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Trash talk in the neighborhood
It has been 7 years since I've moved to Tuolumne County, and before and since I've moved here everyone talked about the beauty, the "Small Town" feel and the sense of community.
If that is so, then why is it that so many people want to dump their trash in our neighborhood? Are you kidding me? I understand that this time of year is hard for all of us, but dumping you trash isn't acceptable, and you need to find another way.
As of this writing, we now have to look at tons of trash, which I've already picked up, but in addition to that we now find a broken refrigerator, a heater, and a lounge chair that has been there for two years. Let's not mention the Christmas tree someone dropped off three years ago.
Stop. If you need assistance in getting rid of your trash, ask. We will help, but let it be known by this letter if you continue to do this, our neighborhood will be in full force watching for you, and we will have you charged.
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I blame Daniel Day-Lewis. I watched Last of the Mohicans and got a hankering to play a game set in the Colonial frontier, one of many periods of history poorly covered by games. In fact, in a reasonably extensive library the only game that really addressed this setting was Assassin's Creed III, a game that, to put it mildly, I did not like very much. Shorn of its only real virtue, the multiplayer component, I felt reasonably certain I would still hate the game virulently. I've given second chances to games I formally liked less, though, so I booted up [Read more…]
Assassin's Creed IV has many problems, most of them inherited from Assassin's Creed III. The free-running is sloppier than ever and actually trying to go to a particular place quickly (say, the top of a mast to take a flag) feels like a struggle against the game's mechanics rather than a use of them. Combat, especially swordplay, is a mess plagued by a useless camera, and while stealth has improved slightly it's not strong enough for the demands the game makes of it, especially in tailing and eavesdropping missions. The story is silly and inconsequential – in both the past [Read more…]
I have the same fundamental problem with Gone Home that I had with Assassin's Creed III. In terms of their construction, these games could hardly be more dissimilar – ACIII is an expansive open world third-person game where the player spends almost every minute killing people, and Gone Home is a first-person adventure in uncovering the events of the past year in a single empty house. Yet these games are alike in that they give the player a good set of tools for solving their problems, which they seem unwilling to let em use freely. The main story of Gone [Read more…]
Are you experienced?
My review of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood has gone up at GameCritics, but in case you don't want to bother, the summary is that Brotherhood is great and you should get it. It's not great like War and Peace is great. Brotherhood completely squanders all the awesome things you could do thematically with the horrible Papacy of Alexander VI and instead uses that as a backdrop for more of its tediously silly techno-conspiracy mumbo-jumbo. And, it's not great like Saint Peter's Basilica is great, because its poor design choices and occasionally slapdash construction deny it any real feel of majesty. Brotherhood [Read more…]


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Hi! I have a 2 year old daughter who has suffered with severe eczema since she was 1 year old. We have found some amazing doctors (combination of M.D.'s and N.D's) in Washington State. We have put her on a strict elimination diet, probiotics, EFA's, and topically we use a mild steroid cream and a vitamin B12 cream. Nothing has helped much except for the steroid cream and eliminating dairy. Two of her doctors recently diagnosed her with a systemic yeast infection, which has led to multiple food allergies (literally she is allergic/sensitive to everything she eats) and now she is developing environmental allergies. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has a child with the same diagnosis? What worked for you? She has been prescribed Diflucan(1 dose) and I am nervous to give it to her. I am always scared that she will have an adverse reaction when taking prescription medication. Has anyone else used Diflucan for their children? Thanks!
Systemic Yeast Infection
MtTimpView, thank you so much for your helpful advice. I went out and borrowed Dr Bock's book, and I have to say that I am really surprised at what he had to say.
Quick question, what are food enzymes? Also are there any foods that are naturally rich in magnesium and zinc?
Enzymes are active proteins found in nature that break down our food and help our bodies with other processes. Taking enzymes replenishes enzymes and aids in digestion. I used to give DS enzymes with every meal. They actually eliminated several of his food allergies. Here's a link to more info and the ones that we use.
Any easy way to take a magnesium supplement is to soak in Epsom salt baths. Epsom salt is magnesium and it is easily absorbed through the skin. The best magnesium supplement that I have found is called Calm. Mangesium is found in most fruits, vegetables, and grains. Zinc is mostly found in meat, fish, and dairy.
Hey MtTimpView,
Here is an update, I've been on Diflucan for a few weeks and not feeling so well. Maybe it is die off. How do you know when you are all better? How long did the die off last for your son?
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Severe die off lasted six weeks. Then, things improved rapidly, but it took six months before DS's yeast infection was clear. It also takes several months for your body to repair itself. So, you will see improvement but it takes time to feel completely whole again.
I hope you start feeling better soon!
Yeah, I have been really tired. Not sure if that is the cause.
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Hashi-hypothyroid & PCOS
MC 10/09 @ 6 wks 2/10@ 13 wks 2/11 @ 10 wks
There are yeast specialists but a good pediactrian should be able to treat this. The trouble is finding a doctor who accepts that yeast can be a real issue. There is a book called Healing the New Childhood Epidemics by Dr Bock that really helps to explain how the gut relates to skin and allergy issues. I took that book with me to my doctor and my doctor agreed to work with me on the approach.
Has your baby had a lot of antibiotics?
HI if anyone is still following this thread I have some questions. My LO is 16 months and was just diagnosed with a yeast infection in his esophagus. He had an EGD done with biopsies to check for EE and the yeast was found. No EE. He was sent for a celiac blood panel becasue they saw inflammtion in the beginning of his intestines, that also came back negative. A little history he has had reflux since he was 3 months old controlled by prevacid, had ear infections at least twice a month until 10 months when tubes were placed, has bouts with mysterious rashes, eczema, and he has never been a good eater. Eats a lot of carbs. Oh and he is MSPI. Can tolerate soy now and baked in dairy. Still on Alimentum formula. He has never slept through the night and still wakes up with general discomfort. Usually once you get him up he will burp or toot and it seems to make him feel better. He has a lot of gas. I have read some of this thread and it makes me wonder if the yeast is more of the cause than I think. Any ideas, advice, suggestions anythign is helpful. Thanks!
