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|Flatland Grading Plan Procedures
July 2005
Flatland Grading Plan is required when the grading is performed in an area which is not designated as a "hillside area" by the City Engineer and will be processed in accordance with Title 17.04 of the Municipal Code.
Grading plans within a "hillside area" will be processed in accordance with the Hillside Grading
Plan Procedures and Title 17.06 of the Municipal Code.
A flatland grading plan and grading permit will be required in accordance with Section 17.04.050 of the Municipal Code. No grading permit shall be required for an excavation below finished grade for basements, footings, swimming pools or underground structures authorized by a valid building permit; however this exception shall not affect the requirement of a grading permit for any fill made with the material from such excavation.
Agreements with adjacent property owners will be required for grading, drainage, ingress and egress or encroachment outside of the property boundaries. All agreements must be approved by the City and a conformed copy of the recorded document shall be submitted prior to plan approval.
The initial submittal of flatland grading plans shall consist of the following:
1) Eleven (11) copies of the grading plan on a size 24" X 36" drafted at a legible scale and signed by a Licensed Soils Engineer and a Registered Civil Engineer. Shading will not be accepted, cross-hatching will be allowed if it does not obscure information on the plans. Plans shall include the standard information blocks shown on Exhibit A.
The plans shall be folded to 9" X 12" with the title and plan number visible.
2) A filing fee and checking deposit in the amount approved by the City Council.
3) Concurrent submittal of street, traffic signal, public sewer and storm drain improvement plans when required for the subsequent development of the property. Private street and private storm drain improvements may be shown on the grading plan.
4) Drainage study, with hydrology calculations, map, and hydraulic calculations.
5) Two (2) copies of Soils Report prepared and signed by a licensed Geologist or Soil Engineer providing a thorough engineering investigation based on the existing conditions and work proposed to be done.
Incomplete plans will not be reviewed or processed, the designer will be notified and the plans will be returned.
1. The site address (obtain from the Building Department).
2. Name, address and telephone number of the developer, the civil engineer and soil engineer.
3. City bench mark on each sheet. Elevations shall be based on field survey or aerial topos, and North American Vertical Datum (NAVD 1988). No assumed elevations, partial elevations or equations will be accepted. The County bench mark is only accepted when City bench mark has not been established.
4. Quantity of cut and fill maximum depth of cut and fill; net disturbed area in acres and the total development area in acres.
5. Engineer's certification (see Exhibit A).
6. City signature block (see Exhibit A).
7. Vicinity map and/or location map adequately indicating the site location.
8. General Notes applicable to the plan (see Exhibit B).
9. Property lines and dimensions of the property.
10. Location of any buildings or structures on the property or within 15 feet of the property.
11. Existing topographical features including elevations and contours on the property and 50 feet beyond the property lines to establish drainage patterns.
12. Proposed elevations and contours.
13. Details of crib walls, any drainage devices and protective devices to be constructed in connection with or as a part of this plan, unless a City of Anaheim Standard detail applies.
14. Typical sections through property lines and slopes.
15. Location, length and height of all retaining walls proposed to be constructed in connection with the proposed work as required by the Building Division. Indicate maximum height along each wall segment. All walls visible from public view shall be in conformance with Section 22.214.171.124 of the Anaheim Municipal Code.
16. The legal description of the property on which the work is to be performed.
17. The purpose of the work and a statement as to whether the purpose of the excavation is to prepare the site for subdivision under the State Map Act.
18. Location of all private and public easements on the property.
19. Location of existing and ultimate public right-of-ways. All setbacks shall be measured from the ultimate right-of-way.
All plans shall conform to Title 17.04 of the Municipal Code and the City's grading policies.
Drainage reports are required for all projects involving proposed drainage structures, accepting water from off-site properties, draining to adjacent properties, or when required by the plan checker for other reasons.
The Drainage Report shall include:
1) A hydrology map showing the drainage basin(s), the site of proposed grading, and any proposed drainage structures.
2) A summary of the hydrology and any proposed drainage structures.
3) Hydrology calculations based on the latest edition of the Orange County Hydrology Manual. See Drainage Design Criteria Chart (Exhibit C) for storm intensity requirements.
4) Hydraulic calculations for all drainage facilities.
An Erosion and Sediment Control Plan is required for any grading and is a part of the grading plan. The plan shall be updated each year, prior to October 15, to reflect the conditions of the site during that raining season. A duplicate of the grading plan may be used if adequately screened. Additional information regarding Best Management Practices (BMP's) may be obtained online at www.cabmphandbooks.com and www.ocwatersheds.com
The Erosion and Sediment Control Plan is a part of the Grading Plan and will be reviewed and approved with the grading plan.
Plans will be scheduled for plan checking in the order they are received. The first plan check will by thorough and every attempt will be made to mark all plan deficiencies (except in those cases where the plan is incomplete or unclear). The designer will be notified as soon as the plan check is complete and ready for pick-up. The first plan check will take approximately 3-4 weeks.
When the plan checking backlog exceeds an estimated 3 weeks, the grading plan may be sent to a consulting engineer that has contracted with the City. All checking done by a consulting engineer will be returned to the City for review before being forwarded to the designer. The designer will be notified as soon as the plan check is complete and ready for pickup.
All plan checks will be returned with a letter listing items to be submitted with the next plan check. Items marked "required for further processing" must be submitted with the next plan check.
Corrected grading plans will not be accepted for rechecking when items "required for further processing" are missing. It shall be the responsibility of the designer and/or developer to submit all items together with the corrected plans and previous check print.
Subsequent plan checks will be completed in approximately three weeks. The previous check print will be used as a guide for rechecks; the entire plan will be rechecked only in instances where the first check was incomplete or unclear. The designer will be notified as soon as the plan check is complete and ready for pick up.
In an effort to expedite the project, the plan checker assigned to the project will contact the developer and request a meeting with the designer and the developer if the plans are not ready for approval after the third plan check.
The plan checker will request the grading plan originals in the plan check letter when the corrections requested are minor and will be sufficient to complete the plans. Originals are to be in ink on 4 mil double-matt mylar or photographic mylar process if submitting duplicate mylar. No paste-ons or shading will be accepted.
After a final check has been made to verify that all corrections have been incorporated into the plan, the plan will be reviewed and approved by the Building Official, Planning Services Division Manger, the Development Services Manager and the City Engineer. All conditions must be met prior to plan approval.
