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Blood pressure is the force of blood flow inside your blood vessels. Your doctor records your blood pressure as two numbers, such as 120/80, which you may hear them say as "120 over 80." Both numbers are important.
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You should always have an idea of what your blood pressure is, just as you know your height and weight.
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High blood pressure is a silent problem — you won't know you have it unless your health care provider checks your blood pressure. Have your blood pressure checked at each regular health care visit, or at least once every two years (people without diabetes or other risk factors for heart disease).
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- Work with your health care provider to find a treatment plan that's right for you.
- Eat whole-grain breads and cereals.
- Try herbs and spices instead of salt to flavor foods.
- Check food labels and choose foods with less than 400 mg of sodium per serving.
- Lose weight or take steps to prevent weight gain.
- Limit alcohol consumption and consult your health care provider about whether it is safe to drink alcohol at all.
- If you smoke, get help to quit.
- Ask your health care provider about medications to help reduce high blood pressure. Samples of these types of medications include ACE inhibitors, ARBs, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers and diuretics.
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With all the hype surrounding the new Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet, and favorites such as the iPad 2 and Asus Transformer, it's easy to forget that there are still new Windows tablets hitting stores. In fact, Windows tablets have been around for years, both as low-key industrial tools and as disappointingly underpowered consumer products.
Samsung has expanded its Series 7 line of products into tablet territory, calling its versions the Series 7 Slate 700T. Like the Asus EP121, it includes an Intel Core i5 processor, making it a much more useful device than the underpowered Intel Atom tablets that failed to impress us over the past few years. The downside is that both this and the Asus version are much more expensive than the current best-selling tablet, Apple's $500 iPad.
That said, when combined with its optional Bluetooth keyboard and docking stand, the Series 7 Slate is a tidy, powerful package, but those extras will run you $180 on top of the system's premium $1,349 price. At least that includes a 128GB SSD drive. For $1,099, you can get the same machine with a smaller 64GB drive.
The real competition here in one sense isn't the iPad, but the new generation of ultrabooks, which are thin, light, and just as powerful. Some, such as the Toshiba Portege Z835, also pack in a 128GB SSD, but for a lot less: $799.
But those systems lack the Slate's touch screen, as well as Samsung's optional custom tile-based UI, which looks like a cross between Android and the upcoming Windows 8. Unfortunately, like nearly all Windows tablets, onscreen typing is a pain, exacerbated by a finicky Swype-branded onscreen keyboard app. No one has yet made a Windows tablet that works as seamlessly and simply as advertised, and aside from the nice custom UI, nothing here greatly changes our perception of the field.
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The general design for a modern tablet seems set in stone, or at least glass and plastic (or glass and metal, in the case of the iPad and a few others). With edge-to-edge glass over the front surface, covering the display and a thick black bezel, and a slightly rounded back plastic panel, the Series 7 Slate looks and feels a lot like tablets such as the BlackBerry PlayBook (and it's distant cousin, the Kindle Fire) or even the Samsung Galaxy Tab.
It's a clean look that emphasizes the most important component: the big 11.6-inch display. The Series 7 feels dense; like the iPad, it's hard to hold in a single hand for too long. The biggest letdown designwise is the plastic back panel. With just a little force, the entire unit flexes, making it feel like a product that may not stand up to the rigors of road use.
Ports, connections, and controls are spread out along the four edges, with mic inputs on the top edge, along with a microSD card slot, power and rotation lock buttons along the right edge, headphone, AC power, and Micro-HDMI on the left edge, as well as a rocker switch for speaker volume, and a docking connector on the bottom edge.
That docking connection attaches to a sold-separately docking stand, which for $99 gives you full-size HDMI and USB ports, Ethernet, and headphone jacks, and another AC adapter connection. The weighted dock has a brushed-metal top surface and flip-up door, and feels more upscale than the tablet itself. Also available is an $80 Bluetooth keyboard that's exactly the same width as the tablet, and has large, easy-to-hit flat-topped keys. Together, that's a decent amount of connectivity, and equal to what you'd find on some thin ultraboook laptops.
Without that, you're stuck using the onscreen keyboard. The default one is a Swype keyboard, allowing you to drag you finger between letters to spell, but its autocorrect makes inputting nonstandard words, such as usernames and passwords, difficult. You can, of course, choose to type in a traditional letter-by-letter fashion as well. The keyboard has virtual grips on either side to allow for easy movement across the screen (in case it's covering a text field you need to access), but the typical lag of a Windows onscreen keyboard made it difficult to use, and we frequently ran into problems getting the keyboard to pop up when trying to fill in certain online text fields. There's also a standard Windows onscreen keyboard if you prefer, but it's hidden in the system menus, and we had to search via the Start menu to find it.
The response of the touch screen was generally good, and better than even the most recent Core i5-powered Windows tablets (of which there are very few). Constant recalibration was not required, but most finger inputs in Windows result in a tiny target reticule, meaning you may have to hunt around to hit the close or maximize controls of a folder properly.
