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Cindy Gagich Named First Female Principal at Ill. High School
There are 58 comments on the District Administration story from Jan 14, 2013, titled Cindy Gagich Named First Female Principal at Ill. High School. In it, District Administration reports that:
When Cindy Gagich stands in front of the portraits of 14 past principals of Granite City High School, it's clear she'll be starting something new.
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#1 Jan 14, 2013
Cindy Gagich.. same Gagich that her mother was a teacher at St Mary's in Madison and finished her teaching career at St. John Neumann? if so, congrats.. I loved her mother, one of my best teachers.. had her for 2nd grade
#2 Jan 14, 2013
Well that is some very exciting news and it couldn't have happened to a nicer lady - Congratulations to Ms. Gagich and to Mr. Greenwald
#3 Jan 14, 2013
She is not a nice woman at all .. she favors the "preppy popular" girls and lets them get away with wearing inappropriate dress code while she sends the pregnant girls down to the office for wearing sweatpants or yoga pants, even if that's all they can fit in. She's much too strict, and no one realized how easy they had it with Mr.Greenwald. He was so understanding, and always tried to help out students who were struggling.
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#4 Jan 14, 2013
I am very happy for her, I was not preppy and popular but she was always great to me. Her and Mrs Finkes were two women that made me feel like I could do better and succeed. Congratulations!!!
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#5 Jan 14, 2013
When I was in high school I was a young pregnant girl and she never treated me poorly. That was some time ago but she did help me through some rough times as a young pregnant teen. Maybe you should go visit her and express your concerns. No one can change if they do not know there is a problem.
#6 Jan 14, 2013
I agree with what you're saying, but she has picked on me several times when she knew I was pregnant and underprivileged. And I'm not the only one, it's several of my friends as well.
#7 Jan 15, 2013
[QUOTE who="agreed!"]Cindy Gagich.. same Gagich that her mother was a teacher at St Mary's in Madison and finished her teaching career at St. John Neumann? if so, congrats.. I loved her mother, one of my best teachers.. had her for 2nd grade [/QUOTE]
I also had her mom as my 2nd grade teacher. Congrats Cindy.
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#8 Jan 15, 2013
I am glade to see that someone that has been at the high school for many years got it. She was teaching when I was there and I graduated 21 years ago. I will miss Mr. Greenwald he was a good man and very understanding. I was hoping he would of stayed until all my kids were done with school.
#9 Jan 15, 2013
An unwed, pregnant teen mom - not all it is cracked up to be is it? Are you upset that you did not get your MTV career going? Underprivileged and knocked up - sounds like you wanted special accommodations, privileges and consideration above what other students received - that type of self-entitlement attitude is going to keep you on welfare for along time.
Try to remember that no one owes you anything - except maybe your baby daddy. He might owe you some child support.
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#11 Jan 15, 2013
She's the first female principal in Illinois? What took so long? Congrats to you Cindy.
#12 Jan 15, 2013
At granite city high school, not all of Illinois.
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#14 Jan 16, 2013
I never had to deal with her, seemed like a mean lady but I wasent a punk or a knocked up teen looking for trouble.
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#15 Jan 17, 2013
Mrs Gagich was my math teacher in Freeburg Il...she was y favorite teacher. She didnt just teach math she was also a great person would listen to anything the students had to talk about...i think its great shes at gchs!
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#16 Jan 17, 2013
keep- your damned legs closed!!!!
YOU have no business being pregnant at that age..
now on the positive hand...i applaud you for not walking away from your future and education during such a challenging time in your life...
#17 Jan 17, 2013
F*CK YOU, and twpr. As if it was any of your business, my "baby daddy" was my first and only Guy that I've ever seriously dated, kissed, and yeah obviously had sex with. You don't normally think about preventing pregnancy your first time. And I don't regret my baby, getting pregnant is the best thing that's ever happened to me and helped me to grow up alot. Sure, I wish I would have waited for marriage unlike just about everybody these days; but if I did I wouldn't have my precious child, and that's the one person I can't even IMAGINE my life without. Fyi, stop stereotyping all teen mothers the same. Cause I for one know that I am a D*MN good mother. NO, I did not want "special treatment", what I was expecting from a school official was SUPPORT. By "underprivileged" I meant that my family is low-income, and without many resources as of the moment. All I was asking from Ms.Gagich was a little understanding. But if our entire society today is built on judgmental ASSHOLES, then I guess I should have known better. And since you care so much about my future place in society, NO I do not plan on living on Welfare my whole life! My "baby daddy" is actually planning to marry me, got me a ring and everything. I plan on going to college to become an art teacher.
