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Have you ever found that making home improvements are a hassle? It is common for many people to feel this way. Usually, this feeling is caused by not knowing how to make home improvements properly. This article will take that feeling away and may even allow you to enjoy making these improvements.
If you don't like to nail pictures to the wall because of the holes the nails make, an easy solution is buying mounting squares. Mounting squares can easily hold a few pounds and can be quickly removed without damaging your wall. Stick four squares altogether, one in each corner of your frame to mount your picture properly on your wall.
Whenever you find professional moving companies in new jersey or are doing an electrical home improvement job, overestimate the number of sockets each room needs. No matter how generous your plans are, an extra duplex outlet in most rooms will prove itself a wise investment over and over. When it comes to your home's resale value, "there are too many plugs in here" is a phrase home buyers never say.
If you are doing work near a kitchen, fireplace, or gas appliance, make sure you know where the gas shutoff for your home is located. If there were to be an accident, and gas started leaking into your home, the smallest spark could set it off. If you know in advance where the shutoff is, you can respond faster to the issue before it becomes an emergency.
Is your kitchen looking a little bland? One way to make your kitchen look good again is to put in new kitchen faucets. New faucets can make your kitchen really glow. Faucets add a touch of style and elegance to your home and are relatively inexpensive, making them an affordable way to add class to your home.
If you are planning on painting a room as part of a haulstow home improvement project, you can save money by accurately estimating the amount of paint you will need. One gallon of paint will cover about 350 square feet of wall space, unless you are painting drywall, which absorbs more paint. An accurate estimate can prevent you from overbuying paint, which once mixed in a specific color generally can't be returned.
Something that can be done in the way of home improvement is to theme your rooms. For example you may want to have a teddy bear theme in one of your bathrooms and have a native Indian theme in your living room. Doing this will add a level of flare and comfort to your home.
When you are planning home improvement projects, it can be useful to look around for some inspiration. Luckily there are many options out there. From TV shows and the library, to a wide array of magazines, you can find inspiration. Make sure you can properly envision what you want to accomplish before starting the improvement. If you have a good idea of what you want, you can confidently begin work on your project when you are ready.
Using a paste-form of wood filler to fill a hole in wood, that you need to screw into again, will not yield satisfactory results. The screw will cause the wood filler to disintegrate and never hold secure. Instead, break off pieces of wooden toothpicks and fill the hole with as many as it will hold. Put a drop of white or wood glue on top of the toothpicks, that you can break off so that they are flush with the surrounding wood, and allow to dry. When completely dry, replace the screw into your new real wood-filled hole and that will give the screw something to "bite" into, versus the plaster-like dust, created by typical wood fillers.
As was stated in the beginning of the article, many people find it to be a hassle when they have to make home improvements. Knowing how to make these improvements in an efficient way can eliminate these negative feelings. Use the tips that this article has provided you to make home improvements fun!


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Kieran D. O'Malley
Seattle Campus
Provides a platform for critical, analytic thought on health care practices. Topics vary by quarter: politics, ethics, and environmental influences on health care (Autumn); dependent populations, elderly, children, and developmentally delayed (Winter); aboriginal health care, problems and solutions (Spring).
Class description
This course will discuss the respective health care service delivery of USA and Canada. Issues of the politics, ethics and environmental factors important to both health care systems will be discussed. The comparison of the health care systems will begin by an analysis done by the WHO a few years ago. DATES OF Winter 2004 course, Sat Jan 24th 9 to 4pm Sat Jan 31st 9 to noon Sat Feb 7th 9 to noon Location; Room 202, Thomson Hall
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
Seminar and group discussion with visting outside speakers representative of the Canadian and USA health care systems.
Recommended preparation
please see course books as recommended at UW bookstore 1. The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine. James Le Fanu, 2000 2.Issues in Health Care Ethics, Eileen P. Flynn, 2000 3.The National Health Care Book, D. Himmelstein and S.Woolhandler, 1994 4. Clear Answers, Kevin Taft & Gillian Steward, 2000
Class assignments and grading
5 page essay due after course completion
grades are based on a mixture of class attendance, class participation, course reading and essay completion.

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Connellsville soldier awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism
Jeremy R. Sherwood, 25, of Connellsville was a Marine at a forward base in Southern Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border.
"It was Sept. 28, 2011," said Sherwood. "I'll never forget the date."
An AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter gunship was doing an aggressive takeoff, fully armed, to keep the dust and sand at a minimum, when it ran into trouble.
"There were bamboo mats laid down to reduce the dust and sand," said Sherwood. "They were taking off and landing (on the mats) all day."
Something happened and one of the mats came loose as the helicopter lifted off.
"One skid (of the helicopter taking off) caught in the bamboo mat," he said. "What is called the H2 (right) skid caught in the mat (when it came loose.) The helicopter tilted to the right, then left, right, left, right. Then it fell on its side."
The impact of the rotor on the ground was so violent, it tore the transmission out of the helicopter. Debris smashed into the gunner's position (the forward position in the helicopter cockpit.)
"There was still debris flying around when we got to the helicopter," Sherwood said. When they got to the gunner, he was already pale. "He was KIA (killed in action)."
There were bigger potential problems.
"The engines were still running at full-throttle," he said.
He yelled to another Marine to pull the circuit breakers to shut the engines down. But a fire developed in one of the engines. And the gunship was carrying a full load of two Hellfire missiles, 10 Zuni rockets, 10 fleshette rockets and 500 rounds of 20 mm cannon ammunition, all armed.
Sherwood grabbed a fire bottle but it did not function. He started grabbing 16-ounce water bottles, dumping them onto the fire.
"It took about a case and a half," he said.
Sherwood was wearing fireproof clothing, which did protect him, but he received second-degree burns on his arms and he inhaled carbon-fiber particles while working to extinguish the fire.
A Black Hawk "dustoff" medical helicopter was called to provide aid to the pilot and gunner.
"But there were 15 people still around the wreckage," he said.
The ammunition could still explode so he used strong Marine Corps language to get them away from the site, then set up a perimeter to keep everyone out of danger.