Finger input works much better on the custom Samsung tablet UI, which is activated by tapping on a task bar icon. Called simply Samsung touch interface, it pulls most of the desktop icons, and a handful of other tablet-friendly apps (weather, an RSS reader, etc.) onto a series of screens that look and feel a lot like the oversized app icon screens in iOS, Android, and Windows 8. Flicking between pages of apps was smooth, and after a little guesswork, new icons, such as the Chrome Web browser, were added easily. A task bar on the far left side keeps a to-do list, weather report, and a clock always in view, but they can be minimized by swiping a virtual tab over.
When first demoed a few months ago on prototype hardware, the Samsung touch interface looked impressive, and it continues to be the standout feature of this tablet, and one that nearly all laptops, touch screen or not, could benefit from.
The 11.6-inch display is similar to what you'd find in an ultraportable laptop such as the HP Pavilion dm1z. The screen resolution is also the same at 1,366x768 pixels. That compares favorably with most of the other tablets out there, no matter the operating system. The screen itself is glossy and easily catches light from nearby sources. Off-axis viewing is excellent, which makes it better for shared video viewing, especially when sitting on the docking stand.
Shocking no one, the sound from the internal speakers was thin, even for such a small device. Tablets are not known for their great audio, but the iPad, for example, manages to be a better personal music player.
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Gail Drew's decision to abandon her teaching career and assume control of the family business, Abbott's Frozen Custard Inc., was made at the last possible moment.
Or so she says. A longtime friend is not so sure.
Drew's parents, Leonard and Thelma Schreiber, had owned Abbott's since buying it from founder Arthur Abbott in 1957, when Drew was 10 years old. Leonard died in December 1979 and Thelma carried on for another 10 years.
"It wasn't fun anymore for her, without my father," Drew says. "There was no one to come home and talk to about all of this. She said 'sell.' The deal was going to close, and she turned to me and said, 'If you want this business I won't sell.'"
Drew purchased the business and became its president in 1989.
Neither her mother nor her father had ever said anything to their daughter about a succession plan.
"It was the first time ever mentioning the next generation taking over," Drew says. "I don't know why, but I said, 'Absolutely. Don't sell it.' I don't know what possessed me."
She seems almost astonished, even relieved, as she recalls the moment.
"It's everything to me today," she says. "My life would be very different if I didn't have this business."
Drew was a teacher in the Buffalo suburbs then. She had graduated from SUNY Buffalo in 1969 with a degree in English and earned a master's degree there two years later. But she spent much of her life listening to her parents tell stories about Abbott's and a considerable amount of time working there.
"It was a huge change, but I think it went quite smoothly, actually," says Dorothy Ferguson, Drew's personal attorney and a friend for 35 years.
"She's been involved in the business from early childhood. She went into education, but I think her heart always was in the business. She lived it from an early age. I think she learned a lot about it that way."
Drew, 64, owns five Abbott's: in Charlotte on Lake Avenue and in the ferry terminal, and in Henrietta, Gates and Vero Beach, Fla. Some 100 people work at the five locations during peak operations.
The Lake Avenue stand opened for the season March 22. Her stores traditionally close in late October or early November.
"We've stretched it to the middle of November some years, but usually by November everybody is ready to rest," Drew says. "It's a very intense business. You wouldn't think it is, but we have a whole year's worth of business to do in a very short amount of time."
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Her company has franchise agreements at 39 other locations. Twenty are in Monroe County, including six at Bill Gray's restaurants. Eleven are in New York State, with additional stores in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Colorado and Florida.
Owners of the franchised stores sell Abbott's custard and buy supplies from the company, which receives royalties from sales.
"We do all the training, and we do a marketing program for them every year," Drew says. "We're trying to continue to brand ourselves all the time, trying to develop that Abbott's experience."
Drew's legacy at Abbott's is the franchise agreements. Her dad sold the family's first one, a location on West Ridge Road, in 1977.
"It was to a Rochesterian, a man who admired my father in the business," she says. "He came to my father and asked if he would help him set up a business like what we had.
"In those days, you just opened up the store, trained them and helped them get the equipment, and that was it. They used the mix and followed your recipes and stuff, but you didn't have to register with the state of New York. You didn't have interior designs. You didn't need packaging. It was very simple."
When Drew took over from her mom, franchising was one of the most appealing aspects to her.
"I was trying to carve out my own space," she says. "I was very interested in expanding the business that way, although I didn't really know at the time what I was getting myself into."
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Abbott started his custard business in 1902, selling his products at carnivals and fairs along the Eastern Seaboard. Tired of the travel, he made his way to Rochester and opened a permanent location in Charlotte in 1926.
"At that time, there was more of an atmosphere down here," Drew says. "Not so much as in the early 1900s, but it was a beach resort town."
Custard was Abbott's business, but horse racing was his passion. He owned Blue Man, winner of the 1952 Preakness Stakes, the second leg of horse racing's Triple Crown.
Abbott pocketed more than $86,000 in Preakness prize money. Blue Man finished third at the Kentucky Derby and second at the Belmont Stakes that year, finishing his career with earnings of $277,000.
After deciding he did not need the Charlotte business to support his involvement in horse racing, Abbott and his managing partner sold it in 1957 to the Schreibers, whom he had met through a mutual friend and who had franchised an Abbott's at the Rochester airport in 1955.
