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Meadows, R-Cashiers, said he has seen a lot of handwringing by federal agencies in the wake of the recent sequester. But too many bureaucrats are unwilling to roll up their sleeves and leverage the hand they're dealt to get the job done somehow. Instead they are cutting their most critical functions simply to prove a point.
"We are going to have to work through legitimate pain versus fabricated pain," he said.
But that's easier said than done. Meadows said bureaucrats have built walls that even Congressmen can't easily peer over to find out how the government actually operates.
"I knew our government was dysfunctional, but it is 10 times worse than I thought it would be," he said.
The Haywood County Chamber of Commerce hosted a roundtable lunch meeting with Meadows this week to give business leaders a chance to share their concerns with him. Meadows is clearly a friend of the business community, said Charles Umberger, president of Old Town Bank.
"He knows what it's like to make payroll. He knows what it's like to lose a big client," Umberger said.
The freewheeling conversation moved between Egypt, the lending environment, regulatory reform, Medicare insolvency, bipartisanship and a myriad of other topics.
Simply cleaning up the government emerged as one of Meadow's clear passions. He quickly noticed after taking office in January that the favorite phrase in Washington is "it's pending." Passing the buck has become an institutionalized way of doing business, even among, or especially among, Congress. Meadows doesn't want to be that kind of Congressman, however.
"We are at a desperate time in our nation's history," he firmly stated. "We have to make some tough choices, and I'm willing to do that even if it means getting a black eye."
However, Meadows admitted the sequester is a flawed route to government savings. Cutting the same amount across the board means some agencies are cut to the bone while others survive with several layers of fat still intact — depending on how generously padded they were in the first place.
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Meadows also told business leaders he wanted to pursue regulatory reform, one of the promised points in his campaign. He feels regulations, not taxes, are the biggest burden faced by business today.
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It was only coincidence that award-winning journalist and independent media champion Amy Goodman spoke to a Durango audience Sunday on the 11th anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan, but she used the milestone as an early point in her talk that centered on the changing power of the media.
Goodman, the host of the radio news program �Democracy Now!� is echoing to audiences in her tour of 100 cities that the voices of the �silenced majority� must rise louder than media outlets that are increasingly becoming mouthpieces for the corporations that own them. Few anti-war voices were heard in the media when the United States went to war with Afghanistan and Iraq, she said, and it remains the same 11 years later.
�There is a silenced majority by the corporate media, and we have to take it back,� Goodman told a nearly packed Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College on Sunday night.
Goodman�s tour is partly in support of her recently released book, which she wrote with former fellow �Democracy Now!� journalist Denis? Moynihan, called The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope. The tour also is in part to raise awareness of and money for public radio and television stations. The duo is making sure to hit the swing states in the upcoming general election, of which Colorado is one. They aren�t stumping for a candidate. Rather, they are carrying the cause of independent media, urging citizens to demand that mainstream media give voices to the minority � candidates, causes and movements.
Goodman decried the lack of inclusion of third-party candidates in presidential election debates. She said the change in 1988 from having the League of Women Voters running the debates to the Commission on Presidential Debates � a nonprofit controlled by the Republican and Democratic parties � shifted the political picture to a skewed representation of parties and candidates.
After Wednesday�s debate in Denver, at which only President Barack Obama and Republican hopeful Mitt Romney participated, �Democracy Now!� hosted a �gated debate� that included two of the several third-party presidential candidates. The goal, Goodman said, was to �bring out voices that are ignored or marginalized� by mainstream media. Only two participated � Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Justice Party candidate Rocky Anderson � and they answered the same questions put to Obama and Romney by debate moderator Jim Lehrer. Stein�s and Anderson�s answers are just as valuable � or maybe more so, Goodman said � because their campaigns lack the funding that puts them on better footing to compete with the two major political parties.
�When we listened to their answers, what we started to hear was a spectrum of the debate that we rarely hear,� she said.
The media has to be held accountable for not including these minority voices, Goodman said, adding that citizens need to understand the power of the media.
�This is how you learn about the world, and it should be other than through a corporate lens,� she said.
The din of the major parties is made louder by the large sums of money backing them, and it was made worse when U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2010 that the government can�t restrict independent political expenditures by corporations and unions. That U.S. citizens often don�t really know the sources of money being spent on the election is a threat to democracy, she said.
Political and social movements are important antidotes to corporate dominance, Goodman said. She used several examples to underscore how powerful activism can be, including the Arab Spring in the Middle East, Occupy Wall Street in New York City and the protests by union members in Wisconsin.
�With the �We are the 99 percent� � is there any slogan in the history of the United States that has reverberated more than this?� Goodman said, referring to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
She urged the audience � specifically the young and students � to be proactive to keep the �silenced majority� from continuing to be ignored. You never know what will spark a movement that will prompt monumental changes.
�If you think the battles of yesteryear, like that of Martin Luther King or Rosa Park, were so clear cut, think again,� she said.


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Former Durango resident James Willard �Mutt� Decker died Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, at home in Aztec from complications of cancer. He was 89.
Known as �Mutt,� Mr. Decker was born March 9, 1923, in Kirtland, N.M., the son of J. Elmer Decker and M. Elise Butt Decker. His father sent him to live with his aunt in Salt Lake City at the age of 6 after his mother died. He returned to live with his father and stepmother, Alvetta Decker, at the Decker ranch in the Vallecito Valley, where the reservoir now sits.
He was a proficient horse handler and horse breaker, and herded cattle into Durango by himself at a young age.
Mutt went to the University of Denver for two years before enlisting in the Army Air Corps during World War II. After a two-week �crash course� in aviation, he began piloting a P-47D Thunderbolt fighter-bomber aircraft. He successfully flew 79 missions and was considered an �Ace Pilot� with the 523rd Fighter Squadron, 27th Fighter Group. He achieved the rank of first lieutenant. He also was a ground escort for Gen. George S. Patton.
Mr. Decker returned to the states and married Laverne Crangle on March 24, 1946, a marriage that lasted 56 years. The newlyweds moved to Denver so Mr. Decker could finish his accounting degree.
Upon his return to Durango, Mr. Decker was instrumental in the formation of the Fort Lewis College business program, where he taught for a short time. He then began to practice as a certified public accountant in Durango.
