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IN A freezing hall in the far north-eastern corner of Siberia, one of Russia's richest men, Roman Abramovich, a 34-year-old oil and metals magnate, is giving an economics lesson to one of its poorest, a gold-toothed Eskimo reindeer-herder. Angrily, the herder asks why he has not been paid.
"Has your collective sold any deer?"
"Then why do you expect money for them?"
"We should get paid anyway!"
Mr Abramovich is campaigning to be governor of Chukotka, a desolate stretch of tundra on the Bering Strait; the size of France, it has a population of 73,000. He became its member of parliamentlast year; the poll for the governorship is due next month. Elsewhere in Russia, he is better known for being a friend of Boris Yeltsin's daughter; for being the boss of Sibneft, a huge oil company; and for his dislike of publicity.
But why does he want to become Chukotka's governor? As an MP he is already immune from prosecution, and a new law means that regional governors will be kicked out of the upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, at the end of 2001. But he may have his eye on Chukotka's so far untapped oil.
In any event, most of the locals are simply thankful that somebody with money is taking an interest in them, and for the chance to kick out the incumbent, Alexander Nazarov, who has spent most of the past nine years in Moscow, profiting handsomely from Chukotka's fuel imports and fishing-quota sales.
Meanwhile, Chukotka's population has halved, as the locals—if they can afford to—flee unemployment and ten-month winters for easier lives farther south. For the stranded remainder, life is grim. Housing-blocks, docks and factories stand derelict, utilities have collapsed, suicide and alcoholism rates have soared, and the hospitals are full of patients with tuberculosis and scurvy. A Soviet-style visa regime, a legacy of Chukotka's front-line status during the cold war, keeps out critical Russians as well as foreigners. The few westerners who visit the area, mostly environmentalists, anthropologists or missionaries, wait months for entry permits, often only to be ordered straight back to Moscow.
Mr Nazarov's ghastliness makes it easy for Mr Abramovich to look good. This summer the challenger paid for a shipful of food-aid for settlements along the coast, and sent 3,300 schoolchildren on holidays to the Black Sea. A new newspaper advertises his generosity. The Kremlin, it seems, is on his side: on October 24th it was announced that Mr Nazarov had been summoned to Moscow to answer to the federal tax authorities.
If Mr Abramovich does win, there are things he can do for Chukotka. Its best hope lies in renewed links with Alaska, 80km (50 miles) away across the strait. Easing the visa regime would help trade, aid and tourism; so would a Beringia International Park, on either side of the water, an idea Mr Nazarov opposes. Alaska would also be glad to help Chukotka's 17,000 miserable indigenous people. Until the clampdown on foreigners, links were being renewed between Russian and American Eskimos, and the Alaskan government had projects under way to revive native hunting skills and to involve locals in the monitoring of migrating bowhead whales.
But does Mr Abramovich genuinely care for his rotten borough? He looks bored and edgy in front of the voters. Their angry questions—"When will we have fuel? When will we have meat? When will we live normally again?"—all get the same contemptuous answer: "There's no money." The tycoon has not bothered to prepare a speech, and refuses to outline a programme. Sad, then, that the shabby, desperate people in the hall seem to be pinning their hopes on him.

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10/15/2012 Update: This Saab sold for an impressive $22,500.
From 10/13/2012:
This 1967 SAAB Sonett II is said to have been driven only 8600 miles since receiving a complete body off restoration in 1996. The 2-stroke motor was then rebuilt in 2003 followed by the transmission in 2006. The car is currently said to be in excellent mechanical condition and includes many rare Sonett II bits like the rear bubbled window and steering wheel. While perhaps not quite concours, the seller states that it's one of the nicest 2-stroke Sonetts available anywhere, and we have no reason to doubt him. Find it here on eBay in Bergen Country, New Jersey.
According to the seller, the car received a complete body off restoration in 1996 and all work was done to factory standards. As such, the seller states that there is no rust to be found anywhere. The glass is said to be perfect all around, including the early rear glass with center bubble. The paint is said to show a few flaws as it's now 16 years old, but is otherwise is good shape. The silver-grey color and flat Sonett II hood also do wonders to hide the rather awkward lines that Sonetts are known for.
The interior is said to feature Sonett II specific seats, correct headliner, and carpets. The wood dash is also said to be in pristine condition, and gives the interior a look quite apart from the later Sonett V4 and III. The Sonett II 3-spoke steering wheel is also said to be in perfect condition.
The car is said to be in excellent mechanical condition throughout. The 2-stroke motor was rebuilt in 2003, and is said to run great with terrific power delivery. All Sonett II specific parts are also said to still be with the car, including triple side draft carbs, air intake snorkel, and oil tank. The transmission was rebuilt in 2006 and is said to shift very well.
Though 2-stroke ownership may not be to everyone's taste, there is no denying these as tight, nimble, and unique sports cars. THe bidding on this one is already amazing and we're interested to see whether it sells.
Satch, My 67 is a mustard yellow color, but was repainted a few times in the 70's & 80's I think. The paint code says II/ 82-BS 260 Silversand Dupont Lackerad MED. Upon looking up a match for the Dupont Silversand. I have found parts of the body that look like the Silver grey under layers of paint and parts that look like the bronze on the same parts. When I look it up I see both colors shown under Silversand and came across this?
1967 Saab All Models
Silver Sand (Lt. Beige) Y05
My 69 Ice racer Sonett is the pale yellow.
Who knows?
Randy, they must have come in yellow, too, because my '67 two-stroke was that nice marigold color…
The 1967 Sonetts came in 4 colors. Chamonix White, Monaco Red, Silver Gray Metallic (as this one is) and Golden Bronze Metallic. The Front and Rear bubbled windows and wooden dashes were only used on the first 328 Sonetts II's and V4's and most windshields were changed due to optical distortion. What is nice about these is you will not met yourself going down the road and If you do, its a party!
I am restoring #323 abet slowly.
Another Bob – You know, you just sold this car for me… if the exhaust smells like a skidoo then I'm pretty sure it would make you feel like you were on holidays every time you drove it.
