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Outerlands is a gathering place for sea goers who seek warmth, shelter, food, and fellowship- a retreat from the saltwater chill, or a place to hang your hat after a long day's frolic in the sun. Locally sourced, organic fare served in a cozy, handcrafted setting: Lunch and dinner Tuesday-Saturday and Sunday brunch.
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For over fifty years, Polly Ann Ice Cream has been delighting residents and visitors alike with their collection of over 500 flavors of ice cream, all made by Polly Ann staff. If you're feeling adventurous, spin the big wheel and see what flavor you land on. Polly Ann offers unique flavors such as lychee, black sesame, and pink lemonade. You can also get all of the classic flavors, and many with a twist.
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1618 Noriega Street
Six days a week, Henry hand-roasts premium blends, some of them only available in rare locations. For 45 years, master coffee roaster Henry Kalebjian and his family have been roasting daily in their Noriega St. store. Customers come by regularly to watch Henry roast, and the store has a loyal following of customers that travel from throughout the Bay Area to the store. This hand-roasted coffee has been voted "Best of the Bay" by San Francisco Bay Guardian. The only way to describe the difference between the coffee we drink on a daily basis and hand-roasted coffee is to compare the quality of fast-food to a gourmet meal.
Irving Pizza
1825 Irving Street
Irving Pizza was born in NYC, but raised in San Francisco. Open into the wee hours of the morning, for your convenience, Irving Pizza offers not only pizza, but hot sandwiches, burgers, salads, desserts, and more. Recent specials include the "Irish Special" with chicken, ham, sweet corn, and bell peppers.
Pho Phu Quoc a.k.a. "PPQ"
1816 Irving Street
PPQ serves up fresh Vietnamese food including Five-Spice Chicken, Spring Rolls, and their delicious varieties of Phở noodle soup. Phở (pronounced "fuh") is a Vietnamese noodle soup consisting of broth, noodles, herbs and meat. Phở at PPQ has a variety of delicious ingredients including sprouts, lemon, jalapeno, basil, onions, cilantro and your choice of egg noodles, vermicelli or round noodles. You can have chicken, beef or seafood or even vegetarian Phở at PPQ. Don't forget about the iced Vietnamese coffee!
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1396 La Playa Street
Java Beach is an independent, mom 'n pop shop co-owned by San Francisco husband and wife team, Patrick and Buffy Maguire. Ocean Beach is where they live, work and play. Their days are devoted to making Java Beach the best it can be. This process starts with the coffee, where they engage in meticulous standards of sourcing, cupping and roasting. They apply these high standards to every aspect at Java Beach. Their menu features an array of unique coffees, bagels, sandwiches, salads and fresh pastries.
The Taco Shop @ Underdogs
1824 Irving Street
www.tacoshopsf.comFrom the a taco done Nick's Way to one of their special burritos, the kitchen prepares each item with careful attention. Meats are slow cooked and infused with flavor. Produce and fish are fresh as they are purchased each morning to ensure an unsurpassed quality. Even the margaritas are prepared fresh and for each customer using agave nectar. The result is a mouthwatering goodness that will leave you wanting to come back for more!
The Pizza Place on Noriega
3901 Noriega Street
www.pizzaplacesf.comThe chef/owners, who both live nearby, opened The Pizza Place on Noriega because they wanted to serve their community and make it a gathering place for all. Specials include "The Rocha" with kale, garlic, roasted potatoes, bacon, tomato sauce and cheese; and the "Meathead" with pepperoni, sausage, ham, salami, red onion, tomato sauce and cheese as well as many other delicious pizzas and appetizers. Pizza is also served on a "create your own" basis as well as by the slice.
La Playa Taqueria
3817 Noriega Street
www.yelp.com/biz/la-playa-taqueria-san-franciscoLa Playa Taqueria serves fresh Mexican fare by the sea. You can't go wrong with their fresh classics such as the Super Burrito with your choice of meat or the Fish Tacos; but they also have a Super Veggie Burrito, a Chille Relleno Burrito, and a Three Pepper Burrito with grilled chicken or steak with rice, beans, bell peppers, onions and fresh salsa.
Tazaki Sushi
3420 Judah Street
www.tazakisushi.comLocated in the Outer Sunset, Tazaki Sushi serves a variety of Japanese fare. Their Sizzling Fish Specials are served on a sizzling hot plate and comes with your choice of Chilean Sea Bass, Ahi Steak, Butterfish, Swordfish, Salmon, Orange Roughy, Halibut, Ono, Scallop Steak, Monk Fish, Mahi Mahi or Tazaki Clams. Tazaki Sushi also carries classic Maki and Nigiri sushis as well as Udon, Cold Soba and Ramen. They are open for lunch Tuesday through Sunday 12pm – 3pm and Dinner Sunday through Thursday 5pm – 10pm and Friday and Saturday 5pm – 11pm.
Devil's Teeth Baking Company
3876 Noriega Street
www.devilsteethbakingcompany.comDevil's Teeth is open Wednesday – Monday, 7am – 4pm, and serves Bicycle coffee, Scharffen Berger hot chocolate, breakfast, lunch and sweets and desserts. They are famous for their Breakfast Sandwich – two eggs scrambled with cheddar cheese, applewood smoked bacon, all on a homemade buttermilk biscuit. They have BLTs, chicken curry salad, lasagna, and a delicious cinnamon roll among many other sweet treats. Stop by on Sunday mornings for freshly made beignets. Enjoy all of these treats while sitting outside in their award-winning parklet!
Kingdom of Dumpling
1713 Taraval Street
www.kingofchinesedumpling.com/english/index.htmChinese Dumpling (Jiaozi) is a traditional Chinese food and is one of the most widely loved foods in the world. Shanghai-style dumplings are served up hot and fresh at Kingdom of Dumpling. Enjoy their Pork Dumplings, Chicken and Corn Dumplings, or their famous Shanghai Soup Dumplings along with a crispy Onion Pancake.
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www.shop-generalstore.comGeneral Store is a collective design community originally founded by Serena Mitnik-Miller and Mason St. Peter. General Store features carefully curated items from both new and vintage sources. Local Artisans and Craftspeople contribute to the mix of furniture, clothing, tools, plants, household items, books, jewelry, cards and small treasures, a little bit of everything useful. Stop by for a visit!
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www.hardwearsf.comWe are a local store, owned and operated by a local resident of the Outer Sunset in San Francisco, California. At The Hard Wear Store you will shop for great trusted brands and unique local designs in a relaxed atmosphere. The Hard Wear Store carries mean and women's clothing including Levi's, Carhartt, Ben Davis and Dickies. Some of their most popular apparel items include their local t-shirts sporting San Francisco street signs such as "Fillmore" or "Avenues" or their sweatshirts representing "Ocean Beach".


