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Bottle of Corona in hand, Lisandro "Chando" Madrigal flips some carne asada that sizzles on his backyard grill. Homemade tortillas, Jarritos sodas, grilled onions and salsas are all on standby. It's a savory-smelling preview to Cinco de Mayo, which arrives Sunday, the perfect opportunity for a Mexican-style barbecue.
No backyard Mexican cookout is complete without some tasty, fresh-off-the-grill carne asada. This dish cooks easily, won't break the budget and requires just tortillas and a few other Mexican fixin's to make scrumptious tacos.
As grill marks sear into these sirloin and skirt steaks, we pepper Madrigal with questions. After all, he's a master of grilling this marinated beef. Madrigal's known simply as "Chando" among fans of local Mexican food, and carne asada tacos are the runaway favorite of his two Chando's Tacos locations and his popular food truck. It's also a signature dish for his backyard cookouts.
"When I barbecue, I invite friends over, we go outside and have a beer and bond," said Madrigal. "And what's not to like about flame-grilled steak? You can make tacos and dress it up with some salsa, guacamole or onions. Or you can just experiment. The flavor is just awesome."
Mexican meat markets, or carnicerias, traditionally carry plenty of pre-marinated carne asada at their butcher counters. Add some of that to a hot grill, and tacos await in just minutes. Preparing your own carne asada doesn't take a ton of work either, and you can create a house speciality that'll be a hit every grilling season.
But it all has to start with some meat.
The term carne asada refers to a cooking process rather than a specific steak. Carne asada translates to "roasted meat" though if you're cooking directly over flames, the meat's actually being grilled.
Carne asada styles vary by region in Mexico. This dish is found more prominently in Mexico's northern and western states, where cattle raising is fairly prominent. Carne asada is a special source of regional pride in the northern Mexican state of Sonora.
"Here in the United States, you have Texas, but (in Mexico) Sonora is the one that sticks its chest out with barbecued meats," said Madrigal. "They tend to cut it thicker and then cut it in cubes after it comes off the grill. We've always gone for a thinner cut."
Most cuts of steak will technically do for this dish, whether it's a humongous chuck roll or well-marbled rib-eye. But two cuts of steak still reign supreme for carne asada: arrachera and palomilla.
Arrachera is the Spanish term for "skirt steak," while palomilla translates to "sirloin." Either of these cuts are well-suited to soak in marinades and provide plenty of meaty flavor. Arrachera and palomilla are also fairly affordable, which makes them a good option when grilling for a large backyard cookout.
No matter which steak you choose, it should be sliced thinly. If you're making tacos, the meat should be thin enough so it can be pulled apart easily with your fingers. Mexican meat markets traditionally have aracherra and palomilla trimmed to this size. Otherwise, have a butcher do this trimming if you'd rather leave the knife work for someone else.
Choosing a marinade comes next. And here's where carne asada can take on all kinds of flavors: spicy interpretations with plenty of chili powder, aromatic paprika, citrus-y styles with lime or orange juice, a liquid base of beer and more.
Mexican meat markets generally sell plenty of carne asada preparada, or pre-marinated. This might save work in the kitchen, but the flavors can be overwhelming if the meat has been soaking for an extended period of time in a store. Salsas and other condiments added to these carne asada tacos will drown out much of the meaty flavor.
Madrigal recommends a more sparing approach to marinating.
"Just a couple hours is good," he said. "You don't want the meat to be in there for too long. You're going to want to be able to taste the meat."
Orange juice remains a go-to base for Madrigal's carne asada marinades. It helps tenderize the steak and imparts bright flavors. He also likes to use beer, but finds that it breaks down the meat quicker than orange juice. Madrigal sometimes opts to pour some beer over the carne asada as it's grilling, as his father liked to do.
Once Madrigal gathers his marinade ingredients, he uses a layering approach for applying them to the carne asada. He'll start by placing a few cuts of steak at the bottom of a Tupperware container, add an even coating of salt and apply enough marinade ingredients to cover the meat. Then he stacks another layer of meat and continues the process until all the carne asada is coated.
"I like a simple marinade, not something too crazy," said Madrigal, showing off his carne asada that's ready to cook.
Back outside, Madrigal's grill is fired up and ready. His 5-year-old daughter, Xitlali, hovers close by, ready to taste-test. Carne asada, after all, cooks pretty quickly.
A mantra of backyard grilling says that, "the thinner the meat, the higher the heat," and this is especially true of carne asada. Madrigal is using a gas grill for time's sake on this day, but a mix of charcoal and mesquite would be ideal. Mesquite burns especially hot and also kisses the meat with a pleasing smoky flavor.
Madrigal adds a few cuts of his carne asada to the grill and the sizzling starts right away. Once the meat turns color and becomes crispy on the edges, it's time to flip it over. It doesn't take much more than a few minutes per side to cook until medium-well.
"You want it on the hottest part of the grill, and spread it evenly so it's not bunched up," he said. "You're not looking to make grill marks per se, but you want the steak to be cooked completely."
Madrigal adds peppers, green onions and a chorizo link to the grill as the carne asada finishes cooking. But one of the key elements of this fiesta waits inside: fresh tortillas.
"Good tortillas are important," said Madrigal. "You wouldn't want to eat a good sandwich with lousy bread. You might as well be eating cardboard."
We're spoiled on this day that Madrigal's mother, Paula, is visiting from the San Diego area. The Madrigal family once ran a tortilla factory in Tijuana, and Madrigal's mom is a maestra of making them from scratch. Her tortillas are a little thicker than what's usually found in a restaurant. They're perfectly pillowy with a taste of fresh corn and a touch of salt.
For a store-bought tortilla, look for the El Rosal and Mi Abuelita brands, which make an especially soft product. The tortillas made by La Esperanza, which oversees a fantastic Mexican bakery on Franklin Boulevard, are also a reliable option.
Finally, it's time to grub with a spread that includes two different salsas, guacamole, beans and rice and much more. Madrigal encourages everyone to just grab a tortilla, pull the carne asada apart with their fingers and start building delicious tacos.
"You want to taste the meat, the guacamole, the tortilla," said Madrigal, ready to dig in. "You don't want to taste one thing. If you stick with some basic Mexican ingredients you can make just about anything you want and you have to have your Corona or Jarritos."
Where to find the right beef
Whether you're looking for pre-marinated carne asada or the building blocks for your own Cinco de Mayo barbecue, these Mexican markets will have you covered. You'll find plenty of skirt steaks and sirloin for making carne asada and ingredients for your side dishes as well. Here are some of our favorites:
Carniceria Lopez Market No. 2 (6201 Franklin Blvd., Sacramento; 916-393-5957): This small market carries pre-marinated arrachera (skirt steak) and palomilla (sirloin) that's exceptionally tasty, plus an array of other meats, Mexican cheeses and a small produce section.
Toledo's Mexican Market (1341 Fulton Ave., Sacramento; 916-979-9227): On the north side of town, you'll find this carniceria well stocked with meats and prepared foods to go, including tacos and salsas.
La Superior Market (4940 Stockton Blvd., Sacramento; 916-451-7259): Like the Safeway of Mexican markets, this supermercado is a one-stop shop with a huge butcher counter, produce section and wide selection of Mexican ingredients. Also look for a location at 2210 Northgate Blvd.
