Los Magueyes Mexican restaurant closes in Ashwaubenon [fake watches]
The Los Magueyes authentic Mexican restaurant on Ramada Way in Ashwaubenon has closed, but Los Magueyes restaurants remain open on Velp Avenue in Green Bay and Webster Avenue in Allouez.
Owner Julio Herrera said the overhead at the Ashwaubenon site was more than the business could sustain.
He said business remains good at the other two sites, 1329 S. Webster Ave. in Allouez and at the corner of Velp Avenue and Gray Street in Green Bay.
Ryon Savasta of Sara Investment Real Estate said his company tried to keep Los Magueyes in Ashwaubenon, but it didn't work out.
Sara Investment is looking to put another restaurant in the 2920 Ramada Way building.
"We've had interest from three different parties," he said.
Los Magueyes opened in Ashwaubenon in 2006. It expanded to the other locations within the last year.
Hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
Restaurant update
A new restaurant is planned for the building at 2206 Main St., Green Bay, home to the Country Kitchen that closed in December 2010.
Todd Henschel of De Pere acquired the east-side property and is remodeling the site for a national franchise restaurant.
Henschel said he could not name the franchise, but expects the parent corporation to do so soon. He said it will be a name new to the area and he's hoping for a March or April opening.
Zeise Construction of Green Bay is doing the remodeling.
Chiropractor moves
Dr. Jill Davies-Kern moved her chiropractic and nutrition office to 425 S. Military Ave., Suite 202, Green Bay.
Her office was at 709 S. Oneida St.
Davies-Kern began her practice 28 years ago. She received a degree in nutritional science from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The telephone number is (920) 405-1010.
Coats for Kids
More than 10,000 coats were collected this year in the Coats for Kids campaign.
In addition, more than $10,000 was collected during the Green Bay Packers game Sept. 8 at Lambeau Field.
Coats were distributed to 2,000 families in need by the Salvation Army on Nov. 12.
Coats for Kids is sponsored by WLUK, Channel 11/WCWF, Channel 14 and Cumulus Broadcasting.
Owner Julio Herrera said the overhead at the Ashwaubenon site was more than the business could sustain.
He said business remains good at the other two sites, 1329 S. Webster Ave. in Allouez and at the corner of Velp Avenue and Gray Street in Green Bay.
Ryon Savasta of Sara Investment Real Estate said his company tried to keep Los Magueyes in Ashwaubenon, but it didn't work out.
Sara Investment is looking to put another restaurant in the 2920 Ramada Way building.
"We've had interest from three different parties," he said.
Los Magueyes opened in Ashwaubenon in 2006. It expanded to the other locations within the last year.
Hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
Restaurant update
A new restaurant is planned for the building at 2206 Main St., Green Bay, home to the Country Kitchen that closed in December 2010.
Todd Henschel of De Pere acquired the east-side property and is remodeling the site for a national franchise restaurant.
Henschel said he could not name the franchise, but expects the parent corporation to do so soon. He said it will be a name new to the area and he's hoping for a March or April opening.
Zeise Construction of Green Bay is doing the remodeling.
Chiropractor moves
Dr. Jill Davies-Kern moved her chiropractic and nutrition office to 425 S. Military Ave., Suite 202, Green Bay.
Her office was at 709 S. Oneida St.
Davies-Kern began her practice 28 years ago. She received a degree in nutritional science from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The telephone number is (920) 405-1010.
Coats for Kids
More than 10,000 coats were collected this year in the Coats for Kids campaign.
In addition, more than $10,000 was collected during the Green Bay Packers game Sept. 8 at Lambeau Field.
Coats were distributed to 2,000 families in need by the Salvation Army on Nov. 12.
Coats for Kids is sponsored by WLUK, Channel 11/WCWF, Channel 14 and Cumulus Broadcasting.
The 20 Biggest Hipsters in Sports [moncler outerwear]
Hipster and professional athlete. There's nothing about these two lifestyles that go together.
A hipster is really just a nerd who discovered good music and finally got laid. They're known for skinny jeans, ridiculous haircuts and shunning popular culture in favor of more unique pursuits. (Assuming you think pounding Pabst Blue Ribbon after a long day of shopping for vintage flannel shirts is a unique endeavor.)
A hipster is really the exact opposite of the jocks you knew in high school, and aren't professional athletes—just bigger, richer jocks?
You would think that these two very different styles would naturally repel each other, and usually they do…except for when they don't. There is a growing number of athletes bucking the traditional jock thing in favor of a less traditional style.
Here are the top 20 hipsters in sports.
A hipster is really just a nerd who discovered good music and finally got laid. They're known for skinny jeans, ridiculous haircuts and shunning popular culture in favor of more unique pursuits. (Assuming you think pounding Pabst Blue Ribbon after a long day of shopping for vintage flannel shirts is a unique endeavor.)
A hipster is really the exact opposite of the jocks you knew in high school, and aren't professional athletes—just bigger, richer jocks?
You would think that these two very different styles would naturally repel each other, and usually they do…except for when they don't. There is a growing number of athletes bucking the traditional jock thing in favor of a less traditional style.
Here are the top 20 hipsters in sports.
The Lever of Love: Why Families of Disabled Children Need a Legal Defense Fund [moncler outerwear]
While a system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it. An even more recent improvement is the subtle use of what I shall term “the lever of love” (applied so successfully by the Soviets) of tying a rebel to his wretched country by his own twisted heart strings. ~Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister
In Bend Sinister, Nabokov's protagonist, Professor Krug, refuses to deliver a speech approving the new dictatorship, which of course promotes the greater good. Like in Heller's Catch-22, all they want is for him to say he likes them—and to be used like a donkey thereafter. Krug won't comply, though his colleagues have already fallen in line. The regime's henchmen set about playing a diabolical game of chess to isolate and demoralize Krug and bring him to heel; but the regime plays badly. They're idiots. According to Nabokov, who survived a few dictatorships, the purveyors of tyranny always are, but that's really beside the point if they still manage to destroy everything you ever loved as they lurch towards self-annihilation. First Krug's wife dies mysteriously in a medical disaster, though Krug is too grief stricken to understand the message. Coercion is useless if the subject doesn't suspect they're being coerced. They imprison Krug's friends one by one, but still he won't be moved. Finally they figure out his compliance could have been forced from the start by taking his eight year old son. The kidnapping is bungled, the child is accidentally killed and Krug goes mad.
From the moment our twins were diagnosed four and a half years ago, it's as if we've been strapped to a set of train tracks with the train bearing down on us at a snail's pace, not knowing how to get out of the way. Other times it feels like a board game from hell with no firm rules or reason—you're just always in a panic that you've made a wrong move, said the wrong thing. Check.
One risk we knew came along with the diagnosis was institutional abuse. As soon as your child is labeled and you try to seek any form of help, you're subjected to all kinds of officious do-gooders who would otherwise never have had access to your family. There are good souls in the helping professions, but it soon becomes clear the unfortunate types have more power than they should. My husband also survived a few dictatorships before we met: in unjust states, they mess with your kids. It's part of the game and why some are drawn to it. When they have your children in the balance, integrity and standing up for principle can become liabilities, which has a delicious equalizing effect for worms.
“Awareness” isn't a coat of armor. You might understand risks and even nip a few in the bud if you're clued in, but you may not be able to stop certain things from happening in the first place, not in the current system. Everyone tells themselves bad things won't happen to their child; but except for those who can afford to homeschool—and even these families live under a certain gun— when a family sends a child to school anywhere in the US, particularly a child with any kind of disability, they are depositing their child on foreign soil, a place with abridged constitutional rights and a third world system of justice. I don't think it's even the third world anymore—it's the fourth world: Disability land.
