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If you're like me and switch devices a lot, you may find yourself losing contacts in your address book from time to time. This doesn't happen as much as it used to thanks to the many sync options on BlackBerry however. If you want to be sure you carry your contacts along when you switch devices, simply save them to your SIM card and they'll always be with you. Unfortunately there is no decent way to copy all of your contacts over to your SIM at once, so you'll have to do it one by one for each contact. The process is super easy and will only take you a few clicks, so keep reading and see how to make it happen!
Keep in mind that older CDMA devices that don't use a SIM card won't be able to do any of this.
That's it! Your contacts are now safe and sound on your SIM card. Just remember that if you for some reason switch SIMs, your contacts will stay with the old one. Thankfully, copying contacts back from your SIM to your address book is much easier as it lets you copy them all at once.
For more help and discussion on this and other topics be sure to check out the CrackBerry Forums.
green_ember Sep 4, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Always wondered about this being on a CDMA carrier and not familiar with SIMs. Thanks for the info
otaku2 Sep 4, 2012 at 12:34 pm
I try to keep copies of my most important contacts on the SIM in case I suddenly need to switch from my 9900 to a lesser phone, but it is hard to keep track of what has already been copied and what has not. Good tip 'tho.
NamelessStar Sep 4, 2012 at 12:41 pm
another cool thing to do for swithcing devices alot is BBprotect one of the greatest apps on my device automatically makes backup of cals contacts tasks memos and yea its just amazing. once you switch install protect say restore and restore all info.
wendybeee Sep 4, 2012 at 12:57 pm
Thanks for the info Adam....I will do this for sure !
itsyaboy Sep 4, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Yeah, I lately turned from my 9900 to my old 9700 for a couple of days. Didn't have some of the more recent phone numbers.. but I totally forgot about that beautiful BlackBerry Protect!!!! I didn't even need my phone numbers on a sim card! Unless I'd have to use a non-BlackBerry phone.. which would be under the most extreme circumstances ;)
wolfee48 Sep 4, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Is there a way to copy entire addressbook to SIM card without doing each contact individually?
Tenkawa Sep 4, 2012 at 2:34 pm
And here is the sucky thing. Only one e-mail address/phone number per contact.
If you have multiple numbers for somebody, it results in multiple SIM contacts. Merging them later is a pain too.
I really suggest using a) blackberry protect or BIS, or b) Sync to your desktop, or c) sync then export the contacts to a spreadsheet.
wolfee48 Sep 4, 2012 at 2:50 pm
Got it… I am unfamiliar with SIM card being a Verizon user.
I sync via BIS, back up thru BB Protect, and backup via Desktop Manager very often. So I am good to go on that end. Just thought I'd try the SIM card route as well but I'll stay away from that.
Graheem Sep 4, 2012 at 2:36 pm
I maybe wrong, but my understanding is SIM will only store the name and phone number of contact, no other info. Better than nothing,
dami0nx Sep 4, 2012 at 2:41 pm
I stopped doing that when my sim got fried, BB protect and Desk top manager is my way
even backing up with google contacts
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rifka_f Sep 4, 2012 at 2:42 pm
I sync to the desktop regularly, so my SIM card is now used just to connect to the TMobile network.
Wishing and hoping that BB10 is released SOON...
I always seem to have an issue with BBM contacts on my phone if I switch phones. If I go from my 9900 back to my 9780 - I list the contacts, but cannot send them messages. Although the BB Protect does seem to pull all the other data over, anyone else have this issue?
linuxbbm Sep 4, 2012 at 3:44 pm
Thank you CB
FoxxBerry Sep 4, 2012 at 4:15 pm
I never knew what a SIM card was good for being on VZW, I though I could be doing some spy shit and switch cards to hide my number or get out of radar when the spooks started following me.
You can use Advanced OS and LED to copy all of your contacts to your SD card or your SIM, in one go.
werty5926 Sep 5, 2012 at 9:51 am
Browno. I have Advanced OS, but I am confused as how to copy to my sd card. Could you walk me through it?


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The Flamingo with over 3500 rooms seems a bit confused when you look at a resort map but you can overlook that because for the price you get a center strip hotel that has all the amenities that the mega resorts have. The Flamingo is where the modern Las Vegas era began and it is still visible in a casino that is right up against Las Vegas Blvd. and the plush gardens that have sprouted behind the large hotel towers. Walk among the ducks, the fish and of course the flamingos and forget you are right on the Las Vegas strip.
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The Macy's Holiday Tree installation, delayed a week due to a snapped trunk in the original tree, is planned for this Saturday, November 16. The new 55-foot Norway Spruce will adorn Fountain Square, on the corner of Fifth and Vine, through early January.
The tree is traveling about 220 miles from Rittman, Ohio and is set to arrive by 6 a.m. Initial tree installation will run from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and decoration is expected to be complete by Wednesday of the following week.
You'll be able to recycle electronic waste and a lot more at an event Saturday sponsored by Keep Cincinnati Beautiful and Whole Foods Markets.
One Stop Drop is in honor of America Recycles Day. Here's the list of acceptable items:
Supporters of the Cincinnati streetcar are asking people to contact mayor-elect John Cranley and council members-elect to keep the project alive. Cranley campaigned against it and vowed to stop it if elected.
Streetcar supporters held a public forum Thursday night at the Mercantile Library in downtown. An overflow crowd watched the session on the video board at Fountain Square.
Supporters said the project is important for three reasons: reputation, community and the future.
Ryan Messer is one of the grassroots organizers trying to save the streetcar.
Cincinnati Council has officially accepted a plan that will let City Manager Milton Dohoney resign on December 1st and still receive a severance package.
Mayor-elect John Cranley announced Wednesday night Dohoney would be leaving after conversations between the two of them.
City Solicitor John Curp explained the item Council was being asked to approve.
"Provide for the manager to receive his separation pay subject to a resignation," Curp said. "It also appropriates money to the appropriate accounts to pay those benefits that he's entitled too."
The task force studying Northern Kentucky's increasing heroin problem recommends a combination of increased police presence, legislation and prevention, treatment and recovery. The four-year plan to stabilize and reverse the epidemic, called Northern Kentucky's Collective Response to the Heroin Epidemic, is expected to cost $4 million.
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There is an established truck route that leads from Route 65 in Freedom to Cranberry Township, but that hasn't stopped drivers of tractor-trailer trucks and other commercial vehicles from taking a shorter route over a weight-restricted portion of Freedom Crider Road.
