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Stylish Beach-Ready Sunglasses for 2012
Men's Beachwear 2012: Trendy Sunglasses There's nothing worse than trying to enjoy a beautiful summer day at the beach after you've forgotten your sunglasses at home. (Just last week I went down to Santa Barbara and forgot my Ray Ban's). … Continue reading
Stylish Summer Beach Sandals 2012
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Finding the Perfect Men's Swimsuit
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Last Minute Beach Fashion Tips
Stylish Beach Fashion Tips for Late Summer 2012 Even though the end of summer is approaching, there are still plenty of warm weeks left that are perfect for a trip to the beach. To make sure that you are getting … Continue reading
Best Menswear Pieces 2012: J.Crew's Summerweight Twill Shirt
Must Have Pieces for 2012: J.Crew's Summerweight Twill Shirt There's no getting around the fact that a lot of people love the look of flannel. This is especially true of anyone who lives in a relatively cold-weather climate. This being … Continue reading
7-for-All-Mankind Straight Cut Stretch Denims
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Marc Jacobs Ombre Cardigan
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Favorite Menswear Accessories 2012: Banana Republic's Grey Cotton Twill Blazer
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Diesel Mr. Daddy Watch – Fashion Accessories 2012 Watch by Diesel
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Best Menswear Pieces for 2012
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Mens Fashion Basics – 3 Tips for Smarter Style
Three Tips for Smarter Style No matter what the scenario, it's fair to say that settling into a routine will happen to anyone if they spend a long enough time dressing the same way. While routine isn't always a huge … Continue reading


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In testing the volatile winds of American political change, there is no better weather vane than the state of California.
Always a breeding ground for social and political change, the populous and populist West Coast state gave President Ronald Reagan his political start as governor in 1966. It also launched Proposition 13, landlord association director Howard Jarvis's socalled "tax revolt" campaign in 1978 that marked the first time that citizens had given themselves a tax cut-in that case a 60-percent reduction in property taxes. Last week, as part of the U.S. midterm elections, Californians went to the polls to face a dizzying array of controversial issues that ranged from the question of making English the official state language to whether AIDS victims should be quarantined. But the result that could herald the most far-reaching consequences was the defeat of Rose Elizabeth Bird, the chief justice of California's Supreme Court, who was dismissed by voters in a backlash against her record of liberal judicial decisions, especially her refusal to impose the death penalty.
Vivacious: When the voters did not reconfirm the appointment of the vivacious 50-year-old Democrat, Bird became the first judge to lose such a vote since California's system of electoral confirmation began in 1934. Her loss was unprecedented, but predictable. The first woman ever named to California's highest court, when Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown appointed her in 1977, Bird become a lightning rod for statewide dissatisfaction with liberal courts. Her opponents, a well-funded coalition of big business, political conservatives and supporters of capital punishment, called themselves "Bird hunters" and referred to her legal decisions as "Bird droppings."
Over nine years, Bird voted to overturn all 61 of the death sentences imposed by lower courts. She also took liberal stands on environmental issues and other causes, including the rights of tenants, women and organized labor. As a result, some legal observers regarded Bird's defeat as a troubling precedent. Said Laurence Tribe, an ex-
pert in constitutional law at Harvard Law School: "California may be a bellwether. If people around the country observe that a concerted effort to attack a judge—not necessarily for principled reasons, but politically— can succeed, the independence of judges around the country may be jeopardized."
Slayings: The campaign against
Bird began in earnest two years ago, when a group of conservatives set up a committee called Crime Victims for Court Reform and launched a directmail campaign that, along with the efforts of other groups, raised more than $6 million. Some of the mailed literature contained descriptions of brutal slayings and concluded by claiming that Bird had "let the killers go free."
But that was not true. Although Bird never approved an execution, all the murderers whose cases she reviewed
remained in prison, most of them serving life terms with no possibility of parole. The committee also paid for a series of emotionally charged television commercials. In one, the grieving mother of a 12year-old girl said: "My
daughter, Robin, never got to her ballet lesson. But the man who kidnapped and killed her is still alive." The final message: "Vote no to Chief Justice Rose Bird."
Cry: During the campaign, Bird's name became a rallying cry for Republicans. The anti-Bird sentiment was so strong that Democrats were reluctant to defend her, especially because newspaper polls reported that more than 80 per cent of the California voters favored the death penalty. But there may have been other reasons for Bird's stunning defeat. Said Betty Medsger, who wrote the 1983 book Framed: The New Right Attack on Chief Justice Rose Bird and the Courts'. "She was controversial even before she got to the office." When Brown appointed Bird chief justice in 1977, she had just stepped down after two years as state secretary of agriculture. A lawyer who graduated from Berkeley Law School in 1965, Bird had not served on the bench before her appointment. She described her emergence on the court as "the equivalent of making a nun the Pope." And Bird angered conservatives by insisting on calling herself "chairperson" of the Judicial Council instead of chairman. Said Medsger: "Put all those
things together and the ingredients
make her a pretty good lightning rod." Bird's cause was not helped by her own inexplicable failure to mount a strong campaign to counteract her detractors. Although film star Warren Beatty and other Hollywood luminaries rallied to her cause and raised $1 million in campaign funds, Bird refused to fight. Rejecting support from the National Organization for Women, the California Trial Lawyers Associa• tion and the Bar Association of California, she acted as her own campaign chairman and even wrote the scripts for her low-budget television commercials. Bird, who is single, insisted on taking what she called "the high road" in one of the toughest campaigns in state history. Said Bird: "If I truly wanted to have an image that would be useful to me, I'd take you home, I'd have my nieces and nephews there, I'd be baking cookies, I'd have my 82-yearold mother there telling wonderful anecdotes about me as a child. That's what works in this society now."
