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VACAVILLE -- His voice trembling with emotion, slain California Highway Patrol Officer Kenyon Youngstrom's beat partner told an audience of thousands at a memorial service Thursday that he sought solace in faith after seeing his "brother" shot in the line of duty last week.
"I often have thoughts that creep into my mind of 'Why?' or 'What if?' or 'I could have,'" said CHP Officer Tyler Carlton, who was performing a traffic stop on Interstate 680 in Alamo on Sept. 4 when the suspect he had pulled over suddenly shot Youngstrom. "But then I remind myself that everything does happen for a reason, that this was all in God's plan, and that his plans are perfect every time."
Carlton's voice broke as he read scripture and then bid farewell to Youngstrom, who died after being taken off life support the next day.
"Ken, I know you can hear me," said Carlton, who fatally shot the motorist who killed Youngstrom. "I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for always being there for me. And I look forward to seeing you again, brother."
Youngstrom's family was joined by friends, thousands of law enforcement officers from all over California and across the United States, and ordinary people touched by Youngstrom's courage and sacrifice as a memorial for the seven-year CHP veteran Thursday morning.
The two-hour service at The Mission church in Vacaville was sorrowful, but as Youngstrom's loved ones and colleagues spoke about his irrepressible personality, smiles and laughter filled the sanctuary.
"He loved us a lot," said Youngstrom's teenage son, Alex, "but what I think he loved even more was making people smile. It was like his hobby.
"When I hear stories about how much he would talk about us (his children), it really touches me," Alex Youngstrom added. "I'm really proud of my dad."
Addressing the CHP officers who packed the church, the 17-year-old said, "My dad loved all of you guys, and I can see that you loved him."
The funeral procession, escorted by dozens of CHP motorcycles and patrol cars, left a mortuary in St. Helena about 7:30 a.m. Thursday. The hearse carrying Youngstrom's casket passed through a towering gateway at the church, with two fire engines holding a giant American flag aloft, at 9 a.m.
Officers from law enforcement agencies as far away as Alaska, Minnesota, Missouri and West Virginia attended the service. Scores of officers stood at attention, saluting, at the 10 a.m. start of the service, as two minutes of silence gave way to the sound of a lone bagpipe player, who led the processional that brought the slain officer's body into the church.
They stood and saluted again at the conclusion, as the officer's body was taken to a private interment ceremony.
Gov. Jerry Brown and state Attorney General Kamala Harris were among the approximately 3,000 people attending the service.
CHP Commissioner Joe Farrow said Youngstrom made the ultimate sacrifice.
"The freedoms we all enjoy as Americans come with a cost," Farrow said. "Sometimes that cost is high. Sometimes it is devastating."
"It takes a special person to wear the CHP badge, and your dad was one of the best," Farrow told the officer's children. "After Kenyon took the oath and donned his uniform, he never swerved from the path of duty."
He added, to Youngstrom's wife: "We are thankful that Kenyon was surrounded by his family and their love during his final moments."
Farrow was followed by CHP Division Chief Teresa Becher, who told the gathering, "I've never known how my heart could be so broken and so full at the same time."
Youngstrom, 37, had the ability to make everyone feel comfortable, his fellow officers said.
"He just had the friendliest face," retired CHP Captain Jim Cahoon told a sea of uniforms and family and friends at the church.
"As much as he was trying not to smile, it was just exuding out of him. Right off the bat, I had a comfortable feeling, a welcoming feeling. Anyone that had ever known him knows exactly what I am talking about."
The officer's niece, Storm Youngstrom, spoke not only of her uncle's playful, fun nature, but his personal inspiration to her.
"I know Uncle Ken is watching from above. I know he's proud of everything everyone's done for him," Storm Youngstrom said. "Kenyon turned out to be the best man anyone could have hoped for.
"To me, he wasn't only my uncle. He was a hero, and he was a father to me. I can't wait to start my future and join the academy and take after Kenyon."
Youngstrom, a Cordelia resident, was the 223rd CHP officer to be killed in the line of duty since 1929.
After the shooting, colleagues from the CHP maintained an around-the-clock vigil at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek until Youngstrom was taken off life support.
Because he was a registered organ donor, Youngstrom's liver, pancreas, kidneys and heart were given to four waiting patients, according to the California Donor Transplant Network. Those donors included a 29-year-old mother and a 50-year-old married father of four.
After graduating from the CHP Academy in February 2006, Youngstrom was assigned to the CHP's Contra Costa office in Martinez. He transferred to the Golden Gate Division headquarters in Vallejo in 2009, and had transferred back to the Contra Costa office on Aug. 1.
Before joining the CHP, Youngstrom had served with the U.S. Army Reserve from 1994 to 2002, attaining the rank of specialist.
Youngstrom is survived by his wife, Karen, his two sons and two daughters, his parents, Gaylord and Jill Youngstrom, of Riverside, four brothers and a sister.
Two Bay Area banks have set up accounts to benefit Youngstrom's family:
At any Wells Fargo Bank branch, tellers will accept donations for the Kenyon Marc Youngstrom Children's Benefit Memorial fund.
At any Mechanics Bank branch, mention the officer's name to the teller and direct that funds be contributed to the trust account in his name. Checks payable to "For Benefit of Officer Kenyon Youngstrom" can also be mailed to Mechanics Bank, 1350 N. Main St., Walnut Creek, Calif., 94596. Wire transfers can be sent to routing number 121102036 and addressed "For Officer Kenyon Youngstrom."
Contact Daniel M. Jimenez at 510-262-2728. Follow him at Twitter.com/DMJreports.


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SNOWMASS, Colorado - A Snowmass ski patroller died Sunday in an avalanche she triggered while skiing on duty in a closed area.
The 49-year-old woman was skiing alone in a permanently closed area known as Ship's Prow Glade, located next to the Upper Ladder run in Hanging Valley at Snowmass, according to a news release issued by Aspen Skiing Co. The woman "triggered a small avalanche and was swept over a cliff," Skico said.
"This was a very small slide, and there was no one there to witness it," Skico spokesman Jeff Hanle said.
Ski patrol located the woman at approximately 1:23 p.m., after launching a search nearly 40 minutes earlier because she was overdue to her station, according to the news release. She was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:37 p.m., and her body was taken to Snowmass Clinic The precise cause of her death was unknown as of Sunday, Skico said.
Skico did not release the woman's name Sunday because her relatives had not yet been notified.
Sunday's fatality is Colorado's first avalanche death of the season.

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Ken Mabrey
"My work is conceived from an automatic painting method in which I mark the canvas, the page, or the litho-stone at random. These markings stimulate my imagination into visualizing abstractions of a locale or a figure. The process then becomes a problem-solving situation. A conversation between the artist and work evolves as follows: How do I populate this space? How can I bring it to life? What is the pivotal point or image upon which this work turns? How should the light fall and how will it best support the narrative elements? Will a cast shadow create another figure? What does it imply in the story line?
After this drawing process is far enough along, the locale is established, and characters are delineated. Then that fifth wheel of color comes into play, deliberately throwing the drawing off. How do I change the scene to compensate for these color shifts? What is the proper color weight and intensity to make this work hang together?
It is a constant back and forth, check and balance of color and drawing until the piece is complete, revealing something about this strange dance we call life. I obscure to reveal. One must sort through these paintings little by little, watching out for the barbs. Enjoy!"
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"I use photography as a means of painting with light, exploring the colors, textures, and forms found within the natural world to create sensual, abstract images that create an emotional connection with the viewer.
Photography has a special place in my family's history. Both my grandfather and father were photographers and my sister and I now follow in their footsteps. While the technical skills have been passed down from generation to generation, the passion has always been something we have developed individually. Growing up, my passion was for drawing. In college, I focused largely on printmaking, transforming gestural paintings done in pen and ink into rich, colorful relief and intaglio prints. This remained my focus for many years until I purchased a digital camera about ten years go."
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Tuesday's letters: Administration hypocrisy
Published: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 18, 2013 at 3:22 p.m.
How painful it must be for BMW officials to suffer the soviet natterings of an apparatchik like U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank during her recent visit. For her to come here and attempt to bathe the Obama administration in the halo of BMW's South Carolina success story is hypocrisy of the first order.
This is the same administration that has done all in its power to try to torpedo the Boeing assembly operation in Charleston and whose only real interest in manufacturing is to tax it.
The Herald-Journal's fawning presentation of this "story" appeared to be copied right off an Obama administration press release.
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The University of South Carolina Upstate celebrates its Founder's Day this week with sadness due to the recent passing of Dr. Norbert Stirzaker, the founding director.
