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C.Y.P. Installment One: Hario Woodneck
Welcome to C.Y.P. or Choose Your Pourover. Before we get started today we're going to make a checklist of stuff you'll find useful for making any kind of brewed coffee at home. Coffee is a given. A good grinder is your bread and butter, if you've got money to burn spend it here. I use a Baratza at home but either of the Hario hand mills are awesome lower cost alternatives. You'll also need a scale to weigh out coffee and water and a timer to time your brews. A nice kettle is a luxury but not a necessity…anything with a spout will work. If you really wanna get down I'm a huge advocate of a cheap little notebook to write down brew times, tastes, and techniques for reference. Yup. I'm kinda dorky. Let's fire this off.
Today we're going to take a quick peek at the Hario Woodneck, the first installment in our ongoing pour over compare and contrast series. Lets get going. With the Woodneck you get a self contained brewing unit with a Chemex-esque type look (wood handle, leather wrap, etc…) but the thing that sets this bad boy apart from the pack is the cloth filter. The cloth filter seems to get the love it or hate it rap around coffeetown and here's why:
– Reusable. You get one filter with this bad boy and that's all you need. No waste, no need to start that "pack a week" habit.
– Squeaky clean cup. For the most part, zero sediment. The only time I've experienced sediment with these is when I've used a fairly fine grind on an industrial espresso grinder (i.e. a Robur). All other grinders are giving cups with zero sediment. The picture below was from a cup that'd been sitting for 10 minutes then dumped… no sediment here.
– Aesthetically pleasing. It's pretty hot looking. Looks count, so let's not pretend that they don't.
– Kind of a pain to clean and store. The cloth filter must be rinsed imediately after usage and stored in some sort of water bath to prevent it from drying out and getting extra funky. I keep mine submerged in a mug of water in the fridge. Every so often, you'll need to give it a deep cleaning by soaking it in some sort of espresso detergent like puro-caff. After a deep soak you'll need to thoroughly rinse the filter then make a "seasoning" brew in it to remove any residual cleanser.
If you like a clean cup with lots of clarity but don't like the waste aspect of paper filters, and if you don't mind spending a little bit of time maintaining your brewing system, the Hario Woodneck is for you.
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billy / May 22 2011 10:55 pm
love these things. let's not forget mouth-feel here. with a clean cloth, you get great clarity + tremendous mouth-feel yet no sediment. my personal favorite for taste, but maintenance is a consideration.
John O'D / May 23 2011 9:19 pm
Cool info, guys. These woodneck brewers are great.
Hario Woodneck / May 24 2011 3:54 am
Any tips on where to buy one of these?
Rozell / May 26 2011 5:53 pm
Great post. Looking forward to more. I'd especially like to hear your thoughts/ideas on the Clever dripper.
Rozell / May 26 2011 5:56 pm
– though it's really a full immersion device, so maybe it won't be included…I'll hit you up either way.
Josh / Dec 27 2011 8:25 pm
After making a pot, I rinse my filter really well in cold water, squeeze some of the water out, and pop it in a zip-lock bag before chucking it in the crsiper bin in my fridge. No funkiness experienced, and I've been uding this method for almost a year now. About once a week, I soak the filter in Oxy-Clean Free and rinse it really well. No off flavors or odors and it gets it pretty darn clean when you consider how much coffeee gets brewed in it.
Cody / Sep 3 2013 2:49 pm
Can you use a woodneck as a cold brew or how do you


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Radiation therapy is another way to treat Ewing sarcoma. This treatment is also called radiotherapy. It uses beams of X-rays or radioactive particles to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors.
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You may be given radiation before surgery to make the tumor smaller and easier to remove. It may also be used after surgery in some cases to try to kill any remaining cancer cells. Or it may be used instead of surgery if the tumor can't be removed completely. In any case, chemotherapy is part of the treatment as well.
Radiation is delivered by external beam treatments, which means the radiation comes from a machine outside of your body. To get your treatment you will go to the hospital or clinic five days a week for several weeks. The treatments last only a couple of minutes and are painless. However, as a treatment episode progresses, damage can occur to normal tissues also receiving radiation. Long-term side effects from radiation are a concern, particularly in children, because their bones and other organs are still growing and developing. For that reason, radiation is usually reserved to treat Ewing sarcoma only when surgery is not possible or adequate.
Potential side effects of radiation therapy for Ewing sarcoma
Radiation affects both normal cells and cancer cells. This means it can cause side effects. These side effects depend on what part of your body is being treated.
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During treatment, side effects might include a sunburn-like skin reaction in the area being treated and a feeling of being very tired. Radiation to the abdomen or pelvis can cause nausea, diarrhea, and problems with urination.
Here are some long-term side effects that people with Ewing sarcoma might have after they get radiation therapy:
Uneven bone growth in children
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BRECKENRIDGE - Shortly before she died, Stephanie Roller Bruner told a Summit County judge her husband had put his hands on her throat and threatened to kill her.
On Thursday, the jurors who will decide whether wildlife photographer Dale Bruner is guilty of his wife's murder, heard her voice, pleading with the court for help.
"He threatened my life," Roller Bruner told a judge during a recorded restraining order hearing. "I can't go back to him."
Roller Bruner's body was discovered in the Blue River weeks later, in November of 2010, three days after Bruner reported her missing from their home in Silverthorne. She'd died of a combination of strangulation, blunt force trauma, hypothermia and drowning.
Seven months later, a grand jury indicted Bruner on charges of second-degree murder, first-degree assault and tampering with evidence.
Testimony in court over the last week has indicated the Bruners' marriage was falling apart in 2010. Roller Bruner, a dance instructor and mother of three, had taken out a restraining order against her husband, filed for divorce and was seeing another man.
Prosecutors rested their case Thursday after a domestic violence expert testified that leaving an abusive relationship is the most dangerous time for a victim.
Two of Bruner's ex-girlfriends joined Roller Bruner in claiming Bruner had put his hands on their throats and choked them during heated arguments.
"It is a unique assault," deputy district attorney Kristine Word said of strangulation. "It's an intimate crime and it is the defendant's modus operandi."
The defense asked the judge to toss the case out Thursday evening, saying the prosecutors, who hold the burden of proof, had offered no direct evidence that Bruner is guilty, beyond a reasonable doubt, of any of the crimes with which he is charged.
Judge Mark Thompson resoundingly denied the motion for judgment of acquittal Thursday night.
The prosecution built its case on Bruner's behavior leading up to and just after his wife's disappearance, inconsistencies in his story about what happened between them the night she disappeared and his alleged history of domestic violence, both with the victim and other women.
Defense attorney Robert Bernhardt countered by attempting to demonstrate the flaws in the police investigation of the case and by highlighting the lack of direct evidence.
"In that respect, without a scintilla of direct evidence, I remind the court that my client has been charged with the crime of second-degree murder," Bernhardt argued. "In almost 20 years of both prosecuting and defending cases ... I've never tried a homicide or any other serious felony (case) that has been brought with no direct evidence whatsoever."
While the prosecution's case has been largely circumstantial and there is no DNA evidence, prosecutors called an email that Roller Bruner appeared to have written to the man she was seeing, Ron Holthaus, the night she disappeared direct evidence.