The marks my daughter came home from school with in the middle of September weren't much—a small imprint on the inside of one arm, a bruise on her forearm and what looked like a rug burn near her elbow. But according to the school, the marks don't exist, and that's what turned them into gaping wounds. The school's version of events:
Additionally, Mrs. G reported that [child] has marks on both arms, which she attributed to [child's] having been “scooped up off the ground” by lifting her under the armpits. With verbal permission to Dr. X from Mrs. G, school nurse completed a brief examination. Mrs. Y brought [child] to the school nurse's office at the end of the day on X/XX/11. With Mrs. Y present, the school nurse viewed [child's] upper torso, upper back, entire upper extremities and axilla. The school nurse office visit report noted no areas of discoloration, swelling, or redness. [Child's] skin was noted to be quite translucent around the areas of the veins. A copy of the report has been placed in [child's] medical file and a copy is attached to this report.
During the meeting, Mr. and Mrs. G questioned how [child] would have arrived at such a specific description (“scooped up off the ground”), so Ms. Y asked if [child] has witnessed anything of this sort in school. The only thing that can be identified is a movement (very much like the action demonstrated by Mr. G) that occurs several times a day with one of [child's] classmates who needs assistance to transfer from one position to another due to physical disability. [Child] sees this on a daily basis.
I'm always amazed at how school apologists make excuses for school conduct when the schools are so skilled at doing it for themselves. For the record, though we will celebrate the day she lies as a great milestone in recovery, our daughter doesn't lie. She has eidetic memory and if an account clashes with her mental videotapes, she can't let it go. She's never fabricated or imagined an event in her life, won't even frame her brother for stealing a cookie. She once had exaggerated fear of cars, but never actually hallucinated that a car jumped the curb and the fears turned back into reasonable caution when her fever broke.
No one at the school was qualified to diagnose her with delusional mental illness on top of high functioning autism. Unless the child in a wheelchair in our daughter's classroom is routinely dragged around the room and forcibly made to walk by being shoved, the only “model” for what our daughter reported was something that happened to her. The photograph above was taken about three hours before the unconsented strip search at the school, which found our daughter miraculously unblemished. We never gave permission—and never would—for her clothes to be removed. The school put it in writing that we reported marks on her arms. There was no reason to strip her. It was retaliation—part of the game. As for the marks? Optical illusions.
Aside from the ironic heart-shaped bruise, being forced to write an apology to the person who reportedly mistreated her was a nice touch. It's like kiddy rendition—abuse, forced confession, cover up, foreign soil. She took a toy. That never happens in autism. Bring out the SWAT team.
She was very reluctant to talk about the events, so her dad knelt on the ground and asked her to show him what had happened on the playground. “Do it to me,” he said, acting like it was a casual thing. Immediately she went behind him, hooked her arms under his, then tried to haul him up and backwards a few paces, then with her arms still hooked under his, she tried to maneuver him forwards, as if to force him to march. She did it with a sort of brisk brutality, changing the expression on her face to an authoritarian adult's. He asked her to repeat the gestures. With the same sureness, same expression, she repeated the same series of maneuvers. He asked, “Who did this?” and she repeatedly said the name of her brother's teacher. We asked her if the teacher yelled at her. She said no. We asked her if she was trying to leave the school grounds before all of this happened. She said, no, she was just “running around.” Running away from the teacher in other words. Noncompliance.
We had an elaborate “no restraint” letter filed with this school since our children started, saying under no circumstances were our children to be restrained in any manner for noncompliance or punishment. We learned from the school's self-serving report that only one of our daughter's four staff members were on the playground when the incident took place. Not that it mattered, since apparently another staff member—our son's teacher as it happened—was instructed by an aide from our daughter's class on how to “handle” our daughter. From this, we can only assume that what happened was policy. We had to wonder how often this had happened to our less verbal son or how many times the kids might have seen their twin sibling mistreated.
There was no report from the school that my daughter had been a danger to herself or anyone else. There was no mention that she'd attempted to leave the playground, only that she bolted from a bench. They later tried to spin it that she “could have been running towards an unfenced area” (forty yards away), but the claim is worthless and they were already caught in lies. Common sense and state law dictate that a child must be restrained if they pose an imminent threat to self or others. But common sense is on the side of never restraining our daughter: she's not a wanderer and she's never once been seriously aggressive. And even if a child wanders or is aggressive, there are so many less destructive things which can be done before a situation escalates. There was also no mention that the day was 92 degrees and that it's in my daughter's IEP that she not be taken outside on days like that if the heat makes her irritable. Despite every effort to address it, she still has a documented mitochondrial insufficiency and can't tolerate extreme temperatures. In her IEP is a health crisis directive documenting her GI disorder and that she vomits when afraid, putting her at serious risk of aspiration asphyxia in a struggle.
This is why Individual Education Plans were developed in the first place: children with disabilities were being harmed without them. But what good are they if not enforced?
I got on the phone with a friend, an advocate who specializes in school abuse cases. She recognized the maneuver my daughter described as a textbook “transport restraint”. Some of the techniques have diabolical names, like the “Sunday Stroll”. Our daughter later reenacted the incident in the presence of five more adults outside the school, including a professional therapist, all of whom saw the bruises.
We removed both twins from the private special school and attempted to enroll them in the district, which we thought would be happy not to have to pay the $120,000 yearly tuition for our twins' placement. Instead the local school blocked our children's enrollment. They're probably terrified at the other school's depiction of our family. We called for meetings; we cited IDEA, to no avail. The kids developed worsening GI symptoms from the stress and we called for a thirty day medical leave. The school had plenty of time to make arrangements for admission, but it seems they want the kids elsewhere, probably involving a two hour bus ride with untrained bus aides to a segregated institution with more silent witnesses who can't report what happens in the course of a day. Enough—we want the children integrated, a five minute drive away, around verbal kids who can snitch, maybe even a few (those that are left) who don't have diagnoses that can be doubled back to discredit testimony, and that's it. We hired an attorney.
My husband is designing a modern house for clients which will probably end up in a magazine. He worked for so many years to develop a project like this—not that he's enjoyed a second of it while worrying about his kids. When that project is done, we'll always think of it as “Casa Retainer”, because that's where the money will have gone. Not to treatment, not even for a college fund. See, that's where we plan for the twins to be in 12 years—college, not living off taxpayers. If it's up to us and they continue on the recovery path they began four years ago, and if we can keep them from suffering posttraumatic stress from school abuse, there's no reason this can't happen. Not unless outside forces make a reason.
We're lucky we can even think like this. It feels funny to say that. We weren't lucky our children were cognitively injured to begin with, that they were once pegged low functioning, that insurance doesn't cover the treatments which would actually help them, or that we haven't slept in two months. But we're lucky we could afford to treat our children out of pocket when they began regressing; lucky we can even pay a retainer—even if it means the adults in the house will eat the same cheap food for a year and we may not make it to the family Christmas gathering for a second year in a row. We're “lucky” the school didn't double back charges, blame us for the bruises, make spurious reports to child services and take our children away. Considering that things like that happen all the time, luck is relative here in the fourth world.
In Bend Sinister, Nabokov's protagonist, Professor Krug, refuses to deliver a speech approving the new dictatorship, which of course promotes the greater good. Like in Heller's Catch-22, all they want is for him to say he likes them—and to be used like a donkey thereafter. Krug won't comply, though his colleagues have already fallen in line. The regime's henchmen set about playing a diabolical game of chess to isolate and demoralize Krug and bring him to heel; but the regime plays badly. They're idiots. According to Nabokov, who survived a few dictatorships, the purveyors of tyranny always are, but that's really beside the point if they still manage to destroy everything you ever loved as they lurch towards self-annihilation. First Krug's wife dies mysteriously in a medical disaster, though Krug is too grief stricken to understand the message. Coercion is useless if the subject doesn't suspect they're being coerced. They imprison Krug's friends one by one, but still he won't be moved. Finally they figure out his compliance could have been forced from the start by taking his eight year old son. The kidnapping is bungled, the child is accidentally killed and Krug goes mad.
