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From 1755 to 1763, Britain and France fought in the French and Indian War. During the autumn of 1758, Lake George was a focal point for this struggle. One type of warship used by both sides in this conflict was the bateau (French for boat).
Bateaux had flat bottoms, flaring sides and raked bows and sterns. They usually were propelled by oars and poles and steered by a stern sweep. Bateaux were typically 25 to 35 feet long. Built of pine planks with simple oak frames, bateaux could be produced rapidly and were widely employed in the eighteenth century for moving troops and supplies.
Whenever possible, Colonial armies moved via water to avoid marching through dangerous and roadless wilderness. As many as 900 bateaux were used against French-held Fort Carillon (later named Fort Ticonderoga) in the summer of 1758. Some 260 bateaux reportedly were sunk in Lake George in the autumn of 1758 to seal them under winter ice and prevent their capture or destruction by French forces.
Seven of eight bateaux at the preserve site are part of "The Sunken Fleet of 1758." The eighth bateau, the southernmost one, is a replica built by local school children and teachers. In 1997, the 23-foot replica bateau was sunk near the site to enhance the preserve visit for divers, to test Colonial sinking techniques and to study the deterioration process of a wooden vessel in a freshwater environment.
The seven 1758 bateaux, sometimes referred to as the "Wiawaka Bateaux Cluster," are 25 to 36 feet long and 4 to 5 feet wide. Archaeological research by Bateaux Below, Inc. has documented design features and construction elements typical of mid-18th century bateaux. These warships lie roughly perpendicular to shore over a 450-foot long area, suggesting they were all scuttled at once. Only the bottom planks, the lower part of the ribs, some cleats and garboards remain. Stones, apparently used to help sink them, can be found on the bottom planks.
Additional historical research may reveal why these bateaux were not recovered. They were listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places in 1992. A historic marker about these shipwrecks was erected on shore. It overlooks the southernmost bateaux and is visible from the mooring buoy area.
This site is approximately one mile north of Lake George Beach on the east side of the lake.
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Since then, the art of eating, dining, food, health and restaurants has become such big business that there are ongoing financial tomes about same, whole sections in newspapers, magazines and on the Internet. The �new theater� is said to be �eating out in restaurants.� Or, better, becoming a TV chef.
I thought Holland�s quote was so good I opened up my book �Dishing� with this saying. Well, the other night I was able to enjoy eating as a fabulous concept at the Lambs Club right in the heart of what used to be called the dignified �Theater District.� What�s more � this happened at a dinner for � ta-da! � the birthday of Holland Taylor.
The Lambs Club, chock full of photos of the famous who have made their mark on the stage, is at 132 West 44th St. It has been brilliantly renovated into a glorious building that�s just steps from overheated, overcrowded Times Square. It boasts, downstairs, a beguiling fireplace big enough to tap dance in and upstairs there is one of the most beautiful bars in Manhattan.
The only thing wrong with the Lambs is that they insist on serving you a three-course meal (actually four) and this takes from 7:30 to 11 p.m. (I suppose if you are rushing to make it to the theater at eight, they might be forced to give you a bite.
I�m afraid I am going to bore you for the next few weeks writing about my pal Holland and our late idol, the onetime governor of Texas, Ann Richards. Holland is in NYC in rehearsal for opening her self-created play �Ann,� which bows at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in Lincoln Center on March 7. Tickets are now selling like, well, not �hotcakes� � I�d prefer to call it �like pieces of sauteed salmon,� because Ann ate salmon at almost every meal and predicted she was going �to turn into a fish!� This witty woman was a health nut and was always on me for �only eating from the brown and white food groups.� Nevertheless, for all Ann�s smarts and bravery � she moved to New York only days after 9-11 � she was felled by esophageal cancer in 2006.
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So, I changed from Norvasc to 5mg Lisinopril and kept bystolic the same
Bystolic is a beta blocker and they are noted for messing up the stomach. Kind of odd they would put you on this unless they see some other problems brewing.
Norvasc (amlodipine besylate) is not a good start up drug either and best to stay away from until more testing has been done.
Lisinopril is made from snake venmon and has been known to cause some reactions to the stomach in sensitive individuals.
Starting out on BP meds is normally a low dose ACE inhibitor and working up. The most perscribed is Enalapril Maleate. Depending on weight, age and how high the BP and if the lisinopril did a good job controlling the BP I would say 2.5 AM and 2.5 PM Enalapril the divided dose would be less impact on the stomach as well as providing a steady state of application and then working higher for time & BP controll.
#3 On Owens list I'm in agreement with.
3. Nutrients that are known to lower or have been shown to lower blood pressure are magnesium (probably because it relaxes the muscles that wrap around the arteries allowing them to dilate), ditto lysine and arginine. According to an article by Bill Sardi, vitamin B6 in a dosage of around 200 mg has been shown to be more effective reducing blood pressure than most BP prescription medications. (Bill used to have an excellent article posted on the "natural" ways to lower hypertension.)
Taurine has very many health benefits. One of them is lowering blood pressure.
Beta Blockers slow the heart rate and weaken the constrictions of the heart which in turn lower the blood pressure. Basically a heart relaxer. Works good on tachy hearts (Fast Heart Rate)
Ramipril would be a second line med it has some cardiac reactions.
Norvasc NAME BRAND and amlodipine Bensylate from COBALT will help you with A-Fib however if you are taking generics they will not have the components of the name brands and do nothing to relax the heart and will not help you with a-fib. But since you have a calcification a calcium channel blocker would not be to good of a choice.
With a-fib you need to maintain the Mag. and Pot. at a ratio of about 5-1 to 6-1 and again B1 for the nerves at above 50 mg. A good B- Complex would be Ideal.
What is your approach on Calcium?
And, I was diagnosed with coronary artery blockage and calcification
The researchers had noted that many of their afib patients appeared to have gastric problems also.
dboyd98 wrote:Taurine has very many health benefits. One of them is lowering blood pressure.
Hello and Thank you.
How much of a daily dose does it take to get lowering of blood pressure?
Also...do you know what a safe daily dose is?
