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Six-year-old quadruplets from Shenzhen in southern China had their hair shaved into various numbers before they went to school for the first time, Agence France Presse reports.
Their parents decided to mark them with 1, 2, 3, 4 on their heads — in the order that they were born — to make it easier for teachers and classmates to tell them apart.
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Located in the Renaissance Indianapolis hotel on North Meridian, Grille 39 may be ignored because it is a hotel restaurant. Usually, if you live in the area, you don't visit hotels thus ignoring the restaurants within. As someone who travels for work, I have no problem with many hotel restaurants. In this case, I was looking forward to the atmosphere that blended well with the Renaissance feel of earthly elements. Together, the two fit nicely, and I was impressed with the overall experience of the restaurant that evening.
We had Easter brunch at the hotel the previous weekend and had been invited to return for the Grille 39 experience. We dined at the restaurant on a Friday evening, around 7 p.m., and I wasn't surprised to see many open tables due to it being a hotel restaurant. However, once you are seated you may even forget you were in a hotel lobby. The decor is rich in colors: burnt orange, dark yet brilliant blues. The seating was comfortable as we were sat near the fire for the evening. We were quickly seated and met by our server who was pleasant and informative throughout the evening. She explained the weekly specials and a few of her favorites after we placed our drink orders. With a smile, she delivered our drinks and we relaxed with images of a delicious meal in our heads.
Our appetizer were the bleu cheese potato chips. We had been looking at few other items but I just couldn't resist a bleu cheese fondue and crispy, homemade potato chips. They were quick to be delivered and we immediately started crunching away. The potato chips were crisp with a heavier weight and flavorful with each bite as they were seasoned with something more than your typical salt and pepper. They were great on their own, but I really did enjoy the creamy and decadent bleu cheese fondue all over the chips. It wasn't sharp like I imagined it to be, but still rich in flavor. Bleu cheese crumbles gave it the subtle sharpness that I was expecting. I liked the contrast of creamy and crunchy. It was also quite a large portion as we didn't finish knowing we had a good meal ahead. But even with that being said, we also were given a basket of their breads. I had a nibble (okay, a whole slice) of their toasted cinnamon bread. It may have had some raisin components, but it was dried and delicious. Imagine taking a loaf of cinnamon bread and slicing it incredibly thin and drying it out. That's what you got, but the flavor is so intense that it was a sweet treat for the beginning of the meal.
Hubs had ordered the sea bass for his dinner, grilled in cooking style. This 10 oz. piece of fish looked much bigger than we both imagined (and it warmed up great the next day for the two of us to split I might add). It doesn't look like the classically grilled piece of fish we both imagined. We believe it was cooked in their infra-red broiler like their steaks. Despite this dish being bland in presentation color (that was due to the side items hubs selected), the fish wasn't even close to being bland in flavor. It was cooked perfectly and had such moisture locked in the slightly crunch crust. It was a really great piece of fish, leaving us both wondering when the last time was that we had fish that great. He had also ordered it Oscar style. The subtle sweetness of the lump crab was great with the creamy richness of the hollandaise. The best bite included the fish, crab, risotto and hollandaise. His two sides were a potato au gratin (will explain later) and a Parmesan risotto. The risotto was a little too creamy for me (I know, it's cheese risotto) and monotone in flavor. But hubs really enjoyed it and thought I was crazy for thinking that. I personally think I just wasn't in the mood for risotto, because the next day it tasted pretty good as leftovers.
I enjoyed a steak dinner – something I normally never order out. But our server informed us that they sell more steaks than anything else so I couldn't resist to see why. I ordered the ribeye (once again, completely out of character for me) to see how their infra-red broiler would work with the marble of fat and meat. I ordered it medium rare and what I got was spot on. One of the best cooked steaks I have ever ordered out, it had a beautiful sear locking in all the juices and resting to the perfect temperature that I had ordered. The crust was created through high heat and a house bast wad used to create a great flavor component. Olive oil, soy sauce, garlic, and black olives created a tapenade type of topping for the steak. A steak purist might baulk at this, but I thought it added such a great and unique flavor to every bite. Like the fish, the steak also came with a sauce on the side. I ordered the bernaise, a classic egg and butter sauce, but didn't really eat it as the steak was so flavorful on it's own. But I do have to mention the bearnaise was made very well. My sides were grilled asparagus, delightfully crisp and tender at the same time, and the potato au gratin. The au gratin looked great, loaded with four different types of cheese, but when eating it I was left wanting something else. I couldn't help but see it prepared in a large pan and refrigerated, cooked and then cut into portions before being reheated. I'm sure that wasn't the case (though I didn't ask how it was prepared) but there was nothing to rave about. The flavors of four cheeses was underwhelming as cheddar was the main taste. It didn't seem like it was cooked all the way through either, too dense in texture. The steak was clearly the winner of my meal as it was absolutely delicious.
I left surprised. I couldn't help it. Even as one who isn't against hotel restaurants, I wasn't expecting the really great meal that hubs and I had. The prices seemed a little high (steak was mid-$30's, as was the fish) but a few other items seemed standard. There was an ahi tuna burger that I was tempted to try and would have if it had been lunch. I could easily see having a drink and some appetizers and progressing into a casual dinner. I liked the environment, I really enjoyed the food, and with company like I had, you can't go wrong on a Friday night date.
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Training for professional sports has become more strenuous, and the supplements some are using to refuel may deserve a closer look.
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Joe Aiken is shouldering quite a load. He's a walk-on hopeful for the No. 8-ranked Notre Dame hockey squad.
"At the college level, everyone is just an amazing athlete. You know everyone is working hard," Aiken said.
He's soft-spoken, but a heavy hitter in the gym because, as he puts it, he has to be.
Brandon Tyler of Oshkosh pushes to exhaustion for that same reason. He plays college basketball.
"There's always someone else working, getting better than you," Tyler said.
Tommy Pennington, a Bucknell infielder from Mequon, agrees.
"There's definitely pressure because you know everyone else is doing it. You know all the schools in your conference are working just as hard as you are," Pennington said.
This is the off season for the trio of college athletes, and every rep counts with private training at Mequon's Athlete Performance training center.
"Everybody is looking to be bigger, faster, stronger," said Spencer Schulz, a trainer and general manager at the center.
Schulz's voice has been heard loud and clear there since 2010, when the center opened.
He said today's young athletes, starting in high school, have made sports their job.
"If you aren't doing skills training and strength training on your own time, you're getting behind for whatever sport you are doing," Schulz said.
Weight training dates back to ancient Greece, but what athletes then didn't have was the science of supplements and protein shakes.
"After a workout, I take protein, and after that, I really have to rest and eat and get a lot of calories to help rebuild all the muscle (I) broke down," Pennington said.