From the moment our twins were diagnosed four and a half years ago, it's as if we've been strapped to a set of train tracks with the train bearing down on us at a snail's pace, not knowing how to get out of the way. Other times it feels like a board game from hell with no firm rules or reason—you're just always in a panic that you've made a wrong move, said the wrong thing. Check.
One risk we knew came along with the diagnosis was institutional abuse. As soon as your child is labeled and you try to seek any form of help, you're subjected to all kinds of officious do-gooders who would otherwise never have had access to your family. There are good souls in the helping professions, but it soon becomes clear the unfortunate types have more power than they should. My husband also survived a few dictatorships before we met: in unjust states, they mess with your kids. It's part of the game and why some are drawn to it. When they have your children in the balance, integrity and standing up for principle can become liabilities, which has a delicious equalizing effect for worms.
“Awareness” isn't a coat of armor. You might understand risks and even nip a few in the bud if you're clued in, but you may not be able to stop certain things from happening in the first place, not in the current system. Everyone tells themselves bad things won't happen to their child; but except for those who can afford to homeschool—and even these families live under a certain gun— when a family sends a child to school anywhere in the US, particularly a child with any kind of disability, they are depositing their child on foreign soil, a place with abridged constitutional rights and a third world system of justice. I don't think it's even the third world anymore—it's the fourth world: Disability land.
The marks my daughter came home from school with in the middle of September weren't much—a small imprint on the inside of one arm, a bruise on her forearm and what looked like a rug burn near her elbow. But according to the school, the marks don't exist, and that's what turned them into gaping wounds. The school's version of events:
Additionally, Mrs. G reported that [child] has marks on both arms, which she attributed to [child's] having been “scooped up off the ground” by lifting her under the armpits. With verbal permission to Dr. X from Mrs. G, school nurse completed a brief examination. Mrs. Y brought [child] to the school nurse's office at the end of the day on X/XX/11. With Mrs. Y present, the school nurse viewed [child's] upper torso, upper back, entire upper extremities and axilla. The school nurse office visit report noted no areas of discoloration, swelling, or redness. [Child's] skin was noted to be quite translucent around the areas of the veins. A copy of the report has been placed in [child's] medical file and a copy is attached to this report.
During the meeting, Mr. and Mrs. G questioned how [child] would have arrived at such a specific description (“scooped up off the ground”), so Ms. Y asked if [child] has witnessed anything of this sort in school. The only thing that can be identified is a movement (very much like the action demonstrated by Mr. G) that occurs several times a day with one of [child's] classmates who needs assistance to transfer from one position to another due to physical disability. [Child] sees this on a daily basis.
I'm always amazed at how school apologists make excuses for school conduct when the schools are so skilled at doing it for themselves. For the record, though we will celebrate the day she lies as a great milestone in recovery, our daughter doesn't lie. She has eidetic memory and if an account clashes with her mental videotapes, she can't let it go. She's never fabricated or imagined an event in her life, won't even frame her brother for stealing a cookie. She once had exaggerated fear of cars, but never actually hallucinated that a car jumped the curb and the fears turned back into reasonable caution when her fever broke.
No one at the school was qualified to diagnose her with delusional mental illness on top of high functioning autism. Unless the child in a wheelchair in our daughter's classroom is routinely dragged around the room and forcibly made to walk by being shoved, the only “model” for what our daughter reported was something that happened to her. The photograph above was taken about three hours before the unconsented strip search at the school, which found our daughter miraculously unblemished. We never gave permission—and never would—for her clothes to be removed. The school put it in writing that we reported marks on her arms. There was no reason to strip her. It was retaliation—part of the game. As for the marks? Optical illusions.
Aside from the ironic heart-shaped bruise, being forced to write an apology to the person who reportedly mistreated her was a nice touch. It's like kiddy rendition—abuse, forced confession, cover up, foreign soil. She took a toy. That never happens in autism. Bring out the SWAT team.
She was very reluctant to talk about the events, so her dad knelt on the ground and asked her to show him what had happened on the playground. “Do it to me,” he said, acting like it was a casual thing. Immediately she went behind him, hooked her arms under his, then tried to haul him up and backwards a few paces, then with her arms still hooked under his, she tried to maneuver him forwards, as if to force him to march. She did it with a sort of brisk brutality, changing the expression on her face to an authoritarian adult's. He asked her to repeat the gestures. With the same sureness, same expression, she repeated the same series of maneuvers. He asked, “Who did this?” and she repeatedly said the name of her brother's teacher. We asked her if the teacher yelled at her. She said no. We asked her if she was trying to leave the school grounds before all of this happened. She said, no, she was just “running around.” Running away from the teacher in other words. Noncompliance.
We had an elaborate “no restraint” letter filed with this school since our children started, saying under no circumstances were our children to be restrained in any manner for noncompliance or punishment. We learned from the school's self-serving report that only one of our daughter's four staff members were on the playground when the incident took place. Not that it mattered, since apparently another staff member—our son's teacher as it happened—was instructed by an aide from our daughter's class on how to “handle” our daughter. From this, we can only assume that what happened was policy. We had to wonder how often this had happened to our less verbal son or how many times the kids might have seen their twin sibling mistreated.
There was no report from the school that my daughter had been a danger to herself or anyone else. There was no mention that she'd attempted to leave the playground, only that she bolted from a bench. They later tried to spin it that she “could have been running towards an unfenced area” (forty yards away), but the claim is worthless and they were already caught in lies. Common sense and state law dictate that a child must be restrained if they pose an imminent threat to self or others. But common sense is on the side of never restraining our daughter: she's not a wanderer and she's never once been seriously aggressive. And even if a child wanders or is aggressive, there are so many less destructive things which can be done before a situation escalates. There was also no mention that the day was 92 degrees and that it's in my daughter's IEP that she not be taken outside on days like that if the heat makes her irritable. Despite every effort to address it, she still has a documented mitochondrial insufficiency and can't tolerate extreme temperatures. In her IEP is a health crisis directive documenting her GI disorder and that she vomits when afraid, putting her at serious risk of aspiration asphyxia in a struggle.
This is why Individual Education Plans were developed in the first place: children with disabilities were being harmed without them. But what good are they if not enforced?
I got on the phone with a friend, an advocate who specializes in school abuse cases. She recognized the maneuver my daughter described as a textbook “transport restraint”. Some of the techniques have diabolical names, like the “Sunday Stroll”. Our daughter later reenacted the incident in the presence of five more adults outside the school, including a professional therapist, all of whom saw the bruises.
We removed both twins from the private special school and attempted to enroll them in the district, which we thought would be happy not to have to pay the $120,000 yearly tuition for our twins' placement. Instead the local school blocked our children's enrollment. They're probably terrified at the other school's depiction of our family. We called for meetings; we cited IDEA, to no avail. The kids developed worsening GI symptoms from the stress and we called for a thirty day medical leave. The school had plenty of time to make arrangements for admission, but it seems they want the kids elsewhere, probably involving a two hour bus ride with untrained bus aides to a segregated institution with more silent witnesses who can't report what happens in the course of a day. Enough—we want the children integrated, a five minute drive away, around verbal kids who can snitch, maybe even a few (those that are left) who don't have diagnoses that can be doubled back to discredit testimony, and that's it. We hired an attorney.