Slideshow: Madgrigal's marinated steak becomes succulent carne asada
Recipe: Chando's carne asada marinade
Recipe: Cebollitas (grilled green onions)
Recipe: Chando's guacamole
Recipe: Salsa ranchera and Tomatillo salsa
Call The Bee's Chris Macias (916) 321-1253. Follow him on Twitter @chris_macias.
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Hi, my name is Rosalind H. and I began my musical education at the age of ten, when I first started taking lessons. Since that time I have performed professionally as a singer in churches, cafes and at weddings and in venues including the Kimmel Center and Carnegie Hall during my college years with the renowned Westminster Symphonic Choir. After spending a year teaching children and adolescents aged 6-17 voice and piano while completing my Masters of Arts in Music Therapy at Drexel University, I am now looking to take on private students in Chester County and surrounding areas.
I am a Westminster Choir College '11 Alum� who graduated with a Bachelor's of Arts in Music, summa cum laude. I am also a Member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and a� Board Certified Music Therapist.
�*Please be aware that I teach Beginners Piano. �I do, however, teach all levels of voice, as long as the interested voice student is over at least the age of 8. Singing lessons for students younger than this age can be detrimental to a child's vocal development.
*** Lesson Details ***
I am available to travel to your house (piano students must have a piano or keyboard) or host you in my home�
Piano students can expect to learn the basic music theory knowledge, including reading staff notation and lead sheets.� I will also focus on fingering techniques and coordination.Students will be expected to practice theory knowledge and songs outside of lessons to help improve finger coordination and music-reading speed and accuracy.
I offer�beginning to advanced singing lessons for students interested in classical, operatic, Broadway and popular music and beginning piano lessons.I try to provide my students the opportunity to practice a wide range of skills when learning music.
Voice students will learn exercises to practice good breath control, posture and diction, all of which form the foundations of good singing.� Students will be expected to practice these exercises outside of lessons, prior to practicing vocal literature, so as to develop good singing habits.� About fifty percent of lesson time will be dedicated to technique, and the other fifty percent will be dedicated to learning vocal pieces.� Dependent upon their level of knowledge, students may also be asked to watch videos of professional singers outside of lessons, so as to expand their musical understandings and aural sensitivity. �These practices will enhance muscle coordination and breath control when singing, helping to enhance and improve pitch, timbre, expression and vocal range.
As a board certified music therapist, I often draw upon those skills I learned during my master's degree in music therapy, which taught me that music can have a profound effect on the human brain and upon cognitive development.� My skills as a music therapist allow me to better understand a student's cognitive strengths and areas for improvement, and to develop individualized teaching strategies which utilize student strengths.
*** Studio Equipment ***
My home studio is equipped with keyboard, guitar and piano, as well as a sizable repertoire of classical, broadway and popular music. I am more than happy to help students find any music they may need for lessons that is not already in my library. I also own a portable keyboard that I use for out-of-studio voice students.
*** Travel Equipment ***
I expect students to provide a piano if they are receiving at piano lessons as it is needed for practice. I have a portable keyboard for voice students, but I strongly recommend that voice students record their lessons for reference during practice.
I recommend the following books for piano students (listed by age):
Ages 5-8:
My First Piano Adventure, Lesson Book A with by Nancy & Randall Faber
Ages 8-12:Piano Adventures - Level 1: Lesson Book [Book]Faber Piano Adventures
Ages 13 and up:
Adult All-In-One Course: Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course, Level ...by Willard A. Palmer
*** Specialties ***
I specialize in classical and operatic music (arias and art songs), but I am comfortable with a wide array of singing literature, as I believe that the technical foundations of good singing remain constant, regardless of the genre. I also have performed with a gospel/spiritual choir, as a soloist, during my college years.
Broadway Singing, Opera Voice, Singing
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to develop a voice and learn proper singing techniques you had never imagined possible. My main goal is to help people sing at a full potential of their voices. An ability to sing is an amazing gift which can be taken to the next level with proper training and dedication. My lessons will enable one to reach high level of singing.
The lessons are conducted with the three specific goals:
1. Formation and development a student's voice
2. Increasing vibrancy of the sound
3. Establishing proper techniques which will guarantee not to damage vocal cords as it frequently occurs in cases of incorrect singing
The first stage of the lessons will focus on technical aspect of singing to ensure the instillation of proper base and safety of the vocal cords. The next stage will focus on a pupil's artistic side and voice delivery.
The price per lesson is very low. I had done it on purpose to allow a pupil some degree of financial freedom which could enable students to attend as many lessons as possible. The homework will not be assigned at the beginning stage of the lessons because without proper technique, students may damage vocal cords. A pupil can start practicing a peace of music on his/her own only after voice is developed. Hence, I recommend taking four to five classes per week to establish the voice.
I will ask a pupil to complete and sign an agreement which we will discuss during the first meeting. I have checked on that with customer service representative and it is absolutelly fine with takelessons.com
"Steven is very professional and extremely helpful. He always has a smile on and is serious about helping you phrase the music. I would highly recommend him to anyone."
"It's been really exciting so far! Jordan has been so helpful, so knowledgeable. I could not have found a better instructor and I'm getting better and better every day."
"My daughter's wedding was weeks away and I had never been able to dance a step. With Jenny's help, I came further than ever before in such short time in any subject."


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Single people we need a reality check. I include myself because I have been guilty of adhering to random dating deal breakers. Funny how I seem to meet someone really great who I have chemistry with but hit the brakes (no pun) when there is an issue with something about them.
It's not just about having a "type" we like to say we prefer, it's more than that. We extend our "I don't do" lists so far that we talk ourselves out of a potential…something. We never find out what that something is because we don't let it go further. We figure the deal breaker is protecting us from heartbreak, disappointment, confusion. Um, yeah… how's that working out for you? (Said in my best Dr. Phil voice)
So let's reconsider some deal breakers that we have that probably don't really belong on a list of reasons to rule out someone, shall we? I will go first:
I never dated someone unemployed. Now, I am not trolling Georgia Department of Labor for dates or anything. I would however, give a guy a second look if he seems like a kind person. Circumstances arise that may cause some people to be in transition. Does that mean they aren't dateable?
Ok, your turn. What dating deal breaker are you willing to reevaluate?
A quick poll of my single friends and I found that their deal breakers included: someone with full custody of their children; someone less educated; someone unfit or doesn't work out regularly. What do you think? Are these legit or kind of ridiculous?
It's almost as if we are meeting and dating, but when we spot a "human" thing, we just check out on the date or relationship. Then less effort is made to take things further. I can speak intelligently about this because I have done this too many times than I even want to admit to myself, let along you guys. I am working on it though, this counts for something, right? Personal growth points maybe? It's all part of the dating process, I think. Live and learn.
I just think that single men and women could both use a healthy dose of humility. Do you believe that men are more willing to overlook their "deal breakers" then women? Wait, do men still have dating deal breakers!?
Happy Thursday!
July 15th, 2010
8:24 am
I try to think that I am very open, but I met a guy at the airport. He was a driver. We talked on the phone and he seemed nice. We met for ice cream a fews days later and he had a tattoo that looked like a 4yr old wrote it. He told me he had been to prison after his girlfriend accused him of rape.. Deal Breaker — sexual assault, and a prison tattoo? I also don't date married regardless of the "we're seperated", if you don't take care of your children, do drugs, have no job (and not looking), done time (serious crimes), and smoke. I don't think my deal breakers are crazy, but it's amazing what comes up while dating that you never cosider until your date tells you about it.
