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Below is a list of news articles featuring Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People.
LeadingAge Magazine
Financial Counseling for Low-Income Seniors
Feisty Side of Fifty
The Critical Relationship Between Financial and Physical Health
Plain Press, December 2017 (page 3)
Article: ESOP receives Bank of America's Neighborhood Builder Award
WKYC Square Talk, January 2017
Square Talk with Roslyn Quarto
Cuyahoga County Department of Consumer Affairs, November 2016
Cuyahoga County Announces the Formation of the Scam Squad
Crain's Cleveland, September 2016
Third Federal Foundation Commits $500,000 to ESOP
Community Development Investment Center, Federal Reserve Bank of SF, September 2016
Staying at Home: The Role of Financial Services in Promoting Aging in Community
Enterprise Community Partners, March 2016
Ohio Report highliting ESOP Realty
Lakewood Patch 3/14/2016
Lakewood Has A Way To Help Prevent Elder Fraud
ESOP Annual Luncheon & Awards (video)
ShelterForce 8/11/2015
Staying Afloat by Branching Out
ShelterForce 5/29/2015
Crain's Cleveland 2/13/2015
Legal Newsline Legal Journal 5/31/2013
Groups appeal to federal judge for fair lending data on homeowner relief
Salon.com 5/12/2013
Cleveland: Ground zero for the housing bubble
CoshoctonTribune.com 5/5/2013
Foreclosures fall across Ohio; Numbers still higher than historical norms
DispatchPolitics.com 5/2/2013
Petitions urge Portman support for Cordray
Crain's Cleveland Business 4/29/2013
Roslyn Quarto to lead foreclosure prevention group
Cleveland.com 4/29/2013
Roslyn Quarto named new executive director of ESOP, the foreclosure prevention group
The Blade 4/3/2013
Senate should give Cordray a vote as consumer chief
American Banker 2/27/2013
Civil Rights Groups Call for More Disclosure in Mortgage Settlement
Housing counselors grilled settlement monitor Joseph A. Smith on why banks are not disclosing data that would show whether communities hit hardest by the foreclosures crisis are getting the bulk of the relief.
National Housing Institute 2/1/2013
ESOP Announces New Board President
After the loss of Founder and Board President Inez Killingsworth, the Board of Trustees has selected Barbara Anderson as its new president.
Call & Post 1/24/2013
Community leader Inez Killingsworth dies
Cleveland.com 1/18/2013
Inez Killingsworth, janitor turned statewide crusader for homeowners: news obituary
The Blade 12/16/2012
Community center lifts residents of central city
Inside Housing.UK 11/7/2012
Barack Obama's second term as president must see the US get to grips with its shattered housing market, argues Paul Bellamy
DSNews.com 10/19/2012
Ohio Foreclosure Agency Honors Ocwen CEO
Annual Cleveland ESOP gala is Oct. 18 at Executive Caterers, Mayfield Heights
Inside Housing.UK
When president Obama was elected four years ago, millions of Americans hoped he would end their housing nightmares. On the eve of a new election, Lydia Stockdale examines whether voters are sleeping more soundly.
Rooflines, the Shelterforce Blog
Now Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People, a combination housing counseling agency and organizing group, is launching a mortgage strike.
Underwater Ohioans Rebel for Principal Reduction Cause
Sometimes, to bring attention to what one considers to be an unjust law or policy, an act of rebellion occurs. In Ohio, three current but underwater borrowers have decided to go on a mortgage strike as an act of civil disobedience against FHFA's stance on principal reduction the lack of help to address underwater mortgages.
ESOP urging underwater homeowners to go on mortgage strike until lenders do principal reduction
Many banks took federal bailouts, and they can help stem the foreclosure crisis by keeping underwater homeowners from walking away from mortgages, ESOP says.
CLE agency calls for 'mortgage strike'
Ohio mortgage counseling agency invites homeowners to stop paying 'underwater' mortgages
Homeowners Fall for Mortgage Strike
Three elderly Cleveland homeowners are taking a bold stand against their mortgage lenders in an effort to save their biggest investments.
Housing Crisis Leading to Mortgage Strike?
The housing crisis has hurt so many hard working families. So why is one group telling Cleveland homeowners to go on a mortgage strike?
An Update on the Foreclosure Crisis
More than a million and a half Americans have lost their homes since the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008. Four years later, we look at how Northeast Ohio is faring and whether the picture has improved for the 174,000 Ohio families affected by foreclosure.
WKSU NPR Radio
ESOP was in Akron Thursday evening, offering advice to home owners at a town hall meeting in the main library. WKSU's Tim Rudell has more on what was said, and why.
OpEd: 'Underwater' homes drowning neighborhoods' chances to stabilize: Mark Siefert
WEWS - Newschannel 5
Cuyahoga County non-profits and NACA clash over mortgage help
County skeptical of NACA's return to Cleveland for foreclosure event
Cleveland: Foreclosure help event stirs controversy, showdown
ONN - Ohio News Network
Cleveland woman with lung disease promised help with mortgage, but receives nothing
After a year, she said they did nothing. Now, she's telling her story so others don't go through the same thing.
WOIO - 19 Action News
So you are about to lose your home so you need a quick fix to save it. That's when scam artists swoop in to take advantage.
Local groups provide free foreclosure help, warn homeowners against scams
Local nonprofit housing agencies are offering a series of free events this month to help homeowners avoid foreclosure.
Americans Brace for Next Foreclosure Wave
Half a decade into the deepest U.S. housing crisis since the 1930s, many Americans are hoping the crisis is finally nearing its end. House sales are picking up across most of the country, the plunge in prices is slowing and attempts by lenders to claim back properties from struggling borrowers dropped by more than a third in 2011, hitting a four-year low.
Ohio Designates $75M for Demolition; Should It Go to Borrowers?
With more than 100,000 vacant properties in the state, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine designated part of Ohio's $335 million from the recent national settlement with the nation's largest servicers for property demolition. However, not everyone agrees with the decision.
WEWS – Newschannel 5
ESOP director says housing crisis far from over despite lender agreement
A $25 billion-settlement over mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure abuses has been reached. Some say the deal between the justice department and five of the country's lenders is a relief.
Plain Dealer
Ohio homeowners, foreclosure victims to get millions in bank ...
Seifert, of Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People -- or ESOP -- said he's not impressed with interest rate reductions but said principal reductions ...
Cleveland News - Fox 8
Local Homeowners Applaud Mortgage Settlement
"It's a good first step, we've got a long way to go," said Mark Seifert, executive director of Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People (ESOP).
WJW FOX 8 Cleveland
Prior to his speech, the president made a stop at the home of a local couple who almost lost their home to a predatory lender.
President Obama visits Cleveland home of William and Endia Eason, walks away with sweet potato and peach pies
President Obama stopped at the Holborn Avenue home of Eason and her husband, William, Wednesday afternoon to bolster his argument that the country needs a strong watchdog agency to protect consumers. The Easons almost lost their Cleveland home after falling victim to a predatory lender.
Neighborhood Voice
Fighting for Cleveland Homeowners
Homeowners, neighborhood leaders and the nonprofit group Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People, better known as ESOP, launched a campaign urging federal officials, banks and mortage companies to save homes from foreclosure.
Barack Obama's visit is life-changing experience for William and Endia Eason of Cleveland
William and Endia Eason have become celebrities since President Barack Obama stopped at their Holborn Avenue home in Cleveland last week.
In Ohio, ESOP Pilots A Fresh Approach to Mortgage Modification
The organization ESOP had helped Martin renegotiate that loan; now, unemployed and in fear of losing his family's home, he turned to ESOP again. The result, after Martin enrolled in a principal reduction modification loan from Ocwen Financial Corporation, was that his mortgage payment went down to $640 per month. On top of that, the principal loan on the house—which is rapidly depreciating in value—will be reduced by $34,000 each year for three years, for a total reduction of $112,000.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Like a mechanic with no tools?
Tim Geithner might be Endia Eason's new best friend. If he lived in Cleveland, she'd probably bake him a pie.
So why would a 91-year-old woman in southeast Cleveland want to bake a pie for the U.S. treasury secretary?
Because lately, Geithner has been publicly nudging Senate Republicans who have hamstrung a new consumer protection agency – created to protect homeowners like Eason, and to stop what happened to her from happening to other people.
Chillicothe Gazette
Organization provides workshop about how to get help paying a mortgage
Call Staci Tinney, ESOP foreclosure prevention advocate, at (800) 209-3251. To begin the application process and to learn more about Restoring Stability, ...
Chillicothe Gazette
ESOP working with Restore Stability
CHILLICOTHE --Restore Stability With ESOP is working with unemployed and underemployed Ohioans in the Restoring Stability online application process. ...
Big Government
Richard Cordray's 'Heroes' Occupy Banks and Private Homes
Cordray has long supported ESOP, formerly known as the East Side Organizing ... ESOP's leaders brag about what they call their "organized hits" on banks and ...
