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- 09-11-13 03:29 PM #1Cadillac Owners Member
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Starting Problem
Re: 79 Coupe Deville. When starting, all I get is a repetitive click, click, click sound,
but engine doesn't turn over. Battery shows full charge. If I keep turning the key,
sometimes I'll get lucky and the starter will engage and it starts. I've heard different
theories on the problem: need new starter. Not enough voltage getting to the starter.
Need new alternator. Need new battery. I think the alternator and starter are original,
so I wouldn't be surprised it if was either one or both. Any ideas? Thanks!
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First thing, any time you have any clicking, dimming, cutting out, or anything, make sure your battery terminals AND cable clamps are cleaned up with a brush and are tight.
Next, my guess from your description is that your starter needs to be replaced. Starters will commonly get a bad spot on the commutator or whatever component it is the brushes ride on. It will not want to spin the motor on the first try or after several tries it may kick over. Sometimes when this happens you can coax it to spin by beating on the starter with whatever you have handy (IF you can get to it). Brushes also wear out eventually and can cause problems.
Also can make sure you wiring connections and grounds are all clean and tight
Re: Starting Problem
Agree. Sounds like a bad starter.
Just had the same problem with my 79 deVille. Starter replaced, problem resolved.
Re: Starting Problem
In another thread just weeks ago someone had similar starting problems. After replacing multiple parts it turned out cleaning the poles and cable clamps solved the problem. That is why I appreciate Foxrodders tip to check the simple things first before you replace stuff.
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Thanks for all the replies. Guess I'll replace the starter. All the battery terminals etc. are clean and tight.


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The U.S wind industry installed a record 13,124 megawatts worth of wind turbines during 2012 — enough to support nearly 3.3 million homes, including 496 megawatts in Colorado, the American Wind Energy Association said Wednesday.
The new megawatts represented about $25 billion in private investment, the group said.
Colorado ranked 10th in the nation for most megawatts installed, according to the Washington, D.C.-based group, which on Wednesday released its 2012 statistics on the wind industry. One megawatt of wind power can support the electricity demands of about 250 homes.
Across the U.S., wind turbines were generating 60,007 megawatts of energy at the end of the year, including 2,301 megawatts worth of turbines located in Colorado, the group said.
Wind-farm developers and turbine manufacturers rushed throughout the year to ensure wind farms were operational before the end of the year, when the industry's Production Tax Credit (PTC) was scheduled to expire. Congress extended the credit on Jan. 1, as part of the "fiscal cliff package," the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012.
Under the extension, wind farms are eligible if they start construction during 2013 and become operational in 2014. The credit amounts to $22 per megawatt produced during the first 10 years of a qualifying wind farm's existence.
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Quest For The Perfect Parking Place
Finding a space for their cars drives Manhattanites to insane lengths
One reason I've loved living in Manhattan for the past 27 years is that I don't need a car. Whenever I do, I rent.
I've always believed that I had the whole "car thing" down, so I'd shake my head in disbelief as my car-owning friends engaged in the insanity of alternate-side- of-the-street parking, monthly garage fees the price of studio apartments and having conversations with a guy whose name is embroidered on his shirt along the lines of, "It's making a noise like, CACHUNGA. Think you can fix it?"
I swore I'd never become one of them, until this summer's family circumstances dictated a set of wheels. I struck a deal with Hertz for 42 days that would test whether I could cope with a car.
On July 1, I picked up a white, 2010 two-door midsize Chevrolet Cobalt complete with GPS and EZ-Pass. With the cost of the auto, plus tolls, as well as the price of gas looming over us, I decided that even though I could park at Hertz's garage for a "mere" $14 a day, I wasn't going to add parking to our new list of expenses. Surely, it couldn't be that hard to find a space on the street?
Within 10 minutes and only half a block from my house, I struck urban gold. Convinced now that I had car karma, I was positive there'd always be a stretch of curb with my name on it. And there was, even if it took hours to find.
"You're becoming obsessed," said my husband, Neil, six days into "ownership," as I grabbed the keys at 10:30 p.m. just as our doorman was going off duty, hence freeing up his coveted spot in front of our building.
By day 10, parking fever had spread to Neil, who suggested he take our son to his Randall's Island doubleheader via taxi, as not to give up the car's amazing placement across the street from our house. A position I procured by stalking a woman leaving the corner Chase bank.
Although I appreciated Neil's gesture, I had to laugh at the absurdity: One reason we got the car was to travel to the games, and here we were considering alternatives to relinquishing our auto's valuable "real estate."
"Lorraine doesn't like driving, she likes parking," was Neil's response when someone asked me how week three was going. True. Parking gave me a sense of accomplishment. I was engaging in urban warfare and winning—most of the time.
"My sister's going to park here," said a college-age girl, who blocked what could've been my space, at one point during the experiment.
When Project Car began, Neil made me promise not to throw down with anyone over parking. So, I waved her off. Enjoy the spot. I'd find another.
By my fourth and fifth weeks, parking had become second nature.
As my sixth and final week came to an end, someone asked if forgoing the garage had been worth it. The $588 I saved didn't seem as big a gain as my realization that there's always an opportunity around the corner, even if you have to go around the block a few times before it appears.
On August 11, I pulled out of my spot to return the Cobalt, and as usual, there was another car sidling up to take my space. I was tempted to finally ask, "Would you jump in my grave that quick?" but already knew the answer: "Yes," if it were big enough in which to park a car.
Lorraine Duffy Merkl's debut novel Fat Chick, from The Vineyard Press, is available at amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.
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Laughing Cinnamon Bread
One of the amazing females who attended the girls' weekend from which I just returned made this Cinnamon Bread for breakfast one morning. It made one long, luscious loaf, and by lunch-time, we'd finished it off. If there had been any left, it would've been great toasted with a little smear of butter.
As she wrote the recipe into the scrapbook we created for the guest of honor, she accidentally wrote "mixing until laughter" instead of "mixing until crumbly," which was a great statement on the joy that went into everything we ate over the weekend.
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I have never bought buttermilk. I don't think I've ever TASTED buttermilk. Does it really make a difference when baking? It would never occur to me to buy it and yet I see it sometimes on a list of ingredients - this recipe included. So what's the scoop/difference/big deal?
