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Hi -
Has anyone out there heard of these "ice pick" headaches? Idiopathic stabbing headaches is what my Neurologist called them. Went to the Neuro yesterday for strange sudden stabbing pains to the head that accmpanies the other symptoms I posted under shooting head pains-fainting. Only thing he could come up with without any tests is that they sound like "Ice pick" headaches, which I'm assuming I can't take anything for, because the pain comes & goes so suddenly/quickly that there's no time for any headache meds. He told me that normally they are not accompanied the other symptoms I'm having though (dizzy, weakness, fainting). Have an EEG scheduled tomorrow (I was told that monitors brain activity). MRA & MRV with and without scheduled for Monday.
Any information/input anyone has on any of the above would be appreciated.
Thank you!
Recognize the risks associated with Crohn's disease.
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Sara Mansour-Ila'l Amam Type Family Typography
At Design Interviews
(Excerpt) Interview with Sara Mansour : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Sara Mansour : Creating an italicized oblique Arabic type family due to the lack of one in Arabic type. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Sara Mansour : The main goal was to tackle the brief, creating a new typeface, in an unconventional way. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Sara Mansour : To transform the typefamily to be used by the masses on the computer. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Sara Mansour : Concept inception was in April 2012; project completed in May 2013. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Sara Mansour : The project was initially created for an Advance Typography & Publishing Course at Dar Al Hekma University. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Sara Mansour : This project will be produced and sold online and all rights will be reserved. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Sara Mansour : The love of Arabic scripts and typography. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Sara Mansour : The first Latin display type ever created, also known as "Fat Face", and the Iranian Kufic scripts of the 11th century. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Sara Mansour : A display type to be used by designers and visual communicators for large-scale purposes such as poster designs. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Sara Mansour : It is an oblique Arabic font, a pioneer of its kind. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Sara Mansour : "Ila'l Amam" in Arabic means "go forwards" based on the angle in which the letters are facing (right to left). .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Sara Mansour : Graph paper, pencil, Adobe Illustrator. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Sara Mansour : Italicized oblique Arabic type family. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Sara Mansour : No. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Sara Mansour : Setting this project in motion. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Sara Mansour : Researching Arabic scripts and Latin typefaces to get inspiration. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Sara Mansour : The dynamics and complexity of the Arabic script. Keeping all the letters in uniform, minding the overall geometric .[ End of Excerpt: Read complete interview with Sara Mansour on Ila'l Amam Type Family Typography at design-interviews.com ]
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Just heard about this recently and wondered what some of your educated opinions were. Here is mine:
Apart from believing/denying I'm a bit concerned that the media has not latched onto the leaked emails like they latch onto everything else. One would think they would run with this as fast and as far as they could. However it seems that FOX is the only major US news provider to actually air it. This sucks b/c it then becomes a partisan issue and I, for one, do not believe that leaked or hacked emails are a partisan issue. Also just because the means of acquiring the emails may not be on the up and up does not invalidate the content of said emails. In a US court of law they would be inadmissable since they were obtained illegaly but we are not in a courtroom here. Now if it is found that the emails are fraudulent then obviously that should be reported.
So why the silence on this thing? Why did I have to find out most of my information from a Russian TV broadcast via YouTube? Is it one of those stories that is not legit and the news media is waiting for legitimacy before airing? And if this is true then why does the mass media seem to air every other story long before they know or care if it's legit? We've seen tons of stories that have been hyped or exaggerated and aired on every mass media market long before they were scrutinized. Why the sudden turnabout on this story?
I also ask you to consider another situation and think about how the media would react to it. Let's turn the tables and say that thousands of emails were found that showed an attempt to hide the fact that the earth is warming. How would the media react then?
Something's amiss. It would be my estimation that if an agency were merely reporting the news rather than manipulating it they would happily report either event and give them equal fervor and attention. In fact the leaked emails are so huge that one would think if you turn the news on right now they would have some type of extended report and/or a special news show devoted to it. However, this is not the case. And what if, just what if, these emails are not the result of a hacker...but of a silent whistleblower who conveniently left them in public view knowing full well what they were doing? Fact is we do not know but that is when the news steps in and asks a billion and one questions but they have become sadly silent on this issue. That's their job. They take a very small story, realize it's impact, and broadcast it in such a way as to generate curiousity, interest, and of course hype.
So is this story real or is it similar to finding some of our 'work emails' and leaking them onto a public server? We all say things in emails we shouldn't and perhaps we all get a little to zealous about this or that in them which could be taken way out of context. So do you guys think these emails are being taken out of context to prove a point, which would explain the silence, or is there another reason? I'm genuinely interested to see what others think about this b/c I am a bit undecided. The only thing that really scares me about the whole thing is the way the Tea Parties were covered in the news. The coverage of them was clearly biased, on both sides, by all news outlets. The Tea Party coverage in the USA was a prime example of what news should not do. What if this is just another Tea Party coverage?
In general I don't understand the rhetoric and idiocy surrounding the issue. It is clear we can probably generate just as many jobs by continuing to do things the way we do now in the energy sector as we could by finding new energy sources and new ways to generate power. I'm really not sure why either side debates this and the only reason I can see is that our technology is not yet up to the task. The way I see it is this:
1. If we are warming, regardless of the cause, let's reduce emissions and find new sources of energy
2. If we are not warming, regardless of the cause, let's reduce emissions and find new sources of energy.
Heck I just saw the new Star Trek on DVD and I wouldn't mind if NASA came up with an alternate energy source that allowed us to do FTL. Who wouldn't sign up for that space program?
I'm all for new stuff....let's just not destroy our economy in the process.
In the end I think this hurts science's credibility which is very unfortunate b/c I believe many of the people involved are working extremely hard on both sides of the issue to come up with the right thing to do or not do.


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This should be very easy to implement and even schedule to happen automatically. Copy the following code to a simple text editor (like Windows' notepad.exe). Change the user name, password, and filename information (these values are in "<>" brackets in the script) to the values of your account and desired file location. Save the file as "GetSchedulesDirect.ps1" (note that in notepad you will need to change the default file type from "TXT" to "*.*" in order to prevent notepad from saving the file with a .txt extension instead of the necessary .ps1 extension):
To run this, you can open PowerShell and run the script by typing the (path and) filename. Note that you will need to set PowerShell's Execution Policy to "Remote Signed" if you haven't already. It's easy to run this from a standard command window or by creating a Windows Scheduled Task. In either case, you simply need to specify the command:
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[DateTime]$startDate = Get-Date
$startDate = $startDate.ToUniversalTime().AddDays(-1)
[DateTime]$endDate = $startDate.AddDays(15)
[XML]$envelope = '<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<m:download xmlns:m="urn:TMSWebServices" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<startTime xsi:type="xsd:dateTime">' + $startDate.Year.ToString() + '-' + $startDate.Month.ToString() + '-' + $startDate.Day.ToString() + 'T00:00:00Z</startTime>
<endTime xsi:type="xsd:dateTime">' + $endDate.Year.ToString() + '-' + $endDate.Month.ToString() + '-' + $endDate.Day.ToString() + 'T00:00:00Z</endTime>
Write-Host $envelope.OuterXml
$password = "<replace with your password>" | ConvertTo-SecureString -asPlainText -Force
$cred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist "<replace with your user name>", $password
[Uri]$uri = 'http://dd.schedulesdirect.org/schedulesdirect/tvlistings/xtvdService'
Invoke-WebRequest $uri -Method post -ContentType "text/xml" -Body $envelope -OutFile "C:\<specify folder>\<output filename>.xml" -Credential $cred
If you want to schedule the script to download the TV data regularly, you can use Windows' built-in Task Scheduler. Go to the Control Panel and find the "Schedule Tasks" link (under Administrative Tools). In the Task Scheduler, create a new Basic Task. Specify whatever schedule you like. When you get to the "Action" step of the Wizard, select "Start a Program". For the Program/Script name, enter "powershell.exe" (without quotes); for the Add Arguments, enter "-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -File C:\<path to script>\GetSchedulesDirect.ps1" (also without quotes).
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powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -File C:\<path to script>\GetSchedulesDirect.ps1
I hope this is helpful.