A salvage team was sent to remove the potentially dangerous ammunition. He said it was taken out into the desert and exploded.
For his efforts, Sherwood was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his heroism.
"For his courageous and prompt actions in the face of great personal risk Cpl. Sherwood reflected great credit upon him and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service," the last sentence of the citation reads.
It was authorized by the President of the United States and signed by the Commandant of the Marine Corps.
The Navy web site says the following about the medal:
"The Navy and Marine Corps Medal is the second highest non-combatant medal awarded by the United States Department of the Navy to members of the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. The decoration was established by an act of Congress on Aug. 7, 1942. The Navy and Marine Corps Medal may be awarded to service members who, while serving in any capacity with the Navy or Marine Corps, distinguish themselves by heroism not involving actual conflict with an enemy. Typically, it is awarded for actions involving the risk of one's own life."
One famous recipient of the medal was President John F. Kennedy for his heroism during World War II while commanding PT109.
Sherwood has since been discharged.
Sherwood said his burns have healed nicely, but he suffered damage to his lungs. He sometimes finds himself winded when he climbs stairs.
He is back in Connellsville and is working for Integrated Production Services.
He said the military and the VA have treated him well, which he credits to the work of the veterans of previous wars.
Karl Polacek is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at email@example.com or 724-626-3538.


text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- There's no denying that Starbucks ( SBUX) is an excellent company.The coffee giant, which has also become a cultural phenomenon, has built itself into one of the top three quick service restaurants not only in the U.S. but across the globe. What's scary about this company is that, despite its successful track record, I don't believe that Starbucks has reached its full potential. Like McDonald's ( MCD), Starbucks has demonstrated a remarkable ability to innovate, which we don't typically expect from a restaurant operation. Unlike McDonald's, though, I can't say that Starbucks's stock is on the value menu -- not at a price-to-earnings ratio of 37, which is more than twice that of McDonald's P/E of 18. As of this writing the stock is up more than 7%, reaching a high of $73.52. Investors are rewarding the company for yet another solid earnings result, which included a 25% jump third-quarter profits. So, I don't want to overstate the importance of value here. Nor do I want to put too much emphasis on the P/E ratios, especially when Starbucks is performing so well. But with Starbucks now priced for perfection, pressure is on managements to keep the jolt going. That's no easy task.


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Los Angeles, Oct 6 (IANS) Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry has given birth to a baby boy here.
The 47-year-old gave birth to her son Saturday at Cedars Sinai Hospital here. This is Berry's first child with husband Olivier Martinez, reports eonline.com.
Berry is also mother to five-year-old Nahla with her ex-partner Gabriel Aubry.
Berry and Martinez married in July.
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Thabeet Helps Moore Girl's Wish Come True
The May 20th tornado was barreling down on Moore and Deborah Preissler knew she didn't have much time. Racing from the school where she works, Southgate-Rippetoe Elementary, Preissler made it to Plaza Towers Elementary to pick up her 11-year old niece less than ten minutes before the tornado devastated the school.
Hayley Hawk, Preissler's neice, moved to Moore with her family just 30 days prior to the storm. When she was settling into her room, she decided to make a "dream list" of things that she wanted to happen while she lived in her new house. Meeting the boy band One Direction was on the list, but first and foremost was meeting a Thunder player.
"A week or two before (the storm), she had put a note on her bedroom door," Preissler said. "That was on her dream list. She just moved into her room."
The Hawk household sustained some damage in the storm and Hayley's school and the surrounding neighborhood was leveled. In fact, Hayley could see all the way to Plaza Towers from her house because everything in between was flattened. Over a month removed from the storm, with friends, classmates and families in her Moore neighborhood still recovering, one of Hawk's wishes came true.
On Tuesday at the Thunder Youth Basketball Camp at Carl Alberts High School in Midwest City, Hawk was in attendance as the Thunder hosted a camp that was free of charge to students that went to Plaza Towers, Briarwood Elementary and Highland Park. In the early afternoon, Thunder center Hasheem Thabeet hopped down the stairs onto the gymnasium floor, and Hawk immediately thought of the wish list on her bedroom door.
"I got to meet a Thunder player," Hawk said. "I didn't really know what to say because I never met a famous person before."
"It was really cool," Hawk continued. "I've never experienced anything like that."
Thabeet signed autographs, helped out with basketball drills, took photos and even tied one boy's shoe. Standing at 7-feet, 3-inches tall, Thabeet is the tallest player in the league but is one of the gentlest ones when it comes to playing with children and talking to people in the Oklahoma City community. A fixture on the Rolling Thunder Book Bus this year, Thabeet has been one of the most active players on the team in the community.
In the days after the May 20th tornado, he was in the group of players who went down to Moore to meet with families, so he understood the importance of his visit to camp where many Moore children were enjoying the game of basketball. Not only does Thabeet have the basketball expertise to help the campers learn basketball techniques and skills, but he also has the kindness and empathy to find a way to brighten the days of these Moore children.
"It's great just to be able to give that joy and give them something to smile about for the day," Thabeet said. "I don't know how their families are recovering, but we're all together with them. Coming out here to the community and doing stuff like this has been a good thing."
"When I was young, I never got a chance to do stuff like this," Thabeet said. "So for me to come out here and actually hang with the kids and teach them one or two things is great."


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This is a book displaying photographs of different types of doorways post earthquake in Leogane and Port-au-Prince Haiti.
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City Council: Awards, amendments and a 48-hour parking limit
The Hastings City Council will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 3, it's first meeting of the new year.
One item on the agenda was carried over from the Dec. 20 meeting, when the council recognized city employees for their years of service. Due to poor weather conditions that prevented some employees from attending, the presentation will be repeated for those who were unable to attend Dec. 20.
The council will hold two public hearings, one for an ordinance amendment for home occupations and one for an amendment to the Original Hastings Design Standards. The two amendments will also be reviewed by the council for their second reading.
There is also a resolution before the council to establish 48-hour parking limits in municipal parking lots at City Hall and in the downtown area.
Full agendas are available at the city's website. Click here to view current agendas, including more information on each item.


