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Volume 47, Issue 9, 01 November 1967
Capture Collisions between Ions and Polar Molecules47(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712359View Description Hide Description
The manner in which a permanent dipole in a molecule affects capture collisions of the molecule with ions is investigated. Analytical capture cross sections are considered, and three cases are distinguished. None of these is strictly applicable to real collisions, but they are useful in establishment of the general magnitudes of cross sections. The Langevin cross section is somewhat of a lower limit. A strict upper limit to the cross section is derived; it depends on the magnitude of the dipole moment. A quantum‐mechanical treatment at small relative velocity uses the effective potential of interaction determined by the Stark effect; cross sections for this case depend explicitly on the rotational energy of the polar molecule. Molecules which have a first‐order Stark effect have a term ε−1 in their cross sections, whereas the second‐order Stark effect only leads to the ε−1/2 term of the Langevin theory (ε is the relative translational energy).
Numerical cross sections are obtained by using a computer study of collisions. The classical equations of motion are solved. Spiraling collisions (predicted in the Langevin theory) are not obtained, but it is found to be possible to define ``capture'' adequately and to set up a procedure for calculation of capture cross sections. This procedure involves averaging initial conditions with proper weighting. The real molecule HCl has been used in the calculations, and the results are compared with experiment as far as possible. A hypothetical molecule with the same dipole moment and polarizability of HCl but with a moment of inertia 100 times larger is also considered.
Energy Bands in Cubic Boron Nitride47(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712360View Description Hide Description
Results of numerical calculations of the electronic band structure of cubic boron nitride are reported. The calculations have been carried out using the augmented‐plane‐wave method of Slater. A total of 20 points in the first Brillouin zone have been examined which, by symmetry, determine eigenvalues at 256 different points from which a density‐of‐states histogram and curve have been plotted. The general shape and configuration of the energy bands resemble those obtained in previous energy‐band calculations. It proved necessary to use the average potential between the spheres and the Madelung correction for ionicity as adjustable parameters in order to obtain a satisfactory band picture. The potential used is a modification of the carbon potential of Keown scaled according to a scheme introduced by Herman and Skillman.
Analysis of the Nucleation of Silver on Sodium Chloride47(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712361View Description Hide Description
The data of Walton, Rhodin, and Rollins for the nucleation rate of silver on sodium chloride is analyzed using classical nucleation theory. The difference between the activation energies for desorption and surface diffusion, ΔG des—ΔG sd, is found to be 0.3 eV, essentially independent of the value used for γ, the surface free energy of silver. The product γ3 f(θ), where f(θ) is the contact angle function, is found to be 1.24×109 erg3/cm6. With γ=1140 erg/cm2, f(θ) is 0.839 and the contact angle, θ, is 119 deg. Using values of 1100 to 1600 erg/cm2 for γ results in contact angles of 133 to 75 deg. Since a Pound plot of the data produces a straight line, it is concluded that Walton's data may be interpreted by the formalism of classical nucleation theory. The radius of the critical sized nucleus, r *, is 2 to 3 Å, typical of other nucleation data analyzed in this manner.
Mass Spectrometry at High Temperatures. XVIII. The Stabilities of the Mono‐ and Difluorides of Scandium and Yttrium47(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712362View Description Hide Description
Mono‐, di‐, and trifluorides of Sc and Y have been identified in the vapors over mixtures of the corresponding metals and CaF2 in Ta‐Knudsen cells at high temperatures. Equilibria among these molecules and Ca and CaF have been studied by a mass spectrometer and their dissociation energies have been determined.
Molecular Mechanism of Stimulated Raman Scattering47(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712363View Description Hide Description
The nature of the four‐photon molecular scattering process involved in stimulated Raman scattering is considered by means of collision theory. An accurate expression is obtained for the scattering amplitude which explicitly illustrates its partitioning into coupled Stokes and anti‐Stokes scattering processes. The dependence of the cross section for stimulated Raman scattering upon the lifetime of the excited vibrational state is derived. Such a dependence was assumed from phenomenological considerations by Bloembergen and Shen and is consistent with the observation that stimulated Raman scattering is observed only for vibrations having narrow linewidths. The lifetime dependence of the cross section is shown to be in agreement with the two‐step mechanism of stimulated Raman scattering involving subsequent Stokes and anti‐Stokes scattering processes, and contradictory to a single‐step mechanism proposed by Buckingham. The single‐step mechanism is shown to correspond to a physically unrealizable limit of the two‐step process.
Internal Rotation in Liquid 1‐Fluoro‐1,1,2,2‐Tetrachloroethane47(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712364View Description Hide Description
Fluorine and proton high‐resolution NMR lineshapes have been observed at 56.4 and 60 MHz, respectively, for a 50 mole % solution of 1‐fluoro‐1,1,2,2‐tetrachloroethane in carbon disulfide, between −120° and −14°C. Fluorine spin echoes were obtained at 25.27 MHz and protonspin echoes were obtained at 26.8 and 17.7 MHz. An iterative complete‐lineshape‐fitting computer program was used with the experimental lineshapes to obtain best‐fit exchange rates for interconversion of gauche and trans rotamers. A value of 18.9 ppm was found for the fluorine chemical shift from the low‐temperature high‐resolution spectrum and was used to fit the lineshapes at higher temperatures, as well as to fit the observed dependence of the fluorine relaxation rate on rf pulse spacing in the Carr—Purcell experiments.
Other parameters required in the analysis, i.e., the energy difference between trans and gauche rotamers and the proton‐fluorine coupling constants in each rotamer, were obtained from the temperature dependence of the proton spectrum under conditions of complete averaging (−90°−25°C). The values obtained for the coupling constants are in good agreement with an earlier determination by the same method but over a different temperature range. At −120°C the fluorine resonance consisted of a singlet and a doublet, with splittings in satisfactory agreement with the high‐temperature results. The protonspin echoes at −112°C are sensitive to the proton‐fluorine coupling constants, and can be calculated satisfactorily with coupling constants obtained from the high‐temperature proton lineshape.
Because of the large fluorine chemical shift, four orders of magnitude of the exchange rate were measurable. Exchange rates obtained from all four sets of data fall on the same, linear Arrhenius plot, with frequency factor (7.0±0.5)×1011 sec−1 and activation energy 7.85±0.05 kcal mole−1. The frequency factor is low compared with a value computed by assuming immediate deactivation from the eclipsed transition state, but agrees with a value calculated by assuming that the molecules undergo ``free'' internal rotation before deexcitation to any one of the stable rotamers.
Time‐of‐Flight Investigations of Electron Transport in Some Atomic and Molecular Gases47(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712365View Description Hide Description
The time‐of‐flight (TOF) method for the determination of electron‐diffusion coefficients D and drift velocities w described earlier could not be used to investigate a number of gases because a Gieger—Müller counter was used for an electron detector. A new experimental apparatus using differential pumping and an electron‐multiplier detector was developed to remove this restriction. Using this new apparatus, D and w have been measured for He, Ar, H2, N2, CO, CO2, CH4, and C2H4. Considerable divergence of D values from published values by the Townsend method have been obtained, indicating a fundamental difference in the methods.
Measurement of the Translational Energy of Ions with a Time‐of‐Flight Mass Spectrometer47(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712366View Description Hide Description
A mathematical analysis of peak shapes in a Bendix time‐of‐flight mass spectrometer shows that ions formed with excess translational energy exhibit considerable peak broadening. A method is developed by which this translational energy can be readily determined from the peak width. Experimental results are presented which confirm the validity of the theoretical calculations.
Appearance Potentials and Kinetic Energies of Ions from N2, CO, and NO47(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712367View Description Hide Description
A recently developed method has permitted the measurement of excess translational energy of ions formed in a time‐of‐flight mass spectrometer. The method, in conjunction with the RPD technique for determining appearance potentials, has been applied to the electron‐impact study of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and nitric oxide. A total of 31 different ionization processes have been observed and identified, several of which had not been previously reported in the literature.
Time—Correlation—Function Expressions for Linear and Nonlinear Transport Coefficients47(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712368View Description Hide Description
Construction of a statistical‐mechanical ensemble to represent a system known to be out of equilibrium is discussed. The consequences of the temperature, velocity, and chemical potential fields are formal time‐correlation‐function expressions for both linear‐ and higher‐order transport coefficients. Many different forms of correlation functions are equivalent, which permits choice of the most useful for a given purpose. Onsager‐type reciprocal relations appear to exist for only the linear coefficients.
