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When the State Department released its final Environmental Impact Statement, nearly all the headlines read the same: "Report Opens Way to Approval for Keystone Pipeline" and "State Dept. Keystone XL Would Have Little Impact On Climate Change." Yet after Reuters broke the news last week that the State Department was wrong in its predictions of greatly expanded rail capacity, undermining its claim of no climate impact, no major media outlet amplified the report.
In a report released late on Friday, January 31, the State Department concluded that Keystone XL was "unlikely to significantly affect the rate of extraction in oil sands areas" based on the assumption that if the pipeline were not built, the equivalent amount of tar sands would instead be transported by rail. It was this finding that the media trumpeted, largely ignoring that buried in the analysis, the State Department for the first time acknowledged that under some studied scenarios, the project could have the equivalent climate impact of adding 5.7 million new cars to the road. The idea that the Keystone XL would not harm the climate led many to declare that President Barack Obama should approve the pipeline, even spurring MSNBC host Ed Schultz to call for approval (before later reversing his stance) and liberal commentator James Carville to predict that the pipeline would be built.
On March 5, Reuters added to skepticism that locking in infrastructure enabling tar sands extraction would have no climate impact, reporting that the State Department's draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) had significantly overestimated the amount of tar sands that would move by rail from Canada to the Gulf Coast. The draft EIS projected that about 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) would be moved along this route by rail before the end of 2013. However, a Reuters analysis found that "even in December, when deliveries were near their highest for the year, that tally did not top 40,000 bpd" -- less than a quarter of the State Department's prediction. The final EIS removed any specific projections of movement by rail.
Not a single major media outlet has reported on Reuters' finding, according to a Media Matters search.* In fact, some continued to repeat the State Department's claim that Keystone XL could be replaced by rail without mentioning the report.
Much of the initial coverage of the State Department's final EIS left out that an investigation at the time was looking into whether the contractor that wrote the report for the State Department had a conflict of interest in part because it was a member of the pro-pipeline American Petroleum Institute (API). The investigation later concluded that it did not, but environmentalists still contended it was based on too low of a bar. In fact, API told reporters prior to the final EIS release that it received news from inside the State Department about the timing and conclusions of the report, allowing it to spin the findings to reporters beforehand.
The Heritage Foundation recently published a faulty report on the economic effects of the EPA's forthcoming carbon pollution regulations, and its findings have been repeated uncritically in conservative media despite the foundation's fossil fuel funding and the report's "deeply problematic" analysis.
The Heritage Foundation released their new report, titled "EPA's Climate Regulations Will Harm American Manufacturing," just as House Republicans have been ramping up their latest effort to overturn the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) carbon pollution regulations. On March 6, the House passed a bill that would heavily weaken the Clean Air Act and would "seriously cripple the Obama Administration's ongoing drive to curb dangerous carbon pollution," according to Dan Lashof of the NRDC (the bill is not expected to pass the Senate). This is part of the GOP's effort to curb what they call President Obama's "war on coal," a slogan the Heritage Foundation repeats in their report.
Many of the criticisms of the EPA's carbon pollution rules are misleading, but perhaps none are more so than those from the Heritage Foundation, an organization whose studies have previously been criticized by even the conservative American Enterprise Institute and libertarian Cato Institute. This time the organization released a report on the EPA with findings even more dire than its prematurely released data: that carbon regulations will reduce income, kill nearly 600,000 jobs including 336,000 manufacturing jobs in 2023 alone, cut a family of four's income by $1,200 a year, and cost the U.S. economy a total of $2.23 trillion. Their claims were repeated uncritically in the Daily Caller, FoxNews.com, and Politico's Morning Energy. But the entire report is "radically problematic" and has a "tenuous connection with reality," according to policy expert Michael Livermore in a phone call with Media Matters -- and here's why:
The benefits of clean air standards have been shown time and time again to significantly outweigh the costs. In fact, the Clean Air Act has already saved $22 trillion in healthcare costs, according to a cost-benefit analysis from the EPA.
And health experts agree. According to a press release from the American Lung Association (ALA), the carbon regulations would help prevent "more than 16,000 premature deaths by 2030," due to lower levels of the particulate-forming pollution that comes from burning coal:
"Roughly half of the population in the United States currently lives in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution that is linked to serious illnesses, including asthma attacks, lung cancer, heart attacks, strokes and even death. Children are particularly susceptible to the health effects of air pollution because their lungs are still developing. Carbon pollution that fuels climate change will make it harder to achieve healthy air for all.
"Researchers have estimated that safeguards enacted now to reduce greenhouse gases - including carbon pollution from all sources in the U.S. - would prevent more than 16,000 premature deaths by 2030. The lives would be saved as a result of reductions in the ozone, and particulate-forming pollution that is also reduced as carbon is reduced. Cleaning up carbon pollution from power plants is essential to saving those lives.
It seems the Heritage Foundation does not believe there will be any benefits to clean air, as they do not include any benefits in their analysis of the carbon pollution regulations.
Michael Livermore, Senior Advisor at New York University's Institute for Policy Integrity, explained in a phone call that "even as a cost prediction, [the report is] very inaccurate because it doesn't paint a complete picture about how the economy is going to respond." He expanded (edited lightly for clarity):
One reason it overstates the cost is because it doesn't account for productivity gains that are associated with clean air benefits [...] They're only looking at ways in which productivity might be reduced because of energy prices but they're not looking at ways in which productivity can be increased because people are healthier and live longer.
In addition to that, they're not accounting for -- as far as I can tell -- the various ways that in a dynamic economy, labor markets and technology will adapt to the agency's greenhouse gas regulations.
They assume that any transitions that occur within the energy sector will propagate out to other sectors of the economy and basically act like a shock that's going to reduce employment everywhere. And again, that's not really accurate, that's not how labor markets work, they're holding things constant like macroeconomic policy and the business cycle, all of which are other compounds that are going to affect the employment rate. So their model has a very tenuous connection to reality in terms of anything that's going to happen that they're predicting, with any degree of accuracy in terms of employment.
And in fact, other models which are more empirically grounded find that when you impose regulatory requirements on firms they're just as likely to hire more workers as they are to lay workers off -- and these are in the most highly regulated industries -- because you have to hire workers to comply with environmental statutes. So for example, yes, it might be the case that some coal miners might need to be laid off and need to transition to other forms of employment, but there's also going to be work building new gas fired power plants and energy efficiency retrofits.
So those two countervailing effects, for the most part, most serious economists will argue that our best estimate of the net effect is zero. That any of the employment effects are going to wash out. Because we don't know if there's going to be negative employment effects, but if there are, they're usually going to be associated with countervailing employment effects that are positive. And there's macroeconomic policy like interest rates, like government spending, like taxation, like trade, all of which are going to affect the employment rate far, far more than anything that's going to happen at the regulatory level.
In January 2014, Resources for the Future (RFF), a nonprofit that conducts independent research on environment and energy issues, published a report on the costs of carbon regulations under the EPA's Clean Air Act. They found, contrary to the Heritage Foundation, that the carbon standards will result in "very small changes in average electricity prices" as a likely outcome, and predicted "positive and large" net benefits in every scenario.
The Clean Air Task Force -- a public health and environment advocacy group comprised of engineers, scientists, and specialists -- similarly found in a February 2014 study conducted by The NorthBridge Group that a "highly cost-effective approach" to carbon regulations under the Clean Air Act is feasible:
Simply by setting performance standards that result in displacing electricity generated by high emission rate coal-fired power plants with generation from existing currently underutilized, efficient natural-gas power plants, the U.S. can realize significant, near- term reductions in carbon pollution at a minimal cost.