July 15th, 2010
8:35 am
Women withut common manners are deal breakers. Someone who is rude to waitresses and doormen, can't chew without closing her mouth, or uses the "f" word every other sentence, is not for me.
It takes very little outside of some love and attention to teach a child how to be polite. Those who did not have a caring parent do this to them, could never be able to teach their own child how to be polite, either.
Manners are the oil that keeps the machinery of society moving. Date someone without manners, and you will end up with many rusty and inflammed points that need some oil to move on, but won't get any.
July 15th, 2010
8:42 am
The older I get (I'm 39) the fewer 'deal-breakers' I have…but some I hold fast to are: tattoos and I don't mean that tiny 'bumble bee' on your ankle I mean FULLY sleaved out biker bar tats and the person does not know that a HOG is a Harley (aka a poser).
Excessive Drinking, anyone who is a 'foodie', mentally asleep, slobs, drug use, STD's, and over weight by more than 15lbs.
July 15th, 2010
8:43 am
I don't have any crazy deal breakers. For starters I don't start asking people about their pedigree. I let the conversation flow, however if certain things come up. Oh well, he can hit the road, jack.
A friend from high school was trying to date me. We went out a few times, and I know his family, friends etc. Therefore we talked about everything. Well I asked him why his marriage failed, he gave me some reasons. However in those reasons it came out that he and the ex-Mrs. used to fight. Physical fights, he even told her if she called her daddy or brothers he was ready and would shoot them. I talk a lot of mess, but something about Ike Turner scares me and it is not normal The funny thing is I always thought he was kind, meek and very mild tempered. I never would have thought he fought with his ex-wife, and he found it normal. He even referenced some of his family members relationships and said it happens over time. Needless to say it was a deal breaker, and I found myself doing a disappearing act.
July 15th, 2010
8:57 am
Here is my list of deal breakers:
1. Bad hygiene
2. Crazy
3. wife beater and I am not talking about the shirt
4. Vulgar don't step to me talking about getting my goodies, and thinking that is a compliment.
5. Someone that lacks a sense of humor—personally life is not that serious enjoy the journey it is short.
6. Closed minded I cannot stand for someone to not believe you or criticize just because of the lack of knowledge/understanding.
7. Was on lockdown for a violent or sexual crime
8. Bad habits/addictions- drinking, drugs, gambling, porn etc
9. Bad teeth
10. Unreliable car
11. Does not have a plan or goals in life
12. Someone that is not a lifelong learner
13. Bad manners
14. Disrespectful to their mom, sisters and women in general
15. Know it all
16. Ego tripping
17. Liar/Sociopath
July 15th, 2010
8:59 am
I'm only dating women who have more education and income than I do. Time for them to bring something to the table. How 'bout that? lol
July 15th, 2010
9:03 am
Deal breakers (and holding to)? Well, it depends. I think it's been discussed before that as you grow and get older one should revisit and tweak accordingly. What may have been a deal breaker in your twenties more than likely has taken a back seat or leave once we approach our thirties….so forth and so on. More than likely it's probably not not all that important anymore. As you get older though, who wants to deal with keeping or adhering to a laundry list? Not me. As long as certain actions aren't "tolerated" nor compromises principles and honor, talk it out or think it over better yet, do away with it.
I was watching a couple of old Divorce Court episodes this morning and really some things shouldn't even hit a list….some should just be a given. One case, a married woman of 4 years, husband had 2 children by 2 different outside the marriage. Deal breaker? That's too kind of a description. Throw him away…period. The other case, woman (looked like late 30s early 40s) marries unemployed 23 year old. She's got 4 kids prior to their nuptials and 1 with him….he's got 5 more aside from hers…insert blank stare here. Both women broken and crying. Why? Folks all around have experienced enough things for me to not even broach. Why even go there? And in the event folks true colors come through after the fact (I don't believe that myself because no matter the representative if you look hard enough you catch a glimsp into the real person….but okay), do the needful. Why wait for a leopard to change his spots? Both these women obviously didn't have any deal breakers. Everything was ago.
July 15th, 2010
9:03 am
8. Bad habits/addictions- drinking, drugs, gambling, porn etc
Dang Double D's so if it wasn't for my secret porn stash, you mean I might have a shot?
July 15th, 2010
9:03 am
I am not mad at you! While you at it make sure that chick can at least solve a quadratic equation!
July 15th, 2010
9:04 am
Since you are kind of sexy I might issue you a waiver on that secret stash.
July 15th, 2010
9:09 am
GM all – is it friday yet?
deal breakers, hmmmm, think diana made a good list there. new deal breaker for me now that im in my 30s, smoking. any kind of smoking. had the attitude when i was younger love will get around it, or i can convince him to quit. nope, that doesnt work. you smell, and im constantly going ewwww. cant do that one anymore. more in the mind now you smoke around me, and i get sick, im taking you with me. so probably best for both of us to leave those ones alone lol
July 15th, 2010
9:09 am
A great topic for the 30+ single ladies who are on the path to dying alone. It's always funny to see a 30+ woman break up with a great guy over something trivial, because it's a "deal breaker".
July 15th, 2010
9:12 am
Tatoos! All of them.
Foul mouth
too trendy clothes
poor vocabulary
bad teeth
big hair
too forward
strong perfume
these are door slammers.
July 15th, 2010
9:17 am
Double D's I'm guessing quadratic equations aren't a problem for you. Plus, you'll give me a pass on the porn stash. What we waitin' for?
July 15th, 2010
9:17 am
@ LeeH1
I forgot that..You are so right manners are very important. People forget that people provide a service and are not servants. That drives me crazy also
July 15th, 2010
9:18 am
@blue smoking is a good one…although I do indulge in a good cigar from time to time…lol
@luckydog great list I like the sloppy…not sure what is too trendy
@Steven @, you did save a 30-something woman, right? I keep thinking you have a GF…yes or no.
July 15th, 2010
9:24 am
Steve Q – I've been waiting for you to pop in all week pumpkin. Do you know how hilarious you are?! Just the laugh I needed this morning.
Kimmy – Assault, tattoos and prison oh my!! What a wasted opportunity. Aint that right Steve Q?
I'm sure I have deal breakers, but I've not had a lot of chances to apply them so far. I need a little time to think about it.
July 15th, 2010
9:24 am
@kimmy@LeeH1 – manners, very definitely. people providing a service and are not servants – needs to be repeated. is it so hard to say thank you, please, and excuse me? or to show a person a little patience (when appropriate mind u, everything has a limit lol)
@Dreams – secret porn stash – not always that big a deal breaker lol. depends on whats in there……hmmmmm
@Diana@Steven – "saved" her, lol. sounds like there heathens needing to be brought to the light lol. interesting ? about him being attached, cause would find his constant thoughts about woman dying alone to be rather toolish. is someone trying to save him?
July 15th, 2010
9:25 am
What we waitin' for?
We are waitin' for the bar to open so we can discuss this over a sangria
July 15th, 2010
9:30 am
@blue I know you haven't read me long. When I said "saved" to Steven Q I was referring to Cap'n save a ho
ho ho you know the old song. Like you I find him worrying about single women, dying alone with a house full of cats a waste of time for a man that is in a relationship. You would think he would be worried about pleasing his woman.
Luvbug~ I was waiting on him too…he gives us a good laugh and I like the one track man process…add that to my list of deal breakers. I don't want a man that can only talk about one subject…that is too much passion outside of the bedroom.
