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Sometimes it can seem confusing in the newspaper business. Thats particularly true around the holidays when press deadlines change and an old sports guy gets off his rhythm. Basketball games arent necessarily just Tuesdays and Fridays, there are holiday tournaments, and weather can force game cancellations.
Since Christmas is on a Tuesday, the powers that be in our company, decided we should put out this edition on the Saturday before Christmas. Normally, we have until noon (or thereabouts) on Tuesday to get the paper to the printer. That means we usually have Monday to catch up on Friday games, and locate coaches that we havent touched base with yet.
So, as I write this its Friday afternoon. The weeks games and meets are pretty much done, but I do have another basketball game I'll have to write about tomorrow morning. I was going to try and include Friday's games for the Scappoose boys and girls at Taft, but school was cancelled there (weather related I think) and there can't be games when school is cancelled. I'm not really sure why that is. They have holiday basketball tournaments when school is out. There are games on Saturdays all the time. So those games against Taftthree boys games, three girls gameswill be made up at a later date.
Those reading this will realize we did get the paper out, probably on time, and then actually got three days in a row off. I can't remember when thats happened before. I usually work on Monday holidays just to get the sports news out on time on the following Tuesday. Having Christmas Eve off is actually appreciated.
Thus is the newspaper business. When I started writing in this area nearly 40 years ago, we used mechanical typewriters. It was a big deal when we got electric typewriters. I don't think we even have one of those dinosaurs in the office anymore. My first boss was Gib Crouse. He had been a typesetter in the days when they used hot lead to set type. Yes, you could and often did get burned on one of those. The switch to computers and full-page pagination didn't really begin until the late 1990s-early 2000s.
I can't say I mind either. It's possible to do things much more quickly. I really don't miss the hours I spent in a darkroom, processing film and printing pictures. Digital photography is so much easier and the cameras so much better. I burned off 150 pictures in a short period yesterday afternoon at a swim meet. Now it just takes more time to go through them and select the best and most relevant photos. Using Photoshop is also pretty easy.
The other thing I like is that now we get to use much more color. It's more expensive, but golly gee it's swell to have it. It used to take a concerted effort to get a full color picture in a newspaper. First the film had to be processed by a commercial lab, and once the photo was ready separations had to be made. It cost $500-$600 locally to put in a color photo. It's still not cheap, but it's a lot less expensive than it was. The whole process is now easier.
But I digress. Next week, will be about the same around here, but the biggest problem for me is that most of the week's action doesn't start until Thursday and some of it is always far offlike in Sisters.
We'll catch what we can, even though some tournaments will still be going on as the paper heads off to press.
This is also the week I go through the back issues and try to select the top five or so local sports stories of the year. Hey, I'm always open to suggestions. No matter what I do, I usually get someone asking afterwards why I didn't pick one team, or another individual.
It's always subjective, so send me an e-mail and make your case. By the way, e-mails make gathering the news a little easier than it used to be. The phone is still used heavily, but we used to have to run all over to get copies of results. More and more, PDFs via e-mails take care of that chore. But the information still has to be formatted.
There are some things I really don't miss. As Billy Joel said in a song the good ole days weren't always so good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
Still, it's nice to reminisce. So, I say Merry Christmas, knowing it won't really be read until the day after. I should have figured that out last week.


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"Above all else, this album is serious fun-fun for the live audience at the recording, fun for the CD listener, and fun for the performers. At its best, improvisation flows out of the sheer pleasure of playing and experimenting together; here, Lauren Newton and Joelle Leandre communicate the joy of that process. Leandre's double bass is joined by the duo's voices, mainly Newton's. That bass is wonderfully versatile, by turns light and airy but also rock solid. The magnificent thunderous booming notes that open "Face It 2" sound like a fanfare, as large a bass sound as you could wish to hear. When contrasted with the unpredictable swoops of Newton's voice, the pairing is irresistible; the two perfectly complement each other. There is always the urge to give special attention to voices over other instruments, especially-as here-where some of the vocal contributions are not just musical but verbal as well ("Aha! Lyrics-meaning!") Suffice to say that the two vocals with lyrics vergeon being novelty items, grabbing the attention early but being unable to hold it over repeated listenings. The first, "Face It 4", is one of Leandre's voice-bass features in which she explosively spits out loosely connected words, as if suffering from Tourette's syndrome, or jabbering semi-incoherently. In concert, such drama makes for an effective and amusing-but disturbing-interlude. (Is that embarrassed laughter?) On CD, it pales under the weight of repetition. "Face It 6" is a narrative with vocals from Newton, a rambling tale of the "There's a Hole in My Bucket" variety; Newton's vocal eccentricities and dramatic asides are not enough to make up for the repetitive format, which becomes increasingly dull and irritating with time. Both of these tracks are good in small doses, but now I find I skip them more often than not. On a much more positive note, when Newton uses her voice as a (wordless) instrument, it is hard to fault. Her vocals without lyrics convey a far greater range ofemotions and meaning than those with lyrics, at different times managing to summon up images of a muezzin summoning the faithful, of an operatic diva, or a jungle full of small animals! There is rarely a dull moment, and eight of the ten tracks here stand up to sustained listening. One particular highlight comes in the last minutes of "Face It 7"; after rich, full-toned vocals from Newton offset by discordant bowing on the bass, the duo launch into a vocal duo in which their voices sing two independent emotion-drenched vocal lines that soar and intertwine beautifully, conveying all the power of an aria without opera's attendant nonsense. In the wrong hands, the combination of just bass and voice can be limited and repetitive. Leandre and Newton achieve the complete opposite; so varied are their individual sounds and their combinations that this album feels like a sample from an infinite range of possibilities. Very enjoyable."-John Eayles, onefinalnote.com
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If a utopia exists in this world, it's probably in Amsterdam. The canals of the "Venice of the North" that snake through the city's storied cobblestone streets lead to some of the world's most arresting masterpieces—and we're not just talking about the Van Goghs; the ornate stone buildings, gorgeous public fountains, and meticulously manicured tulip gardens are equally jaw-dropping.