I honestly don't need to explain myself to you, and I suppose I was a little naive to think I could tell topix that I'm a teen mother and not receive every form of sh*t taking. It's like a dirty word around here. That was rather silly of me....
But it's such a shame that we have to label everyone these days. I didn't say Cindy was a bad person, I just said she wasn't a very nice at all. That was my first and last impression of her, and I doubt it will change.
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#20 Jan 18, 2013
them?!!! plural? your ovaries are going to fall out before you are thirty!!!
15 to 18 is ok in some cultures you say? then go move to such third world regions of the world...it is considered taboo here und irresponsible..
just stay in school and i mean that in a constructive way...
#21 Jan 18, 2013
I hope you do graduate from high school and then on to college. The odds are not in your favor and you already come from a socially and economically depressed background - the odds of you escaping it were already against you before you compounded the problem with an unplanned pregnancy. You have chosen a very difficult road for yourself and your child and you are rely on society to pay for your bad choices.
You should not be proud to be on welfare any more than you should be proud you have a child while you are still in high school. ANY idiot can have a child. It doesn't require a license or any special knowledge - people have been happy babies for thousands of years and yours is not any more special or unique than any other child born to an unwed teenage girl. Right now the tax payers are taking care of you and your child - You really have nothing to be proud of until you graduate from school and can contribute to society more than you take. You are not there yet Chica but good luck to you on that.
I am curious as to whether your mom was also a teen Mom? Why were you brought up in poverty? And why didn't you learn from your mother's example?
#24 Jan 18, 2013
Oh wow, where to start!
See, as much as I would love to sit here and correct every little bit of how you both "guess" my life and upbringing are, I'll just be the bigger person and step away from all of this bullshit.
Also the more I correct you, the more you learn about my identity.
It really doesn't matter what you think of me, because the fact remains that you don't know me. And the more you THINK you know me, the more wrong you are. And that's how I'd like to keep it. Because I'd hate to know such close minded, awfully judgemental people such as yourselves. It's a shame you live off of picking arguments with someone you know so little about. Maybe you should take a good look at yourselves, and try to work a little bit on being a better person. In the long run, the only thing that matters is how you treated yourself and others. I'll say my goodbyes now, and let you go on about such nonsense and that feeling of gratification, thinking "Yes! My harsh words scared her off! She admits defeat!" It was wonderful chatting with you, I hope you both find happiness in your lives! I've found mine.
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You are the sick one.
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As I watch the Ducks play UCLA, the announcers say they have a special guest, and I think it's the usual Phil Knight New Jersey talk. But it wasn't—it was a man who at one time made opposing defenses shake in their cleats. Yes, I'm talking about Dennis Dixon.
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My wife and I had been kicking around the idea of getting a dog for a couple of years. Our kids were old enough, and both our families had dogs growing up. We looked at numerous breeds, from both animal shelters as well as breeders. After about a full year of waffling, we finally decided on a GSD. We prefer larger dogs, and my family had a Shepherd/Collie mix when we were growing up that will live in my parent's minds as THE. BEST. DOG. EVER.
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We made the trip, and of course, the kids wanted to take all of them home. My wife and I decided on a female that seemed to lead the charge of puppies exploring the property and even had the guts to goad her father into play when he was clearly not interested. On the ride home, we named her Molly.
Speaking of her parentage, Molly's father was one of the biggest GSDs I have ever seen. He was at once truly massive yet the sweetest dog. After a few "who are the strangers?" barks when we arrived, he approached my young daughter with a large stick (my wife recalls it as a "log") and the two ran off to play. He was the classic black/tan, her mother was more of what I believe is referred to as a "sable" with more silver and gray in her coat. She had unfortunately been hit by a car a few years back and lost a leg, but you'd never know it by the way she tended to her pups.
We crate trained from day one. And honestly, that's the only night we've had an issue with it. Molly was understandably freaked out in a new place away from her litter mates, so we moved the crate into our bedroom and I spent much of that night laying on the floor next to the crate so she would quiet down. Since then no issues. Without a doubt, crate training while sometimes hard for the kids who wanted her out to play constantly, was the key to housebreaking her without too much drama.
We have learned so much from this community and one day I hope I can contribute to help someone else out in return.