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by Janet Larsen and Savina Venkova, Earth Policy Institute Los Angeles rang in the 2014 New Year with a ban on the distribution of plastic bags at the checkout counter of big retailers, making it the largest of the 132 cities and counties around the United States with anti-plastic bag legislation. And a movement that… Read more »
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The Meat Industry and Ideas for What We Can Do About It
Some practical ideas about the meat industry Spacious chicken houses — a stark minority (Photo by David Ashwanden) In many countries, the state of the meat industry is fairly well publicised: poor conditions for animals (see for example 1, 2), strange and unnatural foods and medicines getting into our food chain (see for example 3;… Read more »
Keystone PipeLIES Exposed
Keystone PipeLIES Exposed (Duration: 23 minutes) This film, produced by the Center for Media and Democracy, debunks the claims of proponents of the Keystone XL pipeline regarding jobs, energy security, gas prices, safety, and climate change. More information about this film and research project, "Keystone PipeLIES Exposed," at pipeliesexposed.org.
The Pig Farmer
One day in Iowa I met a particular gentleman — and I use that term, gentleman, frankly, only because I am trying to be polite, for that is certainly not how I saw him at the time. He owned and ran what he called a "pork production facility." I, on the other hand, would have… Read more »
The 2014 Food Revolution Summit – Get the Truth About GMOs (Online, April 26 – May 4, 2014)
Get the truth about GMOs and dangerous chemicals — and how carbs, gluten, fat, and sugar affect your weight, energy, sleep and the planet. Watch online from anywhere in the world! When it comes to food, we're in big trouble. The food supply is contaminated with hormones, antibiotics, GMOs, chemical cocktails, and neurotoxic pesticides. Even… Read more »
Sri Lanka Partially Bans Glyphosate for Deadly Kidney Disease Epidemic
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Dr Michael Hansen debunks some of the many myths promoted about Golden Rice. There has been a lot of misinformation and just plain propaganda about Golden Rice (GR) put out recently. It is stunning that so many are talking about this topic without even a basic understanding of the real issues. Bottom line, there are… Read more »
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New research shows that the low levels of glyphosate found in human urine can promote the growth of human breast cancer cells, confirming the carcinogenic potential of the herbicide known since the 1980s. by Dr Mae Wan Ho A fully referenced version of this article is posted on ISIS members website and otherwise available for… Read more »
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A steep decline in human male sperm count concomitant with rise in testicular germ cell cancer, congenital malformations of the male reproductive tract and drop in serum testosterone levels, all pointing towards increasing exposure to glyphosate/Roundup herbicides during the past decades, now corroborated by lab findings. A fully referenced and illustrated version of this article… Read more »
Genetic Fallacy: How Monsanto Silences Scientific Dissent (video)
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Why are thousands of physicians advising patients to avoid eating GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) [1] and how did these high-risk foods get onto the market in the first place? The answers are disturbing, even shocking, but may help you get healthy and stay healthy. Foods with added bacterial or viral genes were quietly slipped into… Read more »

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It's the second Konami game to receive a downunder delay in a month, after Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 was pushed back by a week in Australia and New Zealand. As NZGamer notes, the downloadable versions of Lords of Shadow 2 weren't affected by what was then a "shipping delay," and while it's not confirmed there's the possibility the same may apply to Ground Zeroes.
In other Ground Zeroes news, series creator Hideo Kojima explained this morning the game doesn't feature a Platinum trophy on PS4 because of Sony regulations. Speaking on Twitter, Kojima said, "They won't allow us to have them for [a] non-full price game."


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It's been a whirlwind of positive vibes for the Louisville program over the last five weeks or so. Now to be able to keep an in-state kid at home with the addition of James Quick (Louisville, Ky./Trinity) allows the Cardinals to continue their momentum down the stretch. Quick adds playmaking ability and quality size to the position. He's not a burner, but he's deceptive and also has very promising return skills. He comes from a quality program and knows what the expectation level is going to be for him at Louisville. We expect he'll meet it.


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You must be based in the UK and writing a science blog to be eligible for the first UK Science Blog prize. Kahlil A. Casimally's Oct. 11, 2012 posting on the Scientific American blogs (specifically the SA incubator) mentions (Note: I have removed links),
The Good Thinking Society, chaired by science writer, Simon Singh, recently announced the inaugural UK Science Blog Prize. The prize sets out to recognise the majesty's nation's best science blog of the year. Yes, this means that the winner will probably be able to include a "2012's best science blog in the UK" logo in his or her blog's sidebar. Wonderful.
Here's more about the contest from the Good Thinking's UK Science Blog Prize 2012 webpage,
Although there are already several prizes established in the UK for science books, general science writing and even skeptical blogging, there appears to be no dedicated recognition for science bloggers.
We'd like this to change, as we feel that some of the best science writing currently being produced is being written by science bloggers.
First prize is £1,000. There will be at least three runners up prizes of £100 each.
You are asked to self-nominate an entry which must have been published in 2012 by the deadline of Oct. 15, 2012 (today!). The organizers have declared all kinds of science blogging is eligible (from the blog prize webpage),
Other than that, we're open to all science blogs and that means science in its broadest sense (i.e. pure science, applied science, engineering, mathematics, technology, statistics, health). [emphasis mine] We also encourage bloggers from all backgrounds to apply, ranging from teenagers to learned professors. We wish to keep the criteria as open as possible. It's likely the runners up prizes will go to specific category winners, such as best student blog or best pure science blog.
I'm not sure I'd call this science in its broadest sense since they have left out the social sciences. Minor quibble aside, the judges are an interesting lot (from the blog prize webpage),
In addition to Simon Singh at Good Thinking, the following will also be on the judging panel:
Ben Goldacre is a doctor and writer, who's work focuses on unpicking the real evidence behind scientific claims from quacks, journalists, drug companies, and government reports.
Mark Henderson is a former Science Editor at The Times and author of The Geek Manifesto, detailing the relationship between science and politics. He is Head of Communications at the Wellcome Trust and doesn't blog as often as he should.
Roger Highfield was the Science Editor of The Daily Telegraph for two decades and the Editor of New Scientist between 2008 and 2011. Today, he is the Director of External Affairs at the Science Museum Group.
Síle Lane is Director of Campaigns at Sense About Science and is a former stem cell researcher.
Martin Robbins is science writer, podcaster and journalist who blogs for The Guardian about science, pseudoscience and the role of science in politics.
Sid Rodrigues is the organiser of the world's first Skeptics in the Pub, based in London and has served as consultant/organiser for science outreach events for over 5 years. He previously spent ten years as a scientist in applied genetics, analytical chemistry and forensics. He currently works at London's home of free thought, Conway Hall.