My husband is designing a modern house for clients which will probably end up in a magazine. He worked for so many years to develop a project like this—not that he's enjoyed a second of it while worrying about his kids. When that project is done, we'll always think of it as “Casa Retainer”, because that's where the money will have gone. Not to treatment, not even for a college fund. See, that's where we plan for the twins to be in 12 years—college, not living off taxpayers. If it's up to us and they continue on the recovery path they began four years ago, and if we can keep them from suffering posttraumatic stress from school abuse, there's no reason this can't happen. Not unless outside forces make a reason.
We're lucky we can even think like this. It feels funny to say that. We weren't lucky our children were cognitively injured to begin with, that they were once pegged low functioning, that insurance doesn't cover the treatments which would actually help them, or that we haven't slept in two months. But we're lucky we could afford to treat our children out of pocket when they began regressing; lucky we can even pay a retainer—even if it means the adults in the house will eat the same cheap food for a year and we may not make it to the family Christmas gathering for a second year in a row. We're “lucky” the school didn't double back charges, blame us for the bruises, make spurious reports to child services and take our children away. Considering that things like that happen all the time, luck is relative here in the fourth world.
University Ridge Customer Appreciation Sale is Wednesday-Saturday [moncler outerwear]
The end-of-the-year Customer Appreciation Sale at The Golf Shop @ University Ridge is Nov. 16-19 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Everything in the golf shop will be discounted.
Men's fashion polos from Adidas, Greg Norman, and Ashworth, will be 40% off. Outerwear from Greg Norman, Adidas, Page & Tuttle, Antigua, and Footjoy will be significantly discounted as well. All hats in the golf shop will be 50% off. As always, our Taylor Made rental sets will be on sale at unbeatable prices. Stock up on gloves, shoes, balls, and other golfing accessories for the 2012 season.
Also, you can have your picture taken with the Paul Bunyan Axe! The Axe, which is awarded to the winner of the Minnesota vs. Wisconsin football game, will be on display in the Golf Shop for all four days of the sale. The doors will open daily at 9 a.m. and close at 4 p.m. during the sale. This sale has become a must for all Badger/Golf fans, so don't miss out on your chance to save big this week at The Golf Shop @ University Ridge.
The Kiosk @ West Towne Mall is Open!
The University Ridge Kiosk @ West Towne Mall officially opened last week. Find competitive prices, quality new apparel, and great gift ideas throughout the holiday season. As always the Kiosk will be offering the "Buy $150" special. Buy $150 in merchandise (kiosk only) and you will receive a free round of golf for the 2012 season (up to a $89 value)! The location of the Kiosk this year is right outside The Buckle and next to the Dakota Watch Company. We would love to see you during the holiday season at West Towne Mall.
Book your 2012 Golf Outing Now!
It's never too early to start planning a golf trip, corporate golf outing, charity fund raiser, or special event. 2012 will mark the 21st year that University Ridge has been the golf outing leader in Dane County. Click here to find out why you should choose University Ridge for your golf outing in 2012. To enquire about dates, times, and prices contact Andy Bacon at atb@athletics.wisc.edu or (608) 497-4453.
Four ways to Buy Gift Cards at University Ridge
1. Stop out at the Kiosk at West Towne Mall (located outside the Buckle) Click here for mall hours.
2. Call the golf shop at (608) 845-7700 and we'll send the gift card wherever you want.
3. Click here to order a gift card online.
4. Come out to the golf shop which is open year round. Shop hours until 2012 are Tuesday-Saturday 9am-4pm (The golf shop will not be open on Christmas Eve)
Men's fashion polos from Adidas, Greg Norman, and Ashworth, will be 40% off. Outerwear from Greg Norman, Adidas, Page & Tuttle, Antigua, and Footjoy will be significantly discounted as well. All hats in the golf shop will be 50% off. As always, our Taylor Made rental sets will be on sale at unbeatable prices. Stock up on gloves, shoes, balls, and other golfing accessories for the 2012 season.
Also, you can have your picture taken with the Paul Bunyan Axe! The Axe, which is awarded to the winner of the Minnesota vs. Wisconsin football game, will be on display in the Golf Shop for all four days of the sale. The doors will open daily at 9 a.m. and close at 4 p.m. during the sale. This sale has become a must for all Badger/Golf fans, so don't miss out on your chance to save big this week at The Golf Shop @ University Ridge.
The Kiosk @ West Towne Mall is Open!
The University Ridge Kiosk @ West Towne Mall officially opened last week. Find competitive prices, quality new apparel, and great gift ideas throughout the holiday season. As always the Kiosk will be offering the "Buy $150" special. Buy $150 in merchandise (kiosk only) and you will receive a free round of golf for the 2012 season (up to a $89 value)! The location of the Kiosk this year is right outside The Buckle and next to the Dakota Watch Company. We would love to see you during the holiday season at West Towne Mall.
Book your 2012 Golf Outing Now!
It's never too early to start planning a golf trip, corporate golf outing, charity fund raiser, or special event. 2012 will mark the 21st year that University Ridge has been the golf outing leader in Dane County. Click here to find out why you should choose University Ridge for your golf outing in 2012. To enquire about dates, times, and prices contact Andy Bacon at atb@athletics.wisc.edu or (608) 497-4453.
Four ways to Buy Gift Cards at University Ridge
1. Stop out at the Kiosk at West Towne Mall (located outside the Buckle) Click here for mall hours.
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3. Click here to order a gift card online.
4. Come out to the golf shop which is open year round. Shop hours until 2012 are Tuesday-Saturday 9am-4pm (The golf shop will not be open on Christmas Eve)
"Do you hear the people sing?" The A.V. Club's recall-themed (and bipartisan) film festival [fake watches]
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to your nearest polling place, the Wisconsin political roller coaster is set for another wild ride. The next round of protests will certainly revolve around attempts to gain enough signatures for a recall of Gov. Scott Walker, with both sides claiming that their goals are noble, and that the other side is full of villains and assholes. Before things get too heated, The A.V. Club offers these movie-watching suggestions, either as a way to amp up before taking your message to the streets, or as inspiration for a Tumblr-worthy protest sign.
They Live
The plot: John Carpenter is best known as a horror director, but this sci-fi action flick shows off his anti-authority streak. Roddy Piper's finest film role features him and his mullet facing off against a pervasive alien conspiracy that can only be seen while wearing cheap sunglasses.
Liberals like it because: The other side has been completely taken over by aliens because the police have sided with the invaders.
Conservatives like it because: The other side has been completely taken over by aliens because the media has sided with the invaders.
Sign-ready line: "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum."
V For Vendetta
The plot: A government test subject dons a Guy Fawkes mask and takes out his creators one by one, inspiring a revolution and Natalie Portman to shave her head. V's mask has become a symbol for the revolution—instantly recognizable, inspiring, and available on Amazon.
Liberals like it because: The film portrays a futuristic society where hard-line conservatives are brought low by a freak that inspires a revolution. V is the perfect leftist hero, possessing superior intellect, intelligent schemes, and the ability to land Queen Amidala.
Conservatives like it because: The film portrays a futuristic society where America has fallen behind because of progressive policies—policies brought low by a revolutionary inspired by the same guy who inspired our founding fathers.
Sign-ready line: "Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask."
They Live
The plot: John Carpenter is best known as a horror director, but this sci-fi action flick shows off his anti-authority streak. Roddy Piper's finest film role features him and his mullet facing off against a pervasive alien conspiracy that can only be seen while wearing cheap sunglasses.
Liberals like it because: The other side has been completely taken over by aliens because the police have sided with the invaders.
Conservatives like it because: The other side has been completely taken over by aliens because the media has sided with the invaders.
Sign-ready line: "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum."