For such a laid-back city—the café culture legally serves curated selections of special smokes alongside baked goods—the Dutch capital maintains meticulous order. Car use is a rarity, and cyclists easily navigate the streets en masse, often with the aid of the largest shared-biking system in the world. History certainly has a home here—Anne Frank's House commands a moment's reverence for the European tragedy of the Holocaust, and you can't walk 100 feet without running into the vestiges of a Golden Age painter.
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i think Semphermea has hit the nail on the head here. Experience will probably make or break the business in the end. Good advice.
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I agree with the previous posters, but just one additional note relating to the original question - there are "total inventory control" systems that begin with wait staff holding 'palm pilot'-type devices instead of pad and pencil to take orders - each order is instantly electronically relayed to the kitchen, and also into the restaurant's database, facilitating everything from end-of-shift reconciliation, to ordering of supplies based on what's been consumed each day. We first saw this system in Japan, now it's everywhere. In the experience of restaurant people we know, the extra cost to get this system up and running will be vastly offset by a reduction in mistakes and dishonesty.
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Be present as much as possible to oversee every aspect of your business to avoid theft from employees, waste and quality going downhill when you are not there. This business is full of problems, you must have experience, expertiese in all areas of this business and helpful, polite staff and even then, it's very hard to make it.
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Sorry to say this, but I don't think the OP had any real interest in opening a successful restaurant.
Otherwise (s)he would have at least responded to other posts in this thread.
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I think you have to put some any person in charge who is your very good friend of well known person as a manager. and you have to go everyday to take a look on them.
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In today's demanding world, more and more people are turning to the web for simple ways to order food from their favorite restaurants. If you are a business owner and don't have your own website, there is a good opportunity you are losing business to your competitors. In addition, having a website does not promise that you will get the desired users coming to your site and this is where eatonline, an expert on online restaurant menus and online ordering can help.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Air Canada said it expects to resume normal operations on Saturday, after a labor board declared a strike by pilots at the country's biggest airline as illegal.
The Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered the Air Canada Pilots Association (ACPA) "to take all reasonable steps to bring to an end the illegal strike" and to require all participating pilots to "immediately return to work," the carrier said late Friday.
Air Canada canceled about 75 flights on Friday because of an "illegal job action" by some of its pilots, the airline said in a statement.
Air Canada's dispute involves two of its key unions, including the one representing its 3,000 pilots.
Earlier this week, it said in a letter to the pilots' union that a number of pilots had planned to book off sick on Friday, although they were fit to fly.
ACPA President Paul Strachan said the union will comply with any labor board decision. But he warned that pilots are fed up.
"We all need to be very cognizant of the real risk that, at some point, the pilots will feel so beaten down and so helpless that they're going to lash back and not even this organization is going to be able to control the outcome of events," he said.
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iandominicp77 wrote:Ik denk dat het is " Dank u wel" instead of dankuwel!!!
Dank u wel is correct. However, I noticed that dankuwel (and dankjewel) is usually written as one word in Flanders. Perhaps Wim can tell us whether this is also correct. Confusing sometimes, is it not, the regional varieties :wink: .
iandominicp77 wrote:Goed voor jou man, maar ik begrijp het niet.
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"Do we make this place or does it make us," the commercial that first aired on Thursday night for Philadelphia's football team starts out.
"It's impossible to know. But here, every fan, every player, every Philadelphian has a story they hold close, and, then, pass on."
"We are the Eagles. We are made in Philadelphia. Where the home crowd is just that: home. Where it's not just about being tough, or living up to a reputation, or the rivalries. It's about us, as one."
Proof again, that Philly fans love being told just how awesome we are.
"We are four generations strong," It continues, reminding us of our days watching the Eagles with our own fathers and their fathers.
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TV News and notes - CBS sitcom 'The Big Bang Theory' is the nation's most watched comedy and the CBS TV show set a record for viewers with the first new episode of 2013.
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Homeland fans also have some good news, Claire Danes has revealed she will be a working mother.
The 'Homeland' star gave birth to her first son, Cyrus, on December 17, but doesn't plan to stay at home with him for too long.
She told Us Weekly magazine: "I've always wanted to have kids, but I'm glad I didn't until now. When I was thinking about [working and being a mother] originally, I was really nervous about it.
"I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me. I feel so fortunate, in that I've had this arrow-straight focus that I wanted to act."
Claire who is married to fellow actor Hugh Dancy, 37, added she feels "lucky" to have such a great partner who helped guide her through her pregnancy.
The 33-year-old actress - who was in a six-year relationship with Australian musician Ben Lee and dated actor Billy Crudup before she met Hugh - added: "Hugh was just the right partner for me. I got very, very lucky.
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This year the Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Illegal Dump Survey Program completed surveying every county since its inception in 2005.
The ambitious undertaking identified 6,487 illegal dump sites in the state containing an estimated 19,000 tons of trash.
The survey identified 114 illegal dumps in Indiana County with an estimated 680 tons of trash. The survey notes that there are probably more illegal dumps on private land than on public land that have gone unnoticed.
In Indiana County, 54 percent of the illegal dumps were near waterways and 14 percent of the dumps had trash directly in the water.
Tires, appliances and other bulky items were the trash most commonly found in the dumps, the survey found.
Recyclable material, including steel, aluminum and plastic were usually found at the illegal sites, too.
According to Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful, illegal dumps are not only unsightly but also attract disease-spreading rodents and mosquitoes.
West Nile virus, carried by mosquitoes, has been a particular concern for environmental officials.
The illegal dumps also pollute water supplies and lower property values.
According to Keep America Beautiful, the comprehensive survey is a tool that can help communities raise public awareness of illegal dumping, generate funds for cleanup, develop solid waste and recycling programs and otherwise guide public policy.
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When the Check Engine light is blinking, this is the sign for a P0300-Random Cylinder Misfire. It's a fairly "geneeral" code that basically means, the on-board computer sees a misfire, but hasn't quite pin-pointed where the misfire is, or what is causing it (see possible causes below). Your best bet at this point is going to be to get the "p-codes" read from the on-board computer, and see if there is anything stored besides the P0300. Once you have these codes you can more accurately and efficient diagnose the problem, and narrow down the culprit. You can have these p-codes read for Free at any local "big chain" parts store (ie. AutoZone, PepBoys, etc)


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BOSTON - The National Pest Management Association is looking for more volunteers for a support effort for the Boys & Girls Club of Boston to take place on Oct. 16 before PestWorld 2012 kicks off.