Help to those Facing Foreclosure
Families facing home foreclosure can get free assistance and funding through the nonprofit organization, "Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People. ...
Human Events
Seifert: GOP Opposition to Cordray 'A Song and Dance'
A leading consumer advocate from Ohio, the home state of the director-designate of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), in an October 19 interview called on Republicans to quickly confirm the nomination.
Benjamin Rose Institute
Myth Busters: Inez Killingsworth
At 62, when she "retired" and could have kicked back and coasted into her golden years, Inez Killingsworth began her second career: as the tell-it-like-it-is, community champion and guiding force at what is now Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People.
WJW Fox 8 News
Program Offers Free Money for Mortgage Assistance
If you are unemployed and struggling to pay your mortgage, there is free money available to those who qualify.
Free money to save homes from foreclosure
Before your home belongs to the bank, you could get free money to save it. Are you missing out on a share of $570 million to help pay your mortgage?
Organization Saves Woman From Losing Home
It was downhill for Vera Capretta of Masury after a surgery went wrong and kept her from working as a custodian.
Masury woman has advice for people about to lose their home to foreclosure
A Masury woman, whose home was saved from foreclosure, is encouraging others in her situation to get help too.
CBS Evening News
Fannie Mae foreclosure sell-off destroying neighborhood
Fannie Mae is the nation's largest owner of foreclosed homes and is selling the repossess homes at 60 percent below market value. As Elaine Quijano reports from Cleveland, these rock bottom prices are destroying the neighborhoods.
Angry Mount Pleasant residents confront landlord over unkempt properties
Angry residents from Cleveland's Mount Pleasant neighborhood confronted a landlord over unkempt properties during an hour-long meeting at the York Rite Masonic Hall on Kinsman Avenue Tuesday evening.
Mark Seifert of Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People: Talk with the Boss
Mark Seifert is executive director of the nonprofit Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People, but being the boss didn't start out as a career goal.
Toledo Blade:
Help clean up mess in housing
America's foreclosure crisis continues to drag down the national economy and Toledo neighborhoods. There is plenty of blame to go around for the causes of the mess and why it isn't fixed. Only a holistic approach will clean up the mess.
WEWS Newschannel 5:
Sold foreclosed homes sit empty longer; Study indicates policy needs to change
In Cuyahoga County, homes that were sold after foreclosure have high vacancy rates two to five years after they are sold. A study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland found that foreclosed homes have much higher vacancy rates after auction than other homes.
Foreclosed homes in Cuyahoga are significantly more likely to remain vacant for years, Federal Reserve study finds
Foreclosed homes in Cuyahoga County are more likely to remain vacant up to five years after they're sold compared with homes sold by traditional means, a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland has found.
Obama's Pick for Consumer Agency Has Record of Fighting Banks
Mark Seifert recalls being impressed when Richard Cordray, then theOhio state treasurer, walked into the offices of his Cleveland activist group one day in August 2007.
John Boehner Fights Foreclosure Relief As Housing Crisis Ravages His District
Over the past three years, lawmakers across Ohio have pressed for foreclosure relief, often crossing party lines to do so. But Boehner has never joined the effort. When Rep. Steve Chabot, a fellow Republican whose district borders Boehner's and shares many of its economic hardships, backed a 2008 bill to grant relief to homeowners in bankruptcy courts, Boehner refused to sign on. When Democrats passed a separate foreclosure prevention bill later that year, Boehner blasted it as "a bailout for scam artists and speculators."
WEWS Newschannel 5
Southeast Cleveland neighborhood battles blight
One group dedicated to improving the quality of life in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood around Kinsman and Union Avenues is the Concerned Citizens of Mount Pleasant. According to organizers, Concerned Citizens is comprised of about 120 area residents.
WEWS Newschannel 5
Non-profits at odds over helping Ohio homeowners avoid foreclosure
Dale Martin was one of 20,000 people who hoped the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, or NACA, would help "save his dream" and save his Cleveland home from going into foreclosure.
The Columbus Dispatch
Foreclosure-prevention event has critics
A five-day foreclosure-prevention event starting in Columbus on Friday is billed as "Save the Dream." But critics use other phrases.
WUPW FoxToledo.com
Central Toledo residents meet with TPD
Murders, shootings, stabbings, and robberies.
Several of those crimes happened in the month of April. In Toledo's Central City.
Residents say they're getting fed up with the violence and they're letting Toledo police know just how concerned they are.
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A Formidable Proposition
R.W. Johnson
- D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
Viking, 591 pp, £25.00, May 2009, ISBN 978 0 670 88703 3
In his account of D-Day Antony Beevor comes to many surprising conclusions: that the Germans were by far the better soldiers, more experienced, disciplined and confident; that their weapons were generally better, not just the Tiger and Panther tanks and the 88mm anti-tank gun but even their MG42 light machinegun, which was far superior to its British and American equivalents; that the Allies shot many prisoners and committed all manner of atrocities; that French civilians caught in the middle often suffered more from the Allied onslaught. On the other hand, very little of this would come as a surprise to anyone teaching at Sandhurst or West Point.
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You deserve what you settle for
I read this somewhere a few years ago. I could not find the original author for this now.
I have no sympathy for the weak, the stupid, and the lazy.
One thing is certain in this life: "You deserve what you settle for"
Where there is a will.. there is a way. You show me a dedicated, smart and hardworking person that is determined to better themselves and I will point to them and declare a winner.
Again- the lazy, the weak, and the stupid will always blame something. They will blame the system, the government, their upbringing, parents, childhood, social status, race, environment, boss, company, friends, family, location, size, height, weight, genetics, anything and everything but their own determination and will and hard work. Excuses are for those lazy, weak and stupid people that need them. Losers need excuses. Winners do not need them- They pass right through failure on their way to success.
I also look down on the helpless. It is a choice. It is a mindset. It is what they deserve if they settle for it.
Without losers- there will never be winners. These lesser people serve a purpose and a necessary place in the world. Without them- everyone would be ordinary and the same. Problem is that if you snapped your fingers and got rid of them all- the winners would now be the ordinary- well then those who are true winners and extra ordinary would again rise to the very top. Because something in them tells them to do it. They have to do it. It is who they are. They don't even have a choice. For them it is not even an option. Its a must.
That is who winners are. And those who are unwilling would then become the losers. It is Darwinism and survival of the fittest. The laws of nature. This world is a cruel place and it can eat you up if you let it.
Stop thinking people are helpless- and need your help.. They don't need our tax money, or these crap government programs to help them. They don't need others charity, or kindness, or generosity. They don't need help. They need ambition and determination, and perhaps just given a chance by someone who thinks they deserve it. They can make their own way in the world and better themselves.
Most are unwilling to do it. they are happy with where they are. they look to scam, and use, and take. They cry… and feel like they deserve. well you know what they deserve… They will deserve what they are settling for.
The helpless are a choice and a mindset and their situation is a result of their choice
Your in the wrong sport if you don't thing this way.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.


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So much fun, in fact, that I'm actually making a blog post to share the photos.
Janie's 50th birthday, and the B-52s' Atlanta stop on their 35th anniversary tour
happened to coincide yesterday. Wait … this is Janie's day, and we know that everything happens for a reason, and that this must be a sign.
A sign to have a blast. I was
lucky enough fated to be invited to join the Hightower-Vickers-Hendrix genepool for an outing to the Fabulous Fox in a Faincy Limousine for Fabulous Seats to see the Bs.
Janie put on big pink hair. At least 10 groups asked to have their photo taken with her. Wish we'd thought to charge them.


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On April 19th 2017, The YWCA-Vancouver opened the doors of their new housing "Cause We Care House". This innovative housing community will assist many low-income single mothers and their children.
YWCA Cause We Care House Community nə́c̓aʔmat ct Strathcona
In 2014, the YWCA- Vancouver and I partnered with the intention of planning a creative and meaningful project, that will support one of the organization's programs or initiatives. We were not sure which program will be chosen but we were excited to be working together and we knew this project will be something new to them and to me. After looking at many different programs, we decided to support "Cause We Care House". The project was a long time dream and it was slowly becoming a reality. An ambitious initiative that required the support of the City of Vancouver and many donors was taking shape. The idea of supporting the construction of this important housing resonated with me. We decided that the best way of reaching out to donors was by linking the stories of single moms to my art. YWCA was the liaison between the women and me. After an extensive research, interviews and meaningful conversations, I was ready to paint their stories.
At my studio, painting
At my studio, painting
After a few months and with a lot of support from YWCA Vanessa Wellington and Chantelle Krish, the project started to show its first images. There were many challenges but we faced them with communication and wisdom.
In February 2016, I attended the Grounding Event at 730 East Hastings St., Vancouver.
First Nations ceremony, Grounding Event, Feb 2015.