V For Vendetta
The plot: A government test subject dons a Guy Fawkes mask and takes out his creators one by one, inspiring a revolution and Natalie Portman to shave her head. V's mask has become a symbol for the revolution—instantly recognizable, inspiring, and available on Amazon.
Liberals like it because: The film portrays a futuristic society where hard-line conservatives are brought low by a freak that inspires a revolution. V is the perfect leftist hero, possessing superior intellect, intelligent schemes, and the ability to land Queen Amidala.
Conservatives like it because: The film portrays a futuristic society where America has fallen behind because of progressive policies—policies brought low by a revolutionary inspired by the same guy who inspired our founding fathers.
Sign-ready line: "Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask."
In end, Devils deliver [replica watches]
“It was a real gutsy effort in this building, down 2-0 to that team,’’ coach Peter DeBoer said. “To hold them to seven shots over the last 45 minutes, I thought it was a real gritty effort.’’
Zach Parise also scored for the Devils in the shootout, and Alex Ovechkin connected for Washington.
New Jersey got goals from Petr Sykora and Ryan Carter in the second period to erase a 2-0 deficit.
Troy Brouwer and Jason Chimera scored for the Capitals in the first.
Washington coach Bruce Boudreau was denied in his first try at his 200th NHL victory.
Just 6:30 in, Brouwer took advantage of a bad pass to give the Capitals a 1-0 lead. Brouwer intercepted Adam Henrique’s pass, skated in on Hedberg, got the goalie down, and beat him at the right post for his fourth goal.
Washington made it 2-0 at 16:10, just as a tripping penalty against New Jersey’s Anton Volchenkov expired. Chimera tipped in John Carlson’s blast from the right point.
Hurricanes 5, Penguins 3 - Eric Staal scored for the first time in a month and host Carolina, which led, 3-0, after two periods, snapped a four-game slide.
Staal converted a rebound at 15:26 in the third period, smacking it past Brent Johnson to give the Hurricanes a 4-3 lead after they wasted a three-goal advantage. It was Staal’s fourth goal of the season and first since Oct. 18.
Chad LaRose added a breakaway score with 2:30 left.
Jeff Skinner had a goal and two assists, Tuomo Ruutu scored twice, and Cam Ward had 37 saves for Carolina.
Jordan Staal, Eric’s brother, scored two goals and Chris Kunitz added another to help the Penguins rally in the third period. Johnson made 21 stops while starting in place of Marc-Andre Fleury.
Red Wings 5, Stars 2 - Johan Franzen, Darren Helm, and Brad Stuart scored in the third period to help host Detroit win its fourth straight.
With the game tied at 2, Valtteri Filppula drove to the net from the left. After his backhanded attempt was blocked, Franzen was on the opposite side to poke the puck across the goal line.
Helm scored by redirecting a nice pass from Jiri Hudler with 10:41 remaining, and Stuart added another goal 73 seconds later.
Loui Eriksson and Brenden Morrow scored for the Stars.
Canadiens 2, Predators 1 - Max Pacioretty scored with 2:29 left in overtime to lift Montreal in front of a sellout crowd in Nashville.
Shea Weber scored for the Predators, and David Desharnais scored Montreal’s first goal and assisted on the winner.
Senators 5, Maple Leafs 2- Craig Anderson made 31 saves, Nick Foligno scored two goals, and visiting Ottawa snapped a five-game winless streak.
Sergei Gonchar, Zack Smith and Chris Phillips added goals for Ottawa, which continues its six-game road trip with a swing through Western Canada.
Blues 3, Lightning 0 - Brian Elliott stopped 19 shots, and defenseman Kris Russell, acquired from Columbus Friday, scored in his Blues debut as St. Louis improved to 5-0-1 in its last six home games. The Blues have five points in three games under new coach Ken Hitchcock.
Kevin Shattenkirk and T.J. Oshie also scored for the Blues.
Blue Jackets 2, Jets 1 - Rookie Ryan Johansen had his first NHL two-goal game, and Steve Mason made 35 saves to help host Columbus snap a three-game losing skid. Winnipeg has lost five straight (0-3-2).
Flames 4, Avalanche 3 - Miikka Kiprusoff made 36 saves, Lee Stempniak had a goal and assist, and Calgary held on to beat host Colorado.
Coyotes 3, Sharks 0 - Mike Smith made 31 saves in his 12th NHL shutout, and Radim Vrbata, Boyd Gordon, and Patrick O’Sullivan scored for Phoenix, which won in San Jose for the first time in seven games.
Zach Parise also scored for the Devils in the shootout, and Alex Ovechkin connected for Washington.
New Jersey got goals from Petr Sykora and Ryan Carter in the second period to erase a 2-0 deficit.
Troy Brouwer and Jason Chimera scored for the Capitals in the first.
Washington coach Bruce Boudreau was denied in his first try at his 200th NHL victory.
Just 6:30 in, Brouwer took advantage of a bad pass to give the Capitals a 1-0 lead. Brouwer intercepted Adam Henrique’s pass, skated in on Hedberg, got the goalie down, and beat him at the right post for his fourth goal.
Washington made it 2-0 at 16:10, just as a tripping penalty against New Jersey’s Anton Volchenkov expired. Chimera tipped in John Carlson’s blast from the right point.
Hurricanes 5, Penguins 3 - Eric Staal scored for the first time in a month and host Carolina, which led, 3-0, after two periods, snapped a four-game slide.
Staal converted a rebound at 15:26 in the third period, smacking it past Brent Johnson to give the Hurricanes a 4-3 lead after they wasted a three-goal advantage. It was Staal’s fourth goal of the season and first since Oct. 18.
Chad LaRose added a breakaway score with 2:30 left.
Jeff Skinner had a goal and two assists, Tuomo Ruutu scored twice, and Cam Ward had 37 saves for Carolina.
Jordan Staal, Eric’s brother, scored two goals and Chris Kunitz added another to help the Penguins rally in the third period. Johnson made 21 stops while starting in place of Marc-Andre Fleury.
Red Wings 5, Stars 2 - Johan Franzen, Darren Helm, and Brad Stuart scored in the third period to help host Detroit win its fourth straight.
With the game tied at 2, Valtteri Filppula drove to the net from the left. After his backhanded attempt was blocked, Franzen was on the opposite side to poke the puck across the goal line.
Helm scored by redirecting a nice pass from Jiri Hudler with 10:41 remaining, and Stuart added another goal 73 seconds later.
Loui Eriksson and Brenden Morrow scored for the Stars.
Canadiens 2, Predators 1 - Max Pacioretty scored with 2:29 left in overtime to lift Montreal in front of a sellout crowd in Nashville.
Shea Weber scored for the Predators, and David Desharnais scored Montreal’s first goal and assisted on the winner.
Senators 5, Maple Leafs 2- Craig Anderson made 31 saves, Nick Foligno scored two goals, and visiting Ottawa snapped a five-game winless streak.
Sergei Gonchar, Zack Smith and Chris Phillips added goals for Ottawa, which continues its six-game road trip with a swing through Western Canada.
Blues 3, Lightning 0 - Brian Elliott stopped 19 shots, and defenseman Kris Russell, acquired from Columbus Friday, scored in his Blues debut as St. Louis improved to 5-0-1 in its last six home games. The Blues have five points in three games under new coach Ken Hitchcock.
Kevin Shattenkirk and T.J. Oshie also scored for the Blues.
Blue Jackets 2, Jets 1 - Rookie Ryan Johansen had his first NHL two-goal game, and Steve Mason made 35 saves to help host Columbus snap a three-game losing skid. Winnipeg has lost five straight (0-3-2).