Roller Bruner seemed to have started the message - in which she tells Holthaus he is the love of her life - but never finished or sent it.
The computer auto-saved the email just before 11 p.m. that night, 30 minutes to an hour after Bruner claims she left the house, never to return.
Bruner reported Roller Bruner missing from the couple's home in Silverthorne just before Thanksgiving, 2010, saying she went out for a walk the night before and never returned.
Search and rescue teams searched for three days as temperatures dipped below zero at night, before finally finding Roller Bruner's body in the Blue River near her house.
The cause of death was later ruled a combination of blunt force trauma, strangulation, hypothermia and drowning.
Bruner was identified soon after as the prime suspect.
Court records and family accounts paint a picture of a troubled marriage in the weeks leading up to Roller Bruner's death.
The couple reportedly fought after Roller Bruner was laid off from her job with the county government. She would later take out a restraining order against her husband and eventually filed for divorce on Nov. 1, 2010.
The couple's three children are now living with Roller Bruner's brother and his wife in California.


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2: Develop an improved understanding of mechanisms that influence successful establishment of introduced biological control agents, using parasitoids and predators of current target pests such as tarnished plant bug as model systems. Sub-objective 2A: Conduct retrospective analyses of current/past biological control programs, where appropriate. Sub-objective 2B: Conduct laboratory and field studies of selected biological traits and ecological requirements relevant to the establishment and efficacy of biological control agents.
3: With collaborators, conduct field releases, monitor for establishment and evaluate the impact of natural enemies on target pest populations (such as soybean aphid, tarnished plant bug, and brown marmorated stink bug) as well as non-target effects in the field. Sub-objective 3A: Develop and submit a petition for release that describes the importance of the target pest and the efficacy and safety of the candidate biocontrol agent. Sub-objective 3B: Participate in the regulatory decision process as needed. Sub-objective 3C: Participate with cooperators in conducting releases (with permits from State and APHIS) and post-release monitoring of the natural enemy.
To address objective (1) we will conduct foreign exploration in Asia and other regions as needed to discover, identify and evaluate the biology, ecology, and efficacy of exotic predators and parasitoids as classical biological control agents of the targeted pests. Agents discovered in exploration will be returned to our laboratory and identified using the best available morphological characters in conjunction with molecular sequence data, and evaluated in our quarantine facility for efficacy by measuring attack rates, reproductive output and development rates, and for host specificity by testing both close relatives to target hosts and progressively more distantly related species under choice and no-choice conditions.
Objective (2) will address the role of environmental factors such as climate and photoperiod or inherent genetic variability in determining establishment success. Using a parasitoid of tarnished plant bug that established in some regions of the U.S., but not others as the model subject, we will characterize the genetic variability of populations established in the U.S. and their relation to genetic source populations in Europe. Also using lygus parasitoids, we will test the influence of differing environmental factors such as temperature, soil moisture and photoperiod regimes on parasitoid survival in environmental growth chambers and comparative field exposures.
To address objective (3) we will prepare petitions for field release of qualified candidate agents of all target pests determined to be both effective and safe, based on satisfactory results of evaluation studies. These will be submitted to technical advisory panels and APHIS, in collaboration with relevant project partners as necessary. Supplemental research will be conducted to provide additional information if requested by APHIS. Once permits are received we will participate with cooperators as needed in conducting releases and post-release monitoring of the natural enemies. Where possible the releases will be designed to compare different geographic populations or genetic accessions of the agent for differences in climate adaptation, efficacy or other behavioral characteristics.
Review Publications
Hoelmer, K.A., Kirk, A., Pickett, C.H. 2011. Prospects for biological control of olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae (Diptera: Tephritidae) in California with introduced parasitoids. Biological Control. 21(9):1005-1025.


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Hannibal Rural Fire Protection District firefighters were called at 12:12 p.m. Saturday, May 25, to 4516 West Ely Road, where smoke was reported in the home.
The home is owned by Brandon Hayes and Kim Santos. Firefighters found smoke coming from an area around a dryer vent. The siding was removed from the outside of the home to access the smoldering fire in the insulation in the wall.
The fire department checked the home for fire extension with a thermal imaging camera and ventilated to remove the smoke. Fire damage was limited to a small section of wall at the dryer vent.
Fire Chief Mike Dobson said "we are fortunate that the couple and their children were at home during the storm, as it appears that the fire was started from a lightning strike. The fire department was on the scene for about an hour." No injuries were reported.
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Definition of petiole in English:
1 Botany The stalk that joins a leaf to a stem.
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- Plants were dissected into leaves, stems with petioles, and inflorescences.
- The high pressure flow meter was first used to measure the hydraulic conductance of whole shoots and its components, i.e. stems, petioles, and leaf blades in Quercus, Acer, and Populus species.
- For experiments, Cuscuta shoots of 30-35 cm length were cut from the stock culture and carefully twisted around the stems or petioles of older source leaves.
2 Zoology A slender stalk between two structures, especially that between the abdomen and thorax of a wasp or ant.
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- In the wine grapevine Vitis vinifera 'Merlot', poor growth during establishment and variable yields in mature plants grown in many South Australian vineyards is positively correlated with reduced petiolar molybdenum levels.
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- Several other plants had flowers borne on pedicels about three cm. long and petiolate bracts, the bracts being about as long as the pedicels.
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I had some MKV files which the video would be slow while the audio was fine.
I did some digging in the debug and some testing and it seems that even though PS3Media player is picking up the default FPS on the file it's transcoding it incorrectly?
DEBUG 2012-06-02 14:22:12.494 [Thread-61] VIDEO: [H264] 1280x720 0bpp 30.303 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
DEBUG 2012-06-02 14:22:12.498 [Thread-61] [V] filefmt:44 fourcc:0x34363248 size:1280x720 fps:30.303 ftime:=0.0330
DEBUG 2012-06-02 14:22:12.498 [Thread-61] Input fps will be interpreted as 23.976 instead.
I managed to confirm this by manually putting a
container == matroska :: -nomux -mc 0 -fps 30.303
to force it to pick up the FPS as 30.303 and the video plays fine.
Since obviously not all my MKV files are running at 30.303 FPS this screws with everything else, can anyone help me figure out if this is a PS3Media Player bug and/or the file has been incorrectly encoded. What I would really like is if there is a way to identify these files and have them automatically play back at the correct FPS.
I tried container == matroska && framerate == 30.303 :: -nomux -mc 0 -fps 30.303 but it didn't seem to work.
Is there some documentation on the Codec-Specfic parameters and the java conditions that work with it


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LOS ANGELES -- Stanford continued its ramp up to the Rose Bowl with a two-hour, full-pads workout Friday at the Home Depot Center, which is serving as the practice facility for both the Cardinal and Wisconsin.
But Stanford's first Rose Bowl experience in 13 years hasn't been all work and no play.
The week began Tuesday with a trip to Disneyland for a media appearance -- coach David Shaw had a photo op with Mickey Mouse -- and several hours of fun in the park. (California Screamin' was the ride of choice for many players.)