With Madeleine McAllister- Westside Grand Gallery, YWCA- Vanessa Wellington and Westside Grand Gallery owner at the Grounding Event, Feb 2015.
With YWCA- Chantelle Krish, Grounding Ceremony, Feb 2015.
After the Grounding Event, we were ready to show donors, staff, family and friends the completion of "Home Is Love" art show. We hosted the opening night reception on February 12th 2015 at the Westside Grand gallery, Vancouver.
YWCA-CEO Janet Austin and Jazmin. Opening Reception Feb 2015
YWCA-Chantelle Krish and Jazmin. Opening Reception, Feb 2015
Jazmin giving a speech to donors, staff and friends. Opening Reception, Feb 2015
On April 2017, the building came to completion. The project – at 720 and 730 East Hastings St. – is a joint initiative that features a branch library, community and family programming, and safe, affordable housing for low-income single mothers and their children. The City of Vancouver made the largest contribution towards a new Vancouver Public Library branch. The City's financial support includes land value of the site and design and construction of the new library. This housing will accommodate and assist many low-income mothers and their children.
YWCA- Vanessa Wellington and Jazmin, Cause We Care House, Grand Opening April 2017
Donors visiting the new premises with Jazmin, Cause We Care House, Grand Opening April 2017
With the support of the YWCA staff and donors, I was able to be part of this meaningful project.
"The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become" with love, Jazmin
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Number 18 on the World's 50 best restaurants, Le Chateaubriand is one of the most talked-about places in Paris. Seemingly in opposition to the white tableclothed, Michelin starred, exceptionally formal Parisian restaurant of the past, chef Iñaki Aizpitarte serves a fresh, creative, casual, and relatively straightforward take on French cuisine. There are two seatings each night. The first is reservations only. The second is walk-ins only. If going to the second seating, show up at 9:15 for the 9:30 seating. Beforehand, you can grab a glass of nice French wine at a small wine shop, La Cave du Daron.
walking down the street, Le Chateaubriand is pretty easy to miss
Julian: After experiencing a few overly formal restaurants on this trip whose food was not all that impressive, I didn't really feel like dropping 100 euros on another place that would scoff at the way I sipped my wine or the way I held my fork. So in Paris, even though the whole Michelin thing started here, I had no need to go to a classic French high-end place. But Le Chateaubriand, which seems to intentionally not have any Michelin stars, really intrigued me.
Jesse: We had a bit of misinformation (thank you, tripadvisor), that you had to line up at 7:30pm to be able to get a seat (without reservations) at Le Chateaubriand, so when we walked up at 7:25pm there was no line, just half of the staff casually smoking cigarettes and poking at their smartphones waiting for the first seating to begin. The server looked at us curiously when we asked him if we could put our names down for the second seating, (*in a french accent) "people, aah, don't line up until, ah, 10 or 5 minutes before 9:30." We felt a little bit silly, but took our extra 2 hours to explore the "trendy-area" around the restaurant, and got to plop down at a fun little wine bar for some pre-dinner drinks.
Julian: By the time 9:30 rolled around, both of us were hungry for a really awesome meal. Upon walking into the bistro, I was struck by how regular the whole place was; not only were they not trying to be a Michelin-type place, they also were rejecting many of the super hip design elements that we've been seeing all over the place. They were fine with what they were: a run-of-the-mill bistro. But serving some of the best food and wines in Paris.
Jesse: When the second service starts, they bring in 8 or so customers to stand at a bar where they give you the wine list. After about a 15 minute wait, we were seated in the back corner, which gave us a nice view of the whole restaurant.
Julian: The restaurant itself is small–probably around 50 seats in total. There is only one menu offered each night, which consists of 4 small appetizer courses, three larger main courses, and dessert or cheese. I guess this could be a turn-off to some people, but I'm finding I prefer to be told what I should eat fr dinner. I'd say of the amuse bouches (first courses), my favorite was the red mullet ceviche. It was basically a tiny bowl of chilled soup with a cube or raw mullet at the bottom, topped with cilantro blossoms. Because our server thought we spoke French, we couldn't understand the course descriptions for the first half of the meal. So I don't even know what the chilled soup aspect of that dish was. But it was really refreshing and texturally kind of fun with the fish.
Jesse: My favorite amuse bouche was a plate of small fried prawns, shell and all. Perfectly crisp, with a light batter and thin shells that weren't a bother to munch up (I usually don't like eating the shell), they were fun to eat. The waits between plates weren't timed perfectly. They seemed to just plate as many of the same thing as they could at once, which resulted in some people getting a dish a couple seconds after they finished a course, and some waiting 15 minutes. It wasn't super bothersome, just another sign they were doing things their own way, even if it might not be the best, or the trendiest way.
not sure if ceviche is the best name for this, but it was good
Julian: Ah yes, I change my mind. Those prawns were also my favorite amuse. And the seasoning the used on them tasted like Cool Ranch Doritos. Brought me back to middle school! Jesse also got a glass of potentially the most interesting wine we've had on the trip. It was a Georgian (the country) wine from Pheasant's Tears winery. The only way I can think to describe the wine would be to say it tasted feminine. Not sure if that makes sense, but it probably was the most womanly thing I've ever tasted. In a good way, I think.
cool ranch shrimp and some good bread
Jesse: What Julian is trying to say, tactfully, is that the wine smelled like freshly cleaned lady parts. Not in a bad way, not in a fishy way, but in a powder-room-slammed-into-a-Venus commercial-model's-fun-parts sort of way. Another dish worth noting is the sea bream and chanterelle main course. Stabbing the fish with my fork I thought it may have been overcooked, but upon more careful inspection, with my mouth, I found the crisp flavorful skin and a tender meat to be texturally satisfying. Topped with a lemon butter foam and chanterelles, it was simple and delicious.
Julian: For dessert we got a cherry ice cream with fired capers. Which was just weird. But our post-dessert dessert was great. It was a caramelized egg yolk dried in sugar, on top of a mini biscuit, with cookie crumbs. That was served with perfectly ripe strawberries with anise seed. A great way to finish the meal.
bustling at 11pm
Overall, we left Le Chateaubriand in good spirits. Although they are doing things their own way, they don't have an obnoxious holier-than-thou attitude. And their food is unique, fresh, and a refreshing change from so many of the places that insist on putting 30 different components on a plate, none of which are simply prepared. I don't know if I'd say it should be ranked number 18 in the world, but it was pretty darn good.


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Merck & Co. put profits ahead of consumer safety by hustling a blockbuster arthritis medicine to market, then routinely denied the drug's potentially lethal health risk, an attorney for a former Vioxx user told jurors Wednesday in a trial over her death.
An attorney for Merck countered that Patricia "Pete" Schwaller's 2003 sudden demise from a heart attack, while tragic, perhaps had more to do with the 52-year-old woman's obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and other risk factors than Vioxx.
"There are two sides to every story," Dan Ball argued on Merck's behalf during opening statements in the Midwest's first trial over Vioxx, which Merck pulled off the market in 2004 after research showed it increased the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Patricia Schwaller's family says the Granite City woman had been taking Vioxx for man than 20 months and had no previous heart attacks, strokes or symptoms of congestive heart disease before she collapsed and died Aug. 8, 2003.
A Schwaller attorney, Andy Birchfield, told jurors that Merck's own documents show the company "worked hard to keep the truth about Vioxx and its (potential cardiac) dangers quiet," even before the drug won Food and Drug Administration approval in 1999.
Despite documented red flags about Vioxx rasied by outside medical experts and the company's own advisers, Birchfield said, Merck found Vioxx to be a cash cow worth keeping on the market at all costs, alone accounting for 7 percent of the company's revenue.
"Merck engaged in an aggressive, well-orchestrated marketing campaign to give doctors the false assurance that Vioxx was safe," he said. When doctors questioned the drug, he argued, Merck brought their silence with grant money or discredited them.
Just weeks after Merck's science chief, Dr. Edward Scolnick, warned in an internal e-mail that "cardiovascular events are clearly there" as possible Vioxx side-effects, the company issued a news release affirming Vioxx's "favorable cardiovascular safety."
But on Wednesday, Ball waved off such claims, accusing Birchfield of cherry-picking form the 21 million Merck documents, including internal e-mails, supplied to the plaintiffs "to weave his story" mischaracterizing the 116-year-old company's conduct.
As it has done in previous Vioxx trials, Merck argued that heart problems by certain plaintiffs, including Patricia Schwaller, were caused by pre-existing health issues, not Vioxx.
Merck acted responsibly by voluntary withdrawing drug, Ball said.
"Never once did the FDA say you should remove this medicine from the market," he said.
Whitehouse station, N.J. -based Merck has been deluged with more than 27,000 personal injury lawsuits and another 265 potential class-action lawsuits alleging harm from Vioxx. Merck, which has reserved $1.64 billion in its Vioxx legal defense fund, has won most of the roughly dozen trials involving Vioxx so far.