Anne, you must try buttermilk in a recipe! Any left-overs you must either add to mashed potatoes (delicious, and reduce the amount of butter you need) or make pancakes with it. So tasty. Wikipedia describes how it's made pretty well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttermilk
You can buy powdered buttermilk at Whole Foods. That way you won't have any leftovers. (And YES, it's worth it!)
Buttermilk is great for baking because it imparts a nice flavor and acts as a leavening agent. If you don't buttermilk handy, you can fake it by adding 1 tbsp lemon juice into enough milk to equal 1 cup, then let the whole concoction stand 5 minutes. I am totally making that bread when I get home tonight!
Buttermilk blended with peanut butter or almond butter and a banana is great!
Well, now I HAVE to try buttermilk. I shop at Whole Foods all the time (best dry cat food @ $2.50/bag) so I'll get some dried buttermilk and give it a try.
I love a good loaf of cinnamon or zucchini bread with a slab of cream cheese spread all over it. MMMM yummy
Tonjes Farm Dairy sells fresh buttermilk at the Union Square Mkt on Saturdays. It's amazing. I've used it in baking (Irish Soda Bread, Banana Bread, Pancakes), cold summer fruit soup, and I've had it to drink straight from the bottle. It freezes well but once frozen will separate when it's defrosted; use it only for baking.
This is great! I need 1/2 cup of buttermilk for a scone recipe and wasn't sure what to do with the rest.


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This is a reprint of an article from earlier this year. I found it worth re-reading.
Everything is beautiful in a person when he turns toward God, and everything is ugly when it is turned away from God.
Fr. Pavel Florensky
I come to the end of a day that has been filled with other activity and little time for writing. But in my reading at bedtime I came across the above quote. It obviously contains a world of truth, indeed, from a certain perspective it contains the whole of the Gospel. It is both commentary on how we see the world (as beautiful or ugly) or how we are within ourselves. The ugliness of sin is one of its most important components – and the inability to distinguish between the truly beautiful and the false beauty of so much of contemporary life offers a profound diagnosis of our lives and culture.
To say that God is Beautiful carries with it also profound insights into what we mean by knowledge of God. "How do we know God?" is a question on which I have posted several times of late. If we ask the question, "How do we recognize Beauty?" then we have also shifted the ground from questions of intellect or pure rationality and onto grounds of aethetics and relationship (communion). The recognition of beauty is a universal experience (as is the misperception of beauty). But the capacity to recognize beauty points as well to a capacity within us to know God. I would offer that this capacity is itself a gift of grace – particularly when we admit that the recognition of beauty is subject to delusion.
In a famous passage from The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's Dmitri Karamazov has this to say on beauty as well as delusion:
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and never can be fathomed, for God sets us nothing but an enigma. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side. I am not a cultivated man, brother, but I've thought a lot about this. It's terrible what mysteries there are! Too many mysteries weigh men down on earth. We must solve them as we can, and try to keep a dry skin in the water. Beauty! I can't endure the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Theotokos (Madonna) and ends with the ideal of Sodom. What's still more awful is that a man with the ideal of Sodom in his soul does not renounce the ideal of the Madonna, and his heart may be on fire with that ideal, genuinely on fire, just as in his days of youth and innocence. Yes, man is broad, too broad, indeed. I'd have him narrower. The devil only knows what to make of it! What to the mind is shameful is beauty and nothing else to the heart. Is there beauty in Sodom? Believe me, that for the immense mass of mankind beauty is found in Sodom. Did you know that secret? The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man."
Dostoevsky's paradox, that "beauty," for the mass of mankind, is found in Sodom, is a paradox that can hold two meanings. Either it can mean that even the corrupted "beauty" of Sodom can be redeemed (this is not Dostoevsky's own intention) or that our heart can be so corrupted that we perceive the things of Sodom to be beautiful (closer to Dostoevsky's point). We can also bring in a third – that of Florensky quoted above – that the "beauty" found in Sodom is corrupted precisely because it is turned away from God. It's repentance can also be its restoration of true beauty.
I prefer this third thought (which is more or less the same as the first) in that it carries within it the reminder that when God created the world He said, "It is good (beautiful)" [both the Hebrew and the Greek of Genesis carry this double meaning].
We were created to perceive the Beautiful, even to pursue it. This is also to say that we were created to know God and to have the capacity, by grace, to know Him. Consider the Evangelical imperative: "Go and make disciples." What would it mean in our proclamation of the gospel were we to have within it an understanding that we are calling people to Beauty? The report of St. Vladimir's emissaries to Constantinople that when they attended worship among the Orthodox they "did not know whether we were on earth or in heaven. We only know that of a truth, God is with them," is history's most profound confirmation of this proclamation.
St. Paul confirms the same when he describes the progressive work of our salvation as "the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus Christ." If we would have our hearts cured of the illness that mistakes Sodom for the Kingdom of God, then we should turn our eyes to the face of Christ. There the heart's battle will find its Champion and beauty will find its Prototype.
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Fr. Stephen,
This delusion that mistakes Sodom for true beauty reminds me of what Jesus said about the eye: "The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness." Luke 11:34
The concept of beauty is quite amazing: it speaks of a certain "luxury" beyond necessity and utilitarianism. We are overwhelmed with this "unnecessary" beauty all around us – in the exquisite fragrance of a rose or the smile on a child's face. It is also powerfully demonstrated in Christ's first miracle when He turned water into wine.
In my own further reflections on this topic, it seems to me that the pursuit of Beauty is closer in kind to the pursuit of God than is anything that I could put in a "rational" category. Beauty, like God, has an indefinable character and yet we know it when we see it – though some see things and call them "beautiful" that are not at all "beautiful" just as people worship false gods, or substitutes for the true and living God.
I also do not want to insinuate here that I am speaking of "Beauty" as an abstract. We do not encounter Beauty in the abstract but only in concrete instances. There is something about Beauty that has the capacity to pierce the heart, to leave us speechless, or to be the occasion for risking life and limb.
It is also true that if you have lived life in its "ugliness," the discovery of Beauty is itself a conversion a promise that life can be other. This is not about wealth and poverty. I have seen Beauty in the midst of poverty and ugliness in the halls of the super-rich.