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Not since Hermann Göring stood slowly from his chair, unbuttoned his creamy uniform, and revealed the wicker-and-leather lattice that swaddled the world's only anti-Semitic orang-utan pulling levers has Nuremberg hosted such a peristaltically perturbing reveal as Scotsman Beverage Systems' "Trufill" concept beer dispenser which can serve a pint of beer…from the bottom.
Gentlemen, let not your breakfasts further erupt from your bellies into your fellows' homburgs! Ladies, grasp your baby by its chubby ankle and remove it from your gullet! The mystery of the Trufill will be revealed in due time by the ace reporters of FOODBEV.COM, who assure us all: "Self serve, self fill… this takes the old fashioned world of dispense into the vending arena with a mix of Star Trek meets Harry Potter. I tour most of the major trade shows and it's rare to see true innovation. 'Bottoms up Scotsman', you've made my Brau. We can't wait to follow this story as it unfolds."
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Do These Look Like The Faces Of Two Africans Found Guilty Of 'Looking Gay'?
Arbroath – A Cameroon appeal court on Monday overturned the convictions of two men found guilty of homosexuality and sentenced to five years in jail for cross-dressing and wearing make-up. Homosexuality is illegal in Cameroon but recent incidents have highlighted growing tension between a largely conservative society and a younger generation less concerned by the issue. The two men, Singa Kimie (also known as Jonas Singa Kumie) and Ndjome Francky (also known as Franky Djome), were convicted in November 2011 and had already spent over a year in prison. Their lawyer, Alice Nkom, who campaigns for gay rights, said the court's decision had been expected. "Their conviction was against the law because they were not actually seen or caught doing anything at the time the police arrested them," she said. Homosexuality is illegal in many African countries. In Cameroon, the penalties range from six months to five years in jail. In 2011, there were 12 convictions.
Absolutely these guys are gay. Who did they think they were fooling with that popped collar and coy smile? Maya Angelou here might as well be taking a picture of her two bald daughters. These guys got REAL lucky.
As an American and citizen of the world I personally have no problem with anyone being gay or whatever other sexuality (as long as they avoid children and unconsenting animals), but my opinions are far from those of much of Africa. You can get five years or KILLED for being gay in a lot of these places. So my question is: who did Singa Kimie and Ndjome Francky think they were fooling?
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PS – Actually, jail in Cameroon must be like the best gay orgy on the planet. Whole jail is packed full of regular-ass non-criminal gays with nothing else to do but each other.


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I'm not only sharing some great tips but also meeting a few of the bloggers I've come to partner with in the past. I'll be sure to post pictures, and hopefully a video or two, when I return!
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Work the Shell - Listening to Your Twitter Stream
Last month wrapped up with a problem so complex we had to delve into a different programming language to create a solution to the mathematics of calculating the distance between two lat/lon points on the globe. My head's still spinning. I long ago graduated computer science, so what the heck?
This month, I thought we should move back to something a bit more fun and perhaps a bit less complicated (well, maybe not, we'll see) and return to Twitter.
What I've been thinking about is how helpful it would be to have a bot that listened to my Twitter stream and answered simple queries directly without human intervention. Stores could have a bot respond to queries like "hours?" and "address?", and students could have their schedule preprogrammed, and the bot could answer queries like "class?" by indicating what class students were in at that moment.
In fact, there's a local startup here in Boulder, Colorado, that is moving down this path called Local Bunny (localbunny.com), but it's doing a real, fully thought-out solution. By comparison, I'm going to show you a bubblegum and bailing wire approach!
To track a Twitter stream from an individual, it's quite easy: a call to the right URL with curl does the trick:
curl http://twitter.com/status/user_timeline/davetaylor.xml
That'll give you my last dozen tweets or so, along with a lot of additional information, all in XML format.
What we want, however, are mentions of an account or pattern, which require you to supply login credentials. This call is a bit more complicated, but you still can accomplish it with curl:
curl -u "davetaylor:$pw" http://www.twitter.com/statuses/mentions.xml
Here, I've set pw to my account password (you don't really want to know my password, do you?). The output, however, is something else. For an individual tweet, there are 42 lines of information that come back (for a 140-character tweet).
It's too much to show you here, but try the command yourself and be astonished at the output.
To trim it down, let's use grep with a regular expression to extract the Twitter ID of the person who sent the Tweet that mentions @DaveTaylor, and the tweet itself:
<text>@DaveTaylor Have them send the money in gold bullion.</text> <screen_name>LenBailey</screen_name> <text>@DaveTaylor Escrow.com</text> <screen_name>Ed</screen_name>
You can see here that the first tweet is from @LenBailey, and the second from @Ed.
Turning this into coherent output is a tiny bit tricky, because we really want to merge line pairs into a single line that denotes message and ID. That's a job for awk:
awk '{if (NR % 2 == 1) { printf ("%s",$0) } else { print $0 }}'
Now, if we feed the curl output to this, we'll see:
<text>@DaveTaylor Have them send the money in gold bullion.</text> <screen_name>LenBailey</screen_name> <text>@DaveTaylor Escrow.com</text> <screen_name>Ed</screen_name>
Next step: let's get rid of the XML artifacts and reformat it to be a bit easier to parse. We also can axe @DaveTaylor, because we know it's to this account already (in the actual code, it's one invocation, but here it's easier to show it in two lines for legibility):
sed 's/@DaveTaylor //;s/<text>//;s/<\/text>//' | sed 's/ <screen_name>/ == /;s/<\/screen_name>//' www.xetrade.com ? == kiasuchick Have them send the money in gold bullion. == LenBailey Escrow.com == Ed
That's more like it!
Let's start by doing something simple. If you "@" my Twitter account with the command date, it'll detect it, actually run the date command, and send out the results on my behalf.
To do this, we'll want to split the data stream into "tweet" and "tweeter", but we can do this in a tricky way by tweaking the earlier awk string to create name=value pairs:
awk '{if (NR % 2 == 1) { printf ("msg=\"%s\"; ",$0) } ↪else { print "id="$0 }}'
The result:
msg="escrow"; id=Stepan msg="www.xetrade.com ?"; id=kiasuchick msg=" Have them send the money in gold bullion. "; id=LenBailey msg="Escrow.com"; id=Ed
Nice. Now we can use the underutilized eval command in the growing script to set the variables msg and id to the two, and then check msg for known values. Now, if you're sharp, you'll realize tweets that include double quotes are a bit of a problem, but fortunately, the Twitter API is smart too. All single quotes pass through as is, but double quotes are rewritten as the HTML entity ".
