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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has noted on occasion — as recently as last month — that the price of his company's stock was overvalued, particularly in the short term. Seems Wall Street got the hint, bestowing upon the automaker the biggest one-month loss of market value in October since the last such occurrence in December of 2010.
Category: Tesla Death Watch
I was originally hesitant to jump on the Tesla Roadster "bricked batteries" bandwagon, and my initial story was written with a sort of cautious neutrality. Further context will be provided by the details that have surfaced in the 24 hours since the story broke. Hope you're ready to dive in to it all.
Depleted batteries. Unauthorized GPS tracking. $40,000 service bills. Rejected warranty claims. These are just some of the talking points making the rounds of the internet regarding the alleged "bricking" of Tesla Roadsters.
TTAC officially retired its Tesla Deathwatch series over a year ago, after the firm delivered its 100th Roadster. Indeed, we've generally turned away from the "Deathwatch" tag in recent months, as the bankruptcies of GM and Chrysler have removed the immediacy of many of their original criticisms. Over the years, the Deathwatch label has been a challenging mistress, often confusing readers as to TTAC's intentions: though they were intended to document the slow-motion bellyflop of America's automakers, they've often been interpreted as a sign that TTAC actually wishes tragedy upon the automakers it identifies as being in danger of shuffling off this mortal coil. Incidents like the one today, in which three Tesla employees were apparently killed when an light aircraft owned by Tesla senior electrical engineer Doug Bourn crashed into a Palo Alto neighborhood, serve as an important reminder that nothing could be further from the case. TTAC criticizes automakers because responsibly buying, owning and operating motor vehicles requires that consumers be well-armed with the facts. When real tragedy strikes the companies that build the vehicles we discuss here, our thoughts go out to the families of those lost, and we hope that the company's operations soon return to some semblance of normality. Today we mourn for Tesla's as-yet unidentified employees (apparently CEO Elon Musk was not on board) who will not be at work tomorrow, working on new ways to respond to criticisms and improve the firm's products.
Yes, yes: I'm a Tesla naysayer. Have been right from the start when the media went ape shit for a car that hadn't been built, repeating performance claims as if they were written on Moses' stone tablets. (Which were eventually modified.) But I did take them off the "Tesla Birth Watch" when the car deliveries began. And we haven't posted a "Tesla Death Watch" entry since May 1, 2009. If true, this report from TechCrunch—claiming profitability for the EV maker—indicates that we should cancel the TDW altogether. Cynic that I am, I see some pretty major caveats here. "Silicon Valley's electric car company, Tesla Motors, says that it hit profitability in July. The private company reports that it made 'approximately $1 million of earnings' on revenues of $20 million, and that it shipped 109 Roadsters, its $109,000 all-electric sports car. The revenues reflect GAAP accounting standards and are only for the month of July." Given that GM used a predicted (but not realized) Department of Energy (DOE) loan in their financial projections, does Tesla's half billion dollar-or-so DOE suckle have anything to do with this?
And that's just the prototype. The LA Times' Dan Neil (the automotive journalist's automotive journalist) got an exclusive first up-close look at Tesla's Model S and comes away with some healthy skepticism. What did he learn? "Tesla has already had to walk back a claim regarding the Model S' recharge capacity. The car will not have the capacity to accept 440-volt current, which would allow it to be charged in 45 minutes," for one thing. The prototype "is just barely ambulatory," writes Neil. "More like a glorified golf cart than a harbinger of tomorrow tech." Also, "the car's signature design flourish—a 17-inch, touch-screen control panel with haptic feedback in the center console —may not even make it to production." And Neil's skepticism is contagious: The Business Insider concludes that "There's No Way Tesla's Model S Will Cost $57,400″ even after hefty government incentives. Ouch.
Now you may think that Tesla Motors, makers of the $109K+ lithium-ion powered Roadster, are acting in good faith re: taking deposits for their recently revealed Model S sedan. If so, GreenTech Media's report that the Musk-scented company has secured 520 advance orders for the vehicle is a good thing: a sign of early adopters' faith in Tesla's ability to design, build and, eventually, sell the all-electric foor-door. Leaving aside Tesla's past history of missing deadlines and changing announced specifications. With eyes wide shut, the fact that Tesla has collected $5K per car from 520 prospective customers, generating some $2.6M, is a good thing. Nothing wrong with raising a little—and in the car business $2.6 million is microscopic—working capital. The fact that Tesla's first model, the Roadster, isn't profitable, and that the new money may be helping to prop-up THAT side of the business, is neither here nor there nor the subject of a court case. So . . . good news! There may be more money on Tesla's table!
The racing biz has been trying to go green for nearly a decade now, realizing that sheer horsepower and derring-do don't conform to the temper of the times. The new mantra: race on Sunday, save the planet on Monday (after breakfast on my yacht). So the idea of a one-make Tesla Roadster race series makes perfect sense: from a political point of view. As Tesla never met a trail balloon it couldn't inflate with hot air, it's no surprise that Tesla communictions manager Rachel Konrad gave the [we swear it's not an April fool's] idea her tacit support. "The Roadster's acceleration certainly makes it competitive against other premium sports cars, so it's not surprising that some customers are interested in competitions." Yes, well, as Pistonheads points out, racing Roadsters would require a bit more development work. "However, there may be a few barriers to this new form of 'green motorsport'. Continual hard driving may force the Tesla's motor to overheat, causing a loss of power that wouldn't make for very exciting racing. Races would also have to be kept to short sprint events, as a Le Mans-style 24-hour race would no doubt be made up of more battery charging than racing." Oh, sure, NOW they piss on them . . .
Looks like we may have retired the Tesla Deathwatch a bit prematurely. Valleywag reports that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has launched a Nixonian "plumber" offensive aimed at eliminating leaks from the Silicon Valley startup. And boy are the employees happy about it. The plumb-and-purge strategy was launched when Tesla engineer Peng Zhou told Valleywag that the company's cash reserves had dropped to $9M. According to the blog, Musk "hired an outside IT contractor go through the company's email and instant messages, and then had an investigator take fingerprints off a printout discarded near a copier used to leak the email." That investigation implicated Zhou who was asked to confess, apologize and leave the company. This was just the beginning.
Gawker reports that Tesla spinmeister Daryl Siry left the Silicon Valley startup because CEO Elon Musk (above) was pushing to accept deposits on the Model S sedan. The Model S (a.k.a. WhiteStar) exists only as a prototype. Tesla has no factory or financing with which to build it. When Musk announced that the DOE would approve Tesla's loan application (they haven't and likely won't) and decided to accept $40K Model S deposits (next month), Siry smelled fraud and bailed. Valleywag calls Musk "The New Preston Tucker," revealing that Musk told a recent Tesla "town hall" meeting that Tesla deposits were not guaranteed. This despite earlier assurances that Musk would personally guarantee deposits. With reports of Tesla asking for up to $75K in unescrowed "reservation payments," and difficulty reclaiming deposits as small as $5K, Siry's fears were probably well-founded. Meanwhile, anecdotal evidence from Tesla forums indicates that the real winner here: the Fisker Karma.