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Wow, $22,5k for the best of the best. Congrats to buyer and seller. I have always loved the very few 2-stroke Sonetts I have seen, but the closest I have come was getting out-bid at auction on a V-4 Sonett II.
I always wondered why Saab fans, and Sonett fans in particular, raved about the early cars. And now I see why. This is a very nice car from a manufacturer that didn't have a long history at building cars behind it when this appeared. (Imagine Suzuki "birthing" the original 240Z in 1969 instead of Nissan.)
I always figured all Sonett IIs had that awful overgrown "wart" on the hood, and so I fell into the "…but I prefer the later Sonetts" camp. The interior, with it's "through the floor" pedals puts me in mind of Porsches (and air-cooled VWs), with only the column mounted shift lever to give the story away.
Don't have the money (but almost wish I did) and surely don't fit at 6 foot 4 and 250 lbs….but wish I did. So will have to settle for someday hearing that fairly distinctive engine note.
Too each his own. I for one prefer the V4 with less noise and pollution. So for me, the 2 stroke is a negative, but I guess the SAAB fanatics like the rarity. One of my pet peeves is clean burning engines. I can bearly stand using my 2 stroke snow blower for more than 30 minutes feeling like I'm choking on the fumes.
@TGM — that nice white sonett is a v4 –a totally different animal.Saab produced 278 2 stroke sonetts. They made 10,000 v4 powered Sonetts from 1967 to 1974.
Nothing like a 2-stroke.
Is it just me or is the interest and value of 2-stroke Saabs now taking off? I'm sure getting that impression. I know I wish I still had my 65 96 with a sunroof that I owned back in 1973.
$21k ?? I'm off the Sonett train when it approaches Lotus 7 territory.
That nice white 69 Sonett featured on BaT a few months ago sat for months on the market at $6500 and this one is up to $21,099?
Don't understand the two stroke and cold starting rationale. Every Bombardier Ski Doo up until recently was a two stroke and pretty easy to start in cold weather. Bombardier has managed to reinvent the 2 stroke with the new Etec line.
What is the maximum driver height for this car? I know there are different proportions for different people etc. but what is a ball park maximum height for the average proportioned person?
Tempting, but out of my price by now. Lovely little car, silver looks great. It's even out here near me in eastern PA. One car I always regretted selling was my '67 850 Monte Carlo. The early Sonnets are a hoot, and the column shift is fun to use.
Been thinking of getting a cheap series III needing front body work, so I could throw away the front bumper and mix up some fiberglass and make it look a bit better. Anyone got something like that kicking around the northeast?
I generally like silver cars; but wouldn't have thought of a silver Sonett. Still, it looks quite good that way. And it's even on the right coast! One of the nicest Sonnets BaT's featured in my time, I think.
I think we need to take up a collection so Satch can own it. It just seems fitting.
I had 850GT at 7,000 ft on west slope of Rockies for for two winters-it usually started, even at -25.
I seem to remember you pulled up the "window shade" when you parked the car the night before and held the choke knob out until the engine began to stutter.
In the morning, you didn't touch the gas but just cranked it and when it fired, pushed the choke in halfway. It did like to foul the front plug on the way to work and I got real good at changing them with mittens on! Fun cars with lots of unique mechanicals.
Satch, there has to be some way of starting a two-stroke from cold – Sweden is not any warmer in winter than Anchorage, I think, and you gotta assume that cars from cold countries are happy little guys in winter. Of course, my favorite easy-start device when I lived up there was the dipstick heater, pretty useless on a two-stroke …
I tried, I really did but I still cannot come to terms with the design of these cars.
Wish my Lotus Elan fiberglass and paint looked that good. Really good finish on a car not know for the quality of its glass work (like Elans).
I did go through three engines in three weeks, but that's because I lived in Alaska. Two-strokes do not like to start when it's cold, unless you use hotter spark plugs. But hotter spark plugs have a tendency to pre-ignite and blow holes through the #1 piston. Ask me how I know!
Saab used to offer a lifetime warranty on the two-strokes, which are wonderful corn-poppers as long as you understand their idiosyncrasies. I never did much car for their sound, however—but that's me.
Like the color ! Breath of fresh air from oranges & yellows. Makes me sad every time I see a Saab & think of the safety & innovations & most importantly the immense driving fun Saab created. Shame on you GM ! My personal favs are the late 80's 900t/9000t- walloping fun to drive !
I just don;t understand why a column shift never caught on in sports car racing or just everyday sports car driving for that matter.
I wasn't going to ask this, but then I read
"only driven 8000 miles in 16 years"
" I did go through three engines in three weeks",
Two-strokes are said to have a significantly shorter life than the average 4-stroke, but Saab is a name known for reliability. Do these 2-strokes last, or do they get rebuilt every few tens of thousands of miles?
@Robert J: The price is right on the Saab you linked to, but I haven't seen that much spaghetti under a dashboard since the last time I got carry-out from Luigi's.
This one is pretty sweet for less than $2,000;
One of the most entertaining cars to drive, ever. The combination of 2-stroke power, go-kart handling and tiny little car make this a ride you will not forget.
In the early nineties I had the pleasure of preparing my friend's 66 Sonett #26 for a return to vintage racing after a 15 year hibernation. My friend had a SCCA log book with the first entries in 1947, had driven all kinds of hot cars –MG's, TR's,356's, fuelie corvette's, open wheel race cars, race boats, etc, but the Saab was the car the he really loved because everyone underestimated how fast that car could get around the track. His car was one of the original 28 pre-production 19966 cars, and it was very interesting in how it was built with standard Saab parts and hand built parts. All of the sheet metal screws holding the bits and pieces on the car were straight slot (impossible to use power tools on ) and 2 sizes -big and small.
The wiring harness was the regular 96 Monte Carlo 850 harness with the extra length rolled up under the fuel tank. Hand written marks were all over the car in swedish, translated to things like "too tight", " trim here" "drill hole here" " Marie (with a heart )- it was a real eye opener into production methods at the old railway shops.
One of these days I will build a Sonett ll clone, using a sonett v4 shaved of it's hood bulge. There is nothing like the music of a 2-stroke Saab.
850gt motors had a different triple carb arrangement, top-draft unlike these side draft arrangement, with float bowls built into the carbs.