The analysis predicts that the CATF proposal will:
- Decrease by 2020 of 27%, or 636 million metric tons of CO2, from 2005 levels;
- Avoid 2,000 premature deaths and 15,000 asthma attacks annually as a result of the annual reductions of over 400,000 tons in sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions in 2020;
- Result in monetized health and climate benefits of $34 billion, which is over three times the cost of compliance;
- increase in average nationwide retail electric rates by only 2% in 2020 which, based on Energy Information Administration forecasts, should result in no net increase in monthly electric bills.
Finally, the Natural Resources Defense Council crafted a proposal to support the EPA's goal of reducing carbon emissions, resulting in net benefits that outweigh the costs "as much as 15 times."
MSNBC host Chris Hayes blasted the myth that expanding unconventional energy sources in the U.S. will weaken Russia, an "absurd" claim that has been perpetuated by conservative media to pin the security crisis in Ukraine on President Barack Obama.
Conservative media are manipulating the Ukraine crisis to push a "drill, baby, drill" agenda, claiming that approving the Keystone XL pipeline and expanding the use of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") will somehow weaken Russian President Vladimir Putin's influence in Ukraine. They are calling for expanding development of natural gas in the U.S. (including by the environmentally-contentious use of fracking) to ease the concern that Putin may cut off the natural gas supply to Ukraine and subsequently affect natural gas prices in Europe and around the globe.
Liquefying, exporting, and re-gassifying natural gas is more carbon intensive than domestically consuming it, and would likely drive up the price of natural gas in the U.S., so some oppose permitting further LNG export terminals -- at least until fugitive methane emissions are reigned in. Despite concerns, the Obama administration has permitted several LNG export terminals and is expected to permit more. Republicans and the oil and gas industry complain that it's still not fast enough. However, as LNG is very expensive, reports have suggested that even if they were approved, many LNG export terminals probably won't even be used, or at least not for years -- far too late to address the Ukraine crisis. MSNBC's Chris Hayes and his guest Dan Dicker, CEO of wealth management group MercBloc, explained on the March 5 edition of All In with Chris Hayes:
DICKER: The Russians do have a major control, major influence, on most of eastern Europe through natural gas. But we have to distinguish between natural gas -- which is a gas -- and crude oil which is a liquid. If you want to move a liquid from one place to another, you put in the a dixie cup and you can move it any way you like. Natural gas has two ways of being transported, one is through pipelines. Now, the United States can do nothing in terms of creating a pipeline to all of these eastern European nations.
The only other way you can get it across, and what they're talking about is permitting, is through what we call LNG, which is liquid natural gas. It needs to be cooled, natural gas, to be transported as LNG needs to be cooled to a minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit then put in very, very carefully into very select containers that you can now transport overseas. This costs a lot of money. This is why permitting -- you could permit all of the natural gas export plants you want, there are very few energy companies who are going to undertake building these things, they cost $2 billion to convert an import plant into an export plant.
Fox News is using the crisis in Ukraine to push for the Keystone XL pipeline, an argument that an energy expert called "patently absurd."
In response to Russia's occupation of Ukrainian territory in the Crimean peninsula, Fox News personalities have been pushing for the Keystone XL pipeline to be built on an accelerated timetable, claiming that it would "weaken" Russia. But their argument has no basis in reality, as the pipeline could not realistically be built in a timetable sufficient to respond to the imminent crisis, and the tar sands oil it would deliver would not dent the global market enough to impact Russia. Energy analyst Chris Nelder explained in an email to Media Matters:
Keystone XL proponents will seize on any shred of justification for the project, no matter how tenuous. The suggestion that a very long-term project like Keystone XL, which will take a year or more to construct on any timetable, and which will deliver refined products like gasoline and diesel to a global market -- not just markets around Russia -- would somehow address the immediate situation in Crimea, is patently absurd. Further, delivering 830,000 barrels per day once it reaches full capacity will not meaningfully undercut Russia specifically in a global market that consumes 92 million barrels per day.
Yet at least six Fox News hosts and contributors have used the crisis in Crimea to push a pro-tar sands agenda:
O'Reilly: Build Keystone Pipeline To Weaken Russia. Fox News host Bill O'Reilly said that "the Keystone pipeline must be approved. Why? Because Russia is blackmailing Europe over energy ... the more oil and natural gas the U.S.A. and Canada can produce and distribute, the weaker Russia becomes on the world stage. I fervently hope President Obama understands that."
KT McFarland: Obama Should Tell Putin: "I Will Allow Keystone Pipeline To Go Ahead": In an opinion piece for FoxNews.com, Fox News foreign policy contributor KT McFarland wrote a mock conversation on what she hopes Obama told Putin during their March 1 phone call:
I will allow the Keystone Pipeline to go ahead, again on an accelerated basis. That will not only give a boost to the American and Canadian economies, it will start driving down the price of oil.
McFarland made a similar argument on-air when she suggested "go[ing] after the economic weapon: Build the Keystone pipeline."
Fox News hosts are attacking Apple for defending its green energy measures against right-wing activists. However, Apple is simply the latest business to realize the strategic value of sustainability -- a list that includes Fox's own parent company.
On Friday, the right-wing National Center for Public Policy Research urged Apple CEO Tim Cook at a shareholder meeting to pledge to end all environmental initiatives that didn't lead to a return on investment (ROI), complaining that Apple was concerned with the "chimera" of "so-called climate change." Cook responded that Apple's environmental efforts make economic sense, and that those who want Apple to blindly pursue profit regardless of societal impact should "[g]et out of this stock." Cook added, "When we work on making our devices accessibleby the blind, I don't consider the bloody ROI."
Cook's righteous indignation didn't sit well with Fox News and its sister network Fox Business, which accused him of putting "politics before profits" and "ideology ahead of the shareholders." Fox News host Sean Hannity even announced that he's going to drop his stock after Cook's announcement.
Hannity's bizarro version of the fossil fuel divestment movement would have to extend to Fox News' parent company 21st Century Fox as well. Chairman Rupert Murdoch has trumpeted FOX's efforts to "become carbon neutral" and the corporation touts sustainability efforts at Fox News and Fox Business.
Sustainability is not only smart public relations, but also key in long-term planning for businesses according to business leaders such as McKinsey and Co. A recent report by the investor group Ceres found that clean energy investments must reach $1 trillion a year (a "Clean Trillion") in order to have an 80 percent chance of avoiding global warming of more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) -- a measure deemed necessary by international governments at the Copenhagen climate conference to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. However, without greater commitments to addressing climate change, we face the potential of 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) warming, which would severely disrupt global supply chains including food stocks. That is one reason why companies such as Apple are recognizing the risks climate change poses to their businesses and turning toward cleaner sources of energy.
This is not the first time Fox News has politicized voluntary corporate social responsibility measures. Earlier this month, Fox News criticized CVS for announcing it would stop selling cigarettes, asking if it was potentially illegal for the pharmacy chain to do so.
In response to a new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation on sulfur in gasoline, Fox News misinformed viewers about the health benefits of reducing sulfur, which contributes to smog, and overstated even the claims of the oil industry about the costs of the rule.
Conservative media are latching on to the climate change denial of Patrick Moore, who has masqueraded as a co-founder of Greenpeace. But Moore has been a spokesman for nuclear power and fossil fuel-intensive industries for more than 20 years, and his denial of climate change -- without any expertise in the matter -- is nothing new.
Numerous local newspapers failed to identify the fossil fuel funding behind Thomas Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, while allowing him to publish op-eds across the country misleadingly attacking a potential tax credit for wind power, while ignoring subsidies for the oil and gas industries.
Reuters' climate coverage has continued to drop significantly under the regime of its new "skeptic" editor, with less than half the amount of climate coverage compared to before the editor took over, according to a Media Matters study. This finding comes despite two major reports on climate science that occurred during this period, suggesting that the paper's "climate of fear" may have persisted.
