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Monday, May 3, 2010
Visiting the Rust Belt
But up in Ann Arbor Big Guy really gets recharged. Back in the day, when Big Guy was nothing more than your run of the mill street-wise community organizer, pulling down a few grand a month from his ACORN grant, we'd travel from Chicago up there to Ann Arbor for long weekends hanging out at the U of M Alinsky chapter house, hazing recruits and giving the occasional lecture over the din to "The Nationale," which was played over and over again to keep our spirits up. Good times, Good times.
But you know, this was a bittersweet return for us. The kids just don't seem to get it. They want jobs, and a future, and Big Guy just isn't into all that right now. He was more concerned about killing the other night in front of our friends at the the White House Correspondents Dinner, and making Jay Leno look like a douche. And this is really the problem. How can Big O really focus on influencing the next generation, when he has to focus on day to day stuff.
Like an oil spill. This thing is really becoming a headache. Oh, not because of the toll on the Gulf Coast economy or the environment or the people. But because of the term, "Oil Spill." Last month, when Southern California got hit by that earthquake, BO and Axe and Toes got lucky. They just changed the name of the location where the earthquake took place from MexiCali Fault to Bush's Fault, and the problem just went away. But this oil spill deal is a real challenge, because none of us can figure out a way to change the term from "Oil Spill" to something with Bush's name in it.
As Axe noted, we have a few million left from the stimulus package, so we're going to hire some unemployed Hollywood writers full-time over at Commerce, whose job is going to be to figure out clever ways to work Bush's name into all of our national emergencies. We figure that should get us past the 2010 election cycle, and by then the economy will be going so good, no one is going to care any more anyway.
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Yeah, I am surprised that he could free himself long enough to involve America and ALL it's resources to the oil spill. Meanwhile, in NYC there is a bomb in time square. I don't know, sounds like a long and tierless weekend.ReplyDelete
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Watch the video of is Big O comes by to get a hug, she sits down... she picks her nose.
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What makes a community's economy vibrant and inclusive? An inclusive economy is about all people being able to have fairly paid, secure, meaningful work. People feel financially secure when they can take care of their basic needs and handle unexpected costs that might come up. When people struggle with financial security, they have less hope, age faster, and die prematurely. Communities that don't have a healthy economy can find it difficult to attract people to live or work there. This can make it difficult to have enough resources for good schools, parks, roads, and all the other conditions that create well-being. This can lead to a cycle of hopelessness and intergenerational poverty. Additionally, communities where not all people have equitable access to good jobs experience income inequality. Income inequality can lead to poorer health outcomes and higher health care costs.
What is the unemployment rate in Idaho?
What this measures: The percentage of residents 16 or older who do not have a job and are looking for one.
Why this matters: Unemployment has negative effects on physical and mental health. It is linked to unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, alcohol use, physical inactivity, and unhealthy diet. Unemployed people often do not have a steady income or health insurance. These are essential to maintaining good health. People who are unemployed are less likely to have access to health services. They are also likely to delay care because of financial concerns.
What this relates to: Median income, income inequality, health inequity.
Data source: State-level data is from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) dataset, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The rate shown is the seasonally-adjusted U3 rate.
What is the median household income in Idaho?
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Why this matters: Median household income is an indicator of low income and poverty. Low income may also result in poorer health and well-being. It may indicate less access to physical and mental health care. It may also affect health factors such as ability to purchase healthy foods and pay bills.
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• Proximity to employment. Source: Child Opportunity Index.
• Labor force participation rate (%). Source: Census.

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The one that makes lists of Freedom Fighters went to go jack..off with a picture of Modi's asss. LMFAO
Modi has no azz no more. Refer to 1:37 below. Salut! ROFL
Philip Eugene Douglas ra ped me in my hiney.
You stutter toooo much. Be like me flutter your phussy.
@dark green fried tomato"e" cuchumber @Upstart aka @banasy a hindoo raypist from India.
Yup Philip, rupert etc. are all peas from same pod. As if we dont know.
Yeah yeah yeah .... Travis is this Travis is that.
You know what, Travis is Travis. La Bamba!
I am not a plumber but the only way to solve the raipe epidemic in India is to reroute the hindu male urinary tract to rear orifice. Thus enabling the butchering of the weiner to be fed to Russians/Ukranians.
In fact Modi's rear orifice has been rerouted to his mouth due constant and relentless piunding by his boyfriend in Tibet.
"pounding" not piunding.
Good one. LMFAO.
Modi boyfriend from Myanmar just fukked his mouth. Recall rerouting of his azz to mouth. Lol
Mates, cut it out. Let us just bash all them hindoos in Auckland.