Time‐Correlation‐Function Expressions for Nonlinear Chemical Rate Constants47(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712369View Description Hide Description
Construction of a statistical mechanical ensemble to represent a homogeneous system not in chemical equilibrium is discussed. The consequences of the chemical driving forces are obtained as formal time‐correlation‐function expressions for both linear‐ and higher‐order chemical‐reaction rate constants. Onsager‐type reciprocal relations appear to exist for only the linear coefficients. Implications on the validity of using thermodynamic potentials for nonequilibrium systems are discussed.
Excitation of Nitrogen Gas by Fission Fragments along the Entire Track47(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712370View Description Hide Description
Luminescence produced in nitrogen in small segments of the tracks of fission fragments was studied with a pulse technique. The amount of formation of the C 3π u state of nitrogen per unit distance, L *, was measured over the entire path length of the low‐mass fragment group as a function of track length. The energy loss per unit distance dE/dr can be approximated by L * over the entire fission fragment path length. The observance of light produced from the second positive group (C 3π u →B 3π g ) near the end of the track, despite a major change in the primary mode of energy deposition by the fission fragments, indicates that a more detailed theory of chemical production from the deposition of energy by a heavy charged particle needs to be formulated in the regime of nuclear elastic collisions which exists at the end of the particle's range.
Electronic Spectra and Coordination of Nickel Centers in Liquid Lithium Chloride—Potassium Chloride Mixtures47(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712371View Description Hide Description
The electronic absorption spectra (4–28 kK) of dilute solutions of NiCl2 in liquid LiCl–KCl mixtures were measured at representative solvent compositions and temperatures from pure LiCl to pure KCl and and from 363° to 1070°C. Phenomenologically the spectra respond to changes in temperature at high temperature and changes in solvent composition at low temperatures in ways that are quantitatively very regular. At intermediate temperatures the behavior is more intricate. The data agree well with the following model. Nickel is partitioned between two types of centers, labeled T and O, which are in equilibrium. The T/O concentration ratio increases with increasing temperature and KCl content in the solvent. At low temperatures the fraction of each kind of center varies linearly with the mole fraction of KCl. The O‐center concentration falls below the detection limit at 900°C in all solvents and in KCl at all temperatures. The coordination geometries of these centers are best described as being distributions about particular averages rather than as sharply defined arrangements. At low temperatures T centers have a distribution of coordination geometries that is narrow, composition invariant, and are clustered about a tetrahedral average. Their outer‐shell cations are mostly K+. At high temperatures the distribution broadens and in LiCl‐rich melts, Li+ ions invade their outer shells. The O centers are accurately studied only at rather low temperatures where they have a relatively broad coordination‐geometry distribution with an average distinctively different from tetrahedral. Their outer shells consist largely of Li+ ions.
Electronic Spectra and Coordination Geometry of Nickel Centers in Liquid Mixtures of Magnesium Chloride and Potassium Chloride47(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712372View Description Hide Description
The absorption spectra of nickel centers in MgCl2–KCl mixtures of various compositions were measured from about 5–28 kK at temperatures up to 1060°C. The observed behavior was qualitatively similar to that previously reported for nickel centers in liquid LiCl–KCl mixtures and, in a general way, fits the same model.
Effect of Melting on the Electronic Spectra of Cs3NiCl5 and CsNiCl347(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712373View Description Hide Description
A method is described for measuring the optical absorptionspectra of the crystalline and liquid phases of a transition‐metal salt close to the melting point. Supercooling the liquid permits measuring both phases at the same temperature. This technique was applied to Cs3NiCl5 (mp 547°C) and CsNiCl3 (mp 758°C). It was shown that when Cs3NiCl5 melts, the approximately tetrahedral arrangement of chlorides about nickel is affected only in minor ways, but when CsNiCl3 melts, the octahedral coordination geometry in the crystal is completely destroyed and replaced by a different distribution of geometries. The spectrum of molten CsNiCl3 and its temperature dependence is closely similar to that of nickel centers in molten KMgCl3 at high temperatures. The latter are believed to consist of a single broad distribution of geometries rather than two distinctly separate distributions. It was previously supposed that there are two distinctly different coordination geometries in molten CsNiCl3.
Sum Rule for Molecular Frequencies47(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712374View Description Hide Description
It is shown that the sum of the squares of the fundamental frequencies of a molecule does not depend explicitly upon molecular geometry. Using this sum it is demonstrated that a set of effective Cartesian force constants which are measures of the potential environment of atoms in a molecule can be calculated with little difficulty.
Line Shape and Collision Effects in the Microwave Wing of Far‐Infrared Rotational Lines47(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712375View Description Hide Description
The microwave absorption very far in the low‐frequency wing of the pure rotational spectra of HCl, DCl, and HBr has been measured in order to investigate the applicability of pressure‐broadening theory in the region many linewidths removed from the resonant frequencies. Data for mixtures of HCl and HBr with the foreign gases He, H2, Ar, N2, CH4, C2H6, CO, SF6, and CO2 are also reported. Experimental results are compared with the Van Vleck—Weisskopf equation, which is used to indicate an upper limit of the absorption. Data for the mixtures with He and H2 are in accord with this line shape. Data for the remaining mixtures and the pure gases are not in agreement, the observed absorption being from 2 to 8 times greater than predicted. These results suggest the presence of an additional absorption region which is centered at a lower frequency than the normal rotational spectrum and which may be attributed to interacting molecular pairs.
Microwave and Infrared Measurements on HCN and DCN: Observations on l‐Type Resonance Doublets47(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712376View Description Hide Description
Microwave measurements have been made on the direct doublet splittings (ΔJ=0 transitions) of the 0110, 0220, 0310, and 0330 levels of DCN and the 0110 and 0220 levels of HCN. The sensitivity of the Δ and φ level splittings to certain vibrational and rotational constants enables us to obtain new values for those constants. New infrared measurements are given for ν1, 3ν2 1, 4ν2 0—ν2 1, and 4ν2 2—ν2 1 of HCN.
Energy Transfer between Trivalent Rare‐Earth Ions in Inorganic Solids47(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712377View Description Hide Description
The purpose of the paper is to clarify the mechanism of excitation energy transfer between unlike trivalent rare‐earth ions in inorganic solids. We have measured the manner in which the intensities of the luminescences of Tb3+ (5 D 4→7 F 5) and Eu3+ (5 D 0→7 F 2) are quenched and the decay rates are made faster by the coexistence of other kinds of trivalent rare‐earth ions as a result of energy transfer. As the host material, calcium metaphosphate glass was used. The combination of Tb3+ donor and Nd3+ acceptor was studied most in detail. The results are discussed in terms of the resonance theory of energy transfer, and the experimental data are analyzed using the numerical calculations of the theory recently made by Inokuti and Hirayama. The overlap integrals of donor emission spectra with acceptor absorption spectra were estimated from the data of spectral measurements. Among the resonance mechanisms due to various electrostatic multipole interactions, the dipole—quadrupole interaction gave the best fit between theory and experiment. The transfer due to the exchange interaction was inferred not to be operative. It has been finally concluded that the mechanism of the energy transfer between unlike trivalent rare‐earth ions in inorganic solids is predominantly governed by the dipole—quadrupole interaction.
Difference Bands in the Raman Spectrum of Carbon Tetrachloride47(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1712378View Description Hide Description
The difference bands of carbon tetrachloride are analyzed and it is found that, in the Raman spectrum at room temperature, the complex at 775 K is essentially all difference bands. This band has been previously assigned as the fundamental ν3, ν1+ν4 with a spacing of 28 K; the fundamental is present in the complex but its spacing is 15 K and it is weak. The difference bands of titanium tetrachloride are mentioned briefly.


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Skip to comments.Food fight at Los Altos High: District hopes to outlaw popular catering truck
Posted on 10/30/2007 7:56:37 AM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative
Hungry Los Altos High School students who prefer the tasty offerings at a catering truck just off campus may have to settle for cafeteria food if school administrators have their way.
The truck began stopping at the school earlier in the year, and immediately attracted a large following, including some faculty members who like the varied menu offered by Julie Nguyen, the truck's owner.
But district officials are evidently concerned that the cafeteria is losing popularity, and that students may be ignoring the school's healthier offerings. So they've asked the Los Altos City Council to ban the truck from the school's neighborhood.
That would certainly disappoint the many students who lined up on Tuesday with dollars in hand to order cheese steak burritos, fries and sodas from Nguyen's truck, parked on Jardin Avenue next to the school.
Students say the food they get from the truck is better than that offered by the school's cafeteria, which they say is not very appealing. (The cafeteria offered egg rolls, chow mein and milk on Tuesday.) Nguyen, 46 and a Vietnamese immigrant, offers fruit salads, water, Polish sausages, egg salads and BLTs.