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Emerald Princess 1/27-2/6 Southern Caribbean: Emerald Princess Cruise Review by scottamiller
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Emerald Princess 1/27-2/6 Southern Caribbean
Destination: Southern Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
Itinerary: Ft. Lauderdale, Princess Cays, Sea Day, St. Thomas, Antigua, St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Kitts, 2 Sea Days, Ft. Lauderdale
About me: I'm 40 years old, from Atlanta GA, and this was my 30th cruise - 4th with Princess. I have previously sailed on the Grand, Golden and Caribbean Princess. Other cruise lines I frequent are Celebrity, HAL and RCCL. I have also sailed Regent, Crystal, Carnival and NCL.
Traveling companions: My partner, who is 44 and from Ireland, and 2 co-workers/friends who are 42 and 49 both living in Atlanta GA. For all 3 of them this was their fist cruise.
First thoughts: We were looking for a relaxed, easy paced holiday - something with little structure and not to dressy, but still in a sophisticated environment with quality food and entertainment. I specifically chose Princess for these reasons. While I typically gravitate to Celebrity and HAL I knew More Princess was right for my travelling companions and their preference for a more relaxed, casual environment. I chose correctly.
General Ship impressions: Upon first entering I felt the ship to be much more sophisticated and elegant than its older siblings. Gone are the mint/peach/mauve/turquoise colors and tropical patterned carpets/decor. Instead I found much more rust/browns/jewel tones and Italianate design throughout. As I wandered the ship I felt the overall flow of spaces works much better with the relocation of Wheelhouse between the atrium and theater, moving Crooners to the port side of the vessel and the addition of the International Cafe/Vines on deck 5. The Crown Grill is lovely once inside but the walkway leading to it feels a bit like a discount photo-mat. One other odd item -- Explorers lounge. The murals depict India and Southeast Asia, but the architecture and tables still sport an Egyptian theme which seems rather at odds with each other. This is a small detail that few would notice and one that did not hamper my enjoyment of the space, but rather elicited a small chuckle on my part. As they say "the devil is in the details" (more on that later!). I like the new location of Sabatini's and the addition of Adagio; however they are easily overlooked due to their general remoteness. The new placement of Skywalkers is also a plus. I liked the decor of the casino, but felt the placement of slots and tables left too much empty floor space. Also the selection of slots was rather dated. From a design and decor standpoint I think all of the changes made since the launch of the Grand are well chosen and executed.
Cabin: We were in E504, partially obstructed Oceanview on Deck 8. I really liked our cabin. All of the Oceanview cabins on deck 8 are laid out with the beds against the sidewalls just like in balcony cabins. The exceptions to this are any cabins for triples/quads, which have the beds against the window wall. The view from our cabin was pretty decent -- a nice view of both sea and sky, albeit with the top of a lifeboat thrown in for that "nautical touch". Bathrooms are typical Princess -- small and efficient. I am 6'1", and my partner is 6'3" and we both found the shower serviceable if not exactly spacious. The biggest issue was the tiny single shelf for toiletries in the shower. Next Princess cruise I will definitely bring some sort of shower caddy. There was more than ample closet and shelf space for the 2 of us for a 10 night voyage, even though we both packed on the heavy side. I like the small shelf on the bedside tables -- a great way to keep clutter at bay. The midship location on deck 8 was ideal as it was always and easy hop down/up the stairs from all the public spaces on decks 5-7. We only used the elevator when going up to deck 15. Our friends were in A229 on Deck 12 forward and were less pleased with their general location. They used the elevators a lot more than we did, and felt that most things were a good bit of a "hike" to find being so far forward. On a ship this large cabin location is key!
Smoking Policy: The new smoking policy had gone into effect on the cruise prior to ours. There was no odor of smoke in our cabin or in any of the public areas except the Casino (where it is still allowed) and Skywalkers. The other smoking areas were the entire Port side of the Promenade Deck, the forward 1/3 of the Port side of the Neptunes reef pool area by the windows, and the Port side of Deck 15 just outside of Cafe Caribe above the Terrace pool. I heard no complaints from non-smokers about excess smoke being an issue. The casino held several non-smoking nights throughout the cruise, which was not a huge issue for smokers as they had the Cigar lounge immediately adjacent. For the record, I am a non-smoker, and my partner smokes.
Dining: We ate in the DaVinci Dining room 5 times for dinner, Crown Grill Twice, Sabatini's once and Cafe Caribe twice. For Breakfast we ate in either the DaVinci dining room (5 times), International Cafe (4 light port day breakfasts) and Horizon Court once (which was once too many for me). Embarkation lunch was taken in DaVinci, and on our 3 sea days we ate from Cafe Caribe twice, both later when the crowds had died off, and once from the Burger grill. We found all of the food to be fresh, hot and generally of a high standard and well prepared/presented. By nature I tend to avoid buffets for many reasons -- crowding, sanitation, poor presentation, old/cold food, etc. I was generally pleased with the food offerings in Cafe Caribe and it was all fairly fresh and tasty. I like that they use "real" plates there at night and set the tables with linens and glassware. The melamine plastic they use during the daytime is just plain tacky! Horizon Court breakfast was hot, but rather uninspired and the crowds are maddening. All of the meals taken in DaVinci were excellent! Food arrived hot, well prepared, not too salty and in appropriate portions for a 4-5 course meal. We were on Anytime Dining and had several different wait teams, all of whom provided excellent service. The food in the Crown Grill was good quality mid-upper end American Chain Steakhouse -- similar to Morton's. Service was okay, but not spectacular. The waiters seemed overworked, even though they had relatively small sections (3-4 tables). I found the service flow in the main Dining Room to be more calm and organized, which is usually just the opposite. I had similar thoughts on Sabatini's. I will say I like the new Sabatini's menu, but if you are not a seafood lover you may find it a bit disappointing.
Now for my "Devil is in the details" gripe -- Princess does a LOT of things right in their dining venues -- good quality table linens, decent plate ware and flatware, nice standard glassware, silver plated butter dishes, creamers, use of pepper mills and crumbers, etc ............ but then .......... Plastic water pitchers in ALL the dining venues (not to mention the tacky blue jugs in the buffet), Plastic tongs for serving pastries in the MDR for breakfast (which are on silver trays), waiters setting the large plastic service trays on tables in the Specialty dining venues and the list goes on. It cheapened the overall elegance of the dining experience and is something that could easily be corrected. This is the one area I feel they could easily improve upon.
