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Don Bauder 9:30 a.m., Sept. 23
Last Thursday morning, August 27, some people in northbound I-5 traffic probably noticed the green California Department of Fish & Game truck parked on the side of the freeway, above the Batiquitos Lagoon. Unfortunately for possible fish poachers or lagoon trespassers, they could not have seen the game warden looking down on them with binoculars.
According to DFG captain Angel Raton, the 13 game wardens in the San Diego sector will choose higher-than-waterfront vantage points along the coastline in an effort to spot fishermen taking too many fish, poaching for commercial purposes, or too small, illegal, or endangered species.
"We usually patrol in the morning or in the late evening, when there is more fishing activity," says Raton.
A bigger enforcement challenge is the fact that San Diego County has the largest fleet of private fishing boats for hire in California. Known as "party" boats, these chartered vessels are often targets for enforcement when they return to the docks in San Diego, Mission Bay, or Oceanside. Unlike licensed sportfishing boats, according to Raton, the owners are usually not aware of the fishing regulations off our coast.
A big issue in North County is the taking of lobster, caught illegally out of season or stolen in season from licensed traps. Fines usually start at $500 for the first lobster in possession and higher for each additional lobster.
On August 27, in the eastern basin of the Batiquitos Lagoon, Raton spotted someone with a dog or a bicycle in a restricted area. DFG also enforces no-trespassing laws near protected waterways and animal habitats.
"Unfair game"? Even more unfair is the fact that California has the LOWEST ratio in the entire nation of game wardens to population, with somewhere around only 192 in the field. And our wildlife suffers accordingly. Not acceptable! (By comparison, Florida has some 700 wardens, Texas 500.)
Adding insult to injury, our beleaguered and heroic wardens earn only 3/5's the salary of a State Highway Patrolman, and are much more likely to be shot at. And, unlike the cops, the wardens are forced to take unpaid furloughs. Not fair.
WHAT YOU CAN DO: Write to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and your state legislators, demanding pay equity for our wardens, and for at least a doubling of the number of wardens in the field.
ADDRESS FOR ALL: c/o The State Capitol, Sacramento, CA 95814.
Sincerely, Eric Mills, coordinator ACTION FOR ANIMALS Oakland
Thank God they've got the lowest. What happened to the days before bulls government when a man could go out and fish and hunt and be left the f alone?
If California didn't have to support such a large population of illegal aliens the state could probably afford a lot of things including more game wardens.
Hey PistolPete, the days before bull* government led to the sad situation we have today, when bull* government has to keep aoles like you off the water and out of the woods for part of the year, or limit the amount you take to give the fish and game a break before there are no more left. You want to do whatever the hell you want, go to China and good luck finding any fish and game there. It's all been taken by fs like you.
Sorry,EvenSteven,#1-I don't hunt anymore and #2-when I did,I was a responsible hunter only killing the meat I needed to survive on for a couple of months. So.....F*** OFF!
As the writer of this story, I'm honored that I have six responses, the most I've every received for one of my stringer stories. Thanks guys. I also have to also disclose that I ID'd the lagoon wrong. It is the Agua Hedienda Lagoon, not Batiquitos. I've only lived here all of my life, you'd think I would have gotten it right?
"If California didn't have to support such a large population of illegal aliens the state could probably afford a lot of things including more game wardens."
If California was still called Mexico, you would have written this response in Spanish and would have been referring to illegal aliens as gringos.
Unfortunately, only the odd-numbered of those responses are worth reading, Ken :)
Thanks for the article, and thanks for the information, ericmills--we'll check it out.
My two cents: If our 'governor' valued parkland more than he does development in SD, we might be able to ease traffic of nature-hungry folk in off-limits areas such as these fragile lagoons, and redirect to legal, sustainable eco-systems, built for human enjoyment. We should all support Parks & Rec for their attempts to do what they can with ever shrinking budgets and space to work with...
By that logic, Ken won't be reading the response from you (last I checked, the number 8 was even ;-)
Your stories are great, Ken. Keep 'em coming!
Ah, but I said "those" responses, which put mine aside. Keep nipping at my heels, Josh ;-)
Damn! Good point, SD.


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—Morpheus, The Matrix
It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire, but our own. The desert of the real itself. [. . .]
The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.
—Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
While it is a seemingly bleak and dismal prospect to be the man who may be best known for declaring the "death of the real", I suppose that some positive spin can be placed on the fact that Jean Baudrillard apparently was able to outlive "the real" by at least a few years.
