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The metallic and blue bands on these chic flats elevate them above your typical sandal.
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A document accidentally posted on a prosecutor's website cites a pharmacist's version of the friendly fire shooting death of a federal agent during a New Year's Eve robbery and differs from an account offered by an attorney for the retired police lieutenant who fired the fatal shot.
The pharmacist claims a retired Nassau County police lieutenant, who ran to the scene when he heard reports of a robbery in progress, shot once without warning when he came upon a skirmish between a robbery suspect and a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent on the sidewalk outside the pharmacy. That shot killed ATF agent John Capano, who was a customer in the pharmacy and had chased the robbery suspect outside.
The lieutenant's attorney, Brian Davis, has said that his client, Christopher Geraghty, opened fire only after a shot whizzed past his head. Davis said Geraghty thought the shot came from the robbery suspect and has been distraught over the accidental shooting. Davis said Wednesday it is not unusual for witnesses to have different versions of what happened during a crime.
"In the heat of battle, people see different things in different ways," he told Newsday.
The document with the pharmacist's account was obtained by Newsday and WINS Radio before it was removed by the Nassau County district attorney's office. A redacted version without the names of those involved was posted Wednesday on the WINS website.
Capano, 51, was shot while struggling with the suspect during a robbery for prescription painkillers and cash at a small family pharmacy in Seaford, on Long Island, about 25 miles east of New York City. He had gone to the pharmacy to fill a prescription for his cancer-stricken father.
Capano, an ATF senior special agent who had traveled to global hot spots such as Afghanistan and Iraq, was deemed to be the first ATF agent to die in the line of duty since the infamous raid on a religious cult compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993. ATF officials said that when he intervened, he did so in his capacity as a law enforcement official.
Geraghty sent a personal note of condolences to Capano's relatives, his lawyer has said.
The robbery suspect, who had a long history of pharmacy robberies, also was shot and killed, by an off-duty New York City police officer who ran to the scene.
Neither the Nassau County police nor the district attorney's office has commented on any specifics of what happened during the shooting, citing an ongoing investigation. The ATF issued a statement after Capano's funeral citing the holdup man as the ultimate culprit.
John Byrne, a spokesman for District Attorney Kathleen Rice, said in a statement that the three-page memorandum from a Jan. 10 interview by prosecutors and detectives with the pharmacist was accidentally posted on the DA's website.
"A confidential internal memorandum from an ongoing investigation was mislabeled and placed on the District Attorney's web site in error," he said. "This interview represents just one of many perspectives of the Seaford tragedy and no conclusions should be drawn from it.
The memorandum also reveals that the pharmacist, who worked at Charlie's Family Pharmacy in Seaford, followed the robbery suspect outside after the holdup and was carrying a 9mm pistol in an ankle holster. It's unclear if the pharmacist removed the weapon from the holster.
It was the second deadly holdup in a pharmacy on Long Island last year. In June, a gunman killed two store employees and two customers before fleeing with a backpack filled with painkillers.
The robberies have prompted calls for tighter pharmacy security, and a grand jury in neighboring Suffolk County is investigating whether doctors are improperly prescribing pain medication to undeserving patients.


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Here's the deal. Tomorrow, chocolate will be purchased. Flowers will be delivered. Candles will be lit so that couples can dine in their glow. Hands will be held. Lips will be puckered. Love will be celebrated. For tomorrow, it is Valentine's Day.
And it must be stopped.
Look, I don't need an excuse to buy chocolate. And I certainly don't need some baby with wings trying to impale me with his love arrows. And nobody needs the stress, the envy, and the destruction of this saintly holiday.
According to multiple "reputable" websites, the first evidence of Valentine's Day being associated with love goes all the way back to 1382, when Chaucer wrote, "For this was on seynt Volantynys day, when euery bryd comyth there to chese his make." While he apparently didn't have his spell check turned on that day, Chaucer's words are evidence of a long history of chesing our make each and every February 14th.
But do we really need a special day to chese our make? Let's take elementary school for example. Few things are as depressing as seeing the kids exchange cards and there, all alone, while others revel in their pile of heart-shaped sentiment, sits the one child who received nary a note. To combat this historic injustice, many schools now mandate that kids bring cards for each of their classmates. A nice thought, but it also renders the whole exercise pointless. "To My Very Special Friend…Who is Exactly Equal in Specialness to All of the Other Members of My Class, Even Jimmy Who Eats Crickets When He Thinks No One is Looking."
That's what this holiday does. It either makes you feel bad because everyone around you is getting signs of affection and you're not, or it makes you feel less than special because you realize that your significant other is only giving you a gift because the calendar is telling them to.
Sure, this might sound like the jealous ranting of a man who hasn't been on a date since the Carter administration, but I can assure you that (a) my feelings about Valentine's Day are unrelated to my love life and (b) I went out with one girl when Reagan was president.
Come on, what good can come of this? Valentine's Day is like a giant highlighter for lonely people. Look, everybody, over here! This guy's spending his Valentine's Day at the Taco Bell drive thru! And half the guys in relationships are nervously trying to walk the fine line between impressing their women and going bankrupt. A dozen roses cost how much?!? Don't these things grow in the ground?
Doesn't the very notion of the romance being expected make it that much less romantic?
"Happy Valentine's Day, I got you twelve of these dying flowers, this bright red, heart-shaped box of chocolate covered walnuts and orange goo and I had this copywriter from Hallmark put together a couple of lines about the color of violets. This is how you can tell I love you."
So, how am I going to do it? How will I convince the world that this holiday causes more friction than affection? I say all of us who are fed up with the whole production gather and let our voices be heard. We can hold hands and protest the fact that we're being told to hold hands. We can have an anti-love love-in. And we can meet…at the Taco Bell drive thru.
Happy Volantynys Day.


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Yeah, I mean I went in with no axe to grind. I had read the reviews that basically implied he'd been reborn as a low-budget horror filmmaker and I was ready to dive in. There is a scene set in a fast food restaurant where 3 characters are talking that feels like it goes on for 25 minutes long. It is completely unfunny, there are even more unfunny digressions and flashbacks and it just looks cheap as fucking hell (there are literally zero extras in this restaurant and the one other person to enter the scene is Smith's wife). It's like he thinks he's writing the basement scene in Inglourious Basterds but he's just nowhere near that planet. What's even worse is like, it can't even just be a terrible movie, it's got to have in-jokes and setup for his new terrible universe/franchise with introducing his and Depp's daughters characters (stay tooned for that snootchie booche)


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December 1, 2015
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I am excited to launch our new website! We are trying to make sharing information and resources easier for our members. I hope you have also had a chance to check out our new MnCCC Facilitators Network and our monthly MnCCC TedTalk Discussion Group. Both groups are posted on RSVP under MnCCC Meetings & Announcements.