Bars: I liked the Martini Menu at Crooners -- it offered some really nice cocktail options that I had never seen. Wheelhouse is a lovely space, but, the chairs SHOULD be upholstered in real leather, and NOT in the leather-look vinyl that they are covered in. This is another one of those "Devil is in the Details" kinds of gripes from my end and is something very few passengers would even register as they used the space. Adagio was lovely, but woefully underused and has its own unique cocktail menu. Bar staff were friendly and efficient, though during the first 24hrs there was a BIG push to sign folks up for Wine Tasting events. I think we had 6-7 offers the first night alone between 7pm to 1030pm! After that initial push no one tried to "sell" us on anything. We never used Vines and it rarely was busy. The coffee bar at the international Cafe was well used at all hours of day and night and the food selections offered a nice range of light bites (all complimentary) appropriate for the time of day.
Entertainment: This was the 2nd cruise with the new entertainment format. I actually rather liked it. Offering one "Big Show" per night in the Princess at 3 different times and limiting it 30-40 minutes worked well for us. We generally arrived about 5-10 minutes before show time and were able to get decent seating. The only shows that seemed to require and earlier arrival were the Beatle Maniacs Show (all 3 showings were standing room only) and the Crew Show on the final night. For both of these we arrived 20 minutes early and got very good seats. We attended a variety of showtimes and found no crowding or traffic flow issues. Explorers Lounge was almost exclusively Game Shows, Trivia, Karakoe, etc and club Fusion was used for live Party-Band dancing while Wheelhouse had a variety of Piano Music, Social Dance Music and Party Band. Crooners was not used well -- the only entertainment there was a Piano Bar entertainer from around 9-1130 every night. He had a following but I could never warm up to his style. Some nice pre-dinner jazz/standards piano would have been nice in this venue. Adagio had a mix of piano music and Jazz nights. The Jazz nights were excellent -- I wish they would do them every night! My only gripe is that there was virtually no live music from 7-8pm, which should be prime time for cocktails. I won't go into specific performers / cruise staff as they can vary so much from one sailing to another. Overall I felt the range of entertainment was well suited to the overall passenger mix and passengers seemed to by and large be enjoying themselves.
MUTS: Good selection of films; pizza, milk, cookies a nice touch; but the sound is awful -- very hard to hear!
Pools: With 5 Freshwater Pools and 7 hot tubs how can you go wrong?! There were plenty of loungers and even though chair-hogs were out and about we were able to snag a chair or two at any time we wanted. Preferring a quieter ambiance we used mainly the Terrace pool or the Lotus pool.
Final thoughts: We had a very relaxing and enjoyable cruise. Princess offers a nice upper-mid range cruise experience that suited our needs well. Food was of an overall high quality, Service uniformly excellent, and entertainment varied enough to allow us a variety of activities. The Anytime Dining and new Entertainment format worked very well for us. There was nothing in the experience that would prevent me from cruising with Princess again and I look forward to doing so sooner rather than later. I was glad to have chosen Princess and my travelling companions all had a wonderful first cruise experience thanks to their wonderful staff! Less
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Cabin review: FFE504
We were in E504, partially obstructed Oceanview on Deck 8. I really liked our cabin. All of the Oceanview cabins on deck 8 are laid out with the beds against the sidewalls just like in balcony cabins. The exceptions to this are any cabins for triples/quads, which have the beds against the window wall. The view from our cabin was pretty decent -- a nice view of both sea and sky, albeit with the top of a lifeboat thrown in for that "nautical touch". Bathrooms are typical Princess -- small and efficient. I am 6'1", and my partner is 6'3" and we both found the shower serviceable if not exactly spacious. The biggest issue was the tiny single shelf for toiletries in the shower. Next Princess cruise I will definitely bring some sort of shower caddy. There was more than ample closet and shelf space for the 2 of us for a 10 night voyage, even though we both packed on the heavy side. I like the small shelf on the bedside tables -- a great way to keep clutter at bay. The midship location on deck 8 was ideal as it was always and easy hop down/up the stairs from all the public spaces on decks 5-7. We only used the elevator when going up to deck 15.
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|You are in: In Depth: Budget 2001
Wednesday, 7 March, 2001, 18:09 GMT
Brown's boost for prudent pensioners
Chancellor Gordon Brown has confirmed plans for a big increase in payments for pensioners and unveiled plans for a new pension credit.
The basic state pension will rise by £5 a week for single pensioners from April this year and a further £3 a week in April 2002.
For couples there will be increases of £8 and £4.80 a week.
A new pension credit is to be introduced in 2003.
"In this way, it will give recipients more than even the earnings link in the basic state pension would give them," the chancellor said.
Pensioners will also be able to retain the winter allowance and the free TV licence for the over 75s introduced as well as the Christmas bonus.
Further details of this will be unveiled in this year's social security uprating statement, he added.
Means test
The pension credit is designed to reward pensioners on modest incomes who have savings or a small second pension.
Under the current system, the poorest pensioners, on the minimum income guarantee, are effectively penalised for every pound of pension they have built up.
In an attempt to correct this, the pension credit will give a cash reward for every pound of second-tier pension, earnings or investment income.
Mr Brown will also abolish the weekly means test for this group of pensioners.
No restoration of earnings link
But Mr Brown's measures received a lukewarm reception from pensioners.
National Pensioners' Convention president Jack Jones said his members had been hoping the Chancellor would unveil bigger increases in the basic pension than those announced in November.
He criticised Mr Brown's decision not to give details of changes to the winter fuel allowance and Christmas bonus until next month.
And he said pensioners would be disappointed by the continued refusal to link pensions to earnings.
"It seems this government are prepared to link everything else to incomes but the pension," he said.
"The tax cut will benefit those with savings.
"But our main concern is that the basic state pension needs to be raised to benefit all pensioners and to arrest the extension of means testing for benefits."