Dr. Stirzaker brought a wealth of higher education experience to Spartanburg and used his knowledge and skills to help lay the foundation for a great university that has become an important force in the growth and development of the entire Upstate.
After his tenure as director, he remained on the campus as a professor of education and taught and mentored hundreds of the teachers and administrators who now hold positions of leadership in public schools throughout the region.
While Dr. Stirzaker is no longer with us, his legacy lives on in the lives of those he touched and the students they will influence.
I am one of those, and I will be forever grateful for his dedication, inspiration and friendship.
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The University of North Dakota has a full-time national anthem singer for its men's hockey games at the Ralph Engelstad Arena.
The school says entertainer and motivational speaker Mark J. Lindquist will perform at all UND home games.
The Ortonville, Minnesota, native travels the country performing the anthem for collegiate and professional sports teams. He sang at the College World Series earlier this summer and will be performing for the Los Angeles Dodgers in August.
Lindquist is an actor who has appeared in ABC's "Lost," CBS' "Hawaii Five-O" and the Universal Studios movie "Battleship." He currently lives in Fargo, where he co-founded the company Breath Is Limited Motivational Speaking.
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FAIRMONT, W.Va. - It's that time of the year. The 2012 soccer season is now a thing of the past.
Williamstown's Garret Butler, who also kicked for the Yellowjackets' football team, was one of two keepers named to the All-West Virginia soccer squad.
Among those who will leave a lasting legacy is Charleston Catholic's Sam Revercomb, who notched 36 goals while pacing his team to a fourth straight state championship.
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Williamstown's Garret Butler was selected as an all-state soccer goalie.
"Sam was instrumental in helping our team this year," Charleston Catholic coach Sam Fox said. "For four years, he's been a unique player for the program at Charleston Catholic."
Now he's been named captain of the Class AA-A all-state team as chosen by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association.
In a 5-0 victory against Fairmont Senior in the state title game, Revercomb capped his immaculate career with a goal, which pushed his career total to 87 scored.
Revercomb not only can could score goals through traffic while having flawless ball handling skills, but he also helped the Irish when using the famous 'long ball' offense.
''If you've ever saw him play, he has so much natural speed. Because of Sam's speed, we could play long ball,'' Fox stated.
Of course, long ball is where you kick the ball down the field and hope the striker can outrun everybody and score a goal.
"That aspect of Sam's play helped because he's so tall, so big and so fast ... he could just outrun other kids to the ball,'' Fox said. "Last year, when I started coaching Charleston Catholic, I was talking to a referee who traveled a long distance to ref the game and I asked him, 'Why did you travel this far to ref a game?' And his response, 'I came to watch No. 7 play because the kid is so fast.'"
Because of his hard play, he found himself the chance of putting his name in the record books since he is the lone player in the state of West Virginia to win four state championships in soccer.
"He's set a record this year because he is the first player ever in the history of West Virginia soccer to win four state championships," Fox said. "He played varsity as a freshman and nobody else has been able to accomplish that feat. It's appropriate that he goes out with another state championship.''
The goalies are Matt Bartrug of Fairmont Senior and Butler of Williamstown. Bartrug rattled off eight shutouts on the season, while allowing an average of just 0.72 points-per-game. Butler tallied 116 saves, seven shutouts and allowed only 15 goals all season.
Revercomb, Logan Demyon of Fairmont Senior, and Zach Wise (Berkeley Springs) are the all-state forwards. Demyon capped his career with 16 goals and five assists on the season.
The midfielder department is led by Jesse Roman of East Fairmont; Adam Fox (Charleston Catholic); Quinton Brown (PikeView); and Parker White (Pocahontas).
Roman helped pave the way for the Bees' offense as he tallied 26 assists and eight goals. Brown, meanwhile, carried PikeView to a 11-7-2 season and had five goals and nine assists. As for Fox, the senior midfielder tallied 10 goals and 19 assists on the season.
On defense, four players represent the pack - Trevor Moon (Bridgeport); Grant Holbert (Fairmont Senior); Alex Testerman (PikeView); and Domenic Cipollone (Charleston Catholic).
Moon was known as the shutout defender for the Indians. In Bridgeport's state championship season, he scored five goals and tallied two assists.
Cipollone led a defense that had 12 shutouts and surrendered only 20 goals throughout the entirety of the season.
For Fairmont Senior, Holbert was the anchor who carried the defense and he produced some offense of his own, finishing the season with four goals. Testerman had a doozy of a junior year while nailing four goals and three assists.
The Class AA-A all-state second team is led by Fairmont Senior's Fletcher DeVaul, who was named captain.
Rounding out the rest of the second team are goalies Tyler Schiefelbein (Philip Barbour) and Brett Matheny (East Fairmont); forwards Brandon Hanlon (Bridgeport), Levi Perkins (East Fairmont) and Kenny Muhart (Weir); midfielders Joey Reese (Bridgeport), Joey Trupo (Charleston Catholic), DeVaul (Fairmont Senior) and Brian Conaty (St. Joseph); and defenders Chad Hensley (Weir), Justin Sloan (Fairmont Senior); Evan Goetz (St. Joseph) and Jon Brown (Bluefield).


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Rep. Mike Honda out-raised his Democratic challenger, Ro Khanna, in the year's second quarter and has considerably more money to start their general-election showdown, according to Federal Election Commission reports filed Tuesday.
So Honda, a San Jose Democrat, begins the general-election race with a big primary win, an edge in money over a challenger who once posted record-breaking fundraising figures, the name recognition of seven terms in office and the bully pulpit of incumbency.
Khanna aired several television ads before the primary. Honda, who beat him by 20 percentage points, has yet to go on the air.
Honda raised more than $522,000 and spent almost $543,000 from April 1 through June 30, leaving him with about $1.06 million at mid-year.
Khanna, a former Obama administration official from Fremont, raised about $338,000 during that time but spent a whopping $1.5 million -- about half his total since his campaign began. That left him, after accounting for debts still owed, with $629,000 as of June 30.
Honda got 48.2 percent of the vote in last month's primary election ,while Khanna got 28 percent; two Republican candidates were eliminated.
"Ro Khanna had such trouble gaining traction with the voters that he felt the need to squander more than $3.3 million just to lose the primary," Honda campaign manager Doug Greven said Tuesday. "If he couldn't lose by less than 20 points while he was outspending us three-to-one, what hope does Khanna have now that his debt-ridden campaign is on life support?"
Khanna campaign manager Leah Cowan, however, said only two numbers matter right now: 50 and 202.
"That's because a majority of Ro's donations were under $50, while Rep. Honda doubled down on his 202 area code fundraising amongst Washington special interests," Cowan said. "Understandably, the Honda campaign is eager to change the story after burning well over a million dollars and relying on desperate false attacks just to lose a majority of the vote. It's become clearer than ever that voters will be supporting change in November, just as they did in the primary."
But Larry Gerston, a San Jose State University professor and political expert, said Khanna's "window of opportunity is getting narrower and narrower."
With youthful vigor, a good resume, a lot of money and a district redrawn only three years ago, Khanna "had some arrows in his quiver early on, but none of those arrows at this point have been able to hit the target," he said. "The challenger has to prove that there's something palpably wrong with the incumbent, something that is a glaring deficiency. People will say lots of things about Mike Honda, but very few people point to glaring deficiencies."
Khanna broke records by raising $1.2 million in the last quarter of 2011, back when people thought he would run to succeed Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, in the 15th Congressional District. But Stark decided not to retire and Khanna refused to challenge him in 2012; Stark was then unseated by Eric Swalwell, D-Pleasanton.
After Khanna turned his attention to the 17th Congressional District and announced his candidacy in April 2013, he outstripped Honda in fundraising in each of 2013's quarters; by last year's end, he had $1.97 million in the bank to Honda's $622,000. But Honda out-raised Khanna in this year's first quarter and now again in the second.
Still, Gerston said, don't count Khanna out.
"He is persistent, he will do well in the debate or debates that they have, and he has a following of true believers," Gerston said. "But the challenge grows greater as the time grows shorter."
Josh Richman covers politics. Contact him at 510-208-6428. Follow him at Twitter.com/josh_richman. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.


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Alpha Xi Delta AmaXIng Challenge
In April 2009, Alpha Xi Delta, one of the nation's oldest women's fraternities, officially partnered with Autism Speaks. The sorority and its more than 135,000 members have worked tirelessly to raise autism awareness and financial support for Autism Speaks. For more about the philanthropic efforts of Alpha Xi Delta for Autism Speaks, head over to their official website.