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In my nearly thirty years at Dordt, I have also taught Music Theory, Music Literature, Introduction to the Arts, and Clarinet, and have served as chair of both the Music Department and the Faculty Assembly.
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text: Spanish police have arrested one of Colombia's most-wanted criminals, a 40-year-old man nicknamed the Rat who is one of leaders of a ruthless drug cartel linked to 400 murders and the shipment of largest amounts of cocaine to Europe and the United States. Hernan Alonso Villa was arrested Friday while driving on a highway on the outskirts of the southeastern Mediterranean port city of Alicante, police said in a statement. He was found carrying 40,000 euros in cash, police said. Police in Colombia said Alonso Villa is leader of the military wing of the so-called Envigado Office, named for the district in Medellin where one of the country's largest and most-violent drug trafficking organizations arose in the 1990s following the dismemberment of Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel. The criminal organization is linked to more than 400 murders, police said. Saturday's statement says Alonso Villa had 200 people under his command and was responsible for exporting cocaine to Spain, United States and the Netherlands.


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Reports by ESPN.com and Fox News to the contrary, Lane Kiffin appeared at his weekly press conference Monday, addressed the issue of his job secrurity again and said he has no intention of quitting.
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The story is that Vivian met Hilary at Uncle Angus McDonald's home in West Seattle. Uncle Angus had spent time in Alaska although I have not been able to prove it. Angus McDonald was the older brother of R.S. and I have posted on his family previously in this blog.
The posts covering Angus are: "The Family of Angus McDonald – Eldest Son, The Legend of Uncle Angus McDonald, World War I, My McDonald Cousins Serve, Angus' Wife Louisa Jane Hanson." The dates 2/16/2012 to 3/22/2012.
Vivian is standing next to a very young boy in the following photo and the date on the photograph is Seattle, August 1924 which would be after the wedding. The only boy I am aware of that would be close to the age of this child may be Helena Mary McDonald Penglase's son George Robert Penglase. There was definitely a link there with Vivian and Uncle Angus.
The certificate for Vivian's wedding survives:
It reads: Certificate of Marriage #35111, State of Washington, County of Spokane, …on the 25th day of June in the …1924 at Cheney in the county of Spokane and State aforesaid. I the undersigned Catholic Priest by authority of a license bearing date the 24th day of June A.D. 1924 …did join in lawful wedlock Hilary M. McKanna of the County of Yakima, State of Washington and Leola V. McDonald of the County of Spokane, State of Washington. Witnesses were Robert J. Willis and Miriam McDonald, signed by the groom and the bride. Also signed by Rev. John E. Lyons, Residence St. Rose Church, Cheney, Wash.
I also have another document that has more information on it from which this fancier license was created. Under Hilary is states that he is 32 years old, single and has not been married before. He was residing in Yakima. He was born in Douglas, Alaska to Michael Bernard McKanna and Katherine Rooney and both were born in Canada. Vivian's side has her full formal name of Leola Vivian McDonald residing in Cheney. She is 22 years old, single and has not been married before. She was born in Minnesota to Ronald S. McDonald born in Quebec and Grace Barclay born in Minnesota. It does state they were married at the St. Rose Church in Cheney, WA.
The Certificate of Marriage was recorded in Book 32, page 458, Spokane, WA on 27 June 1924 by John Gifford County Clerk and M.F. Harvie Deputy.
Two years later this picture was taken of Mr. and Mrs. in 1926 in Spokane. So by that time Hilary and Vivian had made the move to Spokane. Later they would settle in Greenacres (east of Spokane).


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Hagåtña (Agana) is the capital. Major settlements are Dededo, in the north-central part of the island, Machanao, in the north, and Apotgan, on the west coast.
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Guam has a pleasant tropical climate tempered by the northeast trade winds and the north equatorial ocean current that flows west across the Pacific. Temperatures range between approximately 70 and 90 °F (20 and 30 °C) and are fairly even throughout the year. Average annual precipitation is about 95 inches (2,400 mm), three-fourths of which falls in storms during the wet season, generally starting in May or June and lasting through November. The evenness of the climate is punctuated by destructive typhoons (tropical cyclones) that occur at irregular intervals.
Palm trees, ferns, and other tropical plants abound. Many types of marine life and insects are also found. However, as a result of the accidental introduction in the 1940s of the brown tree snake, an invasive species from New Guinea, indigenous bird life on Guam has been devastated. At least a dozen bird species have become extinct, and several more are endangered. The abundant snakes have also caused numerous power outages by climbing poles and wires and crawling into transmission equipment, and they have killed small mammals.
Native Guamanians, ethnically called Chamorros, are of basically Malayo-Indonesian descent with a considerable admixture of Spanish, Filipino, Mexican, and other European and Asian ancestries. Chamorros and other Micronesians constitute about half the population. Nearly one-third of the people are Asians, notably Filipinos and Koreans, and there is a small minority of people of European ancestry. About three-fourths of the people are Roman Catholic, and one-eighth are Protestant.
The Chamorro language is an Austronesian language that has, over time, come to incorporate many Spanish words. The word Chamorro is derived from Chamorri, or Chamoli, meaning "noble." English and Chamorro are the official languages; although Chamorro is still used in many homes, English is the language of education and commerce. Because of the number of tourists and investors from Japan, Japanese is increasingly also used.
The island's rate of natural increase, although about average for the region, is high compared with that of the United States, partly because of a low death rate. There are large numbers of migrants from the Philippines and South Korea, as well as from neighbouring states such as the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
The development of Guam into an important U.S. military base brought about profound changes in the island's agricultural patterns after World War II. Foodstuffs were imported in increasing amounts at the expense of local cultivation, and Guam now imports most of its food.
The U.S. armed forces are represented at multiple military facilities on Guam. Andersen Air Force Base and its annexes are concentrated at the northern end of the island. U.S. Navy facilities, located around the island, include a naval air station, a naval base with a ship repair yard, communications centres, and a hospital. Work at the military facilities has drawn many islanders away from their former lives of subsistence agriculture and fishing.
Tourism is the most prominent component of the economy, with more than a million visitors arriving per year. There are several luxury hotels along Tumon Bay, which has been highly developed as a tourist area. An international airport links Guam with other Pacific islands, Asia, and Hawaii and the continental United States.