Grey power
But Bob Worcester, chairman of polling organisation Mori, believes Mr Brown's measure will hit the right note with the majority of pensioners.
"He hit very effectively grey power because grey power is four times the voting power of the young people because there are twice as many of them and they are twice as likely to vote.
"So the pensioners' factors that he built into the budget were very good indeed."
Pension funds
Mr Brown also laid the foundations for pension funds to take a more flexible approach to their investments, as outlined in this week's Myners Report on the state of institutional investment in the UK.
The Chancellor said he would reform legislation to make it easier for them to invest in start-up businesses and added he would abolish the Minimum Funding Requirement - MFR - which restricts what pension funds can invest in.
No news on annuities
One area left alone by the Chancellor was rules on annuities.
An annuity is income for life bought with the money that has built up in a pension plan, and Mr Brown was widely expected to scrap rules which currently force everyone to have converted their pension money into an annuity by the age of 75.
There has been resentment, especially from those in poor health, who do not see why they should have to hand over money to insurers they feel should go to heirs on their death.
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> Freaked-Out Oblivious Thespian
P.S. The audition was surprisingly normal. I wasn't asked to remove my clothes or lick any feet. I wasn't cast. After the audition, the director requested a picture of my feet via email. I did not send him one.
"Yes, I am a foot fetishist," said Anthony Fusco, the writer and director of Sniff and the person for whom you auditioned. "I'm also a theatre person." I reached Fusco the same way you did: through the contact info in the audition notice in Playbill. It turns out that Sniff is one scene in Big Naked Feet, a five-scene, one-act comedy that Fusco wrote, directed, and produced at a small venue in New York in 2008. "We got a good response," Fusco told me. "We had full houses; people walked away smiling." Big Naked Feet isn't Fusco's only play. Another of his plays—Crossing Verrazano—was produced as part of the Strawberry One-Act Festival in 2011.
I told Fusco that his six-page script for Sniff read like fetish porn ("Good dog, Paul, now take a step back and just stare at the beauty of my manly feet!") and that his audition notice had my bullshit detectors going off. It would be a lot cheaper for a foot fetishist to pay two actors to bring his fantasies to life than, say, two male escorts. You can find good-looking actors who'll work for $100 a day. A good-looking male escort, on the other hand, will run you a $1,000 or more a day. But Fusco insisted the video is intended as promo material for a planned remount of Big Naked Feet, not foot-fetish fap material.
But, come on, one hot guy going to town on another hot guy's feet? Wouldn't Fusco beat off to that? Wouldn't any foot fetishist? "I'm so used to this stuff," he said, "it's nothing new to me. I'm not going to say it can't be exciting or a turn-on. So it depends on how the final product turns out, I guess, and how it looks."
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P.S. Coincidentally, FOOT, after our interview, Fusco requested a picture of my feet via email. And I sent him one—because, hey, why not?
My boyfriend is HIV-positive and I am not. We haven't been intimate yet because he's not ready. He blames his HIV for everything. I know HIV is very serious, but I have some questions. I can't ask anyone I know without spilling his secret. If he misses taking his meds by 10 minutes, will it seriously affect his health? He has forced me to leave movies early, refused to go to work functions with me, and even missed my birthday because we would miss his 10 p.m. med schedule. Anything that goes bad in our relationship, he blames it on the fact that he is positive and I am not. I feel like he manipulates me with his illness.
> Positively Flustered
"My answer to PF's question—will his boyfriend's health be affected if he takes his meds 10 minutes late—is a resounding no," said Peter Shalit, a doctor, author, and public speaker who has been treating HIV patients for 25 years. "Modern HIV meds have a lot of flexibility around when they are taken. His boyfriend can also carry the meds in his pocket if he's so OCD that he has to take them at the same exact minute every day."
Shalit doesn't think HIV is the problem here. "His boyfriend needs to stop blaming everything on his HIV, deal with it, and get on with his life," he said. "My advice to patients taking meds for HIV: the daily act of taking your meds should have as much impact in your life as the daily act of brushing your teeth. How would it sound if someone said, 'I can't come to your birthday party because I need to brush my teeth'? It sounds like he is using his HIV as a weapon."
Shalit and I both wonder why you put up with this guy. "He doesn't sound very pleasant to be around," Shalit said, and I agree. End this relationship—not because your boyfriend is poz, but because he's an asshole.
I met a boy on an online sports forum, and I've fallen for him. And from what I can tell, he's fallen for me. The problem is that early in our relationship, he expressed certain attitudes about race that caused me to not be 100-percent honest with him. It turns out that he dislikes men of colour and feels they are responsible for many of the problems in this world. Upon discovering this, I claimed to be white and even went so far as to use Photoshop to make myself appear white in the pics I sent him. I'm not black, but I am not white. And now that our relationship has come to the point where a meeting is planned, I am absolutely distraught. He is always so kind and loving, but when he makes comments about "ashy knees" and "big ethnic noses", I cry inside. We've been together for a while, and I know he loves me, but I fear that he might not see past my skin colour. He's young and Canadian, and I believe that he can overcome this. How do I go about confessing? Do I just show up to meet him at LAX, smile, and hope for the best?
> Lost And Worried
First off, LAW, you're not in a relationship. You've never met this person—excuse me, you've never met this racist piece of shit—and while two people can get to know each other via email, two people who've never actually met are not "together". You were alone in your room with your laptop the whole time, LAW, lying to a racist piece of shit and deluding and undervaluing yourself.
My advice: call off the meeting and send the racist piece of shit your actual, unretouched pics, along with an email that begins with something like, "I don't know what I was thinking getting involved with you," and ends with something like, "Now go fuck yourself, you racist piece of shit." Trust me, you'll feel better about this "relationship" if you dump the racist piece of shit before he has a chance to dump you.