The designer will be notified as soon as the plans are approved and will be instructed to contact a bonded blue printer to have the originals picked up from the Engineering Records counter. The originals and five prints must be returned to Engineering Records before a grading permit can be issued.
The Subdivision Section will issue a grading permit when the following items are received.
1) Five prints of the approved grading plan.
2) Grading permit fee as approved by City Council.
3) Excavation contractor's name, address, telephone number, State contractor's license number and City business license number.
4) Hauling contractor's name, address, telephone number as per Section 17.04.230.040 (if different from excavation contractor).
All changes to an approved grading plan must be submitted and approved by the City Engineer as a revision. Submit the following items to process a revision.
1) Two (2) prints of the revised grading plan, folded to 9"x12".
2) A checking deposit in an amount determined by the City based on the estimated time for review.
All revisions must be clearly marked and described in the revision block. Obsolete information shall be crossed out and not erased unless necessary for clarity. The designer shall certify on the title sheet "Revision number was made under my supervision."
Prior to obtaining Engineering clearance for building permits, the following items must be submitted and approved.
1) Any revisions to the original grading plan related to the building pad.
2) Two (2) copies of the interim soils report indicating pad compaction
3) The original and two (2) copies of a letter of certification for the building pads from the civil engineer (Exhibit D).
Two copies of the civil engineer's certification and one copy of the soils report will be sent to the field engineer for verification. The field engineer will return one copy of the civil engineer's certification either accepted or rejected. When the certification is accepted and any revisions approved, the plan checker will sign off the Building Permit Case.
Note: Other conditions or fees may apply and must be complied with.
Prior to obtaining Engineering clearance for occupancy, the following items must be submitted and approved.
1) The original grading plan and two (2) prints with an As Graded certification (Exhibit E) and all revisions to the original grading plan.
2) Two (2) copies of the final soils and geological report, including certification of the site and final recommendations.
3) Two (2) copies of the soils fertility report, including recommendations for soil additives and amendments.
All revisions must be approved and the As Graded certification verified by the field engineer. The Field Engineer will then sign for Engineering clearance on Building's Inspection Log. The plan checker will stamp the plan "As Graded" and notify the engineer. The engineer shall instruct a bonded blueprinted to pick up the plan and return to Engineering Records with four (4) prints (five prints for revised plans).
Allow approximately two weeks to receive Engineering Clearance for occupancy.
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On a recent trip to Liverpool Michael Welch, Managing Director and founder of Blackcircles.com met with 'Move Commercial' reporter Lucy Oliver at The Crowne Plaza. The purpose of the meeting was for Lucy to write an article on Michael, detailing the choices that have led to him being the Managing Director of Britain's leading online tyre retailer. It certainly makes for an interesting read, as Michael takes a stroll down memory lane.
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"You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self...to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness." Ephesians 4:22-24
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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I began by reminding her of the dilemma in the Felicity books about her father not selling tea in his store. I quickly went through my very thorough knowledge (end sarcasm) of the original Boston Tea Party. She actually knew quite a bit about this from the American Girl books.
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I supposed one shouldn't swell with too much pride though. When we got home she asked me if I was "cooking tea." I guess she saw the pot on the stove. I told her I had already made tea today.
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Bethlehem, Pa., January 8, 2010—The Dave Roth Trio will present "A Tribute to Bill Evans" on Friday, January 29, at 7:30 p.m., in Foy Concert Hall. The Trio includes Moravian faculty members David Roth on piano, Paul Rostock on bass, and Glenn Davis on drums. Prolific composer and recorder of music, Bill Evans (1929-1980) was noted for his purity of the song structure and concern with the noble history of the jazz tradition. This trio honors that history and tradition in the intimate cabaret-style setting of their show.
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Really, the Crimson is only playing tomorrow as a favor to Yale.
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This is how we see The Game tomorrow. Yale, we're coming down as a favor to you so you don't disappoint all of your friends in New Haven.
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During Hurricane Sandy, our Mayor of North Haledon, took it upon himself to use Government Property, a "Generator" for his own needs. He is supposed to serve the people of North Haledon and not himself first. For these reasons alone, I believe he should step down and resign. If this was anyone of us who did this, we would be arrested for this act.
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Suspect identified in Bassick High bomb threat
Frank Juliano : May 1, 2013 : Updated: May 1, 2013 9:52pm
Photo By Brian A. PoundsThe state police bomb squad and Bridgeport police investigate a bomb threat after the evacuation of Bassick High School in Bridgeport, Conn. on Wednesday, May 1, 2013.
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St. V Padilla, head teacher at the ABCD Head Start daycare at Bassick High School, comforts Maneldaliz Mejia, 4, as she waits to be picked up following a bomb threat evacuation of the school in Bridgeport, Conn. on Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Daycare children were evacuated down Fairfield Avenue from the school to the front steps of the Klein Memorial Auditorium.
Photo By Brian A. PoundsSupt. of Schools Paul Vallas discusses what he called "a threat to the building" outside an evacuated Bassick high school in Bridgeport, Conn. on Wednesday, May 1, 2013.
Photo By Frank JulianoBassick High School was evacuated after several messages on school walls warned of "multiple bombs" in the school.
Photo By Frank JulianoBassick High School was evacuated after several messages on school walls warned of "multiple bombs" in the school.
BRIDGEPORT -- Authorities evacuated Bassick High School and scoured the building with bomb-sniffing dogs Wednesday morning after a student scrawled bomb threats on the building's walls.
Superintendent of Schools Paul Vallas confirmed late Wednesday that authorities had identified a student believed to be responsible for the threats through footage on security cameras. Vallas declined to identify the student and it was not clear what, if any, charges would be filed against him.
The police search Wednesday morning did not discover any explosives, city police spokesman William Kaempffer said, characterizing the effort as "an excess of caution."
"Anything of this nature we treat as credible until we learn differently. We're always going to err on the side of caution and thankfully this incident proved unfounded," he said of the threats, which were written directly onto the building's walls.
Bassick was set to return to normal Thursday morning, though the discovery of the threats on Wednesday cut the school day short about 10:30 a.m. and brought a tension to the Clinton Avenue campus.
After the discovery of the threats, which claimed multiple bombs would detonate at a specific time that city police did not disclose, the State Police bomb squad and a dog trained to sniff out explosives, along with its handler, searched the sprawling school, at one point focusing on the attached Business Academy building.