July 15th, 2010
9:33 am
Some of my deal breakers (not in any order):
1) Gay
2) Multiple children by multiple women(If he didn't marry them, why would he marry me?
3) Long Fingernails
4) Drinks Excessively
5) Intentionally unemployed when they cannot afford to be unemployed
6) Dude is just a straight up player
7) Poor Hygiene
Does not like or doesn't want children
9) Negative Attitude
10) Does not respect or treat myself or my child right.
July 15th, 2010
9:33 am
didn't know that eight followed by ) would result in
July 15th, 2010
9:34 am
I can't stand guys who poop with the bathroom door open.
July 15th, 2010
9:35 am
Dirty D – Yeah, Steve 30+ is a piece of work. He is definitely on a mission (like a superhero)…poor future Mrs. Steve 30+. She must miss his time away.
July 15th, 2010
9:35 am
Dreams – secret porn stash – not always that big a deal breaker lol. depends on whats in there……hmmmmm
blue nothing wierd. just enough to add some excitement to things.
Double D's why didn't you say so? Will that be a white wine sangria or the traditional red? Now let's get down to business. lol
July 15th, 2010
9:36 am
…miss him being away to often…
July 15th, 2010
9:38 am
@Diana – i see what you mean. unfortunately, now i have a mental pic of dude, for some reason in bad shape, in a super hero outfit (Capn Save-a-ho). he does seem to be a one trick pony tho…
@I am – #5 – most def. dont understand how all these men with no jobs and apparently no ambitions to get one, living off friends and fam, get women to stick around. need you to at least be able to take of yourself
July 15th, 2010
9:42 am
Blue- I don't understand that one either…
July 15th, 2010
9:42 am
Good morning!
Deal Breakers:
1. Bad teef
2. Bad Manners
3. Live w/Mama (don't really care the reason)
4. Bad teef
5. Knows everything
6. Bad hygiene
7. No car
8. Bad teef
9. Ask me for money day 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6….
10. Bad teef
July 15th, 2010
9:44 am
Will that be a white wine sangria or the traditional red?
surprise me when you order for me
@Luvbug see blue's 9:38 that is what I saw him wearing
@Blue yep that is what I see him wearing as well with some foggy
eyeglasses bi-focals
July 15th, 2010
9:49 am
@Diana – needs a catch phrase now, like Superman "faster than a speeding bullet"….cant think of one…..
July 15th, 2010
9:50 am
'I'm only dating women who have more education and income than I do. Time for them to bring something to the table. How 'bout that? lol'
Dreams – awww mayne, guess that rules me out. I have a CT Degree, will that work? lol
I have no issue with a guy that partakes in a little Adult Cinema….I just don't want anyone who is ADDICTED to it or who feels the need to play with themselves on an abnormal level. That's when it becomes creepy
July 15th, 2010
9:50 am
@I am…wassup #1 and #2 is so true
July 15th, 2010
9:51 am
Oh yeah, HI FOLKS
July 15th, 2010
9:54 am
- Failure to tip our restaurant server
- Bragging about how well he can dance
- Failure to ever use a turn signal when on our date
- Backs into parking spaces for no apparent reason
- Uses the expression "keeping it real"
- Mentions he has a "baby mama"
- Doesn't know what a credit report is
- Never voted in any election BEFORE the fall of 2008
- Neck tattoos
- Goes into a sulking rage whenever a police office is nearby
- Ends sentences with prepositions
July 15th, 2010
9:57 am
"Doesn't know what a credit report is" RUN, RUN, RUN!
This person must be a Caveman!
July 15th, 2010
9:59 am
I guess anything that would describe a loser or ill-mannered azzhole would be deal breakers. They don't seem to be that variable person-to-person. Even ending sentences with prepositions isn't that far out of line, although 'ax' for 'ask', 'da' for 'the', 'dem' for 'them' tend to be my own pet peeves.
It's not so much what are deal breakers, but rather more what are deal makers. Intelligent and pleasant company that looks great with lots of sex appeal, that you'd be pleased to introduce to your mama, is a definite plus plus.
July 15th, 2010
10:00 am
@Slim – or who plays alone instead of me. if im right here, and youd still rather fly solo, and i dont have, like smallpox or something lol, somethings wrong and we may need to trim the collection.
@Chelly – - Backs into parking spaces for no apparent reason – lmao, just sounds so random, but now that its mentioned, is annoying as all he!!, lmao.
neck and face tatts get under my skin too, altho will admit i have one on the back of my neck. somehow doesnt seem the same to me as dude with the ace of spades over his adams apple.
July 15th, 2010
10:01 am
There is something about TheDude that would have been a dealbreaker in the past, but since I've experienced some personal growth, it's now a non-issue.
July 15th, 2010
10:03 am
abc – "It's not so much what are deal breakers, but rather more what are deal makers. Intelligent and pleasant company that looks great with lots of sex appeal, that you'd be pleased to introduce to your mama, is a definite plus plus."
I like THAT^!
July 15th, 2010
10:04 am
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July 15th, 2010
10:05 am
Good Morning All,
I would have to say a deal breaker for me that I could possible get over is I rule guys out based on intelligence. I mean I am really into learning new stuff and things and if I meet a guy who seems nice and kind but is not particularly well-round in terms of current events outside of who is getting kick out on Big Brother..then I tend to shy away from them..or keep them at friend distance. I really think it is important to be a good citizen and well informed(as much as you can) about things outside of your little world if a guy is not..I look down on him. Yeah I could stand to do better…
July 15th, 2010
10:05 am
blue yes we need a slogan for Steven Q.
July 15th, 2010
10:09 am
blue – I would think, at least let me watch. Not sure what it is about seeing a man be one with himself but me likey likey
July 15th, 2010
10:09 am
July 15th, 2010
10:10 am
Chelly I love your list. I get mad when a car keeps going and then pump the breaks to back in a space. LOL
July 15th, 2010
10:10 am
Tatoos on a dude that are visible are okay for me in the following situations:
The dude is freakin stinkin rich
He has his own business and it brings in a substantial amount of money that he can support himself and a future family
He's an actor or artist (but I don't really date those kind of dudes anyone)
If he works in corporate america then the tats cannot be visible while wearing work clothes
July 15th, 2010
10:11 am
typo: (but I don't really date those kind of dudes anyway)
July 15th, 2010
10:14 am
I want a thug in the sheets and a gentleman in the streets
July 15th, 2010
10:15 am
Good morning!
Dealbreakers – well I would call them standards. They are also like an opinion – everyone is entitled to them. What might seem unrealistic to others just might be working in your favor or you might have a good reason for having it. My big one that I have had since I started dating is smoking. That's because I grew up with a chain-smoker and I vowed once I left home I would never deal with it anymore. Smoking has affected my family in a negative way(lung diseases). I don't like anything about it. One of my close friends used to criticize me about it and say the guy could not do it around me & brush his teeth, etc. I told her that wouldn't take away the odor and at some point a man is going to want to smoke in his own home. What would I look like telling a man what he could & couldn't do in his home? She got the message.
Wise, I think you should hold on to the not dating the unemployed, at least not starting out with someone unemployed. See, it's different if you have been dating someone awhile and they lose their job. As long as they are making an effort, it's all good. But starting out with a man unemployed, I don't know about that. Personally, I don't think a guy should be trying to date until he gets a job and gets on his feet. Just creates issues.I say this from personal experience.