Yes those are some excellent post-script reflections, Fr Stephen. It is also fascinating to note that beauty is all around us. This must be because He is Beauty. And then some
When you talk about beauty as an "unnecessary luxury" you've linked it to the important theological theme of freedom. This, in my mind, is part of the wonder of Orthodoxy. Themes weave together wonderfully and while we do not try to innovate, there is always a 'freshness' and immediacy when we experience this 'working together' of the fundamentals of the Faith.
Very true Victor.
Reading this makes me want to go read The Symposium all over again.
"if there be anything beautiful other than absolute beauty it is beautiful only insofar as it partakes of absolute beauty" (Phaedo, 100c)
My maternal grandmother, stooped with osteoperosis, joints mangled with arthritis, feet so flat they resembled flippers, skin and flesh wrinkled and sagging with age (she lived to be 85), hard of hearing, and minus her own natural teeth for all the years I knew her, became in her old age the most radiantly beautiful woman I have ever known. I credit whatever ability I have developed to recognize, internalize or reflect the mercy of God to others largely to my early experience of her love. Unfailingly generous of spirit, she bestowed on all her family the rare gift of a pure, childlike and unconditional love–the fruit of walking humbly with her God through the many losses, sorrows and joys of her life. She had that rare quality of a complete lack of pretense or guile. It was always abundantly clear to me that she loved and delighted in me, not because of anything I achieved, nor for what I did for her, but simply because I was hers. I will never forget the light in her eyes, delight in her smile and tone of voice, and her arms flung open for an embrace every time she greeted us. When I grow up, I want to be just like her.
May God make it so. Beauty is indeed radiant and gives joy and lightness of heart. And it is so far removed from what the world measures as beauty. In the Fathers, the beauty of Adam and Eve was the fact that originally, in Tradition, they were clothed in light – the uncreated light of God.
I wonder how many of us left our former faith traditions when they ceased to be beautiful, and/or came to Orthodoxy because of the initial impression of beauty. I'm familiar with the quote from St. Vladimir's emissaries when they encountered worship at Hagia Sophia: "We cannot forget that beauty."
This is much on my mind due to a recent conversation with my priest on the subject of ecumenical activity. I see a great danger in ecumenical services (not in non-Orthodox attending Orthodox services, but those services in which non-Orthodox and even non-Christian clergy participate), because it's so easy to be beguiled into thinking that something is beautiful just because it's Different — and next thing you know, you are mired in a state which is not beautiful at all, and getting out is incredibly difficult. I wish I could grab every cradle Orthodox and say, "Don't be blind to the great beauty of your own tradition! Guard it and preserve it at all costs!"
Mrs. Mutton,
I am not aware of what takes place across the entire Orthodox spectrum, but I have been taught that there are to be no Orthodox services where non-Orthodox clergy participate. I've heard of exceptions, and no of priests suspended for a short time as a result. In the OCA, this is not commonly done, nor am I aware of efforts to do things otherwise. May God hear your prayer and protect you from fear. May He keep the Church.
The line in the liturgy that gives me the most hope is, "Sanctify those who love the beauty of your house." That's me.
"There lived in Constantinople a young man by the name of George, about twenty years old. All this happened in our lifetime,** in our own memory. He had a handsome face and in his walk, his bearing and his manner there was something ostentatious. Owing to this, people, who see only what is on the surface and, ignorant of what is hidden inside each man, come to mistaken conclusions about others, made various evil suppositions about the youth. He made the acquaintance of a certain monk, who lived in one of the monasteries in Constantinople, a man of holy life. Revealing to this monk the innermost secrets of his heart, he also told him of his ardent desire to save his soul. The good father, after some needful words of direction, gave him a small rule to follow and a book of St. Mark the Ascetic in which he writes on spiritual law. The young man accepted the book with as much love and reverence as if it had been sent to him by God Himself, and conceived a strong faith in it, hoping to gain from it great benefit and much fruit. He read it through with much zeal and attention and received great help from it all. But three paragraphs made a particularly deep impression on his heart. The first was: "If you seek to be healed, take care of your conscience (listen to it), and do what it tells you: this will profit you" (§ 69). The second: "He who seeks (hopes to receive) active grace of the Holy Spirit before practising the commandments, is like a slave bought for money who, the moment he is bought, expects his freedom to be signed, together with the payment of his purchase price" (§ 64). The third: "He who prays physically, without having yet acquired spiritual reason, is like the blind man who cried: 'Son of David, have mercy on me' (Mark 10: 48). But another man who had been blind, when his eyes were opened and he saw the Lord, no longer called Him son of David, but worshipped Him as the Son of God" (John 9:35, 38) (§ 13, 14 On the Spiritual Law). These three paragraphs pleased him greatly and he believed that, as the first paragraph asserts, by attention to his conscience the ills of his soul would be cured; that he would be made active by the Holy Spirit through obedience to commandments, as the second paragraph teaches; and that, by the grace of the Holy Spirit, his inner eyes would be opened and he would see the ineffable beauty of the Lord, as the third paragraph promises. And so he became wounded by love for this beauty and, though as yet he did not see it, conceived a strong longing for it and sought it assiduously, in the hope of finding it in the end…"
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Chargers Oliver gets his feet wet in NFL debut [1:58 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'I always felt like I belonged in the NFL, since I was a little kid, Oliver said in the Chargers locker room after San Diegos 22-10 victory over the Buffalo Bills. Nobody could tell me that I wouldnt be here. Its something I always desired it in my heart, and God knew that. He got me here, and I wouldnt be here without him.'
Manuels aim is true, but results are lacking [1:57 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Tens of thousands of people saw Sundays game, either at home or in the windy confines of The Ralph. Id suspect no one had any problem distinguishing between the two quarterbacks.'
Rivers takes advantage of weaknesses in secondary [1:56 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Honestly, I think its our fault, secondary-wise, Bills safety Aaron Williams said. I think we gave him too easy a look, and when you give a good quarterback like that easy looks, hes going to find weaknesses in a defense.'
Matchup winners [1:55 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Manuel, meanwhile, resisted pulling the trigger on a number of occasions and was off target on several other key plays. He also did not react well when rushers flashed into the pocket.'
Ten plays that shaped the game [1:54 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'The Bills had a semi-drive going on the possession after the Jackson TD. But on third and 5 from the Buffalo 43, the Chargers once again were unafraid to blitz. Pears was beaten by Reggie Walker, and Manuel couldnt scramble away, spinning backward and taking a 17-yard sack.'