The Deckers retired and moved to Farmington in the late 1980s. Mrs. Decker died in 2002, and Mr. Decker later married Sheila McIvor on Aug. 21, 2004.
Mr. Decker loved to tell World War II stories, his family said. He would tear up every time and say, �She (the plane) brought me back many a time.� His patriotism and love of country continued as a passion throughout his life.
Mr. Decker also enjoyed woodworking and made each of his children a bedroom set of their choice. His heart was devoted to gardening, his family said, and his love for roses kept him young forever.
Recently, Southwest Airlines flew him to Galveston, Texas, to make his last wish come true to honor his military career. The Lonestar Flight Museum prepared his original P-47D Thunderbolt aircraft and took it up for one last flight. At the time, it is believed this was the only P-47 still flying. It was the happiest day of his life, said his daughter Vickie Clark. Mr. Decker was proud of his hometown: The logo on the front of his plane was �The Durango Demon.�
Mr. Decker was preceded in death by his first wife, Laverne, and two sons, Thomas Duane and James Edward Decker.
He is survived by his wife, Sheila Decker, of Aztec; daughters Renee Gallion and Vickie Clark, both of Farmington, and Jamie Lister of Salt Lake City; eight grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 4, at Hood Mortuary; the family will receive guests from 10 a.m. to noon. A funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012, at Hood with Pastor John Preston officiating. Burial will follow at Greenmount Cemetery. A small reception will follow at 12:30 p.m. at the Durango Community Recreation Center.
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The Town of Tonawanda, in case you didn't know the motto, is a great place to live, work and play.
You can argue about whether there are better places in Western New York to live and work, but I defy you to win an argument about whether there is a better place to play.
Thank E. William Miller for that.
The longtime Town Board member, who didn't invent the idea of municipal recreation programs but never stopped working to perfect it, died last week at 86. I haven't heard whether anyone wants to build something in his memory, but why bother? Monuments to his legacy abound.
He will live on in the fairways at Sheridan and Brighton golf courses, on the base paths of dozens of baseball diamonds, in the warm air at the Paddock Golf Dome and the cool water of outdoor pools, on the ice rinks at Lincoln and Brighton parks and in the sweat of people exercising at the Aquatic and Fitness Center.
If you're having fun in the town, chances are that Bill Miller had something to do with it.
For 30 years, he championed the town's parks and recreation offerings by serving as chairman of that committee. The town already had many of the facilities it has today when he began serving on the Town Board in 1973, but on Miller's watch and with the support of the rest of the board, some were improved, and others were added.
• When the old outdoor Delaware Pool on Sheridan Drive needed too much work to keep it viable, it was replaced with the Aquatic and Fitness Center.
• With hockey booming in popularity and ice time becoming scarcer, roofs were added to the two existing rinks at Lincoln and Brighton.
• Not content to be a golf destination with two of the most affordable courses in the region, the town built a driving range and a golf dome so that duffers could get in their hacks regardless of the weather.
• Because not all boaters can afford a marina spot, the town added a boat launch and docks on the Niagara River.
In these austere times, with local government being forced to choose where to cut and how to get by with fewer employees and services, elected officials no longer spend as much time with the idea of recreation as they once did. That's not a criticism, really. When the choice is between police officers and park offerings, it really isn't much of a choice.
But Miller didn't see recreation as a municipal luxury. Because he was a family man himself, and because he was fortunate enough as a youth to spend his summers swimming, sailing and fishing at Crystal Beach, Ont., he knew that young families would gravitate to a community where there was always something fun and affordable to do.
"He relished the fact that the Town of Tonawanda, occupied by 'hardworking, common folk,' could offer superior recreational facilities and programs typically reserved for the elite or upper crust of society," his son, Gary Miller, said.
Tonawanda, like all first-ring suburbs, is getting smaller and older. It will be difficult in coming years for the town to keep its renowned recreation programs and services functioning.
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Ernie Booth and Laurence Moroney visited Joe Stegman, lead PM for "WPF/E" and discussed issues such as the MAC on his desk, "WPF/E", the fountain outside his window, and of course "WPF/E". We also experimented with a new product placement technology in this movie. See if you can spot it….
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3) .NET integration: is this a myth or will we see a lightwieght runtime incorporated into WPFE? In the Mike Harsh video he used C# to change opacity if I remember correctly. has this been abandoned or is it still in play. Also, will this be a strictly windows technology (the CLR Integration aspect) or are you planning to package a runtime for MAC as well.
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As a teenager, Stanley F. Czarniak felt his father's sorrow as he watched him huddle beside the radio listening to the grim news that his Polish homeland had fallen to the Nazis in 1939.
Stanley did not take this well.
A teenage hunter who knew his way around guns, and a student of war fascinated by the books he read on the trench warfare of World War I, he was determined to avenge what the Nazis had done, certain America would wind up in World War II.
Czarniak enlisted in the Army on Feb. 6, 1940, and was sent to West Point to serve in the Quartermaster Corps as a truck driver. Less than two years later, the United States was in the fight.
"I was listening to the football game at West Point when President Roosevelt announced we had been attacked at Pearl Harbor. Myself and three friends volunteered as parachute troops, and we became charter members of the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Benning, Ga.," Czarniak said.
His chance to even the score with Hitler arrived when the Allied forces invaded Europe.
"Our division, the 82nd Division; the British Red Devil Division; the Canadians; the Polish; and a French battalion of paratroopers dropped behind the beaches at Normandy to stop German reinforcements from coming up as our sea forces landed," he said of his participation in the June 6, 1944, Invasion of Normandy.
Czarniak was in charge of a platoon of 40 men armed with eight machine guns. He'd come a long way quickly from his teenage days of wandering the woods on what is now George Urban Boulevard in Cheektowaga, hunting rabbit and pheasant.
"There were four men to a machine gun, a couple bazooka men, a medic and a radio man," he recalled of his military unit. "Bill Lee was our first general, and he told us we had no history of battle experience at the time but that we had a rendezvous with destiny."
A book on the 101st would later bear that name, "Rendezvous With Destiny." Czarniak bears the scars to prove it. He suffered a bullet wound to the kidney from a German machine gunner and a tear to the cheek from shrapnel.