Yeast definately causes gas! In general, it pushes out the good flora and makes digestion difficult. So, when you treat yeast, you have to kill off the fungi and then re-establish the good flora so the yeast can't come back.
To help with the gas, I recommend adding a plant based food enzyme (like papaya or pineapple enzymes) and probiotics. They will fight the yeast and aid in digestion.
I posted here a few weeks ago and still have some questions. My son did a round of nystatin for 2 weeks and showed improvement, he went off when it was gone and did okay for about 2 weeks and then things came back. He now has another yest infection and we are back on nystatin. Can you tell me how do they test for a systemic yeast infection? I am calling my GI doc today to discuss some things if I can get someone to call me back. I really think this is hisproblem but don;t know how to get the Drs to listen to me.


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MeditationHow Meditation WorksConditions Benefited by MeditationMeditation: Who's Doing It?Psychological BenefitsSpiritual BenefitsWalking MeditationTranscendental MeditationSimple Meditation Exercise
Meditation is a safe and simple way to balance a person's physical,
emotional, and mental states. It is easily learned and has been used as an aid
in treating stress and pain management. It has also been employed as part of an
overall treatment for other conditions, including hypertension and heart
From Ancient India to Western
Meditation has been practiced for several thousand years. It is only during
the past three decades that scientific study has focused on its clinical effects
on health.
During the 1960s, reports reached the West of yogis and meditation masters in
India who could perform extraordinary feats of bodily control and altered states
of consciousness. These reports captured the interest of Western researchers
studying self-regulation and the possibility of voluntary control over the
autonomic nervous system.
At the same time, new refinements in scientific instrumentation made it
possible to duplicate and substantiate some of these reports at medical research
institutes. Health care professionals who were often dissatisfied with the side
effects of drug treatments for stress-related disorders embraced meditation as a
valuable tool for stress reduction, and today both patients and physicians enjoy
the health benefits of regular meditation practice.
What is Meditation?
According to Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., a pioneer in the field of mind/body
medicine, meditation can be broadly defined as any activity that keeps the
attention pleasantly anchored in the present moment.
When the mind is calm and focused in the present, it is neither reacting to
memories from the past nor being preoccupied with plans for the future, two
major sources of chronic stress known to impact health.
"Meditation," says Dr. Borysenko, "helps to keep us from identifying with the
'movies of the mind'."
Although there are numerous approaches to meditation, most techniques can be
grouped into two basic approaches: concentrative meditation and mindfulness
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Concentrative meditation focuses the attention on the breath, an image, or a
sound (mantra), in order to still the mind and allow a greater awareness and
clarity to emerge. This form of meditation can be compared to the zoom lens of a
camera that narrows its focus to a selected field.
The simplest form of concentrative meditation is to sit quietly and focus the
attention on the breath. The connection between the breath and one's state of
mind is a basic principle of the practice of yoga and meditation. When a person
is anxious, frightened, agitated, or distracted, the breath will tend to be
shallow, rapid, and uneven. On the other hand, when the mind is calm, focused,
and composed, the breath will tend to be slow, deep, and regular.
Focusing the mind on the continuous rhythm of inhalation and exhalation
provides a natural object of meditation. As the meditator focuses his or her
awareness on the breath, the mind becomes absorbed in the rhythm of inhalation
and exhalation, breathing slows and becomes deeper, and the mind becomes more
tranquil and aware.
Mindfulness meditation, according to Dr. Borysenko, "involves opening the
attention to become aware of the continuously passing parade of sensations and
feelings, images, thoughts, sounds, smells, and so forth without becoming
involved in thinking about them."
The meditator sits quietly and simply witnesses whatever goes through the
mind, not reacting or becoming involved with thoughts, memories, worries, or
images. This helps the meditator gain a more calm, clear, and nonreactive state
of mind.
Mindfulness meditation can be likened to a wide-angle lens-a broad sweeping
awareness that takes in the entire field of perception.
How Meditation Works
Hans Selye, a pioneering Canadian stress researcher, describes two types of
stress-negative stress and positive stress. The difference between the two
depends upon whether or not the individual feels in control of the stress. By
allowing one to become more aware of one's reactions to stress, meditation can
assist in providing the individual with an increased internal sense of control.
Studies have also shown that meditation (in particular research on
Transcendental Meditation [TM], a popular form of meditation practiced in the
West for the past thirty years), can bring about a healthy state of relaxation
by causing a generalized reduction in multiple physiological and biochemical
markers, such as decreased heart rate, decreased respiration rate, decreased
plasma cortisol (a major stress hormone), decreased pulse rate, and increased
EEG (electroencephalogram) alpha, a brain wave associated with relaxation.
The first research on the physiology of meditation was conducted by R. Keith
Wallace at U.C.L.A. Studying Transcendental Meditation (TM), Wallace found that
whereas the body gains a state of profound rest, the brain and mind become more
alert, indicating a state of "restful alertness." Studies show that after TM,
reactions are faster, creativity greater, and comprehension broader.
"Through meditation we can learn to access the relaxation response (the
physiological response elicited by meditation) and to be aware of the mind and
the way our attitudes produce stress," says Dr. Borysenko, former Co-director of
Harvard's Mind/Body Clinic. "In addition, by quieting the mind, meditation can
also put one in touch with the inner physician, allowing the body's own inner
wisdom to be heard."
Conditions Benefited by
Patricia Norris, Ph.D., Director of the Biofeedback and Psychophysiology
Clinic at the Menninger Foundation, reports: "In our practice at Menninger we
use meditative techniques to enhance immune functioning in cancer, AIDS, and
autoimmune patients. We also use meditation in conjunction with neuro-feedback
to normalize brain rhythms and chemistry in alcohol and drug addiction, as well
as other addictive conditions. Almost all of our patients use meditative
techniques in learning self-regulation for disorders such as anxiety and
hypertension, and for stress management. We consider meditation a recommended
practice for anyone seeking high-level wellness."
Meditation: Who's Doing
In addition to the growing body of research literature on meditation,
physicians, psychotherapists, and other professionals are increasingly adding
meditative techniques to their practice. According to David Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.,
Dean of Research for Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa, over
six thousand physicians have begun the practice of Transcendental Meditation and
regularly recommend the TM technique to their patients.
