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The Seven Stars Inn in Durham seems to be one of those places that almost everyone you speak to recommends... but with the caveat "it's quite expensive, though." And so it proves.
The Seven Stars is an old 18th century inn situation just a couple of miles from Durham City Centre. It's pretty easy to find: head out towards the village of Shincliffe and as you reach the end of the village, there is the Seven Stars. Certainly, armed only with an A-Z and the vaguest idea of where it was, we were able to find it with no problems - although Mrs SWSt does have a sense of direction which would put a champion homing pigeon to shame, which always helps!
The first issue with the Seven Stars is that it doesn't have its own car park. You can leave your car on either side of the road around the inn, but this can get quite parked up. If you arrive at a busy time, I suspect you may struggle to find somewhere to park. The road outside is also fairly narrow, and with cars parked on both sides, becomes narrower still. Passing traffic is fairly frequent, so there is always the danger of clash of wing mirrors and some people might have a few concerns about leaving their car there.
The layout of the Seven Stars is rather nice. As you go in through the main door, you have a choice of two directions: right will take you into the bar where you eat in a more relaxed environment or enjoy a drink from the bar which serves a range of real ales. Turning left takes you into the more formal restaurant dining area. You can choose to eat in either area, although it's usually advisable to book if you want to eat in the restaurant, as it is popular and does get busy.
The restaurant is very well laid out with tables of varying sizes with seating ready set up for parties as small as2 or as big as 8-10. You can obviously book for larger parties as well and they have a couple of alcoves set back from the main restaurant to give such groups a little more privacy. The tables are well-spaced, so although there are a lot of tables in a relatively small area, you don't feel that you are sitting on top of anyone else.
The dining area was pleasantly lit and had a really comfortable atmosphere to it. It wasn't dark and dingy, but neither were you blinded by the glare if the lights. Thankfully, there was also none of the awful intrusive, loud music that so many restaurants feel the need to play these days, so you could eat your meal and chat without having to shout.
The whole style of the restaurant was stylish, but unfussy. The tables were well-set, without having ridiculous mounds of cutlery or swan-shaped napkins, whilst the décor was in keeping with a fairly traditional country inn.
The restaurant is open Mondays-Saturdays from 12-2.30 (for lunches) and 6-9pm (5-8pm on Sundays) and there are two different menus, depending on which sitting you go for.
The service at the Seven Stars was excellent. The waiters were attentive without being in-your-face. They gave us plenty of time to look at the menu or finish our meals without you feeling that you were somehow holding them up. At the same time, though, they were efficient in taking your order once you had decided and clearing away empty dishes. Perhaps this was partly because we went as soon as they opened, so they weren't particularly busy when we arrived, but I got the impression the level of service we experienced was fairly typical.
The only slight criticism was that serving staff had a tendency to stand and chat in the area just outside the kitchen (near to our table). In some cases, they were discussing some very personal things and we could hear every word they said - not necessarily something you want when you're trying to have a nice meal!
We went along for an evening meal and so chose from their Winter a la carte menu. You can check this out on their website, which is a nice touch, as you have some idea of the type of food they serve before you go.
The food served was a little bit different, without being pretentious. Much of the food is fairly traditional pub food, but with a little twist.
For starters, Mrs SWSt had Roasted Pepper and Goats Cheesecake, whilst I selected the Black pudding, blue cheese and leek risotto. Both dishes were very well presented and absolutely gorgeous. I'm not normally a risotto fan (it was the black pudding which tempted me), but it was excellent. It was slightly disappointing that the black pudding was cut into very small chunks, but it was still very tasty Mrs SWSt's cheesecake was also delicious - packed with cheese, but not too rich or sickly.
The main meals were of similar quality. I selected the chicken wrapped in bacon and stuffed with haggis (again, the attraction was the haggis) and it just melted in the mouth. It was also stuffed with a surprising amount of haggis - not the token amount I half expected! It was accompanied by a light and fluffy mash, whilst the green beans were chargrilled rather than boiled, which made them far tastier.
Portion sizes for the main courses are not that big and, in particular, you don't get many vegetables. Before going, we had been warned that, we should order some side dishes. Certainly, had we not done so, we might have still felt a little hungry once we'd finished. That makes us sound like great big fat whale pigs, but that's not the case (honest!). Neither of us eats that much, so if you have a healthy appetite, you will definitely need some side orders. As it was, we felt pleasantly full, but not stuffed after the meal
The only disappointing aspect of the menu was when it came to the desserts. Whereas the other courses offered something a little different, the puddings were pretty standard and unadventurous offerings. There was really nothing to even remotely tempt us.
As I mentioned in my opening paragraph, The Seven Stars is not the cheapest place to eat and you do pay a premium for both the location and the superior quality food. Yet, it's not so expensive that you have to take a second mortgage out to eat there! Our meal of two courses, side orders and one round of drinks cost us just under £50. That might sound a lot initially, but I know of places where you can't get one meal for that, never mind two! Obviously, you can find places which are much cheaper, but the quality of the food on offer meant that we were pretty happy with the price and certainly didn't feel like we'd been ripped off.
The Seven Stars is likely to be somewhere you go as a special treat or for a celebration meal. If you want to make someone feel that little bit special, you'd be hard pushed to find anywhere better in the Durham region. If you want great food in a pleasant atmosphere with friendly staff, The Seven Stars is well worth considering.
Having been there, I can now join in the mantra of recommending The Seven Stars but with the caveat "it's quite expensive, though!"
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Birthplace: San Francisco
Experience: Elected to the San Francisco City Board of Supervisors in 1970 and served eight years before becoming acting mayor following the assassination of Mayor George Moscone. Won election to two consecutive mayoral terms and elected the U.S. Senate with fellow California Sen. Barbara Boxer in 1992.
Education: Bachelor's degree in political science and history, Stanford University, 1955.
Family: Husband, Richard C. Blum, investor and member of the UC Board of Regents; daughter from first marriage and three stepchildren.
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Voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In June called the rising cost of health care and increasing number of uninsured Americans "a national emergency."
