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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
MooPig Human Rights Update :: Feeding Intolerance: Prohibitions on Sharing Food with People Experiencing Homelessness
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Feb 20, 2013 | Bryan TX
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Some proponents of food sharing restrictions have argued that sharing food with people in outdoor locations enables them to remain homeless.
More likely, persons who receive food from outdoor food programs may remain homeless due to lack of affordable housing, shelter space, and services, or due to their struggles with physical or psychiatric disabilities or substance addiction.
Instead of removing food sources, cities would more likely reduce or end homelessness in their cities by finding solutions to the underlying causes of homelessness.
Framing sharing food as a factor in enabling people to remain homeless is misleading. Food is not an addiction; food is necessary for survival.
Depriving a person of food means that she must put all of her energy into obtaining food and less energy on improving other aspects of her life. Food sharing programs that reach out to those in public spaces may be the only way some homeless individuals can obtain healthy and safe food.
Feeding Intolerance: Prohibitions on Sharing Food with People Experiencing Homelessness: A Report by The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and The National Coalition for the Homeless 15nov2007: "The right to food is a well-recognized human right. This basic human right is explicitly mentioned in the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and over 120 instruments of international law.
13 Twenty-two countries have included a right to food in their domestic constitutions.
14 As the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food has stated, a nation must refrain from taking “actions that result in increasing levels of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition.”
15 Food sharing restrictions deny homeless persons this basic human right. Placing restrictions on food sharing at a time where there is an increased need for housing and food assistance leaves many people with nowhere to turn for basic survival needs."
'via Blog this'
CONCLUSION
Make your own conclusions. As politicians try to invent lackey ways to deal with high density urban problems, like homelessness, those same politicians are diminishing your and my freedoms.
These laws to prohibit feeding the homeless on city streets come with hefty fines and prolonged visits to jail. It is personal, and in your face.
Having something to eat is a basic human right.
__________________Reference
http://www.mindfully.org/Food/2007/Sharing-Food-Prohibitions15nov07a.htm
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/publications/foodsharing/index.html
[ ... ]
13 Laura Niada, Hunger and International Law, 22 Conn. J. Int’l. L. 131, at 166.
14 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Fact Sheet, available at http://www.fao.org/WorldFoodSummit/english/fsheets/food.pdf.
15 United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, www.righttofood.org
[ ... ]
http://eryounge.blogspot.com/
Some proponents of food sharing restrictions have argued that sharing food with people in outdoor locations enables them to remain homeless.
More likely, persons who receive food from outdoor food programs may remain homeless due to lack of affordable housing, shelter space, and services, or due to their struggles with physical or psychiatric disabilities or substance addiction.
Instead of removing food sources, cities would more likely reduce or end homelessness in their cities by finding solutions to the underlying causes of homelessness.
Framing sharing food as a factor in enabling people to remain homeless is misleading. Food is not an addiction; food is necessary for survival.
Depriving a person of food means that she must put all of her energy into obtaining food and less energy on improving other aspects of her life. Food sharing programs that reach out to those in public spaces may be the only way some homeless individuals can obtain healthy and safe food.
Feeding Intolerance: Prohibitions on Sharing Food with People Experiencing Homelessness: A Report by The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and The National Coalition for the Homeless 15nov2007: "The right to food is a well-recognized human right. This basic human right is explicitly mentioned in the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and over 120 instruments of international law.
13 Twenty-two countries have included a right to food in their domestic constitutions.
14 As the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food has stated, a nation must refrain from taking “actions that result in increasing levels of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition.”
15 Food sharing restrictions deny homeless persons this basic human right. Placing restrictions on food sharing at a time where there is an increased need for housing and food assistance leaves many people with nowhere to turn for basic survival needs."
'via Blog this'
CONCLUSION
Make your own conclusions. As politicians try to invent lackey ways to deal with high density urban problems, like homelessness, those same politicians are diminishing your and my freedoms.
These laws to prohibit feeding the homeless on city streets come with hefty fines and prolonged visits to jail. It is personal, and in your face.
Having something to eat is a basic human right.
__________________Reference
http://www.mindfully.org/Food/2007/Sharing-Food-Prohibitions15nov07a.htm
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/publications/foodsharing/index.html
[ ... ]
13 Laura Niada, Hunger and International Law, 22 Conn. J. Int’l. L. 131, at 166.
14 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Fact Sheet, available at http://www.fao.org/WorldFoodSummit/english/fsheets/food.pdf.