The rear window bubble was required to fit the windows into the bodies, as the body build got more consistent, the bubble was no longer required.
The early cares had the high beam switch on the floor, but still had the flash to pass on the turn signal lever as this car has….
These cars were hand built, the story goes, as Sven ran out of trim bits, he'd run to the local hardware store to pick up bits that would suit his needs….so, they are all a little different
This car is the real deal, rare and worth the price. The dutiful owner is going to get his reward. The window bulge seem to be an optics issue with the reflection in that view. You notice the shots from the rear have a consitent reflection. My pusslement is the hi-beam button next to the clutch. All v-4 models had the hi-bean on the stalk.
I had an MC 850 with a sunroof for a few years. I always thought I'd like to have a Sonett until the day I tried to drive one. I did not fit. I could either get my legs in or the rest of me but not both! Oh well…
Is this a version of the same carb that was on the Monte Carlo? We used to argue for hours whether it was one three barrel or three one barrels as it had a common throttle shaft and base.
Come on satch, you are exactly the owner this car needs….I'll even include all the bits I got from you in Daytona was that 1997?
Hold on there, hombre: "The silver-grey color and flat Sonett II hood also do wonders to hide the rather awkward lines that Sonetts are known for."
There are no awkward lines to the Sonett II; things got awkward when they had to put that God-awful bulge in the elegant hood in order to fit the Ford V4.
I owned only one Sonett II two-stroke, and it remains the one car that I regret ever selling, even though I did go through three engines in three weeks. (Okay, I wish I still had the Citroen SM, too, but not with the #$%@! GM automatic transmission.)
This car is simply wonderful, and I wish I had some cash!
I am sure a quick drive would covert those who would not give this car much of a chance. I like it and the Silver Paint !
Sonetts are a like-it-or-don't car. There isn't a lot of middle ground. I'm completely in the "like" category.
A good one like this puts a lot of high-buck collectibles to shame. The engineering was waaaaay ahead of its time, the styling is a joy, the performance envelope is surprisingly big for a featherweight, two-stroke car, and the structure is startlingly sound.
What's interesting is that SAAB got it very right the first time, unlike some other performance marques that still struggle to perfect their designs out of a mix of determination and spite. "We're gonna make this work if it takes five more generations and the price doubles… "
A co-worker who was a SAAB fanatic had a 99 notch as his daily driver and a Sonett for recreation. He and his dad were out for an evening drive and were viciously attacked by a full-size GM pickup on a New England back road. The Sonett gave its life for them, but they escaped with minor bumps and bruises. The pickup didn't fare as well, despite its ugly largeness.
That's a wonderful car. Wish I had space for it.
Can anyone help inform me what the "bubble" in the back window was for? Was this on all Sonetts, or just II's, or?
I must admit that — after seeing so many in orange or yellow or lime green — I find the Sonett almost pretty in silver. Can't believe that I used "Sonett" and "pretty" in the same sentence, but this one is actually sort of attractive.
Don't see many of these anymore, esp in this condition. Nice car; good luck to seller!
Nice to see a car that has been a true labor of love for sale instead of one that's been done half-baked, then pawned off on an unsuspecting new owner. As someone else here said, this one was obviously built to be kept forever. Alas, every car owner comes to realize that there is no such thing, so these cars do go to the market.
I had the very same experience when I sold my really nice Lotus Elan that had been the subject of a ten year restoration. Sure, my labor was worth about 10 cents an hour, but I couldn't have paid someone to take the pains I did otherwise.
I've always thought that SAABs were neat cars, although the owners seemed to congregate in the NE and Pacific NW parts of the country, where eccentricity is probably considered to be an asset.
Bubble steering wheel? I don't get it; t looks like a horn button.
Thanks for all the comments.
Yes, this is my car, and my 'sonett43′ handle will stay with me…..I hadn't planned on selling the car, but I realize this car will otherwise become a barn find, as I have only driven 8000 miles in 16 years, so I'd rather it see it find an owner who will enjoy it as I did years ago.
As for the color, when I assembled the car, the paint shop I used help me scrape thru the many layers of paint that accumulated in the first 7 years of usage, before the car came off the road in the mid 70's. previous owner did a bunch of auto crossing and drove the car across the northeast and beyond. We determined the car to be originally silver, and matched the paint to the lowest layer of paint that we could get a decent representation of. In subsequent years, I was asked by the (comments withheld) GM heritage collection about the authoritative paint code for their sliver Sonett II. I helped them find the correct dove grey paint code, which clearly is different than the silver on this car. The paint formulation will accompany the car with the sale, so if the new owner would like to paint the car, he/she will have the details needed to bring it to the factory dove grey.
Best of luck in bidding, the winning bidder is getting a very special car, and hopefully will enjoy it immensely. The reserve is set quite reasonably.
The wheels are Ronals, and they were an OEM choice on period SAABs. Note the caps. Nice detail. You don't see these very often; I bet they alone are worth a bundle.
Not sure this will make reserve, but it is probably worth wherever it is set. I like details and minutia and am old enough to know I won't be able to branch out into many marques and still have a grasp on those, but this is the kind of car that makes me consider taking down the BMW banner and flying SAAB.
Torn on the color, I suspect it was a personal choice for a car that was likely to never be sold. Might mean it will end up in the hands of someone who is likely to drive it rather then try to get 100 points at a show (do SAAB owners even have those…???) but to my taste, seems like an opportunity lost to use one of the crazy period colors.
I am good with the wheels, minilites and copies have been around for a long time.
I don't care what year Sonnet………..I find them to be an inviting car. Boy……..an early one……..
Oh man, another SAAB to die for. These early Sonnets kinda looked like kit-cars and that's part of their charm. The gauges look like my former '67 V4 MonteCarlo's. I assume this two-stroke was tuned like the Monte Carlos of the day, true?
I know the car, and the owner. He comes from a family of SAAB enthusiasts, and you couldn't ask for a better guy to buy from. For an inication of his passion about the car, look at the fact that he's been an eBay member for 14years and all of them with the user id "Sonett43″ (this is car #43 remember).