"If you've got a good diet and after that, the stuff you get from GNC in addition, you're looking to get an edge any way you can, legally of course," Aiken said.
Protein helps heal and build muscle following a workout. It's a popular and legal supplement to activity.
Even though the they are legal, Dr. Joe Kohli of Aurora St. Luke's said the buyer should beware.
"Dietary supplements go through no rigorous process like a drug like Lipitor or cardiovascular drugs go through," Kohli said.
A Food and Drug Administration fact sheet shows supplements are not required to be proven safe to FDA's satisfaction before they are marketed.
The law does not require the manufacturer to prove to the FDA's satisfaction that the product's claim is accurate or truthful before appearing on the product.
In general, the FDA's role with a dietary supplement product begins after the product enters the marketplace.
"If you're less than 18, you really want to be careful. Furthermore, when you look at a product that's regulated by the FDA, those chemicals are verified by the FDA, how do we know that those chemicals are all that are in there?" Kohli said.
These athletes are fortunate. Athlete Performance training center preaches education with nutrition, and university trainers are a second set of eyes.
"I just like learning about it, and I think that's what I think athletes need to do these days is learn about what's good to you and what to refuel your body with after a workout," Pennington said.
Schulz said his concern is for those lacking the support possibly misusing supplements.
"One thing that I'd like to see, and what we'd like to do here, eventually, is get to the point where we are providing some of that, bringing people in here to provide some of that knowledge," Schulz said.
Schulz said the No. 1 reason for strength training at the high school level is to reduce injuries, not to build bulk.


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October 3, 2006: The Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers 8-4 in Game One of the American League Division Series at home – a rather easy win, a good start out of Chien-Ming Wang, and overall a well-played game.
October 1, 2011: The Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers 9-3 in Game One of the ALDS. Again, a relatively easy win in front of a partisan Yankee Stadium crowd; a good amount of offense (namely from Robinson Cano) and a good pitching performance from Ivan Nova led the way to a decisive victory for the Bronx Broskis.
October 5, 2006: The Tigers beat the Yankees in a close game, 4-3, taking game two – and home field advantage – away from New York.
October 3, 2011: The Tigers beat the Yankees 5-3, another close game, and swiped home field advantage, taking the series back to Detroit.
Noticing a trend here?
If you're wondering, the Yankees were shut out in Game Three of the '06 ALDS, 6-0, at the (greasy) hands of one Kenny Rogers. Their task tonight is to beat 24-game winner and American League Cy Young Award shoe-in Justin Verlander – a task which may prove to be very daunting.
On Saturday at Yankee Stadium before Game One was suspended, Verlander didn't look like himself. His pitches were missing up out of the zone, and he walked two batters while giving up an earned run in the lone inning he tossed.
But that could have just been an aberration.
Just as Alex Murphy was transformed into RoboCop in Detroit (I'm not holding back with the obscure Detroit/RoboCop references for this series) tonight Verlander has the chance to morph back to what he really is; erase that mediocre first inning from Game One – and do it in front of his home audience at Comerica Park.
The Yankees will counter with their ace, CC Sabathia. The big man only pitched two innings before the first game was suspended, and while he recorded four strikeouts and didn't issue a walk, he gave up a solo homer to Delmon Young in the first inning.
Over the last 10 games of the regular season, Sabathia was 4-3 with an ERA of 4.06. He allowed 87 hits in 68 2/3 innings, and gave up 31 earned runs.
Down the stretch, Sabathia seemed to struggle, yet the ace still posted 19 wins and finished with an ERA of 3.00. Even in the face of a scuffle, Sabathia showed he can still put up solid numbers.
Tonight Sabathia will have to stand toe-to-toe with the probable AL Cy Young Award winner – and the Yankee bats have to come alive, more alive than they were in Game Two. Yesterday they made Max Scherzer, a pitcher with nine losses and a 4.43 ERA this season, look like Nolan Ryan.
Cano, Mark Teixeira, and Alex Rodriguez are the three key offensive players that need to lead the team at the plate – especially A-Rod. Rodriguez is 0-for-8 in this series thus far. In another strange trend, he went 1-for-14 in the '06 ALDS.
If Verlander happens to outduel Sabathia, the Yanks will find themselves in the same spot they were in back in 2006, down two games to one in the Motor City – and the pattern could continue.
Their '06 fate might be duplicated in '11.
October 7, 2006: Down two games to one, the Yankees sent Jaret Wright to the mound in an elimination game. Wright labored through two innings and gave up three runs, putting the Yankees in a quick hole they were never ever to climb out of. The Tigers went on to beat the Yankees 8-3 for the ALDS win.
October 4, 2011: The Yankees will send A.J. Burnett to the hill in what could be an elimination game; a loss tonight makes the series two games to one in favor of the Tigers. Burnett was 11-11 with a 5.15 ERA this season – and you don't have to sell any Yankee fan on how poorly Burnett pitched this year.
There is no Yankee fan anywhere in the world (at least that I know of) that has any faith in Burnett.
Tonight could make or break the series for New York. If the Yanks can pull out a win, then no matter what, at the very least they will be coming back to the Bronx for a Game Five.
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The prestigious bunch includes Kate Moss, Isabeli Fontana, Milla Jovovich, Joan Smalls, Guinevere Van Seenus, Lara Stone, Natasha Poly, Saskia de Brauw, Malgosia Bela, Edita Vilkeviciute, Margareth Made, and Rinko Kikuchi. Captured by Italian photographer Mario Sorrenti (formerly linked to Kate Moss), all the statuesque beauties pose nude in mostly all black-and-white frames captured among intimate nature settings. We can't guarantee you'll ever get your hands on a physical copy of the calendar, but we gladly invite you to browse the entire collection of pics that is probably the sexiest way to keep track of the months in 2012.


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I'm still here :O)
Not much going on really. Still waiting to get in for surgery, but I've started running again. I went in and had a big talk with my doctor. I told her that if I didn't get back to running, I would need to go on antidepressants for my panic disorder. It's getting pretty bad. She agreed that I could run but not to overdo it, and I had to promise her that I'd do blood tests every 1-2 months to check on my anemia.
Here's a pic of my cute Yorkie girls.
Saturday, March 06, 2010
I'm still here :O)
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5 comments:
- Sarah said...
My chiropractor grew up in Canada and we were discussing the differences in health care between the US and Canada. She told me about how long it takes to have a procedure scheduled and done in Canada and it just about blew me away. If you still follow my blog, you know I've had my fair share of hormonal problems and had to have a surgery to try to stop my abnormal bleeding. Honest to God, it was not "emergent" in the sense of the word, but from the day the doc said she wanted me to have the procedure I think it was only a matter of 2-3 weeks til it was completed. I don't fully understand your system, but I really got to wonder how many people die or worsen just waiting for treatment.