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Recordings of police scanner activity in the minutes after 20-year-old shooter Adam Lanza's rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School show how police handled the gruesome scene, where 20 children and six adults were killed.
It didn't take long for officers to realize the situation's gravity, which an officer at one point described as "the event."
"I need units in the school," the officer said in a tense voice. "I got bodies here. Get ambulances."
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Over the next 90 minutes, police rushed children to safety, interviewed witnesses and began to piece together the details of the Newtown tragedy.
The first scanner activity was at about 9:36 a.m., when officers first arrived at the school. They found broken glass by the front door -- officials now say Lanza broke a window to get past the locked front door.
"The individual that I have on the phone is continuing to hear what he believes to be gunfire," a dispatcher tells officers.
One minute later, an officer says that all shooting appears to have stopped, and that the school is on lockdown.
According to the dispatcher, a teacher told police he saw two shadows running past the gym towards the back of the school -- which could explain early reports that police were searching for a second shooter.
At 9:43 a.m., an officer requests two ambulances.
"We have one fatal in a room, and one who has received a gunshot wound in the foot," an officer says.
Three minutes later, an officer asked for even more ambulances. By 9:53 a.m., an officer said that a suspect was down.
"The building has not been cleared," he said. "We need a couple more cars up at the scene."
Four minutes later, an officer tells others to bring injured children to the base of the school.
"Roger, 9-8, extricating the people out of the school," an officer responded.
Officers described finding multiple weapons -- a shotgun and a rifle -- as they continued to search the school.
By 11:03, officers said the school had been evacuated and was secure, and focused on interviewing children and teachers to find out exactly what happened.
"I'm with a parent here who has the children who were in the classroom during the event," an officer said. "I'm trying to get an account (from) them right now."


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The Obama administration proposed new guidelines on Friday that would allow women to receive contraception coverage at no charge and without violating employer religious concerns, and give those entities an avenue for opting out the mandate, a shift in federal healthcare policy.
The new plan attempts to resolve the contentious issue of how non-profit organizations, such as religious hospitals and universities, can decline to provide contraception coverage to their employees on religious grounds without facing a penalty.
"Today, the administration is taking the next step in providing women across the nation with coverage of recommended preventive care at no cost, while respecting religious concerns," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement.
"We will continue to work with faith-based organizations, women's organizations, insurers and others to achieve these goals," she said.
As part of the new initiative, groups that are insured — such as student health plans at religious colleges — would be required to let their insurer know that certain participants would like contraception coverage. The provider would pay for the contraception separately.
"The insurer would then notify enrollees that it is providing them with no-cost contraceptive coverage through separate individual health insurance policies," an HHS statement on the new policy said on Friday.
The move would allow the religious organization to avoid paying for contraception.
The original mandate on providing contraception was part of the new federal healthcare law spearheaded by President Barack Obama, the Affordable Care Act.
It required that insurers provide, at no cost to those insured, all forms of contraception approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
Houses of worship were exempt immediately and the administration widened those exemptions last year to include other religiously affiliated organizations, like universities and hospitals.
That still left groups across a wide spectrum of faiths, many of which teach that contraception is morally wrong, covered by the mandate. They denounced it as an infringement of religious liberty. A group of 43 Catholic organizations challenged the rules in federal court in May.
The administration had long defended the mandate, saying that it did not violate religious liberties.
The new proposal also clarifies the definition of a religious employer.
Instead of using a multi-part test that requires an employer to show "religious values as its purpose" and to "employ persons who share its religious tenets," the mandate would follow the International Revenue Code's definition that includes "churches, other houses of worship, and their affiliated organizations."
In March, after an uproar among religious institutions that didn't want to pay for contraceptives, the Obama administration offered several alternative suggestions. The proposal offered on Friday is a result of that effort.
The proposed update will be open for public comment through April 8, 2013. The administration would then decide whether to make it final.
A source with knowledge of the matter but not authorized to speak on the record said administration officials would discuss the new plan with faith-based organizations later on Friday.
The source also said the administration called key leaders, including presidents of Catholic universities, before the announcement.
Women's groups, including Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America, heralded the announcement.
"Today's draft regulation affirms yet again the Obama administration's commitment to fulfilling the full promise of its historic contraception policy," said Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL. "Thanks to this commitment, most American women will get birth control coverage without extra expense."
"This policy makes it clear that your boss does not get to decide whether you can have birth control," said Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, took a wait-and-see approach.
"Today, the administration issued proposed regulations regarding the HHS mandate" he said in a statement. "We welcome the opportunity to study the proposed regulations closely. We look forward to issuing a more detailed statement later."
By Dan Merica, CNN
CNN's Jessica Yellin, Eric Marrapodi and Kevin Bohn contributed to this report.
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- Scabior: "Who's your father?"
- Harry: "He works at the Ministry. Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes."
- Scabior: "You know what, Greyback. I think there is a Dudley in there."
- — Harry Potter and Scabior after the trio was caught by the Snatchers[src]
Mr Dudley may have been a wizard who worked in the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes. When Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger were caught by Snatchers in 1998, Harry quickly invented the pseudonym Vernon Dudley to conceal his identity, combining the first names of his uncle and cousin. Pressed for the identity of his father by Scabior, one of the Snatchers, Harry claimed to be the son of a wizard who worked in the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes. Scabior responded to this by stating that he believed someone named Dudley actually worked in that department.[1]
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
Notes and references
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 23 (Malfoy Manor)


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Exeter Chamber of Commerce
The Exeter Chamber of Commerce is a voluntary organization representing all segments of business…working together to carry out what no individual, business or agency could achieve alone. Originally created as the the Exeter Board of Trade, it was named the Exeter Chamber of Commerce in 1921. The Chamber is the back bone of the Exeter Community. To reach the Chamber staff, contact them at (559) 592-2919, visit their website at exeterchamber.com; or stop by at 101 W. Pine Street , Exeter, CA 93221.


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It's got to be the most important word in the human language; the most important thing that we can do for one another as well as for ourselves, and yet it is so often withheld, misdirected, manipulated and misunderstood. Why is it that something so natural, so fundamental, can be so complicated? Because we've experienced love, shouldn't we understand it better?
Our knowledge of love is very one-sided. We can only be sure of love from what we have experienced; and we make assumptions about love based upon those experiences.
For example, we assume that others want to receive love the way we would like to receive love.
If we like to get gifts, then we tend to buys things for those that we love. If we like to express our love by saying, "I love you," and other forms of verbal endearment, we most likely prefer to receive loving words as well. That's where things start to get complicated. We forget that when it comes to love, everyone is wired a little differently.
According to Gary Chapman, the author of "The Five Love Languages," our style of love can be broken down into five basic types. When you understand your type, or types, your relationships take on a whole new improved level. You can use this valuable information to improve your love life, your relationship with family members, co-workers, employees, etc. So, which one or two are you?
• Task oriented. A task-oriented person likes to do things for others as a way of showing his or her appreciation or love. By keeping the house clean, supper on the table or by putting in a full day at work, task love types are saying, "I love you." Lending a hand to help someone fix something, or running an errand – that's the task-oriented person's way of showing their regard for a person. Task-oriented types usually like to receive love that comes in the form of a task. They prefer for others to do something for them or help with a task as a way of showing their love.
• Quality-time oriented. The quality-time person shows their love by spending time with others. Just hanging out, going for a walk, having a long talk, going on a trip or running errands together, etc. They in turn want love shown to them in the same manner.
• Gift oriented. The gift person likes to give and receive their love in the form of gifts. They know you love them if you've put a lot of thought into a special gift just for them. Making the effort and thinking of them in the form of something tangible lets them feel loved.
• Physical touch. The physical touch person likes to give and receive hugs, tickles, shoulder massages, etc., etc., ETC. Snuggling up on the couch with someone they love is a very important expression of love to these people. Keep it physical and these types are happy.
And finally ...
• Words of affirmation. These people have pet names for their loved ones. They frequently say, "I love you," and other terms of endearment. They know you love them by the words you say to them, so keep those words coming and say them often. Kind words are important to them at home as well as on the job, from their friends, etc.
Love, when properly delivered, can be transforming! I have seen children who are starving for love from their parents, parents who already love them ... just not in the way that works for the child. When the child's love language is understood, the child feels nurtured, loved and begins to flourish. Children can even learn to relate to their own parents differently by understanding their parents' love language.
Suddenly having to clean their room is no longer about the chore itself, but becomes a way of showing Mother or Father love.
So often this love disconnect occurs within a marriage. What does it for him, doesn't make it for her. One example (and there are so many): he wants her to help in the garage with clean up and she wants him to whisper sweet nothings in her ear. She doesn't feel the love because the words are missing; he doesn't feel the love because she isn't helping him with the task. By changing the way we show our love to better meet our loved one's needs, we change the relationship for the better.
When we don't feel loved, we can feel lonely, lost, unfulfilled, depleted, sad and out of balance. The sense that we are not loved can lead to divorce, infidelity, depression and poor health.
Children who are deprived of their particular type of love can miss out on the important nurturing that helps create healthy, self confident, independent adults.
However, when we are feeling the love in our lives, we have more energy, confidence and joy.
In every family there exists several love types. Make a point of figuring out your family's love types and watch the love grow in your life.
• Jamie Palmer is a Batavia resident and a licensed clinical professional counselor and senior mediator with more than 35 years of experience in the field of psychology working with families, couples and individuals. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Theory: Lost in translation – learning the language of love
It's got to be the most important word in the human language; the most important thing that we can do for one another as well as for ourselves, and yet it is so often withheld, misdirected, manipulated and misunderstood. Why is it that something so natural, so fundamental, can be so complicated? Because we've experienced love, shouldn't we understand it better?