Poultry farming, garment-finishing plants, and oil refining are important earners. Guam is a duty-free port, and this status has attracted a number of small manufacturing companies from countries in Asia and has also prompted some immigration. Major imports—mostly from the United States and Japan—include food products, motor vehicles and parts, and shoes and other leather products. The leading exports are motor vehicles and parts, fish and other food products, scrap metal, and tobacco products. Finland, Japan, and the Federated States of Micronesia are the main export destinations.
Government and society
Guam is an unincorporated territory of the United States governed under the Organic Act of Guam, passed by the U.S. Congress and approved by the president on August 1, 1950. The Organic Act made all Chamorros U.S. citizens. Although they do not have the right to vote in national elections, voters do caucus during the presidential primary season and send delegates to the Democratic and Republican national party conventions.
A 1968 amendment to the Organic Act provides for the popular election of a governor and lieutenant governor to four-year terms. All persons age 18 years or older are permitted to vote. The legislature is a unicameral body with 15 senators directly elected at large for a term of two years. Guam also elects a delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives for a term of two years; that delegate has limited voting rights that exclude the ability to vote on the final passage of legislation.
The people of Guam voted in 1982 in favour of pursuing a commonwealth relationship similar to that established in the Northern Marianas. A draft Commonwealth Act was approved in 1987, and negotiations with the U.S. Congress were initiated.
The highest appellate court is the Guam Supreme Court. There is also a District Court of Guam, whose judge is appointed by the U.S. president for a term of eight years. There are two levels of local trial courts: the Superior Court of Guam, for criminal and civil cases, and the traffic, juvenile, and small-claims courts. Judges are appointed by the governor with consent of the legislature and are reconfirmed by majority public vote every four years. Appeals may be made to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Each of the island's villages is headed by a popularly elected mayor. The mayors and vice mayors form the Mayors' Council of Guam, which makes recommendations regarding administrative and fiscal policies and acts as a liaison between the three branches of government, the military communities, and U.S. federal agencies.
Education is free and compulsory between ages 6 and 16. The University of Guam, which opened in 1952, is a four-year institution that also provides graduate programs at the master's degree level. Health conditions are relatively advanced. Facilities include public, private, and military hospitals and local clinics. Life expectancies for men and women are roughly comparable to those of the United States. The main causes of death include heart disease, cancers, cerebrovascular diseases, and accidents.
Cultural life
Guam is culturally diverse, with Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and other Asian communities of significant size in addition to its indigenous population and people from the mainland United States. As a centre of transportation and communication for the region, it also attracts many islanders from various parts of Micronesia. A large American-style shopping mall in Dededo, the Micronesia Mall, is the largest shopping centre on the island and also serves as a cultural and recreational venue, with movie theatres and an indoor amusement park.
Before World War II the villages were the main social and economic units, preserving customs and traditions similar to those of 19th-century Spain. Fiestas held in commemoration of patron saints were great social and religious events of the year for each village and brought together people from many parts of the island. Fiesta customs are still observed in Guam. However, changes in the social life and institutions of Guamanians have come about with economic development and increasing international contacts. The extended family is the main social unit for most groups on Guam, although many of the younger members travel and live in the United States.
The folk arts and handicrafts of Guam have enjoyed a revival since the late 20th century. Various public and private groups have been created to promote music, dance, and other traditional cultural arts for the benefit of both the local community and tourists. The Guam Museum, in Hagåtña, features works by visual artists from around the Pacific Islands. The University of Guam also promotes regional arts and culture.
U.S. national holidays are celebrated on the island, as are several significant local dates such as Discovery Day, March 6, which commemorates the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan in 1521.
There are daily and semiweekly newspapers and quarterly and monthly magazines published on Guam, and several radio and television stations broadcast local and international news and features daily.
Guam, like the other Mariana Islands, was settled by the second quarter of the 2nd millennium bce by an Indonesian-Filipino people. Archaeological research shows that by 800 ce they had developed a complex society that erected elaborate stone pillars (halege), which served as supports for communal houses (latte).
Ferdinand Magellan probably landed on Guam in 1521. Spain officially claimed the island in 1565 but did not attempt to conquer it until the latter part of the 17th century. After an uprising in 1670 and 25 years of intermittent warfare, the Spanish subdued the population with considerable bloodshed. Diseases introduced by the Europeans, particularly smallpox and influenza, also played an important role in the decimation of the population. Typhoons in 1671 and 1693 caused further destruction and loss of life. Guam remained a Spanish possession until 1898, when, in the course of the Spanish-American War, the U.S. warship Charleston steamed into Apra Harbor and bombarded the old fort. Guam was ceded to the United States, and Spain sold the other islands of the Marianas to Germany in 1899. From that time until 1950 (except for the period of its occupation by the Japanese during World War II) the governor of the island was a naval officer appointed by the president of the United States.
During World War II the Japanese landed on Guam just after the Pearl Harbor attack and occupied the island by December 12, 1941. Allied forces retook Guam by August 10, 1944. It was a major air and naval base for the squadrons of bombers that attacked Japan near the end of the war. Under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Navy, it was made a territory (1950) that was administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Various offices within that department have administered Guam; the Office of Insular Affairs has had responsibility since 1995. Guam remains the site of major U.S. naval and air bases; about one-third of the land in Guam is owned by the U.S. armed forces.
In the 1970s Guam gradually began to move toward representative self-government. The first popularly elected governor ran for office in 1970, and in 1972 Guam was given the right to send one nonvoting delegate (entitled to vote in committees, however) to the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1978 the U.S. Senate accorded Guam the right to adopt a territorial constitution. In 1982, in a referendum offering six options, the option of commonwealth status won a plurality of votes. A draft Commonwealth Act was approved in 1987, and negotiations regarding its status continued into the 21st century. Anderson Air Force Base was expanded in the 1990s, and in 2000 it became the first U.S. Air Force installation outside the continental United States to store conventional air-launched cruise missiles. In 2002 another typhoon struck Guam; it caused devastation across the island and left thousands homeless.Dirk Anthony Ballendorf Sophie Foster
In 2006 the United States and Japan settled on a framework agreement that would transfer some 8,000 U.S. Marines and their dependents from Okinawa to Guam. The multibillion-dollar plan was to be completed by 2014, but it quickly stalled amid questions about the environmental impact of the move as well as Department of Defense considerations regarding the U.S. force posture in the Pacific. A revised plan was released in 2015 that reduced the number of relocated Marines to 5,000 and had a projected completion date in the mid-2020s.