An AMR ambulance pulled into the school parking lot about 12:30 p.m., joining several marked and unmarked Bridgeport police vehicles.
School officials said in a statement at 12:50 p.m. that the building was secured and no threat was found.
"All students and staff are safe at this time and the Bridgeport police department has informed us the threat has been resolved and the building is clear for school to be back in session tomorrow morning," the statement said.
Kaempffer said the school was evacuated and students sent home for the day "in an excess of caution. But we thoroughly investigate any and all reports of this type."
Children in an ABCD day care inside the school were ordered to go to the nearby Klein Memorial Auditorium. Several students waited on the outside on the steps with their teacher, St. V. Padilla.
"Nobody told us what was going on, just to take the kids over to the Klein," he said. "We called their parents and most of them were picked up right away."
Many Bassick High students walked home or enjoyed the spring day outdoors, melting away within minutes of the school's closing.
Wednesday's evacuation and bomb threat was the second time this week police were sent to the school.
On Tuesday, a teenager was arrested after police said he brought a realistic toy machine gun to school. Gael Tshimbalanga Kalonda, 18, of Highland Avenue, was charged with second-degree breach of peace.
Kalonda came in the front door at Bassick High School and was walking through the metal detector when an object was detected in his book bag, police said. Police searched the bag and found the toy gun. They said the orange tip of the gun and its trigger had both been painted black in order to make it look more like a real weapon.
Staff writers Linda Conner Lambeck and Denis J. O'Malley contributed to this report.


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Many a college student lives off of microwavable meals – but some do it not by choice but because they're worried school food might make them sick.
They may have celiac disease, a digestive ailment caused by gluten, or life-threatening allergies to foods like peanuts — both are on the rise. But even as more people become aware of the issues, schools and institutions may lag behind.
Now some food allergy advocates are celebrating what they see as a shifting legal trend: schools and other institutions required to treat food allergies as a disability. They've found an ally in the Department of Justice.
DOJ's Civil Rights Division announced last month that the Americans With Disabilities Act applies to students at Lesley University in Cambridge, Ma., who claimed that the school's food services and meal plans were inadequate for their needs. It was the first food allergy-related settlement under ADA in higher education, says a DOJ spokeswoman.
In the agreement with DOJ, Lesley is required provide gluten- and allergen-free food options in its dining halls, offer special meal plans for students with allergies, and pay $50,000 in damages to the students who filed the claim in 2009, among other measures.


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Michael De Leon
Michael A. De Leon is a graphic designer by day, but wears many hats in his off time. In 2004, after several years of covering the Spurs, he started Project Spurs, a Spurs team fansite as an outlet to provide content to Spurs fans, while continuing to write for himself and learning the ins and outs of online publishing and web design. He has since built a writing team and started a popular weekly Spurs podcast called the Spurscast.
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Splitter leads Brazil past Canada
San Antonio Spurs center Tiago Splitter finally hit the court after recovering from nagging injuries as Brazil dominated Canada yesterday in the Tuto Marchand Cup. Brazil lead early on with a 24-2 first quarter run. While Canada bounced back in the second quarter and outscored Brazil in the second half, the early lead was enough […] [Read More]
Leonard working on perimeter game
By Trevor Zickgraf, Project Spurs We've heard that San Antonio Spurs rookie Kawhi Leonard is spending much of his summer in Vegas working out, but what exactly has he been working on? One of the best bloggers above the border, Holly MacKenzie, got a look at both Leonard and Cory Joseph this summer and if […] [Read More]
Joseph impressing Canada teammates
Just a few months after being drafted by the San Antonio Spurs, Cory Joseph has been hard at work back on the court playing for the Canadian National Team. Being 19-years old and representing Canada among national team veterans has been an adjustment for Joseph, but his teammates are starting to take notice of the […] [Read More]
Joseph learning on the fly
By Paul Garcia, Project Spurs Being just 19 years old and only having experienced one season in college, San Antonio Spurs' Cory Joseph knows that he is a major part of how far the Canadian national basketball team will go in the 2011 FIBA Americas tournament and beyond. Joseph has struggled shooting in his first […] [Read More]
Spurs' Joseph determined to improve for Canada
By Paul Garcia, Project Spurs This past weekend, San Antonio Spurs' Cory Joseph played his first competitive regulation basketball since his college days at the University of Texas. In two games against Belgium, Joseph showed his speed on offense, ability to run the team, and excellent defense. However, Joseph's shooting and turnovers were an issue. […] [Read More]
Joseph, Canada defeat Belgium in back-to-back games
By Paul Garcia, Project Spurs After defeating Belgium yesterday, San Antonio Spurs draftee Cory Joseph and Canada returned to action Sunday in the final match of the 2011 Jack Donohue International classic by defeating Belgium 74 to 67. Joseph finished with three points, 1-of-3 shooting, 0-for-2 from three point range, one rebound, one assist, and […] [Read More]
Joseph glad to be back on the court
By Jeff Garcia, Project Spurs Yesterday, San Antonio Spurs' Cory Joseph made his debut for the senior men's Canadian national team as Canada defeated Belgium, 79 to 74. Although Joseph didn't make a huge impact on the offensive end, defensively he made his mark as he pestered Belgium guards throughout the game. It also marked […] [Read More]
Joseph struggles as Canada defeats Belgium
By Paul Garcia, Project Spurs San Antonio Spurs first round draft pick Cory Joseph made his debut for the senior men's Canadian national team Saturday night as Canada defeated Belgium 79 to 74 in the 2011 Jack Donohue International classic. So how did he do Spurs fans? Here is the recap. Click HERE for the […] [Read More]
Video: Cory Joseph on the Spurs, playing for Canada, and more
By Paul Garcia, Project Spurs As San Antonio Spurs rookie Cory Joseph gets set to join the Canadian National team in play this Saturday, he played in a pickup game on Wednesday in downtown Toronto. Alongside Joseph were several other young promising Canadian players and even former Texas teammate and new Cleveland Cavalier Tristan Thompson. In […] [Read More]
Joseph set to join Team Canada
By Jeff Garcia, Project Spurs San Antonio Spurs 2011 draftee and Canadian born, Cory Joseph, will join the senior men's Canadian national team and participate in the 2011 FIBA Americas Championship in Argentina according to ctvolympics.ca: Click HERE for the complete article at Project Spurs. [Read More]
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I was just wondering if anyone else has seen them and/or used some of their training ideas.


