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STATE CENTER - It's been a spring to remember for Paige Van Dyk.
Though when it comes to maintaining her consistent success, it's all about having a short-term memory.
The South Tama County junior took advantage of that strategy Monday, quickly brushing aside a triple-bogey on the second hole to fire a 6-over-par 78 and claim medalist honors at the Class 3A first-round regional at Lincoln Valley Golf Course.
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South Tama County's Paige Van Dyk tees off on the 13th hole in a Class 3A first-round regional at Lincoln Valley Golf Course Monday in State Center. Van Dyk shot a 6-over-par 78 to claim medalist honors and advance to the regional final.
South Hardin's Cami Eller chips onto the ninth green Monday at Lincoln Valley Golf Course in State Center. Eller tallied an 88 to place third as the Tigers finished second (391) to advance to the Class 3A regional final next Monday in Oelwein.
East Marshall's Alyssa Kozak chips onto the green on No. 9. Kozak led East Marshall with a 105.
"I was mad at the time, but I know I can't let those things get to my head, because it just goes bad from there," Van Dyk said of shooting an 8 on the par-5 hole. "You just have to put it behind you and think that you can get birdies and come back."
The NICL West Division champ followed through with a birdie on the ninth hole to come through the turn at 42, before closing with a one-over 36 on the back nine. With Monday in the books, Van Dyk has won nine meets this season, though starting anew at the turn helped her finish strong.
"I love starting over because I feel like it's a fresh start," Van Dyk said of the back nine, where she bogeyed just twice after four through the first nine holes.
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Class 3A Region 3B
At State Center
Lincoln Valley Golf Course, par 72
Team Standings - 1. Monticello 375, 2. South Hardin 391, 3. Anamosa 403, 4. South Tama County 404, 5. West Marshall 413, 6. (tie) Iowa Falls-Alden 444, Union 444, 8. East Marshall 451
Individual qualifiers - 1. Paige Van Dyk, STC, 78; 2. Hannah Thompson, Mont, 85; 3. Cami Eller, SH, 88; 4. (tie) Allison Ries, Mont, 93; Kenadey Porter, WM, 93
MONTICELLO (375) - Thompson 85, Ries 93, Darby Kramer 98, Haley Moore 99, Tasia Welter 103, Faith Wenger 103
SOUTH HARDIN (391) - Eller 88, Alaina Lake 98, Haley Lawrence 100, Jaelyn Daggs-Olson 105, Kristin Mathis 112, Haley Dilley 116
ANAMOSA (403) - Sydney Wolfe 98, Sydney Pratt 98, Echo DeVries 103, Felicia Summers 104, Emily Christenson 113, Madison Kula-Caspers 119
SOUTH TAMA (404) - Van Dyk 78, Carrie Cibula 101, Laurel Scharnweber 106, Elysiana Gonzalez 119, Erin Clayton 126
WEST MARSHALL (413) - Porter 93, Claire Underwood 102, Shayla Moler 106, Rory Dunn 112, Savannah Zahnd 119
UNION (444) - Miranda Wieben 96, Nicole Bechthold 109, Sarah Ternus 119, Adria Bechthold 120, Morgan Metcalf 121, Rachel Babinat 146
IOWA FALLS-ALDEN (444) - Kari Hanson 104, Jacey Redman 109, Becca Geitz 115, Breanna Hanson 116, Kassidy Krause 120, Laura Campbell 122
EAST MARSHALL (451) - Alyssa Kozak 105, Sarah Pippin 110, Sydney Henricks 115, McKenzie Farhni 121, Breanna Stewart 139, Haley Hemann 168
"I just start over like it's a new day."
Van Dyk's clean-slate approach helped her extend a two-stroke edge over the field after nine holes to seven over eventual runner-up Hannah Thompson of Monticello. The Panthers captured the team title scoring 375, while South Hardin also punched its ticket to the regional final round with a 391 and seeks its third trip to state in the last four years.
The Class 3A regional final is Monday at Edgewater Golf Course in Oelwein.
Cami Eller triggered the Tigers carding an 88 with matching rounds of 44, while Monticello's Allison Ries and Kenadey Porter of West Marshall also qualified individually, each shooting a 93.
Eller, who will play in her fourth regional final Monday, called upon her previous experience in big moments to quell any butterflies early.
"I usually get really nervous, but I just tried to relax and play my game," said Eller, who is seeking a return trip to state after the Tigers missed the cut last season.
"I just want to be able to take the rest of my team there because it was a lot of fun when I was a freshman and a sophomore. I want them to have that experience too."
Two of Eller's teammates, junior Alaina Lake and senior Jaelyn Daggs-Olson, share that state experience and were instrumental in moving South Hardin a step closer to its goal.
Lake turned in a 98, while Haley Lawrence (98) and Daggs-Olson (100) completed the Tigers' runner-up tally.
"Having that state experience is big mentally," South Hardin coach Dave Akers said of his team, which played on the big stage in 2010 and 2011.
"They know what it takes. They know the hard work and they know how to play the course and get through bad holes, because they've done it before. That experience is priceless."
While experience and time-tested strategies spelled success for some, for Porter it was a matter of things simply falling in her favor.
"I did better than I normally do. I was really lucky," said Porter, who also credited her short game in earning the final individual qualifying spot.
Anamosa (403) held off South Tama by a stroke for third, while host West Marshall (413) took fifth. Iowa Falls-Alden and Union each shot 444 and East Marshall (451), led by Alyssa Kozak's 105, rounded out the field.
The top two teams and top five individuals at Monday's regional final qualify for the Class 3A State meet at Ames Golf & Country Club, May 28-29. ... Van Dyk placed fourth individually at state in 2012.


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Best delis in Chicago
From towering pastrami sandwiches to steaming bowls of matzo soup, here are the best delis in Chicago
Most of Chicago's best delis are on the outskirts of the city (or in the suburbs), but we promise they're worth the trip. For a bagel, the only place to go is New York Bagel & Bialy in Lincolnwood, while the best matzo balls (and the largest) are in a soup at Eleven City Diner, which just opened a second location in Lincoln Park to join the first in the South Loop. Of course, we also love nouveau delis and diners, too, like the cheese-focused Pastoral and Publican Quality Meats, a pantry and sandwich shop that makes a killer rendition of a gyro. Whether you're craving an old-school pastrami sandwich or a new-school lamb meatball pita, here are the best delis in Chicago.
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Best delis in Chicago
Eleven City Diner
Owner Brad Rubin scoured the country to research this Jewish deli/diner. His pastrami is tender, fatty and full of flavor; the milkshakes are thick and oversized; matzo balls are enormous; and the brisket is good enough that any grandmother would want to claim it, Jewish or not. Does it hold a candle to other Jewish spots in the country? It's hard to say. But Rubin definitely holds his own as the host, giving this place enough character to become a fixture in its own right.Read more
After a fire forced it to close in 2011, this classic deli (which originally opened in 1955) has risen from its ashes. Traditional Jewish breads—bagels, rye bread—are Kaufman's foundation and form the base for dozens of deli sandwiches, such as the New York Special (thinly sliced corned beef with chopped liver on rye—ask for mustard, too). Grab some whitefish salad, sliced hard salami and a black-and-white cookie to go, and it'll be just like the old days.Read more
New York Bagel & Bialy
Don't take our word for it—any Jew or New Yorker can tell you the best bagel in Chicago is not in Chicago. It's in Lincolnwood, at a nondescript strip mall just off I-94. This place never closes and doesn't have tables. Which is why if you're looking for us, we'll be in our car in the parking lot, inhaling a bagel sandwich with nova lox and clutching a bag of still-warm salt-and-poppy and sesame bagels for later.Read more
Small-batch artisan cheeses are cut to order at this friendly, well-stocked wine-and-cheese shop. The place is attitude-free, and menu items, like the Spanish tuna salad sandwich, with pickle and onion-studded filling, are perfect for a quick lunch in one of the handful of seats on the outdoor patio. Or, load up on cheeses and olives for a picnic.Read more
The closest thing Chicago has to the "soup Nazi," Perry's is an institution with a fiercely enforced policy of no cell phones. The long lunchtime waits are rewarded with deli classics, like egg salad sandwiches; hot, juicy pastrami; and "Perry's Favorite"—corned beef, jack cheese, coleslaw and Russian dressing piled high on fresh rye. Earlier hours offer breakfast takes on similar classics, including the Mad Moscow, a mess of eggs scrambled with pastrami, corned beef and Russian dressing, piled onto a toasted bagel.Read more
Publican Quality Meats
The sister restaurant to the Publican does a lot of things: It's a butcher shop, a sandwich joint, a grocer and a bread bakery. The selection of locally sourced meats and dairy is a home-cook's (bourgeois) dream, but if you'd rather leave the cooking to Paul Kahan and crew, get a bowl of the deeply flavorful ribollita soup, a rotating sandwich (they're all great) and a seat at one of the cramped communal tables.Read more
Zaleski & Horvath MarketCafe
A couple of Hyde Park veterans (the former owners of Istria Café) and a sandwich maker from the suburbs joined forces for this casual but high-quality deli/grocery store. Crowds gather at the counter for Spanish jamón sandwiches with quince paste and panini that press farmstead cheese and ham between French bread. Save room because the oatmeal-chocolate-chip cookies are a hot item, too; still, with only nine tables, the most coveted thing in the place is a seat (easier to find come summer when the patio opens).Read more