"Oftentimes trucks will use that route illegally," said Dan Cessna, district executive for PennDOT's District 11. "It's certainly a shortcut from Cranberry Township to Route 65."
Freedom Crider Road has a 10-ton weight limit between its intersection with Route 989 in New Sewickley Township and Route 65 in Freedom. It isn't conducive to safe truck travel because the highway is narrow, winding and steep, particularly where the road turns into a sharp slope on Ninth Street in Freedom, Cessna said.
In an attempt to curb truckers from driving on the weight-restricted portion of the state road, PennDOT has erected 6-foot tall "Traffic Alert" guidance signs at five locations along Freedom Road. The signs remind commercial operators to turn onto an alternate truck route instead of continuing on Freedom Crider Road.
PennDOT held a news conference Wednesday with officers from several police departments, including to introduce the signs to the public.
"We have implemented this new truck route to stop large trucks from using Freedom Crider Road into Freedom Borough," Cessna said. "Operators who continue to use this roadway jeopardize not only their own safety but the safety of every motorist they encounter."
Cessna said there has been a significant increase in the number of commercial trucks using Freedom Crider Road to get to and from Cranberry in the last several years.
Chief Eugene St. Clair of the Freedom Police Department said his officers have issued 36 citations since September for overweight trucks using the weight-restricted section of the road.
In the last five years, there have been eight reportable heavy-truck crashes on Freedom Crider Road, including an accident in September that seriously injured a driver.
St. Clair said a tri-axle truck struck a barrier at the end of the highway where it turns into Ninth Street, causing a container of hot asphalt the truck was carrying to spill onto the car traveling behind it. The driver of that car suffered severe burns, according to the chief.
"Our victim is still recovering," he said.
New Sewickley Chief Ron Leindecker added that large trucks often travel into the oncoming lane of traffic on the narrow, winding sections of Freedom Crider Road.
"It has just been an ongoing issues," he said. "Hopefully these signs will correct some of our problems."
Cessna said most truckers were unaware of the road's weight restrictions because they are using noncommercial GPS devices instead of more expensive commercial GPS units, which guide drivers to truck routes only.
"Most times, honestly, it's an act of innocence because a lot of commercial truck drivers are from outside the area," Cessna said. "Rather than a commercial GPS device they are using one that regular citizens would use for their cars and it's inadvertently directing them across the weight-limited roadway."
Cessna said improvements to the weight-restricted corridor of Freedom Crider Road have been in the planning stages at PennDOT for the last 20 years but have not come to fruition because of funding issues.
"We've certainly never been able to advance that project to construction," Cessna said.
At a meeting in November with local elected officials and police departments, PennDOT agreed to install the oversize signs to remind truckers to use the truck route as a short-term safety solution. PennDOT's goal is to upgrade the corridor, Cessna said.
Work was completed on the signs in late February.
Lt. Kevin Meyer of the said township officers also would do their part to ensure overweight trucks do not travel on Freedom Crider Road between Route 989 and Route 65.
"We continue to support our neighbors in Beaver County," he said. "We have an aggressive truck enforcement team in Cranberry Township that goes out regularly enforcing the motor vehicle carrier safety laws. We'll do our part as they're coming down the corridor to support this effort with the truck drivers."


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You know, it feels like I've just fallen back into a very familiar mood ... complacent in my withdrawal, content with my own company, wary of strangers and easily annoyed by interruptions - in other words, antisocial. This is a mood that I used to stay in for long periods at a time; if I'd ever stopped to characterize it, I would have called it a slight to medium depression.
Back then I had an untreated sleep disorder and undiagnosed fibromyalgia on top of everything else - a terrible thing for a night person working ten hours a day, four days a week, 7:30-5:30! So my depression could flare into near hysteria if anything exacerbated my nightly struggle to get some sleep. But as long as I was left alone, I could be content with my own company - and the television, and a whole slew of library books.
Now the fibromyalgia is under control, the sleep disorder is being treated - although I have to say Zyprexa isn't putting me to sleep as well as Trazodone. (Then again, on Trazodone my dreams were so intense that I never felt particularly rested.) I'm getting more exercise than ever before in my life via my daily walks. And I'm experiencing a creativity that hasn't been around for more than 20 years.
This sense of familiarity with my current mood/mindset is making me think back over my life in the context of the diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder instead of clinical depression. And one of the first things that comes to mind is a poem I wrote for a class during my senior year of college, which you can read here. The poem is a perfect description of "racing thoughts" - the sensation I always called "racy-brain" - thoughts and music and voices swirling through the head. It was written in 1972. That's 27 years ago, and racy-brain was very familiar to me by then - so I've had that manic-depressive symptom for a long, long time.
I saw the psychiatrist yesterday. Two issues were important. The first was that given the way my life is today, I can't go on feeling antisocial all the time. The second was that even though I have been walking two to as much as four miles a day for several weeks, I have not lost a single pound - I remain about 45 pounds over my ideal weight (all thanks to Prozac?). This is not good for my health (or for my self-esteem!). I also mentioned that on Zyprexa I was lying awake a long time before finally getting to sleep.
Soooooo - another major medication change:
- Depakote might be blocking the ability to lose weight, so he changed me to Neurontin, which is thought to be weight-neutral.
- Because I have been antisocial and irritable, he reduced Wellbutrin from 300 mg a day to 150; apparently crabbiness is a possible side effect of Wellbutrin! (Doesn't that seem strange for an antidepressant? I will check it out.)
- The third change is a switch from Zyprexa back to Trazodone. We will monitor to see whether I start having exhausting dreams again.
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MIDDLEBURG — William G. Musser, 87, of 1325 Starlight Drive, passed away on Wednesday morning, Jan. 23, 2013, at his home surrounded by his family two weeks after his birthday. His passing followed a battle with cancer.
He was born Jan. 9, 1926, in Monroe Township, Snyder County, a son of the late Clarence H. and Dollie May (Try) Musser. On April 9, 1960, he married the former Sara Jane Grubb, who survives.
Bill attended school in Dry Valley, Hummels Wharf and Lewisburg High School. He served in the Army from 1954 to 1956.
He retired in 1988 after 26 years of service with Faylor-Middlecreek Construction, Winfield. Bill also farmed during much of his working life.