A massive spill of toxic coal ash in a North Carolina river on February 2 has been entirely ignored by ABC, CBS and NBC. The spill has led to a federal investigation and allegations that the state's Governor -- who worked for the corporation behind the spill and has received substantial campaign donations from it -- has been too lenient on the company, which was discovered to have spilled coal ash into the river again on February 18.
Each year, Republican Senator Tom Coburn releases a "Wastebook" reviewing government projects that he views as wasteful, and each year, the media eagerly promote his report. Yet television news ignored a report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) finding that U.S. taxpayers are being stiffed by coal companies buying federal land for less than its worth, which a previous report estimated has cost taxpayers nearly $30 billion over the last 30 years.
On Tuesday, the GAO found that the Bureau of Land Management was not adequately documenting reasons for accepting bids below the determined market value. Furthermore, as many states are not considering exports in their market value analyses, they may be underestimating the value in the first place. Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA), who requested the study, stated that "Given the lack of market competition in coal leases" -- the GAO found the vast majority did not have a single competitor, as seen in the chart below -- "if the fair market value set by Interior is low, it can lead to significant losses for taxpayers. For instance, for every cent per ton that coal companies decrease their bids for the largest coal leases, it could mean the loss of nearly $7 million for the American people."
Based on the report, Sen. Markey's office estimated that recent leases could have yielded an additional $200 million in revenue and "possibly hundreds of millions more." A previous report from the Institute for Energy Economics estimated that selling federally-owned coal for less than fair market value has cost taxpayers $28.9 billion in lost revenue over the last 30 years. That finding adds to the economic damages that coal pollution and disasters exact on the economy. A 2011 study, for instance, found that air pollution from coal-fired power plants imposes more costs on society than the value added to the economy by the industry -- and that study did not include climate change damages. Recently, the spill of a chemical used to clean coal in West Virginia cost the local economy $61 million, according to a preliminary study that did not include the cost of clean-up or emergency expenditures.
Yet none of the major television networks covered the GAO report confirming that coal companies are underpaying the federal government*.
The "Wastebook" received considerably more attention when it was released in December 2013, drawing uncritical coverage from all the major television networks except MSNBC (ABC, CBS, CNN, and Fox News uncritically touted the report at least once, and NBC hosted Sen. Coburn where he raised the report without pushback). LiveScience reported that nearly a quarter of the projects Sen. Coburn's office listed in 2013 were science-related and that the "Wastebook" often distorts the studies. Last year, for instance, Fox News promoted the Wastebook's attack on a "government study" on Tea Party intelligence that was actually a non-government funded blog post. CNN's S.E. Cupp and others also attacked a study of duck penises included in the "Wastebook," contributing to the pattern of basic research being cut in the face of what MSNBC's Chris Hayes called "ignorant mockery."
Fox News host Sean Hannity has asserted 192 times that he and other Republicans do not want "dirty water." Yet he has not once covered the recent coal-washing chemical spill that left 300,000 West Virginia residents with no tap water to drink or bathe in -- an incident made more likely by the anti-regulation policies he supports.
On January 9, a storage tank at a Freedom Industries facility in West Virginia holding chemicals used to "clean" coal leaked into a river located near a water-treatment center. Residents noticed a strong odor soon after and were told to stop using their water.
The incident outraged many, but Hannity has instead focused his ire at those warning that Republican-backed deregulation would put people at risk of dirtier air and water. He has decried those saying these policies would lead to "dirtier air, dirtier water" 192 times*, calling the warnings "absurd and irresponsible scare tactics" and a vicious "lie." In fact, Hannity has wholeheartedly supported allowing more coal and enforcing fewer regulations -- a plan that could lead to more disasters like the one in West Virginia that he has ignored**.
Here are the five most infuriating things about the West Virginia spill that a self-declared "clean water" defender could have covered:
1. The company behind the spill is avoiding liability by filing for bankruptcy. MSNBC host Chris Hayes described how Cliff Forrest, the owner of the Freedom Industries who previously handed out "stop the war on coal" signs attacking President Barack Obama, filed for bankruptcy while opening another company that could take over "a big chunk of Freedom Industries' assets":
2. The company initially failed to disclose a second chemical in the water. The public only learned about the second chemical 12 days after the leak, as the company had originally told state regulators that the chemical was "proprietary" information. The Centers for Disease Control said that information about the chemical is "limited" but that they didn't anticipate any new health concerns.
3. West Virginia residents still aren't sure if their water is safe. After five days of not being able to use their water, residents were told by West Virginia American Water that the water was safe to drink. However, two days later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated that pregnant women should not drink the water. Hospital admissions have doubled since the ban was lifted, and many health experts have said that not enough is known about the chemical to state definitively that the water is safe to drink or bathe in. West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin said of the water supply, "it's your decision ... I'm not a scientist."
4. There's a bill that might've stopped all of this. There are more than 62,000 chemicals that have not been publicly tested, including the chemical that spilled in West Virginia, which hampered authorities' attempts to assess and address the health risks it poses. The Safe Chemicals Act, opposed by the chemical industry, would address this by requiring companies to prove a chemical's safety before selling it.
5. But water pollution laws on the books aren't even being enforced. A 2009 New York Times investigation found that "In the last five years alone, chemical factories, manufacturing plants and other workplaces have violated water pollution laws more than half a million times. The violations range from failing to report emissions to dumping toxins at concentrations regulators say might contribute to cancer, birth defects and other illnesses. However, the vast majority of those polluters have escaped punishment."
Fox News thinks it's "heartbreaking" that a "one-sided" pro-fracking film was rejected from a film festival in Minnesota, questioning the right to "freedom of speech." But the screening was canceled simply because it did not live up to the festival's standards.
On January 23, Fox and Friends hosted Phelim McAleer, director of the pro-fracking film called FrackNation, to complain about the film's cancellation from the Frozen River Film Festival. Co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck lamented that the cancellation "has to just be heartbreaking," that Ireland-native McAleer came to America "to express [his] freedom of thought [and] expression." In McAleer's eyes, the festival organizers "don't want the people of Minnesota to be exposed to an alternative point of view." Co-host Steve Doocy ended the segment by asking, "Freedom of speech? You be the judge."
Doocy has previously answered his own question, acknowledging that "a private company can do anything they want" and it's "not [a] free speech [issue]."
A chyron during the segment stated that "MCALEER REJECTED INDUSTRY FINANCING FOR FILM." However, a review by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette found that "scores of energy industry associates" donated to the film's Kickstarter campaign, which was promoted by several pro-industry lobbying groups. What's more, McAleer and his co-director Ann McElhinney previously produced two anti-environment films openly funded by the fossil fuel industry. They are both listed as "experts" on the Heartland Institute's website, an organization infamous for climate change denial. It's no wonder that the San Francisco Chronicle previously dubbed McAleer "climate denial's Michael Moore" for his misleading film portraying global warming as "junk science."
The festival organizers cited the film's industry ties as one reason that they decided to cancel it, following in the footsteps of the Sundance Film Festival and Telluride's Mountian Film Festival (Frozen River's partner festival).
While Fox News noted that the film was called "methodically researched" by the New York Times, other movie reviewers have panned it. A Los Angeles Times review called it a "one-sided attack piece" that "doesn't add much to the conversation." The New York Daily News gave it a whopping one-star review, and wrote, "the accuracy of this crowd-sourced documentary -- funded by small donations on Kickstarter -- seems as reliable as a Wikipedia entry."
Fox News' Neil Cavuto continued to ignore the desperate need for infrastructure investment in the United States, repeatedly arguing instead that the government is stealing or misappropriating existing resources.