Two days later, the Cardinal attended the "Beef Bowl," which is a Rose Bowl tradition: an all-you-can eat prime rib dinner at Lawry's restaurant in Beverly Hills.
Freshman guard Josh Garnett was the pre-meal favorite and did not disappoint: The 325-pounder consumed seven servings; no one else was close.
"I was talking a big game," Garnett said. "Luckily, my stomach was able to help back it up."
From Lawry's, the players headed for Staples Center to watch the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Boston Celtics. They were scheduled to visit a comedy club Friday night.
There also is an assortment of dining and movie options near their downtown hotel, which is part of the L.A. Live entertainment complex.
"We can handle that; we can enjoy these things and not get too wide-eyed and bushy-tailed and just think about the fun stuff," offensive lineman David Yankey said. "We enjoyed the Clippers game, and Disney was a blast, but we're here to work."
In accordance with Pac-12 policy, the Cardinal will be reimbursed for the round-trip cost of flying 600 people, including the team, to Los Angeles.
Stanford also will receive $1.5 million from the league to offset expenses.
If there is anything left, Stanford keeps it. If expenses are greater than $1.5 million, the athletic department must make up the difference.
"The goal is to break even," Talbott said, "and that's our expectation."
Hamilton called Stanford radio analyst Todd Husak, who was the Cardinal's starting quarterback in the 2000 Rose Bowl against the Alvarez-coached Badgers.
"He said they were fast, physical and played a lot of combo coverages," Hamilton said. "Not a lot of pressure. And they played extremely hard.
"And I said, 'Well, that's a lot of the same attributes that this unit has.' "
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There were 97 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Tuesday. At that time, there were 1,457 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.
Robbery: An armed man stole an 18-pack of beer from a market in the 1300 block of East Main Street about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, police reported. The man took the beer, brandished a handgun and fled east on East Main Street on a bicycle. He was described as a Latino man 25 to 30 years old standing 5 feet tall and wearing a green camouflage hat, a black tank top and shorts.
The California Highway Patrol responded to 14 noninjury accidents and four injury accidents in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Tuesday. CHP officers also recovered seven stolen vehicles.
Auto theft: CHP officers arrested Ruperto Guillermo Jr. of Hayward on suspicion of auto theft, burglary and felony evading after he broke into Mike's Tow Yard on Scotts Road in Stockton about 4 a.m. Tuesday, drove a Freeway Safety Patrol truck through a gate and led police on a pursuit, officials said. A witness followed the tow truck and contacted authorities. Officers spotted the tow truck on Byron Highway and gave chase. A four-mile pursuit ended when the driver pulled over on Interstate 205. Officers said Guillermo was arrested after a brief struggle.
Drug arrest: CHP officers arrested Robert Griffith of Stockton on suspicion of drug possession and outstanding warrants about 8:15 p.m. Saturday after pulling him over at Myrtle and Filbert streets for a mechanical violation on a 1986 Nissan 300 ZX. Officers said they first determined there were several outstanding warrants on Griffith. When they searched the car, officers said, they found approximately 1 ounce of crystal methamphetamine and several rounds of ammunition. Griffith had been on parole under the AB109 program that releases certain state inmates into county supervision.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 102 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Tuesday, including eight vehicle accidents, 70 medical calls and three structure fires.
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A story carried in several newspapers including the Washington Post highlights a growing conservation trend. As their members age and their goals change, religious orders and organizations face hard choices about what to do with their lands and often turn to conservation.
The piece highlights the Religious Lands Conservancy — a Massachusetts organization that "has been instrumental in placing hundreds of acres owned by religious communities into conservation" — and Sister Chris Loughlin of the Dominican sisters of Plainville, Mass., an organizer of the conservancy.
With a faith-based mission to protect the Earth, Loughlin has approached congregations throughout the Northeast to broach the spiritual value of conservation.
It's not just a feel-good spiritual mission. During the past 40 years, the number of Catholic nuns has plummeted 66 percent, and the number of Catholic brothers by 60 percent. The financial strain of dwindling membership has resulted in lucrative — and often attractive — offers to sell the orders' land to developers.
In the mid-1970s, the sisters in Plainville confronted an increasingly familiar situation: Fewer students were enrolling in their parochial school, and shrinking numbers of sisters meant having to hire (and pay) lay teachers.
In a scenario faced by many Catholic orders, the cash-strapped sisters began to sell off pieces of property to help pay for the care of elderly members. In similar situations, land that was once eyed for a cemetery was split into subdivisions, and shuttered churches have been converted to condominiums.
The trend has actually been going on from some time. A few years ago I went looking for examples of TPL's work with religious orders and came up with a dozen or so from across the East and Midwest, including projects to protect a baseball field in Chicago, a Presbyterian church camp in Minnesota, and the last surviving Shaker village.
Among religious groups that have chosen a conservation solution are the Sisters of Saint John the Baptist in Mendham, New Jersey. Land around much of their convent, pictured above, is now public watershed, habitat, and recreation land.
As the Washington Post piece makes clear, while such transactions may in part be propelled by necessity, conservation by religious orders often is motivated by a deeply felt religious purpose.


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It sounds like it would work. I'm a little concerned that it would be too slow, but as long as it can be applied to more than just "All photos" (e.g. a subfolder or a folder of photos with a particular property) it should be manageable. I have thousands of photos stored in my photo directory and they take quite a long time to load when "All photos" is viewed.
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I think if we could choose which exif properties we wanted to use ourselves, that would be the best, although I'm not sure how complicated that is.
Parameters that would be available for most digital cameras that would be useful: Camera Model Name, maybe a calculated resolution from width and height (so I could filter out all low resolution pictures if I wanted)
Exif parameters that would be available only for people who have entered them, but would be great to be able to use at least in my case: Keywords or Subject, Hierarchical Subject, Country-Primary Location Name or Country, Location. I'm sure there are plenty of other people who have added keywords to their photos and entered location information.


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WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama is taking his economic pitch online, with plans to answer housing questions from the public during an event hosted by the real-estate website Zillow and streamed by Yahoo
The event is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. Wednesday, the day after a speech in Phoenix on helping homeowners.
The White House is urging people to submit questions via Twitter (using the hashtag #AskObamaHousing), Google's YouTube, via Instagram and the video-sharing website Vine. The effort is part of a broader push by the administration to get the president's economic message to the masses following months of public attention on the Internal Revenue Service's improper scrutiny of Tea Party groups, leaks of the National Security Agency's surveillance programs and unrest in Egypt and Syria.
Mr. Obama, in speeches from Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee, has already called on Congress to take steps to help people get an education and grow the manufacturing sector. His speech Tuesday in Phoenix will focus on steps to help "responsible homeowners and those who seek to own their own homes as the next cornerstone of a strong middle class in America," the White House said in a blog post.
He'll be speaking at a time when home values are on the rise. Home values rose by 5.8% in June from one year ago, according to data released in July by Zillow. That represents the largest gain since 2006. Meanwhile, the widely watched Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index found home prices in 20 major U.S. cities rose by 12.2% in May from one year earlier.