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A popular band from Offutt Air Force Base returns to the Davies Amphitheater Sunday evening for a free concert.
Night Wing is the country/rock showcase group of the United States Air Force Heartland of America Band stationed at Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue. Night Wing honorably represents more than 329,000 Air Force professionals around the world who diligently watch over the skies protecting and defending all those who cherish freedom.
THURMAN - Medical and law enforcement authorities in Fremont County believe alcohol may have contributed to the death of a 32-year-old man found dead Sunday morning inside a camper trailer.
Thurman Rescue and the Fremont County Sheriff's Office responded around 10 a.m. to a report of an unresponsive male at 702 Filmore St. Rescue personnel discovered Thomas Jazon Smith dead inside a camper parked on the property.
The ambassadors for the 2009 Mills County Relay For Life share a common bond.
Vicki Bird, Marcia Keith and Sid Williams have found out first-hand how formidable of a foe cancer can be. They are all at different stages of overcoming a disease that claims over 500,000 lives every year. Latest statistics show that one out of every four Americans will be diagnosed with cancer sometime during their lifetime.
"When you see the survivors at the Relay For Life, it reminds you of how many people have been affected," Bird said.
Let's Rock -N- Roll over cancer is the theme of the 2009 Mills County Relay For Life:
The Mills County Relay for Life Entertainment and Activities Schedule for June 13 -14 is as follows:
Saturday, June 13
4 p.m. - Event Kick-off and Team Lap (line-up begins at 3:45). Prayer by Pastor Mike Stevens (United Methodist Minister for Hillsdale, Pacific Junction and Silver City); Flag Ceremony - presentation by Cub Scouts Troop 432 and Boy Scouts Troop 243; Star Spangled Banner - Lake Park Quartet.
4:30 p.m. Sheltered Reality.
The Melody Wranglers kick it up with old style country, western swing and honky-tonk music. They tip their hats to such country music greats as Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Bob Wills, Buck Owens, Dolly Parton and Merle Haggard. Each of the Wranglers has over 30 years of professional music experience and all are former members of the legendary Nebraska country-swing band, Sour Mash. Wrangler members have recorded on numerous albums and CDs, performed on radio and TV and have won awards at music festivals across the country.
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Hawks have owned the puck for most of the game, put it in the net fellas
Who nets the game winner??? I call Kaner!
Nice job losing your man Kane, selfish prick. Now we're SH the rest of regulation
Nice job by Crawford hanging in there. Meanwhile, Backstrom has been a fuggin brick wall
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A big kill at the end of the game and an important point gained. Get that other one now.
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Shootout time.
Shootout. Toews 5 hole, count on it.
Kane with a circus shot. Backstrom needs to be attacked high stick hand
Damn, nice move Parise...
Jonny! You called it Bears.
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"Mortified" Reese Witherspoon Returns Home to Kids After Arrest
It had to be an awkward conversation. "Hey kids, you may have heard some crazy things about Mom's weekend..."
According to People, Reese Witherspoon returned to L.A. on Monday after her arrest for disorderly conduct and her husband Jim Toth's arrest on a DUI charge. She has three children, two with Ryan Phillippe, and People says those kids — Ava, 13, and Deacon, 9 — were staying with their dad while she was shooting The Good Lie in Atlanta.
A source told People Reese "didn't feel good about being away" from the kids after the arrest news. She's happy to be back home with them. Another source said she's still "mortified" by what happened. "She's a fun girl who likes to have a good time and let loose every now and then," still another source said. "What's shocking is she didn't rein it in enough to keep herself out of trouble. It was a really bad decision on both their parts and trust me, they're evaluating that and they will make damn sure it doesn't happen again."
Yeah, Reese's situation is getting the most play as the more famous of the two (we do know her name!) but what he did was actually dangerous and could've hurt more than a person's reputation. They are due in Atlanta court on May 22.
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A quick and easy box-kite with only a single spar. Most of the materials you need can be recycled from your local supermarket or burger joint. My local supermarket sells fresh pies in flat-bottomed bags, takeaway bags also work well, but this version uses two of the brown grocery bags given out by American supermarkets.
Note: I originally wrote this Instructable in 2007, and only used black-and-white diagrams. I decided to update it in 2012, when in San Francisco, and all our shopping came in paper bags instead of plastic carriers. For the sake of history, I have attached a PDF of the original version, but don't feel obliged to read it.
Step 1: You will need...
Two clean, flat-bottomed grocery bags, quarter-inch dowel, sewing thread, and glue. The only tool I used was my Leatherman multitool.
You can substitute your own materials wherever you like (for instance, you could use the bag your burger came in, and the straw from your drink instead of the grocery sack and dowel).
(Irony: I used sewing thread to fly this version, but as we walked on from our test-flight, we found an abandoned reel of kite-line.)
Step 2: Make the sail.
Open the bag out, carefully, into a sort of box shape.
Cut round the two short sides of the base, and one long side.
Lay the dowel inside the last, uncut, long side, sticking out at both ends.
Trim the dowel so that about an inch is sticking out at each side (remember symmetry).
Fold the base of the bag into the bag (over the dowel) and stick it down, trapping the dowel firmly in the crease.
What else could you ask for :-)
But here are a serious epidemic of a disease that causes children and young people prefer watching football on TV to fly a kite...


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AHL Beat
Tony Uminski discusses the hockey happenings.