Let's pause for a second so I can show you what I've built so far:
$curl -u "davetaylor:$pw" $inurl | \ grep -E '(<screen_name>|<text>)' | \ sed 's/@DaveTaylor //;s/ <text>//;s/<\/text>//' | \ sed 's/ <screen_name>//;s/<\/screen_name>//' | \ awk '{if (NR % 2 == 1) { printf ("msg=\"%s\"; ",$0) } ↪else { print "id="$0 }}' > $temp
That grabs the 20 most-recent tweets for the specified user and converts them into msg="message" and id=userid for each one. Fed to eval in a loop, we now have a very easy way to parse things:
while read buffer do eval $buffer echo Twitter user @$id sent message $msg done < $temp
Let's wrap up the column here for now, but next month, we'll take the next step and actually parse the Twitter "@" messages being sent to me, trying to find those that match the predefined queries we've set, act upon them and respond.
This is going to be a pretty cool project when we're done!
Dave Taylor has been involved with UNIX since he first logged in to the on-line network in 1980. That means that, yes, he's coming up to the 30-year mark now. You can find him just about everywhere on-line, but start here: www.DaveTaylorOnline.com. In addition to all his other projects, Dave is a film critic for a number of local publications. You can read his reviews at www.DaveOnFilm.com.
Dave Taylor has been hacking shell scripts for over thirty years. Really. He's the author of the popular "Wicked Cool Shell Scripts" and can be found on Twitter as @DaveTaylor and more generally at www.DaveTaylorOnline.com.
Argh! OAuth?
Ok, I didn't have a chance to try this when you wrote this Dave, but I'm going to give it a shot, and read and hack out this whole article... I new to trying to do things in the shell. And I'm willing to make a spectacle of myself on twitter doing so!
BOINK. I ran into an Authentication error. I forgot that OAuth is now being used by Twitter. Is there a way to get past this?
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Three a.m. Still awake. Car alarm just went off outside. Believe a frustrated fellow student and comrade attacked the car with a baseball bat to silence it. RA is having some kind of orgy/dance party.
Am tired. Cannot sleep. Am becoming insomniac.
Hope no more car alarms go off.
I. hate. car. alarms.
that is all.
Be yourself. Because if you're busy being someone else, then who's gonna be you?


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February 26, 2013
Lunchtime at Hamilton is an odd experience. Some students grab whatever they find first at Commons or McEwen and simply dig in; others carefully craft their meal from the available entrees; still others buy a latte and wrap from Opus and eat en route to class. Lunch should be a straight-forward decision, but I am always unsure of what to eat once noontime rolls around.
As a child, I refused to eat anything but a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch. For 10 years I carried a PB&J to school, accompanied by some goldfish and maybe an apple. It was all I wanted, and it was all my mother made for me.
At Hamilton, lunch is still made for me, but different entrees are served each day. Commons could offer mac and cheese, while McEwen serves Cajun-style wings and Opus sells hummus wraps. Thus I am forced to answer the question: what do I really want to eat for lunch?
I have to carefully weigh my decision. Track practice starts in just a few hours, so nothing too hefty, spicy or rich. Concurrently, I need enough energy to stay awake through the afternoon, so whatever I choose should be filling. If I eat too much sugar I will be jittery through class—too much salad, and I will still be full at dinnertime. I face a real dilemma every day at noon.
Most of the time, I return to that tried-and-true favorite: PB&J. My stomach is used to it; I like the taste—what else can I ask for? But if I eat the same thing every day, I miss Hamilton's vibrant lunch scene. So I try to break out of the box every now and then. I order some sushi from Commons or some chicken salad from McEwen. Eventually, I might find a new favorite.
Majors: Government and Economics (intended)
Activities: Cross Country, Debate Society
Favorite Pastimes: Late-night Diner breakfast, reading the paper in KJ through the morning, wandering the Root Glen and sipping a latte from Cafe Opus.
Hometown: Newfane, Vt.
High School: Concord Academy


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I'm all about novelty: if you can do something I've never seen before, you'll usually get my kudos, even if I don't end up liking whatever it is you've done.
So how about this Fraulein Revoltech Yoko, which is beautiful in and of itself-- but also comes with Yoko's hair down, which is awesome-looking? Seriously! Not only that, but in addition to her gun, Yoko also comes with her hair sticks...which kinda look like drum sticks. Sweet! And, yes, interchangeable faces, a little Boota to sit in her cleavage (speaking of...), and a few other goodies as well.
All that for ¥4,000 (about $44 USD)? God, yes please.


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He clapped his hands, and the lights in his office went on. That is my strongest memory of Bruce Graham, who died last Saturday at the age of 84. I do not mean to denigrate his achievements as the man responsible for the design of the Sears and Hancock Towers in Chicago, among many other buildings that sport an elegant bigness, but because he was somebody who conveyed the ability to turn technology into power. Whether it was by using what was then the latest gizmo to manipulate lighting or by collaborating with the engineer Fazlur Khan to create the world's tallest tower, he got things done. Graham and his firm, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, bestrode the ramparts of big business and designed those defensive structures at the height of our belief in American corporate power.Graham was architecture as big business. After the handclap came the short drive in the black limousine with license plates "SOM 1" to his private club for lunch. I was there as one of the candidates for the directorship of the SOM Foundation, which Graham saw as converting the firm's wealth into a center for advanced theoretical research (I didn't get the job, but the institute did function as such for a while). I was living for a few months in Chicago, and everywhere around me I saw the big buildings he and his firm had designed. For me then, they represented much of what had gone wrong with architecture. They were the unholy spawn of Mies van der Rohe's sleek packaging and Le Corbusier's muscular gestures. They used advanced engineering principles to create structures that seemed to express nothing more than the ability to make things big. This was the architecture of power without any seeming purpose.Now, every time I walk by the Hancock Tower, I admire its ability to soar. I once stayed in a hotel room across the street and loved staring at the play of headlights and reflections behind the veil of frosted glass on its parking garage. The fabled detailing of which Skidmore, Owings & Merrill was capable like no other firm is on display all over the city. The buildings for which Graham was responsible have an enigmatic grandeur that often survives their original patrons (the Sears Tower is now the Willis Tower). We remember Graham because he used his position to bring fresh thinking into the architectural profession, to allow for structural experimentation, and to improve his native Chicago through his spearheading of, for instance, the Navy Pier renovation.Graham's power was a corporate one. He was the team leader for one of the slickest architectural machines the world has ever known, and developed his projects as part of large business and civic structures that were able to entrain vast amounts of resources to create singular and powerful results. He gave form to the headquarters and the meeting places, the bureaucratic mazes and the decision moments from which much work was done.When I fly into Chicago, approaching the city from across the lake, I often admire the big things Graham left behind, from the towers soaring out of the city to the new park space next to a reconfigured Lake Shore Drive, to the stretch of McCormick Place. I feel a bit of nostalgia for the power to get such big things done. These, however, are different times, and we will have to figure out how to make a thoughtful, appropriate architecture without the likes of Bruce Graham.