15 United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, www.righttofood.org
[ ... ]
http://eryounge.blogspot.com/
Thursday, January 17, 2013
More News from Chicago :: "Chicago pays $22.5 MILLION to woman who was gang raped..."
"Two Bizarre Cases with the City's Finest at Fault"
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Jan 17, 2013 | Bryan TX
[Picture LINK] City agrees today to give the staggering sum to Christina Eilman who was released from police custody into a high-crime area where she was gang raped and plummeted from a seventh floor window...
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City of Chicago to pay millions to settle cases of wrongfully convicted man Alton Logan, raped woman Christina Eilman who fell from window | abc7chicago.com: "January 15, 2013 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A man wrongfully convicted of murder and a woman who fell from a seventh-floor window after being raped could both receive millions of dollars in settlements from the city of Chicago.
Alton Logan was freed in 2008 after spending 26 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Logan says detectives under now-convicted former Area 2 Commander Jon Burge were behind the coverup that led to his conviction for the murder of an off-duty Cook County corrections officer."
'via Blog this'
Homicides in Chicago were up 17% in 2012 from the previous year. It is reported that the total of 500 for the year hit in December before the year ended.
____________________Reference
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8954998
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/20593424/city-council-to-vote-on-33-million-in-settlements-for-police-misconduct-cases-christina-eilman-alton-logan
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-12-28/news/chi-chicago-2012-homicide-toll-20121228_1_latest-homicide-500th-homicide-tragic-number
http://thebeerbarrel.net/threads/chicago-pays-22-5-million-to-woman-who-was-gang-raped.18686/
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Jan 17, 2013 | Bryan TX
City of Chicago to pay millions to settle cases of wrongfully convicted man Alton Logan, raped woman Christina Eilman who fell from window | abc7chicago.com: "January 15, 2013 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A man wrongfully convicted of murder and a woman who fell from a seventh-floor window after being raped could both receive millions of dollars in settlements from the city of Chicago.
Alton Logan was freed in 2008 after spending 26 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Logan says detectives under now-convicted former Area 2 Commander Jon Burge were behind the coverup that led to his conviction for the murder of an off-duty Cook County corrections officer."
'via Blog this'
Homicides in Chicago were up 17% in 2012 from the previous year. It is reported that the total of 500 for the year hit in December before the year ended.
" ... McCarthy issued a statement declaring: “The city has seen its 500th homicide for 2012, a tragic number that is reflective of the gang violence and proliferation of illegal guns that have plagued some of our neighborhoods.”
While saying every homicide is unacceptable, he went on to laud the department’s overall crime reduction. (Jeremy Gorner and Peter Nickeas | Tribune reporters. December 28, 2012. Here) ... "
____________________Reference
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8954998
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/20593424/city-council-to-vote-on-33-million-in-settlements-for-police-misconduct-cases-christina-eilman-alton-logan
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-12-28/news/chi-chicago-2012-homicide-toll-20121228_1_latest-homicide-500th-homicide-tragic-number
http://thebeerbarrel.net/threads/chicago-pays-22-5-million-to-woman-who-was-gang-raped.18686/
Monday, August 30, 2010
August 30, 2010 - 1:30 p.m. [EST] Stress & Mental Disability Claims: Easy to File, Hard to Handle
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August 30, 2010
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An Interactive Webinar with
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All jobs today have stress; how do you know when stress has reached the level of a disability? How can you (and should you) accommodate a mental illness? And what do you dare say to an employee when you "think" there's a problem? (Warning: The first question your employes's attorney will ask is: "Are you a trained psychologist?")
Mental health and stress claims are on the rise nationally, and your workplace isn't immune. Mental impairments are tricky to spot and very difficult to manage. Can you even ask someone if they have a mental problem? Just by asking aren't you "regarding" them as a person with a disability?
The ADA complicates every situation, and the FMLA and workers' comp aren't far behind. And, by the way, neither are the lawyers.
Nearly 60 million Americans experience a mental health impairment annually, according to the National Alliance on Mental Health, and a lot of those people work. Just as one example, since the mid-1990s, the number of individuals seeking treatment annually for depression in the United States has doubled to 27 million.