text: When you're lacking time and money, it's tempting to wait until a computer breaks or a piece of software becomes obsolete and then think about how you'll replace it. Even in smaller libraries, this approach leads to unscheduled downtime, inconsistent service and funding problems. In large libraries, it's completely impractical. When you replace a batch of computers or upgrade a major piece of software, your budget takes a hit, you may want to do testing, your staff may need training and you'll spend a significant amount of time installing and deploying.


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"They were clinical in their finishing. They made us pay. And if I was a little bit more clinical, and if I could make them pay, then I think we're talking about a different scoreline.
4-1 wasn't really indicative of how this game went down."
-- Herculez Gomez after Brazil's 4-1 win over the USA. (Fox Soccer)


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Guess What? The New Deal Worked!News at Home
Since the economic crisis we're now in is being compared to the Great Depression, the solutions being offered are being routinely compared to the New Deal. Republicans in particular have been quick to pronounce the New Deal a failure as a way of justifying their opposition to the new stimulus package and any other federal response to our new Great Depression.
Congressman Steve Austria (R-Ohio) is so angry at the New Deal that he told an audience recently that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal actually caused the Great Depression: quite an achievement given that the Great Depression was already three years deep by the time FDR was elected.
Whatever you think of the Obama administration's proposals, to declare the New Deal a failure gets the history fundamentally wrong. The legacy that FDR created proved remarkably successful and remarkably enduring.
The New Deal operated at three levels: first, the programs established by the New Deal worked immediately to bring economic relief; second, the long-term changes the New Deal made to the structure of our economy brought the cycles of the economy under better control; and, finally, the New Deal re-shaped the social contract between our citizens and our government.
We usually associate the New Deal with the programs it created to put people to work, such as the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps. Republicans hated these programs. They denounced the WPA as "We Putter Around." The new Republican National Committee chairman, Michael Steele, recently parroted this accusation when he tried to explain that the government never creates jobs, just work.
But the New Deal did provide jobs to hundreds of thousand of unemployed Americans, and while they "puttered" those workers managed to build tens of thousands of bridges, paved countless miles of roads, and planted 3 billion trees.
It's certainly true that those programs by themselves did not end the Great Depression, though they did ease the crisis for the families who gained an income because of the New Deal. So while these short-term programs operated, the New Deal created a set of long-term structural changes to the economy whose impact lasted well beyond the Great Depression.
A few examples: Our bank deposits are protected by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the integrity of stock market transactions is guaranteed, or is supposed to be, by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), both created as part of the New Deal. Most important, with the passage of Social Security in 1935 future generations of American workers could look forward to a more secure old age.
Few would argue that these New Deal initiatives have been anything but successful in the roughly 75 years since their creation. Former President Bush wanted to privatize Social Security and do away with FDIC. Notice that Republicans aren't talking about that any more.
Finally, the New Deal altered the relationship between government and the economy. After World War II, Republicans and Democrats agreed that the government should take a more active role in regulating the economy, that it should use economic policy to promote the greatest good for the greatest number, and that it was obligated to provide a social safety net. They might quibble over the details, but there was a broad consensus around these points.
The result of that consensus was the greatest expansion of the middle class the country has ever experienced. The growth of the economy from the 1940s through the 1960s was widely shared. Conversely, when the economy did go into recession during those decades, the supporting frameworks set up by the New Deal helped keep those downturns relatively short.
In the early 1980s, under the leadership of Ronald Reagan, conservative Republicans set about dismantling this system. Regulations were gutted or not enforced, the social safety net was largely unraveled, and government tax policy shifted money from the middle class to the wealthiest. Since 1980 the result has been a nasty recession in the early 1990s, caused by the failure to regulate the savings and loan industry, and two devastating downturns, one in the early 1980s and the one we're in right now.
More than that, during the 30 years in which we've moved away from the New Deal, the middle class has stagnated. As wealth and assets have shifted to the top 10 percent, the middle class has survived largely on credit cards and home equity loans. Now millions have no way to pay that piper.
The system the New Deal initiated kept us from experiencing a second Great Depression for nearly half a century. We are in our current mess in large measure because we dismantled that system. Republicans would have us be afraid of a new New Deal. But based on the track record of the original, a new New Deal is just what we need.
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Joe Hill Billy - 4/8/2009
Seriously, this article goes on about what the new deal did, without actually saying anything that the new deal did. Maybe because it didn't do anything, and didn't work.
As pointed out, the armed forces and draft opened up a pretty big gap for new workers to fill. WWII ended the depression, and new deal programs have done nothing but raise my taxes since.
Robert Lee Gaston - 3/31/2009
It did not work too well for the 16 odd million people who made up the armed forces from 1940 to 1946. That is one strange way of reducing unemployment.
I'm guessing the one million killed and wounded would say the new deal was a bummer.
A great many people who lived through it say the depression ended on December 8th, 1945.
In reality this recession cannot be compaired to the conditions that existed in the 1930s, (25% unemployment).
As of yet this is not as bad as the recession of 1982. The only thing different is now we have an administration and a (popular?) press that tells us everthing is a crisis.
We now have a population that would rather be safe than free. Our great grandfathers would laugh at us.
John D. Beatty - 3/30/2009
Let's not forget to mention generations of consevative-bashing historians who can always throw in one more dig at free enterprise, any business bigger than theirs and any political philosophy they don't like. It's done REAL well for them.
Lawrence Brooks Hughes - 3/30/2009
It worked pretty well for Ed Flynn, Tom Prendergast, Ed Kelly, Jake Arvey, Frank Hague, Boss Crump, Dave Beck, Dan Tobin, Walter Reuther, Harry Bridges, Sidney Hillman, Phil Murray, Harry Truman, Henry Wallace, Alger Hiss, Joe Stalin, Bull Connor, and many, many more.
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BIG BEAR — A couple held hostage by Christopher Dorner in a cabin near Big Bear are talking about their ordeal at the hands of the accused killer.
Karen and Jim Reynolds say it appears Dorner was holed up inside their Big Bear area condo for as many as five days before the couple surprised him.
The couple own the Mountain Vista Resort on Clubview Drive.
Karen Reynolds, 56, told reporters that she and her husband had been in the process of renovating the condo when Dorner's burned out truck was found nearby.
The couple decided to flee the mountain until it appeared safe to return. On Tuesday, they did just that.
But what they found waiting for them was not what they expected.
"I really thought it could be the end," Karen Reynolds told reporters.
The couple came across Dorner when they went upstairs. When they saw him, he pulled out a gun and yelled, "Stay calm."
"We saw so many pictures of him," Karen said. "And actually, while he talked to me, he said, 'I know you've been seeing the news. I know you know who I am.'"
Dorner bound the couple with zip ties and stuffed small towels in their mouths.
They say Dorner was incredibly calm and tried to reassure them that he did not want to harm them.
"He tried to calm us down, saying very frequently, he would not kill us," said Jim Reynolds. "He wanted to clear his name."
"He said that quite a few times. He said, 'I don't have a problem with you, I just want to clear my name.'"
Dorner also told the couple he had been watching them from another condo unit.
"He said that we are very hard workers, we're good people. He talked about how he could see Jim working on the snow," Karen said.
After about 15 minutes Dorner left the condo, stealing the couple's purple Nissan.
Karen told reporters she managed to make it to her cellphone and called 911 using the speaker.
It was that call that alerted authorities to Dorner's presence on the mountain and triggered the chain of events that led to Dorner presumed death in a fiery cabin standoff.
The couple says they came forward to refute initial reports that it was a pair of housekeepers that Dorner took hostage.


