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- Zero S Electric Motorcycle
Earlier this month I got an up-close and personal look at a high performance green ride from Zero Motorcycles. Showcased at a gathering of the Chicago Clean Energy Alliance (CCEA), the Zero S street bike was a crowd pleaser to this group of over 450 eco professionals from the windy city. We love that this bike is 100% electric powered, charges in under four hours, and is a top contender for performance and quality. Mike Mastrangelo, lifetime motorcycle enthusiast and also a distributor for Zero Motorcycles, was at the event and gave me the inside scoop about why he loved this bike so much that he went to work for the company.1
- Zero S Electric MotorcycleAlthough Mastrangelo loves the green features of this pristine two-wheeler, the first thing he wanted to tell me about was how the bike feeds his need for speed.2
- Zero S Electric MotorcycleThe bike gets up to 67mph, but as many would agree, this is perfect for an urban dweller.3
- Zero S Electric MotorcycleOne charge will last up to 50 miles, but it can be conveniently plugged into any 110v or 220v outlet. Motorheads out there would probably like to know that the Zero S has fantastic handling with a 31 peak horsepower and 62.5 ft/lbs of torque, which is similar to a 250cc gas powered motorcycle.4
- Zero S Electric MotorcycleI did not get to test drive the bike around the 96th floor of the Hancock building at the CCEA meeting this week, but Popular Science has a detailed test drive report for those looking for some more sensual feedback about the ride.5
- Zero S Electric MotorcycleI was skeptical when Mastrangelo told me that all of the bike's parts are recyclable. I did some homework to fact check, and he was almost right on. Most of the parts, including the aircraft grade aluminum frame, are fully recyclable. At a weight of only 18 pounds, the frame also helps the bike to be the lightest in its class totaling 225lbs.6
- Zero S Electric MotorcycleZero S uses a completely non-toxic lithium ion array and is claiming that it is landfill approved in the United States and Europe.7
- Zero S Electric MotorcycleMastrangelo went on to tell me that he admires the design of this bike because the company did not treat it as a retrofit of a gas powered bike with a cleaner technology. Zero Motorcycles took years to perfect develop the Zero S, and they started from the ground up by making their patent pending battery pack the centerpiece.8
- Zero S Electric MotorcycleThe Zero S is Zero Motorcycle's first street legal bike, but if off-roading is more your style, they have models to fit those needs.9
- Zero S Electric MotorcycleWith zero operating emissions, the electric charge is the only environmental contributor. But they only amount to less than one-eighth of the CO2 pollution that a gas powered motorcycle would produce per mile.10
- Zero S Electric MotorcycleThe thing that really shocked me was that I didn't realize that the bike was idling throughout my entire interview with Mike! It was completely silent. It didn't shake or give off fumes, or any of the other nasty things that might be associated with a gas powered cycle. A+ for reduction of noise pollution! Statistics on the Zero Motorcycle website say that the low volume power means that the bike produces only 1/100th of the smog causing nitrous oxides when compared to growling gas guzzlers.11
- Zero S Electric MotorcycleNow for what everyone wants to know: how much does it cost? At $9,950, the Zero S is competitively priced with other electric bikes and also qualifies for the recently approved 10% Federal plug-in vehicle tax credit (a sales tax deduction) as well as other rebates in select states.12
- Zero S Electric MotorcycleZero S's Lithium-manganese battery is custom-built and accounts for 50% of the machine's overall price tag. The proprietary Z-Force™ technology is encased almost entirely in copper, which is intended to disperses cell-damaging heat 5 times more effectively than most steel housing units, and therefore have a longer battery life.13
Zero S Electric Motorcycle
Earlier this month I got an up-close and personal look at a high performance green ride from Zero Motorcycles. Showcased at a gathering of the Chicago Clean Energy Alliance (CCEA), the Zero S street bike was a crowd pleaser to this group of over 450 eco professionals from the windy city. We love that this bike is 100% electric powered, charges in under four hours, and is a top contender for performance and quality. Mike Mastrangelo, lifetime motorcycle enthusiast and also a distributor for Zero Motorcycles, was at the event and gave me the inside scoop about why he loved this bike so much that he went to work for the company.


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Nic Balthazar's follow-up to festival favorite BEN X is this heart-warming but gut-wrenching film about friendship and death, based on the true story of Belgian politician Mario Verstraete, who fought to legalize euthanasia after his multiple sclerosis diagnosis. Slowly losing his faculties, Mario can't stand to sit around and experience his inevitable decline, instead preferring to go out on top, with his family and friends by his side. But Thomas, his best friend and doctor, struggles with saying goodbye. Warm and humorous in dealing with the gravest of topics, this life-affirming tearjerker won Best Film and Best Actor at the Flemish Film Awards.
DIR/SCR Nic Balthazar; PROD Peter Bouckaert. Belgium, 2012, color, 120 min. In Dutch with English subtitles. Digital presentation. NOT RATED S L
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New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning delivered another razor-sharp performance, and running back Andre Brown ran in a pair of touchdowns, as the defending Super Bowl champions steamrolled the Carolina Panthers 36-7 in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday.
Manning, who threw for a career-best 510 yards and three touchdowns against Tampa Bay on Sunday, completed 27 passes for 288 yards and a touchdown before being relieved by backup David Carr in the fourth quarter as the Giants improved to 2-1.
Manning, last season's Super Bowl Most Valuable Player, outshone NFL rookie of the year Cam Newton, who had a tough time against the Giants defense, completing 16 of 30 passes for 242 yards with three interceptions as the Panthers fell to 1-2.
While New York kept the dynamic Newton in check, holding the slippery quarterback to just six yards rushing on six carries and one touchdown, Manning shredded the Carolina defense and manufactured points from the Giants' first four possessions.
New York took the opening kickoff and marched 80 yards in eight plays, Manning firing a 14-yard touchdown strike to Martellus Bennett as the Panthers allowed their opponents to score on the opening drive for the third consecutive game.
"We talked about getting a fast start, jump out to a lead," Manning told reporters. "Get the ball, go 80 yards for a touchdown, that was a great start. It set the tempo for the whole game and we kept it going."
