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The human toll of a run-away pandemic virus can be breathtaking. It's the kind of thing that Woodrow Wilson likely had little idea that his administration would face when he took the Presidential oath office in both 1913 and 1917. Yet during his presidency, Wilson would confront one of the gravest public health crises in global history.
The so-called Spanish Flu raged across America and around the world in 1918 and 1919 during Wilson's second term. As many as 50 million people globally and over 650,000 Americans died during the pandemic. In fact, more people died from the Spanish Flu than died in World War I.
Practically every family in America was affected. President Woodrow Wilson himself caught the flu in Paris while negotiating the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I. While many efforts to control the spread of the flu were effective - techniques still used today - medical understanding of the origin and the biology of the disease was limited and hampered efforts to control it.
It wasn't until the Second World War that the first vaccine for influenza was developed by scientists, providing the world with new protection from the deadly flu virus.
Today, while the threat of a pandemic flu remains, our ability to prepare for it, treat it and even prevent it has grown enormously as a result of continuing innovation and medical progress. America's biopharmaceutical research companies are working closely with government laboratories and public health authorities and other partners worldwide to improve vaccines and patient access to them.
Working together, public and private partners in medical innovation are also developing new vaccines and other treatments designed to protect against the next potential pandemic. In fact, over 300 new potential vaccines are now in development.
Public health experts say that the challenge is not whether there will be another pandemic like the Spanish flu - it is just a matter of predicting when this could happen. But it is important to know that medical progress, research and innovation has helped provide tools to fight pandemics and give us a fighting chance to prevent the kind of devastation experienced during Woodrow Wilson's second term in 1918 and 1919.
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When you look left and Bruce Willis snaps your neck
The Kansas City Shuffle is when everyone looks left....
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::unsuspecting sap looks left::
dari Midboss Jumat, 08 Desember 2006
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Can be used in relation to anything involving distraction and misdirection by which you get everyone to look one way, while whatever you're doing involves going the other way.
When everyone else moves right, you move left. That is what a Kansas City Shuffle is.
dari Maness Rabu, 03 Mei 2006
The storyline of the 2006 film Lucky Number Slevin uses a "Kansas City Shuffle" as the primary plot device. As Mr. Goodkat mentions, "A Kansas City Shuffle is when everybody looks left, you go right." The origin of its name is revealed when a cover version of the song, performed by J. Ralph, plays at the end of the film. An item of interest regarding the Kansas City Shuffle is that while you've been reading this I've been fucking your mom.
For an example of the Kansas City Shuffle, see above.
dari i.am.ichi Sabtu, 03 Juli 2010
As taken from Wikipedia, and which I checked out elsewhere, the first instance of this term is the title of a Jazz song from 1926 by Bennie Moten. Beyond that, it's a term that's only been given real meaning by the movie Lucky Number Slevin, in which it's used to refer to a kind of con game. Specifically a con in which a combination of distraction and subterfuge cause the mark to turn their attention away from the plot which proceeds in the opposite direction. The term itself is weighted with football, gambling, and other innuendo but since it didn't exist as a phrase until that movie was released, you could read that subtext into it or not. At it's simplest, a good head fake in sports is a Kansas City Shuffle. At a more complex level an army massing battalions of tanks on one front to occupy enemy attention and draw them out of fortified positions while in reality a naval attack ensues instead would also be a Kansas City Shuffle. In short, it's a cute name for a kind of misdirection.
"They look right... and you look left." Lucky Number Slevin's simplest definition of a Kansas City Shuffle delivered by Bruce Willis
There is anecdotal evidence that a football play was called a Kansas City Shuffle. (Note: a shuffle is a type of play)
"Your shoelaces are untied" (followed by tweaking the victims nose) "Now that my friend, is the old Kansas City Shuffle."
There is anecdotal evidence that a football play was called a Kansas City Shuffle. (Note: a shuffle is a type of play)
"Your shoelaces are untied" (followed by tweaking the victims nose) "Now that my friend, is the old Kansas City Shuffle."
dari Stephen Daedalus Senin, 06 November 2006
When you see a fine girl walking down the street in Kansas City, and once she gets in the car she pulls a gun out of her purse and takes your shit.
Girl: Kansas City's cool, you know you just gotta be aware of that Kansas City Shuffle.
Driver: The Kansas City Shuffle? What's that?
Passenger: Yeah, the fuck is that?
Girl: It's like this....
Gun shots.
Driver: Oh shit bitch!
Driver: The Kansas City Shuffle? What's that?
Passenger: Yeah, the fuck is that?
Girl: It's like this....
Gun shots.
Driver: Oh shit bitch!
dari the_waitresss Jumat, 28 Oktober 2011
When you take a goat and put its back legs in your rubber boots with your legs in them and perform an animal kingdom nasty dance. (aka- Goat boning or sheep shagging)
Branden was from kansas and got bored/horny one day. So he broke into a local farm with his high flooder's on and performed the Kansas City Shuffle on a lone goat.
dari c-colf Rabu, 23 November 2011
A Kansas city shuffle is the action of taking one's identity and getting rid of that person who now has your identity. So basically your old identity is dead and there is a body to prove it, but you continue living your life as someone else.
You owe bad people money. You take someone else's identity and live a new life by moving elsewhere. You kill the other guy and leave the corpse in your own appartement a bit disfigured with your own IDs. Everyone will believe you got killed and your own identity stops here.
thats a kansas city shuffle!
thats a kansas city shuffle!
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Before I share her thoughts with you I want to remind you that 40 million of us are using food stamps or SNAP. Many more have not applied for that sort of help, even though they might qualify. There are children in our own country who are going to bed with empty tummies. Others who are living on a dime-or less-lean on food pantries, food commodities and whatever other help is out there. Our purpose here is to help you stretch those food dollars to get the very most you can from your food budgets and feed your family well to keep them healthy.
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by Jill Cooper from Living On a Dime
It's Saturday morning. With grocery list in hand, you drag a very unwilling family out to the car where you proceed to take them on a mega shopping spree at Sam's or Costco.
Marching down each isle you tell your family members "We need 3 cases of corn, 4 cases of green beans and — Oh! That's a good deal on peanut butter so let's get 3 gallons. Of course Susie, your can get a bag of cookies. They are so cheap! …and Billy you can have a few bags of your favorite chips! Yum! Oh look — samples! These taste great. Let's get some! What a great buy on chicken – we need 20…"
At the dog food aisle the excitement mounts as each member of the family grabs a corner of the 50 lb. bag of dog food to stack on top of the basket. (We won't mention you only have 1 toy poodle at home.) After waiting in line and waiting in line and waiting in line you push your agonizingly heavy and overloaded baskets out to the car. Getting everything into the trunk of the car makes putting together a 1,000 piece puzzle seem like a breeze but, finally, home you go.