The president's plans to encourage more refinanced home loans have fallen flat on Capitol Hill, even in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Mr, Obama, in his 2012 State of the Union Address, called on lawmakers to pass legislation to make it easier for homeowners to refinance their loans. "No more red tape," Mr. Obama said at the time. "No more runaround from the banks."
Mr. Obama could also shed more light on his thoughts about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-controlled mortgage giants, as lawmakers on Capitol Hill start to advance legislation that would wind them down.
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By Kevin Grandia • Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 12:27
With a history that could surprise the most jaded Beltway insider, Jack Bonner, head of the D.C. public relations firm Bonner & Associates, might just be the king of corporate Astroturf in the nation's capital.
Whether its on the health care debate or the proposed clean energy bill, a notorious public relations tactic known as astroturfing is heavily influencing the public conversation.
Astroturfing, the manufacturing of a fake grassroots uprising, is a big money service offered by some very powerful Washington public relations companies. One of the more successful of these is Bonner & Associates, which boasts of a long history of manufacturing fake grassroots movements for corporate America.
A 1993 New York Times article, A New Breed of Hired Hands Cultivates Grass-Roots Anger, profiles Jack Bonner and his company as a "new breed of Washington firms that has turned grass-roots organizing to the advantage of its high-paying clients, generally trade associations and corporations." As the Times rightly puts it: "the rise of this industry has made it hard to tell the difference between manufactured public opinion and genuine explosions of popular sentiment."
If the name Bonner & Associates sounds familiar, it's because they were busted recently for sending fake letters on fake letterhead to House representatives in opposition to the Waxman-Markey clean energy and climate change bill. This latest failed Astroturf attempt by Bonner was on behalf of the coal industry, but it is only one small example of the empire Jack Bonner has built in his 20-plus years of manufacturing dissent on progressive health and energy legislation.
Some of Bonner's earliest Astroturfing efforts were on behalf of big tobacco companies.
A 1986 strategic document titled "Proposal to Defeat Current Legislation on Banning Tobacco Advertising" touts Jack Bonner and his company as experts in coalition building and grassroots. The document points to Bonner's past work on behalf of major chemical producers to defeat amendments to the Toxic Air section of the Clean Air Act as an example of Bonner's expertise in the area of grassroots campaigning.
If you want to see how an astroturf campaign is built, it's worth reading the whole document, but for a taste, here are some highlights:
"Goal: defeat federal legislation to ban tobacco advertising and prevent similar state and local initiatives through a grass-roots campaign.
Objective: to identify and mobilize leading national and local leaders (i.e. business and community leaders, newspaper owners and journalists) to actively participate in a targeted grass-roots campaign directly with members of Congress).
"… utilizing the expertise of Bonner and Associates and through our paid state coordinators, will undertake the following activities as part of a proposed grass-roots strategy:
- identify local/state community and business leaders through telephone and on-site communication efforts and develop a data base of supporters
- select chairmen to be responsible for the statewide and local efforts
- participate in association meetings and conventions and sponsor specific events
- coordinate meetings between state and local chairmen and their legislators
- conduct statewide tours in major cities with business and community leaders from the state
- place editorials in newspapers throughout the country
- enlist and coordinate support of state and local organizations
- compile and deliver resolutions signed by state and local organizations
- conduct a letter-writing campaign, telegram effort and phone-in day
The summary of tactics confidently concludes that:
"The grass-roots support generated by our campaign will defeat legislative attempts to ban tobacco advertising."
Another memo dated August 27, 1986 by tobacco's main front group in the 1980's and 90's, the Tobacco Institute (think, Thank You for Smoking), lists "grassroots expert" Jack Bonner as being available to discuss communications efforts and help the Tobacco Institute focus more clearly on their grassroots capabilities and needs.
Bonner follows this memo up with a thank you letter to the Tobacco Institute dated Sept. 26, 1986 that reads in part:
"I would like to express my appreciation for your kind attention at the field staff meeting last week I hope you found our discussion to be helpful and informative. The tobacco industry has many tough battles ahead of it and I am firmly convinced that the only chance for victories is by broadening your base of supporters."
Bonner's thank you letter includes a brag sheet of the services his company provides:
"What really influences a member of Congress on an issue? In our democracy, it is the constituent - the voter - or, rather, large numbers of them, who have the most influence on the way a Representative or Senator will vote.
"Lobbyists know it is one thing to tell a Congressman his voters care about an issue, but it is much more important to prove they care - and care enough to get involved."
That's true, of course. When politicians run into a crowd of engaged citizens, they tend to react. But they also tend to mistake those citizens for disinterested third parties who actually care about the issue - not as paid activists working for an affected industry.
Fast-forward to today where we have both clean energy and health care bills weaving their way through Capitol Hill corridors. One bill would provide better, more affordable health care for millions of Americans and the other would unleash an economic clean energy and green job revolution.
In an ideal form of democracy we would see a national conversation on the pros and cons of both these important pieces of legislation where average citizens would meet face-to-face with their local representative or go to Town Hall meeting and ask questions and get frank and honest answers. Instead, we get PR firms like Adfero organizing phony protests and Bonner whipping up fraudulent letters misrepresenting the position of charitiable organizations that didn't even know they were being dragged into the public debate. We get the American Petroleum Institute creating and coordinating faked-up events in which energy companies bus their employees over for lunchtime rallies that masquerade as spontaneous outbursts of public enthusiasm.
This isn't an expression of public opinion, it is an highly organized (and shamelessly well-funded) attack on democracy and, as the tobacco documents quoted above prove, it has been typical of the Bonner style for far too long.
If someone is participating in a "grassroots" campaign, their free t-shirts and baseball caps should all say "sponsored by (name your self-interested corporation here)." Those companies have every right to participate in the public conversation. But we should have every right to know when our elected representatives are getting bamboozled by a "spontaneous" campaign that was ordered up in a corporate boardroom and delivered by people who (if the Bonner example can be extrapolated) really don't care if the truth gets in the way of their messaging.
What is "undemocratic" about
What is "undemocratic" about Bonner and Associates? They are simply doing what arms of the Democratic Party (MoveOn) does, and that's to influence the democratic process.
On issues as critical as health care and energys, it is no surprise that numberous groups go into action.
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MoveOn is MoveOn
From what I understand Kevin,
From what I understand Kevin, Bonner does identify their clients. And what their company does is legal and registered. Not terribly different from Greenpeace, Council of Canadians, etc., though the goals are far different.
Stephen Berg replied on Permalink
Bonner et al. identifies
Bonner et al. identifies their clients, but their lobbying efforts are going against the wishes of the vast majority of Americans. Polling done recently shows that upwards of 75% of people want significant action taken to fight AGW. Having a vocal small minority getting such access and clout is undemocratic if it goes against the wishes of the vast majority.
The poll I cite is here: http://www.pollingreport.com/enviro.htm
RickJames replied on Permalink
People will say yes to
People will say yes to climate action as long as it doesn't cost them anything. $25./ month is too much for most to significantly reduce green house gasses - (from the same poll)
Clearly it will be an uphill battle to change society as much as is desired.