Flames 4, Avalanche 3 - Miikka Kiprusoff made 36 saves, Lee Stempniak had a goal and assist, and Calgary held on to beat host Colorado.
Coyotes 3, Sharks 0 - Mike Smith made 31 saves in his 12th NHL shutout, and Radim Vrbata, Boyd Gordon, and Patrick O’Sullivan scored for Phoenix, which won in San Jose for the first time in seven games.
Every Man a King? U.K.’s Better Off With Its Queens: A.A. Gill [moncler outerwear]
U.S. President Barack Obama said at the Group of 20 meeting in Cannes, France, earlier this month that he was told that he had just been given a “crash course” on the complexities of European politics. Well, that’s us, the folk who brought you Byzantine.
We do have the habit of talking about one thing while doing another, like your mother peeling potatoes at the sink while telling you to hurry up and provide her with some grandchildren. And, often, the thing we’re doing is not what it appears, and the thing we’re talking about is not what we’re thinking. But it’s OK -- we’ve been at this a long time.
So while the stagger and stumble of markets revealed ever-more-worrying cracks in the foundation of this old continent, it might have seemed an extravagance for U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron to announce that he was going to change the ancient laws of primogeniture and succession to the British throne.
Up until now, the crown has passed from king to prince whenever possible. Only if there’s really no alternative, including infants and imbeciles, would they give it to a princess. This is plainly indefensible, and quite possibly illegal.
A Group Decision
But it isn’t just the British who are affected by this proposed change; 15 other countries have the same monarch as head of state, including Canada, Australia, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Each has had to agree to change the rules, and at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Australia last month they unanimously did. This means that Prince William and Kate’s first child, of whatever sex, will go to the head of the line. (Though it won’t be retrospective, so Princess Anne won’t be usurping Prince Charles. She can continue breeding murderous bull terriers and being fabulously irritable.)
What was interesting about this twist in the golden thread that runs through the gay tapestry of heraldic life was not those who supported it, but those who opposed it. There were quite a lot of them, not all wearing their jackets back to front and being fed with plastic spoons.
They really couldn’t claim that monarchy was a man’s job, because the very few women whom genetics have allowed in included Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria and the present queen -- three of the most successful heads of state ever. Then there was Queen Anne -- who reigned over John Locke, Isaac Newton, Christopher Wren, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and a golden age of French-thrashing -- and Queen Mary, who ruled as “William and Mary” because Parliament thought she needed a bloke. Nor should we forget Matilda, a medieval empress who briefly ruled during a civil war known as the Anarchy.
Altogether, the caliber of our queens so outclasses the collective performance of our massed kings that there is a good case for only women being able to inherit.
The basis for opposition to gender-blind inheritance boiled down to: “We’ve always done it that way. To change the waft and web of history will be to tamper with the ineffable course and the delicate equilibrium of the nation.” As if the past itself would notice and, more than that, care. It might disinherit the present. There is a phrase for this, and we hear it a lot: “You have to keep faith with the past”; a sort of soothsaying, proactive, spiritual nostalgia.
A European Imperative
“This is the way we’ve always done it” is a particularly European imperative. It would mean little in the East. I suspect it might be an argument for change in America. But here, the past, that continuum of hand-to-hand passing of tradition and culture, the skill and panache of being European, is greatly valued. Keeping faith with the past is as important as planning for the future. Indeed, it could be considered the only guarantee of a future that we would recognize.
And this all might go some way to explaining Obama’s eye- rolling incomprehension at the parlous state of European politics. Every argument isn’t just between those for and those against, but also all the ghosts who have ever had this argument. We live in crowded rooms.
Male primogeniture isn’t simply what it appears. But then you suspected that. The Royal Family is the top of a hierarchy of landed gentry who have taken their lead from above, and always passed their houses, lands and wealth on to the eldest son, effectively disinheriting their other children. You aren’t allowed to do this in France or the other nations that took on the Napoleonic Code. But the English remain ruthless about keeping family wealth entire, and a change at the top might cause elder daughters and younger sons to question the monstrous, unloving inequality that their fathers produce with the sanction of “that’s the way we’ve always done it.”
Queen Elizabeth II, old and conservative as she may be, agreed to the change with a feminist alacrity. Her family have kept their heads in the crown and their bottoms on the throne by constantly shape-shifting and accommodating to the times. The monarchy may look like the brand leader for “keeping faith with the past,” but in truth, it wields change to its purposes.
Talleyrand said that that the Bourbons had learned nothing and forgotten nothing. The Royal Family of the U.K., Canada, Australia and Saint Kitts and Nevis learns fast and remembers selectively. While its members rely on others’ sense of heritage and history, they themselves will disinherit the past without a backward glance or regret.
We do have the habit of talking about one thing while doing another, like your mother peeling potatoes at the sink while telling you to hurry up and provide her with some grandchildren. And, often, the thing we’re doing is not what it appears, and the thing we’re talking about is not what we’re thinking. But it’s OK -- we’ve been at this a long time.
So while the stagger and stumble of markets revealed ever-more-worrying cracks in the foundation of this old continent, it might have seemed an extravagance for U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron to announce that he was going to change the ancient laws of primogeniture and succession to the British throne.
Up until now, the crown has passed from king to prince whenever possible. Only if there’s really no alternative, including infants and imbeciles, would they give it to a princess. This is plainly indefensible, and quite possibly illegal.
A Group Decision
But it isn’t just the British who are affected by this proposed change; 15 other countries have the same monarch as head of state, including Canada, Australia, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Each has had to agree to change the rules, and at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Australia last month they unanimously did. This means that Prince William and Kate’s first child, of whatever sex, will go to the head of the line. (Though it won’t be retrospective, so Princess Anne won’t be usurping Prince Charles. She can continue breeding murderous bull terriers and being fabulously irritable.)
What was interesting about this twist in the golden thread that runs through the gay tapestry of heraldic life was not those who supported it, but those who opposed it. There were quite a lot of them, not all wearing their jackets back to front and being fed with plastic spoons.
They really couldn’t claim that monarchy was a man’s job, because the very few women whom genetics have allowed in included Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria and the present queen -- three of the most successful heads of state ever. Then there was Queen Anne -- who reigned over John Locke, Isaac Newton, Christopher Wren, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and a golden age of French-thrashing -- and Queen Mary, who ruled as “William and Mary” because Parliament thought she needed a bloke. Nor should we forget Matilda, a medieval empress who briefly ruled during a civil war known as the Anarchy.
Altogether, the caliber of our queens so outclasses the collective performance of our massed kings that there is a good case for only women being able to inherit.
The basis for opposition to gender-blind inheritance boiled down to: “We’ve always done it that way. To change the waft and web of history will be to tamper with the ineffable course and the delicate equilibrium of the nation.” As if the past itself would notice and, more than that, care. It might disinherit the present. There is a phrase for this, and we hear it a lot: “You have to keep faith with the past”; a sort of soothsaying, proactive, spiritual nostalgia.
A European Imperative
“This is the way we’ve always done it” is a particularly European imperative. It would mean little in the East. I suspect it might be an argument for change in America. But here, the past, that continuum of hand-to-hand passing of tradition and culture, the skill and panache of being European, is greatly valued. Keeping faith with the past is as important as planning for the future. Indeed, it could be considered the only guarantee of a future that we would recognize.
And this all might go some way to explaining Obama’s eye- rolling incomprehension at the parlous state of European politics. Every argument isn’t just between those for and those against, but also all the ghosts who have ever had this argument. We live in crowded rooms.