"They hit it off, and Mr. Abbott felt these people would take care of this business," says Drew, who was 10 when the deal closed.
The Schreibers lived in Brighton, where Leonard owned a wholesale meat business.
"We were struggling, like so many families at the time," Drew says. "This was, we felt, going to change our fortunes.
"This was a wonderful business to be able to be a part of …; it really was what kept our family together."
Drew and her sister, Lynn, helped out.
"This is where we were likely to see my father," Drew says. "We'd come down and work with him and my mother, and we had a blast."
The family worked seven days a week, opening the stand in the morning and closing it late at night.
"It was something you didn't ever think about getting a manager for, or turning responsibility over to somebody else," Drew says.
Leonard and Thelma would come home and wake their two children for dinner at 1 a.m., Drew says.
"My father would sit at the table," she says. "My mother would make him dinner. My mother would stand at the sink, and my sister and I would be between the table and the counter, and they would recount the day.
"My sister and I would be rolling on the floor laughing, not because they were telling jokes but the way they talked. It was like George Burns and Gracie Allen. My mother would be going on, and my father was very subtle in his humor. It was hysterical."
They would recount not seeing a customer who normally was there, or a helper who did not scoop custard quickly enough or clean to their satisfaction.
"It was so much fun," Drew says. "It was really a great time.
The financial implications of the business seemed almost secondary to its entertainment value.
"It was successful for us," Drew says. "Whether it had the mystique that it has today, I don't know. I was 10 at the time, and it was just so natural. It was like it had always been ours. It wasn't run like a business. It was hovered over, like another child in the family."
Drew never dreamed of replacing her parents at Abbott's.
"And it wasn't anything that I was ever groomed to take over," she says. "My parents would never want to mention that someday maybe you'll have this place. It wasn't ever going to be this succession of family members. It wasn't meant to be that way."
Abbott's became a gathering place for visitors to Charlotte and the Port of Rochester.
"You hoped for good weather," Drew says. "You turned out a wonderful product. You knew all your customers. For my parents-and for us, too-this was part of our social life.
"It was a great melting pot down here. I think we had an advantage that a lot of kids in suburbia maybe didn't. We met and knew and learned from people from all different walks of life. They were our friends."
Steady growth
The Abbott's concept has grown substantially with Drew in charge, with revenues increasing each year.
"We have made enormous leaps forward," she says, declining to provide specific financial details. "We have become a business in the last 15 or 20 years. But nothing about the product has ever changed. Even though we're 44 stores, we're still a mom-and-pop business."
Vice President Robert Amico has been with Abbott's for 37 years, beginning as a part-time worker at the Lake Avenue stand for the Schreibers when he was 14.
"He's done every job in the place," Drew says.
Amico oversees the company's operations, including its franchisees and most day-to-day activities.
"Gail is a wonderful person to work for," he says. "I've never met a more caring person in regards to the company and the Abbott's name and the people that surround the Abbott's name.
"She has so much passion for her product, her franchisees and her employees that work in this company. One nice thing about working with Gail is she allows the key management to make decisions. This is not a micromanaged company, which creates much more success."
Amico's corporate titles include CEO, secretary and director. Drew is president and treasurer. Their offices are on the second floor of the Lake Avenue store. They are the only year-round employees.
"President and all that stuff wasn't even in my mind," Drew says of the business she took on. "I didn't have that kind of structure at the time. It was just come in and work downstairs and wait on customers. The way we do business now has just evolved."
Joseph Orden is the senior franchise coordinator and Eric LePore is the district manager. Both work 11 months of the year. Chrystal Gerkin is the consistency coordinator. Kari Cubiotti manages the Lake Avenue store.
"All of our full-time employees have been here half their life," Drew says. "These are my extended family. They've all grown up at Abbott's together and are involved in it."
Drew bought back the Henrietta franchise in the 1980s when its owners retired and did the same with the Gates franchise after that.
"So we had three company stores," she says. "That's when business had to change, because you had to have control over all these stores. We had to figure out a way to make sure the money got to the bank every night. You had to make sure the payroll was in line with where it should be.
"While we were developing these systems to account for our own corporate stores, we were also setting ourselves up so that we could franchise outside of Rochester. We're concentrating on that today, although most of our stores are in Monroe County."
Although Drew is interested in prospective franchisees, she is not recruiting.
"I just felt-and I don't even know why-that we had to do more," she says of expansion. "We had to go to the next level. We had to keep up with the times.
"And, really, it wasn't that difficult because people always came to us. We never advertised. To this day, we've never advertised. All of our franchisees out of town are former Rochesterians who missed it and came to us and said, 'There's nothing like it where I live.'"
Drew's most memorable story about Abbott's involves a Florida man whose dying father made a last request for the custard.
"They called and said their father wanted Abbott's and could we get it down to him," she says. "We weren't doing shipping the way we are today, but we got it down there. He wrote a letter thanking me that his father got to enjoy the Abbott's before he passed away.
"I mean, are you kidding me? That is something. That's an honor."