While Bird served as a focus for right-wing resentments, California's liberals rallied to defeat a hotly debated issue, one of 13 statewide propositions dealing with issues from tax increases
to ceilings on the salaries of state employees. Proposition 64, which Virginiabased political extremist Lyndon Larouche advanced, urged that anyone suffering from AIDS or carrying the virus should be quarantined in detention centres. Larouche, who says that AIDS is "an even greater threat than nuclear war," insisted—in defiance of available medical evidence—that AIDS is spread by casual contact, insects and airborne particles. His opponents raised $2.3 million to fight and defeat Proposition 64 by a margin of almost 3 to 1. At the "No on 64" offices in San Francisco, the mainly homosexual staff was keenly aware of the latest grim statistics on the spread of AIDS. As of October, there were 1,442 reported deaths from the disease in San Francisco this year. Despite
that, opposition to Proposition 64 included every major medical association in the state and a cross section of politicians including incumbent Republican Gov. George Deukmejian. Said his opponent, Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley: "The Larouche initiative is a throwback to the Dark Ages."
Cancer: Hollywood traditionally plays a major role in California politics, and last week was no exception. Actress Jane Fonda and her husband, State Assemblyman Tom Hayden, celebrated his re-election and the success
of Proposition 65, an antipollution measure that passed overwhelmingly. The law, which will go into effect on Jan. 1, will make it illegal to dump cancer-causing chemicals where they could contaminate drinking water. Supporters said that it will be the environmental equivalent of tax-cutting Proposition 13, which was imitated across the country.
Anger: For California's immigrant community, the passing of Proposition 63, making English the sole official language of the heavily Hispanic state, caused anger and confusion. The measure was the brainchild of Samuel Hayakawa—a Canadian-born former Republican senator who is of Japanese descent—and who failed to persuade Congress to adopt English as the only
official U.S. language. Proponents intended that the measure would encourage immigrants to learn English and prevent the state from being divided along linguistic lines. Hayakawa said that Canada was proof that bilingualism did not work. Spanish-speakers now make up 20 per cent of California's 26 million population, and some Hispanic community leaders argued that the proposition was simply a means of eliminating government bilingual programs and emergency services.
In the wake of the election, specula-
tion centred on the vacancies created by Bird and two other liberal judges who were not reconfirmed. Many political and media pundits predicted that Deukmejian, who swung his support behind the liberal opponents of Proposition 64, would let his conservative instincts prevail in his choice of Bird's successor. He was expected to name his former law partner and the most conservative member of the court, Justice Malcolm Lucas, to the position of chief justice. The prospect saddened Bird, whose term ends on Jan. 5. "I think," she predicted, "we will see executions in California based not on the law but on political expediency."
—JANE O'HARA in San Francisco with ANNE GREGOR in Los Angeles

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There are literally hundreds of parts and engine components that can cause a car to stall when accelerating. However, there are some known culprits that are more likely than others to cause this problem.
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A car's fuel system is made up of many components, any of which may cause a car to stall under acceleration. For example, fuel filters may become clogged due to low grade fuel, fuel pumps may stop working or fuel injectors may not be delivering the correct ratio of fuel to power the car while accelerating.
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Essential Science: Is it possible to predict stroke risk?
Tim Sandle
A new study, from the University of Virginia Health System, suggests that the use of an online calculator can predict an individual's stroke risk. This, and other studies relating to stroke risk, are examined as part of this Essential Science column.
Jerry Lee Lewis records new music following recovery from stroke
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Living rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis returned to the music business following his recovery from a stroke that he suffered at his home in Nesbit, Mississippi.
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A new study finds that dog ownership is associated with longer life. This finding is especially so when it applies heart attack and stroke survivors, where owning a dog was found to lower the risk of death for those who live alone.
Aspirin may be 'safe' for brain-bleed strokes
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Edinburgh - People who have suffered a stroke can reduce the risk of a future strike by taking aspirin each day, according to a new study. As aspirin thins the blood, some medics had previously been cautious about recommending the drug to patients.
Luke Perry, star of 'Beverly Hills, 90210' dead at 52
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New Scandinavian research has found a connection between antiepileptic drugs and a higher risk of stroke, in persons with Alzheimer's disease. The effects were the same with old and new generation drugs for epilepsy.
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Wearable device developed for stroke treatment
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With a recent visit to their standout La Perouse venue under my belt, I arrived at the new Bare Grill on Bourke determined to move beyond the burger. My resolve was weakened considerably by watching a uniform row of burgers, all bearing the trademark Bare Grill stamp, paraded past my table.
I consoled myself with another order of their Epic Fries ($15). I'm not generally a fan of loaded fries because they often get too sloppy - not so with these crisp waffle cut fries, well-seasoned and smothered with sticky barbeque sauce, oozing cheese and pulled pork.
This time I also try out the Epic Mac & Cheese ($15) – doused in their usual array of sauces, it's actually quite a comforting (rather than overly rich) rendition. It reminds me of eating gnocchi.
I pace myself because I'm waiting for the big event: a Tomahawk ($65) that we share (with another main) between three people.
Presented on the bone, and cooked medium-well, this rib eye (or scotch fillet) is a beauty that'll have you itching to get all primitive-like and pick up the long bone for a chew.
Interestingly though, it's the smaller, de-boned version – a Scotch Fillet Steak ($27) - that scrubs up better in the flavour department. There ain't much in the way of salad on this menu, but both meat dishes are served with chips and good Bearnaise.
This new restaurant is quite spacious, running all the way from Bourke Street to the communal al fresco courtyard in the rear.