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Of Memphis' tales of humble beginnings, of which there are many, the fluctuating renaissance of the Cooper-Young neighborhood is certainly compelling throughout.
Demetrius Boyland uses a push mower to cut her lawn in preparation for the 25th annual Cooper-Young Festival, the signature event for a dynamic neighborhood. Bound by Central Avenue on the north, East Parkway on the east, Southern Avenue on the south, and McLean Boulevard on the West, the dense, 1.058-square-mile enclave boasts about 1,700 houses and roughly 200 homegrown businesses. The community attracts more than 50,000 tourists and locals each week, and generates $2 million in sales tax annually.
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The area has cycled from its 19th century roots to 1970s crime and neglect to its present-day status as one of the largest historic districts in the Southeast, a magnet of all ages and walks of life. All thanks to individuals and organizations that wouldn't settle for sub-par quality in their tiny town within the bustling Bluff City.
"It's always been an awful lot of fun, although it's been a lot of work," said Bill Stemmler, vice president with Cadence Bank and one of the Cooper-Young's modern-day founding fathers. "You have to come in and find ways to restructure it, support it and design it in such a way that you feel like it's going to work, and then follow it on a day to day basis almost to make sure it doesn't get off track."
Bound by Central Avenue on the north, East Parkway on the east, Southern Avenue on the south, and McLean Boulevard on the West, the dense, 1.058-square-mile enclave boasts some 1,700 houses and roughly 200 homegrown businesses.
The community attracts more than 50,000 tourists and locals each week, and generates $2 million in sales tax annually. Cooper-Young's annual September street festival, which just celebrated its 25th year, draws 120,000 in its 10 hours of operation, making it the largest single-day event in the city.
The area's revitalization far precedes other Midtown efforts that have finally received momentum this year like Overton Square and Sears Crosstown. And it's Cooper-Young's accordion to-and-fro throughout the decades that makes its success story all the more meaningful.
The area, named after 1848 Alabama investor William Cooper, was developed as a blue-collar town when walking and streetcars were the main modes of transportation. The first 15 years of the 20th century would then deliver 90 percent of its residential properties, the majority of which stands today.
That's in addition to the eclectic 1915 business portfolio that in many ways mimics the diverse range seen there today – two grocery stores, two physicians, a pharmacy, shoe repair shop, barber shop, coal yard, cotton gin, ice house, auto company, lime and cement company, stone and lumber yard.
Then came the 1970, when 43 percent of homes in the area were held by absentee owners. Retail moved out as banks denied home loans, resulting in property abandon and neighborhood distrust.
The turnaround was rooted in 1977 with the founding of the Community Association. Residents started nightly patrols using radios and secret channels to the police.
A year later, the city would deem Cooper-Young as one of Memphis' 10 "neighborhood strategy areas." Community activism earned the area a pilot project called the Midtown Demonstration Project, a pairing of public funds and private investment that led to improvements in infrastructure, street lighting, down zoning and code enforcement.
As Cooper-Young began to glimmer with potential, investors like Charlie Ryan began developing property. Now a 33-year-veteran of the area, he recalls building on what he had – homes that averaged a mere $20,000.
"We just looked around at what we had to offer, which in the beginning was very inexpensive housing stock," Ryan said. "The whole journey has been about taking what we have with the housing stock and the neighborhood commercial district and making it better."
The district continued to evolve, appealing to thrifty musicians and architectural enthusiasts alike, until its next milestone in 1988. That's when Ryan started the Cooper-Young Business Association to complement the Community Association, along with Stemmler and four other stakeholders: Stephen Crump, Richard Sullivan, Delmer George and Bemis Atkins.
"We set the mission as to promote the area as a good place to work, live, and shop, and to upgrade the facades and provide a sense of security," Crump said. "To be an organ of communication with the businesses and with the neighborhood."
Stemmler had been involved in the area since 1985 during his first year with Boatman's Bank, tracking the city's progress with the Community Reinvestment Act. The federal law, established a few years prior, was designed to advance low- to moderate-income neighborhoods.
"I started looking for areas where we could make an impact and concentrate what we were doing all over the city," Stemmler said. "I came down here … because there were a lot of places that were boarded up. I walked into Stephen (Crump)'s place, which is now Café Ole, with Hershel Lipow, who was head of Housing and Community Development for the city. We said, 'what do you think about adopt-a-neighborhood like adopt-a-school? The bank will bring things to the table.' Stephen looked at me like I'd fell out of a tree. He was skeptical and so was everybody else."
Through that introduction to Crump, Stemmler began working with the Community Association towards obtaining a $500,000 Oasis project grant. Cooper-Young won those funds in 1989, and pumped it into lampposts, streetscape, gingko trees, benches and a gazebo at the district's namesake intersection.
Further stabilizing the commercial artery was in 1991, when Boatman's (now Bank of America) and Café Ole set up shop. A Co-Act police unit was also placed behind the bank to deter crime.
Not stopping there, Stemmler realized that for the community to thrive, the dilapidated properties, particularly in the southeast quadrant, needed to be addressed.
"There was a biker gang that occupied some property, and all of the housing over in that area was very sub-par," Stemmler said. "There was a need for doing that not only in that area but all over the community."
The subsequent formation of the Community Development Corp. led to the renovation of dozens of homes and commercial properties throughout the 1990s, which in turn reduced poverty and neighborhood tension. In addition to organized community-wide street clean-ups, some 50 houses were repaired, painted, landscaped and even rebuilt through the Volunteers In Service To America program, for homeowners that otherwise wouldn't have been able to do it on their own.
All the while, Stemmler made $2.5 million in small business loans to entrepreneurs and individuals in the area. It was a process that required the elbow grease of various stakeholders, all working together for a common goal.
"The place didn't get this way over night from a deterioration standpoint and it doesn't get revitalized over night," Stemmler said. "It's a lot of everybody's time, effort and resolve to make all of that happen."
With the millennium and Cooper-Young's growth came the Business Association's decision to hire a director who could solely focus on media, promotions and the festival. That investment was returned exponentially as membership began to soar, neighborhood businesses collaborated on group advertising and public meetings were held.