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wHAT tHE FUK
blaming no one but myself by myself ill be always
awaken with a new life one that can expire any day.
oh how the days go by so slow now
remembering the days of fun and pleasure
no all reminders of how i got this far
this venom creeping through my vains
all for sake of longing for love
this new world i must endure the rest of days
ill never be me again trapped in this new state
of draining energy and tainted blood.
i can only prey for nothing worse to come
yet i know theres always worse to come
in my luck i have found nothing is what it seems
and nothing could ever be what it should
only hope and faith is to be expected. and nothing more
wishing i could have been smarter than i was.
thinking i was like a god, nothing can touch me.
bleeding now can infect an insect and crying can only break my own heart.
no one to care about why they fall only me and this disease

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MABEN – The West Oktibbeha Timberwolves once again have bragging rights in the county.
West Oktibbeha claimed the Battle of the T's trophy with its 40-14 win over in-county rival East Oktibbeha on Friday night.
The Timberwolves big win gives them four consecutive wins against the Titans and surprisingly their high powered offense wasn't the main reason for they picked up the win.
"Our defense played outstanding," said West Oktibbeha. head coach Adam Lowrey. "I was more pleased with our defense than I was with our offense."
Unofficially, the Timberwolves' defense held the Titans' offense to around the 100-yard mark and only one offensive touchdown.
"I was hoping we could go the whole game with the shutout," said West Oktibbeha defensive coach Kelvin Cistrunk. "I was standing there watching the clock at one point, but we practiced hard and it paid off tonight and all the glory goes to God."
Cistrunk's defense held East Oktibbeha's quarterback Davalyn Bell to only 36 passing yards on 31 attempts and forced intercepted two of his passes. Bell, who is also a threat to run the ball, did find the end zone in the third quarter, but was held to only 11 rushing yards in the game.
The Titans other touchdown came on an 85-yard kickoff return by Teence Bell in the second quarter.
West Oktibbeha's offense might not have scored at will like in some games, but they were able to put together 632 yards of total offense led by quarterback Von Smith who threw for 231 yards and ran for 53 yards, accounting for four touchdowns. Two of Smith's four touchdowns where caught by Drake Powell who finished the night with 110 receiving yards and of course two touchdowns. Even though the Timberwolves moved the ball through the air, Shun Fair got his yardage on the ground. On 15 carries, Fair ran for 106 yards and one touchdown. Tiberias Lampkin also found his way into the end zone on the ground and ended the night with 41 rushing yards on eight carries.
"I was pleased with our guys, they came out an played hard," said Lowrey. "East Oktibbeha came out and played us hard on defense and made us adjust, which we did and we put up 40 which ain't bad."
With the win, West Oktibbeha improved its records to 7-2 overall and Class A, Region 3, District 4.
Next week, the Timberwolves will travel to Noxapater as they continue to their run for the division title, but the 40-14 loss could put the Titans, who will host Nanih Waiya on Friday, out of playoff contention as they fell to 5-4 overall and 3-3 in the region.
"We didn't get it done," said East Oktibbeha head coach Randy Brooks. "Going to the playoffs are not a big enough priority for them (Titans) now as it was at the beginning of the season. At some point, it just stopped being a priority."
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The public forums will include brief overviews of Oregon's current water situation, both statewide and within the specific regions where the forums will be held, followed by facilitated discussions. Local water leaders will be recruited to assist in developing participant lists and key issues. Experts from the Oregon University System, State agencies, watershed councils, and other organizations will be recruited to provide short presentations on issues identified as vital to the specific forum. Issue identification will be done in advance with regional water leaders and watershed councils. Issues would include topics, such as the following:
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Pemetrexed, Carboplatin, and Bevacizumab as First-Line Therapy in Treating Older Patients With Stage IIIB or Stage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as carboplatin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Pemetrexed may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Monoclonal antibodies, such as bevacizumab, can block tumor growth in different ways. Some block the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Others find tumor cells and help kill them or carry tumor-killing substances to them. Giving pemetrexed together with carboplatin and bevacizumab may kill more tumor cells.
PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving pemetrexed together with carboplatin and bevacizumab works as first-line therapy in treating older patients with stage IIIB or stage IV non-small cell lung cancer.
Lung Cancer
Biological: bevacizumab
Drug: carboplatin
Drug: pemetrexed disodium
Genetic: gene expression analysis
Genetic: polymorphism analysis
Genetic: protein expression analysis
Other: laboratory biomarker analysis
Other: pharmacogenomic studies
Procedure: quality-of-life assessment
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase II First-Line Study of a Combination of Pemetrexed, Carboplatin and Bevacizumab in Advanced Nonsquamous NSCLC Evaluating Efficacy and Tolerability in Elderly Patients (Age ≥ 70 Yrs) With Good Performance Status (PS < 2)
- 6-month progression-free survival [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Confirmed response (complete or partial response) as defined by RECIST criteria [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Duration of response [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Toxicity as defined by NCI CTCAE v3.0 criteria [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Time to progression [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Time to treatment failure [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Progression-free survival [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Overall survival [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Quality of life (QOL) as assessed by the Lung Cancer Symptom Scale, Linear Analogue Self Assessment, and Treatment-Specific Adverse Events Scale questionnaires at baseline and periodically during study [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Expression of polymorphisms in the genes that encode proteins involved in transport and activation of pemetrexed disodium [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Expression of polymorphisms in the genes that encode proteins involved in susceptibility to hypertension induced by anti-VEGF therapy [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Correlation between the percent changes in the mRNA levels of genes from baseline and clinical outcomes (e.g., toxicity, response, or progression status) [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Correlation between genetic polymorphisms and QOL [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Correlation between identified SNPs and objective tumor response, toxicity, and survival [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|December 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|March 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
- To estimate the progression-free survival at 6 months in elderly patients with advanced nonsquamous cell non-small cell lung cancer treated with pemetrexed disodium, carboplatin, and bevacizumab as first-line therapy.
- To assess the adverse events profile and safety of this regimen in these patients.
- To estimate the confirmed antitumor response rate, as defined by RECIST criteria, and the overall survival of these patients.
- To compare the quality of life (QOL) of patients treated with this regimen vs the QOL of younger patients.
- To correlate QOL with toxicities, as defined by NCI CTCAE v3.0 criteria.
- To evaluate polymorphisms in the genes that encode proteins involved in the cellular transport, activation, and cytotoxic activity of pemetrexed disodium and evaluate their relationship with treatment toxicity/efficacy and patient QOL.
- To evaluate polymorphisms in the genes involved in blood pressure regulation and their relationship with susceptibility to hypertension induced by anti-VEGF therapy.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.
