot have undergone tanning or never wear sunscreen. You can tell that when we talk about skin cancer risk, it doesn't faze them. But when you talk about premature wrinkling and aging, they listen a little more closely."
"Telling them UV exposure will lead to skin cancer is not as effective as we would hope," said Armstrong, who is also vice chairwoman of clinical research in the dermatology department at the university's medical school. "If our endgame is to modify their behavior, we need to tailor our message in the right way. In this case, the right way is by highlighting consequences to appearance rather than health.
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Stampings. We examine the identifying stamps on leather or metal for consistency. Many fakes have stamps that appear to match the stamps for authentic items but may differ in typography or color. For example, Louis Vuitton stamps may appear black, but are actually dark grey.Many counterfeit LV items have black stampings.
Symmetry. Authentic handbags will have perfect symmetry in the way patterns (such as Louis Vuitton's Monogram pattern) are arranged. An asymmetrical pattern is often a dead-giveaway that an item is a counterfeit.
Stitching. Most manufacturers utilize characteristic stitching in the construction of their goods. For example, Louis Vuitton utilizes spiral stitching in their products, with each stitch segment being at even length.
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A few months after Taylor's surgery, the tumor showed no signs of returning. But Cheryl, his mother, began noticing a strange side effect: Taylor began compulsively scratching around his left nostril. She first asked him to stop, then told him to stop—to no avail. "He just kept saying, 'It itches, Mama. It itches,' " she remembers oh so well.
That itching sensation never stopped. Something in his brain was triggering the sensation and, like any 5-year-old would, he kept scratching. Cheryl took alternative methods like putting Band-Aids on his fingernails to stop him, but nothing worked. He just kept scratching. Day and night. Night and day.
After a little more than a year, he had scratched his left nostril so much that it literally rotted off, leaving a gap in its place. "From that time on…" Cheryl says,
Taylor went through so much ridicule, and he had to deal with that for nearly 10 years.
Early on, doctors had explained to Cheryl the primary obstacle to Taylor's nose reconstruction: He was still growing. Surgeons wouldn't know how his left nostril should look until his nose fully matured.
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Other people's stares shaped Taylor's impression of the world. He couldn't go anywhere without not-so-furtive glances acknowledging his facial difference, especially at school. Instead of quickly glancing at Taylor's nose, the young students at his elementary school called attention to it and mocked him. Being called "ugly" was the least of it. Cheryl says,
Kids may not intend to be mean, and sometimes they don't know any better, but his self-esteem suffered all the same.
By the time he reached middle school, Taylor was angry — at his schoolmates who bullied him, teachers who didn't protect him, the mother who couldn't rescue him, and the world that stared at him. "He started getting in trouble a lot—getting in fights and talking back not only to teachers, but to principals, too," Cheryl says. "He was so frustrated and sensitive about not being able to do anything about the way he looked."
Cheryl regularly fielded calls from the principal's office. One call was about Taylor yelling back at a teacher in the hallway who told him to stop wearing the hood on his sweatshirt, a dress code violation. "The teacher didn't understand that Taylor wore that hoodie to cover his face," Cheryl says. "Stuff like that made me ache for Taylor to have his nose repaired. People were dismissing him as another bad kid; they didn't understand the circumstances behind his anger."
It's a New Day: Part 3 covers Taylor's return to Children's to meet with Dr. Alex Kane, division director of Plastic and Craniofacial Surgery, to discuss the repair to his nose and the transformation that follows.


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This is a reminder that shipments of secure PSAE test materials will be delivered next week (April 16 – 18) to schools established to serve as PSAE test sites this year. Schools scheduled to be on spring break next week will receive their secure shipments this week.
Day 1 and Day 2 standard time materials will arrive in separate shipments addressed to the Test Supervisor, and Day 1 and Day 2 accommodations materials will arrive in separate shipments addressed to the Test Accommodations Coordinator. These individuals are responsible for promptly checking in the materials and placing them in locked storage.
Test Supervisors should have already received Day 1 and Day 2 non-secure materials (manuals, answer documents, pre-ID labels) the week of March 12 in separate shipments from ACT. Questions about these non-secure shipments may be addressed to ACT at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Spring 2006 PSAE score reports will not be available for at least another four to five weeks. However, Harcourt has promised delivery of CDs containing spring 2006 PSAE results to high school principals and district superintendents (for districts with more than one high school) this week. If you have questions about how to use the CD or the data it contains, feel free to contact Dr. John Craig in the Student Assessment Division at firstname.lastname@example.com or 217/782-4823.
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Here we will be adding the first sprite in our game, the paddle, which is controlled using the mouse. At this point, we will be able to benefit from the setting-up that we have done in the first two screencasts. Note that this video does not stream in the player above (unlike most of our ShowMeDo videos), due to a problem with the SWF file. You can play the original SWF file by clicking on this link. Resources: the wiki. If you like this video and you'd like to encourage Chuck, you can leave a comment for him here and vote for the series over at DZone.com.