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Five-year-old Mya Burkey of Rogers gives Santa a big hug during the Lake Mount Church of Christ's Christmas present giveaway Saturday at the Rogers town hall. From the twinkle in both of their eyes it's hard to say which one is more ornery. Morning Journal/Patti Schaeffer


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Gene Elkins
Rogersville, Tennessee
1928 Nash
Gene Elkins writes: "This is a '28 Nash I owned when I was 16 and in high school back in 1964. It had a '53 Merc motor, '39 truck trans, and a '48 Ford rearend, with '54 Chevy taillights, '50 Ford rear license holder, Rader wheels, and a black diamond-pleated interior. It ran good, but I had to watch those brakes! It was neat back then, and though I don't have the car now, I have a '48 Ford coupe that my dad gave to me in 1964."
Coy Thomas
Port Angeles, WAshington
1946 Buick
Coy Thomas sent this pic of Bob Sly's '46 Buick fastback from back in the day. Built in the Antioch area by Benny Garcia, with a Lincoln grille and Caddy tailfins, Bob fell in love with it and just had to purchase it. After years of ownership he sold it to buy a boat (the biggest mistake of his life, according to Coy!), though the car is supposedly hidden away to this day in a garage in Central California, with the old registration still on the records. Thanks for sharing such a great old custom with us Coy!
Jay Spero
Front Royal, Virginia
1931 Model A Coupe
Jay and Art Spero built this '31 Model A coupe as a father-and-son project over a three-year period starting in 1994, though Jay (he's the son) continues to make improvements every year. Art says, "My son started out with pretty much no knowledge of hot rods but is now a very accomplished rodder." The coupe is channeled 4 inches and was purchased already chopped a similar amount. It had a 406 Ford engine with three-twos and a Super T-10 four-speed, but Art decided the big-block was too much for the car, so it was replaced with a small-block Chevy.
Likewise the original chassis, with twisted rails and circle track suspension, was deep-sixed in favor of a Stage 3 frame from The Rod Factory, complete with an 8-inch Ford rearend, 4-inch dropped tube axle with Wilwood disc brakes, and a four-link. The interior now has a '32 dash and is trimmed in red vinyl rolls and pleats over a Glide seat. Jay restored and modified the vintage mechanical Hilborn injection, originally manufactured for the 265 engine.


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Tigers ace Verlander vows return to top of his game
DETROIT -- How often has the question been asked? Put it this way, Google the phrase "how to fix Justin Verlander," and the search returns 153,000 results.
Unfortunately, the number of those 'answers' that actually work is zero.
Yes, it has been asked -- ad nauseum.
No, it has not been answered -- not yet.
After yet another less-than-typical, less-than-successful, less-than-impressive start Sunday -- his fifth of five innings or less in the nine starts he's made since flirting with a no-hitter at Houston on May 5 -- it's clear that something is still awry.
Badly awry.
And no one seems to have an answer for how to fix it.
Not Tigers manager Jim Leyland, who has been in baseball for half a century, and been Verlander's manager for all but two starts in his career.
Not Tigers pitching coach Jeff Jones, who was a big-league pitcher when Verlander was born, and has been coaching pitchers since 1989.
Not Verlander, who has been himself for 30 years.
Not you.
Not me.
No one.
It's in there. It's just a matter of figuring out how to get it out again.
"It's just a matter of finding it. It's not injury. The stuff's there," Verlander said. "Just being able to repeat my delivery, and execute my fastball."
It seems so simple, and yet ... the answer continues to elude all involved.
"His command. He continued to have command issue. ... So that's the issue that we have to tackle, and find out why," Leyland said after his ace -- who he needed to go deep to save a gassed bullpen -- lasted just five innings, and left everyone continuing to search for answers.
"It's just not a smooth rhythm delivery right now for him, whether it's rushing a little bit, trying to get the out before you throw the ball, I don't know what it is. I can't put my finger on it, really. The good thing about it is, it's not stuff, and he's healthy.
"We can fix the other stuff."
Everyone certainly hopes so.
It's been an issue long enough that people are starting to wonder just what's going on. Wondering how serious it might be.
Wondering just what has happened to the guy that dominated the sport just two seasons ago, sowing the seeds for the huge payday that he reaped this spring, in the form of an five-year, $180 million contract extension making him one of the highest paid pitchers ever.
After one of his best Aprils on record -- always one of Verlander's bugaboos -- that didn't seem to be much of a question. His ERA was 1.83 going into the start in Houston where he carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning. He came out of that start -- after seven innings of two-hit, scoreless baseball -- with an ERA of 1.55.
Since then, he has an ERA of 6.04 in the intervening nine starts, having given up six home runs among the 61 hits in 50 1/3 innings. And the guy who prides himself on being a workhorse has averaged 5 2/3 innings per start in that span.
His six starts of five innings or less this season are as many as he had in the previous three seasons combined.
In fact, the guy who led the majors in complete games last year with six, hasn't gone longer than 7 1/3 innings in any start this season -- and that was in his second start in April.
Sunday, Verlander was asked if "concerned" was a good word to describe his mindset.
"No, that's a horrible word," he responded. "You want to come up with a better one?"
How about perplexed? Baffled? Confounded? Mystified? Nonplussed?
Take your pick.
He's tried everything. More video. No video. Extra work in the bullpen. All to no avail.
But he'll keep trying.
"These aren't things I haven't done already, but I'll go out and throw, and just try to find it, have it click, you know what I mean? When it clicks, it's there. It's just trying to get to that point, when I can feel it, and repeat it, and repeat my pitches. Once it happens, then I'm there. Until then, it's a battle for me," he said, admitting it was a challenge not to overthink the issue, and try to fix too much.
"Yeah, it can be difficult, and I think that's kind of what my problem was a month ago, maybe trying to over-tweak things a little bit. Just get back to basics, and find it.
"I'm not saying it's super easy. Obviously. If it was, it'd be done and over with."
He thought he had things fixed two starts ago in Kansas City -- when he threw seven scoreless innings, prompting Leyland to call it "vintage Justin" -- only to backslide in his last two starts.
So close to finding "it."
And yet so far.
"Yep. Just haven't quite found it. Can't put into words what it is I'm trying to find. That click, that rhythm, that feel. I know that I can repeat that pitch, this pitch. When it's there, it's there. When it's not, it's not," Verlander said.
"Funny game. That's why there's hot and cold streaks in sports. That's the way it is. When you're hot, you try to extend it as long as you can, stay in that rhythm. When you're not, you try to get it out, get back to where you're supposed to be, as quick as possible.
"It's not easy. When it's going right it is easy. When it's going wrong, it seems like everything kind of goes wrong."
Right now, everything is.
His normally wicked fastball isn't as wicked when he can't harness it. His secondary stuff, which he's fallen back on in the absence of fastball command, has kept him in games at times -- but has also gotten less effective, when he can't devote enough time to work on it.
People have any number of theories why.
Some have pointed to his lack of velocity this year. He sees that more as a product of the situation than a cause of it.
"No. It's one of those things," he said. "Because I'm not quite right, it's not there. I think it all comes, hand-in-hand."
It's not an injury. If it were, the Tigers would not be pitching him, rest assured. Not with as much as they have invested in the continuing health of his right arm.
Is it the night-before-the-start Taco Bell tradition? "Still doing that," he said with a grin, shaking his head at the teasing, tongue-in-cheek question.
Could it be big contract, he was asked?
"No. Yeah, I'm not worried about that. I block that stuff out, I don't listen to it, and you like to bring that stuff up. That's your job," he said, after rolling his eyes, and leaning back at the chair in his locker, gazing up at the ceiling. "It's my job to go out there and pitch, whether I'm making one cent, or $500 million a year. It's irregardless of what I'm going to do to be at my best."
But he hasn't been at his best in a considerable period.
In fact, this extended struggle looks more like he did when he was at his worst in the majors, the high pitch-count, early flame-out days in 2008 and early 2009, when he took some harsh lessons, learning what not to do as a big-league pitcher.
"Yeah, I guess a little bit. But having drawn from that experience, I'm sure helps me. When you look back at '08, it was a 17-loss season, and almost a 5 ERA ... I've matured a lot since then. I think you take the same pitcher I am now, and throw it back then, and that's what you get. You get 17 losses, and a game like (Sunday), you probably get a guy that gives up six or seven or eight, and the team loses, as opposed to keeping us in the game, and we end up coming back and winning," he said. "That's a big difference, maturity-wise.
"I haven't been pitching the way I want to, obviously. But just being able to keep a level head."
To his credit, Verlander has done that.
He has not let the struggles -- and the doubts that inevitably accompany them -- get to him. He has not hid from the questions. He has not acted offended that they're being asked.
He has neither dodged, nor evaded answering them.
Nor, really, has his manager -- who insists that we all, including himself, got spoiled by Verlander's sensational MVP and Cy Young season.
He knows his ace is scuffling, even if those struggles only put him at the level of a lot of other pitchers.
Knowing Verlander's work ethic and drive to succeed, he's willing to bet that it gets sorted out. But he can't guarantee that. Nobody can.
"No, I don't just assume, no. I think you go back to the drawing board, you look at your tapes, you do your bullpen, and you do all the things that we always do, to try to see if there's something we're missing," Leyland said.
"I would be concerned if he were sore, or if his stuff wasn't good. But that's not the case. That's two-thirds of the battle right there."
Knowing it's not physical -- or at least not an injury -- really doesn't lessen Verlander's frustration a bit.
"There's obviously still frustration. I'm frustrated with myself, obviously. But there's no point in getting upset and looking back and saying, 'What the (heck)?' It's just constantly looking forward. That's sports. There's ups and downs. Nobody's at the peak of their game forever," Verlander said.
"I'll get back there. I will. It's just, like I said, finding that click. Finding that rhythm."