Pushed for changes in 2009 that would allow farmers in California's Central Valley to extract more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, a move that concerned environmental groups trying to protect native fish. Unlike some congressional representatives from the San Francisco Bay area, Feinstein fully supports the plan announced this summer to build two large tunnels to move water beneath the fragile delta. Feinstein also authored the CALFED legislation, which authorized $395 million for a program designed to provide water storage and ecosystem restoration in California.
Favors abortion rights. Voted against a proposal to block Planned Parenthood from receiving federal money and opposed an amendment to the federal health care reform law that would have prohibited subsidized health insurance plans from providing abortion coverage.
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As chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, she opposes a pre-emptive strike against Iran. She has said she regrets voting for the war in Iraq and is reluctant to pursue another pre-emptive attack. Supports continued economic sanctions and diplomatic pressure on Iran, although she acknowledges that the window for a diplomatic solution "is rapidly closing."Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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We continue our look back at 2013 with a review of stories from July through September. This third quarter of the year saw a new beginning for a historic building, held judgment day for the local college and included a report of the death of a man from Story.
The man from Story was killed in early July, after wrecking his pickup truck on Interstate 90, six miles from Sheridan, less than a mile from the Meade Creek Exit. He was identified by authorities as 30-year-old David Wayne Wallace who died from injuries soon after he was taken to the hospital in Sheridan.
Sergeant Stephen Townsend with the Wyoming Highway Patrol explained what happened.
Judgment day for the Sheridan College came in August, on the 20th, when county voters went to the polls and voted down a special bond issue for $15.8 million to expand and renovate the college's technical education center. More than 5,400 people cast their ballot, but when all were tallied, the bond had been voted down by 53 percent.
In the aftermath, the college President Dr. Paul Young said school officials would start looking for other ways to improve the center.
The new beginning came with news of a possible purchase of the historic Sheridan Inn, which had been closed to the public since September of 2012, because of a lack of funds needed to keep the building operational. So, here it was a year later, in September, that Bob Townsend from Oklahoma, and his wife, Dana, announced their intentions to buy the place.
During that first interview, he said he never imagined his family connections to the inn would be a factor and that his childhood memories of playing on the porch would be a memory passed on to his grandchildren.
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Drag Me to Hellis a movie that appeared to have everything going for it at the box office. For one thing, the picture is wicked fun — a clever, gross, scary-funny, delectably unhinged, ingeniously over-the-top carnival of demons. It was directed by Sam Raimi, in a return to his gonzo horror roots, and there's a considerable Raimi cult out there that was openly salivating at the prospect of a movie made in the cheeky deranged spirit of his Evil Dead films. What's more, the media got the word out on it, with the majority of reviews (including mine) lavishing praise on Raimi's inspired, gutbucket achievement. Drag Me to Hell opened on 2,500 screens, and it seemed more or less a sure bet that the film would do at least the kind of business that so many anonymous, run-of-the-mill, cheap-jolt horror films do — and, what's more, that it had every chance of expanding beyond that core horror audience because the film was actually, you know, good.
But it didn't turn out that way. The opening weekend grosses were under $16 million — hardly a disgrace, but notably less than the money made by a piece-of-junk-of-the-week like My Bloody Valentine 3D (which opened on the same number of screens). This weekend, the film dropped more than 50 percent (as horror films tend to do), meaning that its run is already winding down, and that the terror and delight of Drag Me to Hell barely translated into the desire of audiences to go out and see it.
What happened? I think that the film's disappointing box office performance can be chalked up to a single, revealing factor: It was rated PG-13. This is, to say the least, ironic, since it's likely that the absence of an R rating was part of the studio's commercial strategy, potentially opening the film up to a younger audience. But it's a strategy that backfired. To put it in political terms: The PG-13 rating alienated the base.
Even before Drag Me to Hell opened, Raimi was getting flak from some horror junkies for having "compromised" with the milder rating. For the folks who swarm to slasher movies, or to holiday torture freakouts like the Saw films, horror is heavy metal: It's got to be raw and brutal and extreme or it doesn't count. To them, the R rating is a bloody scarlet letter that a horror movie wears like a badge of dishonor. The lack of an R made Drag Me to Hell look like a porn film that was too soft-core. In that light, even the overwhelmingly positive reviews may, in a subtle way, have worked against the movie. We critics inadvertently made Drag Me to Hell look like a "quality" film, instead of the "critic-proof" power-tool-and-body-part bash that the core horror audience craves.
Now it's true, there's nothing in Drag Me to Hell that can quite match the rubber-room ferocity of that moment from Evil Dead II in which Bruce Campbell — in a performance that has always struck me as a major influence on Jim Carrey — grabs a chainsaw, saws off his own possessed hand, and shouts "Who's laughing now?" as he drenches himself in an orgiastic shower of blood. Still, Drag Me to Hell comes close: In a sane world, the image of a gypsy crone vomiting maggots onto Alison Lohman's face would be sick enough for the room. Make no mistake: The movie is intensely scary. But fear itself may now seem like an almost delicate emotion within the debased universe of hardcore horror films. The horror audience doesn't want to be scared, exactly. It wants to be shocked, ritually brutalized, wowed by sadism. To be scared, you have to imagine yourself in the place of the victim. Whereas in horror films today it's the monster, unleashing his rock & roll havoc, who's the secret hero, the one cool enough to rule over a frat house in hell.
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No I'm not saying we don't have the different roms, just saying its seems we don't have the amount of updates and variety that the s3 has. I'm very thankful for what we have. I just feel they have more developers and thats my question is why our far superior phone doesn't have as many developers.
ROMS are either AOSP based or Touchwiz based. This phone has two official OTA's, the one that came on it and LJC or whatever. If your looking for touchwiz, it will be based on the code from one of those two or a leak. If your looking for AOSP, its going to be based on CM10, or 10.1 plus whatever else you like. Either way, all the ROMS are based off one of two different sources and just added themes and/or tweaks. I personally am fond of AOSP, so I play with those all the time. What kind of ROM do you want that we dont have? Sense? Blur? Good luck getting any of that on a Samsung. I have to agree with garwynn, we have CM10.1, AOKP, Liquid, Carbon, Paranoid, Baked, etc., plus the Touchwiz stuff. I think the devs we have on this phone are doing a pretty freaking amazing job so far. What ROM(s) are you looking for?
more touchwiz themes like lk8 roms and more themes i really wish i had the time to sit down and learn all this stuff to theme and everything Im to busy and it seems with each phone a lot of stuff changes. Idk and I didnt say anything about the different roms we have I just said s3 has more variety of touchwiz roms and more developers does it not seem like theres a new rom over there everyday lol. Im a flashaholic sorry.
