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On the Shelf
Mick Jagger Forgot He Wrote a Book, and Other NewsBy Dan Piepenbring
- Memoirs are hot right now. "Lost" books are hot right now. So it stands to reason: if you could write a memoir and then somehow "lose" it—maybe, by, say, failing to remember that you ever wrote it at all—you're gonna be rolling in the dough. But who, you might ask, could ever forget writing his own memoirs? The answer is simple: Mick Jagger, whose whole life lives under the banner of plausible deniability. Jagger, who's claimed that he'll never write an autobiography, has apparently forgotten that he already wrote one, of some seventy-thousand words, in the early eighties. Having expunged any memory of the book, he's done more than any publicity tour could to enhance its salability. John Blake dishes: "Stuck in a secret hiding place right now I have Mick's 75,000-word manuscript … Mick was reputedly paid an advance of £1 million, an extraordinary figure for the time. A ghost was appointed and publication scheduled. Only it didn't work out quite like that … [In the book], Mick tells of buying a historic mansion, Stargroves, while high on acid and of trying out the life of horse-riding country squire. Having never ridden a horse before, he leapt on to a stallion, whereupon it reared and roared off 'like a Ferrari'. Summoning his wits and some half-remembered horse facts, he gave the stallion a thump on the forehead right between the eyes and slowed it down … I was determined that this book needed to be published. Mick's delightful manager, Joyce Smyth, responded encouragingly to my letter. Mick could not remember any manuscript."
- While we're failing to remember things—more believably and far more tragically, the culture has failed to canonize Freda DeKnight, a prominent black editor, writer, and cook whose midcentury fame has now completely evaporated. Donna Battle Pierce explains, "Born in 1909, DeKnight spent much of her fifty-four years collecting, protecting and celebrating African-American culture and traditions in the years after World War II up to the civil rights movement. Yet her name has been all but forgotten—she doesn't even have that most basic of 21st century acknowledgements, a Wikipedia page … As the first food editor for Ebony magazine, DeKnight wrote a photo-driven monthly column that offered her home economist's tips, as well as regional recipes from the "Negro community" of home cooks, professional chefs, caterers, restaurateurs and celebrities … DeKnight presented a more nuanced and often glamorous image of African-American cooking and culture—not just to African-American readers, but to the broader world."


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Prostaglandins take part in a wide range of body functions, including the contraction and relaxation of smooth muscle, the dilation and constriction of blood vessels, control of blood pressure, and modulation of inflammation. The greatest concentration of them occurs in semen. Several prostaglandins have been shown to induce fever, possibly by participating in the temperature-regulating mechanisms in the hypothalamus. The fact that aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have been shown to inhibit prostaglandin synthesis may account for their usefulness in reducing fever and inflammation. Natural and synthetic prostaglandins are used to induce labor in humans and domestic animals.
Every prostaglandin contains 20 carbon atoms, including a 5-carbon ring. The prostaglandins together with the thromboxanes form the prostanoid class of fatty acid derivatives; the prostanoid class is a subclass of eicosanoids.
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How Many Apps Is Too Many Apps?
Looking back on it now, the first time I truly felt the need for a note-taking app was when I started researching note-taking apps. I was just looking for a simple tool to save ideas about upcoming articles or jot down an occasional to-do list.


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It's official. The Greater Vallejo Recreation District knows how to throw a birthday party.
Locals and officials were on hand Saturday to celebrate the 70th birthday of the GVRD at Blue Rock Springs Park.
Various booths and tents were assembled offering kids and adults alike to learn about the GVRD and maybe sign up for an activity class.
"It is a showcase for the most diverse city in the United States," said Wendell Quigley, chair of the GVRD Board of Directors.
Shane McAffee, general manager of GVRD, said that he anticipated around 1,500 to show up and enjoy the festivities.
"People questioned why we didn't wait until our 75th year to hold a birthday party," he said. "But why miss a chance to party?"
McAffee said that the decision to hold the birthday celebration at Blue Rock Springs Park was an easy one.
"It is the most popular park in Vallejo and it is really accommodating to families," he said.
Several children participated in tumbling exercises, hosted by the North Bay Athletic Association. While others, like the American Canyon Cheerleaders entertained guests with their family-friendly moves.
Some children exercised their respective painting talents by decorating a painting of a tree on a large canvass.
McAffee said that the GVRD has benefited from the recent passage of Measure K, which allowed the GVRD not to close Vallejo parks.
He said that the GVRD also received $371,000 from Vallejo's Participatory Budgeting last year to improve 16 GVRD parks.
"Zero dollars (from PB) were spent on overhead," McAffee said.
"It is really a celebration of community," McAffee said. "Because they put money in it."
Guests to the birthday party were treated to multi-colored cupcakes, which were easily devoured by guests.
Before cupcakes were served, Vallejo City Council Member, Katy Miessner addressed those assembled.
"Look at the surrounding area," Miessner said as she pointed around Blue Rock Springs Park. "We are so lucky (to have these parks)."
Miessner implored guests to "go out and enjoy the parks."
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Karen MacEwan, M.D., joined Corvallis Radiology in 1998 after working in private practice radiology in Iowa for 8 years. She completed her Radiology training at the University of Iowa in 1990 following Internship and Medical School at UC Davis and National Health Service. She is currently medical director of Corvallis Mammography. Dr. MacEwan enjoys gardening and bicycle touring, and participates in Sprint Triathlons.
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5 Calorie-Saving Frozen Meals
Frozen entrees can help you avoid overeating because the calorie-control work is done for you. These five options are rich in protein and fiber—and taste good. Enjoy!
Artisan Bistro Southwest Style Grass-Fed Beef
Satisfying beef chunks and filling pilaf in a sweet chili sauce.
330 calories, 20 g protein, 6 g fiber, 520 mg sodium
Australis Rosemary-Parmesan Barramundi
Sweet-tasting fish on a bed of quinoa, kale, and artichokes.
(one package) 420 calories, 22 g protein, 6 g fiber, 900 mg sodium
Kashi Thin Crust BBQ Recipe Chicken Pizza
Chicken, caramelized onions, and mozzarella cheese on a crunchy seven-grain crust
(half pie) 360 calories, 22.5 g protein, 7.5 g fiber, 885 mg sodium
Evol Bean & Cheddar Enchilada Bake
Tasty cilantro-lime rice with a satiating vegetarian combo of pinto beans and corn
430 calories, 17 g protein, 9 g fiber, 600 mg sodium
Frozen entrees tend to be high in salt, so eat a dessert with sodium-balancing potassium. Try a sliced banana in plain Greek yogurt, topped with chopped walnuts and a bit of cinnamon.