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text: Thankfully not my car I was called out after work today by my dad who was stranded on the sliproad to a large roundabout outside Kilmarnock. The car is a 1995 1.2 8V corsa and simply died on the run up the hill. I was thinking timing belt failure, but the belt is intact and the cam turns. The RAC came and tried to turn the engine. It turns fine and will start, but only runs for about 10 seconds (verr roughly) if you use a bit of throttle. It will idle roughly but stalls after a few seconds. There is also this intermittent sharp knocking sound is if somthing is rattling about inside the cylinders. We took the rocker cover off and the cam and rockers look normal. The RAC man thought it could be a broken valve rattling about in the cylinder, or possibly a bottom end problem. The car was recovered to a local garage, and will be examined properly tommorrow, but what do you guys think? The irony was that my dad was looking for a new car anyway as this one has just covered 100,000 miles. Now he may need to buy a new engine. He aint happy, and neither am I as he is needs my car to get to work and I am on the bus as I work locally


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Tapioca peach cobbler is an interesting recipe that uses all of the standard peach cobbler ingredients including peaches, sugar and butter, but also implements quick-cook tapioca and baking powder biscuits for an all-over great tasting peach cobbler recipe.
Cooking Time: 15 min
- 3 tablespoons quick-cooking tapioca
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 3 cups fresh, sliced peaches
- 3/4 cup water
- baking powder biscuits (recipe included)
- Combine tapioca, sugar, butter, peaches and water.
- Turn dough out on lightly floured board, knead dough slightly; roll 2/3 of dough into a rectangle 1/4 inch thick; cut into 2 - inch strips and line sides of 8 x 8 x 2 inch pan, fitting dough closely into corners.
- Fill with peach mixture and roll remaining 1/3 dough 1/4 inch thick; with sharp knife make slits to permit steam to escape.
- Fit over peaches, pressing edges of dough together with fork dipped in flour.
- Bake in hot oven 450 for 15 minutes; then reduce heat to moderate 350F and bake 25 minutes longer.
- Sprinkle powdered suger over top.
For baking powder Biscuits:
- 2 cups sifted flour
- 3 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 3/4 cup milk
- Mix and sift dry ingredients.
- Cut in shortening until well mixed and add milk, stirring quickly until a soft but not sticky dough is formed.
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The time is now, on the eve of the upcoming November elections, to advance a nonpartisan agenda that aggressively makes plain that cultures of corruption and the misuse of public office for private gain will be renounced and punished at every level of government. The arrests of 11 public officials, coming on the heels of the indictments of two more lawmakers, opens yet another window of opportunity for tougher ethics reform.
The template for making real the promise of good government is already in place. In 2005, in response to the report prepared by Gov. Richard Codey's Special Ethics Counsel (retired state Supreme Court Justice Dan O'Hern and I), the legislature passed a sweeping reform initiative that created the newly-empowered State Ethics Commission.
The commission is armed with the muscle to enforce the stiffer ethics rules that are now in place thanks to the recently promulgated Uniform Ethics Code. These include zero-tolerance for the acceptance of gifts, strict anti-nepotism laws and strong standards on conflict of interest, post-employment and misuse of public office. Formidable penalties can -- and have -- been meted out against those who have betrayed the public trust.
To prevent ethics lapses before they occur, clear, no-nonsense ethics training is conducted on a daily basis. Ethics compliance strictures are imposed regularly and effectively. A toll-free, confidential hotline is up and running to allow citizens to report instances of suspected abuse.
It would no doubt surprise a public that has grown understandably weary and wary to learn that this model of ethics reform has actually inspired and informed other states' efforts to rehabilitate government. Indeed, New Jersey's reform model has garnered national attention -- and replication in places -- for its clarity, precision and rigor.
The problem is, this template is in place only for the executive branch of state government. It does not apply to the legislative branch, whose ethics rules are administered by the Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards, or to local government, where a vast preponderance of less than ethical dealings are known to occur.
O'Hern and I recommended then, and have continued to strongly reiterate, the need for uniform ethics laws, expectations and penalties, across all levels of government. The State Ethics Commission, which works, should be the single, unifying enforcement authority for both the executive and legislative branches, as well as New Jersey's counties, municipalities and school boards. Specifically:
‡ The Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards, responsible for investigating allegations of legislators' misconduct, should be merged into the State Ethics Commission.
‡ Local government must be reined in, and made to be within the purview of the State Ethics Commission and the Uniform Ethics Code. The Local Government Ethics Law, which applies now at the local level, is hollow in significant part, and without any real enforcement or compliance mechanisms.
‡ Mandatory ethics training, auditing and compliance protocol at every level of government must be imposed.
‡ The grandfather-provision of the ban on dual office-holding must be eliminated to disallow incumbents from holding more than one government position at the same time. This will help to close the door to pension-padding and misuse of power. Similarly, as the NJ Policy Perspective recently recommended in its excellent report, ban the practice of elected officials' holding other non-elected public sector posts. Nearly 700 elected officials now hold such posts. This practice, which is not addressed by the recent ban on dual office-holding, creates the potential for significant personal enrichment at public expense and all sorts of influence-peddling.
‡ Pay-to-play needs to be meaningfully banned at every level of government.
‡ The promise of the Open Public Records Act and the Open Public Meetings Act must be made real at every level of government. Too often, citizens are met with closed doors and "studied inaction" in response to requests for access and information. Corruption thrives in secret, and sunlight remains "the best disinfectant."
A fundamental principle of democracy is that a representative government must hold the public's trust. In our report, O'Hern and I lamented the development of a cadre of career politicians -- officeholders who have no life outside of politics.
It was once the case that public office was, for the most part, an uncompensated position. People did it to be of service and not to combine its emoluments with another public job. While the business of government may be more complex today, the basics remain the same. Politics should be about public service, not personal enrichment.
Paula A. Franzese is the Peter W. Rodino professor at Seton Hall Law School. She may be reached at email@example.com.
And you are one of the people who gave Corzine a free pass on the emails without seeing all of them. You believe it is okay for the governor to have a hand picked ethics panel? Until all ethics panels are made up of private citizens without any connection to government or public jobs, things won't change. What about the ethics of an AG's office that refuses to ever finish investigiations of corruption? How does that figure into the sweeping ethics reforms you are so proud of? How many government panels and committees have you served on? All we ever see is the same namnes as "experts" on these panels. It makes me believe there are only 20-30 qualified people in the state.
Well, being relatively new to New Jersey ... I am willing to assume (for now) that Professor Franzese means what she says.
I'm going to do my part and simply not vote for ANY incumbent who has not VOTED for these ethics laws PERIOD.
Let's start by cleaning house. All this pointing fingers at one another keeps the "divide and conquer" pols in place.
100% agree, Paula. Now let's see if we can find one NJ politician tied to either major party who has the spine to stand up for these principles. I doubt we will.
I like that "sweeping reform" phrase ...
I'm going to go out and look for a broom pin I wear.
Maybe someone will want to make a buck ... I would hope there would be a big market for 'em here in New Jersey between now and election day.
It really would surprise me if other states were modeling ethics reform after NJ because of the clarity, precision and rigor of the reform here in NJ. It's more likely politicians from other states think that our politicians have been successful in scamming us with the illusion of reform while still maintaining the status quo.
It's also irrelevant which or how many ethics commisions there are when they are foxes guarding the henhouse appointed by other foxes. There is only one ethics commission that can make a difference- citizens.
Citizens that want to know how to hold politicians from both current major parties accountable can read the article "There's two guys in a tree.." in the opinion section of the forum at www.dailyrecord.com and the comments in the same forum to the "Kean on corruption" editorial. You can also see the comments on Paul Mulshine's article "More confused than conservative" and on the Hundred Dollar Party website at www.hundreddollarparty.org
to hglingquist,
If you are not going to vote for incumbents that don't support reform be prepared for many years of frustration and a growing feeling of futility. As someone that has voted against the incumbents for about thirty years let me tell you it can get discouraging and lonely.
I have even voted for none of the above ( as you mention in your "More confused than conservative" comment ) by using the write-in slot to write in my own name when there were only Republicans and Democrats on the ballot. This of course brings up the subject of what the definition of incumbent is because just voting against incumbents is not productive unless you can actually "clean house" by removing incumbents.
Most legislative districts ( state level ) and congressional districts (national) are not competitive and the incumbent officeholder can't be removed except under extreme circumstances. In the "competitive" districts the only way to remove the current major party (CMP) officeholder is to install the candidate from the other CMP.
So one or both of the CMPs can't be completely removed from power. Citizens can only shift the balance of power between the CMPs. The two party system is the incumbent.
That is why separate voting for parties and candidates is so important. When citizens can use separate voting to establish competitive third parties it will destroy the gerrymandered districts that protect most legislators from competition.
The Libertarians could get enough support in the safe Republican districts to make it possible for either the Libertarian or Democratic candidate in that district to unseat the officeholder. The Greens could have the same effect in the safe Democratic districts. It would then even be possible for a party such as the Hundred Dollar Party to be competitive in any district.
The current either or scenario of the two party system encourages polarization and politicians to highlight their differences. It discourages cooperation with the legislators from the other party because that is seen as betraying your own party.
The result of competive third parties in all legislative districts would lead to a different breakdown in the make-up of the legislature instead of the polarizing split if about 50/50 (Give or take a few percentage points) we have now. It could end up more like 30% Republican, 30% Democratic with the Libertarians, Greens and HDPs and/or another third party holding around 10% each.
This would leave both CMPs without a controlling majority forcing them to build alliances with the different third parties on the issues they agree about without having to betray their party.