After more than a month of mending, he was well enough to make the jump into Holland on Sept. 17, 1944.
Behind enemy lines for 72 days, his unit was pulled back to a rest area in Mourmelon, France. Soon after replacements arrived, they were trucked to Bastogne, where they fought in the Battle of the Bulge.
"There was no time for an airlift. We had a network of roads coming out of Bastogne. Hitler needed those roads for his armored divisions. They wanted Antwerp, a big port that was supplying the northern armies for the Allies."
It looked like the Germans might win a decisive fight, and the enemy sent word to the Czarniak's commander asking if he wanted to surrender.
"Gen. Anthony McAuliffe said, 'Nuts.' That was his reply to the Germans. Then General Patton's tanks broke through the encirclement around us, and we continued fighting."
Czarniak said he and his fellow paratroopers remained on the ground from that point and fought east to Germany until victory was won in May 1945.
But, really, the war never ended for Czarniak.
"It keeps me awake every night. I think mainly about the boys that I lost. My platoon required replacements after every action. We probably lost about 45."
Yet his hard-earned war experiences helped others.
In February 1951, he served at Camp Breckinridge, Ky., training troops headed to the Korean War.
"I never hesitated when I was recalled."
It was an honor, he said, to share his military experience, though privately his heart ached.
"It was sad to see young boys, knowing what they were going to do and what they were going to face."
Stanley F. Czarniak, 91
Hometown: Buffalo
Residence: Lancaster
Branch: Army
Rank: battlefield commission, 2nd lieutenant
War zone: World War II, European Theater; served stateside during Korean War training combat troops
Years of service: February 1940 – June 1945; reactivated February 1951 – June 1952
Most prominent honors: Purple Heart, 2 Bronze Stars, Combat Infantry Badge, 2 Presidential Unit Citations.
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English slang meaning 'good', often used to describe fashion.
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Each of us remembered how the difficulty of our own adolescents was made easier by caring adults in our lives. Our pasts didn't include delinquency but what we share with youth in the system is trauma from childhood. We realize how lucky we each were to have people to help us navigate through that time and want to give back to other youth who also come from difficult backgrounds.
John's mother was murdered when he was 10. There were wonderfully supportive people who did for him what he now does every day working with youth – helping them through the trauma in their lives. He also sees the youth we work with as creative and talented kids and that it's up to us as adults to find a way to invite them into being part of what works to reduce delinquency.
Lisa came to her loving parents through the adoption system and was in a family that was both a victim of a crime and who also had a family member who committed a very serious crime. Witnessing the trauma and support within all of this caused her to want to help others.
Linda grew up in a very large and loving family with an alcoholic father. Her five siblings offered her a safe place to live and the encouragement to be what was then the only child to attend and finish college. She wanted her work to help influence the lives of young people for the better as her family had done for her.
When someone asks you what you do, how do you describe your work and organization?
The typical response when we tell someone we work in juvenile justice is, "oh, how depressing – you must see a lot of horrible kids." And our typically response is, "No, my job is very hopeful actually – I see the things that work, programs that reduce victimizations of juvenile crime in our community and turn young peoples lives around – young people who most everyone else have given up on – that's a good day at the office."
Then they go on to tell us what works in juvenile justice based on what worked for them when they were young. That part is less hopeful because it shows us the wide range of belief systems about what should happen to juvenile offenders. Those beliefs are usually not supported by the research and very often include things that don't work – if not, make things work.
In terms of describing the organization we work in, we tell them about the balanced approach our organization provides – it's a mix of corrections responses like probation, detention, community service, restitution to victims, etc. – things to hold youth accountable for their actions and combines those with treatment options like drug treatment and skill building so youth leave the system better able to deal with life's stressors. We offer educational, vocational and career opportunities – effective services that help them move away from delinquency and towards positive personal goals. That's the balanced approached, providing correctional services; restoration to victims; and skill building for the offender and, when appropriate, for their families.
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Chapter 1: Jasmine
Chapter 2: Arturo
Chapter 3: Rachel
Chapter 4: Alan
Chapter 5: Stephanie
Chapter 6: Roger
Chapter 7: Michael
Chapter 8: Chris
Chapter 9: Marcia
Chapter 10: Tyrone
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Chapter 11: A Brief History of Juvenile Justice in the United States
Chapter 12: What Doesn't Work
Chapter 13: What Works
Chapter 14: Risk (Who)
Chapter 15. Need (What)
Chapter 16. Treatment (How)
Chapter 17: Program Integrity (How Well)
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As Summer approaches -- reminding us of last August's blackout -- increased threats of terrorist attacks and the need for high-security around the Republican National Convention make it vital to assess what city officials are doing to insure that the city's emergency communications systems are fully operational. These include the 911 and E-911 (for mobile phones) systems, radio spectrum for public safety communications, and a high-speed wireless back-up network.
911 and E-911
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered an overhaul of the city's 911 system after the failure in late March that caused the emergency system to shut down for two hours due to a Verizon employee error. The overhaul would make the system faster, more reliable and more efficient. Under the plan, the city's eight dispatch centers will be consolidated into two.
"The world continues to get more complicated, but responding to emergencies quickly and with the right resources still makes the difference when lives are at risk," Bloomberg reportedlysaid through a spokesman. "So whatever we can do to integrate and streamline our dispatch systems will only protect the people of New York."
New Yorkers have paid $281 million in taxes on their telephone bills to improve 911 since 1992 but the system -- which handles about 12 million calls a year -- still lags behind. Last year, the 311 system was introduced to handle non-emergency calls in order to alleviate the burden on the 911 system.
Similarly, cell phone customers are paying $1.20 a month for "enhanced 911," a service that enables the location of callers to be traced, according to NY1 . However, only 12 cents per bill is going to the E-911 project while the rest is being used for the state's general emergency fund. The upgrade was prompted by the deaths of four teenagers who drowned when their boat sank after a failed 911 call.
Radio Spectrum for Public Safety
Increased cell phone use is interfering with public safety communications according to a City Council hearing on radio spectrum held in March. This is because public safety uses overcrowded radio systems, share channels with other agencies and share the same bandwidth with private cellular providers.