During the week of September 27 through October 2, 2010, the Theta Rho Chapter of Alpha Xi Delta held their 1st Annual AmaXIng Challenge Autism Awareness week at California State University, San Marcos. In an effort to raise funds and awareness for Autism Speaks, the sisters of Theta Rho recruited 11 student organizations to compete for the title of Xi Champions. Throughout the week teams participated in various challenges including a "Penny Wars" team coin drive. Participants also recruited fellow students, staff, and faculty of CSUSM to participate in the Step It Up Campus Walk for Autism kickoff event and recruited family and friends to attend the Spaghetti Dinner and Basket Auction & Raffle Night, the last event of the week. Special Event Guests included Dr. Eloise Stiglitz, Vice President for Student Affairs, Dilcie Perez, Director of Student Life & Leadership, Julie Mattingly, CSUSM Greek Advisor, Kay Curry, Walk Chair for the San Diego Walk for Autism, Daniel Lightfoot, Director of the Autism Tissue Program and affiliate of Autism Speaks, and Krystal Langford and Michael Robinson, Autism Speaks representatives. Congratulations to Team Lions, on your new title as the 2010 XI Champions!
Approximately 150 people participated in the Step It Up Campus Walk for Autism, and more than 300 guests attended the Spaghetti Dinner and Basket Auction & Raffle Night helping the Theta Rho Chapter of Alpha Xi Delta raise awareness and more than $6500.00 for Autism Speaks! On Saturday, October 2, 2010, Michelle Vogel and Donna Loya, event coordinators of Theta Rho's AmaXIng Challenge Week of Autism Awareness presented Ms. Kay Curry, the San Diego Walk Chair and Mr. Brian Han, the Southern California Director for Autism Speaks a check for all the funds raised throughout the week of AmaXIng Challenge.
In addition to funds donated to Autism Speaks, through the efforts of many Theta Rho sisters, over $6,300.00 in goods and services were donated to the chapter to help them host a successful event. Donations included items such as drinks and lunches for all Step It Up Walk participants, gift certificates and gift baskets for the basket auction and raffle, and spaghetti, breadsticks and salad for the night of Spaghetti dinner. The support from the local community was excitingly overwhelming. Without the help of many generous donors, Theta Rho's AmaXIng Challenge Week of Awareness event would not have been possible. The sisters of Theta Rho would like to thank their community supporters for their generosity, their time and their donations. Thank YOU, for helping the sisters of the Theta Rho chapter to realize their potential by making OUR event possible!
If you are a college student, or know someone that is, check out Autism Speaks U!
Autism Speaks U is a program designed to engage college students across the country in autism awareness, advocacy and fundraising efforts. Its new website offers a wide range of tools to empower students to establish Autism Speaks U chapters, organize events, and encourage their peers to get involved. College students, faculty and alumni can get involved with Autism Speaks U by visiting www.autismspeaks.org/u.
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There is a group of people planing to protest at your walk coming up on Sept 13th! I my self have done autism speaks walks before and have never in my life seen anyone protest at these walk i find it very disturbing herHello Everyone! I hope for those of you in the area you will join me to protest against Alpha Xi Delta's AmaXing Challenge. The campus sorority does this walk for Autism Speaks every year due to the fact that its Head office is one of Autism Speaks largest supporters.
PLEASE Meet me at the Forum Plaza in front of the Kellogg Library at 11:00 AM. Bring a sign to help me protest against this walk/carnival. For examples of signs please go to:
(the person in the picture is my friend Ari Ne'eman – he is a person with autism and also the founder of ASAN – Autistic Self Advocacy Network which is an organization that is ran by autistic persons).
"People not puzzles" is also another good sign for this protest.
Be Creative just don't misrepresent yourself…i.e. if you are not autistic don't make a sign that says "Autism Speaks doesn't speak for me"
Here is why I, a person who is not autistic, is protesting:
1. Autism Speaks is run by parents, advocates, social workers, and the likes but not one of those people has Autism themselves. They say they speak for Autistic People but do not know the harsh realities of living with Autism first-hand. Not one of their board members or any one with any kind of decision making power is Autistic.
2. The money collected from Autism Speaks walks, other events, and most other forms of monetary giving are only spent on finding a cure. Yes, autism is a disease according to the medical field. However, for the millions of people living with the disease it is just another way of being. While I think it is admirable to want to cure disease I don't necessarily think that autism needs to be cured but rather accepted – like most disAbilities. The money does not go to autistic people to help them in school, life, or anything else for that matter.
3. I believe that when you, as a sorority, club, fraternity, organization, or person sign up to help a non-profit organization raise funds you should be aware of the organization as a whole – knowing where the money goes, if the organization actually helps those it says they are helping, and if they have at least a couple of people on the board or in decision making roles that are from that category of people.
Autism speaks does not speak for autistic persons (or people with autism) but rather speaks for the medical establishment that is frequently profiting from people who need services and help.
For more information about why everyone should protest against Autism Speaks go here:
For more information or to contact me you can either message me on facebook, leave a message when you rsvp to this event, or contact me by email at firstname.lastname@example.com
I hope that I can reach as many people in the San Diego, Orange County, or Los Angeles Area as possible.
If you come down you can park on campus but will need to buy a parking permit which are available in all parking lots in the machines. Bring cash for the machines….
Hope to see you there!
Co-Founder of DREAM – Disability Rights, Education, Activism, and Mentoring for post-secondary students and Our Alliese is the posting that was posted for the protest


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Massam wrote:instead of merely compressing it, your goal is to bruise it, or puncture it.
That's the key word.
Ninjutsu is a serious martial art, but even though the hits are dangerous they are not deadly.
In fight science they showed how the punch paralyzed the heart for not even a half a second. When you sneeze your heart stops as well. Pretty much it's equivalent to making you sneeze. With more pain.
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Katt Williams' bad night in Oakland continues to get worse, with the comedian now staring at a most unfunny consequence to his much-publicized meltdown on stage.
A fan who attended Williams' performance at Oracle Arena on Nov. 16 has filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the those in attendance against the performer and his promoter in Alameda County Superior Court. Brian Herline of Modesto filed the suit against Williams and promoter Live Nation on Nov. 21, claiming Williams didn't perform.
The suit claims that Williams "confronted a heckler, took his clothes off and attempted to fight at least three audience members" before his act "abruptly ended after about 10 minutes." The suit seeks to compensate Herline and "all others who paid money for a show and got nothing but Katt Williams' nonperformance."
Williams was escorted offstage by security on Nov. 16. Videos of the concert showed him removing his shirt while spewing forth a profane set of monologues.
Ticket prices ranged from $33 to $94, plus service fees.
Attorney Joel Young, who is representing Herline in the case, said his client spent more than $1,000 to attend the concert and that his client filed the suit because Williams did not carry out a good-faith agreement to perform.
"It was very disappointing," Herline said of Williams' performance. "I've been a big fan for years. I make the effort to come see him, and I just felt that he did nothing to earn any part of it. I didn't pay all that money to see him melt down, and I want to make sure he knows that."
Herline said Monday he's just as concerned with sending a message as he is with any monetary damages that come his way.
"What Brian is doing is emblematic of how everyone at the concert felt that night," said Young, who added that forms needed to take part in the lawsuit are being sent to others who attended the concert. "When someone makes a good-faith effort and they just suck, that's one thing. But in this situation, it was a complete failure to perform. I don't think anyone who has seen the video of it or who was there could claim that it was a good-faith effort to perform."
The lawsuit is the latest in a long string of legal and criminal trouble the comic has faced.
Williams, 41, already is being sued by an 18-year-old aspiring rapper who claims he was "viciously attacked and beaten" by Williams inside his tour van two nights before the Oakland concert. Police took Williams into custody after that incident but released him without any formal charges being filed.
He also is facing a $5 million lawsuit filed earlier this month by his personal assistant, who claims Williams hit her in the face in October, causing permanent eye injuries.
Two weeks before his show in Oakland, Williams was involved in a shoving match during a stand-up performance in Denver. He jumped offstage during that Nov. 1 performance and confronted a heckler.
Attempts to reach Williams' agent weren't immediately successful.
Staff writer Natalie Neysa Alund contributed to this report. Rick Hurd covers breaking news. Contact him at 925-945-4780 and follow him at Twitter.com/3rdERH.


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Kimberly Rena Purcell-Mace, 30, of Osawatomie, formerly of McPherson, died Thursday, March 7, 2013, at the Olathe Medical Center in Olathe.