Now, Molly is 6 months old and a happy, healthy 61 pound bundle of joy. She is a fast learner, amazing with the kids, and absolutely loves Lincoln, our 3 year old cat. Our cat is a total jerk to any other feline, but he shockingly took to Molly almost immediately. We're so happy to have her in our home.
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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 610952, 7 pages
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BMP9-Induced Osteogenetic Differentiation and Bone Formation of Muscle-Derived Stem Cells
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, No. 76 Linjiang Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing 400010, China
Received 15 July 2011; Accepted 26 October 2011
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As Cole Porter put it, "Another opening, another show." The hearings on Sonia Sotomayor are scheduled to open on July 13, and Republicans can brace for another travesty, for this is something that Republicans just don't know how to do well. To make it worse, there are more traps this time than usual: We have already been amply warned that any serious questioning of Judge Sotomayor is bound to be portrayed by the Democrats as hostility toward Hispanics. (Of course, the filibustering of Miguel Estrada by the Democrats was somehow never given that construction.) But the presence of this hazard suggests a different and far better Republican strategy for the hearings. No roughing up of Sonia Sotomayor: She should be treated as we would wish our own sisters to be treated. But a gentle course may actually provide a greater political yield and be far more illuminating for the general public.
The appropriate line here comes from Kasper Gutman, Sydney Greenstreet's character in The Maltese Falcon: "By Jove, I do love to talk, sir, with a man who loves to talk." This woman loves to talk. And by most accounts, she has high confidence in her ability to say things worth hearing. So the Republicans should simply invite her to explain the state of the law, as she sees it, on a range of subjects that have been particularly vexing of late in our politics: abortion (of course), but also matters like racial preferences, same-sex marriage, and the role of judges in overseeing military action on the battlefield.
There is no need to ask Judge Sotomayor how she would rule in any of these cases. She could simply display her learning by explaining the state of the law as she understands it, and reveal in that way the furnishings of her mind. For example, Iowa's supreme court recently invoked the concept of "equal protection of the laws" to strike down the traditional laws concerning marriage. Ted Olson, solicitor general in the first George W. Bush administration, has invoked the same concept in support of a right to same-sex marriage, without exactly filling out the reasoning.
How would that reasoning go? Olson has made a plea on behalf of the same-sex couple who earnestly love each other. Judge Sotomayor might well be asked why the same principle would not work on behalf of ensembles of three or four people who profess their love in the same way. Is there something in that principle of "equal protection" that works to confine the claim of marriage to two people? She might be asked, not how she would decide a case, but how judges would reason about a problem when it is presented in that way.
But it is on abortion that Judge Sotomayor could be most revealing. The Democrats always want to make abortion the central issue in the juridical and "culture" wars. Republicans can take a line from H. L. Mencken and give them what they want — "good and hard." The Democrats are always pressing Republican nominees to commit themselves to maintaining Roe v. Wade, but they also prefer to surround the actual findings in Roe v. Wade with a benign haze. That haze nicely hides the companion case of Doe v. Bolton, the case holding that a woman may order an abortion at any time during the pregnancy if it was thought necessary to preserve her "mental health." One professor at a major law school took a survey among 25 of her colleagues and found that only five of them could give an accurate account of the holding in these cases.
The Republicans can simply ask Judge Sotomayor to explain what Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton established. If she just says those cases established a right to abortion for the first three months of the pregnancy, the Republicans can correct her, and correct her on national television. For the right to abortion actually extends through the entire length of the pregnancy. For most Democrats, that right to abortion would cover even partial-birth abortions, with the body of the child dangling out of the birth canal. In fact, the Democrats had no real enthusiasm in voting for the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act (2002), the law that mandates preserving the life of a child who survives an abortion. However, only one Democrat with a national reputation summoned the nerve to oppose this measure: Barack Obama, back in the Illinois Senate, led the opposition to his state's version of that bill and managed to kill it.
But according to surveys, over many years, no more than 22 to 25 percent of the public have been willing to support the policy of abortion at any time for any reason. In one Zogby poll in 2004, the figure was as low as 13 percent, and a poll by ABC yielded a figure of 16 percent. When the matter is laid out with this kind of precision, would Pat Leahy and Dick Durbin really put on again their act of enjoining the nominee to affirm a policy that causes a large majority of the country to recoil when they hear about it?