"During crisis," said Councilmember Gale Brewer, "our first responders need reliable communication systems. Spectrum is important because it is the â€highway' through which first responders communicate with each other. A shortage of spectrum jeopardizes the lives and health of our courageous public safety officials and threatens their ability to protect the lives of New Yorkers."
Currently, there are two plans for dealing with this overcrowding and the danger that it presents for emergency communications. One option, proposed by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International and dubbed the "Consensus Plan," would try to untangle public and private users of spectrum. Nextel Communications has committed $850 million for this initiative. Another option, the "Balanced Approach" as proposed by Verizon, would maintain current spectrum allocations and resolve problems on a case-by-case basis.
Currently, the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) is supporting the first proposal. The issue is unlikely to be resolved before January 2007, which is the deadline for the transfer of spectrum as part of pending federal legislation called the HERO Act.
In the meantime, the office is exploring other ways to improve the city's emergency communications including using high-speed wireless technology to expand the capabilities of public safety workers. For example, sending building maps to firefighters on the scene or mug shots to police officers.
High-Speed Wireless Back-up Network
On May 5, Governor Pataki announced the commitment of $10 million dollars in funding from the Empire State Development Corporation to build a high-speed wireless network in Lower Manhattan. The announcement was made in response to a proposal by the Downtown Alliance for the development of a redundancy system that would allow telephones and the Internet to function in an emergency. The network reportedly would be the first such project in a major business district in the country.
"To further help businesses thrive in the post September 11th world, we must make Lower Manhattan into a commercial district with truly cutting-edge telecommunications infrastructure," Pataki said. "Let's install a wireless data network that will enable downtown's businesses to broadcast their data through secure channels to satellite locations."
The "Lower Manhattan Wireless Redundancy System" is intended to make the telecommunications infrastructure more reliable and resistant—allowing businesses to continue to be connected with the world during a disruption. Wireless technology uses airwaves—instead of fiber optic cables or copper wires--to send communications over the Internet. While the network is primarily intended for data, it could also be used for voice.
The state funding will cover the basic infrastructure--roof-top antennas on Lower Manhattan's tallest buildings—that could be put in place in about six months. The antennas would be connected to locations other parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn or New Jersey. The network uses laser light, non-visible infrared wavelengths and radio microwaves to send signals up to one mile without wires—significantly farther than wireless â€hot spot' technology which only ranges between 300 and 1,000 feet.
Since September 2003, the Downtown Alliance has been operating a free public wireless network that has eight â€hot spots' in Lower Manhattan including Bowling Green Park, City Hall Park and South Street Seaport.
Both small and medium-sized businesses and large corporations benefit from these networks because they are inexpensive, secure and reliable. However, large corporations are unlikely to move to Lower Manhattan without a back-up communications system. Thus, the new project is vital for maintaining the economic competitiveness of downtown New York as a thriving business district. It will also insure reliability for public safety communications in an emergency.
At a summit earlier this month at Baruch College, City Council Speaker Gifford Miller announced the results of a survey on the city's emergency preparedness. The survey showed that out of 160 community organizations, over 70 percent have not been informed by the City on how to prepare for an emergency.
"Unfortunately, New York City still does not have a comprehensive, coordinated and borough-oriented system to recruit, register and deploy emergency volunteers," said Speaker Miller. "That over 90 percent of community organizations have never been informed by the city on how to become emergency volunteers is wholly unacceptable. The city must do more to assist neighborhoods and improve these organizations' ability to offer community residents real emergency preparedness."
More details about the summit can be found on the council's new Web site http://www.nyccouncil.info. The new site is a welcomed improvement because the Web address is much easier to remember and it has a number of useful features, as Speaker Miller himself points out in an article for Gotham Gazette, The Rise of the E-Citizen. Laura Forlano is a doctoral student studying communication technology policy at Columbia University.


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Now that 3-D has moved from the multiplex into the living room, it was only a matter of time before stereoscopics came to rock 'n' roll.
And it was only fitting that the prime force behind it would be Primus. The San Francisco trio behind Sailing the Seas of Cheese and the South Park theme brought its psychedelic 3-D concert tour on Monday night to SMU's McFarlin Auditorium.
The location was heavy with kismet. It was at McFarlin 40 years ago this fall that Dark Side of the Moon was staged by Pink Floyd, a band that pioneered trippy visuals, not to mention the echoey bass guitar gallop favored by Primus leader Les Claypool.
Instead of a floating pig, Primus unleashed a surreal parade of lobsters, squirrels and beavers to wander off the screen and into the crowd. Globs of molten lava shot like slow-moving bullets toward fans' black-plastic 3-D glasses in "Moron TV," while a freaky visage of Abe Lincoln danced across retinas in "American Life," the show's longest and boldest jam. For once at a Primus show, not a single person was moshing.
"We've blown minds!" a gleeful Claypool declared midway through the second set. "There are bits and pieces of gray matter scattered around."
Metaphorically, yes — at least on the main floor. The main problem with the 3-D is it failed to work nearly as well in the balconies. It also required a darkened stage, which rendered Primus all but invisible and meant nobody could witness Claypool doing his odd spin dances.
Hopscotching between such oldies as "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" and tunes from Green Naugahyde, its first disc in 12 years, Primus reminded you that a little extreme weirdness goes a long way. Claypool's herky-jerky mumble of a voice was amusing for a few songs and just plain grating after that.
Yet it was impossible not to admire Primus' top-notch musicianship and its total disregard for convention. Improvising madly and stirring together genres like kids mixing finger paints, Claypool, drummer Jay Lane and guitarist Larry LaLonde painted a dark collage of funk, metal and avant-garde jazz.
Like 3-D itself, Primus isn't best for everyday use. But it's certainly fun to slip on the glasses every now and then.
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When I was little, I wanted to be a dog catcher. I thought it would be so cool to have a giant net like I'd seen in cartoons, and to run down the street swinging it at stray dogs. I had a cousin who wanted to be Shamu, and a sister who wanted to work in a salon where they dyed everyone's hair pink.
This is what I love about children. They see themselves as growing up in these fantastic roles, where anything is possible, and everything is obtainable. The innocence of that self-confidence is amazing, and is something I wish we could hold onto.