Lawrence Tynes booted a 47-yard field goal to give the visitors a 10-0 first quarter advantage and the Giants kept up the pace in the second, scoring on their first possession when Brown barreled over from a yard out and Tynes kicked a 49-yarder to make it 20-0 at halftime. Brown, getting his first start in place of injured Ahmad Bradshaw, ran for a career-high 113 yards on 20 carries.
The second half was more of the same, the Giants capitalizing on a Panthers turnover to go 23-0 ahead with a 30-yard Tynes field goal.
The Panthers offense finally let loose and Newton led a 13-play drive before diving over for a touchdown from the one-yard line.
Tynes was on target again with a 36-yard field goal to pad New York's lead to 26-7 entering the final quarter.
In the fourth, Brown ran in another one-yard touchdown and Tynes completed the rout with a 27-yard kick, his fifth field goal of the game.
"We played well, but settled for too many field goals maybe," Manning said. "But we had a good game plan and ran the ball really well. When we can run the ball everything starts clicking."


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Vanya, Vanechka, etc.
"Let it be known to you that I will always protect him. But as for my wishes in the matter, there I reserve complete freedom for myself. Don't condemn me, and don't look on me as a villain."
Ivan (Vanya, Vanechka, etc.) is the intellectual. The second legitimate son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamozov and the first by his second wife, Ivan is a deep thinker--too deep, perhaps. His religious views are controversial--he professes atheism, but has trouble justifying his own morality without a basis on religion. Nevertheless, he is a good man, though he blames himself for his father's murder as he spoke his own views too freely in front of those who could not handle their implications safely. He made a name for himself anonymously, essentially doing freelance journalism, while paying his own way through the university. He slowly drives himself to insanity through self-inflicted feelings of guilt, however, finally breaking down completely at Dmitriy's trial. Luckily for him, Katerina has no problem with him staying at her house--though whether to recover or to die, the book never says.
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-Intelligent and rational
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They scored 30% on Ivan, higher than 48% of your peers.
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They scored 13% on Dmitriy, higher than 67% of your peers.
They scored 20% on Pavel, higher than 75% of your peers.
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Betty Jean Ham, age 71, a former resident of Fort Scott and more recently of Oklahoma, died Friday, Dec. 7, 2007, at the Forrest Manor Nursing Home in Dewey, Okla.
She was born Dec. 27, 1935 in Fort Scott, Kansas, the daughter of Aaron VanDyke and Pearl Freese VanDyke.
She married Jack Ham on Dec. 11, 1955 in Fort Scott. Mrs. Ham worked for Key Industries and later retired from Ennis Business Forms after working there for over thirty years.
She moved to Oklahoma in November to be near her son.
Survivors include her husband, Jack, of Bartlesville, Okla.; a son, J.D. Ham, Bartlesville, Okla.; a daughter, Belinda Cushard, Belton, Mo., and two grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; twin daughters, Brenda and Glenda Ham; two brothers, Hubert and Elmer VanDyke, and a sister, Margie Logan.
The Rev. Jared Witt will conduct funeral services at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007, at the Cheney Witt Memorial Chapel. Burial will follow in the Evergreen Cemetery.
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The Internal Revenue Service has announced the details of the filing and payment extensions for those affected by the events that unfolded in Boston yesterday. Here's the official statement last night:
Our hearts go out to those affected by the terrible tragedy. Boston-area taxpayers need time to finish their tax returns without worry. The IRS will be providing individual tax filing and payment extensions. Details will be announced tomorrow, Tuesday, April 16.
This evening, the IRS announced that relief in the way of a three-month tax filing and payment extension is available to Boston area taxpayers and others affected by the explosions. The relief applies to all individual taxpayers who live in Suffolk County, Massachusetts (including the city of Boston) as well as victims, their families, first responders, others impacted by this tragedy who live outside Suffolk County and taxpayers whose tax preparers were adversely affected.
The extension will be automatic for Suffolk County residents; you don't have to do anything further. If you live outside Suffolk County, you can claim relief by calling the IRS at 1-866-562-5227 beginning next week, Tuesday, April 23, 2013, before you file a return or making a payment. If, however, you end up with a penalty notice when you were eligible for relief, you'll want to call that same number to have the penalties abated.
With the extension, eligible taxpayers have until July 15, 2013, to file their individual tax returns for 2012. If you need more time after July 15, 2013, you can file a request for an additional extension to October 15, 2013 (using the same form as always, good ol' form 4868).
You still have to pay any taxes due by July 15, 2013, in order to avoid filing and payment penalties. By law, interest on payments due on April 15, 2013, cannot be abated.
If you still have questions, give the IRS a call at 1.800.829.1040.
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The holidays are upon us, and with them comes the annual choice of whether to surrender to or resist their cheery traditions. Clearly intent on your surrender, the Actors' Playhouse in Coral Gables is presenting Annie, a big traditional musical staged in a big traditional way. But whereas past holiday shows at the playhouse have centered on the company's first-rate production team as the main attraction, Annie adds a welcome surprise: an impressive array of first-rate performances. And for now, at least, Actors' Playhouse lives up to its name.
As you probably already know, Annie is based on characters and story lines from the old-time comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," and the musical retains the gee-whiz cartoonish style of its source. Annie doesn't try to reinvent the Broadway musical but is pretty much a retro homage to it. Its creators all have Broadway pedigrees. Composer Charles Strouse wrote the tunes for Applause and Bye Bye Birdie. Three-time Tony-winning playwright Thomas Meehan penned Hairspray, The Producers, and the upcoming Bombay Dreams, which is scheduled to hit the Broadway stage in April. The story, set at Christmastime during the Great Depression, follows little Annie's attempts to run away from her dreary all-girls orphanage to find her long-lost parents. Instead, she encounters billionaire Oliver Warbucks, who takes a shine to her and wants to help her quest. But trouble shows up, in the persons of the child-hating, scheming orphanage director, Miss Hannigan, and her lowlife hustler brother, Rooster. They plan to pose Rooster and his gum-snapping tootsie as Annie's parents to collect a reward that Warbucks has posted.