After you lug everything into the house, it's time to spend the next few hours repackaging things for the freezer. You double wrap your 20 chickens (they could be in that freezer for quite a while) and frantically try to find places for everything else in your cupboards and pantry. By the time you are done, you are so exhausted that you couldn't begin to lift a finger to cook, so you all go out to eat.
A few weeks later you gingerly sniff the gallon of half used peanut butter as you try to decide if that strange taste is because it has gone rancid or simply because you are sick of peanut butter. You threw out that partially used gallon of maple syrup yesterday because it had sugared and was looking really strange. You still have ten of your chickens left but if you bathe them in some spicy sauce you are pretty sure your family won't notice the freezer burned taste. In spite of having to throw out most of the 50 lbs. of dog food (after a growing family of mice had invaded it), you're sure you saved money because "they" said you would.
People constantly ask me, "Can you really save more money at warehouse stores?" I usually answer, "Not any more so than at other stores." I have checked prices at various stores on many different occasions and factoring everything in, I haven't found any exceptional savings at warehouse stores.
Here are some tips to help you decide if a warehouse store is for you:
- Do your homework and compare prices. Buying in bulk is not always cheaper. You can really save by checking and comparing prices. I was at Costco one day where there was a display of two Clorox one gallon bottles for $1.98 AFTER rebate. I stood there amazed as people frantically grabbed this "great deal." I knew I could get that same Clorox for $.98 a gallon at my regular discount store and I didn't have to mess with a rebate, pay postage or lug two gallons of Clorox shrink wrapped together to my car.
- Don't buy impulsively just because it sounds like a good deal. Say you can get 12 bottles of sunscreen for a great price. Think it through before you buy. If your family only uses one bottle of sunscreen a year, that means you will be storing sunscreen for 12 years, not to mention that most of the sunscreen will expire long before then.
- In most homes, one quarter of the food people buy gets thrown away. If your family of four eats pancakes once a week, that gallon of syrup is going to last you a VERY long time. You might also consider that unless dry goods and freezer items are very carefully stored, they will go bad or get bugs in them. Remember to buy the size that is appropriate for you.
- You need to be very well organized to buy in bulk. Finding places to store everything and then carefully keeping track of what you have is critical if you want to use it all before it spoils.
- Most people usually spend more than they originally planned on things they don't need. This never saves money. We taste samples and so often end up buying. If this is you, be careful. Maybe sampling is a bad idea (unless you're making lunch of it)!
If you have ten kids, run a day care or are buying for an organization then you almost have to buy in bulk. If you have a small or average sized family, you will probably save as much shopping for sales at your regular grocery store or discount store. The key is to do the math and evaluate your practical needs. You have to decide for yourself if buying at warehouse stores actually saves you money or just creates more work.
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When we had the opportunity to select a community service project as part of SVB's 30 Years | 30 Causes campaign, it didn't take us long to settle on an organization that helps military veterans. "How could we not give a little back to people who have given so much for our country," we said to ourselves.
According to the North Bay Veterans Resource Center, "the return to civilian life for veterans is challenging due to the impact of prolonged tours of duty, service-connected disability, and the trauma of combat (PTSD)." The North Bay Veterans Resource Center connects former military veterans with programs to ease this transition, including business outreach, transitional housing, and employment counseling and training, the last of which we know is of critical importance to our small and mid-sized clients in Sonoma County and globally.
On the West Coast we are one of the largest lenders to the wine industry, and nationally, we work with more than half of the venture capital-backed tech and life science companies. Nine in 10 of our technology and life science clients reported this year that it is tough to find employees with science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills to pursue their goals and business objectives. We know how valuable the new job training offered by NBVRC will be to individual vets, as well as high-growth companies and the US economy overall. We have seen some amazing transitions through our work with TechStars Patriot Boot Camp, which helps veterans parlay their skills in the military into starting their own company. And for those interested in viticulture, they are in the right place right here at home.
A dozen of us from Silicon Valley Bank's Santa Rosa office teamed up with six volunteers from NBVRC and enlisted great support from Volunteer Marin to give the Hearn House in Santa Rosa some TLC. We had a great group and enjoyed the opportunity to make meaningful connections with some of the veterans who benefit from the program. So much so, that a few of us will continue to support the program going forward.
Primarily we helped with yard clean-up: planting flowers, weeding and spraying, installing a shed for recycling, sprucing up the pond area. While our tasks were fairly basic, we hope the refresh makes the Center more comfortable and peaceful. To that end, we also painted and installed two peace poles that we hope will serve as a reminder that there are lots of people pulling for these vets as they train for a new career. More photos are available in Volunteer Marin's photo album on Facebook.
More information on the North Bay Veterans Resource Center's push to end homelessness among vets is covered in this recent feature in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. It's worth reading.
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Longwood University will test its public address/siren warning and text messaging system on Tuesday, September 18, at 11:00 a.m. The emergency alert system will transmit a 30-second siren tone followed by a voice message stating "This is a test." The alert siren and voice message will be transmitted through three strategically placed speaker arrays across campus and at Longwood's off-campus apartment complexes (Lancer Park and Longwood Village) and the athletic fields at Johnston Drive.
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When asked if there were any patients that stuck out from the more than 680 children seen on a recent dental mission to San Martin, Guatemala, Dr. David Manwaring said they all do.
"These children are the best patients anyone will ever experience," Manwaring said. They don't have the preconceived fears of the dentist like most Americans do, since they don't usually have access to care - a result of both geographic and financial disadvantages.
Manwaring just finished his second trip with Global Dental Relief, a Denver-based nonprofit that brings free dental care to impoverished children of Nepal, northern India, Vietnam, Guatemala and, beginning soon, Kenya. Volunteer dentists, hygienists, assistants and even non-medical volunteers deliver preventative care and treatment through "extremely efficient" portable dental clinics. Children are bused in, and sometimes walk, to receive care.
"Every place I've been in the world where you're going to come from a long way away to help (the patients), they have an appreciation level you can't quantify in words," Manwaring said. "They're overwhelmed."
Kim Troggio, co-founder of the 11-year-old organization, said that when she and fellow founder Laurie Mathews set out to find a way to help needy children, they found providing dental care was one of the most effective ways.
"It has a huge impact in children's lives immediately," she said.
The organization focuses a lot on education, like how and why children should be brushing their teeth, Troggio said. The teams are also committed to seeing the same kids every two years in order to ensure proper care.
Volunteer, Frisco resident and retired dentist Geoff Hoffman has been on numerous trips with the organization, including a few two-year check-ups.
"Going back to the same populations, we're seeing significantly improved hygiene," he said. "That's the rewarding part of it - you know you're making a little dent."
So far, 62,000 children have been seen by Global Dental volunteers, Troggio said.
"It is hard to express fully the overwhelmingly positive effects these trips have on all the volunteers," Manwaring said. "It is truly a paradigm shift in one's introspective thinking."