Patients receive pemetrexed disodium IV over 10 minutes, carboplatin IV over 30 minutes, and bevacizumab IV over 30-90 minutes on day 1. Treatment repeats every 21 days for up to 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with stable disease or partial or complete response after 6 courses may continue to receive pemetrexed disodium and bevacizumab every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Tissue and blood samples are collected at baseline for pharmacogenetic analysis. Blood samples are used to evaluate functionally relevant polymorphisms in the genes that encode proteins involved in the transport and activation of pemetrexed disodium and in the genes that encode proteins involved in susceptibility to hypertension induced by bevacizumab. Tissue samples are used to evaluate expression and polymorphisms in pemetrexed disodium target genes (TS, DHFR, and GARFT).
Quality of life is assessed at baseline and periodically during study.
After completion of study therapy, patients are followed periodically for up to 5 years.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|70 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Histologically or cytologically confirmed nonsquamous cell non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
- Stage IIIB (with pleural effusion) or IV disease
Squamous cell carcinomas not allowed
- Adenosquamous histology allowed
Clinically significant effusion (e.g., symptomatic pleural effusion or ascites) allowed provided it is drained before study treatment
- No symptomatic pleural and/or peritoneal effusion (≥ grade 2 dyspnea, as defined by NCI CTCAE v3.0 criteria) that is not amenable to drainage
- If effusion produces clinically significant measurable objective changes, such as hypoxia or estimated volume > 500 mL, effusion should be drained even if asymptomatic
Measurable disease, defined as ≥ 1 lesion with longest diameter ≥ 2.0 cm by conventional techniques or ≥ 1.0 cm by spiral CT scan
- If the sole site of disease is in a previously irradiated field, must have evidence of disease progression/recurrence within the irradiated field OR presence of a new lesion outside the irradiated field
No symptomatic, untreated, or uncontrolled CNS metastases
- CNS metastases that were previously treated with whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) allowed
- Willing to enroll in NCCTG-N0392
- ECOG performance status 0-1
- Life expectancy ≥ 12 weeks
- ANC ≥ 1,500/mm³
- Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm³
- Hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL
- Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) OR direct bilirubin normal
- AST and ALT ≤ 3 times ULN (≤ 5 times ULN if liver has tumor involvement)
- Creatinine clearance ≥ 45 mL/min
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 3 months after completion of study treatment
- Able to take folic acid, vitamin B_12 supplementation, or dexamethasone
- Able to complete questionnaire(s) alone or with assistance
- Willing to provide biologic specimens as required by the study
- Willing to return to NCCTG participating center for follow-up
- No clinically significant infection
- No serious, nonhealing wounds, ulcers, or bone fractures
- No seizure disorder
No second primary malignancy within the past 5 years, except for any of the following:
- Carcinoma in situ of the cervix
Nonmelanomatous skin cancer
- History of melanoma allowed only if diagnosed and definitively treated ≥ 5 years ago with no subsequent evidence of recurrence
- Low-grade (Gleason score ≤ 6) localized prostate cancer (no nodal involvement)
- Previously treated stage I breast cancer
No concurrent severe and/or uncontrolled medical condition, including any of the following:
- Hypertension, labile hypertension, or history of poor compliance with antihypertensive medication
- Angina pectoris
- Congestive heart failure within the past 3 months, unless ejection fraction > 40%
- Myocardial infarction within the past 6 months
- Cardiac arrhythmia
- Diabetes mellitus
- Interstitial pneumonia or extensive, symptomatic interstitial fibrosis of the lung
- Active or recent history of hemoptysis > ½ teaspoon per event
- Ongoing or active infection
- Psychiatric illness/social situation that would limit compliance with study requirements
- No abdominal fistula, gastrointestinal perforation, or intra-abdominal abscess within the past 12 months
- No diverticulitis within the past 12 months
- No stroke within the past 6 months
- No significant traumatic injury within the past 8 weeks
- Not at greater than normal risk of bleeding
- See Disease Characteristics
- No prior radiotherapy to > 25% of bone marrow
- More than 2 weeks since prior radiotherapy and recovered (alopecia allowed)
- At least 2 weeks since prior WBRT
- At least 3 days since prior gamma knife radiosurgery (without WBRT) for brain metastases
- More than 4 weeks since prior administration of live or attenuated viral vaccine
More than 8 weeks since prior major surgery (e.g., laparotomy) or open biopsy (> 4 weeks since minor surgery)
- Insertion of a vascular access device allowed
- No prior chemotherapy or systemic therapy for advanced lung cancer, except neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy
- No NSAID's 2 days prior to (5 days for long-acting NSAID's), the day of, and 2 days following protocol treatment
- More than 12 months since prior neoadjuvant therapy, adjuvant therapy, systemic chemotherapy, chemoradiotherapy, immunotherapy, or biologic therapy
No concurrent anticoagulants
- Low-dose warfarin or heparin for deep venous thrombosis prophylaxis allowed
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00798603
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|Study Chair:
|Grace K. Dy, MD
|Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Additional Information:
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|Jan C. Buckner, North Central Cancer Treatment Group
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00798603 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|November 25, 2008
|Last Updated:
|August 10, 2011
|Health Authority:
|United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
stage IIIB non-small cell lung cancer
stage IV non-small cell lung cancer
recurrent non-small cell lung cancer
adenocarcinoma of the lung
adenosquamous cell lung cancer
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
Lung Neoplasms
Bronchial Neoplasms
Carcinoma, Bronchogenic
Lung Diseases
Neoplasms by Site
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Respiratory Tract Neoplasms
Thoracic Neoplasms
Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Angiogenesis Modulating Agents
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
Antineoplastic Agents
Enzyme Inhibitors
Folic Acid Antagonists
Growth Inhibitors
Growth Substances
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Pharmacologic Actions
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Therapeutic Uses
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- Willamette
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- Something Special: The Class of 1957 Leaves its Mark
Something Special: The Class of 1957 Leaves its Mark
By Carole (Pfaff) Von Schmidt '57
Revered by political science students and respected for his counseling as dean, Mark Hatfield endeared himself to the Willamette class of 1957. We especially loved it when he called us a special group.
This connection lasts to this day, so when our 50th reunion loomed several years ago, the committee took seriously the task of making a gift to the university. With a seed idea from Ann (Notson) Poling '57, who mentioned that she donated her parents' papers to the library and observed its disorganized archive, the committee decided to designate money for the organization of the Hatfield papers. Included in the plan was an expansion of the space within the Hatfield Library used to house important records.
Throughout the two-year committee process, other elected officials donated their papers, making the archives a far-reaching research tool for scholars. These included Senator Bob Packwood '54, U.S. Congressman Denny Smith '60, U.S. Congresswoman Darlene Hooley, Oregonian editor Bob Notson, Oregon and U.S. Representative Bob Smith '53, Oregon and U.S. Representative Michael Kopetski, and Oregon Representative and Secretary of State Norma Paulus '62.
The class provided $1.1 million for the archive. Today there is a full-time archival staff, led by Mary McKay, as well as paid student assistants.
At the 50th reunion luncheon in 2007, Mark and Antoinette Hatfield were invited guests. More than 150 people attended. Mark graciously greeted '57 alums individually. Then, he accepted the $1.1 million check and, again to our delight, told us that we were special. But if Hatfield thought our class was special, we call him extraordinary.