Annie's story line has its charm, and so does its tuneful, rather simple score. But the clear attraction in this production is its splendid performances, which are not only well-sung but particularly well-acted. John Herrera, a Tony nominee from New York (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), makes a fine Warbucks, offering more emotional range and texture than Albert Finney did in the movie version. Like the male leads in several recent Playhouse shows, including The King & I and The Sound of Music, Warbucks is an isolated, powerful man who comes to terms with his emotional identity through his interactions with children. In this, Herrera is exceptionally fine, articulating Warbucks' progress from harsh coldness to sensitivity, and his rich, romantic singing voice turns the act two ballad "Something Was Missing," usually a time-chewing redundancy of a number, into a moment of self-discovery. In the title role, Karina Fernandez is little short of mind-boggling. Consider this -- the first number in the show is not only Annie's first solo, "Maybe," but she must follow it in the same scene with a second, the show-stopper "Tomorrow." In her professional debut, Fernandez, a middle schooler from South Miami, calmly and coolly knocks down both numbers with an assurance and vocal technique that's above reproach.
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But that's not all, folks. To this, add Margot Moreland's hilarious, gleeful villainy as the scheming Miss Hannigan, a smashing performance that in my opinion defines the role, outshining even the original Hannigans, Carol Burnett and Kathy Bates. Moreland's booze-swilling, seething Hannigan lurches around the stage in a seedy bathrobe that looks like a recycled bedspread, a deliciously nasty turn. Yet like Herrera, Moreland's characterization is grounded in an emotional reality. Hannigan is bad, but her desperation, her frustration, and her sorrow make her more than a caricature.
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The rave list goes on -- Terrell Hardcastle is a delight as Rooster, a smooth-moving, slick-talking sharpie whose manner belies a desperate insecurity. Terry M. Cain, who in seasons past has perfected the art of mugging to felonious levels, has reined in his instincts of late, and here, as he did in Floyd Collins and Return to the Forbidden Planet, he delivers excellent support in the important role of FDR. Same goes for Christopher Kent's smarmy radio-show host, Irene Adjan as Rooster's squeaky-voiced squeeze, and Janet Dacal, whose turn as a "star to be" in the first-act number "NYC" is brief but memorable. Add to this array a talented, plucky, hard-working chorus of orphan girls and what results is just the right dose of sugar and spice.
The company is given excellent support from director David Arisco and his usual production team. Arisco's staging is conservative and precise, efficient and fluid. Barbara Flaten's choreography, a mélange of classic Broadway styles, adds energy and assurance and some nice splashes of humor. Both make good use of M.P. Amico's elaborate sets, a series of scrims and arches in bright comic-book colors offset with darker cityscapes. Mary Lynne Izzo once again serves up eye-catching, stylish costumes, and Ginny Adams lights it all with rich, warm hues and shadings that turn the stage pictures into holiday ornaments.
Annie made its debut in the late 1970s during a troubled era in America, which was still hung over from the effects of Vietnam and Watergate and caught up in a string of economic woes, a staggering economy, and rampant inflation. Annie's creators played on a nostalgia for the New Deal era: In one second-act scene (cut from the movie version), Annie and Warbucks, a diehard Republican, visit his long-time foe, FDR, and his Cabinet in Washington. FDR and company despair over all the bad news from the Depression. Warbucks and FDR try to work together to come up with some solutions. It's only when Annie reprises "Tomorrow" that the pols cheer up and suddenly dream up the New Deal's public projects programs. All of this is tongue-in-cheek, of course, but the show's relentless optimism may have presaged a trend: Ronald Reagan won the presidency with his upbeat "Morning in America" theme, defeating President Jimmy Carter, who was forever tarred by his comment about American malaise. The country has changed a great deal since those days, but Annie continues to offer some resonance. War, terrorism, and economic woes still plague the country, and the Republican majority has been rather successful in its quest to overhaul many federal programs. It's just fantasy, of course, but Annie's cheerful dose of optimism, civility, and cooperation could be on many holiday wish lists this season.
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"So this is how the story goes…
Let's start with the morning before the wedding. I was totally prepared. The last thing I needed to do was get a mani and pedi with my girls. I went to pick up my fiance's sister first. She hops in the car and hands me a baby sippy cup, she has one for herself as well. My mind was already mush from all of the wedding planning so I didn't question it. I start driving to our nail appointment and take a sip from my sippy cup at a red light.
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* Manufacturers making more quality vehicles than ever
* Ford rating continues to be cut by MyFord Touch, Sync
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DETROIT, June 20 Consumers continue to be baffled by new technology such as voice-activated controls in their new cars and trucks, but overall, vehicle quality in the United States has never been higher, J.D. Power and Associates said on Wednesday.
Owner complaints about technology continued to hurt Ford Motor Co's standing in the influential annual survey of new-vehicle buyers. Ford fell to 27th from 23rd a year ago.
Just two years ago, before MyFord Touch and Ford's voice-activated Sync control systems were rolled out to more models, Ford was fifth in the survey, the best showing among non-luxury brands.
This year, Honda Motor Co grabbed the coveted spot as top non-luxury brand in the survey, which expanded to include 34 auto brands, up from 32 a year ago.
For the second straight year, Lexus, Toyota Motor Corp's luxury brand, topped the survey, which asks owners to rate the quality of vehicles in the first 90 days of ownership. The survey was conducted from February to May.
Hands-free devices in new vehicles not recognizing voice commands has become the most often reported problem cited in the survey, said Dave Sargent, vice president of global automotive at J.D. Power and Associates.
Until the last several years, Sargent said, hands-free controls were rare, but this year, more than 80 percent of new owners said their vehicles have some form of hands-free controls.
Sargent said that most consumers whose hands-free and touch-screen systems function well do like them. In Ford's case, he said, customers say they are attracted to some Ford models because of the high level of new technology in them.
"You could almost say that Ford took one for the team," said Sargent. "They went early, they went big and a lot of learning has come from that, not only for Ford but everybody else has benefited by Ford being the first to go over the top."
U.S. consumers and automakers are on a learning curve when it comes to voice-activated controls and other new technology in vehicles, Sargent said. Over time, quality scores will improve related to this issue.
The fact that many dealerships offer tutorials on how to use the new technology in cars shows that they are not quite as intuitive as many smart phones on the market, said Sargent.
However, he said, "the onus is on the automakers to make things simpler."
The good news is that the overall quality has never been better for new cars, and there are far fewer complaints about wind and road noise, engine problems, or other more traditional quality issues, said Sargent.
Japanese automakers, with Honda in fifth place, Toyota running eighth place and Mazda Motor Corp in 11th place, were the top performers among non-luxury automakers.