Also in 2015 a federal judge struck down a law that prohibited same-sex marriage on the island. Guam thus became the first U.S. territory to recognize same-sex marriage.The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Among the new features is the Advanced Healing Brush, which allows users to fix imperfections and remove unwanted objects from their images. With it, you can adjust the size of the brush and move it in precise paths to remove distracting elements and flaws--even those with irregular shapes.
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Upgrades to the program's Book module enhance the ability to create, customize, and order photo books with a variety of templates.
As is its practice with public betas, Adobe seeks comments from the community of professional and advanced-amateur photographers to improve the product for the final release. Adobe encourages users to file comments and complaints, ask questions, and suggest features. You do not have to own Lightroom or any other Adobe software package to participate in the public beta.
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Hi everyone - When I first created this section it was meant for Rabbit Rescue Groups, Animal Shelters, Volunteers and/or any individual who wanted to help spread the word about shelter adoptables, events, etc. However, I realized I didn't make it clear enough - "Rabbit Rescues" can be interpreted as individuals needing to find homes for their bunnies, pet store bunnies etc. I apologize for creating that confusion.
I've renamed this section, as well as added some guidelines to get this section back on track. I do discourage reposting of Craigslist ads of individuals wanting to rehome their rabbits.I know that Craigslist animal ads can really suck us in and even frustrate and anger us, especially if a person just wants to get rid of a bunny because they are tired of it. (i've offered suggestions, in the guidelines for this section, about what to do if you see a Craigslist ad that tugs at your heart strings or makes you mad).
I have found though, that I can help more bunnies by focusing on local rescues and animals shelters. They are doing such good work saving bunnies that have been given up, abandoned, lost, neglected and abused. They have limited resources and can always use support. In my opinion, they should be rewarded with time focused on them. That is why I am revamping this section so it can be focused back to its orignal intent. We have a great group of members here and the site traffic is growing - let's use that to our advantage to help out our local rescues and/or animal shelters this upcoming year - they are always in need.
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This is a photo is of Jack the very first time I saw him at San Francisco Animal Care and Control. He was scared...and all alone. His mate that he came in with was adopted out. leaving Jack behind. (they don't separate pairs anymore there unless the pair ends up fighting/unbonding there). They gave him a clean, warm, safe place to stay, treated him for mites and got him ready to be adopted out. But at the time his fear made him feisty - (just a big bluff I quickly discovered). SaveABunny ended up taking him, and I fostered, and then adopted him from SaveABunny.
Jack at SF Animal Care Control.
And of course, here is Jack after adoption enjoying the good life.
Kudos to all of those who took care of him from the time he was placed with ACC until he found his forever home with me.


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In December 2001, my father sent his first-ever Christmas card to me.
He even signed it, �Love, Dad.� Unprecedented. Throw some tinsel on my head and watch me sparkle like a snow globe; that�s how happy I was.
Dad came from the �show, don�t tell� school of parenting. He supported his family and shoveled the snow from the walkway before any of us were out of bed. His love was to be understood.
His postscript on that 2001 card made clear that despite the arrival of his one-time-only Christmas greeting, nothing had changed.
�I got a card from the wife of a man I used to work with,� he wrote. �She was at the church when you spoke, and she said you were the best they ever had. Don�t get the big head.�
What he didn�t mention was that he had attended my speech, too, delivered in the church of my childhood. He also skipped the part about how he had grinned through the whole darn thing.
Each December, I pull out Dad�s Christmas card and prop it up on my desk. He�s been gone for six years now, and the sight of his cramped handwriting makes him feel a little less far away. His admonishment about this head of mine is a reminder that in his own way, he loved me very much.
I spent way too much energy wishing my father would just come out and say it. Well into my version of adulthood, I�d end every phone call with, �I love you, Dad.� His response: �Yep.� Sometimes he�d mix it up by saying, �OK.�
Once in a while, I�d push back. �A-a-a-a-nd you love me, too?� His response every time: �Well, if you already know it, there�s no need for me to say it.�
When he finally wrote �Love, Dad� on that card, there was no victory. It was his second Christmas without my mother, and his heart was broken. How I longed for the days when Mom was still around and Dad�s �yep� was code for what he meant to say. Some things we learn too late.
This has been a long year for many Americans. Even if our own lives bobbed along without incident, it was hard to ignore the suffering of those around us. We did what we could. We attended funerals and hospital rooms, wrote checks and volunteered, worried ourselves sick and bowed our heads in prayer. Some of us smiled for no reason, and strangers felt a little less alone.
This Christmas season, the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., altered the holiday for all but the most hardhearted among us. One minute we were shopping for stocking stuffers; the next minute we were trying to remember to breathe. Twenty young children and six adults who risked their lives to save them were dead. What? What? It was that horrible, that unbelievable. We never will be the same.
And yet, Christmas came.
Now the new year barrels toward us, a force of promise and uncertainty. May we welcome it with gratitude that we are here to greet it.
As I write this, snow is threatening to bury our house here in Ohio. My youngest daughter and her boyfriend spent the morning on cellphones, trying to reschedule canceled flights home. Halfheartedly, I try to hide my joy.
They are in a hurry, but I�m old enough to be on the other side of that impatience. All of our family was happy and healthy this Christmas. I know that kind of luck runs out.
I also know that my daughter�s heavy sighs mean only that she is young, with plans that did not include two more nights with her mother. I will not misread her signals, nor will I complain. Her love is understood.
For that, we can thank her grandfather for a lesson once learned too late.
Connie Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and an essayist for Parade magazine.


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Will Grigg's hat-trick enabled League One's form team Walsall to stretch their unbeaten run to five games as they saw off Carlisle 3-0.
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Will Grigg's hat-trick enabled League One's form team Walsall to stretch their unbeaten run to five games as they saw off Carlisle 3-0.
An early penalty followed by two-second half strikes gave Saddlers a deserved win and made it nine wins from the last 13 for the impressive visitors, who kept their play-off hopes alive.
Walsall had the best possible start when they were awarded a penalty inside three minutes after Carlisle goalkeeper Mark Gillespie's rash challenge resulted in a foul on James Chambers.
Grigg hammered home the spot kick giving Gillespie no chance of saving as it flew past the diving keeper's right hand.
Saddlers' pace and accurate passing had Carlisle's midfield chasing shadows at times and Grigg almost had a second, sliding in at the far post and just failing to connect with Craig Westcarr's cross.