The Art of Leadership
Politics requires two things: integrity — a refusal to betray one's basic beliefs — and an ability to compromise when doing so allows one to reach a common conclusion with others.
I have seen Mark Hatfield's refusal to betray his basic beliefs when he refused to support a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. His vote was the last vote needed to send the amendment to the states for their approval or rejection. The pressure on Mark was overwhelming; he did not bend.
On the other hand, I have seen Mark compromise. In the early 1970s I introduced a bill to prohibit the building of dams on the Snake River in Hell's Canyon. The bill had strong opposition from counties in Oregon, Washington and Idaho adjacent to the Snake River. Hell's Canyon was not an issue of conscience for Mark. In the end, though not an initialsupporter, Mark could compromise and accept the outcome.
Great politicians and statesmen know when to stand firm and when tocompromise. Mark Hatfield understood when to do both.
— Bob Packwood '54
Retired U.S. Senator
A Man Who Knows His Onions
I was the secretary for Oregon Chief Justice Latourette [ca. 1956]. We were in the Supreme Court building on 12th Street in Salem, and about 18 trains went by in a day. Windows would rattle constantly, and you could hardly hear yourself think. The judge, shaking his fists, had some choice words for them.
One day I came to work and the judge said, "Kiddo, come over here." Everybody called me that because I was the youngest one around. He pointed to the street. "Now there's a man who knows his onions!" he said. I looked down to see a handsome man in a tan raincoat, and Judge Lattourette pointed out that he was the one who had just been elected secretary of state.
He was planting spruce trees as sound barriers between the tracks and the court building. That was the first time I ever saw Mark Hatfield.
— Norma Paulus JD'62
Life Trustee Emeriti and Former
Oregon Secretary of State
People Before Politics
At a campaign event in Portland in 1989, the senator was anxious to make sure he knew everyone in the room, so he stopped just feet from the doorway. He reached into the breast pocket of his suit coat and said, "Gary, did I ever show this to you?" It was a small note card, like the ones senators use to jog their memory. But on this card were hand-written names of people — important people, heads-of-state, former presidents — and there was my name! He said, "This is my list of all the people I pray for every day. How long ago was it when you had your cancer?"
While I choked back tears he proceeded into the room and greeted everyone by their first names like they were old friends. And they were. All Mark Hatfield staffers were taught this lesson early on: People are more important than issues, no matter the circumstances.
— Gary Barbour '76
Staff of Senator Hatfield 1976–90
Three Lessons
Mark O. Hatfield held many titles, but few were as consequential as "professor." And while my time as an undergraduate at Willamette certainly prepared me for professional success, nothing compares to the eight yearsI spent learning at his side. He taught me lessons about politics, but, more importantly, he taught about life:
Lesson One: Politics is a fundamental exercise in human relations. Hatfield never felt that there was risk in treating every individual with dignity.
Lesson Two: Values should guide politics, not vise versa. Doing the "right thing" was always the right thing to do, even when the political climate was not in his favor. Opponents in debate dreaded going toe-to-toe with Mark Hatfield because he challenged the principle behind their position.
Lesson Three: Every person and every experience presents an opportunity to learn — there are no bounds to the source of education. This belief and his vast knowledge of history were key ingredients to his successful political career.
— Sean O'Hollaren '83
Senior Vice President, Honeywell, Inc;
Staff of Mark Hatfield, 1984–91
Human Resources
There are those who believe that Mark Hatfield's most enduring legacy can be seen in our material resources — in the hospitals, research facilities, buildings, bridges and highways that are here because he made them a priority.
As important as they are, I believe Senator Hatfield's most enduring legacy can be seen in our human resources — the countless individuals who, during the course of his years in the United States Senate, had the privilege of serving as an intern or staff member.
Inspired by the example the senator set every day through his intelligence, integrity and moral compass, many of these individuals can now be found making a difference in communities in every corner of Oregon. Senator Hatfield's life and career will always stand as a testimony of the power of Willamette's motto, "Not unto ourselves alone are we born."
— Kerry Tymchuk '81, JD'84
Trustee and Interim Executive Director of
the Oregon Historical Society
Hatfield is sworn into the U.S. Senate by Vice President Hubert Humphrey, ca. 1967
Wife Antoinette joins Hatfield at a university event
Hatfield plays the role of advisor at Willamette
In Closing
"Bipartisan coalitions are the heart of healthy, progressive politics. I learned that our opponents even — and perhaps most especially — are human, deserving care and support as much as we."


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Officials from Middlesex County College and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have created a joint degree program that links the Biotechnology Program at Middlesex with the Biochemistry Program at NJIT. Students who enroll in the program spend two years at Middlesex; if they graduate with a 2.75 grade point average and are recommended by the department chairperson, they are automatically accepted into the Biochemistry program at NJIT as juniors.
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Flange Furtler
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Location: Somerset, UK
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Dog Chauffeur
Joined: Oct 2007
Location: Tacoma, WA-ish
Oddometer: 4,089
I have a rig like yours--1150GS with a DMC car--and I have a car tire pusher. I run less pressure than Mr. Cob and Abenteuerfahrer. I do go on dirt roads fairly frequently usually fully loaded with camping gear on multi-day trips. On my Vredestein Snow+ pusher, I run 26 psi and I think that's fine for both paved and dirt roads. Not only do I like the traction and the ride, but I'm getting pretty even wear. My logic here is that my 4000 lb SUV rides nice on 4 tires at 30 psi--that's 1000 pounds per tire. So why can't my car pusher tire ride nice at 26 psi with a load of about 650 pounds? It's an important distinction that this is a car tire and not a motorcycle tire.
I run with 26 psi in the sidecar tire - Vredestein K60 Scout - not much load on that tire and no reason to make the ride super hard for the monkey.
I run with 30 psi on my Vredestein K60 Scout front tire. This is the trickiest tire. I agree with Mr. Cob that you don't want to go too soft on this tire as you don't want to bend a rim or pop the bead. And it takes a lot of abuse up front there carrying about a 400 pound load and hitting all the rocks and ruts that I hit. But I don't really want to run it higher because I like the steering and braking performance on pavement at 30psi.
I carry a compressor and a tire kit on board, BTW. And Ride-On tire sealant in all 3 tires. Not that either will save my ass every time, but they might save my ass some of the time.
Deaf on Wheels
Joined: Dec 2007
Location: Prescott, Arizona, USA
Oddometer: 2,310
Well, me thinks the SUV has 4 tires equally evened out..vehicle weigh distribution pretty even....30 psi each while on a sidecar me thinks 60% is ballasted toward the rear of the pusher tire..thus a bit more psi there !! ? Maybe BMWzenrider can chime in with his scientific analytial thoughts regarding tire loads recommended for the pusher!