Precisely Rick. Talk is
Precisely Rick. Talk is cheap. EVERYONE is for action on AGW when there is no cost. But just try raising gasoline taxes by a nickel and see what happens.
How is someone expressing an
How is someone expressing an opinion that goes against the majority view "undemocratic"??
Richard Littlemore replied on Permalink
Identifying clients?
Bonner discovered the
Bonner discovered the forgeries and fired the contracted employee. What else do you expect them to do?
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Astroturfing is the enemy of democracy.
Bonner and Associates manufacture bogus grassroots support. It's likely they operate in a similar fashion to another player Adfero who boast the ability to:
'"move the needle." For example, our Cost Per Activist (CPA) Recruitment service is a popular tactic to recruit activists online because the client only pays for recruits who undertake a specific client requested action, such as sending a letter to their elected representatives.'
Yes they use paid activists! If that isn't blatant subversion of the democratic process, I don't know what is.
Astroturfing is the enemy of democracy.


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Gov. Cuomo's Women's Equality Act includes legitimate women's equality issues such as ensuring equal pay, stopping sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace (particularly against pregnant women) and strengthening human trafficking laws. Unfortunately, Gov. Cuomo included the Reproductive Health Act (S438) as part of his Women's Equality Act. This abortion expansion act will not simply codify Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose as the governor claims.
Abortion proponents claim that abortion should be safe, legal and rare. Abortion is not a "rare" procedure in New York state. Our state has the highest abortion rate in the country. In 2010, there were 111,212 abortions in New York state; in New York City 41 percent of pregnancies (77,327) were terminated by abortion. The Reproductive Health Act will increase the abortion rate in New York state.
A major concern with the Reproductive Health Act (RHA) is it inserts a health exception into state law. Under current law, abortions are legal through 24 weeks of pregnancy and after that point only when necessary to save a woman's life. This health exception, interpreted by courts to include age, economic, social and emotional factors, will permit third trimester abortions for any reason on fully formed, viable babies.
A second major concern with the RHA is it will amend the current requirement that only licensed physicians perform abortions. The amendment will "authorize the performance of an abortion by a qualified, licensed health care practitioner, acting within the scope of his or her practice." This includes physician assistants, nurse practitioners, midwives and others with "proper training." Abortion is an invasive surgical procedure where complications can and do occur. The law places women's lives in jeopardy because practitioners lack the advanced training of licensed physicians.
A third major concern with the RHA is it establishes abortion as a "fundamental right," making it impossible in New York state to place any common-sense restrictions on abortion. New York state is NOT one of 38 states with a parental notification law. New York state is NOT one of 26 states that require a woman seeking an abortion to wait a period of time between when she receives counseling and an abortion. New York state does NOT mandate counseling information on the link between breast cancer and abortion, on fetal pain or on the negative psychological effects of abortion.
Is the governor so concerned with his abortion agenda that he will sacrifice the safety of our daughters, mothers, sisters, and friends? The health exception legalizing abortion for any reason throughout the pregnancy, the licensing of non-physicians as abortionists and the blockage of any restrictions on abortion are in no way protecting the women of New York state.
Is the governor serving the people of New York state? The Chiaroscuro Foundation recently polled likely New York voters. The majority, 55 percent, described themselves as "pro-choice." However, 80 percent of those "pro-choice" voters opposed unlimited abortion on demand through the ninth month of pregnancy.
Please contact Gov. Cuomo and your legislators. Urge them to oppose the Reproductive Health Act and to focus on legislation that benefits women. Women benefit from access to alternatives to abortion including the many pregnancy care centers in New York state. These centers provide free medical services including pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, STD testing and material support such as diapers and baby clothes. Some offer temporary housing where a mom may live throughout her pregnancy and then up to a year or more after the birth of her baby.
Let's unite around the true women's equality issue, the dignity of life. We can do this by providing life-affirming choices, choices that protect the lives of both mother and child. Every life has a purpose, every life is worthwhile, every life is deserving of our love.
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Firefighters from seven departments battled a fire at a home on Courtland Boulevard for nearly four hours Tuesday as wind gusts of up to 32 mph fanned the flames.
Henderson County Assistant Fire Marshal Joe Swain said the fire is believed to have started in the family room of the home at 459 Courtland Blvd. in Mountain Home. First responders were called to the scene at 1:23 p.m. Tuesday. No one was at home at the time.
Flames filled the room and invaded the joists in between the home's first and second floors and first floor and basement, keeping firefighters busy chasing the blaze.
"The wind, the way it was blowing, was helping feed the fire too," Swain said, adding that the wind gusts were recorded at 32 mph when he was at the scene. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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A lot has been said and written about dwindling crowds at the Welsh regions' home games this season but, as yet, no-one has come up with a viable solution to what is becoming a real crisis. Ospreys' managing director, Mike Cuddy, admitted earlier in the season to being "baffled" about why their stadium is typically less than half full for their games, whilst former rugby chief Gareth Davies called it a "conundrum" as to why the Blues have been selling so few home tickets.
What is clear is that it would be wrong to assume that this is a problem unique to Wales. In 2010, the Australian press regularly bemoaned the alarmingly high number of empty seats at Super 14 matches. At the same time, clubs in the English Premiership expressed concern over a steep drop in attendances compared to previous seasons.
So, how can low attendances be explained? Well, to echo the words of former US President Bill Clinton – it's the economy, stupid. We still love our rugby, us Welsh, of that I have no doubt. Hundreds of thousands visited the Millennium Stadium this season to watch Wales triumph in the Six Nations and win a coveted third Grand Slam in eight years.
But, times are tough financially for the fans. The WRU can still get away with charging increasingly high prices to watch Wales' home games and still achieve a sell-out– one, because Wales are playing particularly well at the moment and, two, because international games are an event in themselves, much more than simply a game of rugby. Regional rugby is different – most of us can justify a one-off weekend in the capital to watch Wales play, even during times of economic recession. Paying £25 a ticket, however, to watch a Blues side without its stars, poorly coached, and in a three-quarters empty football ground? No, thanks. I'll watch it on the box. Families in south Wales are feeling the pinch, and spending money on sub-standard fare is a low priority for most, even for many of the die-hard fans.
There is plenty of academic research that shows how big crowds can improve players performance and, conversely, how improved performances can bring in the crowds. If crowds are allowed to continue to decline, then regional rugby will continue to suffer, creating a vicious circle of worsening performances and fewer attending to see them, eventually leading to more stars choosing to ply their trade on foreign soil.
My solution is not radical, but is simple: the regions must cut the prices of match-day tickets. You don't have to look too far for a successful example. Welsh football prospered when the national side was able to regularly sell out the Millennium Stadium, with 74,000 in attendance even against the likes of Azerbaijan in 2003. Ticket prices for that match were £3, £5 and a maximum £10. There is little doubt that this was a key factor in Wales getting within a whisker of qualification to a major tournament and a renewed enthusiasm amongst the public for Welsh football.
To their credit, the regions are cottoning on. Kids went free at Shane's farewell game at the Liberty Stadium, and over 14,000 turned up to witness it. Kids also went free at the Cardiff City Stadium for Martyn Williams' last game before retirement – only 3,500 were in attendance. The difference, I think, is that the Ospreys performances have been showing real improvement this week and they still have a shot at the title. The Blues, meanwhile, sink ever deeper into the mire, despite a win on the night.