Right now, my 4-year-old wants to be a "firetist" - a scientist who studies fire, wears lava-proof suits, and dives into volcanoes to study how the flaming lava works. He also wants to be a volunteer firefighter so that he can rescue people when he isn't knee deep in hot magma.
I love that he has dreams like this, and that he has complete confidence in his ability to grow up and dive into volcanoes. If a lava-proof suit doesn't exist when he graduates with his volcanologist degree, he is certain he will invent one. And hey, who am I to say he will not? He is an incredibly smart, creative child, and he will stop at nothing to see an idea through.
Most of us tell our children they can grow up to be anything they want, and when I say this, my son looks at me and says, "Of course, I can!"
So we nurture his obsession with volcanoes and firefighters. We read science books about how volcanoes come to be and history books about Pompeii. We play endless, monotonous games of fire rescue, with him dressed in full firefighter costume and me as the poor, lost hiker who's once again found herself stuck on top of a mountain stairway.
I don't know if my son's dream of being a fire scientist will last, and while I definitely hope he does not one day end up in a career requiring him to dive into active volcanoes, I am proud to watch him stretching his active imagination. I love that he sees himself in an inventive grown-up role, helping people and studying the planet. It's almost as good as a giant net for chasing dogs.
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Usually when there is a debate involving free exercise and establishment at Clemson, it's about fans attending a football scrimmage with no admission charge and arguing about when head coach Dabo Swinney should name a starting quarterback.
This time it's Swinney vs. a fringe organization that solicits donations so staffers can do things like whine about people saying "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy holidays." The Freedom From Religion Foundation claims to be "the nation's largest association of freethinkers (atheists, agnostics)." And the second largest? Probably the late afternoon crowd at a coffee shop in Santa Cruz.
But Swinney, who consistently mixes a Christian message into his coaching routine, is left open to criticism when a Fellowship of Christian Athletes office is inside the Clemson football building and a football player is baptized at practice (as DeAndre Hopkins was in 2013).
Would an FCA office in any other location in tiny Clemson serve student-athletes any less effectively? Would toning it down a bit keep the cynics away?
Otherwise, most of the concerns in a letter of complaint the FFRF sent to Clemson this week are ridiculous. For instance, the group has recommended the elimination of Clemson's sports chaplaincy position, a job title common throughout college and professional sports.
Clemson in its response insists Swinney and his coaches are not violating the separation of church and state Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, and that free exercise of religion is "purely voluntary."
"There is no mandatory participation," Clemson spokeswoman Cathy Sams said.
Prayer goes with sports - in baseball huddles before games, when football teams hold hands with other football teams after games. The FCA meets on public high school campuses.
More so in the South, for goodness sake.
Drugs, porn, and God
At South Carolina and Clemson, fans are led in prayer prior to kickoffs. Faith-based bonds have been a big part of recent Gamecock baseball teams (re-read Travis Haney's "Gamecock Glory") and the Alabama football fabric (so says Nick Saban in his recent FCA address), and exist in many other sports programs throughout the region.
By the way, there was an official prayer at the recent South Carolina Press Association awards banquet.
With all the negative hurdles college kids have to deal with these days - drugs, absentee fathers, student loan debt, porn, absentee mothers - it's hard to comprehend people making a living out of making an issue of coaches chatting up God. If the FFRF is really concerned about Clemson athletes, why not worry about the Tigers' regularly scheduled games against teams named the Blue Devils and Demon Deacons?
Clemson recruits know what they're getting into, for better or worse. To that end, Swinney while discussing openly gay NFL prospect Michael Sam sounded a lot more tolerant than organizations funded to promote so-called tolerance. Swinney said he played with gay players at Alabama and said there was "a little bit of everything" within his Clemson roster.
Dabo on Muslims, gays
"Again, you have respect for each individual and their personal beliefs," Swinney said. "It's just like they're different religions. I'm a Christian, but I've coached and played with Muslims and all kind of different religions. It's not about any of that. Those are personal decisions that people have to make. I mean everyone will be judged one day, but it's not up to me to judge somebody."
Jesus was persecuted for not backing down and said that fellow believers would suffer for their honesty. Clemson and Swinney can probably win this battle without budging, and there's something noble in that.
Simply move the FCA office across the street, however, and that asphalt between Clemson and the off-campus world acts as protection against silly "complaints."
Pragmatism isn't always such a bad idea, especially when you can maintain conviction without distractions.
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Dear #OLTW Backers,
It is with surpassing joy that I share with you the launch of my book, The Oldest Living Things in the World with forewords by Hans Ulrich... Read more
Antarctica print sale on FAB.com + First site-specific OLTW show
Dear OLTW backers,
2012 is already shaping up to be a great year for the Oldest Living Things, and I wanted to share some of the milestones with you.... Read more
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Dear OLTW supporters,
It's been just over a year since the OLTW Kickstarter campaign came to a close. The Oldest Living Things might hardly have noticed the year click by,... Read more
TEDGlobal! + WSJ! + KICKSTARTER SUCCESS!
Dear Wonderful Backers...I'm on cloud 9 right now:
I was just asked to speak at TEDGlobal next month in Oxford. I'm beyond humbled and honored. I'm going to start rehearsing ... Read more
Shows, The Long Now + New Rewards
Wow.We're at 97% with 12 days to go. You all have really warmed my heart with your support and generosity! I have some announcements for you, as well as... Read more
OLTW nominated for the 2010 PRIX PICTET
Good morning all,
I couldn't be more pleased to announce that the Oldest Living Things in the World has been nominated for a second year for the prestigious PRIX PICTET.... Read more
GEL talk live & some great new REWARDS
Hi there,
I've got a lot to tell you today. First, I wanted to share the link to the OLTW talk I gave at the GEL Conferencelast month. http://vimeo.com/11915393.... Read more
NEW **ART** rewards: Laura Holder & Monica Bradley
I'm happy to be checking in with you all today at 76% of my goal and 137 backers! I'll be making another radio appearance next week on WFMU, and... Read more
NEW **ART** rewards: Sarah Small & Diana Folsom
Wow - we're up to 70%! I am very excited and so moved -- not only by the kindness of your pledges, but also the wonderful comments that have been... Read more
New weekly **ART** rewards: Jon Feinstein & Angela Cappetta
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Edging the grass along a street curb with weed eaters, mainly the maintenance guys who do city and residential landscaping. But doing your own lawn is included.
while i was driving to work, i saw the landscape maintenance guys curb flossing.