This car has ALL of the impossible to find parts, and spares available that would inspire confidence in a long future with the car. The motor was rebuilt by THE marque specialist as well. If you have any doubts about owning the nicest Sonett II offered on the market in years, contact the seller. He'll amaze you with his knowledge and passion for the car.
After all, don't we all want to buy from passionate, hands-on long term owners?
My first sports car, #0224, bought new at Martin Motors in NYC when the Morgan Supersport I wanted was marked up beyond my $3,000 budget at Fergus Imports. I loved the Sonett cornpopper—my neighbors sure didn't and my girlfriend's neighbors really hated it as it was very cold blooded and it's 2-3am seranades were not their choice of mechanical music. A lot of memories in that car—-
These are great. Owned a few SAABs and despite the quirks and costs, thought the world of them. Sonetts were always the "closet" SAAB for me — adored them, wanted one, but despite my faith in the brand, they just didn't fit my needs at the time.
This is a genuinely nice one judging from the info available, and an early II is a great one to have. Less cluttered and crisper than those that followed. Reasonably sure the color isn't factory, but who cares?? It looks terrific. Ditto the wheels. Ignore the wheel critics. These are factory and they fit the image of the car and look perfect. Stance, you know.
It's bringing big bucks, but it should. Great car, ideal driver condition, and many, many fun miles ahead. Precious few cars are as tossable and playful in street trim.
Love these early Sonetts. I had a later one and enjoyed it tremendously. The week spot in early Saabs seems to be the trans. Hopefully the rebuild will give the new owner many years of happy motoring.
Wow, now $18,900.
I do like it, but for the purist both the color and the wheels look like they'd belong to a car 10 years younger than this one.
Well, another Joisey car. Very nice color….well done
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All of this mainlining of the "mentally ill" is really coming into question--with most mass shootings, and arsons, being caused by people claiming to be "mentally ill".
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I've hit 27 off of Tigger twice. Just can't get that last one.
Anyone hit over 200m? I've gotten to 199.3m. Shortest was 99.?m Figured the shortest was 100m, but it isn't.
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I played the game when the OP suggested it and it was at 77% rating now it's about 90%.
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I hate you all. spent last night playing about 15-20 times. Hit 3 HRs total off of eyeore. one did go crazy far but that was it.
update: figured out a/the secret up to piglet now best 7/10 on eyeore w/6 in a row took lumpy on the 2nd try close to finishing of piglet new update made it to Roo, got a couple of HRs each time then gave up...stupid bouncy fast, slow, outside, inside and low!
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lol pooh. Im going to try this right now
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Shipbuilders to Senators: Help Us Modernize Vessels, Create Jobs
How do you create jobs in Seattle and Alaska? By building fishing boats here and hiring workers who might otherwise only get jobs in fast-food restaurants.
That's the message from a roundtable gathered for U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Mark Begich, D-Alaska, in Seattle Thursday.
The problem is access to capital, according to the panel of representatives of the shipbuilding industry that builds and supports fishing boats for Seattle's fleet.
Cantwell toured Fishermen's Terminal where one moored boat had been recently updated. But she said she heard concerns from the fishing industry that needs to modernize many of its vessels.
"So how are we going to approach that, and what are the challenges that the industry faces?" Cantwell said.
From the president of the Port Commission to the people training young workers for work aboard ships and processors, the consensus from the panel, whose speeches will become part of the congressional record, is that there isn't money available to finance new infrastructure or ships.
Industry leaders are asking the federal government to issue bonds with long-term fixed-interest rates to help finance new vessels. The proposal would create jobs for everything, from fidgeting youngsters who can't stand to work behind desks all the way up to the long-term unemployed.
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Clay, NY -- Several hundred people gathered today for the funeral for a 14-year-old girl from Clay who was killed when a car crashed into her family's minivan as they drove to Disney World.
The funeral for Samantha Reynolds was held at the Trinity Assembly of God church in Clay.
Samantha was an eighth-grader at Soule Road Middle School; many of her classmates attended the service.
The driver of the car hit that hit the Reynolds vehicle was going the wrong way on Interstate 95 in South Carolina. He has been charged with four felonies and remains in jail.
Hundreds attend funeral for Clay girl killed in wrong-way crash in S.C.
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114365.2. A cottage food operation that is registered or has a permit issued pursuant to Section 114365 shall be considered a restricted food service facility for purposes of, and subject to, Sections 113953.3, 114259.5, 114285, and 114286. A cottage food operation that is registered or has a permit also shall be subject to Sections 113967, 113973, 113980, 114259.5, 114405, 114407, 114409, 114411, and 114413, and to all of the following requirements: (a) A person with a contagious illness shall refrain from work in the registered or permitted area of the cottage food operation. (b) A person involved in the preparation or packaging of cottage food products shall keep his or her hands and exposed portions of his or her arms clean and shall wash his or her hands before any food preparation or packaging activity in a cottage food operation. (c) Water used during the preparation of cottage food products shall meet the potable drinking water standards described in Section 113869, or in accordance with the local regulatory authority. A cottage food operation shall not be required to have an indirect sewer connection. Water used during the preparation of cottage food products includes all of the following: (1) The washing, sanitizing, and drying of any equipment used in the preparation of a cottage food product. (2) The washing, sanitizing, and drying of hands and arms. (3) Water used as an ingredient. (d) A person who prepares or packages cottage food products shall complete a food processor course approved by the department and posted on the department's Internet Web site to protect the public health within three months of becoming registered and every three years during operation. The course shall not exceed four hours in length. The department shall work with the local enforcement agency to ensure that cottage food operators are properly notified of the location, date, and time of the classes offered. (e) A cottage food operation shall properly label all cottage food products in compliance with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. Sec. 343 et seq.). Additionally, to the extent permitted by federal law, the label shall include, but is not limited to, all of the following: (1) The words "Made in a Home Kitchen" or "Repackaged in a Home Kitchen," as applicable, with a description of any purchased whole ready-to-eat product not used as an ingredient in 12-point type on the cottage food product's primary display panel. (2) The name commonly used for the food product or an adequately descriptive name. (3) The name of the cottage food operation which produced the cottage food product. (4) The registration or permit number of the "Class A" or "Class B" cottage food operation, respectively, which produced the cottage food product and the name of the county of the local enforcement agency that issued the permit or registration number. (5) The ingredients of the cottage food product, in descending order of predominance by weight, if the product contains two or more ingredients.Section: Previous 114365 114365.2 114365.5 114365.6 Next
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Chicago Tribune sports reporter Teddy Greenstein gives you the top Big Ten prospects as well as some local hopefuls.