From 2000 to 2006, the Cooper-Young Festival went from 45,000 attendees to 85,000. In 2010, the neighborhood block party garnered national attention when it surpassed 100,000 visitors.
Thanks in large part to the festival, the Business Association has donated more than $235,000 back into the neighborhood nonprofits over the past quarter of a century.
Further augmenting the district's brand recognition in recent years was the launch of Cooper-Young Night Out. This event, which still takes place on the first Thursday of each month, truly established the area as the city's reigning entertainment spot and restaurant destination.
Today, Cooper-Young portfolio boasts tenants in nearly every sector imaginable, including plumbing, roofing, health and exercise, cosmetology, hospitality, insurance and commercial real estate.
"These businesses are run by the owners. It's not a franchise or a chain," said Tamara Walker, executive director of the Business Association. "These people, if they don't make it, they lose everything. So they not only bring their ambition and their dollars, but they also bring their friendliness because they want people to come back."
What's more, when retailers want to grow, they grow within Cooper-Young. Karen Carrier opened Do Sushi after several successful years of operating The Beauty Shop, as did Ryan Trim with Sweet Grass and his successive Next Door concept. State Farm's Steve Womack moved three doors down when he needed more space, and Frank and Mindy Roberts' original The Palladio Group has grown to 11 businesses along Central Avenue.
"It's not like they're going, 'Hey, let's go out east,'" Walker said. "They're going, 'Hey, let's go down the street.'"
Perhaps Cooper-Young's biggest retail feat was the landing of Urban Outfitters last year at the northern gateway of the district, a focus area of Ryan's. Rather than being solicited, the trendy apparel and accessory company picked that piece of real estate through its own internal research.
"Rather than the Poplar corridor or out East, they wanted to be in this urban, Midtown, alternative setting," Crump said. "And you see the license plates in the parking lot – Mississippi, Arkansas – they drive here because it's a destination."
Homeowners also seem to be flocking to Cooper-Young's early 1920s charm and cozy, bungalow-designed houses. Joe Spake of In-City Realty said the Bohemian neighborhood is attractive to people moving into town from larger cities because of its walkability, diversity of residents and wide price range.
"I think housing prices have trended at least as well as Midtown, and probably better considering that there wasn't that much to start with," Spake said. "Property values in Cooper-Young continue to be solid, and I see a trend of folks moving back into town from the suburbs because of the urban feel."
The road ahead appears to be especially promising for Cooper-Young, as options like enhanced parking and a grocery store are explored. Bike lanes and increased crime prevention efforts are taking shape.
Meanwhile, First Congregational Church has plans make way for a green area to the south side of its building that could one day provide plug-ins for hybrid cars. Walker said the group already boosted morale when it set up shop in the 2000s by inviting neighbors to take part in its renovations, join its congregation, and utilize its daycare, hostile, support groups and farmer's market.
"When First Congo got here, it added a whole new dynamic to the neighborhood," Walker said. "Once that gets done at First Congo, and then whoever buys LifeLink church, we're moving more to Southern. What that means for us is we're branching. We're not just right at the corner like we were for 10 years."
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The Greater Reno Grub and Gripe Group gathered at Asian Noodles for some delicious Asian fondue and it certainly seems worth bringing to the attention of other foodies. Asian Noodles is in the Costco shopping center in Reno and has expanded into the business next door. About a month ago it added the fondue.
The fondue starts with a broth you use to cook your vegetables, protein and noodles. You get two. We choose yellow curry and a Thai tom yum made from lemon grass. Both were tasty. They bring the broth out and put it on an electric heater. You can pick as many meats, vegetables and noodles as you want. They bring it out one dish at a time. So if you order more, it doesn't mean you get more. You get smaller amounts of each.
Just about everything worked well. The vegetables seemed especially fresh and tasty. We tried something called ton ho, which I guess are chrysanthemum leaves. There were three kinds of mushrooms and all worked well, but the enoki mushrooms were probably the best. The fried tofu and sliced bamboo shoots were also stand outs for me.
The beef, chicken, pork and lamb were also tasty. I think the beef worked best for me. It was pretty much like the beef used in tai pho. The seafood is where we seemed to run into problems. I liked the sliced fish and squid balls. Both the shrimp and mussels had fishy tastes to me.
They offer three kinds of noodles but we tried only glass noodles and the yellow noodles. I liked the yellow noodles but the glass noodles were the clear winner here (no pun intended).
You can either eat your food as a soup or you can use the basket scoop they provide to pull out stuff to eat without broth.
I look forward to going back and trying the fondue with other broths. This would be a great way to eat with vegetarian friends, by the way. They offer a vegetarian broth and the vegetables and noodles alone would be tasty enough. The spicy herbal broth and the miso broth also look promising. They have a plain soup base, an herbal broth, and, for extra month, a goat soup broth as well.
Service was good. The Asian fondue is $20 a person and given the quality of the ingredients well worth the price.
Asian Noodles
1290 E Plumb Ln Ste I, Reno, NV 89502


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For Better or for Worse
Why the Clintons will stay married, win or lose.
Read more of Slate's First Mates series about the marriages of presidential candidates.
When Bill and Hillary Clinton's friends say they are exactly the same in public and private—well, except for the F-bombs—they tend to mean it literally: "I don't think I've ever heard them talk about anything but politics," says a friend who has known them since the McGovern campaign. Many a public person seems to feel cozier in crowds, abler at rope lines than at intimacy. But former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta describes the Clintons' entire existence as the constant forward motion of two people who are "living, eating, drinking, and breathing politics"—to the point that Bill was always trying to line up recreational Democratic meet-and-greets even when he was supposed to be on vacation. "It's very surreal. You see a lot of drive and ambition" in Washington, of course, "but never like the Clintons, where it's ceaseless." Asked whether the president and the senator are at all distinguishable in that regard, Panetta says, "Probably she more than he—she being a human being, after all—it takes a toll on her." Yet even when the more flesh-and-blood half of the entity known as Theclintons does take a night off, it can turn into a busman's holiday, as when, according to their biographer Sally Bedell Smith, they spent their 25th anniversary, in October of 2000, at home in Chappaqua, N.Y., watching a Bush-Gore presidential debate. Which is not at all to say that their marriage is the dispassionate alliance some critics take it for: Would you accuse two hard-core philatelists of only being in it for the stamps?