Gnarly Adventurer
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Drone; your tire pressures are much lower than what I have been running. For the pusher tire, when I first started running the car tire I put in 32# because it is a typical value for car tires and after a few thousand miles the tire had a very obvious wear pattern with excessive wear on both sides of the tire tread that is typcial for an under inflated tire. I ended up trying some higher settings but when on the asphalt I had to get to 42#s to not have underinflated wear pattern. Part of this may be the tire which was a Federal and perhaps it had soft sidewalls soft tread or a flimsly tread belt that created this wear pattern. When I put on the Arizonian I just put it at the max and only have several thousand miles on it but it is wearing as expected for a pusher tire (slightly higher wear on the right or sidecar side of the tire). Based on your experience, I will try lowering the pressure and track the wear pattern. It would be great to run a lower pressure for smoothing the ride but I do not want to do this if the wear pattern is wrong. I will lower the pressure and measure the tire tread depth across the tire at a marked location and then check on the tread wear. I suspect that I will need to put on 1000 miles in order to see any difference that I can measure accurately. If I do not see any change, then I will lower the pressure and continue the same monitoring process.
What experience have others had regarding tire pressures for both asphalt and fire road travel? How have you determined what is the best tire pressures to run?
The Road Scholar
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Changing the inflation pressure on your tires can indeed alter the handling and ride.
To give you my personal opinion of what a safe inflation pressure would be for your rig, I would need to know the weight being carried at each wheel, the exact tire size being used there, and your goal. (max safety margin against tire damage, max traction, max wear, etc...)
you have not mentioned exactly what your rig is, or the sizes of the tires.
However, it sounds like you have a R1150GS/DMC rig, yes?
You mentioned part of the size on your pusher tire, but not the profile spec.
I do know that most of the 4valve GS guys are running a 165/80-15 tire, so I will go based upon that assumption.
From my work in the tire industry I know that you can derive a load/inflation table for any tire given some information about the size/construction/etc.
For a typical passenger car radial tire with a profile of 50% or better the equation looks like this:
There are separate formulas for low profile tires, bias ply, motorcycle, heavy truck, etc...
When a vehicle manufacturers list the recommended inflation pressures for their product, it is arrived by: Taking the max. GVWR, divide by the number of tires supporting the load, and then finding a tire which will safely support that max. load at a chosen inflation pressure.
They then post a single inflation number on the door post or in the manual.
Many cycles have multiple recommended inflation pressures depending upon when ridden solo or with passenger/luggage.
This is because adding passengers/load on a relatively light vehicle like a motorcycle can so dramatically change wheel loading, and the manufacturer and tire maker knows that the grip/wear/handling of a tire can change dramatically if you are over or under inflated for the given wheel loading.
What does this mean for our sidecar rigs?
When you put a car tire on a motorcycle or sidecar, the odds are pretty good that the tire is technically 'overmatched' to the loading of that wheel position.
Even when my heavy rig is fully loaded for a trip (and with my fat ass in the saddle) my pusher tire's static wheel load is only around 650-lbs.
The max load rating of the 165/60R15 car tire that I use in the summer is 900-lbs, or about 28% higher than required.
If you overinflate tires by nearly 30% you WILL notice that they are noticably too hard, don't grip well, and will have classic overinflation wear down the center of the tread in short order.
The 165/80R15 tire size has a typical max load rating of 1,200-lbs!
If your wheel loading is anywhere close to mine, that means leaving that tire at max rated inflation pressure would have it WAY too high for the load on it.
Tire manufacturers actually have complete load/inflation tables available for every tire that they make, so that vehicle designers don't need to go through the labor of picking a tire size, and then going through all the formulas to see if it will support the load and at what pressure.
They just go to the tables for the size tire they are considering and can easily look up whether the tire is suitable, and at what pressure.
However, if you call up Bridgestone, or Kumho, or any tire manufacturer and as a consumer and ask for the load/inflation table for a tire you will get this reply: "XYZ tires always suggests that you consult your vehicle owners manual or contact the vehicle manufacturer for correct inflation pressures."
Their way of covering their butt so they don't get sued.
Luckily, I know both the formulas used by the manufacturers to derive the tables, and the right magic words to usually be able to get the techs at the call center to just read me the load/inflation data from their charts...
And here now for your viewing pleasure....
The load/inflation data for a typical 165/80R15 passenger car radial tire.
Tire: 165/80R15
Pressure .. Load
(psi) ....... (lbs)
22 .......... 794
23 .......... 833
24 .......... 864
25 .......... 882
26 .......... 926
27 .......... 950
28 .......... 970
29 .......... 1003
30 .......... 1047
31 .......... 1061
32 .......... 1080
35 .......... 1199
Some of you may have already noticed that the load capacity vs. pressure is non-linear. (also that there are a few pressures not listed near the upper end, where the loads are already much higher than most sidecar owners will be at.)
The tire industry usually calulates these published loads with a 10-12% factor of safety, and the numbers generally don't need to be derated for heat/high speed unless you are doing something extrordinarly fringe.
Although part of the reason for this data is to prevent heat build-up in the rubber from cyclitic flexing. So if you are planning on going really fast in the desert, I would run a slightly higher pressure than absolutely needed for your load to reduce sidewall flex, tread squirm, and heating.
As Mr.Cob has pointed out, there IS a practical limit on how low you can go.
Yes, on extremely hard cornering a tire can lose seal with the bead if underinflated too far, but that is pretty uncommon, and takes some serious abuse to acheive.
That is because most wheels designed for radial tires have a "safety bead". It is that hump that makes it harder to break the bead on a tubeless tire than for a tube-type tire/wheel. The safety bead is there to help keep the bead in place in case of a deflation while rolling down the road, so it works pretty well at low pressures as well. But it is not foolproof.
For my 'spirited' riding on some pretty tight twisties I have run my pusher tire as low as 24-26psi(cold) without problems. And we are talking cornering speeds/forces which were making the front tire visibly roll in according to the photo someone took of me. (And it was at max sidewall pressure!)
Another consideration is compressive deflection of the tire when hitting bumps/ruts/etc. The risk of pinching the tire flat against the rim and doing damage to the wheel in extreme cases.
One thing that you have to factor in is that when you compare a typical motorcycle tire to a car tire there is a WHOLE lot more contact patch resisting that compression and there is generally more sidewall to absorb that force as well. The sidewall on a 165/80-15 tire is around 132-135mm tall. The sidewall on the stock GS rear tire (150/70-17) is only around 105-110mm tall. A 1-inch advantage in sidewall height for the car tire, and a whole lot more 'crush space' before you reach the rim as a result.
So the danger of pinching down from lower inflation is usually not as great with an automotive tire as it is on a narrower bike type tire.
Inflation pressure even influences the puncture/cut resistance of a tire.
Probably LOTS more info than you really wanted, but hopefully you and others will find something in there of value.
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I remember now that the tire pressure/weigh ratio was once posted by you somewhere but lost neverthless.
Thanks Karl for posting it again.
So Drone you're basically doing a-OK .....
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what I have typically gotten with my current rig when I roll it across the scales is a distribution of:
Front wheel: 30-35%
Pusher wheel: 45-50%
Sidecar wheel: 20-30%
(these percentages are with my 'wide load' occupying the driver's station, just like it would be running down the road.)