Chicago Tribune sports reporter Teddy Greenstein gives you the top Big Ten prospects as well as some local hopefuls.
Notre Dame running back C.J. Prosise speaks after the Irish's spring game.
DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa State says coach Fred Hoiberg has undergone open-heart surgery to replace aortic valve.
New Illinois-Chicago men's basketball coach Steve McClain opted for some local flavor in his first hire.
A week after college basketball star Frank Kaminsky flooded the national spotlight collecting the prestigious John R. Wooden Award as being college basketball's top men's player, the 7-foot-tall Kaminsky stood a much smaller stage set up inside Benet Academy's gymnasium waving to the people who...
Reserve Illinois center Austin Colbert is no longer with the team and intends to transfer, the program announced Wednesday night.
It was not long ago that the nation was gripped in public debate about a 14-year-old Taylor Swift moving to Nashville to pursue a music career. Remember the concern for the future of the child actors starring in the Harry Potter movies?
To former Indiana Fever coach and current consultant Lin Dunn, it's not even a question who the Seattle Storm should pick in Thursday night's WNBA draft.
TULSA, Okla. — The University of Tulsa has finalized the cost of attendance figure that the school will pay its student-athletes.
Filings in U.S. District Court in Chicago late Tuesday night notified a federal judge that there was a new proposed settlement for a head injury lawsuit against the NCAA brought by football players and other college athletes.
Groundbreaking set for lakeside practice fields
The post-Christmas tradition of college football bowl week probably won't be going away anytime soon.
Diamond Stone's decision to choose Maryland over Wisconsin, Connecticut and Oklahoma State was influenced by a "bevy" of factors, not the least of which was a before-and-after presentation showing the transformation of former Terps center Alex Len from a skinny Ukrainian teenager to a player taken...
Thursday will be Frank Kaminsky Day in Lisle.
In a way, Lincolnwood native Jewell Loyd already has helped out the hometown Sky even if she's unlikely to play for Chicago this season. When the Notre Dame junior guard declared for the WNBA draft last week, along with Minnesota sophomore Amanda Zahui B., many general managers wiped their whiteboards...
Like big brother, like little brother.
Ohio State Coach Urban Meyer sealed his long-term future with the Buckeyes in January after guiding the program to its first college football national title in more than a decade. On Monday, he was rewarded by the university.
Twelve conference teams will appear on the Big Ten Networks prime time games during the 2015 season, including Illinois' opener and a non-conference game for Northwestern, according to the Big Ten.
Former NFL running back Lawrence Phillips is suspected of killing his cellmate in a Central California prison, officials said Monday.
Lou Holtz is finished with ESPN.
To become more competitive in the Big Ten, Northwestern players must become more competitive among themselves while vying for starting positions.
Northwestern running back Auston Anderson discusses the team's quality depth at the position.
Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald talks about the quality depth at the running back position for the Wildcats.
Northwestern senior quarterback Zack Oliver talks about competition for the starting position.
LOS ANGELES — Frank Kaminsky of national runner-up Wisconsin and Breanna Stewart of three-time national champion Connecticut won the John R. Wooden Award as national college basketball players of the year Friday night.
Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski will return to his hometown of Chicago to serve as honorary grand marshal at the 124th annual Polish Constitution Day Parade next month.
HARTFORD — Nearly 10,000 people turned out on a balmy Sunday afternoon to celebrate the 10-time national champion UConn women's basketball team.
Auston Anderson is mature beyond his years — and by his ears.
Illinois assistant coach Ryan Cubit, the son of offensive coordinator Bill Cubit, was promoted to the role of quarterbacks coach.
New DePaul men's basketball head coach Dave Leitao has hired Xavier assistant Rick Carter as associate head coach, the school announced in a statement on Friday.
BOSTON — Boston University freshman Jack Eichel won the Hobey Baker Award on Friday as the top player in college hockey.
He won. He's done – playing in college, at least.
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Kentucky has a lot of spots to fill now that a record seven players have announced they will enter the NBA draft.
Illinois' top player won't be available at the start of the 2015 season after wide receiver Mikey Dudek tore his right anterior cruciate ligament, the school announced Wednesday.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Joe Theismann, a quarterback of Notre Dame past, cast his eyes on the team's present Wednesday during the Irish's football practice inside the Loftus Sports Center.
Notre Dame football coach Brian Kelly after practice Wednesday.
In a rare move for a women's basketball player, Notre Dame junior guard Jewell Loyd announced Wednesday that she would forego her senior season and enter the WNBA Draft.
The officials at the NCAA championship game Monday night did, in fact, have access to all the angles seen by TV viewers during a crucial replay review late in the game, the NCAA's vice president of men's basketball championships, said Wednesday.
The chorus of voices coming out against college basketball just keeps getting louder.
Pennsylvania State University's board of trustees voted Thursday to pay an undisclosed amount — what one trustee called "an extraordinary" sum — to settle claims filed by sexual abuse victims of Jerry Sandusky.
As Illinois State University mourned the deaths of an assistant basketball coach, a school administrator and five fans killed in a plane crash, investigators focused on one of the many questions they'll have to answer: Why the aircraft made a sudden turn in an unexpected direction.
TAMPA, Fla. — Thirty years ago, Geno Auriemma took a coaching job in a Connecticut backwater that isn't even a place of its own but a village within a town of 25,000 inhabitants.
The journey that led to the deaths of seven friends in a plane crash in downstate Bloomington began with a phone call and a once in a lifetime chance to see Monday's NCAA final game.
INDIANAPOLIS — The scene was as difficult for Wisconsin players to absorb as it was for them to believe.
Only two days have passed since Duke was crowned the NCAA tournament champions. But that's old news now. It's already time to think about next season.