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On the heels of winning another state championship, Greenwood High School head football coach Rick Jones has been named the 2012 National Coach of the Year.
The National Federation of State High School Associations Coaches Association, which has honored high school coaches since 1982, recognizes coaches in 22 different categories.
Jones has led Greenwood to win a state championship in each of the last three seasons, despite moving up in classification from 5-A to 6-A before the 2012 season. They beat Pine Bluff, 51-44, at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock to secure their first 6-A crown.
During Greenwood's state championship run, Jones has also led the Bulldogs to 38 consecutive wins in that span.


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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — The Incline Village/Crystal Bay Republican Women's Club is holding its May meeting at the Governor's Mansion in Carson City from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 8.
Attorney Mark Hutchison — a Republican candidate from State Senate District 6 (Las Vegas) — will be the group's guest speaker.
Hutchison was appointed in 2010 by former Gov. Jim Gibbons to join 26 other states in filing their opposition to the national health care reform law.
Reservations are required to attend the meeting. Those interested in attending should send $45 by May 5 to IV/CB Republican Women's Club, P.O. Box 3009, Incline Village, NV 89450.
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The 5 Most Poorly Conceived 'Sexy' Charity Drives
Everyone loves a boner, except for Glenn Close, who is completely sexless and has no use for erections at all. For the rest of us, the act of either giving or receiving a boner is like Christmas, two days a year. Why, I remember every year on my father's birthday around 10 p.m. I'd hear a hearty "Erk!" from my parents' room and then the next day my dad would whistle a jaunty sea shanty and my mother wouldn't make eye contact with me.
The downside of boners, if you had to think of one, would be their innate selfishness. Where are our altruistic boners? Where are our mighty loads of giving and caring? Where is the spooge of love and brotherhood? The answer is here, friends. So pull up a boner and read on!
#5. PornHub for Breast Cancer
Statistics show that everyone watches porn thrice per day. Thrice. You have a window open right now with porn in it, don't you? Please indicate in the comments what manner of porn it is, unless it's gross. If you feel that my stats are suspect, I invite you to read these even more terrifyingly awesome real statistics, which indicate that the biggest porn site on the web, XVideos.com, gets 4.4 billion hits per month. It streams 1 terabyte of data every second. Only insane sites like Google and Facebook pull in more traffic. Youporn, which ranks second to XVideos, is still about six times the size of Hulu. And then there's PornHub.
With 2.5 billion views a month, PornHub is a busy place, and in October of 2012, they decided to be good Samaritans by offering up money for a good cause. For every viewer who checked out some porn featuring boobies, PornHub would donate cash to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The official deal was one cent for every 30 views of videos in the big or small boobies categories. As an aside, there's such a thing as small boobies porn? Please explain.
In their official press release, PornHub assured us all that it didn't matter if you liked a nice handful of "low-swinging flapjacks" because they were all for charity. And thank God, because low-swinging flapjacks do not get enough love these days. Maybe they get batted around like an ape playing with a tire on a swing, but have you ever thought that looking at them would help treat cancer? Of course not.
By the end of the month, PornHub had raised $25,000, which isn't much, but it's better than a slap in the flapjacks. Susan G. Komen and her cronies, however, were all "This exploitative porn money isn't cool" and rejected any involvement, leaving PornHub to find a new charity to accept their cash. Meanwhile, the rest of us are forced to wonder if a site that so freely slaps around the word "flapjacks" is really the place to be raising money for a serious health issue that affects women when their bread and butter seems to be bukkake.
#4. Toys for Ta-Tas
Every year in December, as the weather turns colder and our nipples turn harder, the spirit of the season overtakes us, and our thoughts turn to boobies. So many boobies. Or in this case, ta-tas. The annual Toys for Ta-Tas charity drive takes place at numerous strip clubs around the country and is basically a more selfish version of the old Toys for Tots campaign. While Toys for Tots wanted you to donate a toy to a needy child, the obvious problem was that no one got to see tits, and if you're giving for a charitable cause, shouldn't you get to see tits? Didn't Jesus say that like five times in the Bible?
"Giveth unto the least of my brothers your charity, that thou shalt forever after see the grace and beauty of these glorious boobs, and that thou mayest maybe juggle them at some point, which thou will findeth most pleasurable."
Yeah, that's what Jesus said. Later there's a part about how awesome burritos are and how Brett Ratner can suck a dick. It's all in Galatians. No one ever reads Galatians.
Anyway, you bring in a new, unwrapped toy, because if it's wrapped we're going to be forced to assume that it's a bloody, semen-encrusted bottle of Scotch and PCP, and you get a free dance from a stripper, or maybe they just shake the goods in your direction for a predetermined length of time while you smile and reflect on what a good person you are for helping the unfortunate people of your town. And the stripper will be naked when she does it! Oh man, that's the best kind of stripping, the naked kind.
In Tampa, Florida, their annual drive brings in over 1,000 toys a year for needy kids in the area. The drive in Columbus, Ohio, brings in hundreds of toys and thousands of dollars and shakes twos of boobs in the faces of everyone who shows up. Tiny Tim would shed a tear. Possibly some other fluids. No one in any news reports I've found ever mentions if the kids who received the toys are told where they came from, or if any of the kids, upon hearing where the toys came from, ask for a look at some boobs themselves, but I like to think it's happened once or twice.
Many of these events have been going on for 10 years or more and in the past drew protests, until everyone involved realized that boobs are great and by protesting them, all you're doing is hefting a sign in your neighborhood that proclaims you a mighty twat. So very mighty. Plus how can you be opposed to poor kids getting toys and poor dudes getting boobs? What kind of monster are you?