Prior to PestWorld, volunteers will gather at the Sheraton Boston at noon, Oct. 16 and would arrive back by 5 p.m. Details are in the process of being finalized. Work may include maintenance projects, such as cleaning, painting and yardwork, and educating children on bugs, as well as assistance with arts and crafts. Lunch and transportation will be provided.
Anyone interested in volunteering should contact Dominique Stumpf, vice president of conventions and professional development with NPMA at email@example.com.


text: If you have business with the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, you need to take care of it today or wait until Tuesday. BMV branches across the state are closing tomorrow and Monday in observance of the Labor Day holiday. Normal business hours will resume on Tuesday. More information about BMV branches and services offered is available online at www.MyBMV.com.


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s2/e5 - Popcorn Bounty
Dog and Beth take on the mean streets of Mobile, Alabama, when Chris McNeil of Outlaw Bail Bonds calls them into action. Chris has two bounty hunters that need a tune-up, and the stack of jumps is growing. Watch the full show.
39:10 - aired 7/12/14
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Spike TV has put together an all-star lineup for its first ever primetime mixed martial arts magazine show, "MMA Junkie Live." Sports radio personality Craig Carton will serve as host with middleweight fighter Nate Quarry and mixed martial arts veteran journalist Mike Straka as fight experts. Spike's weekly original series will premiere Thursday, February 23 at 11:00pm ET/PT. Read More »
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What starts as an off-the-cuff remark may end up as a front page story. Under the guidance of experienced Guardian journalists, you'll learn how to spot a story, get the right facts and quotes to do it justice, and write an article worth talking about. And then you'll have the chance to put your skills into practice.
With expert instruction from speakers including senior Guardian reporters Peter Walker and Alexandra Topping, this comprehensive weekend course explores every aspect of news reporting, from writing that vital attention-grabbing first paragraph to drawing out details from a reluctant interviewee. Learn what makes a story stand out, what editors want, and how every step of the publishing process works, from the first call of the morning to the final page being sent to the printers.
The weekend culminates in a unique workshop which recreates the pressures of a working newsroom, so you can experience first-hand the pressures and rewards of making the news.
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The course covers all the major elements of how the news originates and develops. The classes will include:
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- How to do an interview – Guardian reporter Alexandra Topping tells why doorstepping a politician is different to listening respectfully to a tale of hardship and suffering
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Kashmir (Knebworth 1979)
Knebworth Festival - August 4, 1979
Led Zeppelin perform "Kashmir" at Knebworth 1979 - From the official Led Zeppelin DVD (2003).
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I was there on the 2nd show,
I was there on the 2nd show, far better than the 1st one, it seems... Anyway, that was a great, huge moment, indeed!!!
Thanx to you, guys!!!
From France....


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Bulls host food drive to benefit the Greater Chicago Food Depository
March 14, 2011—To help hungry Chicagoans in need, the Bulls, Midway Moving and Storage and Vienna Beef hosted a food drive on Saturday to benefit the Greater Chicago Food Depository.
Prior to the tip-off of the Bulls' game against the Utah Jazz, fans were encouraged to drop off non-perishable food items at any of the United Center admission gates. High protein foods in unbreakable containers, as well as baby foods, diapers and hygiene products were highly recommended. Monetary donations to the Greater Chicago Food Depository in conjunction with the food drive were also collected at the gates that evening.
Fans who could not attend the game can still assist in the collection by purchasing food items or making a donation in the virtual food drive at Bulls.com/fooddrive.
The Greater Chicago Food Depository, Chicago's food bank, is a nonprofit food distribution and training center providing food for hungry people while striving to end hunger in our community. The Food Depository distributes donated and purchased food through a network of 650 pantries, soup kitchens and shelters to 678,000 adults and children in Cook County every year. For more information, log onto www.chicagofoodbank.org or call 773-247-FOOD.


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date: 30 November 2009
embargo: For immediate release
TUC Deputy General Secretary Frances O' Grady told a TUC conference today (Monday) that ten years after the publication of the Macpherson Report into the death of Stephen Lawrence, the UK has reached a defining moment in the battle against racism.
The TUC conference Stephen Lawrence Ten Years After alsofeatures speeches from Doreen Lawrence OBE and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government John Denham. The TUC has published a new guide for union negotiators Tackling Racism in the Workplace to coincide with the conference.
Frances O' Grady said: 'It's now ten years since the publication of the landmark Macpherson Report which, in the aftermath of the death of Stephen Lawrence, laid bare the extent of institutional racism within British life.
'Progress has been made in our struggle for race equality and although huge challenges remain, I believe we have now reached a defining moment in our battle against racism.
'America may have inaugurated its first black President - a signal of hope in a country scarred for so long by slavery and segregation - but here in the UK we seem to be moving backwards not forwards.
'The public debate about immigration remains dominated by shameless myths peddled about migrant workers, asylum seekers and ethnic minorities generally.
'Sometimes our politicians seem all too willing to tap into this populist sentiment, and frankly talk about 'British jobs for British workers' hasn't helped.
'The biggest cause for alarm has been the rise of the Far Right - a problem that has been brought into even sharper relief by the recession.
'Black workers are among those worst affected by the economic crisis - underlining the need to stamp out discriminatory practices around both recruitment and redundancy - and things could get worse before they get better.
'If public spending is slashed along the lines promised by the Tories, the problems will become even more acute and ethnic minority communities will be among the worst hit.
'It's important to recognise that some progress has been made over the past ten years.
'The Government deserves real credit for the commitment it has shown to advancing race equality - the Race Relations Amendment Act which resulted from the Macpherson Inquiry, the Ethnic Minority Employment Task Force, the National Employment Panel's Business Commission and the public sector duty to promote race equality.