"This is real food," said ninth grader Carlos Chavez.
"The cafeteria doesn't have any of this stuff -- burgers and hot dogs," said Roger Peterson, a tenth grader.
The students said they didn't know high school officials were trying to prevent Nguyen from selling her food there.
Last April the high school district proposed to the Los Altos City Council that it pass a "mobile food vendor ordinance," which would ban food-catering trucks from parking within 500 feet of school premises and limit their parking time to 10 minutes, Superintendent Barry Groves said. The council held its regular meeting Tuesday night but took no action on the issue.
The district has a "healthy foods initiative," and students are buying food through Nguyen that the school wouldn't serve, Groves said. It's also a litter problem, he added.
"It does create some issues in terms of supervision and garbage for us," Principal Wynne Satterwhite said, as she monitored students eating near the truck on Tuesday. "When we have 100 kids down here, it means we have to pull one of our campus security persons here to make sure the kids are behaving," she said.
When asked why they buy food from the "taco truck," students rattled off a laundry list of complaints about the cafeteria food.
"It's always the same thing," said tenth grader Alex Amaya.
"It has no flavor," said Pressy Mejia, also a tenth grader.
"No one likes the food in there," said Jenny Montalvo, an eleventh grader. "It's kinda crappy."
Los Altos City Council member Ron Packard, who visited the site Tuesday to talk to students, also bought a burrito.
"As far as I can tell no one has gotten sick from the food," Packard said. While the council is leaning towards banning the truck, he said, if students showed up at a council meeting to talk about how much they enjoyed its food, the council would keep an open mind.
Nguyen said she paid about $120 to purchase a permit from the city to sell food to students. She hired one cook, and began selling the food about eight months ago. She also sells to high school students in Menlo Park, and on a good day, she said, she can make more than $500.
Nguyen also did not know Los Altos school officials were trying to ban her truck.
"I just stop here for the children," she said. "They say good food. They like my food." She used to park down the street and students would follow her down the street to eat, she said.
"If I had a contract with them then I can go in there with them all day," Nguyen added, pointing towards the school. "Maybe better."
A couple teachers, staff and administrators also visited Nguyen's catering truck and bought food.
"It works out real good. The kids just like it with all the diversity. The price is better and the food is better than the cafeteria," said one employee of the high school who did not want to give his name.
Typical government response: instead of improving its food so that the kids will want to eat in the cafeteria, the school district wants to outlaw the competition.
It works out real good. The kids just like it with all the diversity.
There's one kind of diversity the government schools think is bad.
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OUTSOURCE the feeding of these students....sheesh....sounds like a good idea to me....convert the cafeteria into classrooms.
Egg salads...ummmmm, my favorite. She's got my business.
The proposed ordinance likely will meet legal challenges which would waste resources; a much easier approach would be to lock down the school grounds at lunch time.
It will only work if Nguyen give them a cut.
Money. That's the real issue.
"There's one kind of diversity the government schools think is bad."
Actually, there is one kind of diversity the government schools think is GOOD. Skin color. All other kinds are not really allowed, as far as I can tell.
Yup. It's amazing what institutional food can be when the parties are properly motivated.
My daughter's college is really proud of the cafeteria. And they should be. I've eaten there even when it's NOT parents' weekend, and it's astonishing how good (and healthy) the food is. The cafeteria at my old college in the 70s was so bad, nobody ate there but first semester freshmen. I'm not sure how they stayed in business, maybe the guys from the engineering college didn't notice what they were eating . . . .
School cafeteria "food" is a joke.
"Typical government response: instead of improving its food so that the kids will want to eat in the cafeteria, the school district wants to outlaw the competition."
Just wait until these morons run healthcare.
Skin color isn't really much of an issue in Los Altos, is it?
I would think the "diversity" of sexual orientation would be much more enforced.
I'd like to know what the cafeteria offers that really is so much more health conscience. It seems, at least from my child's lunch menu, that they still offer a lot of processed foods.
Ah, good point.
Just for speculation, I wonder how this would go if Julie Nguyen - likely a LEGAL immigrant since it's tough to swim from Vietnam - was instead Carlos Sanchez, an undocumented migrant from Merida.
Any different?
Just who does Nguyen think she is? A Vietnamese immigrant, coming to OUR country, seeing an unfilled niche, hiring people, working hard to fill an obvious need in her community. How dare she do things the old-fashion American way, in the face of official opposition? If allowed to get away with this affront, the next thing is additional employees, more trucks and future prosperity for all. Can't allow it, can they???
God Bless America. (or God HELP America)
Everyone knows...those signs stop crime, drugs, and guns.......
maybe they need to ban bringing food from home as well, so that the school can ensure that students are eating healthy... plus this way they can make sure nobody brings any of those illegal peanut butter sandwiches.
All about the money. "*Wah!!* She's taking our money from us." It sounds like her offerings are healthier, too. Probably fresher, as well.
I went to HS for one year at a nearby school (Awalt High). Back in those days, we had two(2) "student smoking areas" ON CAMPUS. I can tell you, there was a lot more than Marlboros getting smoked at lunchtime on those areas.
Or so I heard...
A lockdown would probably not fly either. Best alternative would be for the studentws and "poor immigrant" show up at the city council meeting and get the PC weenies head's spinning between:
1) Passing another law "for the children" and
2) Another arbitrary law impinging on the young people's freedom and a hard working immigrant just trying to make it.
Yep, PB&Js from home was what I and all my siblings ate all the way through graduation. We were given a little money for milk on the side. I was wondering myself if kids were still allowed to bring their own lunch to school.
School cafeteria food is always revolting . . . it's the law.
I remember one time when the football coaches threatened to stand the cafeteria manager upside down in a fifty five gallon drum of discarded "cheese surprise" if he ever served it again.
Regarding the schools' "healthy" menu, spend some time here: http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/10/junkfood-science-exclusive-big-one.html Biggest dietary study ever, and most people haven't heard about it because it didn't turn out the way it was supposed to.
Ever since Chieu Le founded Lee's Industrial Catering back in 1980, the local Vietnamese community has practicall owned the
roach coach, uh, catering truck business in this area. They (Chieu and his brother Henry) are superb businessmen, they found an under served market niche, and filled it with clean trucks, good food, friendly service, and a willingness to add any product the customers desired to their menus.
It's a great American success story.
That's what I am wondering. What's the difference between these kids bringing a sack lunch from home and buying a lunch from the truck? In both cases the students do not buy from the cafeteria.
Often cooked to order, from ingredients hand selected that morning. Even the stuff in the warmer was mostly cooked in transit from the last stop.
Compare that to government surplus cheese, butter, and only God knows (and no one else really wants to!) what else that has been quietly bubbling away in the cauldrons in the back of the school cafeteria since last Tuesday...
Does anyone remember the California school district that changed its menu to include 'healthy' foods like tofu, bean sprouts, etc. —and the kids left the school grounds to go to the local fast food operations?
I think the cafeteria operation went broke.
When hamburgers and fries are outlawed, only criminals will have hamburgers and fries.
The Principal of my Alma Mater wouldn't bother with this foolishness. The school is in Malden Square. What would they do, have the city shut the restaurants at lunchtime?
Sure, like the menu my grandkids get at lunch.... pizza, corn and french fries, all at the same meal. All just hunkey dorey according to the government food police.
Yes, and put the students in handcuffs and leg chains to move them from class to class to make sure none escape. A double fence around the exercise yard would be needed, as well. That should be enough to eradicate this market-based solution.
Heck, the taco shop near my high school used to get a line out the door when we went to lunch. So did my buddy's house nearby, his dad had a keg-erator.
yea and as far as the leftists are concerned, white isn't a color, meaning the celebration of "diversity" is the celebration of everything except "white". If Hillary takes over, it will be truly a gov't of the "diverse", for the "diverse" and by the "diverse". Whitey is just an "obligor".
Here's one for your nanny state ping list.
That's phase 3.
Wow, I thought the high school I attended was the only one that had a smoking area for students. lol We also had a Student Lounge where we could buy pop and candy bars for lunch. *gasp* I know! It's a wonder I survived to tell the horrific tale! :O
I am sooo sick of hearing the school lunch BS. The lunch menu when I was in school would have never been approved today, yet there were very few overweight kids. That seems to indicate another cause for the number of overweight kids today.