Kim was born March 16, 1982, in McPherson. She was the eldest of two children of Steven Edward and Cindy Lou (Crispin) Purcell.
She attended school in the McPherson school system.
Kim enjoyed camping and fishing and liked spending time with family and friends.
Kim was married Nov. 1, 2010, to John Everett Mace. They became the parents of one son Dakota R. Purcell.
She was preceded in death by her grandparents.
She is survived by her husband of McPherson, her two sons: Zachary Purcell, 14, and Dakota Purcell, 5, both of Osawatomie, her parents Steve and Cindy Purcell of Osawatomie, one sister Vanessa (John) Stewart of Osawatomie, half brother Christopher R. Evans and half sister Lindsey R. Evans both of Missouri, two nieces: Katrina Archuleta, Teela Scott and one nephew Bobby Stewart all of Osawatomie.
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Friday March 15, 2013, at the Four Square Church 811 N. Ash, McPherson.
Memorials are to: Kim Purcell Memorial Fund (may be sent in care of Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home P.O. Box 430 Osawatomie, KS 66064) or Four Square Church of McPherson and may be sent to 811 N. Ash, McPherson, KS 67460.
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Definition of strong in English:
adjective (stronger /ˈstrôNGɡər/, strongest /ˈstrôNGɡist/)
- Polar bears have a heavy stout body with strong muscular legs and well-developed neck muscles.
- Get these out of the way while you're fresh and strong enough to use heavy weight.
- The man facing them was taller than both by a few inches, and had strong, brawny arms.
- Thresher sharks can grow up to 20 ft and are strong swimmers who can completely vault out of water.
- The spokesman explained that, if caught in a rip tide, strong swimmers should swim for shore at a 45 angle to the current.
- Myra's grief was tinged with guilt that she, the strong swimmer who could have saved him, should have been there with him that day.
- He slowly backed out of the stream before the rush became too strong to resist.
- We've got a pretty strong south wind.
- Although there was a very strong wind we managed a swim in the Atlantic.
- Does that argument reveal a strong case for electoral reform in Canada?
- The evidence suggests that a strong case can be made for a planned strategy using militia.
- If the case is as strong as it sounds, then it may settle on favorable terms to the white plaintiffs.
- Fear is a powerful motivator, and it takes strong ethics to resist the temptation to abuse it.
- He said attitudinal change among the people is a strong weapon to defeat the cult of violence.
- I resisted the strong temptation to tell him to go jump off a cliff, and kept quiet.
- Her crunch has the ability to sense strong emotion and she could track me here.
- In the minds of Chinese, this history inspires a strong sense of indignation.
- Her strong sense of duty called to mind her grandfather George V and Queen Victoria.
- By 1216 the castle was sufficiently strong to withstand a siege by forces opposed to King John.
- Basically any pumpkin that is strong enough to withstand sharp carving tools can be used for making designs.
- You are entitled to goods which are not faulty and are strong enough to withstand normal use for a reasonable period of time.
- Hmm, you've got to have a pretty strong constitution to whack down two uncooked eggs as Mr Hogg suggests.
- And, frankly that would have any man with a strong constitution running for The Other Bus.
- To explore the hole you needed a very long ladder and a strong constitution: it stank and was crawling with rats.
- The British male, once known for his strong emotional reserve, is turning into what some might call a cry baby.
- Despite being paralysed from the neck down after a car accident, Clive was a strong and independent character, she said.
- A man possessed of a strong independent spirit, he lived on his own in Derreens until his early nineties.
- The new Bollywood stars are role models for them, strong, independent and bold.
- It is prudent to be cautious, especially in a strong market where prices are high.
- Analysis of historical data shows that strong market runs are followed by periods where indexes mark time.
- Certainly a strong recovery and a rising stock market will increase tax revenues.
- I look forward to establishing a strong working relationship with you and to continue representing your company.
- They have strong beliefs, but strong beliefs firmly anchored in the real and the achievable.
- This Institute has already established a strong track record in the research arena.
- Bright lights, especially flashing lights, and strong smells, can also bring on an attack.
- Sometimes we had to break down doors, and that was hard for my guys who are going from strong sunlight into interiors that could be hostile.
- Throughout the dream, I am overwhelmed by a strong smell of dampness.
- The male with the wheat colored hair and strong hawk like feature came forward, behind Mint, surprising her.
- This collection as usual, featured lots of strong colors and a variety of shapes.
- She heard Vasic's voice, soft yet strong enough to cut through the chatter.
- The chicken tasted very fresh and the sauce was delicious with a strong mustard flavour.
- It proved fresh and filling with a strong tomato flavour and far too much pasta for a mere mortal to consume in one session.
- It had a dark orange sauce with a strong coconut flavour that was really quite enticing.
- To drink strong liquor is also useful since nights get rather cold on the grasslands.
- The jury heard how Hart had drunk strong coffee repeatedly as he drove, had the driver's window wound fully down and the car radio on.
- Also on display was his lager and strong ale, so we gave it a quality control test, to make sure that they still tasted good.
- Apart from the sexually explicit scenes, the language is very strong.
- Their language is so strong, we've got to redefine, we've gotta take back words.
- The language is strong beyond maximum Trebor strength yet never jars; the performances even stronger.
- Addition of a strong base to a solution of a strong acid is just the reverse process.
- This process is complicated by the fact that nitric acid acts as a strong oxidizing agent as well as an acid.
- They require either a strong oxidizing agent to react with an acid or they undergo no reaction at all.
- It is very concrete, and consists of strong nouns and a strong verb, with no modifiers.
- Protons and neutrons are held together in a nucleus of an atom by the strong force.
- His special theory of relativity does not work around strong gravitational fields.
- In a strong electric field, free electrons can be accelerated onto its inner surface.
come on strong informal
- No matter - a guy too gentle at heart to convincingly come on strong is welcome in this era of musical command sexuality, and he's certainly no prude.
- So she drives me to the beach, two minutes from where I'm staying, and starts coming on strong.
- 'He is coming on strong and improves season on season,' the Celtic manager said of the Bulgarian midfielder.
- SuperTarget is coming on strong, considering its two stores hold 1.6 percent of the market, adding a 0.75 percentage point over the year.
- Price came on strong toward the end of last season.
going strong
- informal Continuing to be healthy, vigorous, or successful: the program is still going strong after twelve episodesMore example sentences
- The radio station turned out to be very successful and is still going strong.
- Spirit photography may have faded away, but spiritualism itself is going strong.
- The Champions are still going strong after all these years, and continue to be a very entertaining outfit.
strong on
- Good at: he is strong on comedyMore example sentences
- Lord of the Rings and Moulin Rouge are both strong on spectacle, and as such they're very unusual 'Best Picture' candidates.
- But when a comic book is strong on content, this becomes less important.
- It's strong on atmosphere, with its blue-grey waterscapes and grimy clinches in cramped cabins, and best of all, it doesn't try to do too much.
- 3.1Possessing large quantities of: our pizza wasn't strong on pepperoniMore example sentences
- 'New Labour is very strong on explaining politics to people,' he said.
- The first real surprise, though, is the sheer scale of the menu, which is exceptionally strong on seafood.
- Daily Ireland is cleanly executed, very strong on sport - there is even a page on disabled sport - and has a useful business page.
one's strong point
- Something at which one excels: arithmetic had never been my strong pointMore example sentences
strength, strong suit, forte, specialty
- However, reliability is nor your strong point.
- But you're go-getting ways prevail, and you take charge of what's important because prioritizing is your strong point.
- Sociology and statistics don't seem to be your strong point, Mr Newton.
strongish adjective
- Example sentences
- My ideal political scenario would be Labour c.2002 and a strongish Alliance Party.
- So far back was the tee on a day when the hole was played into a strongish breeze, that many of the field were unable even to reach the fairway.
- On the other hand, Damase's Quatre Facettes on the final track are generally of a strongish character.
Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German streng, also to string.
string from Old English:
The Germanic root of the Old English word string is related to strong, and in early use it could refer to a rope or cord of any thickness. If you have many strings to your bow you have a wide range of resources, just as an archer ought to have spare strings. A different kind of string lies behind the expression have someone on a string, meaning 'to have someone under your control or influence'. The idea behind this 16th-century phrase is of a puppeteer manipulating a puppet by its strings. An opportunity or offer with no strings attached has no special conditions or restrictions that apply. This is a relatively recent expression, first used in the 1950s, though it is based on an earlier US use of string meaning 'a limitation or condition'.