Monthly Archive for October, 2010
First period underway! Alex Picard nice move to stickhandle around a Houston defender high in the zone and get a quality shot off on Houston rookie goaltender Matt Hackett. But Hackett, right out of junior hockey, got his glove on the puck. Rampage have to work on their first period energy, and so far, play […] [Read More]
Hockey Hiccups
Don't get too giddy, but the Rampage are in second place in the West Division with nine points, just three back of the red hot Peoria Rivermen. Joel Perrault scored his first goal for Manitoba in the Moose's 4-3 shootout win over Hamilton in Winnipeg Friday. Perrault also scored in the shootout. David Spina assisted […] [Read More]
Assist — AHL Schedule-Maker
We hear it all the time. That's a make-up call. Tonight at the AT&T Center, the Rampage will actually look at the result of their 4-2 win over the road-weary Lake Erie Monsters, and put it in their "win bank" for when the make-up call goes against them later in the season. The Monsters were […] [Read More]
Rampage Woes Begin Early
Two travel weary teams played a hockey game Sunday afternoon at the AT&T Center. The visiting Lake Erie Monsters flew in from Dallas after busing to north Texas from their 4-3 loss in Oklahoma City. That had to be a fun trek after they blew a 3-0 lead against the new Barons. The Rampage bused […] [Read More]
Rampage Waiting for Superman
This looked like the year Brett MacLean was going to pack for the desert. Two years of seasoning in San Antonio, one of them an AHL All-Star campaign, gave the second round pick more than just hope for getting to park in the players lot at Jobbing Arena. But the Turk was sharpening his scythe. […] [Read More]
Opening Weekend for Ex-Rampagers
Perusing box scores between a mega lesson planning day found some activity among many former Rampage players around the NHL and AHL this opening weekend. With the parent club, defenseman David Schlemko was +1 in 15:07 of playing time in the Coyotes win over my Bruins, 5-2 in the Czech Republic. Keith Yandle played over […] [Read More]
Wrath of Krahn — Again
There was a time when Texas Stars goaltender, Brent Krahn, had, like most goaltenders, flaws. But if you've been watching the 6-5 netminder from Winnipeg when his team visits the AT&T Center, you might just think he's the perfect goaltender — ever. Overall since 2005, Krahn is 10-3-2 in San Antonio, allowing only 22 goals […] [Read More]
Thank Your Lucky Stars
The Rampage entered their ninth AHL season with an impressive whipping of a heated rival, the Chicago Wolves at the AT&T Center, 6-3 Friday night. In nine seasons, the Rampage have played nine playoff games. In one season, last season, their first season, the Texas Stars, housed in the Austin suburb of Cedar Park, went […] [Read More]
OKC — SA Rivalry Revisited
Weird seeing Oklahoma City in the same division once again with San Antonio. And that got me waxing nostalgic about the epic battles between the Blazers and Iguanas of the Central Hockey League, and what would extend into my one year with the Indianapolis Ice. The Iguanas — Blazer battles included an exciting finals in […] [Read More]
You Know You're Ready for Hockey When…
The Spurs have training camp but you wanna know who is the fourth line center on Ray Edward's depth chart. You're willing to stand in what seemed like a muffled, hermetically sealed room to watch the pre-season game at Northwoods and still cheer like a banshee when the Rampage scored their lone goal. You think […] [Read More]


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- In the Venn diagram of the taxonomy of anti-intellectualism, I appear to belong to the intersection of the epistemic-skeptical and (self-defeatingly) the anti-intelligentsianist categories. HT Aretae
- On vacation driving around in the rented car it became easiest just to leave it mostly tuned to the XM 'Elvis Radio' station. This allowed me to further research and confirm my pre-published theory: Elvis is grossly underrated. That said, it also made me unfortunately aware of such recent abominations as some sort of Fatboy Slim (or whoever – does it matter?) remix of "Blue Suede Shoes", and an ill-advised Natalie-Cole-style-dubbed-'duet' version of "In the Ghetto" with Lisa Marie Presley. Who, annoyingly, insisted on pronouncing it with a soft-T like gheddoe instead of Elvis's original, and in my book CORRECT, pronunciation ghe-TOE.
- In what is likely to be my final triumph of 2011, I finally (a) finished re-watching Ronin which I had been sporadically watching in 20-minute portions on DVR for about a month, and (b) for the first time, paid close enough attention that I think I (mostly) understand the plot of Ronin.
- This year's (R) Presidential race is shaping up to be sort of like 1996, but without the Bob Dole figure. Meaning that they're acting as if they don't expect to have any chance of beating the incumbent; thus all halfway-decent possible choices have decided to sit it out, letting the nomination fall to the elder statesman of the party to lose the general election honorably and gracefully. What's confusing about all of this is that we are continually told that Obama has basically the contrapositive of Clinton's popularity, and that there is no elder statesman in the first place (there's only Romney). This all leaves me in nominal sympathy with the NOT(Romney) camp, except that I don't like any of the surviving non-Romney choices either (and more importantly, I doubt their ability to beat our current Celebrity President in the
cool-kid popularity contestgeneral election). So I'm left with NOT(NOT(Romney)), but I'm not sure what that is. I think it's either just back to Romney, or a wish for some sort of deus ex machina/point at infinity/singularity, depending which algebraic rules we're working with here. In any event my longstanding prediction that President Obama will win re-election looks better and better. Y'all ready for 2012, the year that Obama's mandate and legacy is cemented for posterity? Better be.
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So, as dictated by the U.S. Constitution, it's time to remake, practically shot for shot, yet another gray/dreary Scandinavian hit movie in the English language only like a few years after it was just made (just as they did with Insomnia and Let The Right One In), and that means we're going to start getting those The Girl With movies. Are you excited yet? Of course you are! Because she's The Girl with something. She is short and has short black hair and does stuff with computers and oh my gosh it's just all so inherently fascinating that I'd like to read a trilogy about her and then watch two trilogy movies about her, one in Swedish and the other in English. Should only take like 30 hours of my life all-in, tops. Totally worth it.
I came to this topic idly web-browsing and coming across this review of one of the dang books or another, which informed me that the original title of the first one was 'Men Who Hate Women'. This brings me to my name theory.
What is my name theory? Simply, that something's name played an outsized and unrecognized role in its popularity. Applied here, the answer to the critic's impassioned pleas as to why did these books catch on so much becomes:
Because they were called "The Girl [with something/who did something]". They would have never caught on if the first one had kepts its original title. Same exact plot/words, but no "The Girl With" in the title, and you do not have a hit.
The name theory applies elsewhere too. Why did 'Sheryl Crow' become a star? Don't get me wrong, her voice and looks are, like, okay, but there's a zillion people who sing just as well as her and don't become stars. They aren't named 'Sheryl Crow' though. People liked the idea of listening to music by someone named 'Sheryl Crow'. They liked the idea of being the kind of person who listens to music by someone named 'Sheryl Crow'
Or to name a more obvious comparable, how about 'The Da Vinci Code'. Dan Brown's highly stupid, warmed-over version of the '80s-era Baigent/Leigh conspiracy theory is both bizarrely childish to read, and actually manages to be a 10x less interesting than the version that had been used for the computer game Gabriel Knight 3 four years earlier. So why did it catch on? Because it was called 'The Da Vinci Code', allowing readers to fancy it had something to do with Da Vinci and art/culture, making it cultural to read it.