Quarterly report [1:53 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'The Bills could have accepted an offside penalty on the Chargers on a punt to set up fourth and 1 from the San Diego 43-yard line. Instead, they took a holding penalty during the punt that pushed the Chargers back to their own 9-yard line but gave them possession. Why not take the penalty and go for it?'
Pass defense comes undone [1:52 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Marrone said the Chargers defense gave the Bills looks they didnt expect. Corey Graham bemoaned the Chargers offense unexpectedly ran pick plays all over the field, and the secondary couldnt adjust. The Bills offense also showed how feckless it can be when playing from behind. Fans started streaming to the exits with eight minutes left and the Bills down only 10 points because it felt like they were getting blown out.'
Buffalo Bills fall flat against San Diego Chargers [1:51 AM]
Rochester D&C reports: 'Then again, why should anyone be surprised by the Bills' thorough 22-10 loss to the San Diego Chargers? After all, this is a performance we've come to know quite well in these parts as we have watched this team burst the bubbles of hope and optimism far too often.'
Defense couldn't get off the field [1:50 AM]
Rochester D&C reports: ' was not a good day for Manuel. He finished with 238 passing yards, 75 of which came on the final possession when the Chargers were already thinking about which movie to watch on the long flight home.'
With Rivers, Reich didn't need a comeback [1:49 AM]
Rochester D&C reports: 'Take away an atrocious total of 11 penalties for 101 yards and maybe the outcome is different. The Bills convert that fourth down at the San Diego 43-yard line with less than nine minutes to play, who knows?'
Report card [1:48 AM]
Rochester D&C reports: 'The Bills had a chance to go 3-0 with a win over a good team playing in their stadium. But as is so often the case, in a big spot, they fell flat on their collective face. Been there, done that. Now, Doug Marrones task is to get his team to bounce back next week.'
Loss was a team effort for the Bills [1:47 AM]
Olean Times Herald reports: 'The game was every bit as one-sided as the 22-10 final and, from the time San Diego went 75 yards for a touchdown on its opening possession after a Bills three-and-out, you just had the idea this was a game coach Doug Marrones crew wasnt going to win.'
Buffalo offense sputters in 22-10 loss to San Diego [1:46 AM]
Syracuse Post-Standard reports: 'Fred Jackson scored the Bills' only touchdown late in the third quarter. Buffalo had several chances in the fourth quarter to cut into the lead, but the offense sputtered.'
Buffalo Bills shut down Antonio Gates but still get torched by Philip Rivers in 22-10 loss to Charge [1:45 AM]
Syracuse Post-Standard reports: 'Somebody else did make a play for San Diego. A few somebodies, actually.'
Penalties take away big plays from C.J. Spiller, Robert Woods in loss [1:44 AM]
Syracuse Post-Standard reports: 'The focus wasn't as sharp for the Bills as it was in first two weeks of the season. But penalties have been an issue in each of the first three weeks. Buffalo had eight penalties in Week 1 and six in Week 2. Not only did they have even more penalties in Week 3, but they were coming in worse spots and negating big plays. And defensive penalties helped San Diego keep a few drives alive.'
Sammy Watkins admits to taking play off in Buffalo Bills' Week 3 loss to San Diego Chargers [1:43 AM]
Syracuse Post-Standard reports: '"That was a dangerous throw for sure, but given the situation youve got to take some chances," Tasker said on the broadcast. "I know its hard and Sammy Watkins has been protecting some bruised ribs for a couple weeks, but hes going to get told in that meeting tomorrow morning, Hey, listen, youve got to go get that football."'
Bills WR Mike Williams violating NFL dress code with red socks to 'keep distractions off the team' [1:42 AM]
Syracuse Post-Standard reports: '"If you watch me every week, that's how I dress every week," Williams said.'
What Doug Marrone and the Buffalo Bills were saying about EJ Manuel after loss to Chargers [1:41 AM]
Syracuse Post-Standard reports: '"I think my accuracy is fine," Manuel said. "I noticed a few throws I could stick on guys, but at the same time, we just have to go out there and make plays. That's the biggest thing, making plays when they're there and just trying to hit those home runs. You can't miss those."'
Philip Rivers outclasses EJ Manuel, and 6 observations from Bills' Week 3 loss [1:40 AM]
Syracuse Post-Standard reports: 'Manuel was outclassed by Rivers on Sunday, but it wasn't the worst game for the second-year quarterback. With the Bills trailing for most of the game, Manuel was forced to play a different game than he did in the first two weeks of the season, one that doesn't cater to his strengths.'
Penalties, out-of-sync offense doom Bills [1:39 AM]
Dunkirk Observer reports: '"Yeah, they ran a couple of plays that were really hard for our DB's to defend," Kyle Williams added. "It seemed like they accidently ran into somebody, and that's hard on anybody. We had to overcome, they were going to make big plays, and they have good players. We just had to respond better."'
Offense struggles in loss to Chargers [1:38 AM]
Canandaigua Daily Messenger reports: 'While the defense did well to hold San Diego to field goals twice, the long touchdown drive to start the second half put the Bills in a tough spot. Early in the game, Marrone had the option to get fourth and one in San Diego territory after a penalty, but opted to back the Chargers up inside their own 10 instead. In the fourth quarter on a third and one, the Bills ran a read-option run with Spiller right up the middle for a two-yard loss. The urgency on the final drive was also poor.'
'Greatest quarterback in the league' Rivers outclasses Bills' Manuel [1:35 AM]
Toronto Sun reports: 'Were just really fortunate to have the greatest quarterback in the league, Floyd said in the cramped visitors locker room at Ralph Wilson Stadium following the Chargers emphatic 22-10 victory.'