'However, the TUC believes that the duty should also be extended to the private sector. For us, the principle of equality is indivisible - it simply cannot apply to some groups of workers and not to others.
'So while we have made some important strides forward there's still an awful long way to go before Britain becomes a genuinely colour-blind country.'
- The full text of Frances O' Grady's speech is available from the TUC press office.
- Stephen Lawrence Ten Years After takes place between 10am and 5pm on Monday 30 November in TUC Congress House, central London. The conference includes contributions from Doreen Lawrence OBE; John Denham, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government; Gloria Mill CBE, Chair of the TUC Race Relations Committee; Dr. Rob Berkeley, Director of the Runnymede Trust; Alan Christie, Director of Policy at the Equality and Human Rights Commission; Pragna Patel, Chair of Southall Black Sisters; Liz Fekete, Executive Director at the Institute of Race Relations and Kamaljeet Jandu, Head of the Equality at the GMB.
- All TUC press releases can be found at www.tuc.org.uk
- Register for the TUC's press extranet: a service exclusive to journalists wanting to access pre-embargo releases and reports from the TUC. Visit www.tuc.org.uk/pressextranet
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Is it just me or was Hillary's exit completely ungracious? What does she mean by "suspend" her campaign?
Eh…she's out. I will try not to talk bad about her anymore and just move foward.
Yes We CAN!
Is it just me or was Hillary's exit completely ungracious? What does she mean by "suspend" her campaign?
Eh…she's out. I will try not to talk bad about her anymore and just move foward.
Yes We CAN!
It's finally over, I think… Barack Obama has clinched the democratic nomination for President of The United States of America. It's a historic moment, almost unbelievable for some who were holding their breath for the seemingly inevitable to be "stolen" away. As I watched the speeches from Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, I couldn't help but notice an underlying theme in both speeches. In Hillary's speech, the emphasis was on her, with her supporters chanting "Yes She Can" (among other things). Others reported that this was her night and she needed to wind down her campaign in her own way. I didn't think she would concede, but at least use the opportunity to make her pitch to unequivocally unite the democratic party. Instead, she seemed to again build her case about why she should be President. I thought her speech was great on a lot of levels and I respect her perseverance in the whole thing. I do not, however, respect the missed opportunity to achieve a greater goal. She allowed a huge opportunity to focus on the future of the party to get away and encourage her supporters to tell her what to do next, via her website. Come on now, like she really expects them to tell her to concede.
In contrast, Barack's speech was full of expressed respect for Hillary and all the other democratic candidates. He spoke in great length about Hillary and Bill and their collective contributions to America. His fans were cheering, "Yes We Can". He barely said anything about himself. He didn't even acknowledge being the first African-American candidate to lead any major party in a presidential election. He stressed how we are Americans first and how that supersedes race, gender, Republicans and Democrats. (Damn, he's inspiring…) His speech was so unifying that it magnified just how divisive Hillary's was.
If Hillary's speech was an effort to force Barack's hand into making her Vice-President, she has no idea of how to ask nicely. If she really wanted to be Vice-President, (assuming she's not going to campaign until Denver for the presidency) she should have been beyond gracious in her speech toward Barack and spoke in ways that respect his victory and the importance of pulling the party together. I think it's called humility. Unfortunately, humility takes all the attention away from her. Sad…
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ABC News is reporting that racism and potential security issues are emerging as factors in the race to the White House for the Obama campaign. When I heard Hillary Clinton's comments on Bobby Kennedy's murder and the 1968 election the first thing I thought about was the same thing happening to Barack. Oh Lord, for her sake I hope it doesn't happen (and of course for his too. LOL). People will be saying she called for the hit…she had something to do with it…just because of that comment. She actually said it more than once. Hillary was quoted in Time Magazine saying the same thing (saw it on CNN when they interviewed her campaign manager).
In recent weeks, the role of race in the Democratic primaries has been increasingly discussed. And while racist caricatures and jokes about threats against Obama's life have been widely condemned, they seem to reflect an undeniable element of racism that still exists in the country and could play an unknown role in a general election.
"There is no question that the possibility of violence directed at presidential candidates, especially Obama, is the elephant in the middle of the room," says Peter Fenn, adjunct professor of political management at George Washington University, to describe the media's careful coverage of the issue. "There is a hypersensitivity about this issue. And in one sense, there should be because you don't want to put the idea out there. But you also get overanalysis, like with Hillary's comments about RFK [Robert F. Kennedy]."
Fifty-nine percent of Americans (and 83 percent of African-Americans) said they were concerned "that someone might attempt to physically harm Barack Obama if he's the Democratic nominee for president," according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll from March 2. Twenty-four percent of those polled said they were "very concerned" about that possibility.
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You know, I didn't really know what to make of Hillary Clinton's latest ill-advised comments. It's been a long race and it's easy to slip up and say something innocent, but damaging if taken the wrong way, so I didn't want to jump to conclusions. The below article is a very interesting take on the whole thing. Either she didn't know the time lines of the democratic elections she was referencing or she took a serious shot at Obama (no pun intended)…
Clinton's Grim Scenario
(The Washington Post) – If this campaign goes on much longer, what will be left of Hillary Clinton?
A woman uniformly described by her close friends as genuine, principled and sane has been reduced to citing the timing of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination as a reason to stay in the race — an argument that is un-genuine, unprincipled and insane. She vows to keep pushing, perhaps all the way to the convention in August. What manner of disintegration is yet to come?
For anyone who missed it, Clinton was pleading her cause before the editorial board of the Sioux Falls, S.D., Argus Leader on Friday. Rejecting calls to drop out because her chances of winning have become so slight, she said the following: "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. You know I just, I don't understand it."
The point isn't whether you take Clinton at her word that she didn't actually mean to suggest that someone — guess who? — might be assassinated. The point is: Whoa, where did that come from?
Setting aside for the moment the ugliness of Clinton's remark, just try to make it hold together. Clinton's basic argument is that attempts to push her out of the race are hasty and premature, since the nomination sometimes isn't decided until June. She cites two election years, 1968 and 1992, as evidence — but neither is relevant to 2008 because the campaign calendar has been changed.