Bill found enjoyment in hunting, gardening and farming.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Barbara and Dale Whitmer, of Winfield, and Joyce and Larry Engle, of Northumberland; three grandchildren, Bradley Whitmer and Jennifer and Justin Engle; and one great-grandson, Andrew Long, son of Jennifer Engle and Kyle Long.
He was preceded in death by one sister, Esther Kline, and one brother, Clarence, in infancy.
Private funeral services will be conducted in the Hummel Funeral Home, 574 Hill St., Middleburg, with the Rev. Greg Hobelman officiating.
Burial will be in Penns Creek Union Cemetery.
Contributions to honor Bill's memory may be made to the American Cancer Society.


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Posted on April 21, 2014 at 5:17 PM by Anna (Concord Public Library)
Hope you're all enjoying your vacation week! We've got lots of stuff going on at the library, so please feel free to swing by anytime this week.
A reminder: our monthly TAG Meeting (Teen Advisory Group) will take place on Thursday, April 24th at 4:30pm. Anyone is welcome to come – we'll be showing off our plans for this year's Teen Summer Reading Program. Snacks provided as always.
Afterwards, the library will be screening the new Oscar-winning film Gravity at 6:30pm. We'll also be showing Frozen on Friday the 25th! Lots of good movies this week.
Next week w have a special event coming up for comic book fans: Celebrate Comics At Your Library takes place April 30th at 4:30pm, in partnership with Double Midnight Comics. We'll be meeting in the library's Teen Zone to chat about our favorite comics! Costumes optional.


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The Valdosta Daily Times
It appears Mickey Mouse polled higher in the Lowndes County general election than Libertarian Gary Johnson did in the presidential race.
Mickey, the famous doe-eyed Disney cartoon character, earned 1.7 percent of the write-in vote in all races combined, appearing 76 times in some form or another (some voters misspelled his name) out of 4,361. Johnson won 323 votes out of 39,221, or just above .82 percent.
That said, Mickey did have a lot of competition. Otherwise, his numbers would have probably improved.
Instead of voting for the offered candidates nationally and locally, some voters wrote in their preferred candidates from actual local people who were not candidates such as area radio personalities and a vote for The Times' long-time movie critic Adann-Kennn Alexxandar, to characters such as Mickey Mouse and historic figures.
Jesus Christ, for example, took .5 percent away from Mickey, earning 22 votes. His name appeared on ballots in several incarnations ranging from his name to a fuller title — Sovereign God My Lord Jesus Christ.
While four third-party candidates appeared on the ballots — Johnson, Jill Stein of the Green Party, Virgil Goode of the Constitution Party and Rocky Anderson of the Justice Party — Mickey's third-party opponents in the write-in poll included these and more.
Batman earned nine write-in votes, including one stoolie who opted to nominate him through his secret identity, Bruce Wayne. Perhaps the voter preferred the millionaire playboy over the armor-clad crime-fighter.
Chuck Norris earned eight votes, along with "Me," a candidate of various identities based on association.
Seven votes each went to two famous fowl, Donald Duck and Big Bird, while their contemporary Daffy Duck earned only five. A candidate spelled "Poo" in all cases (whether this is an attempt at bathroom humor or a reference to Winnie the Pooh, we may never know), earned six votes.
Confederate General Robert E. Lee earned six votes as well, beating out other present and former American leaders Jimmy Carter, Colin Powell, Bill Clinton, James Madison, Hillary Rodham Clinton and George Bush (Senior and Junior).
Professional wrestler Ric Flair, Jack Daniels (the liquor, not its namesake Jack Daniel), and Santa Claus all earned three votes, and Martin Luther King's name appeared twice as "MLK."
Most of the cast of the Star Wars saga appeared in the Lowndes County polls. Darth Vader, Qui-Gon Jinn, Yoda, Mace Windu, R2-D2, C3PO, Luke Skywalker, Boba Fett, Han Solo, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Sidious and Leia Organa earned a nomination, each in different races.
This represents two Dark Side votes, while the Good Side of the Force remains in power with eight, Boba Fett abstaining. (Bounty hunters affiliate with neither the Empire nor the Rebellion.)
In addition to Big Bird, Jim Henson earned three other votes — one each for Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog and Cookie Monster.
In cartoons, Loony Tunes characters took control over their competitors, with three votes for Bugs Bunny and a vote each for Elmer Fudd, Wile E. Coyote, Porky Pig and Foghorn Leghorn, in addition to Daffy's five. Walt Disney's Minnie Mouse and Simba from "The Lion King" earned a vote each to add to Donald's seven, excluding Mickey.
Hanna-Barbera's camp took third place with a vote each for Fred Flintstone and Scooby-Doo.
Superheroes Jean Grey and Charles Xavier of the X-Men also appeared alongside criminal mastermind the Joker, Spider-Man, Superman (who earned two votes), and Tony Stark, also known as Iron Man.
Actors Tom Cruise, John Cleese, Cheech Marin and Roseanne Barr earned a nomination each, while porn star Ron Jeremy earned two.
Musicians Willie Nelson, M.C. Hammer, Gene Simmons, James Brown, Chaka Khan, Keith Richards and Seal took a nomination each, along with fictional characters Percy Jackson and Sheldon Cooper and historical icons Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.
Some voters seemed content to use their write-in powers as a formal soap box, pushing their right to free speech to the limit with several profane and explicit entries. Others vented their opinions with write-ins such as "I hate court," "I hate judges," "I hate racism."
One voter wrote "Anybody else but her" for county commissioner, District 1, and others voted for "lower taxes," "freedom," and "a patriot" on their write-in ballots.
Still others took the silly route, casting votes for Dr. Seuss' Sam I Am, wrestler Dusty Rhodes, and Tommy Hawk.
On a more serious note, Lowndes County coroner write-in candidate Terry Hawke earned 204 votes in his race against Bill Watson, who earned the vast majority with 30,283.
While outright messages such as those listed above "don't require any interpretation," said Lowndes Board of Elections Supervisor Deb Cox, these votes for cartoon characters and impossible candidates don't represent any personal belief or political trend, but merely voters having a good time.
"I think it's just entertainment," Cox said. "You'd be surprised how many people come in who get copies of those. Students write their own names in. Of course, if you don't know who you're voting for, and you don't want to cast a vote, it's a good opportunity to nominate someone you do know."