The percentages move a round a bit based upon loading, driver's position on the bike, and even the position of the camber control.
I have put just one wheel on the scale deck (rear or sidecar) and cycled the camber control from full-left to full-right and can watch the numbers on the scale move, up to 30-40 pounds of weight transfer between the two wheels depending upon load, load height, etc.
Interestingly, I DID try the same thing with just the front wheel on the scale. No change.
Shifting your body around can make a noticable shift in weight distribution at each wheel as well, but it is still harder to influence the load on the front wheel from anywhere on the seat where you can still be in control of the rig.
So while you may get relatively close by just dividing the weight of your rig my three, it won't be as good as getting on a platform truck scale with one wheel at a time.
Not necessarily very 'scientific', but I like gathering data, even if it has limited usefullness.
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thanks for all of the information. My rig fits right into what you described. I am running on my 2002 R1150 GSA and the sidecar a 165/80R15 tire. I loaded my sidecar and saddle bags with the loads that I would be taking on a long trip and had the following loading numbers: Sidecar 340#, Front 440#, Pusher Wheel 730# and a total on the scale of 1470#. Now most of the time I do not run that loaded but got these numbers so that I could get shocks that would be capable of handling these loads as needed for long trips. I think that proportionally they come out pretty close to the distribution that you described with 23% on the sidecar wheel, 30% on the front wheel and 47% on the pusher wheel. Now most of the time I do not run with the sidecar loaded to max or the saddle bags with much in them. However, when I was running 32# in the pusher wheel I had a significant under inflation wear pattern on my pusher wheel. This does not seem consistent with the data that you presented regarding the loading capacity at this pressure. At higher pressure the tire wore as expected with both edges of the tire wearing fastest. That was the basis for the original question. If the tire had weak sidewalls would this make it tend to sag on itself and cause wear on both edges of the tire? Is it the tire? Will going to other tires improve this? The original tire was a Federal and it was down to the wear bars in just over 5,000 miles.
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Typical overinflation wear is faster wear in the center of the tread.
Underinflation causes the edges to wear faster.
Also, most sidecar setups have the bike leaned out (to the left in the USA), which leads to more wear on the side of the pusher tire that is farthest from the sidecar. And in an earlier post you mentioned that the shoulder closest to the sidecar is wearing faster on your rig.
How is the setup on your rig? Does it pull to the right?
When I had a 165/80-15 tire on my rig I kept it at around 26psi.
From what I remember, that pressure produced even wear on the tire.
My current summer tire is smaller, and I run with the rig unloaded at 26psi for a load rating on the rear wheel of 698-lb. Same result of fairly even wear other than the differential wear caused by the lean-out.
So I don't really know what to say about your rig and the observed tire wear patterns.
If it were my rig, I would opt for a tire pressure that gives enhanced traction and ride before worrying about treadwear. Keeping it in the safe zone, of course.
Even with the 'spirited' riding that I enjoy, I am still getting 15-16,000 miles out of each summer tire (~6,000mi for my winter rubber).
So, once you have the car tire conversion, the cost per mile of the rear tire is pretty low, so I would gladly trade some wear for better grip/handling.
Of course, that is just my opinion. You have to do what makes sense for your situation.
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It was late last night when I was sending my last response and see that I stated something incorrectly. So I want to clarify it.
AT 32 # I got under inflated wear pattern oon the pusjer tire.
At 42# I got what I consider to be more typical wear with slightly more wear on the side of the tire nearest the sidecar. I have a tilt control so it is set up to be adjusted to run in a neutral mode. I have been told that this tire wear pattern is normal because of the effects of the sidecar on the tire during accceleration and braking.
I hope that this clarifies my observations, sorry about the confusion.
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Actually what happened was that I wrote it and was reviewing it when I got interrupted. When I got back to finish my review I forgot where I was and messed it up. I just went down to the John Day Rally put on by the Oregon BMW club. I tried running 34 #s in the pusher wheel and 32# is the sidecar wheel. It handled nice and I put on 50 miles of forest service roads with lots of puddles, holes, drainage ruts and rocks. It handled well so I am going to do more testing to further evaluate tire pressures. I think I need to find out what works best for some "standard conditions" that I want to use as a gauge for how to set up tire pressures. I need something local for this so that I can run tests and go over and over these conditions at different pressures as well as speeds to understand how they impact handling and then run what I think is the best and see how the tire wears.
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Location: Prescott, Arizona, USA
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Currently running 32#-front Tourance; 28# pusher; 28# sidecar......good ride on pavement and off road...comfy with the overall Hyperpro shocks on the motorcycle and Progressive 200/350 on sidecar. (carry a pair-just in case).
Now I don't slam-bang the rig through the worst roads....easy does it.. ! Ain't racing a la Moto offroad...always make sure that the pusher is in/on the best lane of travel disregarding the sidecar pretty much .
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Timothy Y. Fong focuses his practice on foreclosure defense, real estate and consumer bankruptcy.
He has extensive experience in foreclosure litigation, representing homeowners and small real estate developers. Mr. Fong writes extensively on politics and foreclosure issues, and among other places has been published on one of the top finance blogs, Naked Capitalism.
Mr. Fong is a graduate of the University of San Francisco School of Law, and completed his undergraduate education at UC Berkeley.
Good article today on peHUB regarding my client's Public Record's Act Request to the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS):
A company called Aurora Advisors has filed a petition in California Superior Court asking the court to force CalPERS to release performance data, including quarterly valuations and cash flows, for the years 1990 through 2012 and all available data from 2013.
Aurora, which publishes the popular financial blog Naked Capitalism, claims CalPERS has not yet complied with its full request after much back and forth since September. The system did release performance information recently for 2012 and 2013, according to the petition, seemingly cherry-picking only one part of Aurora's request.
CalPERS administers health and retirement benefits for over a million Californian public employees.
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[I wrote and submitted this to a magazine, but it was never published. So here it is in full for your reading enjoyment.]
The BART strike claimed its first fatalities on Saturday October 19, 2013. A train driven by a manager struck and killed two track maintenance workers.
The strike has brought to the surface the vacuity of the political discourse in the San Francisco Bay Area. BART is one of our major metro rail systems, and its unions face widespread public condemnation for the strike, from the public and the media alike. Part of the problem is with the union's communication efforts, which have sadly fallen into the category of preaching to the choir.
Bay Area residents like to pride themselves on changing the world through technology, from Big Data to iPhone apps. However, the ongoing analysis of the BART strike has exposed the emptiness at the center of the tech community.
It starts at the top. Ben Grossman, the head of Global Operations for Twitter had this to say about the strike "[w]hat's brown and black and looks great on someone involved in causing the #bartstrike? A Doberman. (Too angry, Loooong day in the car)[.]"
Grossman's attitude is well represented in my Twitter and Facebook feeds, which are full of well-compensated tech workers complaining about the inconvenience of the strike, the "overpaid" BART workers and the ridiculousness of paying people to push buttons. After all, how hard can it be to drive a BART train?