Many times, the parents screeching the loudest about forcing schools to offer "healthy" food for lunch are the same parents throwing fast food at their kids nearly every evening for dinner and shrugging their shoulders because they can't seem to drag the little darling away from video games and TV. They want to place responsibility everywhere but directly upon their own shoulders.
Interesting link!
IMO the 'healthiest' eating is in the palm of your hand.
Hold up a fist and realize your stomach is only about the same size.
Doesn't take much to be satisfied.
Quality eating is determined more by smaller amounts of foods you actually like.
That's where I went to HS. Class of 19xx (I'm shy about my age.)
I never ate at school, as my folks lived a block away, so I can't comment on food quality. Plus, things change over the years.
I suspect the school needs the business to make up for the students that get free lunch and breakfast.
After I graduated from HS I was shocked to learn that you could eat pizza without corn on the side...
Try a mid-sixties Camp Pendleton Mess Hall - whew.
On 'liver' day, which was about once a week, the E-club did a huge business selling burgers and beer.
Not only would it disapoint students but it would be unconstitutional to ban this truck from a neighborhood, banning from school property I can barely tolerate but banning from the school neighborhood is going way beyond the pale. If the parents of these kids don't stand up and put a stop to this they are crazy.
If there's one thing public schools can't stand, it's competition.
Nice find. Why am I not surprised?
I remember in school, seeing what they called "tamale pie" and it looked like all the leftovers from the previous week, covered with tamales. I bet at least a hundred kids were barfing just from looking at it. That was the last time I even set foot into a school cafeteria. To this day, I don't like them — even the good ones like K & S.
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There is little love lost between restoration expert Bob Yapp, president of Preservation Industries Inc., and the modern manufactured double pane replacement window.
"When they're 12 to 15 years old," he said, "you'll see massive failure."
Yapp offered an alternative - repairing and restoring the existing windows - during a workshop Friday hosted by the Fort Dodge Historical Preservation Commission at the Iowa Central Community College East Campus.
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Bob Yapp, restoration expert, talks about how to fix up older windows and why doing it is better than replacing them during a presentation Friday afternoon at Iowa Central Community College's East Campus. The workshop was hosted by the Fort Dodge Historic Preservation Commission.
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Beth Harms, of Algona, listens as Bob Yapp talks about repairing older windows.
Yapp's own experience with restoration work goes back to his high school days. He purchased a home with a friend on a contract for deed and $2,000 down. The two restored the home, including the original windows, floors and siding. Materials such as the wood shake shingles that were rotted were replaced with like material, wood shingles.
The pair sold the home for $80,000 after their work was done - with one small problem that reared its head at the bank office - neither was old enough to sign a deed so they were sent to get their parents.
"We never told our parents we bought the house, " Yapp said.
His father embraced the project.
"What a fine young capitalist you are," Yapp recalled him saying.
The pair, lacking funds to replace or hire contractors, unintentionally stumbled into preservation.
"What we did was pure unadulterated preservation," he said, "We saved all the original material."
He said that windows are, in a worst case scenario, responsible for 10 percent of the energy used in a home. He said that window manufacturers are no longer allowed to make higher claims. He said it would be considered fraud.
Yapp said that once fixed, the old is better than the new.
"Old windows are more efficient than new replacement windows, " he said.
They also last longer.
"It's been in use for 100 years, it will be in use for another 100."
The process he uses to restore old windows involves installing a metal guide along the side of the frame, a slot is then routered into the side of the sash. The window will then slide up and down on the metal track.
The bottom of the window frame gets a hollow rubber tube gasket. Another gasket is installed to help seal between the bottom and top frames.
In addition, the weight and pulley system hidden inside the frame is restored with new rope. He said nylon is out, cotton or hemp rope are much better.
Before the rest of the work, the old paint and caulking is removed. He uses a tool called a Speed Heater to soften the paint, then several different types of scrapers and chisels to remove the softened residue.
The heating system doesn't get the paint hot enough to release any lead in the old finish like a heat gun would.
"The lead stays encapsulated," he said.
If a homeowner does the work themselves, it's not an expensive process.
"It's less than $30 for a small window," he said of the material costs.
The process works, he said. He's had his window restoration process tested against modern windows. The U value, a measure of how much energy is transmitted through a one-square-foot area in one hour, is about .55 for a modern window. His window, .35 to .40.
Yapp has little use for modern-built homes. He said they are often too airtight, contain construction materials that contain PVC, a plastic he said is one of the most toxic in use, and simply don't last very long.
"The functional and economic life expectancy of a new home is 27.3 years," he said. "An older home, restored, in the core of a city has an expectancy of 87.3 years."
For many of the participants in the workshop, today will offer them a chance to try Yapp's restoration techniques on the windows in the McQuillen Building located at 815 Central Ave.
He calls his workshop sessions "bootcamp."
"We're going to take out an old 1914 window," he said. "By noon, we will have them so they can be opened with one finger."


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The 6-foot-7, 275-pound Johnson played split tackle for Thomasville this year, and Hankins said he is projected as a tackle in college as well.
"Antwan is an outstanding football player," Hankins said. "I really think his best years are coming. He is a great kid. He's very smart and has good academics."
Hankins said Johnson had offers from most of the smaller colleges in Alabama, including Troy, Alabama State and Alabama A&M.
"He has great length and long arms," Hankins said. "I can see him being tough to get around in college."
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Riccardo Pavoni (University of Siena – Faculty of Law) has posted "The American Anomaly: On the ICJ's Misuse of United States Practice in Jurisdictional Immunities of the State", Italian Yearbook of International Law, Volume XXI, Martinus Nijhoff 2012. The abstract reads:
The ICJ's treatment of US practice translates into one of the most controversial aspects of the Jurisdictional Immunities judgment. The Court's approach was elusive and patchy. Certain key decisions by US courts in the field of sovereign immunity were patently neglected, while others were addressed in a misleading manner. This article examines the Court's citations and omissions relating to US practice, with respect to both the jus cogens and tort exception arguments advanced by Italy in defense of its Ferrini jurisprudence denying immunity when the defendant State is accused of egregious breaches of human rights. The article also enquires into the possible reasons at the root of the Court's inadequate assessment of US practice. It takes the view that the Court's dismissive attitude vis-à-vis the anomalous American experience casts doubt over the judgment's reliability and persuasiveness as an accurate reflection of the contemporary law of State immunity.
A copy of the paper may be downloaded via SSRN here.
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Rum Bum Repeats At Daytona
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Matt Plumb and the No. 13 RumBum.com BMW M3 team opened the Grand Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge season in victory lane for the second consecutive year Friday at Daytona Int'l Speedway.
Plumb combined with co-driver Nick Longhi to win the Grand Am 200 under caution ahead of the No. 15 Ford Racing/Multimatic Motorsports Ford Mustang Boss 302 co-driven by Scott Maxwell and Joe Foster.
Longhi started the race from the pole and led the opening nine laps before pitting under caution and turning over the controls to Plumb for the remainder of the event. Plumb led twice for 18 laps and staved off a hard-charging Maxwell over the closing laps before a full-course caution coming to the white flag preserved the victory.
Plumb won last year's race with Gian Bacardi as his co-driver in the first race for the Orlando, Fla., based team.
"We had a pretty high goal in matching last year's effort," Plumb said. "Last year, it was a new team and a new co-driver. This year, we had the benefit of my friend Nick here in the car, who obviously is a veteran of the series, so it put us in a very good position and we felt good going into the race."
It was the sixth CTSCC career victory for Plumb, who won three races last season. It was also the sixth victory for Longhi. It was also the third consecutive CTSCC victory for both drivers, who won the final two rounds of the 2010 season.
Foster and Maxwell were followed across the stripe by Paul Dalla Lana and Bill Auberlen in third place in the No. 96 Turner Motorsport BMW M3.
Just as the pole-winning car took the GS victory, the polesitting No. 171 APR/VW Driver Gear Volkswagen GTI for Ryan Ellis and Ian Baas won in Street Tuner.
It was the first career CTSCC victory for Ellis and the third for Baas, who also took the ST win in the 2010 finale at Miller. It was Baas's second Grand Am victory at Daytona as he was a GT-class winner in the 2006 Rolex 24 At Daytona.
"The last few laps were absolutely crazy," Baas said. "I was definitely driving a little bit in my mirrors waiting for some passing, but all this crazy stuff was happening in front of us and people were crashing."
Andy Lally and Nic Jonsson gave Kia its first CTSCC podium with a second-place run in the No. 10 Kia Motors America Kia Forte Koup, and John Capestro-Dubets and Gregory Liefooghe completed the ST top three in the No. 81 BimmerWorld Racing BMW 328i.