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Skip to comments.George W. Bush is the most unpopular living ex-President: poll
Posted on 06/08/2012 11:12:19 PM PDT by WilliamIII
George W. Bush has stepped out of the public eye since leaving office, but absence hasn't made the nations heart grow fonder.
The 43rd President of the United States is the most unpopular living former president, a CNN/ORC International poll has found, as only 43% of people surveyed said they had a favorable opinion of him and 54% viewed him unfavorably.
The negative rating puts Bush far behind his fellow living ex-Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Dubyas father, George H.W. Bush.
Clinton nabbed a 66% favorable rating, Carter scored a 54% rating, and 59% of those polled said they had a positive view of Bush Sr.
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Scratch that. Nixon was down there, too — among the bad Republican presidents, I mean.
The best Republican presidents: Reagan, Lincoln, Coolidge, Eisenhower, McKinley, and yes - Harding (a free market pro-liberty president).
I think he should be above all three: Carter, Clinton and George H.W. Bush.
He gave us the worst recession since the Great Depression. That's why people can't stand him. And he gave us the most deficit spending ever — until Obama came along. That's why this conservative can't stand him and his "compassionate" conservatism.
Oh yes, he's also the reason Barak O. is president - people were reacting to Bush's recession and his disastrous presidency.
When did Carter and Clinton pass away?
When did Carter and Clinton pass away?
The shameful thing is that Bush's spending made those two liberals look like pikers.
And W failed to control the border plus he left Afghanistan half finished to push the country into a disastrous counterproductive failure in Iraq. Sometimes I wonder if W was Osama's biggest asset.
Conservatives were reacting to congressional Rinos also.
Idiots like Dodd and Frank gave us the worst recession since the Great Depression. This set the stage for the great Messiah, Greek columns and all.
what a load.
Carter is the biggest loser
I love Bush.
It was a giant game of chicken. the Democrats would always castigate the Republicans for exercising fiscal restraint, so Bush said, fine, you cut it then, I won't. And avoided the old routine of "the Republicans let granny eat dog food" but the Democrats wouldn't cut a thing, they knew their constituency wouldn't put up with it. So the deficits are equally the Dems fault.
Damn Meena, Project Much?
Your Little Dictator is falling on his ASS over and over. The loyalty to the "PARTY" is disgusting.
Wipe your ass, empower people through positive hard work and watch the results. I'll bet you are a liberal arts major.
Why should I give a damn what you think about GW Bush? ....Is it imperative that Bush haters post this crap ?
What exactly do you gain from it?
There are still some who still think that trying to re-write the GWB legacy will bring something good. It won't.
He was a disaster and it's long over-due to fire Boehner and McConnell too.
At least he stays away from the camera, I respect him for that.
Unfortunately I don't think Romney learned the lesson.
Thank God abortion is rampant and keeping those numbers down!!
I apologize to those that understand for the first time that God and Government are not equal.
Wait a few months.
What exactly do you gain from it?
Exactly, the Bush bashing is looking pretty stupid after 3 1/2 years.
The reason W is the most unpopular is because he still refuses to defend himself or his record. Obama, Pelosi and the Dems know this, so they can use him as a punching bag for whatever suits their purpose. It drives me crazy, but Bush refuses to engage in the debate.
Let me clarify, I am sorry that we let the minions of Satan get as far as they have. This is the land of LIFE, Liberty, and the PURSUIT of happiness. Get over it commies. Go get it.
Me too. There is a lot to respect about W on a human level. And I trusted Bush's sentiments more than I do his successor. Sadly, W's judgments were too often very wrong. He played right into Osama's hands with his Iraq decision.
The Democrats made attacking the next Republican President after the impeachment of Clinton a top priority in order to show the American voters the consequences of attacking Democrats. RINOs seeking bipartisan cooperation let Bush down during his first term and since Jan 2007 Pelosi and Reid and the Democrats controlled the budget / spending via "continuing resolutions"......till today. Add the complete compliance by the media in misreporting Bush and you have the formula for swaying a misinformed public, ergo, Barack Obama.
I did not agree with some of Bush's domestic policies but I consider him one of our great presidents, certainly better than Clinton, Nixon, Johnson or Kennedy.
I guess it would be easier simply to count the good Presidents, you might get 10.
Each Bush led to a Democrat getting conrol of the WH.
I blame the dems for most of that, particularly the economics. Red line legislation, Fannie Mae - bad loans forced, off loading risk necessary to derivatives, yada, yada.
Obama was a fluke, a perfect storm.
Bush did well in most areas, a few bad ones. Certainly better than Carter and HW and Clinton - remember China?
Bush got the blame for economy and a war-weary populace.
IMHO, of course.
TARP was a disgrace and anti-Free Market, no less then the New Deal was.
I would turn my attack to the 5th estate. After Reagan we have been in a liberal free fall. I thank my lucky stars that he was my CIC. The press is more than capable of getting anyone elected.
George W Bush - Pre-9/11
What is interesting is that the people admit they were better off 4 years ago but when they add President Bush's name to the polling question they somehow change their minds. Sounds like they polled people who bought into all the Bush bashing from the MSM and the democrats you know the same people who say that Obama can't control the economy or gas prices yet Bush was the root of all the countries ills and is responsible for everything.
I was better off 4 years ago and I wish they would have polled me. Bush was not perfect by any measure but he is 100% better than the piece of crap we have in office now in my opinion.
Yes, I agree 100%
I did not fully understand that until late 2006. GWB was forced to spend his whole second term trying to clean up that mess while Obama and Pelosi pounced and took over everything.(except he found time for his failed amnesty push in 2007.)
Yet the Republican Koolaid was so strong that many here were still repeating the Republican talking points in 2009 and early 2010, 2011 not very much.
Even today when I point out how a POTUS (even an R one) cannot leave a complete disaster behind and still be a success I still get those worn out lame excuses, and the same folks laugh at Obama's lame excuses.
W never met an authorization bill he didn't like.
Someone that has studied and appreciates Harding!
Kudos. Harding actually abolished discrimination in D.C. after the liberal racist Wilson assigned separate toilets & washrooms for the "colored".
I agree with your choices.
Blessings, Bobo
Yeah, but there was such a weapon as a "veto".
Blessings, Bobo
Yes, I automatically trust any poll sponsored by CNN. They have no bias or agenda whatsoever, especially during an election year. /s
Among the worst presidents, Carter is the king.
Blessings, Bobo
The USA is going to hell in a handbasket in every conceivable way.
Any nation where the evil rapist scumbag Bill Clinton has 66% popularity, deserves what it is going to get.
I still can't wait until Bill Clinton dies from his STDs so I can piss on his grave, and he damn well better not be buried in Arlington. I can't piss on his grave in Arlington.
I would put Lincoln dead last myself.
Are they kidding?? Carter was HANDS DOWN the worst EX president! (Obama will take that place of honor as soon as he is booted out of the White House in November). Bush's disastrous last two years were the result of a democrat-controlled congress.
Bush is a good man. He might not have been the best president, but he loves his country and our military. He has far more class than Carter, Clinton and, especially, Obama.
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MOBILE, Alabama -- Police and fire officials are looking for a 39-year-old man who they say set fire to a home at 1818 Van Liew Road East on the city's south side this morning.
Firefighters answering an alarm at the two-story brick home arrived to find smoke coming from the home about 8:20 a.m., Mobile Fire-Rescue Department spokesman Steve Huffman said. No one was injured.
Authorities plan to charge Michael Larome Spanks with second-degree arson. Huffman said the degree of the charge is warranted because no one was at the home at the time the fire broke out.
Spanks is 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs about 220 pounds. Huffman said anyone who knows where Spanks is should call the MFRD Arson Hotline at 251-205-MFRD.