These days, a warehouse near the Lake Avenue store allows supplies to be stored until shipment to Abbott's locations. The only store west of the Mississippi was opened after its franchisee convinced Drew that suburban Denver was no farther from Rochester than the Abbott's in Naples, Fla.
"We'd still like to stay on the East Coast," Drew says. "We'd like to become more of a regionally known brand. But it depends on the person. If it were the right person (seeking a franchise), it would be hard to turn down business."
A store in New Jersey is scheduled to open soon; a store in New Orleans is in the works.
"We have a lot of interest," Drew says. "Every week I get calls from people. It's hard to get the financing now. I think that's the biggest drawback."
Growth issues
Finding franchisees is largely accomplished by trial and error.
"We want the right people, and we want the right locations," she says. "For a company our size and the way we do it, it's a challenge.
"We don't have a real estate department that goes out and carves out locations or buys up leases like some of these franchise ice cream stores do."
Connecting the locations cosmetically and emotionally is a challenge, Drew says.
"You have a product that's been selling for so many years and people love it," she says. "Everybody in Rochester has their Abbott's story. Then you say, 'Gee, how do we brand ourselves?'
"One of our biggest struggles was with an interior design. It was so hard, and we still struggle with how people see us. Our target audience is everybody. It's really hard to come up with a marketing plan after you have a recognizable and beloved product. And we didn't do any marketing for the first 100 years."
The challenge is even greater for the out-of-state stores.
"Out-of-town people don't know us yet, so how do we get people to feel the way people here feel about Abbott's?" Drew says. "How do we get people outside of Rochester to think they've been coming to Abbott's for 100 years when the store just opened up last week? That's the big challenge."
The company is relying on community outreach to accomplish that goal, she says.
"We're working with our new franchisees to sponsor Little League teams," Drew says, "to get involved with events, to find a charity they feel good about donating time and revenue to, and to be a good partner in their community so that people get to know who you are and what you stand for."
Abbott's was one of four family-owned businesses in Western New York honored by Alfred University last September at Oak Hill Country Club for its commitment to employees and the local community, for innovation and foresight, and for growth and stability.
Last month, the company participated in the fourth annual New Orleans Roadfest Festival.
Off the job
Beyond Abbott's, Drew's passion is her three children, she says.
Brenden, 27, is an accountant in Boston. Charlotte, 26, is in law school at Boston University. Georgia, 24, works in the University of Rochester's office of development.
Drew enjoys gardening, reading and traveling. Her last big trip was to Antarctica in January 2011.
"That was fabulous, other than sailing through the Drake Passage, where everybody got sick because it was so rough," she says.
The passage begins at the southern tip of South America and extends to Antarctica's South Shetland Islands. The trip took two days, Drew says.
"It looks white," Drew says of the continent. "That's about it. We did go to one station. I think it was an English station. They did have a gift shop.
"Every day we'd get to go out and walk around with the penguins and climb glaciers. We went kayaking one day."
She visited Chile for two weeks prior to returning there as part of the Antarctic excursion, and she also has gone to Baja California, Tahiti and South Africa.
"When they were younger, I took my kids to Tahiti," Drew says. "And my daughter Charlotte studied in Africa at Capetown University, so I took the kids and we went down there.
"Then, two years ago, she worked for the United Nations in Tanzania. My other daughter and I visited her there."
The trip to Antarctica came about with some prodding from her college roommate and her roommate's husband to join them.
"They're big travelers," Drew says. "I wasn't going to go, and then at the last minute I said I'll do it."
The timing of that decision was much the same as that for her decision to leave teaching for the custard business.
"She's unafraid to take a risk," personal attorney Ferguson says. "I think that's huge. Her perspective is always that the glass is always half full. These are great qualities to have. And even though it's a very successful business, she's always trying to improve it."
Drew, like her parents, is putting no pressure on her children to follow in her footsteps.
"They've all worked at Abbott's over the years," she says. "They've grown up working in the business, during summers and between college years. They have a huge passion for Abbott's.
"I told them to go forward and carve out their own destiny for right now. I'm very proud of them. They've all done very well. It's just nice to see them grow up. They take your values and your work ethic, and then they become their own person. Maybe someday, one of them or all of them … we don't know. I'm not thinking that far ahead yet."
Drew turns 65 years old next month.
"I don't think about retiring," she says. "Obviously, my friends are of the age when that's a conversation. I can't imagine not living in Rochester. And I can't imagine not coming to work.
"I have a wonderful person in Rob to take care of the business for me and run the business for me. I could cut back if I wanted to, although you want to be involved. I don't see myself retiring at all."
Gail Drew
Title: President, Abbott's Frozen Custard Inc.
Age: 64
Home: Victor
Education: B.A. in English, 1969, and M.A,1971, SUNY Buffalo
Family: Son Brenden, 27; daughters Charlotte, 26, and Georgia, 24
Hobbies: Gardening, reading, traveling
Quote: "I was given this opportunity to work for this beloved company, and a product that is just so enjoyed by people. You run into people who say they used to come here with their family every Sunday after church, or they met their husband standing in line here."