The troll in blue is the same one that cuts and pastes the list. He master.bates with pictures of Prime Minister Modi in a bathing suit. LMFAO
The 9/11 pilots were probably hindus from India . They were busy raiping in the cokpit and hit the buildings rather than flying to Bombay
@Cucaburra have you ever travelled on Indian Airlines? As soon as the door of the plane shuts, these Indian passengers take their shoes off. Now, coupled with upper and lower body odor the air becomes unbearable but there is nowhere to escape . Soon the curry in the tiffin box will be opened and the smell will permeate the air also. It is enough to jump out of the airborne plane. But it is too late. They will chew betel nut and start spitting. The hindus will start defecating in the aisles. Gang raipe is next. And the journey has just begun.
The engines are reared up for take off and the pilot is busy masturbating in the cokpit looking at Durga Maa's photo. Hare Krishna Hare Ram.
11-year-old tribal girl gang-raiped in Ratlam, India
INDORE: An 11-year-old tribal girl was allegedly gang-raiped by two youths at a grazing ground in Manakchouk area of Ratlam district in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday. The girl a Class V student was admitted to the Ratlam district hospital.
The incident took place when the minor girl hailing from the village had gone with four other children of the village to graze herd of goats.
I salute our hero @Blue Saffron for ending the plight of this forum. We worship you. Thank you. Thank you.
Banasy is gone. So is Chrissy. Hannah is history. Philip and Rupert have been pyred. Dust to dust.....ashes to ashes.
Rupert, gone?
Fu ck u. Mother fu cker.
U will never get rid of me bich. NEVER!
It's ok rupert. I am the real Jack Murphy and i su ck Modi's big di ck. His love juice tastes great..mmmmmm.
@fried dark green tomatoe of 6:10 s ukk my potatoe-s. LMFAO
Actually 6:10 is @fried dark green okra! With collard greens n'all.
Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!
Lol they call it saag curry where 6:10 comes from.
Modi is my hero.
No plebiscite is needed in kashmir
This troll is boring everyone to death.
Modi is a wonderful man
Hey we all love modi
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I love Modi very very much..
Man booked for bestiality in Indore, India
INDORE: A hinddoou man in Aerodrome area was allegedly caught for beating and indulging in a seyxual act with his neighbour's cow on Friday noon.
Why am I not surprised? It is India man !
I know chrissy, Philip, banasy, Rupert, and others don't come here because there are no longer any updates.
Only the blue troll lives here. He has many screen names but no life. I feel sorry for the dude. Keep changing names and talking trash. Keep making those lists. U have an entire audience of 1. And that's u. LMFAO
95.35% of people don't have toilets in India. They s hit out on the train tracks.
Man from Madras.
Modi from India goes to the doctor and says, "I feel terrible."
Doctor says, "go home, gang raipe your womenfolk, put on a suicide belt and walk around the neighborhood threatening people, sell some illegal drugs to high school students in the local convenience store, then burn some young brides by sprinkling kerosene on them and lighting them up. Do all of the above for three days."
Week later Modi goes back and says, "Doc, I feel wonderful, what was the problem?"
Doctor, "you were homesick!"
Ouch I have been marginalized! That hurts.
I have been put out of business.
Mooo Moooo Booo Hoooo
I have been sidelined too.
I live in Bombay slums.
How is the weather in Kerala @ chrissy! Kerp on raypin.
Poor guy. This blue multi name troll needs to be rescued
Meaning you? Right on
We are one and the same. But decimated. Down and out. Relegated to stealing names. Good bye y'all. Signing off from Madras, India. Time to go clean my azz on train tracks.
We have known it all along. Blue Saffron did you in. Finished your drama. Namaste!
I am infatuated with Blue Saffron. He is so cute. And rich.
Dear CNN
Thank you for allowing this poor soul to post. I know he steals names and trashes India, but he has a need for negative attention. I pitty him. Poor fellow. No one pays attention to him anymore. May God help him find his way.
Learn to spell. You people believe in clay idols not gods. Ok? Now go play gulli dunda in Bombay.


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May 1st, 2012
Seriously? Doctors say they're underpaid
Anthony Youn, M.D., is a plastic surgeon in metro Detroit. He is the author of "In Stitches," a humorous memoir about growing up Asian American and becoming a doctor.
Full disclosure: I have no complaints about how much I make.
But many other physicians are not as satisfied - a recent study by Medscape revealed that 49% of doctors believe they're not fairly compensated. Of primary care physicians, this percentage increases to 54%.
It's no myth that doctors are some of the highest paid professionals in the country. So why are they complaining?
It's likely because of situations like Dr. Peterson's.
I was the on-call plastic surgery resident one night when a 42-year-old man - let's call him Dave - was brought into the hospital at 3 a.m. He had fallen off a roof while intoxicated. Dave broke several bones in his face and shattered his lower leg.
I stumbled out of bed and met Dr. Peterson in the ER, where we spent the next three hours assessing Dave's injuries and repairing his lacerations. Five days later Dr. Peterson and I performed an eight-hour operation, reconstructing his broken facial bones and performing a muscle transfer to help heal his fractured legs. For the next two months, we visited Dave in the hospital each and every day, changing his bandages and making sure he healed properly.
Not once did Dave thank Dr. Peterson for his care.