When I learned of Bruce's passing, I really felt as if a part of my past had vanished. I had the great pleasure of working for Bruce during his last years at SOM. He was responsible for giving me opportunities beyond my wildest expectations and for which I'm forever grateful. For a short period of time, I was living in London where Bruce encouraged I spend 7 months during the construction of 3 buildings at Stockley Park (for which I was the senior designer). He thought this would be a great learning experience for me. During one of his visits to the London office, I asked if we might like to stop by Stockley Park so he could visit the project as it was nearing completion. As my memory serves me, he explained he had no interest. He had seen the drawings and was perfectly familiar with the buildings. There was no need to physically visit them. This struck me as a strange comment, but now that more than 20 years has passed, I fully understand what he was talking about. He was a mentor, a formidable architect and amazingly generous to many. His legacy will continue for many, many years. Steven Burns, FAIA
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Ookay. So. First of all, I pick fights with homophobes, and I think I'm insecure in my homosexuality. Pah. But I already ranted about this in my [written] journal, and I don't have time right now, even though it's only 11:30 on the first night of a long weekend, because.... (point #2:) I have no life for the next week and a half because of tech. Joy.
Our resident jerk/homophobe: Arg, So-and-So is such a faggot.
Me: *clears throat* (after my persuasive speech in English class, it should be pretty clear that gay, fag, etc. are not to be used as insults around me.)
ORJ/H: Oh. Okay. So-and-So is such a woman.
D (a jock girl who can get pretty feminist when she needs to): *clears throat*
Woaaaaah... I was right!!!! I might have gaydar (transdar?
Sooooooo0o0o00o0o00oo... I finally did it. Me and this friend I was with (she's bi) were in the subways, and there was a guy handing out Jesus pamphlets, we walked up to him arm in arm and asked what Jesus' views on homosexuality were. Mehehehe.... I can't tell you how long I've wanted to do that. I mean, his answer wasn't all that heartening, but he was nice about telling us that it was sinful.
...is currently sitting in a vat of warm water as I struggle to finish global hw. Just thought you should all know that.
It's 11:11! Make a wish!
Okay, so I know I'm not supposed to obsess about this. And I know I'm not technically overweight (according to BMI and stuff). But I could definitely stand to lose weight. My figure annoys me. If I could just get rid of my stomach some, then I'd be okay.
So, remember my best friend who I've been crushing on for just about ever, and who likes me back but currently has a boyfriend and is just randomly touchy-feely and flirty?
When I see something stupid and homophobic on facebook, etc., I usually can't stop myself from commenting on that. I did that on a facebook group called "Shakespeare likes the cokc." Now I'm getting hate mail. And it wouldn't be quite as bad if facebook was letting me reply to the latest message. Arg. It's ridiculously stupid and annoying. (These people, not facebook.)
Not actually gay issues or anything, I just wanna bitch about homework:
I have to write an essay on imperialism. With no sources. And it might be my own fault that I have no sources. Damn. Argh. Damn.
Hah, I went to a lecture on stem cells today with a buncha labbies. It was fun. I was a lecture virgin before and now I've been deflowered XD kept imagining a little smiley-faced blob going "lookit me! I'm a stem cell!
It's raining and lightening. I love lightening.
I'm working a piece of music. I had major brain-block this afternoon, but it went away and I'm writing the piece again.
God I love lightening.
My report card was really, really good. And I quit my stupid science program, so I don't have to do a science project for the next three years.
...are dead. I was playing that record (wtf is with Freak Hall's vinyl collection??) in the turntable in the tech booth a few days ago. Sherwin or Steph or someone turned it all the way down b/c they didn't wanna hear it (it was a pretty disappointing record, I must admit), but I assumed that they'd turned it off.


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LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday amid revelations of his company's political proximity — and his own closeness — to the White House and Obama administration officials.
The Daily Caller first reported one week ago on emails and documents that indicate political ties and numerous meetings between LightSquared and Obama administration officials as the company was undergoing regulatory review.
Ahuja's resignation comes after Obama's FCC suspended conditional approval of a waiver LightSquared needed to complete its high-speed broadband network. Until two weeks ago, the company's final approval appeared imminent.
Ahuja, who had never donated to Democrats before and has not since, gave the maximum allowable $30,400 contribution to the Democratic National Committee on the same day his lawyers were trying to arrange a meeting for him at the White House with top Obama technology adviser Aneesh Chopra and other officials.
In emails between Ahuja's lawyers and White House officials Ahuja wanted to meet with, his lawyers pointed out that he would attend an Obama fundraiser on or about the same day he wanted the meeting.
In a statement accompanying the company's announcement of Ahuja's resignation, he made no mention of those revelations.


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Who's Later, Marvel or DC?
- Posted by Johanna on June 28, 2006 at 5:29 pm
- Category: Comic News
Tom Brevoort, in a blog post responding to a fan angry about blown deadlines, throws in this wonderfully snarky parenthetical:
It should be noted that late shipping is not a Marvel-exclusive problem. In point of fact, we have fewer late-shipping titles than our largest competitor at the moment. But you readers tend to notice ours more–I'm guessing because you're more interested in what we've got going on.
I decided to check this out. I have a database tracking all DCU title orders and almost all Marvel title orders (we don't track Punisher or marginal titles like whatever Frank Tieri's writing). As of today, the last day in which books due in June could be on time, I show the following for Marvel. (Add two months to the code for the due date; an APR06 code means the book was due in June.)
Title | Order Code | Notes |
Daredevil: Father #6 (of 6) | OCT051954 | Promised for 2005. |
Genext #1 (of 5) | APR062064 | I'm not sure what this is — another mutant miniseries? |
She-Hulk #9 | APR062054 | |
The Thing #8 | APR062056 | Final issue, so not surprising that no one's rushing it out. |
Ultimate Fantastic Four #31 | APR061999 | Written by Mark Millar, who's had health issues. |
Ultimate Wolverine v. Hulk #3 | FEB061987 | Written by a TV writer, and they tend to have higher priorities elsewhere. |
Ultimates 2 #12 | APR062000 | Also Millar. |
And here's the DCU titles.
Title | Order Code |
All-Star Batman & Robin #6 | APR060172 |
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #43 | APR060205 |
Batman: Journey into Night #11 (of 12) | APR060181 |
Green Lantern #12 | MAR060317 |
Green Lantern #13 | APR060215 |
JLA Classified #24 | APR060223 |
Secret Six #2 (of 6) | APR060230 |
Seven Soldiers #1 | FEB060290 |
Supergirl #7 | FEB060237 |
Teen Titans #37 | APR060237 |
I don't know about specifics on many of these, but I have heard an intriguing rumor that DC is so concerned about getting the weekly title 52 out on time that they're telling creators that that comes first, which might explain the delay on certain of their other DCU titles.