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Posted by NICOLE on 1/11/2012, 12:38 pm, in reply to "Re: Failure to gain weight"
HI MY NAME IS NICOLE. MY SON was born with Pierre robin and a cleft palate. It was a sever case. The doctors decided to give him a surgery called a nissen.. to prevent him from having acid reflux because he was Trached 1 hour after birth.... We tried the bottle feeding for shot 2 months. It was also unsuccessful. So they decided to give him a g- bottom ..... This is a.tube placed through the stomach.it looks just like it sounds.. it is placed on one side of the belly button and for me it was the only decision . He was unable so suck the bottle that well either ... Maybe u should bring this up with the doctors.... It sounds scary but u would know that the baby is definetly eating because you feed them directly through this tube. You would not have to worry about the baby aspirating any milk.( milk getting into the lungs because of the breathing issues.) I hope this information helps your family. It definetly helped my son he is now 5 and is trach qnd g button free.
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: Hi Mimi,
: I am so sorry to hear about your story. My
: daughter was in the similar situation when
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: to an ENT doctor to look at his breathing
: issues. In my experience if you solve the
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: week he gained zero. We are seeing a
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: We are adding formula powder to the breast
: milk. Still he will not eat more than 2-3
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: up if you try to wake him and feed him. I am
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: slowly die. I am so upset. He is adorable.
: I feel so helpless.
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I did this review a little different than normal, mainly because I'm months behind with my reviewing. I apologize that this is so late. On the upside, it did allow me to test this thoroughly. Late last year I received a jar of Allu Ultimate Skin Therapy anti-aging moisturizer to try out and review if I liked it. I held off a bit on reviewing it, because I wanted to finish up the Sephora 100 Point Perk jar of Algenist anti-aging moisturizer.
The Website Claims:
The royal Egyptian ruling class – legendary beauties like Nefertiti and Cleopatra – were world-renowned for beautiful, soft skin. Now we know why.
Hidden on the reverse side of a 4000-year old papyrus was the fountain of youth that so eluded the Spaniard Conquistador, Ponce de Leon. The "Recipe for Transforming an Old Man into a Youth" was written by Egyptian doctor and mysticist, Imhotep, to help aging Pharaohs transition into Gods and Goddesses. Thousands of years later, the Papyrus was discovered by famous explorer and antiquities expert, Edwin Smith.
The clinical study showed:
Increased skin hydration and moisturization: 100%
Reduction of age spots/skin discoloration: 75%
Decrease in fine lines and wrinkles: 87%
Improved skin tone: 94%
Smoother skin texture: 94%
Included Ingredients: Bitter almonds, grape seed extract, green tea, white lotus, neroli, beta arbutin, Vitamins A, C and E, Collagen
$89 for 1.6 oz
$45 for .7 oz travel size
Does it live up to its claims?
Mostly. I definitely feel it increased my skin's moisture. I feel the tone and texture of my skin looked better after using it. I didn't notice a decrease in fine lines or wrinkles, nor did I notice a reduction in skin discoloration.
As mentioned in the video, I used the Algenist anti-aging moisturizer for a month before using the Allu moisturizer. I really loved the results from using the Algenist but I hated the price. I then used the Allu moisturizer for a month. I was extremely happy with my skin after using it. I felt like the way my skin felt, I guess the texture, was improved.
I really liked the scent. I know, I know, I even said neroli twice in the video. I love sweet! I also got the scent of bananas or banana candy or something, too. Whatever else is in there made Phaedra go crazy because any time I would use it she'd try to lick it off my face. Also, the scent didn't irritate my skin. Sometimes scents/oils irritate me and turn me red. Not in this case.
Also, I don't know if it's just me or if everyone feels this, but certain anti-aging products, when I use them I feel like a… maybe a bubbling? or something on my skin. It's almost like a tingling, but it's not painful at all. It's the feeling I equate with good anti-aging products.
Would I purchase?
Maybe. Right now, it's out of my budget. If it were on sale, yes. I definitely liked it and I liked the results with my skin.
I did a little poking around and I found out that you can receive a free 14 day trial for only the cost of shipping. So if you're interested in seeing how Allu works for you, this is a great way to give it a try.
Do you feel a tingling/bubbling sensation on your face when you use anti-aging products? What are your favorite anti-aging products? Have you tried Allu Ultimate Skin Therapy skincare?
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Netflix is letting its stars do the important informing; "Orange Is the New Black's" Laura Prepon announced the show has been renewed for a third season on her Instagram this afternoon.
"It's official!! Season 3!!" Prepon wrote to the right of the image, which threw out potential season three titles.
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First, let me thank all the people who showed up today at the Fly Tiers Seminar and say how much I enjoyed meeting all of you. What a great crowd of dedicated flyfishermen. I hope that I got to say hello in some way to each of you and if I didn't, let me say it to you over the board. I hope that something good was passed on to each one of you in some constructive way. We all owe a great big thanks to Byron , Paula, Daniel, and all the employees at LROs for helping provide such a wonderful atmosphere to meet and share our love for flyfishing and flytying. You all, sure made my day by the interest that you showed and the friendship that you conveyed. Hopefully, this class lit a spark of interest to anyone that is considering this beautiful addiction called "flytying". I look forward to meeting each of you again, sharing a fly pattern on the stream, and telling of some special trip that we have experienced as we go on down this beautiful road called flyfishing. Good fishing to you all.
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Say that five times fast? Thankfully these fantastically Fall treats are much easier to make than their name is to say. In fact, they're ridiculously easy to make and ridiculously good. They kind of remind me of the Friends trifle episode: pretzels - good, peanut butter - good, chocolate - goooood. What's not to like?!
You'll only need four ingredients to make these festive pumpkins and temperatures are kept low enough throughout the entire process that the entire family can get involved. A package of cellophane bags and a handful of green pipe cleaners take the presentation to the next level with minimal effort and the finished bags are the ideal size for gifting large groups like classmates or coworkers.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Pretzel Pumpkins Ingredients:
Peanut butter chips
Green M&Ms
Orange candy melts
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit and line a baking sheet with a silicone mat.
- Arrange pretzels on baking sheet in a single layer, placing one peanut butter chip into each cavity. Bake for three minutes.
- Remove from oven and place an additional chip into each cavity, pointed side down, to seal each cavity. Refrigerate until set, about ten minutes.
- Remove from pan and repeat process until desired number of pumpkins is reached.
- Melt candy melts according to package directions. Dip prepared pretzels into candy coating, transfer to silicone mat and press M&M on top. Refrigerate until set, about ten minutes.
- Curl pipe cleaners around a pencil and then cut in half. Package two pumpkins back to back in each bag and twist closed with a pipe cleaner.