Despite the shiny rows of glasses adorning the new bar, the usual Mike Baird-related bumbling bureaucracy is preventing you from enjoying a beer with your burger. If only they could hand out liquor licenses (into a spot that has already had one, no less) at the same speed they can destroy Sydney neighbourhoods for WestConnex. Six months (so far) is a long time to wait to drink beer with your burger, Mike.
While the Bare Grill crew have kept the design relatively simple, staying true to their roots as a beachy burger bar, the gigantic mural will likely catch your eye. Featuring the legendary Marilyn Monroe delicately gripping a burger, it is, as co-owner Joseph Micali explains, the theme is "dead heros: eating burgers with the stars." It's the work of a New Zealand based artist – Mr G or Graham Hoete - who is known for delivering realistic portraiture at epic scale.
Joining Marilyn, James Dean and Jimi Hendrix on the wall, is Daniel Joseph Micali, Joseph's brother, who is sadly deceased. It's nice to see that what constitutes a hero isn't limited to movie stars and singers. While this St Margarets development has seen a particularly brutal turnover of restaurateurs, I suspect with the level of heartfelt investment in this place, Bare Grill on Bourke is likely to stick around.
Bare Grill on Bourke
Shop 15, 417-435 Bourke Street, Surry Hills
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Some days my life makes no sense. I wake up in a haze from a severe lack of sleep, throw on some clothes and make-up and try to avoid mirrors for the rest of the day just in case I look like a circus clown. I shuttle my kids out the door with juice boxes and pop tarts in hand while trying to down enough coffee to make the world seem a little less fast and make me move at a little more the right speed. I can't live all day in slow-mo.
After a day of work which ticks by in a blur of Facebook posts, Tweets, feigning productivity in between daydreams, and a lack of sunshine (my office in right smack dab in the middle of the building. No windows) I pick up the boys and head on to whatever after school activities we have that day.
I'm pretty sure my subconscious knows the driving routes by heart because I'm not sure I actually steer much between all the bickering in the back seat over which song to listen to. Doesn't matter that we have a set rotation rule of who gets to pick.
At our after school activity I delve into a book, or sew, or somehow find myself deep in my own little world.
I realize that to the outside observer, I must seem like a total scatter brain. Or a neurotic genius. I'm hoping the latter.
The thing is, I'm not scatterbrained at all. I'm a dreamer.
I believe that just about anything is possible, but before you can achieve it, you have to dream it. You have to start the journey. You have to work hard at it.
The thing with having big dreams is that your destination is a moving target. You have to be willing to grow and adapt.
If you had asked me 10 years ago where I would be today, I would have told you I would be living in a tiny loft in New York City trying to make it as a writer. Instead I'm still living in Oklahoma and am a mother to two amazing boys. And I'm still a writer. My dream didn't change, my destination did. I'm still publishing poems. I'm still writing, mostly for my blog, Dishwater Dreams. But I'm also attending soccer games, karate lessons, and school parties. I'm struggling with having enough hours in the day and giving up sleep to write after my children go to bed.
But I wouldn't change a thing.
Lindsey Renuard is a published author and poet. She is the Internet Content Editor for Community Publishers. She manages local newspapers and community web sites in Oklahoma and is a social media expert. She is a former Professor of English teaching both in the classroom and online. You can follow Lindsey on her Facebook page, Twitter and of course her blog Dishwater Dreams.


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Ivory Coast's Luc Kassi powers Stabaek past Molde
Luc Kassi was on target for Stabaek as they defeated Molde 3-2 in a Norwegian Eliteserien game on Sunday.
The hosts took the lead courtesy John Hou Saeter in the 16th minute. The lead was then doubled by the Ivorian midfielder after 58 minutes.
Bjorn Sigurdarson halved the deficit for the visitors three minutes later, but a well-taken penalty by Ohi Omoijuanfo restored the two-goal advantage for the Baerum based side with 16 minutes left in the game.
Fredrik Brustad's late goal with two minutes left to play ensured for a tense finish but Antoni Ordinas's side held on for the win that sees them climb up to sixth on the Norwegian top-flight log.
The Nadderud Stadium outfit will next visit the Color Line Stadium to tackle Aalesund on September 10.


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It's Monday, I'm officially well again after being home with the plague for a week. Unofficially I'm still far from well; lungs hurt, I cough, I sneeze, I limp, I breathe (ha that almost rhymed). I think that I am one of the main sponsors of our local chemist (see evidence below). But I'm out of the house and working again, and that feels great.
In the Stockholm region all the snow has started to melt. We've had a LOT of snow. This now means that every street is basically made of melting ice, with a top layer of icy water. It's a death trap that will weed out the week. I did NOT fall on my way to work. This is a triumph. I'm making a note here: huge success.
It's a bloody Monday like any other and I like to cheer myself up with a bit of a list/update about what's going on, to prove to myself that yes, I have a life and yes, I'm doing stuff (might be hard, considering I couldn't leave my apartment for a week).
Listening to:
Amanda Palmer's "Map of Tasmania". To quote: "OH – MY – GAWD" *rocks out!*
BBC's "Genious of Photography" series. Six episodes (one hour a pop) about the history of photography with some of the most important images and movements, from the birth of photography and forward. It's awesome (and you can find it all on Youtube).
Crafty plans:
Taking a basic course in silver clay tomorrow (yay!). I am SO glad I'm feeling well enough now, if I couldn't go my heart would've been broken.