Cox also explained that in the cases of those who voted for "Me" to indicate a nomination for themselves, those votes represent whoever has that name rather than the voter who cast it.
"You can't identify 'Me' because voters' names are confidential," Cox said. "You can't connect a voter to a ballot in any way, shape or form, so we don't know who 'Me' is."
We could look at these write-ins in yet another light: a vote for an American celebrity, former leader, fictional character or cartoon is a vote for the American culture we hold so dear (with the exception of the British, of course Richards, Newton and Seal).
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Seen this morning in downtown Decatur: preparations for tonight's Decatur Beach Party! Piles of sand were stacked beside West Ponce de Leon Avenue, waiting to be spread on the road once it closed for the event.
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Today, some of us can remember that just six years after the devastating New England Hurricane of 1938, another powerful hurricane tracked over eastern New England.
This storm was detected just northeast of the Leeward Islands on Sept. 9, 1944. The weather forecasters found it moving west-northwest for several days. By the 14th, the eye of the impressive hurricane was located near Cape Hatteras, N.C.
Like the 1938 hurricane, it started to accelerate in a north-northeasterly direction along the East Coast, still centered offshore. During its early days, it was a Category 4 hurricane with steady winds up to 134 mph at Cape Henry, Va. (When it arrived in New England, it was a Category 3 storm.)
From there northward there were many reports of full hurricane force (over 74 mph winds). Hartford, Conn., had gusts to 100 mph. The highest sustained winds were 140 mph. These winds occurred when the barometric pressure plummeted to a low of 27.85 inches. This pressure reading was lower than that recorded in the 1938 hurricane. The storm tracked much farther east than the recent Hurricane Irene.
Boston had gusts just over 100 mph. The winds raised havoc over the North Shore as well. Many trees that survived the 1938 storm were felled by this intense hurricane, and, of course, the power lines came down once more.
This hurricane produced considerable rainfall, ranging from 6 to 12 inches along the coastal regions. However, the storm did not have the devastating effects produced by the 1938 hurricane, since the tides were low. It is interesting to note that this storm occurred during World War II. Thus, it caused a tremendous amount of damage at sea. Five large vessels, including a U.S. destroyer, two large Coast Guard cutters and a merchant ship were lost at sea off the East Coast of the United States, resulting in 344 deaths.
The storm was particularly impressive to me, since two other students and I were able to keep track of the storm throughout its passage over our locale at Malden, Mass. It was wartime then and we were taking an intensive course in meteorology in our junior year. Since we had a fine weather observatory, we were able to make complete observations of the hurricane throughout the storm. Our peak winds gusted to 86 mph, and the barometric pressure plummeted to 28.678 inches.
What a night that was.
Arthur A. Francis is a Salem meteorologist.


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- With the French finally cranking up our pre-season, it's time to look forward. How will the Class of 2015 compare to 2011?
- The day Flecky came face to face with Gunny and passed up the chance to score past his mate…
- Few Canary heroes have connected with the fans like a certain smiling son of Glasgow
- Three weeks to go to a date at Molineux and changes expected before Adams finalises his class of 2015
- Nothing can get the tears flowing like football 2014 style. But when and why did the crying begin?


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This analysis demonstrates that Binghamton University clearly has a strong and profound impact on the community in the form of economic impact, jobs, and human capital.
Binghamton University continues its commitment to serve as an engine for growth in Broome and Tioga counties through its research, its service to the community, and its expenditures. As this analysis indicates, the University plays an important role in economic development in the region and in New York state.


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WASHINGTON — In the Ozark Mountain town of Rogers, Ark., more than 250 business owners gathered for lunch at a construction company last month to focus on what they saw as a major threat -- a proposal in Congress to make it easier to form labor unions.
At each place setting, attendees found pre-stamped postcards and pre-written letters to be sent to Arkansas' U.S. senators, Democrats Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln, who had supported the labor bill in the past. After lunch, the business owners were ushered to computers to send e-mail messages as well.


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Nice idea and I hope it can be used to recycle digital cameras too. The moving parts in small cameras seem to break or jam after about two years. I have half a dozen of them in a drawer, lens extended in prolapse, useless to all . . . unless they can be recycled easily and safely.
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Ex Burnley football player reveals his suicide secret (From Burnley and Pendle Citizen)
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7:00pm Thursday 4th July 2013 in News By Chris Adams
CLARETS old-boy Clarke Carlisle has admitted that he tried to take his own life in 2001.
The defender, who played for Queen's Park Rangers at the time, said he was depressed at the time because an injury prevented him from playing football.
He told the BBC3 documentary Football's Suicide Secret that he attempted to overdose on 50 pills in a London park only to be discovered by his girlfriend.
Carlisle, 33, who announced his decision to retire from the game in May, also presented the show and spoke to other ex-footballers about depression and the stigma attached to discussing it.
Carlisle said he was 'ashamed' that he had tried to kill himself and was rushed to hospital to have his stomach pumped. He returned to the scene of his attempted overdose for the programme and revealed he had never told any of his team-mates about the incident.
Now the chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association, he said more needed to be done to combat mental health problems among players.
For the show, which will be screened next Tuesday, Carlisle also spoke to former England international Lee Hendrie, who tried to take his own life twice, the family of the late Wales manager Gary Speed, and friends of the tragic Germany goalkeeper Robert Enke.
Carlisle, a play-off winner with Burnley in 2009, made almost 150 appearances in a five-year spell at Turf Moor.
He also played for Blackpool, Leeds United, Watford, Luton Town, Preston North End, York City and Northampton Town and was capped three times at under-21 level by England.
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Yosemite remains golden — even without fall foliage
It's not in the colors
Getting there: Nearest major gateways to Yosemite National Park are San Francisco, 190 miles west of the park, or Reno, about 215 miles northeast. Figure 3 1/2 to 4 hours by car from either city.
Getting around: Traffic and parking at Yosemite isn't as problematic in fall as during summer season. Even those who drive into the park will want to take advantage of the free, frequent park shuttles to get around in the valley and elsewhere, not only because they're more environmentally friendly and eliminate parking hassles but because the drivers' patter adds to the experience. Some shuttles are seasonal, so check schedules. Additional paid shuttles link other routes, including popular hiking and climbing destinations.