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The Walnut Creek Historical Society has created the Oral History Project, a series of personal, filmed interviews with longtime residents and families who have lived in the Walnut Creek area for more than 50 years, inspired by the Walnut Creek centennial.
April Bell, personal historian at Tree of Life Legacies, has filmed interviews of local residents for the Oral History Project with Walnut Creek Historical Society member and film producer, Judie Hockel; society historian Sheila Rogstad and the late Audrey Veregge. Here is a link to view the interviews: http://walnutcreekhistory.info/video.
Would you like to propose a 50-year or longer Walnut Creek resident or volunteer yourself for the next series of interviews planned for late September? Call the Walnut Creek Historical Society at 925-935-7871 for details, or visit their website at walnutcreekhistory.info.
Advocacy award
Bob Jacobsen, of Walnut Creek, was awarded a 2014 Excellence in Service Award by the Developmental Disabilities Council of Contra Costa County. Jacobsen is as a participant and mentor in the Care Parent Network's support group providing emotional and informational support to fathers of young children who are newly diagnosed with developmental disabilities and special health care needs.
Jacobsen has facilitated Just for Fathers, a support group that meets once a month providing parent-to-parent support and has organized family camping trips, picnics and parties. He has built a community of support that will last a lifetime for many fathers.
For more information about the Care Parent Network, based in Martinez, visit www.contracostaarc.com or call 925-313-0999.
Apply for grants
Organizations with projects serving Martinez and its residents may submit grant applications for fall review by the Martinez Community Foundation board of directors. Applications must be received by Monday, Sept. 15.
Primary areas of focus are community services, cultural and community celebrations, economic development, education and the environment.
"We are striving to leave a legacy," said Stuart M. McCullough, board president. "We carefully consider how best to distribute the funds so as to provide benefit to the greatest number of people, and to have a lasting effect."
The foundation has provided more than $542,000 in grants since 1993, including the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano, Loaves and Fishes, Martinez Unified School District, Main Street Martinez, John Muir Association Earth Day-Birthday celebrations, Martinez Chamber of Commerce, Martinez Historical Society, Martinez Public Library, Martinez Opera, Meals on Wheels, John Muir Regional Land Trust and the Contra Costa Historical Society.
Applications may be obtained by calling the foundation at 925-372-6286, writing to: Martinez Community Foundation, P.O. Box 789, Martinez CA 94553, or www.martinezcommunityfoundation.org.
Poster Winners
Pine Hollow Middle School students from Concord have won the Knights of Columbus, St. Bonaventure Council Substance Abuse Poster Contest for the third year in a row for the 12-14-year-old age group at the Knights of Columbus regional and state levels.
Winning themes were "Don't be Part of the Walking Dead," by Kailey Kingsmore for Drug Awareness; and "Don't Pollute Your Life," by Yaneli Balcazar for Alcohol Awareness. Both advanced to the state competition.
Special awards for Artistic Excellence in Graphic Art were presented to Tiffany Hernandez for "Rise Above," for Alcohol Awareness; and Sabrina Hambalek for "Drugs Aren't Anything to Laugh About."
Winners in the 8-11-year-old age group were fifth-graders Audrey Carlson and Matthew Hubbard of Mt. Diablo Elementary in Clayton, and Jessica Oledan of St. Agnes School in Concord. Jessica was a state winner and advanced to the international competition in New Haven, Conn., where she won fourth place.
The next poster competition will start Aug. 15 and continue through Jan. 31, 2015. Entry forms are required. Contact poster chairman Claire Tryon at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 925-673-8564.
There are two age groups — 8-11 and 12-14 — and the categories are Drug Abuse and Alcohol Abuse. Winners advance through four levels of competition during the year.
Great Stuff Sale
The Concord Historical Society is accepting donations for the "Great Stuff Sale" to be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 13-14, in the lovely gardens of Galindo House, 1721 Amador St. in Concord. Proceeds will support the Historical Society.
Donations of household items (except large furniture) are welcome from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday until Sept. 4, at the adjacent Masonic Temple. Contact Barbara Strehlitz at 925-686-3917 for information about donations or attending the sale.
You can change a life!
Volunteer as a tutor to help adults in your neighborhood improve their English well enough to function in our society. The Diablo Valley Literacy Council provides training and offers volunteers a selection of students to provide a one-on-one opportunity to help change a life.
English need not be your first language and no teaching experience is required. Spanish, Scandinavian, Asian, Russian, Middle Eastern and Central/South America students are waiting for tutors.
Apply for the next workshop to be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 6 and 13, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 4000 Clayton Road in Concord. You must attend both sessions.
There is a nominal fee to cover the training and materials costs. Adult volunteers typically give one or two hours per week. For more information, visit dvlc.tripod.com. To register, call and leave a message at 925-685-3881 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
'Great Futures'
The Boys & Girls Club of the Diablo Valley "Great Futures" campaign hopes to mobilize the community to empower our youth by emphasizing the critical role out-of-school time plays in a child's chance to achieve success.
Every day, 15 million kids leave school with no place to go, putting them at risk of being unsupervised, unguided and unsafe. Boys & Girls Club of Diablo Valley provides access to positive and productive programs as well as caring adult mentors during out-of-school time.
The city of Martinez declared July 31 as the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Diablo Valley Great Futures Day. The club currently reaches more than 1,000 youths ages 6-18 through its various programs. Annual dues to attend the club are only $24 per year, and no young person is turned away for financial reasons.
Organized sports, art programs and tutoring are provided daily at the club's facility, 1301
Alhambra Ave. in Martinez. For information on how you can help, call 925-228-3896 or visit www.bgcdv.org.
"Good Neighbors" is compiled by Faith Barnidge. Send club and organization news, and other submissions to email@example.com.


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The Purpose of This Study is to Determine if Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is Effective in the Treatment of Pain Resulting From Chemotherapy Treatment (TTX-CINP-201)
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Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a major dose-limiting side effect of many chemotherapeutic agents including vincristine, paclitaxel, cisplatin, oxaliplatin, bortezomib and ixabepilone. Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy commonly occurs in greater than 40% of patients. To improve the peripheral neuropathy, the chemotherapy dosing is often either decreased or discontinued potentially affecting tumor responsiveness, prognosis, and survival.
