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Radio Iowa: 1990's rapper is making comeback on Stop signs

2008-09-03T16:08:00.000-05:00

Radio Iowa: 1990's rapper is making comeback on Stop signs: "t's happening across the country, including Des Moines, the spray-painted words 'hammer time' are showing up under the word 'stop.' Des Moines Police Sergeant Vince Valdez says it's not gang grafitti, but it's still vandalism."

Cameo - Word Up

2008-08-31T15:39:00.001-05:00

How's your Sunday going?

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics -- Unwelcome mat won't be waiting for Bush

2008-08-31T09:09:00.000-05:00

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics -- Unwelcome mat won't be waiting for Bush: "Four years earlier, Truman was running for a full term, but the gloom and anti-Truman sentiment at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia was heavy. Truman complained that only two speakers the whole week had praised him.

Then he was left waiting until 2 a.m. to give his acceptance address. To add insult to injury, the convention planners botched the one thing they planned to celebrate his nomination.

At this convention, the first to be televised, doves were placed in a box on stage to be freed to fly toward the ceiling on Truman's nomination. The box was under the hot television lights and in the steamy convention hall for 13 hours.

When the lid was lifted, most of the birds were dead. And the few still barely alive fluttered toward the fans overhead, where they met violent deaths."

Front Fell Off

2008-08-30T09:21:00.001-05:00

Thanks to Little Brother for this one.

A King, Never a President - By the Numbers Blog - NYTimes.com

2008-08-28T17:37:00.000-05:00

A King, Never a President - By the Numbers Blog - NYTimes.com: "But King didn�t need to be president. His position in the annals of history is above that of most presidents anyway. In many ways he stood above politics.

During the primaries, when answering the question �If Dr. King were alive today, why do you think he�d endorse you?� Obama responded: �I don�t think Dr. King would endorse any of us. I think that what he would call upon the American people to do, is to hold us accountable.� That�s right."

ABC News: From King's 'Dream' to Obama's Reality

2008-08-28T17:32:00.000-05:00

ABC News: From King's 'Dream' to Obama's Reality: "A new ABC News poll finds that 64 percent of blacks now believe their child could become president. Only 46 percent of whites believe the same.

That hope and optimism over Obama's achievement is on display at Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C.

'Even if Barack Obama does not win, we as a people have come so far, we as a nation have come so far,' said Corey Briscoe, 19.

Back at Ben's, Richardson echoed that thought.

'When Dr. King said, 'I may not get there with you to the mountaintop, but I know, want you to know that we're going to get there.' And that day is coming forth.'"

McCain�s Veep speculation hits frenzy | csmonitor.com

2008-08-28T17:28:00.000-05:00

McCain�s Veep speculation hits frenzy | csmonitor.com: "James Carville, a guest at yesterday�s Christian Science Monitor-sponsored Breakfast, said Romney doesn�t worry him too much.?? Carville said the goal in the selection of a vice presidential candidate should be? to �make the opposing campaign manager throw up.�

�I don�t think if they pick Romney, David Axelrod will reach for the trash can,� said Mr. Carville, referring to Senator Obama�s chief strategist.

Carville later said he predicts the choice will be a surprise candidate.

�McCain and I share something in common,� he said. �We�re both craps shooters. And just by nature, craps shooters always want to put their stack in the middle of the table.�"

McCain unsure how many houses he owns - Jonathan Martin and Mike Allen - Politico.com

2008-08-28T17:22:00.000-05:00

McCain unsure how many houses he owns - Jonathan Martin and Mike Allen - Politico.com�:"At a campaign appearance in Chester, Va., on Thursday morning, Obama said: "Somebody asked John McCain, 'How many houses do you have?� And he said, I�m not sure. I�ll have to check with my staff. True quote: I�m not sure, I�ll have to check with my staff. So they asked his staff and he said, at least four. At least four! ...

"If you�re like me and you�ve got one house � or you were like the millions of people who are struggling right now to keep up with their mortgage so that they don�t lose their home � you might have a different perspective. By the way, the answer is: John McCain has seven homes. So there�s just a fundamental gap of understanding between John McCain's world and what people are going through every single day here in America."

McCain�s comments came four days after he initially told Pastor Rick Warren during a faith forum on Sunday his threshold for considering someone rich is $5 million � a careless comment he quickly corrected.

In the interview, McCain did not offer an alternate number, but had a new answer ready.