Monday's San Diego Coverage [1:33 AM]
TwoBillsDrive.com reports:
Grate finish (San Diego Union Tribune)
Rivers dips into a deep well of able receivers (San Diego Union Tribune)
Brown is Bolts new workhorse (San Diego Union Tribune)
Give Chargers defense credit for win at Buffalo (San Diego Union Tribune)
Chargers get a road win, but its costly (San Diego Union Tribune)
Injury likely to sideline Woodhead for season (San Diego Union Tribune)
Quarter by quarter (San Diego Union Tribune)
Chargers report card (San Diego Union Tribune)
Photo gallery (San Diego Union Tribune)
Chargers lose RB Woodhead to ankle injury (AP)
Bolts Roust Bills 22-10 (Chargers.com)
Sacks to a Safety: Big Plays Defined Bolts' D (Chargers.com)
Donald Brown Shoulders the Load in Big Way (Chargers.com)
Defense Uses Killer Instinct to Finish Game in Style (Chargers.com)
Bolts Overcome Adversity with Diversity (Chargers.com)
Eddie Royal Reigns in Buffalo (Chargers.com)
Bolts Take to Twitter to Celebrate Win Over Bills (Chargers.com)
Photo gallery 1 (Chargers.com)
Photo gallery 2 (Chargers.com)
Photo gallery (BuffaloBills.com)
Photo gallery 1 (Buffalo News)
Photo gallery 2 (Buffalo News)
Photo gallery 3 (Buffalo News)
Photo gallery (Rochester D&C)
Photo gallery (Syracuse Post-Standard)
Rivers leads Chargers to 22-10 win over Bills [1:29 AM]
AP reports: 'Fred Jackson scored on an 11-yard catch for Buffalo (2-1), which blew an opportunity to get off to a 3-0 start for only the third time since 1993.'
Bills' feel-good start ends in loss to Chargers [1:28 AM]
AP reports: 'Manuel and the offense were inconsistent. The Bills' defense proved porous. And very little else went right for Buffalo in a 22-10 loss.'
Andre Reed receives Hall of Fame ring [1:27 AM]
AP reports: 'Pro Football Hall of Fame president David Baker presented Reed with his ring in front of fellow Bills Hall of Famers Joe DeLamielleure, Thurman Thomas, Bruce Smith and Jim Kelly.'
San Diego 22, Buffalo 10 [1:26 AM]
The Sports Network reports: 'EJ Manuel passed for 238 yards for Buffalo (2-1) but made several key mistakes down the stretch. Running back Fred Jackson had 34 yards rushing and 78 receiving, including an 11-yard touchdown catch.'
Rivers, Chargers deal Bills first defeat [1:25 AM]
The Sports Xchange reports: 'The Chargers also showed their teeth on the other side of the ball, holding the 2-1 Bills to 87 yards rushing, 76 below their season average.'
Chargers-Bills: What we learned [1:24 AM]
The Sports Xchange reports: 'Talk about them having turned the corner might have been a bit premature. Admittedly, San Diego was a tough opponent, but the Bills didn't help their cause, making numerous mistakes that reminded some of the bad, old days. They were flagged 11 times for 101 yards in penalties, and a few of the calls wiped out sizeable gains and killed drives. "I'm not taking anything away from them," said defensive tackle Kyle Williams of the Chargers. "They beat us and they played better than we did today, but we didn't help ourselves."'
Bills Fall to Chargers 22-10 [1:23 AM]
WGR-AM reports: 'Unfortunately for Buffalo, despite the strong effort of bottling up the Chargers in the 4th quarter, the offense simply could not produce, with the low point being an inentional grounding call in the end zone, resulting in a safety for EJ Manuel.'
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Tracy Lynn Cruz (born January 29, 1976) is an American actress who played Ashley Hammond, Tanya Sloan's replacement in Power Rangers Turbo (1997) and Power Rangers In Space (1998). She was born in Orange County, California.
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- Power Rangers Lost Galaxy (1999)
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- Auditioned and won the Pink Ranger role, but it was changed to Yellow shortly after.
- Originally studied to become a dance major, then a bilingual teacher, and was a T. A. while taking performance dance.
- Sprained her wrist filming the Power Rangers Turbo episode, "A Drive To Win".
- Collects Mariah Carey items, her favorite singer.
- Tracy was inspired to audition for Power Rangers by Johnny Yong Bosch, who also departed the show at her arrival.
- Tracy learned martial arts from Johnny Yong Bosch.
- Tracy modeled for Abercrombie and Fitch from 2002 to 2004.
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Investors are anticipating a historic shift in Japan's monetary policy—a shift they expect to finally shake Japanese stocks out of a 20-year slumber. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had signaled his intent for aggressive monetary stimulus even prior to his election in December. Since then, the yen has slumped and the Nikkei Stock Average has surged, topped off by a 9.5% rise in 2013, the biggest rise among all major developed stock markets.
Little wonder, then, that an eight-week flood of $3.1 billion in new cash has moved into the relatively small niche of exchange-traded funds tied to Japan's stock market. "The ETF money is trying to find the central bank that's going to ease the most aggressively," says Dave Lutz, head of ETF trading at brokerage Stifel Nicolaus. "Right now, that's Japan." The trend is pronounced enough that one of the Japan funds is the No. 2 asset gatherer in the entire U.S. ETF market this year, trailing only a popular emerging-markets fund.
If you're among the Japan optimists, be aware that currency issues are just as important as your stock-market forecast. As Japanese stocks have risen and the yen fallen, currency-hedged funds have kept better pace, which helps explain investors' preference lately for a hedged fund over an unhedged one. The WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity DXJ 0.2687140115163148% WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund U.S.: NYSE Arca 52.24 0.14 0.2687140115163148% /Date(1411160400286-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3419491 AFTER HOURS 52.24 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 301500 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 4.180091883614089% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » fund (ticker: DXJ), the biggest asset gatherer, has risen 9.6% for the year through Jan. 31, well ahead of the unhedged iShares MSCI Japan Index EWJ 0.16963528413910092% iShares MSCI Japan ETF U.S.: NYSE Arca 11.81 0.02 0.16963528413910092% /Date(1411160400192-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 25071074 AFTER HOURS 11.81 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1188128 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 1.3966638441998307% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » fund (EWJ), up just 3.6%. That's due much less to stock selection than to currency impact. The yen-neutral DB X-trackers MSCI Japan Hedged Equity DBJP 0.2622763509828871% Deutsche X-trackers MSCI Japan Hedged Equity ETF U.S.: NYSE Arca 38.61 0.101 0.2622763509828871% /Date(1411160390023-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 60175 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 2.438746438746439% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » ETF (DBJP) tracks the same index as the iShares but gained 8.8%.