The rating might have been higher with an undefeated Kentucky, but Duke-Wisconsin still scored a big number for CBS Monday.
Former DePaul University men's basketball coach Oliver Purnell on Wednesday placed his 12-room, 7,300-square-foot brick and stone mansion in Lincoln Park on the market for $3.2 million.
After one rocky, up-and-down season at Kansas, former Curie standout Cliff Alexander will declare for the NBA Draft, according to Jayhawks coach Bill Self.
Fresh from winning his fifth national title, Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski brushed aside criticism that his program embraces a "one-and-done" ethos when it comes to players.
Sam Holtz might not watch much college basketball, but the Lake Zurich sixth-grader's NCAA tournament picks were better than any expert's this season.


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ACLU More Islamist than the Islamists
British scholar Denis MacEoin points me to this article, which appeared yesterday in USA Today:
Lawyers for American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh asked a federal judge Wednesday to find the Federal Bureau of Prisons in contempt for not allowing Muslim inmates in a high-security Indiana prison unit to pray together five times a day, as required by their faith… The prisons agency has said inmates of all religions housed in the Terre Haute federal prison's Communications Management Unit have been allowed to pray together three times daily after a federal judge ruled in Lindh's favor in a lawsuit seeking the prayer time. The ACLU of Indiana argues that isn't what Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson's Jan. 11 ruling required. Magnus-Stinson said Lindh, 32, sincerely believes Islam mandates Muslims pray together five times a day and federal law requires the prison to accommodate his beliefs.
This is nonsense: There is no requirement in Islam that Muslims pray communally five times a day, or three times a day. Communal prayers are on Friday at noon so, if the ACLU was truly concerned about religious rights rather than shilling for terrorists, it would seek to ensure that the young murderer Mr. Lindh would be able to join such prayers once each week.
DISCLOSE Act Shields Labor Unions
How's this story for further proof that the real point of the DISCLOSE Act is not transparency, but kneecapping conservative groups while protecting labor unions from disclosure burdens? The Free Beacon's CJ Ciaramella reports that Senate Democrats dropped a key provision from the DISCLOSE Act requiring political groups to disclose their names in the advertisements they fund:
"The 'stand by your ad' provision was dropped in response to objections we've heard from folks on the other side of the aisle," the spokesman said. "It's now targeted specifically at requiring disclosure."
However, a senior Republican aide told the Free Beacon the provision was dropped due to union pressure.
The "stand by your ad" provision would have required the CEO or equivalent position of an organization buying electioneering ads—AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, for example—to endorse them, similar to the endorsements required at the end of ads purchased by political campaigns.
"The Trumkas of the world aren't exactly the warm, fuzzy personalities you want appearing at the end of your ad," the aide said.


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Walking With the Damned: The Shocking Murder of the Man Who Freed 30,000 Prisoners from the Nazis by Ted Schwarz
Wallenberg: Missing Hero by Kati Marton
The Wannsee Protocol and a 1944 Report on Auschwitz by the Office of Strategic Services., (Holocaust No. 11.) by Wannsee Konferenz
The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945 by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
War from Within by Sophie Goetzel-Leviathan
The War of the Doomed: Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, 1942-1944 by Shmuel Krakowski
War Refugee Board 'Weekly Reports' (America and the Holocaust, Vol 11) by David S. Wyman
War Refugee Board: Basic Rescue Operations (America and the Holocaust, Vol 7) by David S. Wyman
War Refugee Board: Hungary (America and the Holocaust , Vol 8) by David S. Wyman
War Refugee Board: Special Problems (America & the Holocaust Ser) by David Wyman
War, Holocaust and Stalinism: A Documented History of the Jewish Anti-Facist Committee in the USSR (New History of Russia, Vol 1) Vol 1 by Shimon Redlich
Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Norman Cohn;
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The Warsaw Ghetto: A Photographic Record 1941-1944 by Joe J. Heydecker
The Warsaw Ghetto in Photographs: 206 Views Made in 1941 by Ulrich Keller
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We Are Children Just the Same: Vedem, the Secret Magazine by the Boys of Terezin by Marie Rut Krizkova, et al
We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust by Jacob Boas
We Remember the Holocaust by David A. Adler
We Survived the Holocaust by Elaine Landau
We Were Children Just Like You by Yaffa Eliach
Were We Our Brothers' Keepers?: The Public Response of American Jews to the Holocaust, 1938-1944 by Haskel Lookstein
Western Society After the Holocaust by Lyman H. Letgers
What God Wants by Lily Brett, David Rankin
What Have We Learned: Telling the Story and Teaching the Lessons of the Holocaust: Papers of the 20th Anniversary Scholars' Conference by Scholar's Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches 1990
What Have We Learned?: Telling the Story and Teaching the Lessons of the Holocaust: Papers of the 20th Anniversary Scholars' Conference (Symposium,) by Franklin H. Littell, et al
What Kind of God?: Essays in Honor of Richard L. Rubenstein (Studies in the Shoah, Vol 11) by Betty Rogers Rubenstein, et al
When God and Man Failed: Non Jewish Views of the Holocaust by Harry J. Cargas
When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland by Nechama Tec
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Where Are the Children?: Conversations in Germany by Herb Brin
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The Whitewashing of the Yellow Badge: Antisemitism and Philosemitism in Postwar Germany (Studies in Antisemitism) by Frank Stern, William Templer
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Who Speaks for the Vanquished: American Jewish Leaders and the Holocaust by Leon Weliczker Wells
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Will to Live: One Family's Story of Surviving the Holocaust by Adam Starkopf
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Witness to Annihilation: Surviving the Holocaust a Memoir by Samuel Drix
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Witness to the Holocaust by Michael Berenbaum
Witnesses : Life in Occupied Krakow by Miriam Peleg-Marianska, Mordecai Peleg
Witnesses to the Holocaust: An Oral History (Twayne's Oral History Series, No 2) by Rhonda G. Lewin
The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust As Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Michael Berenbaum
Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust: The Voices of Eyewitnesses by Vera Laska
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Would God It Were Night: The Ordeal of a Jewish Boy from Cracow-Through Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Gusen by Zvi Barlev-Bleicher
Wrestling Until Day-Break: Searching for Meaning in the Thinking on the Holocaust (Milkin Library of Jewish Public Affairs) by Eliezer Schweid
Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation by James Edward Young
Writing and the Holocaust by Berel Lang
Writing As Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum by Rachel Feldhay Brenner
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What to make of a menu that stuffs spring rolls with crawfish (the Japanese variety, I assume), coats chicken fried steak with toasted coconut (a virtual taste of the Mediterranean) and tosses apple-smoked bacon in a miso vinaigrette? What is "Japanese risotto"? Or "Pacific Rim pesto"? Is this Mediterranean food? Is it Asian? Is it American?