Overall, behind Lexus, which scored only 73 complaints per 100 vehicles sold, were India's Tata Motors Ltd's Jaguar and Porsche , both with 75 problems reported.
General Motor's luxury Cadillac brand was fourth.
Jaguar improved the most of any brand, jumping to second from 20th last year, based on marked improvements of its XJ sedan, Sargent said.
Sargent said that GM's showing was above the industry average for the first time since 2009, and that collectively, GM brands performed at the highest level in the survey's 26-year history.
Chevrolet's Malibu sedan won the title as best mid-size car in the survey, the biggest of the 21 model-level segments, said Sargent. Ford's Fusion and Honda's Accord ranked in a tie for second in the mid-size segment.
Toyota and its Lexus brand combined to have five models that claimed best-in-segment awards, including the Corolla as top compact car and Yaris for the subcompact with the least reported problems.
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At the bottom of the survey are brands that offer subcompact cars, BMW AG's MINI, Fiat SpA, with its only U.S. offering so far the Fiat 500, and Daimler's Smart brand.
Sargent said this is likely because all three subcompact brands imported cars to the U.S. market that were designed for Europe. (Reporting By Bernie Woodall; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)


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Tommy Caldwell has returned to Yosemite's Dawn Wall after resting a rib injury. Caldwell has been hard at work with various partners for four years on the infamous Dawn Wall Project.
From Caldwell's Facebook: Well, I decided to make the drive back to Yosemite. My ribs are feeling better and I cant seem to keep this climb out of my mind. My first day back on the wall was spent dodging ice chunks and trying to climb despite the bitterly cold wind. Yosemite sure is breathtaking when blanketed with snow.
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by Kate Heyhoe
"Spring," my gray-haired mother chirps, "is my favorite season!"
And why shouldn't it be? What's not to like about spring? Even the worst pollen-allergy sufferers sport Flonase like battle-armor, then charge outdoors to mingle with chartreuse blades of grass. Stare long enough and you can literally see leaves growing, while flowers fan open their petals like slow-motion fireworks.
But this has got to be the most crazy-mixed up spring I've ever seen—thanks to one of the worst droughts in Texas' history. We suffered a winter so mild and dry, I actually finished writing a barbecue book in the hot days of December—grilling recipes in t-shirt temperatures, completely out of synch with the limited daylight hours normal for that time of year.
Peach trees, the gold prize of the local hill country, bloomed in January. Our apple tree burst its blossoms then, too. The cats were chasing chameleons way back in November, when the little critters (the lizards and the cats) are normally inactive and hibernating. Turtles have migrated far down the creek, abandoning dried up beds in search of shallow ponds. Roadside bluebonnets, the state flower and spring tourist attraction, remain scarce, lacking the fall and spring rains needed to shed their seed coat. (As they say in these parts, even the trees are bribing the dogs.)
Hay is as costly a fuel for farmers as gasoline is for truckers. A nearby horse shelter gets hit with a double whammy: they can't afford hay for the horses they've rescued, and they can't place the horses with average-income homes because of the high cost of hay. Of course, being an industrialized nation, our humans will fare far better than wildlife, or the people of Kenya, Malawi, or Tanzania. If things get really bad, we'll simply truck in water and food from other states or nations. Just like that, no U.N. aid required.
The most frustrating thing about a drought is there's nothing we can do to reverse the trend. When it comes to solutions, we're powerless. And unlike a hurricane which blows through quickly, a drought crawls through time. Droughts may lack the drama of storms and floods, but when it comes to crops and lives, they're far more damaging.
Does global warming play a hand in the drought? I suspect so, and even if it doesn't, doing our share to reverse global warming makes sense, no matter what. Experts say La Niña is more directly to blame, and they advise us to brace ourselves: this drought could last for months, and maybe years.
If you live in Northern California or Indiana, droughts weren't a concern this season (rain and flooding were more likely). Yet whenever a major agricultural state suffers extreme drought, the effects eventually catch up with everyone's shopping cart. Cattle, corn, dairy. Grapefruit, avocados, and asparagus. Watermelons, potatoes, and pumpkins. Summer to spring, winter to fall. Even cotton, Texas' number one cash crop, could add a few cents to the cost of sleeping in new sheets (or buying potato chips, which are typically fried in cottonseed oil).
This season I'm enjoying the local produce with exuberance, and making an extra effort to "buy Texas." Sure, we live in a global economy where plums come from Chile and asparagus from Mexico. But there's no replacement for visiting a u-pick peach orchard and making off with enough fruit for a killer peach pie. Or chatting with folks at market and roadside stands while sampling fresh-picked baby lettuce, tender sugar peas, or lusty purple eggplant. Or just buying produce specifically from farmers who need our help just to stay in business.
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Yet even as the drought continues, I'm pleased to observe that spring, the season, still comes around. It's like an enormous disconnect in nature: Yes, a disastrous weather event is happening, but even in this part of the planet, we're going to keep doing all those things we always do in spring. Daffodils are pushing up despite the rock-hard soil, birds are finding bugs, and the cats are still chasing chameleons (the ones left over from November). Spring, whether it likes it or not, is up and running. She may not be the prettiest girl at the dance this year, but she's still the sweetest gal in town.
So from spinach salads to Easter dinners, here are a few of my favorite ways to celebrate the sweetness of spring. (And if you believe that a collective consciousness can change the world, think rain—by the Texas-sized barrel full!)
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The English singer-songwriter's gift for melodic, catchy, socially perceptive glam-pop with literate lyrics and operatic sizzle is undimmed on his fourth studio album. Read More »
Book/DVD Review: Randy Rhoads: The Quiet Riot Years by Ron Sobol
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A district judge has agreed to a public reprimand for putting her personal schedule ahead of a murder trial, the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline announced Wednesday.
Judge Valorie Vega faced misconduct charges for mishandling the court schedule in the trial of Victor Fakoya, who was found not guilty by jurors.
The six-page stipulation shows Vega admitted to keeping a jury in deliberations for nearly 18 hours in December 2010 to keep a planned vacation. "Thus, (Vega) was not courteous to the individuals involved at trial," according to the stipulation, which the judge has signed.
Vega also admitted to recessing the trial midday on six occasions so she could attend her daughter's soccer matches.
The Commission on Judicial Discipline must approve the agreement and public reprimand at a hearing Monday.