And employers have paid out millions for discrimination claims based on depression-related conditions, alcoholism, anxiety disorders, and other psychological disorders.
Mental disabilities, including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, aren't always easy to spot; thus, employers with 15 or more employees nationwide have an increased burden concerning the interactive process under the ADA. And, with the expansion of the definition of "disability" in 2009, even more individuals with mental disabilities are covered by the ADA. Should you engage in the interactive process when you're not even sure that a mental condition constitutes a protected disability under the new Act?
Join us on August 30 for an in-depth, 90-minute, interactive webinar all about how to manage stress and mental disability-related claims. Our expert-a seasoned labor and employment attorney-will use case studies, hypotheticals, and checklists to provide you with the tools you need to identify, assess, and manage these tricky situations.
You'll Learn:
1-800-7-ASK-BLR (1-800-727-5257), and mention webinar code: WBP12196.
Your Speaker
Patricia S. Eyres, Esq.,
is the Employment Law Partner at Stuart Baron & Associates, LLP, in Los Alamitos, California. She focuses on helping employers manage disability discrimination issues for both workers' comp and nonoccupational disabilities. As president of Litigation Management & Training Services and CEO/publisher of Proactive Law Press, LLC, Eyres trains managers and supervisors on how to recognize risks, prevent lawsuits, and maintain defensible documentation. She has earned a Certified Speaking Professional designation, the international measure of platform excellence for professional speakers.
August 30, 2010
1:30 p.m. (Eastern)
12:30 p.m. (Central)
11:30 a.m. (Mountain)
10:30 a.m. (Pacific)
REGISTER HERE
An Interactive Webinar with
Practical Compliance Strategies
All jobs today have stress; how do you know when stress has reached the level of a disability? How can you (and should you) accommodate a mental illness? And what do you dare say to an employee when you "think" there's a problem? (Warning: The first question your employes's attorney will ask is: "Are you a trained psychologist?")
Mental health and stress claims are on the rise nationally, and your workplace isn't immune. Mental impairments are tricky to spot and very difficult to manage. Can you even ask someone if they have a mental problem? Just by asking aren't you "regarding" them as a person with a disability?
The ADA complicates every situation, and the FMLA and workers' comp aren't far behind. And, by the way, neither are the lawyers.
Nearly 60 million Americans experience a mental health impairment annually, according to the National Alliance on Mental Health, and a lot of those people work. Just as one example, since the mid-1990s, the number of individuals seeking treatment annually for depression in the United States has doubled to 27 million.
And employers have paid out millions for discrimination claims based on depression-related conditions, alcoholism, anxiety disorders, and other psychological disorders.
Mental disabilities, including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, aren't always easy to spot; thus, employers with 15 or more employees nationwide have an increased burden concerning the interactive process under the ADA. And, with the expansion of the definition of "disability" in 2009, even more individuals with mental disabilities are covered by the ADA. Should you engage in the interactive process when you're not even sure that a mental condition constitutes a protected disability under the new Act?
Join us on August 30 for an in-depth, 90-minute, interactive webinar all about how to manage stress and mental disability-related claims. Our expert-a seasoned labor and employment attorney-will use case studies, hypotheticals, and checklists to provide you with the tools you need to identify, assess, and manage these tricky situations.
You'll Learn:
- The types of conditions that are currently leading to stress and mental disability claims
- How to approach an employee who might be suffering from a mental condition
- How to tell if a mental condition qualifies as a "serious health condition" under the FMLA
- How to tell if a leave of absence is a reasonable accommodation, including sample medical questionnaire language you can put into practice
- The difference between general stress and anxiety and an ADA-protected mental condition
- How to evaluate whether stress or pressure is part of an employee's essential job functions
- Practical steps you should take if stress appears to be the result of the work environment so you can minimize your organization's exposure to workers' comp claims
- The key questions a workers' comp judge is likely to ask to determine whether a worker's stress is a compensable work-related injury
1-800-7-ASK-BLR (1-800-727-5257), and mention webinar code: WBP12196.