Which comes back to the key things that can turn the tide: better performances, cheaper tickets. Both are in the regions hands.


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Sparrow is a minimalist mail application for Mac. It was designed to keep things simple and efficient. No fancy stuff here... just your mail and nothing else.
Interface similar to Tweetie.
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The developers have been bought up by Google. So don't expect any new features in this app. :-/
This is the first time I'm considering switching away from Gmail's online interface.
I still think the online UI is more powerful, but there's something about Sparrow that makes it a very nice experience.
Though as a principle I'd usually rather not have another application open for something that works just fine in the browser.
Support has been moved from getsatisfaction to https://sparrowmail.tenderapp.com/
Using 1.0 now and cpu use improved a lot. Now it goes to 20-25% max while scrolling.
For future features, check getsatisfaction.com/sparrow to see what's been planned/discussed.
Has a nice interface but I don't think it's lightweight at all. When you scroll the email list the cpu spikes to 80%-120%. It's beta so let's wait.
It now supports labels, is extremely lightweight and can sit in the menu bar, freeing up space in the dock.
The main thing it's lacking right now is a unified inbox for people with two or more accounts, but I've just switched to it as my main Mail client, after seven years of faithfully using Apple Mail.
Definitely like what I see so far, and when Gmail labels arrives, it will be king.
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I had to reinstall my desktop PC (running Ubuntu) and ever since PMS has played all my MTS files in double speed. I traced this to the fact that parameter -ofps 50 is passed to mencoder when transcoding the file. Before the reinstallation the parameter was passed as -ofps 25.
Now, All I need to know is how, where or with what PMS detects the fps of any particular file so that I can fix this issue.
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It's always interesting to see how other countries around the world celebrate the same holiday. The United States shares many of the traditions with other countries. On Easter Sunday children wake up to find that the Easter Bunny has left them baskets of candy. He has also hidden the eggs that they decorated earlier that week! Children hunt for the eggs all around the house and outside. Neighborhoods and organizations hold Easter egg hunts, and the child who finds the most eggs wins a prize. Families also get together for an Easter meal.
Read below to find out how other countries celebrate the holiday.
~ Eat hot cross buns. This is meant to symbolize the Cross.
~ Exchange of chocolate eggs or bunnies (symbols of new life).
~ Easter egg hunts/children paint decorations on egg shells.
~ Simnel cakes are baked. These are rich fruit cakes with a layer of marzipan in the middle and 11 balls of marzipan on top symbolizing 11 true apostles (excluding Judas). This is less common now except in a very traditional Easter.
~ Members of the family exchange Easter eggs, which can also be made especially for the occasion containing special gifts that are placed inside the egg.
~ Easter Sunday morning, each family usually eats a breakfast of salami, eggs, a special cheese cake and the traditional ''colomba'' – a sweet cake which contains almonds and candied fruits.
~On Easter Monday, everybody goes out for a picnic or by the sea and many families eat lamb, broad beans and a strong sheep's milk cheese.
France has held on to its traditions by giving eggs (chocolate nowadays) on Easter day, which is related to the renewal of nature in spring time. It has also been related to the end of fast period, a period during which no eggs could be eaten, creating abundance thereafter. Louis XIV gave eggs gilded with gold to his sycophants. They were filled with "surprises" and the tradition remains until today. It is also the symbol of resurrection in Christian religions.
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~People attend Church Services over the weekend to celebrate both the death and resurrection of Christ and to mark the end of the season of Lent.
~ Hot cross buns and chocolate Easter eggs are heavily stocked in stores for the Easter bunny to fill his basket!
~ Easter egg hunts for children.
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In general, Easter is no longer considered a great Catholic feast. It is more of a welcome to spring, an opportunity for a family to meet at dinner or to visit one of the cultural events held during Easter. Fairs are held in many places, there is usually a wide offer of beautiful hand-painted Easter eggs, and eggs decorated by different techniques – the so called "kraslice" (yolk and white are removed and egg-shell is decorated), which decorate shops as well as households.
Australia holds a variety of Easter traditions. Pancake Day is associated with Shrove Tuesday, because pancakes were a dish that could use up perishable foodstuffs prior to the beginning of the 40 days of fasting during Lent. Hot Cross Buns have a cross, the symbol of Christ, placed on top of the buns, either with pastry or a simple mixture of flour and water. The buns are traditionally eaten on Good Friday; however, in Australia they are available in bakeries and stores many weeks before Easter. Easter eggs, symbolizing new life, have long been associated with the Easter festival.
For Ireland, Easter-time is rich with traditions, the overlapping and commingling of centuries of ritual celebrating rebirth, resurrection, salvation and everlasting life. Many of the traditions surrounding Easter in Ireland are universal to the Christian world. Others – such as the dawn dance, the herring funeral, and the cake dance – are distinctly Celtic, and many hark back to the traditions of pre-Christian times.
~On Sunday morning in Poland, beautifully laid tables are covered with colored eggs, cold meats, coils of sausages, ham, yeast cakes, pound cakes, poppy-seed cakes, and in the middle of it all, a lamb made of sugar, commemorating the resurrected Christ.
~No smoke is permitted; therefore no warm meals are served.
~ Sharing a boiled egg with one's relatives is a national tradition. A piece of egg with salt and pepper, consecrated by priest, is an inseparable accessory in the good wishes we extend to each other at Easter.
~ Parents hide chocolate eggs or bunnies around the house for the children to find. There are different sizes, but all made out of chocolate
~ Sometimes close friends and relatives also exchange eggs.
~ In Sweden, Easter is not as big a celebration as Christmas, but schools have a holiday for about one week before Easter. It is the time when people remember when Jesus died and then rose from the dead.
~ People decorate their houses with the Easter colors; yellow, green and white. They put yellow chickens with feathers of different colors all over their houses.
Easter in Germany is at the end of March or at the beginning of April. It is always on a Sunday or a Monday. The Friday before Easter is Good Friday. No one has to work on any of these days. Many people eat fish on Good Friday. On Saturday evening they have a big Easter bonfire. This is very popular and many people come and watch the bonfires. These Easter bonfires are burnt as symbols of the end of Winter and all bad feelings.
In the afternoon of Sunday and Monday friends and relatives visit each other and they usually have tea together. Every year they do the same things. School children have about three weeks holiday at Easter. No one works on Good Friday, Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday.
Eggs are an important part of German Easter customs. It is thought that the practice of exchanging eggs may have started before people started to pay taxes to their landlord. Eggs were then a way that people could pay their landlord who then had to give some to the poor people. Today it is not just the children who receive eggs, but adults often exchange beautifully hand painted eggs. These are often accompanied with a special message.
Greece: On Easter Sunday in Greece, there is a public procession. Red eggs (red for the blood of Christ) are tapped together while one person declares "Christ is risen" and the other replies "Truly He is risen."