From the exchanges that would emerge from this line of questioning, two critical points would be established, points that could transform the hearings:
(1) It would be clear that most people in the country — including many people who call themselves "pro-choice" — think that some abortions may be rightly regarded as unjustified, and rightly barred. And as it turns out, the law that has been shaped by the Supreme Court could be read as quite open to such restrictions on abortion in particular cases. It is arguable also that five of the justices now sitting would be willing to sustain those restrictions, depending on the case at hand. Does Judge Sotomayor understand the law in that way? Or does she think that the law springing from Roe v. Wade mandates nothing but abortion on demand, for any reason at all, at any time? If so — and if she could actually speak those lines — she would bring jolting news to many people in the country who know little about the state of the law. But if she reads the law as it actually stands now — a law open to restrictions on abortion in particular cases — that too would come as news to a large part of the public. It would also induce the most wholesome gnashing of teeth through all ranks of the Obama administration, along with a sinking feeling of buyer's remorse among the most zealous supporters of abortion rights.
(2) Once it is clear that the law is open to restrictions on abortion in particular cases, the scene is set for the second and decisive step. The nominee could then make the point that she cannot pronounce today on the kinds of restrictions that would pass constitutional muster without virtually inviting the legislation — and the litigation — she would be asked to judge. End of the conversation on abortion — now and forevermore in judicial confirmation hearings. Any future Republican nominee questioned on the subject could simply cite the precedent of these hearings, cite the reasons given by Sotomayor, and stand on the same ground as she politely declines to discuss anything more about the matter of abortion.
That in itself would be no small public service. And if Judge Sotomayor happens to stumble in these conversations, if her answers are less than luminous, or if she falls into gaffes of a Bidenesque nature, the Left will suffer an embarrassment amply earned. Instead of elevating someone who could stand on the same plane as Scalia, Roberts, and Alito, offering counterarguments, they may simply be putting on the Supreme Court a caricature of liberal jurisprudence who will dangle there for 30 years. On the other hand, Judge Sotomayor may be as brilliant and as scrappy as her backers tell us she is. And in that case, the hearings could reveal to us the furnishings of mind of a talented jurist. That too would be no small thing, and not a bad day's work for the Republicans on the committee.
– Hadley Arkes is the Ney Professor of Jurisprudence at Amherst College and was the architect of the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act.


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I'm not the best with words, not when writing reviews, at least. But I like this - I like the ontracting colors, the swirls and cloud-like look of the hair. I just, like it. Good job.
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NOw thats a lot of hair!! Could she walk hahahah. It feels as though it could use a background of some sorts maybe like a "Spacy" sort of thing since they look like aliens or something!! good work trungles i like what im seeing keep it up!
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I love your works, but I certainly agree with the others about the background.
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Block for block, Key West has to be the smartest town in America. Despite the slap of vulgarity that is the circa-1829 Duval Street, which attracts an eternal honky-tonk herd of cruise-ship gawkers, wayward sorority girls, and tipsy conventioneers, the community has always embraced the subtler realm of Ralph Ellison, John Dos Passos, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, and Ann Beattie. Today's literary locals cling to the everyday wonders of the town: browsing at Voltaire Books; picnics at Nancy's Secret Garden, a tropical wonderland in Old Town created by artist Nancy Forrester; bike rides past landmarks like the former home of novelist James L. Herlihy (Midnight Cowboy), now owned by writer Brian Antoni. In the evenings, it's theater at the Waterfront Playhouse, an art film at the nonprofit Tropic Cinema (founded, in part, by writer Jean Carper and George Cooper, a retired law professor and author), or a show at the improbably first-rate Red Barn Theatre on Duval Street, where local boy Richard Wilbur once helped out with Molière translations.
As it happens, Wilbur, a former U.S. poet laureate, will be back on Duval in January at the San Carlos Institute, a beautifully faded former Cuban consulate. He'll be honored there during the Key West Literary Seminar, an open-to-the-public symposium, held yearly since 1983, that encapsulates the town's steadfast cultivation. Sixty years of American poetry will be celebrated, with seven U.S. poets laureate in attendance—Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Robert Pinsky, Maxine Kumin, et al.—and events scheduled all over town. For one, Kumin will also be kicking off a lecture series at the Studios of Key West, an arts complex with gallery exhibitions and workshops.
This season's guest speakers include Robert Stone, author of A Flag for Sunrise and Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties. Stone came to Key West in the 1970's during the post "grouper and grits" era, when the town was dirt cheap and Tom McGuane and Jim Harrison were young bohemians. Not many are all that young or bohemian anymore, and the literary crowd now includes a new crop of luminaries: Michael Mewshaw, Harry Mathews, Meg Cabot. Popular destinations, as with great lines in literature, become clichés because they are great, and to Stone, lingering over a beer in his unpretentious house, Key West is still a remarkable place with "less tolerance for McMansions and the general crappiness of American life."