If you're writing a book or other creating endeavor, pay attention to what you call it. It really matters.
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A lot of commentary (cf. Michael Totten) on the following video seems to suggest the reactions depicted are, at least in some significant part, faked, e.g. because the people in it think that if they don't cry they'll get in trouble:
I'm not sure why. This interpretation seems to stem from the error of assuming that North Korean people and society is basically like our people and society, just with a wacky dictator on top. Like a charmingly more-straitlaced version of South Korea, that happened to have a crazy celebrity who uses/kills people in charge. I think, rather, that having a wacky dictator on top of your society actually affects the society. What I tend to see in North Korean is Jonestown writ large. A mass psychosis. Almost all of the people depicted there would qualify as mentally ill here.
That said, I have little doubt that those emotional responses are in fact real and genuine, as far as that goes.
We're going to have to face it: People love their dictators. And the more miserable they are, the more they will love him. The more empty and powerless their lives are, the more their hopes and dreams get tied up with the dictator's fate. Commentators assume that the Norks are aware of Kim Jong Il's brutality and venality. I think that even if they are, they are not, because they are in denial about it, the same way I as a Giants fan am in denial about Barry Bonds's steroid use: it's a thing I've heard people say, but as a fact it has no effect on me – travels into my ears without lodging itself in my brain. A fact I am incapable of absorbing. North Korea, same thing. Kim Jong Il is a god. Many Norks probably didn't quite realize he could die.
Sometimes it's only when dictatorships get prosperous that they start to grumble against their dictator. This can manifest as a generational effect. Older Russians love their Stalin. Younger Russians have no use for him. In any event, this has clearly not been an issue in North Korea for some time.
We'll have to see how things go with the fat little boy now in charge. I don't know whether his power is real or whether he's a figurehead the generals maneuvered into place or whether he's a weakling destined to be dethroned via coup within the week or what. Whatever the case, this Nork generation is lost, gone. Their children might be capable of being slightly embarrassed by them, sometimes. Their grandchildren might be capable of forming mostly-sane thoughts about this period in their nation's history. In the meantime, those tears are real.
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Reading through this tale of a rocker's $62.47 royalty-check (HT Dr. Frank) I couldn't help but chuckle and feel some sympathy for the record company.
Let me clarify. Of course my sympathy lies with the musician. I want musicians to get paid for their output. I want them not to get screwed. I want the musicians I like to be able to make recorded music and yet still be able to live their lives and pay their bills. I am willing to pay a premium if that will help. (Side note: in the current setup, there doesn't seem to be a good way for me to do so.)
But most of that blog post is about how the record company, a large organization probably staffed to at least some extent by the sort of overworked schmoes with boring, go-nowhere jobs you'll find doing the grunt work in any such organization, has probably screwed up the data collection and accounting necessary to create an accurate statement of the current status of his digital royalties (which are still in the red and not likely to go black anytime soon). The statement seems screwed up. It seems like it must be missing info. It took a long time to produce. When he raised objections, his questions were answered, but the clear attitude was that since his wasn't a band that was 'recouped' (which means, I gather, a band on which (bizarro, admittedly) record-company accounting can recognize as having had their investment pay off), it wasn't much worth focusing on them or correcting the odd $10,000 rounding error here or there.
The reason I chuckle is that it seems so much like banking.
He, as the 'client', is clearly a small fry. They only produced the report as a special favor to him because he had connections. But ultimately, some poor schmoe probably had to do some manual bullcrap in Excel or Word to make it. The numbers that it's based on probably come from fusing various databases that some poor IT grunt fights with and find/corrects errors in every day. The project timelines to fix everything and get it right extend and extend as other fires pop up to put out, other high-profile projects (and clients) take precedence. And so it goes. What do you expect when you go through a giant organization like this?
Because more than anything it occurs to me that this guy, and (one assumes) thousands like him, are being extremely ill-served by these large organizations we call 'record companies', and should cease using them. There are no 'records' to produce anymore, after all. So what exactly is the value-added they are contributing? From what I've been able to gather so far, it boils down to,
1) They will sign a giant contract on your behalf with iTunes and Spotify and (&c) on which they get like $10 bajillion dollars upfront and some percentage of each download, out of which you get, like, $0.00002.
2) Promotion and whatnot, cuz without promotion your band doesn't get known in the first place.
It seems to me that function #2 could be done by any sort of PR agency, and possibly better. Meanwhile, function #1 doesn't seem like a service that musicians should seek at all.
Make a web page and sell your mp3s on your own. If nothing else, it'd probably be just as easy a way to (not) make $62.47.
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Although few know in any detail what the 'Volcker Rule' is, everyone who even aspires to hold anything resembling a semi-respectable opinion on The Economy is fully on board with the philosophy behind it, which is that banks shouldn't engage in 'prop trading' or, more generally, 'risky' stuff. Here is a typical example, which I cite only as a useful instance of the eminent reasonable-soundingness of the position:
…legislative intent in this legislation is clear…to cut banks down to size and return them to their historical role of intermediating between savers and borrowers. […] the Volcker Rule directs the regulators to get banks out of the business of betting on the markets.
Hear, hear! you all say. It's about time! Banks shouldn't bet on markets. The horror! They should just do the pure and safe and vanilla 'intermediating between savers and borrowers' that our grandpas' banks did.
Being (as far as I can tell) the only person on the entire Internet who doesn't think 'prop trading' should be banned, and therefore is against the Volcker Rule or anything like it lock stock & barrel, allow me to briefly explain what is wrong with the preceding conventional wisdom. Because it is, in fact, a contradiction.
How exactly do banks 'intermediate' between savers and borrowers? A saver is someone who wants to make a 1-day loan to a bank. A borrower is someone who wants to borrow 5-, 10- or 30-year money from a bank. How exactly can you 'intermediate' between two such people?
The short answer is, 'you can't'. The saver and the borrower are not coming to you with truly offsetting positions. So the real answer is, by taking risks.