Instead, Dave took more than $3,000 from him.
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Quite possibly no other occupation in the country receives such attention regarding the income its members receive. And that's not a new trend - more than 70% of respondents of a survey published in the 1985 American Journal of Public Health believed doctors were overpaid.
The Medscape survey found the average physician compensation now ranges from a high of $315,000 for orthopedic surgeons to a low of $156,000 for pediatricians. Sounds pretty good right?
Consider that physicians must complete at least four years of college, four years of medical school, and between three to eight years of residency training prior to becoming a real, practicing doctor. Many physicians don't start earning "doctor-level" salaries until they are well into their 30s.
A 2009 survey by U.S. News found the typical medical student graduated with $141,132 in debt. The graduates of some schools averaged more than $200,000 in loans.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average computer and information system manager earns $125,660 per year. The average lawyer makes $130,490 per year. Orthodontists take home $204,670. The New York Times recently reported the average base pay for managing directors at Morgan Stanley is $400,000. At Goldman Sachs, it's $600,000. The average salary of an NFL player is $1.9 million. NBA players average $5.15 million per year.
Just for putting a ball in a hoop.
When you consider these numbers, the thought of pediatricians making $156,000 a year doesn't seem unreasonable. They often see 50 patients per day, answer our calls at all hours, and keep our kids healthy.
What about critical care physicians? They average $240,000 a year, but are responsible for keeping the sickest of us alive. One-quarter of critical care physicians spend more than 65 hours per week with their patients, not including time doing paperwork.
Unlike most other professions, there is a ceiling to what most doctors can earn. Physician compensation is tightly controlled by the government and insurance companies. Medicine is also the only profession where its members are required to sometimes work for free.
No return on investment
Which brings us back to Dave.
Three months later, I accompanied Dr. Peterson in his clinic to see Dave for a follow-up appointment. Dr. Peterson seemed a bit distracted. At the end of the visit I found out why.
"I'm glad you're doing so well, Dave," said Dr. Peterson.
"Yeah, I'm really happy with how things have turned out," he replied.
"So Dave, this is a little awkward for me, but I need to ask you something. Two weeks ago your insurance company sent you a check for $3,200 to forward to me for all my surgical and office fees."
"Yeah, so?"
"Well, um," Dr. Peterson stuttered. "We never received it from you."
"No, you didn't. I cashed it and spent it."
"Dave, why would you do that?"
"I figured you're a rich doctor. I need the money more than you."
What do you think? Are doctors being underpaid? Tell us in the comments below.
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VIDEO: Karl Rove questions Fox News' decision to call election for Obama
Fox News chief Roger Ailes has allegedly put in place a new rule mandating that producers have to get permission from higher-ups before booking either of the outspoken pundits.
Rove's election night outburst probably didn't help his case. After multiple networks, including Fox News, called the all-important swing state of Ohio and thus the election for President Obama, Rove tried to argue that the outcome was still up in the air using math to support his point. Insisting that the projection was premature, the former advisor to George W. Bush spouted off numbers about rural areas whose votes hadn't yet been tallied, prompting co-anchor Megyn Kelly to ask: "Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better?" Rove was so relentless that Kelly awkwardly walked off set to ask the number-crunchers to back up their conclusion to Rove, who still wasn't satisfied afterward. For the record, Obama would've won even without Ohio.
Do you think Fox News should continue using Rove and Morris as pundits? Or should the network distance itself from them?
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Today's News: Our Take - Top Chef's Josh: I Wanted to Go Out Pushing Myself
Wednesday's Top Chef was a bittersweet one for Josh Valentine. Hours after his wife gave birth to their first child, daughter Georgia, the Dallas-based chef was eliminated one round shy of the final. "I wanted to win and [have] the happy ending, but it didn't work out that way," he tells TVGuide.com. "But I got a better happy ending. [Georgia's] an absolute doll." Josh got the boot for his ill-conceived foie gras torchon, a dish that normally takes days to do that he tried to make in a few hours. Why did he shoot so high?
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Do you find Bravo's scheduling suspect? Your last name's Valentine and you got eliminated the day before Valentine's Day. No love at all.
Josh Valentine: I actually hadn't even thought about that until now. Wow. That kind of sucks all around. [Laughs] Did they plan it this way? Or did it just work out that way? Who knows. It is what it is at this point. ... I was fine watching it. My wife was a little emotional. It was a big episode all around for me. I was obviously a little distracted with things on my mind during the Elimination Challenge, but [the birth] was always in the back of my mind throughout the entire competition. I just didn't realize that it would actually happen during the taping of the finale. I thought [after the regular season taping] I'd go home, the baby will be born, and I'd go back for the finale. But that wasn't the case.
Did you and your wife ever consider you withdrawing?
Josh: No. As much as it was difficult to not be there for my wife, the entire idea of me competing on Top Chef was from my wife. She was very supportive and she even said, "I want you to win." Even when she was in the process of having the baby, she said, "If you're in it, I want you to win." She was completely supportive. The thought me coming home and leaving the show hadn't crossed either of our minds.