In 1968, the Democratic race kicked off with the New Hampshire primary on March 12; when Robert Kennedy was killed, the campaign was not quite three months old. In 1992, the first contest was the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 10; by the beginning of June, candidates had been battling for about 3 1/2 months — and it was clear that Bill Clinton would be the nominee, though he hadn't technically wrapped it up.
This year, the Iowa caucuses were held on Jan. 3, the earliest date ever. Other states scrambled to move their contests up in the calendar as well. When June arrives, the candidates will have been slogging through primaries and caucuses for five full months — a good deal longer than in those earlier campaign cycles.
So Clinton's disturbing remark wasn't wishful thinking — as far as I know (to quote Clinton herself, when asked earlier this year about false rumors that her opponent Barack Obama is a Muslim). Clearly, it wasn't logical thinking. It can only have been magical thinking, albeit not the happy-magic kind.
Clinton has always claimed to be the cold-eyed realist in the race, and at one point maybe she was. Increasingly, though, her words and actions reflect the kind of thinking that animates myths and fairy tales: Maybe a sudden and powerful storm will scatter my enemy's ships. Maybe a strapping woodsman will come along and save the day. Continue reading
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Presidential Hopeful Apologizes For Comments By Her Husband And Geraldine Ferraro
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., makes a campaign stop at a National Newspaper Publishers Association event at the Washington Hilton in Washington, Wednesday, March 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
(CBS/AP) Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton did something Wednesday night that she almost never does.
She apologized.
And once she started, she didn't seem able to stop.
The New York senator, who is tight race with Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, struck several sorry notes at an evening forum sponsored by the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a group of more than 200 black community newspapers across the country.
Her biggest apology came in response to a question about comments by her husband, Bill Clinton, after the South Carolina primary, which Obama won handily. Bill Clinton said Jesse Jackson also won South Carolina when he ran for president in 1984 and 1988, a comment many viewed as belittling Obama's success.
"I want to put that in context. You know I am sorry if anyone was offended. It was certainly not meant in any way to be offensive," Hillary Clinton said. "We can be proud of both Jesse Jackson and Senator Obama."
"Anyone who has followed my husband's public life or my public life know very well where we have stood and what we have stood for and who we have stood with," she said, acknowledging that whoever wins the nomination will have to heal the wounds of a bruising, historic contest.
"Once one of us has the nomination there will be a great effort to unify the Democratic party and we will do so, because, remember I have a lot of supporters who have voted for me in very large numbers and I would expect them to support Senator Obama if he were the nominee," she said. Continue reading
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"If Barack Obama were a white man, would we be talking about this as a potential, real problem for Hillary? …If he were a woman of any color, would he be in this position that he's in? Absolutely not."
This is the insinuating quote from Geraldine Ferraro, former member of The US House of Representatives and the first and only woman to represent a major US political party as a candidate for Vice-President, that is the current talk around water coolers in America. She was also apart of the finance committee for the Hillary Clinton campaign. One of the greatest offenses I feel regarding this statement is the notion that Hillary Clinton is somehow clearly deserving of the presidency of The United States of America, and Barack Obama is just some "problem" on her way to her predestined appointment. From allowing one of your team members to say such things (reminiscent of what Geraldine said when Jesse Jackson ran for President) as well as demoting the current front-runner in the democratic election by suggesting he be your Vice-President, Hillary has clearly brought to the surface her sense of entitlement. Maybe if Hillary weren't a woman AND married to Bill Clinton, we wouldn't be talking about her so much and she may not be in the race for The White House. Truth is, there are a myriad of reasons why people are drawn to different candidates, some political and some otherwise. However, to assume that Obama's only draw is that he's black and a man and to think that being a woman and married to former President Bill Clinton has nothing to do with Hillary's appeal is a bit presumptuous. And what exactly did Geraldine mean when she questioned whether a woman of any color would be in the same position in the race as Barack???
The FULL interview is below. She had a lot to say…
Note: Ferraro: My comment wasn't racist, it was a fact – Hot off the presses from CNN Political Ticker
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Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi said what is just evident. There can be no dream ticket (Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama) and it's Hillay Clinton's fault. I'm not blaming Hillary for being in it to win it, however her foresight is rather blury. You can't in one breath totally discredit your opponent by suggesting the republican nominee would be a better President and then suggest he could be your Vice-President (though Barack's the one leading in the delegate count!). McCain doesn't have to campaign against either of them at this point. Hillary's already done it.
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Yeah, this is just going to be an ugly, ugly, race to the finish. Samantha Power, one of Barack Obama's top foreign policy advisers called Hillary Clinton a "monster" and was quoted in a Scottish newspaper. You can't get 'real' in front of the press and hope it doesn't come out. They are not your friends…
Posted: 10:45 AM ETAn advisor to Obama was quoted calling Clinton a monster.
(CNN)— One of Barack Obama's top foreign policy advisers apologized late Thursday after a Scottish newspaper quoted her as calling Hillary Clinton a "monster."
"It is wrong for anyone to pursue this campaign in such negative and personal terms," Samantha Power, a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of government and an adviser to Obama said in a statement. "I apologize to Senator Clinton and to Senator Obama, who has made very clear that these kinds of expressions should have no place in American politics."
Power's apology came shortly after the The Scotsman newspaper published an article in which she makes the characterization (a comment she immediately tried to retract), and suggested the New York senator is trying to deceive voters.
"She is a monster, too – that is off the record – she is stooping to anything," Power was quoted as saying.
"You just look at her and think, 'Ergh,' " Power also said. "But if you are poor and she is telling you some story about how Obama is going to take your job away, maybe it will be more effective. The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive."
Power also said the Obama campaign "f***** (fucked…CNN couldn't write that) up in Ohio." Clinton beat Obama by 10 percentage points in Ohio on Tuesday.
"In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win," Powers said.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton distanced the campaign from the remarks, saying in a statement that the Illinois senator "decries such characterizations which have no place in this campaign."