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Fields qualifies for tri-district | Girls golf
Coupeville High School golfer Christine Fields overcame a rough first nine holes at the District 1A Girls Golf Tournament at the North Bellingham Golf and Country Club Thursday, May 15, to qualify for the tri-district tournament.
Bremerton's Golf Mountain Golf Course will host tri-district Tuesday, May 20. Fields tees off a 12:30 p.m.
The top 16 qualifiers at tri-district move on to the state tournament.
District was played with a shotgun start, and Fields scored a 58 on holes 4 through 12. She settled in on the second nine, carding a 43 to finish with a 101 to place 10th.
The junior was fourth at district as a freshman and fifth last year. She placed seventh at tri-district two years ago and sixth last spring.
As a freshman, she was eighth in the state; last year she placed 15th.
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The Chinese government this week announced the oil spill is all cleaned up in Dalian harbor, off the north coast of Liaoning province in China.
The Chinese government this week announced the oil spill is all cleaned up in Dalian harbor, off the north coast of Liaoning province in China.
One more picture that caught my eye during the 24 hours news cycle for the World Water Day is the image of hundreds of hoses providing drinking water to residents of a housing block in Jakarta. The grubby plastic pipes supplying a fragile lifeline to families seem to represent the desperation that people face when the water supply is cut off.
Chinese solar power companies have shone amid the downturn in the solar industry, converting their low cost advantage into bigger market share and profits.
The United States became the No. 1 wind power market in the world in 2008. But under the credit crisis in 2009, the building of new wind farms slackened and the United States ceded its top global spot to China.
Sweden complained that the recent Copenhagen climate change summit was a "disaster." British Prime Minister Gordon Brown described it as "at best flawed and at worst chaotic." Sudan's U.N. ambassador, Abdalmahmoud Abdalhaleem, dubbed the outcome confirmation of a "climate apartheid." For South Africa it was simply "not acceptable."
(Updates with comments from Raymond Pierrehumbert, Knut Alfsen and Kim Carstensen)
At a major global climate summit in Copenhagen this week, China slammed rich nations for having weak and unambitious goals to cut carbon emissions.
Clean technology investors who have suffered through 2009 can find cheer in a new report by the Cleantech Group that gives its top ten predictions for 2010.
When California's SunPower and China's Suntech strode onstage at an industry conference last week, onlookers braced themselves for a bit of sabre-rattling, or at least an animated debate about two global superpowers' role in solar energy.


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It won an Oscar, played film festivals, moved on to slots on "educational TV" -- back when there was such a thing -- and finally ended its life in 16mm film showings in schools.
And yet -- unlike so many other films that aped that same trajectory -- the 1956 "The Red Balloon" is actually a wonderful movie. And well worth re-discovering.
The story of a boy and his crimson helium-filled plaything, it's not just a lovely snapshot of mid-50's Paris. It's a sweet fable of affection, loyalty and adventure -- and by its end, you'll care far more about this playground bit of rubber than you do about most movie characters.
There's a not particularly well-thought out new homage due next month, called "Flight of the Red Balloon." But on Saturday, you can luxuriate in the original -- along with "White Mane," a lesser-known French children's film, but probably a strong influence on "The Black Stallion" -- at the Landmark Loew's Jersey Theatre
Visit the Jersey City theater's site to find out more about the film (and other Francophile films this weekend, including Cocteau's sublime "Beauty and the Beast," and the Paris-set "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," with Charles Laughton.)
And if you do go, wonder at a children's film -- that, when many current movies can't get you to care about their heroes and heroines -- actually brings you to the edge of your seat in your worries over a toy.


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I'm not the only one having a bad night.
I'm waiting in front of the Hawthorne Subway for the last employee to lock up and come out. She's a pretty goth girl, who is looking increasingly flustered, culminating in her dropping the keys when trying to lock the door. She glares at the sky for a moment, and I stifle a laugh—she looks like me for a second. She finally gets in, slamming the door, and her mood lightens suddenly upon finding a girl cab driver behind the wheel and Morphine on the stereo.
As we head downtown, she tells me about her night. Scheduled to work with two new people. Ran out of bread. Some old pervert pestering her for a date. Five people coming in five minutes before closing time. I don't remember how we got onto genetics, but she tells me her geneticist boyfriend said there would be no more natural blondes in a few hundred years. News to me—how interesting. I'll have to look that one up. I mean, why, how is that maladaptive? Hmm.
We talk about school. Her boyfriend went to mine; his name sounds familiar. Her dad had promised to pay for school and then reneged. I can relate to that one, too. It's Saturday night, but she's probably going to end up studying later. I say Saturday night is overrated—I study then, too, all the time. By the time I drop her off, we're almost friends. The cool people never ask for my card.


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Hi Remi. Welcome to the site. Thanks for your suggestion. Could you improve the logo? I agree the black is too dark but red, green yellow and blue backgrounds made the brain indistinct. Mostly Zen designed it but he is tied up with exams at the momentDr Joe Kiff 05:47, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
- I will do so asap, maybe this weekend. --Remi Oyen 21:29, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Remi I have just caught up with your new logo and feel it will be an impovement. I will try to load it up and give it a trial. Sorry about the delay it escaped my notice on the recent changes listing Dr Joe Kiff 19:29, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Remi I have had some trouble sorting out how to upload you picture. I have fixed that but am stuck on converting the picture to a ,png file. Are you able to do it? I think it will look a lot cleaner on the page. Thanks again for your efforts. Dr Joe Kiff 00:44, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Remi. I finally sorted out the image and uploaded it. I hope you are pleased with the result. I think we could improve it by adding a frame round it. What do you think. I think it is a definite improvement. Thanks again and sorry about the delay. Dr Joe Kiff 20:37, 12 December 2007 (UTC)


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FLINT, MI – Flint's old-school basketball stars will get a chance to reminisce on their glory days on the hardwood at the AA City Basketball League reunion next weekend.
The event is scheduled for 4-7 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, 2013, at Wally's Restaurant East, 1341 S. Center Rd, Burton.
There are no tickets being sold for the event but a nice buzz is surrounding the reunion, according to organizers. The purchase of a dinner will serve as admission. An open microphone will also be available for anyone who wants to share old stories in front of the crowd.
"What we're doing is trying to get together and have some fun while reminiscing on old times," said Flint's first NBA player Justus Thigpen Sr. "Of course we're going to talk junk. We talked junk then so you know we're going to talk junk when we see them again. It'll bring back good memories."
Thigpen helped organize the event with AA city league legends Monroe Dent and former NBA Draft pick Gene Summers. The Class AA City Recreation Basketball League lasted from the 1950s through the early 2000s and produced some of Flint's most storied games in small gyms all around town.
"We just want to keep the tradition of Flint sports alive with basketball especially," Dent told MLive.com-Flint Journal in December. "Young men have to realize that it's more than just sports, too, but it's about getting along with each other."
For more information on the reunion, contact Monroe Dent at 810-239-6201.