Words that rhyme with strongalong, belong, bong, chaise longue, Geelong, gong, Guangdong, Haiphong, Heilong, Hong Kong, Jong, King Kong, long, mah-jong, Mao Zedong, Mekong, nong, pong, prolong, sarong, Shillong, song, souchong, thong, throng, tong, Vietcong, wrong
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Knitter's Review
September 3, 2009
Nine years ago this week, I sent out the very first edition of Knitter's Review.
I had a day job and no big plans beyond writing about what I loved (yarn) and, I hoped, connecting with other knitters who loved yarn too.
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For years, I. Magnin & Company was the leading high fashion/luxury goods chain in the West serving the 'carriage trade' customer with exclusive fashion from leading designers. It earned these exclusive relationships by providing a facility and customer service that showcased the brands. She became known for bringing the latest fashions from Paris.
Magnin & Company was started in 1876 by Mary Ann Magnin and she named the company after her husband, Isaac Magnin. She came from the Netherlands and he from England. Her first store carried lotions and high-end clothing for infants. She then expanded into bridal. Her first store was located on Market Street. She later moved to 918-922 Market Street, right across from the Emporium. The new store was 10,000 square feet, two stories, and renowned for its elegant ladies room. In 1906 the company had a second location under construction on Grant Street but it never opened. The earthquake and fire destroyed both the Market Street store and the incipient one. Mrs. Magnin built a new store at the corner of Stockton and Geary Street. In 1948 that building was replaced with a new flagship store, dubbed the 'White Marble Palace' by Christian Dior.
Three of the Magnin's sons (John, Grover, and Sam) joined the company. The fourth son, Joseph Magnin started his own company, J. Magnin.
In 1910, I. Magnin's began opening boutique shops in luxury hotels in California. Eventually, there were six of these shops. In 1939, the company expanded into Southern California with its first store on Wilshire Boulevard, a block from the Bullock's Wilshire store.
In 1944, Bullock's Department Stores bought I. Magnin & Company and formed Bullock's-I.Magnin. This partnership funded the new I.Magnin flagship store opened in 1948. It also led to the expansion of I. Magnin & Company to Santa Ana, Sherman Oaks, and Del Amo.
In 1964, Bullock's-I.Magnin was acquired by Federated Department Stores in a hostile takeover. As a result, Bullock's and I.Magnin's became separate divisions of Federated. Federated did fund the expansion in the 1970's of I. Magnin & Co into Chicago and Washington, D.C.
In the late 1970's and the early 1980's, Federated Department Stores realized that I. Magnin's customer base was shrinking as the 'carriage trade' passed. The company realized that the younger customers were not shopping at I. Magnin's. Management changes were made to attract the younger customer. These strategies did not provide the expected results and in fact, often resulted in offending the older customers. Sales continued to decline. High end boutiques were doing a better job of attracting the young and wealthy.
In 1988, Federated was taken over by real estate developer Campeau Corporation. In a settlement with the R. H. Macy Company which was also a bidder, Campeau sold the Bullock's and I. Magnin's divisions to Macy's. The following year, Macy's combined the Bullock's Wilshire and I.Magnin's divisions and started shuttering stores. The 1992 Rodney King riot in Los Angeles made it easy for the original Bullock's Wilshire store to be closed.
The secret sauce for I. Magnin's was creating an environment to showcase high fashion and luxury goods. Everyone who visited the San Francisco flagship I. Magnin store will tell you stories about the store, especially the marble ladies room with the gold plated fixtures. The store and all its facilities were elegant. Designers preferred to have their goods showcased at I. Magnin's versus other retailers. And this set the company apart from all other department stores. In addition, the sales associates developed strong relationships with all the carriage trade customers and would call them to let them know about new goods and would hold those goods until the customer visited the store.
For a while, Rose Marie Bravo ran I. Magnin's and she set plans in place to rebuild the chain's image. After she left, the business again lost merchandising direction. In 1994, Federated Department Stores reached an agreement with the creditors of the R. H. Macy Company to buy it out of bankruptcy. Before the deal closed, they shuttered the remainder of the I. Magnin's stores. Many of the stores were converted to Macy's. The upper floors of the San Francisco flagship were converted to Macy's; the lower floors became a duty free store.
What happened????…. For years the I Magnin & Company served the high end customers well. This was while the family was heavily involved in the business. In the 1960's and 1970's, the company continued to cater to the carriage trade but missed the growth of the baby boom generation. The company's executives did not change their strategies, they just focused on the same for far too long until the high end and luxury specialty retailers had captured the younger wealthy customer. By the time Federated Department Stores recognized this, it was too late. I. Magnin & Company was seen by the customers as a store for the past generation. The company had lost its cache. Rose Marie Bravo did implement good strategies, but it was simply too late and the return on a turnaround simply was not a good investment. Many retailers fall into this trap. Federated put in an executive to reduce costs. This executive did not understand the importance of the sales people in the store. He implemented a plan to reduce full-time employees and add more part-time employees. This nearly resulted in the employee's joining the union and definitely led to the departure of some of the best sales people and a serious decline in morale and customer service.
I knew I. Magnin & Company too well. Harriet, the aunt of a good friend of mine, worked in the candy department on the first floor at the Kearny Street entrance. She would tell us how it was her responsibility to let the management know when someone famous or a well-known customer would come in the door so they could be met and given individual service. Harriet showed us all around the store, including the ladies' restroom.
Later, when I worked at Bullock's, I shopped I. Magnin's at the various stores. I had visited all except the store in Washington D.C. The stores were well maintained, elegant, and the customer service was exemplary. It was evident that the store in Chicago did not get the exclusive designer goods that were in the big stores in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Many of smaller stores (Del Amo, Sherman Oaks) also lacked the breadth of merchandise. At that time it was clear that the younger customer was not going to feel comfortable in that environment.
I had a great relationship with one of I. Magnin's most delightful carriage trade customers. Mazie Donovan had inherited vast sums. Because she was virtually blind and lived near me, I used to do bookkeeping for her every week. She maintained strong relationships with the San Francisco flagship store even though she lived in Hermosa Beach. Ms. Jolly from the fur department would always call Mazie when she had some fur item she wanted Mazie to consider. I can remember the Russian Sable Bolero that Ms. Jolly sent to Mazie on approval which Mazie purchased. Within a week after a call from Ms. Jolly, Mazie would arrange a trip to San Francisco to see what was being held for her. I knew each trip would end with a new jacket or coat.
I have shared my memories. I trust you will too. Please leave them in the comments section below.
The following postcards depict the store in Los Angeles at Wilshire Boulevard and New Hampshire, near Bullock's Wilshire. This store had access to the affluent Hancock Park neighborhood.
Please keep in mind that these postcards are part of the Plummer & Associates collection. Please do not copy or reproduce any of these postcards without permission.


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16. 30-day challenges: Touch three times
After having successfully become an early riser, J Wynia has set a new challenge for the next 30 days: read 100 pages a day.
I don't have much of a print backlog because I read quickly and regularly, so I'll set myself a different challenge: to touch three people. I will initiate three messages a day.
It's too easy for me to fall into the habit of just reacting to whatever mail I get, writing only when I receive a note (and sometimes not even then). I want to change that. I want to proactively reach out.
I'm learning that I don't have to rush through my schoolwork or my research, and that the time I take to enjoy people's company will be worth far more in the end.
15. Lifehacking your groceries
One of the coolest things about having delicious:lifehacks in my inbox is turning up all the craziest lifehacking tips. Today's treasure is about lifehacking your groceries by using index cards to keep track of ingredients, simplifying a week of shopping and cooking. _And_ it comes with index card templates!
ここ数年、コンピューターは仕事に限らず広く利用されるようになりました。 Recently, the increasing diversity of computer use has extended far beyond the realms of the office.
14. How to fold a shirt
Clair passed me a link to that nifty tutorial on folding shirts. I wonder if the trick works with the long-sleeved blouses I like wearing. See, _that's_ why I post all of these personal stories online. People share useful tips and stories. =) Thanks, everyone!
It turns out I'm not the only one with laundry problems, too. Numerous people have written in with their own misadventures and tips. Here's what I've learned so far:
- Don't mix colored shirts with white ones. (Yup, I knew that. Good thing I learned it from other people's mistakes...)
- Use mesh bags for socks. (My mom will bring me a few.)
- If you fold your laundry right after you take it out of the dryer, you don't really need to iron your clothes.
仕事場にコンピューターを設置した。 We have equipped our office with computers.