Vega is the wife of Review-Journal business writer Howard Stutz.
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Pre-PMA 2004: As we predicted in November last year Delkin will be selling the new Aska MS32A and SD32A as their own CardBus SD and MS adapters. These new adapters should provide the highest possible transfer speed from Secure Digital / MMC or Memory Stick. We tested the CardBus CF adapter in October of last year and were impressed, it was four times faster than a traditional PCMCIA adapter and was even faster than Firewire readers. With the increase of the use of SD in digital SLR's I am sure the CardBus SD adapter will become very popular.
Click here for the Aska Corp CardBus SD/MS announcement
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Poway CA, February 5, 2004 Delkin Devices Inc., maker of premium quality eFilm memory cards and other innovative products for camera stores worldwide, has added Secure Digital (SD), MultiMediaCard (MMC), and Memory Stick (MS) formats to its line of fastest PCMCIA Adapters on the market. The eFilm PRO CardBus 32-bit PCMCIA adapter is four to six times faster than all current conventional 16-bit adapters and has ushered in a new phase of adapter performance. PCMCIA adapters have long been popular for their convenient size and ease of use for quick file transfers from memory cards to laptop computers. The eFilm PRO CardBus 32 is the only adapter that achieves maximum speeds from the popular high-speed professional grade memory cards that are currently popular with high-end SLR digital cameras. The SD/MMC and MS CardBus 32 Adapters joins the initial CompactFlash (CF) CardBus Adapter that was released at the end of last year. The Delkin CardBus CF adapter was featured on many web sites and in photo magazines, and was referred to as a must have accessory for any professional photographer by one of the top Internet Digital Photography sites. With the new introduction of video cameras, which require high-speed SD cards, and mobile phones that use both SD and MS cards, a faster way to get data from the card to a mobile PC is required. All CardBus 32 adapters allow memory cards to work in the PC Card slot on most Windows based laptops and uses the high speed CardBus PCMCIA standard.
The Delkin 32-bit CardBus adapter has the same size, shape and design as existing 16-bit adapters in common use now. However, Delkin CardBus adapters and all CardBus products worldwide have a set of gold dimples or buttons across the top of the leading edge, which inserts into the laptop. These buttons serve a keying function and prevent the insertion of the adapter into non-CardBus compatible laptops. CardBus slots are common on all modern laptops from manufacturers like Dell, Toshiba, Sony and many others. CardBus slots are backward compatible with the 16-bit slower adapters. They insert completely within its host without any external cabling and operate at a power-saving 3.3 volts, extending battery life in most configurations.
The CardBus standard, while not well known to the general computing population, has been in place since 1997, and supported by virtually all notebook vendors since 1998. CardBus is standard on virtually all modern Windows and Mac OS systems. Tests on Delkin eFilm PRO cards and other high-speed CF cards revealed similar speed increases of four to six times that of standard 16-bit adapters. 100 Megabytes of JPEG photos on a Delkin PRO card were transferred to a Dell laptop with both a Delkin 16-bit adapter and a CardBus 32 adapter. The CardBus adapter took 18 seconds (5.5MB/s) to transfer the images and the standard adapter took more than four times as long, taking one minute, 26 seconds (1.16MB/s) to transfer.
The Delkin CardBus 32 adapter has a theoretical maximum speed of 132MB/s. Speed in real world applications is determined by the speed of the CPU and flash chips within the memory card. High-speed cards like the Delkin eFilm CF PRO, IBM Microdrive and the new SD PRO will operate much faster than other cards not designed to be high speed. Delkin CardBus 32 adapters also utilize a patented chip, which reduces the burden on the host CPU to 10% or less, further increasing the value of this product. The Delkin CardBus 32 CF Adapter is currently shipping with a retail price of $59.99. The SD/MMC and MS versions have a MSRP of $79.99. The Delkin CardBus adapter is available from independent photo stores worldwide and www.delkin.com.
Patrick Maher, chief operating officer and executive director for PCMCIA, recently said in a PCMCIA press release, "CardBus technology provides significant improvements in peripheral device performance without sacrificing ease-of-use or mobility the industry has come to expect from PC Cards." The Delkin CardBus 32 adapter is currently compatible with most Windows OS systems, and a driver CD is included with each adapter for Windows 98, 98SE, Me, 2000 and XP. Delkin will introduce Apple drivers at PMA 2004 in Las Vegas, as most Apple laptops also support CardBus. For the latest information on CardBus and other PC Card products, visit the PCMCIA web site at http://www.pc-card.com. For the latest information on Delkin, CardBus 32 adapters and many other cards, accessories and digital photography in general, visit http://www.delkin.com.


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Moving to further strengthen its management team, 600 Group has appointed David Norman as its new group chief executive and David Richardson as managing director of the new machine tool division. Mr. Norman replaces Andrew Dick, the outgoing chief executive who has left the company to pursue other business interests.
Mr. Norman has held a number of senior managerial positions within Hanson plc, most recently as managing director of its electrical division. He participated in the subsequent MBO of that business, which was renamed Electrium, and remained as a main board director until 2000. Later, Mr. Normal was a divisional managing director at Swiss engineering group Saia-Burgess AG.
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Subject: | Re: Poll and Open Letter to Mike C. re. Elaine. |
Author: | Sarahjeanne (guest, 18.104.22.168) |
Date: | April 9, 2001 at 9:00:23 AM |
Reply to: | Poll and Open Letter to Mike C. re. Elaine. by Nanaea |
Wow! What did I miss this weekend?? I take back what I said about leaving. I'm sticking around for this!
I completely agree with you, Nan. And BTW, got a kick out of your quizzes. Elaine obviously has some issues. No doubtly she is in an asylum and for her "fun" time she gets to play with a computer. Not a good idea. This woman has some serious problems. Everyone pray that she not reproduce. What a scary thought. :0 I'm with you all the way on kicking her to the curb. Elaine sweetheart, don't let the door hit you in the arse on the way out. :P
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Santander scandal: £300,000 of your money is missing from vanishing passbook accounts
For at least a decade, William Esgate regularly visited his local branch of Abbey National to put money into his wife Pamela's savings account — and over the years devotedly built up a nest egg of more than £11,000 for her.
It was money he planned for her to use in retirement or after he died. William then passed away in 2002 following a spell in care.