Other physicians who advocate meditation include Dean Ornish, M.D., who
recently demonstrated that heart disease can be reversed with a comprehensive
program that includes meditation.
Ron Hunninghake, M.D., has made meditation a key element in the integrated
health program at the Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning
International in Wichita, Kansas.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., founder and Director of the Stress Reduction Clinic at
the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, has taught Buddhist meditation
and yoga to thousands of patients, most of whom were referred by their
"Many well-known physicians," adds Dr. Norris, "such as Larry Dossey, M.D.,
Deepak Chopra, M.D., Bernie Siegel, M.D., and Norman Shealy, M.D., also use and
advocate meditation for total well-being.
The benefits of an ongoing meditation practice can be classified into three
categories: physiological, psychological, and spiritual.
Psychological Benefits
The Transcendental Meditation technique has proven to be a successful coping
strategy in helping to deal with drug addiction, a useful tool in
psycho-neuro-immunology by helping to control the immune system, and an
effective manager of stress and pain.
A strong link has also been established between the practice of TM and
longevity. Only two factors have been scientifically determined to actually
extend life - caloric restriction and lowering of the body's core temperature.
Meditation has been shown to lower core body temperature.
Stress Control: The term stress was first popularized in the 1950s, based on
Dr. Selye's physiological studies of animals injured or placed under extreme
conditions. People now use the term to refer to any or all the various pressures
experienced in life. These stressors can stem from work, family, illness, or
environment and can contribute to such conditions as anxiety, hypertension, and
heart disease. According to Dr. Kabat-Zinn, "How an individual sees things
and how he or she handles them makes all the difference in terms of how much
stress he or she experiences."
In one research project conducted by Dean Shapiro, Ph.D., of the University
of California at Irvine, individuals reported self-regulation, effects that
long-term meditators (average four plus years) could identify as positive
attributes from meditation.
Those studied agreed that learning to control stress was an enormous benefit.
Becoming more relaxed, learning to control negative thinking, and being able to
handle situations with calmness and equanimity were other noted benefits.
Pain Management: "Chronic pain can systematically erode the quality of life,"
says Dr. Kabat-Zinn. Although great strides are being made in traditional
medicine to treat recurring pain, treatment is rarely as simple as prescribing
medication or surgery. In one study overseen by Dr. Kabat-Zinn, 72 percent
of the patients with chronic pain conditions achieved at least a 33 percent
reduction after participating in an eight-week period of mindful meditation,
while 61 percent of the pain patients achieved at least a 50 percent
Additionally, these people perceived their bodies as being 30 percent less
problematic, suggesting an overall improvement in self-esteem and positive views
regarding their bodies.
Chronic Illness: Dr. Ainslie Meares, an Australian psychiatrist who uses
meditation with cancer patients, studied seventy-three patients who had attended
at least twenty sessions of intensive meditation, and wrote: "Nearly all such
patients can expect significant reduction of anxiety and depression, together
with much less discomfort and pain. There is reason to expect a 10 percent
chance of quite remarkable slowing of the rate of growth of the tumor, and a 50
percent chance of greatly improved quality of life." Meditation can help
most people feel less anxious and more in control. The awareness that meditation
brings can also be a source of personal insight and self-understanding.
Drs. Benson and Borysenko note that even among patients with little
psychological orientation, approximately 20 percent (of these patients) with a
wide range of psychophysiological disorders who joined stress reduction and
relaxation programs involving mindfulness meditation became interested in
psychotherapy for further expansion of self-understanding.
Dr. Borysenko adds that "meditation may also lead to a breakdown of screen
memories so that early childhood abuse episodes and other traumas suddenly flood
the mind, making the patient temporarily more anxious until these traumas are
Many so-called meditation exercises are actually forms of imagery and
visualization that are extraordinarily useful in healing old traumas,
confronting death anxieties, finishing 'old business,' learning to forgive, and
enhancing self-esteem."
Spiritual Benefits
The longer an individual practices meditation, the greater the likelihood
that his or her goals and efforts will shift toward personal and spiritual
growth. One practitioner in Dr. Shapiro's study noted, "I began meditating to
decrease my stress and fear of public speaking. But as my practice deepens, not
only do I have decreased heart rate, but I also am developing a more open
heart-more sensitivity, greater compassion and less negative judgment toward
Many individuals who initially learn meditation for its self-regulatory
aspects find that as their practice deepens they are drawn more and more into
the realm of the "spiritual."
In her work with many cancer and AIDS patients, Dr. Borysenko has observed
that many are most interested in meditation as a way of becoming more attuned to
the spiritual dimension of life. She reports that many die "healed," in a state
of compassionate self-awareness and self-acceptance.
Walking Meditation
According to Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., founder and Director of the Stress
Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, one simple
way to bring awareness into your life is through walking meditation.
"This brings your attention to the actual experience of walking as you are
doing it, focusing on the sensations in your feet and legs, feeling your whole
body moving," Dr. Kabat-Zinn explains. "You can also integrate awareness of your
breathing with the experience."
To do this exercise, focus the attention on each foot as it contacts the
ground. When the mind wanders away from the feet or legs, or the feeling of the
body walking, refocus your attention. To deepen your concentration, don't look
around, but keep your gaze in front of you.
"One thing that you find out when you have been practicing mindfulness for a
while is that nothing is quite as simple as it appears," says Dr. Kabat-Zinn.
"This is as true for walking as it is for anything else. For one thing, we carry
our mind around with us when we walk, so we are usually absorbed in our own
thoughts to one extent or another. We are hardly ever just walking, even when we
are 'just going out for a walk.' Walking meditation involves intentionally
attending to the experience of walking itself."
Transcendental Meditation (TM) is a simple mental technique introduced by
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi from the Vedic tradition of India. TM is easily learned,
can be practiced for fifteen to twenty minutes, twice daily, and requires no
change in lifestyle or belief. Since 1958, 4 million people have learned TM and
over five hundred scientific studies have been conducted on it at over two
hundred universities worldwide.
Physiological research shows that during TM, the body gains a deeper state of
relaxation than during ordinary rest. EEG (electroencephalogram) changes
indicate a state of heightened awareness and coherence. Regular practice of TM
has been found to produce a state of increased stability, adaptability, and
integration during all phases of activity.