Bulgaria: In Bulgaria, people don't hide their eggs -- they have egg fights! Whoever comes out of the game with an unbroken egg is the winner and assumed to be the most successful member of the family in the coming year. In another tradition, the oldest woman in the family rubs the faces of the children with the first red egg she has colored, symbolizing her wish that they have rosy cheeks, health and strength (much like the Easter egg).
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Fort Hays State, who sat tied atop the standings last season, enters the season as the coaches pick to win the league and also the league's top pick in the media poll. In the coaches poll FHSU sits atop the league despite receiving one less first place vote than NWMSU who sits just four points behind them. Five different teams grabbed at least one first place vote in the 2013-14 coaches poll with six drawing first place nods in the media poll.
Northwest Missouri, who played in the MIAA Tournament Championship game, got nine first place votes and sits second in the media poll. Central Missouri, who also tied for first place in 2012-13, is is just two points ahead of Northeastern State, who received a first place vote, in the coaches poll. The two teams are divided by just five points in the media poll as each received first place votes. Central Oklahoma received a first place vote and sits fifth in the coaches poll while Washburn got a first place vote in the media and were picked fifth. Missouri Southern also tallied a first place vote and is sixth in the coaches poll with UCO being picked sixth by the media. Washburn is seventh in the coaches poll, while Pittsburg State was picked seventh by the media and eighth by the coaches.
In the media poll Lindenwood is eighth by just one point over Missouri Southern who received a first place vote. Emporia State is ninth in the coaches poll just two points ahead of a LIndenwood and sit 10th in the media poll. In the coaches poll Missouri Western is ahead of Southwest Baptist for 11th and 12th place. In the media poll the teams flip-flop as the Bearcats hold the 11 spot by just one points. In both polls Nebraska-Kearney has been picked 13th with Lincoln slated to finish in 14th place.
The MIAA slate of game is scheduled to get underway for many teams around the league on December 5, 2013.
2013-14 MIAA Preseason Coaches Poll
1. Fort Hays State (5) 153
2. Northwest Missouri (6) 149
3. Central Missouri 129
4. Northeastern State (1) 127
5. Central Oklahoma (1) 113
6. Missouri Southern (1) 104
7. Washburn 101
8. Pittsburg State 93
9. Emporia State 83
10. Lindenwood 81
11. Missouri Western 54
12. Southwest Baptist 46
13. Nebraska-Kearney 26
14. Lincoln 15
2013-14 MIAA Preseason Media Poll
1. Fort Hays State (13) 353
2. Northwest Missouri (9) 330
3. Central Missouri (2) 301
4. Northeastern State (1) 296
5. Washburn (1) 265
6. Central Oklahoma 234
7. Pittsburg State 204
8. Lindenwood 195
9. Missouri Southern (1) 194
10. Emporia State 164
11. Southwest Baptist 103
12. Missouri Western 102
13. Nebraska-Kearney 64
14. Lincoln 30


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Priorities - A: high, B: medium, C: low; Status - _: unfinished, X: finished, C: cancelled, P: pending, o: in progress, >: delegated. Covey quadrants - Q1 & Q3: urgent, Q1 & Q2: important
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8:00 | Work on Gospel exercise, message of humility 11:00 | Meet Rizal Raoul Reyes at Dome to give him a CD with photos 15:00 | Meet Jerome at home for anime thingy? 22:00 | Go home from anime thingy?
1. gospel exercise --- school : 13:12
Okay, the gospel exercise is more or less done. Whew! That's out of the way.
2. not going to party --- personal : 14:18
My mother strongly feels that I shouldn't go to the party later, since my finals are next week after all. I thought about it carefully and while I think I _will_ be able to manage the workload, it's wise to have some breathing room, and it's unwise to tick parents off. I feel bad about not being able to keep my promise to go, and I realize I erred in committing in the first place. I was looking forward to dressing up, although I must admit that I felt uneasy about dedicating a whole night to, well, Japanese pop music and anime - things I'm not really into. A quiet dinner at home would have been more effective for objective #2, which was meeting Jerome, but then again work should come first - and I'd have felt guilty about not working, too...
3. hermit mode --- personal : 14:18
I think it's about time I resumed hermit mode.
4. done with the smaller readings --- school, tips : 19:11
I've come to appreciate the value of light yellow highlighters, but I still refuse to use them on anything but temporary copies - photocopies, documents, that sort of thing. Books? No way!
5. a ream of arendt --- school : 19:11
I still have to go through a ream of Arendt later...
Ah well.
6. sugar-coated strawberries --- personal : 20:51
The strawberries are nothing spectacular - a bit on the old side, with strange dark spots - but hey, they're strawberries. =) Having relieved them of their leafs and assorted mushy parts, I proceeded to fashion a shaker out of an old egg cup. Looks like it works - I get nice, evenly coated sugared strawberries. Still, to be in a country where strawberries are fresh and firm and sweet...
7. back to work --- school : 20:51
Armed with my makeshift strawberry sugar-er and my trusty highlighter, I return to work.
8. Finished "The Human Condition" --- school : 22:21
Only one ream of paper to go. My highlighter looks like it's running a bit low on ink. I want to stock up on these.
These and
foldback clips. More of the foldback clips. The smallest kind - those
are a bit more useful. What am I doing? I'm dreaming about
organizational tools.
9. my dad and his vaio --- tech : 23:25
So my dad has this really sweet Vaio U1. I walked into the room and saw him using it... to play Space Cadet. [laugh]
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ROCHESTER — Rochester police used cruisers and a K9 unit to set up a perimeter along Northcoast Road near Market Basket after reports came in Friday morning a man had been attacked by another with chemical mace.
Sgt. Todd Pinkham said police were closing down their perimeter around 9:30 a.m. approximately one hour after the incident was called in, and they had yet to apprehend a suspect. Pinkham said police are still investigating to confirm exactly what took place, though the man who was reportedly sprayed in the face with mace claimed he was robbed.
"We're working to confirm that," Pinkham said, noting the injured man was cleaning himself up and changing his clothes after the attack.
Police were parked near the Silver Bell Mobile Home Park next to Market Basket. Pinkham said the incident occurred just outside the park on Northcoast Road. Police originally thought the man had fled on foot toward Alton though Pinkham said that was also unconfirmed at this time.
Police described the suspect as a white male in his early to mid twenties between 5-foot-8 and 5-foot-10 with a medium build. The suspect had a neatly trimmed full beard and was wearing blue jeans, white sneakers, a blue New England Patriots sweatshirt and a blue New England Patriots hat with a pompom.
Rochester Police request that anyone with information about this incident call them at 330-7127. Information can also be called or texted to the automated Rochester Crimeline at 335-6500 or 274637, respectively. Tips leading to an arrest may result in a reward.