I wish the best for you. HOpefully it won't be too much longer. Your "girls" are too cute. And, if it makes you feel any better, years ago, did you ever think you'd be telling a doc you need to get better because you need to go RUNNING? Don't lose sight of your accomplishments along the way.
PS. I miss your cake pictures. :)
- Anonymous said...
they are adorable
- Anonymous said...
Shauna! you are an inspration ! you are gonna rock this out
- Lifeofkaylen said...
Good luck getting in with the surgery. I had an issue that needed a small procedure done and they insisted it was not urgent but needed to be done "soon" - they got me an appointment in 6 weeks. Sometimes our medical system is a mess. Maybe most times...
CUTE puppies!!!!
- Bipolar Dream AKA Dan said...
I know all about panic i used to follow u on weight watchers a couple years ago. lost all the weight thank goodness but started my own blog to track my happening with my newly diagnoss bipolar esease. http://mybipolardream.blogspot.com


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Some of your customers call me. Some of them e-mail me. Some of them simply post comments on our website. Most of them have a complaint of some sort — about you. They typically contact me directly because they want your attention and they haven't been able to get it through any other means.
Usually, I ask the e-mailers whether I can forward their messages to someone in upper management at the company in question. Almost all of them have said yes.
One of the more recent e-mails involved a member not being able to find a phone number beyond a customer service number on his club's website. He was unsatisfied with the company's customer service, and he wanted to complain to someone at the company's headquarters after not being able to resolve the situation with the general manager. With his permission, I forwarded his message to the company's CEO, who forwarded his complaint to someone else in management who could deal with it.
Even though I later learned that the issue wasn't resolved the way the member wanted it resolved, the man seemed appreciative that he was heard by someone at "the top." Most of the time, that's all people want. They've become frustrated by something at your club, and they want their complaint heard by the person at the highest level in the company.
In this age of social media, people are used to reaching out to anyone and everyone through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media sites. If they can get back in touch with their former high school crush on Facebook and feel like they know Ashton Kutcher intimately through his daily tweets, it seems almost incomprehensible to most people that they couldn't also just pick up the phone and talk to the owner or CEO of their health club — or at least e-mail them directly.
With social media, the world has become smaller and more intimate. Because of that, owners, presidents, CEOs and others in upper-level management at fitness companies must be more accessible.
You no longer can hide out in your office or keep yourself off your company website. Instead, you should be the smiling face that your members see when they go to the "about us" or "contact us" page on your website. (And if you don't have an "about us" or "contact us" page on your website, you'd better get one quickly.)
People want to see who owns the company that is getting their money. They want to know about you, so put your bio on your website with an e-mail address. You likely don't have time to open all the e-mails you may get, let alone answer all of them. But it would be worth hiring a trusted assistant who can open and respond to most of the e-mails, sending you only the most important or tricky ones to handle.
The end result will be that your members see that you are an owner or CEO whom they can reach out to and know that you are involved in every aspect of your business. They'll see that you care about your company and about them. If you are not visible and they can't easily gain access to you, they may wonder if you have a reason to hide.
Being open and showing that you are the person behind their club goes a long way in building a connection with your members that will make it harder for them to leave. After all, who wants to leave a company that their new and trusted friend owns?


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Contender Controversy Continues
October 17, 2000 -- Gary Oldman doesn't play a villain in The Contender — at least not according to the actor's manager, Douglas Urbanski. And, even though Oldman went on the record in Premiere magazine as siding with his hidebound, right-leaning character in the political drama, don't call the Brit actor a conservative, insists Urbanski.
Fine. Point noted.
Although we should also note that nearly every reviewer in the country has jumped to the conclusion that Oldman's character, Sen. Shelly Runyon, is yet another rogue in the actor's crowded gallery of villains. (Runyon gets called a "junior-league McCarthy" in the film by his wife, and Premiere's own critic praises the actor for being "reliably bloodcurdling as the serpentine villain." D'oh!)
"We did not set out to make a movie about a nasty, villainous Republican," Urbanski explains to Mr. Showbiz. Urbanski co-produced the film and makes no secret of the fact that his own political leanings are diametrically opposed to those of the "left-leaning billionaires," as he refers to DreamWorks heads Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
The feud between the two sides is well sketched out in the November Premiere interview, with Oldman and Urbanski seeing Runyon as the film's "dark, tragic hero." Director Rod Lurie, in contrast, insists — as most audiences will likely agree — that the hero of the piece is vice-presidential designate Laine Hanson (Joan Allen).
Sam Elliott, who plays presidential adviser Kermit Newman in the film, admits that he didn't know what to expect from working with Oldman, especially from the other side of the on-screen political divide.
"I've been a fan of Gary's for a long time and I'd heard a few horror stories about him," says Elliott, a tall, silver-haired acting vet with a perpetual twinkle in his eye. "He comes in and he's totally consumed by the character — either that or he totally consumes the character."
That characterization is in keeping with what director Lurie has said about Oldman, who is The Contender's highest-billed star and the film's executive producer. In the same interview in which Oldman claimed that the final cut of The Contender was influenced by studio democrats, Lurie said that those remarks were due to the actor's complete immersion in the film — something the film-critic-turned-filmmaker likened to "Stockholm syndrome," in which hostages start to identify with their captors.
"Rod Lurie has diarrhea of the mouth," Urbanski says of the "Stockholm" remark. "It was an idiotic comment that he's since apologized for," the producer told Mr. Showbiz.
Lurie's rep, Tony Angelotti, refused to comment on Urbanski's response. Angelotti did say that (contrary to the Premiere article) the shoot was an easy one and that Oldman and Urbanski's subsequent displeasure was "a mystery to all of us."
At the end of the day, what matters most is how the film does.
"I belong to the 'I want my movie to succeed' party," quips Urbanski, who's voting for George W. Bush come Election Day.
So, will this ongoing controversy help the film or hurt it?
The Contender opened Oct. 13 with an estimated $5.5 million. Lurie told USA Today that "for a political drama, it did extremely well." He said he has been in constant contact with Urbanski, "and we're all very celebratory" about the opening.
While Urbanski says he and Lurie are still great friends, the manager-producer admitted to Premiere that Oldman and Lurie's falling out seems to be permanent.
Oldman was a no-show at the film's Los Angeles premiere Oct. 6. (He was reportedly away on location for another film.) He was also absent from the Toronto premiere in September, although he has done a battery of other press appearances for the film, according to Urbanski.