Me & Digital Rebel:
I have a lot of ideas for things to shoot. With my camera. I feel I need to plan and be a bit more structured so that I actually follow through. Because I need to practice, dammit! So, make a plan and set a date… Other than my Grand Evil Plans I want to practice panning, so I need to fins something that runs around a lot. Cats, boyfriends, friend's dogs, drunk midgets (i.e. kids), all suggestions welcome. I think I need to get outside and find stuff, really. Trains? Cars? (Boring?).
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What one Midwestern city can tell us about American progress and prosperity.
Part One: "You have to keep the people and the businesses"
The Prairie School of architecture — of which Frank Lloyd Wright was the most famous member — is known for houses with horizontal lines evoking the flat landscape of the Midwest. Prairie Style houses are meticulous, and exhibit a sense of order and function. Indeed, it was Wright's mentor Louis Sullivan who coined the famous maxim that "form follows function." In addition to their clean, external lines and gently sloping roofs, Prairie Style houses often include interior elements — such as built-in benches with storage compartments — meant to maximize interior space and order. Prairie Style architecture acts as a bulwark against the jumble of life.
Like the architecture it inspired, the landscape surrounding Decatur, Illinois — where there are a number of Prairie Style homes, including one designed by Wright — is anything but jumbled. The land around Decatur, also known as "The Pride of the Prairie," is a mostly flat patchwork of fields, almost entirely corn and soy, all carefully ordered and meticulously tended. The farms surrounding Decatur are more like outdoor factories than stereotypical pastoral farms; they have much in common with the earliest root of "farm": per the word's etymology, the earliest definition of "farm" — rent or payment — comes the old French ferme for "lease." Farming in Illinois is a commercial affair.
Regardless, the drive to Decatur from Chicago — which I did most recently in June — is as soothing (or least mesmerizing) as a three-hour highway drive can be. Because the land is largely flat, one can see for miles, and most everything appears groomed. What hills there are undulate softly, and the highways are bordered by green: now a tall wall of corn, now a vast field of low soy leaves. Central Illinois's landscape resembles a green, tamed sea.
So when I was in Decatur it was jarring that life felt so very disordered. My week in Decatur was overcast by the news that our government had been cruelly separating migrant children from their parents (many of them are still separated); my time in the otherwise orderly, quiet city was infected with the derangement and chaos emanating from Washington, which Decatur, like so much of the country, is at least partly responsible for inflicting on itself. But why?
In the 2016 election, Macon County, Illinois, of which Decatur is the seat, voted for Trump. 56% of the Macon County vote, 26,866 votes in all, went to Trump, versus Clinton's 18,343. (To be fair, much of the actual city of Decatur went for Clinton). And while the 2016 result was hardly unexpected, it is striking, given Decatur's history. Since the 1980 presidential election, Macon County has gone for Republicans five times and Democrats five times, and since Illinois's most recent redistricting in 2013, it has been represented by Rodney "I am an unabashed supporter of our Second Amendment rights" Davis.
Founded in 1829, Decatur experienced booming growth for much of its history; between 1900 and 1920, for example, its population more than doubled. Lincoln gave his first political speech in Decatur, and the city was the original home of the Chicago Bears. Decatur was — and remains — a major center of agricultural industry. One of Caterpillar's largest plants is in Decatur; food processing giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) employs more than four thousand people in the city. And Decatur's Tate & Lyle (formerly A.E. Staley) plant is one of the biggest producers of high fructose corn syrup in the country.
But Decatur has seen its fortunes reverse. Since it peaked in 1980, Decatur's population has been steadily declining; the 2017 estimate of Decatur's population is about 23% less than the 1980 number. Adjusted for inflation, Decatur's median income has gone down since 2010. Its unemployment rate is currently 5.2%, versus the national rate of 3.7%. And the percentage of people and families in Decatur whose income was below the poverty level in 2016 was a stunning 20.1%.
Then along comes a twice-divorced television personality from New York with a vague-but-loud message about "winning." Say what you will about Trump, but his sense of timing, and his ability to amplify and use his voters' grievances, is impressive. Though hardly intentional on either party's part, Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015, a mere month after Decatur and Macon County announced their "Limitless" branding campaign that, per Decatur's Herald & Review, "seeks to remove boundaries and convey a place with abundant opportunities."
So it's no surprise that a place responsible for a pro-growth campaign about being "limitless" might be attracted to a political candidate who promised doing "some things that are gonna be amazing," as Trump said in a 2016 campaign speech in nearby Bloomington:
"You have your industry moving out — Illinois is a big example of it — you know how badly things are, I mean, you are a great example if you really think about it, your taxes are through the roof, your companies are leaving you, you've got nothing going!"
But the trust Decatur and Macon County placed in Trump is an example of placing trust in a corporate, profit-driven system that has repeatedly (and increasingly) failed it; at the risk of making too fine a point, this is the story of America.
Like so many places in America, Decatur has been a company town almost since its inception: as the fortunes of the companies that run the city have gone, so have the city's fortunes. And Decatur's history underscores that while corporate interests may drive a place, they do not necessarily sustain that place. Put another way, "market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals," as Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, told CBS.
To wit, per the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis, corporate profits are up: they increased $65.0 billion and $26.7 billion in the first and second quarters of 2018. Yet economic inequality — particularly among races — across the country has also been growing. Where 31.1 percent of whites made $200,000 and over in 2017, only 16.2 percent of blacks made more than $200,000 in 2017, according to Census income data. And while 9.1 percent of whites made less than $15,000 in 2017, in the same year 19.6 percent of black households made less than $15,000. In fact, in 2017 nearly 60% of black households had incomes under $50,000.
Despite the hardships it has faced, Decatur has rarely bitten the hand that feeds. The last major labor strikes in the city (against Bridgestone/Firestone, A.E. Staley, and Caterpillar) were in the 1990s. But workers in Decatur and Macon County are hardly alone in rarely striking — according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of annual labor-related work stoppages in the US has decreased dramatically over the last seventy years, from a high of 470 in 1952 to just seven strikes in 2017.