The interview came the same day a top Clinton adviser compared Obama's recent actions to independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr, who prosecuted the Clintons while Bill Clinton was in the White House in the 1990s.
"After a campaign in which many of the questions that voters had in the closing days centered on concerns that they had over his state of preparedness to be commander in chief and steward of the economy, he has chosen instead of addressing those issues to attack Senator Clinton," Clinton's communications director Howard Wolfson said on a conference call with reporters Thursday morning. "I for one do not believe that imitating Ken Starr is the way to win a Democratic primary election for president."
Obama's campaign quickly denounced that comment.
UPDATE: On a Friday morning conference call with reporters, the Clinton campaign called on Obama to end Power's role with the campaign. "Personal attacks are not the way to convince voters that you're capable of being president of the United States," said New York Rep. Nita Lowey, a Clinton supporter. "We're calling on Senator Obama to make it very clear that Samantha Power should not be part of this campaign."
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According to the below article (thanks to Big Man for posting this), it appears that it was Clinton's campaign, and not Obama's that made the comments regarding the renegotiation of the NAFTA agreement that some say cost Obama votes in Ohio and Texas.
PM's top aide set off storm with Obama NAFTA leak
Source of initial tip revealed after Harper vows to investigate 'unacceptable' act
March 6, 2008
OTTAWA — The leak of a confidential diplomatic discussion that rocked the U.S. presidential campaign began with an offhand remark to journalists from the Prime Minister's chief of staff, Ian Brodie.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowed yesterday to use whatever investigative means necessary to find the source of leaks that, he said, were "unfair" to U.S. Democratic candidate Barack Obama and may have been illegal – although opposition leaders insisted the Conservatives cannot be trusted to investigate political players on their own team.
But the story that reverberated through the U.S. presidential campaign began as a terse, almost throwaway remark that Mr. Brodie made to journalists from CTV, according to people familiar with the events.
Mr. Brodie, during the media lockup for the Feb. 26 budget, stopped to chat with several journalists, and was surrounded by a group from CTV.
Mr. Brodie, apparently seeking to play down the potential impact on Canada, told the reporters the threat was not serious, and that someone from Ms. Clinton's campaign had even contacted Canadian diplomats to tell them not to worry because the NAFTA threats were mostly political posturing.
The Canadian Press cited an unnamed source last night as saying that several people overheard the remark.
The news agency quoted that source as saying that Mr. Brodie said that someone from Ms. Clinton's campaign called and was "telling the embassy to take it with a grain of salt."
The story was followed by CTV's Washington bureau chief, Tom Clark, who reported that the Obama campaign, not the Clinton's, had reassured Canadian diplomats.
Mr. Clark cited unnamed Canadian sources in his initial report.
There was no explanation last night for why Mr. Brodie was said to have referred to the Clinton campaign but the news report was about the Obama campaign. CTV president Robert Hurst declined to comment. Continue reading
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The term 'superdelegates' reminds me of superman and the legion of superheroes… Anyway, is it me, or does is seem like the rifts in the black community are always on display for everyone to see? I wonder if the pro-Clinton Black superheroes, I mean superdelegates, will do as the rest of Black America and slowly move their support to Obama. Maybe that will be the subject of the next skit on Saturday Night Live…
CLEVELAND — Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones doesn't care to be lectured about her choice in the Democratic presidential race. The 58-year-old congresswoman from Ohio has emerged as one of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's most outspoken black supporters, the rare African American politician willing to publicly question Sen. Barack Obama's readiness for the White House.
Tubbs Jones has picked apart his record in campaign conference calls and lambasted the "Harvard arrogance" of Obama backers who have demanded that African American leaders fall in behind the senator from Illinoisin his quest to become the nation's first black president.While Obama's candidacy has often united blacks and whites at the ballot box, it has driven a wedge through the black political establishment, exposing a rift between a new generation, whose members see their political horizons as limitless, and their predecessors, who have struggled to establish a following outside of heavily African American areas.Tubbs Jones is pushing back hard against the kind of pressure that has come down on Rep. John Lewis(Ga.) and other black Democratic superdelegates who are being pressed to back Obama's candidacy."I say shame on anyone who's engaged in that conduct, to put that kind of pressure on John Lewis," Tubbs Jones said. "I'm not trying to be a martyr. I think Senator Clinton is the best candidate. And the beauty of the United States of America is you have the right to have your opinion, and I have the right to my opinion."
"I'm not going to succumb to that kind of pressure," she added. "If I change my mind, it will be because Senator Clinton said, 'Stephanie, let's make a move.'"
Superdelegates, a collection of 796 officeholders and party leaders, will make up about a fifth of the delegates to the Democratic National Convention in August. Unlike "pledged" delegates, they are free to support any candidate they like, and this year they are under increasing pressure to reject the role of kingmaker.
Some have already gotten the message. Until last week, Lewis was one of Clinton's most prominent black supporters, an icon from the civil rights movement whose endorsement last fall was a major coup, underscoring the strong bonds between the Clintons and many African American leaders.
Lewis described his defection as more anguishing than his decision to lead the "Bloody Sunday" march in 1965 from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., when he was nearly beaten to death. In a statement issued last week, he explained that he viewed Obama's campaign as "the beginning of a new movement in American political history" and that he wanted "to be on the side of the people." Continue reading
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Front Lawn Justice
Keith Walendowski is a hero. And because of that, he now faces 6 years in prison and an $11,000 fine.
Like most of us, this 56-year-old Milwaukee man owns a gas lawn mower that lacks motivation. No matter how many times he pulled the cord, that lazy sucker wasn't going to start. So Keith did what any self-respecting, intelligent lawn mower owner would do when faced with such blatant disrespect and dereliction of duty. He pulled out a rifle and shot his mower. Pow!
Triumph of Reason
When confronted by police, Keith explained, "I can do that, it's my lawn mower and my yard, so I can shoot it if I want." You are so right on, Keith. This is America, where any man has the constitutional right to blow away any piece of lawn and garden equipment he chooses.
Now I know some of you lawn mower bleeding hearts are condemning Keith, so I'll ask you a simple question and request an honest answer. Haven't you ever felt like shooting your lawn mower?