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Don't hate
Mar 14, 2013 at 1:36pm
This is for the Lost and Worried gal. You seem really nice and i'm pretty shocked that a nice girl like yourself would go to such extremes as photo shopping yourself to make someone else like you. I'll say this a million times over, if someone doesn't like who you are, then that's their problem and a true relationship will only work when both of you accept who each other really are. Don't change yourself, Don't alter your pictures. Be thankful you're healthy and nice and who cares if you're white, black, asian, whoever. I am Canadian also and its so rare to see a racist here. I have many friends in Vancouver and this whole city is so multi-cultural and friendly that i honestly don't know anyone who is racist. And also to the response she got, there's no need to call people names and use swear words, you're just lowering yourself to that person's level. Obviously the racist person is uneducated, that's it, they will miss out on some of the best things in life simply by not having an open mind. So no need to swear as that itself will be their downfall. They will learn the hard way just as many other racists have in the world. I have friends from many different backgrounds and being a white guy here i'm very fortunate to have all these wonderful people in my life, they have changed me for the better :)
Hope this helps and please, Canadians are some of the nicest people in this world. Meet someone else who will accept you for who you really are. Take care!
@don't hate
Mar 15, 2013 at 2:46pm
That's all very cozy... but you are delusional. Do you really beleive Vancouverites aren't racist? The frustrations and anger i see and hear every day over asians is palpable! I personally know many non-asians here who HATE the influx of asian immigrants. It has even been a hot button topic lately here in the GS pages... You must live under a rock
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Mar 19, 2013 at 10:07am
To whoever replied this garbage to me you're a joke. I live under a rock? Far from it. I was captain of my junior and senior high basketball teams. Went onto SFU and UVIC to play and also have played all highschools and colleges in the lower mainland. I also have worked at A&B Sound Downtown in the 90s before it closed and now work for the Federal Government, know 100s if not 1000s of people from my experiences and I DONT KNOW any racists. How much more can i be clear about this? So what if you do, and of course there's racists in every city, that's obvious. It just goes to show the people you know here SUCK, get new friends otherwise you're part of the problem. Especially coming onto the forums and trolling. No wonder you have a minus rating. GJ!
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Weston Price Died Of Heart Attack, Proof High Fat Bad?
I recently found out Weston A Price died of a heart attack at age 68. Since he was promoting a high fat diet and died of a heart attack, what does this say about his advice?
I am concerned about this and would like someone to give me a explanation as to why this could be.
My concerns are further reinforced by another supporter of the high fat died and the Weston Price foundation, Stephen Byrnes, who died of a stroke at quite a young age (45 i think?).
A few months ago i read about a man who suffered a heart attack at age 33. He was on vlc also.
I know Stephen had AIDS, but 2 people dying from cardiovascular diseases and following a high fat diet surely can't be a coincidence.
I started doing a bit more research because i noticed my own circulation becoming affected after starting high fat / high protein. Here are a few things i have noticed:
1 - my heart seems to beat faster after eating lots of fat
2 - when i used to smoke and eat high fat i would feel very cold and shiver, but i never felt this way on my old regular diet.
This seems to suggest that a high fat does is negatively affecting my circulation.
Has anyone experienced anything similiar to what i have described? What do you think about Weston Price dying of a heart attack, and Stephen Byrnes of a stroke?
These are exactly the kind of things the veggies and vegans will say are proof that meat and fat are bad, how do we respond to this?
Re: Weston Price Died Of Heart Attack, Proof High Fat Bad?
salviaforme wrote:
2 people dying from cardiovascular diseases and following a high fat diet surely can't be a coincidence.
It absolutley can.
It's more or less usless to study individual cases when it comes to things like heart disease. There are so many factors involved, diet, genetic heritage, exercise, stress etc.
It's alot more sensible to look at risk factors in larger parts of a population.
For example:
Design: Quantitative coronary angiography was performed at baseline and after a mean follow-up of 3.1 y in 2243 coronary segments in 235 postmenopausal women with established coronary heart disease. Usual dietary intake was assessed at baseline.
Carbohydrate intake was positively associated with atherosclerotic progression (P = 0.001), particularly when the glycemic index was high. Polyunsaturated fat intake was positively associated with progression when replacing other fats (P = 0.04) but not when replacing carbohydrate or protein. Monounsaturated and total fat intakes were not associated with progression.
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Look in the necrological section of your favorite newspaper. 99% of these people probably follow a "normal" diet. Those that died young probably died of heart attacks. This surely can't be a coincidence...
As Glennart said, genetic heritage can be very important. For instance, around here, familial hypercholesterolemia affects about 1 person/100. This disease, in its milder form, has for consequence that your cells carry less LDL receptors, this particles thus accumulating in the blood and more prone to oxidation, which leads to the formation of arterial plaque. Even on the best diet, these people will never be centenarian. And that's just one known relationship between genes and heart attacks.
About Stephen Byrnes:
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adwred is that a cigar your smoking?
I found this video about the book you mentioned, will see if they have it at my library.
It is indeed!
Max Thunder wrote:
As Glennart said, genetic heritage can be very important. For instance, around here, familial hypercholesterolemia affects about 1 person/100. This disease, in its milder form, has for consequence that your cells carry less LDL receptors, this particles thus accumulating in the blood and more prone to oxidation, which leads to the formation of arterial plaque. Even on the best diet, these people will never be centenarian. And that's just one known relationship between genes and heart attacks.
So you are saying that high LDL does cause coronary artery disease? Last time I checked my LDL was over 250 (TC over 300). Should I be concerned?
I thought that people with the highest cholesterol levels live the longest?
Especially if you are a woman....high cholesterol levels mean you live longer!
I thought your were actually sipping on something. Oh well...to each, their perceptions.
Re: LDL, the number means nothing. What is more important is VLDL which transports triglycerides and can cause arterial damage due its smaller size as opposed to LDL which are fluffy large particles. If your Triglycerides are low or normal, there is nothing to worry at all.
You also don't want your cholesterol levels to be too low. Normal or high is ok. HDL normal to high as well.
Also, many cultures like the Masai and Eskimos especially ate mostly animal fat and there was hardly any incidence of heart attack among them. In the early 1900's, in the Western world, when heart attacks were much less prominent, people ate more fat, including saturated fat (i.e. butter) and less carbs.
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I thought your were actually sipping on something. Oh well...to each, their perceptions.
I thought the same thing. Good example of something seen not necessarily being true.