On the January 13 edition of Fox News' Your World, host Cavuto invited former Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood to discuss proposals to raise the federal gas tax to fund construction, repair, and renovation of America's crumbling transportation infrastructure. Rather than acknowledging the need to raise revenue to fund necessary projects, Cavuto made the unsubstantiated claim that federal, state, and local funds for infrastructure investment are being stolen or abused:
The paranoid and unsupported claims made by Cavuto during the segment echo his comments from a contentious December 3 interview with Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR). On both occasions, Cavuto claimed without evidence that "someone" in the government had "stolen," "abscond[ed]," or "[run] off with" billions of dollars earmarked for vital improvements to roads, bridges, dams, and other infrastructure systems.
Once again, the only proof that Cavuto provided to support his claims is the fact that American infrastructure is in a state of disrepair. As Media Matters has shown in the past, the dilapidated condition of America's infrastructure is entirely the result of insufficient funding, not the alleged fraud, theft, or misappropriation suggested by the Fox host.
According to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the public infrastructure of the United States earned a D+ grade in 2013 and is in need of $3.6 trillion worth of investments and upgrades by 2020. The ASCE estimates the cost of modernizing only America's bridges to be $121 billion, roughly equivalent to all of the revenue streams cited by Cavuto as excessive and wasteful during his tirade against the gas tax.
The reason that former Secretary LaHood, Representative Blumenauer, and others advocate raising the gas tax is precisely because the amount currently raised and spent by the federal government on infrastructure investments is too small. The federal tax, which has not be raised in 20 years, is one of many proposals to close this funding gap.
Instead of engaging in a substantive and important policy discussion, Fox News would rather promote its own narrative that all federal spending is riddled with fraud and abuse.
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), a national community of over 850 business leaders, is calling on CBS to correct their most recent 60 Minutes report, "The Cleantech Crash." Simultaneously, a climate change advocacy group is calling for CBS to appoint a public editor to investigate its one-sided story, which followed a string of poor reporting from the program.
"The Cleantech Crash" aired on the January 5 edition of CBS' 60 Minutes, and shortly thereafter drew wide criticism from members of the clean energy industry and among energy reporters. In the segment, correspondent Lesley Stahl wondered if clean tech has become a "dirty word," and concluded,"instead of breakthroughs, the [clean tech] sector suffered a string of expensive tax-funded flops." But critics have pointed out that Stahl focused too narrowly on the failure of a few companies and ignored most of the industry's success. In an interview with Media Matters, San Francisco Chronicle energy reporter David Baker called the segment "a pretty poor piece of journalism," adding, "There are areas of this field that are hurting, but there are others that are doing very, very well."
E2 is now asking CBS producers for a correction to the "misguided" report, writing, "it was shocking for those of us who know about creating businesses, jobs and clean energy to see a respected news organization get this story so wrong in so many ways." They concluded:
The litany of factual mistakes and distortions in 60 Minutes' piece cries out for a correction. While the networks by tradition are strangers to the concept of a public mea culpa, setting the record straight would continue CBS's more responsible position of owning up to the facts.
At the same time, Forecast the Facts, a climate change advocacy group, is calling for 60 Minutes to appoint a public editor to investigate the "Cleantech Crash" segment and ensure that "all future reporting serves the public interest." The group organized a petition to be delivered to Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News and executive producer of 60 Minutes, asking him to "hire a Public Editor to investigate the broadcast immediately and ensure 60 Minutes' climate reporting is accurate." The petition already has thousands of signatures.


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5 Bites: Korean Food On Temescal's 'Kimchi Row'
As a Korean-American foodie who resides in West Oakland, I'm lucky that there's a slew of fine eateries not too far from our home all along Telegraph Avenue in Temescal.
Mary Ladd profiles Jeremy Baker, who is in the business of making wines that include Pinot Noir at Thomas George Estates in the Russian River Valley. Baker explains why the area is a natural choice for a life that revolves around wine and food.
Pinotphiles turned up in droves to taste their favorite grape at San Francisco's Pinot Days. I went in search of local, undiscovered gems and found several which I have narrowed down to five, all south of fifty bucks (often the bottom line for a really good bottle of Pinot).
Sonoma winemaker Greg La Follette listens to his Pinot Noirs. As a result, they have a lot to say.
It's a day that wine growers, wine makers and wine drinkers all look forward to. This year the wait for that day was longer than usual. Cool summer temperatures pushed back the beginning of harvest by nearly two weeks. I visited one of the first wineries in Napa Valley to start picking grapes this year, Mumm Napa Winery.
Winding down summer at Outside Lands. A first timer's view of the gourmet music fest.
Local, small production winemakers shared top billing with bands and restaurants at this year's gourmet music festival, Outside Lands.
Down the road, this frothy juice will become a suave Napa Valley Pinot Noir. But on this hot September morning at the beginning of the 2009 harvest at Robert Sinskey Vineyards, these grapes are just a day or two off the vine, busily fermenting its way from juice to wine.

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Consumer electronics maker Sony Corp., which suffered a sudden 25 percent drop in its share price in April after a profit shortfall, is catching the eye of value investors, and the stock could double to U.S. $60 within two years, Barron's reported.
In the cover story of its July 14 edition, the financial publication cited fund manager Bill Miller of Legg Mason as saying Sony is a likely beneficiary of a long-overdue recovery in Japan's economy and stock market.
"With a little help from the economy, the price conceivably could double over the next 2 years, to about $60," the report said of Sony's American Depositary Receipts. Sony ADRs closed at $32.02 in New York Stock Exchange trading on Friday.
Barron's cautioned that earnings for the Japanese company will not recover and begin growing again until sometime next year.
The article also said Sony faces trouble in its music and film businesses. It pointed to management miscues that fueled the recent financial disappointment and said the company's much-discussed convergence strategy remains a distant hope. (Reuters)
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Re: Vikings must figure out how to stop slide
"Dizzy9257" wrote:
Talk of 6-1 or 5-2 finish is crazy with an offense that averages 16 points per game. We are paying umpteen million dollars for an offensive line that couldn't block a popup ad let alone a pass rush! Even if they could slow down a rush our quarterback can't throw past 30 yards without help from a strong wind. Think we should settle with this being another "rebuilding" year.
Re: Vikings must figure out how to stop slide
As nice as it was thinking playoff it's just not really in the cards this year.
The slide will most likely continue in miami, as they are on the up.
Saying the "D isnt focused" or whater is nonesense, the D keeps us in game but the offense just pisses chance after chance away. This team has way too many holes & our leaders dont seem to want to plug them.
this WCO is hell to watch.
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I had read E.F. Benson's The Horror Horn to start with (a collection of 13 of his best ghost stories), after seeing that it was considered one of the Top 100 Horror Books of all time in Newman & Jones' excellent overview volume. Each of those 13 stories was so good that I just had to have more, and so picked up this collection — The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson — of every single one of Benson's spooky tales, 54 in all. This collection certainly did not disappoint; I loved every single one of these ghost stories, and was riveted ... Read More
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Kim Stanley Robinson's MARS trilogy is a landmark of science fiction. The books visualize the terraforming of the red planet from a desert wasteland to a verdant living space while Robinson examines humanity from economic, psychological, political, sociological, and ecological viewpoints, culminating in the most in-depth look at colonizing Mars as has yet been written. The quantity of material was so great in fact, that Robinson published the story collection The Martians three years after Blue Mars. Collecting material spilling over in the creative effort, it features short stories published from magazines, cuts from the novels, Robinson's notes, musings, and others — 26 pieces in all. The time and setting of the selections is scattered throughout the three novels. Some stories fill gaps not explicitly described, some are alternate �... Read More
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Crystal Express is a 1989 collection of short stories by Bruce Sterling, originally published between 1982 and 1987. Five of the stories are set in his Shaper/Mechanist universe made popular in Schismatrix, three are general science fiction, and four lean toward the fantasy genre. The stories are grouped along these thematic lines, and the following is a brief summary of each story.