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Against abortion? Make contraception available
In "Rep. Smith's abortion statistic not 'well over,' but actually quite close" (March 18), Republican Chris Smith cited that the number of abortions total 54.5 million from 1973 through 2011, since the Supreme Court's decision in Roe vs. Wade, which made abortion legal. The article confirmed that an independent research group concluded that Rep. Smith's total was mostly correct. So what?
What these statistics confirm is that, other than for health reasons or rape and incest, abortion is part of the social fabric and is an alternative method of birth control. If Rep. Smith's intention is to support his Republican Party's backward agenda to completely eliminate affordable contraception for women under the guise of religious doctrine that the majority of the Western world does not adhere to, he will alienate women who represent a majority of the voting public.
Rep. Smith instead should be supporting Planned Parenthood or other means to educate the public and make women's contraceptives available and affordable as easily as male contraceptives are across drugstore counters. What is Rep. Smith's intention in pointing out the number of abortions? If he wants to regain our respect and votes, I suggest his statistics mean nothing without considering today's modern society. He should offer real solutions, not Republican rhetoric.
-- Claire Gabert,
East Windsor
Solar panels shouldn't cover arable land
The Times' article "Solar flares — Even the vaunted 'energy of the future' can have its detractors, especially when fields of glass replace fields of green" (March 18) fails to mention all the other reasons why people are against solar installations on farmland.
First, the proposed solar complex in Groveville is not a "farm." It's a massive construction of metal, glass, power cables and transformers spread over many acres that has nothing to do with tilling the soil or growing edible crops. Second, the argument isn't about solar energy itself. Solar is great. It's clean, renewable energy.
What we at Save Hamilton Open Space object to is where developers propose to locate it: on increasingly scarce productive farmland. We live in a small state with little undeveloped land left. Once land is developed, it's gone forever. Nor are we NIMBYS: Most of us do not live near these proposed sites. We recognize that local food and quality of life are important to all of us. Also, we have empathy for the small property owner whose house is located next to one of these monstrosities.
These projects remove large swaths of land from food production, which ultimately makes us all dependent on more expensive, imported and less secure food sources.
Worse still, in the case of the BKB Properties application in Hamilton, planned for the Rural Resource Conservation Zone, the applicants propose clear-cutting more than seven acres of mature forest to expand their proposed grid to 42,000 panels on 60-plus acres.
Solar power is better suited for developed areas closer to power needs, such as brownfields, landfills, parking lots, garages and the roofs of large buildings where zoning permits. It is not appropriate to open space such as productive farmland, forests or fields.
-- Edward Pfeiffer,
The writer is president of Save Hamilton Open Space.
Defend the rights the Constitution provides
With both sides in the debate over President Barack Obama's contraception mandate using the word "rights" in their arguments, I suggest we think about what sort of rights we value.
One side asserts the following "rights":
• The right of the government to force virtually all employers to provide contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs such as the "morning after" pill as part of their health-care coverage (unless the employer drops coverage and pays a penalty instead), even if the employer (which may be a religious organization) objects on moral or religious grounds;
• The right of the government to force employees to accept that coverage, even if the employee would prefer other health plan options or objects on moral or religious grounds.
The other side asserts the following right:
• The free exercise of religion.
Only one of these "rights" is in the Constitution. I suggest we defend it.
-- Joshua Kramer,
President has no control over gas prices
I write in response to the letter "Pipeline could have been conduit to lower prices" (March 11). Before the writer accuses the president of misconduct in rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline, it would be wiser to learn the facts.
Canadian tar sands are very heavy and cannot be pumped without being diluted with large amounts of highly toxic and volatile chemicals. Producing oil from tar sands is very expensive. A spill of this sludge can be disastrous. Just ask people in Michigan, where a spill that occurred more than two years ago is still not cleaned up. The oil-sand does not float. It sunk to the bottom of the river. The area still cannot be used.
We do not have a shortage of crude oil. Domestic production is the highest it has been in more than eight years. For the first time since 1949, we are exporting more oil than we are importing. High gas prices are not due to a lack of oil, including from tar sands.
Insufficient oil refinery capacity is driving up prices. Increased vehicle mileage standards and less driving has reduced domestic usage. Further, the oil companies have shut down 19 oil refineries in the last two years worldwide, including the Sunoco refinery outside of Philadelphia.
The president has no control over gas prices. These prices are also mostly determined by high usage in China and other developing countries, turmoil in the Middle East and Wall Street speculators. The Keystone pipeline will probably be built someday, after all the concerns over the environment and its location are resolved, but this has no effect on our current gas price.
-- Richard Koch,
Dump tax override in Lawrence
Lawrence Township taxpayers are going to be asked to override the 2 percent cap on tax increases with a 17 percent increase on April 17. The council says that if we do not approve it, valuable services we've come to expect will be eliminated, including trash pickup ("Lawrence residents on the horns of a dilemma: Pay for trash pickup or face a tax increase," March 22). In other words, say yes to a 17 percent increase or face the consequences.
Greg Puliti, a member of the council, said that Lawrence voters "are smart" and understand that this increase is necessary — decreasing revenues from property values are to blame and now we don't have enough funds. Really? I guess I should go to my supervisor and ask for a 17 percent raise now. Maybe the senior citizens in town should all go to the Social Security board and ask for a 17 percent raise in their benefits.
The question should be asked: Are we really taking a hard look at the budget and seeing what is appropriate?
When Lawrence residents vote, I hope they keep in mind that this is the same council that blocked the new hospital from building in the township.
In July 2011, Capital Health agreed to pay Hopewell Township $4 million in taxes for the building project that ended up being built there instead of in Lawrence. Hopewell is now building a $500,000 baseball field with the money from this agreement.
Please remember what you're voting for when going to the polls April 17. Approval would be a blank check for our council.
-- David E. Holland,
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What are the playing styles of the players in this year's Candidates' Tournament?
Well, they each may have their strengths and preferences, but really all today's top players are universal players.
But maybe I don't know enough about this set of players? Maybe someone else can write a few sentences about each?
Carlsen doesn't win a whole lot. But he never loses. It's uncanny. How can a human being be so infallible?
He doesn't take a whole lot of chances. But why should he? It is more interesting, watching his opponents go crazy, looking for some way to beat him.
He also doesn't study openings quite as deeply as others of his calibre. But his opening repetoire is not geared for sharpness, so he can get away with that. The later the game goes, the more dangerous Carlsen becomes. He is an endgame player.
Other than that, I do not really associate anyone else on the roster with a "style." These days, style is considered equivalent to weakness. (Your opponents recognize there's an aspect of your game your weak at, and try to exploit it.)
Most players, going back to Spassky and Fischer, try to avoid having one.
A lot of the players don't have clear styles. I would say that Gelfand is more a positional player though.
Gelfand is underrated. Ivanchuk can go wild at any time. Kramnik is only 1-2
steps behind carlsen in solidity + calculation and has more experience. Svidler is absolutely solid
but unexciting. Aronian may not be hungry enough.
i dont know if you could say 'styles' since top players need to know how to attack when necessarily and play slowly, or deensively when necessary.Though some players will steer the game into certain types of positions, Ivanchuk for one excels in complicated tactical positions, which is why id love to see him play in the WC.
Radjabov due to creativityis capable of a string of wins at any time...
However' Carlsen's strength may undermine the creativity of the
rest of the field. But one wonders if early adversity may shake the
young Norwegian.
Note that I am speaking in relative terms. Obviously all these guys are the best when considered as a whole. At this level it's hard to speak of a real "style", "strength", or "weakness".
Very nice!
Chessbase has been hosting profiles of the candidates one by one, including their records against each other. I started putting topics with links to the first couple of them, but there seemed no interest. They are still up over there, you may have to go back a couple of pages for the first, which was Svidler, I think.
Today's Super-GMs are all universal players, as waffllemaster suggests. Any of them can end a game with a quick attack or grind down a slightly better ending.
It is not correct to say Carlsen never loses OR that he does not take risks. In fact, most of his losses in the last couple of years happened after he avoided a certain draw to try to win a game. However, he NEVER takes stupid risks or weakens his own position unnecessarily.
Bingo! Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much!
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The NHL issued several press releases regarding the Winter Classic II on Monday, starting with a warning regarding counterfeit merchandise:
December 29, International Business Times: When the hometown Chicago Blackhawks host the defending Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings in this week's historic Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic 2009, the NHL warns that hockey fans will be targeted by counterfeiters attempting to sell unauthorized and poorly produced knock-off merchandise. Potential victims will range from legitimate retailers throughout the region to Blackhawks and Red Wings fans who believe they're purchasing authentic merchandise in support of their favorite teams and players, only to learn later they've obtained counterfeit merchandise of inferior quality.