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By Allan Barber
The Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium (PGgRc) has just announced that it has secured funding for a further seven years' research into greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation.
$2.3 million per annum will be contributed by industry partners to be matched by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment with the balance to come from AgResearch in its capacity as leader of the research project.
The consortium has been in existence since 2002 and to date has spent about $45 million of 50/50 joint venture funding from industry and government.
Its members are Fonterra, Beef & Lamb New Zealand, DairyNZ, AgResearch, Landcorp Farming, DEEResearch, PGG Wrightson Ltd and Fertiliser Association Joint Venture.
As its name indicates, the consortium's sole focus since it started 11 years ago has been on finding ways to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and during that period it has made some significant advances.
It has developed knowledge specifically in sequencing the first rumen methanogen genome, developing a low emission sheep flock and finding feeds that can reduce methane emissions.
Mark Aspin, Consortium Manager, told me that a continuation of the funding will enable the programme to focus on five key areas of research:
- Refining animal breeding tools for low emission livestock
- Identifying more low greenhouse gas feeds
- Identifying inhibitors that reduce ruminant emissions
- Developing a vaccine to reduce ruminant emissions
- Understanding the productivity effects and enhancing the adoption of mitigations.
The refreshed research programme, while recognising the long term commitment required, will be strongly focused on delivery of mitigation solutions, developed through an increased partnership between the consortium and the New Zealand Agricultural Research Centre (NZAGRC).
Both of these organisations will coordinate their operations to ensure rapid delivery of effective options for farmers.
While New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions would constitute a significant proportion of our obligations under any future commitment to reduce emissions, political points scoring tends to obscure why it is so critical to get it right.
Our economy and our agricultural sector in particular both depend on deciding on the correct entry point which is, I suspect, why the present Government has been so reluctant to commit itself.
Agriculture contributes 46% of New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions, a proportion no other country comes even remotely close to producing. Ireland with 27% is the closest and all other first world economies are in single figures.
The PGgRc has set itself an ambitious goal, stating in its press release
"The new work aims to develop a suite of ready-made tools that will reduce greenhouse gases by 30 per cent by 2030 while supporting the agricultural industry's growth targets of two per cent each year."
The benchmark year is 2008 when I understand emissions were at 1990 levels. As Mark Aspin said "it's a big challenge, but we think we can get there."
I suspect the Green party won't be satisfied with this progress, because anything short of total commitment to eliminating greenhouse gases is unacceptable, whatever it costs the country. But it is a very solid programme of work backed by science and industry and public money which has some challenging, but achievable goals.
The best thing about it is that it won't send agriculture and the country into a state of bankruptcy, but it should produce some real improvements in our GHG emissions.
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It is understandable that NZ prepares for a rainy day when international counterparts start to charge agricultural CO2 emissions (NOT carbon emission please!!!!!).
BUT, the whole GHG business is based on belief not a single bit on robust and sound science. I cannot even use the word gullible to describe our policy makers because they are spurious!!!
$83 mil is a good amount waste on nothing at best!
Please invest them in how to produce more high quality milk per cow not on how to stop them from farting and peeing.
Please invest them in fixed capital that produces value added products not just powders!
Please invest them in mitigating nitrogen leaching as it has already had impacts on our waterways, lakes and coasts.
Please invest them in irrigation to smooth out drought impacts and give farmers certainties.
Please invest them in upgrading farm IQs as skilled labours are needed in this industry.
Please invest them in possum control and stop them from spreading TB!
Please invest them meaningfully and do not waste them on 'scientists' producing endless rubbish papers on things we breathe out and plants breathe in everyday!
Xingmowang - Many of the problems are being solved using biological farming methods. It's up to the farmers to start implementing the better practices and products available.
The bio-farm aims at profit maximizing not on volume.
It may address emission from fosil fuel (from fertilizer, tractor and electricity usage in a bigger sense) but does nothing on livestock emission which is that $83mil is going to be invested for.
One downside on the profit maximizing is that NZ is VERY likely to lose internaitonal market share on primary products when competing with EU27 and US who have far more flexible production line and supply chains.
Xingmowang - I strongly disagree. Profit maximising should always be the aim. Volume does increase as well so I'm not sure where you got your informations from.
Livestock emissions are cyclical. What gets put out comes back.
Why would NZ want to compete with mass produced junk food??? NZ has a unique point of difference and farmers should be making the most of that unique point of difference.
Do you have any idea what the consumers want to eat? People are getting educated beyond Proteins, fats and carbs and they want food that is macro and micro nutrient balanced.
Sorry, Allan, but this article is ignorance personified.
"while supporting the agricultural industry's growth targets of two per cent each year."
So it's to double by 2037. Yes? And your 'mitigation', in real terms, would be? Even if you halved your output, that would only be break-even in real output by then. And you won't halve your output. In real terms, that's an oxymoronic piece of shyte.
"The best thing about it is that it won't send agriculture and the country into a state of bankruptcy"
Too late, you and we are there already - and that's via the fudging of real accounting. (This is a case in point - real accounting would cost in ALL impacts, including finite resource depletion, unaddressed pollution - mitigation is not addressing).
We call it Natural Capital, and full addressing is not 'mitigation this side of bankruptcy'. Fiscal bankruptcy is an entirely artificial concept - the sun will still shine, photosynthesis will still happen, ocean-acid percentages will remain. Ecological bankruptcy is an entirely different thing - alter your habitat outside the survivable envelope, you die.
Real total results are the only count. 'Not I said the Little Red Hen' is immature blameshift, and 'without going broke' within a fatally-flawed accounting system (our current system needs constant growth) is an invalid yardstick.
"I suspect" So any thought that maybe you were rational and balanced just flies out the window when you blindly accuse without evidence.