"Swarm" (1982) — Certainly one of Sterling's initial forays into the Shaper/Mechanist universe if not the first, "Swarm" is poorly written (it has almost a cartoon presentation), but does a solid (if overt) job of delineating the differences between Shapers and Mechanists. It tells the tale of two people trapped inside an asteroid filled with Investor youth and their plans for genetic modification.
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Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
Kelly Link's short story collection, Magic for Beginners, is a great piece of work. In a bit of a departure from her earlier collection Stranger Things Happen, the stories in it don't follow normative narrative structures; they draw from sources as various as fairy tales, kitchen sink realism, heist stories, TV fandom, and Link's own surrealist vision. These nine stories don't share overt connections, but they do provide a window into modern American life, complete with bland marriages, mortgages, and random zombie sightings. I listened to Random House Audio's version of this book which is almost 11 hours long and is read by various actors such as Cassandra Campbell, Lorna Raver, Marc Bramhall, and others.
The first story, "The Faery Handbag," was my favorite. It was the most straightforward, which probably indicates that I'm a lazy reader and ... Read More
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Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft
There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return on the track of evolution, and it is my belief that an awful lore is not yet dead.
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Everyone must read a little Lovecraft and Blackstone Audio's recently published edition of Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft is, in my opinion, the perfect way to do that. Like re-animated corpses, Lovecraft's most popular stories from the 1920s and 1930s pulp magazines are brought back to life by some of the best readers in the business: Paul Michael Garcia, Bronson Pinchot, Stephen R. Thorne, Keith Szarabajka, Adam W... Read More
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The Compleat Werewolf and Other Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction gathers together 10 short stories and novellas from the pen of Anthony Boucher, all of which originally appeared in various pulp magazines (such as Unknown Worlds, Adventure Magazine, Astounding Science Fiction, Weird Tales and Thrilling Wonder Stories) from 1941-'45. Boucher, whose real name was William Anthony Parker White, was a man of many talents, and during his career, which lasted from the early '40s to the late '50s, he worked as a magazine editor, a book reviewer (for The New York Times and New York Herald Tribune) and an author of science fiction, horror and mystery.
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The Secret Sharer and Other Stories: Silverberg achieves greatness
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The Secret Sharer and Other Stories by Robert Silverberg is available on Audible and offers a top-notch performance by Robertson Dean. The title is a little misleading, I think. There are only three selections included, and only one is a short story. The other two seem to be novellas. However, based on the way Silverberg's works have been repackaged and republished over the years, even those distinctions are difficult to make: For example, We Are for the Dark is included in both his collected short stories volume seven, We Are for the Dark: 1987-1990, and in the collection Sailing to Byzantium: Six Novellas. In listening to all three selections, I noticed that The Secret Sharer and We Are for the Dark are both much longer than "Good News from the Vatican." The short story is a good one, but I absolutely loved the two... Read More
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Algernon Blackwood's Incredible Adventures was first released in book form in 1914, and is comprised of three novellas and two short stories. The literary critic and scholar S.T. Joshi has called this book "perhaps the greatest weird collection of all time," and while I do not pretend to be well read enough to concur in that evaluation, I will say that the book is beautifully written... and certainly weird, in Blackwood's best manner.
The five pieces in Incredible Adventures are almost impossible to categorize. They're not exactly horror or fantasy tales, but they all share one thing in common: In all of them, Algernon Blackwood — lover of Nature (with a capital "N") and ever one to seek for the ultimate reality behind the surfaces of what we seem to know — gives us characters who are bettered for their glimpses behind "reality's" curtain. This is not an easy book t... Read More
Waldo & Magic, Inc: Two early stories from Heinlein
Waldo & Magic, Inc by Robert A. Heinlein
Waldo & Magic, Inc is a collection of two seemingly unrelated stories by Robert A. Heinlein (though both involve magic "lose in the world"). I listened to the recent audio version produced by Brilliance Audio. MacLeod Andrews, who I always like, narrates. William H. Patterson Jr provides an introduction to the stories and Tim Powers provides an afterword.
The first story, "Waldo," was originally published in Astounding Magazine in 1942 under Heinlein's penname, Anson MacDonald. The titular character is a man who has myasthenia gravis, a disease which leaves him physically very weak. Waldo's brain, however, is in fine working order. He has been able to compensate somewhat for his unusable body by developing remote manipulators to do his work for him. In fact, he's known on Earth as a mechanical genius and has become rich because of his inventions. (Interesting ... Read More
The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume One: To Be Continued 1953-1958
The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume One: To Be Continued 1953-1958 by Robert Silverberg
Though To Be Continued: 1953-1958 is the first official volume of the definitive collection of Robert Silverberg's short stories, it should be read after In the Beginning: Tales from the Pulp Era (1955-1959), a collection of short stories that overlaps with To Be Continued only in terms of chronology: There are absolutely no stories duplicated in the two volumes, and in To Be Continued, Silverberg makes frequent reference to In the Beginning which, like To Be Continued, has the same autobiographical introductions to every story.
Having now read these first two volumes, I am fairly certain Silverberg would want readers to finish In the Be... Read More
Dangerous Space: Gorgeous short stories
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Dangerous Space is a revelation. I had no idea these gorgeous short stories were out there. Put me on the list of people who will now read absolutely everything Kelley Eskridge writes, because if these are characteristic of her work, I want it all.
Eskridge often makes creativity her subject, writing movingly about various forms of art, especially music. The opening story, "Strings," posits a world in which the classical composers are revered so completely that any deviation from their scores, note by note, tempo by tempo, is punishable by loss of employment, and apparently by loss of the right to make music at all. Master musicians are named for their instruments, so that the world's best violinist is known only as "Stradivarius," the best pianist as "Steinway." Being an instrument carries with it great prestige and wealth, but the musician who is cursed with an imaginatio... Read More
In the Beginning: Tales from the Pulp Era by Robert Silverberg
In the Beginning: Tales from the Pulp Era by Robert Silverberg
I've been enjoying reading Silverberg's early story collections lately, and I particularly enjoy that he, like his friend Harlan Ellison in his story collections, includes not only an autobiographical introduction to the book, but also memoir pieces before every story. As a result, his collections become two books in one: part short story collection and part portrait of the artist.To be honest, I think I like both parts equally.
In the Beginning: Tales from the Pulp Era consists of sixteen stories written from 1955 to 1959. It overlaps in time period with To Be Continued (1953-1958): Volume One of The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg (the definitive collection); however, the two books do not print any of the same stories.For Silverberg fans, then, both books are essential... Read More
The Compleat Crow: Short stories of Lumley's master occultist
The Compleat Crow by Brian Lumley
Subterranean Press has gathered a collection of Brian Lumley's stories in The Compleat Crow. As you'd expect, nearly all these tales feature Lumley's occult detective, Titus Crow.
Crow is the main character of a couple of novels by Lumley. He is a "white wizard," a force for good who struggles mostly against those in league with the Cthulhu-cycle elder gods. Lumley's style skates between Lovecraft-lite and an almost Holmesian tone. These eleven short stories were published mostly in the UK and range from 1969 to the early 1980s. Most involve Crow as the main character. Some are third-person; in some Crow is the first-person narrator, telling his own tale, and in a few he is the story-teller, relating events that have nothing to do with him. Notably, two tales use a third person narrator that is not Crow.