Male primogeniture isn’t simply what it appears. But then you suspected that. The Royal Family is the top of a hierarchy of landed gentry who have taken their lead from above, and always passed their houses, lands and wealth on to the eldest son, effectively disinheriting their other children. You aren’t allowed to do this in France or the other nations that took on the Napoleonic Code. But the English remain ruthless about keeping family wealth entire, and a change at the top might cause elder daughters and younger sons to question the monstrous, unloving inequality that their fathers produce with the sanction of “that’s the way we’ve always done it.”
Queen Elizabeth II, old and conservative as she may be, agreed to the change with a feminist alacrity. Her family have kept their heads in the crown and their bottoms on the throne by constantly shape-shifting and accommodating to the times. The monarchy may look like the brand leader for “keeping faith with the past,” but in truth, it wields change to its purposes.
Talleyrand said that that the Bourbons had learned nothing and forgotten nothing. The Royal Family of the U.K., Canada, Australia and Saint Kitts and Nevis learns fast and remembers selectively. While its members rely on others’ sense of heritage and history, they themselves will disinherit the past without a backward glance or regret.
Elite Fliers Invited to Stay Dressed [the ray ban sunglasses]
Forget wine bars, fashion boutiques and Wi-Fi hot spots. At four U.S. airports, the most popular new feature is a security line that lets a select few travelers whiz through the screening process with their shoes on, their laptops stowed and their dignity intact.
For now, only high-mileage members of the frequent-flier programs of Delta Air Lines Inc. and American Airlines, along with U.S. citizens enrolled in any of three "trusted traveler" programs run by the U.S. government, have a shot at this red-carpet treatment.
The expedited screenings, which the Transportation Security Administration has been testing since Oct. 4, are available solely for domestic fights at invitation-only security lanes—one each at the Miami, Atlanta and Detroit airports and at Dallas/Fort Worth International.
The pilot program, called TSA PreCheck, spares eligible passengers one of the biggest hassles of modern air travel: having to strip off their shoes, belts and jackets and put them in plastic bins, along with their wallets, computers and toiletries, before they and their belongings pass through metal detectors.
"This is absolutely, unequivocally the most convenient, exciting, enhanced passenger experience that's come to an airport since Sept. 11, 2001," says Jason Muntz, a national account manager for a paint company.
Mr. Muntz, who flies 200,000 miles a year and is an elite Delta customer, says the new process at his hometown airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, takes less than a minute, down from as long as 15 to 20 minutes in the line reserved for Delta's high-mileage fliers who aren't part of the new program.
The TSA said this week it is extending the program to three more airports. In December, a special screening lane will be available to top-tier Delta and American passengers at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. In early 2012, the Minneapolis airport will offer a similar lane for elite Delta customers, and Los Angeles International Airport will provide one for their counterparts at American, a unit of AMR Corp.
When the TSA announced the program in July, it said it eventually planned to expand it to more airports and carriers, including United Continental Holdings Inc., Southwest Airlines Co., US Airways Group Inc., JetBlue Airways Corp., and Alaska Air Group Inc.'s Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines. The agency declined to comment on when or where it might make further additions.
As many as 2,000 of the 1.7 million domestic passengers the TSA screens daily go through each of the four special lanes. They are greeted by new signs the agency has placed there that say such things as: "Keep those shoes on. You busy traveler, you."
"The ultimate goal is to move away from one-size-fits-all" security, says Robin Kane, the TSA's assistant administrator for security capabilities.
The new approach is one of a series of programs the agency has introduced recently to adjust security measures to the degree of risk. Children age 12 and younger, for example, no longer need automatically remove their shoes at a security checkpoint. At five U.S airports, some airline pilots are allowed to clear security more quickly because the TSA can identify them and verify their employment.
TSA PreCheck takes advantage of the vast pool of data airlines have about their most-frequent-flying loyalty-program members. To be eligible for the program, those fliers must authorize the carriers to share their data with the TSA, which reserves the right to subject them to additional screening, says the agency's Mr. Kane. So far, a total of 280,000 people have opted into the free program.
Delta put the offer to the highest echelons of its SkyMiles loyalty plan over the summer, but it wouldn't specify the number of members involved or what levels they occupied in the hierarchy.
American declined to disclose which elite members of its AAdvantage program were solicited, but a spokesman added that the "take rate" was among the highest of all recent offers sent to its premium customers.
Tyler McMillan, who works in information technology and finance for Coca-Cola Co. and flies about 100,000 miles a year—usually with two laptops in tow—says the first time he went through the PreCheck lane at Hartsfield, "I was shocked that it was so easy and so fast. I was so impressed."
But until the program expands to more airports, "it's only painless one-way," he says.
Another route into PreCheck, even for those with no connection to Delta or American, is through Customs and Border Protection's 2008 Global Entry program. That program, which costs $100 for five years, requires travelers to complete a detailed online questionnaire and then participate in a personal interview with a CBP agent.
Global Entry fliers skip the immigration lines at 20 U.S. airports. Instead, they simply swipe their passports, scan their finger prints and type in a few details about their flights at kiosks in the immigration arrival hall. "It takes two minutes," says a CBP spokeswoman.
Global Entry now has 210,000 members, and those who are U.S. citizens can add the program's code to their flight information at booking, giving them the opportunity to get the expedited TSA screening if their trips are beginning at one of the four test airports on either of the two participating airlines.
For now, only high-mileage members of the frequent-flier programs of Delta Air Lines Inc. and American Airlines, along with U.S. citizens enrolled in any of three "trusted traveler" programs run by the U.S. government, have a shot at this red-carpet treatment.
The expedited screenings, which the Transportation Security Administration has been testing since Oct. 4, are available solely for domestic fights at invitation-only security lanes—one each at the Miami, Atlanta and Detroit airports and at Dallas/Fort Worth International.
The pilot program, called TSA PreCheck, spares eligible passengers one of the biggest hassles of modern air travel: having to strip off their shoes, belts and jackets and put them in plastic bins, along with their wallets, computers and toiletries, before they and their belongings pass through metal detectors.
"This is absolutely, unequivocally the most convenient, exciting, enhanced passenger experience that's come to an airport since Sept. 11, 2001," says Jason Muntz, a national account manager for a paint company.
Mr. Muntz, who flies 200,000 miles a year and is an elite Delta customer, says the new process at his hometown airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, takes less than a minute, down from as long as 15 to 20 minutes in the line reserved for Delta's high-mileage fliers who aren't part of the new program.
The TSA said this week it is extending the program to three more airports. In December, a special screening lane will be available to top-tier Delta and American passengers at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. In early 2012, the Minneapolis airport will offer a similar lane for elite Delta customers, and Los Angeles International Airport will provide one for their counterparts at American, a unit of AMR Corp.
When the TSA announced the program in July, it said it eventually planned to expand it to more airports and carriers, including United Continental Holdings Inc., Southwest Airlines Co., US Airways Group Inc., JetBlue Airways Corp., and Alaska Air Group Inc.'s Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines. The agency declined to comment on when or where it might make further additions.
As many as 2,000 of the 1.7 million domestic passengers the TSA screens daily go through each of the four special lanes. They are greeted by new signs the agency has placed there that say such things as: "Keep those shoes on. You busy traveler, you."
"The ultimate goal is to move away from one-size-fits-all" security, says Robin Kane, the TSA's assistant administrator for security capabilities.
The new approach is one of a series of programs the agency has introduced recently to adjust security measures to the degree of risk. Children age 12 and younger, for example, no longer need automatically remove their shoes at a security checkpoint. At five U.S airports, some airline pilots are allowed to clear security more quickly because the TSA can identify them and verify their employment.
TSA PreCheck takes advantage of the vast pool of data airlines have about their most-frequent-flying loyalty-program members. To be eligible for the program, those fliers must authorize the carriers to share their data with the TSA, which reserves the right to subject them to additional screening, says the agency's Mr. Kane. So far, a total of 280,000 people have opted into the free program.