Liam Noble and Rory Loy tried to gain a foothold in the game for Carlisle with shots from outside the box which went close, but again it was Walsall who carried the greater threat, Sam Mantom forcing Gillespie to beat away a powerful drive from 20 yards.
Febian Brandy and Westcarr continued to test the home defence and it took a fine Gillespie save to deny the latter after a 40-yard run, although Carlisle forward Lee Miller's header was kept out by an even better Aaran McCarey stop at the other end.
Saddlers doubled their lead in the 66th minute when Grigg worked himself some shooting space just inside the area to slot a low shot just inside the post.
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Bonneville Child Nutrition, a department within School District 93, provides meals to the students and faculty throughout the district. We prepare and serve over 6,000 meals each school day at 18 kitchen sites.
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They're great for entertainment purposes, but then again, so are fortune tellers and horoscopes.
If you're looking at public opinion polls to predict things, well, there are wins and there are losses. And lately, more losses.
We've got to start looking at polling differently — because though some of the tools get better all the time, the results are not the gospel we pretend they are.
Two polls in the past week or so highlights that for me: a Toronto poll suggesting Doug Ford could be competitive in a race against Toronto Mayor John Tory, and a Corporate Research Associates poll about marijuana use in the Atlantic provinces.
For the Toronto poll, I'd question why the numbers were even used.
Certainly, the media shares some of the blame: in a world of short-staffed newsrooms, the "instant news" of free polling results is a ready-made page-filler. Heck, the pollsters often essentially write the story for you.
But putting polls up in news stories — even warning, like the CBC did with the Doug Ford poll, that the numbers might be off — can skew results. The Ford poll was wonky enough that the CBC said, "CBC Toronto is not publishing the full polling results because of a number of concerns raised by its internal research department, primarily that the poll lacks a randomized sample."
That being said, they published it anyway.
The poll contacted people by robocall — 233,640 people. Only 15,576 Torontonians actually answered the calls and, really, you have to wonder how representative that subset of people would actually be. (I think the only empirical evidence you can take from that is people hate robocalls.)
Then, there's CRA's marijuana poll. Right now, marijuana use is illegal. I don't know about anyone else, but if someone called me out of the blue said they were calling from a polling agency, and asked me about future marijuana use, I'd certainly be more than circumspect in the way I answered.
Numbers for prospective post-legalization marijuana users across the Atlantic provinces in the poll looked like this: 15 per cent in P.E.I., 19 per cent in Nova Scotia, 23 per cent in Newfoundland and Labrador, and 20 per cent in New Brunswick.
I'll be very interested in what the numbers are actually like, post-legalization.
Pollsters are clearly facing problems reaching a representative sample of the public: regular telephone numbers are shrinking fast, and cellphones don't have easy, geographical-searchable listings. Web-based polling is often a crapshoot — like firing a shotgun into a fogbank and hoping for ducks.
The recent Calgary municipal election saw polling company Mainstreet forecast that candidate Bill Smith would win by between nine and 17 percentage points. Smith actually lost, with Naheed Nenshi taking eight per cent more votes; Mainstreet had called Smith's election a virtual certainty.
Being off by 23 per cent is a real kick in the teeth.
It's fine to go back after the fact and dissect what went wrong, and even apologize for it, as Mainstreet did after the Calgary election. Mainstreet also used robocalls to sample people, but found after the election that it skewed the sample away from young people, and away from voters who didn't speak English as a first language.
Polling companies do free polls and release them to the media to promote and advertise their own business — they do political polls often for the very people who are running.
If the numbers are wrong, the damage is often already done — people hear the numbers, and think it's science. And sometimes, those polls persuade people to put their support behind a cause that's nothing more than a sampling illusion.
I'd say simply, buyer beware. Nineteen times out of 20.
Russell Wangersky's column appears in 39 SaltWire newspapers and websites in Atlantic Canada. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com — Twitter: @wangersky.


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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Werewolves of Wall Street: Why Capitalism Collapsed
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's
His hair was perfect.
—Warren Zevon, Werewolves of London
I saw a werewolf at an investor conference recently. His hair was perfect.
He's the CEO of what is now a fairly large company thanks to a dozen or two acquisitions he and his CFO engineered over the years when their company was a Wall Street Darling and the Dynamic Due could do no wrong.
Having recently done wrong—at least, in the eyes of Wall Street—he seemed like a different guy than during the glory days.
Oh, he had the bling of all High-Flying CEOs: the perfect hair, the pin-striped suit, great tie and French cuffs. But what he didn't have was the body language. He sat at the head of the table, rigid, dour, with his arms crossed, like a linebacker ready to block somebody's head off.
All around him sat his team, including the loyal CFO with whom he had rolled up an industry and created what had once been a perpetual motion machine of deal, higher stock price, deal, and higher stock price, etc....
But those days are over, and our CEO had the look of an unhappy man, a man under great stress.
The reason was not hard to find: he had announced his final Big One, the type of deal CEOs call "transformative" when they mean "really super expensive," just a couple of months before the credit markets collapsed.
And it is obvious, in hindsight, that he paid way too much. And we're not talking millions too much. We're talking many many millions too much.
So here was, seated sat at a conference table ready to take questions in a room crowded with anxious shareholders who had bought the dream only to see it turn into a nightmare.
The first question from the disillusioned crowd was, as it always seems to be, about earnings guidance and whether the company had changed its mind about "the number." A reasonable question, in light of, you know, like, the economic collapse going on outside the window at the end of the room—but not really the issue here.
The real issue is this: Mr. Werewolf here made a deal for the wrong price at the wrong time, and he knows it and we know it and the waiter clearing glasses at the end of the room probably knows it too, but nobody wants to come right out and say it, least of all Mr. Werewolf.
So Mr. Werewolf says there's no change to the earnings—the number is staying the same. It could be higher, it could be lower, he adds stiffly, before glowering at the audience. "Not that the stock price reflects the earnings number anyway."
The man who piled, literally, billions of dollars of debt onto his shareholders' backs at precisely the wrong time is castigating the audience for penalizing his company's stock price!
A hand goes up: "So why not buy your stock back?"
Mr. Werewolf responds—he's ready for this: "You mean personally? I've been buying it back when the window opens."
The hand stays up: "No, I mean the company. If you really believe the share price is too low relative to the earnings, shouldn't the company buy it back?"
The background to the question, as everybody in the room knows, is that Mr. Werewolf and his CFO used to buy stock back with abandon during the glory days, at far higher prices than the current Too-Low-Price, in order to satisfy all the Return-Value-To-Shareholder types now waiting for the answer.