Also, TM has been found to increase intelligence, creativity, and perceptual
ability and to reduce high blood pressure and illness rates by more than 50
percent. Meta-analyses (research comparing large numbers of studies) have found
that TM is one of the most effective techniques known for reducing drug and
alcohol abuse, decreasing anxiety and increasing self-actualization.
A Simple Meditation Exercise
The first step to practicing meditation is learning to breathe in a manner
that facilitates a state of calmness and awareness. The following exercise is
recommended as an effective method for achieving calmness by Jon Kabat-Zinn,
Ph.D., founder and Director of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of
Massachusetts Medical Center.
Practice this exercise for fifteen minutes at a convenient time every day,
whether you feel like it or not, for one week and see how it feels to
incorporate a disciplined meditation practice into your life. Be aware of how it
feels to spend time each day just being with your breath without having to do
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CRESTWOOD, Ill. — Drivers for Alpha School Bus Company Inc., a subsidiary of Cook-Illinois Corp., are taking a stand against neighborhood violence.
On Sept. 6, they will walk through the villages of Crestwood, Midlothian, Blue Island and Robbins with bus attendants, parents, students and school officials to raise awareness about the increasing amount of violence in the communities they serve.
The three-mile "Stop the Violence" walk will begin at Dwight D. Eisenhower High School in Blue Island and end at Alpha School Bus Company in Crestwood.
The event is open to the public, and members of the Robbins Police Department will escort the walkers. Moreover, each parent will receive a "Stopping the Violence Starts at Home" booklet that provides tips and information on how to identify danger signs and prevent violent behavior.
The walk was organized by Alpha school bus driver Cynthia Johnson and her colleagues, who are also members of Drivers, Attendants, Parents, Students and Schools Against Violence (DAPSSAV), a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending violence in Chicago's south suburban public schools.
Two years ago, Johnson, co-founder and director of DAPSSAV, was transporting special-needs students in Chicago. At a stoplight, her bus was caught in the crossfire of rival gangs when teenagers jumped out of a car on her left and began shooting at another group of teens in a vehicle to the right of her bus. The incident prompted Johnson to form DAPSSAV and inspired her and her colleagues to coordinate the walk.
"A lot of violence has taken over the Chicago area," Johnson explained. "We thought that if we organized a walk, we could get the word out to parents that they need to do more constructive things with their children to get them off the streets and let them know that there's more to life than gangs, drugs and video games."
Nancy Bruce, manager of Alpha, said the company will provide buses to follow the walkers and to shuttle them back to their vehicles at the end of the walk, which will be followed by a picnic and motivational rally at a local park.
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Many local senior citizens need to know they're not forgotten during the holidays, said Sarah Hevner, office manager at Home Instead Senior Care in West Manchester Township.
"There's a lot of seniors around York County who do not receive visits," she said. "With our Be a Santa to a Senior program, they get visits with a gift."
To help make the holidays a joyous occasion and to connect older citizens with the community, Home Instead is conducting its sixth annual Be a Santa to a Senior gift-giveaway program.
The program - which begins Wednesday and runs through Thursday, Dec. 13 - is presented throughout North America by Omaha, Neb.-based Home Instead Senior Care, which oversees the West Manchester Township facility.
To compile a list of seniors who need gifts, Home Instead received names and gift needs from local nursing homes and senior care agencies.
Also part of the local Be a Santa effort are Manor Care Health Services, Rest Haven Nursing Home, York County Area Agency on Aging, Hanover Hall in Hanover and Serene Manor of Abbottstown, Adams County.
How it works: The seniors' first names and their gift requests will be written on ornaments to be attached to Christmas trees set up at Boscov's Department Store at the York Galleria, 2989 Whiteford Road in Springettsbury Township, and at Orthopaedic & Spine Specialists, 1855 Powder Mill Road in York Township.
Gift donors can select an ornament, purchase a present and return the unwrapped items - with the ornaments attached - to the places where the trees are set up.
Seniors' gift requests include personal care items, pajamas, socks, slippers and warm weather gear, Hevner said.
Home Instead volunteers will collect the items and wrap them between Dec. 16 and Dec, 19. The wrapped gifts will then be delivered to the local senior care facilities for distribution, Hevner said.
More gifts: Close to 1,000 gift items were distributed to about 700 seniors last year. So far this year, more than 650 seniors are signed up to receive gifts, Hevner said.
"It's pure joy for them when they receive their gifts " she said. "They're grateful that people thought about them. Sometimes there's tears because they feel they haven't been forgotten."
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At a Glance
The Be a Santa to a Senior gift giveaway program began Wednesday and runs through Thursday, Dec. 13.
The public can get gift-buying ideas for seniors from the ornaments on Christmas trees set up at Boscov's Department Store at the York Galleria, 2801 Whiteford Road, in Springettsbury Township, and at Orthopaedic & Spine Specialists, 1855 Powder Mill Road in York Township.
Home Instead Senior Care needs volunteers to help wrap gifts and needs donations of wrapping paper and tape.
To help, call Home Instead Senior Care at 741-9999. For information about gift-giving project, visit its website at www.beasantatoasenior.org.


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SoS Gessler sues to overturn ethics plank
Amendment 41 authors cry foul
The Colorado Statesman
Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler is asking a court to overturn a voter-approved amendment to the state constitution because, he charges in court filings, its wording is "unconstitutionally vague" and denies due process rights to those targeted by a state ethics panel, including Gessler himself.
In a March 11 filing in Denver District Court, Gessler asks the judge to halt a Colorado Independent Ethics Commission investigation into a complaint that accuses him of misusing public funds. In the lawsuit, Gessler contends that the panel lacks jurisdiction and that the whole endeavor is unconstitutional because he's being held to standards that aren't clearly spelled out.
It's the latest volley in a legal back-and-forth that has stretched for months, and it has the authors of the ethics amendment fuming, not least because the state is footing the bill to challenge a provision in its own constitution.
Rich Coolidge, a Gessler spokesman, countered that the secretary "has a constitutional right to a fair trial and due process," and that "to date, he hasn't been afforded that opportunity."