You were thinking about the birth, obviously, so how much did it take your mind off the challenge?
Josh: I don't know if it took my mind off the challenge. I may have been a little too ambitious in what I was trying to accomplish. It definitely distracted me some, but I don't think it took my mind off of it where it actually affected my dish.
Were you feeling awesome and invincible becoming a dad, and that's why you aimed so high?
Josh: Yeah. I just wanted to see if I could prove myself wrong. [Laughs] I've always had the mindset where if I had an idea, I was going to try to see it through the end. I wasn't going to change my mind and change it. I was just going to take that idea and run with it. I died by that thought last night, but at least I was always pushing myself. I didn't want to be somebody that played it safe. If I was going to go out, I wanted to go out pushing myself. I can feel proud about that.
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Is it at all possible to make torchon in a few hours?
Josh: No. [Laughs] It's completely impossible. That was looming in the back of my head: "You're not gonna be able to do this." But at the same time, I just didn't want to tell Tom [Colicchio] that I was making something and then when I present the dish, it's not there and then get nailed for that. I don't know. In hindsight, I wouldn't have done it. I would've concentrated on one or two elements, but that's in hindsight. When you're in the moment, it's such a great idea and you have to go with it. If I had succeeded, we may be having a different conversation. You have to walk that fine line of pushing it and really doing something that you can manage in that time. I skewed in the wrong direction.
When did you realize that this probably was not going to end well for you? When you put it in the freezer to harden it?
Josh: It wasn't really until I was plating. I absolutely knew when I was plating that the torchon was not set and it was going to be an issue. But I was also hoping that maybe Sheldon and Brooke had stumbled more than I did. Once it's on the plate, there's nothing you can do about it at that point. You just gotta hope that someone made a bigger mistake than you did.
Sheldon over-seasoned, and in most cases, a seasoning issue gets you eliminated. Did you think it would be him going?
Josh: I think it was a toss-up. I mean, Sheldon's broth was over-seasoned and over-reduced, but he cooked the fish perfectly. All of my seasoning and flavors were spot-on, but I didn't execute something properly, so my technique is off. When you have to balance those two things, I think it was a tough decision for the judges. I think it could've gone either way. But I have no regrets. I did what I had to do and pushed myself as a chef. I can live with that.
Where was your head at going into Last Chance Kitchen?
Josh: I wanted to get back in the competition. I was just shy of making the finale and then I so close again [in Last Chance Kitchen]. I did the same thing - a simple, straightforward dish with flavors. I gave it a valiant effort is all I can say.
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What are you up to now?
Josh: I'm a pastry chef in Dallas at FT33. It's something a little different, but it's really exciting. It challenges me in a different way. As a chef, you can taste and season and adjust as you go along, but as a pastry chef, I gotta weigh and measure and make sure everything is calculated to a certain formula. It's pressure in another direction, but at the end of the day, I think it's making me a more well-rounded chef.
Could we see you on Top Chef: Just Desserts next?
Josh: Probably not. If it was just knocking out desserts, I might be alright with that, but when they start doing sugarwork and chocolate sculptures, I have no idea how to do any of that!
So in few years?
Josh: Yeah, maybe then! [Laughs]
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Ahead of the presidential debates between Pres. Obama and Mitt Romney, Anderson Cooper recaps some of the most unforgettable debate moments in U.S. history.
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Ronald Reagan was one of the greatest debaters ever. In the 1980 debate he destroyed Jimmy Carter with his closing remarks:
Are you better of now then you were 4 years ago. With that summaton Jimmy Carter was finished.
Bull! He "won" the first (and only) debate with Carter because the Reagan camp got ahold of leaked information regarding Carter's debate strategies. In his first debate with Walter Mondale four years later, Mondale was the clear winner.
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Some Light Reading
Rick's last two posts, one on Drones and the other on the XL Pipeline, reminded me that I've been promising a reading list on the curious new trend of a merger between the Tea Party right and the anarchist left, in such diverse areas as military policy, pentagon spending, environmentalism and so forth. So here goes: Anybody who hasn't read Break Through; From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger really can't even pretend to understand the trend of grass roots pragmatic environmentalism. These folks have written a remarkable book about the back firing of current environmental policy, and the entrenched Big Green NGO's who have really put their organizational agendas ahead of the planet's needs. Mark Dowie wrote Conservation Refugees; the Hundred Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples–a very well respected treatise published by MIT Press on the consequences of well intentioned NGOs making things worse, not better. Heather Rogers recently published Green Gone Wrong; How Our Economy is Undermining the Environmental Revolution. Makes you realize that smart and effective environmental policies cannot easily exist in the same political administration that also tries to appease Big Labor and Big Green. Start with those three.