Your Speaker
Patricia S. Eyres, Esq.,
is the Employment Law Partner at Stuart Baron & Associates, LLP, in Los Alamitos, California. She focuses on helping employers manage disability discrimination issues for both workers' comp and nonoccupational disabilities. As president of Litigation Management & Training Services and CEO/publisher of Proactive Law Press, LLC, Eyres trains managers and supervisors on how to recognize risks, prevent lawsuits, and maintain defensible documentation. She has earned a Certified Speaking Professional designation, the international measure of platform excellence for professional speakers.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
PART ONE :: Stroppy Gurgling Cod :: Annie Schatte has something to say to the Hags down on Fuhkeesuhkee Lane
WAHOO Homes Developments 1965 to 1976
Case Study in Progress by Pat Darnell along with the Two Sisters RE`al Est`Ate Sundries
I wish I could say that there has been progress over my lifetime. I wish the buildings we built back when there were master craftsmen walking the streets, in pre-one million population days Houston, had not somehow became land-locked.
My Dad and our projects, those homes and apartments, are part of a totally differential [nearly unfathomable] demographic, and next to newer buildings. Some of the units are gone to seed. Later built edifices surrounding our beauties, are built on restricted hundred year flood plains.
However, as I think of after-1960's decades of framing out homes and apartments, with smashed and broken fingernails, using a 32 ounce framing hammer, Lufkin retractable tape ... and a four foot straight edge bubble level ... it is one time I actually am serious, and shed one large salty cheek burning tear, pitying my self and my righteous mindset.
In 1968, we build a house over the next 90 to 120 days. I know you know the kind of bedroom community house -- a two story on a slab, federal barn seductive to look like a conversion ... oooh yeah ... including some custom elements and plenty of curb face -- we spend a ratio of about one third cost for foundation, one third for doors, windows, and 'glazing.' The last third of construction money goes to subcontractors in the trades. 'Subs' who provide installations according to shop drawings, after code-checked necessities approved at the state of the art of the time.... have to be scheduled around other jobs they are doing.
Drawing on Short Money Market
Particulars of years '65 to '75 -ish, makes for a preamble to what was to be. It seems to me ... in a personally constructed opinion ... that a revolution began in our United States of America banking system in that twenty years from 1960 to 1980.
Money became less fluid for homebuilding die to restricted money supply overlapped starts on newfangled "master planned communities." P-shaw... I said back then, and blah-ba-blah-bah humbug to a defunct paper money mill, I still say today. Savings and Loans, and Main Banks in towns all over failed to keep up with 'know it all Bank owners.
What built America is no longer available to builders. It seems one needs a minimum US$250,000,000 in collected blood money just to borrow US$75,000 to build a house. That's a paper money system fer' ya'. YIKES, again!!
We list it. Realtor Annie Schatte comes back with a contract for 20% under our asking price. We wait.
90-120 days becomes 180 days -- and home unsold, stays listed even though many contracts offered -- but each is too low for our jewel of denial.
At 240 days, eventually the bank calls us and we must find a buyer. Most the time, we go back to the previous offers... YIKES!!
We end up making only 3% profit for all that effort, a margin down from 28% to 33% wishfully thinking when we started stick framing this modern WAHOO home, house, home sweet home. that is a house that we built on speculation someone would buy it and close no longer than 45 days after construction comple'.
file :: Unsolicited Opinions of a Dubious Nature -- by Barney Barnsmell Constructs and Buddy Decks
Next Week :: PART TWO -- "Don't be alarmed: those are the sounds of modern construction ..."
Case Study in Progress by Pat Darnell along with the Two Sisters RE`al Est`Ate Sundries
I wish I could say that there has been progress over my lifetime. I wish the buildings we built back when there were master craftsmen walking the streets, in pre-one million population days Houston, had not somehow became land-locked.
Soap Box: It is a felling of wistful nostalgia that notices a soul can no longer see Lindens or Dutch Elms sewn in background of new yearbooks pictures, of our old school grounds. (Sayings lifted from Deadwood, fully plagiarized)
My Dad and our projects, those homes and apartments, are part of a totally differential [nearly unfathomable] demographic, and next to newer buildings. Some of the units are gone to seed. Later built edifices surrounding our beauties, are built on restricted hundred year flood plains.
However, as I think of after-1960's decades of framing out homes and apartments, with smashed and broken fingernails, using a 32 ounce framing hammer, Lufkin retractable tape ... and a four foot straight edge bubble level ... it is one time I actually am serious, and shed one large salty cheek burning tear, pitying my self and my righteous mindset.