There is an unmet medical need for treatment of cancer patients with chemotherapy induced neuropathic pain (CINP) and the proposed study will investigate the efficacy and safety of multiple dose levels of tetrodotoxin (TTX) versus placebo in moderate to severe neuropathic pain caused by chemotherapy.
|Pain Peripheral Neuropathy Neuropathic Pain
|Drug: Placebo Drug: Tetrodotoxin
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|A Randomized, Double-Blind, Dose-Finding, Placebo Controlled, Phase II Multicenter Study of Tetrodotoxin in the Treatment of Chemotherapy Induced Neuropathic Pain
- Change from Baseline in patient reported outcome for pain at Day 22 to Day 28. [ Time Frame: Day 22 to Day 28 ]To identify up to two doses/regimens of Tetrodoxin (TTX) to bring forward to Part II for further evaluation.
- Safety [ Time Frame: screening to Day 28 ]To evaluate the number and severity of Adverse Events from subjects within each cohort against the other cohorts.
|Study Start Date:
|July 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2016
|Primary Completion Date:
|January 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Placebo Comparator: Placebo (twice daily)
Placebo for injection (1 ml volume), twice a day for four consecutive days.
Drug: Placebo
Sham treatment acting as control arm
Other Name: placebo for injection
Experimental: Low dose Tetrodotoxin (twice daily)
Low dose Tetrodotoxin injectable (1 ml volume), twice a day for four consecutive days.
Drug: Tetrodotoxin
Comparison of different dosages of Tetrodotoxin
Other Name: TTX for injection
Experimental: Mid-range dose of Tetrodotoxin (twice daily)
Mid-range dose Tetrodotoxin injectable (1 ml volume), twice a day for four consecutive days.
Drug: Tetrodotoxin
Comparison of different dosages of Tetrodotoxin
Other Name: TTX for injection
Experimental: Max dose Tetrodotoxin (once daily)
Max dose Tetrodotoxin injectable (1 ml volume), once a day in the morning for four consecutive days and Placebo for injection (1 ml volume), once a day in the afternoon for four consecutive days. Total of 4 treatment days.
Drug: Placebo
Sham treatment acting as control arm
Other Name: placebo for injectionDrug: Tetrodotoxin
Comparison of different dosages of Tetrodotoxin
Other Name: TTX for injection
Experimental: Max dose Tetrodotoxin (twice daily)
Max dose Tetrodotoxin injectable (1 ml volume), twice a day for four consecutive days.
Drug: Tetrodotoxin
Comparison of different dosages of Tetrodotoxin
Other Name: TTX for injection
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- If female, not of childbearing potential.
- Patients with documented neuropathic pain
- Cancer Patients who have completed a chemotherapy regimen which included taxanes or platinums (or both) and have no evidence actively progressive disease. Concurrent hormonal therapies are allowed
- Patients with stable moderate to severe neuropathic pain
- Patients with an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status score of 0 or 1.
- Patients who are able to complete the study-related questionnaires independently in either English or Spanish.
Exclusion Criteria:
- History of peripheral neuropathy attributed to any cause other than chemotherapy.
- Patients receiving any concurrent agents known to cause peripheral neuropathy within 30 days of Randomization.
- Current use of other therapy (ies), including "alternative" therapies, for treatment of peripheral neuropathy within 30 days of Randomization (with the exception of protocol allowed concurrent medications).
- Patients who used controlled release opioids within seven days of baseline period or who expect to use controlled release opioids at any time from baseline to end of study.
- Patients with abnormal kidney function.
- Patients with bone metastases.
- Patients scheduled for treatment for their cancer with chemotherapy or radiotherapy between screening and the end of study visit.
- Current use of lidocaine and other types of antiarrhythmic drugs within 30 days of Randomization.
- Current use of scopolamine and acetylcholinesterase-inhibiting drugs such as physostigmine within 30 days of Randomization.
- Current cause of Chemotherapy Induced Neuropathic Pain attributed to Velcade (Bortezomib) or vinca alkaloids or analogues such as vincristine, vinblasine, vinorelbine and vindesine.
- Current use of tricyclic antidepressant medication, anticonvulsants and monoamine oxidase inhibitors.
- Patients with current uncontrolled asthma or lung disease.
- Patients with significant heart disease.
- Use of an investigational agent within 30 days prior to screening or is scheduled to receive an investigational drug other than TTX during the course of the study.
- Females who are pregnant or nursing
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01655823
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|Responsible Party:
|Wex Pharmaceuticals Inc.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01655823 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|July 19, 2012
|Last Updated:
|June 1, 2015
Keywords provided by Wex Pharmaceuticals Inc.:
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WEX Pharmaceuticals
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
Neuromuscular Diseases
Signs and Symptoms
Anesthetics, Local
Central Nervous System Depressants
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Sensory System Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Sodium Channel Blockers
Membrane Transport Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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SAN PABLO — An early morning fire at an industrial park burned for nearly four hours before crews were able to contain the blaze, according to a fire official.
No one was injured.
Crews with the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District and the Richmond Fire Department responded to reports around 11:38 p.m. at the Giant Trade Center, located at 209 Center Court in San Pablo, according to Battalion Chief Bryan Craig.
Crews were able to see a plume of smoke as they headed to the center and when they arrived, the fire was already steadily burning between two buildings, located at 205 B and 225 Center Court, and was threatening to spread to other structures.
In addition to the blaze, power lines that had been damaged by flames threatened firefighters' progress on containing the fire, Craig added.
The fire was contained around 3:36 a.m., and the total damage cost to the burned structures is roughly $150,000. A cause for the blaze has not been determined.
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Henry King Stanford Distinguished Professor in the Humanities presents on March 28.
Coral Gables (March 14, 2012) —
Award-winning novelist and theoretical physicist Alan Lightman, who is serving as a Henry King Stanford Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the University of Miami this year, will present the lecture "At the Crossroads of Art & Science: The Physicist as Novelist" on Wednesday, March 28 at 7 p.m. in the College of Arts and Sciences Gallery, 1210 Stanford Drive. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Lightman's playful and profound new novel, Mr g, the story of creation as told by God, was released on January 24, 2012. The New York Times Book Review praised Mr g as "a soulful riff on the birth and eventual demise of our universe." His novel Einstein's Dreams (1993) was an international bestseller and has been translated into 30 languages. It has been the basis of more than two-dozen independent theatrical and musical productions. Lightman's The Diagnosis was a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award in fiction. The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science was named by Discover Magazine as one of the ten best books on science in 2005.
Lightman has served on the faculties of Harvard and MIT. He was the first person to receive a dual faculty appointment in science and the humanities at MIT, where he is an adjunct professor of humanities. He is the author of six novels, a book-length narrative poem, two collections of essays, and several books on science. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Nature, among other publications.
Registration is required for Lightman's lecture. For more information and to register please click here.