The sway Decatur's major employers have held over the place, and how aspects of the city's history have been driven by corporate interests, really is amazing. For example, in addition to owning the Decatur Staleys — the football team that eventually became the Chicago Bears — the corn processing company A.E. Staley was responsible for the creation of the enormous, man-made Lake Decatur, which dominates much of the city's landscape; the lake was created in 1920 to provide the Staley factory with a constant source of water.
Even Decatur's most beautiful home, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed 2 Millikin Place, owes its existence to a concentration on capital. The house was commissioned in 1909 by a former Decatur titan, Edward Peek Irving. Irving ran several large firms in Decatur — including the Faries Manufacturing Company, the Walrus Manufacturing Company, and Decatur's Citizens National Bank; he was also president of Decatur's Water Supply Service Company, director of the country club, and secretary of the Decatur and Macon County Hospital Association — and, per his obituary, he was known for a "close application to business" before he died at age fifty-nine. As Frank Lloyd Wright himself said, "Give me the luxuries in life, and I will willingly do without the necessities."
The good news is that there are organizations in Decatur and Macon County working to improve things for residents. The Obesity Prevention Coalition ("Macon' Our County Healthier") aims to prevent obesity in children and adults across Macon County, while the Good Samaritan Inn has been serving noon meals and job training since 1982. And the nonprofit Dove, Inc. offers a number of programs, from those designed to reduce domestic violence, to homelessness support.
"We have a poverty issue here, locally," said Dove's Rev. Christine Gregory in "Forgotten Illinois: Decatur," a film about Decatur put out by Illinois Policy. "But we see more of the issues with not being able to maintain employment, not being able to find employment that's suited to the education of that person … A Decatur that thinks big stops losing people. You have to keep the people and the businesses in order for that to grow."
Part Two: "Life is weather. Life is meals."
The most American, most beautiful, greasiest, most economical, most traditional, truest, best restaurant in Decatur is not fancy.
It is famous for its chicken cars, Cadillacs decorated with large chicken tails and heads on their trunks and roofs. The restaurant only serves a handful of things, and of that handful you should only order a core number. It is not an ideal place for vegetarians. When you leave, you will smell like french fries for hours afterward.
Founded in 1949, Krekel's Custard may be America's greatest burger chain. But because all of its locations are in central Illinois — including several in Decatur, one in next-door Mt. Zion, one in Springfield, and now one in Champaign — it is not as widely known as other geography-specific burger chains, like Culver's (which calls Wisconsin home) or the West-focused In-N-Out Burger, which is based in Irvine, California and which has certainly benefited from being in America's second-largest media market.
Regardless, Krekel's to a great extent is Decatur; going to Krekel's frequently, sometimes multiple times a week, for their thin fried hamburgers wrapped in wax paper and a milkshake in a styrofoam cup is synonymous with life in the town. Decatur and Macon County wouldn't be what they are without Krekel's. After all, life — to quote James Salter's 1975 book Light Years — "is meals." As Salter writes early on in the book:
Life is weather. Life is meals. Lunches on a blue checked cloth on which salt has spilled. The smell of tobacco. Brie, yellow apples, wood-handled knives.
Light Years is set in the Northeast, and though Salter meant this passage to be universal (which of course it is; it is also tremendous), it seems particularly relevant to a discussion of any place centered on agriculture, where life really does depend on the weather — and the meals that the weather does or does not provide. Decatur is almost wholly an agricultural town; the vast, orderly fields of corn and soy that surround the city for miles in every direction are its raison d'etre. Indeed, without those fields Macon County wouldn't be as populated with grain silos as it is, not to mention the enormous, landscape-dominating factories of ADM and Tate & Lyle; on many days, Decatur smells of roasting soybeans, a peculiarly sharp smell that lingers in the nose.
According to the Department of Agriculture's 2012 Census of Agriculture (the 2017 report has yet to be released), Macon County ranks among the top agricultural counties in the country by crop sales. Per the 2012 Census, it was ranked 73rd out of 3,079 counties nationally for corn for grain sales, and 114th for soybeans sales. By state, Illinois is only second in the nation for corn and soybean sales, after Iowa. And as noted previously, Decatur is home to several major agricultural concerns: Archer Daniels Midland is number 324 on the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest public companies, while Tate & Lyle is 1,654, and the heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar, headquartered in Peoria but with a facility in Decatur, is ranked 166th.
Though Macon County is a major center of American agricultural production, ironically, the area's health doesn't reflect its importance to nutrition and food in America. Macon County's health is worse than the US's as a whole, and life expectancy in Macon County — 78.01 years — is lower than the US average of seventy-nine. Diabetes, hypertension, and obesity are all more prevalent in Macon County than the nation at large. Indeed, some grocery stores in Decatur include diabetic health aisles, and there are approximately 10 fast food restaurants per 10,000 people in Decatur.
Health and too much fast food aside — all fast food isn't created equal, as Krekel's proves — the fact remains that life in Decatur and Macon County is driven by agriculture. One might think that people living in agriculture centers would be single-issue voters, a bloc that elects to protect their agricultural way of life from threats like climate change or international relations' effect on crop prices. Yet many agricultural centers, including Macon County and Illinois' Iroquois County, which led the nation in corn sales in 2012, voted for Trump, a noted (if typically muddled) climate change skeptic. Trump has falsely claimed "the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese," and during the 2016 election told The Washington Post, "I am not a great believer in man-made climate change."