Mr. Werewolf responds by rote, straight out of the current Credit-Crisis Manual of Capital Preservation: "We're using our excess cash flow to pay down debt. That's the right thing to do."
The hand stays up: "But isn't that irrational? If your share price is too low, shouldn't you be buying back the stock and keeping the debt outstanding? Isn't paying down debt exactly the opposite of what you should do?"
Mr. Werewolf looks at Mr. Rational like he wants to say something about how Mr. Rational should you-know-what-and-die. The CFO crains his neck to see who, exactly, is asking such a question.
Mr. Werewolf finally answers, slowly, "It's the right thing to do."
The implication behind the words and the CFO's neck-craining is clear: Mr. Rational should shut up with the question about buying stock. Mr. Rational shuts up.
Now, to quote that great philosopher, Robert Plant, it made me wonder.
And what it made me wonder was this: why is it that CEOs take offense at good questions?
Why is it that a shareholder or an analyst or even that lowliest of low-lifes, the short-seller, is made to feel like a pariah for merely asking a good, rational question in public?
And I wondered if this wasn't why capitalism crashed: CEOs who make boneheaded decisions taking offense at being asked about the consequences of those boneheaded decisions in front of other human beings.
And not merely taking offense for their own insecure reasons, but being encouraged to take offense by all the hangers-on—the investment bankers and the brokers and the mutual fund managers—who benefitted in the short-run from those boneheaded decisions, even though in the long run they were nothing but boneheaded decisions.
After all, if a CEO can live the dream during the good times—wallowing in the Attaboys and the bonuses and the private jets and the closing dinners that came with every deal they made—why can't CEOs sit down at a table and take the hit during the bad times?
How will boneheaded behavior ever change if it is not questioned, examined, argued and debated in public?
Further good questions from Mr. Rational discouraged, I left the room, humming Warren Zevon to myself:
You better stay away from him, he'll rip your lungs out, Jim.
Huh, I'd like to meet his tailor.
Aaaahoo, werewolves of London!
—Warren Zevon, Werewolves of London
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17 comments:
- Dan E said...
Great post, Jeff. Great song choice, too.
How does this kind of crap continue to happen? Stupidity? Greed?
Is it possible there's no voice of reason at such companies? Or maybe the voice is just drowned out or ignored.
- Anonymous said...
Ah Jeff, you know why!
The folks in charge *have* to drink the Kool-Aid- or they will never rise to the level of their incompetence. This is what happens when the folks in charge happen to arrive their from popularity contests.
The bottom line should always be the question, and if the moron in charge wants glory instead of profits, well, let him use his money.
You could be talking about any number of companies these days.
I call it the glory of the huge headquarters. University of Phoenix and Strayer come to mind- huge new headquarters.
Google too.
I don't go to work with the expectation of perks, and guess what, as a government employee I get nothing- I pay for my own dang water delivery in the storeroom! Free lunch, you must be joking, they feed us a stale bagel every quarter and say- good job!
Business always looks at government and complains about efficiency. Wait until the tarped toads get their GSA payscale.
Folks may hate Warren Buffet, but the bottom line tells the tale, and all that luxury was paid out of profits, profits that should have gone to the shareholders.
The funny part is that Wall Street played that game with total exuberance too. I could recreate any Wall Street firm here in Phoenix for ONE TENTH the cost in Manhattan. The future will not be made in New York- it will be simply too expensive.
That will be the future, cheap, well run financial and other firms *delivering* the goods.
- Alexander Rosteck said...
Jeff, in your estimation, is it even feasible for a CEO to come out and tell the "truth" in a situation like this? Let's assume in this situation that a) management knows they overpaid for the acquisition; and b) a plurality of analysts and investors knows it too.
Is it reasonable to want the CEO to say something like "It's no secret that the acquisition price for XYZ we agreed to before the financial crisis erupted would have not been arrived at today. Nevertheless we feel XYZ will contribute to our organization's operational strength and (etc.)" I would love to see more candor from company executives, but I wonder how rational and justified their fear of admitting misjudgment might be.
- Ken said...
This is why the Romans, when giving a triumph (procession) to honor a citizen, had someone stand behind the man and, while the rest of the crowd cheered, whisper into his ear, "You, too, are mortal."
- Bruce said...
If you're going to quote Warren Zevon these days, I think you're almost obligated to include in the boilerplate:
Send lawyers, guns and money.
The s**t has hit the fan.
Heaven knows, I can't escape that little ditty running around in my head.
- Anonymous said...
The culture of asking good and common sense questions has given way to sound bites, and, pre-spun messaging. The trouble is, that the masses have succumbed to being led by pre-spun messages and have stopped thinking for themselves in this world of continuous partial attention.
- Anonymous said...
Do you still think Fred Hickey is an idiot on his RIMM call?
Where is it now?
- Anonymous said...
When I am not being taped or recorded by thousands and a bunch of litigation attorneys arent chasing around. I am very free with my mistakes, however when I am at a board meeting to my shareholders, I guess if my management stewardship is so poor I think I might be sued, then my candor is zero. Of course Warren Buffet says oh yeah we messed up we should of could of etc. Why no legal action? maybe because he tells ithow it is- lol
- SiamTwin said...
if the system were working properly and the board of directors were doing their job right, that CEO should be out on his ass.
- Jeff Matthews said...
#1 Please keep the message-board lingo out of these comments.
#2 The point about shareholder lawsuits is valid, theoretically, except that the reason Buffett doesn't get sued for mistakes is that he freely admits them, in public, and lets any shareholder who wants to ask about those mistakes stand up at the annual meeting and do so. Lawsuits generally get filed when those who believe they've been wronged get fed up with no response to their complaints.
#3 As far as Fred Hickey goes, RIMM right now is about $30 points above the $17 price it traded at when he first made his RIMM short call several years ago. His favorite tech long at that time, the perennial underachiever 3Com, has not done nearly so well. But, hey, that's what makes markets.
