| Yick Fung Co., a Chinatown institution, will close its doors this week
Jimmy Mar, a 93-year-old with a keen memory, opened the green wooden door to the Yick Fung Co. in Seattle's Chinatown for one of the last times Sunday. His relatives walked past the store's English and Chinese name that appears in chipped-yellow paint on the front windows. Inside, they hugged one another, looked at the store's vintage items one last time as a family and stood under a large wooden sign in Chinese that means "togetherness." .
Obesity Wake-up Call: Changing Course (3 of 4)
"We're on a buddy system," says Heather Curry. When she decided to ditch the random diets and make a lifestyle change, her husband proved more than supportive. "He told me I'll be there for you I'll do whatever I can, and he most certainly has." A photo shows Heather and her husband in the fall of 2006, just a few months before she joined Memorial's Weight Management program. Less than a year later, you can see both making progress. "We went from having one bicycle to now we have 5 bicycles, instead of going out to eat and traveling there now we travel to go out on our bikes. We'll travel 2 hours to go ride 50 miles," says Heather. Victoria Bordelon says she "married a boy who likes to rock climb and cycles, so I started doing the cycling a few years ago." Her husband also serves as a motivating factor.
L.A. to count most votes by independents
Los Angeles County's top voting official said Tuesday he's confident he can count the majority of 50,000 "double-bubble" ballots that went uncounted on Super Tuesday before the deadline to certify the election next week. Based on advice from the County Counsel's Office and the Secretary of State's Office, acting Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan said he plans to count most of the ballots cast by 50,000 independent voters who did not fill out a party box at the top of the ballot along with a choice for president. The "double-bubble" ballot required nonpartisan and decline-to-state voters to fill out a party box at the top of the ballot along with their choice for president in order for their vote to be counted. Due to a ballot design flaw, those ballots were not counted previously.
Unstoppable Obama
On the basis, rather, of large-scale and unrelenting public pressure on Obama to match the vapid, happy talk with real action. As for the whole "post-partisan" thing, if it means shameless acquiescence to Repub fascistic bullying then it is worse than meaningless. But if it means politics that benefit the vast majority of people in the country, including the Repub rank and file, then it is worth doing. And if you demonstrate by means of measurable improvement in people's lives, that a more humane, progressive political philosophy is more likely to improve people's lives then you have won. It's another New Deal and they can't stop you again until your children or their children grow up and lose faith and sellout and pull the ladder up behind them again. I have no illusions about Obama.
Homicide update
Faulkner County prosecutors charged a Searcy man with Internet stalking of a child on Tuesday in the third stalking case investigated in recent weeks by Conway Police Department. Michael E. Jackson, 27, of the 2000 block of Silver Springs was taken into CPD custody at 5:02 p.m., Monday after a sting conducted that afternoon, in which a detective was logged on as a 14-year-old female. Police say Jackson arranged a meeting with the 14-year-old persona with the intention of having sex, and shortly after showed up to a location designated by Jackson. On Oct. 3, CPD officers arrested Ivan Flores, 24, of the 400 block of East Robins on two counts of rape and a single count of Internet stalking after hearing statements from a 13-year-old female victim who said Flores sexually abused her in person after meeting her on myearbook.com.
When a Nano makes such a giga impact
NEW DELHI: The crowds started pouring into Hall 11 of Pragati Maidan hours before the Nano was scheduled to be unveiled at 11.30 am. By 10.30 am, there were no seats and TV crews had already begun positioning their cameras for the best possible view. Photographers were struggling to even stand and tempers began running high. It was tough enough reaching Pragati Maidan because of unusually heavy traffic but the jam inside was worse. Each time there was a buzz that Ratan Tata had come in, the photographers went ballistic. The organisers were imploring them to be seated but nobody was in a mood to oblige. Finally, the big man made his appearance and hysteria followed. As Tata described the journey of the peoples car, there were visuals playing in the background of the first bicycle and plane to drive home the theme of innovation.
KING EYES MORE GLORY
We believed we were the better team. "I wanted to be one of those captains that led a team up those steps to lift a trophy, but I don't want to stop there - I want to lead the club onto more success. I'm not happy leaving it at one trophy. "When you go far in competitions, you see yourself as in with a chance of winning finals and you want to win as many as you can. "The UEFA Cup is another chance to win something, but we'll be taking it one game at a time." .
Advance ID's `Tiny Chip' Can Make a Difference in Protecting from ...
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