The College of Arts and Sciences Center for the Humanities at the University of Miami is dedicated to supporting humanities, arts, and interpretive social science research and teaching, as well as to presenting public programs to enrich Miami's intellectual culture. For more information, please call 305-284-1580, or visit www.humanities.miami.edu.
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Krista Dierkhising and Jason LaPlant, both of Minneapolis, would like to announce their engagement and upcoming wedding.
Krista is a graduate of Park Rapids High School. She completed her bachelor of science and masters degrees at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is currently a speech pathologist in the Minneapolis School District.
Jason is a graduate of Dassel Cokato High School. He completed his bachelor of science at the University of Minnesota Morris. Jason is a senior accountant at CBRE.
Krista is the daughter of Paul and LouAnn Dierkhising of Park Rapids and Jason is the son of Steven and Karen LaPlant of Annandale.
The couple will be married Friday, Aug. 8 at Lutsen Resort, Lutsen.


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Oprah's words can impact even the toughest of football players.
The world's most powerful woman nearly knocked Drew Brees, the Super Bowl MVP, off his high horse on Friday afternoon when she tried to wipe his birthmark off his face. So Brees regrouped over the weekend and saddled old Trigger in Sunday's Bacchus Mardi Gras in New Orleans to try to shake any embarrassment.
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Some Bronx Bombers fans make it too easy for Red Sox Nation to make fun of those in Yankee Universe.
Yankees are a better team than the soxs, they have better pitching and
a better offense. Nick Johnson is a obs machine and Granderson should
be a much better hitter because he is a lefty and plays 81 games at a
little league feild. Javy Vazquez finshed 5th in the NL cy voting last
year snd Hughes and Joba are better than Dice-K and Bucholtz and
finally the Yankees have a better closer than the Soxs do."
Wade Phillips never ceases to amaze me.
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WASHINGTON (Jul. 26)
Arthur Goldberg, who served his country as its Ambassador to the United Nations and as a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was honored by President Carter at the White House today. The President presented the 69-year-old jurist and diplomat with the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award.
The presentation was made only a few days after President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, in a nationally televised speech in Cairo last Saturday, said that peace might have been achieved in the Middle East if Carter had been in office in 1967 and not "the Zionist" Goldberg, who was a member of the Johnson Administration.
But White House Press Secretary Jody Powell stressed that the award to Goldberg had no connection with Sadat's remarks. He noted that the ceremony had been planned some time ago and was scheduled to suit the convenience of the President and Goldberg.
The Medal of Freedom was awarded to Goldberg specifically for the services he rendered as U.S. representative to the UN after the Six-Day War, for which he was disparaged by Sadat. Carter praised Goldberg as an author of Security Council Resolution 242 which "is now…the unshakeable basis for ultimate agreement in the Middle East."
He also hailed Goldberg's dedication to human and civil rights as a Supreme Court Justice and as chairman of the U.S. delegation to the Belgrade conference last spring on the results of the Helsinki Final Act.


text: Through what seemed like an eternity of turmoil and interference, the inevitable has finally happened. While on tour this summer with German black metallers ENDSTILLE, the infamously dueling duo, Nocturnal Overlord and Vampir Scorpios, have reunited to negotiate all the obstacles in the path of the CRIMSON MOON and have been feverishly at work on all-new material for their baneful and bloodthirsty upcoming release, "Brotherhood of the Sanguine Race", to be released by Germany's No Colours Records. Inevitably, also appearing on this album is Blood Moon Ausar (of DAGON) back on keyboards, and a new, more aggressive drummer. According to a press release, "The new material is faster and more venomous than ever, with a more primitive approach to song composition." Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "The Acrimonious Consciousness of Being", "Reawakening the Sanguine Breath of Tiamat", "Transcend the Darkness II" and "Communion in Blood".In addition to the confirmed "Communion in Blood" reunion tour planned for Germany, an Eastern European trek is also currently in the works for Thessaloniki, Greece; Macedonia; Ljubljana; Slovenia; and Athens, Greece.


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J.G. Petrucci Company Inc. has agreed to sell 31 acres at the Forks Business Center in Forks Township PA to Henningsen Cold Storage Co. The price of this transaction was not available.
Oregon-based Henningsen is a full-service, public refrigerated warehousing company offering more than 37 million cubic feet of frozen and refrigerated warehousing space. It has locations in Idaho, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington .
Henningsen intends to construct a 466,000-square-foot cold storage plant on the Pennsylvania site, which is expected to be operational in 2009, according to J.G. Petrucci. About 75 jobs are expected to be created at this facility.


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Boston, MA, United States, 2015/09/23 - Grandstream Networks, connecting the world since 2002 with award-winning SIP Unified Communication solutions, has announced the addition of a new small business Network Video Recorder (NVR) - Grandstream.com.
The GVR3552 offers small business and residential users a competitive and reliable solution for centralized IP video surveillance recording and monitoring of up to 16 HD IP video cameras.
The GVR3552 supports up to two 2.5 SATA hard drives with up to 4TB of storage (hard drives not included). To make installation as easy as possible, users can easily plug in and unplug the hard drives from an external hard drive tray without needing to open the device. Live video feeds as well as recorded video feeds from the GVR3552 can be accessed by connecting the GVR3552 directly to a TV or computer monitor or through the products web user interface. Additionally, the GVR3552 is able to auto-discover any Grandstream IP surveillance cameras and encoders/decoders for quick deployment. The GVR3552 joins the GVR3550, which supports up to 24 HD video channels and 8TB of storage, in Grandstreams GVR series of NVRs.
Other highlights of the GVR3552 include
Up to 16 channels of 720p or 8 channels of 1080p video recordings
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Internal document shows link between isolation and extended imprisonment at Rikers Island
A massive log of inmate injuries paints a brutal picture of life inside the city's main jail complex
Unpublished study suggests young Rikers Island residents have been harmed by past trauma
The NYPD has embraced Facebook and Twitter to investigate alleged gangs — but will the evidence hold up in court?
New York set to get neighborhood-level maps of incidents reported to police — though many details, including the level of NYPD cooperation, remain to be determined
New York's chief judge calls for unshackling more defendants from jail while they await trial. But are local governments committed to buying their freedom?
Hundreds of Rikers Island inmates are in solitary confinement, under conditions that can cause serious psychological deterioration. Rasaun Bullock's torments during 49 months in the hole cost him his right to a speedy trial.
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Same here!!! lol.