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See the botching of the planning of I-95 through Washington, D.C. starting in 1963 months after the U.S. President issued a report for I-95 to run near Catholic University of America:
Late 1963-1964 study DISREGARDS JFK's prescription for freeway to hug RR
Federal City Council subverts support for DC I-95 (mere weeks before 'supplementary' report faithful to JFK 1962 B&O Route) by calling for the disastrous 1964 route as "cheaper" (though a longer route taking 471 houses rather then some 30)
Officials fail to commit to JFK B&O railroad route, waffling towards disastrous 1964 plan, as late as 1968 (the year that USNCPC reversed itself and went against freeway)
Letter to Maryland Governor Agnew, 1967 on how waffling on North Central Freeway planning was inciting opposition.
Citizens of Takoma Park and Silver Spring had reason for their demonstrations of bitter dissatisfaction with the highway authorities of your predecessor's administration. After we had been given reason to believe that the causes of our protests had been in at least some part overcome, the matter now threatens to break into renewed bitterness. I am sure you will wish to avoid this as much as many of us.And afterwards that Washington, D.C. powerhouse law firm Covington & Burling PAYS for anti-freeway riots in the DC City Council
We showed that the methods of traffic projections which were claimed to justify the North Central were fallacious, the results in error by as much as 400 percent. Our contention was tacitly admitted in "re-studied" versions of the proposal made public last year, sharply reducing the original plan of 5 lanes each way.
The re-studied proposal also tacitly admitted that the route first proposed was needlessly, even carelessly if not ruthlessly, destructive of our communities. The new version hugged both sides of the existing Baltimore and Ohio railway, thus avoiding a new swath of destruction to divide our communities and sharply reducing the number of homes to be taken.
The reduced, re-routed proposal was made public last year with endorsement of D.C. And Maryland highway authorities. The D.C. Portion was forced through the National Capital Planning Commission by votes of representatives of the D.C. Highway Department and of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads. From this we concluded, reasonably enough, that the highway authorities of the two jurisdictions (Maryland and D.C.) had reached a firm understanding with the Bureau of Public Roads.
Many of us were therefore astonished and aroused to preparations for renewed protests when Washington newspapers recently reported that the Bureau has acted to open it all up again. We have not found the Bureau forthcoming with candid information, but the press articles intimate an intention to force Maryland to accept modifications of route or design ostensibly "cheaper."
The result is that the whole controversy, which had been somewhat quiescent, is beginning to agitate the communities again. I can assure you this is so, for although I recently resigned chairmanship of the Metropolitan Citizens Council for Rapid Transit and write this simply as an individual citizen who wishes your administration well, I do remain in close touch with neighborhood sentiment on transportation-related issues.
Who Really Stopped Washington, D.C.'s Freeways
Political Mass Within The Beltway
A Sampling of Attitudes Towards D.C. I-95
These were a group of black-clothed priests that attended my June 5, 2005 presentation near Catholic University of America, at the Archbishop Carroll High School through the D.C. NE Historical Society. My presentation was "The Never-Built Freeways of Northeast D.C.: The Plans and the Controversy, Part I" by Douglas A. Willinger of the Takoma Park Highway Design Studio. IIRC, these men were identified to me as Jesuits: members of the Jesuit Order, established by Ignatius Loyola in 1543 to counter the Protestant Reformation, via strategizing to further and expand the power of the Vatican/Roman Catholic Church....JFK Gave Us the "Y" Route I-70S-I-95 B&O RR Route D.C. North Central Freeway
I remember two of these men in particular, one white haired elderly, described to me as liking to jump on the bandwagon rather then think for himself, and a young, dark haired, reddish complexion one – too young to have been more then a child when D.C. I-95 was canceled in 1968-1973 – who appeared to me to be of mixed Irish and German ancestry. It was he who expressed the astonishment that they were actually going to run I-95 through Washington, D.C., as if that was somehow unfathomable. He did not appear too pleased to hear me discuss its feasibility, even as I acknowledged the shortcomings of the earlier designs (and that I felt it was right to stop those earlier specific plans, such as the 1964 plan's demolition of Brooks Mansion).
Figuring that these men had an interest in what they would likely call "social justice" matters, I ended my laptop projection presentation with my own example of activism: the South Capitol Street/ Frederick Douglass Mall, and its desecration by the atrociously placed Nationals Ball Park Stadium, with the visual image of the stamp-pair that I had created with Ian Goddard in early 2005. I looked forward to an interesting discussion.
Instead there was only a cold silence.
Such so far reflects the general attitude of the authorities towards any urban freeways.
Recommendations for Transportation in the National Capital Region: A Report to the President for transmittal to Congress by the National Capital Transportation Agency November 1, 1962
At page 44:
Significance of Using B&O Route. Use of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad corridor to bring Routes 70-S and 95 into the city is the key to meeting the need for additional highway capacity in northern Washington, Montgomery County and northwestern Prince Georges Counties and at the same time avoiding the substantial relocation of persons, loss of taxable property and disruption of neighborhoods that would result from construction of the Northeast, North Central and Northwest Freeway proposed in the 1959 plan. Further savings are realized by placing the rapid transit line to Silver Spring and Queen's Chapel in the same railroad corridor.And, at pages 25-26:
Three Sisters Bridge In the 1959 plan, Three Sisters Island Bridge was part of an intermediate loop (located between the Capital Beltway and the proposed inner loop) that virtually circled the city. The Agency's studies show no need for the portion of the intermediate loop between the Potomac River and the Soldiers Home area. Standing alone, the only purpose of Three Sisters would to bring trucks and additional auto traffic from Fairfax and Arlington Counties into downtown. For that purpose the bridge is not required.Yet a June 1, 1963 letter enumerates the cross town I-66 North Leg and Three Sisters Bridge as the most controversial segments require further study
As of 1957, there were a total of 22 bridge lanes across the Potomac River. Projects now under construction, or recently completed, will nearly double the number of such lanes ... [while] The Agency proposes two rail rapid transit lines to Virginia, one of which would serve the Three Sisters Bridge corridor. Rapid transit service would not have been provided in this corridor under the 1959 plan. With such service available, in 1980 a total of over 30,000 people - many of whom would otherwise be using their autos - would use public transportation from Virginia into the District in the morning peak hour, enough to fill 12 bridge lanes ... The result, as the following table shows, is that under the plan recommended by the Agency, central area bridge capacity will be adequate for the needs of motorists in 1980 without Three Sisters Bridge.
"…I noted that certain portions of the highway network within the District of Columbia required further study. The guidelines which I believe should be followed in this re-examination are as follows:Since his November 1962 report had rejected the Three Sisters Bridge, his June 1963 letter calling for that bridge's 're-examination' meant that it might be needed, hence having JFK place freeways alongside Catholic University of America and Georgetown University.