The Schwaller case is expected to be watched closely to see how the legal wrangling over Vioxx plays out in America's heartland-notably in Madison County, which in recent years has tried to shed its reputation as a plaintiffs' paradise in big-money lawsuits.
The trial is expected to last four to six weeks.


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One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e
One: To a Shining Season, ONE ~輝く季節へ~
Orihara Kouhei returns to his town after a long disappearance to fullfil the promises he made to several girls in his childhood. He suffered from memory loss, and carries a tragic past. An strange ambience surrounds the OVA...It's almost like a dream, like memories from the past trying to come together in one piece but without being able to...
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If you were a fly on the wall of my home, I'm sure you would hear me repeat these two words often.
They're used in the typical "I'm really NOT fine - I'm still pretty upset" way after a disagreement.
They can also be translated: "I'm actually completely overwhelmed and I don't know how I'm going to get it all done before I run out of hours in the day!!!"
In fact, I can rarely think of a time when the words, "I'm fine" actually mean "I'm fine".
It's most dangerous when I use this phrase inaudibly. I say to myself (and ultimately to God), "I'm fine!"
I can totally handle this mothering thing.
I may not be the best wife, but I'm doing pretty good compared to the other marriages I see.
This spiritual walk thing? I've got this!
What I don't realize is that by deceiving myself about my "fine-ness," I'm actually limiting a display of God's power in my life.
Here's a perfect example from this week....
On Monday, a sweet friend of mine wrote me a message on Facebook to see if I would like her to bring a meal over for dinner sometime later in the week. Honestly, I was pretty surprised. Our church normally schedules meals for after babies arrive, and it seems "appropriate" to help a mom after she's just gone through the exhaustion of labor and delivery.
I never expected someone to offer a meal when I was still relatively "mobile"!
Can I be completely honest? My first thought was, "I'm fine." Sure we've eaten leftovers, frozen pizza, and PB&J for three out of our last four meals because I was so tired by 4pm, but I'm okay. She didn't need to go to the trouble of bringing us a meal. I wasn't completely desperate yet. I could handle it!
I made wiser choice, though, and told her "yes". And let me tell you, friends, it was amazing!
I didn't have to think about what my three hungry guys were going to eat.
I didn't have to spend an hour on my (swollen) feet in front of a hot stove.
We were able to sit down and enjoy some quality family time. Her hard work was a blessing to my family that night (and for a couple meals to follow!). I had to admit my weakness to receive her amazing gift!
What convicts me, is that I behave the same way so many times towards God. Sure, I'll admit defeat when it comes to my eternal destiny. I KNOW I can't ever come close to the perfection God requires for eternal life. I need Christ's sacrifice for my justification.
The problem comes when I start believing Satan's lies that I'm fine for the rest of this Christian walk. Sure, I may not be perfect, but I'm not completely desperate. I'm a fairly "good" person and I'm not a complete embarrassment morally to God's testimony. I'm fine.
In believing that lie, I'm robbing God of the opportunity to be glorified in my weakness! I'm claiming a shallow glory for myself. In my pride, I'm focusing on my limited strength instead of His complete lack of weakness.
"But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me."
2 Corinthians 12:9
Because of His grace, I can boldly say, "I'm NOT fine!" and that, my friends, is the beauty of the gospel!


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From the BBC, 11 July 07:
While the federal government has refused to impose nationwide targets, local communities are taking action themselves. Sonoma's Climate Protection Campaign (CPC) is aware that to reach its objective, the county has to act on every level - not least in schools.
"It's young people that have to take on the burden of this issue," says Jessica Kellett, co-ordinator of the CPC's Cool Schools programme. "We need to have young people to be leaders today - not just to be educated but to understand how to start engaging with elected officials, with their parents, because we need to be taking action now."
Analy High School challenged students to reduce their emissions, primarily by changing the way they got to school. By promoting walking, biking and car-pooling, they reduced single-passenger car journeys by 21%.
"When you're at school you get your licence, so you want to hop in the car and drive everywhere," says 17-year-old Christine Byrne, who does her best to resist the temptation and cycle whenever possible. "Through the educational programmes that we've begun, like Cool Schools, people are becoming more aware. It's slowly beginning to grab more people."
Nicole Caughell, 18, helped implement a similar programme at Windsor High School. "It's pretty cool, it seems really revolutionary - we're the ones spearheading this issue, while still in high school," she says. "There's a lot of people out there who are listening to us and trying to make a change because of what we're doing. We're really being the example."
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Ethics Daily has reported on comments about Al Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Theology Seminary, saying it was a sin for married couples to not have children. Welcome to Ethics Daily.com! In addition to the ridiculousness of the comments, some are suggesting that new comments by him carry a hint of racism.
The white Mohler worried about demographic shifts since racial minorities have higher rates of childbirth: "We are barely replenishing ourselves. ... That is going to cause huge social problems in the future."
He also stated: "The tragic reality is that citizens of Europe and North America are now failing even to replace themselves in terms of children. We will soon face the phenomenon of an aging population with fewer young people to drive the economy and to support the entire social structure"
Robert Parham of the Baptist Center for Ethics said Mohler's use of "we" and "ourselves" is a "pronoun problem."
In another Ethics Daily column, Miguel De La Torre also took on Mohler's comments. Welcome to Ethics Daily.com! He argues:
"The U.S. population is also growing, from about 280 million in 2000, to a projected 310 million in 2010, to a little under 400 million by 2040. If these scientifically projected increases are reliable, then we must ask: Why is Mohler concerned about under-population? Under-population for whom? In other words, who is the 'we' that is barely replenishing itself?"
"Hence, the religious call for 'full-quiver' theology is white-supremacy code language advocating for the increase of white babies. Mohler's call, whether he realizes it or not, is a race-based warning. It is a call for white fecundity, lest America becomes overrun with 'colored' children, which would only lead, as Mohler puts it, to 'huge social problems in the future.' Regardless of the racist overtures of Mohler's call for productive white sex, children, regardless of their color or ethnicity, can indeed be a joyous product of sex. Still, we cannot lose sight that the ultimate goal of sex is fulfillment, not having children."
As one who has studied some racist communication, I agree that Mohler's language could have dangerous implications and is similar to those you will hear from white-supremacist groups. Though I do not think that Mohler is racist, he does need to be much more careful about what he says.


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College-wide Technology & Capital Outlay Committee
Procedures to Request Replacement and New Computers and Equipment
As of 09/01/15, all computers are on a 5 year replacement schedule.
- Replace Faculty and Staff Computers
- ACC purchases and supports the following computers: Dell Optiplex, Dell Latitude, MacBook Pro, iMac
- Staffing table faculty and staff will receive a replacement similar to their computer's original configuration.
- Staffing table faculty and staff are provided one computer from Tech Plan.
- Adjunct faculty and hourly employees will not be assigned a computer from Tech Plan.
- Computers are no longer automatically replaced. You must submit a request!
- It takes 4 weeks for a computer to be delivered, special requests may take longer thatn 4 weeks.
- All college computers are eligible to be replaced after 5 years. This includes Faculty, Staff and Lab computers.
- If your computer is not yet 5 years old, but is not performing well, please have your campus Technician look at it.
- Each computer may be replaced only once through this process.
- After the computer has been replaced, the old computer must be sent to warehouse within two weeks.
- Computer replacement is funded through a centralized budget for faculty and staff.
- Upgrades beyond the original configuration must be justified and are not automatically approved.
- Tech Plan does not provide docking stations, laptop bags, secondary monitors, or any other accessories; departments must purchase these items.
- Tech Plan provides 20" monitors for failed monitors, larger monitors must be purchased from department funds.
- Solid State Drives (SSD) are not standard and will not automatically be approved.
- Tablets/macbook airs are not replacement options.
- The College does not currently support or purchase Microsoft Surfaces.
- Tech Plan does not replace or purchase iPads. Departments must purchase iPads.
- Special software with a cost of under $500 per license should be purchased by the department.
- Replace Computers in Labs and Public Areas
If you have 5 or more computers you can email Tracie German and attach an excel listing of the computer asset number to be replaced.
- Equipment for New Faculty and Staff
Please request a computer and desk phone by completing the Equipment Request for New Faculty/Staff Position form. Each faculty or staff position is assigned one computer. If a desktop computer is assigned, one monitor is provided. Desktops computers are fixed assets and should not be removed from campus. If a laptop is assigned, the department is responsible for purchasing docking station, monitor, and laptop bag if needed.
- Request Funds for Emergency Repair and Replacement of Capital Equipment
Submit your request by completing a Replacement of Technology and Capital Equipment form. The capital equipment replacement forms are due no later than the Friday prior to the CWTCOC meetings. Please review the meetings schedule before submitting the form.
- Process for CWTCOC annual budget initiatives
This procedure pertains only to the initiatives that fall under the Replacement category.