13. Introducing the Hipster PDA
by Sacha Chua
(Sneak preview of m-ph entry for tomorrow)
"I've found the perfect PDA," I gushed. My friends perked up. Knowing how much of a geek I am, anything I was that crazy about was bound to be interesting. They leaned over and watched as I reached into my bag and brought out...
... my Hipster PDA.
Introducing the Hipster PDA
One of the hottest topics in the productivity blogosphere right now is the Hipster PDA, a surprisingly effective low-tech way to organize your life. Grab a pack of 3"x5" index cards and a fold-back clip and you're set to go!
What's so cool about the Hipster PDA?
- Gets rid of worries. You don't have to worry about running out of battery during a critical meeting. You can drop it and it will still work. Even if you dunk it in water, you'll still be able to recover your data.
- Grows along with you. Don't be constrained by software or hardware limitations! You can easily experiment with different ways of planning, and you can expand your Hipster PDA's memory simply by buying another pack of index cards at your nearest bookstore.
- Helps you stay focused. The Hipster PDA helps you stay focused and on-track by not supporting addictive games like Tradewinds. To help you pass the time, the Hipster PDA comes with a few built-in two-player games like Tic-tac-toe and Hangman.
- Organizes real-life data. Receipts? Business cards? Movie tickets? No problem! Just tuck them into the fold-back clip and process them when you get home.
- Beams anything to anyone. You can easily "beam" information to other people--just scribble a note and give it to them. 3x5 index cards don't crumple easily and can easily be shared with other people no matter what mobile device they use.
Here's what you can do with your own Hipster PDA:
- Get a good pen or mechanical pencil. Keep it with your Hipster PDA at all times.
- Write down one task per index card. You can write down subtasks and notes there as well. Rip up the task card up after completing the task for a satisfying finish.
- Alternatively, divide your tasks into projects and write down your tasks. Check the tasks off as you finish them.
- Scribble notes and ideas down on index cards.
- Write down a month calendar so that you can easily see when you have appointments.
- Print important contact information on an index card. You can probably fit 50 names and phone numbers. Good backup if your phone is out of battery or gets lost.
- Print birthdays on an index card, sorted by month and day.
- Label your Hipster PDA with your contact information just in case it gets lost. (name, phone number, e-mail address)
- Clip a cheap pen to your Hipster PDA for people who borrow pens. Never lend your good pen.
- Keep newly-written cards in an "inbox" section (front or back) so that you can process them when you get home.
For more information, check out the following links:
43 Folders: Introducing the Hipster PDA
Technorati: Hipster PDA
Check back on Wednesday for tips on making the most of your Hipster PDA!
そのデザイン・ハウスにとって、コンピュータ製造にさらに急進的な色彩を導入することは適切な戦略であった。 For this design house it was an appropriate strategy to introduce even more radical colors into computer production.
12. Office supplies shopaholic
My name is Sacha Chua and I'm an office supplies shopaholic. I find it nearly impossible to pass a bookstore without checking out the index cards and notebooks in stock.
Today I bought two small plastic cases.
A good size for scrapbook material: photos, receipts, tickets... No more digging around in my bag for things to scrapbook!
(Hmm. Thinking about it now, I could have also survived with a Ziplock(tm) packet.)
Okay. Maybe I can store art materials in it. Or cards. Yeah, it's a good size for stationery. That's it.
(You know you have it bad when you think of reasons _after_ you buy the thing...)
On my way out of the school supplies stand, I found my fingers inexplicably rifling through the notebooks on display. I picked up a Stradmore notebook composed of eight thin notebooks held together with pins. Here's the side view:
A light bulb went off in my head. This is perfect for journal-writing! I can keep a journal along with my work notes (eliminating the need for a separate album) and then simply re-file them. If I use a mini-notebook for letters to Dominique, I can mail the whole mini-notebook to him when I'm done.
I had a hard time deciding between a small notebook that could fit in my purse and a medium-size notebook that gave me more room to write, but I eventually decided on the medium-size notebook.
Because it had "girl" written all over it.
Of course, _after_ I bought it, I reasoned that larger mini-notebooks would be more efficient to store and mail. (Right.)
家にはパソコンが5台あるが、内2台は役立っていない。 It is not useful though there are five personal computers in the house.
11. Task management with Emacs: Text files
With the wealth of code available for Emacs and the ease of customization it provides, you're certain to find a task management tool that fits the way you think. Over the next few days, I'll provide a quick run-through of the methods I've tried out.
The simplest way to get started with Emacs for task management is to keep your TODOs in a plain text file, like ~/TODO. You can keep this text file in any format you want. To make it easier for you to see what you need to do, you can keep active TODOs near the top and completed tasks near the bottom.
If you load your TODO file every time you start up Emacs, then you'll be sure to check it every day. Put the following line in your ~/.emacs to have it automatically loaded when you start:
(find-file "~/TODO")
You'll also want to make it easy to open during an Emacs session. If your TODO file is just a keyboard shortcut away, you'll find it easier to keep all of your reminders in the file. Here's a snippet that shows the TODO file in the current window.
(defun my/todo () "Bring up the TODO file." (interactive) (find-file "~/TODO") (goto-char (point-min)))
;; Now bind it to a convenient shortcut key (global-set-key (kbd "<f5> <f5>") 'my/todo)
Now you can hit F5 F5 to show your TODO. If you want your TODO file to show up in another window, remove that and use this snippet instead:
(defun my/todo () "Bring up the TODO file." (interactive) (find-file-other-window "~/TODO") (goto-char (point-min)))
;; Now bind it to a convenient shortcut key (global-set-key (kbd "<f5> <f5>") 'my/todo)
If you want to be able to add stuff to your TODO without getting distracted from your work, add this to your ~/.emacs:
(defun my/add-todo (task) "Add a line to the TODO file." (interactive "MTask: ") (with-current-buffer (find-file-noselect "~/TODO") (goto-char (point-min)) (insert task "\n") (save-buffer))) (global-set-key (kbd "<f5> t") 'my/add-todo)
See? Emacs is fun and easy to configure. You can store your tasks in a plain text file and then add keyboard shortcuts to make your tasks easier to manage.
There are many sophisticated task management packages for Emacs. I'll write about one of them tomorrow. In the meantime, if you want to find out what task manager I _really_ like using, you can check out PlannerMode! =)
何社製のコンピューターをお使いですか。 What make of computer do you use?
10. Colored index cards
I love posting my productivity ideas because every time I do so, I get comments suggesting even better ways to do things. Today's tip comes from Christopher Allan Webber, whose colored index cards are leaps and bounds ahead of my deck of plain white index cards. He has some cool ideas here!
He uses colored notecards to separate his notes into categories.
Yellow schedule & project cards Red todo cards (or just stuff I should copy to planner-mode) Blue idea cards Green expenses (writing down stuff to copy to my ledger file later)
He also uses cards that are lined on just one side. On the lined side of schedule & project cards, he writes down:
Mon 5/9 Lab Wed 5/11 Critique of Assignment II & I (pics don't have to be dry - must by Wednesday) Mon 5/16 Field trip . . Assignment #2 dry-mounted
On the back, he keeps a TODO list. When a task needs to be done multiple times--for example, preparing a print of a picture--he adds extra checkboxes before the task.
I think he writes down non-project-related TODOs and random notes on red cards, which are easy to pick out in the pack. Right now, I jumble them all together on white index cards. I'll try keeping the front half of the deck for tasks and the back half for notes.
Green cards help him keep track of his expenses. I keep receipts in front of my index cards using the handy fold-back clip, although an organized table view would be pretty cool.
I don't know where he managed to find lined-on-one-side 3x5 colored index cards. I guess bookstores in other countries are better stocked. On the other hand, I found 3x5 organizer refills, so I'm not absolutely deprived.
He was bemused by my mention of "two pages of month templates from a 3x5 day planner". If you crack open a pack of 3x5 organizer refills, you'll get year, month, and day views. Normally a single month would span two pages, but if you're using a planner where month views haven't been labeled "January", "February"--in short, blank ones--then you can use one page to represent one month. If you don't have organizer refills handy, simply print the numbers 1 to 15 down one side of an index card and 16 to 31 on the other. Leave space at the top for the month name, and space beside the numbers for appointments.
He also had this interesting anecdote to relate about a friend's way of planning.
"Oh, I gave up keeping track of to do lists," she sighed. "These days I just write everything on my mirror with a dry-erase marker, so when I groggily stumble into my bathroom in the morning I go, 'OH SHIT! I HAVE *THAT* TO DO TODAY!'"