Gessler is defending against a complaint filed with the IEC last year by liberal-leaning Colorado Ethics Watch. It charges that he inappropriately paid for a political trip to the Republican National Convention and a meeting of Republican lawyers out of his office's budget, and that he shouldn't have reimbursed himself by clearing out his office's discretionary fund at the end of the year.
The state has paid private law firms $61,118 to defend Gessler against the complaint before the ethics commission, according to invoices submitted through early March and released this week by the Department of State. In November, Gessler hired lawyers David Lane, Robert Bruce and Michael Davis to handle his case because the attorney general's office, which usually performs legal work for state officials, represents the IEC. The money for Gessler's defense comes out of his department's legal fund, which is stocked by business filing fees paid to his office.
Amendment 41 — approved by 63 percent of state voters — sets strict limits on gifts to public officials and government employees, forbids certain former elected officials from lobbying for two years after leaving office, and establishes a five-member ethics commission. Under the amendment, the commission is charged with investigating violations of the gift ban, "or any other standard of conduct or reporting requirement specified in law," according to a Legislative Council summary that appeared on ballots. That's the language Gessler says violates his right to due process — because it doesn't spell out clearly "what conduct could result in penalties," his lawyers argue in the filing.
Colorado Ethics Watch director Luis Toro told The Colorado Statesman that there's no question the complaint falls within "the heartland of ethics issues," including the State Fiscal Rule, which prohibits using public money for personal or political activity. "It's not a hard call," he said.
The Denver district attorney's office is weighing criminal charges against Gessler for the spending and money transfers. A spokeswoman for the prosecutor said this week that the investigation is "pending" and declined further comment.
Gessler is seeking to establish a criminal defense fund and has asked the ethics commission to rule whether he can accept contributions without running afoul of the amendment's gift ban. The IEC is scheduled to rule on that request at its regular April 8 meeting. Also, a private investigator is set to unveil his report on the Gessler complaint.
Gessler's defenders are making at least two arguments in their attempts to quash the investigation: first, that the commission is limited to enforcing a narrow range of transgressions, and, second, that the entire proceeding rests on ambiguous and overly broad language in the amendment.
"(Gessler) is being asked to defend himself against 'other standards of conduct' when the attorney general's office has made it clear the IEC can only review influence peddling. They're making the secretary defend against standards that aren't available to him," Coolidge said. "We have no idea what the 'other standards of conduct' are — how far do they get to go in pursing these charges? If they open the door to Fiscal Rules, then what about DUI's, or God knows what else?"
He called it "a huge overreach" for a commission that "doesn't operate under any standards or any oversight whatsoever," and then repeated his contention that the panel's jurisdiction "has been only limited to influence peddling."
Toro said that the attorney general's office narrowly applied the "influence peddling" restriction, when another lawsuit asked the courts to clarify provisions of the gift ban. Besides, he noted, it should speak for itself that the attorney general was defending the IEC and asking the court to throw out Gessler's lawsuit contesting the investigation.
As for Gessler's complaint that the amendment defines potential ethics violations ambiguously, Toro called the argument "a red herring." He said there is "no vagueness about what his standard of behavior is supposed to be — it's very clear you're not allowed to spend public money on personal or political behavior."


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Currently, approximately 50% of individuals who experience depression during their adolescence experience depression again. No current treatments protect against the lifelong consequences of depression in one's youth. This project seeks to therapeutically modulate the brain circuitry underlying rumination, a passive and maladaptive thought pattern, for the purposes of reducing risk for the recurrence of depression in adolescents. In addition to assessing the impact of a novel relapse prevention program (rumination specific emotion regulation; RER); this study will examine the impact of rumination on the neural systems implicated in emotion regulation among adolescents. RER has recently been tested in the prevention of first-onset depression among adolescent girls, with an observed decrease in depression scores of approximately 30%. In applying RER to the prevention of recurrent depression, I hypothesize that RER will result in reductions in ruminative tendencies as well as normalized patterns in brain regions associated with depression and rumination when compared to adolescents in an assessment only condition. I also hypothesize that RER will result in lower rates of depression relapse and decreases in residual depression symptoms.
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In November, Sherry Stoppelbien's St. Augustine restaurant Hot Shot Bakery was featured in Woman's World Magazine. It featured her recipe for "corn and black bean relish".
10 oz. white corn, fresh or frozen & thawed
1/3 cup water
½ cup white vinegar
1/3 cup sugar
¼ tsp. dill
1 can black beans, rinsed
1 datil pepper, chopped
1 Tbs. chopped onion
1 tsp. turmeric
½ tsp. dry mustard
In small pan, simmer corn for 10 minutes; drain, set aside. Combine water, vinegar, sugar and dill in small pan; simmer until sugar dissolves. Mix all ingredients together and refrigerate covered.


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Ryan Williams, Assistant Director
The Columbia City Council will hold a work session on Thursday, June 13 at 2:00 pm in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 701 E. Broadway for the proposed electric transmission line project. This meeting will give the City Council a chance to review the options with Columbia Water & Light's staff. There will not be an opportunity for the public to comment at this meeting. Public comments will be heard at a public hearing scheduled for July 15.
The June 13 work session will be broadcast live on the City Channel. (Mediacom channel 80, Charter Communications channel 992 and CenturyLink channel 96)
The meeting will rebroadcast at these times:
Friday, June 13 through Sunday June 16: 6:00 am, 10:00 am, 6:00 pm, 10:00 pm
Monday, June 17 through Thursday, June 20: 2:00 am, 2:00 pm
Friday, June 21 through Sunday, June 23: 6:00 am, 10:00 am, 6:00 pm, 10:00 pm
After the meeting, the video will also be available online at:
Background Information
Columbia Water & Light needs to build new transmission lines in the southern part of our community to reliably deliver electricity and meet federal reliability standards. The transmission lines will connect the new Millcreek substation on Peach Court with existing substations. Transmission lines move energy from where it is produced to substations, which lower the voltage for distribution lines to carry the power to homes and businesses. After gathering input from those living in the area, three possible routes to run the lines were developed: options A, B, and B2. Before deciding on the final transmission line route the Columbia City Council will hold a work session and a public hearing.