Watch for the difference between hedged and unhedged funds to shrink in the event that the yen stabilizes, or even reverse if the yen manages to move higher.
AS IF KEEPING TRACK OF currency issues wasn't complicated enough, it's worth noting that the WisdomTree fund is heavy with export-oriented companies' stocks such as Honda Motor hmc -0.20272227048942948% Honda Motor Co. Ltd. ADS U.S.: NYSE USD34.46 -0.07 -0.20272227048942948% /Date(1411160747518-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 305386 AFTER HOURS USD34.46 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 728 P/E Ratio 10.50609756097561 Market Cap 62428089074.4462 Dividend Yield 2.27266395821242% Rev. per Employee 598066 More quote details and news » (HMC). Since those stocks are natural allies of a weak yen—a stronger dollar means Japanese exports are cheaper—they can be expected to drive the WisdomTree fund higher than the DB X-trackers when the currency is weak. The same factor could cause it to trail when the yen strengthens.
A bigger question for buy-and-hold investors is whether it even makes sense to take this single-country plunge at all, after a 2013 gain of 10% or so already. If you fear you've missed the run-up, buying a broad international stock fund with a healthy slug of Japan is an attractive middle ground. Two ways to carry out this idea with ETFs: iShares Core MSCI EAFE IEFA -0.43261231281198004% iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF U.S.: NYSE Arca 59.84 -0.26 -0.43261231281198004% /Date(1411160400153-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 193419 AFTER HOURS 59.84 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 47 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 3.9065909090909092% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » ETF (IEFA), which bears a 21% Japan weighting, a cheap 0.14% expense ratio, and more small-company stocks than the standard EAFE index. Or there's the Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US VEU -0.6608357628765792% Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF U.S.: NYSE Arca 51.11 -0.34 -0.6608357628765792% /Date(1411160400134-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 582840 AFTER HOURS 51.11 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 12020 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 4.774016826452749% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » ETF (VEU), charging a similar 0.18%, with 13% invested in Japan.
That "middle ground" idea looks more enticing in light of some recent Leuthold Group research. The firm notes that investors who buy last year's second-best performer among seven widely held assets—real estate investment trusts, the Standard & Poor's 500, the Russell 2000, gold, Treasury bonds, the GSCI commodity index, and the EAFE international-stock index—have enjoyed an annualized 15.6% return since 1973. The theory is that the No. 2 asset tends to have more room to run than the top performer. This year's pick is the EAFE global stock index, with its 20% Japan weighting.
Optimists were given a new number last week—$9 trillion (or close to it), the amount Japanese households are thought to have saved over the past two decades. If even a fraction of that goes into Japan's stock market, investors will benefit. But if too much optimism makes you nervous, there are still funds built to exclude Japan. iShares MSCI Pacific ex-Japan epp -0.6985513816480867% iShares MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF U.S.: NYSE Arca 48.19 -0.339 -0.6985513816480867% /Date(1411160400191-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 206142 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 3.200398422909317% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » (EPP), a developed-market fund that is the most widely owned "ex-Japan" Asian stock ETF, gained 5.1% in January, just a hair behind the MSCI EAFE's 5.2%. Shareholders aren't yet regretting the absence of Japan.
THE CRAZE FOR LOW-VOLATILITY INVESTING—or investing in new funds to capitalize on it—continues. Four new ETFs launched this month on the theme. First came the PowerShares S&P 400 Low Volatility XMLV -0.6126173096976016% PowerShares S&P MidCap Low Volatility Portfolio U.S.: NYSE Arca 30.5 -0.188 -0.6126173096976016% /Date(1411160330442-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 15478 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 1.8649180327868853% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » (XMLV) and PowerShares S&P 600 Low Volatility XSLV -1.1534272901985907% PowerShares S&P SmallCap Low Volatility Portfolio U.S.: NYSE Arca 30.8599 -0.3601 -1.1534272901985907% /Date(1411159090249-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1694 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 1.8453721496181128% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » (XSLV), which aim to track the least volatile stocks in the S&P MidCap 400 Index and the S&P SmallCap 600 Index, respectively. Then, last week, State Street unveiled the SPDR Russell 1000 Low Volatility LGLV 0.40487190620458474% SPDR Russell 1000 Low Volatility ETF U.S.: NYSE Arca 74.09 0.29876 0.40487190620458474% /Date(1411137000080-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 650 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 2.1398839249561346% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » ETF (LGLV) and SPDR Russell 2000 Low Volatility SMLV 0.192185202152151% SPDR Russell 2000 Low Volatility ETF U.S.: NYSE Arca USD72.83 0.139700000000005 0.192185202152151% /Date(1410930000000-0500)/ Volume : 513 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 14565999.9796076 Dividend Yield 2.0458162844981462% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » ETF (SMLV). The trend amounts to a bet that investors will give up some bull-market returns for the hope of fewer wild price swings. They did it last year with the most popular one: PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Portfolio SPLV 0.17064846416382254% PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Portfolio U.S.: NYSE Arca 35.22 0.06 0.17064846416382254% /Date(1411160400127-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 429150 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 2.2143100511073253% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » (SPLV) saw a rush of new investors despite undershooting the plain-vanilla S&P 500's total return by six percentage points.
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In July 2013, longtime border security advocate Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) made a comment about those who regularly cross into this country illegally, which drew not only the predictable ire of Democrats, but also prompted the Republican House leadership to chastise the outspoken Congressman as well.
Rep. King said:
For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there that weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert...Those people would be legalized with the same act."
The "act" of which King spoke is the DREAM Act which would legalize millions of illegal aliens who came to this country illegally as minors.
In response, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), said: "There can be honest disagreements about policy without using hateful language. Everyone needs to remember that."
Also, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said: "I strongly disagree with his characterization of the children of immigrants and find the comments inexcusable."
Now for a dose of reality for our "Republican" friends...
On Dec. 17, 2013, a Pinal County (Ariz.) sheriff's deputy spotted a Chevrolet Tahoe driving at a high rate of speed on a surface road, at which time, the deputy gave chase.
The chase continued onto Highway 84, with speeds reaching more than 100 mph, according to deputies.
The vehicle was eventually brought to a stop using 'spike strips,' which deflated the tires.