While climate change might be dismissed as something to worry about in the future, tariffs — and their effect on prices — are now. The Trump administration has brought tariffs in the form of import taxes on commodities like solar panels and steel, and retaliatory tariffs from trading partners (particularly China) on US goods such as whiskey, poultry, and soybeans. These tariffs are hardly unexpected: during the 2016 election Trump explicitly promised their use, telling a crowd in Tampa:
"I'm going to use every lawful presidential power to remedy the trade disputes, including the application of tariffs. And I'll tell you, we're going to probably have to at least use them in some cases because they have to understand, we're not playing games any longer, folks. We're not playing games."
Though the USDA has already introduced $12 billion worth of programs designed to offset the impact of tariffs on American farmers, soybean prices are sharply down. And as Colorado State University's Amanda M. Countryman notes in Pacific Standard,
If American agricultural producers can't increase exports to other countries to make up for lost sales to China, farm incomes would most certainly fall. And even if they do manage to find new markets, perhaps with the help of the new government aid package, it'll be hard to make up for the world's largest market for food imports.
To return to the driving question: why would Macon County inflict this on itself, via a vote for Trump? Certainly they didn't want tariffs, they don't want inaction in the fact of climate change, they don't want poor health. So why did residents seemingly vote against their own self-interests?
Per Iowa reporter Robert Leonard's 2017 New York Times opinion piece, "Why Rural America Voted for Trump," perhaps one answer is pride.
In state capitols across America, lawmakers spend billions of dollars to take a few seconds off a city dweller's commute to his office, while rural counties' farm-to-market roads fall into disrepair. Some of the paved roads in my region are no longer maintained and are reverting to gravel. For a couple of generations now, services that were once scattered across rural areas have increasingly been consolidated in urban areas, and rural towns die. It's all done in the name of efficiency.
Leonard goes on to note (emphasis mine) that "many towns with a rich history and strong community pride are already dead; their citizens just don't know it yet."
This seems to be the crux of why so many towns and rural areas went for Trump: a vote for Trump, for making America great again, regardless of the price involved and regardless of whether Trump would in fact make their place great, was a rejection of the view that their homes might be dead. A vote for Trump was in effect a vote for themselves, and for their pride in themselves.
Decatur is certainly worthy of pride. In addition to its long, rich history, the city is beautiful, from the Transfer House in downtown Decatur built in 1896, to the Oglesby Mansion and the wide, tree-lined streets in Decatur's West End. Decatur's post office is decorated with several stunning Works Progress Administration-era murals, and the city boasts as classic a main street shopping district as you'll find anywhere in America. Macon County also, perhaps not coincidentally, lays claim to a high proportion of veterans per capita — about 751 per 10,000 residents, and boasts an impressively extensive system of parks. Last but certainly, certainly not least, the city is home to Krekel's, a place that serves "heaven in a little brown bag."
Of course Decatur takes pride in itself. Even in the face of its troubles, it is, after all, "The Pride of the Prairie."
Lead image: Pictorial map of Decatur, IL (1878). Inset image 1: Elevation of Wright's Dana-Thomas House in Springfield, IL, via Wikimedia Commons. Inset image 2: Chickenmobile.


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It appears that George Gosbee and Anthony LeBlanc, the driving force behind the current Arizona Coyotes ownership, can rest a bit easier.
That's because, going forward, their operation of the Coyotes will not take such a severe economic hit. As Canadians operating an American company called IceArizona, Gosbee and LeBlanc were subject to a sizable tax hit. Foreigners running companies based in the Untied States could be subject to a tax obligation between 15 and 30 percent. Plus, additional tax obligations could result in estate and gift tax consequences.
Both Gosbee and LeBlanc said earlier this year that the tax burden for their IceArizona operation was terrific and sought relief.
Since the start of the NHL season back in October, Gosbee and LeBlanc, while adding loyal fans, corporate partners and entering into long-term agreements to add revenu,e would still be subjected to an adverse tax structure.
When the season began last October, Gosbee and LeBlanc were in touch with Andrew Barroway, a Philadelphia lawyer by trade but also diversified into hedge funds and made millions. An avid sports fans and passionate Flyers' follower, Barroway attempted to secure the Islanders and Devils upon two previous occasions and in both cases, deals collapsed.
Still, the behind-the-scenes work continued for Barroway's direction and on the final day of 2014, the NHL announced Barroway finally acquired 51 percent of the Coyotes. That means an American now heads the IceArizona, the corporate name of the franchise, and tax consequences for Gosbee and LeBlanc have loosen considerable.
All of this will sort out on Friday afternoon when Barroway meets the media at Gila River Arena and the deal explained.
It's unlikely complete details will be disclosed but it is a safe bet to assume Barroway, Gosbee and LeBlanc will be pressed to explain the reasoning behind the sale. The bottom line is economic and with a strong push from Gosbee and LeBlanc on the corporate side, the franchise seems to be moving forward.
Now, the players need to glean some encouragement about their future and start to string some wins together.
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Lawmakers divided about whether to renew a raft of expiring tax breaks appear increasingly likely to extend them only through 2014, a move that would leave businesses and individuals in limbo for 2015 and beyond.
Congressional aides with knowledge of the negotiations said talks continued about a broader package that could extend some provisions permanently and others through 2015. However, they said, those negotiations were proving difficult.
The temporary breaks include about 50 separate provisions benefiting businesses, individuals and nonprofits. The vast majority expired at the end of 2013, but still can be claimed for 2014, if Congress can agree soon on how to renew them.
Extending the breaks through 2014 would mean they could be claimed during the 2015 tax-preparation season.
On Monday, the situation was further muddled as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) called for extending breaks for working families and businesses but didn't offer specifics.