Staying there: A central booking system (559-253-5636; www.yosemitepark.com) handles all on-site Yosemite lodgings, including the Ahwahnee, a landmark since 1927 and a classic of its type; in most seasons, if you can get a room at the Ahwahnee, expect to pay around $470 a night (double occupancy; all rates subject to change and seasonal variation). Other options in the park include the less deluxe but central Yosemite Lodge (from $109), the historic and variable (some rooms have shared bath) Wawona Hotel (with private bath, from $149), and a variety of cabins and tent-cabins with and without private bath (from $135 with, $49 without). Off-site, our choice — Yosemite View Lodge in El Portal, near the Arch Rock entrance — made us happy with its cleanliness and good restaurant (from $159 to $199; 888-742-4371; www.yosemite-motels.com. Reserve early, as tours and weddings can lock up large banks of rooms. Naturally, this being a national park, there are the usual campgrounds and backcountry options.
Dining there: Most visitors to Yosemite either dine at their lodges or self-cater in campgrounds or kitchen-equipped rooms. The one true destination restaurant is the semiformal (at dinner), candlelit Ahwahnee Dining Room (reservations required at dinner: 209-372-1489) in the hotel. Expect dinner for two to set you back $150 plus beverages and gratuity, and expect to walk out full and happy.
Park information: 209-372-0200; www.nps.gov/yose.
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — This isn't the Fall Color Capital of Anything.
That doesn't mean fall color's not here, if you know where and how to look, and if expectations are rational.
Plus, it's Yosemite, which means, in any color, it's flat-out gorgeous. So this is a legitimate autumn destination — but understand that Yosemite in mid-October isn't mountains and valleys covered with reds and golds and rusts.
We learned that when we scouted last year for what has become our annual autumn preview. We also discovered that Yosemite in mid-October isn't the Yosemite of mid-May.
For instance: In the entire national park system, there may be no more spectacular view than from Yosemite's Glacier Point.
Spread before us is the incomparable Yosemite Valley. From 3,200 feet above the valley floor, Half Dome, the park's iconic split rock, is dramatic beyond description, which is why we'll pass on trying. It just is.
Nevada Fall and, below it, Vernal Fall are little more than vertical white twine from this distance but somehow beautiful nonetheless.
And Yosemite Falls? The stuff of all those Ansel Adams note cards?
"Is that smudge where Yosemite Falls would be?"
"Yep," replied park ranger Dick Ewart, "that's it. Yosemite Smudge."
By now the snow has pretty much melted and gone. Streams, most of them, no longer rush. Mirror Lake has become Mirror Puddle.
Yosemite Falls, at 2,425 feet America's tallest, is just a 2,425-foot shadow on granite.
That's fine. We're here to savor fall color at Yosemite, not colorful falls at Yosemite.
And here, it isn't. From Glacier Point, there is nary a smidgen, much less a smudge, of changing leaves.
So if not from Glacier Point, we asked Ranger Dick, where is the very best place to see it?
"Go to New England." But seriously, sir. We're here to savor fall color at Yosemite ...
"OK," he said, "there's some dogwoods around 5,000 feet or so, and they do turn red, and that's nice. And the oak trees, they turn a little yellow — but mostly they just sort of get brown, then they fall off ..."
The writer's face drooped. The ranger's brightened a smidgen.
One imported bit of color
"There is one tree in the valley," he said. "The early pioneers — they all came from Back East — they came out here and they went, There's no fall color!' So they planted a sugar maple tree."
(We find it. It's across the road from Yosemite Chapel, and on our visit, some of the leaves indeed were flashing reds and yellows.)
Dick Ewart, who is from New England, has been a ranger at Yosemite for 31 years and, like almost all National Park Service people, is fun, patient and knows his stuff.
"People come up to me all the time," he said, "and they look around and they say, We came for the fall colors. Where are they?'
"And I go, That way (pointing toward Nevada), about 3,000 miles."
But he also knows there are subtle seasonal changes here among the dominant conifers and rocky cliffs, domes, half domes and outcrops that make Yosemite so irresistible in any season, including this one.
For the uninitiated, here's a quickie tour of Yosemite National Park:
There's Yosemite Valley, focus of most visitors, with its views of waterfalls, meadows, mountains and majestic granite things like Half Dome and El Capitan — along with one of those singular park lodges with quadrupular room prices, the 80-year-old, still-grand Ahwahnee Hotel.
There's the Wawona Road, which runs along the park's southwestern edge and provides access to, among other attractions, the Mariposa Grove of very big sequoias.
There's the Tioga Road, the weather-sensitive high-altitude roadway that, open or not (and in mid-October it might be either), bisects the park horizontally and has its own amazing views and sequoia grove.
There are some other roads, including Glacier Point Road, which twists and turns from the valley to the point.
There are hiking trails, some gentle and some not, extending from all those roads. There are trails that lead to straight-up walls of rock that lure climbers.
There are black bears and mule deer and bobcats and coyotes and ground squirrels and bighorn sheep and the occasional mountain lion and other critters. Birds. Wildflowers.
Lots and lots of wilderness most of us will never see but, in our heart of hearts, are comforted still exists.
An abundance of trees — with needles
And evergreens. Zillions of them. Trees with cones. Trees that have needles. Trees that wear ornaments at Christmastime.
Trees that ... don't change color.
Except — not counting when they die — when the setting sun hits them just right. There was, one very late afternoon, a startling moment when that sun hit a mountainside of deep-green conifers along the Merced River and turned them a deep-orange worthy of, dare we say it, New England.
But that was, as we said, just a moment.
The rest of the time, those of us who go nuts over autumn leaves settle for ferns that turn light tan when a chill hits, the reddish dogwoods, a hit of bright yellow from a stray aspen, dots of orange on an oak before the brown takes over and reluctant edges of color from a few maples, all but one not imported from Back East ...
The truly color-desperate have this semiconvenient option for leaves: Leave.
And then, another Yosemite ranger, Ariel Kelly, map spread before her, saved the trip: "If you go outside the park in this area, Lundy Canyon, you'll see more color."
Which we do.
In fact, if the timing is fortuitous — and it was on this trip — the color begins just east of the park's Tioga Pass entrance. Lee Vining Creek winds below California Highway 120, with campgrounds and places to walk and to test its waters for compliant trout. Along the banks and partway up the slopes, deciduous trees, aspen mostly, put on a show.