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Published on April 5th, 2013 | by Meredith Burdett
Who Freebies @ Forbidden Planet Tomorrow!
Got some free time tomorrow? If you do, you may want to consider heading down to a Forbidden Planet store near you for their Doctor Who Day which will be full of goodies as well as a look at the very special TARDIS speaker that can be paired with Smartphone devices.
Starting tomorrow from noon, Forbidden Planet will be demonstrating the TARDIS speaker in their London store prior to its official release in April (details below) but if you can't make it to that event then never fear because the company will be having lots of Doctor Who related fun at its other branches in Southampton, Newcastle, Liverpool, Croydon, Coventry, Bristol and Birmingham.
There will be:
A prize draw- drop your name in the box in store to win great Doctor Who prizes.
Goody bags- grab a great goody bag – but get there early, stocks are limited!
A Doctor Who sale- look out for bargains as our great Doctor Who sale begins.
The Doctor's confectionaries of choice- free Jammy Dodgers and Jelly Babies – while stocks last.
The goody bags are to be supplied by Pyramid Posters and will include some very cool stuff!
The TARDIS speaker will be available for demonstration on the day and will show off the unique features of the sound system that stands at thirty two centimeters tall and features Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity. You can pair you Smartphone to it for music playback, or to listen to a Big Finish or AudioGo story, through its 2.1 channel speakers. You can also use it as a charging system through the USB port that it has – and in a stroke of genius, it makes the TARDIS materialisation sound when pairing with a device!
You can find out more about the Forbidden Planet Doctor Who Day (nationwide tomorrow – that's 6th April 2013, folks) and information on how to pre-order your Doctor Who speaker here.
And don't forget to watch The Rings of Akhaten tomorrow at 6.15pm!
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Nothing at the Glasgow store, typical.
Nothing at the Edinburgh one either, typical!
Glasgow and Edinburgh are Forbidden Planet International … Forbidden Planet were the company doing the promotion … two entirely different companies – with virtually the same name – been that way for years : /
" The original chain split into two firms, called Forbidden Planet and Forbidden Planet Scotland (later renamed Forbidden Planet International). Forbidden Planet International grew beyond Scotland to include stores throughout the Midlands, in Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland and majority ownership of two stores in New York City "


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Did you miss Glee last night? Don't worry—I found a copy of the script and I'm posting it here for your enjoyment!
SCENE 1: Some sort of teachers' lounge, except no one's grading papers because no one at this school actually teaches academics.
EMMA: Carl took me to Rocky Horror and it was SO much fun because I'm in a trusting, mature relationship with someone who knows how to make me happy and—
WILL: Ooh, I stopped listening after "Rocky Horror." So now we're going to do it as our fall musical that definitely existed before 10 seconds ago!
EMMA:…aand once again, you've totally missed the point.
WILL: Can I even be classified as a character anymore? Or am I just a series of random decisions in human form?
SCENE 2: TV studio
SUE: Blah blah FEAR blah blah. I'm totally phoning it in.
MEN IN BLACK: We're here to give you an excuse to sabotage Glee Club.
SUE: Since when have I needed an excuse?
MIB: Listen,
Jane Sue, we just want to say the word "Emmy" in as many of your scenes as possible. Y'know, to remind everyone.
SUE: Oh, well in that case, LOCAL EMMYS here I come!
SCENE 3: The only classroom in this entire high school
WILL: Okay guys, no time for auditions—we're gonna cast this musical RIGHT NOW and memorize it by THIS AFTERNOON because we're performing it TOMORROW.
TECH CREW: Oh hey! Guess we have 24 hours to design, build, and paint a set with a working elevator! No problem.
LEA MICHELE: Well, obviously Finn and I will be the leads.
WILL: And no one else has a problem with this?
LEA MICHELE: It's in our contracts, Mr. Schu.
WILL: Ah, right. So to sum up, Broadway Baby and Boyfriend will play Janet and Brad, wheelchair boy will play wheelchair man, gay boy will play the transvestite, and all you girls can fight each other for the rest of the five-second solo lines, I don't really give a shit.
KURT: UHM. Please. Gay does not equal transvestite. Don't stereotype me.
WILL: But isn't that what I'm supposed to do? We had you doing Victor/Victoria last week for Christ's sa—
WILL: Fine. Someone just volunteer for Frank-N-Furter, please, we're only going to turn this role into a convoluted plot point after the next commercial break anyway.
OTHER ASIAN: Oh! A talk-singing role! I'll do it!
SCENE 4: The gym
FINN: The emotional point of this episode is that teenage boys can be insecure about their bodies, too.
SAM: I was basically born to play the role of Rocky.
FINN: You see, even though I'm the star quarterback of this school, I still have BODY ISSUES.
SAM: My abs are so firm you can grate cheese on them!
FINN: Yep, I'm really…insecure…and stuff…
SAM: Oops, I'm contractually obligated to be shirtless at least twice more in this episode. [disrobes]
FINN: I give up. This is patently ridiculous. I'm a twenty-eight-year-old man with a perfectly fine six pack that you will see when I walk down the hallway in my underwear about twenty minutes from now.
SCENE 5: A bunch of adults hanging around a high school, because that's not creepy at all.
SUE: Let me help you, Will. Because if there's one thing Sue Sylvester loves to do, it's helping others. Especially you.
WILL: Wait, I can't remember, are we friends now?
SUE: Probably not.
WILL: Well, in that case…okay!
SCENE 6: Lonely, abandoned Spanish classroom
WILL: Oh, look at this quaint room! It looks like someone might have taught Spanish here long, long ago…[Enter EMMA.] Oh, Emma, there you are—I wanted to tell you that I am just now realizing that Rocky Horror is SUPER age-inappropriate for our cast to perform.
EMMA: How is it age-inappropriate? Aren't they all like 24?
WILL: Never mind. Basically, I want to make this show more appropriate by having *adults* perform the most sexually suggestive parts along with the high schoolers.
EMMA: Because your "Toxic" performance two weeks ago wasn't enough to shatter any illusions anyone may be clinging to about your moral fitness to be a high school teacher?
WILL: Basically.
EMMA: Oh, that totally makes sense. So I should probably…uhh…let you trick me into giving you a lap dance now? Right?
WILL: Yep!
[She TOUCHA TOUCHES him. It is UNCOMFORTABLE.]
SCENE 7: Rehearsal. Auditorium. Totally finished set.
TECHIE: Wow, guys, great job finishing this set in less than 24 hours! All I have to do is put the laaaast block in this wall…aaand….
[STAMOS crashes through the wall on a motorcycle made of FIRE, crushing the TECHIE.]
OTHER ASIAN: Ooh, by the way, I can't play Frank-N-Furter anymore. My
agent parents won't let me.
MERCEDES: No problem! I'll do it. I've always wanted a lead role…plus, I'm really going to
oversing it make it modern.
WILL: Okay, dress rehearsal, GO!
MERCEDES: I'm just a sweet transvestite! From traaaaaaaansex—
FOX EXECS: Whoa whoa whoa! You can't say that on TV! Try "sensational" Transylvania instead.
MERCEDES: Um, let me get this straight—I can say "transvestite" but I can't say "transsexual"?
FOX EXECS: Exactly. CONTINUE.
ENTIRE CAST: [Riffs. Belts. Riffs some more.]