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The Leadership Discussion Group provides a forum for conversation, communication and collaboration about leadership and management issues important to academic librarians. Leadership and management challenges in the higher education environment are unique in many ways from other non-profits or corporate arenas. Developing a platform for sharing our experiences, insights and challenges is important for enhancing librarians' skills and developing future leaders and managers. This group embraces leadership in the broadest sense including topics such as leading from the middle, leading project teams and informal groups, leading within professional organizations, career paths for leaders.


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Australia has unwittingly become a social experiment. A ruthless experiment on the fate of a society when a single media conglomerate, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, owns 167 newspapers and controls around 70% of the printed media market.
After the phone-hacking scandal rocked Britain, News Corp officials in Australia struggled to put some daylight between its local operations and the rest of the empire, assuring the public that the country was spared phone hacking and other unethical practices. It is perhaps unlikely that wire tapping or phone hacking was practiced in Australia, simply because the local specialty of the Murdoch organs and their shock-jock allies has been a fairly low-tech reliance on outrageous spin.
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When Gov. Jerry Brown wrapped up his tenure last time through, he left a huge unresolved question for California: In the wake of a failed 1982 initiative to fund the so-called peripheral canal, how would the state distribute and safeguard its water supply?
How to maximize the water supply and allocate it fairly has been debated often in the years since without producing a solution. But it now looks as if Brown intends to finish up this piece of unresolved business.
Earlier this month, state water officials presented him with the basics of a plan that would have profound implications for the future of California, as well as the legacy of its governor. If it is approved by the relevant state and federal agencies and overcomes any legal challenges, it would reroute water through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, diverting freshwater around the marshy area that sits below sea level and transporting it, either by tunnel or canal, into the State Water Project, which serves parts of the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California. The plan calls for extensive habitat restoration as well.
That sounds simple enough, but even the hint of it resurrects an exceptionally divisive debate. In the early 1980s, Brown's proposal for a peripheral canal — which had much in common with the project now being proposed — split Californians along geographic lines. Wildly popular in Southern California, the idea was reviled in the north. I was in high school in Palo Alto when it first began to circulate; my friends and neighbors could not mention the proposal without deriding it as a Los Angeles "water grab." Some Northern Californians even advocated splitting the state in two.
Proposition 9, the bond measure that would have paid for the canal, went down to a narrow defeat that highlighted the tensions between north and south. Los Angeles County backed the measure by 61% to 39%; in Northern California, meanwhile, more than 90% of voters in many counties opposed it.
This time out, the regional dispute is far more muted — and for good reason. At its core, this is not an attempt to draw more water from north to south but rather to shore up a vulnerable system whose failure could cast the state into chaos.
Protecting that system is the central preoccupation of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, and it has played a key role in shaping the $16-billion proposal, most of which it would pay for with increased rates to its customers. They won't like that, but the project is, in the words of Assistant General Manager Roger K. Patterson, an "insurance policy" protecting the state's water supply against an earthquake that could destroy the levees that keep seawater out of the delta. Such an earthquake could flood the delta and wipe it out as a source of freshwater within hours. Experts say it might take three years to restore supply, in the meantime depriving both Southern California and the Bay Area of almost a third of their water supply.
Patterson and his boss, General Manager Jeffrey Kightlinger, laid out that scenario in a recent interview, surrounded by the history of this issue. We spoke in Kightlinger's office, its walls and tabletops covered with mementos of California's mind-boggling water system, much of it engineered by Brown's father, Gov. Pat Brown. As we spoke, Kightlinger offered water — tap water.
The implications for Northern California have helped prevent this debate so far from being a repeat of the north-south split that drove a wedge through the state in the early 1980s, but there's plenty of time for feuding to break out before this is over.
Kightlinger knows better than to take victory for granted in this debate. His predecessors were the villains of those water wars in the 1980s, and he concedes that even three or four years ago, the words "peripheral canal" could start a stormy debate. This time, though, he sees a chance: a more receptive electorate, a project paid by users rather than taxpayers and a governor with something to prove.
"People now are saying: 'We get it,'" Kightlinger explained. "Something has to be done."
And as for the governor? This project, as Kightlinger noted, began with "the father, and then the son, and now the son again." It's a chance to complete a bit of history.
Now if Brown would only take on the other unresolved piece of business dating back to his last time in office: What to do about Proposition 13.
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This really pisses me off:
Druggists want right to say "no" to certain medicationsThis is not a new development, per se. It is, however, the first time this ugly little beast has reared its head in Washington State, and I am sorry to see it. It personally makes me angry. I do not see how pharmacists, who I generally respect as health care professionals, get off carving out a 'conscientous objector' exemption to providing care to certain persons of whom they disapprove.
Perhaps it is my own background that makes me so sensitive to this issue. I am compelled, both ethically and legally, to provide care to a great many persons whom I dislike or disapprove of. I have cared for Neo-nazis, drug users, spousal abusers, child abusers, felons great and petty; I have cared for individuals who have insulted me and assaulted and injured my staff; I have cared for individuals whose behavior I found deeply immoral and objectionable. I have no legal exemption to refuse to provide them with health care, nor would I claim such a right were it a legal option for me. Because it would be wrong.