"send agriculture and the country into a state of bankruptcy" the term to think of is "dead man walking". What you are in effect saying is, lets commit my great grandchildren (ie about 2050~2080 or so) to a greatly limited lifestyle and shortened longevity, and their children (about 2100~2150) and indeed humans, extinct, just so I can carry one living as I do now. Not only that you aim to leave huge debt that cant be repaid, so that can but mean bankruptcy....you are just can kicking the problem to the next generation(s) who have no hope of coping with it.
Then given your "I suspect" line first off the second showing of substantial lack of morals isnt a surprise because that is the amoral position you are talking.


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The way it should have been from day one. Crazy to have Jose playing SG with his play-making ability.
even going back to 2009/10 with Hedo and the 3 ball handler line up, what never made sense to me is why take away Jose greatest strength? Jose can shoot, but he's not a shooter. What he is a playmaker, and he's not going to make plays without the ball in his hands. If Jose is on the floor he should be the PG. If he isn't going to be the PG don't put him on the floor.
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Hey all!
Well, I just got my hands on a 1990 YJ from my neighbor for $400! :2thumbsup: Its in relatively good condition but sat for about a year in his garage without being started. So needless to say it needs a tune-up. I live in Poway and the reason I posted this here (as well as the YJ forum) is because I will take any help or suggestions I can get. Whether it be someone willing to help here in town or at least pointing me in the right direction as far as local shops.
Heres what I have done today:
New spark plugs
Oil, oil filter
Air filter
Fresh gas
New battery
The engine turns but does not fire. I am going to check the fuel filter and lines next. The engine is the 2.5L.
I'll be the first to admit I am not a huge wrench head but can learn quickly. I've got the hayne's book already and am using that as a guideline. Any tips or suggestions are always welcome.
Thanks in advance!
-Jason in Poway
Go to the San Diego thread...
Eric, lives in Poway,
Switch is his board name...
It's the thread always on top...
The one right below this one.
But he will ask for YOUR help.
Im guessing his is carb'd, never worked on one of those.
It isn't carbed. I can get the engine to fire when I spray the starter fluid into the throttle body but it quickly dies so I am assuming its a fuel delivery issue. I am going to go through the lines and also check the pump.
Where in Poway are you all located? I am kinda near the Garden Rd. area, a bit farther up Poway Rd.
Im actually rancho bernardo, Right next to the dennys, on bernardo center drive, near the 15. Probably about 10 minutes from the kragen in poway.
you should PM Jbolty, he lives in cliaremont mesa, near the adult bookstore, just past cheetas, lol. He should know all about it.
I was completely wrong in what I said earlier. Its not carb'ed its TBI. I got schooled up a bit by this guy named Jeff who owns a shop in El Cajon. Its sounding more and more like the fuel pump is DOA
I can bring my tools if you dont have the tools needed for some reason.
I need to find one first. The first guy I called said $250 for the pump, its on quadratec for $109. I'm hoping to do it this weekend at the latest.
Did you try kragen? They never let me down there.
1990 6cyl YJ was carbed... 1991 was the first FI jeep mini jeep.
Unless you have a 4 banger... Then it FI...
I guess you are running a 2.5 like Eric.
How bout some pictures of this jeep already?
Yes, it is a 2.5L. I don't hear any kind of hum or anything coming from the area where the pump should be so it's either a dead pump or its not getting power. Here's hoping its power....
I cannot upload pics on here so I started a photobucket account. If the link doesn't work and you really wanna see the pics go to www.photobucket.com and search 'mybluejeep90' and it should come up.
Anyway, you are welcome to stop on by, but like I said I may not be replacing it just yet. Gonna be in the garage all day working on it either way. Ripping interior out today....
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A manhunt expanded across the state Tuesday for a violent Miami fugitive who escaped his cross-country escorts in the parking lot of a Grapevine Wal-Mart after stabbing one of them with his eyeglasses.
Alberto Morales, a 42-year-old sex offender, was quickly added to the state's most-wanted list, and a reward of up to $10,000 was offered for information leading to his capture.
Multiple law-enforcement agencies are tracking Morales, who until Monday night was looking at 30 years to life in a Nevada prison, plus 10 years in a Florida prison. Now, says Miami-Dade Police Director J.D. Patterson, he'll be charged with "everything," including escape and the attempted murder of a police officer.
The wounded officer, 54-year-old Jaime Pardiñas, underwent emergency surgery at Parkland Memorial Hospital and was reported in serious condition.
There had been no confirmed sightings of Morales since his escape.
"This is an extremely dangerous individual, and he's capable of anything," Grapevine police Sgt. Robert Eberling said. "If anyone knows of co-workers in Grapevine who didn't show up to work today, we want to hear about it."
After a 2008 conviction for sexual assault with a weapon in Las Vegas, Morales was sent to Florida to face prior charges. In December, he pleaded guilty in a 2003 burglary and kidnapping case in Florida and was sentenced to 10 years, to be served after the Nevada term, according to Miami-Dade police. He was being returned to Nevada on Monday.
Miami and Grapevine police tell the same story concerning Morales' escape:
Patterson said Miami-Dade detectives Pardiñas and David Carrero had been transporting Morales via commercial plane, with a layover in Houston. But during the flight he began acting erratically.
"He began bumping his head against a passenger's seat," Patterson said, "crazy, unusual things that disrupted a lot of the flight."
When the plane landed in Houston, the detectives were told Morales couldn't board the flight to Nevada, so they decided to finish the trip in a rental car, an option Patterson described as "out of the ordinary."
"But to continue their trip, they had to do something," the Miami-Dade chief said.
Patterson said Miami authorities were informed of their change in plans, and a third member of the extradition unit flew to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to help escort the violent felon the remaining 1,600 miles to Carson City, Nev.
Before picking up the third escort, however, the detectives stopped shortly before 11 p.m. Monday at the Wal-Mart on State Highway 114. That's where Morales, whose hands were shackled to a chain around his waist, managed to stab Pardiñas several times in the chest and back while the other officer was in the store.
Grapevine police Sgt. Robert Eberling said Morales apparently broke an earpiece off his eyeglasses and used it to stab the detective, who was seated in front of him.