- Anonymous said...
jeff, ten years ago or so i sold my successful little company to one of these masters of the universe who was rolling up our industry along with his cfo for about $8 million of recently gone public stock....well it didn't take me toolong to realize these guys were basically crooks....luckily i had some really good lawyers and wa sable to fight and get my stock unrestricted so i could sell it before these guys went on a buying spree that eventually caused the house of cards they were building to collapse.....ever since i have realized that the whole wall street machine is basically run to sell the papaer securities generated by hucksters like these guys to unsuspecting little losers like you and me...and so i have basically been managing cash since and have not lost any money in this current downturn....i am guessing the market will collapse to basically a private market value of about 2 times real free cash flow which is alot lower....god help us all if this is what our economy is based upon..best regards, jim
- Anonymous said...
brilliant minds do not cover all bases and that is what occurs as they cover their mistakes.Superegos are brilliant but cannot be questioned.Steve Jobs is brilliant but has always run it all answering to no person and now it is hard to say we are all mortals.He has brilliant backups but they are not the super smooth salesperson.Jerry Yang was brilliant but could not cope with time for a change.Sumner Redstone is a shadow of His old self but cannot admit it ,not the way he ever has done things asking others-never.Many other names can be dropped as losing their touch or time warp at the stock holders expense.
- Anonymous said...
Why do you not name the company ?
- Sivaram Velauthapillai said...
A big chunk of the fault lies with shareholders. It's amazing that very few are pointing this out. Who were the ones that, not only were egging on the executives to follow these strategies, but also reward the executives? Who was profitting from all these dubious deals? In many cases shareholders have to vote for the deals so shareholders approved many of the deals.
The current crisis in capitalism--yes it is a crisis of capitalism--is partly caused by the shareholders/owners who were profitting from all this. As long as people keep blaming the executives, government, regulators, and others, while ignoring the greed in the owners of these businesses, nothing good is going to come out of this.
- The Epicurean Dealmaker said...
Jeff -- Most CEOs are doers, not thinkers. They have the strength of their own convictions, and the energy and ambition to try to realize them. When the stars are aligned behind them, and they have the reins, they tend to be very successful and make their many backers and investors very happy.
However, when the worm turns, most of these quite-limited individuals cannot handle the new environment, and they flail and fail and get enraged at both their critics and the universe in general, because what they do know how to do doesn't work anymore. Expecting self-reflection, or even a change of strategy, from such people is like asking a fish to fly: they are simply incapable of it.
That is why our system needs people like you and Warren Buffett to make the capital allocation decisions. You decide which companies to back, and when. And, if a company or management team is not up to the challenge, you can simply walk away. It is not the most efficient way to allocate capital in an economy, and it can get pretty messy--as your story indicates--but it is pretty robust overall.
- harrier6 said...
Capitalism didn't collapse. A group of people decided that they could repackage and sell debt without oversight or ethics. Some other people were willing to buy the lies. A debt market is not capitalism. Thanks for the post. Keep them coming.
- Tom said...
Honesty? Are you insane?
First of all, a company that admits its mistakes will be *crucified* by the stock market, and the shareholders would have every right to crucify the boss for needlessly destroying the stock (even further) for the sake of his own peace of mind. They're not paying for the CEO's honesty, they're paying for the CEO to say what's necessary (short of outright fraud) to keep the stock upright.
Look, all of capitalism is a confidence game - one that has made us incredibly wealthy.
The president goes on air and points out that these little green pieces of paper are only worth something because people think they're worth something and guess what? They aren't worth anything more, and one person has destroyed the greatest economy on the planet.
What's next? The general who helpfully points out to the troops that there's a significant chance of their side losing and they'll die?
No, if we weren't (almost) all kool-aid drinkers in the end, we'd still be living in caves.


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Michael Ford at Huffington Post calls out Ayn Rand for accepting Medicare payments when she was ill with cancer:
An interview with Evva Pryror, a social worker and consultant to Miss Rand's law firm of Ernst, Cane, Gitlin and Winick verified that on Miss Rand's behalf she secured Rand's Social Security and Medicare payments which Ayn received under the name of Ann O'Connor (husband Frank O'Connor).
As Pryor said, "Doctors cost a lot more money than books earn and she could be totally wiped out" without the aid of these two government programs. Ayn took the bail out even though Ayn "despised government interference and felt that people should and could live independently… She didn't feel that an individual should take help."
But alas she did and said it was wrong for everyone else to do so.
This isn't accurate. While there's some surface irony in Rand accepting Medicaid payments, in her non-fiction writing she stated clearly that she thought it appropriate for people who share her beliefs to do so:
A different principle and different considerations are involved in the case of public (i.e., governmental) scholarships. The right to accept them rests on the right of the victims to the property (or some part of it) which was taken from them by force.
The recipient of a public scholarship is morally justified only so long as he regards it as restitution and opposes all forms of welfare statism. Those who advocate public scholarships, have no right to them; those who oppose them, have. If this sounds like a paradox, the fault lies in the moral contradictions of welfare statism, not in its victims.
Since there is no such thing as the right of some men to vote away the rights of others, and no such thing as the right of the government to seize the property of some men for the unearned benefit of others—the advocates and supporters of the welfare state are morally guilty of robbing their opponents, and the fact that the robbery is legalized makes it morally worse, not better. The victims do not have to add self-inflicted martyrdom to the injury done to them by others; they do not have to let the looters profit doubly, by letting them distribute the money exclusively to the parasites who clamored for it. Whenever the welfare-state laws offer them some small restitution, the victims should take it…
The same moral principles and considerations apply to the issue of accepting social security, unemployment insurance or other payments of that kind. It is obvious, in such cases, that a man receives his own money which was taken from him by force, directly and specifically, without his consent, against his own choice. Those who advocated such laws are morally guilty, since they assumed the "right" to force employers and unwilling co-workers. But the victims, who opposed such laws, have a clear right to any refund of their own money—and they would not advance the cause of freedom if they left their money, unclaimed, for the benefit of the welfare-state administration.
True, The Fountainhead wouldn't have been quite as compelling if Roark were depicted collecting unemployment and living on food stamps. But given all the future taxes he surely ended up paying on his skyscrapers, he would have been totally within his rights to do so. That's Rand's argument, anyway, and whether or not it's convincing her actions were in accordance with her stated beliefs.
This is a question that at some time or another confronts everyone of libertarian stripe. Whatever we think the ideal way is of funding various goods, we live in a world where we are taxed to pay for them and where private alternatives are crowded out by government services. For most of us, the question is not "Will I ever use services funded by taxes?"; it's "Given the extent to which I am taxed to pay for services I may need, under which circumstances can I justify accepting them?" The answers to which we arrive have as much to do with our practical situations and personal integrity as they do with strict principle. To criticize a dying person who paid taxes all her life for accepting aid in her final days, and who had defended taking such aid years earlier, is uncharitable to say the least.