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My inlaws.
i agree! my mom and i would do great stranded together lol. this is gomma sound funny but when i had my daughter, my husband and mom were in the delivery room and she is yhe only one that helped me thrpygh it lol, my husband was a little useless lol. he said he was holding my hand, but mom wad yhe one encouraging me :) sorry for typos, on phone
Quoting AzariahsMother: There are a few people I wouldn't want to be with. The 1 person I WOULD want to be with is my Mother.
Lots of people! The shorter list would be who I would want to be stranded with.
This exactly!
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My mother. God bless her- I do love her immensely- but we are just very different people and I think we would be arguing within an hour.
My ex husband, all he does is talk about himself non stop.
Anyone that's not going to be an asset for survival.
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Julie Stalmer 5:30 p.m., Sept. 22
San Diego With the city's finances in tatters, the Union-Tribune has lately been talking up the idea of raising taxes. In a lengthy front-page story a week ago Sunday, headlined "America's cheapest city," the newspaper set forth its case. "Despite their repugnance for higher taxes, residents and city leaders have long had a passion for pricey programs," the story declared, citing the "new downtown ballpark" as an example. "And with each new program, there has been no new revenue source to pay for it," the story pointed out. "The bottom line: San Diegans can blame themselves, in part, for today's financial chaos."
But maybe the U-T shouldn't be hard on its readers, since for years the paper has told them that the huge ballpark subsidy paid to megamillionaire Padres owner John Moores wouldn't require new taxes. One example is an editorial dated February 5, 2001, in which the U-T , long a cheerleader for public spending to benefit the Padres and Chargers, wrote: "Some council members have questioned whether the city can afford its $225 million contribution to the ballpark's construction. The short answer is, of course it can." The editorial went on to repeat what for it was a familiar mantra: that the ballpark would be a great economic engine, financed not by locals but by hotel taxes paid by tourists, as well as real estate taxes on new Moores developments surrounding the park. "Annual financing costs on the ballpark bonds are estimated at about $25 million, and they may be even less because of looming cuts in interest rates. What's more, redevelopment taxes in the ballpark district are running higher than anticipated and can help close any gap in hotel tax revenues." Critics of the subsidy, like ex-councilman Bruce Henderson , were routinely derided by the U-T as "obstructionists." Moores later gave the paper inside dibs on two multimillion-dollar condominium suites in the top stories of the ballpark's Omni Hotel, developed with the aid of city taxpayers, a fact also omitted from last week's tax-raising story.
Unplugged The longtime head of the City of San Diego's cable television operation and founding manager of its cable TV channel has left his job over unspecified "personnel issues." Reached at home by phone, ex-city cable administrator Mark Jaffee , an "at will" employee who served at the pleasure of city manager Lamont Ewell , confirmed that he had been relieved of his duties without cause and given no reason for his dismissal. Some city hall insiders suggest that Jaffee's departure may have been related to watchdog Mel Shapiro 's call for the city-operated cable channel to televise a series of debates between mayoral candidates Jerry Sanders and Donna Frye. According to that theory, Jaffee was in favor of the debates, but city hall higher-ups like Ewell nixed the idea and got rid of Jaffee in the bargain. Others point to an earlier contretemps about whether city attorney Mike Aguirre should get coverage on the city channel; that idea was also vetoed. In addition to running the cable channel, Jaffee processed citizens' complaints and handled other cable regulatory matters. He says he is currently mulling employment options. His supporters say it's possible that whoever is elected mayor in November will rehire him. City officials declined comment.
Cartoonish Two former San Diego political cartoonists now living in the region devastated by Hurricane Katrina had radically different takes on the disaster last week. J.D. Crowe , who drew for the Evening Tribune and then the Reader before taking a job at the daily Mobile Register in Alabama, offered a caricature of a befuddled George Bush standing under a line reading, "He's relaxed, well-rested, and almost four days late. He's our national disaster president," with Bush saying, "I got here the minute I found out...my vacation was over." On the other hand, Steve Kelly, fired by the Union-Tribune after a spat with editorial chief Bob Kittle following a spate of bad ink about Kelly's fathering an out-of-wedlock child with the widow of Hotel del Coronado mogul M. Larry Lawrence, was less than sympathetic to the locals. Now working for the New Orleans Times-Picayune -- which managed to publish via the Web during the peak of the disaster -- Kelly pictured a wife reading a newspaper to her husband about post-Katrina unrest in the Big Easy. She tells him, "They're shooting each other in New Orleans." He replies, "So things are getting back to normal..." Another Kelly cartoon featured an alligator swimming down a New Orleans street, telling a nearby snake, "The looters scare me."... The executive board of the San Diego city Firefighters Union, Local 145, has voted to boycott the Union-Tribune "and encourage its members and Fire Department fire stations to discontinue subscriptions to the newspaper," according to a recent posting on the union's website. "Citing the numerous articles and editorials over the past year that contained misinformation, a distortion of facts and subjective reporting and editorializing, members of the L145 executive board have called for an end to patronage of the daily paper."


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Stakeholders from Least Developed Countries (LDCs), other developing countries, and supporting agencies and organizations will gather for the second National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Expo. The event will take place over two days to: act as a platform for stakeholders to exchange experiences, lessons learned and ideas on the NAP process; mobilize action and support for the creation and implementation of NAPs; share technical knowledge, including on methods, data and tools; and assess needs that should be filled in order to implement the NAP process effectively and to further inform the bodies supporting these processes. The LDC Expert Group (LEG) is organizing the Expo, with support from the UNFCCC Secretariat and an advisory group consisting of, inter alia, representatives from the Adaptation Committee and its Task Force on NAPs, GEF agencies, bilateral agencies and international organizations. The first NAP Expo was held in June 2013.
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Suicune, The Aurora Pokťmon. Said to be the incarnation of northern winds, it can instantly purify filthy, murky water. It races across the land. It is said that north winds will somehow blow whenever it appears. It embodies the compassion of a pure spring of water. It runs across the land with gracefulness. It has the power to purify dirty water. .
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Putting SARS in Historical PerspectiveNews Abroad
The waves of hysteria inspired by last year's SARS epidemic, not to mention those created by the more quickly contained annual spread of influenza this past winter recalls President Harry Truman's pithy observation that "there is nothing new in the world except the history you don't know."
Although recent phenomena, SARS, avian influenza, garden-variety influenza, and even briefer brushes with more exotic emerging infectious such as West Nile Fever and monkey pox have more in common with epidemics of the past than most realize. Indeed, if one were to design a course for college freshman entitled "Epidemics 101," one hardly need go further than a Lexis-Nexis search of last year's media frenzy over Severe Acquired Respiratory Syndrome to compile a superb reading list.