Jesus Lozano-Vizcarra, 35, and Gustavo Ramirez-Zavala, 24, were apprehended.
A press release from the Pinal County Sheriff's Office stated:
Jesus admitted to being the driver of the Tahoe. He said that he fled from the deputy because he didn't want to be deported back to Mexico again. He said that he had been in the United States illegally for a month and a half. He said that he paid his way back into the United States this time by backpacking marijuana into the U.S. from Mexico. He also admitted that in the past he also entered the U.S. illegally by backpacking marijuana.
Gustavo also admitted to being in the United States illegally. He was turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol.
While sanctimonious sermons from two-faced politicians may be entertaining for the television cameras, they mean very little to Americans whose lives are being threatened on a daily basis by Mexico's criminals, who now, seem to have free reign over this country, and enjoy more freedoms than do most citizens.
You see, establishment Republicans such as Eric Cantor and John Boehner work for the Chamber of Commerce, not the American people. As such, they will continue to ignore reality as well as the will of the people.
Who are these men in striped suits who wish to treat drug smugglers with such reverence?
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Will touch screens replace waiters?
More restaurants are using table-top devices to let diners order food, pay their bill – even play games.
The appetizer order is taken promptly. The check is presented and processed the moment you are ready to pay. The children are entertained throughout the meal. But it isn't the waiter you have to thank for this efficient dining experience.
A growing number of restaurants -- including Chili's Grill & Bar, Applebee's and Chevys Fresh Mex -- are using or testing small, interactive computer screens at the table. Diners can see glossy pictures of food, order menu items and pay a check without a waiter.
Some of the devices also offer video games, often for a fee, movie trailers and news articles. Some have advertising; many plan to add it. Device makers hope to charge liquor companies for ads and retailers for coupons.
For couples and families, restaurant meals -- once a place for leisurely conversation -- have become just another time to be glued to email and games. "Restaurants are faced with either being outside of that communication and just allowing it all to take place on guests' phones, or they can be part of that," says Austen Mulinder, the president and chief executive of TableTop Media, which makes the Ziosk, a device that lets diners order, pay and play games. Chili's franchisees are using the Ziosk in more than 100 restaurants. Applebee's is testing it.
The technologies promise to address a longstanding complaint of diners: Paying the bill is a hassle. "When you are ready, that five minutes waiting for the credit-card transaction feels like 20," says Jay Johns, the vice president of strategy implementation at Applebee's. Since late last year, Applebee's has tested three types of screens -- the Ziosk, Presto, and eTab -- at 13 restaurants across the U.S. The devices let diners swipe their credit card at the table and email themselves a receipt. Some print a receipt at the table.
The entertainment features have been a hit, says Don Schuck, the director of information technology for the U.S. division of AmRest, a franchisee that owns 102 Applebee's restaurants in the U.S. and is planning to test three of the devices in its Columbus, Ga., locations. Initially, he says, "We thought, 'Who is going to want to do that?' Surprisingly, quite a few." Some restaurants charge a fee, usually about $1, to use games. Diners have the option of removing the free-standing devices, restaurants say. Seven out of 10 diners at a table with the Ziosk choose to use it, the company says, adding that Ziosk is in hundreds of restaurants.
During monthly visits to her local Chili's, Kimberly Nasief-Westergren turns the Ziosk screen away from her 11-month-old son and 3-year-old daughter. "We want to engage her in a conversation," says the 38-year-old president of a consumer research firm who lives in Louisville, Ky. Her son is drawn in by "the flashing lights. He wants to grab at it and put it in his mouth," she says. That said, she says she's interested in the idea of paying her bill with the screen.
"The only difficulty is the kids fighting over it," Lynn Mahoney says of the Ziosk device at her local Uno Chicago Grill. The 43-year-old, who operates a coupon blog from Wrentham, Mass., says her three children play games on the machine while waiting for food, then put it away. The adults "get a couple of minutes to talk without them saying, 'Mommy, Mommy, Mommy.'"
Casual dining chains are the main target for these devices. Some higher-end restaurants use iPads to show menus or wine lists. Most device makers charge restaurants a monthly fee.
So far, even most middle-tier restaurants have resisted letting people order everything on the menu from a machine because they want to preserve the personalized service that diners get from interacting with waiters. Instead, they are focusing on high-margin items such as drinks and desserts.
The "upsell" is a big feature of the product, says Terry Bader, the vice president of marketing and strategy for eTab International, which makes one of the devices being tested by Applebee's. "We can prompt consumers at the table with a message, 'Hey, how about another round of drinks?'" Bader says. At Chevys, which is testing the Ziosk in 12 of its 60 U.S. locations, the device shows dessert photos around 20 minutes after a waiter comes to the table.
Dessert orders are about 30% higher than before restaurants used the Ziosk, says Mike Bova, the senior vice president of operations for ERJ Dining, a Chili's franchise with 122 restaurants that have used the Ziosk since 2010. Brinker International, which owns the Chili's brand, says all of the Ziosks in use are operated by franchise partners.
Rather than a table device, T.G.I. Friday's recently launched a free cellphone application for diners. It shows users the menu at their local Friday's, offers discounts and can be used to pay the bill. Using technology from Tabbedout, diners enter their credit-card information into the app, which links with the restaurant's computer system when on-site. The app doesn't take food orders because "that is a human interaction that at this point we don't want to lose," says Trey Hall, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for the company.
Pay-at-the-table systems make low tippers more generous, restaurants say. The systems are designed to suggest a tip amount, say 20%, letting users adjust up or down.
Tips are above average when people use T.G.I. Friday's app to pay, Hall says. The app suggests an 18% tip. More than 90% of restaurant diners choose the predetermined tip on Viableware's device, a pay-at-the-table device that looks like a traditional black bill holder, the company says.
P.F. Chang's China Bistro plans to test the device. Like tabletop machines, it lets users divide up the bill, add a tip, swipe a credit card and email themselves a receipt. It doesn't offer entertainment. "The dining experience is the entertainment experience, and we don't want to clutter that," says Steve Stoddard, the president of Viableware.
Lights on some machines signal to waiters if a patron is paying or needs help.