Before she announced that she was in the presidential race to the finish and would march on Denver if it came to that, the big Hillary questions were: Just how mad is she at Mr. Bigmouth? And would she finally throw him out if she lost? But she wasn't and wouldn't. In fact, neither of the Clintons has ever thought Bill did anything wrong in this campaign. In their view, any perceived missteps have been wholly manufactured by the media. And the two are never more in sync than when it's them against the bad guys, which in this case includes the press, the Obama camp, and all former allies who have defected—whose stand-up, "I wanted to tell you myself, Mr. President" phone calls Bill Clinton refuses to take or return. "If anybody should know that changing horses doesn't mean you didn't like the person you worked for before, it should be them; they've done it enough," says a Clinton loyalist taken aback by their fury at those who have switched sides. "But what nobody understands is that they're a two-person wagon train that can circle all by itself. She thinks nobody can defend him better, and he thinks nobody can defend her better." One of them is even right.
Hillary Clinton certainly propped her rescue ladder up against Bill Clinton's house on fire and hauled out his 1992 presidential campaign, luring the nation into highly distracting debates about cookie-baking and Tammy Wynette after the Gennifer Flowers story broke. Later, she saved his presidency by blaming allegations that he'd run amok with Monica Lewinsky on a "vast right-wing conspiracy." And it was she who made it possible for him to serve out his second term: In a dramatic personal appeal to Democrats on Capitol Hill on the day he was impeached by the House of Representatives, she rallied his defenders by presenting herself as "a wife who loves and supports her husband." But the former president seems to have found that utility as a political helpmate is harder than she made it look—notably when he grinningly compared Barack Obama to Jesse Jackson in comments that were either flatly racial or evidence of an awfully late-onset tin ear. Either way, they wildly overshot the mark and damaged both her candidacy and his legacy as the "first black president."
"The last thing we would have expected is that her campaign would fail because Bill Clinton became a liability in a Democratic primary. He was supposed to be a strategic genius and an asset on the trail," says his former press secretary Dee Dee Myers. Instead, his performance has been so startlingly subpar that "[y]ou have to wonder, is he intentionally trying to undermine her? The answer I think probably is yes, but it's also unconscious." He both badly wants his wife to win—by some accounts, even more than she herself does—but also can't seem to help sabotaging her efforts by making himself the issue. Just in the last two weeks, he went off on an anti-war heckler at a rally in Oregon ("Do you want to give the speech?"), accused his own party of a "new strategy of denying and disempowering and disenfranchising" in a speech in Indiana, and managed to revive the fading uproar over Hillary's invented tale about landing under sniper fire in Bosnia: Hey, she's 60 and it was late at night when she "misspoke," the former president said not at all helpfully, suggesting that she's so old and muddled she might not be sharp and on the case at 3 a.m. He also, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, "had one of his famous meltdowns" in a private meeting with donors there. "Red-faced and finger-pointing," he exploded in the face of a woman who'd murmured during a photo op that she was sorry to hear that James Carville had called Bill Richardson a "Judas" for endorsing Barack Obama. "It was as if someone pulled the pin of a grenade," a witness to the tirade told the paper. "This was not the Bill Clinton of earlier campaigns." Immediately after the meeting, the former president called on his fellow Democrats to "chill out" about the race.
But what if this really isn't the Bill Clinton of earlier campaigns? Myers, for one, sees Hillary as giving her husband a pass—again—in part because of concerns about his health; she suggests that some of the "not presidential and not particularly effective" flashes of Clintonian temper we've seen lately might be the Dick Cheney-style cloudbursts of the heart patient Clinton now is. "His health—after a quadruple bypass? After your heart is out of your body for 75 minutes? He doesn't have the emotional resilience he used to, and he got too emotionally worked up."
Not only because he'd love to move back into the White House, but because he's still in awe of his wife, in his way. Though it's hard to think of a relationship that's been more pawed over, this is no time to look away from their unorthodox but mutually oxygenating setup, in part because the whole rationale of her candidacy is predicated on her symbiotic relationship with, and experience alongside, her husband.
And his fidelity, or lack of it, has loomed over their public relationship. Hillary has more than implied that no Lewinsky-style dramas will derail her campaign or damage her White House. When asked by a voter whether history might repeat itself with a "business or personal scandal" involving her husband, she did not equivocate: "That's not going to happen. None of us can predict the future." But "I'm very confident that will not happen." After all their years in public life, Hillary Clinton advertises herself as a known quantity—overexposed, if anything.
But the truth is that the press has been running away from Bill Clinton stories for years—to the point that the Obama campaign has even done some not-too-slick whining about it. The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder wrote months ago that "at a campaign event in Iowa, one of Obama's aides plopped down next to me and … wanted to know when reporters would begin to look into Bill Clinton's postpresidential sex life." Could be we've had more than enough of such reports, particularly after the unhappy spectacle involving Eliot Spitzer, to whom Hillary sent a vanilla-gram of "best wishes and thoughts." Could be that adultery isn't what it used to be. While Clinton was still president, on Super Tuesday in 2000, I was with a bunch of other reporters at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin, Texas, when somebody came by with word that, hey, some woman in the bar was claiming she'd had an affair with Bill Clinton! And nobody even got up. So all I know is this: Not one of the post-Monica rumors about the guy Maureen Dowd calls Frisky Bill has ever been substantiated. But also this: If Hillary Clinton gets the nomination, we will wind up fully briefed.
An official in the Clinton White House who strongly supports her and is highly skeptical of Obama says that when Hillary promises there won't be another Bill Clinton sex scandal, that's not just hope talking. This wasn't some pro forma assurance, either, or a Scarlett O'Hara-style, we'll-worry-about-that-another-daysort of remark. No, there's a reason the candidate feels, as she said, "very confident" on that score: Her husband has been "put on a diet for the last year," the former Clinton official told me, referring not to cheeseburgers but to women. "And he's stuck to it, as far as we know."