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Nothing new here that isn't covered in the previous 'overtrained' post except for this example: I pushed myself hard for 5 days straight by running to and from work, running to the gym for some high intensity training and even starting runs with a set of squats or other wise. There is a race coming up and needed some volume and I was curious about how much repair I would need to do in my sleep.
I think the most important metrics here are average and minimum heart rate. It would be interesting to track REM cycles and my ability to awaken in between deep sleep. Sleep tracking for detecting overtraining seems overly rigorous, there are plenty of other markers to look for.
- Keep the body guessing
- Occasionally PUSH the envelope
- Always get plenty of sleep
- Take ~1 out of ten weeks off
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As a criminologist, I have seen time and again that the process one is due and the justice one is accorded depend largely on one's bank account.
As a criminologist, I have seen time and again that the process one is due and the justice one is accorded depend largely on one's bank account.
Nowhere is this point more clear than in a recent decision by a Texas judge to sentence a 16-year-old boy to 10 years of probation and mental health counseling after the young man killed four people by driving drunk.
Let that sink in — probation and counseling for killing four people. Four people.
The defense attorneys argued that the boy suffered from "affluenza." Their reasoning was that he was coddled too much by his wealthy parents who have never held him accountable for his actions.
In contrast, the prosecutors argued that he should receive 20 years in prison. Tarrant County Assistant District Attorney Richard Alpert told reporters that the teen showed no remorse during the two-hour proceedings. Alpert added he has little confidence the rehabilitation will reform the youth's behavior. Nor should he.
According to police, the defendant (whose blood alcohol count was three times the legal limit for an adult) was going 70 miles-per-hour in his father's Ford F-350 pickup in a 40 mph zone when he lost control and started a deadly chain of crashes that killed four people and gravely injured two others — one of whom suffered a traumatic brain injury and can no longer walk or talk.
To be sure, I'm not arguing for Hammurabic justice, but this kid has been held to no standard other than that which daddy's money could purchase. The judge's sentence is a slap in the face to the victims' families. The judge, Jean Boyd, who promulgated this vulgar travesty, should be removed from the bench and disbarred.
Apologists have noted that the judge didn't formally acknowledge the "affluenza" defense. She didn't have to — her actions speak for themselves. These same apologists also point out that the boy would have likely received a sentence amounting to two years of actual incarceration. Therefore — as their reasoning goes — 10 years of probation allegedly gets him more time under court supervision.
Right. Ten years of more free-wheeling excess, having effectively gotten away with destroying many lives.
It's probably wrong to expect the boy to exhibit any kind of contrition. He's clearly been "socialized" into a world of near sociopathic hedonism where excesses are absolved through empty symbolic gestures.
Of course we permit our nation's "one percenters" this luxury because we take our collective eye off the ball. We're too cheaply bought.
In my own hometown there's a small group of folks who own a great deal of rental property. The property is allowed to exist with very little oversight. It is also the locus of thousands of crimes every year — many of them violent. In fact, these few properties contribute so much to the local crime rate that the city would have almost half the crime it does if they didn't exist.
These people (one in particular) make a big show of philanthropy. They give money to all kinds of noble and worthwhile causes. They are lauded for being great public citizens and assets to the community. Somehow, in the communal mind, a few magnanimous gestures gives them special dispensation to profit from the cauldron of crime and pain that they facilitate.
While I don't equate my local negligent property owners with a murderous drunk, I do see a parallel in the treatment these two constituents regularly receive in the face of bad acts. Wealth equates to special access, special justice and special absolution.
To be sure, having wealth no more makes one bad than being poor makes one good. I recognize that most of the violent crime in America happens in poorer neighborhoods. I also recognize that we have a double standard when the inevitable comeuppance takes place. The wealthy have access to a philanthropic smoke screen. The poor have access to prison.
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Assumptive Selling for Maximum Closing
Assumptive…is that even a word? And what in the world does it have to do with the ability to sell?
In the beginning of my sales career, I would have been asking myself that question. Today, assumptive is the quality that I attribute to sales success.
In relation to membership sales, assumptive describes an approach in which you assume (or believe) that each prospect who comes into your club is there to enroll. Assumptive selling begins with communication. Your conduct will determine whether you are in the "driver's seat" of a sale. You must pay attention to your greeting, your eye contact, and your ability to ask questions and listen to a prospect.
You must also have confidence in yourself and your facility. With so many clubs available, it's easy for prospects to object to a sale, saying that they want to check out other nearby clubs first. That's why you must be in control in order to close.
When it comes to selling, attitude is everything. Or is it? If you're not in control of the sale, your attitude may not be enough.
To gain control, you must use the tour to analyze needs and gather information. But first put the person at ease. Prior to showing a prospect around your facility, take the time to sit down in a comfortable setting and build a relationship. After greeting the prospect, let her know the agenda of the visit. This allows the prospect to take her guard down and begin to feel comfortable about what is going to happen. Remember, people only buy from people they can trust.
Qualifying Questions
The key to maintaining control is to ask qualifying questions that will help uncover potential objections which may arise later on. Asking questions will also teach you to keep the prospect involved. If you analyzed the prospect's needs, you should be ready to show her how your facility will meet her needs. (Notice I used the word "will," not "can.")
Think about how to make the prospect visualize herself as a member. For example, show her how she will check into the club with a membership card. This way, she can actually "picture" doing it.
Focus only on the areas of the club that are of most interest to the prospect. If you know she will be using the club before work, or during lunch, make sure to show her how the lockers work, explaining what she will need to bring.
If your club offers complimentary fitness orientations, make it a point to introduce your prospect to the trainer who will help her start her program. The more people (members and staff) your prospect can meet, the more she will feel comfortable about the decision to join your club.
Closing Time
Closing the sale should be the logical progression of the sales process. If you have used an assumptive approach throughout the sale, the closing stage can be as simple as the prospect picking out a membership option and choosing a payment method. At least that is what should be going on in your mind.
Remember, a "no" is not about you personally. What "no" really means is that a prospect just doesn't have enough information to make a decision. If you have done a great job of communicating, maintaining control, and involving a prospect along the way, then presenting membership options with confidence will often result in a successful close.
The bottom line: Assumptive equals confidence equals increased sales!
Stefani Whiteman is a sales/marketing consultant in the health/fitness industry with more than seven years of experience. She is based out of East Providence, R.I., and can be reached at (401) 433-4692 or [email protected].
Sample Agenda for Controlling the Sale
"John, the first thing we'll do is have a seat so that I can find out a little bit more about you and your goals. Next, we will take a tour of the facility. After I show you the facility, we will come back, and I will sit down with you and review the different membership options to find out which one will work out best for you."
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ASSUME each member who visits your club is there to join.
ASSUME a telephone inquiry is going to result in an appointment.
ASSUME at point of sale you will be receiving referral names from each new member.
ASSUME when calling renewals who are about to expire that they're going to re-sign.
ASSUME that by using these techniques you will begin to sell more memberships!