Tarazza is the joint creation of Costa Arrabatzis, chef-owner of Ziziki's, the neo-Greek bistro downstairs, and Teiichi Sakurai, owner of Teppo, the popular yakitori and sushi restaurant on Lower Greenville. It describes itself as a "unique version of Pacific Rim which incorporates Asian, Japanese, and Mediterranean ingredients into traditional dishes." I'd be intrigued with anything that incorporates the Mediterranean into the Pacific Rim, which I assume relies on some kind of navigation by Mobius strip, since I certainly can't make it work on my globe.
But mostly I'm intrigued with Tarazza, not for its unlikely geographical assumptions, or even its schizophrenic-sounding menu (some things everyone knows from parageography: we all learned from the Scarecrow that "of course, people do go both ways"). What's interesting is the partnership of these two chefs who have applied their similar sensibilities to very different cuisines, established vibrant, unique restaurants in a business and a city in love with mirror images and the safety of repetition, and instead of opening Teppo Addison or Plano Ziziki's, decided to enrich their own neighborhoods further by trying something completely new and different from what they were already doing.
Tarazza's menu combines the culinary provenances of Costa and Teiichi; its location, Travis Walk, has been its own imaginary land. Finding your way around in there has never been easy, and the plan seems to change every time you go. How imaginary is that? You enter Tarazza by climbing a sweeping staircase into the restaurant, a difficult location which has housed a number of failed restaurants since Travis Walk opened with a resounding thud in the early eighties. The irrepressible Mario Leal's Chiquita and L'Ancestral, a decidedly French destination with nothing fanciful about it, are the oldest living inhabitants of this center. Then Costa made Ziziki's work, and now Cafe Society has built a better mousetrap with an attendant following, so perhaps the public will support this risky new venture. Perhaps, that is, they'll be able to find it without a sextant. "Exit Sipango and look up" might be the best directions, but that would assume you'd already spent your night's entertainment budget. Anyway, Tarazza is called so because of the large outdoor patio that overlooks the busy valet scene at Sipango, but its real attractions are inside. The romantically lit, golden glow dining room (Costa and Teiichi designed the space, with some help from Vertu, the high-style store downstairs) is dominated by a bar and a grand piano. Tables are mostly pulled up to easy banquettes; the whole effect is of an old-fashioned, soft-edged piano bar. It's way ahead of the self-conscious, cutting-edge style now in vogue; Tarazza is as retro-hip as a buttoned-up shirt, and it's completely sincere.
We started with wine from an interesting global selection compiled by Mary Cloutier (Costa's partner in Ziziki who compiled that award-winning wine list) and, having suspended our disbelief, ordered those spring rolls stuffed with crawfish. After the first bite, we decided this was a country we wanted to linger in, wherever it is. The fat-mouth feel of the meat set off the clean vegetal crunch of the slivered carrots, bean sprouts, and shredded cabbage; the pastry-like tenderness of the wrapper gave the whole an un-Oriental richness. The "Tarazza appetizer" was even more exciting--tissue-thin sheets of triangular pastry that melted like cotton candy on your tongue were folded around a crunchy, cool filling of chopped chicken seasoned with thinned hoisin and mixed with bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, and a hint of cilantro, with a tossed green salad on the side. Ziziki's salad, a variation of the classical Greek, is a favorite, and Costa has put it on Tarazza's menu, probably just so his regulars could get their bearings. The house signature salad, mixed baby and bitter greens drizzled with a miso vinaigrette perfumed with ginger, wasn't as pleasing; the dressing required something with more chew than mere lettuce--I'd like to taste it over a crudites salad, for instance.


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Litigious Society: As litigation mushrooms, attorneys are organizing to make law school easier and outsource some work to nonlawyers. It's time for lawyers to admit that this country has too many laws.
It was more than two decades ago when Cato Institute senior fellow and former Manhattan Institute scholar Walter Olson lifted the lid on just how over-lawyered a society that once shunned the lawsuit had become.
"America's common law tradition," Olson wrote in his landmark book, "The Litigation Explosion," "like the legal tradition of every great nation, formerly viewed a lawsuit as an evil, at best a necessary evil."
Litigation, he wrote, "tended to paralyze productive enterprise.
"It was a playground for bullies, an uneven battlefield, where the trusting, scrupulous, and plainspoken were no match for the brassy, ruthless, and glib."
But America began "to encourage citizens to sue each other," Olson wrote, a trend that "quite suddenly moved into high gear in the late 1960s and 1970s, amid little real public debate."
Today, the legal profession itself is finally being devoured by the very monster it, and its friends and fellow lawyers in the halls of political power, helped create.
The American Bar Association last year formed a "Task Force on the Future of Legal Education," members of which now are recommending radical change. Ideas include reducing law school from three years to two, letting undergraduates into law school early, dumbing down the bar exam, and even establishing, as the New York Times reported on Sunday, "the legal equivalent of nurse practitioners" or "limited-license legal technicians."
"The consuming public cannot afford lawyers, and the profession needs to figure that out and own it," Paula Littlewood, executive director of the Washington State Bar Association and an ABA task force member, told the Times.
Underlying all this, however, is a too-little-appreciated bit of horse sense: Politicians have passed too many laws.
It goes without saying that businesses have for decades been drowning in an ocean of regulation, requiring them to employ teams of lawyers that navigate the straits, just to keep a firm afloat.
ObamaCare and its more than 2,000 pages of legal language is one of the great multipliers of such rules. But as Ronald Reagan's attorney general and Heritage Foundation Center for Legal and Judicial Studies Chairman Edwin Meese has warned, for years the country has been "in the throes of overcriminalization" regarding individual citizens.