Based on this, Marvel has 7 late titles, DC 10. If you remove the books that just became late (those due this month), the score is Marvel 2, DC 3.
Brevoort is right. Marvel does have fewer late books, and I do believe that this isn't a one-month exception. However, Marvel's late books often become celebrated as emblems, as with Daredevil: Father ("if the head of the company can't get his book out on time, what kind of example does that set?!?"). It's also the case that Marvel tends to have "hotter" creators, and they're given more slack by editors, retailers, and fans, because no matter how late they are, they keep selling.
Update: In the July Previews catalog released June 28, Genext #1, All-Star Batman & Robin #6, and Seven Soldiers #1 were cancelled.
14 Responses to "Who's Later, Marvel or DC?"
- JD Says:
June 28, 2006 at 5:41 PMGenext was a Claremont project that seems to have been put on hold because of his health issues. Actually, I never saw the solicit for it, just a scheduled date (it was probably quietly cancelled).
Some of the DC books are regular offenders and were late even before 52 or IC ; Supergirl and Green Lantern, for exemple.
ASBARTBW #6 has been cancelled, hasn't it ? They resollicited #5 for in a few months… Here the main rumor seems to be that it is being rewritten because of the horrible reviews. - Ralf Haring Says:
June 28, 2006 at 5:54 PMWasn't Seven Soldiers #1 cancelled? I know the fourth collection was.
- James Schee Says:
June 29, 2006 at 1:55 AMSupergirl has actually had to change writers, after only 1(2?) written by Rucka. Because of his work on 52, which I guess explains its delay a little.
- David Oakes Says:
June 29, 2006 at 2:05 AMSeven is less then ten, but out of how many books? My sense is lately that DC is doing the old Marvel method of publishing dozens and dozens of books, presumably to grab "market share". I doubt they have half again the number of titles, but I also bet that both companies have enough that a three title difference will be lost in the noise.
And you are right how one really late book can totally skew perceptions. If we count "Total Lateness" (Apr = 1, Mar = 2, etc) they tie at 15. But half of Marvel's lateness comes from a single book, DD:F. Ignoring the April books is even worse. DC has a total of 8, while Marvel has a total of 10, again due almost entirely to one outlier.
Marvel may be late less often, but when they are late, they are LATE. All those Apr book could ship next week, and few people would care except the retailers. But "Father" has already become a cultural sign post, like "MAGE II is due next Summer". And you can't shake public perception just by being right.
- Johanna Says:
June 29, 2006 at 7:26 AMRalf, I think you're right — but I haven't looked at the cancellation list in the Previews that came out yesterday yet.
David, for comparison, for MAY06 order codes I have tracked 49 titles for DC, 54 for Marvel (and there, I may have omitted one or two).
- Katherine F. Says:
June 29, 2006 at 7:58 AMI haven't read DC titles regularly since the mid-90s, so I can't really compare them, but I wonder if part of the problem is that Marvel's favoured a highly decompressive mode of storytelling, so that even when books ship on time, some readers feel cheated because not much has happened? (Which calls to mind the old joke: "The food here is terrible!" "Yes, and such small portions!")
- Ray Cornwall Says:
June 29, 2006 at 3:05 PMTom's complained about Slott's lateness on the Thing in his blog. I'm hoping there's nothing going on there- Slott's one of the better writers working today.
Green Lantern's been running late for a while. Supergirl's late partially because of Loeb's problems (the death of his son Sam) and Rucka's decision to leave the title after only one issue.
I've long since stopped worrying over late comics. Late collections tend to bug me- why is the 2nd Invincible hardcover so damn late?- but I'm not changing my buying habits because of them. I have enough to read, really.
- Alan Coil Says:
June 29, 2006 at 5:11 PMDaredevil Father is actually over 2 years late. And this after Quesada claimed last summer that the art was all done and the books would be out on time.
Had this comparison been done 2 years ago, Marvel would have had an overwhelming lead. They have started scheduling some of their books as bimonthly or quarterly to avoid being late. For Marvel to now claim "We're better than they are, nya-nya-nyaa" at this time is disengenuous.
- Johanna Says:
June 29, 2006 at 8:42 PMRay, that's a good point, about already having enough to read. Breaking the release day cycle is another side effect of the growing percentage of the market dedicated to book-format comics.
Alan, it wasn't Marvel, it was one of their editors. And the point is that, yes, Marvel has improved on their track record from just a few years ago.
I don't care as much how books are scheduled (although big delays in miniseries issues are annoying) as that they make the release dates they promise. So moving to a longer schedule is ok with me. But the flip side of that is that they also now have some titles coming out 16 or 18 times a year.
- Jer Says:
June 29, 2006 at 11:17 PMBrevoort misses a key point (one that is alluded to in comments above) – people don't really get on Marvel's case for books that are late NOW, the "bad blood" is there for years of Marvel treating their published release schedules like they were suggestions instead of targets. Every late book that Marvel has now is lemon juice in a paper cut that was sliced a long time ago.
The classic examples are not only Daredevil: Father (and I can't believe that this STILL isn't finished), but also Kevin Smith's Black Cat series and NYX – the delays on these books were absolutely staggering in comparison to anything folks had seen before, so they became jokes which Marvel is still getting slammed for (perhaps unfairly at this point). Plus, for each of these books there didn't seem to be the outstanding personal problems that plague other books (like Loeb's work due to his son's death, or Millar's health problems), so there's less slack from the fans when it looks like its not things beyond the creators' control, but rather incompetence on someone's part. Marvel's not going to recover from these jokes overnight.
DC had better watch out, though — by stretching their cornerstone creators so thinly and piling them all into the weekly stunt that is 52 they run the risk of building a rep for lateness themselves. People are willing to wait for quality books, but more than a month or so late consistently, and it just looks like someone in editorial is dropping the ball.
And, Ralf, even if Seven Soldiers #1 has been cancelled for now to be resolicited later, its still late. The "event" was supposed to be done in May — if it takes them to September to get the book done and on the shelves (which sounds like what's going to happen), its still 4 months late. There may be understandable reasons for it, or not (I haven't heard any GOOD ones yet — most of them boil down to Morrison being too busy working as a Universe architect to get a finished script to Williams), but it's still late.
- Ralf Haring Says:
June 30, 2006 at 12:34 AMIf a publisher cancels a book and resolicits it later, they're being much more responsible than if they let it languish on the late books list. They're freeing up retailers' monies to be used on other things in the interim.