- Each voting member is allotted a number of votes equal to one more than half the total number of initiatives eligible for funding.
- A spreadsheet identifying the initiatives is emailed to each voting member.
- Voting members select the initiatives they would like to be funded in the upcoming fiscal year. Ranking the initiatives is not necessary.
- Votes are returned for tabulation. Initiatives are prioritized based upon the total number of votes each initiative receives.
- Approved initiatives are communicated after September 1st of the new fiscal year.
- New Money Requests are not reviewed by the CWTCOC. They are reviewed by the Budget Office.
If you are Faculty or Staff, choose the appropriate process to request the replacement of an existing computer.
Contact Tracie German email@example.com Phone: (512) 223-1177
For more information about CWTCOC and a list of committee members, see College-wide Technology & Capital Outlay Committee in the Councils & Committees site (http://www.austincc.edu/orgref/councils).


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A dog simply cannot understand when something happens that totally changes her world and sometimes its so devastating that she goes into deep depression. That's what happened to Sarah, a young Beagle, when her mom Penny escaped and disappeared.
An elderly gentleman who had kept Sarah, Penny, and two other Beagles in a kennel at his home passed away, leaving the dogs with no one to care for them. The man's family didn't want them and called animal control to come get them. Unfortunately, by the time they arrived, only two dogs were still in the pen. Penny, the mom, and Buster, the father of her pups were still there but the other dogs were gone, so animal control assumed the family had given them away. Penny and Buster were extremely bonded.
Buster had health problems and had to be taken care of. He was sent to an animal hospital for treatment and Penny went to Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge
Penny was just about to be adopted when her daughter, Sarah, was found and brought to the shelter. The dogs were so happy to be together again but it was to be short lived. Penny went to the potential adopter's home for a trial period, but after just two days, she ran away. So RBARI asked for help from a woman famous for the dog-catching successes. They called Nicole Asher of Buddha Dog Rescue & Recovery.
Asher set up a feeding station in the woods where she hoped to capture Penny. However, Penny proved to be elusive. She was so skittish that she ran at the mere hint of a person approaching. "Penny's capture was difficult due to lack of sightings," Asher wrote. "She was traveling the woods of the Painted Forest and her coloring blended in perfectly with the leaves and landscape ... I had her at my trap only to have her spooked off by a well-meaning person driving by slowly while out looking for her."
Penny was smart enough that each time Asher set up a trap, she eluded it and they had to start all over. "We watched Penny go in and out of her trap," D'Annunzio said. "She was so smart. She didn't want to be caught."
All the while, Sarah was becoming more and more lonely and depressed. A family wanted to adopt her, but the folks at the shelter wanted to wait for Penny to be caught. "When Penny was still missing, I said to our executive director, 'When we get Penny back, they should be together,'" D'Annunzio stated. Eventually their persistence paid off. Penny was caught and brought back to the shelter to be reunited with her daughter.
Watch the video below to see how ecstatically they greet each other. It's so fortunate that Asher was around to help capture Penny. The other puppy is still at large, but hopefully that one, too, will soon be captured. Meanwhile, mother and daughter are decompressing. When they are ready for a new home, they will be offered together. If you're interested in giving Penny and Sarah a home, fill out an application here. And be sure and share this happy reunion with your friends!


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Police officers in Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes are urging the public to stay safe over the festive period.
They have joined forces to deliver their local festive campaign to keep the community safe in the run up to Christmas and the New Year.
Glenrothes Community Inspector Joanne McEwan said: "This year we have focused, more than ever, on partnerships to deliver a safe festive period for our communities.
"As always we will be working closely with our partners in Fife Council and the Kingdom Centre as well as having the benefit of the support and commitment of the Glenrothes Safer Neighbourhood Group.
Kirkcaldy Community Inspector Graeme Neill said: "By working so closely with our colleagues in Glenrothes and making best use of specialist support available from across Police Scotland we can better match our resources to areas of need.
"In terms of keeping shoppers and shopkeepers safe and addressing retail crime, the Kirkcaldy Retail Crime Team will be stepping up their activities over the Christmas shopping period.
"The fitting of a radio mast to the ASDA store has enhanced radio communication between outlying stores and now allows stores within the Fife Central Retail Park to participate.
"Our retail crime staff are currently negotiating the inclusion of all the Co-op stores in the area to link in with the network."
The Glenrothes and Kirkcaldy festive safety campaign will focus on the following actions:
Road Safety: Keeping people safe on the roads by increasing vehicle stops and targeting offenders.
Targeting morning-after drink drivers with increased breath tests.
Party Safety: Reducing violence by targeting known violent offenders over the festive period including domestic abuse offenders.
Visiting victims of domestic violence to provide reassurance and safety combating private space violence
Partnership working with street pastors, community wardens, licenced premises, MAIT, and specialist policing units such as dogs, Campaign Against Violence deployments, response policing, CID and community policing.
Increasing high visibility foot patrols and extending CCTV capabilities by using the mobile CCTV vehicle in antisocial behaviour hot spots in Glenrothes and Kirkcaldy keeping people on nights out safe in both town centres Shopping Safety: Addressing a seasonal increase in shoplifting and dishonesty through targeting of known thieves in partnership with retail outlets and utilising the retail radio network between retail premises.
Increasing high visibility visits to licensed premises including off licences to target antisocial behaviour through public alcohol consumption.
There are numerous public events planned to communicate these Festive Safety messages across the Kingdom in the weeks running up to Christmas with local officers giving out safety advice and responding to community concerns. They are all highlighted on the Fife Police Facebook page and Twitter too.
December 1: Community safety stand at Kirkcaldy bus station.
December 6: Community safety stand at Glenrothes bus station.
December 7: Internet safety talk at St Brycedale Church, Kirkcaldy.
December 12: Community safety stand at the Kingdom Centre, Glenrothes.
December 16: Community safety stand at the Bank of Scotland, High Street, Kirkcaldy.


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How to Get a Good Job After 50: A step-by-step guide to job search success by Rupert French
My rating: 5 of 5 stars – This is my Good Reads review of this excellent book, available on Amazon.com.au.
How to Get a Good Job After 50 by Rupert French is a comprehensive guide for the over 50s job seeker. It is well constructed and written, enabling the job seeker to focus on the step by step actions required for a successful job search. The sections on creating a good resume, including dealing with the "challenging bits", and recognising then clearly expressing your achievements, are extremely valuable. This then flows onto how you can express your achievements in an interview, and how to prepare for an interview so you are confident and ready to show yourself in the best possible light. If a job seeker followed these steps they would find themselves standing out in their job applications. If they also followed the advice in the chapter on networking and research I believe they would be astounded at their success.
I particularly liked the author's recognition that getting the job you want over 50 can be a daunting task for many, and so a chapter is devoted to building and maintaining a strong self-image. Another outstanding feature is the appendix which has many pages of specimen resumes.
As an experienced career counsellor working with mature age job seekers I recognise this book as being a significant publication which I will be recommending to my clients.


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Hey y'all! This is my last time posting for the Dare to Be Sassy Thursday challenge over at Sassy Studio Designs. Tomorrow I move on to the Freebie Friday portion, so make sure to stop by again to see this week's freebie! This week the DTBST challenge is:
Love is In the Air
With Valentine's Day coming up, it's time to show some love! Now, keep in mind, it doesn't have to be a significant other. I've given V-Day cards to my family, my friends....even myself when I needed a little pick-up! So show us some love!
As a huge Francopile, I made a card for one of my best friends using France Honey, available in the store. Don't you just love her? I adore her cute little beret! The sentiment is from Create with TLC.
Ready to play along? Head on over to the Sassy Studio Designs Blog to see what the other Sassy Sisters came up with and to link up your cards. I hope to see you participating!
Thanks for stopping by, and I hope to see you tomorrow!


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The Presentation of the Franks in Selected Muslim Sources - A dissertation traces the development of the attitudes of Muslims towards the Franks during the Crusades of the 12th Century.
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During the period of the Crusades a large number of Muslim writers wrote accounts of the events that took place at the time, and also kept records of their experiences. As a result of this, a large body of literature concerning the period was created, a reasonable proportion of which has survived up until the present day, in one form or another. The modern reader is able to examine these works in order to determine what the Muslim view was of the Crusades and those who fought in them, and so to understand the motives behind the Muslims' initial reactions to the Crusaders and their subsequent interaction with the Franks who settled in the Holy Land.
As one examines the sources for the period, it becomes apparent from the way that the Franks are presented that there were certain initial characteristic attitudes that prevailed among the Muslims, which remained throughout the period, although they changed significantly as time progressed, as a consequence of increased contact with the Franks who now settled in the area. In addition, other attitudes developed later on, also as a result of this increase in contact. One can therefore examine the development of Muslim attitudes to the Franks, and see how this affected their interaction with them.