"Inception," the first story in the book, follows a fugitive ... Read More
Horrible Monday: Dreams of Terror and Death: The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft
Dreams of Terror and Death: The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft
In the mood for some Eldritch horror? Feel like steeping yourself in Lovecraft's frightening nihilistic dream worlds? Want to be read to by some of the world's best story readers? Then give Blackstone Audio's version of Dreams of Terror and Death: The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft a try. It collects Lovecraft's entire Dream Cycle in 20 hours of high-quality audio narrated by some of my favorite readers including Robertson Dean, Simon Vance, Sean Runnette, Elijah Alexander, Stefan Rudnicki, Bronson Pinchot, Simon Prebble, Tom Weiner, Malcolm Hillgartner, and Patrick Cullen.
Here are the stories. (I've linked them to the excellent Lovecraft Archive where you can read them for free since they're in the public domain, but please consider this audio version, because it's really excellent):
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Born With the Dead: Three shorter pieces from one of science fiction's best
Born With the Dead: Three Novellas About the Spirit of Man by Robert Silverberg
Born With the Dead gathers together three of Robert Silverberg's mid-career science fiction novellas into one remarkably fine collection. With a length greater than a short story or novelette but shorter than a full-length novel, these three tales clock in at around 55 to 70 pages each, and all display the intelligence, word craft and abundance of detail common to all of Silverberg's work in the late '60s to mid-'70s. Although subtitled "Three Novellas About the Spirit of Man" on its original 1974 release, the collection features a trio of tales that, strive as I might, I cannot find a common denominator among. Two of the stories concern how mankind deals with the subject of death, while the third has man's relation to religion and God as its central theme. OK, I HAVE thought of some commonalities among all three: They are all wonderful exemplars of modern-day sci... Read More
Horrible Monday: Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft
Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft
For those who just can't get enough Lovecraft, Blackstone Audio has just released this lovely collection of a significant portion of his work. It contains 56 of his horror stories, poems, letter excerpts, and essays. Notably missing are his longer works (e.g., "At the Mountains of Madness" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth") and a few of his most popular short stories which are so often collected elsewhere (e.g., "The Call of Cthulhu," and "The Dunwich Horror").
Most of the stories in Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre are vaguely related to Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos, or at least his general premise that the universe is inhabited by a race of horrible ancient gods who sleep but are occasionally awakened by cultish worshipers from the darker regions of our planet... worshipers who usually eventually go mad.
Here are the stories... Read More
The Bread We Eat in Dreams: A mythological menagerie
The Bread We Eat in Dreams by Catherynne Valente
The Bread We Eat in Dreams contains thirty-five of Catherynne Valente's short stories and novellas, caught out in the wild and arranged neatly for the paying public. Ranging from delicate, herbivorous poems to novella-sized megafauna, these creatures display the ecological diversity of the Phylum of the Fantastic and the continued resonance of the Kingdom of Myth. For gentlemen-scientists and enthusiastic students of all things speculative, Valente's story-menagerie is worth the visit.
Thirty-five stories cannot be summarized in any meaningful sense, particularly when they are such willful, strange, and wild stories. There are warped retellings of fairytales — at least one witch plucks an apple from a tree, and little red riding hood has grown awfully postmodern and bitter over the years ("The Red Girl"). There are dystopian future-worlds ruled by women with a hundred ha... Read More
All You Zombies: Five classic stories by Heinlein
All You Zombies: Five Classic Stories by Robert A. Heinlein by Robert A. Heinlein
All You Zombies: Five Classic Stories by Robert A. Heinlein is a short (3 hours) audio collection of five speculative fiction stories written by Robert A. Heinlein and read by Spider Robinson. I like it a lot. This is a diverse set of tales (fantasy, science fiction, magic realism) that display some of Heinlein's favorite themes as well as some aspects of Heinlein's imagination that you may miss if you've read only his more popular novels. Here are the stories in All You Zombies:
"All You Zombies" — (first published in the magazine Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1958) A man in a bar is telling his strange story to the bartender. It involves a lonely orphan girl, a hermaphrodite, a sex change, and a kidnapped baby. And then it gets stranger. And since it's Heinlein, there's even some incest, but of the weirdest ... Read More
Horrible Monday: The House of Souls by Arthur Machen
The House of Souls: The Best of Arthur Machen by Arthur Machen
I had been wanting to check out Arthur Machen's 1906 collection of short stories, entitled The House of Souls, for quite some time; ever since I had read two highly laudatory pieces written about this work and its author. The first was H.P. Lovecraft's comments in his widely referred to essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature," in which he claims "Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal the versatile Arthur Machen." And, in Jones & Newman's excellent overview volume Horror: 100 Best Books, T.E.D. Klein, in his essay on The House... Read More
Tales from Earthsea: Fills in gaps in the EARTHSEA mythos
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
In 1972 Ursula Le Guin completed The Farthest Shore and felt the EARTHSEA series was finished at three books. However, in 1994 she published Tehanu:The Last Book of Earthsea in an attempt to revise the gender and social roles she'd laid out in that original trilogy. Based on the title, this too was supposed to be the be-all, end-all. Apparently not satisfying enough; 2001 saw Le Guin publishing two additional books in the EARTHSEA CYCLE, The Other Wind and Tales from Earthsea, that both complement and redress the original books. The former rounds out the entirety of Earthsea's story into a nice whole, the latter is a collection of short stories that fills certain gaps Le Guin identified in Earthsea's mythos. Here is a loose breakdown of those stories.
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Lifetouch Inc. became the world's largest employee-owned photography company one portrait at a time.
Today, Lifetouch and its subsidiaries serve the photographic needs of people of all ages. Lifetouch truly is "memories for a lifetime."
For Maira Iqbal, the most powerful photographs portray subjects at their most authentic. That's why she adopts a photojournalistic aesthetic, receding into the background of weddings and fashion shoots to capture candid images. Of course, Maira's happy to incorporate the occasional pose into her sessions, too, which accommodate clients such as couples and youngsters. Rather than offer fixed packages, Maira customizes every single session, preserving her clients' favorite shots with everything from digital copies to billboards right by your high-school rival's house.
The shutter-snapping staff at Hut Photos trains studio lights, technical know-how, and creative impulses on subjects to reveal inner and outer beauty. Adept eyes capture every moment throughout weddings and facilitate tastefully sultry boudoir sessions to highlight inner allure. Flash-popping fiestas also help aspiring models to build their portfolios, and craft poignant portraits ideal for hanging in family rooms or wearing on the back of the head to confuse mischievous children. Shoots take place in Union 206 Studio's expansive, climate-controlled space, complete with a private room for wardrobe changes and makeup.
Armed with nothing but a Polaroid camera, a young Carrie Schluckbier created portraits for her very first clients: stuffed animals. Though her passion for photography has remained the same since her childhood years, her skills have only improved. These days, she photographs professionally for Capital Boudoir alongside fellow shutterbugs John Porter and Mike Burns, whose publication credits include The Washington Post.
The trio not only shares a dedication to their craft, but also a dedication to making their guests feel beautiful and comfortable. Before having clients step in front of the lens, they have them select flattering outfits and sit down for a cosmetic session with resident makeup artist Gina Robinson. Once subjects are gussied up, the photographers coach models through a series of poses, capturing each sultry, yet tasteful look in artfully composed images. During post-shoot viewing sessions, clients can determine which pictures they want to retouch and preserve with prints or full-back tattoos.
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Carl Stock pulled it off! He works out in Ontario and listens to KCAL all day long. It paid off. He just scored the KCAL Workforce Getaway to the Bahamas aboard the Monsters Of Rock Cruise! It's gonna be a great 3 days rocking out to the 30 great bands aboard ship and partying his butt off. If you're thinking about going, here are all the details on the cruise. Have a great time, Carl, you rock! Everybody else, listen for details on the next Workforce Getaway, they'll be coming soon.