"That's an indication of how desperate he was to escape," he said.
Longtime Las Vegas defense attorney Marc Saggese, who represented Morales in a Nevada criminal case, said his client claimed he suffered a severe brain injury when he was hit in the head with a baseball bat at age 17. Morales said he heard voices and had trouble controlling impulses.
"He said that ever since that attack and subsequent surgeries, he has been struggling with demons in his head," Saggese said.
While in a jail medical ward, Morales mutilated his genitals and scrawled words in blood on the wall. He underwent a psychological examination by doctors at a Nevada state mental hospital in Sparks, but he was found competent to stand trial, the attorney said.
Police say Morales is 5-foot-7 and 175 pounds, with brown hair and eyes. He's of Cuban descent and has a tattoo of an American Indian on a horse on his left shoulder and scars on his left hand, left arm and nose, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Grapevine police say he was last seen in gray shorts and an all-white hoodie. He's still believed to be on foot and in shackles, because no handcuffs were found at the scene or nearby.
Anyone with information about Morales' whereabouts should call Grapevine police at 817-410-8127, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-252-8477 or 911.
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I am planning to go tot he 2007 meeting next May 4-6. Can anyone help with a few questions: the meeting is at the Quest Center. How many of the events are there? Where are Borsheim's, Gorat's and the Furniture Mart relative to Quest? How far is the Sheraton from any of this? Would a car be helpful for all of this or just a headache?
Thanks very much for any info and advice. Haven't been to Omaha in my adult life and have never been to this event.
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Wow! There aren't many Omaha questions 'round these parts.
The Qwest Center is downtown. The Sheraton is still downtown but southwest of the Qwest Center a little less then 2 miles. In between is the Old Market.
Borsheim's is a few blocks west of the Sheraton. The Nebraska Furniture Mart is 6 miles west around 70th and Dodge. I've not eaten at Gorat's as I'm not a chop house fan. It's about 5 miles west of downtown.
The Old Market has some great places to eat: V Mertz, Vivaci, Indian Oven, M's Pub and Delice for lunch come to mind. I'm not a fan of Omaha Prime as it's a chop house. Near the Sheraton is a favorite of mine the Flat Iron Café as is Passport. The Liberty Tavern in the Hilton attached to the Qwest Center is excellent too though it's hard to convince people it's OK to eat at hotel restaurant.
Downtown the first Sunday of the month the ConAgra headquarters opens its corridors to show off its extensive collection of Courier & Ives prints. The excellent zoo is a little south of downtown. Think zoo worthy of Marlin Perkins and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
The Joslyn Art Museum has a solid collection and pretty good special exhibits too. In March I saw the one of the first new Illustrated Bible created in 500 years. The $5 million project on vellum is beautiful.
The Rose where the Omaha Theater for Young People is based is a restored, magnificent playhouse from the 30's. Stop in just to check out the lobby or see a show. They're geared for families but worth seeing for the sets and building.
If you can do without the Furniture Mart and Gorat's you can get by without a car. Cabs are reasonable but hard to come by trying to return from outside downtown. You'd have to call one or have the cabby who dropped you off come back and get you in a couple of hours.
My Omaha friends live around the corner from Warren Buffet. You'd be stunned at the modest home he lives in.
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Thanks indy. I have read many times about Buffet's modest house, and having grown up in Akron, I can picture it.
Some of the events for the meeting are at the Furniture Mart and Gorats, so I'll bet there will be buses or some way to get us all around. They probably don't want every person with a car. One other question, is public transportation ? I often find that is the most expedient way to get around, i.e. from Sheraton to Quest or out to the other places.
Thanks for all the helpful info.
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I've taken the buses several times. They mostly run a main corridor in and out of downtown going east and west. This could work for getting out west to the 'Braskie Furniture Mart and Gorat's. There is a circulator downtown but it only runs weekdays. You can check them out here.
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Thanks indy. Will look into all of this and if anyone is interested, will post a report on the annual meeting - logistics and otherwise.
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Indy, you are not even close on some of your directions. Sheraton is at 16th and Howard near the Old Market - which is about a half mile south of the Qwest Center.
The only things I know of for the Berkshire that happen AT the Qwest center are the meeting, and while the meeting is going on, most of the companies Berkshire owns have sales exhibits going on at the same time in the exhibition hall connected to the Qwest Center. People mingle back and forth between the two from when the meeting starts (7:30 a.m.) to when it officially ends - usually around 3:30.
The 'meeting' itself lasts 5 minutes, the other 7 hrs and 55 minutes are Q&A sessions with the audience - they set up about 20 podium microphones throughout the place - and anyone with an honest question can ask - and WEB and Charlie answer ALL of them.
Borsheim's is out in west omaha, 'about' 8 miles straight west on Dodge St., just south of the Westroads Mall, in Regency Parkway, about 100th and Dodge, just before you hit I-680. Dodge is the main east-west street in Omaha.
Street system in Omaha starts basically with 4th street which is the Missouri River, and progresses west. 12 block increments equal one mile, so from 16th street to about 100th is really about 7 miles.
Neb. Furn. Mart is on 72nd street about 3/4 of a mile south of Dodge. You can't miss it - it's the biggest furn. store in the USA now, I think.
Gorat's is on about 49th and Center, and Center is another E-W main street about 2 miles south of Dodge. Connect to Center via 72nd street, or 42nd street, most other streets don't connect south from Dodge to Center until you get past 72nd.
I know all this because I live here, and I have been going to these meetings for 12 years, although I have been skipping the 'meeting' part because it's always the SOS every time, where different people ask the SAME questions every year, and WEB and Charlie give the SAME answers every time.
Don't get me wrong - it's really neat - the first few times, then it becomes old hat.
You will want to rent a car, and book your room - well in advance.
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Berkshire also runs shuttles between the meeting, NFM, Borsheim's, and 4 or 5 of the larger hotels here, it is all written in a booklet you will receive when you get your passes to the meeting.
If you can reserve a car with an option to cancel, consider that. You may not be able to get a car if you want one but don't have one reserved.
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Thanks a lot microdol. This will be my first meeting so I will probably go to most of it but can see where it would get old. Appreciate the directions.