When you sign up to become a physician, to a certain extent it means you have to check your personal prejudices at the door. When you are the provider of medical care, you are in a position of power, and the patient is at their most vulnerable. If you are providing a service which is urgent and/or not readily available elsewhere, your duty to the patient is at its highest, and any threat to withold that care is abusive. To be sure, in a non-urgent setting, or for services which are readily available elsewhere, I have no problem with a doctor saying that for personal reasons he or she cannot care for a given individual or provide a particular service. But it is an ethically dicey matter to do so, and must be done in a manner which is consistent primarily with the patient's best interests and only secondarily with the provider's personal values.
The pharmacists have little ground to claim any such exemption. Their involvement with the patient's care in these cases is minimal and their relationship with the patient is superficial at best. Their power, however, is disproportionately magnified, since they have the ability to refuse to allow the patient to fill a prescription written by a provider with whom the patient has a stronger relationship. In essence, the pharmacist has little involvement in the decision-making process, yet for some reason feels they should be able to exercise a veto. And one should not assume that, refused at one pharmacy, that patients will necessarily be able to fill their prescriptions at another nearby one.
Now I am not dissing pharmacists -- many an alert PharmD has prevented me from making errors or helped with a difficult case. But that some pharmacists are upset about abortion or feel that it is wrong: I am not particularly sympathetic. The principle of patient autonomy and self-determination should trump their (and my) delicate sensibilities about what we feel is right for the patient. We as health care providers can guide patients to make good decisions, we can provide information and counsel, but we cannot project our own values onto patients in their hour of need.
And it is even more irritating that I suspect that this is an issue not truly because there are a lot of pharmacists who truly feel that their consciences are being violated, but rather that the right wing has found themselves a new wedge issue to play politics with health care.


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How to Buy a Living Room Chair: Living Room Chairs Target
Living room chairs add comfort and also a sense of modernity in our homes. However, there are different categories of living room chairs. Such include recliners, club chairs, accent chairs, chaise lounges and glider chairs. Having a variety to choose from may leave us in and a state of mayhem trying to have the best. Fortunately, we are going to explore a collection of the top 32 best living room chairs in 2017 reviews.1) Linon Coco Accent Chair | 2) Giantex Leisure Arm Chair | 3) Ashley Furniture Signature Design - Honnally Accent Chair | 4) Giantex Deco Solids Accent Chair | 5) Office Star Main Street Guest Chair | 6) DHP 2043009 Emily Chair | 7) Dorel Living Rolled Top Club Chair | 8) Contemporary Style Wooden Legs Accent Chair | 9) Modern Barrel Chair | 10) Bonded Leather Recliner and Ottoman | 11) Madison Park Garbo Captains Dining Chair | 12) Giantex PU Leather Recliner Chair | 13) Ikea Poang Chair | 14) Dorel Living Elegant Faux Leather Club Chair | 15) Target Marketing Systems Modern Cross Back Chair | 16) Kebo Chair, Black and White | 17) Homelegance Charisma Accent Chair | 18) Giantex Modern Upholstered Occasional Chair | 19) Giantex Oversized Saucer Moon Chair | 20) Eames Rocking Chair White Replica | 21) Simpli Home Hayworth Accent Chair | 22) Modern Barrel Chair | 23) Classic Scroll Arm Velvet Accent Chair | 24) Giantex Modern Upholstered Accent Occasional Chair | 25) Homelegance 468F25S Lounge Chair | 26) Dorel Living Rolled Top Club Chair | 27) DHP 2043109 Emily Chair | 28) Babyletto Madison Swivel Glider | 29) Living Room Club Chair, Home's Arts | 30) Simpli Home Cosmoplitan Deluxe Chairs | 31) Living Room Chair, Home's Arts | 32) DHP Emily Linen Chaise Lounger |
A couch is a good start to furnishing the living room, but a few other pieces of furniture are needed to create a well-rounded space. Add items that are comfortable and act to enhance the styles already present in the room. You may also want to purchase items that will help define a conversation or gathering area.
Find a chair or chairs that fit well with your motif, whether traditional, contemporary, or eclectic. Also, look for chairs that won't clash with your sofa or other furniture items, and think about how your chair will be used. Some materials are more durable than others, and some will be more comfortable to lounge in.
Leather Chairs
Leather living room chairs will always add an element of style to a room. They are comfortable, have a timeless style, and are known for their durability. However, it should be taken into consideration that leather chairs also require some amount of care if they are expected to look good over time:
- Your leather will need to be cleaned regularly with a commercial leather-cleaning product of some sort. Follow the instructions on the bottle to insure the best results.
- Spills need to be handled immediately to prevent any permanent staining or color loss.
- Leather chairs should not be put in direct sunlight. They can dry and crack, and the leather has a tendency to bleach.
- A few times per year, you should use a leather conditioner to keep your chair looking and feeling nice.
Like most chairs, leather chairs come in a variety of different styles. You may choose a recliner, arm chair, or something more traditional that will add to the 'old timey' feel of your room. Or, you might choose a low back chair or something more comfortable and contemporary.