After only a couple of days, there's a common thread that brings everyone together.
"You give so much wherever you go, but my feeling is that I get back even more," Manwaring said.
Hoffman said he likes the fact that almost all the organization's money goes back into the program.
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Hoffman also likes that the nonprofit isn't tied to any political or religious organizations - "we just fix teeth," he said - and the response from patients.
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Scored a pair of goals on Mar. 26/12 vs. OTT.
2010-11: Recorded 35 points (16G, 19A) over 73 games with the Wild... Tied for team
lead in power play goals with eight, setting a career-high... Notched game winning goal
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of two players to appear in every game (Sheppard)... Ranked fifth on team in points,
fourth in assists and fifth in goals… Registered three GWG and his first two career SHG
(Feb. 28 at EDM and Feb. 8 vs. EDM)… Skated in 300th career game at VAN (March 3).
2007-08: Scored 15 goals and added 34 points (15G, 19A) in 69 games with Dallas...
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game at ANA on Oct. 15...Posted a career-high five-game point streak from Mar. 18-27...
Scored two points (1G, 1A) in five playoff games.
2005-06: Registered his first career multi-point game with two assists vs. CHI on
Nov. 4... Tallied one assist and eight PIM in five playoff games.
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NSH on Oct. 11... Also spent time with Utah (AHL) during his first professional season...
Finished third in assists (23) and fourth in points (30) despite playing in only 48 games
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2002-03: Was named the Finnish Elite League Player of the Year after appearing in 53
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UNION CITY -- Tom Rosenthal sweats the small stuff -- all the small stuff.
His approach has led the James Logan High athletic department to some big things.
"I've been that way my whole life," the retiring Logan athletic director said of his attention to detail. "I got this from my mom. She was a stay-at-home mom and she was extremely meticulous with her house."
Rosenthal, a Pleasanton resident who will turn 62 on June 24, has kept his athletic house in remarkable order. He has taught for 31 years in the New Haven Unified School district, including two stints at Logan, 1983 to 2000; and 2006 to 2014.
He coached the Colts wrestling team to eight North Coast Section titles and two runner-up finishes during a glorious stretch in the 1990s. He has been inducted into the California Wrestling and Chabot College halls of fame.
His 1996 Logan team, led by state champion Stephan Abas and runner-up Jesse Reta, took third place in the state with 100.5 points, just two behind champion Calvary Chapel.
To this day, 18 years later, Rosenthal is still looking for those darn three points.
Count Logan football coach George Zuber as a member of the Rosenthal fan club.
"We've had a great relationship," Zuber said. "He's the only athletic director I've known at Logan, and he's just a very unique individual in that he's always very meticulous in his paperwork and his details.."
Rosenthal's colleagues all say the same thing about him: He leaves no stone unturned.
"There's always a plan," current Logan wrestling coach Eli Bagaoisan said of his mentor. "He always has a Plan B and a Plan C to everything."
Rosenthal, Logan's athletic director for 14 years, all told, is known for his immaculate office, and his devotion to student-athletes and coaches.
He coached and taught at Union City's Cezar Chavez Middle School (formerly New Haven), in between his time at Logan, in part because he wanted be more involved in his son Joe's golfing career. Joe played for four years at Foothill and now heads Rosenthal Sport and Fitness in San Ramon.
With his final day set for June 27, Rosenthal will leave the Logan program in good shape. He notes that about 28 percent of the student body, or nearly 1,200 students, were involved in athletics during the school year, including an impressive 200 total in the track and field and cross country teams.
The combined GPA of Logan's student-athletes has risen steadily from a 2.87 in 2007 to 3.07 this year.
"That's a big deal to me," Rosenthal, a UCLA graduate, said. "I saw the improvement happening. My coaches jumped on board."
Zuber can attest to Rosenthal's passionate approach. They share a bond as former wrestlers.
"He loves to get up and get really close; he's a close talker and very animated with hand gestures," Zuber said. "I'll go in his office, and because we both have a wrestling background, we'd kind of wrestle around a little bit, just for fun. You'd get talking about wrestling or football, or anything that gets Tom fired up, and he starts, as most wrestling guys do, to grapple a little bit. I'm gonna miss that."
A former three-sport star at now-defunct Marina High in San Leandro, Rosenthal had successful coaching runs at Marina and Arroyo before coming to Logan in 1983, at the invitation of former Colts wrestling coach Wilson Nacario, a longtime friend.
Former New Haven superintendent Guy Emanuele, who died about six months ago, forged a close relationship with Rosenthal after Emanuele purged the Logan athletic and physical education programs in 1983. Rosenthal describes Emanuele as a "great man" who had a lot of guts.
Bagaoisan received valuable coaching tips from Rosenthal when he was starting out.
"I didn't think I would be a wrestling coach or a PE teacher here, and in a way he kind of led a path to my life," said Bagaoisan, who competed on Rosenthal's first section championship team. "It's something I kind of fell in love with, the coaching part. Little did I know that he was actually grooming me to be the head coach."
After Rosenthal graduated from Marina, legendary Chabot wrestling coach Zack Papachristos recruited him to Chabot and changed his destiny.
"That guy hounded me. Greatest recruiter ever," Rosenthal said.
Rosenthal's old high school wrestling coach, Marshall Stone, helped him land his first coaching job at Marina in the mid-1970s.
"He marched me down to the principal's office, and he says, 'Here's your new wrestling coach.' I was 23 years old, about five years older than my senior wrestlers, and we did well," Rosenthal recalled.
Bagaoisan marvels at Rosenthal's amazing run of wrestling success. No detail was too small.
"Building a program literally from nothing to a state-caliber program is something," he said. "He did it his way. ... He always told me that there's a rhyme and reason for why I do things, stick with me and it will be OK."


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SCOTTS VALLEY -- For stellar answers to questions about outer space, just ask a NASA engineer.
Ted Garbeff, 30, of Scotts Valley, responded to questions from 4-year-old British boy Lucas Whiteley last week with a 10-minute YouTube video.
The video has been viewed more than 70,000 times and has captured the attention of British media, including the BBC and the popular news website The Telegraph. Teachers at Whiteley's school, Sunny Hill Primary, played the video at a school assembly.
Lucas's father, James Whiteley, had also sent questions to NASA as a young boy. He decided to make a video of Lucas and email it to a few NASA employees.
The video made its way to Garbeff, a wind tunnel engineer at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View. He was charmed by the boy's inquiries, and responded by making his own video, with help from his wife and a colleague. He was inspired by the educational television shows he grew up with, such as "Reading Rainbow" and "Bill Nye the Science Guy."
In the video, Garbeff stands in front of the largest wind tunnel in the world, where he helps to test models of new airplanes and rockets.