The re-examination should focus upon the sections of the highway plans which have from the beginning been the most uncertain and the most controversial- the North Leg of the Inner Loop and the Three Sisters Bridge, both of which involve the manner in which necessarily involve a re-study of those additional portions of the plan which are directly affected by the conclusions reached in the re-examination…"
Cancelled D.C. I-95 next to Catholic University of America
If only JFK had not been assassinated, he would have asked why J.E. Greiner dissed his prescription for the freeway to hug the railroad centrally located between the Potomac River and the eastern portion of the I-495 Capital Beltway, hence resulting in the freeways' political demonification. JFK specified the B&O Route, as "the key", to bringing I-70S and I-95 into Washington, D.C. "avoiding the substantial relocation of persons, loss of taxable property and disruption of neighborhoods that would result from construction of the Northeast, North Central and Northwest Freeway proposed in the 1959 plan"; yet the 1964 Greiner 'North Central Freeway' report excluded it, instead offering an upwards of 37 routes each with a far far higher amount of local impacts, akin to that in the 1959 planning. And it offers up a recommended route partially along the railroad but with serious deviations upon longer routes in Takoma Park Maryland and to a lesser degree in Brookland, D.C., creating mass opposition.
Apparently, none of the media outlets asked why the 1963-64 North Central Freeway engineering study report, released in October 1964, so deviated from JFK's proposal. In researching the history of Washington, D.C.'s un-built freeways I have yet to see this question about the Greiner report's betrayal of the JFK freeway plan addressed.


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Tigers take on Jayhawks at 8:00 p.m. on ESPN3
LAWRENCE, Kan. — The Towson men's basketball team will continue one of the toughest parts of its schedule on Friday as the Tigers travel to historic Allen Fieldhouse to take on No. 2/3 Kansas at 8:00 p.m.
The game can be seen live on ESPN3 with Dave Armstrong and Chris Piper on the call.
Fans can also listen to the game on the Towson Sports Network (TSN) with Damon Lewis and Vince Angotti calling the action.
Towson, which will be making its second trip to Allen Fieldhouse in the last three years, hasn't faced an opponent ranked No. 1 or No. 2 in the Associated Press Top 25 since falling 77-68 to No. 1 Oklahoma in the 1990 NCAA Tournament.
The Tigers (3-1) are coming off their first loss of the season, a 78-44 setback at Villanova on Sunday.
Senior Jerrelle Benimon, the current Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Week, has scored in double figures in three straight games. The forward has averaged 21.3 points and shot 46.3 percent from the field during the three-game stretch.
Senior Mike Burwell is shooting 4-for-6 (66.7 percent) from beyond the arc over the last three games. He's also grabbed seven or more rebounds in three of the first four games this season. Freshman John Davis was a bright spot for the Tigers at Villanova, tallying a season-high nine points on 4-for-5 shooting to go along with eight rebounds.
Kansas (3-0), which averages 86.7 points per game, is coming off an 86-66 home win over Iona on Tuesday. The Jayhawks are led by sophomore Perry Ellis, who averages 19.0 points per game and has scored 20 or more in each of the last two games.
Kansas is the second winningest program in NCAA Division I history with 2,104 wins and the Jayhawks have won 65 straight games against non-conference foes in Allen Fieldhouse.


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W wrote:Guys, it's not like the title of the topic is I will play EVERY level in Eternal X... aw damnit.
Pfhorrest wrote:The reason these first few levels of the S'pht chapter are so light on combat is because there's no way to get weapons or ammo to you (story-wise), since Leela doesn't have a ship full of ammo in this time frame she can beam things down to you from, and there are no Pfhor here yet to steal weapons from. So you could very quickly run out of ammo if you didn't come in with a shit tone from the previous chapter.
Besides some kind of silly plot contrivance, the obvious way to do it is to use MML to gear up the player a little bit if they ctrl-click to that level. Otherwise I don't think running out of ammo is a real issue; as you can see in my screenshots, I have far more ammo than I could possibly need at this point.If you can think of a way of increasing the combat without making it a "fuck you, no-ammo-boy" to the player, I'd be happy to implement it.
Also, I'm beginning to wonder if this point if you're intentionally dodging the failure branches using "out of character" knowledge (i.e. knowledge a first-time player wouldn't have, without reading forums etc) of which branch is the "right" branch. Some of my favorite levels are in the failure branches. EDIT: wait a sec... you went with Leela and ended up on "Second To Last Of The Mohicans"? "S'pht Happens" should take you either to "Eat S'pht and Die" or "Third Rock From Lh'owon". Bug?
RyokoTK wrote:As to your edit, it's your game, not mine! But it looks like the level Third Rock From Lh'owon doesn't exist in the level select menu.
I know people love hardcore things nowadays, but sometimes it gets to a point where whether or not I'm progressing well through a scenario, the difficulty induced stress makes you stop and think about how much fun your actually having.
RyokoTK wrote:She doesn't? I was under the impression she had loaded herself into a ship in order to make the Cybernetic Junction work. Or did I completely misinterpret the point of "My Kingdom Pfhor a Horse?"
Ah yes, the MML-gifted ammo. I've actually added that already a long time ago in the version I have on my HD; each map begins with one of each type of weapon you should have accumulated by that point. I guess I could stand to crank up the combat on some the S'pht levels in that case. Either way the combat on "S'pht Happens" on can get hardcore since it's full of Pfhor from there on out.Besides some kind of silly plot contrivance, the obvious way to do it is to use MML to gear up the player a little bit if they ctrl-click to that level. Otherwise I don't think running out of ammo is a real issue; as you can see in my screenshots, I have far more ammo than I could possibly need at this point.
As to your edit, it's your game, not mine! But it looks like the level Third Rock From Lh'owon doesn't exist in the level select menu.
RyokoTK wrote:Granted, I haven't found the remaining weapons yet, but...
RyokoTK wrote:I would almost make the ammo for the Pfhor weapons infinite (but retain the reloading animation) since for all intents and purposes it amounts to the same thing. The only ammo I even bother to monitor is fusion ammo since it's so hard to come by in levels before the weapons were invented, and that way it will help you with level skippers. Granted, I haven't found the remaining weapons yet, but...
RyokoTK wrote:There's some kind of pseudo-romance between Marcus and Hathor that I don't think has any actual establishment in the storytelling
RyokoTK wrote:It seems to me that the notion of failure/success has to do with noticing some kind of small detail that you're overlooking, rather than making a distinct choice; in other words, it's less a question of intellectual reasoning and more a question of making sure you explore the entire map. Which seems a little dubious to me, but...
Pfhorrest wrote:Well, it is designed so that people will most likely 'fail'* the first time through, if they just charge ahead without really thinking about it much. So in that sense it is dependent on noticing the small details and not just clicking through the first terminal you come across. Even if you do notice the details, though, you still have to choose which of the two paths to take, if you don't already know, though there are clues nudging players in the right direction since so many people get stuck in failure-branch loops.