I should do that with a random Japanese quote of the day. I'll write it down the day before, then groggily try to read it in the morning. Or I can scribble my Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals (superb teaching and quality assurance for computer science education, and strategy coaching for life planning (must find better way to summarize these things!)) on my ceiling at home. Ooooh. My ceiling is low enough for me to do that...
Check out Christopher Allan Webber's website at http://dustycloud.org/ . =)
I love swapping ideas with people, so feel free to send in more suggestions!
コンピューターは単なる計算機だと考えられている。 Computers are thought of as mere calculating machines.
9. Profiling Your Customer
People are often thrilled by the fact that I try to keep track of their interests and inclinations. I avidly file away tidbits I learn while listening to them talk, but I'm not yet used to asking people for more details or engaging in small talk. I'm starting to think that there's more to small talk than just passing time, though. I guess asking about all of these things makes good business sense.
Patrick G. of http://www.zill.net replied to my post on keeping in touch with people with this excellent tip:
re: your post on keeping track of people and their interests - did you ever hear of the "Mackay 66" ? A guy here in the US wrote a book about selling, and he requires his saleman to keep a "66" on each customer - 66 things you should know about them. See http://www.mackay.com/howhelp/Mac66.html - at least 1 thru 57 is useful for friends too.
I wonder what other lists are out there...
彼はコンピュータに詳しい。 He is familiar with computer.
8. How I use my Hipster PDA
After all my experiments with wearable computing using a one-handed chording keyboard and a speech synthesizer, I've found that the most portable device for me is still a 3x5 pack of index cards bound with a fold-back clip. Jokingly dubbed the "Hipster PDA" elsewhere on the Net, this low-tech device is surprisingly flexible and easy to use. I use mine to keep track of tasks and random notes for later entry into my online planner.
My Hipster PDA is composed of:
- a colored index card with my contact information
- my inbox: cards with notes on them that haven't been entered into the computer
- two pages of month templates from a 3x5 day planner
- a year calendar for 2005 and 2006
- my archive: index cards that have already been entered but might still be useful
- a colored index card with yellow sticky notes
- a stack of blank index cards
- a fold-back clip holding all of these things together
- a black signpen or a mechanical pencil tucked into the fold-back clip
One of the things I've found much easier to do with my 3x5 pack of cards than with a PDA or a Franklin-Covey planner is to keep track of get-togethers. When my friends and I schedule our next get-together, I lay the month templates out so that I can see the next 30 days at a glance. This is difficult to do with a PDA because PDA screens are small. A Franklin-Covey planner would probably be more organized, but I like being able to lay things out side-by-side instead of flipping through pages.
When I need to jot something down, I flip the deck and write on the last card. After I finish one side of the card, I turn it over, clip it, and write on the other side. When the whole card is full, I move it into my inbox.
Index cards are handy because it's easy to give information away to other people. Paper gets crumpled and business cards can disappear into the chaos of a purse or a bag. An index card is big and bright. I'm thinking of replacing half of my white cards with brightly-colored cards so that people can easily find information I give them.
I'm planning to do other things with my pack of 3x5 index cards. For example, I can write my projects on the cards. Reviewing these cards will reinforce these goals in my mind and remind me to keep making progress.
Index cards totally rock.
新しいコンピューターは旧型よりも10倍速い。 The new computer is ten times as fast as the old one.
7. Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals
My Big, Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) are:
- Revolutionize computer science education by making it highly individualized and experiential.
- Become a world-famous expert on creating systems for planning one's life. Instead of pushing a particular methodology, I'd like to work with people's current ways of planning, suggesting improvements and software/hardware to support their life.
I'm at the 1st Philippine Blogging Summit right now with my BHAGs firmly in mind. It's _amazing._
The first person I talked to was J. Angelo Racoma, an old friend from my BBSing days. After chatting about blogging, talk turned to what we're both up to. He told me about his work at http://i.ph . I told him about my BHAGs.
It turned out that his wife is into tutoring, and one of the things they're planning to do in the future is set up a tutoring portal to help students, parents and tutors find each other. Neato. That looks like a great fit for what I want to do. =)
As I explained my BHAG for teaching and training to him, I realized that one of the things I really, really, really care about is quality assurance for teachers and tutors. I firmly believe that it's not just about technical knowledge, but it's also about teaching and communication skills. I don't think we're paying enough attention to that, and I think that's a compelling sales point.
I also got to meet Gabriel Narciso. He started by asking me if I was still into open source. Of course! He then asked me if there was a native version of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X. I remember OpenOffice.org used to support the Mac, so I should be able to find one. =) Good deed! I told _him_ about my BHAGs too. It turned out that he used to work at Franklin-Covey (as in, _the_ Franklin Covey franchise in the Philippines!), and is now into executive coaching.
Let's say that again. Wow!
_That's_ why you should practice talking about your BHAGs until you can squeeze it into a small-talk conversation. Joey Gurango told us how wannabe entrepreneurs would give him two-inch-thick business proposals and expect him to have the time or interest in reading them. He said that's entirely the wrong way to do that. You start with your 90-second elevator pitch. You get people interested. Then you go for your executive summary--the shorter, the better. You get people hooked. When you get them hooked, _then_ you hit them with the business proposal.
BHAGs work the same way. Refine them until you get a sound bite. Say it with confidence and passion. Get them hooked. Explain the rest over lunch another day!
コンピューターが使えたらもっとお金をもらえるかもしれないのに。 They might pay me more if I could use a computer.
6. Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals
"Big, Hairy Audacious Goals" is a catchy and inspiring way to think about things. If you don't have this book yet, you might want to look for it next time you're in a well-stocked bookstore:
Built to Last – Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jerry Porras and James C. Collins, 1994.
Here are some links for more information:
http://www.inspired.co.nz/Reading Room/Built_To_Last.htm
Book review / executive summary
Big Hairy and Audacious Goals for Business! (interview)
"We found that visionary companies often set these incredibly challenging goals."
Goal Setting with Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs)
A workshop outline--great idea for training
My BHAGs are:
- Revolutionize computer science education by making it highly individualized and experiential.
- Become a world-famous expert on creating systems for planning one's life. Instead of pushing a particular methodology, I'd like to work with people's current ways of planning, suggesting improvements and software/hardware to support their life.
What are yours?
昨日は、私のコンピューターが故障していたのです。 My computer was down yesterday.
5. Hipster PDA: Month view
Being able to quickly see my schedule for two months totally, totally rocks. My iPAQ didn't have the screenspace for something like that, but my 3x5" pack of index cards with some inserts from an organizer. In particular, aforementioned monthly templates make planning get-togethers so much easier. I can print index cards for these too, but then it'd be a hassle to design the template and print it back-to-back. Anyway, this totally rocks.
(I also had another epiphany earlier: we're actually planning gimmicks! We have a social life! We have a barkada! Nifty. Now I just need to make sure I keep in touch with other people I know, too...)
問題はどうして難局に当たるかである。 The question is how we will bell the cat.
4. Sticky notes hack
43 folders is collecting neat Post-it hacks. I love using Post-it notes to organize my articles and presentations, writing down keywords on individual notes and rearranging them until they make sense. I like using thin strips for keywords and larger notes for storyboards. I like being able to see everything at a glance and rearrange things without having to navigate using a keyboard or a mouse. Post-it notes are a great way to put together impromptu presentations, too. Just stick them onto the back of a folder and peel them off as you discuss the points; that way, you don't forget to discuss anything. Great stuff! I should add a pack to my Geek Survival Kit (a pack of 3x5 index cards and a black gel pen).
鬼いぬ間の洗濯。 When the cat's away, the mice will play.
1. Lifehacks: Doing my mail on the train
If I leave work right after the clock chimes at 5:30, I almost always manage to get a seat on the train going home. This means I can do my mail and a little bit of blogging besides. I aim to answer all of my personal mail and acknowledge all other mail needing my action on the day I receive them.
The train I transfer to is crowded, though, and I don't have my one-handed keyboard set up yet. (Need to recompile my kernel.) During then, I loop over my Japanese review materials. Headset + laptop is an excellent combination!
2. Lifehacks: talking versus writing
I spend two hours every day talking to my mom and Dominique over http://www.skype.com . I've come to look forward to these daily conversations. When I stayed at Ayase Kokusai Hotel, I went to a cybercafe just to keep in touch. Voice chats provide an immediacy far beyond instant messaging or e-mail. My blog entries have become fewer and fewer because I've already told my stories to the people who ask me for personal updates the most. If I write before I talk to them, the half-conversation is unnerving. These conversations end late at night, and I have no time to write afterwards.
However, talking has its disadvantages. I don't have to think about what happened. I just have to relate it. I can stutter. I can ramble. I can say things of no real lasting value. I can be lazy.