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The Staten Island man who shot and wounded two friends outside a popular New Springville eatery last year has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
Three weeks ago, Jimmy Sanders, 30, of New Brighton, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault stemming from the Nov. 11 shooting outside T.G.I. Friday's. First-degree assault was the top count against him, along with attempted murder.
Sanders, and co-defendant, Orlando Douglas, 25, also of New Brighton, were charged in the 10:30 p.m. attack. Wounded were Sean Dooley of Annadale and Zachariah Gray of New Brighton.
A police source said rivalry over a woman led to the gunplay. The restaurant is located in The Crossings at The Staten Island Mall shopping plaza at 2655 Richmond Ave.
Douglas, who pleaded guilty last week to second-degree criminal weapon possession, is to be sentenced Feb. 19 to two years behind bars.
Stapleton Criminal Court Judge Alan J. Meyer sentenced Sanders on Thursday. Besides prison time, Sanders is subject to five years' post-release supervision. A 15-year protection order for the victims also was imposed.
Assistant District Attorney Jeffrey Curiale is prosecuting the case.
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The U.S. Postal Service is trying hard to get folks interested in their business, and they're even bending a rule on who can be on stamps to make that happen. The organization recently changed its requirement that only people deceased for five years could appear on a stamp.
Now living people, particularly "acclaimed American musicians, sports stars, writers, artists and other nationally known figures," can have a stamp. The Postal Services hopes it will generate interest, as well as revenue, from pop-culture and stamp-collecting fans.
Which living person do you think is most deserving of a commemorative stamp? Is there anyone who you think would cause a stamp-buying frenzy if he or she were on a stamp? Tell us in the comments below?


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The Mountaineer's Route — Page 6
VI. Lower Boy Scout Lake
- John Muir's Classic
- Whitney Portal
- The Mount Whitney Trail
- The North Fork
- Ebersbacher Ledges
- Lower Boy Scout Lake
- The Moraines
- Iceberg Lake
- The East Couloir
- The North Face
- Whitney's Summit
- Heading Down
After the claustrophobic confines of the north fork drainage, it is a relief to at last reach the open vista of Lower Boy Scout Lake, where Mount Whitney's summit and the two Needles make a brief appearance.
I take the opportunity to pump some water and snack on a handful of pretzels. If it seems like it's taken a while to get here, it has! Lower Boy Scout lake sits at 10,300', fully two thousand vertical feet above Whitney Portal and the trailhead.
That makes the lake an excellent place to stop, re-hydrate, and air out the feet—which is exactly what I do. I find nice grassy spot and settle down for a little break.
Lower Boy Scout Lake is considered the first potential camp site along the Mountaineer's Route. At 10,300', it has the advantage of being at a relatively modest elevation, offering warmer weather and less chance of getting sick at night.
But, the area is buggy in summer, and a long way from the summit, so most people choose to camp higher, either at Upper Boy Scout Lake, or Iceberg Lake.
When I pack up and step across the stone path to the opposite side of the lake, I notice a few trout swimming in the shadows.
One of the many pleasures of the Mountaineer's Route is its remarkable variety. The way is broken up into clearly defined sections that bear little resemblance to each other.
This contrast in scenery keeps the route interesting, even in the face of the tremendous vertical distances to be gained. You're always finding something new to look at.
If you're expecting easier going now that we're up above the willows, however, you'll be disappointed. From Lower Boy Scout Lake, a faint use trail quickly leads us to a broad and bare field of talus.
For those of you who are new to talus' pleasures, I won't spoil the fun with too much discussion of it. I will note, however, that for the remainder of the Mountaineer's Route, loose talus and scree will be near-constant companions.
As for routefinding, hikers and climbers can search for cairns to follow through the talus, in hopes of finding easier passage—or you may simply strike off on your own. After about 500 vertical feet of scrambling (that is, after you've had about enough), the route crosses the creek once again, gaining a network of smooth granite slabs.
Here, again, winter snowmelt can be a problem. The slabs lie directly in the creek's path, and in flood seasons, may well be in the creek. Today, however, the slabs are largely bare granite, perfect for avoiding the talus and willows on either side. That eliminates one concern, but I am a little nervous about getting lost in this section.
There is no trail, and there are several critical creek crossings to make to avoid getting trapped in willows, or dead-ended on an impassible slab. Luckily, I stay on-route without having to do any backtracking. Thanks to the hard smooth granite, I make quick time up this section of the climb, and I know Upper Boy Scout Lake can't be far.