Reid last week was negotiating a broad package that drew criticism from the Obama administration for not doing enough for lower-income people, causing those talks to collapse.
That package would have made permanent a few of the most popular business provisions, such as a widely used research credit. It also would have extended the bulk of the temporary provisions through 2015.
But the White House signaled it would veto that package, arguing it was too favorable toward businesses and didn't extend an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit.
An expanded version of this story is available at WSJ.com


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At tonight's WWE Hell in a Cell event, Becky Lynch defeated Sasha Banks in a Hell in a Cell Match to retain the Raw Women's Championship.
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This village shows a unique view of the Cantabrian sea and it is ideal for drawing a picture of it. By doing this, we will make sure we will keep its natural essence with us forever. The Spanish and well known film director, Jose Luis Garci, took some of these views in the film «Volver a empezar» (Beginning once more). This film was awarded Oscar and it was the first for the Spanish film productions. If we are interested in knowing well this place, we can follow the route of the most known viewpoints: The walk of the lighthouse, The Garita, The Atalaya, The Picu…
From its heights, Cudillero discovers itself as a fishing village. In ancient times, it had got the biggest fleet of the region, being also one of the most important of all the Cantabrian Coast. Today it is very usual to see the arrival of small fishing boats coming to this sheltered port. The village is also even more admirable. Very close to this port, we can also find a route for eating fish. In this area there is an ancient shipyard with artisan fish industries which took part is the process of canning additional fish.
Snacking is very usual in Cudillero in fact, visitors are really keen on doing it. Within its gastronomy we can find the famous «pixuetos», delicious sea snacks and «sibaritas» tasteful cooked fish. It is also important to mention that snuff is here called «Pixín». Under these words «Pixín» and «Pixueto» are here hidden the names referred to fish and man, a duality that is impossible to separate, we can not understand one without the other (a natural relationship).
Since ever, there has been a rivalry between the high neighbourhoods and those neighbourhoods close to the port. In the highest area called «Cai» live people who traditionally were in charge of farming. On the low area, live people whose lives depend basically on fishing. All the people living here, take much care of its tourism, because in the last years it is becoming a new important economical sector.
Now we move on to the most extense part of this village. Here we can smell the tasteful fishing tradition of this place: hake, snuff (pixín) and sea bream. Its seafood: spider crabs, lobsters and barnacles. Its most famous dish is the «curadillo», a fish which is cured on open air and is also cooked on traditional style. Cudillero and the Cantabrian Sea offer a big variety of dishes in an unique and natural landscape.
In this same council we can also visit the locality of «El Pito», where it is located the Whole Palaciego Selgas, known as the asturian Versalles. It has a unique decoration: carpets, clocks, furniture, unique masterpieces and different oils belonging to Tiziano, Goya and El Greco. Also here, we can visit the church of Jesus of Nazareth, belonging to the 19th century that still keeps the oldest preroman altar of Spain (8th century).
In Cudillero we can also distinguish two important constructions: the parish church of gothic style and the chapel of Humilladero, its oldest property.
If we had to describe the council of Cudillero in short, we could say that from the Turbera of the Dueñas (declared Natural Monument) to the limit of the council of Valdés, a regional wide space of Natural and protected areas is here under the name of Protected Scenery of the Western Coast. In this territory there is a marked contrast between the coast and the interior. The coast is characterized by high cliffs (around 80 m. high): Cape Vidio and its lighthouse (heights around 100 m.), Punta Borona, Punta of Malperro, Cape of Concha of Artedo, etc.. The interior of this council is mountainous, for instance, Peñas of Cuetu at 786 metres over the sea level.
Along the cliffs we can also find coves such as La Arquina, and various beaches such as Aguilar, La Concha of Artedo, Oleiros, San Pedro, La Cueva, Vallina, El Silencio, Destillo o Ballota. In this coast we can also see small heavenly islands.
On June, 29th it is celebrated the festivity of L'Amuravela. In this feast, the town crier speaks in Pixueto (the language of Cudillero) about the events of the whole year in an ironic and critical way.


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Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck (1 August 1744, Bazentin, Somme – 18 December 1829), often just known as "Lamarck", was a French soldier, naturalist, academic and an early proponent of the idea that evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws.
Lamarck fought in the Pomeranian War with Prussia, and was awarded a commission for bravery on the battlefield. At his post in Monaco, Lamarck became interested in natural history and resolved to study medicine. He retired from the army after being injured in 1766, and he returned to his medical studies.
Lamarck developed a particular interest in botany, and later, after he published a three-volume work Flora française, he gained membership of the French Academy of Sciences in 1779. Lamarck became involved in the Jardin des Plantes and was appointed to the Chair of Botany in 1788. When the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle was founded in 1793, Lamarck was appointed as a professor of zoology. In 1801, he published Système des animaux sans vertèbres, a major work on the classifications of invertebrates, a term he invented. In an 1802 publication, he became one of the first to use the term biology in its modern sense. Lamarck continued his work as a premier authority on invertebrate zoology.
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Psychodrama with children: psychotherapy, care and education - Second part (Simultaneous Translation)
Date: 7 September 2019 from 14:30 to 16:15
Type: Symposium
Speakers: Fabian Blobel, Luigi Dotti, Stefan Flegelskamp, Maurizio Gasseau, Angela Sordano, Rebecca Walters
Chairman: Luigi Dotti
Rebecca Walters (USA)
Sociodrama with children groups.