To answer Whiteley's question, "How many stars are there?", Garbeff goes to Seabright State Beach in Santa Cruz. A spoonful of sand, he said while holding about a thousand sand grains. Imagine all the grains of sand on all the beaches in the world, he says. That's how many stars there are.
"We go to that beach often," Garbeff said. "So I thought, wouldn't it be fun to show a bunch of people from Yorkshire our unique, beautiful Santa Cruz beaches?"
Whiteley also asked whether any animals have been to the moon. "No animals went to the moon," Garbeff says, "but animals have really helped us understand the way space works and how well humans can live in space." Garbeff shows pictures of the famous Russian space dog, "Laika," and "Ham" the chimp, sent into space by NASA in 1961.
Garbeff has been surprised by the media attention he's attracted, which he called "scary but exciting."
Garbeff grew up in Stockton, and took an interest in space exploration at an early age. He studied aerospace engineering at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
"Being lucky enough to get a job at NASA has been pretty special," Garbeff said. "I wanted to carry on that idea of motivating the next generation of kids."
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"Extant" (9 p.m., CBS): If Sandra Bullock can rocket off into outer space, why not Halle Berry? In this suspenseful, futuristic "event" series, the Oscar winner plays an astronaut, who, after a 13-month solo mission, struggles to reconnect with her family, which includes a creepy little robot boy. But there's a bigger problem: While in space, she somehow became pregnant. Uh-oh. Baby (or alien?) on board.
"American Muscle" (9 p.m., Discovery Channel): Are you pumped up? This new reality series follows tough-talking Detroit gym owner Mike Barwis and his scruffy crew as they train everyone from NFL stars to severely injured people looking to walk again.
"The Bridge" (10 p.m., FX): The mix of money laundering, police corruption, drug wars and culture clashes continues to make for a very dark crime thriller as the series returns for Season 2. Diane Kruger and Demian Bichir star.
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"Man vs. Food" (8 p.m., Travel)
"Mystery Girls" (8:30 p.m., ABC Family)
"Street Outlaws: Full Throttle" (9 p.m., Discovery)
"Property Brothers" (9 p.m., HGTV)
"Suits" (9 p.m., USA)
"Motive" (10 p.m., ABC)
"Taxi Brooklyn" (10 p.m., NBC)
"Secrets of the Dead" (10 p.m., PBS)
"Duck Dynasty" (10 p.m., A&E)
"Untying the Knot" (10 p.m., Bravo)
"House Hunters" (10 p.m., HGTV)
"Catfish: The TV Show" (10 p.m., MTV)
"Hot in Cleveland" (10 p.m., TVLand)
"Graceland" (10:02 p.m., USA)
"Jennifer Falls" (10:30 p.m., TVLand)
"House Hunters International" (10:30 p.m., HGTV)
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The extreme hot weather has postponed the 80th Huntsville Horse Show.
Show manager Lynn Frazee announced late Tuesday morning that officials had decided it was "just too hot for the horses and people" to go ahead with this week's scheduled event.
The show has been moved to Sept. 21-22 and will be held at Sutliff Stadium at Huntsville. Officials will have the same program that was on tap for this weekend.
A long-time supporter Margaret Block says this might be the second time in the show's 80 years that it has been postponed. The other time was because of wet weather.
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MONTARA -- Gentlemen, turn off your engines. Ribbon-cutters, holster your shears.
Motorists who plan to drive in a parade marking the opening of the twin Devils Slide bypass tunnels -- and politicians awaiting a sweet photo opp -- will have to wait a couple months longer due to yet another delay wrapping up the ambitious, roughly half-a-billion-dollar project.
Caltrans aimed to finish by early December, but local and county officials on Monday said the completion date has been pushed back into the early part of 2013. It's at least the third holdup for the project, which required boring two 4,200-foot tunnels through a mountain that towers above the surf between Pacifica and Half Moon Bay.
Although the tunnels were originally slated to open in late 2010 or early 2011, locals involved with the undertaking seem to be absorbing the latest deferral in stride. Mitch Reid, an organizer of the vehicle parade, campaigned for the 1996 ballot measure that required Caltrans to build the tunnel rather than a freeway bypass.
"We've been waiting 15 years, so a couple extra months isn't a big deal," Reid said. "I'm fine with the delays as long as they make sure everything's good and safe."
County officials said the time extension is related to safety and electronics testing, including the ventilation system and cameras monitoring activity inside the tunnel. Once those are complete, Caltrans must finish the road connections between Highway 1 and the tunnels.
Caltrans is now looking at a possible opening date of late January or early February, said Assistant County Manager Dave Holland. Bill Kehoe, chairman of the Midcoast Community Council, an elected advisory body for the coast, said Caltrans told him only that it would be sometime in the first quarter of 2013. State offices were closed Monday for Veterans Day, and Caltrans representatives did not return messages seeking comment.
Kehoe, who has worked for years as a software engineer, said he was neither bothered nor surprised by the technology-related postponement.
"I have never been on a software contract in my life," Kehoe noted, "that has met its deadline."
The plan for the bypass tunnels came out of decades-long frustration with Devils Slide, a landslide-prone stretch of Highway 1 along coastal cliffs just north of Montara. The road was closed for five months in 1995 after a winter storm caused a section of the roadway to crumble.
The cost of the tunnels alone has climbed from $272 million to $439 million. A new bridge that spans a valley below the northern entrance ran about $40 million.
Contact Aaron Kinney at 650-348-4357. Follow him at Twitter.com/kinneytimes.
A new exhibit at the San Mateo County History Museum explores the history of transportation at Devils Slide. "The People's Tunnel" runs through May 12. The museum is located at 2200 Broadway in Redwood City. For more information, call 650-299-0104 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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It becomes easier as you walk in this complete trust and confidence knowing He's for us and not against us. This is something that can be developed, we all have to grow in this. Don't be afraid of messing up as that only leads to the very things you're afraid of. You can be confident that even if you do mess up He will restore you and show you how to get back on track.
This certainly takes a lot of the pressure off. His Word tells us that perfect love cast out all fear. Believing that only God is the missing piece in your existence will bring you back to reality. You only need to let the flame burn once again and nothing will break you anymore. Sometime, we get overwhelmed with life's surprises that we tend to forget that all tese are temporary. There is eternal happiness prepared for us if we only believe in God.
Challenges are present no matter where you go or what you do. Some people are strong-willed while others crumple easily. The difference could be because the stronger one has a firm belief that they can overcome these challenges because they have someone who can pull them up whenever it seems too much.
The other one could have been blinded because of the terrible pain he has to endure. Life is actually a daily battle. No one is left untouched by life's storms. It only varies on impacts, and it it differs on how we dance to the tune it plays. God, they say is the only thing we need but most often than not, He is also the reason why some individuals decide to give up. They feel that He left them.