Since 1993, the NHL - through its membership in the Coalition to Advance the Protection of Sports logos (CAPS) - has been involved in the seizure of more than nine million pieces of counterfeit merchandise featuring the logos of various professional sports leagues and teams, colleges and universities - valued at more than $329 million. Such counterfeiting often occurs around high-profile events like the NHL playoffs or the Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic 2009, to be held at Wrigley Field on Jan. 1 at noon, as the demand for team gear rises among fans. For example, at the 2008 inaugural NHL Winter Classic event in Buffalo, local law enforcement seized over 1,100 pieces of counterfeit NHL apparel, and at the league's All-Star Game in Atlanta, several hundred counterfeit NHL All-Star shirts were confiscated.
This week, the NHL will be cooperating with local law enforcement authorities, who will be responsible for enforcing local laws prohibiting the sale of counterfeit merchandise during the Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic 2009.
"Both the Blackhawks and Red Wings boast long, storied histories with large, devoted fan bases, making this historic Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic 2009 at one of sport's most famous venues a top destination among fans and counterfeiters alike," said Tom Prochnow, NHL Enterprises group vice president, legal and business affairs. "Fans may think they're purchasing a T-shirt, jersey, or other item in support of their favorite team but, in reality, they're only supporting counterfeiters."
"We want our fans to understand that you get what you pay for when it comes to counterfeits," added Prochnow. "A counterfeit T-shirt is not a keepsake if it contains a typo or shrinks three sizes when you put it in the laundry."
Simply put, the NHL's merchandise tends to have a hologram tag and/or sticker on the merchandise, if a shirt says, "Lindstrom" or "Detriot Red Wings," it's probably fake, and if someone's selling an authentic jersey for $50, it's probably not authentic. You get what you pay for, and if you buy it from some guy selling t-shirts out of a cardboard box, make sure you can check out the merchandise before finding out that you've got a lead-lined shirt.
The League will also broadcast the Winter Classic II on cell phones operated by its partner, Verizon:
December 29, RedOrbit.com: At 1 p.m. ET on Jan. 1, the Chicago Blackhawks will host the Detroit Red Wings in the League's annual outdoor game to be played this season at iconic Wrigley Field in Chicago. Verizon Wireless is teaming with the National Hockey League to bring both avid hockey fans and casual sports enthusiasts who want to be part of the historic event the opportunity to watch it on New Year's Day. The game will be streamed in its entirety and can be found under the "What's Hot" channel on V CAST Video.
"Bringing this once-a-year event to mobile customers is a great example of how compelling, long-form video content works on many different platforms," said Tricia Lynch, director of content strategy and acquisition at Verizon. "Customers can watch the first period from their living rooms, then be sure they won't miss the ending because they have V CAST on their mobile phones."
I don't like to plug merchandise or tell you how to spend your money, but if you do have a Verizon phone, the presser says that you can watch the game for $3 if you don't have "V Cast."
The NHL's media website also posted details of its street-festival style fan plaza which will be held outside Wrigley Field:
December 29, NHLMedia.com: What: NHL Winter Classic Spectator Plaza is a free outdoor hockey and entertainment fan festival, in celebration of the Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic New Year's Day outdoor game between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Detroit Red Wings. Weather permitting, fans of all ages can enjoy two fun-filled days of free entertainment - including a live musical performance, interactive hockey-themed attractions, an ice sculpting display, roving entertainment, chances to win tickets to the NHL Winter Classic game and the 2009 NHL All-Star Game in Montreal and more. When: Wednesday, Dec. 31, from 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
NHL Network's exclusive live broadcast of the Blackhawks on a 14' x 18' LED video screen
WGN Radio 720 AM roundtable discussion with Blackhawks legends Stan Mikita and Denis Savard, from 1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Verizon Wireless' NHL Winter Classic goalie challenge, where fans can test their hockey skills against a projected greenscreen version of the NHL Winter Classic goalie of their choice, Detroit's Chris Osgood or Chicago's Cristobal Huet for the chance to win a trip for two to attend the 2009 NHL All-Star Weekend in Montreal
Air hockey in the food and beverage tent sponsored by Bud Light
Officially Licensed NHL Winter Classic 2009 merchandise available for purchase in the NHL retail area
2009 Honda Ridgeline and its 2009 Honda Pilot exhibits
Cough BOO cough cough.
Thursday, Jan. 1, from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Live performance from local cover band, Maggie Speaks, from 9:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Roving entertainment featuring professional face painters, jugglers and stilt walkers from Chicago-based Productions USA, Inc.
Verizon Wireless' NHL Winter Classic goalie challenge, where fans can test their hockey skills against a projected greenscreen version of the NHL Winter Classic goalie of their choice, Detroit's Chris Osgood or Chicago's Cristobal Huet for the chance to win a trip for two to attend the 2009 NHL All-Star Weekend in Montreal
Where: Wrigley Field parking lot on the corner of West Waveland Street and North Clark Street
The Chicago Transit Authority's also reducing bus fares for the game:
December 29, WBBM: The CTA this year will be continuing its tradition of offering penny rides on New Year's Eve and will also expand service on all of its train and several bus lines.
Additional train and bus service will also be implemented for the NHL Winter Classic on New Year's Day at Wrigley Field.
Beginning at 8 p.m. on Wednesday and ending at 6 a.m. Thursday, rides on all CTA buses and trains will cost one cent. In addition, later hours and more frequent service will be offered on several bus and rail lines, which will generally operate on a regular weekday schedule for New Year's Eve, according to a release from CTA.
Otherwise, NHL.com's The Hockey Show is airing from Chicago to promote the Winter Classic II, though it doesn't include any Red Wings-related stuff today:
And in the non-Red Wings-related stories today include NHL.com's interview with former Chicago Cubs pitcher Ferguson Jenkins, who chose baseball over hockey, non-hockey-fan and Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Rosenbloom suggesting that the Blackhawks provide a solid "tide-me-over" for Chicago sports fans, and a "duh" observation from ESPN's Scott Burnside regarding the fact that the Blackhawks trail the Wings by 4 points in the Central Division standings.


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How is traveler's diarrhea treated?
Even if you don't treat traveler's diarrhea, it will usually go away in 4 to 5 days. You should drink plenty of clear liquids to replace lost fluids due to the diarrhea. Taking medicine to treat traveler's diarrhea may make you feel better more quickly. It often is treated with antibiotics (medicines that kill bacteria). To get antibiotics, you need a prescription from your doctor.
You also can take a medicine called loperamide (brand name: Imodium). However, if you have bloody diarrhea, you should not take this medicine without also taking an antibiotic.
Children, pregnant women, older adults and other people who get dehydrated easily should drink rehydration solutions. Rehydration solutions help replace the fluid you lose while you are sick. You can buy packets of rehydration salts (to be mixed with safe water) at camping/outdoor stores or drug stores.
When should I contact my doctor?
If your child has a fever higher than 102°F, is dehydrated, has blood in the stool or vomits several times, he or she should see a doctor right away.
If treating your traveler's diarrhea isn't helping you to feel better, talk to your doctor.
Next: Prevention
Traveler's Diarrhea by J Yates, M.D. (American Family Physician June 01, 2005, http://www.aafp.org/afp/20050601/2095.html)
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On her first day as a teacher, Jill Morris stood outside her classroom door, greeting children with a wide smile as they came down the hallway. One little girl stopped, looked up at Morris, then looked down. . . and threw up on Morris' shoes.
It was an inauspicious start, to be sure, but it didn't faze the young teacher.
"The nurturing side of me kicked in quickly, and I picked her up and didn't really care about the mess on my feet," she recalled.
The years since that day in Fairfax County have been smoother sailing, and Morris has distinguished herself as a caring, thoughtful teacher during her seven years at Henrico's Pemberton Elementary, where she teaches first grade.
"No matter who I have in my classroom, I want them to feel loved and valued and know that there is someone in their corner," she said. "No matter who walks through my door, I'm their champion."
First-graders bring Morris much joy because of their wide-eyed love of school and of learning. Her students are excited about using computers, taking pictures and recording their voices for presentations.
"When a group of students smile, that means a lot," Morris said.
Parents, including one who nominated Morris, have noticed her efforts.
"She goes out of her way to check on her past students to make sure they are still on the path to success," one nominator wrote. "Jill volunteers her time to help with the school plays and musicals. This takes a huge amount of her personal time, but she is there to support the children and make them the best they can be."