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Anyone coming for 2007 ?
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I would really recommend having a car in Omaha. Our taxi cabs are very inadequate and our public transit is limited.
NFM is impressive. It is like the "Disney World" of furniture. The zoo is amazing and well worth seeing.
Gorat's is terrible. We took some out of town guests there because if it was Warren's favorite," it had to be good". Wrong! The steak tasted like it was fried in a pan. In a city known for steaks, I still cannot figure this one out. I have noticed there are a few places around here with that fried steak taste (like the old Pink Poodle in Iowa). Some folks just love that taste. I like a grilled steak. The Drover is my favorite, now there's an Omaha steak! It is off of 72nd and Mercy, north of 72nd and Dodge.
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Bella, you are nuts. Gorat's has some of the best aged beef in the midwest. My father-in-law is a cattleman, and he swears by the place. It's the only place he'll take us to eat when we are in town. I've eaten there a few dozen times, and not once was the meal not perfect.
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Maybe they hit Gorat's when the tarot cards were not reading right...
Anyone coming to Omaha expecting to hit Angie's or Mr. C's need to make other plans, both are closed. Something else opened in Angie's location, but I have not been there yet.
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Mr. C's is closed...why? I grew up in Omaha and remember Mr. C's as an institution.
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It was, when did you leave Omaha ?
Everything has moved out west.
Omaha annexed Elkhorn.
If you remember streets, think this:
Harrison street to the south, State street to the north, now think of almost solid houses between the two. all the way out to 204th (Elkhorn).
What you remember as 72nd street from Dodge to Pacific as being 'hopping', now think of Center street from 168th to 185th or so - that's the new big area.
And we have a new Mall on 168th and Dodge (Village Pointe Mall).
And Dodge street has a viaduct built over it that goes from I-80 west to about Burke High School.
It's changed.
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Anyway, Mr. C's - people just don't go to that part of the town anymore, we have lost a lot of steakhouses, Ross's has been gone for years.
It seems people would rather go to the 'Outback' or several places like that which have opened up out west.
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Maybe I did hit Gorats at a bad time. It was so bad that I cannot justify trying it again. No one at our party would give it more that a C- and this included folks from different states. The cut was good, the preparation was not, it had that "fried" taste, again, just like the "pink Poodle" there are people who loved that place too.
I thought Mr. Cs is open until June. This is an experience not to be missed. It is the campiest place to eat on earth (well, it is behind Casa Bonita in Denver, so 2nd campiest). The reason why it is closing? These folks are old! They are in their 80s! It is time they took a breather!
It is such a shame to me that people go to chains when there is such great local cuisine.
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No, Mr. C's closed because they were not doing the business they used to do.
IMO this leaves Piccollo Pete's as about the best in this town, as far as I am concerned.
What's strange is soo many people say Austin's is the best steak in this town, and they are/were a chain. I guess it doesn't matter if you are a chain or not, as long as the food is good.
By the same token, Fleming's is supposed to be great, but I have yet to find a person that RREEAALLYY liked it/thought it was worth the price.
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The rate for the requested dates is 70 euros per night for a stay of 7 nights or more, 80 euros for a shorter stay.t for 1 to 4 people. This rate includes everything such as: power, hot & cold water, heating, lighting, and taxes. Please notice that the furniture and the equipment are brand new. The place is fully furnished included CD player, TV. The kitchen is fully equiped. Towels, linen and kitchenware are provided. There is one large bed 140 x 200cm and a sofa bed 140 x 200cm.
ATTENTION : The keys of the apartment has to be picked up in the agency located Rue René Boulanger 75010 Paris (Instructions will be sent 1 week before the arrival).
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Muy sucio, a pesar de pagar la limpieza, electrodomésticos rotos, desagüe de la cocina obstruido con filtraciones, un horrible olor a humedad, necesita una reforma urgente. Lo mejor la situación a los pies del Sagrado Corazón.
Alles in allem sehr positiv!
Von Ablauf der Schlüsselübergabe bis zur Wohnung ist alles sehr gut gelaufen. Die Wohnung ist in einem guten Zustand und sauber!
Es ist alles vorhanden um sich selbst zu verpflegen
Der einzige "Nachteil" ist, dass die Wohnung hellhörig ist, was mich persönlich aber nicht weiter gestört hat und bei einem Altbau auch normal ist!
We did enjoy our stay in this flat very much. It was very cosy and charming. No disturbing noices from outside during night. All the equipment worked good and linen and tovels were in place.
Sure, the floor was a bit asqew and squeaked when walking around, but that we thought was a bit of its charm during these five days we stayed.
And, just a tip, at the end on our street, there was this bakery where they sold very very tasty baguettes!
totally recommend you to stay here!
Nous étions 3 et nous avons passé un agréable séjour. Tout y est ou presque, literie confortable, salle d'eau/wc petite. Le gros + : idéalement situé dans Paris (à 50 m station de métro République), quartier animé.
Tutto ok, ben posizionato ed in ordine.
Una rinfrescatina alle pareti non guasterebbe ma è un dettaglio.
We liked the apartment and had a nice stay but the bed and the sofabed were awful to sleep in!.They were both partly broken.Please change them.
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Good position, near to shops and facilities. Great communication with the owners.
L'appartement était très sympa, très bien placé et bien aménagé. Expérience à renouveler.
GREAT location.
GREAT value.
This place was small but more than adequate for us (family of four - 2 children ages 9 & 11). Only about 5 mins walk from the Louvre, the location was perfect for lots of sight-seeing. We didn't spend much time there - left early morning and returned after dinner each day, so the small size of the apartment really didn't matter.
The place was clean, tidy, functional - could do with a little TLC (peeling paint, dripping water, cracked plaster), but the value for money couldn't be beat.
If you're looking for luxury accommodation - this place isn't for you; if you just need a place to crash between lots of sight-seeing - I highly recommend it.
There were some problems with electricity and we couldn't get into apartment when we first time came because there is a PIN code to open doors. I had to call my host to ask for help but unfortunately we had to wait until engineers fix that problem.There was also some problem with hot water which was unavailable in the evening time and we had to use a next door flat shower.