November 8, 2013 at 6:42 pm | Concerts, Contests, Drinking, KCAL Crew, KCAL Rocks, KCALFM.com | No comment
Ladies and Gentlemen, please join me in congratulating Carla from Fontana, our grand Prize winner of $1000 in KCAL's search for the best cleavage in the IE! Here she is with the crew when she stopped by and visited with Stu, Tiffany, and Jimbo to celebrate her victory.
Because we hate to see the contest go, we figured we'd continue the celebration for awhile, so click below to see the top 25 vote getters.Thanks to everyone that participated, to everyone that voted, and everyone who picked up one of those "Save 2nd Base" KCAL t-shirts to help raise money for breast cancer charities here in the Inland Empire.
And just in case you need a little more, here's a fun video to keep the vibe going!
November 4, 2013 at 4:40 pm | Contests, General Stupidity, KCAL Crew, KCAL Rocks, KCALFM.com, Local News, On Air | No comment
It started out as a discussion on Stu, Tiffany, and Jimbo about what constitutes "good cleavage", and now it has turned into a contest with a $1000 grand prize! As Tiffany likes to say, every female has a favorite picture that they think their's looks great in, so put it in the contest and let the IE bask in the glory that is you! Plus, be sure you stop by every day and check out the latest entries and vote for your favorites. You can vote for up to 10 pictures each day, and your votes will decide who is gonna score the thousand dollars.
Plus, most of you know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so our friends over at Jam Sportswear have put together a great looking special edition pink logo KCAL "Save 2nd Base" t-shirt to help raise money for local breast cancer research charities.
The shirts are going for $17.95 and come with free shipping to anywhere in the US, so buy the shirt and help find the cure!
October 11, 2013 at 1:33 pm | Contests, General Stupidity, KCAL Crew, KCAL Rocks, KCALFM.com, Local News, On Air | No comment
As Motley Crue get ready to kick into their 2nd residency at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino starting later this month, they're also making plans for their final tour. Vince Neil tells Billboard Magazine that they'll be calling it quits on the road in 2014 with a tour starting up in Spring. He says they plan on still making music together occasionally, but the it'll be the end of any regular touring for the band. Listen for your chance to hit on of the Vegas shows in October, we've got a killer VIP package for you! It's KCAL's Lucky 7′s for Motley Crue in Vegas. Listen each weekday at 7am with STJ and again at 7pm with Patrick for your chance to score!
August 22, 2013 at 3:56 pm | Concerts, Contests, KCAL Crew, KCAL Rocks, KCALFM.com, Rock News | 1 comment
Let's get to know some of the applicants that are hoping to become Miss KCAL Rockmate 2013 at the final KCAL Kegger of the season on Friday, August 23rd!
If you'd like to be in the competition and take a shot at the over $10,000 in cash and prizes, go here!
July 30, 2013 at 5:51 pm | Contests, KCAL Crew, KCAL Rocks, KCALFM.com, On Air | No comment
This past weekend it was Metallica Day at AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants. Check out their sweet rendition on the National Anthem:
They were giving out some totally cool Metallica/Giants hats, and Daryl scored one!
And check out our Grand Prize winner of KCAL Workforce Getaway #2, Daniel givens of San Bernardino, who made some killer custom KCAL T-Shirts with his wife just so they could be representing at the game!
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Apparently, Daryl was enjoying the beers up there in San Francisco!
And then there's Lars..kinda throwing out the first pitch:
Ok, we'll just say it was a big looping curve ball that caught the corner of the plate…
May 6, 2013 at 6:41 am | Baseball, Contests, KCAL Crew, KCAL Rocks, KCALFM.com, On Air, Rock News, Sports News | No comment
The Madness has ended! The KCAL Rockers have spoken, and after over a month of voting in head to head match-ups of the Top 64 KCAL Rock Albums of All Time, we have found your favorite…ladies and gentlemen, we give you AC/DC-"Back in Black"!!!
Need a reminder of what is on it?
Side one
"Hells Bells" – 5:10
"Shoot to Thrill" – 5:17
"What Do You Do for Money Honey" – 3:33
"Given the Dog a Bone" – 3:30
"Let Me Put My Love Into You" – 4:16
Side two
"Back in Black" – 4:14
"You Shook Me All Night Long" – 3:30
"Have a Drink on Me" – 3:57
"Shake a Leg" – 4:06
"Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" – 4:15
Damn, that is one fine album all the way through!
Only one last piece of business to take care of, and that was to draw a name of one of the thousands of KCAL Rockers that voted over the course of the tournament. So congratulations to Daniel Rehome from Redlands, the winner of all 64 of the contenders from our friends at The Mad Platter in Riverside!
We had some amazingly close battles, and a ton of fun with this contest. Not to mention all of the discussions and arguments it sparked across the Empire. Thank you for all of your votes and participation. You Rock!!!!
April 9, 2013 at 9:05 am | Contests, Entertainment News, General Stupidity, KCAL Crew, KCAL Rocks, KCALFM.com, Rock News | 11 comments
ADVENTURES OF POWER – Official Trailer by AriGoldFilms
"Air drums? I've heard of air guitar, but air drums?" you say? Yeah. Air drums! And Ari Gold (who stars in the movie above) is the guy that is gonna lead you into the Guinness Book of World's Records at Rock & Roll Bingo at San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino this year on 10/11/12. In addition to winning almost $20,000 in cash playing KCAL style bingo. last year everyone that won tickets to our huge party helped shatter the record for Biggest Air Guitar Ensemble In History. Here are some of the highlights:
This year, with the help of AC/DC tribute band TNT, we're going to set another GUINNESS WORLD RECORDâ"¢ and grab another piece of legendary air band status as we set the standard for Largest Air Drum Ensemble! Listen for your chance to win your way into the action, but you've gotta hurry, the tickets will be all gone after Sunday, October 7th!
September 27, 2012 at 8:03 pm | Concerts, Contests, Drinking, Events, General Stupidity, KCAL Crew, KCAL Rocks, KCALFM.com, On Air | 3 comments
"Celebration Day", the film of Led Zeppelin's now legendary London reunion show in 2007 is gonna hit the theaters on Wednesday, October 17th. Looks like it'll be playing at the AMC Ontario Mills, the Regal down in Temecula, and the Harkins Theaters in Moreno Valley. Check out the preview above and be listening to KCAL for your chance to win tickets over the next couple of weeks! Click for more video…
September 22, 2012 at 9:37 am | Concerts, Contests, KCAL Crew, KCAL Rocks, KCALFM.com, Local News, Rock News | No comment
Send your mom on a canopy tour with Jimbo and 4orty Courtesy of Navitat Canopy Adventures in Wrightwood. We'll also put something in your moms mouth!! THE STEVEO, Lunch on us courtesy of Cinnamon's Bakery in Wrightwood.
Send us an E-Mail by May 10th and tell us why your Mom (or if your kids are lazy, NOMINATE YOURSELF MOM)Â deserves this most excellent adventure to: email@example.com
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Princess Royal to open new military dog kennels
New military dog kennel blocks at Melton Mowbray, east Leicestershire, are due to be officially opened by Princess Anne today.
The Princess Royal, who in Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, will inspect the new kennels as well as watch a series of dog demonstrations.
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Many years ago, a popular song declared that "love will keep us together." But apparently it doesn't, at least not in its most popular form.
Record-setting Valencia High running back Steven Manfro has committed to UCLA.
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Interesting weather we've had in January, from snow to heat! I'll settle for average winter or spring weather.
If there is one thing business owners are known for, it is creating and executing initiatives that grow top-line revenue.
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Kirk and Jo Ann Smith, longtime residents of Santa Clarita, are proud to announce the engagement of their son Kirk Smith II to Amanda Sidwell, of El Segundo.