The Illusion of the End
Jean Baudrillard
(Stanford University Press)
Simulacra and Simulation
Jean Baudrillard
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The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
Jean Baudrillard
(Power Publications)
The news of Baudrillard's death reached me on the morning of 7 March as such news often does in academia—through the grapevines that emerge when prominent critics, scholars or literary artists die and the public at large takes little notice. A philosophy professor at my university had passed on a link to a New York Times obituary to a number of folks, mostly specialists in contemporary philosophy but also, like myself, a specialist in 20th century literature.
As always, I was a little saddened—both by Baudrillard's passing but also by the fact that his obituary came to my attention in this obscure, word-of-mouth fashion while the whole country had been fascinated by the death of Anna Nicole Smith just weeks before. Yet something seems quite appropriate in the public's absence of awareness of Baudrillard's death in the wake of all the press surrounding Smith's death; Baudrillard's own critique of media centered on absence and especially the absence generated by the white noise of mass media.
Baudrillard began his scholarly life as a fairly traditional Marxist critic railing against the prevailing consumer culture in such works as The System of Objects (1968) and The Consumer Society (1970). But his later work, generally cultural critique focusing on mass media and pop culture, was what would make him notable—notorious, perhaps—within both academic and even mainstream culture. Books like America (1986) and The Illusion of the End (1992) offered fascinating observations on the pop culture iconography that has come to dominate late 20th century culture.
Simulacra and Simulations (1981) most clearly defines Baudrillard's concerns. There he defines the term hyperreal to describe how mass media consumers view reality. Simulations of reality, he argued, have become "more real than the real" to such consumers as they regard the significance of the sign (that which represents a real thing—a form of simulation) more crucial to life than the reality it formerly signified. In essence, Baudrillard suggests that the copies of reality have overtaken reality and replaced them. Famously he described the simulated world of Disney's Magic Kingdom and how it disguises and parallels the absence of the real in the equally simulated landscape of American culture:
Disneyland is there to conceal the fact that it is the "real" country, all of "real" America, which is Disneyland (just as prisons are there to conceal the fact that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, which is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, when in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of the hyperreal and of simulation. It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology), but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle.
Baudrillard's frequently maligned book, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, is a particular study of just such an effect of spectacle trumping direct experience of the world. While critics (who seem to have never gotten past the title of the text) curse Baudrillard's inhumanity in claiming that a war never happened, these literalists fail to see the more chilling metaphor that the book suggests. While the media has often been acknowledged as having helped end the Vietnam War by bringing its horrors into our living room, making "direct" experience of the carnage a cause for political action, our interest in the Gulf War and the Iraq war was directed toward the spectacle of tracers and explosions lighting up the sky of Baghdad rather than the human lives lost. Baudrillard argues the media strips human dignity from what an audience vicariously experiences; we become fixated on the noise, not the signal.
Reductionist readings of Baudrillard's work, though, have had an effect on his intellectual legacy. Likewise, his own rise to a degree of celebrity has had deleterious effects on more "serious" scholars' views of his work. While The Matrix would make his words famous in the mouth of Morpheus (in the aforementioned quotes in the epigraphs to this essay) and even feature an ironically hollowed-out copy of Simulacra and Simulation in one of the film's scenes (seemingly the Wachowski brothers' efforts to pay homage and acknowledge the theory that informed some of their film's ideas), this pop-culture media spectacle served to diminish Baudrillard's reputation by making his theory more pop—more spectacle than substance.
As I looked over the obituary notice in The Times, I cringed a bit at phrases like "once considered to be a postmodern guru". Likewise, some oddly dismissive phrasing emerged in Slate's memorializing, which noted that Baudrillard was "long a favorite of graduate students." ("Le Browser: Saluting Jean Baudrillard" by By Michael Agger 14 March 2007) But such dismissals are appropriate to Baudrillard's own vision of the way that the media speaks of absence through simulation of ideas. When considering his uniqueness, I have often found myself wondering if Baudrillard's work isn't simply a kind of revisioning of previous media critics, most especially Marshall McLuhan. Baudrillard's simulations seem notably similar to McLuhan's own observations that in mass-media culture "the medium has become the message". Should Baudrillard himself should be dismissed as a simulation of McLuhan?
It might be amusing and ironic to dismiss Baudrillard as a cheap imitation, but it would be inaccurate. While McLuhan seemed to revel in this transformation of the signs of culture into the dominant of cultural experience, such evaluations are much more opaque in Baudrillard. Again, I often find myself wondering if he intends, as McLuhan seemed to, to desire us to revel and embrace the brave new world order of simulation or if his stories and examples of the simulacra were intended to be cautionary tales about the dangerous seduction of media images.