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Wikis > Dictionary of Islam > Manat
An idol mentioned in the Qur'an, Surah liii. 19, 20: 'What think ye, then, of al-Lat and ai-'Uzza, and Manat, the third idol besides."
According to Husain, it was an idol of the tribes of Huzail and Khaza'ah. For a discussion of the subject, see the article on LAT.
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The birds may be angry and the piggies may be bad, but those stalwarts of mobile gaming look like pussycats next to the stickman sniper antihero of Clear Vision 2.
Currently one of the top-selling games in the iTunes App Store and recently released for Android devices via Google Play, Clear Vision 2 is a rarity among smartphone games: very violent, and very popular.
Well, perhaps violence is in the eye – or rifle scope – of the beholder. Like the sleeper hit first game released a year ago, Clear Vision 2's assassin, victims and secondary characters are all represented by stickmen (or stickwomen) whose heads just happen to erupt in gouts of gooey blood when their brains are lacerated by bullets.
Players once again assume the role of Tyler, a hitman-for-hire who is searching for his kidnapped wife. Tyler takes on contracts sent to him through email, most of which involve scanning an environment through an on-screen rifle scope, taking into account distance and wind, and eliminating a target with a single, perfect headshot.
Fans of the first Clear Vision will find more of the same here, with slightly enhanced stick-visuals, a more ambitious (although not necessarily better) storyline and a wider selection of rifles to buy with cash earned from successful hits.
The game follows a similar progression as the original, with the assassinations becoming more and more tricky to pull off. An early mission might have you shooting a relatively close-range target, but later on you'll have to identify the correct person and account for extreme distance and high winds. On one particular assassination, in which you have to take out a dude on his own front lawn, you'll be aiming so far to the left to account for the wind that the target is no longer even visible in the rifle's scope.
It's all comically macabre and simple to a fault, although Clear Vision 2 tries to sweeten the pot a bit with very simple stock trading and fight club minigames. But just when you think you've settled into a groove and got a great handle on your sniping techniques: boom, it's over.
In fact, Clear Vision 2 almost feels unfinished. The large city map and hugely expanded stock of rifles available suggest you're in for a much longer experience this time around, but it all ends with a weirdly shoehorned-in first-person shootout, after which the plot is tied up and credits roll.
It might be silly to whine about a 99-cent game only offering an hour or two of enjoyment, but look at the aforementioned Angry Birds – for a measly loonie, that thing kept me entertained for weeks.
If you liked assassinating stickfolk in the original Clear Vision, you'll enjoy this, too. But it's too bad Clear Vision 2 didn't aim a little higher, because this one feels like a bit of a miss.


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By COLLEEN LEDDY
Grace (Tarala) Johnston was right. Intervals of two minutes running at an easy pace and one minute walking at a slow pace will get you to the finish line faster than my combination of running at a faster pace until you feel like croaking, and then walking at a relatively fast pace until you're afraid if you don't start running again, you'll be dead last in the race.
Ah, the race. The Neal V. Singles Memorial 5K Run. My husband groaned when he read the start of my column two weeks ago.
"You're not going to write about running again, are you?"
"What else am I going to write about?" I asked.
"You can't do that to your readers," he said.
So I didn't.
But then people kept asking me if I finished the race, and if they happened to read the race results, they asked if I was happy with how I had done.
Let me say that I was both pleased with and amused by my performance. Even though Grace showed me the folly of my ways, I am proud to be the owner of the coolest medal I have ever seen; far cooler than any medal any of my three children have won in cross country and track events.
Yes, I placed third in my age group and thus became a medalist in the first annual Neal Singles run. Of course, there were only three people in my age group (the amusing part), but as Grace said, think of all the women who didn't even enter the race. I beat the pants off of them, all right! And, I like to think that the first two placers in my age group were among those who took the wrong turn and thus lopped three tenths of a mile off their course. I ran/walked the whole dang 3.1 miles.
I liken the experience to being in labor with my firstborn, Ben. David and I had taken Lamaze or whatever childbirth preparation classes were offered 24 years ago. They taught us breathing exercises and relaxation techniques and harped on focal points and the stages of labor and which breathing patterns to do for each particular stage of labor. I don't remember what else.
David was an excellent Lamaze partner who made sure I exercised regularly and practiced my breathing and relaxation techniques every night. When I was finally in the throes of labor, all that regimentation went out the window. Relax? Hell, I was having a baby! There's nothing relaxing about that. I found comfort in throwing up. And when David consulted his stopwatch to time the contractions, I could have belted him one. I just wanted to sling my arm around his shoulder and lean on him as I walked up and down the halls of the maternity ward.
When he noted I must be in the transition stage and should begin a different breathing pattern, I think I might have tossed his watch across the room. There was no way I could breathe in any prescribed pattern. I just did what felt right. I'm sure I must have learned something in that class that came in handy for the actual birthing experience. I know pelvic rocking proved beneficial in Rozee's birth three and a half years later. But when it came to the breathing exercises, they went out the same window. It seems the only purpose they served was something to rebel against: Well, heck, that's not working. I'll do this instead.
And the same sort of thing happened with running. As the day of the race neared, I realized none of the standard methods such as Jeff Galloway and coolrunning.com were working for me. So I tried the technique David had suggested at the start of my "training."
"Why don't you run until you feel like stopping and then walk until you feel like running," he said.
Ah, after all these years, the man knows me better than I know myself. When he had first suggested that, I pooh-poohed him.
"That won't work," I told him. "I feel like stopping just about as soon as I start. I'd be walking the whole race."
By the week of the race I realized I really only like running if I can do it at a faster pace. Sure, I could "run" three miles continuously, but it would be at such a slow pace, I'd be miserable the whole way. So I may not have completed the course as fast as I would have liked, but I had a good time doing it—the anti-Lamaze way, so to speak.
And I didn't come in dead last.
Or dead, for that matter.
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I recently dreamt about committing assisted suicide with four other completely strange women in old age but chickened out after realizing the intense pain of slow burning.