- Jer Says:
June 30, 2006 at 8:02 AMRalf –
Sure, and I think its the right thing to do, and I'm glad that it appears to be DC's standard modus operandi when the situation comes up and the book is going to be more than a month late. But its still late, and it seems to be for the same reason that some of the books that Johanna listed from DC are late — because of Infinite Crisis and 52. Half of the books on that list are by DC's "core group" of creators pushing to get their new and improved DCU up and running this year.
- Alan Coil Says:
June 30, 2006 at 5:33 PMTo pick a nit, the statement was made by a Marvel editor at the Marvel site, and he used the collective "we", so it is a Marvel comment, IMHO. But, okay if others don't think so.
I also don't really care much about how the books are scheduled, except in the cases where they promise the book will be out on time. A comment made at Newsarama today seems to indicate that the next issue of Daredevil Father has again been delayed.
A few times in the 2004 and 2005, Marvel put out several bi-monthly issues, but in the next month or two, skipped a month. However, part of this problem is possibly laid at Diamond's feet. They sometimes don't ship a book the week it is scheduled to be out. This shows up as a missed month if the issue was due out the last week of the month.
Katherine: I agree about those portions. Every time I go there, it seems they are smaller than the time before.
- Flaming Dork Says:
April 23, 2007 at 11:50 AMIt is the undeniable fact that has DC more schedule foibles than Marvel and they do have a nasty habit of canceling titles. However this careless attitude Marvel has regarding its fans has made me stop reading their titles altogether.
DC practically breaks its neck to push a good title out even going as far as cutting off a limb or two. Marvel kinda has this "Whenever you're ready Joss, Allan, Kevin, JMS, you're charcters will still be waiting for you! Don't worry about the hacks!" mentality that I do not particularly care for.
I also didn't care for Tom's statement. If you're my dealer and I'm jonesin' for comics, you sold me a lot of bad weed over the past three years. I think I'll go to the dealer across the street.


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Male Wool Carder Bees: In-Your-Face Behavior
She described it to a "T."
That would be "T" for territorial.
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at UC Davis, spotlighted the European wool carder bee in her current edition of the Bohart Museum Society newsletter.
The males are aggressive. Their territorial behavior is "in your face." They will chase away bees, butterflies and even small birds, like hummingbirds. "They will also check out humans, flying up to them and hovering," Kimsey says.
But it's not something we should be worried about. The wool carder bee is a pollinator.
"We tend to think of all exotic species of insects as being pests," Kimsey wrote. "By and large, that's true but there are exceptions. The wool carder bee, Anthidium manicatum, may be one of these exceptions."
She describes it as a species of European leafcutter bee "that has successfully colonized North America. However, North America isn't the only place these bees have invaded. They are now found in north Africa, South America, Asia, the Canary Islands and even in New Zealand. World domination is ahead."
The wool carder bee (so named because the female scrapes or cards leaf fuzz for her nest) was accidentally introduced into the U.S. from Europe in the early 1960s and was first discovered in New York State. It spread quickly across the continent. Scientists found it in Davis, Calif., in 2007.
They're about the size of a honey bee, Kimsey says "but they are brightly marked with yellow on a black background with a bright yellow face. Only honey bees in Disney movies are black and yellow. Males are considerably larger than females, and have a spine on either side of the last two abdominal segments and three spines on the last segment."
Those spines have been mistaken for stingers, but only females have stingers.
We've seen the males protect patches of lamb's ear, catmint, foxgloves, oregano, cosmos, African blue basil, and Mexican sunflower (Tithonia) in our yard. They mean bees-ness. We've seen honey bees working frantically, trying to forage as quickly as possible without getting targeted. We've also seen some of them crippled on the ground.
The female wool carder bees build their nests, Kimsey says, in rotting wood or preexisting tunnels, such as beetle burrows.
Kimsey mentioned that the Bohart Museum scientist Tom Zavortink experienced female carder bees "carding" wool from his socks!
The Bohart Museum Society newsletter is mailed to its members. The society is a campus and community support organization, and like the Bohart Museum, is dedicated to teaching, research and public service. For more information on the society, including how to join, see this page.
Male wool carder bee heads for the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wool carder bee zeroing in on catmint. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male wool carder bee attacking a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Those Foxy Wool Carder Bees
Foxgloves, meet the European wool carder bee.
European wool carder bee, meet the foxgloves.
It's like "old home week" when these two get together. The plant (Digitalis purpurea) and the bee (Anthidium manicatum) are both native to Europe.
European wool carder bees, so named because the females collect or "card" leaf fuzz for their nests, were introduced in New York in 1963, and then began spreading west. They were first recorded in California (Sunnyvale) in 2007.
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) arrived in America 341 years before their cousins. European colonists brought the honey bee to America (Jamestown colony, Virginia) in 1622, but the honey bees didn't make it to California (San Jose area) until 1853.
Now they're together again, so to speak, but it's not a happy situation when a male wool carder bee spots a foraging honey bee.
Male European wool carder bees are very aggressive and territorial. They'll "bonk" other insects that land on "their" flowers such as lamb's ear, catmint and basil. They'll bodyslam honey bees, butterflies, sweat bees, carpenter bees, bumble bees and even a hungry praying mantis or an eight-legged spider (arachnid) or two. It's all about trying to save the floral resources for their own species so they can mate and reproduce.
One thing is certain: honey bees forage faster when those foxy male European wool carder bees buzz the garden.
They know each other well.
Male European wool carder bee heads for a foxglove. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What's inside? This male European carder bee is investigating. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey(
Male European carder bee (right) targeting a honey bee that is seeking nectar from a hole drilled by a carpenter bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
European wool carder bee nestled inside a foxglove. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
They're Not Sheepish on the Lamb's Ear
The next time you're around a lamb's ear--no, not the animal, the plant (Stachys byzantina)--watch for buzzing bees.
Especially the European wool carder bees (Anthidium manicatum). The females card the fuzz from the soft, silvery-gray leaves for their nests. Both the males and females sip nectar from the blossoms.
The males are quite territorial and bodyslam honey bees and other foraging insects. They're trying to save the sweet nectar for the females and mate with them.
It was windy this morning in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. It didn't seem to bother the patrolling European wool carder bees. But their presence--and the body slams--bothered the honey bees.
The haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden located next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis, is open from dawn to dusk. There is no admission.
European wool carder bee nectaring on Lamb's Ear. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Side view of European wool carder bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bees are quite distinguishable from European wool carder bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
European Wool Carder Bees Aren't Slow Pokes
Don't ever call the European wool carder bee (Anthidium manicatum) a slow poke. It's not "as fast as a speeding bullet" (Superman), but close.
The males, quite territorial, chase away other pollinators, including honey bees, sweat bees and butterflies.