Like so many"great plagues" of the past, the SARS crisis presented the many of the hallmark features framing the social response to epidemics including its seemingly sudden rise from nowhere; an easy transmission from one person to another; the dragnet of cases; its inhibition by one country or social group attempting to obscure the outbreak; the scapegoating of a particular social group perceived to carry the infection in question; the microbe's spread abetted by our thirst for rapid, worldwide travel; intense media coverage; calls for quarantines; and, of course, the remarkable levels of panic during the rise of the epidemic that quickly fell as the numbers of new cases diminished.
In fact, all these elements have been essential aspects of epidemics, ranging from the Black Plague of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the cholera epidemics of the nineteenth century, all the way to the stunningly lethal influenza pandemic of 1918 and the early years of AIDS. Parenthetically, another plot twist in the history of epidemics that has appeared in the past but appears to have the potential for a larger role in the future has been the perverse threat by terrorists inflicting the terror of infection, as we saw with the anthrax and smallpox scares during the year 2001.
But, to my mind, the most troubling paradox of epidemics both past and present is the dichotomy between the brief, ubiquitous and panic-stricken attention we pay to the new infections that kill few in spectacular fashion, like SARS, and our apathetic responses to familiar scourges that literally plague humankind everyday.
Compare the level of attention we gave the approximately 8,000 people who died of SARS last year to the 1,500 people who died of some type of contagious disease in the last hour alone. Malaria, AIDS, tuberculosis, measles, diarrheal diseases, to name but a few common killers, have become all too familiar to our media-glazed eyes and our responses, to harken back to the ancient physician's diagnostic rubric, have become all too phlegmatic.
What distinguishes the complex dance between humans and microbes today from eras past, however, has much to do with the remarkable advances science has made in the understanding and amelioration of infectious diseases. SARS is a striking example of this trend. A year and a half ago, no one had ever heard of it. Less than two weeks after the first cases reported in Hong Kong, scientists have not only identified its cause, they have even dissected out the virus's genetic structure, and are well on the way of developing a series of diagnostic tests and, hopefully, means of treatment.
Yet even these remarkable strides in the science of public health have had unintended consequences. The quick detection and containment of a contagious threat, followed by premature declarations of victory, often give rise to a collective underestimation of the unpredictable and remarkable power of infectious diseases. These successes engender a false confidence that the eternal struggle between human and microbe has been won rather than temporarily stayed. Ironically, just when public health departments are working at their best, there is a strong temptation to cut their budgets.
In reality, only the global community can make inroads in responding rapidly to new epidemic crises such as SARS and containing older ones like AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis. All of us must accept that the public's health is everyone's problem and responsibility, no matter where today's infectious "hot zones" happen to be. We must back that acceptance with a constant stream of financial and social support even in times of relative infectious quiet.
The good news is that many of the world's truly significant infectious killers are preventable or, at least, treatable. We could prevent some 30 million cases of measles (and the 1,000,000 deaths it causes each year) by vaccinating every child in the world against it at a cost of about 25 cents per vaccination. We could prevent nearly 2 million deaths a year from diarrheal diseases (most of them children) by making sure that everyone in the world has daily access to clean water; at present, more than 1.5 billion do not. With adequate mosquito control, we could significantly reduce the millions of deaths caused each year by malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, and West Nile virus.
Economists on behalf of the United Nations have estimated that if every citizen of every wealthy nation of the world donated approximately fifteen dollars per year, or 1/10 th of a percent of the wealthy nation's Gross National Product, to preventing and treating epidemics in the world's poorest nations in an internationally coordinated fashion, 21,000 lives would be saved, not to mention millions of dollars in lost productivity, every day.
History teaches us that epidemics are a fact of life with recognizable patterns and pitfalls. Although the World Health Organization made tremendous strides in containing the SARS epidemic last year, we must recall that it is largely a voluntary organization without police powers or real authority. This was sadly demonstrated by China 's reluctance to announce cases of the infection as early as November of 2002. For countries struggling under immense poverty, public health surveillance and other preventive measures that contain the plethora of contagious ailments that kill on a daily basis simply cannot be attended to without real and lasting help from the wealthier nations of the world and a global approach to their containment.Before SARS joins the growing list of once feared and now ignored epidemics, and a new microbe rises to take its place, we should seize the opportunity to develop permanent and accountable global public health mechanisms to prevent the contagious crises that are certain to arise and linger in the future.
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Jonathan Dresner - 4/29/2004
Well, you misinterpreted me a little, but we're basically in agreement. Your point about the tentative nature of our recent gains in lifespan expectency is interesting: we tend to think of these things as "done" but technology, as with anything in history, does not proceed in a linear fashion, and when people are making individual choices, may not proceed at all.
I'm well aware that the public health warnings are quite factual (usually; sometimes we make mistakes), particularly about anti-biotic resistant bacteria. My point is that the real science gets conflated in the public mind with the fictions.
E. Simon - 4/28/2004
"Alarmist" or not, the danger to which you allude with regards to antibiotic-resistant staph (and nearly everything else) is quite real. The enormous leaps we were able to make in using antibiotics to treat what were previously some of the most pervasive killers are quickly becoming obsolete not only in most if not many cases and communities, but spreading. It would be a minority opinion in the field of infectious diseases to suggest that what you, as an historian, know to be real advances in lifespan from decades ago, are secure in this age - given the pattern of microbial life cycles and evolution patterns in the face of very real selection pressures.
Forgive me if I have misinterpreted the thrust of your post, but my impression is that you are admonishing against an alarmist reaction to the threat of rarer microbes at the expense of ignoring the consequences of our actions on more common pathogens. Indeed, the SARS virus evolved from a common cold virus - which is incidentally, impervious to, and untreatable by modern therapies. In this instance, poor hygenic practices (such as the acceptance of spitting in public in China to the point of tolerating pits of phlegm on the streets) are often cited as a likely contributing cause in facilitating the evolution of this germ. Advances in hygeine may predate antimicrobial therapy in reducing the threat and incidence of infectious disease, but not by much in a long-term historical perspective. (Or apparently perhaps not at all).
Jonathan Dresner - 4/28/2004
Part of the responsibility for our complacency about endemic disease and our recurrent panic over "new" diseases has to do with the dramatization of epidemic disease. Not Satre, so much, but Robin Cook, Stephen King (The Stand, in particular) and many lesser known practitioners have created a sense of dread that a new disease might be worse than the old diseases. They take legitimate science, existing diseases like ebola and past epidemics like Swine Flu, and make it as frightening as possible.