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I am seeing SO MANY threads about people battling thrush - while I am glad I am not alone, what is going on? It seems that most doctors are not completely certain how to treat it - and many of us are taking treatments with no (or little) results.
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Upon the first official viewing of Oswaldo Jiminez's Air Jordan IX design for the Doernbecher Freestyle Collection, our readers praised the youngster's ability to keep a controlled composition of colors and details while giving the sneaker a distinguished attitude. The white leather upper, paired with the Black/Gold trim on the upper deemed this year's Doernbecher Air Jordan arguably the most polished yet, but it looks like Oswaldo hit a rather energetic detail on the outsoles of the shoe. A full shot of the soles is right ahead so take a look and stay tuned for a release next Friday, November 30th.
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dude....red and green ruins black white and gold........it reminds me of mexico too much
yea these are a must cop
Dopest pair of 9s to drop in a longtime... can't wait to cop
I want this shoe sooo bad! Any Nike plugs out there reading this post?!?
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@ac2slater He made that shit too Mexican screw this shoe
@My opinion so what where it's from you would still cop if you could.
@My opinion lol haha thats racist but true they look like latin kings PEs
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Julie is a classically-trained singer who has performed a broad range of repertoire and musical genres within the US and internationally. Performing highlights include three seasons at the Chicago Lyric Opera and singing engagements at The White House, on the CBS Morning Show, and at the Governor's Mansion in Annapolis, MD. She has also sung the National Anthem at the Baltimore Orioles game and for the 2009 National ITA Championships. Julie's studio work includes Emmie in "Albert Herring," company jingles, voice overs, and other recordings.
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Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson insists he doesn't have his sights set on just rushing for 2,000 yards.
In fact, he has his eye on a much bigger prize.
According to ESPN's Josina Anderson, Peterson said he wants to break the NFL record for rushing yards in a single season.
"Forget 2,000, I am trying to break the record," Peterson told Anderson. "If you are going to do it, do it big. That's the way that I look at it."
After Sunday, Peterson might have a chance. Thanks to 154 yards and two scores Sunday against the Chicago Bears, Peterson now has exactly 1,600 yards and 10 touchdowns on the season.
Peterson already has the single-game rushing record. Why not add another one or two?
In the following slides, we'll break down Peterson's odds of breaking a number of the NFL's rushing records this season.


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Oliver Koletzki - Childhood Basslines
- Artists Telonius, Oliver Koletzki
- Release Date 2012-12-14
- Labels Light My Fire
- Catalog LMF002
- Description While the past few years saw Oliver Koletzki increasingly focus on the album format, Childhood Basslines, the second release of Light my Fire, marks a longed-for return to the dance-floor, presented in the form of three infectious original productions and a subtle remix by Gomma co-founder Telonius. The mellow guitar loops of Bring Me Home kick-start LMF002 in ample style. Helped along by a swaying groove, melancholic pads and soft piano keys, this is an ode to summer and all its tender promises. With Childhood Basslines Oliver then propels you straight into a sweaty 80s club thanks to rolling percussion, plenty of claps and Miami Vice-style synths. The tracks hero is, of course, its elastic bass-line, which threatens to swallow you up in its wake. Addictive! Combining elements of the two previous tracks, Neon Guitars is earthshakingly full-bodied, heart-warmingly musical and undeniably satisfying a true Oliver Koletzki track, in other words while Telonius puts a dub on things on his excellent conga-centric remix, making LMF002 an instant classic.


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Days Of Our Lives Video: Such A Big Loss.
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