In a long, and at times rather loud, interview in her Senate office four years ago, I asked Hillary Clinton whether she might hesitate to run for president to avoid having her private life rummaged through all over again, and she either took offense or pretended to: "I'm never going to get out of scrutiny" in any case, she snapped. "Here you are talking to me, and it never ends." As things were going so well, I went on and asked her how it was going on the homefront. "It's the same as it's been," she said coolly, drawing out the words, "for 32 or 33 years." And though she said this in pique, it's true that the dynamic between the two of them hasn't varied that much over the decades.
Hillary has often said that she learned about constancy from her own mother, Dorothy Rodham, whose early life was nothing short of tragic. After Dorothy's parents divorced, she was, at the age of 8, packed off across the country to live with grandparents who didn't want her, either. She left home to become a nanny when she was only 14—and when her mother finally reached out to her, years later, it turned out that she didn't really want to reconcile; she hoped Dorothy would come to work as her housekeeper. Though Hillary has disputed reports that the man Dorothy married, her father, Hugh Rodham, was emotionally abusive, as Carl Bernstein wrote in A Woman in Charge, and her mom's life "painfully demeaning," her own account of her upbringing in her autobiography, Living History, supplies plenty of evidence that her home life was not, as she chooses to see it, like something out of Father Knows Best:
My father could not stand personal waste. Like so many who grew up in the Depression, his fear of poverty colored his life. My mother rarely bought new clothes, and she and I negotiated with him for weeks for special purchases, like a new dress for the prom. If one of my brothers or I forgot to screw the cap back on the toothpaste tube, my father threw it out the bathroom window. We would have to go outside, even in the snow, to search for it in the evergreen bushes in front of the house. … To this day, I put uneaten olives back in the jar, wrap up the tiniest pieces of cheese and feel guilty when I throw anything away.
She also learned to keep marching, achieving, and upholding standards that no one else even knew about while standing on one foot and denying that anything was amiss—just as she's done in her own marriage and in her presidential campaign. Smiling her brightest smile, even as she's most harshly criticized during presidential debates, she sometimes seems as inured to actual insult as she is alive to strategic opportunities for umbrage. Though big-old, huggable Bill Clinton must have looked like just the antidote to her hypercritical, cheapskate dad, it's funny how often a thing and its opposite wind up at the same damn place. When Bill and Hillary met at Yale Law, she—even more than he—was considered the one with the big political future. Back then, it was Bill who was suspected of ulterior motives in hitching his wagon to Hillary's star. And after all this time, who can say whether he would have ever made it to the national stage without her—any more than she would have made it without him? After all this time, their well-established MO is to process the political information they live on as a team of two, constantly looking to each other for both the validation and the correction they never fully trust from anyone else. When he was president, Hillary was not what you'd call beloved by his aides, because she regularly took her anger at him out on them, berating his advisers in front of him as a way of getting under her husband's skin. Yet his aides also had a running joke about how the president felt he had to consult her before rendering any real decision—just as, in her current campaign, she looks to him as to no one else.
Since the death of their mutual friend Diane Blair, no one is more of a confidant to either Clinton than the other—along with their grown daughter, Chelsea, who works for a hedge fund in New York. And though there are many people in their orbit, intimacy does not come easily to either of them: "I am not the sort of person who routinely pours out her deepest feelings, even to her closest friends," Hillary wrote in her autobiography. "My mother is the same way. We have a tendency to keep our own counsel, and that trait only deepened when I began living my life in the public eye." Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who first introduced the couple at Yale but who has been disillusioned with them for some time, is one of several former associates who described their current circle as mostly money people: "The world for them tends to be divided between those who are useful to them, financially or politically or both, and those who aren't. So many of their friends are accordingly very wealthy, and they associate informally with a fairly wide circle of extremely wealthy people."
Yet though there may be considerable turnover on the Clintons' Christmas-card list, friends past and present are in near-perfect agreement on what keeps the couple together: Mysterious as they are to us, even now, Bill and Hillary Clinton do get each other, and that is no small thing.
Again and again, what their friends circle back to is that both Bill and Hillary truly believe no one on this earth is smarter than the person they married. Progressive evangelical pastor Tony Campolo, who counseled the Clintons after the Lewinsky affair, says, "They are two people who are perfectly fit for each other; I'm not sure she could be married to anybody else, and I'm not sure he could be married to anybody else. They feed off each other" and get along better than we think. "Everybody knows he has a problem in his personality," Campolo says, referring to Clinton's past indiscretions. "And he's trying to deal with it, and I think he is dealing with it."
While their union is unconventional, it also remains intense in ways a lot of more traditional marriages just aren't after 30-plus years. Sally Bedell Smith, who spent three years researching her book on the couple, For Love of Politics, says their relationship still boils down to what Bill Clinton told his mom about why he was marrying Hillary: "I need someone I can talk to." Barging in on the two of them in the heat of a political discussion is, by some accounts, almost like walking in on another couple having sex. "The one scene that sums it up for me,'' Smith says, "is one day in September of 2000, when they had both just given speeches, and she was in the campaign van and he was leaning in and they were staring into each others eyes" in a way that made aides who witnessed the scene wish they were anywhere else. "They were staring into each other's eyes, and it was described to me as a moment of rapture. It's always been a different kind of marriage, but if you define your passion in those terms, yeah, it's there."
Their friends are split on how aware she ever really let herself be of his philandering over the years. Having developed a high threshold for pain before she ever laid eyes on Bill, Hillary learned from her mother both incredible toughness and coping strategies that mostly involved refusal to acknowledge unpleasantness. During their Arkansas years, one of her ways of sidestepping bad news of all kinds was simply refusing to read the papers. After the Gennifer Flowers story came out during her husband's '92 presidential run, her response, according to Carl Bernstein, was to throw herself into efforts to discredit Flowers and to try to persuade horrified campaign aides to bring out rumors that Poppy Bush had not always been faithful to Barbara. She never so much as cracked open the Starr Report, according to her autobiography.