But after 53 years of marriage, devastated Pamela couldn't cope with sorting through his personal affairs.
Then, this summer, she discovered an old brown case belonging to her deceased husband — and inside, in a white envelope, was her savings passbook.
Caring: William with Pamela on their wedding day and, below, Pamela now
The last record in the account showed a balance of £11,141, in January 2000.
Pamela, 84, from Worcester Park,
Surrey, says: 'I was absolutely staggered. I knew William was a lovely
man — it was why I married him — but to discover all this money he had
saved for me, well, I was overwhelmed. It was too much.'
Pamela now (right) with her passbook
But her elation soon turned to
despair when she went to her local branch of Santander — which took over
Abbey in 2004 — and staff said there was no record of her account.
She says that they told her she must
have either forgotten she'd withdrawn this huge sum or that the account
had been closed. Either way, the money was gone.
Pamela adds: 'William and I were customers at the same branch for 30 years. The staff knew us. They would have questioned why I was taking out this money. It's impossible that I would have forgotten.'
She thought her case must have been a
one-off until she read Money Mail last week and learned that her
experience had been repeated over and over with Santander customers up
and down the country.
We exposed how loyal savers had been fobbed off by Santander when they tried to withdraw cash from old passbook accounts.
Since then letters and emails have flooded in from our readers, and we have passed a dossier of evidence to the Spanish bank.
Often, customers have kept hold of their passbook accounts for years, assuming the cash would be there for a rainy day.
Others simply forgot about their accounts, usually because they didn't want to go to the hassle of moving relatively small sums to other accounts they were using. And some kept their account open in case there was ever a windfall.
Janet Cottrell - pictured - 54, a retired personal assistant from Colchester, Essex, is missing £2,600 that she had in an old Abbey National Instant Saver account.
The last transaction for the account was made in November 1999.
Janet says: 'I went to my local Santander branch in Colchester, and a member of staff told me they would look into it — it would take time but they would call me back in a matter of weeks.
'And guess what — nobody called back despite countless weeks passing. When I went back in, the staff member admitted they had forgotten all about it.
'After they searched again, a charming customer-service man got in touch to try and sort it.
'But he wrote back weeks later saying: "No, we can't find it but here's £30 as a gesture of goodwill" — for the poor service.
'I was told that I must have withdrawn the funds and forgotten about them, and that having a passbook was not proof the funds existed anyway.
'Also, it was inferred that it was my fault as I shouldn't have forgotten about the cash!'
But after taking their old passbooks
to branches, all the customers have experienced the same nightmare of
being told their money is missing.
Santander, which now owns Bradford
& Bingley and Alliance & Leicester as well as Abbey, has no
record of accounts that it claims have been closed for six years or
In many cases, customers have spent
hours talking to staff in person or on the phone but still Santander has
come back empty-handed — with no details of the accounts or sign of the
Some of the missing sums are vast — in one case as much as £40,000.
In total, the amount readers have reported missing is a staggering £303,460. So what on earth went wrong?
Money Mail's major investigation has
discovered that faulty computer records held by Abbey may be to blame
for the accounts chaos. An insider familiar with the bank's systems
claims that the way dormant accounts were recorded by Abbey could be at
fault. It is an allegation that the bank denies.
A dormant account is one that has not
been touched for a number of years — usually six or more. When an
account is classed as dormant, the cash is passed to a holding account —
but, crucially, the customer's details are kept.
Banks should have systems to ensure that customers can get the cash when they claim it.
However, it is alleged that Abbey
had problems with its records and at some point marked dormant accounts
as if they were closed.
If you find yourself in the same situation as the Money Mail readers who have come forward, all might not be lost.
First, complain to the bank. The bank should do more than a cursory search. It should check any previous addresses you have had, and look back at any transactions you have made.
Don't simply accept branch staff who tell you that the account number cannot be found.
The bank must come back to you with a final decision within eight weeks.
If your appeal is unsuccessful, refer the matter to the Financial Ombudsman Service by sending a letter to South Quay Plaza, 183 Marsh Wall, London, E14 9SR or phoning 0845 080 1800.
Its website is financial-ombudsman.org.uk.
The ombudsman should again ask the bank for detailed information — and any evidence you have the money was not withdrawn.
Alternatively, you may want to sue, as one incensed customer did — and he won.
Len Allen, 62, from Somerset, found £100 in an old National & Provincial Building Society account passbook last year. The last date printed in the passbook was 1997.
Santander staff couldn't trace it and the Financial Ombudsman Service decided to back the bank, so he decided to take legal action earlier this year.
'It was the principle of it — I was basically being accused of being a fraudster and they had my money!
'So I went to my local county court and issued proceedings to recover the monies. Within a day, Santander — on receiving the summons — phoned me, offering to repay the £100 — plus the £34 for court costs.'
Jonathan Silverman, partner at consumer law firm Silverman Sherliker, says the onus is on Santander to prove it gave you the money back.
He says: 'Think of it like a debt that you're owed. You gave them money at a particular point and — in your hunt for old savings — you're entitled to proof.
'If the amount Santander appears to have lost is less than £5,000, then the small claims court is the place to go.
'The bottom line is that you have nothing to lose.'
Closed accounts are those that have
been shut by either the customer or the bank, and no further changes can
be made to them, such as the withdrawing of money or the depositing of
more cash.
Then Abbey was taken over by
Santander. It grew and grew through mergers and takeovers, and some of
the accounts that lay untouched for years appear to have slipped through
the cracks.
A gain, at some point the files for
these so-called 'closed' Abbey accounts are likely to have been deleted —
as is common practice.
This could explain why bank staff cannot find any records for the accounts, and are routinely rejecting customers' complaints.
A separate bank insider agreed that
Santander's inability to lay its hands on passbook account details is
probably down to poor record-keeping during the years of expansion.
The source told Money Mail: 'Over the
years, Santander has had so many layers during takeovers, mergers and
acquisitions that passbook-holders simply got lost in all this.
'And while the bank has been fighting
fires, like all banks, to sort out payment protection insurance (PPI)
claims and computer security systems, it looks increasingly as though
these passbook customers have been left high and dry.'
The way Santander has treated the complaints appears to have added to the problems. It seems that customers have been fobbed off, rather than having their cases investigated fully.