Morris has been in charge of the backstage crew for the school's musical, which are produced every other year.
"You get an opportunity to see a student shine when maybe they wouldn't in the classroom," she said.
She experienced that firsthand several years ago when she convinced one student to participate in that year's musical, even though he wasn't sure he was talented enough. His enthusiasm for the role was evident throughout, though, and his mother told Morris how thankful she was for the teacher's encouragement.
"He stood there beaming as his mother told me that," Morris recalled. "He was so proud."
A few weeks later, the boy's mother died. He moved out of state to live with his aunt, who wrote Morris a letter explaining how much the experience – and the lasting memory of his mother's pride – meant to the boy. The next year, the boy came back to visit and gave Morris a big hug.
"Those are the touching moments that you will never forget as a teacher," she said.
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Common wisdom says one should not judge a book by its cover. Those words can be extended to other mediums, but the hardest cover for me to get over is the one placed on an album.
I'm drawn into album artwork. I suppose it comes from my first expeditions into music when I was a preteen digging through my dad's CD collection. I was sort of forced to take wild stabs at albums to listen to, since the only music I was exposed to prior were classic rock bands I barely comprehended and boy bands I could barely stand.
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Over time, my taste in music has evolved past the point of listening to AC/DC on repeat. That's probably a bad example, since I'm pretty sure "Back in Black" was my go-to album of theirs. Regardless, I've always looked to the album artwork to get a feel for an album. The colorful covers of Electric Light Orchestra's "Out of the Blue" and Boston's debut album took me by surprise at a young age, although I wondered why bands in the 70's liked UFO imagery so much.
The importance of a visual "teaser" is lost in other media. Sure, a movie poster can be visually appealing and use interesting, nontraditional elements, but its impact is lost since it is primarily a visual work. Book covers can have this effect, since the medium of text makes readers imagine the imagery of the piece. However, I rarely see such attention to the cover art on books as I see on albums.
I was hoping I could go longer in this column without bringing up The Beatles, but they are undoubtedly a great example of the point I'm trying to get across. While my knowledge of the band is lacking, which I've been reminded of of many times from people much older and much younger than I, their progression as a band is evident in their album artwork. Their "boy band" early albums mostly feature themselves, such as "A Hard Day's Night" and "With the Beatles," while their psychedelic awakening is marked with the imagery of "Sgt. Pepper's" and "Revolver."
The age of digital photography has only enhanced band's ability to create a world of music within an image. Graphic design is the force behind such new album covers. Radiohead's iconic "OK Computer" album features a cover that feels dirtied by a mess of digital images. While I'm not a Radiohead aficionado, I think that's a fairly good descriptor for the album as a whole.
To be fair, there are plenty of artists that are not very ambitious with their covers, and I'm sure there are even more that didn't give their album art a second thought and focused on their music. Album art is really more of a footnote to an album. However, I can't deny how much I enjoy the time and effort that some put into that footnote. I've downloaded several albums released for free that have included artwork for each, individual song such as Nine Inch Nail's "The Slip," released in 2008. The attention to those minor details is the mark of a true artist in my mind as it lends to the piece as a whole.
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A 11-year-old pedestrian was seriously injured Thursday morning in a crash in Randallstown.
Baltimore County police and fire officials were called to the crash scene at Offutt and Winands roads around 8:15 a.m. after getting reports of a girl being struck there.
The victim, who police originally said was about 14 years old, was flown from Randallstown High School to Johns Hopkins Children's Center with serious injuries.
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Gander resident Claude House, right, listens as Gander's Municipal Works and Services Director James Blackwood answers questions regarding last weekend's flooding in the town.
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When are you going to fix Peterson and Blackwood (drives) … and Edinburgh?"
It was Claude House's first question when he was given an opportunity to ask Town of Gander officials about damage caused by flooding after more than 125 millimetres of rain soaked the town Aug. 30-31.
House was among more than 20 residents who joined the media at a question-and-answer session Wednesday afternoon in council chambers. Gander Mayor Claude Elliott and municipal works and services director James Blackwood tried to detail such aspects of how much rain fell, what the town did to prepare, how its sewer system handled the amount of rainfall, and what residents should do if their home was flooded.
However, residents attending weren't as interested in these details as they were in finding out why certain areas of the town have experienced similar problems numerous times during the past four years. They asked why infrastructure wasn't improved during this time, if commercial development in certain areas overloaded the sewer system, and how the town plans to correct the problems, especially in the areas that have experienced past flooding.
"You can't let it happen anymore. There's people up there now who can not afford the insurance premiums, so they're up there now dealing with a situation. They have to fix it, but they don't have any insurance at all," said House, whose brother-in-law and daughter both were affected by flooding in the Peterson and Blackwood drives area. "As far as I'm concerned, it's the town's responsibility.
"So when are you going to fix Peterson and Blackwood?"
Blackwood said he didn't know, explaining on how money is spent in the town is determined by its council. However, he did say sewer work in the area of Blackwood and Peterson drives was part of a consultant's report to separate the storm and sewer systems.
He said even if the recommended system had been in place it might not have handled the flow of water that hit Gander last Friday and early Saturday morning.
Blackwood, using a chart, pointed out more than 50 mm of rain fell between 11:30 p.m. and 2:30 a.m., with close to 40 mm falling between 12:30-1:30 a.m.
He said the Gander's sewer system meets all provincial government specifications, and is more than adequate to handle higher-than-average rainfall.
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Residents in attendance were not appeased. Their frustration continued and they demanded to know what would be done to prevent such flooding from occurring again.
The town reported it had received 106 reports of household flooding so far, and officials are encouraging anyone who has experienced damage by last weekend's storm to contact the town hall. It is also recommends residents contact their insurance companies.
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Syracuse, N.Y. — The meeting of the minds took place on a cold January night at an Indianapolis restaurant, and one day we may all look back and say this dinner was a defining moment for the construction and growth of the Syracuse offense.
Around the table sat Syracuse assistant coaches George McDonald and Tim Lester. There was Widener head coach Bobby Acosta, who would soon be hired as the Syracuse tight ends coach, UCLA offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone and Nate Sassaman, an assistant at Widener. Soon enough the coaches sketched out plays and formations in ink on napkins, and the congruity of it all confirmed to McDonald this was a crew worth keeping around.
Mazzone ran a high-octane, fast-tempo, high efficiency offense when he returned to the college game as offensive coordinator at Arizona State in 2010 and has been a mentor to Acosta since he interned for the New York Jets under Mazzone a few years prior. Mazzone has gone on to brand and market his offensive system under the name N-Zone, the same system Acosta ran at Delaware, the College of New Jersey and Widener, one he helped implement in various high schools in New Jersey, his primary recruiting territory. In all, there are more than 400 clients at all levels of college and high school football using N-Zone, Acosta said.
That connection and knowledge of uptempo football made Acosta a more attractive candidate when it came time to fill one of the coaching vacancies on Scott Shafer's staff this offseason. The hope is that it will lead to more productivity for an offense that struggled through a transition year last season and serve as an equalizer against teams such as Florida State and Clemson with its quick pace.
"That's the main reason people run it," Acosta said. "To equalize the defense from that potent attack. The tempo of the offense should produce a base defense. ... So eventually, they're just going to read you and try to read the play and run, and Florida State, yeah those cats are fast, but we have to try to find a way to equalize that power that they have over us.
"If we can force No. 2 and No. 3 back-up players in the game, we feel we have an advantage."
The offense likely won't look much different than it did a year ago. But McDonald has streamlined the playbook (think 25-30 plays each week) and wants to increase the play count into the 80s. That will depend on executing high-efficiency plays, such as bubbles and flares, which the staff views the same as a stretch run to the outside. Their purpose is to get the defensive front seven running to the perimeter and chasing upfield. As soon as a linebacker cheats to the outside or the defensive alignment shifts to cover the bubble, Syracuse can attack the defense with an inside zone or a slip screen backside. If a safety cheats down, that's when a play-action pass over the top results in an explosive play.
Gaining a deeper understanding of all this was an offseason objective for McDonald as he moves into his second year as offensive coordinator. Why run this against Villanova but not Central Michigan? Why do this with Ashton Broyld but not Jarrod West? "I think the biggest thing from this offseason is developing the 'why' to make sure you're aligned with the central purpose of what you're trying to do," McDonald said, "which is to play fast, be uptempo and win games."
Acosta had hit it off well with McDonald when he interned under George with the Cleveland Browns. The two continued to stay in touch last season after McDonald became the offensive coordinator. He knew Acosta was running an uptempo offense himself and would bounce ideas and questions off Acosta, who sent back film clips.