The highway ends at the pleasant hamlet of Lee Vining, where the road meets U.S. Highway 395 near briny Mono Lake. A left turn and a short drive past Mono City takes us to a modest two-lane road that in turn takes us west into Lundy Canyon and ultimately to Lundy Lake.
Along the way: color. Again, it's primarily aspens, golden with streaks of orange. When the sunlight hits them they pop with brilliance, and when the wind comes up they shimmer.
Be wary of weather changes
All this glory can be done in a day trip (about 180 leisurely miles, round trip) from Yosemite Village. The only potential downside is that a few autumnal snow flurries could close Tioga Road behind you.
Within the boundaries of the national park?
"Just little spots," said Kelly, and that's what we found.
"California," explained Ewart, "has such a drought every summer. It's just a natural, super-dry environment. Broadleaf trees — the oaks, maples, cottonwoods, beeches, birches, with such huge, delicate leaves — they can't live.
"Pine trees are really well-adapted. In order to survive, you really need to be, you know, a needle."
What's amazing, though, is how satisfying the little spots of color can be.
We see those golden ferns in the shady areas around Siesta Lake, reachable by Tioga Road, and on the roadside heading up to Glacier Point, and they grab our attention.
Along the trail, much of it paved, to the nearly dry Mirror Lake are oaks whose leaves, however briefly, do exhibit a little brightness. Beside Tuolumine Grove's evergreen giant sequoias, the occasional red-leafed dogwood reminds us that change does happen here, if not in preponderance then at least in a gesture that provides an honest sense of season.
Below Bridalveil Fall — in October, water falls at Bridalveil — a splash of color.
"There's some, of course," conceded Ewart.
But come to Yosemite for fall color?
"Definitely," said Kelly, from Michigan. "I mean, it's one of the most beautiful sights as it is. Adding a little color here and there makes it even more enjoyable."
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Suri Nagamma's sister in law, was a very weak lady and several times, when she wanted to do circumambulation of the Hills, Suri Nagamma advised her against it. In 1949, once when she had come to Tiruvannamalai, she was very much interested to complete it and even her husband (Suri Nagamma's brother) did not object to that.
That time, Suri Nagamma did not accompany them and the lady went with some other people, with a car following for her help.Bhagavan was of course telling Suri Nagamma in the Old Hall: "They must have gone to Gautama Asrama. They must have reached that place.They must have reached this place." Around 10 am, everyone including the lady retruned safe. Suri Nagamma was greatly relieved.
In the evening, Visvanatha Swami came to Suri Nagamma and told her: Your sister in law has not only gone for circumambulation but also visited Skandasramam.How true it is when they have said: "Mookam karothi vachalam, bungkum langyathe girim.."*
"With Guru's Grace, even a dumb shall speak and a lame shall climb the mountain! These words have been rendered true today in Bhagavan's Presence!"
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As part of my project to not let orals actually degrade my sanity beyond recovery, today we're going to do some physics! Well, kind of. We'll be citing a lot of physics, at the least, and using it to motivate things. After all, a lot of cool stuff is coming into algebraic geometry via physics these days, and the best way to understand how these things fit is to understand at least the basics of the physics.
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August 28, 2008
Integrable SystemsPosted by Charles Siegel under Abelian Varieties, Algebraic Geometry, Curves, Differential Geometry, Mathematical Physics
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August 26, 2008
Legalities QuestionPosted by Charles Siegel under Uncategorized
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Ok, this might be a silly question, but I'm not sure if something I want to do is legal or illegal.
So, I've got some books in pdf format that are obtained legally (ie, EGA as downloaded from Numdam) which are rather out of print. I'd like to have nice copies of them to keep on my shelf and use as references…I don't have an ebook reader, so I still prefer dead tree format. Now, there are companies like Lulu which will essentially take a PDF and convert it into an actual book, and are able to do print runs of 1, or 5, or however small. (At least, that's my understanding)
So my question is: is it legal to have a company like Lulu print a copy of EGA (or similar out of print book) for personal use, with it not being set up to sell it to anyone else or to make a profit for me in any way?
If anyone out there actually knows what the laws on matters like this are, please help out and let me know if I'm allowed to do this.
August 24, 2008
Group Schemes and Moduli (II)Posted by Matt DeLand under AG From the Beginning, Algebraic Geometry, Examples
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We continue our quest to understand when quotients of schemes by actions of group schemes exist. Last time we defined group schemes, group actions, geometric quotients, and gave some examples. In this post, I'll define what it means to be a reductive group scheme. To give a full treatment of the theory of reductive group schemes here is impossible, so we'll pick one way to define the notion of a reductive group scheme, state some equivalences, and give some examples. I apologize for the long time between the posts, I'm on vacation and have been have been spending more time outside than at a computer!
August 20, 2008
Constructing Nodal CurvesPosted by Charles Siegel under Algebraic Geometry, Curves, Examples
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So, I don't really have a full length post in me at the moment. However, here's a nice trick that I've learned recently, plus some motivation. With this, it's easy to write down explicitly a curve of arbitrary degree in the plane, which has specified nodes. (So long as it's possible to have that many nodes.)
August 19, 2008
New ThemePosted by Charles Siegel under Uncategorized
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So, we've got a new theme. This is for one simple reason: the old one didn't list the author of posts. This wasn't an issue before, but today, just before this, is the first post from one of the new cobloggers, Matt DeLand, from Columbia. The two themes seem close enough…comment here if there's any trouble reading it or the like.
August 19, 2008
Group Schemes and Moduli (I)Posted by Matt DeLand under AG From the Beginning, Algebraic Geometry, Examples
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Hi! My name is Matt DeLand, I'm a graduate student at Columbia and I'm responding to Charles' call for cobloggers. I also study Algebraic Geometry, and have been enjoying Charles' posts; hopefully I can help out and make some positive contributions. I apologize in advance for the quality of my first post….
August 14, 2008
Request: Projective Elimination TheoryPosted by Charles Siegel under AG From the Beginning, Algebraic Geometry, Big Theorems, Computational Methods
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We talked before about elimination theory, doing it entirely in the affine case. The question was asked about how to do it projectively. There are a couple of subtleties to it, but the idea is simple: we eliminate in each affine chart and then glue together. The problems that arise most naturally here actually involve working on , and projecting down to the affine space.