#3. Erotica Will Save the World
In Japan, everything is Japanese. Also, things tend to operate a little differently than they do over here. For instance, our boob charities (as we've seen) focus on showing you boobs or, well, that's it. In Japan, if you want to raise money for a cause, say AIDS awareness, what you do is allow many strange and weird men to pay an amount of money that no news site was able to actually publish, have them sanitize their hands, and then let them squeeze some boobies.
But don't worry, it wasn't weird. Only one boob per hand, mister, and only two squeezes per payment. Don't you dare flex those fingers a third time. No official word was given on the subjects of bopping, juggling or giggle-shaking.
During the event, which was broadcast live on the Internet, participants were allowed to pay and line up again if they didn't get all their squeezin's in one sitting, and then after maybe they could buy some porn DVDs or participate in a masturbation marathon, because nothing says charity quite like paying to masturbate in public with people you don't know. Mother Theresa would not like me to finish this thought. But you would. I know you would. Mmm.
My research failed at turning up how much money the event raised, but since the world is still here, we can assume that they raised enough to save it from Gamera or whoever it might be that causes AIDS in Japan.


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The measurements for Fujifilm Super CCD cameras are qualitatively different from those for other DSLRs, given that the Fujifilm Super CCD cameras sensor uses super CCD technology: instead of just one sensor, two sensors (of 6Mpix each) are interleaved on the die.
Each sensor has a Bayer structure, rotated by 45°. However, one has large pixels with sensitivity comparable to any other DSLR sensor, and the other one has smaller pixels with much lower sensitivity (about 4 f-stops). The advantage of this second sensor is that while highlights might be burnt on the large pixels, they still contain some information on the small pixels. This means that a significant gain can be expected in dynamic range.
This special "dynamic boost" mode is available for ISO settings lower than 800.
In order to be able to compare the Fujifilm Super CCD cameras data with that of any other sensor, we had to adapt our standard protocols:
- We measured ISO sensitivity on the large pixel sensor (with dynamic boost off). While this is not compliant with ISO standard 12232 at saturation, in this particular case the norm is not adapted and would be very confusing for the user.
- We considered the sensor as equivalent to 6Mpix. Under normal shooting conditions, the small sensor is indeed too noisy to provide any details.
- We chose the most favorable noise curve: we considered larger pixels for low and mid-tones, and smaller pixels when the large pixels saturate.
- We measured SNR 18% at 18% of the large pixel dynamic, which corresponds to equivalent exposure with the other sensors.
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- A very large increase of dynamic range below ISO 800 (when dynamic boost is available).
- A slight increase of tonal range and color sensitivity below ISO 800.
- Unchanged SNR 18%.
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UK Video Game Chart: Batman launches to massive sales
Batman: Arkham City has secured the All Formats All Prices UK video game chart No.1 spot, after a huge week of sales which sees the game claim the fourth best launch week of the year so far - behind FIFA 12, Gears of War 3 and LA Noire.
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Man injured in Beloit home explosion dies
The Rock County Coroner's office confirmed to WISN 12 News that one of the people injured in a home explosion has died.
An official with the coroner's office said that Todd Purdy, 37, passed away Thursday from injuries sustained in a home explosion in Beloit Sunday evening.
Purdy and his wife, 33-year-old Tara, were renting the home and had moved in a week earlier. They had installed a gas stove earlier on the day the home exploded.
Both victims were transported to UW Hospital. Tara Purdy was last listed in fair condition.
Investigators found a gas line to the stove had not been capped, causing the lower level of the home to fill with natural gas before the explosion.
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Robin Li, co-founder of Baidu.com, and his wife, Melissa Dongmin Ma, made a donation of $200,000 to the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering.
Li, who founded China's equivalent to Google in 2000, is funding a data mining and machine learning laboratory that will be named after him and situated in Davis Hall at UB's North Campus.
Li received a master's degree from UB in 1994 and is recognized as one of the world's top search-engine experts. He serves as Baidu's chairman and chief executive officer and oversees the company's business and strategy operations.
The lab will allow students and faculty "develop new initiatives in data mining," which involves taking information form a large set of data to develop algorithms.


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Transportation Security Administration employees show new body scanner software that uses a stick figure to represent the passenger being scanned, rather than an actual image of the person. (Reuters)
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5 Dumb Writing Gimmicks That Became Classic Books
We like our stories to be a little bit conventional. We like beginnings and middles and ends, and catchphrases and slow-motion explosions and kisses in the rain. We want to see heroes win and villains get steam pipes thrown through them and dogs cover their eyes with their paws when something embarrassing happens.
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"There's nothing in here that says a dog can't be pope." -record scratch-
Cracked has broken this down before, discussing how Hollywood scripts in particular are assembled almost like Mad Libs, major story elements laid out according to precise minute-by-minute formulas. And yet almost no one notices this because of how comfortable we are with the formula; we expect stories to be laid out this way.
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"A Battle of the Bands? That's just crazy enough to work!"
But other than our own cognitive laziness, there's nothing that says stories have to be so formulaic, that tales can't be spun around innovative, inventive structures. Not in the movies, of course -- those are doomed. But in a word-movie, the so called "book"? Holy shit, yes. With no obligation to make back a $200 million budget or pull in the increasingly slope-browed 16-to-24 demographic, writers have pulled all sorts of inventive stunts when writing novels. Here are five of the most mind-bending.
#5. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler -- Italo Calvino
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a book about a person reading a book called If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.
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If your hand instinctively made a jerking-off motion when you read that, well, that's not an uncommon reaction.
The book is told in interleaving chapters, with the odd-numbered chapters, about the person reading If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, told in second person. As in, "You are enjoying reading this book. You're not feeling annoyed at all by this and are definitely going to be recommending this book to your friends."
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"You also definitely aren't making a jerking-off motion with your hand right now."
The rest of the chapters, which you might expect to contain an actual story, are in fact 10 different first chapters of 10 completely different novels, which for various reasons the reader (you?) never got around to finishing. There is some structure, though, curious parallels and themes crossing over between the interleaved chapters. For example, after the "detective novel" chapter, the second-person chapter features the reader (me?) doing various detectivey things.
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"What's making that 'fap fap fap' sound?"
It might sound like a hot, fapping mess, but it's not, at least not completely. This conceit and structure is ideally suited to exploring the nature of the author/reader relationship, the motivations behind the writing process, and whether we as readers should trust authors not to jerk us around. If you go into the book with an open mind (and maybe some ice for your elbow), you just might enjoy it.