The April 2013 issue of Reason had a review by Aeon Skable of Gary Chartier's extraordinary new book, Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and Politics for a Stateless Society, published by Cambridge University Press. The fact that Reason is even reviewing the book is telling on the issue of the growing merger of right wing libertarianism and left wing anarchism. Check out this quote: "it is perhaps a mark of the progress of libertarian ideas that there are now understood to be several difference kinds of libertarianism. While some people associate the philosophy with conservative thought, there is also a segment hat identifies itself with the 'left'." It is becoming easier and easier for a anarchist Democrat to change his registration to Republican without changing his fundamental political beliefs.
While you are reading through Reason, check out Matt Welch's article, Toward a Libertarian Foreign Policy, about Rand Paul and his drift toward left leaning Democrats and away from traditional Senate leadership.
I have a review copy on my desk of a book being published by a major academic press this summer. It starts with the rather startling notion that the town that is fast becoming the staunchest bastion of conservatism in Massachusetts is…Provincetown. The author, who is a major academic, opens the book by talking about a gay couple, two men, who operate a bed and breakfast in Provincetown. Once they were able to marry, and this major social and cultural issue no longer dominated their lives, they noticed that there biggest hurdles were economic–dealing with unfair Massachusetts state and federal taxation and regulation that harmed their small business. As the book notes, once cultural issues are removed from certain communities, these communities lose their primary coalition affinities. As the book also documents, Latino communities in America, dominated by the Church, trend toward the Republican Party when immigration is removed as a fundamental issue. Certain communities, the book relates, trend toward small business ownership due to inherent racist or social biases (I'm not agreeing with that by the way) meaning that gays, Latinos, Asians and Jews, as well as highly educated blacks, increasingly find their interests lie not with the Democrats, but with libertarian Republicans. Once this book comes out, you can review the statistics on growing Asian conservatism in San Francisco, Gay Log Cabin Power in Massachusetts, Black Republican Empowerment in Detroit and St. Louis and the growing Republicanism of San Antonio Latinos.
I'll report back on that last one when the publication date is announced.
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'MICK'S COURT': Mick Grensted tribute makes its way to the court
YREKA - The late Mick Grensted is being honored with the court at Miner Gym being renamed "Mick's Court."
Former players of the longtime Yreka Miner boys varsity basketball coach said that it's a fitting tribute to a man who did so much for his players and the Yreka basketball program.
A dedication ceremony will be held at the Miner boys varsity basketball game versus Illinois Valley on Saturday. Because of weather concerns the games were tentatively moved from Saturday evening to 1 p.m. for the junior varsity game and 2:30 p.m. for the varsity contest. The ceremony will be held either before the start of the varsity game or at halftime. School officials said that there is a possibility the game could be called off, weather dependant. The Miner boys and girls basketball game versus Mount Shasta on the road on Friday was called off due to the weather,
A plaque honoring Grensted that was donated by Miner Power will be given to his family at the ceremony and will be shown in the display case in the gym.
His widow, Judy Grensted, said that this honor means a lot to his family.
"I'm very pleased," Judy Grensted said. "We're all over the moon over it."
Three former players, Mike Cadola, Barry Peters and Ron "Curley" Culp, who is now the girls junior varsity head coach at Yreka High, played key roles in making sure the court would be named after Mick. These former players said they wanted to do their part to honor Grensted. Cadola said that while Grensted could be tough on his players at times, he was a great coach and someone he had a lot of respect for.
"He got out of you what he knew you had in you," Cadola said. "He was tough but he was trying to get out the best in you."
Cadola said that they received approval from the school board to remain the court and is pleased that his old coach is being honored.
Mick began coaching basketball at Yreka High in 1960 and continued coaching the varsity boys until 1977. His teams were dominant for pretty much his entire time he coached and the gym would be constantly filled with fans cheering the teams on, his wife recalled. In 1967,1973 and 1974, the Miners won the Northern Athletic League Championship. The 1966-1967 team went 22-5 and the 1973-1974 team finished 22-4 .A teacher at the school, he also coached softball as well as freshman football and track and field. Grensted retired as a teacher in 1994. For a number of years he owned Mick's Clubhouse, a sports memorable store in Yreka across the street from the Daily News and it became a popular place for people to stop and talk to Grensted, his obituary said.
"Many friends and former students enjoyed stopping by the shop and catching up on things _ past and present," his obituary read. "He rarely forgot a face and truly enjoyed keeping up with his former students." He passed away on Jan.11, 2001 after a long battle with colon cancer.
Peters, a member of the school board, said that he and Mick were still close when he passed away and he was someone he admired. Peters recalled constantly going to Mick's store in town to visit and chat and said he was always there when he needed him.
"He was always interested in what you were doing," he said.
When he was in high school, Peters said that Grensted taught him and his fellow players a lot of valuable life lessons and called him a "mentor."
In a 2008 Daily News article about Grensted being honored as part of an "Honor a Legends" night before a varsity boys basketball game, Mick had this to say about his time coaching basketball at Yreka High.
"We did get some things done and I am very proud of the fact that my guys battled hard every night," Grensted said in the story. "It was about my guys more than anything."