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Barbara Jane Abbott, 72
Barbara Jane Abbott
of Bremerton
March 10, 1942
to March 14, 2014
Barbara Jane Abbott, 72, of Bremerton, Wash. passed away on March 14, 2014. Barbara was born on March 10, 1942 in Seattle to Robert and Ruth "Jane" (Williams) Wells. In 1960, Barbara graduated from West High School in Bremerton and went on to marry Jim Abbott on Nov. 18, 1961 in Bremerton. She was a loving homemaker, who prior to marriage worked for Standard Oil in Seattle as a comptometer operator. Barbara was also a member with the Sounder Sams Chapter of the Good Sam Club.
Barbara is preceded in death by her parents. Her memory will live on with her husband of 52 years, Jim; son, Randy Abbott of Bremerton; daughter, Lori Gibbs of Anchorage, Alaska; brothers, Robert Wells, Jr. of Bremerton and David Wells of Shelton, Wash.; and one grandchild, Alexander Abbott.
A memorial service with family and friends will be held this summer at a date to be determined.
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Dartmoor has been going up in flames in recent days – in an environmentally friendly way and much to the delight of various ground nesting birds like skylarks and grazing livestock.
It's all part of the age-old art of swaling – the notified controlled burning of overgrown heath land and clearing the ground of dead vegetation so that new growth can appear. The swaling period is from October to the end of March on Dartmoor.
Various commoners' associations, particularly in the last week, have been out and about on the moors swaling – the legal controlled burning is undertaken by commoners' associations and it falls within their ESA (environmentally sensitive area) agreements or other agreements with Natural England. The Dartmoor National Park Authority supports the process by providing signs, and Rangers assist whenever possible. The agreed chosen sites are then notified to various agencies in compliance with the Heather and Grass Burning code. Each site will have pre-planned cut fire breaks or have other natural boundaries like tracks or walls to facilitate safe extinguishment. Throughout the duration of the swale commoners will be in attendance appropriately equipped.
Within a partnership arrangement the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service whenever possible undertake a roving inspection of known planned swales and liaise with the commoners and National Park Rangers.
This year swaling has been deemed more important than ever on the moors because fewer grazing animals have been released on the highland commons over recent years, resulting in the extra growth of plants such as gorse and bracken.


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"Richard Pryor Radio" Launches On SiriusXM
Sirius XM announced today that it will launch "Richard Pryor Radio," a three-day channel devoted to the comedian beginning Friday, June 7 at 1 p.m. ET on The Foxxhole, Jamie Foxx's 24/7 exclusive comedy and entertainment SiriusXM channel. "Richard Pryor Radio" will feature material from 1966 through 2005. The broadcast will include material from his legendary albums including Craps (After Hours); Is It Something I Said?; Wanted/Richard Pryor -- Live in Concert; Here and Now; And It's Deep Too!; Evolution/Revolution: The Early Years, and more.


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Alternate title: Bad Man of Harlem
As indicated by the title, Harlem on the Prairie was aimed at the "all-colored" theaters which flourished in the 1930s. The star of this musical western is Herb Jeffries, a former vocalist with the Duke Ellington Orchestra who might have been a major film personality in a more equitable world. Though the film takes place in an all-black west, the plot is indistinguishable from the many "white" B westerns of the era. Jeffries plays a heroic vigilante who hopes to purge the territory of the evil influence of big-city gangster Maceo B. Sheffield. Nightclub singer Connie Harris is the ingenue, Spencer Williams Jr. ("Andy" on TV's Amos 'N'Andy) contributes to the plotline as a glib-tongued medicine show huckster, and the comedy team of Mantan Moreland and Flournoy Miller provide the laughs. Very cheaply made, Harlem on the Prairie is nonetheless very watchable, if only because of the imposing presence of Herb Jeffries. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi


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Developing Infrastructure to Charge Plug-In Electric Vehicles
To widely accept the use of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and all-electric vehicles (EVs), consumers and fleets need a developed infrastructure of charging stations. Drivers need affordable, convenient, and compatible options for charging at home (or at fleet facilities, in the case of fleets). Charging stations at workplaces and public destinations may also bolster the market acceptance of PEVs.
Charging plug-in electric vehicles requires plugging into electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE). Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) are charged using regenerative braking and the internal combustion engine and are not plugged into charging equipment.
Charging Equipment
Charging equipment for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and all-electric vehicles (EVs) is classified by the rate at which the batteries are charged. Charging times vary based on how depleted the battery is, how much energy it holds, the type of battery, and the type of EVSE. The charging time can range from 15 minutes to 20 hours or more, depending on these factors.
AC Level 1 Charging
AC Level 1 EVSE (often referred to simply as Level 1) provides charging through a 120 volt (V) AC plug and requires electrical installation per the National Electrical Code. Most, if not all, PEVs will come with an AC Level 1 EVSE cordset so that no additional charging equipment is required. On one end of the cord is a standard, three-prong household plug (NEMA 5-15 connector). On the other end is a J1772 standard connector (see the Connectors and Plugs section below), which plugs into the vehicle.
Based on the battery type and vehicle, AC Level 1 charging adds about 2 to 5 miles of range to a PEV per hour of charging time. AC Level 1 is typically used for charging when there is only a 120 V outlet available, but can easily provide all of a driver's needs. For example, 8 hours of charging at 120V can replenish 40 miles of electric range, which is over 30% further than the average daily driving distance for vehicle owners in the United States as indicated by the National Household Transportation Survey.
AC Level 2 Charging
AC Level 2 equipment (often referred to simply as Level 2) offers charging through 240 V (typical in residential applications) or 208 V (typical in commercial applications) electrical service. AC Level 2 EVSE requires installation of home charging or public charging equipment and a dedicated circuit of 20 to 100 amps, depending on the EVSE requirements. This charging option can operate at up to 80 amperes and 19.2 kW. However, most residential AC Level 2 EVSE will operate at lower power. Many such units operate at up to 30 amperes, delivering 7.2 kW of power. These units require a dedicated 40 amp circuit.