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Given Barack Obama's vow to unite the country and extend an olive branch to his erstwhile foes, one of the many hopes kindled by his remarkable victory is that the nation's long, faith-fueled conflict known as the "culture wars" may finally be ending.
Alan Wolfe of Boston College, one of the keenest observers of the nation's religious scene, put it bluntly: "Obama defeated the politics of polarization in the general election - and he did so convincingly."
Yet reports of an impending truce, especially one that sounds like a unilateral surrender by the Christian right, may be exaggerated. In the coming months, a number of struggles will be waged that will show more clearly whether we are in a post-partisan era or merely enjoying a lull before renewed battle.
One fascinating question in this election was whether evangelical Christians were broadening their political palette to include "liberal" concerns like poverty, AIDS reduction, climate change and the like and would vote Democratic. But that didn't happen. The Palin effect and fears about Obama pushed conservative Protestants to back John McCain almost as strongly as they did George W. Bush. Yet McCain still lost.
The temptation is to fight on. "This is no time for surrender or the abandonment of our core principles," R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote after Obama's win. Others were more pointed. Tom Hess of the political action arm of Focus on the Family, led by the Rev. James Dobson, drew a parallel between American Christians under Obama and biblical times, when the Israelites were subjected to "pagan rulers" like Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king who sent the Israelites into exile. That repression eventually led to triumph. "God can use any president for his own purposes," Tom Minnery, senior vice president for public policy at Focus on the Family, said.
It's an appealing approach, and victimhood is a surefire fundraising tactic. But in the meantime, what of the issues the religious right considers so pressing, like protection for the unborn?
Look at the headlines and you'd think Catholic pastors were going in one direction and the flock in the other. And there is some truth to that, as lay Catholics went for Obama by a 54-45 margin while many bishops warned the faithful that Obama was "pro-abortion" and voting for him could endanger their souls. But a closer look shows several other fault lines: One is that white Catholics went for McCain 52-47, while Latinos - the demographic future of American Catholicism - went heavily for Obama. Moreover, despite the blasts of some bishops, the hierarchy is itself divided over how to approach electoral issues, with some advocating a more nuanced approach. In fact, the bishops will debate this yet again when they gather in Baltimore this week.
"Because those who reject traditional values and religion voted heavily for Barack Obama, it's a sure bet the culture war will only get hotter," William Donohue, head of the conservative Catholic League, said after Election Day. "We expect to be quite busy."
In defeat, many Republicans are dispirited or plain angry and they are demanding a re-examination of party doctrines to see what needs changing. This identity crisis is expected to reopen the rift between social and fiscal conservatives. The former say go harder on faith issues; the latter say mixing religion and politics led to this pass and the party must become more moderate.
Much is at stake. "Will the Republican Party decide that conservative Christians are just too troublesome for the party and see the pro-life movement as a liability?" Mohler wrote in his analysis. "There is the real danger that the Republicans, stung by this defeat, will adopt a libertarian approach to divisive moral issues and show conservative Christians the door." If that happens, religious conservatives would be political orphans.
As president, Barack Obama will face a similar tug of war, only from the liberal side. The conflict over gay marriage will endure, and Obama's desire to finesse it by supporting only civil unions will put him in a bind if court rulings force his hand. But abortion will pose the toughest test. Obama campaigned on the argument that the two sides in the abortion battle could find common ground on "reducing" (rather than simply outlawing) abortions through social policies such as those supporting pregnant women. But abortion advocates are leery that those policies wil impinge on reproductive rights, while progressive believers like Jim Wallis, a leader in the so-called religious left that rallied liberals for Obama, said anti-abortion progressives would hold Obama to "a serious commitment to abortion reduction."
Economics is the dismal science, and lately it has been especially bleak for Americans in general and religious conservatives in particular. For all the prophesying about the evils of an Obama win, social issues like abortion and gay marriage barely registered with voters. The economy, the war, terrorism, health care and energy, were paramount. Moreover, the loss of faith in free markets has tarnished religious conservatives by association. Capitalism as religion is also increasingly questioned by evangelicals who want public policy to better mirror their personal social justice views. Is a reformation at hand?
Right now there are more questions than answers. But after so many years of rancor and with so much at stake for both sides, it may pay to wait a bit before beating those swords into plowshares.
David Gibson, author of the "The Rule of Benedict: Pope Benedict XVI and His Battle with the Modern World," is a frequent religious affairs commentator.
If religious conservatives were left orphans by the GOP, it would be the best thing to ever happen toAmerica since the GOP ended slavery.
The Rockefeller wing of the GOP is stodgy, dull, and intellectually vapid. Like McCain, it wants an American military in 100 countries, jobs in Red China and open borders with amnesty, to boot. This is good for the corporists, but bad for America, as evidenced by empty factories and mills and record unemployment and debt.
The New World Order of Bush and Obama is bad for America.
A Judeo-Christian party could grab 40% of the vote in 2012, and take over the country by 2016. "America before corporations, family before government, patriotism before profits, and prosperity for all" might be a timely platform.
Americans are sick of world wars, open borders, illegitimacy, abortion, crime, debt, taxes in a hundred disguises, and lies from both political parties. For our children's sake, it's time to march.
"The Rockefeller wing of the GOP is stodgy, dull, and intellectually vapid. Like McCain, it wants an American military in 100 countries, jobs in Red China and open borders with amnesty, to boot. This is good for the corporists, but bad for America, as evidenced by empty factories and mills and record unemployment and debt."
I agree. As long as there's money to be made, the "Old" of the GOP deosn't really care where it comes from. If profits can be made by lower labor costs in China, or imported labor sneaking across the border, so be it. Profits are what fuels Wall Street. The social costs of all this are not measured in their equations.
The "old" of the GOP will respond by creating jobs that rival third world countries, their argument being "it keeps the masses busy" where otherwise they would be out of work completely. Sounds like the 5 year plans in Communist Russia.
I think the Romans called this "bread and circus"
neither party has any real defining principles anymore. So why angst over what will the parties look like in the future. Both parties WANT TO WIN to get the benefits of winning distributed to their acolytes. Right now they are both empire builders, imperial warmongers, and hell bent free trade advocates. Globalization has really made countries and their petty sovereignties anachronisms easily disposed by the "policeman of the world" the USA. The real engine of this capitalist system runs on either Republican or Democratic fuels just add a little more air here and there. The "working class",so badly chopped up and subdivided by the captains of capitalism, the robber barons and now the financial engineering wizards, will be ground into so much canon fodder for the many wars ahead. A call to service is a death sentence for more "working class" people and the people should fight any draft or para-military service that would be used for acquiring more treasures for the "exceptional" USA. Fight the "Country First" momentum from this campaign for it is a clarion call to Fascism!
The citizens have voted and they have given the helm to Obama and the Democrats. Either the world is ready for peace to guide the planet in this age of Aquarius, or it isn't. That Obama has picked Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff kind of tells me that he wants to remain cerebral and ethereal while Rahm gets to be the acting scourge of God.
I don't really think Obama has any idea how to guide this ship of state other than by spending other people's money - the American's and the Chinese. He says the decision on when life begins is "way above his pay grade" and yet he has no hesitancy about allowing it in every circumstance - even those that would make a Planned Parenthood worker puke. I guess I am answering your question - the culture wars are dormant, but they are by no means gone.
In the spirit of fairness and bipartisanship as promoted by Democrats and President-Elect Obama, Senator McCain should share the presidency with BHObama...it is only fair that the power should be spread with the runners up. It would be the American way of keeping balance and justice by allowing the Republicans equal representation in the congress and senate and state houses across the country. After all, it's not fair that those who lost the election should be punished for the failed policies of governing in the past.
It doesn't shock me at all that the hispanics turned on McCain. He threw his political career under his "straight lie" express the minute he picked illegal mestizos over his fellow Americans. Would illegal aliens pick Obama over McCain? Of course they would side with a rabid socialist filled with ideas of Marxist grandeur. They will always pick the candidate that will give them free reign to live off of the working people of the U.S. That is why many of them came here in the first place. McCain wanted amnesty for the illegals and it seems that he lost much of his base because of that. I know I personally remembered what he did in the voting booth last Tuesday; I voted for a third party. BlarneyBoy makes a great point about the secession of the GOP Judeo-Christian conservatives from the Bush/McCain Republicrats. The best thing we can do is punish those turncoats for selling us down the river and a new impressive conservative third party is what we need.. Until then, we'll live under Obama and we'll survive..
tmdcedar: Obama might share the political persuasion by
appointing Republicans, like, for instance, Gen. Colin Powell.
The General endorsed Obama, but he is still a Republican.
If McCain had won, would you still call for sharing the political power?
I don't think so.
P.S. At least McCain has a heart. Remember...
'It's better to have a bleeding heart than no heart at all'.
The center leaning McCain lost. And with him, this ridiculous notion that the Republican Party should move to the center. Wrong! We tried that and it failed.
Beware my friends, you are going to see numerous pondering like the one offered by the author. Don't be fooled. The goal is to destroy the Republican party. It's not enough to win, liberals want to destroy all opposition like the true Socialists that they are.
And by the way, Dave, poverty, AIDS reduction, and climate change are not liberal concerns. They are concerns everyone has.
This is a quick quiz: can anyone name a prominent figure for Peace who has endorsed Obama? Can you guess why so many Republican newspapers/pundits/neocon policy wonks endorsed Obama(hint: fellow traveler). Why did Obama ignore the Peace legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King throughout his post-nomination campaign? Does Obama realize he is supporting the violent/disgraceful/illegal/immoral Bush Doctrine in his determination to attack Iran? Why isn't the fourth estate doing its job AGAIN? Obama is getting a very free ride at the peril of mankind. Remember Hiroshima-Never Again!