In 1968, we build a house over the next 90 to 120 days. I know you know the kind of bedroom community house -- a two story on a slab, federal barn seductive to look like a conversion ... oooh yeah ... including some custom elements and plenty of curb face -- we spend a ratio of about one third cost for foundation, one third for doors, windows, and 'glazing.' The last third of construction money goes to subcontractors in the trades. 'Subs' who provide installations according to shop drawings, after code-checked necessities approved at the state of the art of the time.... have to be scheduled around other jobs they are doing.
Drawing on Short Money Market
Particulars of years '65 to '75 -ish, makes for a preamble to what was to be. It seems to me ... in a personally constructed opinion ... that a revolution began in our United States of America banking system in that twenty years from 1960 to 1980.
Money became less fluid for homebuilding die to restricted money supply overlapped starts on newfangled "master planned communities." P-shaw... I said back then, and blah-ba-blah-bah humbug to a defunct paper money mill, I still say today. Savings and Loans, and Main Banks in towns all over failed to keep up with 'know it all Bank owners.
What built America is no longer available to builders. It seems one needs a minimum US$250,000,000 in collected blood money just to borrow US$75,000 to build a house. That's a paper money system fer' ya'. YIKES, again!!
Soap Box: Give me back the old grind-house, gold, and silver banking system standards mills. Return USA's gold and silver from Swiss controlled money hostels. Don't take away our rights to bear arms; and we will look after it. (Sayings lifted from Deadwood, fully plagiarized)Eh'rr ... back to our stroppy home building, the old fashion way:
We list it. Realtor Annie Schatte comes back with a contract for 20% under our asking price. We wait.
90-120 days becomes 180 days -- and home unsold, stays listed even though many contracts offered -- but each is too low for our jewel of denial.
At 240 days, eventually the bank calls us and we must find a buyer. Most the time, we go back to the previous offers... YIKES!!
We end up making only 3% profit for all that effort, a margin down from 28% to 33% wishfully thinking when we started stick framing this modern WAHOO home, house, home sweet home. that is a house that we built on speculation someone would buy it and close no longer than 45 days after construction comple'.
file :: Unsolicited Opinions of a Dubious Nature -- by Barney Barnsmell Constructs and Buddy Decks
Next Week :: PART TWO -- "Don't be alarmed: those are the sounds of modern construction ..."
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Chicago Blues :: Still No News -- Chicago Number One in Stress 2008 - 09
Ted Kennedy's death; 'Cash for clunkers' numbers; and Chicago's Stress Factor by Rob Manker August 27, 2009 [HERE]
Ted Kennedy Dies Ongoing Commentary [Excerpted Article retrieved HERE by PD] ... Former U.S. Sen. Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy (Feb. 22, 1932 - Aug. 25, 2009) served 37 years as senator for the state of Massachusetts before dying of brain cancer.
At the time of his death, he was the third-longest serving senator in U.S. history and was the second-longest active senator in Congress, having held the position since 1962.
Kennedy was the youngest of nine children and brother of former President John F. Kennedy and former New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. [Ted] Kennedy was known as a "liberal lion" for his strong stance and liberal ideology while in politics.
In 1980, he ran an unsuccessful bid for the presidency. He left behind a wife, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, and three children, Edward M. Kennedy Jr., Kara Anne Kennedy and Patrick Kennedy.
Ca$h for Clunker$
The number :: 690,114 [SOURCE]
Sales reported under the "cash for clunkers" car rebate program, according to final data released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The total value of the rebates claimed by dealers totaled $2.88 billion of the allotted $3 billion.
The list :: Top-selling vehicles in the "cash for clunkers" program:
1. Toyota Corolla
2. Honda Civic
3. Toyota Camry
4. Ford Focus front-wheel drive
5. Hyundai Elantra
The list, part II :: Top "cash for clunkers" trade-ins:
1. Ford Explorer four-wheel drive
2. Ford F-150 pickup two-wheel drive
3. Jeep Grand Cherokee four-wheel drive
4. Ford Explorer two-wheel drive
5. Dodge Caravan/Grand Caravan two-wheel drive
Best stressed :: Chicago metro area is first in composite rankings
If you're feeling burned out lately, there might be a good reason. According to Forbes.com rankings of America's most stressful cities, (chicagotribune.com/stress), the Chicago metro area is first in composite rankings on poor air quality, high cost of living and high unemployment, among other categories. Chicago beat No. 2 Los Angeles and No. 3 New York. We blame those new parking meters.