Yes, I'm sipping something very very hot out of a very small cup.
Weston A. Price didn't live his whole life on high fat, should point out that he also ate grains and what not.
Bear lived a sugary and starchy life for 20 years or so and he already had heart problems from all the insulin caused scarring. Arnold Schwarzenegger was born with a bad heart. Not a whole lot you can do about that. I have my own bit of permanent damage even though I changed my lifestyle when I was 16-17 years old because of the irresponsibility of my parents(even by conventional standards - they knew better).
Weston Price probably had milk, grains, fruits, and nuts in his diet too.
It probably didn't help Arnold Schwarzenegger to be using D-bol all those years. Who knows what effect that had on his heart.
Regarding Bear, I just got done reading a book about nutrition relating to blood type and I found it interesting how people with Blood Type A are more prone to heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Bear's blood type is A- and he's had heart problems and cancer. The diet recomended for this type is vegetarian with soy protein excluding all red meat. Has anybody read Eat Right 4 Your Type? It's very fascinating. Blood Type O people are supposed to be meat eaters, which I thankfully am
I say pull peoples hearts out when they're young! No worries then in old age
...oh, and TEETH TOO!
Did Arnold Schwartzennogie die, or something? Why all the talk of his heart?
I just don't have the Heart to tell you
I ment Arnold as an example but Arnold had surgery sometime in the past few years because of his heart problems, which he was born with. Ofc people blamed it on his bodybuilding, which may have been part of it, but you can't really blame it when he's born with such a thing.
Avalon wrote:
I say pull peoples hearts out when they're young! No worries then in old age
I had a G/F once, when I was young, who agreed with you.
I got a reply back from the Weston A Price foundation. They said although Price offically died of a heart attack, there are doubts over whether this was actually the cause of his death.
They suggested the possibility that it could have been stress.
i would have still thought that eating a low/no carb diet would still be benefical, even if you did eat lots of carbs before. So i was quite surprised to hear he died at the age he did.
However i still think eating fat is good for you, because it seems most of the mainstram information we are told today is completely biased and not entirely accurate.
I was speaking to someone recently about the low fat diet, and he said his parents used to eat lots of fat and meat and they both lived into their late 80s. That was just the way people ate.
Although people also used to eat lots of sugar, flour and potatoes. They still had lower rates of heart disease and cancer.
I recently listened to a very interesting program about why so many people are getting cancer now. Up until the 1970s? the polio vaccines they gave people contain a cancer causing monkey virus called sv40.
What they were sayig is that some scientists were aware of the dangers this could cause in humans, and said that there will probably be an explosion in cancer rates in the next 20-30 years. Which seems to have been whats happened.
Some went so far as to say this was done deliberately as part of a global population reduction strategy. Whereby you get injected with a cancer virus in your vaccine, which then activates in 20-30 years giving you cancer.
So this may be one reason why cancer rates have gone up so much from what they used to be. And i think there is some truth behind it, certaintly a lot of evidence to suggest that is the case.
According to the biblelife.org site exercise such as running, can also increase the rate and growth of cancer. This came as news to me, as like everyone i thought all exercise was good for you.
The site said that strenuous exercise causes lots of free radicals, which damages the body. I heard something similiar to this from Gary Null a well know "health expert" (who promotes a high veg/low fat diet). He said running a mile or so is the equivalent in terms of free radicals, as smoking 2 packs of cigarettes!
Interestingly the focus on fitness occured around the 1960s when getting fit became popular, and lots of health clubs started popping up.
Around the same time the low fat/low meat diet was promoted. Since then cancer has skyrocketed. When if you look at our grandparents generation, they did none of the things we consider to be healthy now and still lived a long life. Most of them also smoked.
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When Aaron Dobson missed mini-camp in June after undergoing foot surgery in March, chances appeared slim that he'd return to the field for training camp in July.
Not anymore.
With the New England Patriots' first training camp practice just two weeks away, there is now "optimism" that the second-year wide receiver will be ready to go in time, a source told Masslive.com's Nick Underhill on Monday.
Dobson spoke with reporters at a youth football camp at Merrimack College on Tuesday but declined to give any definitive update on his status.
"I don't know, it's hard to say," Dobson said, via the Boston Globe. "I'm taking it one day at a time, rehabbing hard, just to get back out there as quick as I can."
The 22-year-old receiver showed flashes of potential as a legitimate deep threat in his rookie season in New England but was also hampered by his nagging left foot injury that caused him to miss four regular season games.
"It's frustrating, but I'm just trying to stay humble and do what I can do to stay fresh on everything — still thinking about plays, upper-body lifting, core, everything that I can do that can help me benefit on the field while I was down," Dobson said.
The source added that while it's too early to be certain of Dobson's status, this marks the first time that anyone has had an optimistic update about his injury.
Dobson's original timetable projected that he'd be ready for minicamp in June.
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I am not using vdd and gnd as pins in schematic(instead using instances from analoglib).Now after layout is done and config view is done,the post layout simulation is not considering the vdd and gnd(therefore shows different output waveform).If I use the vdd and gnd pins(in scematic) than i get the correct waveform, however this makes inverter symbol with four legs.
The pins on the layout could have global names, and then it should work. However, the best solution would be to use inherited connections. If you create pins on your schematic for vdd and vss using a "netExpr" (defaulting to (say) vdd! and vss!), controlled by a properties vdd and vss respectively, and also use Layout XL to generate the layout - you'll have similar pins on the layout, and also on any resulting extracted view.
There's then no need to have the pins on the symbol - you can keep that having just the input and output pins. You'll also then have the ability to reuse the inverter in various supply domains by adding netSet properties at a higher level to override the values of the supplies.
This is well covered in the documentation - probably search for "inherited connections" or "netExpr" or something like that.


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Steinbrenner died last
week after almost four decades of running the Yankees—minus a few years in two
suspensions, in the '70s for illegal campaign donations to Richard Nixon and
the '90s for hiring a private eye to dig up dirt on Dave Winfield. In the '90s
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The Observers, with Frank getting a firsthand view in New York, chime in.