Sociodrama, like Psychodrama, is a way for children to tell their story; find commonality, decrease isolation, express their feelings, help find words, find a safe place to contain strong emotion, create a role that provides impact, provide a corrective experience and expand their role repertoire. Sociodrama typically focuses on large social and political issues involving oppression, social justice and social and political issues of a local and global scale. Sociodrama can also be used with children who are being brought together to address common issues such as divorce, ill siblings, bullying, racism, parents with mental illness, parents who are deployed, family disruption due to war and natural disaster…. and to address other community issues where children might prefer not to reveal so much of their own personal story as they would in a psychodrama group. Without a commitment or contract to offer therapy or counseling, sociodrama works also well in settings such as the classroom, community groups, religious centers, etc. Sociodrama can also be used in residential schools where confidentiality and emotional safety cannot be guaranteed, with short term groups where people do not have time to develop cohesion and safety with one another and in groups where group members are not able to manage their own emotions and have a tendency to become disregulated when addressing issues head on. Sociodrama can also be a deeply therapeutic modality. It can be used to address traumatic issues in children's personal lives such as abandonment, physical and sexual abuse, parental absence, removal from the home, etc. It is especially useful in settings when the group does not feel safe or cohesive enough to enter into a psychodramatic exploration of a theme. Sociodrama provides the necessary distance for them to manage their emotional regulation. It allows them to stay in their 'window of tolerance" rather than become hyper- or hypo aroused even while addressing difficult issues. It is often the method of choice when working with younger children. It is, essentially, Play Therapy in Action.
Fabian Blobel (Germany)
About transformers and avatars
The symbol play of the child is a representation of the inner state and the functioning of the psyche.
These narratives reflect the inner working models of the self, the interpretation of its surrounding and the dealing with difficult emotions. This structure of the individual psyche is created and influenced by its personal history. By bringing the inner narratives and fantasies on the outer stage the child is able within the symbol play to repeat, transform or completely leave reality. As psychodramatists it is our aim to explore, to develop and intervene in this surplus reality in a helpful therapeutic and pedagogic way. There is a wide range of different concepts and theories to help the psycho dramatist to analyze and plan adequate interventions. One of these helpfull theories is the consistency theory.
With this theory Grawe (2000/2004) is differentiating scientifically four psychological basic needs of the human being:
- need for relationship and belonging
- need for orientation and control
- need for augmentation of self esteem
- need for seeking pleasure and avoid unpleasure
The healthy child is trying to find an equal satisfaction of all these needs. Challenging relationships and traumatic experiences can change the motivation to realize and satisfy these needs.
Using these four needs as an Interpretation frame we have a powerful tool to analyze the narratives and fantasies of a child. It helps us to see balances and gives us a helpful lead for interventions in redirecting motivation and re-balancing all needs in the surplus reality.
Integrating the concept of the basic needs in the therapeutic, symbol play helps the child to transform his mentalization towards a healthier and more social accepted approach towards relationships and live.
Angela Sordano (Italy)
The adolescent and the virtual body
Social phobia, Hikikomori syndrome, eating disorders present some clinical similarities: the difficulty to define a boundary between the self and the other, to differentiate the subjective reality from the virtual one, and to procede in the separating and individuating process from the family.
A clinical case will be presented and the methodological choises and the theoretical perspecitves at the basis of the passage from an individual setting to a group one pointed out.
Our psychodrama approach integrates morenian technicque, junghian psychodinamic theories and intersubjective group analysis. The focus of the clinical work is based on cohesion, considered as the main therapeutic group factor, and on imaginary process.
The group in this setting becomes a resonant intersubjective collective space, a unique body container able to connect dissociated parts and to reintroduce the adolescent in a developmental register.
The knots in the direction will be evidenced
Key words: adolescent, body, clinical group
Luigi Dotti (Italia)
Psychodrama and sociodrama in the school - The group as a good positive container of fragility and hyperactivity
This report speaks of psychodramatic activity with real groups of children (class groups in the school), with particular attention to the issues of hyperactivity and the difficulty of controlling motor skills and action.
The psychodramatist who works with real groups must pay particular attention to two aspects:
1: the enhancement of the therapeutic function of the peer group (citing and paraphrasing J.L. Moreno
"Every child or child can be a caregiver for another child or girl")
- Attention to the responsibility of the psychodramatist (awareness of the consequences in the real life of the group of psychodramatic activity with the real group).
Some aspects are particularly important in the work with class groups:
- Importance of the relational gaze with respect to listening to the other:
look as an encounter, importance of the act of looking at the other and being seen and recognized by the other, relational awareness, awareness of the sociometric position in the group
- Importance of dyad spontaneity - creativity (factor S-C) and dyad spontaneity - control (action and body awareness, action and self-observation)
- Enhancement of the activity with respect to hyper-activity.
The activity is hic et nunc, spontaneous role (s), therapeutic function of the ritual
hyper-activity is the crystallized role, there and then, repetition, perceptive and emotional egocentrism.
- Importance of the group creation SYMBOLIC, EXPRESSIVE and NARRATIVE, which promotes a new symbolic narrative of the group (group co-unconscious)
Stefan Flegelskamp (Germany)
Playing helpfully
"The pirates and the cannibals".
The language of children is play; they try to make sense of the world around them in action and not in conversation.
The possibilities offered by "as-if" and "make-believe" open in the most literal sense new playroom, in which children can experience themselves as creators and put the world in their order
Traumatized children seldom express their feelings verbally.
They do not have words for the horror they have experienced. But they express it in a symbolical way in their games.
To understand their trauma and support their way to cure it, the therapists have to enter this world on the psychodramatic stage as an active participant of the story, that has been developed together with the children and in the role, the children chose for them. Children are still in contact with the amazing human creativity. With some support they change painful experiences in a symbolical play into powerful roles, helpful to overcome the trauma and find solutions for their conflicts.


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