Most homes have 240 V service available, and because AC Level 2 EVSE can charge a typical EV battery overnight, they will commonly be installed for EV owners' homes. AC Level 2 equipment uses the same connector on the vehicle that Level 1 equipment uses and all commercially available PEVs have the ability to charge from AC level 1 and AC level 2 EVSE. Based on the vehicle and circuit capacity, AC Level 2 adds about 10 to 20 miles of range per hour of charging time.
Future AC Charging Options
An additional standard (SAE J3068) is under development for higher rates of AC charging using three-phase power, which is common at commercial and industrial locations in the United States. Some components of the standard will be adapted from the European three-phase charging standards and specified for North American AC grid voltages and requirements. In the U.S., the common three-phase voltages are typically 208/120 V, 480/277 V. The standard will target power levels between 6kW and 130kW.
DC Fast Charging
Direct-current (DC) fast charging equipment, sometimes called DC Level 2 (typically 208/480 V AC three-phase input), enables rapid charging along heavy traffic corridors and at public stations. EVs equipped with either a CHAdeMO or SAE DC fast charge receptacle can add 50 to 70 miles of range in about 20 minutes.
Inductive Charging
Inductive charging equipment, which uses an electromagnetic field to transfer electricity to a PEV without a cord, has been recently introduced commercially for installation as an aftermarket add-on. Currently available wireless charging stations operate at power levels comparable to AC Level 2.
Connectors and Plugs
Most modern charging equipment and vehicles have a standard connector and receptacle based on the SAE J1772 standard developed by SAE International. Any vehicle with this plug receptacle should be able to use any J1772-compliant AC Level 1 or AC Level 2 EVSE. All major vehicle and charging system manufacturers support this standard in the U.S., which should eliminate drivers' concerns about whether their vehicle is compatible with the infrastructure. Three types of DC Fast Charging exist today. CHAdeMO is the most common as it is used by the Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi vehicles. Recently, the Chevy Spark and the BMW i3 came to market with the SAE J1772 combined charging system (CCS), which uses a single port for either AC Level 1 and 2 or DC Level 2 charging. Additionally, Tesla is rapidly expanding their supercharger network, which is based on their own connector and currently only charges Tesla vehicles. Each of these three standards operate at a variety of DC voltages, and each has a different maximum power level but replenish miles of range at roughly the same rate on average.


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Archive for Thursday, February 15, 2007
Two stop signs to be placed on Elm Street
The Eudora City Council started the process Monday of drafting an ordinance that would place stop signs at the intersections of Seventh and Eighth streets on Elm Street.
Council members also adopted an ordinance, which once signs are placed, prohibits parking between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays on both sides of Elm Street from the intersection line of 10th Street south to the intersection of 15th Street, and on the west side of Elm Street from the intersection line of 15th Street south to the intersection of 16th Street.
In other business, the Council:
- Agreed to pay the municipal judge $600 per month.
- Clarified that employees are to be paid 1-1/2 times in addition to salary amount if work is required on a holiday.
- Set a study session for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday to discuss and review the mobile home ordinance, wastewater funding and downtown water lines.
- Approved the purchase of digital cameras from Digital Ally for four digital in-car video systems in the amount of $16,460. The money to pay the expense will come out of the special police and fire purchase fund.
- Approved the purchase of 500 KVA Transformer from Utility Service Company for the amount of $7,995.
- Agreed to allow advertising for the sale of some office equipment and lighting fixtures.
- Agreed to allow Rick Treas to purchase a 1997 Crown Victoria from the city for $50.
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I feel dirty after this post.....
Milwaukee has saved every tree that they wanted to save....believe they use the Tree-Age insecticide and arborjet
World Series wins:
Lester - 2
All others - 0
Paging Al Davis......
They are on Spring Break. No news is good news this week!!
Week 1: New Mexico
Someone better tell Ken Miller this. After the initial report came out he spent about 15 minutes talking about how ISU could be in serious trouble, and i believe was even talking bans from...
Dykstra for South Dakota St was a commit as an 8th grader or freshman IIRC....don't think he made it to campus though
Perrault is an idiot. Why would other schools have to pay an exit fee from the Big East if those schools leave on their own? Wouldn't they have to pay the exit fee, or a more realistic possibility,...
Did you really need to start this same thread twice?? smh
Week 11: Alabama
If we can't find a run game this is going to get away from us quickly..... Can't keep our D out there this long. They will eventually wear down.
Week 10: Louisville
Week 8: Notre Dame
Week 7: Ohio State
As much as it pains me: TCU
Week 1: Arizona
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Week 4: Mississippi St.
Week 5: Northwestern
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In a recent blog post entitled, "All Our Patent Are Belong to You," Tesla CEO Elon Musk tore down the patent wall. He wrote:
Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.
Musk minimized the gravity of his action. He said, "I don't want to overstate the value of patents," and called it a "modest thing." He said that relying on a an existing set of patents was a sign of weakness and wrote:
Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world's most talented engineers. We believe that applying the open source philosophy to our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Tesla's position in this regard.
Musk emphasized that the liberation of the "hundreds" and eventually "thousands" of patents will help Tesla in recruiting the best technical talent despite "some wide-eyed looks" from people on the board and management team. Musk said, "Technical leadership was determined by where the best engineers want to work," adding. "If I was graduating from college this would make a difference to me."
He said it would make a difference to "the very best engineers."
Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.
Musk said, "Early on I thought patents were a good thing" but has come to the conclusion that the "technology doesn't usually benefit." Musk cited the Apple-Samsung patent dispute as having "no benefits" for either side and not serving shareholders. Musk said that Tesla was not going to stop filing patents but would continue to put them in the open source category. Musk noted that SpaceX has "virtually no patents."
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Too often these days they serve merely to stifle progress, entrench the positions of giant corporations and enrich those in the legal profession, rather than the actual inventors.
Nancy Pfund, Managing Partner at DBL Investors and an investor in Tesla, comments to GTM:
As usual, Elon is ten steps ahead of us, actually doing something that we all wish we could do but don't have the guts or panache to pull off. Just as the car dealer laws have veered way off course from what may have been a legitimate purpose (100?) years ago, the patent system has morphed away from its pro-inventor roots and now gobbles up time, talent and resources in a way that is at best defensive and at worst crippling.
I wouldn't say that Tesla's move alone will change the way patents are used in the innovation universe, but that in the context of a broader movement to re-examine their proper role, today's announcement will be seen as tremendously significant.