Architecture is destiny, and Key West's Old Town—a dizzying array of Queen Anne, American Foursquare, and Classical Revival work—is a true neighborhood, not a theme park, more Caribbean than American in its aesthetic clashes. A $5 million mansion might sit next to beat-up Bahamian Conch shacks, an evangelical church, or a drag queen's front yard with a dozen pairs of high-heel pumps jammed into the trunk of a cabbage palm tree. Feral chickens frequent even the better addresses, and, bright and early, crowing roosters rouse all classes of society.
Across the street from the clothing-optional Garden of Eden bar is the Caribbean colonial grace of the Key West Heritage House Museum, which dates to 1834. Since the 1930's, the property has been owned by the Porter family, one of the founding clans of Key West: Robert Frost wintered in a garden cottage here between 1945 and 1960, with his hostess, Miss Jessie Porter, entertaining such legends of wit as Tallulah Bankhead. A few blocks away, the circa-1891 Key West Museum of Art & History at the Custom House features a dripping-with-malice portrait of Truman Capote, waving a 1976 American Bicentennial flag and pistol, a Vote for the Man sign and a bloody young couple in the foreground: it was done by Capote's fellow all-star of writing, Tennessee Williams.
To the remaining old guard of Key West, gentrification has brought better food—the restaurants Antonia's and Michaels; conch salad at Eaton Street Seafood Market; mango bread at Cole's Peace Artisan Bakery—and mixed blessings. William Wright, who goes back to the era of poet James Merrill, thinks that bohemia has changed forever. "One holiday weekend," he says, "I counted 25 private jets at the airport." Alison Lurie, author of the set-in-Key West novel The Last Resort, worries that "only rich writers can afford it here now." Edmund White, whose latest memoir, City Boy, came out this fall, has been renting Lurie's guest cottage most winters since 1979. He finds that Key West has become "fancier than Provincetown" and crossed the tipping point. "Gays are always the worker ants of society," he says, "pioneering places and eventually pricing themselves out of the towns they build."
Beauty still unfurls in the most unlikely places. On Duval, tourists feed the multinational beast that is Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville and futilely prowl for something real. But right behind the strip is a ramshackle compound with piles of old bottles, withered magazines, and battalions of cats. This is the studio of Suzie DePoo, a character out of Grey Gardens who hails from one of the town's most august families. Her wonderful work, which is carried by the local Gallery on Greene, is all angels, unicorns, Garden of Eden scenes, and hope. She has spent 50 years in this house and is an artist given to the local Conch philosophy: "I guess Key West is like life," she says, "and all the things that happen to you without you even knowing."
New Town, largely rooster-free and more suburban in tone than Old Town, is also about the life of thinking people. Susan Henshaw Jones, president and director of the Museum of the City of New York, shares a perfectly calibrated Modernist spread with her husband, Richard K. Eaton, a federal judge, and enjoys the "mini-Manhattan" conversational gene pool. Phyllis Rose, author of The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time, lives nearby with her artist husband, Laurent de Brunhoff, son of the creator of the Babar series. Inside his studio, de Brunhoff unveils a drawing for Babar's USA, taken from a gathering at the couple's house with the real-life literary models of Annie Dillard, of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and The Maytrees, and her husband, Robert D. Richardson, the author of acclaimed biographies of such subjects as William James.
Every writer in town knows David Wolkowsky, "Mr. Key West," the Conch equivalent of Gerald and Sara Murphy. (On Wolkowsky's private island, Ballast Key, Tennessee Williams would write while listening to Billie Holiday records.) After an oceanfront lunch at the writer's hangout Saluté Ristorante Sul Mare, Wolkowsky points out the site of the old Sands Beach Club, his bar-and-restaurant complex that once served as an iconic pit stop for the chic. Standing by the ocean and looking out over the last remaining legacy of the Sands, an ornate wooden dock that now adorns the Reach Resort, Wolkowsky contemplates the horizon of memory: "We had real people here then," he says. "People like Rudolf Nureyev and Leonard Bernstein, not tourists."