Strangely, what Hillary seems to have exaggerated about her marriage is not how well they mended it after Monica—but how serious a breach there ever was. Even when strains were visible—or seemed to be, as when they walked to Marine One with Chelsea in between them after the news broke—in private they for the most part seemed inconceivably at ease. So that if there was any posturing for public consumption going on, it was not in the way we might think. At the time, the word put out by Hillaryland was that the president was in the doghouse and had to win her back. But if that was true, his probationary period was over almost before it began. Peter King, the Republican congressman from Long Island who was working closely with Bill Clinton on the Irish peace process at the time, recalls dreading a trip to Moscow and Ireland that he, Sen. Pete Domenici, and Rep. Steny Hoyer were taking with the Clintons right after the post-Monica Martha's Vineyard vacation that everyone assumed had been a disaster: "We were leaving from Andrews [Air Force Base], and they were coming directly from Martha's Vineyard, and everybody was kind of nervous because no one knew what to expect. But they came on the plane like the two happiest people in the world, laughing and joking, and it seemed legit. They came holding hands and kidding each other. Steny likes to sleep on the floor on the plane, and she's joking, 'They're going to say we're sleeping with Steny.' I've seen people trying to pretend everything's great when it isn't, and it wasn't that; it wasn't forced."
King voted against Clinton's impeachment and spoke to him regularly during that period. He says mending fences with his wife seemed like the last thing on the president's mind. "I had maybe 20 conversations about impeachment and five seconds were about her. He'd say, 'I've gotta work it out with this Senator and that one, and, yeah, with Hillary, too.' " Which King took not as evidence that the president didn't care, but that she didn't particularly need propping up: "He made it sound like she was being pretty decent about it. I'm not into psychobabble, but whatever complexities they have, it is not an arrangement; they seem to need each other's reassurance."
A friend of mine who is a therapist notes that for people who either were raised by a highly critical parent, like Hillary's dad, or were inappropriately enmeshed in messy grown-up problems, as Bill was, it's run-of-the-mill to wind up more comfortable in a relationship when triangulating—yes, that was the word she used—with some third party or crusade or common enemy to take the pressure off the primary relationship. At this moment in their lives, they are certainly united in their anger. Though in the past aides found him lighter and her less trusting, he's grown more like his wife in that regard in recent years.
And in this campaign, they've come full circle, with him overreacting to perceived slights and her marching on, head aloft no matter what. Their longtime friend Max Brantley, editor of the alt-weekly Arkansas Times, even gives the press corps backhanded credit for lighting the candles, pouring the champagne, and locking them in the bunker—where they do best together: "My sense is they may be closer than ever. They're embattled and really haven't gotten a fair shake in the media, and that's drawn them together. They've made a mistake whining about it—that's not how the game is played. … But they're in the Alamo, and it's a common-purpose kind of thing."
Should Hillary prevail, of course, Bill will have his restoration and she her turn. Should she lose, they will almost certainly try again in four or eight years. To ask what would keep them together in the absence of a presidential campaign is the wrong question. Because win or lose, the campaign for their dual, inextricably intertwined legacy will never be over. And, win or lose, they'll fight on together.


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In Missouri, state law requires that all newborns be screened for five conditions that, if left untreated, can result in either mental retardation or death. It is important that if you are contacted by the baby's health care provider and asked to bring your baby back for either a repeat newborn screen or a confirmatory test, that you do so. Do not delay, as it is very important to the health of your baby. If a baby is diagnosed as being positive, early treatment can allow the baby to grow and develop normally.
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Bryan LaHair Beat Carlos Zambrano and Other Bullets
This week is managerial interview week, apparently, as the Cubs will have in a minimum of two candidates, but as many as four. More on that later today, as well as another Lukewarm Stove roundup, and some more on Cubs' GM Jed Hoyer.
- Carlos Zambrano made his long-awaited Winter League debut yesterday (his first outing since his August meltdown; August 2011 meltdown, that is) with mixed results. On the upside, he struck out three over 2.2 innings, and appeared healthy. On the downside, he gave up two runs, three hits, two walks, hit a batter, and had a throwing error. One of those runs? A solo bomb to Bryan LaHair.
- The Cubs, and presumably other big league teams, had a scout in attendance to watch Zambrano, who is under contract with the Cubs for 2012. Cubs' President Theo Epstein, who is expected to speak to Zambrano this week, refused to confirm the Cubs would be shopping Zambrano, but almost everyone believes the best outcome is Zambrano pitching elsewhere in 2012, with the Cubs saving a few million on the $18 million he's owed.
- The Onion, as it so frequently does, skewers the Cubs in a humorous way. In an article entitled, "Theo Epstein Disgusted To Find Cubs Playing In Old Stadium With Weeds Growing All Over Walls," faux Epstein is quoted as saying, "That hunk-of-junk scoreboard in center is apparently broken—they change the numbers by hand—and I don't even know if this place has electricity. If this is the way they take care of their ballpark, I'm not surprised they never put together a winning team here." First, you laugh. Then, you think.
- Noted White Sox homer, Joe Cowley of the Sun-Times, last offseason wrote that Chicago had officially become "Soxtown." He's eating those words now in the face of an offseason dominated by Cubs' headlines, even after the Cubs put together a miserable 2011 season. He concedes Chicago remains "Cubstown."
- Stop by the Message Board, if you haven't already. It's a little more free-wheeling than the blog, but with the same interesting discussions and bright commenters. Also: burgeoning discussions on the greatest rock albums of all-time, which is certain produce agreement and no discord.


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Jeff Bezos wins again
After Christmas, I wanted to do a meeting with one of my LinkedIn friends, Sasha Cole, an economics PhD student who (like me) was home to visit family during the Christmas break (but unlike me is Jewish and not observing Christmas).
We met at the Pannikin, the well-known local chain of gourmet coffee shops started by Bob Sinclair in 1968 (before Starbucks). In addition to running coffee shops, as a coffee roaster he supplied hundreds of local restaurants and cafés. Both my friend and I recalled hanging out at the Pannikin in high school (long before Starbucks came to California), because it was one of the few places you could spend a small amount of money and sit around and talk for several hours (e.g. at the end of a Friday night date).