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Blackhawks look forward to tenure with mighty mite
When Patrick Kane stands next to Blackhawks head coach Denis Savard, they line up at the same 5-foot-9 height.
He's about the same weight Savard was as a rookie, about 165 pounds.
If Kane comes close to matching Savard's exploits on the ice -- an undersized player who uses his speed and smarts to beat the bigger guys -- the Blackhawks will have drafted, with the first pick in this year's NHL draft, the guy they can build a team around.
"His heart's at the right place," Savard said Monday at the United Center, dismissing questions about Kane's size. "He's strong on his skates. He has great ability, quick hands around the net, and we haven't had a lot of that lately. He wouldn't be the first pick in the draft if he didn't have that.
"He's going to be a great player for this franchise for a long time."
Kane, brought to Chicago for a day of introductions to staff and reporters, and a ceremonial appearance at a Cubs game, didn't blow his own horn.
"I definitely want to make the team," Kane said. "I don't know how I'll do against NHL players. I've never played against them. We'll see when the exhibition season rolls around."
Savard and general manager Dale Tallon think he'll do just fine.
"I told him what I was told when I came here," Savard said. "Just enjoy yourself. Play hockey. Don't try to be something else."
"He has great eyes, can see things develop before others can," said Tallon, who said he tabbed Kane as the best player in the draft after a junior tournament in January. "He makes plays you can't believe. You say, 'How did he do that?' "
Since that tournament, Kane's stock rose from a projected mid-first round pick all the way to the top. Which was fine with him.
"Obviously there's some added pressure, but I think I thrive under pressure," Kane said. "As for size, size has been an issue my whole life. It was when I went to the checking level in hockey, then to the Ontario League, and now the NHL."
Last season, he slipped checks well enough to lead Canadian junior hockey in scoring, with 62 goals, 83 assists and 145 points for the London Knights.
"Not too different from my last year in junior," Savard recalled.
Savard, picked third by the Hawks in 1980, made an instant impact, and set a team scoring record in his second campaign, leading the team to the Stanley Cup semifinals.
The Hawks have made the playoffs once since the spring of 1997.
"I'm looking forward to our Cup runs in the future," Kane said.
Unlike the era before the current collective bargaining agreement, the Hawks and Kane won't have any problem coming to a deal. The salary structure for rookies is spelled out in the CBA, and Kane will get a three-year contract for the maximum. Curiously, he doesn't have an agent.
"They bypassed me before because of my size," Kane said.
That alone may make owner Bill Wirtz want to not only sign him but adopt him.
Meanwhile, don't expect Tallon to participate in bidding wars come Sunday, when the NHL's free-agent market opens.
He's tried that before, without great success.
Instead, Tallon will probably wait until the first wave of signings are over, watch other teams struggle with the salary cap and see if there's a center available who the Hawks could use.
That plan paid off last summer, when Ottawa held a fire sale and the Hawks plucked Martin Havlat and Bryan Smolinski from the Senators.
Tallon foresees the most prized free agents getting multiyear deals of $7 million and up, reminiscent of the old NHL era, and doesn't want to play that game.
More Blackhawks coverage is online at www.dailysouthtown.com/sports.


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Sixteen year old Franz Sacher first developed his famous torte on a day when Austria's Chancellor Prince Klemens Lothar Wenzel von Metternich's pastry Chef was out sick, and the Prince – who was entertaining some foreign diplomats that evening – needed urgent help. Since 1832, Sachertorte has been famous enough to attract many a tourist from around the world to the two Vienna establishments that serve it. The Demel Bakery, where young Franz worked at the time, claimed they had the original recipe while the Sacher Hotel – owned by the Sacher family – claimed theirs was the real one. After 7 years, of fierce legal battles, the courts decided that both could be sold under the name Sachertorte. The main difference between the two consists in Demel's being simply coated with apricot jam and chocolate icing, while Sacher's also has a layer of apricot jam spread through the center.
As the kids were growing up, this cake became a tradition in our home, a special treat to celebrate that special occasion, a celebration of that special landmark in each one's journey through life:
- 5 oz unsalted margarine (or butter for a tastier, dairy, version)
- 5 oz plain chocolate melted
- 5 oz castor sugar (hard to find and rather expensive you can make your own by grinding regular granulated sugar in a blender or food processor, castor or caster sugar is much finer than confectioner's sugar and dissolves immediately)
- 6 eggs separated
- 4 oz plain flour, sifted
- Apricot jam
- Preheat the oven to 350 F. Apply margarine lightly to a deep, 9 inch cake tin and line the bottom with margarined greaseproof paper.
- Cream the margarine and beat in the the cooled melted chocolate 1 tablespoon at a time. Add the sugar and egg yolks alternatively, beating well after each addition. Mix in the flour.
- Whisk the egg whites until stiff but not dry and fold into the chocolate mixture
- Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin and bake for an hour, or until the cake is well risen and has shrunk slighly from the sides of the tin.
- Remove cake from the oven and let it stand for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool.