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Combined $30,600 settlement aims to deter future breaches of the CWA
Quality Asphalt Paving Inc. (QAP) of Anchorage, Alaska, and Kikiktagruk Inupiat Corp. (KIC) of Kotzebue, Alaska, have reached a combined $30,600 settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA).The violation involved placement of fill material into wetlands adjacent to Hotham Inlet without a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit. QAP has agreed to pay a $19,125 penalty, and KIC has agreed to pay an $11,475 penalty.According to the EPA, in July 2006, fill material was discharged onto approximately 7 acres of wetlands during gravel mining activities. The site is located on Pipe Spit, approximately 8 miles northeast of Kotzebue. The parcel is owned by KIC, who was the material supplier for a construction contract that QAP was working under for the state of Alaska. QAP conducted work prior to issuance of a Corps permit to KIC and also conducted work beyond the area authorized in the permit.In August 2007, with EPA approval, QAP removed the unauthorized fill material, regraded and revegetated the site as required under the Corps' cease and desist prder, issued in September 2006.According to Greg Kellogg, EPA's Alaska operations deputy director, the wetlands of Alaska provide important habitat for fish and other wildlife, which supports the state's economy. "Construction activities in the wetlands of Alaska should be undertaken after careful planning and obtaining the necessary permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers," said Kellogg. "If you conduct work in jurisdictional wetlands, you must obey the law or face fines."Both QAP and KIC have received previous permits and were aware of the CWA requirements, and according to EPA records, QAP has been involved in previous alleged CWA violations. This penalty action will serve as a deterrent against future violations of the CWA by QAP, KIC and other land owners and businesses.


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And, Magical Marlon makes the final out top 3.
Guess good we didn't pick him up after all. Terrible player ready for pasture.
And, Magical Marlon makes the final out top 3.
Guess good we didn't pick him up after all. Terrible player ready for pasture.
Reds & Nats, 2013 LCS. Take2 (9/13) Reds but no Nats
Choo hit by a pitch for the 26th time this year
Choo needs to go all Kung Fu on a pitcher one of these days
If I was a Pirate fan, I'd assume that intentional
Were going to get the pitching. -Bob Castellini
You got the pitching, now what? - Reds fans
Down 2 and trying to bunt in the 3rd inning. I'm ready for a major change with this team.
Choo running and Ludwick grounds out to 3rd
Wild pitch moves Choo to 3rd
Once again Votto basically gets an intentional walk. Have to wonder if they would do the same if Bruce was hitting behind him.
Once again, Choo gets on. Bucs pitch around Votto.
Can't expect Votto to swing at those pitches.
Pirates will take their shot with Phllips.
Story of the offense this year, essentially.
C'mon Brandon.
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Lunch in the Loop: Burritos as Big as Your Forearm at La Bamba
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I went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and back then, we didn't have many options for Mexican food unless you had a car. And even then, the options were limited. There was Taco Bell, but sorry, an enchirito (aka the sad wet burrito) doesn't really count. I graduated ten years ago with a writing degree, and look where I am now! Unemployed and a human wreck. Good job, Dennis.
There was, however, La Bamba. La Bamba was open late, and they served tacos, burritos, and quesadillas to a certain drunk-ass troublemaker who may or may not have been me. I have fond memories of watching the sun come up on the weekend with sour cream and salsa smeared all over my face. Or...was that last night? In any case, there are actually two La Bambas in Chicago. One is in Lincoln Park, and the other just so happens to be in the Loop.
As it was back then, you still want to skip the tacos. All of them. The taco plate ($9.96) comes with three tacos, a side of refried beans, and Spanish rice. You can pick any filling for each taco. Out of the three I tried, the ground beef taco is the best—but not by too much; it's like supermarket-taco-kit seasoned beef, but with bigger flavor. The chicken is shredded and dry, and the pork is also dry and underseasoned (despite its red color). The toppings are sad shredded iceberg lettuce, mealy tomatoes, and raw onions. Curiously, they melt a small piece of cheese between the two corn tortillas of each taco, which is both baffling and intriguing at the same time. I suspect the cheese acts as a bit of melted tortilla glue.
However, not all is lost. La Bamba proudly advertises their super burrito ($7.32) as being as big as your head. That's a bit of an overstatement, but as you can see, the burrito is as long as my forearm. I didn't think putting the burrito against my forehead for a photo comparison was a good idea, because then you'd be forced to look at my face. Also, for some reason, I think measuring food against the size of any human body part might be the funniest thing ever. I'll take one forearm-sized burrito, please. With a side of baby fist rice. I'm on a diet.
The interesting thing about La Bamba's burritos is that they're more than the sum of their parts. The steak isn't particularly great. It's usually a bit chewy and dry from sitting in a steamer pan for a while, and the vegetables aren't the best, either. The entire combination of steak, refried beans, lettuce, tomato, onion, and cheese only makes for a mediocre burrito.
But what improves the package is the La Bamba hot sauce. I've never had anything quite like it; it's a rich red color with small shreds of cilantro. The salsa is salty, spicy, and most importantly, extra savory. It's squirted into the burrito by default as they're assembling it, and that's what makes the whole Mexican rollup so much better. Plus you can continue dousing the salsa on since they give you plenty more on the side.
If you're into guilty gut-busting, heart-clogging pleasures, the super nachos ($7.86) will be up your alley. The nachos use the most addictive processed pump cheese I've ever had. Rather than a neon orange, it's a pale white color, with more of a Monterey Jack flavor instead of ballpark nacho.
Again, go for the steak—even though it's not that great, it slightly edges out the other proteins. They'll also toss a bunch of refried beans, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and sour cream on there, along with pickled jalapeños. The whole styrofoam carton of chips will be soggy in three minutes flat, but showered in the salsa and that white cheese, you won't mind using a fork. The portion is also absolutely enormous and you'll do a lot better off splitting this with a friend.
If you were to head over now, you might not see La Bamba—the face of the building is undergoing construction and is boarded up with plywood—but it's still open. The food might not be the greatest in the world, but it brings back memories for me, plus you can tell your coworkers you ate a forearm for lunch.
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Have You Been LISTening? How Do We Sound?
Hopefully by now you've at least noticed we've been running an experimental podcast @LISNews. Done each week by LISNewster StephenK, and named by LISNewster Christina Seeger, LISTen, the LISNews podcast covers what you've read @LISNews, and some things you may not have. Stephen summarizes trends on LISNews, stories you may have missed elsewhere, and whatever else has been suggested by LISNews readers. If you haven't had a LISTen yet, check out This Week's Episode or maybe the New Year's Eve Special.
We're trying something different here and because this was only designed to be an experiment we're now looking for reasons to keep it going. We need to hear from you.
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I haven't been listening. Between LisNews RSS and a healthy round of library blogs, I usually feel like I've caught about as much as my brain can handle. A summary isn't particularly useful to me-- I prefer to listen to new-to-me information when looking for podcasts.
Summaries are not particularly useful?
What topics of new-to-me information would be most useful to you? What would you like covered?
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I've been listening, though like Hedgie said, I'm not finding the summaries alone to be all that helpful. Content different than on the website, discussiones, etc would make it more interesting.
I also just wanted to mention that I had a bad confused moment when one of the episodes used the same music that the Savage Love podcast uses.
Which episode's music?
Which episode of LISten was confusing? We've deliberately changed the music first to see if there would be any reaction and second because we have not settled what sounds best to listeners. After the trial season I think we are either going to go with opening sketches or with dedicated theme music.
Episode 4's intro music was originally recorded here in Las Vegas. All of the parts were performed by Mike Kellat. He also did his own recording and editing together of the music itself. The rest came later that day as we started prepping for the episode's recording session that would come the next day.
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The music after the intro of the year end episode.
That music?
Ah. That was a commonly used jingle from the GarageBand library.
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Discussion vs. Summary
Yes, I have been listening. I tend to agree that a slightly more in depth discussion, perhaps of the week's top one or two stories, would help to provide focus to the show. The number of topics covered and the speed at which they are introduced makes it challenging to follow and leaves me feeling a little scattered. I also subscribe to "LibVibe" (weekly news report on library events) and "Uncontrolled Vocabulary" (weekly call-in discussion show of library related topics), which leads me to ponder what the "niche" could be for LISten to distinguish it from these predecessors ... haven't come up with a good suggestion yet.
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No, I have not been listening. In general, I find it takes longer to listen to news stories than to read them.
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of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, 1979–1982
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Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt flat on Earth, and when covered with water, it becomes a natural mirror – and an unforgettable sight.
Endless vastness rolling away to the horizon, blazing light: Salar de Uyuni on the Altiplano plateau in Bolivia has a crust of salt that's several meters thick in some places and weighs roughly 10 billion tons. Every year, around 25 000 tons of salt are extracted. When rainfall is plentiful, the world's largest salt flat (10 582 square kilometers in area) is transformed into a lake that mirrors the sky, making it seem close enough to touch – a magnificent sight, and well worth the organized, three-day, offroader tour to get you there.