I Confess
I have. Lotsa times. Like when the grass is 8 inches tall and it's a mess and the neighbors are complaining and the old lady's on my case and I gotta get this done before the game comes on and it's hot and my shorts are ridin' up again and I just stepped in dog poop and I'm starting to gag, so I pull that rope and nothing happens and I pull again and nothing happens, and I pull and pull and pull and pull…..Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!
'Scuze me mower, gotta fetch something from the closet. Be right back. You just stay right where you are. Won't be but a second.
I've even written a poem about my relationship with my mower. It goes like this:
Mower wouldn't start after 51 yanks
Kill my lawn mower, kill my lawn mower
Put a .22 round right in the tank
Kill my lawn mower, kill my lawn mower
K-I-L-L my lawn mower.
Set Keith Free
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Hyaluronic. The beauty buzzword. Doesn't trip off the tongue, does it? It took me about half an hour to learn how to spell it. But it's sort of the fountain of youth. In fact, it's like giving your skin millions of tiny little internal fountains to cling to, because a single minuscule molecule of hyaluronic acid can hold up to 1000 times its own volume in water. And you thought ants were strong.
When combined with water, hyaluronic acid forms a viscous, elastic gel that can redensify tissue by infusing it with water. It also stimulates collagen production, while hunting down free radicals and murdering them with a Putin-like aggression. So Institut Esthederm's cream is like a dollop of myriad minute reservoirs that will pack your rain-thumped, wind-whipped, heating-pruned papier-mâché dermis chock-full of fluid, plumping it up and pressing out those witchy winter lines. It helps tackle that depressing crepiness that suddenly strikes. Where oh where are those shiny apple cheeks of yesteryear?
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This is a very chocolaty cake. My boys like it cold, my friend likes to serve it hot. Great as is or you can dress it up with homemade whipped cream or a fresh raspberry sauce or whatever your imagination dreams of. The batter is very thick so you need to make sure you stir it well all the way to the bottom of the bowl. You may need to adjust cooking time and temp to your oven. Do not over cook. Better if a slightly under cooked than over cooked. Wrapping with plastic (with a couple of layers) keeps the moisture in. Time listed in prep time includes cooling off period.
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Nicholas Roe takes a front-row seat on a daytime coach service blazing a budget trail between the capitals.
Glancing round from my seat on Megabus, the new, ultra-cheap London-to-Paris coach, I find myself staring at the face of financial doom. Of the 50 seats in the vehicle standing on the forecourt of Victoria Coach Station, no fewer than 15 are empty - surely a sign that this brave new service to the Continent doesn't appeal to enough low-cost travellers to make it work?
A quick chat with Ian Mitchell, Megabus's representative at Victoria, put me right: "Some people don't bother to turn up because the fares are so cheap it doesn't seem to matter to them if they decide not to go," he says. That makes sense. With fares as low as £1 ($1.60), few are going to worry about wasting the price of a ticket if they don't feel like travelling on the day. Megabus still gets the money and the rest of us get a little bit more room.
Started last month as an extension to a domestic city-to-city coach service that has operated in Britain since 2003, Megabus sounds almost too good to be true: a smooth ride from London to Paris (and to Boulogne, Amsterdam and Brussels), with one-way fares from £1 to £40, depending on when you book. By the time I grab my online ticket, with 36 hours to spare before the journey, the cheapest available is a tenner, plus 50p booking fee. Still - Paris for £10.50? Bring it on!
Next thing, I'm standing in Victoria Coach Station in morning's cold light, climbing aboard and heading out at 9 o'clock for the romance of the open road.
Megabus is owned by Stagecoach, run by Sir Brian Souter, one of Britain's most colourful entrepreneurs. He funded his way through university and beyond by working as a humble bus conductor before buying two second-hand buses in 1980. Today, Stagecoach turns over £2 billion, so you take notice when this man promises that Megabus will deliver "a long-overdue shake-up to the overpriced European coach travel market".
The service offers "free wi-fi and toilets" and conditions aren't bad at all. Think of a fractionally-reclining airline seat, add a bit more padding with a slightly broader armrest, and you have the idea. My bag is at my feet but most are stashed in the hold. The toilet is clean and considerably bigger than the flying equivalent.
Eurolines, the coach service run by National Express, is offering £9 one-way London-to-Paris fares until June, which competes sharply with Megabus. Eurostar last month offered one-way seats for travel in May for £34.50.
It's two hours by road from London to Dover, where we catch the ferry for Calais with minimal fuss. Strolling around the ship for a little more than an hour makes for a nice change, then it's back on the bus and off to a scheduled stop at Boulogne, followed by a whizz along the A16, and around Amiens to the Porte Maillot coach stop on the edge of Paris. The stop is about eight miles (13 kilometres) from the centre, but still on the Metro, and 30-minutes from the Gare du Nord.


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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The superintendent of the Albuquerque public school district is getting a one-year extension on his employment contract.
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Brooks has a three-year rolling contract, so the board considers annually whether to extend it.
Brooks has been Albuquerque's school superintendent since 2008.
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Good reception. neat and clean place. beast service. good quality food. very nice sitting arrangement.
great place to have a good meal.
i liked the fries and other meals from the place.
its also a good place for family lunch place.
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Though their portions are compromised.. they serve very good fast food.. their Fried fish is one of the best in town.. Chicken and Chips are good too..
Who goes to this place and gives it one star? It is what it is - a greasy place for fried food - chicken, fish, sausages chips and bhajias. You eat out of a piece of paper and all is well. There is no other fish and chips like this in Nairobi, to my knowledge. Good to visit with a...
Have been a regular at the several mac frys around nairobi and like the similar standard across there outlets . Basic but good . I enjoyed the politeness of the staff at there nairobi west outlet .
This place is dirty, poor service and normal food. Nothing extraordinary. It has oily fries, oily chicken, generally, everything is oily, cheap and tasteless. I do not recommended this place.
the people who like this place have probably not visited other quality fast food joints, Mac Frys is Terrible, the quantity is too little, the price is not worth it, u have to sit on stools and the reason the sell tomato sauce is because the free sauces available are pathetic, this is the kind of restaurant that serves to...