If it remains hard to grasp what Baudrillard's final conclusions were on the hyperreal spaces he investigated, it may have been his intention to prevent us from drawing such an evaluative conclusion. He may have held no agenda to drive or deride the simulation. Instead, he merely observed a media phenomena, and left the reader to discover its import. In that sense his value as a scholar may be his ability to distance himself and simply present data for our consideration.
For me, though, what Baudrillard fundamentally did was—for lack of a less obvious phrase—make pop matter. If this "real" of popular culture has become the real of the everyday American, then mining the shiny and salacious surfaces of American media becomes more fascinating and eerily relevant. Baudrillard's ambivalent tone is especially suited to this website; I am especially fond of the notion that the title PopMatters does not necessarily dictate whether pop "mattering" is a positive or negative thing. Instead, in studying media and its messages (real, hyperreal, or otherwise), we must consider the validity and invalidity of, as Baudrillard put it, "these 'imaginary stations' which feed reality."
I will miss the man who put the real to death and brought the hyperreal to life. As much as I'd like to say there will never be another like him, I must stay true to the nature of simulacra and suggest only that there will be another and another and another and another and another…
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Hey Daniel. I just watched Umi ga kikoeru for the first time today and it was the first Ghibli movie I didn't like. The thing is, I'm not sure if it was the fact that my sister got me a crappy bootlegged copy of the movie that completely ruined the subtitles or if I really wouldn't have liked the movie. I read your review and it said that the final phrase was "And it was then that I realized...I had always been crazy for her." In my sub it was "I really liked her." They completely butchered the movie. They managed to put in more spelling and grammar mistakes than I could count. Does the Japanese version have good subtitles?
- January 27, 2007 12:03 AM
- Daniel Thomas MacInnes said...
I'm sorry to hear about your experience. Having a bad experience can ruin even the best movies. There are a lot of little variables that we don't even consider, things like the quality of the picture or subtitles, until we're watching.
I've been lucky enough to watch on the Japanese DVD, which offers excellent picture quality and subtitles. That line I quote is from the DVD. It's challenging to translate Japanese into English, since it's a much smaller vocabulary that depends greatly upon context. A translator may be successful with the words, but lose the intent. That sounds like what has happened here.
And, of course, our moods play a large role in whether or not we enjoy a movie. If I'm not in the mood for a Western, then it doesn't matter that Stagecoach is on the big screen. I'm not gonna like it.
This is why it's essential to be exposed to as much of life and the arts as possible. It's all about the expansion of consciousness, and the appreciation of all things in life, and it's also essential for enjoying the movies.
Best luck on Umi.
- January 27, 2007 2:07 PM
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I found you while desperately searching for a poster featuring the blue Studio Ghibli logo.
I enjoyed stopping by!
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My gardening buddy (who's also my canning buddy) and I have been picking tomatoes like crazy, peeling them and then sticking them in gallon freezer bags. Both of our freezers are full of tomatoes, so we decided it was time to can. Seriously, we had 38 gallon size freezer bags full of tomatoes, so it was definitely an extravacanza.
We can in my kitchen because it's nice and roomy, with a stove that can fit two canning kettles and access on both sides. As you can see, we needed all the room we could get.
What this photo doesn't show are the bags (and bags) of frozen/thawing tomatoes and the empty-but-soon-to-be-filled jars.
We worked pretty much from 1 p.m. to about 7:30 p.m., canning about 60 quarts of various flavors of tomatoes (we did some with tomatilos, some with Italian herbs, some with green chiles) and 13 pints of salsa. A fine days work. We still have eight frozen gallons of tomatoes that we ran out of time and energy to can, so we made a date to can again in two weeks. Maybe by then all the green ones I picked last week and the few I left on the vine to get bigger will also be ripe.
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Knights finish as wrestling co-champs with Apple Valley
By Rob LaPlante
Crow River News Sports
Mixed emotions greeted the faces of both the Apple Valley and St. Michael-Albertville wrestling teams when the Xcel Energy Center public address announcer closed by saying, "co-champions."
For one squad, years of domination at the Class 3A state tournament assures their team name once again
will be printed in next year's program when listing off past champions. Apple Valley's remarkable run of state titles continues at eight straight seasons and 14 of the last 15 years.
Another squad, STMA, came into the tournament with a near perfect 30-1 record and sub-planted the Eagles as the perennial favorite on paper and fan favorite in the stands as the No. 1 team in the state.
The Eagles reached the finals by defeating both Moorhead 55-9 and Prior Lake 36-19. STMA knocked off Willmar 53-9 and outlasted a pesky Owatonna squad 40-21, setting up a rematch of the past four seasons in Class 3A.
"This whole year, it's been the talk. It's going to be such a great match," said senior Mikey Kessler, on the matchup with the Eagles.