Delta put the offer to the highest echelons of its SkyMiles loyalty plan over the summer, but it wouldn't specify the number of members involved or what levels they occupied in the hierarchy.
American declined to disclose which elite members of its AAdvantage program were solicited, but a spokesman added that the "take rate" was among the highest of all recent offers sent to its premium customers.
Tyler McMillan, who works in information technology and finance for Coca-Cola Co. and flies about 100,000 miles a year—usually with two laptops in tow—says the first time he went through the PreCheck lane at Hartsfield, "I was shocked that it was so easy and so fast. I was so impressed."
But until the program expands to more airports, "it's only painless one-way," he says.
Another route into PreCheck, even for those with no connection to Delta or American, is through Customs and Border Protection's 2008 Global Entry program. That program, which costs $100 for five years, requires travelers to complete a detailed online questionnaire and then participate in a personal interview with a CBP agent.
Global Entry fliers skip the immigration lines at 20 U.S. airports. Instead, they simply swipe their passports, scan their finger prints and type in a few details about their flights at kiosks in the immigration arrival hall. "It takes two minutes," says a CBP spokeswoman.
Global Entry now has 210,000 members, and those who are U.S. citizens can add the program's code to their flight information at booking, giving them the opportunity to get the expedited TSA screening if their trips are beginning at one of the four test airports on either of the two participating airlines.
Friday Fashion: Suitable suits for all occasions [replica watches]
As a college student, you need your own style and a fit that is tailored to you. Here are some tips from Nate DeMars, founder and CEO of Pursuit, a men's suit store, on how to find your "first grown-up suit."
Start with the color. If this will be your go-to suit, DeMars suggests choosing a charcoal gray. For a more formal occasion, like a wedding or funeral, go with jet-black. These are good neutrals that can be worn with any color shirt.
Next comes the hard part: fit. DeMars said you need to focus on the parts that you can't alter, like the shoulders, contouring and length of the jacket.
Pinch the part where the sleeve meets the body of the jacket at your shoulder. If you can bunch the material into a tip, the jacket is too big. On the other hand, if you can't put your arms down by your sides, the jacket is too small.
Jackets should contour to fit your torso. If you have a slender build, pick a jacket that slightly tapers in at the midsection. Guys of bigger builds should opt for more straight fits.
The hem of the jacket should hit just above your groin. Keep in mind that the sleeves can always be altered for length.
Amp up your basic suit with accessories. If you're bored with your go-to tie, change it up with a bowtie or skinny tie. Bowties come pre-tied or do-it-yourself. Skinny ties are a great alternative if you want an unexpected element that doesn't change the color. They also give your chest a broader look, a good option for slender guys.
If you want to start accessorizing on a smaller scale, try wearing fun cufflinks.
A belt is absolutely necessary. A black or gray suit looks best with a black belt. DeMars suggests keeping the belt understated, especially if you have a more funky accessory. Unlike jeans, a belt is not meant to hold up your suit pants, so make sure they fit your hips. You don't want to advertise ill-fitting bottoms.
Finally, don't be afraid to take your suit apart. DeMars advises thinking about your suit in terms of three different occasions: job interview, cocktail party and date night.
For an interview, wear the full suit with a crisp white shirt and "power tie," which DeMars said means a bold color like red or blue.
If you're attending a cocktail party or college event, wear the full suit again with a colored or printed shirt and skinny tie or bowtie — or skip the tie altogether.
On a night out, wear your suit jacket, colored shirt or T-shirt and a nicer pair of jeans.
Start with the color. If this will be your go-to suit, DeMars suggests choosing a charcoal gray. For a more formal occasion, like a wedding or funeral, go with jet-black. These are good neutrals that can be worn with any color shirt.
Next comes the hard part: fit. DeMars said you need to focus on the parts that you can't alter, like the shoulders, contouring and length of the jacket.
Pinch the part where the sleeve meets the body of the jacket at your shoulder. If you can bunch the material into a tip, the jacket is too big. On the other hand, if you can't put your arms down by your sides, the jacket is too small.
Jackets should contour to fit your torso. If you have a slender build, pick a jacket that slightly tapers in at the midsection. Guys of bigger builds should opt for more straight fits.
The hem of the jacket should hit just above your groin. Keep in mind that the sleeves can always be altered for length.
Amp up your basic suit with accessories. If you're bored with your go-to tie, change it up with a bowtie or skinny tie. Bowties come pre-tied or do-it-yourself. Skinny ties are a great alternative if you want an unexpected element that doesn't change the color. They also give your chest a broader look, a good option for slender guys.
If you want to start accessorizing on a smaller scale, try wearing fun cufflinks.
A belt is absolutely necessary. A black or gray suit looks best with a black belt. DeMars suggests keeping the belt understated, especially if you have a more funky accessory. Unlike jeans, a belt is not meant to hold up your suit pants, so make sure they fit your hips. You don't want to advertise ill-fitting bottoms.
Finally, don't be afraid to take your suit apart. DeMars advises thinking about your suit in terms of three different occasions: job interview, cocktail party and date night.
For an interview, wear the full suit with a crisp white shirt and "power tie," which DeMars said means a bold color like red or blue.
If you're attending a cocktail party or college event, wear the full suit again with a colored or printed shirt and skinny tie or bowtie — or skip the tie altogether.
On a night out, wear your suit jacket, colored shirt or T-shirt and a nicer pair of jeans.
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McDonald's bans poppies [replica watches]
Some employees at a McDonald's in southern Alberta aren't loving that they can't wear poppies.
Employees at one of the fast-food giant's restaurants in Lethbridge were told that wearing poppies for Remembrance Day while working is banned.
McDonald's Canada said in a statement that employees who work behind the counter are not allowed to wear traditional poppies because "straight pins pose a potential serious safety hazard in food preparation areas of our restaurants."
Alberta Health Services spokesman James Frey said there is no specific legislation that bans the use of pins while working in restaurants.
He also says there is no law on whether food handlers can wear poppies, and Frey says the agency does not inspect or enforce poppy policies in restaurants.
Some other fast-food restaurants canvassed in Lethbridge say they do allow employees to wear poppies with backs on the pins.
"We encourage all our employees to wear poppies on their outerwear as their way of saluting the efforts of our veterans and our forces currently in action," McDonald's said in the statement.
"McDonald's commitment to the Royal Canadian Legion and our men and women in uniform is unwavering and we will continue to support them in every way possible.
"That's why we partner each year with the Royal Canadian Legion to welcome veterans and volunteers into our restaurants to sell poppies and spread the spirit of gratefulness all Canadians have for our veterans."
Employees at one of the fast-food giant's restaurants in Lethbridge were told that wearing poppies for Remembrance Day while working is banned.
McDonald's Canada said in a statement that employees who work behind the counter are not allowed to wear traditional poppies because "straight pins pose a potential serious safety hazard in food preparation areas of our restaurants."
Alberta Health Services spokesman James Frey said there is no specific legislation that bans the use of pins while working in restaurants.
He also says there is no law on whether food handlers can wear poppies, and Frey says the agency does not inspect or enforce poppy policies in restaurants.
Some other fast-food restaurants canvassed in Lethbridge say they do allow employees to wear poppies with backs on the pins.
"We encourage all our employees to wear poppies on their outerwear as their way of saluting the efforts of our veterans and our forces currently in action," McDonald's said in the statement.
"McDonald's commitment to the Royal Canadian Legion and our men and women in uniform is unwavering and we will continue to support them in every way possible.
"That's why we partner each year with the Royal Canadian Legion to welcome veterans and volunteers into our restaurants to sell poppies and spread the spirit of gratefulness all Canadians have for our veterans."