�I define rich in other ways besides income,� he said. �Some people are wealthy and rich in their lives and their children and their ability to educate them. Others are poor if they�re billionaires.�

McCain, by anyone's measure, is well-off, if you account for his wife's fortune. Cindy McCain inherited control of her father�s beer distributorship, the largest in Arizona, and has an estimated worth of more than $100 million."

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2008-08-26T07:29:00.001-05:00

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Allegedly drunk mom picked up kids | press-citizen.com | Iowa City Press Citizen

2008-08-25T19:41:00.000-05:00

Allegedly drunk mom picked up kids | press-citizen.com | Iowa City Press Citizen: "An Iowa City woman was arrested Friday afternoon after picking up her children from school.

According to police, Heather Lyn Lewis, 36, of 2018 Bristol Drive in Iowa City was arrested for drunken driving and child endangerment with no injury.

Police received a call indicating that Lewis was 'falling down, slurring her speech and calling (her son) by a different name.'

According to the report, Lewis became very intoxicated prior to picking up her two children from school. When she returned home, she passed out in her van while it still was running."

2008-08-23T12:01:00.002-05:00

I haven't diagrammed a sentence in twenty years.

But I got an excellent grammar education in Junior High, and it created a wonderful foundation for writing for me in my later years in school. �Writing was much more intuitive when you understood how the rules of grammar worked, and diagramming was an effective way for me to see how they all fit together.

Or in this case, see how they fit together. �It didn't make sense to me until I diagrammed it, and it actually ended up with a slightly different meaning than what I had gleaned the first time through. �Junior High drilled this in me so deep that I was able to pull out a pad and a pen and remember how to make the diagrams.

Sentence diagram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2008-08-23T11:33:00.000-05:00

Sentence diagram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Most methods of diagramming are based on the work of Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg in their book Higher Lessons in English, first published in 1877, though the method has been updated with recent understanding of grammar.
Reed and Kellogg were preceded by, and their work probably informed by, W. S. Clark, who published his 'balloon' method of depicting grammar in his 1847 book A Practical Grammar: In Which Words, Phrases & Sentences are Classified According to Their Offices and Their Various Relationships to Each Another."

Most thorough title ever.

Obama Differed With Biden On Two Key Business Votes - WSJ.com

2008-08-23T11:29:00.000-05:00

Obama Differed With Biden On Two Key Business Votes - WSJ.com: "In a lengthy 2005 Senate floor statement, Mr. Biden defended his support of the bill and disputed critics who said it would harm lower income women and children. 'Contrary to a lot of the rhetoric that has been tossed around, this bill actually improves the situation of women and children who depend on child support,'' he said at the time. 'It specifically targets the problems they face under the current bankruptcy system into a virtual extension of the current national family support collection system.''"

Obama Taps Biden to Be Running Mate

2008-08-23T11:22:00.001-05:00

Just wait until you see the hairpiece. Frightening.

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2008-08-20T22:16:00.003-05:00

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2008-08-20T22:16:00.001-05:00

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Grocery store - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2008-08-20T18:12:00.000-05:00

Grocery store - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The first self-service grocery store was opened in 1916 in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders, an inventor and entrepreneur. [1][2] Prior to this innovation, customers gave orders to clerks to fill. Saunder's invention allowed a much smaller number of clerks to service the customers, proving successful (according to a 1929 Time magazine) 'partly because of its novelty, partly because neat packages and large advertising appropriations have made retail grocery selling almost an automatic procedure.'"

Topspin

2008-08-20T15:44:00.000-05:00

City High locked down | press-citizen.com | Iowa City Press Citizen

2008-08-20T15:32:00.000-05:00

City High locked down | press-citizen.com | Iowa City Press Citizen: "Officials at City High have ordered the school be locked down.

Principal Mark Hansen told students over the intercom that they were to stay in their classrooms and that all exits would be locked. Hansen told the students that the lock down was a precautionary measure but not an emergency. He did not elaborate."

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2008-08-19T18:48:00.001-05:00

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Mmmm, turkey stock.

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2008-08-18T17:34:00.001-05:00

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2008-08-18T16:04:00.001-05:00

The store is doing well. I'm trying to find this fine line between being engaged in my work and defining my identity through my work. The last time I worked in a store, that was what I did, who I was, and it caught me off guard when the store closed. Who was I then? Now, I've got a second shot, another chance to build the store that I want, a store that'll work, but I don't want to lose myself in it.