Fabric Chairs
Fabric chairs are available with many more options than your average leather chair, they either can be cheaper or more costly, the feel is much different, and they can come in a variety of different colors and patterns.
Like leather chairs, fabric chairs can be designed to be durable, stain-resistant, and are generally easier to clean and maintain, though they still require an element of care. You may need to turn your cushions on occasion, vacuum your fabric, and use a specific cleaner or cleaning method to keep your chair stain-free, depending on the material.
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Interview with Alfred Opp (Part 8)
Conducted by Rita Opp Marchildon
3 February 2008, Richmond, British Columbia
Transcription by Connie Dahlke, Walla Walla, Washington
The Slow Road to Freedom
While we were sitting in the northern camp, the Russians were busy transporting POW's, captured goods and their own soldiers back to Russia - all kinds of things were going on. Now, all the railway tracks and bridges had been blown up - there were only a few places that a train could pass through. Would you think the Russians would be worried about us women and children - to get us back to Russia? No way! So we were sitting there - forgotten. How were we to survive without eating? Nobody thought about that! Then I met another guy who was also named Alfred - he spoke a few words of Russian because his dad was Russian. We took a watch, new socks, and shoes from my dad and took these to the black market and bought some food.
One day, someone said, "There is a train coming through from Lithuania, going to Germany. These were Lithuanians who didn't want to stay under Russian rule. Most people were fearful to do anything, but not our dear mother - she had more guts than you could ever imagine - she said, "We're going to go with them!" That's exactly what she said. She never hesitated. There were others, also Deutsche, who said, "Oh, no, you can't do that -- you don't know what they will do with us. They could take us somewhere else. They could accuse us of being Polish or Russian spies, or who knows what." Mother said, "No way. We're going to go." And she was right.
We knew that we needed a bottle of Schnapps (for a bribe) to get onto the train. So Mom sent me with a very good suit from my dad to cash in on Schnapps and food. And that's what I did, using my stuttering trick. The guy who wanted to buy the suit didn't speak our language. And so I stuttered, and when I got through I had sold everything. Stuttering is a beautiful language, I'm telling you, when you're in a foreign country.
So we got onto the train, which was all cattle cars, of course. So there we were and the train took off toward the west. It went for a couple of hours and then stopped - we were stopped for over a day because the train couldn't get onto the other train track. There was always something more important that had priority. Finally our train got on and we went a little ways, and then we stopped again. Now when we were halfway to Germany, an old man died on our train. He was about 80. His belly was really big, but not from being over-fat. Fluids had taken over his body from starvation. Now when a person starves to death, that's what happens. So the man died. He was from the cattle car next to ours. There were a bunch of women crying, and they didn't know what to do. So finally one women said, "Let's take him out and put him outside beside the railway track. So that's what they did. Then I went over and said, "Well, does anyone have a blanket?" So they put a blanket over the body and a couple of women and I collected some rocks and put them around on the blanket so the wind wouldn't blow it off. Then I said to this one lady - the man must have been her father - "Why don't we bury that man?" She said, "Can you bury him?" I said, "Well, I cannot put him in the ground, but we can at least sing a song and pray." She said, "Oh, that would be good." So we stood there with our hands folded, and I said a prayer. I don't remember what I said, but it came out sounding good enough because it came from my heart, things I had learned from my parents and from my grandparents. So then we sang the song, Jesu, geh' voran (Jesus Lead Us On), and also So nimm den meine Haende (Jesus Take Me By the Hand and Lead Me On). Everybody cried, and so did I.
The train never gave a whistle. We always had to keep one hand on the train as we did our things - even to go to the bathroom - because we never knew when the train was going to take off - he never gave a whistle.
We had just managed to get back on the train when the train took off. Finally we crossed the bridge over the Oder river into Germany, and arrived in Frankfurt an der Oder. I never saw anything so sad as that place. That was the only place where people coming from the east could enter into Germany. What we saw were literally skeletons walking around - POW's arriving from Russia. I mean they were literally skeletons! Just a coat hanging over bones! They had diarrhea. They were falling over. Some of them died before they even reached their home. It was a terrible, terrible sight. The German Red Cross did all they could, but all they had to give was bread and tea - and some of the POW's refused that because they could not tolerate food any more.
We walked a little bit out beyond that place - I had to go to the toilet, and there was a shed. When we got to the shed I discovered there were two soldiers laying inside, dead. I didn't see this happen, but I was told that a Polish Partisan crossed over the border and beat them to death. I don't like to tell such things, but it looked bad to me - they were bloody.
So I went back out of the shed and did my thing, and then I went back to my mom. The same afternoon they packed us into another train and took us into East Germany, into Mecklenburg. We were assigned into a room in a mansion, but we had absolutely nothing to eat. To sleep, we were packed in like sardines - literally like sardines. So I went out on the road and begged for food. Nobody helped, because everybody was begging for food. But I found this one farmer, and I said to him, "I can work on a farm." Now mind you all the young men were gone, and all that was left were old men, women and children. So I said, "I will work for you for a slice of bread or something." I said, "I have a mother and a brother, and my mother is expecting a baby." So the guy had a heart and he brought some milk and bread and gave it to me. So I said, "I'll see you in the morning." The next day I was there at five o'clock in the morning, and he wasn't even up yet! He was quite pleased that I even came. He showed me what to do - I didn't need a lot of instruction - and then I did as he said. I worked there for three weeks.