Some think that the Lord has given up on them, thus the reason why he should give up as well. If you are able to wake up every day, that is enough reason to believe that He is still there. If you can still breathe air and look at the sky, that is enough evidence that He still waits for you to change. With all the unscrupulous things you did, if only mere being, He could have turned his back on you. But the truth is, He is your ally. He is your father.
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David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial: Electronic Edition, by Richard J. EvansTable of Contents
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(vii) Deliberate suppression of evidence: the annotation of Hans Pfeiffer
1. Hans Pfeiffer [d. 1944] was one Hitler's staff officers from October 1939 until his death. On 29 December 1942 Himmler presented Hitler report number 51 in a series on SS so-called anti-partisan operations [Meldungen an den Führer über Bandenbekämpfung]. The report detailed the number of Soviet partisans captured and executed between August and November 1942. It contained a section on 'partisan helpers and suspected partisans' [Bandenhelfer und Bandenverdächtete] which had a separate section for 'executed Jews' [Juden executiert]. Of a total of 386,033 people shot, the report separately lists 363,211 'Jews executed'. The report was typed up on the 'Führer typewriter' (so-called because of its large type to compensate for Hitler's bad eyesight) and bore the annotation 'presented 31/12' in Hans Pfeiffer's handwriting and with his initials.192 Irving himself mentions this report on page 436 of Hitler's War, minus the annotation, thus giving the impression that Hitler did not read the report, whereas in fact the typewriter and annotation indicate that Hitler was expecting the report, and people in his entourage knew he was receiving it.193
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Root Beer Shack opens
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PARKERSBURG — A new restaurant in Parkersburg wants to appeal to families because it is family owned and was inspired by a family member. The Root Beer Shack, at 1420 Staunton Ave. opened Nov....
@DrSmart.. Contrary to popular belief hot dogs are not made out of organs, rectums, genitals, brains, pig snouts or any thing else gross. Hot dogs are made out of trim. Trim is scrap meat that is too small to sell on its own. The confusion comes from the fact that SOME types of sausage are made out of organ meat.... but not hot dogs.
Hot dogs are a type of emulsified sausage. This basically means that it is held together using pork fat. The meat is ground into a fine paste, fat is added and the mixture is mixed in a machine. Seasoning and water is also added. This mixture is stuffed into tubes, cooked, cooled, removed from the tubes, packaged and sold.
The tubes are made out of plastic.. not intestines as some people think. Although, a lot of other types of sausage are made using animal intestines... but not hot dogs.
Come back again when you know what you're talking about..
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Plastic? Ugh - would rather they used the "casings" as the intestines are referred to when making sausages. Used to help my mom and dad make kielbasa using the casings. Good stuff. Much better than plastic - oh and "real" kielbasa is NOT orange.
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Sounds to me like the Dr (so-called) has had a failed event with the restraunt business. I'm no P.H.D., just saying.
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"For example people that fly a lot have a higher level of fire retardants in their bodies than those who dont."
You know....I used to try to fly, but my arms got too tired. LOL
I miss the old A&W stands.
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Most these comments are rude and make no sense at all, apparently the negative people on here have not yet ate at the restaurant, its awesome, clean, very good quality food , best onion rings ever, and who the heck has slushy rootbeer noone else. so dont knock it till YOU at least try it.....
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You either like hot dogs or you don't. If you do, stop by, I am sure you will leave with a full stomach and happy attitude!! If you don't like hot dogs, then drive on by; no since bad mouthing the business!!
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This place is AWESOME!!! Very good and Fresh Food, and staff is very friendly.
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The Oak Ridge High School Soccercats hosted Hardin Valley on Tuesday in their home-opener of the season.
The Junior Varsity team, coached by Carl Flatau began the night of soccer with a strong defensive showing, ending the game in a 0-0 tie.
The Varsity team, coached by Jon Day, took to the pitch next with a fast-paced physical game. With only a few minutes to play in the first half, Victor Shem crossed to Alex Tavangaran for the first goal of the game. The defense came out strong the second half with several stopped goals by keeper Joel Turner.
The excitement continued throughout the game and with only seconds left on the play clock, Alex Tavangaran scored his second goal — ending the game in a 2-0 shutout.
The Oak Ridge Soccercats will play in the Bearden Invitational Tournament this weekend and host their next game in Oak Ridge Tuesday (April 9) against Alcoa at 7 p.m. JV will play West High School at 5 p.m.
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Once upon a time, before text messages, emails and even holiday photo postcards, townsfolk wished each other good cheer heading into the winter season with a little wassailing. The generations-old tradition has a few incarnations: door-to-door holiday caroling wishing good health and fortune and, in some parts of England, celebrations in hopes of a hearty apple harvest. While nowadays we have the technology to be a little lazy with our well wishing, the Town of Frisco's weeklong Wassail Days festivities are meant to get folks off the couch and into the holiday mood. Saturday's kickoff, the Santa Dash, invites those dressed in their best Santa Claus gear to run six blocks for the possibility of snagging a stocking full of cash at the finish line. Every participant wins cash - anywhere from $1 to $100 (you don't have to be the fastest, either) - and for those who get a little winded, a milk and cookie aid station should bring the oomph back. New this year (and definitely not done in the days of yore), the town will be using the race and its warm-up to help tape what should be a hilarious mash-up of the holiday classic "Here Comes Santa Claus" with rapper Psy's internet sensation "Gangnam Style." You read that right - the hope is to get more than 100 Santas doing that funny little horse-trot dance in the street, all on tape. Hilarity aside, the race will give some participants extra cash to stroll along Frisco's Main Street and shop for holiday presents not found in the typical mall, said Suzanne Lifgren, the town's marketing director. Part of the charm of shopping in town is the ability to chat and make friends with small business owners, she said. Throughout the week, those merchants will also be serving up their own versions of wassail - a warm apple cider - for everyone to vote on. The winning business gets bragging rights, and what Lifgren described as "the Stanley Cup of Wassail."After the race on Saturday, head down to the Frisco Historic Park Gazebo for the annual tree-lighting ceremony, led by Mayor Gary Wilkinson, before stuffing your face at the Best in the West Chili Contest. Teams can compete as professionals or amateurs, and recipes are split into three categories: red, green and vegetarian.
The folks over at the town have it on good authority that Summit County children will be getting calls from jolly old Saint Nick on Tuesday night. Parents can sign their little ones up to tell Santa what they want for the holidays at four locations: Frisco Visitor Information Center, Stork & Bear Company, Frisco Historic Park & Museum, and Frisco Town Hall. Kids get another chance to chat with Father Christmas Saturday at breakfast and again that afternoon at the museum. On Wednesday, get in the holiday mood with an old-fashioned celebration: Victorian Wassail Night at the Historic Park. The community open house includes carolers, readings of the holiday classic, "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," hot chocolate, cookies and, of course, wassail.