The European wool carder bee gets it name from the fact that females collect or "card" leaf fuzz for their nests. Today we watched the bees sip nectar from our catmint blossoms and mate.
If you've never seen them in California, that's because they haven't been here that long. Originating from Europe, these bees became established in New York in 1963, and began spreading west. Bee scientists first recorded them in California (Sunnyvale) in 2007.
Like to attract them to your yard? Plant lamb's ear (Stachys byzantia) and catmint (Nepeta).
European wool carder bee darts through catmint. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Mating European wool carder bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
After mating, these European wool carder bees broke away at lightning speed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Up, Close and Personal
The wool carder bees (Anthidium manicatum), so named because the females collect or "card" plant fuzz for their nests, move quickly. The males, more aggressive and very territorial, move even faster.
The wool carder bee is an Old World bee introduced into the United States (New York) in 1963. It was first discovered in California (Sunnyvale) in 2007.
Today we spotted one in our Vacaville yard that didn't seem to be in much of a hurry.
In fact, it sidled up to the catmint (Nepeta) and appeared to be having a conversation. No, not with an empty chair. With a mint leaf.
Girl bee?
No, said native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, and one of the instructors at the annual Bee Course at the Southwestern Research Station, Portal, Ariz.; this year's course takes place Sept. 10-20.)
"This one is a boy bee," Thorp said. "Note the prominent golden fringe hairs along the side of the abdomen and the edge of the tooth-like processes at the tip of the abdomen. Also the lower part of the face (the clypeus) is mostly yellow."
So there you have it, a boy bee!
I'm still wondering why he wasn't body-slamming the honey bees and engaging in other aggressive and territorial escapades.
Male European wool carder bee heads for a catmint (Nepeta) leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Male European wool carder bee on catmint (Nepeta). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)


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It took a horrible user interface and ripped-off features to draw me back to my technology blog. Yes, Apple's update to the iPhone's operating system is such an irritation that I just couldn't keep silent. Unlike a spec of sand inside a clam, this irritation sadly will not produce a pearl.
Bowing to pressure on an old a tired interface, Apple finally previewed its first significant update to the mobile phone that changed the smartphone world at its developer conference WWDC last Monday. No one was surprised by the announcement but the lack of excitement was obvious when it was unveiled. Aside from the first few rows of Apple employees and friends of the company, such as Board Member Vice President Al Gore, smiles were far and few in between. Shock was a more common expression. Ironically enough, the acclaimed designer Sir Johnny Ives seemed to have let some elementary children create the icons for iOS 7 as simplistic was used to the extreme. Like a sixth-grader confined to his or her world, one finds the need to inquire with the little chap to solicit what the four bubbles icon represent. Oh, that's for Game Center? Yes, bubbles totally convey that message. The petaled color wheel for Photos is not much better. This is from a company that prides itself on the principle that anyone can pick up its product and start using it. I'm not sure how many people are going to tap a compass icon expecting Safari or that other compass icon expecting Safari. What a mess.
Gone is any depth, though Ives is quoted as saying iOS 7 has more of it. The shadows and texture are all gone – characteristics of depth – leaving flat bland colors. There is more blinding white backgrounds than ever and baby blue all over the place. Tappable items such as "buttons" are simply now just text and one just has to assume tapping the word will execute the command. Again, not a feature any computer illiterate could figure out on their own.
Speaking of features, where were the new ones? I mean the real new ones and not the stolen ones! Every feature Apple mainstreamed on the big screen at the Moscone Center could be found on an Android device, today. Not this fall. Today. SVP Schiller came out introducing the newly radically designed Mac Pro shooting off a comment about not innovating any more, "My ass!" Granted, the new cylinder super Mac is pretty amazing, but were was that same type of attitude with iOS 7? It's lacking was because of the clear absence of Apple innovation.
Control Center, the ability to do things like disable Bluetooth, adjust brightness, and select Wi-Fi, is nothing new but something iPhone users have begged for ever since seeing it in Android's Notification Center. In fact, when Apple announced its Notification feature last year, many thought this ability would be found in it. Nope, users will end up waiting another 18 months from that release for it. Almost two years! That's crazy.
True multitasking comes to iOS 7 and the ability to see running applications looks just like it does on an HTC device. An Android. If you'd like, you can go back even further to 2009 when Palm first introduced the "card" concept with webOS. It's nice to have real multitasking on iOS – in the Fall – but again, this is far from a new feature.
I found the new simple lock screen somewhat comical since Apple has made such a big deal of "Swipe to Unlock" in the Samsung lawsuit. Now iOS 7 will have a very simple lock screen with a large display of the time…just like Android's Ice Cream Sandwich.
The update to the music player with iTunes Radio looked so much like Google Music it was comical. The concept of streaming music isn't new and in fact the market is crowded with choices. After Steve Jobs bemoaned the idea of steaming music because, "people want to own their music", Apple finally enters the game (with four bubbles?) after the dirt finally hardened on Jobs' grave.
Not even that tricky looking 3-D background is new. Nope, the feature known as Parallax has been available for Android for sometime in the form of a third-party application called 3D Image Live Wallpaper. Heck, take a look at it in action from SlashGear's videon on YouTube. Yes, fully disappointing that something so cool STILL isn't an Apple innovation.
I'm sure like the makers of 3D Image Live Wallpaper, other vendors were not happy seeing their hard work and ideas up on the Keynote presentation branded Apple, either. Mailbox campaigned brilliantly for its simple and powerful application with its easy to use swipes that – gasp! – are coming to iOS 7 Mail as well. Go figure! Oh, there's more swipes – pun intended – buried in iOS 7 including one that draws from one the companies Apple has nearly put out of business, BlackBerry. Like BB10, if you swipe to the left, you'll be taken back to the previous page. Amazing.
Now all these features taken from others that are available today on a competing hardware won't even grace an iPhone until this "Fall", whenever that is! That's three months at best, SIX at worse! By that time, I guess there will be a slew of new features for Apple to pick off the tree from Android for iOS 8.


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My current setup is all long guns are in the vault in the bedroom closet. The guns are secure from robbers and children in a big heavy safe bolted to the floor but the dial combination lock, the time it takes to get up out of bed in the middle of a deep sleep, and distance from bed to closet would give the home invading bad guys an extreme advantage. Changing from a dial to a key pad or biometric lock is not an option. Looking around the internet, I have found a few wall mounted rifle racks that take up to three guns but I have not found any single gun wall mount racks. I thought of fabricating some brackets I can bolt to a wall stud and lock up a shotgun with a padlock but there must be some product out there. Also, I already have a GunVault Safe attached to the nightstand for the handguns.
I would like to know how other members keep home defense long guns safe yet ready for quick access