KURT: Am I seriously the only one who understands the style of this musical? It's called TALK-SINGING, guys! You know, like the opposite of autotuned riffs?
EVERYONE ELSE: Uhhh….nope.
WILL: Alright, kiddos, I've realized that this was an inappropriate experiment and we're not actually going to perform the show…
[TECHIES keel over with frustration and exhaustion.]
WILL:…for an audience! We're going to perform it for ourselves! [Turns to camera.] …and several million of our closest friends out there. Wink. Hello, America!
[Cue TIME WARP. And scene.]


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Climate Change Green Energy Radioactive Waste and Contamination
The Department of Energy has hit upon a new idea for nuclear waste clean-up: just leave it there and declare the area a wildlife preserve. The animals won't complain.
Allied 'surgical strikes' in Kosovo in 1999 created environmental hotspots yet to cleaned up; the same might happen in Afghanistan.
It's time for the United States to show as much commitment in the battle against global warming as it does in the "war on terror."
The current uproar
over the posture of the Bush Administration on global warming and,
most recently, on power-plant emissions vividly illustrates the
political hypocrisy and opportunism imbuing debates on environmental
issues. Take first global warming. The charge that the current phase
of global warming can be attributed to greenhouse gases generated by
humans and their livestock is an article of faith among liberals as
sturdy as is missile defense among the conservative crowd. The
Democrats have seized on the issue of global warming as indicative of
President Bush's willful refusal to confront a global crisis that
properly agitates all of America's major allies. Almost daily, the
major green groups reap rich political capital (and donations) on the
Yet the so-called anthropogenic origin of global
warming remains entirely nonproven. Back in the spring of this year,
even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which now has a
huge stake in arguing the "caused by humans" thesis, admitted in its
summary that there could be a one-in-three chance its multitude of
experts are wrong. A subsequent report, issued under the auspices of
the National Academy of Sciences, is ambivalent to the point of
absurdity. An initial paragraph boldly asserting the caused-by-humans
line is confounded a few pages later by far more cautious paragraphs
admitting that the thesis is speculative and that major uncertainty
rules on the role played in climate equations by water vapor and
It's nothing new to say the earth is getting
warmer. I myself think it is, and has been for a long, long time. On
my shelf is an excellent volume put out in 1941 by the Department of
Agriculture called Climate and Man, which contains a chapter
acknowledging "global warming" (that same phrase) and hailing it as a
benign trend that will return the earth to the normalcy in climate it
enjoyed several hundred thousand years ago.
Anything more
than a glance at the computer models favored by the caused-by-humans
crowd will show that the role of carbon dioxide is grotesquely
exaggerated. Indeed, the models are incapable of handling the role of
the prime greenhouse gas, water vapor (clouds, etc), which accounts
for twenty-five to thirty times as much heat absorption as carbon
Similarly, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change admits to a "very low" level of scientific understanding on an
"aerosol indirect effect" that the panel acknowledges is cooling the
climate system at a hefty rate (aerosols are particles so fine they
float in air).
In a particularly elegant paper published in
May in Chemical Innovation, journal of the American Chemical
Society, Professor Robert Essenhigh of Ohio State reminds us that for
the past 850,000 years, global temperature and carbon dioxide have
been moving up and down in lockstep. Since 849,700 of these years
were ones preceding any possible human effect on carbon dioxide, this
raises the question of whether global warming caused swings in carbon
dioxide or vice versa. Essenhigh argues convincingly that the former
is the case. As global temperatures warm, a huge reservoir of carbon
dioxide absorbed in the oceans is released into the atmosphere.
Clearly, this is a much more potent input than the relatively puny
human contribution to global carbon dioxide. Thus natural warming is
driving the raised level of carbon dioxide, and not the other way
But science can barely squeeze in the door with a
serious debate about what is prompting global warming. Instead, the
Europeans, the greens and the Democrats eagerly seize on the issue as
a club with which to beat President Bush and kindred targets of
Now take the latest brouhaha over emissions
from coal-fired plants. The industry wants what is coyly called
"flexibility" in emissions standards. EPA chief Christine Whitman is
talking about "voluntary incentives" and market-based pollution
credits as the proper way to go. Aware of the political pitfalls, the
Bush Administration has recently been saying that it is not quite
ready to issue new rules.
Now, there's no uncertainty about
the effects of the stuff that comes out of a power-plant chimney.
These heavy metals and fine particles kill people or make them sick.
There are also cleaning devices, some of them expensive, that can
remove these toxic substances. Ever since the 1970s the energy
industry has fought mandatory imposition of such cleaners. If Bush
and Whitman enforce this flexibility they will be condemning people
to death, as have previous foot-dragging administrations, Democratic
as well as Republican.
Both political parties have danced
to the industry's tunes. It was with the propagandizing of Stephen
Breyer (now on the Supreme Court, then a top aide to Senator Ted
Kennedy) that the trend toward pollution credits began. And after the
glorious regulatory laxity of the Reagan/Bush years, the industry was
not seriously discommoded in Clinton Time. Ask the inhabitants of
West Virginia and Tennessee whether they think the coal industry lost
clout in those years.
The sad truth of the matter is that
many "big picture" environmental theses, such as human-caused global
warming, afford marvelously inviting ways of avoiding specific and
mostly difficult political decisions. You can bellow for "global
responsibility" without seriously offending powerful corporate
interests, some of which, for reasons material, cynical or both, now
have a big stake (the nuclear industry, for example) in promoting the
caused-by-humans thesis. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill loves it,
and so does the aluminum industry, in which he has been a prime
player. On the other side we can soon expect to hear that powerful
Democrat, Senator Robert Byrd, arguing that the coal industry is in
the vanguard of the war on global warming, because the more you shade
the earth, perhaps the more rain you cause. So burn dirty coal and
protect the earth by cooling it.
The logic of the
caused-by-humans models installs the coal industry as the savior of
"global warming"--you want to live by a computer model that does
A Democratic Congressman relates what happened when a large California city rebelled against privatization of its electricity.
Mexico's Zapatista community is protesting the commercial exploitation of the country's ecological riches.
Forget Three Mile Island! The buzzword now is "environmentally preferable."
The potential domestic consequences of the Administration's national energy policy--opening up protected areas to drilling, increasing greenhouse gas emissions, building more nuclear reactors--have galvanized environmentalists, but its international ramifications, which have received scant comment in the press, give equal cause for alarm. Closer scrutiny of the National Energy Policy Report, released in May, reveals that the White House expects to obtain most of the additional oil and natural gas the United States will need in the years ahead from foreign rather than domestic sources. As the report makes clear, this will entail greater political and military intervention abroad.
According to the report, US consumption of oil is expected to rise from 19.5 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2000 to 25.8 million in 2020, an increase of 32 percent. At the same time, domestic oil production is expected to remain more or less flat, at about 9 million bpd--meaning that total imports will have to rise by 61 percent, from 10 to 16.5 million bpd.
In the report's final chapter, the Administration spells out how America will achieve these increased oil imports. It articulates an aggressive, two-pronged strategy for gaining access to key overseas supplies of petroleum: first, pressuring foreign governments to open up their energy sectors to significant investment by US energy firms, and second, insuring political stability in producing countries so that the US companies can safely operate in them.