In chapter 1, when we first meet Tycho on "Sakhmet Rising", most players will remember him as the villain for most of the trilogy, and possibly distrust him; going with Hathor, who has this whole sappy lets-rule-the-galaxy-together-as-bf-and-gf schpiel, might well be the right choice, especially since she's been the protagonist thus far. In Chapter 2, both Tycho and Leela are warning you about how dangerously unstable the other is and both are acting a bit suspicious themselves, so you have to choose which one you trust more. In Chapter 3 you have to choose between abandoning the S'pht to their doomed history as we know it or trying to make a difference and possibly making things worse, which is even more of a substantial choice than who-do-you-trust-more. Chapter 4 here is most guilty of the "overlooking a small detail" thing, since both exits are via the same, almost-identical terminal, and if you took the success path you won't ever have any idea what the failure path might have been. Chapter 5, I think, has the most poignant choice at the branch point, with both choices seeming equally dire and dangerous, but I won't spoil that.
*(I'd like to reiterate what I've said before, that I don't consider going down a "failure" branch to be a failing on the player's part. I think of it more of just a plot event which you can circumvent if you are observant or know it's coming. Consider a level design scheme I've seen in several games, where your ostensible mission objective is to follow down some path to obtain the necessary plot widget, but when you near the end of that path some scripted event happens obscuring your ability to obtain said widget -- an explosion collapses the hall in front of you or something -- so you have to backtrack and find an alternate route around the obstruction. I consider the branches in Eternal to be an interlevel analogue of such intralevel designs. In either case, if you just blindly follow forward until you hit an obstruction, you will go down the one path first and have to come back around, but if you've done this before, or are observant enough to see it coming, you could just go around first and not bother heading down the "doomed" path.)
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"I would like to go to the Lion's Gate," Raziel told him.
The Romanian volubly refused. When Raziel realized that his driver's mind was not about to be changed, he got out of the taxi and set out on foot for the Old City.
Approaching the end of the Via Dolorosa, almost at the Lions' Gate, above the shouting he heard a voice he knew. It was the voice of Adam De Kuff speaking from the upper quadrant of his interior universe, strong, unafraid, joyful, thoroughly delusional. Raziel shouldered his way through the ranks until he saw the man himself.
He wore what looked like an army jacket that fitted him so badly its cuffs stopped a little past his elbows. He had hugely baggy army trousers and untied muddy boots whose laces coiled around his ankles and twisted underfoot as he shuffled passionately from one end of the bench to the other like a dancing bear. There was a kippa on his head and a white scarf tied around his forehead like a turban and he crooned at the top of his voice.
Raziel kept trying to force his way closer to the old man. He had the notion of taking him away from there, before the thing failed utterly, before all spells and mercies were suspended, before whatever grace that had touched their pilgrimage was withdrawn and the violence and raw holiness of the place overwhelmed everyone.
De Kuff himself understood only that he was in the place he knew and loved best, the scene of his successes, the ancient Serapion and Pool of Israel. All that day he had been trying to reach the souls within himself as they weaved in and out of his consciousness. He had begun to think that everything he had ever believed about soul and mind was wrong. There was no way to exercise control.
But there at the Fountain, his souls were manifest and his heart was full, and in the completeness of his joy he had no choice but to tell about it. It was necessary to tell everyone, anyone, no matter how distressed or distracted they might be by politics or by the illusion of separateness and exile that burdened everyone. He felt elected and protected by God, ready to support the Ark in the holiest of places. He used the metaphors that were employed in this city, although, in a way, it might have been anywhere.
"Call me as you like," he explained to the angry crowd. "I am the twelfth imam. I am the Bab al-Ulema. I am Jesus, Yeshi, Issa. I am the Mahdi. I am Moshiach. I have come to restore the world. I am all of you. I am no one."
There were screams of terrible passion. "Perish he! Death!"
People began to throw stones.
"Death to the blasphemer!"
De Kuff opened his arms to them. For a moment those who were advancing on him stopped. Raziel, shouting, shoving, tried to get through.
"You don't have to listen," Raziel said to the crowd. "It's all over. Rev," he shouted to De Kuff, "it's all over! Another time, man. Another soul. Another street."
The men who were taking hold of De Kuff, pulling him down as he tottered on his bench, also laid hands on Raziel.
"Another day!" Raziel told them. "Another mountain!"
"I tell you, " De Kuff informed them in his restrained Louisiana drawl. "That all was once One and will be and has always remained so. That God is One. And faith in Him is One. And all belief is One. And all believers in Him, regardless of sect, are One. Only the human heart divides. So it is written.
"See? Do you see?" De Kuff asked the men who were pulling him down. "Everyone's waiting. And the separateness of things is false."
He went on declaiming, using the images, the reversals, the metaphors everyone knew, expounding the souls, raising their voices, until the great holiness turned to fire and he lost consciousness.
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Conservative MP Crockatt thanks Trudeau, David McGuinty for their help in byelection win
OTTAWA — Newly-elected Conservative MP Joan Crockatt took a few seconds in the House of Commons on Tuesday to deliver a tongue-in-cheek thank you to Liberal counterparts Justin Trudeau and David McGuinty as well as NDP Leader Tom Mulcair for lending her a helping hand in her recent by-election win.
"I want to take this opportunity to wholeheartedly thank the voters of Calgary Centre for electing me to represent them in Canada's Parliament," Crockatt said. "I am tremendously grateful for their support and I am determined to represent every constituent in my riding to the best of my ability.
"I would also like to thank the members from Papineau (Trudeau), from Ottawa South (McGuinty) and Outremont (Mulcair) for their contributions to my success, however inadvertent."
Liberals were almost giddy in November when it appeared Liberal candidate Harvey Locke might actually beat Crockatt, a former columnist and managing editor of the Calgary Herald, in the Calgary Centre by-election.
A Grit victory in the Conservative heartland would have been seen as a major coup for the third-place party.
But just over a week before the by-election, Liberal natural resources critic David McGuinty said a number of MPs from Alberta — especially those on the committee — come to Parliament not prepared to work in the national interest.
He said they give attention to the fossil-fuel sector to the detriment of renewable energy or other industrial sectors.
"I think most Albertans are disappointed as well," McGuinty told the Calgary Herald a short time later, reiterating the comments he made on Parliament Hill. "If they (the MPs) want to continue to pursue the interests that appear to be very, very local — or in this case, sectoral in nature at all times — then maybe they should run for the provincial legislature."
McGuinty later apologized and resigned as natural resources critic, but not before Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other Conservatives held the comments up as proof of a long-held anti-Alberta attitude within the Liberal party dating back to former prime minister Pierre Trudeau's government.
Interim Liberal leader Bob Rae admitted at the time that McGuinty's comments were "not helpful" to the Liberals' fortunes in Calgary Centre, and Western Canada as a whole.
A day later, a video from 2010 emerged in which Liberal leadership candidate Trudeau appeared to say Canada is struggling because Albertans control the social agenda, and that the country would be better served with more Quebecers in power.