Long before every Barnes & Noble had a built-in Starbucks, Sinclair found a natural complementarity with independent booksellers who colocated with his coffee shops. (I had always assumed that they were under the same ownership, but instead the two businesses were independent). The two Pannikins I have visited most — the original in La Jolla and the nearby Del Mar location — eventually added funky bookstores next door where you could buy a book to read while sipping your coffee.
The La Jolla venue still has DG Wills, a used bookshop that proudly proclaims past appearances by leftist literary luminaries like Norman Mailer, Maureen Dowd, Christopher Hitchens and Oliver Stone. For Del Mar, it was the Book Works, located in the Flower Hill mall. However, when we met Monday in Del Mar, the Book Works was gone, having closed over the summer after 35 years in business.
Both locations serve students and faculty at UCSD, and local tech workers at Qualcomm and other firms. The nearest Barnes & Nobles are 7 and 9.5 miles away, where they have been for 15+ years. So it was clear that if anything killed the Book Works, it was Amazon.
In noting the bookstore's passing, we recognized our own complicity (as Amazon patrons) in its death. Even yesterday, when browsing through a couple of bookstores with my family, I realized I was unlikely to buy any books in the store, because the two books I wanted were a) a novel I'd download for my e-reader and b) music books for my biggest Christmas gift (a handmade ukelele) that were not going to be found in a bookstore inventory.
Next to Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos is the most brilliant and transformative tech executive of the past two decades (even if two Stanford grad students stumbled into better margins). He effectively created e-commerce, then leveraged that to become an online seller of everything, and now is leading the shift of cultural content from atoms to bits.
However — like Google and Apple and Microsoft and others — Amazon aspires to be a monopolist by forestalling rival entrants and growing (in the case of entertainment downloads) or maintaining (for books) his marketshare. Much like patrons of Walmart (or Target), in our search for convenience and low cost we customers of Amazon are reducing our options for the future: not just quirky (and often badly run) independent bookstores, but also physical bookstores of all sorts.
This seems to go unremarked in the US — at least in tech circles. A rare exception comes from a New York-based correspondent for Britain's Financial Times, John Gapper. Earlier this month he wrote a scathing column about Amazon's two-faced attitude towards antitrust as it uses price (and its superior scale economies) to squeeze out its competitors.
On the one hand, Amazon developed a plan to crowdsource spying on its competitors pricing, using a $5 bribe for customers to use a special price-check smartphone app to report prices of competitors. (To its credit, the NYT quickly covered the literary backlash.)
Beyond this, however, Gapper decried Amazon's efforts to seize pricing power for ebooks — rather than allow publishers to set the same price for all ebook downloads — and then use that to push out all rivals:
While Amazon is blithely using its rivals' property as a storefront, it wants antitrust authorities in Europe and the US to help it control the ebook market. The European Commission and the Department of Justice have launched twin probes, provoked by deals under which publishers set prices for their ebooks rather than letting Amazon, Apple and Barnes & Noble do so.In physical retailing, Target has created a different shopping experience and higher quality brand to provide meaningful alternative to Walmart — much as the quirky independent bookstores next to the Pannikin gave booklovers a chance to browse when they were relaxing with their coffee.
Amazon is eager to discount ebooks on the Kindle in the same way that it discounts everything else but has been stymied by publishers who fear it will eliminate all ereader competition. As Mike Shatzkin, a publishing industry analyst, says: "It is an incredible irony that antitrust law is being used to protect the biggest monopolist."
Other things being equal, lower prices are good for consumers, but I fear a world in which Amazon squeezes out the Nook; pushes B&N into the same fate as Borders, which was forced to liquidate in July; marginalises all independent stores; and dominates the industry from publishing to printing to distribution. That would be a dystopia for both readers and authors.
Minimum prices deals helped to erode Amazon's initial dominance in ereaders by encouraging competition from B&N and others. Even so, the Kindle still accounts for 60 per cent of ebook sales. It is not the job of antitrust officials to hand Amazon back its monopoly.
For online purchases of digital goods, ambience isn't going to be a differentiating factor. Much as I love price competition, I agree with Gapper that this is one choice we don't want to have — a short-term price war that lads to a long term monopoly.
Jeff Bezos will still get richer, as his shareholders have doubled their money in the past three years. However, as with Steve Jobs competition will force him to continually innovate, while (limited) antitrust regulation will maintain consumer choices of technology and vendors.


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Used 2006 Toyota Tacoma
2006 Highlights
For 2006, a tire-pressure monitor is now standard on all Tacomas. Revised SAE testing procedures have dropped horsepower and torque ratings.
- Flexible and refined drivetrains, excellent off-road ability, 18 different body configurations, available stability control, solid build quality and reliability record, well-trimmed interior, unique bed features.
- Manual gearbox still vague through the gears, awkward emergency brake on some models.
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The 2006 Toyota Tacoma is far and away one of the best compact trucks ever offered to the American public.
vehicle overview
Long known for their durable nature, Toyota trucks have been on sale in the U.S. market since 1964 (remember the Stout, anyone?). Toyota introduced its sixth-generation truck, and anointed it with the "Tacoma" nameplate, in 1995. The first-generation Tacoma consistently attracted some of the youngest buyers in its class thanks to sharp styling, a bulletproof reliability record and its image as the perfect complement to a pair of dirt bikes or WaveRunners. It wasn't always the biggest or most powerful truck in its class, but when it came to delivering a complete package, the Toyota Tacoma rarely let its buyers down.
Just last year, an all-new Tacoma debuted with across-the-board improvements. Whether it's engine power, interior room or safety features, the newest Tacoma has more of everything than it had before and even a few things it didn't. Like most trucks in its class, the truck comes in regular, extended-cab (Toyota calls it an Access Cab) and crew-cab (Double Cab) body styles in both two- and four-wheel drive. The 2006 Toyota Tacoma also continues with the popular PreRunner models that offer the look and suspension of the four-wheel-drive trucks sans the actual four-wheel-drive running gear.