In particular the report calls on the government "to continue supporting American energy firms competing in markets abroad," "to level the playing field for U.S. companies overseas" and "to reduce barriers to trade and investment." To overcome these barriers in Latin America, the secretaries of State and Commerce are directed to take steps "to improve the energy investment climate for the growing level of energy investment flows between the United States and each of these countries," especially in Brazil and Venezuela, which historically have resisted foreign involvement in their petroleum industries.
Other such directives are aimed at increasing the involvement of US energy firms in the petroleum industries of Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and the Persian Gulf countries. The State and Commerce departments are expected to use economic and political pressure to remove impediments to investment by foreign firms, which could provoke strong opposition in these countries.
But it is not only State and Commerce that will carry out this policy. The report makes clear that the procurement of sufficient energy for future US requirements is a matter of "national security," and it highlights a number of areas where this effort is likely to require support from the US military. One of these is Colombia, now in the throes of a brutal civil war. Because Colombia's oil fields and pipelines are located in areas often attacked by guerrillas, any increase in production there would require intensified counterguerrilla operations by the Colombian military and its US allies, though this is not mentioned in the energy report.
Similarly, the report calls for increased energy production in the Caspian Sea basin, where the Administration seeks to accelerate the construction of an oil pipeline from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey. Because these countries are suffering from internal unrest and violence, any such effort will mean stepped-up arms deliveries and the dispatch of US military advisers.
Even more worrisome are the implications of increased US dependence on the oil supplies of the Persian Gulf. As the report notes, the Gulf is the only area with sufficient petroleum reserves to satisfy expanding American demand over the long term. Given the instabilities in the region, a permanent US military presence there will be necessary, along with intervention in local conflicts.
The basic thrust of the Bush energy policy is clear: To acquire an ever-enlarging supply of imported oil, Washington will have to step up its meddling in the internal affairs of numerous countries around the world, many of which are deeply divided along political, ethnic and religious lines. The accompanying risk of involvement in foreign wars will grow proportionally.
Opposition has already been voiced to oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and to the construction of new nuclear power plants. Now it must be joined by vociferous protest against White House plans to funnel more and more of the world's oil to the United States, which will only lead to increased anti-Americanism overseas and endless energy wars.
For years, environmental advocates in and out of government have labored to construct a connecting arch between opposing interests that could lead to the first real legislative action on global warming. Last year the elements for a breakthrough deal seemed in place. Both major presidential nominees said they were on board. Then George W. Bush came into office and removed the keystone from the arch.
The keystone is the bundle of federal lawsuits that the Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department have filed against electric utility polluters, plus the active investigations of a hundred or more other power plants and refineries for similar gross violations. The President has ordered a "review" of these legal actions--in effect freezing enforcement and perhaps halting it entirely. Without the threat of these lawsuits, electric utilities have no incentive to accept new federal regulation of their carbon dioxide emissions--a crucial first step in the long-delayed imperative to reduce global warming.
Bush's action may sound like inside-the-Beltway intrigue--and it is--but the consequences could be momentous if not challenged by a public outcry. His action should also inspire a careful Congressional investigation. Who exactly put the fix in at the White House? The defendants, appears to be the answer, joined by old reliables like ExxonMobil. The companies threatened by the EPA's multibillion-dollar lawsuits--coal, oil and the big-time scofflaws in electricity generation--evidently went through a back door labeled Rove-Cheney Office of Political Environmentalism. Their achievement illustrates another bipartisan scandal--our torturously slow-acting and incomplete environmental laws. The government is, in fact, still struggling to get this crowd to comply with clean-air standards put in place thirty years ago.
To appreciate the contradictions, start with the Clean Air Act of 1970, which grandfathered in, as exempt from the new pollution standards, hundreds of outmoded power plants. Regarded at the time as necessary for passage of the act, this trade-off allowed the plants to keep operating--but not to expand their output--on the assumption that they would gradually be phased out. Instead, more than 300 of the grandfathered power plants are still going and produce more than half the country's electricity, as well as the bulk of its mercury, nitrogen and sulfur air pollution (electric utilities are also the largest source of carbon dioxide pollution). And, in defiance of the law, a lot of the exempted plants expanded. Those violations, after decades of regulatory debate and failed persuasion, led to the first batch of EPA lawsuits filed against seven companies in 1999, with many more promised. They involve serious lawbreaking and huge liabilities--and potentially expose companies to public-health damage suits as well.
Several of the more enlightened companies began looking for a deal: In exchange for relief from the lawsuits, they'd accept a new regulatory law curbingtheir pollution. That's when enviro groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) put global warming on the table too. If Congress enacted legislation covering the other three pollutants, it made sense to include carbon dioxide, never before subject to regulatory curbs. Some utility executives, recognizing its inevitability, accepted the trade-off. Why modernize plants for the three established pollutants, then have to come back to retrofit for carbon emissions? That promising confluence of interests inspired the four-pollutant legislation now pending in Congress.
But the Bushies are proceeding to let industry off the hook. First, Bush canceled his campaign promise to support mandatory carbon dioxide reductions (his policies will likely be hammered at the United Nations conference on global warming in Bonn this month). Then Dick Cheney's secretive energy task force proposed the "review," virtually suspending compliance agreements that some companies had already negotiated with the EPA. The NRDC has identified the National Coal Council, a supposedly nonpolitical federal advisory committee, as a central meeting place where defendant firms and their lawyers collaborate with coal and oil reps on devising the counterattack. Lois Schiffer, head of the Justice Department's environmental enforcement under Clinton, told the Wall Street Journal: "It's sort of like going to the White House to get your parking tickets fixed."
White House tampering with law enforcement on behalf of accused lawbreakers who are the President's patrons ought to be treated as a big deal, even in scandal-jaded Washington. Senate Democrats do not need to engage in bipartisan niceties on this-- they must make a full-throated commitment to legislate and to make global warming a decisive election issue for 2002 and especially 2004, if Bush persists in pandering to the most retrograde industrial interests. Democrats, quite by accident, have a running start here. The new chairman of the Senate environment committee--former Republican Jim Jeffords--is the co-sponsor of the four-pollutant legislation (with Democrat Joe Lieberman). If Jeffords couldn't rally his old party to the cause of global warming, maybe he can convince his new friends on the other side of the aisle to take it seriously.
Act I
We're on the edge of the twentieth century and Mayor James Phelan of San Francisco concludes that without abundant water and electrical power San Francisco is stymied. He fixes his thirsty gaze upon Hetch-Hetchy 200 miles east, a U-shaped glacial valley in the Sierras, flat-floored and hemmed in by 2,500-foot granite cliffs. Through it flow the abundant waters of the Tuolumne River. Problem: Hetch-Hetchy lies within the bounds of Yosemite National Park, and conservationists led by John Muir vow a fight to the death to save the valley.
After an epic struggle Congress passes the Raker Act in 1913, which OKs the construction of a dam that will inundate Hetch-Hetchy. Muir dies the following year. Representative John Raker, in whose district Yosemite lies, is a progressive, a profound believer in public power. Under the terms of his act the Feds will waive Hetch-Hetchy's protected status to San Francisco. The dam must be used not only to store water but also to generate electric power. This power must be sold directly to the citizens of San Francisco through a municipal power agency at the cheapest possible rates. Publicly owned water and electric energy will free the city from what another progressive Congressman calls "the thralldom...of a remorseless private monopoly." If San Francisco does not honor the terms of the Raker Act, it will lose the federal waiver.