Frank: Shades of Charles
Foster Kane! This was the tabloids' version of Orson Welles' fictional newsreel
that solemnly intoned the passing of a giant.
Artie: Except that instead of
"Rosebud," Steinbrenner's last word evoking a painful loss might have been
Frank: That would be
fictionally fitting, since the trading of future All-Star Jay Buhner in 1998
spurred Frank Costanza to browbeat Steinbrenner on "Seinfeld."
Artie: These days a lot of
people hate the Yankees and their money, but I can honestly say I liked their
teams from 1982 through '94.
Frank: Gee, the 13 straight
seasons when the Yankees couldn't even reach the playoffs. I view that era a
bit differently, but you raise an interesting point. A Newsday headline proclaimed, "Boss' Legacy: He Won," but by his own
standard he didn't win all that much.
Artie: Buying… um, winning
seven World Series ain't chopped liver; the next-closest team during his reign
was Oakland
with three.
Frank: Yeah, but that's over
37 years. By The Boss' blustery credo that the Yanks' only goal was total
supremacy, he batted under .200. He bought the team in '73 and the winning came
in two spurts—four World Series (two wins) from '76 through '81 and seven
Series (five wins) since '95. But in between he presided over those 13 years of
nothing—the longest Yankee drought since before Babe Ruth arrived in 1920.
Artie: Maybe if The Boss
hadn't been such an egotistical knob, if he'd shown some common sense and
people skills toward managers, he'd have gotten above the Mendoza line.
Frank: It's often said here
that a "new" Steinbrenner came back from his second suspension in '93. He was
willing to give his "baseball people" more leeway to build the team from
within. The "Core Four" who are still playing—Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte,
Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada—began to rise through the minors during
Steinbrenner's penance.
Artie: The "old" Steinbrenner
might have traded a couple of those guys for one of his high-priced "names,"
Frank: Not that there weren't
boondoggles all along—like signing pitchers Kevin Brown, Jaret Wright and Carl
Pavano. But the Yankees' piles of money—which really grew in this decade when
Steinbrenner created YES, his own cable network—financed 13 straight playoff
appearances from '95 through '07.
Artie: The key for any club is
making good moves. But if you've got the dough you can make more moves and
figure that enough will work...
Frank: Besides that, through
luck or shrewdness, Steinbrenner found in Joe Torre a manager who'd stand up to
him while keeping the clubhouse steady. Torre had nice things to say last week,
but also this: "He had no regard for anyone else's life. But those were the
ground rules."
Artie: Sounds like bosses
we've all had.
Frank: Here's another
question. A New York Times business
column had the headline, "Was Steinbrenner Just Lucky?" Might anyone be able to
win with the same pile of money?
Artie: It's possible to win in
pro sports without being a blowhard. Take the Rooneys in the NFL or our own
former Packers president, Bob Harlan.
Frank: Here's another
Steinbrenner issue. Around here everyone's been saying, "Well, George just
wanted to win so much" to explain why he acted like a jerk. But did Bud Selig
want to win any less, or does Mark Attanasio now? Does the desire to win cover
a multitude of sins? In other words, does the end justify the means, no matter
how mean?
Artie: To a team's fans,
absolutely. To quote another world-class jerk, Al Davis, "Just win, baby."
Frank: I held my nose about
Steinbrenner's bullying, sore-loser antics, but I didn't stop smiling whenever
the Yankees won.
Artie: And I didn't notice
anyone booing the noted steroid user and liar Alex Rodriguez last fall when he
helped the Yankees go all the way.
Frank: In the World Cup soccer
final, most analysts ripped Holland's
team for super-aggressive tactics to disrupt the favored Spaniards. But if Holland had won, would
the title have been tainted?
Artie: Not to Dutch fans!
Frank: The tabloids painted
Steinbrenner as a lovable rogue. But he wasn't so lovable, to the press or the
fans, when the team was lousy. If he'd died two years ago, when the Yankees
missed the playoffs, the tone might have differed. As it was, he had the great
timing to depart as a defending champ.
Artie: Here's another case.
Red Auerbach was an arrogant jerk, but he coached the Celtics to nine NBA
titles in 10 years. But several of those finals in the '50s and '60s came down
to a seventh game against the Lakers. If a few shots go the other way, maybe
Auerbach isn't quite the legend we think of.
Frank: How about Vince
Lombardi? Remember the famous quote: "He treated us all the same—like dogs." If
Bart Starr doesn't make it to the end zone in the Ice Bowl and something goes
wrong in another title game, does Vince become less of a legend?
Artie: Now you're on dangerous
ground! I think Lombardi wasn't out to aggrandize himself the way Steinbrenner
or Auerbach was. With Lombardi the team was everything...
Frank: I thought the best
Steinbrenner summary came from Times
columnist Jim Dwyer: "He raged. He wept. He won. … He broke laws,
promises, lives. He did charity. He grafted his ego onto the back pages of
newspapers. He championed ordinary New Yorkers, then took them for every last
Artie: A big shot sticking it
to the little guy. Shocking!
Frank: Now the Yankees have a
terrific new stadium, heavily subsidized by public financing. How did Steinbrenner
get it? He trashed the Bronx as too dangerous and tried to move to Manhattan, even threatening to go to New Jersey otherwise. But Yankee fans called
his bluff, packing the old Yankee Stadium. So how did The Boss repay Joe Fan?
The new ballpark has far fewer seats in the upper deck, affordable for the
average guy.
Artie: Some friend of the
ordinary New Yorker.
Frank: To me, the far deeper
loss was Bob Sheppard, the classy voice of Yankee Stadium for almost 60 years,
who died two days before Steinbrenner. Remembering him announce the starting
lineups—"And for the Yankees…"—evokes sunny days at the Stadium with my dad and
brother, in good times and bad. Steinbrenner only evokes New York pomposity. Or as another Times headline said, "A Windbag, But He
Was Our Windbag."
Artie: Now there's a legacy!
Frank: The odes last week emphasized that The Boss did a lot of charitable giving and mended many of his broken relationships. We all carry a balance sheet of good and bad when we make our exit, but Steinbrenner's real legacy might be to remind us that in sports, good behavior isn't what matters. Winning is.


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