At the same time, anyone who has spent 10 seconds in the Tesla Fremont factory knows that the real competitive advantage Tesla enjoys does not live in a box of patents taken off the wall but in its people, its prodigious work ethic, and its spirit to lead us into a sustainable 21st century. I think that larger purpose is what is resonating with people, that our planet is too important to leave to an arcane, slow-moving IP machine. A machine that divides rather than unites common action against the formidable opponent that is fossil-fuel driven climate change.
Steve Jurvetson of DFJ, an early investor in Tesla, commented on the blog, "Engineers >> Patents. The capacity to innovate is more important than any one innovation." Jurvetson cited a patent law professor who said, "Yes, it has caused a flurry in the patent bar, as you might imagine. And I had lunch with an in-house IP counsel at a company who said he had 64 emails this morning from engineers at his company saying 'why can't we do that?' Good for Elon."
Eric L. Lane, a patent attorney at Green Patent Law and author of The Green Patent Blog responds to GTM:
The notion of donating green technology patents is not new. This is a move in the tradition of the Eco-Patent Commons (a repository of donated patents directed to various technologies conferring environmental benefits) but Tesla's patent "commons" is much more significant and likely to have a greater impact. While the Eco-Patent Commons consists of tiny random slices of technologies the donating companies had little interest in exploiting, Tesla's patent portfolio is large in breadth and scope and presumably includes the crown jewels of the company.
The question is to what extent other EV players will be motivated to invest in manufacturing vehicles using Tesla's patented and patent-pending technology with the obvious upside being the proven innovation that technology brings and the down side being no exclusivity, instead of investing in their own R&D and patent protection where the upside may be exclusivity and the down side may be inferior or unproven technologies.
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We believe the opening of patents is incrementally positive as the decision could ultimately increase the adoption of electric vehicles while supporting faster development of the supercharger network.
Musk said he was "disappointed" in the lack of progress that EVs have made in penetrating the marketplace with a current market share "well below 1 percent."
Musk saw patents allowing others to take the small cell approach that Tesla uses in its powerpack. Musk also said that high-speed charging was an area ripe for collaboration and well-served by an open-source approach. The Tesla CEO didn't see a big short-term impact saying, "People overvalue patents as a competitive element, and adding, "In the long-term, I'm hoping this improves the rate of transition to electrical transport."
Musk said, "I think this is good for Tesla and the electric vehicle industry," and, "it's the right thing for the company."
Steve Jurvetson, an early Tesla investor, posted a photo, of the Tesla Motors Patent Wall, writing, "I got a photo of it before its demolishment."
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The Tesla car company is very, very, very, very, very, very good at marketing.
There are actually people on this planet who believe that an electric car priced for the wealthy makes a difference on the planet in an environmental sense.
It doesn't.
Electric cars are no more sustainable than any other kind of car; since much of the world's electricity, more than ever actually, is obtained by burning coal, and because every energy transform from one form to another is subject to the second law of thermodynamics - something that about which "electric cars will save us" aficinados seem not to have heard,
I have a hard time seeing Elon Musk as anything other than a self-absorbed billionaire, full of himself, despite being clueless. What really is "innovative" about a lithium battery connected to an electric motor in order to have billionaires and millionaires drive around to show one another how much they "care" about the world?
In general, they don't care.
All cars are distributed energy, and as distributed energy, they are all environmentally disasterous. All the lipstick in the world cannot make a pig a beauty queen.
A spent lithium battery, in a strict environmental sense, is not materially different than a leaky container of motor oil. Ten years from now nearly every Tesla car on the planet will be landfill, except for the parts being recycled, at great expense to their health, by the poorest of the poor in forgotten and toxic parts of the planet.
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Unfortunately, you comment is all true.
A Tesla S with the 85 kWh battery pack is a $95K-$120K car (depending on options) that requires an additional purchase of at least a home charging system if not the installation of multiple charging systems at distances not to exceed its 230 mile maximum practical range (as reported by actual owners). The average American's home utility service itself will need an upgrade to handle the higher power demand of the 220V charger. If the neighbors all decided to buy electric cars, the distribution grid itself would also need to be upgraded because everybody will be driving during the day and simultaneously charging their cars on 220V during the night, pulling more peak current throughout the neighborhood.
If the Tesla is driven like a regular car, it will require a new $18,000 battery pack (Tesla's 50% discounted price if purchased in advance) every 5-8 years. When one does the math, it is not even close to a good business case over buying a conventional gasoline or diesel car. A Mustang GT has twice the horsepower-to-weight ratio in the drive train and twice the energy density in storage, and costs 1/3 the price.
The reason most cars today do not have Tesla's lightweight aluminum body is that aluminum requires 5 times as much energy per pound as steel in its mining, milling, and manufacture -- hardly good environmental stewardship, and pricing the car out of reach of most consumers.
Speaking of environmentals, when the embedded emissions associated with the mining of the rare-earth elements and toxic lithium and the manufacturing of all the batteries is taken into account and amortized over the life of the car, the GHG emissions of a Tesla S per mile are higher than a Mustang GT and higher than a Jeep Grand Cherokee (http://www.uniteconomics.com/files/Tesla_Motors_Is_the_Model_S_Green.pdf).
For all this, Tesla's commercial viability depends upon $7,500-$15,000 per car in federal and state buyer credits plus more than $120 million in direct wealth transfer paid to Tesla corporate in undeserved zero-emission credits from other car manufacturers. Even so, Elon produced a grand total of 22,450 cars in 2013 and lost $74 million on the year. The victims in this scenario are the hapless taxpayers and conventional auto company shareholders who have been made into unwilling investors in this scheme.
Musk is welcome to take a turn at cracking the stubborn battery problem on his own time and money, but not to dine anymore at the public trough of taxpayer handouts. He has hired great engineers and they make a quality product, but it is neither revolutionary nor cost-effective.
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Certainly mass transit, bicycles, walking, telecommuting, trains or ships rather than air travel or transport and any other means to reduce resource intensive transportation or shipping is best but electric cars are a big step forward compared to an IC powered system. As the electrical power is less fossil fuel based it will make a significant difference.
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