August 11, 2008
Less posting for a bitPosted by Charles Siegel under Uncategorized
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Ok, well, I'm going to be posting less, and hopefully settling into a regular schedule at some point, but the rest of the month is going to be erratic at best, with my orals being (in theory) the first week of September. I had been intending to write up some stuff on Jacobians of Curves and Theta Functions, but davidspeyer at the Secret Blogging Seminar is doing a far better job than I could, with these two posts.
So, a few things for the moment:
- I'm looking for some new cobloggers. I've talked to a couple of people here at Penn, about it, but if anyone out there on the wider internet is interested, get in touch with me (my email is siegelch [at] math [dot] upenn [dot] edu, or leave a comment). I had originally wanted this blog to be a collaborative thing, and would prefer to get it back there.
- I'm TAing an abstract algebra course this Fall (woo! delaying teaching Calc a bit) and was curious if anyone had any ideas about how I could use this blog to help with that. I figure that I've got it, so I might as well try to use it.
- I have a static web page! It's here and will eventually contain all sorts of notes that I've taken over the years in my courses. Other than that, it's pretty much a link here, so far.
I believe that's all for the moment. Will post something more mathy in the next couple of days.
August 7, 2008
Phylogenetics and Algebraic GeometryPosted by Charles Siegel under Algebraic Geometry, Biology, Combinatorics, Probability
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Ok, this post is going a little bit out of my field. If anyone can fill in some of the gaps in my understanding of phylogenetics and in how to get from there to the math, please do so in the comments. So, anyway, phylogenetics is the study of how various organisms are related, and is very closely related to taxonomy, the classification of organisms. It doesn't look, at first, like it's the sort of thing that would grab techniques from algebraic geometry, the study of solutions to polynomial equations. My thought is that it just looks too hard on the surface to hope to have anything nice popping out mathematically that's that elementary. Well…that's wrong. Without realizing it, algebraic geometers have been looking at problems relevant to phylogenetics for quite some time.
August 7, 2008
Geometric Form of Riemann-RochPosted by Charles Siegel under AG From the Beginning, Algebraic Geometry, Big Theorems, Curves
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Now, the way that the Riemann-Roch theorem was phrased before, the geometry wasn't obvious. We had to extract it in terms of rational functions with poles given by a divisor. Now that we've talked about canonical curves, we can use them to give a more obviously geometric form of the Riemann-Roch Theorem.


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The 21-and-over crowd are invited to a post-prohibition evening with burlesque, comedy, cocktails, and a sideshow to celebrate the Greenbelt Museum's 25th Anniversary.
"We are hoping to recreate the feeling of a vaudeville venue or supper club," said Museum Curator Meagan Searing Young.
Moonshine Cabaret, featuring celebrity Mab, Just Mab, is heading up the night's entertainment, which Young said is meant to be light-hearted fun.
The anniversary party or Rexford Revue is inspired by the era of 1937, the year Greenbelt was settled. So dust off your rhinestones and vintage ties and get ready for vaudeville, advises Young. Or go all white like Rexford Guy Tugwell, the party's namesake who was known for donning white suits.
Party-goers can capture the evening for all time in a self-service photo booth complete with paper moon.
The celebration runs from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. in the Greenbelt Arts Center Thursday. Tickets are $25, which includes cocktails and light hors d'oeuvres.
Classic cocktails will be by Dan Searing, author of "The Punch Bowl," a book of punch stories and recipes spanning four centuries. The evening's cocktails include Tugwell's Tonic, featuring Vinho Verde, and a red-wine based punch called Rex the Red—after Tugwell who was criticized for veering toward socialism. Plus there will be beer, wine and non-alcoholic options.
The evening's fun includes a silent auction with proceeds going to the Greenbelt Museum. Items up for bid include vintage cocktail accessories, pieces from the museum's gift shop, a New Deal Café gift certificate, tickets to an upcoming alight dance theater performance, and a copy of "The Punch Bowl."
Attendees may purchase tickets at the door or online at the Greenbelt Museum's website. Online orders include an additional $1.87 service charge.
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That comes from the Iraqi Human Rights Ministry. It's a death toll resulting from violent incidents ("bombs, murders, fighting") between 2004 and 2008. The U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 and our military will depart at the end of 2011. So the war will have taken the lives of many more Iraqis than the 85,000 the ministry has announced.
I have always felt uncomfortable with any of the unofficial death-toll reporting in Iraq. The Lancet's high-high estimates — 100,000 by 2004 — made me queasy, and I spent time trying to be as respectful of its authors' work as I could, because — you know, we should be vigilant about acknowledging deaths that we cause. The critics of the Lancet often seemed driven by the idea that it was inappropriate to acknowledge U.S.-caused deaths. Everyone here was political — it was as if our determination of reality was contingent on which argument would be bolstered or refuted. And these were people's lives we were discussing.
The truth is we will probably never really know how many people died because of the Iraq war. The Iraqi capacity for counting the dead has been, to say the least, inconsistent. But now we have an official baseline total. The invasion and occupation killed at least 85,000 Iraqis and over 4000 Americans. Who can honestly say it was worth that cost?


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This fundraiser will benefit students in the Galloway Township Public Schools.
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Hahaha, that made me crack up. Are you Finnish?
What band uses that technique? It seems like it would sound like complete shit with anyone. Record yourself yelling/screaming. Lets see how that sounds on you. You want to yell from your diaphragm to not destroy your throat.
Close, I am Swedish
we are somewhat famous for our weird English accents.
To mention a few bands that I've been told use the fry screaming technique: bring me the horizon, as i lay dying, atreyu, bullet for my valentine, darkest hour (at least on later records), killswitch engage, all shall perish, august burns red, underoath.
So I tried finding a louder way to make a scream. It kinda feels like yelling through my nose while trying to relax the throat and make a rasp by letting air flow through it. I don't know if this is the proper way but at least I am recording this while sort of yelling to loud music. I'm just afraid that I'll kill my vocal cords eventually.
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Wow you are beautiful! Your dreads look fantastic too! Where are you from? Much love to you! <3
welcome but a lil wax is like only 1/8-1/4 inch scraped off the top of the container ..1/2 a containers a hell of alot even in long hair ..yea i know they recomend you use an insane ammount so they can blame u for over waxing when you hate the wax (no wax at all should ever be used in dreads so any wax atal is overwaxing)
the only thing you got to worry about now is emoving wax..thats all nothing w=else and definately not tighyenung the roots your at 2 months the roots are suposed to be loose
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Sometimes you just want a relatively mindless knitting project that is easy but nonetheless pretty and comforting. That's the Renewal shawl pattern by Helen Bingham in a nutshell.