The above, pure, clean, grandpa-approved banking transaction entails huge risk! What on earth could be more risky than borrowing 1-day money (from the savers) and turning around and lending it out long-term? You've all seen It's A Wonderful Life; what if the savers all come to your teller window at the same time and want their money back? Separately, what if the borrowers' loans come due and turns out they're bankrupt? What if the assets the borrowers pledged as collateral (bonds, houses, whatever) suddenly drop in value? What if interest-rates precipitously rise and you suddenly find yourself having to pay savers far more to borrow from them than the average rate you've already locked in making all those long-term loans?
If you want banks taking deposits and making loans, then by definition you DO SO want them taking risk. If you don't want them taking risk, you don't want banking at all. Modern banking, or no-risk: pick one. The people who complain that banks 'took risks' and don't want them 'betting on the markets', yet in the same breath say they should 'merely' be focusing on making fractional-reserve maturity-mismatched loans with depositors' money (!), are either just ignorant or haven't thought through the situation enough. News flash, all you Conventionally-Wise: LOANS ARE RISKY.
What? Oh, I see, the risk in vanilla lending is 'understood' and can be regulated and 'controlled' and, like, hedged because we have so much experience with all that sort of thing. Right, I forgot. I guess that's why all those mortgages (a very, very vanilla and traditional and grandpa-approved type of loan) in the past 10-15 years have all worked out so well and caused no problems for anyone.
Huh? Oh, the mortgages only caused problems because of evil derivatives like mortgage-backed securities and CDS? Um, you do realize that that's how banks hedged those mortgages, right? If you wanted banks controlling/hedging their risk – and you all sure talk like you do – then CDS was precisely what you were asking for. Similarly, banks can control the risk in their loan portfolios by hedging them – with derivatives. They can hedge the interest-rate risk – with interest-rate swaps (more derivatives). Those derivatives lead to more risk (i.e. counterparty risk), which can be hedged – with more derivatives.
So I could (theoretically) concede this conventional-wisdom notion that grandpa-banking risks can be wisely controlled and hedged, but at the cost of you acknowledging that all sorts of derivatives will need to exist because they play such a crucial role in hedging and spreading the risk inherent in the banking sector. But once we admit that we've stepped well away from savers-and-borrowers grandpa-banking and have headed pretty far downfield towards (gasp) 'prop trading'. After all, the question is no longer whether banks will take risk (they will – loans are risky!), or stick to the 'good' sort of grandpa-approved instruments like loans (they won't – because they can't – because if they did they wouldn't be able to control the risks you say you want controlled). The question is simply which risks banks will take, and how much. One way or another, you've already conceded that banks will have to be allowed to have desks trading, like, CDS and the CDX.NA.IG credit index and 10-year interest-rate-swaps and suchlike. That desk, whatever it does, will always have taken on some amount of risk or basis. What level of said risk you choose to call 'prop trading' is a matter of boring semantics. To borrow from the joke about the high-class lady who protest she's not a prostitute, we've already established that banks will take on risk and therefore (intentionally or not) make bets on the market – we're just haggling about the amount… That is because at the end of the day there's no actual 'bright line' you can actually draw between 'good' risk, and evil 'prop-trading' risk. You might think there is, and think that regulators are smart enough to draw it, but you are wrong.
Now, I am just as against private gains/socialized losses as you are. But this ongoing project to micromanage, at the regulatory level, which and how much risk banks can take is an absurd and doomed one. Instead, I am here to say, on the Internet, that we should let banks 'prop trade' all they want. BUT, we should also let them fail, if/when they become insolvent doing so.
In fact, if we did that, and credibly, we might find that banks would do a far better job policing their own risk than would regulators sitting in Washington.
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Like most other narcissists, the primary meaning I find in Christopher Hitchens's passing is the opportunity it affords me to puff up myself and my importance. Thus let me regale you with my best Christopher Hitchens anecdote:
This one time, many years ago, I was walking away from the north side of the UC Berkeley campus up Euclid Avenue, and I saw Christopher Hitchens sitting at a little cafe table outside (I think it was called) Cafe Nefeli, having a heated conversation with some other guy I didn't recognize. Or at least, I think it was Christopher Hitchens – assuming he was in town for a panel discussion or somesuch, I figured he was being taken out for coffee afterwards by whatever boring professor had invited him, I didn't want to stare too long, on account of how I find it sort of embarrassing to encounter and stare at celebrities. (See also: the time I noticed Will Ferrell sitting a few tables over from me at a restaurant, and then some fratboy-types near the window waved at him and gave him thumbs-ups.) So I tried not to swivelneck and used the corner of my eye as much as possible, then kept on going back home to play Starcraft on the computer or something.
Hey, I didn't say it was a good anecdote. Anyway, Christopher Hitchens, RIP.
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Panetta formally shuts down US war in Iraq
If you have a brain this is probably confusing to you since the U.S. hasn't been waging anything that could be legitimately termed a 'war in Iraq' for years and years, so let me translate this from Conventional-Wisdom-News-Speak into understandable/logical English for you:
Panetta has 'formally shut down' the U.S. garrison stationed in Iraq, which at ~4000 (according to the article) is already modest by most standards, but (the article alleges) is soon to be fully withdrawn.
My reaction: Good. It's not clear why we need to have a garrison stationed in Iraq at this time (?). Now let's remove the one stationed in Afghanistan as well (or, for you Conventional-Wisdom/News People, 'end the war in' Afghanistan).
Actually while we're at it, can we 'end the wars in' places like Germany, Japan, South Korea, Italy, Kuwait, and the UK? Those are all bigger 'wars' than the 'war in Iraq' currently is.
And if you're one of those deniers who don't think they're wars, please explain why not (showing your work as to why Iraq is). I look forward to it,


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A Legal Document between Telecom and the New Zealand Government which limits the amount TelecomNZ is allowed to screw people in New Zealand out of money.
Basically, as far as consumers are concerned, is that TelecomNZ can't put up charges faster than the rate of inflation, and must maintain free local calls (for residential customers) unless this "severely affects their profitability" or something like that.
Also, as far as consumers are concerned, TelecomNZ are also obliged to offer everyone a basic telecommunications service at an acceptable level ie. a basic phone line in order to make voice calls and maintain that service for as long as the consumer pays their bills and require the service.
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Venezuela to probe Chavez cancer biowarfare conspiracy
March 14, 2013 by Staff
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Venezuela is to formally investigate suspicions late President Hugo Chavez's was a victim of biowarfare, soft-killed with cancer after being poisoned by foreign enemies, the government said.