Staff have completed routine checks
then when they cannot trace the account numbers, have simply dismissed
the customers. Money Mail has passed on the complaints and our concerns
to the Financial Services Authority.
An FSA spokesman says: 'Banks have an obligation to help customers find lost accounts.
'Critically, this includes those that the customer believes are "lost" but the bank says are "closed".'
A spokesman for Santander says it is investigating the cases of those whose details we handed over.
He added: 'We haven't required
passbooks in branch for transactions for some time now so the discovery
of a passbook with balance is not sufficient proof that an account
remains open.
'Accounts can be closed without sight
of the passbook, provided suitable identification is provided to verify
a customer's identity at the time of the request.
'We keep meticulous records of active, dormant and closed accounts in line with legal and regulatory requirements.
'Any suggestion otherwise is entirely
inaccurate and without foundation. Customers who are trying to trace
an old account should enquire first in a local branch with as much
information as possible including full name, date of birth and current
and previous addresses.
'If the account does not show on our database, the query is referred to our dedicated team for further investigation. We have reminded all branch staff of the process and that there is an existing helpline, which they should contact to assist customers further with their queries.'
From £1,500 to £40,000 — gone without a trace
- Linda Bond, from Benfleet, Essex, says £25,000 has 'simply disappeared' from an Abbey National saver passbook account, despite the book showing that the account is in credit. She has fought a three-year battle for the cash.
- John Newey, 81, from Littlehampton, West Sussex, is chasing £1,513.64 deposited in an Abbey National Instant Saver account in 1997. For the past few months, staff have been repeatedly fobbing him off.
- Lesley Thomas, from Cambridge, had saved £2,000 for her son in an Abbey National passbook account. Staff say the account must have been closed — or that her son has taken the money out. This is despite the account clearly showing that two parental signatures are needed for a withdrawal.
- Sue Simpson, from Cockermouth, Cumbria, tried in June to get £9,643.82 from an old passbook account with National & Provincial — which became part of Abbey. The last entry is dated January 6, 1994. Staff at her local branch couldn't help and sent the details to head office — which said it can't find the account.
- Dorothy Stevens, from Croydon, South London, wants back £6,489.78 held in an Abbey National Instant Saver account. The last transaction in the passbook was June 19, 2001 — in receipt of £600. Santander has told her it simply can't find her account details.
- Steve O'Hara, from Solihull, near Birmingham, has an old National & Provincial (now Santander) passbook account, in which he had saved £3,312 for a rainy day. Santander says it can find no trace of the account.
- Lyn Burgeman, a veterinary nurse from Uckfield, East Sussex, is trying to trace £40,000 that she says was transferred from an Instant Saver account. Santander says it has no record of the transactions at all.
- Gillian Wilson, from Manchester, opened a passbook investment account on August 30, 1996. She paid in £3,000. When she visited her local branch 11 years later to update the account, the staff told her there was no trace of the money. Her formal complaint in 2009 got her nowhere.
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How The Frontier Shaped The American Character
A distinguished historian finds that after 65 years Frederick Jackson Turner's disputed "frontier theory" is still a valid key to understanding modern America
April 1958 | Volume 9, Issue 3
No one of these assumptions can be substantiated in the simplified form in which Turner stated it. His vision of an "orderly procession of civilization, marching single file westward" failed to account for deviations that were almost as important as the norm; as essential to the conquest of the forest as trappers or farmers were soldiers, mill-operators, distillers, artisans, storekeepers, merchants, lawyers, editors, speculators, and town dwellers. All played their role, and all contributed to a complex Iron tier social order that bore little resemblance to the primitive societies Turner pictured. This was especially the case with the early town builders. The hamlets that sprang up adjacent to each pioneer settlement were products of the environment as truly as were the cattlemen or Indian fighters; each evolved economic functions geared to the needs of the primitive area surrounding it, and, in the tight public controls maintained over such essential functions as grist-milling or retail selling, each mirrored the frontiersmen's community-oriented views. In these villages, too, the equalitarian influence of the West was reflected in thoroughly democratic governments, with popularly elected councils supreme and the mayor reduced to a mere figurehead.
The pioneers who marched westward in this disorganized procession were not attracted by the magnet of "tree land," for Turner's assumption that before 1862 the public domain was open to all who could pay $1.25 an acre, or that acreage was Tree al'ter the Homestead Act was passed in that year, has been completely disproved. Turner failed to recognize the presence in the procession to the frontier of that omnipresent profit-seeker, the speculator. Jobbers were always ahead of farmers in the advance westward, buying up likely town sites or appropriating the best farm lands, where the soil was good and transportation outlets available. When the settler arrived his choice was between paying the speculator's price or accepting an interior site. Even the Homestead Act tailed to lessen speculative activity. Capitalizing on generous government grants to railroads and state educational institutions (which did not want to be bothered with sales to individuals), or buying bonus script from soldiers, or securing Indian lands as the reservations were contracted, or seizing on faulty features of congressional acts for the disposal of swampland and limberland, jobbers managed to engross most of the Far West's arable acreage. As a result, for every newcomer who obtained a homestead from the government, six or seven purchased farms from speculators.
Those who made these purchases were not, as Turner believed, displaced eastern workers fleeing periodic industrial depressions. Few city-dwelling artisans had the skills or inclination, and almost none the capital, to escape to the frontier. Land prices of $1.25 an acre may seem low today, but they were prohibitive for laborers earning only a dollar a day. Moreover, needed farm machinery, animals, and housing added about $1,000 to the cost of starting a farm in the 1850's, while the cheapest travel rate from New York to St. Louis was about $13 a person. Because these sums were always beyond the reach of factory workers (in bad times they deterred migration even from the rural East), the frontier never served as a "safety valve" for laborers in the sense that Turner employed the term. Instead, the American frontiers were pushed westward largely by younger sons from adjacent farm areas who migrated in periods of prosperity. While these generalizations apply to the pre-Civil War era that was Turner's principal interest, they are even more applicable to the late nineteenth century. During that period the major population shifts were from country to city rather than vice versa; for every worker who left the factory to move to the farm, twenty persons moved from farm to factory. If a safety valve did exist at that time, it was a rural safety valve, drawing off surplus farm labor and thus lessening agrarian discontent during the Granger and Populist eras.