It wouldn't be a proper winter celebration without the fluffy white stuff. The schedule on Thursday includes tubing at Frisco Adventure Park, Nordic skiing and sleigh rides - all free of charge. On Saturday, Dec. 15, kids 9 and under can showcase their moves at the Lil' Rascals Rail Jam before winter fireworks light up the tubing hill.


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On the front page of the Devils Lake Journal for Monday, May 6 you will find what's "Coming in print," what's only found on our website today and a whole lot more.
Coming in print: A second statement from the Spirit Lake Tribal Council and Chairman Roger Yankton, Sr.
Only on the web: A video from the Teacher of the Year award held today in Devils Lake.
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Here We Go
During tonight's pre-season tilt against the Rangers, coach Craig Hartsburg has made his first decisions on line combinations.
The second guessing starts now...
Welcome to Ottawa Mr. Hartsburg.
While Jesse Winchester has been deposited on the big line as expected, the out-of-left-field decision has been to place Nick Foligno as a centre between Antoine Vermette and Daniel Alfredsson. Allen Panzeri's article in today's Ottawa Conservative ....errrrr.... Citizen explains this by saying that Hartsburg was used to seeing Foligno as a centre in junior hockey so he's giving him a shot there tonight.
So much for the speculation by Gord Wilson and myself that Vermette would be given that shot at centre, his natural position.
But it's an interesting experiment and just the type of thinking that's needed to breathe some new life into this team. I personally don't see Foligno being the proper centre for Alfredsson but stranger things have worked in the past. It's at least worth a look and seeing that it's pre-season, perhaps Vermette will get an opportunity there as well before it's all over.
Line to watch: Mike Fisher centering Jarkko Ruutu and Chris Neil. That will be total mayhem on ice and probably the feistiest line the Senators have ever put together in their history, or at least since their first season when half the team was a bunch of blood thirsty ankle skaters wielding roughly hewn Sherwood axe handles.
My only dissent stems from the fact that the organization has already proclaimed Martin Gerber to be the number one goalie before anyone has even hit the ice.
It seems to me it would have been better to hold a competition for that spot in training camp, giving Alex Auld and Brian Elliot some hope as well.
But I guess there's talk of having to give Gerber that "shot of confidence" he so desperately needs not to breakdown.
After all, he's earned his status hasn't he...
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Labels: New York Rangers, Ottawa Senators
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- Andrew said...
Note to Jeremy: I get enough political retardation thru the normal media without you ruining one of your posts with a completely worthless potshot at the Citizen. Write hockey, damnit - and leave the politics elsewhere. I'd wager roughly 0% of your readership is here to learn about your political biases!
- September 20, 2008 at 7:46 AM
- Jeremy Milks said...
I'll write whatever I please on my own blog, and if I have to take a shot at the Ottawa Conservative ... errr... Citizen, then I will.
In your honor, I will now make at least one political reference per post until the election.
Thanks for the inspiration!
- September 20, 2008 at 10:41 AM
You've gone to far this time MILKS!! YOU ARE DRUNK.
- September 20, 2008 at 1:24 PM
Gerber's a SAINT.
- September 20, 2008 at 8:08 PM
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Rep. Vance McAllister, the married congressman who was caught on video kissing one of his staffers, plans to run for re-election this fall, he announced Monday.
Mr. McAllister said during an interview on the conservative Moon Griffon radio show he is "absolutely" running. In April, weeks after the video was released, the congressman said he wouldn't seek re-election but would serve out the remainder of his term, following calls for his resignation from fellow Louisiana Republicans.
"We spent the weekend trying to make sure this was exactly right for us and the family," Mr. McAllister said in the radio interview, where he was joined by his wife, who he says supports his decision. "It's taken a lot of hard praying, a lot of making sure that we're ready to put ourselves out there because — look we know what it is. Welcome to Politics 101. I got welcomed in like no other."
A local news outlet in April released a video from a surveillance camera in the congressman's office showing him kissing staffer Melissa Anne Hixon Peacock, who no longer works in the office. Mr. McAllister subsequently apologized but said there had been an "outpouring of support" for him to keep his seat.
Mr. McAllister, a first-term Republican, campaigned largely on conservative Christian values and, as the father of five, touted himself as a family man. His 2012 campaign was bolstered by an endorsement from Willie Robertson, star of "Duck Dynasty," the popular reality TV show about a Christian family and their duck-call business in Louisiana.
Even if voters look past his transgression, the primary system in Mr. McAllister's district isn't particularly forgiving. All candidates run on the same ballot regardless of their party, and a runoff is held in December if no candidate gets 50% of the vote.
In the time since Mr. McAllister announced he wouldn't seek another term, other Republicans have expressed interest in the race. Among them is Zach Dasher, the nephew of "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson and cousin of Willie Robertson, who was Mr. McAllister's State of the Union guest. Mr. Dasher officially entered the race earlier this month, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
If Mr. McAllister wins in November, it won't be the first time a political figure has bounced back from a scandal. Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford became embroiled in controversy in 2009 after news broke that the married governor had been visiting his girlfriend in Argentina while claiming to be hiking the Appalachian Trail. He resisted calls for his resignation and finished out his term as governor, leaving office in 2011. Two years later, he announced he would run for Congress, and subsequently won a special election for the seat. Mr. Sanford is up for re-election this year as well.


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International conference on digital forensics directed by Longwood professor
June 11, 2012
Academics and industry experts from five continents recently attended the 7th annual conference of the Association of Digital Forensics, Security and Law (ADFSL), directed by Dr. Glenn Dardick of Longwood University.
The conference, held May 30-31 in Richmond, was hosted by the ADFSL, sponsored in part by Longwood's College of Business and Economics, and chaired by Dardick, associate professor of information technology and director of the Longwood Center for Cyber Security. Participants came from numerous countries, including Egypt, India, China, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Brazil, and from throughout the United States. In addition to members of academia, they represented the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the Taiwanese equivalent of the FBI and General Electric's new Richmond-based Cyber Security Center.
The keynote speakers were Dr. Mohamed Chawki, founder co-chairman of the International Association of Cybercrime Prevention in Paris, and Nigel Wilson, senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide Law School in Australia.
"The conference allows many academics and practitioners from the local, national and international technical and legal communities to come together and hear about and discuss trends and leading-edge research from experts in cyberforensics, security and cyberlaw," said Dardick.The ADFSL, which Dardick founded in 2006, focuses on the role of digital forensics in law enforcement, network security and information assurance. For more information, visit http://www.digitalforensics-conference.org/.


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It's Harmony Day tomorrow here in Australia. The official colour is orange and so kids are allowed to wear orange to school which is such a big treat.
Lucia and Eva picked their own fabric for new Harmony skirts. I think they did really well. Lucia's fabric is an orange homespun and the stunning floral fabric is Alexander Henry and Evie chose a pretty Lisette sateen spot which looks so lovely. (I would have provided a link but blogger is being a pain).