The notion of the real Key West is a dreamscape that slips out of your grasp the tighter you try to hold on, and the echoes of the past are everywhere. But at this moment, new possibilities in the life of a remarkably thoughtful American resort island are created every day. At a recent fund-raiser for the Florida Keys SPCA, Claudia Miller—whose Old Town house includes an art studio and her own portrait of the Buddha, painted on the exterior wall of her meditation room—talks about Key West's offering a learning curve for America. "The rest of the country could take something from the creative spirit here, the way it expands your sensibilities," she says. "This place is about the mind and what the mind wants to do."
Tom Austin is a T+L contributing editor.
Getting There
Key West, which is a three-hour drive from Miami, has its own airport; most flights connect through Atlanta or other Florida cities. Bicycles are the best way to get around.
Casa Marina Resort Now part of the Waldorf Astoria Collection, this is the grande dame of the area. 1500 Reynolds St.; 305/296-3535; casamarinaresort.com; doubles from $329.
Gardens Hotel Five buildings spread over an acre, with some rooms in a circa-1870 plantation-style mansion. 526 Angela St.; 305/294-2661; gardenshotel.com; doubles from $295, including breakfast.
Great Value Reach Resort Beach Club Sister property to the Casa Marina, featuring an outpost of the Strip House. 1435 Simonton St.; 305/296-5000; doubles from $149.
Antonia's Modern Mediterranean. 615 Duval St.; 305/294-6565; dinner for two $75.
Eaton Street Seafood Market 930 Eaton St.; 305/295-3474; lunch for two $25.
Hogfish Bar & Grill Tables overlooking a dock crowded with shrimp boats. 6810 Front St., Stock Island; 305/293-4041; dinner for two $50.
Michaels Steaks and seafood in Old Town. 532 Margaret St.; 305/295-1300; dinner for two $65.
Saluté Ristorante Sul Mare 1000 Atlantic Blvd.; 305/292-1117; dinner for two $75.
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Key West Literary Seminar Lectures, readings, and workshops from January 7 to 10 at the San Carlos Institute. 305/293-9291; keywestliteraryseminar.org; $495 for the four-day event.
Key West Heritage House Museum 410 Caroline St.; 305/296-3573; heritagehousemuseum.org.
Key West Museum of Art & History at the Custom House 281 Front St.; 305/295-6616; kwahs.com.
Nancy's Secret Garden 1 Free School Lane; 305/294-0015; nancyforrester.com.
Red Barn Theatre 319 Duval St.; 305/296-9911; redbarntheatre.com.
Sculpture Key West Locations throughout the city. 305/295-3800; sculpturekeywest.com.
Studios of Key West The place to be during Walk on White, a monthly evening of gallery-hopping. 600 White St.; 305/296-0458; tskw.org.
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- In a large saucepan, saute onions in butter until tender. Add the beans, mushrooms, lemon-pepper and salt. Cover and cook over medium heat for 5 minutes or until beans are tender. Sprinkle with cheese; cover and let stand for 1 minute or until cheese is melted. Yield: 6 servings.
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In an interesting thread in our active Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) discussion board, cgski wondered if it wouldn't be cheaper for Blockbuster to acquire Netflix -- now marked down to an enterprise value of roughly $400 million -- as a way out of this margin-munching "fight to the death." In what earns my vote as the best "wish I had written it first" one-line reply of the week, AceInMySleeve offered up this brief yet meaty nugget: "Even better if you can spend 50 million more to knock the price tag down another 100 million."
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A slaughter, then oblivion, mark France's deadliest day in World War One
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ROSSIGNOL Belgium (Reuters) - The bloodiest day for the French Army in World War One - indeed in its entire history - draws no national tributes, no eulogies by dignitaries, few wreaths laid in respect.
The storied campaigns at the Marne and Verdun are seared into French consciousness But the catastrophic Battle of the Frontiers a century ago that cut down 27,000 French soldiers on August 22, 1914, remains largely unknown.
Despite bayonet charges and a refusal to retreat, the men buried in the moss-covered graves in the village of Rossignol and others like it in southern Belgium perished in the rout by the German army have faded from memory in ensuing years.
"Command, topography, tactics, everything" went wrong in the 15-odd battles that summer day on a front stretching from Alsace to western Belgium, said Jean-Michel Steg, author of "The Deadliest Day in the History of France." Many historians consider Rossignol in the Ardennes the battle's epicenter.
"It was a crash course for the French army into 20th century battle tactics," Steg said.
"They had gone in dreaming of Austerlitz and it was a different world. It was one of those days they crashed into reality," he said, referring to a Napoleonic victory marked by dramatic cavalry charges.