That last comment is particularly ironic coming from people who write software, as they spend most of their days pushing buttons on keyboards. When a game developer makes a mistake and pushes the wrong button, at worst some people get over-billed for their game.
When a BART operator pushes the wrong button, people can die. Just like the two people who died on Saturday morning. Apparently skill at writing software doesn't translate into skill at evaluating the risks and dangers inherent in running a metro rail car.
That is not the only thing that is not translating from software writing skill. It apparently fails to translate into skills at economic analysis. Or common sense. A group of software developers came together to "hack the BART strike" by visualizing all data from the strike. The charts allegedly show how BART salaries are too high and outpacing inflation, as well as the cost of living. The first sign something was wrong was when I looked at the housing cost for a family of 4 -- two adults and two children. The monthly housing cost given by the "hack the BART" model was $1795.00. That's enough to rent a two bedroom apartment in a decent area, or a house on the edge of the Bay Area. That should have been obvious from a simple Craigslist search. Moreover, that certainly isn't enough to rent a two bedroom apartment in San Francisco, including its immediate fog-shrouded suburbs that are adjacent to a town full of cemeteries. The cost of living given is far from living a life of luxury.
Indeed, the charts that purport to show how BART salaries are so far out of line with inflation show a combined compensation package, and not the salary. Looking at the inflation dataset that the analysts used, it has no citations. It is therefore unclear whether the dataset incorporates the dramatic rise in real estate prices and rents. The cost of living data certainly does not.
The dataset around salaries is much clearer, as it uses a public employee salary database. According to the data, station agents average $57,596 a year, with train operators making about a thousand dollars a year less. Assuming several weeks of vacation a year, that works out to roughly $30.00 per hour. According to the MIT Living Wage Calculator, a single parent raising 1 child needs to make $26.83 per hour to sustain themselves. That doesn't count what happens if there is a medical emergency, which is a well known cause of personal bankruptcy. Furthermore, the MIT data was mostly from 2010 and 2011, before the rapid rise in Bay Area rents. Anecdotally, the rent a roommate and I paid for a 2 bedroom apartment in downtown Oakland in 2011 would barely cover a one bedroom now.
Train operators and station agents are essentially making a middle class income.
What is the problem with that? Not everyone can be a software developer, IT professional, lawyer, doctor or options trader. Someone has to drive the trains, empty the trash, clean the streets and maintain the sewers. Why should those people have to earn less than a middle class income? Why should their income be so low as to deny their children the chance to attend higher education? We are constantly told that what people have to do to be successful is go to college, which costs ever more money. If parents can't save for their children's education, then they will have to take out loans. We all know what a burden that is. So everyone should just go and become a software developer or a electrical engineer? Really? We're going to have a society made up of only software developers and electrical engineers? The phrase "fallacy of composition" comes to mind.
Even low/entry level engineering and information technology jobs are increasingly going offshore, or done by workers on "temporary" visas, that amount to modern indentured servitude. The goal is to move almost everything offshore and keep only the highest level talent onshore. What is everyone else supposed to do? Apparently the answer is "struggle alone and be happy about it. And make some cool iPhone apps to work smarter and faster."
Even in tech people struggle. The hours are famously long, and in fact pay is often not that high, in the context of hours worked. Yes, initial employees who get stock may make a lot of money. But the later comers? Good luck. Yes, people will get free lunches, shuttles to work and nice gym facilities. But if you talk with people who work at the famous valley companies like Google, you'll see that salaries are actually a little lower because of all the perks. Because a smart MBA has already priced those "perks" and reduced salaries accordingly. The perks are also designed to keep workers on site for longer hours. And how well are people paid? I hear people bragging about their latest foreign vacation, nice new car, and how they can afford to pay for their photography/rock climbing/fine dining/elaborate home cooking hobby. So? 40 years ago, all those things were within reach of practically anyone (white) who was willing to put in the hours. No college degree required. How do I know this? Because I grew up in Silicon Valley, and I remember retired friends of my parents who had never completed college but still had jobs that let them own a little two bedroom house in San Jose and have a hobby shop in the garage. That was nothing exceptional. Those houses would probably cost well over a half a million dollars now, with monthly mortgage payments far exceeding $1,795.
Essentially a lot of people in tech are underpaid. Salaries and benefits (via stock options) for upper management are very high of course, as is money earned by the legal and finance sector firms that raise money and broker deals for startups. However, the culture in Silicon Valley is so myopic that people fail to realize how poorly they are actually doing. Instead, we're all supposed to get excited about the next phone app, personal electronic device and TED Talk that are going to change the world for the better.
I have a confession to make. Growing up in the Valley, I believed that rolling out new technology would "inevitably" bring fairer distributions of wealth and an improvement in material conditions. But it has not. Not for most people. The problem it seems, is the fundamental way that our political economy works. Yes, smartphones, live streaming and social media have proved to be powerful tools for activism. But tools are used by people, inside an ideological framework. When that framework is poor, the results are as well. Given that over 50% of working age Americans lack a full time job, the results of our system are indisputably poor.
We are constantly told by establishment apologists, that while oligarchs and their retainers grow ever richer, everyone else must accept lower wages, longer hours and a lowered standard of living. When a business threatens to leave town unless it gets tax breaks, local TV news does not interview people who say that the business should be banned from leaving town. Instead, we're told that we must accommodate its demands, for fear of losing jobs. Our communities must comply with the demands even if it inconveniences us. But transit workers' struggle to earn enough to hold onto middle class status is an inconvenience that we cannot tolerate. That's just the way it works, we're told.
There's also the facile argument that workers should be free to strike, but employers should have the right to fire all striking workers. That argument fails because of the tremendous power imbalance between employers and employees, no matter if the employer is a public or private entity. Individual isolated workers are comparatively isolated against an organized employer. Collective action is the only thing that ever allowed working people to prevail. Either give a structure for it to happen peacefully, or it will happen violently. That's just the way it works.
There has to be something more than individuals scrambling for success and chasing short term profits, all the while ignoring or resenting the plight of others, and hoping not to one day be the one whose livelihood is up for execution, while always looking for the next app, website or hack that will help one move up the ladder and push down everyone else. The prophet of the information age, Vannevar Bush, conceived of information technology as a way to augment memory. The full might of talent and money in Silicon Valley have certainly augmented our memory.
But, there is no app for collective action, because it does not run on a phone or a tablet.
It runs in our hearts. And when I listen to people complain about the inconvenience of the BART strike, I wonder if there's an empty hole where their heart is supposed to be.
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Know When To Get Help
In life, it's important to know when a situation has exceeded your ability to deal with it. This is not an easy thing to admit; I, for one, certainly don't like doing it.
Everyone has the experience of attempting a project that seemed easy at first, but ended up becoming very difficult. It's one thing to do that with ah hobby. If you start building a model kit and it turns out you lack dexterity and patience, you can always stop and throw it away.
You cannot do that with your primary residence or investment real estate.