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Now that Radiohead's Kid A has topped the pops, it's tempting to proclaim the long musical drought at an end; for one moment, at least, art rock has mounted the charge and proudly planted its flag, right into (Milli Va)Nelly's ski vest. Never mind that Kid A is only half of a great album (and half of a dreadful, affected, unlistenable album); the ascension of Thom Yorke and company to the top of the heap has to mean something, dunnit? Probably not, says a friend who's been in the music business since I was hooked on phonics; the word "anomaly" crops up often in conversation -- it's a freak accident, the confluence of hype and luck. I can hear my old friend Gina Arnold shouting, "We won! We won!" as she did the day the sun rose and revealed Nirvana sitting on top of the world, but who's "we" anymore, and what exactly did "we" "win," anyway? Radiohead went No. 1, and all I got was this lousy record. Besides, Radiohead soon enough gave way to Ja Rule and Creed and 3 Doors Down. Last week's promise is today's threat.
A far better use of Thom Yorke's mournful moan can be found on track seven of Polly Jean Harvey's latest, and best, album; the two duet like night and day, with Yorke carrying most of the load up the pretty little hill. "Can you hear the helicopters?" he sings (or whatever it is he does), while guitars and drums pump softly behind him like a heart kept alive on a busted pacemaker. "I'm in New York/No need for words now," he continues anyway, finally begging to make love to Polly Jean, who seems more than willing to oblige. (Indeed, Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea might best be titled Songs About Fucking, if only Big Black hadn't beaten her to the punch.) The songs hint that the two are just strangers passing in the night; they won't see each other again once the sun rises over the city, which is just as well. "This mess we're in," they sing together, and it's the only time their voices meet; the two crawl out of bed and part ways forever, having realized nothing fucks up like fucking.
Harvey's fifth studio record (with her own band, drummer Rob Ellis and ex-Bad Seeds bassist Mick Harvey, in tow) doesn't stray far from the themes of its predecessors: She's all about the hot and wet, the sweet and the sweaty and the sticky. But there's poetry to her grunting this time around; she's past threatening to rub it 'til it bleeds and begging you to hear her long snake moan. Harvey's all but washed the blues (and reds) from her repertoire; she's no longer John Lee Hooker in sequins, howling and rasping and gasping 'til her voice becomes shards of broken glass. If this is indeed a record about the way-ups and low-downs of a love affair (she might well be the "Kamikaze," crashing into a lover 'til they both wind up in flames), at least Harvey seems satisfied with examining the wreckage.
She's never sounded lovelier or, gasp, more contented, and the music (more often pretty that pungent) fits her mood: "Baby, baby/I'm immortal when I'm with you," she sings at the beginning, and even after all the shit that happens in between ("Good Fortune," "The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore," "The Mess We're In," "Kamikaze," "This Is Love"), she still can't end the disc on a downer. "You carried all my hopes 'til something broke inside, but now we'll float/Take life as it comes," she sings, drawing out the "we'll" until it sounds like a gust of wind in winter. She's never recorded a song more poignant or more lovely; it's the perfect bit of melancholia -- sad enough to make you cry, but optimistic enough to let in just enough light.
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There's but a single stumble on the record ("Good Fortune," the first time Harvey's ever actually earned the Patti Smith comparison and, one hopes, the last); otherwise, it's a perfect record, beautiful and thrilling and touching and tragic -- ya know, like any relationship. "Do you remember the first kiss?" she wonders on the song "One Line" (which sounds like a tender reworking of "Rid of Me"), before comparing the moment to "stars shooting across the sky/To come to such a place as this/You never left my mind." You're swept up in the first blush of romance and with Harvey's desire to, finally, mix in a little love with wanton lust (though no one said this is the stuff of autobiography, as all singer-songwriters are merely writers and actors and, honestly, nothing more). She craves a "Beautiful Feeling" (a haunting, devastating song, with male voices ooohing in the background like a spectral choir) -- "a smile from San Diego," she whispers, this woman from a grimy English town conjuring the name of the sunniest American city she can think of. But it doesn't last long: "All around me people bleed," she reckons, wanting out of one relationship 'til she finds herself in another. "How could that happen again? Where the fuck was I looking?" she'll ask later on, and keep asking it one way or another. It's her job.


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BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. – A change in financial status due to the loss of a job is a difficult crisis for families to experience. How parents handle the situation can influence their children, so it is important to communicate with them in an age-appropriate way, said a University of Missouri Extension human development specialist.
"Although parents don't need to tell children all the details about the layoff, they need to be open about the change," said Nina Chen. "In the absence of information, children's imaginations can take over, which may cause behavioral problems." Parents may want to wait until the job change happens to tell children unless the company's impending layoffs are announced in the media. Offer a truthful message, such as "My company is telling some workers to leave their jobs. This may happen to me. I will let you know as soon as I hear anything." Children under 7 don't need a lot of information: "I don't have a job anymore because my company doesn't need as many workers."
Optimism and reassurance are important messages that children need to hear from their parents. Let children know that you have plans to meet with a career counselor or conduct a job search. Communicate what to expect: "We will need to make some changes in our expenses and lives, but we will be together and we will keep you safe." This message can help children feel secure and hopeful. Although it's appropriate for parents to share their negative feelings, avoid burdening children or making promises.
Another important message that parents should send to their children is that mom or dad haven't made a mistake. Children are likely to assume that a parent did something wrong to lose a job. Older children may blame their parents for the loss: "You lost a job and I have to stop taking piano lessons."
"Layoffs may influence children's attitudes toward the job market and shake their confidence," Chen said. "Parents need to talk about these issues with their children and encourage them to share their fears."
Give children opportunities to be part of the decision-making process for making changes and cutting expenses. This involvement can help children have a sense of control over the outcome and feel they are contributing. For instance, if finances are tight, parents can ask children to make the choice between piano and skating lessons. This process teaches children how to cope when things go wrong and gives parents an opportunity to model resiliency.
A job layoff can be painful for families, but most cope well with the emergency. "Crisis can mean opportunity or danger, depending on how people view the situation and deal with the crisis," Chen said. "Parents need to demonstrate a positive attitude. Communicate what you have not lost, such as your family's love, your skills, your health, your hope and your sense of humor. Exhibiting an angry and unhealthy response to the job loss may have negative consequences for the children."
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