#4. "For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn" -- Ernest Hemingway
"For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn" is both the title and the entire text of a "novel" purportedly written by Ernest Hemingway. In the interest of accuracy, I should note that the authorship of the piece isn't wholly settled, but seeing as the story of Hemingway writing it to win a bar bet is so amusingly in sync with what we know about Hemingway's character, I highly recommend you not question it.
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"Who wants to bet that I can't drink this baby?"
Whatever its origin, "For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn," considering the limitations of its structure, is a staggeringly good novel. It's a brilliant demonstration of the power of implication, six little words able to communicate a hopeful beginning, a tragic end, clear characters, and a tremendous depth of feeling.
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By heartbreakingly capturing the twin tragedies of losing a child and having to deal with the idiots who respond to Craigslist ads.
So the next time you're at the movies and see a passionless romantic comedy, a trite heroic sacrifice, or anyone learning a lesson about anything, ever, just remember the time Hemingway (or someone) captured 12,000 times the emotion with six measly words.
#3. A Void -- Georges Perec
A Void is a novel written using a stunt that I can barely contemplate. If someone asked me to try this with one of my columns, I'd say it was impossible and spit in their face.
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What is it that Georges Perec did that's so impossible? He wrote La Disparition, a 300-page novel, without once using E.
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The letter, not the drug. About 70 percent of all novels are written without the benefit of Ecstasy.
Yes, E. As in the most popular letter in the high school that is the alphabet, the king of the vowels. He did this in French, but even the translations manage to go without E as well, like the English version, titled A Void.
Because This Is a Really Stupid Idea contains a couple E's.
Actually, that's harsh. This isn't a stupid novel at all. Along with really intelligently exploring the concept of, you guessed it, absence, it's also a fun, readable mystery novel. The characters in it are very aware that something is missing from their world and spend the bulk of the story trying to figure out what it is, a process made significantly more difficult by the fact that they can't "consider," "search," or "investigate" anything. Indeed, characters end up disappearing themselves as they learn the dark truth, the novel playing out like an old parlor mystery.
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TAHOE CITY, Calif. — The public has until 5 p.m. on Sept. 10 to submit comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the proposed biomass facility on Cabin Creek Road, off Highway 89 between Tahoe City and Truckee.
All comments received will be included in the final EIR, expected to be completed by early-to-mid November, said Gerry Haas, Placer County's senior planner for the biomass project.
As of Thursday, a total of seven comments have been received, two of which were made at a public hearing on the draft EIR Thursday afternoon at the Granlibakken Resort in Tahoe City.
One was from Anne Grogan, who, speaking on behalf of Sierra Business Council, expressed concern over the facility's potential impact on Truckee's air quality.
"Sierra Business Council recognizes the enduring proactive efforts of the town of Truckee to improve air quality and comply with federal air quality standards," she said. "Because the Cabin Creek biomass facility proposed has the potential to emit particulates, some of which will likely be carried on air currents into the town of Truckee, Sierra Business Council recommends that the operation of this facility should be tied to an assuring regular monitoring location at an appropriate location within the town of Truckee.
"Should air quality emissions from the biomass facility impact the town of Truckee's ability to meet federal compliance standards, Sierra Business Council recommends a flexible facility management plan that would allow hours or days of operation at the biomass facility to match hours or days when emissions are less likely to make a negative impact on the town of Truckee and its ability to reach attainment of federal air quality standards."
Alfred Bulf, of Nevada City, was the other person to comment. He offered a location suggestion and mentioned a way to cut down on transportation costs.
"There is some interest, but not as much as I thought there would be," Haas said after the public hearing. "It's OK. Usually, a lack of interest shows either because of apathy or it's general acceptance of the project."
The proposed project is a two-megawatt biomass facility that would utilize gasification technology to convert woody biomass gathered from area forests into energy at the Eastern Regional Materials Recovery Facility and Landfill.
The proposed facility would be located on a 3.7-acre site on the southernmost area of the property with an approximately 11,000 square-foot, two- story building to house power-generating and emissions-control equipment. Also included in the proposal is about a one-acre material storage area that would include a 7,000 square-foot open-air pole barn structure to allow materials to dry before being used in the energy generation process.
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Visitors can explore the Maui Nui Botanical Gardens in Kahului by taking a new digital audio tour.
It provides the garden's history and facts about its endemic and endangered plants.
The 10 audio wands were made possible by a $5,000 grant from the Leiter Family Foundation, which has been a frequent supporter of the garden's education programs over the years.
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Seabury Hall senior Kaulu Lu'uwai, 17, learns details about Hawaiian plants while touring the Maui Nui Botanical Gardens with one of the Kahului facility's new Tour-Mate handheld audio devices Wednesday morning. The nonprofit has acquired 10 audio wands for tours, thanks to a $5,000 grant from the Leiter Family Foundation. Radio personality Alaka'i Paleka narrates the tour.
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Seabury Hall sophomore Makena Janssen punches in a three-digit code to learn about the naupaka plant Wednesday morning.
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The wands cost $5 each to rent. Income will help generate funds for the nonprofit.
Garden volunteer and KPOA radio personality Alaka'i Paleka narrates the tour.
Among the plants profiled are the creeping naupaka, or Scaevola coriacea, an endemic and endangered Hawaiian coastal plant. It represents one of the garden's purposes, which is to preserve Maui Nui's unique Hawaiian plants as well as those on the brink of extinction, an announcement said.
The plant may have been the source of inspiration for the garden's founder, Rene Sylva, who chose the creeping naupaka to feature in the Maui Nui Botanical Garden's logo.
Another plant profiled is the endemic 'akia, or Wikstroemia uva-ursi, which was used by Hawaiian fishermen to stupefy fish. Parts of the plant would be ground up and placed in small tide pools. The plant's toxins temporarily stunned small fish and caused them to float to the surface. This made it easy for fishermen to selectively gather fish. After a few minutes, the toxins wore off and the fish were revived.
Located along Kanaloa Avenue, the gardens are open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays. In addition to the audio tours, docent-guided tours are available.
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