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On February 6th, former Blondell Reynolds Brown campaign manager turned $87,000-a-year airport patronage appointee John McDaniel (seen here with Bill Clinton and President Obama via Twitter) was charged by the FBI with one count of wire fraud, a federal crime.
According to documents filed in the case by U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger, "McDaniel unlawfully withdrew and stole approximately $100,000" and then filed "false and incomplete campaign finance reports" to cover up his crime. If convicted, McDaniel could face a maximum of 30 years in jail and a $250,000 fine. The feds don't mess around.
When news of McDaniel's troubles surfaced last week, just a week after Reynolds Brown admitted to her own lawbreaking activities, it was reported that McDaniel was cooperating with authorities. And why wouldn't he be? If he received the max, the 39-year-old would be one year shy of 70 when he got out of prison, and with a degree in criminal justice from Bloomsburg University (according to his LinkedIn profile), McDaniel knows how the system works.
McDaniel's cooperation with the FBI and federal prosecutors has spawned a whole lot of speculation behind the scenes. After all, if he's cooperating with authorities, just who is the real target?
"Why would the FBI be interested in some schmuck who stole $100,000?" asked one government insider last week. "People steal $100,000 all the time. This is small potatoes. He must have something big, and the feds must know that."
Of course, it's not really true that the FBI categorically ignores such relatively small amounts of money. In 2006, City Councilman Rick Mariano was sent to federal prison over "only" $30,000 in bribes. But Mariano was an elected official. McDaniel is just some behind-the-scenes guy with good connections. And it is those connections that must have the FBI salivating.
"When you deal with political corruption cases, there is no monetary threshold for the feds," says local attorney Joseph Grimes, who has represented dozens of "cooperators" in federal cases. "But they're also always prosecuting up. If they get the squeeze on someone at a lower level, they use the pressure to get information about other, bigger people up the chain."
Reynolds Brown has already admitted to "accepting prohibited gifts and failing to disclose transactions." Is there a bigger person up the chain here? Is someone going to finally stand up to the patronage potty known as the Philadelphia Airport? Does this relate to Chaka Fattah Jr., son of the Congressman, whose name came up in the Reynolds Brown reports and whom the FBI has been investigating? Or do the feds have their sights set on even bigger fish? Somebody has got to be sweating big time.
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Malta in Europe – Europeana, a newly-launched Facebook page, has opened a doorway to the digital treasures of Europe's museums, libraries, galleries, archives and audiovisual collections.
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A three-week survey of the Towngas network has found 51 leaks in pipes across the city.
The Hong Kong and China Gas Company launched the three-week inspection of pipes of the same type involved in the fatal gas blast in Ngau Tau Kok. An elderly woman was killed and eight people injured in the explosion at Wai King Building on Jordan Valley North Road on April 11.
The survey of 450km of pipeline which ended on Monday found minute leaks at three locations - the junction of Wong Chuk Hang Road and Nam Long Shan Road on Hong Kong Island, Prince Edward Road West in Kowloon, and Lai Yiu Street at Kwai Chung.
'The leaks were due to pipe corrosion, and replacement and repair works were duly completed,' the company said.
It added that of more than 200,000 pipe joints along the Towngas pipelines, minute leaks were detected at 30 joints and were fixed.
'Above-ground installations were also inspected and necessary maintenance and repairs carried out on 18 above-ground installations at which minute leaks were detected,' the company said.
Towngas managing director Chan Wing-kin said the survey findings showed the pipelines were safe and well-maintained.
The company would double the frequency of its network inspection from three times to six times a year to reassure the public of its network's safety.
The Electrical and Mechanical Services Department, which audited the survey, said it would continue to closely monitor the gas provider's safety management system and to review its regular maintenance programme.
'In the light of the incident, the department is now exploring with the company measures to further enhance gas safety,' a spokesman for the department said.
Hong Kong Polytechnic University engineering expert Lo Kok-keung said the company should be more careful.
'Although the percentage of leaks is low ... it is an inflammable gas that is dangerous,' Mr Lo said, adding that rust-resistant pipes should be used.
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The tan interior comes with plastic molded dash pieces that are a swirly black pattern. I really wanted a burl wood look that comes with the light frost interior color but not have the gloss finish. The solution was to wrap these pieces with vinyl. I ordered a 24" x 36" roll of Burlwood (Honey) from Rvinyl. They have every color/pattern you could think of from leather to machine turn finish stainless steel.