Kessler was one of 12 Knights who qualified for the individual tournament as well. The Knights heavyweights were a big reason for the success this year. Thursday's team competition proved no different.
After easily knocking off an overmatched Willmar squad – one that STMA head coach Dan Lefebvre held out seniors Lincoln Mallinger and Ricky Briggs – the Knights got a brief scare in the semifinals from Owatonna.
Freshman Mitchell McKee, junior Tommy Thorn, senior Tanner Mills and junior Mark Voss each picked up decisions helping build a 15-4 lead. Owatonna would close the gap to 18-15, but STMA's heavyweights would take over and the Knights would win going away 40-21.
Sophomore Jordan Joseph, senior Mitch Eull and both Briggs and Kessler all won by fall, putting the Knights in the championship match.
"I think we were kind of surprised how tough Owatonna was," Kessler said. "They came out hard and it was a little bit close there for a while. We took it to them at the end there, but they were definitely a lot tougher than we expected."
Much like the matchup with the Huskies, STMA's lightweights gave the Knights a quick edge in the much anticipated showdown with Apple Valley. McKee gave the Knights a ton of momentum early, pinning Apple Valley's Zach Chytka in just 1:23.
The fall proved to be important, as both teams traded decisions throughout the early rounds.
"A couple matches could have gone differently in the dual, but I thought we brought our A-game," said Thorn, who earned a 13-2 decision at 120 pounds which helped build a 19-7 lead over the Eagles.
The defending champions would take over in the middle weights. Dayton Racer, Mark Hall, Davlonte Young and Daniel Woiwor won four straight matches and with just four matchups left, the Eagles took a 25-19 advantage.
With a chance to extend their lead, Ricky Briggs came up with a clutch 182 lbs. 7-5 decision over Trom Peterson, cutting the lead to 25-22.
"We were heavy favorites there at 182 and we were hoping to score some bonus points," Lefebvre said. "You know, it's hard on these kids. It's mentally draining. Gosh, great matches right down to the wire. They are a well coached team and they fight hard too."
Just when it appeared STMA stole momentum, the Eagles took a 28-22 lead on David Johnson's 6-5 decision over Jake Briggs. All that stood in the way from another outright title for Apple Valley was a 220-pound Eull and a 285-pound Kessler.
Trailing most the match, Eull scored a huge reversal late in his match and stole a 5-4 decision that cut the lead to 28-25. That set up Kessler against Lord Joshua Hyeamang. Playing in a defensive mode, Hyeamang didn't allow much, but Kessler eventually earned a 2-0 decision and the Knights and Eagles finished as co-champs, tied 28-28.
"I wanted to be able to get on top of him to get the pin," said Kessler after with mixed emotions. "I'm still happy with winning and tying it up. As much as I hate to admit it, it's almost fitting that we end up tied with these guys. It's been such a rivalry."
Thorn and Lefebvre had other opinions on the tie.
"It's a little disappointing," said Thorn, who was sporting a fresh shiner over his right eye that he suffered in the section finals. "You don't know how to react to a tie. We are happy, we got the job done. This was one of the most fun season's I've ever had."
"We set out to be state champions at the beginning of the year," Lefebvre said. "We are, but we just wanted Apple Valley to finish second. Two first-place teams, it is what it is. Nobody wants to be co-champs. Even though we would have won the dual by criteria had advancement been needed, I think the rule should stay. I would hate to lose a championship at the state finals by criteria."


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Cannes 2012 Film Festival [1] presented a lot of Arab talent [2] with a chance to showcase the fruits [3]of their revolutionary year's labor. The springboard for former Arab hit films as Caramel 2007 [4], the international film platform proved this year to be a hot spot for budding Arab stars and starlets [5], a fashion catwalk for dazzling provocative dresses, and a comfortable patch for known celebrity faces [6] to shmooze and work those redcarpets.
The usual suspects [7] mingled with the latest film inspiration [8] from the Middle East to produce quite an Arab hubbub, to keep our media chatterati entertained, in case Arab goods came up short on Cannes awards [9], or Arab Lions [10].
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[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/cannes-2012
[2] http://www.albawaba.com/slideshow/arabs-got-talent-auditions-424725
[3] http://www.albawaba.com/entertainment/menna-shalabi-cannes-tattoo-426446
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I've been a fan of Emily Luchetti's ever since I read her "A Passion for Desserts,'' an elegant book that was her first foray independent of Stars, the San Francisco restaurant where she served as head pastry chef. It's the rare restaurant chef who can speak directly to the home cook or baker in her recipes; and it is clear Luchetti has a gift. She uses everyday equipment, combines accessible ingredients in interesting ways, and her recipes work.