In this dissertation an attempt has been made to determine the development of the attitudes of Muslims towards the Franks during the period covering the Crusades of the 12th Century, by examining five major sources from the period, and seeing how the Franks are presented in each. As will be shown in following chapters, there are certain attitudes that remain throughout all five texts, whilst others develop as the texts progress chronologically.


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The Wraithverge is a weapon from Hexen. Parias the Cleric uses this weapon. It is a staff (verge) whose visible part is a large, ornate cross with a large ruby on the end. Like the Quietus and Bloodscourge, the Wraithverge needs to be assembled from different segments found throughout the game.
The Wraithverge is the most destructive weapon in the game. When fired, it shoots a sphere of spiritual energy which splits into four ghosts (wraiths) that rend and tear at enemies that get in their way. Part of the usefulness of the ghosts is that they attack an enemy and then, once the enemy is dead, will seek out and attack another enemy until the ghosts' energy is used up and the ghosts disappear. Ghosts will attack any enemy in their line of sight, even if the enemy is not in the player's line of sight. This makes the Wraithverge particularly useful against large numbers of enemies.
The ghosts can, however, be turned against the player if they fire the Wraithverge at any monster that is in protect mode (the Heresiarch's reflective barrier, the Mage's Icon of the Defender, and Centaur/Slaughtaur in shield stance before the ghosts split from the original projectile) or if they are repelled with a Disc of Repulsion. It is thus wise to maintain a stock of Discs of Repulsion of your own, when unleashing Wraithverge on certain foes. Nevertheless, it is still quite useful against most enemies and bosses.
The Wraithverge is also the most mana-consuming weapon in the game, requiring 18 of each kind of mana.
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THE RAIN blows sideways against the woman's face as she passes a stranger on Pike Street in downtown Seattle. She turns up her collar and soldiers on, sans umbrella.
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Let the rain come down unimpeded. Let the water drip from our chins and soak our hair and ruin all but the most weatherproof gear.
The woman gives a subtle, encouraging nod as if to say, "Hang in there, buddy; we're all in this together; and besides, there's plenty more where that came from."
But this is the pits. If it were possible to look up at the clouds and contemplate a silver lining to this moist madness, that'd be one thing. But the rain pours so hard and obscures the business district's high-rises so completely it's as if the entire city is in a cloud.
In the muck of misery comes a moment of clarity, a redeeming impulse, like a surprise sunbreak between showers: Don't look up and curse. Look down and marvel.
As the rain falls, it covers the pavement in mirrors, a peek-a-boo gallery of puddles that reveal gleaming fragments of what is, even in this mess, a stunning city.
The intersection of Pike and First presents a double of itself. The red-neon lights of the landmark "Public Market Center" sign glow in reflections on the rain-slicked intersection, blurring with every car that splashes by, then locking back into focus.
It's mesmerizing, our city staring back at us from the streets, reassuring anyone who bothers to notice that there's a romance to our waterlogged town that only starts with the killer views offered by myriad bays, waterways and lakes.
You're so lucky, West Seattle, with your panoramic view across Elliott Bay toward a city skyline all laid out like supermodels in sequined dresses.
Good for you, too, ferry commuters, houseboat owners, fishermen, weekend sailors, rowers and everybody fortunate enough not to be landbound during this weekend's opening of boating season.
From your vantage point, it's easy to see what sets this city of seven hills but 150 bridges apart: a landscape and a people defined by water.
Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times
OF THE 142.5 square miles that make up this city's total area, 58.7 square miles are water.
Geographically speaking, Seattle is almost half liquid, from Puget Sound on our western flank to Lake Washington to the east to 580-acre Lake Union at the heart of the city to the man-made channels that reach out in either direction, dividing us socially and uniting us spatially.
With so many watery settings, we are spoiled for choice, and with so many choices, we spoil ourselves that much more.
Perhaps it should come as no surprise, for instance, that Washington state is reportedly the world's largest producer of luxury "superyachts."
Along the scruffy Duwamish, Seattle's sole river — if you don't count the "atmospheric rivers" that dump successive rainstorms on us in the wet season — Delta Marine builds huge leisure craft for the mega-rich smack in the middle of one of the city's last blue-collar districts. The shipyard also sits a stone's throw from where manufacturers of more-utilitarian, wooden fishing boats helped establish the city's bona fides as a maritime hub in the last century.
At Delta Marine, enormous unfinished hulls brood on stilts in the back lot like dinosaur skeletons in a museum. The company's website boasts that one recently completed vessel, a 240-foot yacht named Laurel, is one of the largest custom yachts built in this country in more than 75 years.
Yet when these dreamboats, which can run in the hundreds of millions of dollars, set sail, they will ply a river so polluted by the industry along its banks that it has been declared a Superfund cleanup site.
But then, downstream near Seattle's artificial Harbor Island along what is today a largely man-made waterway, those yachts will pass a longhouse and cultural center built by the Duwamish Tribe, whose lore harks back to when these waters ran freely and teemed with salmon, not ships.
As we have been shaped by our waters, so they have been reshaped, physically and conceptually.
But to truly appreciate the complexity of our relationship to one of life's essential elements, you don't need to know the difference between a skiff and a schooner or be a student of history.
Try riding the Seattle Great Wheel in a rainstorm instead.
The human body is 70 percent water, but from inside one of the waterfront Ferris wheel's 42 gondolas, on another awesomely drenched recent evening, the oneness with our aquatic surroundings is total.
The wheel, positioned dramatically at the end of a pier, begins its magical ascent, its psychedelic light display bathing everything in a sweet, pink hue. The gondola, streaming with rivulets of rainwater, rises like a lost balloon, first breaching the roofline of the waterfront piers, then rising high enough to spot green-yellow-and-red-dappled streets climbing vertiginously up into the towering business district. As the gondola reaches the topmost position, we are face-to-face with the grandeur of the twinkling city at night, which the dripping-wet gondola renders with kaleidoscopic intensity.
Life inside the bubble: Police lights flicker, but you can't hear the sirens. Jets on their way to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport soar noiselessly overhead. The bay thrashes but doesn't threaten. It is a silent extravagance.
The view is arresting but brief. Suddenly we are flung into darkness as the gondola descends, at one point taking passengers 40 feet out over the bay's churning, black expanse before repeating the dazzling circuit. Bright lights, brute nature. 'Round and 'round we go, rising like waves and falling like raindrops.
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IN EVERY CORNER of Seattle, we are reminded of the water's power over our lives and our ideas about what it means to live in the Emerald City, City of Industry.
The birthplace of the United Parcel Service on South Main Street in the Pioneer Square neighborhood, for example, is marked by a raging, 22-foot, man-made waterfall tucked away in an enclosed pocket park that is easy for harried passers-by to miss if they're not paying attention.
But inside, the force of the cascade muffles all other urban sound and temporarily transports those who step into this lush garden setting to a more primal mental state. Here, cocooned by the roar of this unlikely falls in the concrete jungle, we can also reflect on the ways we harness the water around us — and exalt it.
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Pete Aye gets more opportunities to contemplate this complicated relationship than most. Aye is a member of the Washington State Department of Transportation crew that maintains the Interstate 90 floating bridge, a flight of man-against-nature fancy if there ever was one.
Aye's "office" is Lake Washington, and his job is to make sure the world's second-longest floating bridge, at 6,620 feet, stays in place on top of it, even as wind storms and the seasonal raising and lowering of the lake by a couple of feet exert incredible tension on the behemoth structure's anchoring cables. To help, the crew uses a 150-ton hydraulic jack that can pull the slack out of the cables and set the proper tension.
It is the most beautiful of dirty jobs.
"Today when the sun came up, you could see the fog coming in from Mount Rainier and from Bellevue," Aye says on one particularly scenic day.
He never takes his gorgeous, lake-bound surroundings for granted. But his cubicle-bound wife, he says with a chuckle, is a bit tired of hearing about it.
Working on the lake comes with hazards, though. For one thing, the lake suffers from sudden mood swings.
"It can change dramatically in a couple of hours from being perfectly flat to white caps lapping over the bridge," Aye says.
If winds reach 65 miles an hour for at least 15 minutes, the bridge has to be closed to traffic for safety.
"It's kind of exciting," Aye says of days like that. "Fortunately, they provide pretty good rain gear for us."
Last fall, when a stormy weekend of powerful, 50 mile-an-hour winds buffeted the structure and sent wave mists over passing vehicles, Aye and his team were sent out on "wind watch" to measure its velocity as well as check for stress to the structure and report on visibility.
The lake's tantrum didn't last long.
"It was pretty the next day," Aye says.
Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times
A FADED SIGN painted on the brick wall of a historic building in Pioneer Square sums up our love of seaside environs with a pun: Washington State Ferries, Have Lunch Over Seas.
That romanticism endures.