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DALLAS, TX -- Chief Executive Officer and President of Gold's Gym International Gene LaMott resigned from the company Tuesday. The company's board of directors appointed David Schnabel to serve as the new CEO.
"On behalf of our entire board of directors, I want to thank Gene LaMott for leading Gold's Gym through one of the greatest transitions in its 41 year history," says David Schnabel. "We appreciate his efforts and wish him well in future endeavors."
LaMott began his association with the Gold's Gym family as an eight-unit franchisee in the late 80s and early 90s. He transitioned into corporate leadership at Gold's when he was named COO in 2000. He has served the corporation and the system as CEO since 2001. He helped guide the company through its sale to TRT Holdings in 2004 and oversaw the corporate move to Dallas in 2005. During LaMott's tenure the brand evolved substantially as the company saw increases in system sales, franchising and product licensing while corporate owned gyms grew to over 50 locations. He will be returning to his home in California to spend more time with his wife, children and young grandchildren.
"I am proud of what we've been able to accomplish during my time at Gold's Gym and feel that the company is well positioned for future growth," says LaMott. "After spending the past two years commuting back and forth between Texas and California, I'm looking forward to spending more time at home."
David Schnabel was the Vice President of Acquisitions for TRT Holdings and has served as a member of the board of directors for Gold's Gym International since its acquisition by TRT in 2004. He was responsible for sourcing the acquisition of Gold's Gym for TRT Holdings and has been actively involved in the strategic planning of the company since that time. Schnabel has worked at some of the nation's most recognized firms, including Goldman Sachs and McKinsey & Co., and holds both an undergraduate degree from Stanford University and a graduate degree from the Harvard School of Business.
"Gold's Gym is the greatest name in the fitness industry and there are tremendous opportunities in front of us," says Schnabel. "I look forward to working with both the GGI executive team and our franchisee leadership to maximize the potential of the Gold's Gym brand."
DALLAS, TX -- Chief Executive Officer and President of Gold's Gym International Gene LaMott resigned from the company Tuesday. The company's board of directors appointed David Schnabel to serve as the new CEO.


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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is warning people that time is running out to follow a mandatory evacuation for Hurricane Irene.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is warning people that time is running out to follow a mandatory evacuation for Hurricane Irene.
Bloomberg said at a briefing on Saturday afternoon that the hurricane is a dangerous storm for people in flood-prone areas. He is telling holdouts that they put rescue workers at risk, too.
More than 370,000 people have been ordered out of low-lying parts of the city by 5 p.m. Bloomberg says 1,400 people are staying in shelters.
The city has urged people for days not to wait until the last minute, and offered rides out of the danger area to residents who needed it.
It's the first time there's been an evacuation in the city.
The nation's largest subway system began to shut down at noonn on Saturday and the typically bustling city became unusually quiet as the first rain from Hurricane Irene fell on Manhattan.
Sidewalks, streets and bridges were nearly empty. Broadway shows were canceled. Businesses were closed and subway riders raced to catch the last trains. More 370,000 people in flood-prone areas have been told to get out ahead of the storm, the first time such an evacuation order was issued for the city.
At the Seventh Avenue station in Brooklyn's Park Slope section, more than a dozen people waited for one of the final subway runs.
"What I'm hoping is that they will run trains for the next hour or two to pick up the stragglers," said Kate Sandberg, who was headed to visit a friend.
The city had begged people for days not to wait until the last minute, and offered rides out of the danger area to residents who needed it. Nursing homes and hospitals started evacuating people Thursday.
It was the first time the city has shut down the entire subway system because of a natural disaster. Final subway and bus runs started at noon and it would take about eight hours before the entire transit system was shuttered, city officials said.
Several New York landmarks were inside the evacuation zone, including the ferries that take tourists to the Statue of Liberty. Construction stopped throughout the city, and workers at the site of the World Trade Center dismantled a crane and secured equipment.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said there would be no effect on the Sept. 11 memorial opening the day after the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
On Wall Street, sandbags were placed around subway grates nearest the East River, which is expected to surge as the hurricane nears New York.
Bloomberg warned those who decided to stay that elevators in public housing apartments would be shut down. Other high-rises were also likely to stop elevators so people don't get trapped inside them if the power does go out. And the city's largest utility said it may cut off power to 6,500 customers in Lower Manhattan and Wall Street if the flooding gets bad. Turning off electricity ahead of time helps reduce the damage to power lines.
The transit system won't reopen until at least Monday, after pumps remove water from flooded subway stations. Even on a dry day, 13 million to 15 million gallons of water are removed from the tunnels deep underground. The Long Island Rail Road and other tracks were also being stopped.
The city's public transit system carries about 5 million passengers on an average weekday and officials didn't immediately report any problems during the final hours of the evacuation.
At the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, stragglers scurried down the steps of the 4 and 5 lines to Brooklyn.
"This makes my day!" Randy Callo said as the doors closed on one of the final trains.
Salvatore Laudadio missed that train, and was sweating it out for one more ride to Brooklyn. He had already been on several buses and subway transfers.
"I got kind of a late start so I've been a little worried but I think this will all work out," he said, holding his bags.
Then the train rolled up and he got on.
The last time the system was seriously hobbled was an August 2007 rainstorm that disabled or delayed every one of the city's subway lines. It was also shut down after the 9/11 attacks and during a 2005 strike.
In Brooklyn's famed Coney Island, known for its boardwalk and amusement park, Bloomberg urged residents who needed to leave to get out right away.
"Staying behind is dangerous, staying behind is foolish, and it's against the law, and we urge everyone in the evacuation zones not to wait until gale-force winds," he said at a news conference. "The time to leave is right now."
Transit fares and tolls were waived in evacuated areas. Officials hoped most residents would stay with family and friends, and nearly 100 shelters, with a capacity of 71,000 people, were opened.
At 17 Battery Place, a 36-floor luxury rental building, Daryl Edelman and his wife, Regina, were leaving — suitcase packed and their small white dog, Bitsy Bananas, tucked into a case.
"What the mayor did — shutting down the transportation system — is more dangerous than the storm," said Daryl Edelman, a comic book writer. "People could be left stranded — especially the elderly."
Bloomberg said he hoped the evacuation wasn't necessary, but officials needed to be cautious with what is considered a dangerous storm.
"You can't prepare for the best case. You have to prepare for the worst case," he said.
Bloomberg weathered criticism after a Dec. 26 storm dumped nearly two feet of snow that seemed to catch officials by surprise. Subway trains, buses and ambulances got stuck in the snow, some for hours, and streets were impassable for days. Bloomberg ultimately called it an "inadequate and unacceptable" response.
Taxis in New York City were to switch from metered fares to zone fares, meaning riders would be charged by which part of the city they were being driven to, rather than how far they were being taken.
About 4,500 taxis were on the streets of Manhattan, which was just below an average day.
Cab driver Mohammed Hassan started a shift early Saturday at his home in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn and made his way to midtown Manhattan. Downtown was already empty, he said.
"If it's dangerous, I'm going home," said Hassan, a cabbie for 28 years. But "I need the money."
The five main New York City-area airports also closed at noon Saturday to arriving domestic and international flights. Three of them, Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty, are among the nation's busiest.
Irene made landfall in North Carolina on Saturday, and was expected to roll up the Interstate 95 corridor reaching New York on Sunday. A hurricane warning was issued for the city Friday afternoon, the first since Gloria in 1985.
"Heed the warnings," Bloomberg urged, his shirt soaking as the rain fell. "It isn't cute to say 'I'm tougher than any storm.' I hope this is not necessary, but it's certainly prudent."
About 1.6 million people live in Manhattan, and about 6.8 million live in the city's other four boroughs.
In the past 200 years, New York has seen only a few significant hurricanes. In September 1821, a hurricane raised tides by 13 feet in an hour and flooded the southernmost tip of Manhattan in an area that now includes Wall Street and the World Trade Center memorial. In 1938, a storm dubbed the Long Island Express came ashore about 75 miles east of the city on neighboring Long Island and then hit New England, killing 700 people and leaving 63,000 homeless.
And in 1944, Midtown was flooded, where Times Square, Broadway theaters and the Empire State Building are located.