Also available is a long-bed version of the crew cab and the high-performance access cab X-Runner street truck. All regular and extended-cab models are available with either four- or six-cylinder engines, while the crew-cab models use the V6 exclusively. The X-Runner picks up where the old S-Runner left off, offering a sport-tuned pickup for those who want some utility without giving up the fun. It comes as a six-speed V6 extended cab only with a lowered suspension and additional structural bracing underneath that gives the truck its name. Even the least expensive 4x2 regular cab is outfitted with the essentials, including antilock brakes, a CD stereo and multiple power points.
Even more impressive than the Tacoma's standard features is the overall design and comfort of the interior. With plenty of room in every direction, the Tacoma has lost much of the claustrophobic feeling so typical of most compact trucks. A composite cargo bed comes standard on all models and incorporates built-in storage units, adjustable tie-down anchors and even an optional 400-watt electrical outlet. The compact truck category has seen a rekindling of interest over the last couple years, as manufacturers court younger buyers with vehicles that are as functional as they are fashionable. With it's excellent revamp, the 2006 Toyota Tacoma is now firmly planted in the upper echelon of its class.
trim levels & features
The 2006 Toyota Tacoma comes in three body styles: Regular Cab, Access Cab (extended cab) and Double Cab (crew cab). Each is available with two-wheel or four-wheel drive. Toyota also offers Tacomas with a "PreRunner" designation. PreRunners are 2WD trucks that have the looks and heavy-duty suspension of 4WD models. Toyota also offers a special 2WD X-Runner access cab sport truck equipped with the V6, a six-speed manual transmission, a sport-tuned suspension and additional structural bracing underneath that gives the truck its name. Standard features on the regular cab include a CD player, a full-size spare tire and a tachometer. Access Cabs add bucket seats, air conditioning and a pair of rear access doors. On top of that, the Double Cab receives keyless entry and power windows, locks and mirrors. An optional SR5 package on these Toyota trucks features color-keyed and chrome trim, intermittent wipers and upgraded interior trim. A JBL audio system with seven speakers is optional on Double Cabs. An available TRD Sport package includes performance suspension and upgraded tires, and a TRD Off-Road package features meaty tires and heavy-duty off-road suspension.
performance & mpg
All regular and access cab models are available with either four- or six-cylinder engines, while the crew-cab models use the V6 exclusively. Standard is a 2.7-liter, four-cylinder engine producing 159 horsepower and 180 pound-feet of torque. The 4.0-liter V6 engine serves up 236 hp and 266 lb-ft of torque. Transmission choices include either a five-speed manual or four-speed automatic for the four-cylinder, while V6 buyers can choose between a six-speed manual and a five-speed automatic. Equipped with the V6 engine, the Tacoma's maximum tow rating is 6,500 pounds.
Antilock brakes with Electronic Brakeforce Distribution and BrakeAssist are standard on all Toyota Tacoma trucks. A stability control system is optional on all models, except the X-Runner. Crew-cab models also offer optional front-seat side airbags and full-length head curtain airbags. Hill-start Assist Control (HAC) and Downhill Assist Control (DAC) are offered on 4WD models equipped with an automatic transmission, stability control and the off-road package.
While the standard four-cylinder is certainly adequate, the 4.0-liter V6 is a terrific all-around performer, with plenty of guts down low and a willingness to spin into the upper-rev ranges without getting thrashy. In terms of handling, the feeling behind the wheel of the 2006 Toyota Tacoma is of a truck that is well planted at every corner, predictable when pushed and surprisingly agile considering its size.
The design of the dashboard controls and instrument cluster of the Toyota Tacoma mimics the 4Runner, which isn't a bad thing. The quality of the materials sets a new standard for the class, and the seats have the kind of firm, supportive bolstering not typically found on trucks of this type. Getting into Access Cabs is easy, thanks to dual rear doors that open wide, and the backseat of the Double Cab is comfortable for full-size adults.
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Features & Specs
Used 2006 Toyota Tacoma Overview
The Used 2006 Toyota Tacoma is offered in the following submodels: , , . Available styles include V6 4dr Double Cab 4WD SB (4.0L 6cyl 5A), PreRunner 2dr Regular Cab SB (2.7L 4cyl 5M), V6 4dr Access Cab 4WD SB (4.0L 6cyl 6M), PreRunner V6 4dr Double Cab LB (4.0L 6cyl 5A), 2dr Regular Cab 4WD SB (2.7L 4cyl 5M), X-Runner V6 4dr Access Cab SB (4.0L 6cyl 6M), 4dr Access Cab 4WD SB (2.7L 4cyl 5M), 4dr Access Cab SB (2.7L 4cyl 4A), V6 4dr Double Cab 4WD SB (4.0L 6cyl 6M), V6 4dr Double Cab 4WD LB (4.0L 6cyl 5A), PreRunner V6 4dr Access Cab SB (4.0L 6cyl 5A), PreRunner V6 4dr Access Cab SB (4.0L 6cyl 6M), 2dr Regular Cab SB (2.7L 4cyl 5M), V6 4dr Access Cab 4WD SB (4.0L 6cyl 5A), PreRunner 4dr Access Cab SB (2.7L 4cyl 5M), PreRunner V6 4dr Double Cab SB (4.0L 6cyl 5A), 2dr Regular Cab SB (2.7L 4cyl 4A), and 4dr Access Cab SB (2.7L 4cyl 5M).
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Save up to $695 on one of 14 Used 2006 Toyota Tacoma for sale at dealerships within 25 miles of Ashburn, VA with prices as low as $8,997 as of08/14/2018, based on data from dealers and consumer-driven dealer ratings ranging from1 to 5 out of 5 stars.
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- The Used 2006 Toyota Tacoma PreRunner V6 is priced between $8,997 and$14,995 with odometer readings between 73491 and203860 miles.
- The Used 2006 Toyota Tacoma V6 is priced between $11,999 and$17,990 with odometer readings between 76342 and151850 miles.
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