Dylan Kilpatrick presses his finger against the window of a privately run Victoria Clipper catamaran one recent Saturday and excitedly tells his partner, Beth Richer, who's seated opposite him for their weekend voyage to British Columbia, that he's spotted the place where only a week before he proposed: Discovery Park, at the waterside edge of Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood.
Gazing toward the mainland from the middle of Puget Sound, it's as if the 31-year-old is viewing the city he grew up in for the first time. From the water, few landmarks seem recognizable. The city's North End is all bluffs and marinas and evergreens. But that tiny spot, at the bottom of a steep cliff overlooking the Sound and the Olympic Mountains beyond, is seared in his memory.
The previous Saturday, he woke Richer early to suggest they take a walk around the park, one of their favorite places to stroll and the site of their first date. Kilpatrick had more in mind this time.
As they reached a dune along the Sound, he got down on bended knee and pulled out a little box with a ring in it.
The location couldn't have been more perfect. By coincidence, some other hopeless romantic had already drawn a heart in the sand near the spot where he was proposing.
It was just the two of them now, though.
Kilpatrick asked. Richer said yes.
"When she looked down at me, she could also look out onto all this beauty," Kilpatrick recalls.
A short time later, another surprise. It started snowing — water once again shifting itself — and the scene.
"Growing up in Seattle, I took that beauty for granted," says Kilpatrick, who grew up in the Green Lake neighborhood and commutes every day across Lake Washington to his job in Kirkland. "Everywhere you look, there's beautiful mountains and water."
"On the ride up (aboard the Clipper), I spent a lot of time looking at the actual outline of the land — sheer cliffs, water eating into little coves," Kilpatrick says of that particularly rainy, rocky trip to Victoria.
"I always forget what it looks like from there. It switches so quickly from the busy, big high-rise, beautiful city to, 'Wow, there's not much going on here.' "
"It helps me carve out that little niche that is extra special for us," he says of being able to pinpoint, from the water, where he proposed. "Out of all that landscape, I can identify that one spot."
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AS DISORIENTING and discomfiting as the water can be, it can also help us find our bearings.
"Urban Float." Even the seemingly contradictory name of this spa in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood stops you in your tracks.
The city is hard and in-your-face; floating conveys a certain above-it-all ease.
At Urban Float, visitors pay upward of $90 an hour to float nude or barely clothed in a Space Age-looking pod filled with Epsom-salt water, making the human body wonderfully buoyant. Each chamber has a hatch that closes shut, sealing off the sights and sounds of the outside world and immersing the customer in a soft, blue light.
In this state of sensory deprivation, only the beating of your own heart and the breath rushing through your own lungs penetrate the silence.
The experience of floating in saltwater without outside distractions is thought to relieve achy muscles, ease inflammation, regenerate the spirit and increase mental clarity as our frantic beta brain waves give over to the theta waves that promote deep, creative thinking.
Floating is, admittedly, a little scary at first, but after your gently drifting mass reaches a cozy stillness, it is sublime.
At 98 degrees, the water is almost exactly the temperature of the human body.
"It's womblike," manager Eve Minehan says. "You lose that sense of where your skin ends and the water begins; you feel kind of infinite."
People either love or hate floating, Minehan says. It is a test, in a way, showing us what we're really made of at the exact moment when it feels as if we're made of nothing.
Some find the encapsulating solitude claustrophobia-inducing. Others are so saddled by thoughts that they can't fully relax, their physical weightlessness sabotaged by the troubled waters of the mind.
With any luck, floating will help your own emotional and psychological contours come into sharper view.
After all, Minehan says of water, "It's what we're made of."
An out-of-town friend once asked Kilpatrick, in all seriousness, "Do you guys get around by canoe out there?"
Of course we don't — except when we do. Kilpatrick's friend might be onto something. Anyone who has seen the kayak and boat traffic on Lake Washington or Lake Union on a glorious, summery day might wonder the same thing.
Water is what we're made of, but it's also what we've made of it.
Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times
Tyrone Beason is a Pacific NW magazine writer. Erika Schultz is a Seattle Times staff photographer.
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A regional committee (North Central Coordinating Committee on Swine Nutrition [NCCC-42]), consisting of swine nutritionists from several universities, recently conducted an experiment to evaluate three dietary levels of distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS) for grow-finish pigs.
The study, funded in part by a grant from the Pork Checkoff, involved nine experiment stations in which 560 pigs were fed a common source of DDGS at levels of 0, 15, 30 and 45% in the diet. Pigs were fed the diets from 73 to 266 lb. in three phases involving 28 replicate pens of four to six pigs per pen for each of the four treatment groups.
Diets were formulated to have the same standardized ileal digestible (SID) lysine during each phase. Each participating station collected carcass data on two pigs from each pen and a sample of backfat from the 10th rib for fatty acid analysis.
Growth rate was reduced slightly at the higher levels of DDGS, but feed intake and feed efficiency were not significantly affected by DDGS level (Table 1). Carcass dressing percentage was not affected by treatment in this study. Backfat and loin eye area were reduced at the higher level of DDGS fed. The estimated percentage of fat-free lean in the carcass was not affected by level of DDGS in the diet.
Six stations measured belly firmness. Bellies (spareribs removed) were placed on a 3-in.-diameter PVC pipe mounted perpendicular to a board marked with a 1-in. grid matrix (pictured). Lateral and vertical flexes were determined from the degree of belly flex relative to the grid. A vertical flex of zero meant the belly was parallel to the floor and completely stiff. A lateral flex of 5 meant that the belly flexed to a point where there was 5 in. between the end of the belly and a vertical line directly below the PVC pipe.
Table 1 shows that both lateral and vertical flex of the bellies were greatly influenced by DDGS level. These flex measurements indicated an increased softness and more flexibility of the bellies as DDGS levels increased.
As level of DDGS increased in the diet, major changes in fatty acid composition of the backfat occurred. Linoleic acid (the primary polyunsaturated fatty acid in corn DDGS) more than doubled in the backfat of pigs fed the 45% DDGS diet vs. the control diet. This increase, along with a drop in saturated fatty acids, resulted in a higher iodine value in the fat of pigs fed higher levels of DDGS.
Iodine numbers up to 74 have been ranked as acceptable, with carcasses recording higher iodine numbers often being discriminated against by packers. In this study, regression analysis of the iodine values on level of DDGS in the diet indicated that an inclusion rate of 22% DDGS equaled an iodine value of 74.
The study showed that the iodine value increased by 4.3 points for every 19% DDGS included in the diet.
Results showed feeding high levels (up to 45%) of DDGS had little effect on growth performance or carcass traits, but belly firmness decreased with high levels of DDGS in the diet.
Additional research is needed to determine if processing characteristics of bellies and eating quality of bacon are negatively affected by feeding high levels of DDGS to finishing pigs.
Researchers: G.L. Cromwell, University of Kentucky; M.J. Azain, University of Georgia; O. Adeola, Purdue University; S.K. Baidoo, University of Minnesota; S.D. Carter, Oklahoma State University; T.D. Crenshaw, University of Wisconsin; S.W. Kim, North Carolina State University; D.C. Mahan, The Ohio State University; P.S. Miller, University of Nebraska; and M.C. Shannon, University of Missouri. For more information, contact Cromwell by phone (859) 257-7534, fax (859) 323-1027 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.


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|Tell me who you love!
|~ Ember McLain to her live audience.
Ember McLain is a villainess from the supernatural Nickelodeon animated television series Danny Phantom. Ember McLain is a hard rocking ghost girl with a powerful techno-magical electric guitar who feeds off the idol worship of teenagers. Ember's appearance, songs, and character in general portray her as a ghostly embodiment of teenage rebellion and disobedience to authority figures.
Ember has long, flaming, blue hair put into a ponytail at the top of her head held back, she has two locks of hair framing her face which look like a sharp-angled "M" and purple lipstick. Her clothing consists of a black choker around her neck, a black one-shouldered tank-top exposing her midriff, one long glove that covers most of her right arm, and one black bracelet on her left arm. She also wears a pair of what appear to be leather pants with a silver belt and skull boots.
She was voiced by Tara Strong.
Before she died, Ember was an unpopular high school-aged girl who had large dreams of becoming a rock star. One day a boy asked her out to the movies. She waited all night for him to show up, saying, "He's just running late." When morning came and he didn't show up, Ember went home. She was so exhausted that she fell asleep and didn't wake up when her house mysteriously caught on fire; it's theorized that she was murdered. She died in the fire, which possibly gave her the name "Ember." Her song "Remember" is most likely based on the above events prior to her death.