Now executive pastry chef at Farallon and Waterbar restaurants in San Francisco, Luchetti is back with a new volume. Her ability to relate to the very new baker is on full display. But this book is different. It's a gateway book for bakers, written with Lisa Weiss, with simple line drawings, basic recipes, and tips in the form of dialogue balloons between Luchetti and "FB'' (Fearless Baker, a stand-in for Dear Reader). I'm pretty sure it's the only baking book I've ever read that actually has a chapter called "No Oven Required.''
These are basic recipes - cookies, pies, cakes, bars, and fruit-based "rustic'' desserts. Yet, as Luchetti demonstrates again and again, it pays to have an experienced mentor to show you the ropes, even on the basics. Did you know you can core a pear with a melon baller? That it's better to crack an egg on a flat surface than on the side of a bowl? That you can almost always improvise a double boiler rather than buying one? Maybe you knew the answers are yes, yes, and yes. It's still nice to hear them confirmed by an expert.
Luchetti is also good at telling you exactly what you need to know in a recipe. Chocolate orange crinkle cookies, for example, should be firm on the edges, and soft in the middle; Luchetti warns that "although they may seem underdone, don't be tempted to let them bake longer.'' The hazelnut gives them texture, and the orange gives them a sprightliness that makes it hard not to wolf them down two at a time.
Lemon blueberry tart is a four-step recipe, if you've already baked the tart shell (a pretty easy little task; Luchetti offers a couple of machine methods, and the most tedious part is waiting for the dough to chill). It comes out looking like something you could buy in a pastry shop, only now you don't have to.
She makes a virtue out of necessity with her odd but charming Key lime pudding cakes. They're based on a thin batter leavened with egg whites, which separates in the baking. You could think of them as failed souffles, but Luchetti describes them as a hybrid: spongecake on top, custard on the bottom. Either way, their tropical tartness makes refreshing, biting sense.
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You won't find any from-scratch doughs like strudel or puff pastry in this book, and there's only one recipe that calls for yeast. But sometimes that's just what you need. It happened to be the hottest week of the entire year when I tested this book. I didn't even feel like eating, never mind baking. But Luchetti's accessible approach managed to glide right over my low heat-and-pain threshold, and the baked results persuaded me to eat them just by being so good. It's a pity Luchetti's powers of persuasion didn't extend to putting me back on my treadmill afterward.
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FA confirm Guthrie won't be punished further
Newcastle midfielder Danny Guthrie will not receive an extended ban for his challenge on Hull forward Craig Fagan.
The 21-year-old was dismissed in stoppage time during the Magpies' 2-1 home defeat on Saturday after taking a wild swing at Fagan, who was left with a fractured left leg.
But the Football Association confirmed today that it can take no further action on top of a mandatory three-match suspension for the red card.
A spokesman said: "Every sending off carries an automatic sanction under the current regulations.
"The FA doesn't have the power to extend automatic suspensions.
"The only circumstances in which we could take any further action would be to issue an additional charge against a player.
"This occurs only in exceptional cases, such as Ben Thatcher's challenge on Pedro Mendes in 2006."
However, the FA spokesman also confirmed that an ongoing review of their disciplinary procedures could see a sliding scale introduced to increase punishments for serious offences.
He said: ''We are currently reviewing disciplinary procedures with a view to potential changes for next season and a sliding scale for red-card offences is one of the options under consideration.''
Thatcher, than at Manchester City, was handed an eight-match FA ban with another 15 games suspended for two years in 2006 after a challenge which left Portsmouth's Mendes concussed and requiring neurological tests.
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Between a field and wood land near Wiesenfeld bei Coburg (Bavaria).
Reinhard was going to look for bike paths and small roads in the area around Coburg and liked the hashpoint to be within this area. His mission was to find and GPS-record every single paved path between Rottenbach (well-known for an other geohash) and Wiesenfeld bei Coburg where the hashpoint was. Since he didn't want to lose too much time on the way from Schleusingen to Rottenbach, he drove the 24 km by car to the A73 exit Eisfeld-Süd and began his bike ride at a parking area exactly at the former border between East and West Germany which nowadays is even hard to recognize as the border between Thuringia and Bavaria.
Without being bothered by any border guard, he quickly proceeded into the West (or South) and started his tracking mission. First, he thought, taking the most right path at a junction and then coming back to it taking the path to the left of the former path (and so on) would be a good plan not to miss any path, but when he arrived in the 3rd or 4th sub-level of junctions and still found unknown ways, he gave up on recording 100 percent of the area's bike path network and decided a good percentage would have to suffice.