At Chevys in New York's Times Square, after two weeks of using a Ziosk, waitress Teri Hurst is careful to turn the machine away from children while explaining the gaming options to parents, just as she would while explaining dessert options. "I call them apps, not games," says the 37-year-old. Playing games costs 99 cents at Chevys. Enough people play that the games have become a profit source for the restaurant, general manager Mike Alasaad says.
Earlier this year, Texas Roadhouse, the second-largest steakhouse chain in the U.S. after Outback Steakhouse, tested the Ziosk to see "if we could cut some time off the table turn," spokesman Travis Doster says, using the industry term for time spent at a table. Waiters found that recharging the machines was bothersome and that the devices hogged space on tables already "busy with peanut buckets and bread baskets and all," he says. Table turn decreased slightly, but the company doesn't plan to offer the device, he says.
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Arturo Ripstein was born into the movies--the son of a famous producer, he spent a good deal of his childhood poking around film sets. He worked as an assistant to Luis Buñuel, and it was in fact the great Spaniard-in-exile who shaped Ripstein's iconoclastic take on Mexican society. He made his own directorial debut in 1955 and has since chalked up a total of 21 features, 10 of which are in Anthology's retro.
Although a few of them might be characterized as dark comedies, none are droll. The director's excessive and gloomy films always side squarely with the alienated, marginal characters of society--no matter how criminal their actions. These are night stories, taking place in a tenebrous world usually accompanied by music and dancing--a bolero, a Verdi or Puccini aria, a ballad, tango, foxtrot, or a corrido. And these nights are made for love--in wine cellars, in bakeries, on pianos, in bathrooms, saunas, backseats of cars; in a Ripstein movie, it appears, no one ever screws in bed.
A master of claustrophobic atmospheres and oppressive family situations, he's at his most original when crossing Mexican melodramas with Theater of the Absurd. In Castle of Purity(1972), a weird tale of patriarchal repression and his most Buñuelian film, a rat-poison manufacturer sequesters his wife and children in a tottering house for 18 years to prevent their contact with the sinful outside world. Hell Without Limits, made in 1977 (its uncredited script is by Manuel Puig), is set in a decrepit small-town bordello and succeeds both as an indictment of homophobia and a deconstruction of Mexican machismo. Seen today, its climactic gay-bashing murder scene seems depressingly timely. The deliciously grotesque Realm of Fortune(1985), set in the remote interior of Mexico, recounts the rise and fall of a poor town crier who becomes a whiz at handling cockfights.
Since 1985, Ripstein's increasingly ambitious and complex films have all been written by Paz Alicia Garciadiego, Mexico's prime scenarist, who became the director's wife. One of their most impressive collaborations, The Beginning and the End(1993) is a dense family drama, based on a novel by the Egyptian Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, transposed by Garciadiego to a Mexico of extreme social inequality.
Ripstein's most stylish recent work, Queen of the Night(1994), constructed on a series of virtuoso long takes à la Max Ophuls, concerns itself with the last few years in the life of Lucha Reyes, the legendary bisexual chanteuse who committed suicide in 1944. It's a fascinating film--but unfortunately, the print supplied by the Mexican Consulate is so blotched and murky, it's practically unwatchable.
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Forrest Cuch resigned as chief executive officer of the Ute Indian Tribe's businesses after the tribe's governing body abruptly fired his partner.
Cuch said Tuesday that he resigned on Sept. 11 because the business committee did not consult him before firing Shauna Engen. Her food and beverage expertise, he felt, was vital to opening a new restaurant and revamping the tribe's grocery store and two convenience stores in the Uinta Basin.
"They hired me to manage the businesses and when things got hot and controversial, they wanted to butt in and didn't even consult me," Cuch said.
Cuch was the director of the state Office of Indian Affairs for more than 13 years before he was fired in February 2011 by Gov. Gary Herbert.
Six months later, he took over as CEO of Ute Tribal Enterprises, which includes the nonpetroleum businesses of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation based at Fort Duchesne. Cuch is a member of the 3,157-member tribe, and previously was its education director for 15 years.
The most profitable of Ute Enterprises' businesses hauls wastewater from oil wells, but it also has a grocery store and a bowling alley with the new restaurant in Fort Duchesne, convenience stores in Myton and Fort Duchesne, an information technology company in Salt Lake City and an accounting business.
Longtime business committee member Stewart Pike said the committee received many complaints from tribal members, employees and customers about Engen, who is not a member of the tribe.
"So after two or three months of listening to that, we decided to thank her for her services and that was it," he said.
The committee didn't see the need to discuss the matter with Cuch, he said. "He was not a focus of our concern," Pike said. "He resigned due to his own reasons."
Business Committee Chairwoman Irene Cuch, an aunt by marriage to Forrest Cuch, was traveling Tuesday and unavailable for comment. Vice chairman Ronald Wopsock did not return phone calls to his office or home.
Cuch said he hired Engen last spring, even though he knew it wouldn't go over well among some in the community, because the committee wanted to open the restaurant in a hurry. She was the most qualified person he could bring on board quickly, Cuch said.
"I put her under the chief financial officer and declared a conflict of interest," Cuch said. "She was doing an excellent job and they simply fired her because some people were complaining."
That made his position untenable, Cuch said.
In an open letter in the tribe's Sept. 13 bulletin, Cuch said the reservation had become a "rumor mill of gigantic proportions" and that he was due more respect from the committee.
"They come from a government culture," Cuch said Tuesday. "They have no understanding of the business world whatsoever. It's sad."
One of the innovations Cuch and Engen brought to the grocery store, he said, was an emphasis on healthy foods, such as grass-fed beef and organic fruits and vegetables. The nonprofit they had previously started together in Salt Lake City, Rising American Indian Nations (RAIN Utah), provided health education to the tribe, he said.
Cuch is building a home near Roosevelt, and intends to stay in the Uintah Basin and perhaps seek a seat on the business committee in next April's election.
About the Utes
The Uintah and Ouray reservation is about 150 miles east of Salt Lake City. It is the second largest American Indian reservation in the U.S., covering more than 4.5 million acres.
The Utes have a tribal membership of 3,157; more than half of those members live on the reservation.
Members operate their own tribal government and oversee approximately 1.3 million acres of trust land. The Utes also operate several businesses, including an energy company called Ute Energy. Cattle raising and mining of oil and natural gas is big business on the reservation.
Source: The Ute Indian Tribe


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