Crockatt ended up defeating Locke by 1,158 votes.
Mulcair, meanwhile, has stoked anger in some parts of Alberta by alleging the province's energy sector is hurting eastern Canada's manufacturing industry.


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LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - SIG Combibloc is on track to announce in September its intention to float on the stock market in Zurich, three sources familiar with the matter said, in a listing that could value the Swiss packaging maker at close to 5 billion euros ($5.7 billion). Goldman Sachs , Credit Suisse and Bank of America are global coordinators for the listing. The sources said Morgan Stanley , Citi and Barclays are bookrunners on the deal. SIG Combibloc's [Leer más]13.08.2018 read more
Amcor – Mega packaging merger with Bemis
The Australian packaging giant has entered into a strategic agreement to acquire Bemis, a U.S. manufacturer flexible and rigid plastic packaging for food, consumer products, medical and pharmaceutical companies for USD 6.8 billion. Combining the two complementary companies will create a global leader in consumer packaging. The transaction will be effected at a fixed exchange ratio of 5.1 Amcor shares for each Bemis share, resulting in Amcor and Bemis shareholders owning appro[Leer más]08.08.2018 read more


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Did You Know It's Perfectly Legal for Toddlers to Drink in Wisconsin Bars?
The law is a funny thing. Many states have outdated laws on their books that involve antiquated social issues like women holding hands with men in public and where you're allowed to tie up your horse downtown. Those are funny, but what's better is when you find a law that has a really good loophole left wide open in it. You have to be clever and you have to know how to argue it, but it can be done.
This is the case in Wisconsin where a gaping loophole in one legislation basically makes it legal for toddlers to have a drink with their parents in a bar.
Any kid. Any age. Any bar.
According to an attorney who was participating in a traditional Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session, there is a law in Wisconsin that makes it legal for parents to serve their kids a drink in a bar. The attorney said during the Q&A, "You can legally drink with your parents anywhere alcohol is permitted regardless of age."
The actual translation of the written law is this:
"A parent (guardian) can serve their child alcohol. This can be at a bar, home, tailgating, etc. If at a bar, the parent must order the drink and be served the drink and, then, the parent can give the drink to the child."
This is permissible until the child is 18. That's when the definition of "child" changes. When a person turns 18, his parents are no longer the legal guardian and so, they can't legally serve the child alcohol.
Think of the raging slumber parties they must have there.


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New blackout rule likely won't impact Chargers
The National Football League is easing its television blackout policy, but Chargers fans likely won't see a change this season.
By July 15, teams can reduce the number of general tickets that need to be sold in order for a game to be locally televised, lowering the threshold by as much as 15 percent. In the past, a team was required to sell all its general admission tickets (about 56,500 in the Chargers' case) within 72 hours before kickoff, or the game wouldn't be televised within a 75-mile radius.
There is a catch, however.
If a team lowers the bar for blackouts, the number is fixed for the season. Whenever the team clears the mark, it will be required to share more ticket revenue than usual with other teams in the league. It's that part of the new rules that the Chargers believe would be too high a price to pay, said A.G. Spanos, the team's executive vice president and chief executive officer.
"And even if you went to 15 percent lower, hypothetically an 85 percent manifest, that doesn't necessarily guarantee you a lift of the blackout for every game," Spanos said Monday. "It's also important to understand that the manifest is set for the year for every game, whether it's a big game for us or a game with a less attractive opponent.
"It's not a flexible policy. It's not a flexible manifest."
Ticket sales can be a franchise's life blood.
Spanos said the Chargers rely heavily on season-ticket revenue because Qualcomm Stadium is an older facility; it opened in 1967.
"We don't have as many opportunities to get revenue from other places like naming rights, signage and other sponsorship opportunities," Spanos said.
Of the NFL's 256 regular-season games in 2011, there were 16 blackouts. San Diego had two of them, one against the Miami Dolphins in October and the other against the Buffalo Bills in December.
Four games in 2010 were blacked out, snapping a franchise-record sellout streak of 48 games, playoffs included, dating back to 2004.
Blackouts don't help a team from a financial or public-relations standpoint, and the Chargers hope to further reduce the number this year.
The team hasn't raised ticket prices for five seasons, and in 2011, it lowered the cost of 6,500 View Level seats from $63 to $54.
Spanos, naturally a salesman, says season tickets have more yearlong value in the past, given perks like contests, Chargers Park tours, and conference calls with different Chargers personnel, including players and coaches. When the team opens training camp this month, some practices will be open exclusively to season-ticket holders.
The number of season-ticket payment installments has also increased to five.
According to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news, owners voted to add high-speed wireless Internet to all stadiums in an effort to add home-like services to the game-day experience.
The league also will begin showing the same replays in stadiums that game officials see when reviewing plays, the Journal report said.
Still, for 2012, work remains.
Season-ticket sales are trailing where last year's numbers were at this time, Spanos said.
He didn't express concern, saying they can catch up and avoid blackouts without needing a lowered benchmark to do it.
Brian McCarthy, the NFL's vice president of communications, said Monday that teams must submit their stadium's base capacity mid-month and their target benchmark with it.
It won't be less than 100 percent for San Diego.
"For all these reasons, the Chargers are not going to reduce our manifest this year," Spanos said. "We're optimistic we can get to a (season ticket) base that is very comparable to last year, if not surpass it. ... Our market has shown that we can support this team and sell out our stadium."


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With so many different entertainment options out there for your children, we at PopcornBiz thought we'd take a moment each week to dissect one piece of family entertainment strictly from a parent's perspective, so that you know what parts are appropriate for your loved ones, and which are not. This week's COVER YOUR EYES subject: "Planes, Trains, And Automobiles"
There's no real definitive Thanksgiving movie. It's not like Christmas, when you know you're gonna watch "A Christmas Story" and you know darn well you AREN'T gonna watch "It's A Wonderful Life." Too many people spend Thanksgiving watching football or heading out to see NEW movies, and thus the holiday is left without a perennial movie favorite. In fact, most Thanksgiving-themed movies are AWFUL, almost always featuring a bunch of annoying family members getting together to annoy each other. I get enough of that in real life, thank you. I don't need "Pieces of April" to drive the point home.
The closest thing we have to a classic Thanksgiving film is the late John Hughes' "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles," his 1987 dramedy that, like the director himself, seems to grow in stature with each passing year. Is "PTA" your best option for family viewing after stuffing yourself rotten this Turkey Day? Let's consider a few factors:
The "Will Parents Be Able To Tolerate It?" Factor: Yep. Despite its family-friendliness, this is very much an adult story about the friendship between two grown men. Hopefully, there are enough butt jokes along the way to distract your children from that fact. "PTA" is the kind of movie that adults look back fondly upon and try and get their kids to like, then become enraged should the kids show the slightest disinterest. Gird yourself. Your kids may not adore John Hughes they way you do.