I often speak with people who have already entered foreclosure, and whose house is either up for sale within days, or has already been sold. Many times, those people have cases that would be pretty strong. Unfortunately, when a foreclosure sale is days away, it is difficult to fully investigate a case and prepare the best possible defenses. Post-sale cases are even more difficult, because courts are often reluctant to reverse a sale, especially when there is a new, non-bank buyer.
Generally the property owner has for some time tried to negotiate with the bank on his/her own, or hired low price, "bargain" counsel. Sometimes the property owner has hired someone who is not even a licensed attorney. Rather, they hire someone who claims to "understand the process." Unfortunately the bargain price counsel, and the "understand the process" guy usually don't know what they're doing— and this creates even more problems.
Of course, there is a simple way around it. Hire competent counsel at the outset. Understand that when you're negotiating with a bank over your home, you are most often dealing with a predatory entity that simply doesn't care about your earnest demeanor, master's degree in computer science, or "getting to yes" negotiation seminar tactics. It's the equivalent to trying to add a third story to your house by yourself with a few DIY books, and then when you get into trouble, you hire an unlicensed contractor to fix the problems.
Anyone can see the danger — if the poorly constructed third story collapses it could destroy the house and injure (or kill) the occupants. A poorly constructed negotiating/anti-foreclosure strategy is the same. When it collapses, it takes out everyone. I've seen that all too many times— people I could have helped if they had not waited so long to contact me. If you want to build a strong anti-foreclosure strategy and negotiate with your bank, contact me today for an expert consultation.Add a comment Add a comment


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I've been donated a pile of these beautiful choral & organ scores to work with, now they're unfit for use. Really looking forward to starting off on them. First up, a set of jewellery using sheet music from Handel's Messiah. I'm still trying to decide what to do with the cover of this one, though […]
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Raffle Prizes
I was asked a while back if I'd donate something to a raffle in aid of Special Effect, who specialise in adapting console and computer controls for physically disabled children and adults – that's everything from making a 360 controller a bit easier to use, all the way to tailoring eye-tracking software for the otherwise […]
Destruct Testing
I've accidentally put a couple of pieces through the wash before, and they've been fine. However, I just found this in the pocket of a shirt I put on, which had been through a 90-degree white wash. So that's a really useful data point!
Shakespearean jewellery
I've been making quite a few of these lately, from an old copy of Midsummer Night's Dream rescued from the recycling. It's the same technique I've been using for pendants, layered artists' mountboard sealed with acrylic & varnish; the colours are Talens Ecoline watercolour inks, which I'm really falling in love with. The cheap paper […]
Black & silver D-ring choker collar
This has now found its proper home, and the lucky winner has very kindly given me a photo to post.
Paper jewellery
Sounds like a silly idea, but it's actually a really good material—tough, lightweight, and durable. That black & silver choker is made from Fabriano Tiziano pastel paper, folded & laminated, and then very thoroughly varnished. It ends up very like thin leather, but it's entirely vegan. (Not all papers are; most art paper uses animal […]
Roberson liquid metal ink
Permanent acrylic, works well with a dip pen. Much less flow than Daler-Rowney FW, so I can get much thinner, closer lines, and doesn't separate out—the pigment loading on the paper is much better. This is their dark silver, on DR Murano Holly paper.
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Here are three of the pieces I was experimenting with at the beginning of February – I've been working on them on and off, coat after coat of paint and then varnish, and now they're sitting on my desk waiting to go to their new owners. They're all prototypes – I'm happy with the look […]
High Days – Imbolc
Whilst I'm only about 20% pagan at the best of times (most of the rest is Quaker) I still like to keep the High Days, and today was Imbolc. Or, for the Christian side of me, St Brigid's Day – patron of poets, blacksmiths, and healers, and always one of my favourites. My normal artistic […]


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Date posted: July 31, 2014
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SHERIDAN — In celebration of their fourth anniversary, the Kula Space will host "Flavor of the Week," a weekly free class on Thursdays this summer at 5:30 p.m. Some of the free classes will request optional donations to support a local cause and suggestions of local causes to support are welcome. This week's class will be Barre Body with Michele. Sign-up is required and it is limited to 12. Donations will benefit The Food Group. For more information or to nominate a cause to promote contact Michele Fritz or Evelyn Ferrante at firstname.lastname@example.com. The studio is located in Journeys Center of Wellbeing at 37 S. Main St.
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Supported Algorithms¶
Botan supports a range of cryptographic algorithms and protocols, including:
TLS/Public Key Infrastructure¶
- TLS/DTLS (v1.0 to v1.2), including using preshared keys (TLS-PSK) or passwords (TLS-SRP) and most important extensions.
- X.509 certificates (including generating new self-signed and CA certs) and CRLs
- Certificate path validation and OCSP
- PKCS #10 certificate requests (creation and certificate issue)
Public Key Cryptography¶
- Encryption algorithms RSA, ElGamal, DLIES (padding schemes OAEP or PKCS #1 v1.5)
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- AES candidates Serpent, Twofish, MARS, CAST-256, RC6
- DES, 3DES and DESX
- National/telecom block ciphers SEED, KASUMI, MISTY1, GOST 28147
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- Large block cipher construction Lion
Stream Ciphers¶
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Hash functions¶
- SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512
- RIPEMD-160, RIPEMD-128, Tiger, Whirlpool
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Authentication Codes and PRFs¶
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Recommended Algorithms¶
This section is by no means the last word on selecting which algorithms to use. However, botan includes a sometimes bewildering array of possible algorithms, and unless you're familiar with the latest developments in the field, it can be hard to know what is secure and what is not. The following attributes of the algorithms were evaluated when making this list: security, support by other implementations, patent/IP status, and efficiency (in roughly that order).
If your data is in motion, strongly consider using TLS v1.2 as a pre built, already standard and well studied protocol.
Otherwise, if you simply must do something custom, use:
- Message encryption: AES or Serpent in EAX or GCM mode
- General hash functions: SHA-256 or SHA-512
- Message authentication: HMAC with SHA-256
- Public Key Encryption: RSA, 2048+ bit keys, with OAEP and SHA-256 ("EME1(SHA-256)")
- Public Key Signatures: RSA, 2048+ bit keys with PSS and SHA-512 ("EMSA4(SHA-512)"), or ECDSA with SHA-256 or SHA-512
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Have you bought beauty products as a Father's Day gift before?
Have you bought beauty products as a Father's Day gift before? Share your favorite buys for the men (fathers, grandfathers, uncles, brothers, partners, etc.!) in our lives!
Not very often, but I definitely have! I actually did quite a bit for this year – I bought more nail care for my dad (who's still having trouble with his nails). Mellan also bought Shaun a fancy razor, razor blades, and an Art of Shaving Sandalwood kit. He's such a nice son 😉
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Sometimes, especially during the holidays, all thoughts of healthy go out the window and food is welcome just because of the memories is brings. This recipe – for an old-fashioned candy made from a simple potato and lots of sugar – just might be the one recipe that holds the most nostalgia for me. My… [read more]
Recipe: 3-ingredient Potato Candy
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