Admitting that the procession to the frontier was more complex than Turner realized, that good lands were seldom free, and that a safety valve never operated to drain the dispossessed and the malcontented from industrial centers, does this mean that his conclusions concerning the migration process have been completely discredited? The opposite is emphatically true. A more divergent group than Turner realized felt the frontier's impact, but that does not minimize the extent of the impact. Too, while lands in the West were almost never free, they were relatively cheaper than those in Europe or the East, and this differential did serve as an attracting force. Nor can pages of statistics disprove the fact that, at least until the Civil War, the frontier served as an indirect safety valve by attracting displaced eastern farmers who would otherwise have moved into industrial cities; thousands who left New England or New York for the Old Northwest in the 1830's and 1840's, when the "rural decay" of the Northeast was beginning, would have sought factory jobs had no western outlet existed.


text: Founders of Lulelemon Say It's Your Body's Fault If Their Pants PillKate Dries11/06/13 5:09pmFiled to: lululemonchip wilsonshannon wilsonpillingsee-thru322EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkThe cult of Lululemon took a hit earlier this year when they had to recall some of their pants because they were making people look far too naked on the streets. Since then, they've lost money and tried to find a new CEO, and last week, Business Insider reported that customers were complaining about the special Lululemon fabric pilling. On Tuesday, co-founders and married people Chip and Shannon Wilson fought back against those complaints with their unified belief that the customer is not always right.In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Chip Wilson said, "There has always been pilling. The thing is that women will wear a seatbelt that don't work or they'll wear a purse that doesn't work or, quite frankly, some women's bodies don't work for it."AdvertisementAdvertisementOooooooooooooo."They don't work for certain – some – women's bodies," Wilson continued. When host Trish Regan asked if he trying to explain away the sheer pants fiasco by blaming them extra large asses, Wilson swiftly denied it. "I don't think that, because even our small sizes would fit an extra large. It's really about the rubbing through the thighs, how much pressure is there over a period of time, and how much they use it...." Then Shannon jumped in to add, "...what's the use, and what's it being up against, are you sitting on the cement ground...." Coincidentally, Lululemon just released a video devoted to how magically fantastic the new "Full-On Luan" fabric their clothing is made of is.Chip denied that the company was saying that not all women can wear Lululemon's clothing. "I think they can, I just think it's how they use it." To all the Lululemon customers out there: You use those thighs the right way, you hear? Then you'll just be like no pills, no problem.Lululemon Pants Don't Work for Some: Founder [Bloomberg] via Business InsiderAdvertisementSponsoredImages via LululemonReply322 repliesLeave a reply


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The Orange County Register reported that Fullerton council member and Republican BoS candidate Shawn Nelson might need to hired his own lawyer to defend himself in a fraud lawsuit related to a stock sale for a failing martini bar in Fullerton. The lawsuit, filed by a former Nelson business partner, seeks $285,000 in damages for…
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Who ya gonna call? Shawn Nelson!
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A 46-year-old registered sex offender who allegedly kept a "huge stash†of child pornography in his Fullerton home was charged today with possessing child porn and sexual exploitation of a child, court records show. I know of a great criminal defense attorney named R. (Bob) Shawn Nelson
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A big thank you to Neighbors United For Fullerton for hosting a session last night on Political Blogging. The panel ran about two hours and could easily have gone a third hour. For the questions were good and I believe the audience came away with an understanding of each blog and what we're trying to…
Anger Management or Inconsistent Ramblings?
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I'd like to pay tribute this week for our number one reader of the week, Orange Joke blogger Sean H. Mill, who has read every word in our posts and comments by other readers with a jaudiced eye to call for truth, justice and the American way. My fellow LiberalOC blogger Chris Prevatt is the…
Shawn Nelson and conservative disdain for defending terrorists and pedophiles
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Q: Are you then saying, everybody that represents pedophiles is sympathetic to pedophiles, is that your contention? A: If you're a lawyer and you decide to spend all of your time representing pedophiles (criminals), it would raise a question.
Nelson Goes A.W.O.L. from Council Budget Meeting for his own Campaign Fundraiser
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"The more we get off our plate now, the less we have to deal with;†Nelson said. "I'm ready to make individual cuts as we go through the departments, or at least provide policy decisions because at some point I think there is going to be a will of the Council to – I can make something up but, the Park and Rec. department I know is one that I've seen the 10% cut, I don't support, I know that I can find far more than that in other departments, but we have to go through it to get there.â€
Shawn Nelson – Freedom Fighter and Defender of the Accused
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In his day job, Shawn Nelson is a criminal defense attorney. It is an admirable profession, defending those accused of crimes, regardless of their guilt or innocence. This is a core function of our American system of justice. Without criminal defense attorneys, our system simply does not work.


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- 1 can (15 ounces) apricot halves
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 3/4 cup beef broth
- 2 tablespoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 1-1/2 pounds beef top round or beef sirloin steak, cut into thin strips
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 2 cups fresh broccoli florets
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes
- Hot cooked rice
- Drain apricots, reserving 1/4 cup juice. Cut apricots in quarters and set aside. In a small bowl, whisk the cornstarch, broth, soy sauce and reserved juice until smooth; set aside.
- In a large skillet or wok, stir-fry beef in oil for 3 minutes. Add broccoli and onion; stir-fry 2-3 minutes longer or until vegetables are crisp-tender. Stir sauce and add to the pan. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Add tomatoes and reserved apricots; cook until heated through. Serve over rice. Yield: 6 servings.
Originally published as Apricot Beef Stir-Fry in Taste of Home
April/May 2004, p8
Full-Bodied Red Wine
Enjoy this recipe with a full-bodied red wine such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot or Syrah.
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Reviewed Nov. 26, 2013
"Wasn't a fan of the tomatoes and too many apricots."
Reviewed Oct. 30, 2011
"Something about the mix up of flavors was off. I don't think I would make again."
Reviewed Nov. 27, 2010
"it was alright - but probably won't make it again. i doubled recipe - instead of 4 cups broccoli, i included asparagus and sliced carrots with the broccoli. just thought it was kinda blah, could use more flavor."
Reviewed Jan. 19, 2010
"Loved this recipe, I'll be making this many times over. It was sweet and salty and had a kick. Although, I couldn't tell my family it had apricot jelly in it or they would have nixed the whole dinner, ha."