Act II
By the early 1920s San Francisco is watering itself with the Tuolumne, and it has built a powerhouse at Moccasin Creek to use the Tuolumne's pent-up power. It buys hundreds of miles of copper wire to run that power into the city. Pending completion of its own power lines, it agrees to sell the hydro-power to a rapidly growing utility company called Pacific Gas & Electric, which will use its grid to carry the power to San Francisco, at which point PG&E will sell the power back to the citizenry at an outrageous markup.
The camel's nose is under the tent, and there it stays. In the Roosevelt era Interior Secretary Harold Ickes fights a tenacious struggle to force San Francisco to abide by the terms of the Raker Act. PG&E's mayors, newspapers, public utility managers, city supervisors and legislators steadfastly thwart the bonds required to finance a municipally owned utility.
Years go by. The Raker Act is all but forgotten. PG&E rules supreme. In the mid-1960s a young muckraker called Bruce Brugmann comes to San Francisco. He's grown up in Rock Rapids, Iowa, a public-power town. He's gone to school in Nebraska--thanks to George Norris, a public-power state. He founds the Bay Guardian and by the late 1960s is deep into the PG&E wars. By now the utility is trying to build a nuclear power station at Bodega Bay. Joe Neilands and Charlie Smith, respectively a UC biochemist and an organizer, mount a successful battle against PG&E's plan. In the course of this campaign Neilands disinters the hidden history of the Raker Act and Brugmann publishes the story.
Act III
Let Brugmann carry our drama forward:
"What heated me up and got me increasingly angry over the years was that this was a structural scandal of epic proportions. PG&E had stolen hundreds of millions of dollars down the years. But it was verboten to discuss PG&E publicly. The phrase is, When PG&E spits, City Hall swims. The company had wired the city, put out thousands of dollars to various civic groups. It controlled the grand jury, and to a large extent the judiciary. Then the downtown boys managed to put in at-large elections in San Francisco, meaning candidates had to raise large sums. That slowed us down for a generation.
"Finally we got district elections again. That changed the rules of the game. Now we have a more progressive board of supervisors, beholden to constituents and their districts. Then we won a sunshine ordinance. Our coalition got the 24,000 signatures last year. We dealt with each and every condition the city attorney imposed. Then, in the first district elections in years, our slate won, so we suddenly have a progressive 9-to-2 majority. At the Guardian we tied down every supe to a pledge to put a municipal utility district on the ballot and to support MUD. We finally have a pro-public power and anti-PG&E majority. Of course, we still have to win the election. PG&E is lobbying behind the scenes, putting millions into the fight, even though it's bankrupt. But for the first time in our memory nobody is running on a pro-PG&E platform."
Act III is unfinished at this time, but if ever there was a favorable moment, it's surely now. When PG&E successfully pushed deregulation through the California legislature in the mid-1990s it surely patted itself on the back for a master stroke. The public would pick up the tab for the company's vast losses in nuclear power. Nationally, the Clinton Administration was ushering in a whole new era of energy deregulation. Senator Dianne Feinstein was at PG&E's beck and call. The public-power crowd was hemmed in, and "green" outfits like the Environmental Defense Fund and Natural Resources Defense Council were actually in the vanguard of the dereg movement.
Now we have California State Attorney General Bill Lockyer pushing a criminal investigation into the conspiracy to hike energy prices. Among the big questions: Is PG&E a shark that got chewed by bigger sharks from Houston, like Enron, or did the utility simply shuffle its money elsewhere on the Monopoly board and then declare bankruptcy? Almost a century after Raker sought to write public power into the history of San Francisco, the tide may be turning, and we have long-range populist campaigners like Brugmann and his Bay Guardian to thank for it.


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BiographyThe duo of super-producer Mannie Fresh and Cash Money co-founder Bryon "Baby" Williams, the Big Tymers first appeared on wax doing the intro for B.G.'s It's All On U Vol. 2 in 1997. Since then the two have been behind the scenes of some of the hottest careers in Southern hip hop, namely Juvenile, B.G., and the Hot Boy$. In '98 they released their debut album How U Luv That, and returned in 2G with I Got That Work. Like their Cash Money brethren, most of their songs revolve around staying iced-out and living lavish, as evidenced by their single "Get Your Roll On."
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I wonder the same thing myself sometimes...
- -Some garage attendant just gave me a kiss told me be missed me and that I should stop by and talk to him more cause he misses me and he has no family
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The B&B is located in the heart of Brussels only 150 meters away from the prestigious Avenue Louise and in the trendy Chatelain district. You can enjoy the stylish shopping area and the antique shops, but there are also lots of cafes and restaurants to visit.
The European headquarters and the international south-station are just minutes away. The historical city center, the most important theaters and museums are located nearby.
This is the perfect location from which you can explore Brussels and everything it has to offer!
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I had a visit last week from the NHS regarding the PHB pilot, it was really just a baseline assessment, they will come back again in six months to see if anything has changed, hopefully this means I will be getting my budget soon.
The man from the NHS filled out a pretty standard . . . → Read More: Gloucestershire Personal Health Budget Pilot – Post 2


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Mediterranean Portobello BurgerFrom: EatingWell
This mushroom sandwich comes topped with a luscious Greek-style salad. Make it a meal: Serve with cucumber spears and a glass of Firestone Gewurztraminer.
Servings: 4 servings
Prep: 30 mins
Total: 30 mins
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
4 portobello mushroom caps, stems and gills removed
4 large slices country-style sourdough bread, cut in half
1/2 cup sliced jarred roasted red peppers
1/2 cup chopped tomato
1/4 cup crumbled reduced-fat feta cheese
2 tablespoons chopped pitted Kalamata olives
1 tablespoon red-wine vinegar
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
2 cups loosely packed mixed baby salad greens
1. Preheat grill to medium-high.
2. Mash garlic and salt on a cutting board with the side of a knife until it's a smooth paste. Mix the paste with 1 tablespoon oil in a small dish. Lightly brush the oil mixture over portobellos and then on one side of each slice of bread.
3. Combine red peppers, tomato, feta, olives, vinegar, oregano and the remaining 1 tablespoon oil in a medium bowl.
4. Grill the mushroom caps until tender, about 4 minutes per side; grill the bread until crisp, about 1 minute per side.
5. Toss salad greens with the red pepper mixture. Place the grilled mushrooms top-side down on 4 half-slices of the bread. Top with the salad mixture and the remaining bread.
Nutrition Facts
Calories 301, Total Fat 11 g, Saturated Fat 2 g, Monounsaturated Fat 7 g, Cholesterol 2 mg, Sodium 795 mg, Carbohydrate 40 g, Fiber 4 g, Protein 10 g, Potassium 691 mg. Daily Values: Vitamin A 25%. Exchanges: Starch 2,Vegetable 2,Fat 2.
Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet
Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet


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Sunnyvale, Calif., has enacted an ordinance that limits the number of payday lending installations allowed in the city. The new law allows for six payday establishments, although a grandfather clause permits the eight existing businesses to remain open.
Mayor Tony Spitaleri considers the restriction the first step in addressing the larger problem, which will persist as long as banks keep up barriers that prevent many low-income customers from opening checking and savings accounts. He pointed out that payday lenders depend on that gap in the marketplace, saying that many consumers borrow payday loans out of desperation. Spitaleri recommended that the city council consider policies to eliminate consumer demand for payday loans. The Sunnyvale law, the mayor noted, was developed due to complaints about high interest rates charged by payday lenders that can trap borrowers in a cycle of borrowing and repayment.