Acting President Nicolas Maduro vowed to set up an inquiry into the allegation, which was first leveled by Chavez after being diagnosed with cancer in 2011. Foreign scientists will also be invited to join a government commission to investigate the claim.
"We will seek the truth," Reuters cites Maduro as telling regional TV network Telesur late on Monday. "We have the intuition that our commander, Chavez, was poisoned by dark forces that wanted him out of the way."
Maduro said it was too early to determine the exact root of the cancer which was discovered in Chavez's pelvic region in June 2011, but charged that the United States had laboratories which were experienced in manufacturing diseases.
"He had a cancer that broke all norms," the agency cites Maduro as saying. "Everything seems to indicate that they affected his health using the most advanced techniques … He had that intuition from the beginning."
Chavez reportedly underwent four surgeries in Cuba, before dying of respiratory failure after the cancer metastasized in in his lungs.
Maduro compared the conspiracy surrounding Chavez's death to allegations that Israeli agents poisoned Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to death in 2004.
In December 2011, Chavez speculated that the United States could be infecting the regions leaders with cancer after Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
"I don't want to make any reckless accusations," Chavez said before asking:
"Would it be strange if [the United States] had developed a technology to induce cancer, and for no one to know it?" Maduro repeated the accusation last week on the eve of Chavez's death.
"Behind all of [the plots] are the enemies of the fatherland," he said on state television before announcing the expulsion of two US Air Force officials for spying on the military and plotting to destabilize the country.
In fact, there are well-documented cases of nations using biowarfare to eliminate enemies. "Natural epidemics of cholera and plague are frightening enough. The notion that rogue states or terrorists could harness these and other diseases as weapons of war is even more chilling. While rare, the use of biological weapons dates back centuries. …confirmed cases of biowarfare and bioterrorism, from medieval times to today … state-sponsored programs that could provide the seeds of future attacks," Susan K. Lewis states in a NOVA report on bioterrorism.
Venezuela's opposition has lambasted the claim as another Chavez-style conspiracy theory intended to distract people from real issues gripping the country in the run up to the snap presidential election called for April 14.
As Tuesday marked the last day of official mourning for Chavez, ceremonies are likely to continue, fueling claims by the opposition that the government is exploiting Chavez's death to hold onto power.
While launching his candidacy on Monday, Maduro began his speech with a recording of Chavez singing the national anthem, sending many of his supporters into tears.


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I watched Despicable Me last weekend, and (predictably) was smitten with Gru's scarf.
It has everything I like in a scarf: dark gray, and light gray.
Got a ways to go on this one, but it should make a nice "mindless knitting" project.
Speaking of projects, if you're a Destination Truth fan you may be interested in one of my newest ventures, the Destination Truth Blog. I'm working hard in the background to bring it up to speed, and there are still some bare patches here and there, but it's coming along nicely.


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We use our phones for everything. To text a friend, to call our parents, to play a game and even to write documents on that small screen. We take our iPhones, Androids or Windows Phones everywhere: to school, to the subway, to the cinema and even to – let's admit it – the bathroom.
In the digital era, most people consider time spent on the toilet a waste, thinking to themselves: why don't I check my Facebook or Twitter while stuck in here? Why reading the same old magazines on the bathroom shelf when I can just take out my phone and find out the latest technology trends on iJailbreak?
Understandable, but maybe not that hygienic. Studies from the University of London and Stanford University have found the presence of Escherichia coli – bacterium found in fecal matter – on touchscreens. That's why Corning, the company behind Gorilla Glass screens used nowadays in most tablets and smartphones to protect them from scratches, is working on a solution to keep our beloved devices clean.
According to Jeff Evenson, senior vice president and operations chief of staff at Corning, over the next two years devices will have an anti-microbial glass cover that will be able to kill bacteria and viruses.
At the MIT Technology Review's Mobile Summit, Evenson showed a comparison of two pieces of glass covered with E. coli bacteria. One was a standard glass and the other one was using the new anti-microbial cover. Within two hours, all the bacteria was gone from the glass with Corning's new technology – as you would expect, nothing happened on the glass with no protection. And if that wasn't good enough, Corning is developing new antirreflective screens (good news for upcoming iPads, don't you think?). You can watch Corning's full presentation here.


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by CHRIS GRAYTax breaks for two local companies producing automotive parts have been approved by village trustees.
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The Village of Romeo Board of Trustees approved of extending a 10-year Michigan Tool and Die Renaissance Recovery Zone by five more years for Sharp Model.
The board also unanimously approved of a 12-year Industrial Facilities Tax (IFT) exemption for Stant USA that will create 34 jobs.
Both votes were taken at the Sept. 19 regular meeting.
Justin Robinson, associate planner with the Macomb County Planning and Economic Development department, said the state is permitting a maximum of five-year extensions for the recovery zone companies.
The village supported the recovery zone in December 2006. Robinson said the program, created by the state, was designed to assist the tool and die industry to reinvent itself.
He said it allows companies to work collaboratively and take on contracts they may not be able to handle individually.
Companies receive tax abatements from the Michigan Business Tax, the state education tax, personal and real property taxes and local income tax for belonging to these zones.
The money saved is intended for reinvestment in order to compete for new business and create jobs.
"It's taken (Sharp) five years to get to where they are today, to just begin the diversification effort and find some success," Robinson said.
In a letter, Sharp Model told the board 100 percent of its savings have been invested in marketing to new non-automotive customers and into technology.
It has spent over $4 million dollars since receiving the benefits, and has acquired loans for technology training, software and engineering.
Roger Walker, president of Sharp Model, said the company anticipates the addition of 12 new jobs to its staff of 82 after enduring bankruptcies and the recession.
"We have diversified, we reinvested in equipment, training, added jobs and we're starting to stabilize," he said. "We still need to invest in high-tech equipment (and) training."
Romeo lifted a moratorium in 2009 that stopped it from accepting new recovery zones, but the state is already preventing the establishment of new zones.
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Jennifer Dedenbach of Stant USA said its $1.58 million IFT request comes out of acquiring two new programs for the company that will begin in January and August of next year.
The personal property exemption would be for purchasing new machinery and equipment for fuel filler pipe applications.
Village trustees had positive reactions to the number of new jobs the IFT was expected to bring in.
"Usually we get three or four, or five or six," said Trustee Margaret Feldhus.
Dedenbach said the business, located on Powell Road, expects to approach the village for additional parking needs.