- When the cake is quite cool, either spread the top and sides with warmed – strained – apricot jam, or cut the cake in half horizontally, spread the jam between the two layers (which I prefer) and put together the two halves before spreading the top and sides with more jam.
Chocolate Icing
- 7 oz plain chocolate
- 8 oz castor sugar
- 5 oz water
- margarine
- Melt the chocolate in the top of a double boiler. In another pan, dissolve the the sugar in water over low heat. When the sugar has dissolved increase the heat and bring to a boil. Simmer for 5 minutes.
- Beat the chocolate until smooth; gradually beat in enough hot sugar syrup to make the icing the consistency of thick cream, Finally beat in a small piece of margarine.
- Pour the hot icing over the top of the cake and let it run down the sides. Quickly smooth the icing round the sides of the cake with a spatula. The less the icing is touched, the shinier it will be. Set aside until the glaze is quite hard and dry.
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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama nominated White House chief of staff Jack Lew to be secretary of the Treasury Thursday, declaring his complete trust in an aide with three decades of Washington experience in economic policy and a penchant for shunning the limelight.
"He is a low-key guy who prefers to surround himself with policy experts rather than television cameras," Obama said.
Obama announced his nomination in the ornate White House East Room, flanked by Lew and outgoing Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. The two men and their backgrounds illustrate the nation's changing economic landscape — Geithner a long time banking specialist with the Treasury and the Federal Reserve took office in 2009 at the height of the nation's financial crisis and Lew, the budget expert as the government struggles with its debt and deficit challenges.
Obama heaped praise on Geithner for addressing the Wall Street meltdown and shepherding an overhaul of financial regulations through Congress.
"When the history books are written, Tim Geithner is going to go down as one of our finest secretaries of the Treasury."
Obama highlighted Lew's past work on economic policy, from his days in the 1980s as an aide to then House Speaker Tip O'Neill to his work on the budget with President Bill Clinton. Obama said he felts "bittersweet" about losing Lew as his White House chief of staff but says "my loss will be the nation's gain."
Obama delighted in singling out Lew's loopy signature, a distended Slinky-like scrawl that captured media attention Wednesday, joking that when he became aware of it he considered "rescinding my offer to appoint him." If confirmed as Treasury secretary, Lew's signature will appear on U.S. currency.
A year ago, almost to the day, Obama selected Lew as his chief of staff, taking him from his perch as director of the Office of Management and Budget into the White House's tight inner circle.
In selecting Lew to replace Geithner, Obama not only picks an insider steeped in budget matters but also a tough bargainer. Some Republicans complain that Lew has been unyielding in past fiscal negotiations, particularly the failed talks for a large deficit reduction deal in the summer of 2011. Some have bristled at what they say is a greater desire by Lew to persuade them rather than negotiate.
If confirmed, Lew would assume the post in time for the administration to tangle anew with Republicans over a confluence of three looming fiscal deadlines — raising the $16.4 trillion federal borrowing limit, averting automatic spending cuts to defence and domestic programs, and the expiration of a congressional resolution that has been keeping the government operating. Those three events, if unresolved, would have a far greater negative effect on the economy than the "fiscal cliff" that Obama and Congress avoided a week ago.
Lew, 57, has often been described as a "pragmatic liberal" who understands what it takes to make a deal even as he stands by his ideological views.
"He's a political guy. He didn't get where he is today by being a shrinking violet," said Paul Light, a public policy professor at New York University and an acquaintance of Lew's. "But he's really a doer. He's the kind of guy you want at the table if you want to get something done."
One senior Republican senator, Jeff Sessions, voiced opposition to Lew. But while Lew may face a tough confirmation in the Senate, he is not likely to encounter the type of stiff opposition that is already mounting against former Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican whom Obama has tapped to be his defence secretary.
"We need a secretary of treasury that the American people, the Congress and the world will know is up to the task of getting America on the path to prosperity not the path to decline," said Sessions, the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee. "Jack Lew is not that man."
Initial reactions from the business and financial sectors, however, were far more positive.
"One of the realities of Mr. Lew's appointment is the challenges we face in the country right now — the cliffs we have in front of us," said Thomas Donohue, the president and chief executive of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "I think Jack is a very experienced fellow on the issues of debt, deficits and budgets."
Donohue called Lew a "skilled operative," a "vigorous and strong person," and a "tough dude."
Rob Nichols, the president and chief executive of the Financial Services Forum, a major banking industry group, said: "Given his experience in the government and private sector, Mr. Lew is well-suited for the job especially at a time when Washington must come together to address our debt situation and put our nation on a long-term fiscally sustainable path."
Lew's nomination is the fourth major personnel change in the administration since Obama's re-election. Obama tapped Sen. John Kerry for the State Department, Hagel to lead the Pentagon and White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan for the CIA's top job.
Lew was a top aide in the 1980s to O'Neill, a Massachusetts Democrat, playing a role in the Social Security deal between the speaker and President Ronald Reagan in 1983.