Writing requires more effort. I have to structure my thoughts. I have to figure out what useful tidbit I can extract from events so that my blog isn't just some self-centered personal journal that makes everyone feel a bit like a voyeur. Writing is slow, and the extra time forces me to think about what I'm writing, perhaps gaining more insights.
Conversation seems to be personality-centered. I can get away with unpolished thoughts and trivial stories because the point of conversation is conversing. On the other hand, writing--at least in my point of view--is more idea-centered. When I write, I have to make sense not only to people who are already interested in my life, but also people who read this entry as part of something else, like the RSS aggregator at http://pinoytechscene.mparaz.com . When I write, I have to make sense most of the time.
As much as I enjoy talking to Mom and Dominique, then, I think it's better if I refocus on the written word.
What will happen if I do so? My mother will probably write me letters, but I think my father is more comfortable with the immediacy of voice chat. I like hearing my dad's stories. They're the kind that should be told as soon as possible. E-mail creates distance, and probably won't do the stories justice.
People might also interpret this as me trying to distance myself from them. It really isn't. I think of this as creating knowledge, something that will reach more people, something I can reflect on later.
I write to find out how the words on my screen differ from the words in my head. I write to discover questions and answers. Journal entries give my day structure and keep me moving forward.
3. LifeHacks: Instant messaging
Along those lines, I will not respond to "Hi", "Good evening", or similar messages over instant messaging. If you have a story to tell, just tell it without any preamble or small talk. That way, I don't have to pretend I'm paying attention, and you won't get offended if I disappear in the middle of a conversation.
I'd love to hear about any questions, comments, suggestions or links that you might have. Your comments will not be posted on this website immediately, but will be e-mailed to me first. You can use this form to get in touch with me, or e-mail me at [email protected] .


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Clean House
Firings only way to rein in IRS
May 15, 2013
It is hard to know which is worse: The IRS was singling out conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status for extra scrutiny or agency officials' refusal for more than a year to admit it was......
No group should be issued a nonprofit status if they engage in political activity of any kind...be it a liberal or conservative organization. These groups are just ripping off the honest taxpayers so that billionaires like the **** brothers can continue eliminating the middle class.
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The cover-up is the bad part here, as in nearly all Washington scandals. It's not the act itself that delivered the real trouble -- in this case, a campaign unleashed in the Cincinnati offices of the IRS to scrutinize with particular rigor the applications for tax-exempt status submitted by Tea Party-affiliated groups. Rather, it was what happened afterwards that poses the problem: Officials at the IRS lied to members of Congress about what was actually going on.
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The IRS -- an agency loved by no one and responsible for stocking the Treasury with federal tax proceeds, due under the law -- appears to have devoted unique effort to making sure that Tea Party organizations were not fudging the paperwork in their bids to secure tax exemption. Good for the IRS. In castigating government as the root of all evil while portraying taxation as a form of tyranny, the Tea Party is no less than a mass celebration of the evasion of the basic responsibilities of American citizenship. Common sense alone tells you that people drawn to its ranks may feel extra temptation to find ways to limit what they surrender to the rogue federal bureaucrats who have supposedly seized the nation.
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Google: Douglas Shulman
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This was nothing more than a bunch of guys taking care of their own. They fear a conservative government that favors small government for they fear they will lose their jobs, which is silly. They should know that once something becomes law, the US doesn't repeal them. We're going to need all those IRA agents to ensure that the largest tax increase forced on the American people to ensure citizens are paying "their fair share."
And to be honest, this is nothing new. Part of Nixon's Articles of Impeachment was that he used the IRS to go after their political enemies. That's simply how Washington works. The sad thing is, there are those out there stupid enough to believe their side doesn't act that way as was evidenced by a 'moderate' poster on this site trying to blame one mid-level employee in Cincinnati, a Bush appointee he claimed, was responsible. Yes Virginia, people really are that stupid.
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WATCH: Jimmy Fallon's barbershop quartet version of R. Kelly's 'Ignition (Remix)'
Posted February 19th, 2014 @ 10:16am
"Ignition (Remix)" is an R. Kelly classic .. but we bet you've never heard it sung by a barber shop quartet!
As Jimmy Fallon continues to kick off the new "Tonight Show," he performed R. Kelly's smash hit ... along with his barber shop quartet, The Ragtime Gals. And in full barber shop quartet fashion!
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meter 1
(British metre)
1The fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equal to 100 centimeters or approximately 39.37 inches.
Example sentences
- The oddest thing was losing the feet and inches and changing to metres and centimetres.
- Squid come in all sizes, from a centimetre to over a metre in length, and the life cycles of different species vary greatly.
- Individual coal balls range from a few centimetres to over a metre in length.
1.1 (—— meters) A race over a specified number of meters: he placed third in the 1,000 meters
More example sentences
- Jerome Young ran a very evenly paced race in the 400 metres final - and that was the secret to his victory.
- The concern is that five races before the 1,500 metres final may take the edge off Holmes.
- Kelly Holmes is the Olympic 800 metres champion after her dramatic win in the final tonight.
- Example sentences
- This, of course, takes up considerable square metreage, to say nothing of all the other facilities which he and his alliance propose.
- But after that, the meterage for subsequent distances will be reduced from 125 metres to 113 metres, under which the standard fare for a 2.5-mile journey will rise from £4.60 to £4.80 an increase of 4.16 per cent.
- In terms of fabric, there is the potential to save thousands when you think of the meterage involved in curtains and sofa covers.
Late 18th century: from French mètre, from Greek metron 'measure'.
Words that rhyme with meterAkita, Anita, arboreta, beater, beta, Bhagavadgita, cheater, cheetah, Demeter, Dieter, dolce vita, eater, eta, Evita, excreta, fetor, granita, greeter, heater, Juanita, litre (US liter), Lolita, maltreater, margarita, metre, Peta, praetor (US pretor), repeater, Rita, saltpetre (US saltpeter), secretor, Senhorita, señorita, Sita, skeeter, teeter, terra incognita, theta, treater, tweeter, ureter, veleta, zeta
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Syllabification: me·ter
meter 2
(British metre)
1The rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line: the Horatian ode has an intricate governing meter unexpected changes of stress and meter
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- For in addition to these more typical forms one finds catalogued in EV an amazing variety of stanzaic forms, line lengths, meters, and rhyme schemes.
- His first works are called the Eclogues, a collection of pastoral poetry done in the same meter as the Aeneid (dactylic hexameter).
- You are constrained by a specific meter, a specific rhyme scheme, and a specific length.
1.1The basic pulse and rhythm of a piece of music.
Example sentences
- The simple melody derived from a pentatonic scale and the prevailing dotted rhythm in compound duple meter elicit the feeling of a slow, graceful Korean traditional dance.
- Once students can associate the syllables, they would need additional practice recognizing the tonality or meter of familiar music.
- The meter, complexity of rhythms created by dotted rhythms, triplets and irregular accents manifest the spirit of Korean peasant dance and music.
Old English, reinforced in Middle English by Old French metre, from Latin metrum, from Greek metron 'measure'.
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Syllabification: me·ter
meter 3
1A device that measures and records the quantity, degree, or rate of something, especially the amount of electricity, gas, or water used: they read the meters once a month
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- A trifield meter measures the electromagnetic frequency in the space around it.
- A better but more expensive measuring device is a laser meter.
- This new technology will enable residents to keep a check on their own electricity and water consumption and act as a record for the meter readings.
1.1 Philately An imprint or label of specified value produced under government permit for the prepayment of postage.
verb[with object] (often as adjective metered)
Measure by means of a meter: a metered supply of water
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- Businesses and organisations that use significant quantities of water are metered.
- The meter operating fee assigns the meter operating costs equitably to customers who have metered water service.
- Payments for water, which is metered, are used to keep up and expand the system.
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Syllabification: me·ter
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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Judgment: Electronic Edition, by Charles GrayTable of Contents
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11.51 The only explanation offered by Irving for his disregard of the testimony of Miller was that he had been fantasising. It was, however, not made clear by Irvin on what evidence he based this assertion.
11.52 Irving gave as his reasons for being cautious about the two reports that the figure given in them conflicted with the figures quoted by Mehnert and Fetscher; the conflicted also with the figures for those killed in comparable disasters in other cities and with estimates given by Dresden civilians. The Chief of Police had every reason to minimise the figure.
11.53 I have already spelled out at paragraphs 1.39 and 40 the reasons given by Irving for his adherence to figures greater than Reichert's 25,000.
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