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At Home With Flor's Creative Director
Posted By materialgirls | Jan 29, 2012 | 5 Comments | Category: Decorating, Designers, Floors, Magazines, Material Girls Projects, Shops and Showrooms, Website News
I was so excited to see that Chicago Home + Garden recently featured the home of the creative director of FLOR, a modular flooring company based outside of Chicago. This home was beautifully captured and photographed by the uber talented Chicago photographer Nathan Kirkman. Chicago Home + Garden always features fine Chicago Design-I look forward to each issue.
Not only do I love the look of Flor, but also several of my projects, my own home, and now my own dogs (as part of the set) have been featured in their campaigns. We actually have a shoot later this week with the FLOR Photography Crew at the home of one of my clients-sans dog models. And, one of my oldest daughter's roomies was the model in their latest catalogue. She had a blast at the shoot with our Wheaten Terriers, Jane and Frankie, but stole the show!
FLOR is a great solution for affordable, custom sized carpeting, and the broad selection is amazing. The look of Flor trends toward modern with basics to suit any decor style. I have the "Fine Feathers" pattern installed inside my offices. Having worked closely with Chip and Cynthia over the years, it was so much fun to "peek" into their home. It comes as no surprise that the home of this creative director in suburban, family-friendly Elmhurst would have a very midcentury look…I love it!
The look of Flor…
What an charming 1940's ranch home.
Dying over this orange couch.
Love the original stove and oversized chalk board…perfect for a home with creative little ones.
Such a fun room for the little guys.
I could get some serious R&R in this patio area…
Please visit the Chicago Home + Garden site for more images of this amazing home and much more!
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Until recently the diet for Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) patients was very restrictive. This is due to the fact that BMT patients are at a very highrisk for neutropenia (a decrease of the white blood cell count and neutrophils) which makes them susceptible to multiple infections. The emphasis now is on food safety and sanitation. The focus isn't on "good" and "bad" foods but rather that all foods must be well cleaned and prepared following sanitary practices, and patients are instructed on theseguidelines. Also, patients are instructed on foods that are associated withfood borne pathogens (e.g. the need to cook meat until well done to avoid E.Coli). Most institutions allow only cooked and processed foods and restrict raw vegetables and fresh fruits (except for ones with thick peelable skins such as oranges and bananas).
Here at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania these guidelines are followed for autologous BMT patients as well as any patient who is neutropenic. Allogeneic BMT patients must follow a more restrictive form of the diet. They must also avoid aged cheeses, commercially prepared meat andvegetable salads, delicatessen foods, bakery products and freshly squeezed juices. However, it is important to note that the dietary guidelines are different at every institution and it is important to learn what restrictions your own medical team follows.


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Yesterday on Sunday Morning, they had stuttering kids - made me think of Melissa, how she stuttered, and how Sweetie's magic helped her. It's tough being a kid when you feel different, or when you can't express yourself "like everyone else." We all could use a Sweetie in our lives - even as adults.
Now, you all go have a good day! I'm going for a run, and then I must work on VK III - it's time to stop playing around. Deadlines are not kind to playing around.
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Review | Manny O's BBQ
UNIVERSAL CITY — Big Rex. Marbled Muncher. Bull Dozer. With names like these, it's hard to tell if this is a restaurant menu or a wrestling lineup.
In this case, Big Rex is your friend, a bad boy of a barbecue sandwich.
It consists of a choice of two meats, piled on each other, with a squirt of a not-too-sweet sauce, all in a hamburger bun. The combination of brisket and sausage here is simply magical. When we tried it during a couple of visits, the properly smoked brisket combined with the spices of the sausage, with the sauce uniting the different flavors and textures. The soft bun added some of the softness of the classic white bread accompaniment but didn't fall apart like the usual 'cue staple. The combination of these two meats, sauce and burger bun may not seem like much, but they just work. Brilliantly.
Most customers of Manny O's BBQ order their meats in sandwich form, and that's fine.
The only downside is that doesn't always give the meats a chance to shine individually. After tearing off a few fingerfuls of brisket and sausage that didn't have sauce, it was apparent these meats could stand on their own. There was one time, however, when some takeout brisket was dry. Other times, however, were on the mark. We'll give them a pass for that brisket.
The sausage, slightly spicy with a touch of smoky flavor, also satisfied.
Pulled pork is also on this menu, but it's not a Carolina-style pull with a vinegar-based sauce. It doesn't matter. This pork is served in big chunks with a beautiful crust and succeeds so well on its own merits. If any pulled pork purists object, then call this dish something else. Worry about the nomenclature, but not the flavor of this one.
The meats work by themselves, but they also make for fine mixtures, such as a take on the chili cheese fries called Marbled Munchers. They're nicely seasoned, slightly crisp fries topped with meat, sauce and shredded yellow cheese. It's almost embarrassing how quickly this dish goes down.
The Bull Dozer is like an egg roll, but filled with a mixture of beans and corn with either brisket or pork wrapped and deep fried. Maybe next time. With a side of Lipitor.
This menu keeps ordering simple: sandwiches served with a side and pickle, meats by the quarter-pound and the dishes with fun names. Sides, too, are simple: tangy coleslaw with a bit of lime, spicy pinto beans with bits of fresh cilantro and fries. By comparison, the potato salad seemed a bit bland with too much mayo.
In case you feel like visitng, just know the restaurant will be closed this week and reopen on New Year's Eve.
Owner and namesake Manny Olivo Jr., grew up near his restaurant and has food experience as a barbecue competitor, placing in several International Barbeque Cookers Association events. This year, his beans took third place in an event and his chicken scored second.
Alas, chicken isn't on the regular menu. Wings, however, are a special Friday item and worth the wait.
These smoked wings are everything you want in barbecued chicken — tender, smoky, juicy, well-seasoned and absolutely irresistible.
Another Friday-only special, the ribs, didn't turn out as well as we had hoped. These had a great smoky flavor, but a tough and dry texture.
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Quick bites
Hit: Big Rex with brisket and sausage, smoked chicken wings.
Miss: Dry brisket during one visit.
Noteworthy: Wings and ribs available only on Fridays
Lighter choice: Brisket, ordered lean
Price range: Sandwiches, $6-$9; meats by the quarter-pound, $3-$4; sides, $1.50-$2.50
Hours: 10:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday-Friday
Report card: Food, 4 stars; service, 3 stars; ambience, 2.5 stars


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CLERMONT, NJ — In a continuing effort to provide the best wireless service for local residents in Clermont, Verizon Wireless, has expanded its network with a new cell site. The new site increases coverage and capacity along Route 9 between Zook Lane and Ravenwood Drive, as well as west on Route 83 to Village Lane and east to the Garden State Parkway.
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