The plausibility of these fictions is highlighted by public health warnings about antibiotic resistant staph, and marketing of products like anti-bacterial underwear, etc. so that the dramatists are seen as only slightly alarmist. Then, of course, when the words "new disease" and "highly infectious" cross the news ticker, everyone thinks of the fictions, not the much more likely facts.
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Billing rates among U.S. architecture and engineering firms increased only slightly over the past year, a newly released report shows. According to ZweigWhite's 2008 Fee and Billing Survey of Architecture, Engineering, Planning and Environmental Consulting Firms, billing rates across the 29 employee positions reviewed for the report rose an average of 1.5 per cent in the past year, and 19.7 per cent since 2004, which equates to a compounded annual growth rate of 4.6 per cent over the five-year period.
"Over the same five-year period, inflation rates in the U.S. have averaged about 2.8 per cent, so at face value it would seem that architecture, engineering, and environmental firm fees have experienced real growth of about two per cent a year," says Ian Rusk, a financial consultant to the industry and head of ZweigWhite's advisory services division.
"But inflation has been rising while billing rate increases have been falling. Since November of 2007, the U.S. inflation rate as measured by the consumer price index has been hovering at approximately four per cent, so a billing rate increase of only two per cent means we're swimming against the tide, and the tide is winning."
According to the survey, as a group this past year, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and process engineers' billing rates fell an average of 2.2 per cent, while rates among firms' top management — project managers, department heads, associates, senior associates, and principals — increased an average of 4.3 per cent.
Other findings from the survey show 77 per cent of firms update their billing rates annually, while another 13 per cent do so every two years.
Chicago-headquartered ZweigWhite provides management consulting and other services for the design and construction industry. It has additional offices in Natick, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
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What BBYO's International Convention means for Dallas and the Jewish community
Read this story in the Texas Jewish Post
On Oct. 3, my daughter Allie and 200 of her peers took over a Dallas pizza restaurant. They set up laptops, chattered with excitement and counted down the seconds until 7 p.m., when they, along with over 1,700 other Jewish teens around the world, proceeded to "crash the dash" — BBYO's internal server — in a matter of seconds.
Why? To register for the BBYO International Convention (IC), where the theme will be "Welcome Home."
From Feb. 13-17, 2014, the now nearly 2,000 registered youth, accompanied by friends, BBYO alumni, advisors and professional staff, will make Dallas and the Hyatt Regency their home for this annual event. During BBYO's 90-year history, IC has grown to become the world's largest pluralistic gathering of Jewish teens striving to strengthen the Jewish future. The organization engages over 40,000 youth around the world. Dallas is home to more than 600 members in 12 chapters, and several international officers through the years have been from Dallas, including two current international board members: Grand Aleph Godol Mika Stein (president) and Grand Aleph Shaliach Gary Levine (vice president of Jewish heritage).
Over 30 years ago, I attended IC as president of the Texoma Region, representing all of Texas and Oklahoma. Back then, the convention was held at B'nai B'rith Perlman Camp in Starlight, Pa., and attracted about 300 to 400 young people. Fast forward to last year's IC in Washington, D.C., attended by over 1,500 teens, representing all parts of BBYO and the world (18 countries!), and nearly 500 friends of the organization. That gathering featured a welcome video address from President Obama, and prominent guests included Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Susan Rice, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
To an outsider, it would seem that things have really changed since my days in the camp bunks.
But as I watch Allie — who currently serves as president of the BBYO North Texas Oklahoma Region — prepare to host her peers from around the world, I see that the more things change, the more they stay the same. As it is for my daughter, BBYO was for me, and so many others, a wonderful blend of leadership development, community service, connection to our faith and a great social scene. L'dor v'dor, from generation to generation, it's still providing the same platform. That is not only gratifying, but also remarkably powerful.
I start to feel nostalgic, and then I'm filled with pride as I realize that for our family, this is really a three-generation milestone. My father was active in AZA while attending high school in Houston. He would be proud that Texas is hosting IC, and proud of Allie's role in the organization. Like so many BBYO alumni, I attribute much of who I am today to what I learned, who I met and how I changed as a member and leader in BBYO. My wife and I have seen the same outstanding influences on Allie and so many of her friends.
I also can't help but reflect on the significance IC has for the Jewish community in Texas and, indeed, throughout the world. A recent study by the Pew Research Center reported a rise in the number of American Jews who are not religious and don't raise their children to be Jewish. But when I see the record-breaking demand and excitement about IC, I feel confident that BBYO is part of the answer. It provides a service and outlet for our young people that can help ensure a vibrant Jewish future.
In February, as BBYO approaches its 90th anniversary, more teens than ever will learn together, lead together and set the agenda for that future. This time, IC will feature youth-planned programming, including a day of service and advocacy in the Dallas community and a day of learning on Shabbat, with more than 25 elective sessions and multiple services that will allow participants to customize their experiences. These teens are committed to making a difference, and they see themselves as the Jewish community's leaders, now.
Allie and I invite the Dallas community to get involved and help host IC 2014 by volunteering, speaking, sponsoring our oneg Shabbat or stopping by to see the future of Jewish leadership. Join me online by following the pre-IC excitement at bbyo.org/azabbgic and on Twitter through @BBYOInsider and #AZABBGIC2014. I hope you'll mark your calendar for an energizing weekend with some inspirational youth.
These are your next Jewish leaders, and this is an opportunity to see history in the making.
Rodney Schlosser lives in Dallas with his wife Cristie (an alumna of Wadel BBG), daughter Allie and son Lee. He co-chairs the local BBYO fundraising efforts as part of BBYO's Friends and Alumni Network (FAN). Allie is following in her dad's footsteps as regional president of BBYO North Texas Oklahoma Region, and she is active in Weinstein BBG.
To contact BBYO North Texas Oklahoma Region staff or to be a part of IC 2014, call 214-363-4654.


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The 4+ class of the Willow Grove Pre-School will present their Christmas pageant, and Willow Grove's own Reverends Cynthia and Jeffrey Cochran-Carney will present a Christmas music concert. Be ready to sing some favorite Christmas carols too.
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Willow Grove Presbyterian Church is located at 1961 Raritan Road, across the street from the Scotch Plains Southside Firehouse and near the corner of South Martine Avenue. The building is handicap friendly. Sunday morning worship services begin at 10 a.m.
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As a surfboard shaper, Donald Takayama was a legend who cast a shadow that was more in proportion with the stately longboards he produced than the stocky 5-foot-3 frame to which he was genetically predisposed.
But the Hawaiian native who came to Southern California as a boy was also a highly accomplished surfer and a man of rare charisma, who loved a good barbecue and reveled in the easy camaraderie and spirited give-and-take of those informal affairs, or of surfers waiting in a lineup for the next set to roll through.