This pattern, available via free Ravelry download, is a large striped rectangle worked in three different fibers using garter stitch and stockinette stitch. It includes buttons so that you can wear it as a wrap that will hold to your body a bit, or you can just use a shawl pin and leave off the buttons entirely.
This project is really pretty in the chosen yarns, but something like this would also be a great stash busting project if you had a quantity of a couple different colors of yarn. I'll bet I could make something like this right now out of the random bits of blue and green yarn in my closet. Hmmm…
[Photo by Helen Bingham.]
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Town to assist Key Club Moorings channel dredge
Date: May 27, 2009
by: Kurt Schultheis | City Editor
Longboat Key Club Moorings has been trying to dredge an area outside of its channel, which is used by both marina users and Bay Isles homeowners, since December 2005.
The accumulation of sediment just outside the entrance of the channel in the Intracoastal Waterway causes boats to run aground.
To clean out the sediment, Key Club Moorings needs to dredge 150 cubic yards of sediment, or roughly seven dump trucks full of material.
The marina has all the required permits to perform the work.
But to perform the $60,000 dredging project, the channel needs to be lengthened an additional 500 feet, which requires a sovereign submerged-lands easement from the state and tacks on $90,000.
In order to avoid the $90,000 charge, the town would have to be a co-applicant with the Key Club Moorings on the dredge permit.
The Town Commission agreed to sign off on the permit after hearing the marina's condominium association would not hold the town accountable both during and after construction.
Participation on the permit also does not commit the town to sponsoring any future dredging in the channel or any maintenance in the area.
Town Manager Bruce St. Denis told the commission that many boaters in the area use the channel to stay at the marina or purchase fuel there.
"There is a direct public benefit to the town participating in this project," St. Denis said.
Commissioner George Spoll, a Bay Isles resident, told the commission that he believed the hot spot just outside of the channel was an error made by the community's original developer.
"It's in the interest of the whole community to correct the error," Spoll said.
Director of Longboat Key Club Moorings Marina Operations Dennis Matthews said the work will take approximately a week to perform and will begin in the next month, once the easement is received.
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Haggis in San Francisco Bay Area
This question has come up in the past, but I haven't seen a satisfactory answer, and since Burns night is coming up again, I thought I'd try my luck asking it again. Is there a store that sells haggis in the Bay Area? I will be serving this in my home, so I am looking specifically for a store, not a restaurant or pub, and I'd prefer fresh, not canned, haggis. I've heard that it's impossible to find haggis in this country due to import restrictions...but some hardy butcher must be making it (like in So I Married an Ax Murderer...).
my wife just told me this is scottish.she suggested that you call one of the scottish stores in town and ask them. if they are scottish they might be able to help you. sorry i dont know where the stores are but i have passed them when on the bus.yellow pages should do it.
re: joe
There's a Scottish store in Jack London Square.
Doesn't list haggis (it's more a gift store), but the folks behind the counter often look like authentic Scotland imports... worst case they might have pointers, as suggested.
Ah yes, Burns night, which represents the birth of Scotland's greatest poet, Robert Burns, on Jan. 25th.
Haggis, quite simply, is a large boiling sausage stuffed with oatmeal and a number of meats flavored with onion.
Not sure if this is "local" enough for you, but how about trying www.smartnet.net on the web? You'll find all sorts of recipes and numerous links for ordering Haggis, cookbooks, tall tales, and even traditional Burns night dishes such as Cock-a-Leekie, tipsy laird, tatties -n- neeps (potatoes and turnips), etc.
From what I can gather, it appears that lamb, liver, heart, onions, suet, and oatmeal are the main ingredients.
For pure silliness, try www.scottishhaggis.co.uk, where you'll find all sorts of anecdotes surrounding Haggis legends, etc. Did I mention that whiskey is involved?
Hope this helps!
I asked the same question just yesterday in a class I am taking in the San Carlos area and a Scotman in the class said there in a English store on El Camino in San Carlos that sell this in cans. But I am think you said that you do not want cans. I plan to go to this store and I will place the address and phone later if you are interested.
re: Yimster
Courtesy of SF ChowNews #76, here's the contact info.
British Food Ctr [Peninsula]
1652 El Camino Real
San Carlos 94070
The store has a good deal of meat products in the freezer cases too. Maybe there's some frozen haggis in there, which would be closer to fresh than canned. Worth a call.
I actually was just looking haggis up recently, and ran across this article:
It's from 1998, but it mentions Scottish Meat Pie Co. in Davis, California as a place that makes haggis. You might try them.
I understand that authentic haggis is illegal in the US because it contains sheep lungs and windpipe, considered unfit for human consumption.
You think you have it rough...here's someone looking for haggis in Burma. (g)
I was thinking of callling around the places who're offering haggis as part of a Burns supper --- impossible without the chieftan o the pudding race on the table -- but before doing so wondered if you had got lucky in your search -- started well before mine. Hope to hear from you.
I thought I had a source - Hector Russell, at 76 Geary in SF - but when their latest shipment came in, haggis was "unavailable". (Their whiskey selection is great, however, and the man behing the counter is more than happy to help pick out a few good bottles.)
I will try the Scottish Meat Pie Company and report back. If they don't have it, I may just try to make it myself...
re: sonia k-j
I found the supplier (thanks to the responses on this message board)! The Scottish Meat Pie Company does indeed make haggis, and according to them, they are the only ones who make it in the area. They are in Dixon, CA, and their phone number is 707-678-5354. You have to order it in advance, but I called on Monday and will be able to pick it up later in the week, so it's still possible to get a haggis by this weekend.
Happy Burns Night to all!
re: sonia k-j
Too late for Burns Night, but I have purchased and eaten their haggis many times. It is really first class, comparing very well with the haggis I enjoyed as a student in Edinburgh, living next to MacSween's, the butcher who made the best haggis in town:
Think of it as a round, peppery lamb sausage. Delicious!
re: macazeb
Missed Burns night as I just joined the network. Just before Christmas I bought a lot of frozen food from Camerons http://www.cameronsbritishfoods.com/ I haven't tried the haggis yet.
re: macazeb
re: LarryCable
There a more recent thread and the Scottish Meat Pie Co. is still in Dixon.