One of the most tough-on-crime attorneys general in U.S. history, Meese points out that "criminal law has changed in the last 50 years." It once concerned only universally condemnable acts such as murder, rape and robbery, which "kept the range of governmental power small" by "limiting the scope within which government can exercise its authority." But in recent years, "criminal law has grown as broad as the regulatory state in its sheer size and scope," Meese noted.
What did Jamie Gorelick know, and when did she know it? On March 25, 2015, Schlumberger Oilfield Holdings Ltd., a subsidiary of Schlumberger Ltd., pled guilty of conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act by engaging in illegal transactions, including trade with Iran and ...
Islamic State: Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey shrugs his shoulders about the IS conquering the major Iraq city of Ramadi. Will the surrenders of Iraq and Afghanistan be followed by more lost wars?'The blows and misfortunes of the war only give us additional strength." That was master ...
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Migration: Italy got an ugly warning last week, when Islamists on a boat filled with illegal African immigrants threw 12 Christians into the sea. Facing a similar uncontrolled border surge, the U.S. needs to get the message, too.It was a crime that shocked the conscience: On a leaky ramshackle boat ...
Missouri's Democratic senator, Claire McCaskill, caused quite a stir in the college sports world this week when she ripped the Duke basketball team. "I've got no problem with these kids going to the NBA," she said. "But let's not call them 'students,' because we are now recruiting these kids for an ...


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Our physicians and nurses are passionate about ensuring every patient is given the very best care while having access to the latest treatments. The staff consults frequently with physicians from Sitemann Cancer Center in St. Louis among others. You can come to the Goldschmidt Cancer Center with confidence knowing you have the best care available, right here at home.
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Dr. Ekram served as a Hospitalist in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and practiced Hematology/Oncology at St. Mary's Hospital in Jefferson City. She is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the Subspecialty Board of Medical Oncology. She is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Kansas Medical Society.
Dr. Ekram and her husband, fellow physician Eston Schwartz, M.D., live in Mid-Missouri and are active in their local community. They have been blessed with two children and are thrilled to be back in central Missouri to share their expertise and raise their family.
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Theresa completed her RN at St. Joseph School of Nursing and her BSN at Briar Cliff University, both in Sioux City, Iowa. Theresa has 20 years Oncology experience and 10 years Hospice experience. She has worked in both Management and staff nurse roles in her Nursing Career. Theresa is active in Relay for life and the Boost BBQ fund raising events for Cancer patients.
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I was at a conference recently and attended an 'Architecture Kata'. While brainstorming various solutions to the given problem I mentioned SharePoint as something to consider. A VERY well known .Net author/speaker who was sitting in on our session heard me and blasted SharePoint as an overall platform (his comments had nothing to do with the actual problem we given to solve).
This is just one example of many where I have come across developer "hatred" of SharePoint. Why is the word "SharePoint" perceived so negatively in the world of software development?


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VIDEO: 50 Cent bets $10,000 on Rangers to win Stanley Cup
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The Stanley Cup Final between the New York Rangers and Los Angeles Kings has gotten a lot of attention from media far and wide. It is, after all, the first championship between New York and Los Angeles since 1981. To people of those large cities, this series is rather important.
It is now especially important to rapper 50 Cent, who dropped a new album on Tuesday after dropping the worst first pitch in the history of baseball. The noted rapper was in Los Angeles, promoting "Street King Immortal" on LA Power 106 with deejay Big Boy.
The pair talked about their two cities meeting up in the Stanley Cup and though 50 Cent mused that he was not in fact a hockey fan, but he was interested in the series.
"I think it will be so exciting for everyone to watch, regardless if they're hockey fans or not," 50 Cent astutely told Big Boy in the radio spot.
To play up the New York, Los Angeles rivalry, Big Boy asked 50 Cent if he would be willing to make a bet on the series. Big Boy challenged 50 to a $10,000 bet and after a few seconds of pause, the rapper agreed. There was a hand shake, so this is a done deal.
This bet was made on Friday. I'm guessing no one happened to inform Fitty that the Rangers were already trailing the series 1-0. After shaking on the deal, 50 Cent wanted to make sure all his LA fans out there weren't disappointed in him.
"I'm going to say this to you, " he said. "Kings fans are my people too. I don't have an extreme passion for the game, but I'm going to take the bet."
So it's settled. Henrik Lundqvist, Ryan McDonagh, Martin St. Louis, etc., you don't only have your own hopes and dreams on the line as you play for the Stanley Cup. You are not only playing for your team's city. You are playing for a very rich man to not lose $10,000 to a less-rich man who says things on the radio.
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This two-part article was really wonderful. Nice to see an article in the Nexus for once that is both informative and sentimental and NOT crude.
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Strong self-focusing of axial symmetric laser beam due to quadratic nonlinearity |
JOSA B, Vol. 29, Issue 7, pp. 1731-1743 (2012)
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Strong self-focusing and defocusing of optical radiation with Gaussian spatial and temporal distribution due to cascading second harmonic generation without a significant change in the beam profile and the pulse shape for the fundamental wave under the condition of group velocity matching in the axial-symmetric case for a bulk medium is considered, and the maximum intensity of an optical beam increases in 70 times (or more) in comparison with the intensity of incident optical radiation. This result is obtained for pulse duration, which belongs to a time interval from microseconds to picoseconds, for which the dispersion of group velocity is negligible. Self-focusing of laser radiation allows the realization of the mode that is similar to Kerr-lens mode locking, but for laser systems generating the optical radiation with a duration from microseconds to picoseconds.
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(190.2620) Nonlinear optics : Harmonic generation and mixing
(190.5940) Nonlinear optics : Self-action effects
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Nonlinear Optics
Original Manuscript: November 2, 2011
Revised Manuscript: January 16, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: February 16, 2012
Published: June 22, 2012
Vyacheslav A. Trofimov and Tatiana M. Lysak, "Strong self-focusing of axial symmetric laser beam due to quadratic nonlinearity," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29, 1731-1743 (2012)
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