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Q: Hey, Hoynsie: Did the Indians' front office attend the winter meetings? -- Rob Lewis, Cleveland
A: Hey, Rob: You have a lot of nerve. The Indians acquired Paul Phillips at the winter meetings.
Q: Hey, Hoynsie: Do you think the Tribe pulled the trigger too soon in hiring Manny Acta last year? Toronto acquired John Farrell as their manager this off-season. -- Gareth Harris, Westlake
A: Hey, Gareth: Farrell was a candidate for the Indians' job before they hired Acta. He removed himself from consideration. What did you want the Indians to do? Go a year without a manager so Farrell could turn them down again this winter?
Q: Hey, Hoynsie: Wondering when you think the Tribe will contend again and make the playoffs? -- Johnny D'Ambrosia, Garfield Heights
A: Hey, Johnny: Contention and making the playoffs are different things. I think the Indians have a chance to contend in 2012. If they don't make the postseason by 2013 or 2014, you're probably looking at another rebuild unless the finances of the club change dramatically.
Q: Hey, Hoynsie: With ex-Indian Ryan Garko surprisingly heading off to South Korea, is there any truth to the rumor that the Indians' brain trust surreptitiously sold Garko to the Korean army to take Shin-Soo Choo's place? -- Eddie Johansson, El Dorado, Texas
A: Hey, Eddie: Somehow I missed that on the transaction report.
Q: Hey, Hoynsie: Maybe I am in the minority, but I can't help but feel the need to grant the front office and owners of the Indians a pass when it comes to this offseason's lack of activity. When you look at the roster, outside of third base, the team is
pretty much set with players that team has to look at. While none are
bonafide superstars outside of Shin-Soo Choo and, hopefully, yet again Grady
Sizemore, we do have more than enough bodies to fill out the 25-man roster. We were last in the league in attendance and were the youngest team in the majors at season's end, so what do fans expect? -- David Buona, Erie, Pa.
A: Hey, David: As I've said before, the Indians have spent the last three seasons trading their established veterans for younger players to rebuild the club. They have to give them a chance to play. If they can't play, the people who made the deals will pay a price.
Q: Hey, Hoynsie: What happened to Ryan Garko after the Indians traded him to San Francisco in 2009? -- Rich Smith, Columbus.
A: :Hey, Rich: Garko has limitations. He can't run, he's not a good defender and he doesn't hit for all that much power.
I still think in the right situation, he can be an effective big league hitter. He proved in 2008 with the Indians that he can be a solid run producer (90 RBI with only 14 RBI).
What hurt him the last two years with the Giants and Texas is that he had a hard time adjusting to coming off the bench. At this point in his career, he's going to have to overcome that or make a career for himself in Korea.
At this point Garko is bench-player/DH. The trend in the AL is to look for more versatile players at DH, someone who can play a position. That's working against Garko as well.
Q: Hey, Hoynsie: The fact that Albert Belle would have creamed LeBron James the first time he came down the lane is the reason the '95 Tribe is at the top of my list of
favorite Cleveland pro sports teams. Watching him take violent practice swings as he stepped out of the batter's box, you knew the pitcher was looking into the dugout thinking "get me out of here". That team was fun to follow on a number of levels, best of which was the intimidation factor. --Steve Cornelius, Avon Lake.
A: Hey, Steve: Jim Thome always said that the 1995 Indians beat some teams just by walking on the field for batting practice.
Q: Hey Hoynsie: With the shocker that is Cliff Lee's return to Philly, I wonder if the
Yankees and Rangers will be desperate to add a pitcher via trade now that the crown jewel is off the market. Could this create a market for the Tribe to capitalize and add some very good prospects for Fausto Carmona as it appears Kansas City will not move Zack Greinke? -- Scott S., Philadelphia.
A: Hey, Scott: The Yankees and Rangers apparently share your thoughts. It sounds as if they've already talked to the Tribe about Carmona.
I can't see it happening. The Indians need young, affordable and durable starting pitchers. Carmona meets all those criteria and is the only proven 200-innings starter on the staff.
Why would the Indians trade him?
Q. Hey, Hoynsie: Since agents such as Scott Boras consider the Indians a "developmental" team how realistic is it for the Indians to be able to attract any big name free agents in 2012 (even if they had the money to spend)? -- Myers, St. Louis.
A: Hey, Mel: It's not realistic at all. CEO Paul Dolan said in November the Indians are never going to be able to compete for star-quality free agents. If the timing is right, providing the "cycle of contention' is in full swing, they could pursue a B-list free agent.
If the Indians should start winning again, the direction could change. If a team wins, and consistently makes the postseason, good players will come its way.
Q. Hey, Hoynsie: Now that Cliff Lee has signed with the Phillies, it has been reported that they are looking to trade Joe Blanton and are open to paying some of his salary. Would he fit the bill for the veteran starter the Tribe is looking for? -- Rich Smith, Columbus.
A: Hey, Rich: Blanton, 30, has been an effective starter. He's 72-60 with a 4.30 ERA in his career and has experience in the AL with Oakland.
He's going to make $8.5 million in 2011 and $8.5 million in 2012. Even if the Phillies ate a big chunk of the contract, I think he'd bee too expensive for the Indians. If the Phillies did eat the lion's share of the deal, the Indians would have to give up a better brand of prospects.
There are other teams out there who can absorb more of Blanton's contract than the Tribe. He's a fit for a big-spending team. . .like Detroit.
Q: Hey, Hoynsie: Do you think that the Tribe has to play .500 ball next year for the
front office and manager Manny Acta to keep their jobs? -- Roberta Gregg, Ashland.
A: Hey, Roberta,
No, I don't. If we've learned anything from the Dolan ownership it's been that they aren't ruled by knee-jerk reactions.
The Indians were 69-93 last year. If they finished .500 next year, that would represent a big improvement. I think what the Dolans, President Mark Shapiro and GM Chris Antonetti want to see is steady improvement in the standings and in individual players.
-- Hoynsie


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Seventeen floors above East 65th street, Richa Gulati and her husband Ajay have created a terrace haven.
Their apartment is full of soothing shades of white and cream, with beautiful wood carvings and bursts of fuschia and violet throughout. The colors carry directly out onto the terrace, with petunias, African violets, salvia, pink geraniums, and other flowers blooming in the same bright palette.
"We always say we're going to do tropical yellows or reds one year, but then we actually go and buy plants, and we pick the same pinks and purples every time," Richa laughs. Not much of a problem, because Richa and Ajay do an amazing job with the the pinks and purples. They're repeated and varied just enough to keep things punchy and relaxing at the same time.
The purple and pink wave petunias (on the left) lap up the terrace sun and will soon cascade over the sides of the planter boxes.
The carved wood bench at the far end of the terrace just begs you to take a seat in the shade of the arborvitaes. The coffee table holds the herb garden, and the bench is flanked with the beautifully varied blooms of pink hydrangeas.
Arcing magnolia branches, spiky pennisetum, and more bright petunias, all outline the view.
And the woman who makes it all happen! Thanks, Richa, for letting me sneak a peek at your beautiful space!


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By Karen R. Long
Plain Dealer Book Editor
Whatever your opinion of Harry Potter, the boy wizard can move product.
The final book retails for $5 more than its predecessor two years ago, but don't imagine your bookseller cashing in. Neither is the online giant, Amazon.com, even as it mobilizes to distribute more than 1.6 million copies of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" Saturday.
When it comes to the loopy economics of J.K. Rowling's series, the pot of gold looks more like a leaky cauldron.
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, told shareholders that the company won't make a profit from its military-scale, satellite-guided distribution of the book. By slashing the retail price, all he can hope for is repeat business.
If the online leader finds itself neutralized selling the most popular book in history, consider Liz Murphy, owner of The Learned Owl in Hudson.
She expects thousands of Potterheads to converge Friday night as she hosts the last giddy transformation of her picturesque town into Diagon Alley. And while her phone won't stop ringing, and her bookstore has tallied 1,700 advance orders, all Murphy desires -- after collapsing Saturday -- is to break even.
"This year I got smart and hired an event coordinator and a publicist," said the dignified Murphy, who has arranged for a cadre of artists to paint Potter-themed windows for some 60 Hudson businesses. "I'm sleeping at night, at least a little. But I have my entire staff working on Harry Potter, and it's expensive to produce a party for 20,000.
"I'll be happy to break even. I might not even do that."
No theater would slash the ticket price for a new Harry Potter movie, but Murphy finds she, too, must discount the book. Her decision to give 10 percent of her take to the charity First Book of Akron seems to have spurred orders.
Some booksellers who reveled in the initial Potter phenomena show battle fatigue now. And as the discounts became embedded -- and expected -- peddling Potter near cost can feel like the equivalent of free downloads of music.
"I'm going to be glad when Saturday is over," said Jane Kessler, who owns Appletree Books in Cleveland Heights. "What a headache. Everybody is in a dither."
The 86-year-old proprietor won't host a midnight extravaganza. She decided an 8 a.m. breakfast with the 764-page book was ample. She is also offering a 25 percent discount.
"It sells because both parents and children are reading it," said Kessler, who was a child psychologist on the faculty of Case Western Reserve University before she bought Appletree. "It gives children a big ego boost to be reading an adult-sized book."
Publishers could wish for a little of that magic
Scholastic Books looked clairvoyant in 1996, when it bid $105,000 for U.S. rights to Rowling's then-unpublished first book, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." The sixth book accounted for 8 percent of Scholastic's revenues and one-third of profits in the fiscal year that ended May 2006.
And yet, Scholastic's stock is below where it was five years ago, although it is up nearly 28 percent from July 2006, a Potterless year. Financial analysts complain that the company loses focus in the strain of bringing out the books, whose press run logs a mind-boggling 12 million copies this year.
It's worse for Bloomsbury, the British publishing house responsible for giving Rowling a chance. Even as Bloomsbury holds rights to all her books outside the United States, its stock has shriveled 40 percent in the last year -- the victim of investor fear that it has become a one-trick pony.
In a reversal of the classic shafted-writer story, the individual poised to make millions from the last book is Rowling herself, money that will join her estimated net worth of $1.2 billion before this final flourish.
What of the other writers waiting to be published?
Suzanne DeGaetano, co-owner of Mac's Backs, sees Harry Potter not as a profit center, but an opportunity to stitch her store more snuggly into the fabric of the Coventry community. She is setting up a typewriter Friday night on the sidewalk for fans to write their own endings and is dressing up as the character Nymphadora Tonks.
"I feel really privileged to be part of this world and all the excitement," DeGaetano said. "Customers come in, and we talk endlessly about the books. This is like the 500-year flood. Harry Potter is the 500-year book."
Even if a publisher has nothing to do with Potter -- like David Gray of Gray & Co. in Cleveland -- he finds his own printing delayed, as production of so many copies of one children's book warps press capacity.
"And what of the writer or publisher trying to score magazine, TV or radio time this summer for his sensitive first novel or delightful beach read?" Publisher's Weekly Editor Sara Nelson asked in her column. "Good luck: summer 2007 is already and will forever be remembered as all Harry Potter, all the time."
Dave Ferrante, who in February opened Visible Voice in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood, took 30 orders for the final book just by answering his phone. He decided his bookstore is too new to host a party, but his manager and he toyed with breaking the bookselling embargo as a way to generate some outlaw publicity.
Reportedly, a retailer in New York sold an embargoed copy to The New York Times, which reviewed the book Thursday The Baltimore Sun also published a Thursday review, justifying it as news.
Meanwhile, some 1,527 cost-conscious readers have reserved "Deathly Hallows" from the Cuyahoga County Public Library.
To satisfy the first batch of borrowers, library truck drivers must muster themselves to work in Parma at 4 a.m. They will deliver hundreds of copies of "Deathly Hallows" to all 28 branches before doors open at 9 a.m. Saturday.
So far, some 570 readers who got on the list early have notified librarians that they'll skip the delivery and be at Parma headquarters to begin their final sortie with Harry Potter. They can expect punch from a cauldron. Free reading starts at midnight.
Harry by the numbers
64 -- Number of living languages the books have been translated into. (It also has been translated into Latin).
$500 million -- Estimated cost of Universal Orlando's Harry Potter attraction, scheduled to open in 2009.
325 million -- Copies of the first six books sold in the Harry Potter series.
$34.99 -- Cover price of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."
$17.99 -- Discount price on Amazon.com.