Two or three days after getting there my mom went into labor with the birth of my little brother. He died shortly before his birth was due. All the women in the mansion were available to help, so luckily we found a frail old doctor and a midwife. Now they had no medication - nothing. We didn't even have water! But they got a little bit of water from somewhere. The doctor delivered the baby - my mom said he had to use an instrument (forceps?). That's what he had to do - grab the little head and pull it out from the mother's body. That's the only way I can explain it, because my mom passed out. By the time the birth was finished, I wasn't there, nor was my brother Oskar. But the ladies told me that what came out with the baby was blood and eider (pus) - that's what came out. The women were kind and washed my mother and cleaned her up. After a while I came home from the fields and went in to see my mom. Oh! My mother looked like a dead person. But she didn't give up - she never gave up because she wanted to make sure that we came through. That's how a mother is - to see that we come through and survive. And we did.
It took a few days before my mother got some of her strength back. But in the meantime, I had an address from a girl in Saxony who had worked for my grandfather, and I remember I had that address and I wrote them a card and told them where we were. It turned out that my grandparents and my aunt were only about 20 km away from where we were. She also wrote a card down, and that way we got together with my grandparents. My aunt came to get us. By then my mother was barely able to get out of bed. What a wonderful woman my mother was.
By then the situation was that my grandfather had no horses left - only a wagon. He had been able to get out of Poland with two horses and a wagon, but then he lost the horses somewhere - most likely to the Soviet army, I don't know. Anyway my aunt came by train and picked us up and took us to where my grandparents were staying. They were better off than we had been. They had more to eat - my grandfather was working for a farmer as well. We were with my grandparents about a week while my grandmother did all she could to get my mom back up on her feet. She was also a good mother and she knew how to help. Everybody worked together, and we all prayed. We had a lot of hope because we had made it to Germany. We felt things were going to get better. Hang on! Hang on! Just hang on one more day! Hang on one more week! Hang on one more hour! It will get better! And it did.
Then my granddad found out from a Russian army officer - a young guy actually - this young man liked my grandfather very much because my grandfather spoke very good Russian. This young officer took my grandfather's pocket watch that my grandfather had received years before from his commanding officer in the Russian army. My grandfather begged this young man to give the watch back, but the young man refused. But he was kind enough to tell my grandfather to leave. He said, "Simion" - you know in Russian it is Simeon (Simon), but he called my grandfather "Simion.." He told my grandfather, "We are going to close the border down. Go to the other side of Germany - to the Western Zone." Now the war was hardly over, and it actually wasn't even over when the cold war started between Russia and the United States. I'll get into that later.
So my grandfather came home. We packed up everything that afternoon, and the next morning we got onto the train and traveled toward the west. We got into Bebra, which was on the border, and there already were Russian guards. But my grandfather spoke Russian so well, you would have thought he was Russian! And he was able to smooth out the situation with them - and he also gave this guard a bottle of Schnapps. He knew to do this from our experience and probably also from his experience. So the Russian guard broke the seal on the cattle car and opened it up, put us into the cattle car and put on another seal. He told us, "Don't say a word. Wherever you go, be quiet." Now we were in that cattle car for hours. We dared not even sneeze! And the train stopped and started, stopped and started.
After three or four hours on the train we heard a voice "Senn do leit drenna?" To us that was like the voice of God! We were already in Stuttgart, in Schwabialand - the very area our ancestors had come from. And what that guy said was, "Are there people alive in there?" in the Schwabish dialect. Wow! You should have heard us. We were so jubilant and happy! So he opened up the door, and the next thing we were talking about this and that. That was like meeting a brother we hadn't seen in 125 years! Exactly! Oh! I will never forget that!


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A Muddy Buddy event at Grant Ranch Park highlighted my ride up Mt. Hamilton, but more on that later.
I rode from home through downtown San Jose and up Mt. Hamilton Road, arriving at the base at 8:36 a.m. under foggy skies, which I found surprising after yesterday's brilliant sunshine.
The fog didn't dissipate until Halls Valley. Note that our state tax dollars are being put to good use here. The road has been resurfaced in stretches 100 – 200 yards long between Halls Valley and the Smith Creek descent.
One of the more irritating aspects of riding Mt. Hamilton Road is those "holes." "Bang." Blame it on ground squirrels. These sociable creatures dig tunnels under the road. Over time the road sags above the tunnel, water accumulates, and eventually a hole forms when left unattended. This isn't how all the holes form, but it accounts for many of them.
I noticed a shiny new gate has been installed at the final climb to the observatory off Hwy 130.
Finally, on the descent I came upon the Muddy Buddy contestants driving home — a parade of cars headed down the mountain. Fortunately the tarantula I saw above Grant Ranch crossing the road was spared.


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