Making her debut in "Fanning the Flames" with her famous song "Remember", Ember used her abilities and popstar status to dominate the world, keeping Danny distracted by placing a love spell on him that makes him fall in love with Sam. It keeps him busy while Ember busies herself with her plans of world domination. However, the spell is later broken when Sam, in a desperate move, kisses Dash (to both of their disgust) right in front of Danny. Heartbroken and finally out of the spell, he fights Ember, but she is still way too powerful and traps him in a swirling purple vortex, due to people chanting her name. Danny realizes he needs to stop the chanting and gets Tucker Foley to sing on stage. His horrible singing causes the hypnotized crowd to wake up and stop cheering for Ember, whose powers and flaming hair then fizzle out to nothing as a result. She is captured and banished to the Ghost Zone by Danny, where she deals with an annoying Klemper. You know he's annoying her when she yells at him to "Stop saying my name!"
She later attempted to exit the Ghost Zone a few days later in the episode "13", where she was shown in a line heading directly through the Ghost Portal. Jack was idiotically pressing a button which opened the portal doors telling his family that whenever you press it, you open the doors "Like this" so you shouldn't press it. Anyway, just as it was Ember's turn to exit the Ghost Zone, Johnny 13 alongside Kitty and Shadow cut in front of her on his motorcycle.
She made her second appearance as a main character in the episode "Pirate Radio" where Ember creates a song that adults get hypnotized by (actually a mellow, slower, ballad version of Remember) so that they go to a fake cruise, called M. Bersback, a poorly hidden message for "Ember's back". With this, she teams up with Captain Youngblood. However, she just leaves/escapes the ship, after she accidentally burns the ship's sail, vowing to return. Despite her involvement in the plot, she was not the primary villain of the episode.
She came back in "Reign Storm" with numerous ghosts who fled the Ghost Zone when Pariah Dark was woken up. Later in the same episode, she, along with Danny's other enemies, teamed up to help Danny fight off the ghost king's army.
In "Identity Crisis", Danny, Sam, and Tucker check out Ember's file on Danny's computer hinting he might have fought with Ember before the beginning of the episode, since Danny mentioned sending her back to the Ghost Zone.
In an alternate future (seen in "The Ultimate Enemy"), Ember is overweight and can no longer sing due to her vocal cords being damaged by Dark Danny. She attacks regular Danny along with some of his enemies, wanting revenge for the terrible fate his future self gave them.
She makes a cameo in "The Fright Before Christmas" as one of the many ghosts helping Danny save Christmas.
In "Beauty Marked", Sam used make-up very similar to Ember's on Paulina, and later in Prince Aragon's castle, Sam wore similar make-up.
In "Girls' Night Out", Ember teams up with Kitty and Spectra in a joint attempt to eliminate all men displaying Misandrist tendencies . This is the episode where her new song "Girl's Night Out" is played with Jazz as a backup singer (even though she wasn't very good at it). It is also revealed that Ember is Skulker's girlfriend (this was establish only for Ember to have something in common with Kitty and Spectra).
Ember's final appearance was in the series finale, "Phantom Planet". She was seen with the many ghosts who helped Danny and Skulker turn the entire planet intangible, so that an asteroid can pass through it.
Ember is a hard-rocking ghost teen with disrespect towards any kind of authority figure. She obviously has a great amount of pride in her singing abilities, as she wanted revenge on Dark Danny in "The Ultimate Enemy" for ruining her vocal cords. She also has somewhat of an enthusiastic and childish personality (whilst frequently shouting 1970's phrases such as "dipstick" and babypop). She shares her hatred of adult authority with Youngblood, and she is distressed when things don't go the way she wants ("Fanning the Flames").
She is not above revenge. In all the episodes, she was featured as a villain, she has either tried to hurt Danny and/or anyone who defeated/annoyed her in any sort of way. Ember also could get really low in her schemes when it comes to world conquest, as she has used her music to control people, whether it's only mind control or changing one's emotions. Despite being a dangerous enemy, she is not insane or murderous like other ghosts in the series (in fact, she could be considered nothing more than a influential teenager with her own "little" desires).
Powers and Abilities
- Ghost Physiology: Being a ghost, Ember is a hard rocking siren-like ghost girl who feeds off the idol worship of teenagers.
- Flight, Invisibility & Intangibility: Standard ghost powers.
- Ghost Ray: She can fire a pink blast.
- Hypnotic Music: When she plays her guitar and/or sings, she can hypnotize people, usually young people, although she can hypnotize adults (and those who think that they are adults) as well.
- Teleportation: She can appear and disappear in a purple smoke cloud, and/or disappear in a hair-flame tornado.
- Ecto-Tornado Cage: While being chanted by the whole world, she can create an upside down ecto-tornado cage to trap people.
- Ecto-Bubble: She can trap humans inside of a pink ecto-bubble.
- Spectral Body Manipulation: She can manipulate the shape of her body in order to take the form of a flame.
- Chanting Empowerment: Whenever people chant her name, the effect seemingly causes her hair to flare wildly and her eyes to glow, thus rapidly increasing her power. This is her biggest advantage and her worst weaknesses, because if people cease their chanting, her fiery ponytail extinguishes, rendering her powerless.
- Superhuman Strength: While being chanted in Amity park, she was strong enough to easily overcome Danny.
- Superhuman Resistance: Her physical durability (ability to endure/resist damage) is considerably higher than many other ghost and possibly more than Danny-while being chanted by the whole world. She highly resistant to all forms of external physical damage.
- Superhuman Stamina: As many other ghosts, she has a higher level of stamina than those of a normal human being.
- Superhuman Reflexes: Her reflexes are enhanced beyond normal human limits.
- Healing Factor: She can heal all her wounds in just a matter of seconds.
- Blue Pyrokinesis: She uses her flaming blue hair as a blue fire attack.
- Power Augmentation: Ember has the ability to enhance the powers of others like she does with Kitty's banishing kiss.
- Expert Guitar Player: She is an expert electric guitar player.
- Singing: She is an excellent singer, even without her powers.
- Electric Guitar: She uses this electric guitar as a weapon and it possess supernatural powers.
- Icons & Powers: Ember's guitar, has different icons in each close up, each icon represents the special abilities Ember can use of which knob it points to.
- Music Note: Presumably for normal music playing.
- Heart Symbol: Used for the love spell.
- Skull Symbol: Skull beam.
- Punch Symbol: Punch beam.
- Spiral Symbol: Hypnotizing spell.
- Wave Symbol: Sound beam.
- Flame Symbol: Flame attack.
- Sword Guitar: She can use her guitar as a sword in close combat.
- Flying Board: She can ride on her guitar like a hover board and fly.
- Ponytail: She uses her hair as a fire attack.
- Icons & Powers: Ember's guitar, has different icons in each close up, each icon represents the special abilities Ember can use of which knob it points to.
Episodes and Appearances
Season 1
- Fanning the Flames
- 13 (no lines)
Season 2
- Pirate Radio
- Reign Storm
- Identity Crises (cameo)
- The Ultimate Enemy
- The Fright Before Christmas
- Secret Weapons (cameo in picture)
Season 3
- Ember usually plays right handed on her guitar but in Pirate Radio when on the ship when she first appears, she's playing left handed.
- Ember McLain's skull boots are similar to boots of Gene Simmons of KISS.
- Robbyn Kirmsse is the singing voice of Ember.
- Ember making Danny fall in love with Sam and thus furthering the Danny/Sam relationship had caused her to become one of the most popular characters on the show. However, her lack of furthering the relationship in later episodes, along with the addition of new ghosts, caused her popularity to drop quite a bit.
|Danny Phantom Villains
Box Ghost | Bullet | Circus Gothica | Dark Danny | Desiree | Ember McLain | Evil Danny | Freakshow | Fright Knight | Guys in White | Johnny 13 | Kitty | Lunch Lady Ghost | Lydia | Nicolai Technus | Nocturne | Pariah Dark | Penelope Spectra | Prince Aragon | Skulker | Undergrowth | Valerie Gray | Vlad Plasmius | Vortex | Walker | Youngblood


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For the total suppression of the Ancient Faith in England, Queen Elizabeth at first was content to trust to the natural effect of the Oath of Supremacy which was imposed upon the clergy and certain classes of the laity, and to the substitution of the New Prayer Book for the Mass, both of which were enforced by most severe penalties. Very many of the Marian priests had fled the kingdom and many of them had been received into the houses of the gentry who still adhered to the Old Faith, and they do not seem to have suffered much molestation from the authorities. It was felt that, in a few years, death would have removed them, and that Catholicity in England would die a natural death from lack of pastors who might attend to the spiritual wants of the flock. This inevitable result was forced upon the attention of Dr. William, afterwards Cardinal, Allen, an Oxford divine and a dignitary in Queen Mary's reign, who had left his own country and was at that time residing in Flanders.
In the year 1568, with the assistance of a friend, Dr. Vendeville, who had invited him to Douay for the purpose of completing his degrees, he was enabled to carry out the project which had suggested itself to him for preventing the total extinction of the Catholic Faith in England. This was the establishment of a College for the education and training of priests who should devote their labours to the perpetuation and spread of the faith in their own country.