"Donald was an ambassador," said Donna Frye, a former San Diego city councilwoman and the wife of Skip Frye, a longtime friend of Takayama's. "And I don't think that there was any one spot in Southern California that you associated with him. It was Oceanside, if anything. Donald could pretty much go anywhere. He didn't have an attitude. Donald, no matter where he showed up, he well-represented the sport."
Takayama, who had a recent history of heart problems, died Oct. 22 of complications following surgery. He was 68.
Before plunging into the business world, he was a successful competitive surfer who was the runner-up to Corky Carroll in the 1966 and '67 U.S. Surfboard Championships.
Surfer Magazine named Takayama one of the "25 Surfers Who Changed the Sport" and he was inducted into the International Surfing Hall of Fame in 1991.
In recent years, he split time between his townhouse in Waikiki and a residence in Oceanside.
"He was the surfer's surfer from day one," Skip Frye said. "His roots were in Waikiki and Hawaii was the roots of it all. He was 'Roots.' He was Kunta Kinte."
Joel Tudor and Kassia Meador are among the current generation of surfers he has influenced and supported.
His life wasn't without travails. Takayama served jail time in the 1980s on drug charges and left the U.S. for Australia in 2002, fed up with polluted waters, overpopulated beach breaks and the grind of his trade.
"I want to do other things besides making surfboards," he told U-T reporter Terry Rodgers at the time. "Over here, things have gotten stale and a little mechanical."
But Christian Hansen — son of Don Hansen, himself a renowned surfer, shaper and surf shop operator — said that the Takayama he got to know at the barbecues he attended in Oceanside after his return from Australia was a vibrant presence. Barbecues that invariably included fare smothered in Takayama's own brand of Teriyaki sauce.
"There would be lobster and abalone," Christian Hansen said. "He was a great guy. Didn't drink, he was completely clean."
The minor vice that Takayama did indulge of late was cards. Don Hansen said he loved to break away from the shop his company, Hawaiian Designs Inc., had on Cleveland Street and drive over to Pala Casino.
"He was a guy with a lot of character and just a great, great surfer," Don Hansen said.
Takayama is survived by his wife of more than 40 years, Diane. Plans are being made for a local memorial paddle out, but have not been finalized.


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Her new romance with Glee's Chord Overstreet isn't the only thing giving Taylor Swift reason to celebrate.
The country crooner, 21, just nabbed her 7th No. 1 record with the hit "Back to December." On top of that, her album Speak Now got certified platinum for the third time.
Currently in the midst of a World Tour, Swift leaves Asia and heads to Brussels to kick off a slew of European dates on Sunday.
"She's pooped, but putting everything into this tour to make it the best thing anybody has ever seen," a source close to the singer tells Us.
Back stateside this May, the star announced plans to share the stage with some other notable crooners. Hunter Hays, Josh Kelley (Katherine Heigl's hubby) and American Idol alum Danny Gokey, who will open for the North American leg of Swift's tour, which starts May 27 in Omaha.


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Exposing Union Treasure Trove
Both supporters and opponents seemed surprised this week when Bill C-377, the union transparency law, narrowly passed in the House of Commons after being watered down in committee.
It could have been a tougher bill, some of its supporters said with a sad sigh.
Under the amendments inserted to make the bill acceptable to nervous Tory MPs – in the end, five of them still voted against it anyway – only aggregate union expenses over $5,000 will have to be revealed, and union wages above $100,000 per year.
Unchanged is what many Conservative MPs feel is the meat of the bill: forcing unions to reveal how much time and money their staffs spend on political work unrelated to their real job of representing members.
Opinions are mixed on whether or not the Conservatives will be able to get the bill through the Senate in January or February, when it is expected to be put to a vote in the Upper Chamber.
Some in Ottawa say it should be easier to get C-377 through the Senate than it was to clear the House this week because appointed senators aren't beholden to volatile voters the way MPs are.
Senators can vote their conscience without fear of losing their seats – as we're seeing with the sports betting bill, which could be headed for oblivion despite huge support in gambling economies like Windsor.
But some claim it could be harder to get the bill through the Senate, where paid lobbyists hold sway rather than voters. The construction trade unions have many senators – both Liberal and Conservative – on a pretty tight leash. Or so they say.
Either way, many of my fellow CAW members and even some current and retired executive members I've talked to hope that the bill becomes law and that the sun finally shines in on the secret world of union finances.
Why? Some of us just want to see how the dues are being spent in a general sense. Almost no one in the rank and file of most Canadian unions can tell you how much money is in their strike fund, how much their union earns on investments, or how much our executives are really compensated for their work, in total.
In the CAW you can see an "audited" statement if you push hard enough (audited by one of the local's own insiders, that is: the secretary-treasurer) but rarely are salaries or other spending details revealed. And you have to take it on faith they're showing you everything.
No other major western democracy allows their unions to operate in such secrecy. It's just not healthy, as Windsor members of Local 773 the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) learned this summer when their business manager was removed without explanation. They still haven't been told why.
Union insiders I have talked to have been hearing tales for years about alleged union boondoggles, from exorbitant expense accounts to special pensions and even sweet mortgage deals for executives. Like me, a member of CAW Local 240, these union members want to know if there is any truth to these stories.
Opening union books to Revenue Canada should settle that question, one way or the other. Which could be a pretty good explanation of why some union bosses are fighting the passage of Bill C-377 so hard.
And finally there are the political reasons for wanting to see Bill C-377 pass. Some Conservatives believe that the real treasure trove hidden in union finances is a vast network of undocumented campaign influence bought and paid for during nearly every election in the country.
Of the $4 billion in union dues collected in Canada each year, tens of millions of dollars at the very least is believed to be spent on lobbying, advertising and staff time devoted to partisan election campaign work.
Little or none of those union election efforts are counted as official campaign contributions under Canada's strict campaign spending limits. But they will have to be once Revenue Canada gets the details of all spending filed annually, as Bill C-377 requires.
If it's true that large sums of union dues are being spent for partisan political purposes, that wasn't Judge Ivan Rand's written intent back in 1946 when he ruled that unions should be given compulsory dues collection rights to cover the cost of collective bargaining.
Rand must be spinning in grave to realize that his olive branch to help poor workers organize themselves for economic gain has been twisted into a political tax on those workers, a multimillion-dollar weapon wielded by fat cat union bosses paid more than today's judges and cabinet ministers.
That wasn't what those Windsor Ford workers were fighting for in 1945 when they formed a 100-day blockade of their plant on Riverside Drive, the strike that led to Rand's famous compromise.
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