This way, instead of cycling 13 km to the hashpoint, Reinhard cycled 41 km before he got there. The hashpoint was easily reached by walking 50 m along the edge of the field (on which no plants were growing). The way back to the car was less meander-like, but still not the shortest, so Reinhard reached his car after 61 km and got back to Manu's family on time for lunch.


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I've had two circumstances where I had been "followed", one turns out was not harmful, and the other may have been an attempt at a mugging that was averted by my awareness to the situation.
First time, i was in my truck and just pulled up into the gas station. A van parked in a spot behind me started up and drove around me (i haven't gotten out of the truck yet) AND PULLED DIRECTLY IN FRONT of me, with the driver yelling "hey! hey, you!" at me with a p***ed off look on his face. I was 19 or 20 at the time, so I hadn't owned my handguns yet- but I have a combat knife with an 8" blade behind the seat. I looked at him and said to myself, i'm not dealing with this sh** right now and I pulled the knife and scabbard from behind the seat and waited in the truck, with it running (and now back in gear). He must have seen me pull the knife, because his demeanor IMMEDIATELY changed to relatively apologetic
he almost timidly creeped up to my door and asked if I wanted to buy some stereo equipment. I sternly told him "no", and that was that. Was it an attempt at something else? Who knows, situation was averted and I don't lose sleep over it.
The second time i was at the gas station AGAIN in my truck (Anyone familiar with Pueblo will understand, both instances were there). And also, I violated my direct vigil of Murphy's law, and I just so happened to be totally unarmed. No gun, no knife, nothing. I'm standing between my truck and the pump, and a guy walks around the hood of my truck (it's hard to see people walking around it- it's an old K-10 with a 6" lift and 35" tires) and calmly asks me for a few bucks for gas so they can get home. As i went for my wallet with my back to the truck, another guy walked around the BED of the truck, effectively trapping me between the truck, the pump and them. I immediately whirled to meet him with clenched fists, in a very alert and startled state. when I did that, they both took a couple steps back and either realized that they accidentally put me in a compromising position, or i may have been too reactive for them to take advantage of me. Regardless, i sternly (again) handed the first guy a five dollar bill, and they said thank you and quickly strode off back to their car about fifty feet away.
Both instances were probably just my imagination, but I think people don't realize that they accidentally look more threatening than they mean to be. Who knows, maybe i'm just a hypersensitive a**hole
. I just try to remain vigilant- because I think when someone is following you and you don't acknowledge their presence, you're gonna get whopped from behind long before you can respond. The only solution is try not to get in that position.
Oh, and my wife just reminded me of her encounter as well (sorry, enormous post) when she was "followed" as well. My wife is 5'6", 130 pounds, and pretty cute
so she sometimes draws unscrupulous attention. She works in a pretty bad part of town, and typically goes to and from work during the seemingly "mugging witching hours". One of the parking lots is seriously a textbook place for a mugging- no cameras, dark, fenced in, away from public view. Once she was walking back to her car at a relatively late hour. She has her Sig P238TL in her purse with her, as well as a large pocket knife. Well, as she is walking out and is about thirty paces from her SUV, a car comes creeping up from the other side of the road, and parks a few spaces down in almost an "observing" position. He's kind of easy to notice, they're the only two cars in the lot
. But once she is about to get into her SUV, the car suddenly starts again and moves close, into the same position. She's not the kind to be taunted/threatened, so she has her hand on her gun in her purse ever since the car went into the lot. She gets into her car, and watches the other car as hers warms up, plugs in her stereo, etc. Then the car exits the lot, drives to the other side of the street, and parks facing her AGAIN. She continued to watch them, and then the car moved AGAIN two or three spots down in the same lot, still facing her. At that point, she started moving and crossed the street, and slowly drove past the car and got its description (gold Corolla, license plate XXX-XXX). She exited that lot, and left for home. She said the car was completely full of stuff, with a large sticker or something over the driver side window to either obscure who was in the car, or it could have possibly been for blocking the sunlight, if someone was living out of their car looking for a calm spot to sleep. Regardless, people make themselves look super-suspicious.
OK, that's all I got. thank you for bearing with me.
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Danny Granger could start over any of these two fools and I wouldnt be mad.
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The Tufts Collaborates Seed Grant Program seeks to encourage the essential first steps in interdisciplinary collaboration by supporting new faculty pilot projects that engage at least two disciplines and cross institutional lines. The goal of this program is to establish collaborative research efforts that will likely result in competitive research proposals to federal and foundation granting agencies.
Any Tufts faculty active in scholarship, research, and/or creative works with a primary appointment at a University school or unit is eligible to apply to the Tufts Collaborates Seed Grant Program. While Tufts faculty members with a primary appointment at the Medical Center and a secondary appointment at a University school or unit are encouraged to serve as collaborators, the lead principal investigator on a grant application must be a Tufts University employee.