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Would you make your child go through unnecessary surgery just so kids wouldnt make fun of them?
Wow,that is SAD!I would NEVER keep my child from doing something that would help her physically,especially if surgery could be avoided!
That is ridiculous. How us falling down all the time and/or walking funny not any less humiliating than wearing the braces?! My niece had to wear braces below the knee on both legs for about a year but it was in kindergarten. I don't think she even remembers it and nobody teased her. When they made them they let her pick the strap color and she even got to pick what the plastic part would look like so hers had butterflies. There are so many things that can go wrong with surgery I would go for the least invasive way possible.


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No place, not the most backward dictatorship, not the most oppressive theocracy, not even Texas, can match the rate at which Louisiana locks up its citizens.
If there is one issue on which wishy washy liberals and mossback conservatives can agree, it is that we have to quit handing out long stretches to minor offenders. The days when we could afford to lock 'em all up and throw away the key are just a fond memory.
But the habit of mindless cruelty is a hard one to break. A dumb pothead can still get the same treatment as Public Enemy No. 1.
That has just happened in St. Tammany Parish, where the cops found two pounds of marijuana, a scale and $1,600 cash at a Slidell house where Cornell Hood II, 35, lived with his mother and his son. Hood, having failed to mend his ways after getting probation for each of three earlier convictions in New Orleans, was clearly asking for some jail time.
But the life sentence he drew was savage and pointless. Violent criminals who represent a real threat to society often get less time than that. Drunk drivers who kill do five years. The jury that found Hood guilty of attempted possession and distribution cannot have dreamed he would be permanently removed from circulation.
The crime of which Hood was convicted carries a maximum sentence of 15 years -- enough, you might think, to satisfy the most rock-ribbed prosecutor. But St. Tammany DA Walter Reed's office chose to invoke a law that allows draconian penalties for repeat offenders. That law prescribes life for three drug convictions where the maximum sentence in each case is 10 years.
It thus put Hood on the same footing as habitual perpetrators of violent crimes or sexual assaults on minors.
There may be times when the public safety obliges prosecutors to multiple-bill a defendant. There may even be times when it is appropriate for a drug dealer. But such penny-ante offenders as Hood do not belong in this league. The habitual-offender statute lumps them in because the legislators who passed it were in constant terror of being labeled soft on crime and were in too much of a frenzy over drugs to display any sense of proportion.
Although the habitual-offender law is applied at the discretion of prosecutors, judges have no leeway at sentencing. Once it had been established that Hood was a four-time loser, Raymond Childress had to give him a one-way ticket up the river.
The big knock on Louisiana's high incarceration rate is that vast numbers of potentially productive citizens are removed from the game while their children are left in the lurch. Hood evidently harbored some ambition to improve himself and, presumably, provide for his son, because, when the cops raided his house, they found his application for a student loan.
It is unlikely that he would have excelled academically, however. He got in trouble again through his own stupid fault after failing to learn his lesson from his earlier brushes with the criminal justice system.
Hood was convicted of marijuana distribution in New Orleans at the end of 2009, receiving a suspended five-year sentence, which was a bit of a break, given his record. Soon thereafter he moved to Slidell and asked to be switched from his New Orleans probation officer to one in St. Tammany.
His wish was granted and St. Tammany probation officer Dustin Munlin duly showed up at the house, which he found plentifully stocked with weed. The cops were called, and Hood was booked with one count of possession with intent to distribute. The time had come for the courts to quit pussyfooting around with this turkey. A sharp dose of jail was need to scare him straight.
Instead, once Hood had been convicted on the reduced charge of attempted possession, assistant DA Nick Noriega charged him as what the paper termed a "career criminal." Given that Hood left all the evidence lying around for Munlin to find, he was obviously not exactly a consummate professional.
He certainly earned some punishment, although anything more than a few years would have been excessive. Life is obscene.
ames Gill is a columnist for The Times-Picayune. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Penn State might see its 2015 recruiting class grow in the very near future.
New head coach James Franklin and his staff welcomed three Pennsylvania targets, Bishop McDevitt RB Andre Robinson, Archbishop Wood LB Jake Cooper and Great Valley DE Ryan Buchholz, to campus Monday afternoon.
All three juniors are on unofficial visits.
Cooper and Buchholz are strong candidates to choose Penn State sooner than later.
Each three-star prospect has indicated they are leaning toward the Nittany Lions. And Archbishop Wood offensive lineman Ryan Bates, already a verbal commit for PSU, is a teammate of Cooper's.
Robinson, who rushed for 2,336 yards, 29 touchdowns and averaged 8.9 yards per carry, is not going to make a final decision anytime soon.
The consensus four-star running back recently picked up an offer from Ohio State and is getting plenty of attention nationwide.
Penn State currently has four verbal declarations for the 2015 recruiting class, including two of the top 10 recruits in Pennsylvania.
Three of the four players in the current class are rated as four-star recruits – a strong start to this class for Franklin and the Nittany Lions.
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On 2012-02-03, at 1:33 PM, Richard Solomon wrote: > I had a similar case. A House down the street was listed in MLS as "No Deed > Restrictions". When I got the deed to review, it came with 19 pages of CC&R's. > > It makes no difference what the Realtor says. If you buy it, you own it. If > you > didn't review the Deed or have a Lawyer review it, you are OOL !! Just > remember, > you sign the Purchase & Sale Agreement and whatever passes for a Sales > Contract in your state. Hi Guys, It still just blows me away how some person, or person(s), can dictate to you BEYOND the purchase of your property, just what, exactly, you can & can not do with something that you own, pay taxes on out of your own pocket, insure with your own monies, etc. etc. etc. And I thought that we lived in a free country, i.e. the USA & Canada...! Unbelievable. ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list email@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
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