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She's catered for celebrities and was a private chef at the Playboy Mansion.
I want to share my thoughts about replacing the notorious N-word in "Huckleberry Finn." But not just yet.
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This summer, the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce will host the third annual Patriot Luncheon on July 11 at the Hyatt Regency Valencia.
Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich will address the Santa Clarita Valley business and community leaders on May 1 at the fifth annual State of the County Luncheon.
We all know that perception often influences our decisions, yet we catch ourselves and become reminded that what we perceive isn't always what's really going on. With the constant barrage of information available in today's 24/7 world, it's important to not get caught up in the day-to-day market volatility and news headlines. That daily hype doesn't always dovetail with what Wells Fargo Advisors top strategists are observing in the financial marketplace.
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This review is from: Koutech IO-EEU330 3.5" Black USB 3.0 External Enclosure w/ One-Touch Backup
Pros: none at the present
Cons: After I've rebooted computer with the device attached it exhibited a severe problem--the unit would not be detected by Windows 7 x64 (in this case) after reboot of the computer automatically. You have to manually turn the unit "off" and then turn the unit "on" with the power switch (power cycle it) in order for Windows to detect it again and so it would operate properly. The problem IS repeatable and severe. Sometimes I had to power cycle more than one time for Windows to detect it! I do not think it's only related to my unit--I believe it affects them all. I have dismissed the problems other person experienced with a negative review but now I see that there is more to it than meets the eye. This product was designed without proper testing involved.
Other Thoughts: I have returned my unit--thankfully it was under 30 day guarantee and newegg handled it professionally. I keep my computer on for a long time sometimes--if I haven't rebooted it in time the problem wouldn't have been discovered past the standard return policy period.
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This review is from: Koutech IO-EEU330 3.5" Black USB 3.0 External Enclosure w/ One-Touch Backup
Pros: can't think of any. When the product doesn't work, it's pointless to admire its shiny piano black finish.
Cons: - constantly disconnects, from both USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 connections (the drive has been tested on SATA interfaces and is healthy)
Other Thoughts: The enclosure disconnects from the host within minutes after accessing the drive; rebooting the host doesn't help: the enclosure has to be power cycled. To me, it's a non-working product. I got this product back in November - too late to return to Newegg.
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Koutech IO-EEU330 3.5"only Black USB 3.0 External Enclosure w/ One-Touch Backup newegg #N82E16817364027
This review is from: Koutech IO-EEU330 3.5" Black USB 3.0 External Enclosure w/ One-Touch Backup
Pros: *Construction and quality and looks are twice the value than what it is currently sold on newegg--I got it for $29 including shipping on the egg site after one egg negative review by somebody. Nobody apparently was buying it so the price dropped $15--my gain..can be yours too if you hurry.
Cons: *There are big white letters on the front plastic cover which are not on the picture on the egg site-- CE FC and 'Recycle it' type of symbol of a waste basket crossed over by a white line. This is a surprise because I was expecting perfection like what I saw on the newegg pictures--clean professional looking front end with nothing on it.
Other Thoughts: *The backup button/software option is useful but not for everyone because it's actually a con whereas it installs a separate Drive Letter (28MB Drive) under Computer in Windows Explorer. The software is also communistic because it forces you to install into one location on your hard drive--you cannot change it at will.
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Disconnects (a lot)
This review is from: Koutech IO-EEU330 3.5" Black USB 3.0 External Enclosure w/ One-Touch Backup
Pros: Attractive Aluminum Paperweight :)
Cons: Disconnects constantly, including during drive use. I tested it with 3 different hard drives, on 2 computers with 3 OSs (Mac 10.6, Ubuntu Maverik. Win 7), using several cables (including the included USB 3 cable). It would always disconnect at least once an hour, and disconnects got more frequent with use. It is now disconnecting every 5 minutes or so and is therefore quite useless. It has damaged a few drive partitions by disconnecting during active writes (the physical drive was OK, but required a reformat).
Other Thoughts: Neither of my machines is USB 3.0 (I bought this case so I could keep using it after a future upgrade). It is possible that the case would work better with a USB 3.0 machine, but it reports USB 2.0 backward compatibility, so I am still annoyed with it. Also, the symptoms sure seem more like overheat, short, or loose connections rather than a problem with the USB protocol (and this case is not USB bus powered). It was cheap, so I'll hang on to it until I can test it on USB 3.0, I guess.
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A co-worker is retiring and loves to hunt pheasants, so I thought this would be the perfect going away gift. The pattern is a Marilyn Carmin design. The wood is Walnut with a BLO/mineral spirit mix. It is about 14" x 16". The edge is beveled at about 35 degrees and burnt with a torch before applying the BLO.
-- Paul, North Dakota, USAF Ret.
7 comments so far
#1 posted 498 days ago
Nice job. Great work cutting.
-- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it. - It's not ability that we often lack, but the patience to use our ability
#2 posted 498 days ago
That's a very nice job of scroll sawing. It really looks great.
helluvawreck aka Charles
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#3 posted 498 days ago
Super gift of talent. Thanks for sharing.
-- the stone rejected by the builders will become the capstone
#4 posted 498 days ago
Very nicely done—makes me want to head out west for some time in the fields.
-- John C. -- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." George Washington
#5 posted 497 days ago
Thanks everyone!
-- Paul, North Dakota, USAF Ret.
#6 posted 302 days ago
Where diD you find this pattern? I have tried to find it on the internet but no lUCK THERE.
-- Curly, South Dakota! Now where did I put that board stretcher?
#7 posted 301 days ago
@54curly: I ordered the pattern from Marilyn Carmin of Heartland Creations, but I don't think she has the bussiness anymore. The Wooden Teddy Bear carries some pheasants but not this one. Sorry I couldn't help.
EDIT: I found it at Wildwood designs.
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A nightclub where police discovered half a kilo of cocaine has been stripped of its licence.
Arda 2, in Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park, was ordered to cease trading after police found £25,000 worth of the class A drug on the premises during a raid last year.
The owners were summoned to appear before an Islington Council licensing committee on Tuesday night after what police say has been a string of serious crimes at the venue.
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Minnesota forward Kevin Love scored 34 points and grabbed 15 rebounds to help the Timberwolves hold off the Knicks 109-100 at Madison Square Garden in New York City last evening. Minnesota led 40-19 after the …04 Nov 13
The Minnesota Timberwolves and Oklahoma City Thunder lock up in a key, early-season NBA Western Conference showdown tonight in Minneapolis. Both teams won their season openers on Wednesday night. O-K-C has been a title-contending type …01 Nov 13
The city of Minneapolis and the Timberwolves came to an agreement on a 97-million-dollar renovation to the Target Center. The city will contribute 48.5-million, the Wolves 43-million and AEG arena management 5.5-million. There also will …29 Oct 13
The Timberwolves take on the Orlando Magic on Wednesday at the Target Center. It's the NBA regular-season opener for both teams. Minnesota finished the preseason with a 4-and-3 record. The Timberwolves have picked …28 Oct 13
Josh Smith's 3-pointer as time expires sank the Timberwolves in a 99-98 loss to the Pistons. It was the final preseason game for both teams. Kevin Love had 19 points and 10 rebounds for the …25 Oct 13
The Timberwolves beat the Sixers in an NBA preseason game in Philadelphia last night, 125-102. J.J. Barea came off the bench to lead Minnesota with 22 points, while Kevin Love added 19 points. The Wolves …24 Oct 13
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Minnesota forward Kevin Love recorded 22 points and nine rebounds as the Timberwolves crushed the Celtics 104-89 at the Bell Centre in Montreal last night in an NBA preseason game. Kevin Martin added 21 points …21 Oct 13
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