Before becoming Obama's chief of staff, Lew was director of the Office of Management and Budget, a post he also held back in the Clinton administration, serving from 1998 to early 2001. While running OMB during the Clinton administration, Lew helped negotiate a balanced budget agreement with Congress, something that has eluded Washington ever since.
But while the bulk of his experience is in Washington, Lew also worked on Wall Street as managing director and chief operating officer of Citi Global Wealth Management and then Citi Alternative Investments. At the start of the Obama administration, he oversaw international economic issues at the State Department.
Despite his stint on Wall Street, Lew doesn't have the type of financial experience that Geithner brought to the job at the height of the financial crisis in 2009. Indeed, there's not as much of a premium on those skills now as the nation's attention has turned from bank bailouts to fiscal confrontations and brinkmanship.
"The basic financial position and economic position of the country is much stronger today that it was four years ago," said Michael Barr, who was assistant treasury secretary for financial institutions in 2009 and 2010. "That's a significant advantage for a treasury secretary coming in."
Associated Press writers Julie Pace and Martin Crutsinger contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK — Sales plummeted at Barnes & Noble bookstores in the latest quarter and its Nook e-book devices failed to keep up with competitors, pushing the company to a net loss that more than doubled from a year ago.
The largest traditional U.S. bookseller said Tuesday that it will stop making its own Nook color touchscreen tablets as a result, a move intended to stem the losses it's suffering from its digital unit.
It said it will continue to make its more basic, black-and-white e-readers but farm out the tablet manufacturing to a third-party.
"We know this is a sizable change from our existing strategy," CEO William Lynch said in a call with analysts. He declined to give specifics on how the tablet partnership would work because the company is in discussions with "a lot of interested parties."
The about-face troubled investors, who sent Barnes & Noble's stock price down more than 15 percent to $15.88.
Barnes & Noble Inc. had been pouring money into developing its Nook devices to keep up with changing reading habits and beat back competition from retailers such as Amazon, which makes the popular Kindle readers.
It hasn't worked. According to research firm IDC, Barnes & Noble's tablet shipments fell to 1 million in the fourth quarter, down from 1.4 million a year earlier. At the same time, sales of Kindle e-readers have kept growing.
Michael Norris, senior analyst in the trade books group at Simba Information, said Barnes & Noble didn't differentiate its product aggressively enough.
At an analyst presentation, for example, he noted that Barnes & Noble had Kindle devices on hand to demonstrate how much lighter its Nooks were. But it failed to do that in stores for customers, he said. The company also didn't have as much money to spend on advertising as its rivals.
"It's kind of unfortunate," Norris said of the decision to outsource tablets but continue making its e-readers. "They're getting out of the hardware business that has the most potential and hanging onto the business that has the least."
Whether the change will help Barnes & Noble remains to be seen, but Norris warned that it could be going down a dangerous path.
"That's where Borders got it so wrong," he said. "They had a bunch of devices lined up like Formula One race cars. You'd ask an associate about it, and they wouldn't have a clue about them."
There were signs that Barnes & Noble was seeking to exit the hardware business. This month, the company slashed prices on its Nook readers, leading some to suggest that it was clearing out its stock of tablets.
On Tuesday, the company said it planned to sell its remaining inventory at the reduced prices. Some have speculated that Microsoft, which has a 6.8 percent stake in the Nook unit, could offer to buy it outright.
For the quarter, the company booked inventory and impairment charges for its Nook unit. It said it sold fewer devices and that sales of digital content for the readers also fell 9 percent. It blamed the decline of e-book sales partly on the tough comparison from a year ago, when "The Hunger Games" and "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogies boosted results.
In the broader e-book market from the largest publishers, Barnes & Noble has said it has about 25 percent of content sales. But it admitted that figure has been under pressure from Apple Inc. and Amazon lately.
"We're holding our own, but it's declined slightly," said Michael Huseby, chief financial officer.
The company declined to say how its device sales split between tablets and dedicated e-readers. But it said its "biggest readers" use e-readers, which drive a majority of its content sales.
Meanwhile, its bookstores also saw sales decline. Revenue at stores open at least a year, a key metric, fell 8.8 percent during the period. It also warned it expects that figure to decline in the "high-single digits" for its fiscal 2014, partly as a result of tough comparisons with last year.
Overall retail sales, which include Barnes & Noble bookstores and online sales, declined 10 percent, in part because of store closings.
Barnes & Noble declined to provide an update on the possibility of taking the retail business private. Leonard Riggio, the founder of Barnes & Noble, has offered to buy the company's physical bookstores and website, but not the Nook unit.
The company also said it's reviewing previous financial statements that may result in a revision.
For the February-to-April quarter, Barnes & Noble Inc. said its net loss totaled $118.6 million, or $2.11 per share. That compares with a loss of $56.9 million, or $1.06 per share, last year.
Revenue fell 7 percent to $1.28 billion.
Analysts expected a loss of 97 cents per share on revenue of $1.33 billion.


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