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I knew this day would come, and I knew that I wasn't going to be ready for it when it did. Realistically, when you have 42 chickens, it's pretty unlikely that they're all just going to pass away peacefully in their sleep, sparing my husband and me the unpleasantness of having to dispatch one of them, but that day came and went, and it was actually okay.
One of our Red Star hens (the one who suffered a prolapsed oviduct back in the spring, and actually recovered after 8 days of me poking it back in) hadn't been her usual perky self for a few days when she suddenly took on this strange upright posture:
Since she couldn't get herself up the ramp into the coop, and the other chickens were starting to bother her, we brought her into the house while we tried to figure out whether there was anything we could do for her. After several days of hoping that she would magically pull through, it became apparent that she was getting weaker and we'd probably have to step in (but we were still hoping beyond hope that she might just expire on her own). I moved her into a sunny spot for the afternoon while I did some gardening nearby, but after a while I noticed that she had started moaning.
Dang it, she wasn't going to let us off easy.
We decided to try using the killing cone method, and set one up on the wood shed (out of sight of the other chickens, of course). Not having an actual cone, we modified a milk jug for the job.
I was quite emotional in the moments leading up to it (I became a vegetarian, and stayed one for almost 20 years, as a result of my last chicken butchering experience). I held and comforted her (me) for several minutes, and made my husband promise that we could back out if she freaked when we put her into the cone, but being upside down made her surprisingly calm, and it was over in a matter of seconds.
I have to say that I'm amazed how easy it was (for me anyway, she'd probably disagree), and I'm starting to think that maybe we could actually do meat birds one day. Granted, I'm sure it's different killing a vibrant, healthy bird than one that's obviously suffering, but it's more of a possibility than it was before (you seasoned farmers can stop laughing any time now).
To satisfy our curiosity, we did a crude autopsy to see if we could find out what was wrong with her, and she appears to have been egg bound. Her ovary held an egg which, for all intents and purposes, was hard boiled. Don't even ask me to try and explain that one, but it confirmed for us that she likely never would have recovered.
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In 1986, with much of the country still trying its best to ignore the growing AIDS epidemic, a small community-minded gesture would lead to an event that has continued for nearly three decades.
It started as a small birthday party, where instead of presents the guests brought canned goods to donate to the Aid for AIDS of Nevada (AFAN) food bank, founded two years earlier. The event's name: The Black and White Party, a reference to the labels on the cans of generic food.
Today, as AFAN prepares to put on the 28th edition of the annual party, the event has grown to 3,500 guests and generates approximately $140,000 in donations for services to the organization's 4,000 clients. AFAN provides food programs, prevention and education programs, housing assistance, mental health services and community outreach.
The annual AIDS Walk sponsored by AFAN has become the organization's premier fundraising event, bringing in more than $400,000 each year, but the Black and White Party was the first. Guests strictly adhere to the black-and-white dress code, but there are few other guidelines, making the party a scene for creative clothing — or lack of it.
Black and White Party
Where: Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
When: 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Aug. 23
Tickets: $40-$125
Information: http://www.afanlv.org/
AIDS by the numbers
1.1 million American are infected with HIV
16 percent of people with HIV are unaware they are infected
50,000 people in the U.S. are infected with HIV each year
17.7 — Nevada's 2011 HIV diagnosis rate per 100,000 residents, 17th highest in the country
When AFAN began operating in 1984, AIDS was still publicly perceived as a problem only in the gay community, and there were few resources for HIV and AIDS patients. After a surge in public awareness and education campaigns in the late '80s and early '90s, AFAN's executive director Antioco Carrillo said it is time for a renewed focus on AIDS prevention.
Nevada ranks 18th in the country in HIV infection rate. According to state health data from 2012, nearly 8,800 people in Nevada are living with HIV or AIDS, and there were 344 new infections in 2012.
About 50,000 new HIV infections are reported in the United States each year, and while the infection rate has dropped to 16.1 per 100,000 people in 2011 from 24.1 in 2002, the rate among gay and bisexual men between 16 and 45 has increased.
In the lead-up to the Black and White Party, Carrillo spoke with The Sun about the history of the event and the biggest challenges today in combating HIV and AIDS.
What are your biggest challenges right now?
Right now, we don't have funding for prevention from the state or (federal) government. We have to actively look for additional funding that is not related to the government. Because if we get some of those funds not related to the government, we can be innovative and racy, and create different images that create a different impact.