I'm picking away at it. It's a little frustrating because I'm only responsible for part of the store, and I don't really approve of some of the things my superior is doing. I think signs handwritten in Sharpie are barely acceptable for a produce department-- shelf tags handwritten in Sharpie are not acceptable for the grocery department. It makes us look sloppy, unprofessional. I really want us to look professional. It wouldn't take much, but my boss doesn't see it the same way that I do.

She gave me three departments to oversee: Frozen; Dairy; and Bulk. Frozen and Bulk are difficult departments to run, with all of the work in and out of the freezer, and the lifting of the bulk bins. Did I mention that I hurt my shoulder somehow? I'm trying to type this with an ice pack strapped across it. Agitating the bulk bins might have something to do with it.

I've been breaking the Frozen and Dairy departments into smaller sections, and have been focusing on fine tuning each section. Dairy is specially tricky, because the products are so perishable. You have to order conservatively, but if you order too light then you sell out. It's really tricky right now as we try and grow the store, with the sales trends changing each week. Soy yogurt doesn't sell, and I have to throw a bunch out, then it suddenly sells out, then it sits on the shelf again.

The freezers are easier to work, because the products last longer. Product is moving out of the freezers, which is a good sign for the store in general, because people don't tend to buy frozen foods unless they're buying groceries in general. A frozen bag of peas is not an impulse item. I'm bringing in some new products, and it's neat to see them move.

The lack of professionalism really frustrates me, though. My boss has this thing about filling in holes on the shelf. She doesn't want to see holes on the shelf, thinks it looks bad, and I can see that, but she fills in these holes by giving extra facings to the products on either side of the holes. After spending hours facing shelves in stores, it drives me insane to see misfaced products and know that they've been intentionally misfaced.

Yeah, having holes on the shelf doesn't look good, but we're a new store, struggling to make ends meet. We can't order all of the backstock that we'd like each week. Right now, a hole means a product sold out. A hole is something we should focus on for ordering next week, trying to find the right balance to keep that product filled without having too much backstock. A hole forces you to pay attention to it all week, until you get it filled. Covering it up just messes up the shelves, makes more work for everyone else. It looks sloppy and unprofessional, and I think a grocery store has to look somewhat professional, and by professional, I don't mean slick and polished, I don't mean all the employees are wearing shirts and ties. I mean that the people running the store seem to know what they're doing. I think as a customer, if you don't feel that the management knows what they are doing, you're not going to trust that store. I think for most people, it's important to trust their grocery store.

'Bizarro World' - The Boston Globe

2008-08-18T15:12:00.000-05:00

'Bizarro World' - The Boston Globe:"Day left his hometown of Lynn in 1979 to move to Fairfield, Iowa, so he could study transcendental meditation at the Maharishi School of Management. Two years later, he opened an arcade in nearby Ottumwa and called it Twin Galaxies. One day, someone got a very high score on the game Defender, which involves flying a spaceship over a mountain range and shooting down aliens. The score was so much higher than any other Defender score in Day's arcade that he set out to learn if it was the highest score ever achieved on Defender. After calls to the game manufacturer went nowhere, Day decided to start his own record-keeping organization. On February 9, 1982, the Twin Galaxies National Scoreboard was launched and was quickly recognized by the manufacturers and gaming publications � and eventually the Guinness Book of World Records � as the authority on video game and pinball records."

Yoghurt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2008-08-17T22:29:00.000-05:00

Yoghurt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:"Until the 1900s, yoghurt was a staple in diets of the South Asian, Central Asian, Western Asian, South Eastern European and Central European regions. The Russian biologist Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov had an unproven hypothesis that regular consumption of yoghurt was responsible for the unusually long lifespans of Bulgarian peasants. Believing Lactobacillus to be essential for good health, Mechnikov worked to popularise yoghurt as a foodstuff throughout Europe. It fell to a Sephardic Jewish entrepreneur named Isaac Carasso to industrialise the production of yoghurt. In 1919, Carasso, who was from Salonika, started a small yoghurt business in Barcelona and named the business Danone ("little Daniel") after his son. Carasso emigrated to the United States during World War II and set up a business in New York City under an Americanised version of the name: Dannon. Yoghurt with added fruit jam was invented to protect yoghurt from decay. It was patented in 1933 by the Radlick� Ml�k�rna dairy in Prague, and introduced to the United States in 1947, by Dannon."

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2008-08-17T17:48:00.001-05:00

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