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march to (the beat of) (one's) own drum
To do something, act, or behave in a manner that does not conform to the standard, prevalent, or popular societal norm. My brother's eschewed the idea of a full-time career and has had every oddball job you could think of, but then he's always been happy marching to the beat of his own drum. Look, I respect the fact that you like to march to your own drum, but do you have to make a point of doing everything in a counter-cultural way?


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At the request of the school department, I have made no public comments since the publication of the Time magazine article. I am issuing this statement today to put to rest the notion that I am "foggy in my memory" or that when pressed, "my memory failed", statements attributed to the Mayor in her press conference on this past Monday.
Statement by Principal Joseph Sullivan
This statement was e-mailed to the Cape Ann Beacon Thursday afternoon by attorney Michael Faherty.
At the request of the school department, I have made no public comments since the publication of the Time magazine article. I am issuing this statement today to put to rest the notion that I am "foggy in my memory" or that when pressed, "my memory failed", statements attributed to the Mayor in her press conference on this past Monday.
On June 11, near the end of a regularly scheduled meeting with staff, I was informed by a school secretary that a magazine reporter was in the main office lobby to see me. When the meeting concluded, I went to my office and introduced myself to Kathleen Kingsbury who identified herself as a Time magazine correspondent. She told me that she had questions about the previously published reports about the increased incidences of pregnancy at the high school. We met in my office.
Ms. Kingsbury's initial questions to me were general in nature and centered on the origin and role of the Health Center and the child care program at the high school, which I answered. Her direct question to me was whether I thought the distribution of birth control prescriptions or prophylactic devices at the Health Center would have prevented the spike in the number of pregnancies that have been reported this year. I told her "no" because my sources had informed me that a significant number of the pregnancies especially among the younger students were the result of deliberate and intentional behavior. I also told her that the issuance of birth control prescriptions or the distribution of prophylactics would not take place at the Health Center unless it was with parental consent and school department approval.
I honestly do not remember specifically using the word "pact" in my meeting with the Time magazine reporter, but I do specifically remember telling Ms. Kingsbury that my understanding was that a number of the pregnancies were intentional and that the students within this group were friendly with each other. At no time in the interview did I mention any student names nor did I breach any confidences and at the conclusion of the meeting, I told Ms. Kingsbury to leave the high school property because I did not want her to be trying to interview students.
Shortly after my meeting with Ms. Kingsbury, I was informed by a staff member that the Superintendent had sent an email to high school personnel prior to my meeting alerting staff that a Time magazine reporter was in town. I then called the Superintendent and told him I had already met with the Time magazine reporter. Although the email was sent prior to my meeting with Ms. Kingsbury, I did not see or hear about it until after I met with her. It was not until later in the afternoon, as is my practice, that I opened and read my email.
My only direct source of information about the intentional pregnancies at the high school was the former nurse practitioner at the Health Center. My other sources are verbal staff reports and student/staff chatter all of which I have found to be very reliable in my experience as a principal and all of which I filter myself for accuracy and keep confidential.
I want to make the following points:
1. Since June 11, until this day, the Mayor has not called me or had any conversation whatsoever with me concerning the Time magazine interview.
2. I believe everything I told Kathleen Kingsbury was and is accurate.
3. For the last two (2) weeks my family and I have been harassed and harangued by reporters and the press. I will not subject anybody else to this kind of abuse and for that reason and in respect to the confidences I share with these persons, I will not be giving out the names of any other persons or my sources concerning the pregnancy issue at the high school.
4. Even though I am the principal of the high school, I have no access to any student records at the Health Center. These records are confidential. Moreover, the Health Center is staffed and run by the hospital not the school. The school merely provides the space and logistical support for the center.
5. I am proud to be the principal of Gloucester High School. The administration, teaching and support staff and the students expect that the reputation of the school should be measured by what happens on the campus. The school can not be held accountable for out of school activities of a relatively few of its students.
6. The affected children need to be left alone with their parents and families to deal with the consequences of their actions. Intense media attention needs to come to a stop as it distorts the reality of the situation by focusing attention on the sources of information about the problem of "children having children" instead of seeking solutions to the problem itself.
I will have nothing more to say on this matter. I look forward to the business of getting back to the business of getting the High School ready for the fall semester.- Joseph Sullivan


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Album title: landawarijaR
Release date: 20 January 2017
Label: Dark Essence Records
Helheim brings us the incredible progression of their musical style in this magnificent work. Helheim are one of the founding pioneers of the so called Viking metal genre. They go beyond the most familiar bands branded as Viking metal. They keep alive the devotion to Norse heritage, so shrouded in mysteries from the Runes that are worth exploring. Helheim bring their best in this album. All previous shortcomings are just vanishing in this beauty. landawarijaR it's like flying between peaks and valleys, feeling vengeance and beauty, hate and love in a fluid dynamics that makes it feel like one fifty-five minutes long song. Helheim during their entire career are making, let's say, a similar evolution like Enslaved, adding progressive elements to their music, yet in a unique way. On landawarijaR those ingredients sound really avant-garde.
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