The Dead Parent Factor: There's a dead wife factor at the end. You know the scene I'm talking about. It blindsides every first-time viewer of the movie and it's no less devastating 24 years later. I saw this movie when it opened in theaters during Thanksgiving 1987. I was 11 years old. We all staggered out of theater depressed and in need of ice cream. No one told me the end of the movie plays like a Bergman film. Also, you may need to explain to your kids that John Candy is no longer with us and why the world is an awful place because of that.
The Sexy Sex Sex Factor: The infamous sleeping scene with Candy and Martin has a dash of gay panic, but nothing all that outrageous by today's standards.
The Scare Factor: If the idea of your wife dying, losing your job, and being reduced to being a pretend shower curtain ring salesman scares you, this movie is like "Paranormal Activity". It's especially gut-wrenching because this is 2011 and you probably don't have a job either.
The Violence Factor: Well, the car does blow up. And there's SMOKING! Remember when you could smoke in movies? John Candy smokes like he's Don Draper or something.
The Emotional Factor: It's the emotional complexity of "PTA" that should give any parent pause. All the slapsticky stuff masks many of the movie's darker themes like loneliness, unemployment, anxiety, and depression. This is a movie you grow to appreciate more the more life kicks you in the butt.
Age Range: 10 and up.


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A Los Angeles city panel on Tuesday asked for a request for proposals on the next steps needed by the city to create a city Services Card, a photo identification card to be issued by the Library Department that could also serve as debit card.
"The federal government has failed on immigration and we hundreds of thousands of people living in the shadows," said Councilman Richard Alarcon, who authored the proposal with support form Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
The Arts, Parks, Health and Aging Committee asked the Library Department be authorized by the City Council to report back on firms that could help develop the City Services Card.
Alarcon aides said a full report will be sent to the City Council within the next three weeks on the program designed to help provide local identity cards to illegal immigrants, the elderly students and the transgender.
In addition, Alarcon said, the Library Department was asked to develop a financial literacy program to try to help the 12 percent of the population that does not use banks or other financial institutions.
Deputy Mayor Larry Frank said the mayor is in agreement with Alarcon on the need for the program.
"We believe this car will address the 200,000 people who are unbanked in the city and will help lead to a financial empowerment for these people," Frank said.
Alarcon said he hopes to have the program started within six months.
There was no opposition voiced during the committee hearing, but Councilman Mitch Englander said he has some concerns about it.
"I think there are security concerns that have to be addressed before we go ahead with this," Englander said. "I also have questions about whether this is creating another bureaucracy within the city at a time when we are unable to pave our streets or trim our trees."


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A state-approved curriculum under fire from teachers as too rigid and conservative groups as "anti-American" will undergo a review by a committee pulled together by the State Board of Education that will consist of board members and state education officials.
SBOE Chairwoman Barbara Cargill last week announced she has appointed an ad hoc committee to examine the curriculum used in about 70 percent of Texas' school districts, known as CSCOPE, beginning with its social studies content.
The controversy mainly revolves around state officials receiving complaints that CSCOPE's social studies curriculum promotes Islam over Christianity by its level of inclusion of the religion and outrage over an optional critical thinking discussion about the Boston Tea Party that invites students to include the British perspective, which might have considered it an "act of terrorism."
At a hearing in January before the Senate Education Committee in Austin, state senators grilled education officials on CSCOPE's content and heard hours of testimony for and against it from teachers, superintendents and activists.
The curriculum's actual lesson plans, like all lesson plans, are not under the authority of the SBOE, Cargill wrote in a letter released by state education officials last week. But, she added, in response to growing public concern, legislative leaders have asked the SBOE to review CSCOPE content.
"I believe this process will be of great benefit to everyone involved, especially the students, parents, teachers and citizens of Texas," Cargill wrote. "I thank concerned citizens for bringing this issue to light."
A branch of the state education agency, known as education service centers, developed CSCOPE, which is essentially an online program used in several school districts in Bexar County, including Alamo Heights, Edgewood, Lackland and Somerset. The area's larger ones — Northside, North East, San Antonio and Harlandale — have the staff to design their own curriculum without gleaning from CSCOPE.
Lackland officials have heard of only one complaint from a parent, regarding the lesson plan on Islam. Somerset Superintendent Saul Hinojosa said he hadn't heard of any and lauds CSCOPE. He sent a few Somerset teachers to visit Austin in support of CSCOPE in preliminary testimony collected this year.
"If there was something controversial or something we think might not fit our kids, the teachers have the ability to modify their lesson," Hinojosa has said.
School districts can pick what they want to teach from CSCOPE's 1,600 lesson plans, and some superintendents who testified in January praised its overall quality and cost savings for not having to design their own curriculum. Some school officials have expressed surprise at the backlash, such as Lake Travis Independent School District Superintendent Brad Lancaster, who took to Twitter to question the Senate committee's attention to the complaints.
"To say the entire CSCOPE curriculum needs to be scrutinized due to one question among thousands about the Boston Tea Party is an extreme example in my mind of how that's ludicrous," Lancaster said later in an interview. "It has been up to local control to pull from the lesson plans like we would from a textbook in deciding what to teach, so I think state officials are overreacting."
CSCOPE has become enough of a hot potato that Texas Education Commissioner Michael L. Williams issued a statement this month clarifying that an incident in East Texas' Lumberton ISD, in which students posing for a picture wearing traditional Muslim attire went viral online, was not part of the online curriculum.
"I have been assured the decisions regarding development of this particular lesson were made at the local classroom level and not part of the CSCOPE curriculum management system," Williams said, adding that he plans to do an audit of all CSCOPE lessons anyway.
CSCOPE offers lesson plans and exams to help teachers follow state requirements on what should be taught — standards set by the State Board of Education that have been blasted by liberal critics as promoting a triumphalist version of American history that minimizes the nation's flaws and marginalizes minority contributions. Cargill has pushed back on that perception.
Cargill's committee includes SBOE members Marty Rowley, R-Amarillo; Mavis Knight, D-Dallas; Pat Hardy, R-Fort Worth; and Tom Maynard, R-Florence; and three members from education service centers in Amarillo, Fort Worth and Kilgore. Rowley will lead the committee.
But it doesn't seem like a fast solution will come overnight.
The ad hoc committee will appoint panels composed of parents, educators, curriculum specialists and business professionals to examine CSCOPE instructional content and then turn over the findings to the board that governs CSCOPE. It's then up to that independent panel to adopt what it wants.
The first organizational meeting to kick off the review will be March 29 in the Dallas area and will be open to the public, said Texas Education Agency spokeswoman DeEtta Culbertson.


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