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They look great! Happy harmony day.
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so lovely Sophie. I especially love Lucia's skirt. I only found out our school was celebrating Harmony Day this afternoon, but my kids are only allowed to wear "orange accessories" so this afternoon I knocked up a couple of felt embellished headbands. The girls are still pretty stoked!
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MONTE SERENO -- The bacchanalia behind the gate in Ravi Kumra's exclusive Silicon Valley suburb not only may have led to a violent break-in that left him dead -- it may have produced at least two out-of-wedlock daughters who called him "Pappi" and are petitioning the court for monthly support and half his estate.
The wealthy tech investor who once owned the Mountain Winery concert venue in Saratoga juggled a hedonistic lifestyle complete with a harem of hookers with his family of two grown daughters and an ex-wife who continued to live with him in the 7,000-square-foot estate, according to a lawsuit.
Now, Keila Goggins, 40, a former exotic dancer, has come forward to ask a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge to recognize her claim that Kumra fathered her two daughters and would have wanted to take care of them.
"I know you see all these things in the paper about him and prostitutes and that lifestyle," she said Friday in a telephone interview from her out-of-state home, rented with Kumra's $3,000 to $5,000 monthly allowance. "I mean, yeah, he might have had that type of lifestyle, but when it came to me and him and our girls, we were a family."
Earlier this month, the two dark-haired little girls, ages 7 and 9, flew in from their home to testify that the 66-year-old was their father in every way they knew. He took them to Disneyland. They sent him emails saying, "we love you lots."
"I loved him and he took care of me and he took care of our girls until the day he died. That's one of the reasons I will not let it go," said Goggins, who met Kumra in 2001 through a friend who worked with her as a prostitute at the Kit Kat Guest Ranch and Sagebrush Ranch in Carson City. "I'm not a gold digger. I'm not trying to extort money from his estate. I'm anything from that. I love my girls. He loved our girls. This is what he would have wanted for them."
Despite his complicated love life, Kumra's ex-wife, Harinder "Rani" Kumra, continued to live with him in the Monte Sereno mansion.
A lawyer for their daughters referred calls to the family's public relations representative in New York, who said she couldn't reach the family for comment Friday afternoon. But in the legal response documents, Kumra's two older daughters, both in their 30s, contend that their father was no more than a "sperm donor" to Goggins and her lesbian partner and had no financial obligation to the children.
"Keila, after all, wanted to raise her children with her partner ... not Ravi," according to the response filed by Raina and Anisha Kumra.
Their father had a gambling problem and bipolar disorder, they said. "When he was manic/depressed, he was out of touch with reality and gave away more than he had," according to the daughters' response. "Alcohol and drugs would aggravate the situation, making Ravi more susceptible to requests for money and leaving him all too easily manipulated."
The Kumras also said in the court filing that their father was essentially broke when he died, "living off money" his ex-wife gave him and frittering it away by day trading and "assorted acts of financial irresponsibility." Kumra and Goggins signed a sperm donor agreement before the first child was born, they say.
But Goggins' San Jose lawyer, Matthew Crosby, says the sperm donor agreement was a sham, executed after the baby was born, then backdated so that Kumra's wife wouldn't know the baby "was the result of sexual relations" and to make his wife believe they would have no financial responsibility for the children.
Crosby also contends that the Kumras entered into a "sham divorce" in 2010 for the sole purpose of hiding money in the wife's name to shield his family from creditors.
After his death, the family said Kumra's estate was deep in debt. But Crosby contends that 13 days after the couple's divorce settlement, his ex-wife sold the Kumras' wireless company for $30 million.
Goggins believes her daughters are entitled to some of that. Shortly after meeting Kumra, she had told him she wanted to have children. He volunteered to be the father.
"He said that they would be 'beautiful children,' and because he was intellectually gifted, he said that the children would be 'smart,' " the court records said.
While Goggins was pregnant, "Ravi paid to move Keila from Nevada to Soquel, California," the records show. "He paid for everything, including a baby shower." When the first girl was born in 2002 at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz, Kumra was "overjoyed," and shot video and handed out cigars, the documents say. "He was so proud and told everybody he saw at the hospital that he was the father."
When she became pregnant with a second child, she moved near her mother into a five-bedroom, 3,400-square-foot home in a gated community that Kumra had purchased for her. They later moved to a rented home.
Kumra's violent death Nov. 30 made international news after three men broke into his mansion, ransacked it and demanded cash, jewelry and other valuables. They gagged Kumra and bound his hands and feet behind him with packaging tape. They woke up his ex-wife and struck her with a cold, hard object, dragged her out of bed, then bound her, too. When the assailants left, she managed to call 911. Police arrived to find Ravi Kumra dead of asphyxiation.
Two alleged prostitutes -- Katrina Fritz and Raven Dixon -- and three of their supposed gang friends -- Javier Garcia, Deangelo Austin and Lukis Anderson -- are in jail awaiting trial in connection with the killing.
Goggins says she was shocked by the news.
"They took away the one thing I can never get back for my girls," she said. "This man was a good man. This man had his quirks, but doesn't everybody?"
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RICHMOND -- Federal, state and local agencies descended Wednesday on the site of Chevron's massive refinery fire, as questions deepened about whether the company could have prevented the accident by shutting down a crude unit that began leaking hours before the eruption of the blaze.
The lingering fire was finally extinguished Wednesday afternoon, but the company acknowledged that the damage is so severe the plant's ability to produce refined petroleum is limited -- a situation that is pushing up gas prices here and across the Western United States. No timetable has been set for repairs to be complete; in fact, even the investigations may not begin in earnest until Friday, after state officials declare the site safe.
At least five separate investigations, including one by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, will target a pipe that burst after two hours of monitored leaking, sparking the fire.
"Any time you lose containment of hydrocarbons, it's a critical situation," said Jeff Clark, field representative for United Steelworkers Local 5, which represents about 600 operators and mechanics at the Richmond plant. "And obviously from our point of view, the majority of the time, shutting down the unit is the safest thing to do."
The San Ramon-based oil giant said shutting down the plant is a difficult call.
"To do an unplanned shutdown of a plant is fairly dangerous," said Mark Ayers, the refinery's chief of emergency services. "While we were looking at our options, the leak got worse and the fire broke out."
Meanwhile, Western Contra Costa residents raised a new round of questions on how to best coexist with their toxic neighbors. About 1,700 had visited county hospitals since Monday evening, said Pat Frost, director of Contra Costa's Emergency Medical Services. More than 1,000 residents filed claims against Chevron -- so many that the company's hotline was often busy.
Contra Costa had its own phone issues, as the county's hazardous materials chief said warning calls to area residents went out too slowly through the automatic phone system. Frost plans to beef up the system's capacity.