I've never worked with vinyl before but it turned out fantastic. At first it was agonizing thinking it would never work but I kept at it and never had to redo a piece. Cut an over sized piece that will leave a couple inches overlap. Clean the trim piece, they sell spray bottles of cleaning and application fluid, basically alcohol and soap solutions. Then spray the application fluid, this helps to reduce air bubbles and wrinkles. Gently lay the vinyl on the piece and start applying pressure left to right, it will stick a little bit at this point. Use a hair dryer at medium setting and heat it up one section at a time for a few seconds. The vinyl will melt if you use high setting for more than a few of seconds. Quickly smooth it out over the edges/curves with your fingers and plastic squeegee, for tight corners and edges I heat it up and pull/stretch it. Do this over and over one section at a time until it's prefect. Once fitted, trim off all the excess and heat and smooth the whole surface again with hard pressure. It's a difficult process for these compound curves but doable if you have patience and semi-skilled hands. I'd suggest watching watching the videos on Rvinyl site and youtube vinyl wrapping vids if you've never done it before.
The dash pieces you can remove as they are held in with snap clips but the door pieces do not remove.
Very cool. Have always wondered how hard this would be. Thanks for sharing.
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Turned out great! :thumbsup:
Great job vertrkr! How'd you do the doors if they don't come off?
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Vertrkt - it looks awesome. It looks particularly good in the last, day light image you posted.
I like the choice of design. I too an curious how you did the door pieces.
This isn't one I need to do, since we have the light frost interior, but its a great upgrade for anyone wanting a wood look.
So impressive. I remember you mentioned in another thread (back when you started the project) that you were planning to just do a piece per night (or whenever you could get to it). I'm curious how long this ended up taking you. Thanks for sharing.
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For the door pieces you just have to do them in place. Once you heat up the vinyl the plastic squeegee can push the vinyl into the crevices pretty well so you don't see the edges. You need to be careful with the x-acto knife when trimming leaving about 1/32" of overlap to be tucked in.
It took me about 30 minutes per piece. I kept drinking a few beers when starting and had to stop after completing one piece as I was afraid I'd screw up the next one. There's a lesson in there somewhere for me. Other projects and life got in the way of this one so it took me a little while to finish.
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Superb!! Looks great!
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I work for a large custom sign company that does a fair amount of vinyl application every week. A few things to keep in mind...
a) The professional application fluid is not mandatory. Just use a few drops (maybe half a cap full) of Joy dish washing soap in a bottle of water.
b) Do NOT clean the surface with Windex. Do NOT use Windex as a substitute for the soap application fluid. It damages the vinyl.
c) 3M Di-NOC is some very cool stuff! Made in Japan and they've got tons of finishes -- and especially realistic "wood-looking" vinyls with not much gloss. If nobody told you it was vinyl, you might never know. Expensive. And a little hard to find. They do, however, discontinue finishes every year, so be aware it may not be available three years from now.
d) There are also Felt Squeegees available, if you want to further protect the finish on the vinyl. The semi-hard vinyl squeegees work just fine, but applicators like to wrap the edges in flat cotton or microfiber cloth to keep from scratching delicate finishes.
Finally, this is off this subject a bit, but if some of you decide to add gold-leaf-type lettering or stripes to the exterior -- do NOT use any vinyl other than a product called "Sign Gold" or "Real Gold".
Applies like vinyl, but is real gold and holds up to the punishments of outdoor environments. Great Florentine Swirl patterns, etc. All metalized vinyls will fade rather quickly outdoors -- except these type of products. Especially silver and gold. Just be sure the product you buy is rated for outdoors, with a guarantee. Note that the Silver products listed at Beacon carry NO OUTDOOR WARRANTY.
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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – Saudi Arabia
28 June 2017
Human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus – China
28 June 2017
Lassa Fever – Nigeria
28 June 2017
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – Saudi Arabia
19 June 2017
Summer School on Refugee and Migrant Health
10–14 July 2017
World Hepatitis Day 2017: Eliminate hepatitis
28 July 2017
WHO Global Conference on Noncommunicable diseases
18–20 October 2017
World Hepatitis Summit 2017
1–3 November 2017
Sustainable Development Goals
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"Controlling vectors is a constant challenge, and both old and emerging diseases are exposing new threats."
Stories from countries
Giving blood in a time of crisis
13 June 2017
New vector control response seen as game-changer
1 June 2017
Bhutan making its people healthier, happier by beating noncommunicable diseases
17 May 2017
WHO improves transparency of financial data
12 May 2017