According to insider information, Max Fry's is suspected to sell chickens grown on steroids to increase meat bulk and growth speed. The management is secretive, unreachable by customers or the public. Their employees are usually male, arrogant, rude. The food is too refined to be health. Or even real meat products.
Bad coffee, funny tasting sausages.
This is my nearest fast food joint. The fries are always clean, chicken so fresh. Service is fast & friendly. The joint itself is always clean. I'd recommend this any time
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Over the weekend, I headed up to the Hudson Valley for another short hike. A trail begins directly off of the south end of the parking lot of the Garrison train station (which is about an hour from Manhattan on Metro-North). A few short and flat trails go along the Hudson River and the train tracks. Worth a bit of exploring if you have extra time.
The trail from the train station leads straight to the Garrison Institute, an old mansion and estate turned into a nonprofit center that hosts meditation workshops, retreats, climate symposiums, and other events based on "the power of contemplation." The pretty grounds seem welcoming and open to hikers, and we used the restroom inside.
If you cut east through the Garrison Institute grounds and across Route 9D, you'll find the entrance to Castle Rock Unique Area. Go up the dirt road (Wing and Wing Road), then bear left, and here's where the real hiking begins. The blue trail leads you through a grassy, bucolic scene with a view of a castle-like mansion at the top of the hill in front of you, but unfortunately the trails won't bring you any closer to the castle.
After entering the woods and passing a cool gazebo, you're now in Hudson Highlands State Park. We followed the red-blazed trail up to the top of Sugarloaf Hill (also known as Sugarloaf South). Nice views of the Hudson River and the Bear Mountain Bridge from the top.
We headed back down the same way and meandered back to the train station, and the whole thing took about two hours. Much recommended if you only have a few hours to get away from the city. There's another trail (the blue Osborn Loop) that connects before the top of Sugarloaf Hill if you are looking for a longer hike.


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Moth-fighting products, like moth balls, which are used to keep the bugs away from clothing, are flying off the shelves at local stores.
Ben Barboza, manager of the Walmart on Lawrence Rd. in Wichita Falls, says, "They're up about 200 percent from last year. Only because I think we have more of a generation of moths than we did last year because we were a lot hotter if we remember."
David Shoop, with Shoop's Texas Termite, says there's only one word to describe the moth problem, "Horrible. The moth problem is horrible. They are going everywhere, mainly to trees. They're laying eggs. If anyone opens their doors, they will go inside because the air quality is much better."
Barboza says this is the season when stores sell a lot of moth balls but stores across the region are seeing a big increase in sales because what experts say is an excessive number of both indoor and outdoor moths this season.
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The teak sole on my boat has quite a few indentations, far deeper than I would like to sand. How should I fill them in to make the sole look natural?
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Saving old soles, or any damaged woodwork, is a matter of taste and skill. Some older boats have real, solid teak-planked floors. Many others, unfortunately, were built with teak-faced plywood in which the veneer is so thin a coarse sanding penetrates to the unattractive fir ply underneath.
These are your choices:
1. Determine that you like the sole the way it looks and varnish right over the dings. Some sailors say that particularl look lends character to the boat.
2. Cover the entire sole, thus hiding the damaged surface. Some people may think of carpet, vinyl tile or other easy solutions. However, teak planking is available in several forms. Newer laminates look surprisingly like real wood at a fraction of the cost and matching trim pieces make this covering an easy one. We have seen several recent jobs using parquet that were quite handsome. These laminates are available at any home-building store.
3. The traditional alternative requires a fair amount of skill in the art of inlaying wood. Damaged areas are removed, a piece of new wood is fitted and glued into the void, and the patch is then planed and sanded flush. Very small spots can be simply drilled out and an inlay, fitted in the form of a bung, glued in the hole. Larger areas can be cut away with a sharp chisel and a steady hand, and a duplicate piece of wood, sometimes called a Dutchman, shaped to fill the resulting hole. For really fancy inlays, a good router can be guided by matched templates to cut away old damage and make an identical insert. The old masters used to make these inlays in the shape of stars, butterflies, or other figures to show their mastery of the art. This option is, frankly, not for the faint of heart or those short on time, though the results can be beautiful.
Whatever solution you choose, here's wishing you the best of luck and a speedy finish so that you can return to enjoying the time you spend sailing your boat.
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These dirtbags billed me even after I had canceled my account. When I called to complain, they didn't really care. I guess the woman on the phone was used to irrate callers.
Their customer service is just a bunch of losers waiting to field complaints from the next caller. The website is designed to automatically bill you and conceal the fact they are doing it.
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Okay, what I want to first start off with by saying is that, you are entitled to your own opinion. However, the likely reason you were billed after canceling your account is due to the prior charges you had on a package you had ALREADY recieved. Guthy Renker sends out 90 day supply shipments. Just because you CANCEL your account does not mean you don't still owe the company money. Say for example , you use electric for 3 months, and decide to cancel... Just because you cancel the electric does not mean you dont still owe for the 3 months of electric you've used.
Guthy Renker breaks your charges up into 3 separate billing installments to make it easier on the consumer. Sometimes there can be misunderstandings with the initial order placed, and every company has there misunderstandings. You were signed up for an auto-renewal program which means you are automatically billed until your packages are paid off. Guthy renker did not bill you for something you did no recieve, we would actually have no way of doing that.
Also, wanted to touch base on the comment " These dirtbags". Guthy Renker is a very succesful business, and we are succesful because of the great offers and memberships we provide to our customers. Now, speaking as a human being, and not a *customer service rep* I will say, ONE customer service call should not make up your TOTAL judgement of our company. The customer service rep you spoke with is trained to understand your concerns and take care of them for you, without letting (sympathy) get involved. We ALWAYS feel bad if there was a misunderstanding in the billing department. Something I can recommend to anyone, and EVERYONE is that being rude or irate with a customer service rep will get you absolutely nowhere. Just a little reminder, this is our job, we are here to help you, YOU called US. We're all human beings, not "dirtbag losers waiting for the next call to come in".
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