Lee's Weather Website, Rantoul, Illinois
-- Also --
2008 :: Forbes ranks Chicago most stressful city
September 17, 2008
Chicago's rising unemployment rate, expensive gas, high population density and relatively poor air quality create a perfect storm of stress, according to Forbes magazine, which has ranked the city the most stressful in the United States. New York is No.2.
Ted Kennedy Dies Ongoing Commentary [Excerpted Article retrieved HERE by PD] ... Former U.S. Sen. Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy (Feb. 22, 1932 - Aug. 25, 2009) served 37 years as senator for the state of Massachusetts before dying of brain cancer.
At the time of his death, he was the third-longest serving senator in U.S. history and was the second-longest active senator in Congress, having held the position since 1962.
Kennedy was the youngest of nine children and brother of former President John F. Kennedy and former New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. [Ted] Kennedy was known as a "liberal lion" for his strong stance and liberal ideology while in politics.
In 1980, he ran an unsuccessful bid for the presidency. He left behind a wife, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, and three children, Edward M. Kennedy Jr., Kara Anne Kennedy and Patrick Kennedy.
Question: Why is John F Kennedy's Presidential Portrait facing down?
In his official Presidential Portrait, JFK is facing down and seems very somber.
Best Answer - Chosen by Voters:
The artist, Aaron Shikler, was commissioned by Jackie to do several paintings, including that one after his death.
He had several pictures to go on, but the pose was ultimately inspired by a picture that was actually not of JFK, but of the youngest brother, Edward Kennedy, looking down at JFK's grave. http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jk35.html
Ca$h for Clunker$
The number :: 690,114 [SOURCE]
Sales reported under the "cash for clunkers" car rebate program, according to final data released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The total value of the rebates claimed by dealers totaled $2.88 billion of the allotted $3 billion.
The list :: Top-selling vehicles in the "cash for clunkers" program:
1. Toyota Corolla
2. Honda Civic
3. Toyota Camry
4. Ford Focus front-wheel drive
5. Hyundai Elantra
The list, part II :: Top "cash for clunkers" trade-ins:
1. Ford Explorer four-wheel drive
2. Ford F-150 pickup two-wheel drive
3. Jeep Grand Cherokee four-wheel drive
4. Ford Explorer two-wheel drive
5. Dodge Caravan/Grand Caravan two-wheel drive
Best stressed :: Chicago metro area is first in composite rankings
If you're feeling burned out lately, there might be a good reason. According to Forbes.com rankings of America's most stressful cities, (chicagotribune.com/stress), the Chicago metro area is first in composite rankings on poor air quality, high cost of living and high unemployment, among other categories. Chicago beat No. 2 Los Angeles and No. 3 New York. We blame those new parking meters.
... Few enjoy their commute. Just ask Stephen Dinwiddie, M.D.,
a psychiatrist at the University of Chicago.
"I think anybody who, like I do, commutes on the Kennedy on a daily basis knows exactly what stress is," he says, of his daily home-to-work commute on Chicago's expressway that extends from the Chicago Loop to O'Hare International Airport. "It takes anywhere from 30 minutes to several centuries—at least subjectively."
But more pressing factors make Chicago for the second year in a row the country's most stressful city. Crowding, poor air quality, a high 11 percent unemployment rate
and free-falling home values have created a cocktail of constant worry affecting
many in the Windy City.
Lee's Weather Website, Rantoul, Illinois
-- Also --
2008 :: Forbes ranks Chicago most stressful city
September 17, 2008
Chicago's rising unemployment rate, expensive gas, high population density and relatively poor air quality create a perfect storm of stress, according to Forbes magazine, which has ranked the city the most stressful in the United States. New York is No.2.
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A Fantastically Flawed Script for a Jazz Rock Opera -- "GAZA"
GAZA by Pat Darnell for the Age of Attritionally Challenged
Bill Gaines said it
"My staff and contributors create the magazine," declared Gaines. "What I create is the atmosphere."