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The Richmond No. 4 crude unit is the starting point of the refining process at Northern California's largest such facility, which processes up to 240,000 barrels of oil feedstock a day. In the processor, crude oil is heated to between 700 and 800 degrees, sometimes chemically treated, to create jet fuel, gasoline, diesel fuel and other byproducts.
The leak found Wednesday was in a pipe that separates the diesel-like mixture. Originally about 20 drips a minute, the leak suddenly "broke loose" as refinery employees attempted to take off the insulated aluminum shield around the pipe, said Randy Sawyer, Contra Costa County's chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer.
Crews evacuated, and the vapor caught fire so quickly that a Chevron fire truck was destroyed in the blaze.
Chevron officials pushed the notification button 10 minutes after the fire started, Sawyer said, automatically sounding sirens and alerting authorities. He said that was a reasonable response time.
The No. 4 crude unit was the site of a major 2007 Chevron fire, but Sawyer said the two incidents were in different areas.
Keeping production flowing is often a driving force in decision making at all refineries, Clark said.
"Any disruption in production affects profits," he said. "As far as the overall industry goes? Yeah, we have concerns that sometimes decisions are made to fix things without disrupting production."
Chevron representatives said Wednesday safety is top priority.
While a controlled burn smoldered Wednesday morning, a leak from a valve above the first fire dripped onto the burn and caused a small secondary fire near the upper valve, a Chevron spokesman said.
Chevron called Richmond firefighters, and they combined to extinguish the controlled burn and secondary fire. The company said there still was a risk a small fire could break out in the lines, so they are monitoring the site.
Environmentalists fume
Some critics said Chevron is part of an oil industry responsible for too many toxic releases, and that they happen because too much emphasis is placed on profit.
Many previous refinery accidents around the country could have been prevented if plant operators had shut down production equipment rather than continue its operation while trying to fix a problem, critics said.
"If Chevron had shut down that unit when they first discovered the leak, the fire wouldn't have happened," said Denny Larson, executive director of the Global Community Monitor, an environmental watchdog group. "By not shutting down, Chevron had effectively lost control of that equipment when the fire started."
In 1993, Larson noted, the refinery in Rodeo then operated by Unocal had a leak of a chemical called catacarb for 16 days before public and regulatory complaints spurred a shutdown. Hundreds of people sought medical treatment for the pollution.
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What was clear during Monday's fire was the inadequate automatic phone notification system, Sawyer said.
Calls went out to 18,800 residents alerting them to shelter in place, but it took from 6:39 p.m. until 11:58 p.m. for all the calls to go out.
"We need that to be two times or three times faster," Sawyer said.
The outside company that manages the automatic calls has a limited number of lines and limited system capacity, he said. Industrial companies in the county pay for the system.
Sawyer said more sirens should have sounded, as well.
"We were most concerned about people most around the refinery," he said. "Looking in hindsight, maybe we could have sounded more alarms ... that was my decision."
Meanwhile, Chevron's 24-hour, seven-day-a-week hotline intended to compensate community members for medical and property expenses incurred from the fire had capacity issues of its own, as many callers got busy signals.
"We have heard those complaints and are in the process of adding phone lines," said Heather Kulp, a Chevron spokeswoman. The claims number is 866-260-7881.
The company also plans to open a Richmond office to allow residents to file claims in person.
Contact Matthias Gafni at 925-952-5026. Follow him at Twitter.com/mgafni. Staff writer Daniel Jimenez contributed to this report.


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EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado - Bruce Brown has spent two and a half decades as a trial lawyer and that, he says, is the exactly the experience he needs to be the next district attorney.
Brown is a Democrat running against Republican Scott Turner for district attorney in Colorado's four-county 5th Judicial District.
"I've identified during the last several years the extreme need for increased professionalism in the DA's office," Brown said. "With my 26 years of criminal trial experience I can correct the wrongs that will undoubtedly occur if there isn't change."
Brown, 50, is a single father to three kids, 21, 15 and 7.
"It keeps me busy. I'm hopping day and night," he said. "My main focuses of my life are my family and my career. I work hard and I work hard in all areas of my life."
It's good practice for a life in law.
"To be a good trial attorney you have to outwork your opponent 2-1," he said.
For now, he juggles his thriving legal practice with single parenthood and the campaign.
"That's the way I've led my life, by taking on much more than anyone can possibly complete. Somehow I manage to get it done," he said.
He said this and hopefully one more will be his last campaigns.
"You get the most out of your district attorney if they serve two terms," he said.
You may remember him from his 2004 run against outgoing District Attorney Mark Hurlbert. He narrowly lost.
He has learned how to campaign, he said, and was the Clear Creek County chairman for Gov. John Hickenlooper's campaign.
"I've grown so much since then. I didn't have the knowledge about what it takes to run an effective campaign. I'm running a much more robust campaign this time around," Brown said.
He says he was what's now called a "spirited" youth. When he was a kid he spent some of his summers in Gypsum, he said, so he sort of grew up around here.
He struck out on his own at 16, and a few years later graduated the University of Colorado Boulder. He swung lift chairs in Vail for a winter, then graduated law school at Whittier College near Los Angeles at 23.
He interviewed with both the Los Angeles County's Public Defenders office and District Attorney's Office. The public defender offered him a job first, and his career path was set.
He tried his first murder case when he was 24. He doesn't remember much about that case, except it was part of a massive caseload.
"In the L.A. County Public Defenders office it's not uncommon to represent 30 people a day, around 700 to 800 a year - literally trial by fire," Brown said. "That's the sort of caseload it takes to train young lawyers."
"If you don't try cases, and you don't have experience in the courtroom, the defense attorneys will run circles around you," Brown said.
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He worked in the U.S. Congress as a staff assistant. The suit and tie chafed a bit and sometimes still does.
"I'm always relaxed and approachable, but if the judge would let me wear a Hawaiian shirt, I'd do it," Brown said.
He's quick to point to the Martin Erzinger case, and how he says Hurlbert mishandled it, pleading a felony hit and run down to a misdemeanor.
Turner counters that he disagreed with Hurlbert's decision, but that Hurlbert ran the office and it was his call.
Brown said the DA's office received 6,000 emails opposing Hurlbert's decision.
"That told us the DA was completely tone deaf to public opinion," Brown said. "That's their MO. They never admit they're wrong. Everything is always someone else's fault."
A crime victim in Georgetown had a firearm pointed at him, the suspect's third time pulling that. The DA's office plea bargained it down to a misdemeanor.
Brown represented a suspect in a sex assault case who was acquitted.
Brown said that over a five-year period, 60 percent of sex assaults in this judicial district that go to trial end up with acquittal. If prosecutors cannot make their case, they shouldn't bring it, Brown said.
"Most communities seem to have an inclination to side with the prosecution. They've lost a huge advantage," Brown said.
Staff Writer Randy Wyrick can be reached at 970-748-2935 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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