Eventually, Acosta introduced him to Mazzone, who McDonald also briefly worked with as an intern with the Jets when he was at Western Michigan.
"Noel knows a lot of people," Acosta said, "but he doesn't let everyone into the family. We just hit it off. He sees football as a way of life. He sees offensive football as a way of life. He sees the way we call an offense as a way of life. It's a swagger. It's a confidence. It translates into our players because they start playing with a lot of confidence, a lot of swagger and that's why George and I and Noel, we're a little group of guys.
"George talks to him every day, and he's a person you can talk to about relationships, your kids, football, the Las Vegas life. He's just a guy. He's a guy we're trying to be like one day."
There was a chance the relationship with Mazzone and the Syracuse staff could have never materialized. Acosta was a candidate to fill a staff vacancy under Mazzone when UCLA assistant Marques Tuiasosopo left to take a job with Washington. Acosta and his wife have deep roots in the Northeast and had just welcomed their second child when he decided to accept the head coaching job at Widener instead of joining Mazzone at UCLA.
Those roots have reopened a recruiting pipeline in New Jersey, and the sales pitch has manifested into an opportunity to play in this uptempo offense.
"It's an attractive offense," Acosta said. "It fits a lot of teams because of personnel. It helps in recruiting, to be honest, because if you're recruiting a 6-foot-5 wide receiver who is too slow to play the Z, he can play the Y, like the guys we're looking at. If a running back is too small to play in the ACC but he has good hands, he fits the system. To be honest, a lot of schools we're going into, they're N-Zone schools, so the kids understand what they're going to play in."
McDonald and Acosta are adamant in saying Syracuse is not running N-Zone this year, but "if you watch UCLA's offense and you watch Syracuse's offense, you're going to see a lot of similarities," McDonald said. That would be true for most uptempo systems, which generally run similar plays.
"The N-Zone is Noel Mazzone. If I called it the G-Zone, it'd be George McDonald, so it's really the same offense," McDonald said. "I don't know if there will be an influence of Noel Mazzone because we'll be running the same plays. Hopefully I'll call better plays like he called and I'll be a $1.5 million coordinator, but at the end of the day, we're all running the same plays. I think it comes down to the execution of the plays and when you call the plays that make them work."
Say this about the West Coast-East Coast crew: It's a budding relationship that should have a profound impact on the Syracuse football program moving forward.
Mazzone recently fielded an inquiry from North Carolina asking if its staff can travel out to Los Angeles to study the offense.
Nope, Mazzone said. There is already a relationship in place with another member of the ACC.
"Bang," Acosta said.
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A cowboy, a rapper, and a Texas-girl walk into a bar. It sounds like the beginning of a cheesy joke, but this was the scene at the Chameleon Club in Lancaster on Friday, Jan. 17.
Hailing from Brooklyn, Gangstagrass seamlessly fuses hip-hop and bluegrass, creating a sound unlike any other. Not only is an unlikely pairing evident in their music, but also in the members of the band. Gangstagrass has everything from dreadlocks to cowboy hats, and it surprisingly works. The project, initiated by producer and acoustic guitarist Rench, exceeded expectations when their track "Long Hard Times to Come" became the theme song for the FX show "Justified."
Lead by the energetic stylings of rappers R-SON and Dolio the Sleuth, the crowd was engaged from the first beat of the show. You could not help but stand up and dance right along with them the band. Gangstagrass stayed true to the roots of bluegrass with a banjo, acoustic guitar, steel guitar and fiddle, while adding in new age hip-hop beats.
Whether you were just a casual music fan, or a die-hard follower, there was no denying that Gangstagrass came to have fun and, as R-SON declared, "rock hard enough to wake up the Amish." The band moved swiftly through its set, with little-to-no pauses in between songs, making it nearly impossible to look away for even a moment.
The show even came to the people. R-SON snaked his way back to the bar, spitting his hypnotic, off-the-cuff verses the whole way.
During the final cut of the night, Rench informed the crowd the band would be mingling by the bar. He reassured everyone, "I know we do a lot of songs about shooting people, but we're actually nice. Just don't tell anyone."
It would be unjust to not mention local gem and concert opener Wayfarer Experiment, a soulful bluegrass group playing in their hometown of Lancaster. Lead singer Bjorn Jacobsen's howling voice echoed through the rafters as violinist Robin Chambers continued to outdo her previous mind-blowing solo. This high energy band was the perfect complimentary act to the foot-stomping headliner.
As a whole, it was a night of eye-opening juxtaposition. The stage was shared by a lanky, banjo-pickin' cowboy and couple of rappers effortlessly freestyling. From one end of the spectrum to the other, their music bridges the seemingly wide gap between hip-hop and bluegrass. Gangstagrass is one of music's best kept secrets.
Elijah Hermitt is a freshman at Penn State, where he maintains a music blog, "For the Record."
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A Loysville man who allegedly robbed a Middlesex Twp. Dunkin Donuts on Father's Day is now accused of falsely implicating an accomplice in the crime, according to township police.
Devin Spangle was arrested Wednesday and charged with robbery, theft, criminal trespassing and receiving stolen property.
Police said Spangle told them his accomplice in the robbery was a man named Liam, who lived in Mechanicsburg and had green hair.
Police said in a news release Thursday that Liam no longer associates with Spangle because of his alleged drug abuse.
Spangle lied to police to protect the identity of his actual accomplice — Bree Longenecker, of Carlisle, who has been arrested.
Police said Longenecker is the driver of the getaway vehicle that Spangle used to escape from the scene of the robbery.
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I recently read an e-mail inviting teachers to attend the retirement party of a custodian who worked in their midst, and I winced to see that the note began with the words "You may not know her name, but …"
It reminded me of a janitor who walked the halls of the school where I serve part time as an English instructor.
And of a banana.
And a sleeping bag.
And a golf ball.
Every semester since I began teaching as an adjunct more than 20 years ago, I've designed myriad exercises to help students experience the world around them. I want them to embrace the planet in sensory ways — ways that encourage them to see and smell and touch the everyday elements of our lives.
To that end, I will begin a class session by placing an ordinary object on a desk in front of them then invite them to write about that object and, in the process, tell them to "do whatever you have to do to really know" whatever it is I've placed before them.
Some semesters, I use a banana.
A fruitful endeavor
There it sits.
Unfortunately, so do the students.
In all the years I've done this, not a single student has approached the desk to hold the fruit or inhale its essence. Nobody has ever stepped forward and asked permission to peel it or, heaven forbid, taste it.
A shame, really, I tell my classes after they're done writing. Then, I unpeel the banana to unveil a mushy $20 bill.
No, I haven't come up with a hybrid banana that renders cash.
Instead, before class convenes, I use a razor blade to make a slit just large enough to tuck the folded bill within.
The students are always surprised, of course, when I produce the loot, then overcome with a host of other emotions when I pick up a piece of paper next to the fruit on which I'd earlier written the following: "Be first to find the $20 bill in the banana and it's yours."
I've done similarly with a golf ball, resting it on a desk in front of the class and inviting them to write about the golf ball.
Again, I've never had a student come forward to examine it, to roll it around in their palm. Had they done so, they would have seen the following written with a fine-point marker in tiny script where the ball meets the desk: "$20 if you see first!"
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I'm always amazed when I use my sleeping bag in an effort to pique their sense of adventure. In placing it on the desk before them, it's completely enveloped in a stuff sack. Again, I've never had a student come forward and take it out of the sack or even ask permission.
They end up writing about a sleeping bag they can't even see, a sleeping bag whose drawstring bears a little note reading — you guessed it — "$20 if you see first!"
Some students cry foul, arguing they weren't expressly invited to come forward and handle the fruit, the ball, the bag. Why didn't I supply a knife for the banana, throw the ball around the classroom, expose the sleeping bag?
Listen to yourselves, I implore.
You're making excuses for a sense of shyness that needs to be re-evaluated, overcome. You are blaming me for your own lack of curiosity.
We have become, I argue, people used to settling, people who sit back and behold but have forgotten how to explore and discover.
Our worlds need to be unwrapped, I beg of them.
Then, we dive into writing to accomplish just that.
Several years ago, to see how well my students had engaged their immediate environment in the 15 weeks we spent together, I posed this challenge on the last night of class: Tell me the first name of the janitor with a slight limp who roams these halls, someone you are likely to see weekly, and sometimes more than once an evening.
His name was embroidered right above his chest pocket.
Not a single student knew.
"Too bad," I announced. "I would have excused you from the final."
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