With current funding we have, there are specific regulations. You cannot use specific language; you cannot use graphic pictures of anything, or (be) suggestive. It has to be as if you are reading a book.
Why isn't there funding for prevention services?
It is so difficult to prove prevention. How do you prove that your strategies for prevention are effective? How do you prove that what you present really caused people to not get infected?
In terms of HIV prevention — there's always that stigma. You shouldn't be having sex. You shouldn't be doing this, and that's the reason you get HIV. That's the reason that you get STDs, because you are essentially acting out your sexual urges. Come on, really?
If you think about it, prevention for other areas like drugs and alcohol is a little more prevalent and OK. For HIV, it implies we have to talk about sex, and talking about sex is something the community is still not really comfortable talking about.
What has made the Black and White Party an enduring and special event?
Every year it's more exciting than the previous year, and every year it's a different party. But what never changes is how people have fun when they go.
You see people dressed in black tie, and you see people wearing barely anything. … I remember one year seven guys went in as the Victoria's Secrets models with bathing suits and wings. It was just funny. We encourage people to be creative and to have a good time.
How have things changed in terms of combating HIV and AIDS in Southern Nevada between 1984 and now?
Now, we have a great history and track record of providing services, of how legitimate our organization has been and how many people we have helped over the years. So now when we ask people in the entertainment industry for help, they are very good about responding when they are available. ... In the past, that was not the case.
The issue we have right now is that although we have a lot of awareness with sponsors and entertainers and the community at large, we are beginning to lose control of the epidemic; we are beginning to understand that people are getting infected at higher rates, specifically minority women … and young men, gay and straight.
What does Nevada need to do better in HIV and AIDS prevention?
We need more education and we need to encourage people to get tested. The sooner people get tested, the sooner they find out their status and the sooner they'll have opportunity to access medical care. Once they do it they can lower their viral load, the amount of virus they have, and the likelihood of transmission with a lower viral load is a little lower.


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You're probably greening nearly every aspect of your life, but have you ever thought about going with greener pest control management methods? Traditional pesticides can be very damaging to the environment, but going with a greener program can help you get rid of the pests without the damage. Dubbed integrated pest management, green pest control is the way to go if you're concerned about environmental impact.
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At the heart of integrated pest management is a series of common sense techniques that help you keep pests at bay before they become a problem. In most cases, a pest control company that employs an integrated pest management program has a three-pronged approach. They first inspect the property to see what pests are currently problematic, then they identify the problem and treat it. The treatment options here range from simply sealing up entry points to making certain pests don't have access to food and water to using greener pesticide choices when necessary.
Good integrated pest management has to be a contract between you and your pest control professional. He or she will point out many different recommendations that may require you to do some maintenance on your home, and you'll have to establish a threshold so your exterminator understands what you can and can't tolerate. For example, if there are ticks at the corner of your property that you don't use, your exterminator may simply leave the problem alone. If, however, you have mice nesting in your garden shed and that's a problem, your exterminator will work with you to help eliminate that problem before it spreads to the house.
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If you're interested in finding an exterminator who can help you adopt an integrated pest management approach in your own home, start with your current pest control company. Ask them what options they have available. If they're not yet on the green bandwagon, talk to friends, neighbors, and colleagues about who they use for green pest control. Going green with pest control is not just a step in making your life a little greener, it's also the perfect way to keep dangerous pesticides away from your family and pets.


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Does vaser liposuction affect viability of fat cells to be transferred into butt?
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Vaser Method Affects Viability of Fat for Butt Enhancement?
Thank you for your question. Thus far, the viability of harvested fat for fat transfer does not seem to be negatively affected with Vaser in conventional mode. Fat can be harvested in a more gentle mode, but this seems to not be needed. A very busy practice in Columbia of Dr. Hoyas has been doing fat transfer for years with Vaser in a very high setting and has not had any fat viability issues. They use 90% in Continuous mode, not even using Vaser mode, reduced to 60-70% as was thought necessary, but he seems to disprove this. His fat viability is fantastic. Patients seem to have good retention several years out. I hope this helps.
Fat Viability after Vaser Liposuction
Fat harvested using the Vaser liposuction system retains about an 85% viability. However, of the fat that is transferred to the buttocks, about 50-80 percent generally survives.
Thank you for your question.
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VASER & autologous fat transfer
Hi Sophie, There have been no studies conducted or published in medical literature that state that VASER liposelection affects the viability of fat cells harvested for fat transfer. At the same time, there are none that say that it does not.
We prefer to harvest the fat required for fat transfer, with small finer cannulas, at a low pressure, without VASER assistance, prior to its transfer to the butt. After harvesting the fat, VASER assisted liposuction is done for body contouring.
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