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Newmarket woman plans world-record cross-country run for charity
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- Sep 4:
- Barnidge: Welcoming the new Bay Bridge with a $9 celebration
- Sep 3:
- Roadshow: Testing the new Bay Bridge in a convertible
- Bay Bridge: Drivers, cyclists take to 'awesome' new span
- Sep 2:
- Bay Bridge opens to traffic after an 11-year wait
- New Bay Bridge span opens
- Aug 30:
- Bay Bridge troll need not fear the scrap heap
- Aug 27:
- Contra Costa Times editorial: Closing Bay Bridge for new span one more time
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- Aug 22:
- New Bay Bridge span comes with riding and walking path
- CHP warns drivers crossing new eastern Bay Bridge span
BAY BRIDGE TOLL PLAZA -- The last car -- a yellow Model A Ford driven by Bob Faber of Richmond -- left the Bay Bridge Toll plaza bound for San Francisco just after 8 p.m. Wednesday, signaling the official closure of the Bay Bridge until the new and improved version reopens early Tuesday.
In a historic, and smoothly orchestrated operation, the entire bridge closed for the fourth and final time, allowing contractors to complete the final linkage of Interstate 80 with the new span before commuters return from the long holiday weekend.
Like other "carmageddon" predictions made in advance of key highway closures, the two weeks' worth of changeable freeway message sign warnings, news stories, radio plugs and all other forms of dire word-of-mouth relays appeared to pay off as bridge traffic was significantly lighter than usual all day, and the anticipated last-minute clogs did not appear leading up to the shutdown.
A few motorists hollered and others honked as they drove through the toll booth in the final hour and minutes before the bridge closed, although it's impossible to say why.
One Richmond man showed up at the Toll Plaza parking lot late Wednesday wearing a "Free Leonard" shirt. He said he had no beef with the new bridge but wanted to advertise his support for freeing jailed Native American Leonard Peltier.
"CHP closes freeways every day and while this was a large operation, everything went as planned," said CHP spokesman Daniel Hill. "We saw no unexpected events."
If all goes as planned this weekend, the seismically safer $6.4 billion self-anchored suspension span will open by 5 a.m. Tuesday at the latest, and possibly the night before if the work is done early. The official chain-cutting ceremony, scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday instead of Tuesday, won't be an impediment.
The new eastern span replaces a 77-year-old cantilevered truss bridge that engineers predict will suffer a catastrophic failure when the next big earthquake strikes the Bay Area. The Loma Prieta temblor in 1989 shook loose a piece of the upper deck, leading to the death of a motorist.
Although a handful of drivers pulled over in an attempt to be the last car to cross the old bridge, that honor went to Faber, a member of the Model A Ford Club of America.
He said he's owned his 1930 Model A for about five years after accepting the broken-down car with a rebuilt engine as payment for a job his window company did.
Unfortunately, none of the other members of the club could join him, he said. Many of them are on vacation, while others didn't want to spend the night exploring other pathways home. So Faber paid his toll and took his last ride across the old span."When I told everybody that there's no way back (to the East Bay), that iced it," he said. "I don't know how I'm going to get back home. I hope they let me back on ... or we might have to go see San Rafael."
The California Highway Patrol began rolling traffic breaks just before 8 p.m., ratcheting down traffic speeds in the minutes leading up to the full closure. Once Faber left the Toll Plaza and began his slow putt-putt across the span, Caltrans and the CHP did a last sweep. By 8:26 the bridge was clear and contractors Flatiron West, MCM and OC Jones quickly began moving onto the bridge the heavy equipment staged alongside Interstate 80 near the Toll Plaza in recent days.
The contractors will work 24-7 during the five-day closure. At the peak of construction as many as 400 workers will be on the site, 2,000 truckloads of asphalt weighing a total of 14,500 tons will be delivered from a Pleasanton plant, and 1.2 million square feet of pavement surface will be ground down for the drainage system and to prepare it for new asphalt.
During the closure drivers using other bridges and routes can expect longer drive times and more crowded freeways. For those who opt to take the long way around via the other toll bridges, experts advise adding an hour or more to the drive time between San Francisco and the East Bay.
BART, AC Transit and the ferries are offering extra service this weekend, although BART ridership appeared light on Wednesday as people possibly took time off, said BART spokesman Jim Allison.
As early as Monday evening but no later than 5 a.m. Tuesday, Caltrans and CHP will open the closed ramps and gradually escort traffic onto the bridge until all five lanes are full. The bike and pedestrian path will open by noon.
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Published: Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 10:27 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 10:27 a.m.
Members of Congress may feel like they are between a rock and a hard place on the issue of gun control, but Brian Merrell of Fruitland says they better get it right. "I'm opposed to gun control, and I don't have a problem with background checks," he says, "but what needs to be done is to put a greater emphasis on mental health. And on the question of police officers in schools, we already have that taking place. It's the media that continue to make hay over the school issue. I hope Congress comes down on the correct side of this."
STILL THE GREATEST: Sherry Sentell of Etowah is making the best of retirement, but uncertain times have her worried. "We're doing OK, but I wish out government would get its ducks in a row so we know what's next," she says. "I just don't know what to do with our leaders in Washington. It seems helpless sometimes, but we have to keep at it. I'm afraid the younger generation is going to suffer. One thing you don't see is our elected officials taking a pay cut when everyone else is. Still, we live in the greatest country in the world."
'HOW, MAY I ASK ... ': John Albree of Columbus shares a funny tale sure to have sides splitting from laughter. It's about a fellow who, ever since he was a child, had a fear of someone under his bed. He went to a psychiatrist for help. "I've got problems," he informed the psychiatrist. "Every time I go to bed, I think there's somebody under it. I'm scared. I think I'm going crazy." "Just put yourself in my hands for one year," said the psychiatrist. "Come talk to me three times a week, and we should be able to get rid of those fears." "How much do you charge?" the fellow asked. "Eighty dollars per visit," replied the psychiatrist. "I'll sleep on it," said the patient. Six months later, the psychiatrist saw the fellow at the grocery store. "Why didn't you come to see me about those fears you were having?" he asked. "Well," said the guy, "eighty bucks a visit three times a week for a year is an awful lot of money! A bartender cured me for $10. I was so happy to have saved all that money that I went and bought me a new truck." "Is that so?" questioned the psychiatrist. With a bit of an attitude, he continued, "And how, may I ask, did a bartender cure you?" "He told me to cut the legs off the bed! Ain't nobody under there now," said the happy fellow.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST: The Environmental and Conservation Organization's Green Energy and Sustainability Committee will host a series of hands-on workshops this year to help folks become more productive food growers and more selfsuffi cient. The first workshop will be about winter vegetable gardening and will be hosted by Bullington Gardens director John Murphy, and it will take place Wednesday at 4 p.m. The workshop will teach students the types of vegetables that can be grown this time of year and ways to keep these plants protected during particularly cold periods. Seeds can be put in the ground now for lettuce. Cauliflower and broccoli can be started soon. Come and get your questions answered. Learn what materials you should select for row covers that can extend the growing season in both spring and fall. The workshops require advance registration, and the fee is $15, which can be paid online at www.eco-wnc. org or by calling 692-0385.
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Deputies stopped a 26-year-old woman for speeding in Edwards Jan. 16, which happened to be her birthday.
The officers quickly discovered the woman's license was under restraint for a warrant that was issued when she failed to appear in court. She was arrested for the warrant and cited for driving while her license was under restraint.
On Jan. 17, a deputy saw a car flash its brights at him twice as it entered a roundabout in Gypsum.
The officer followed the car and tried to initiate a traffic stop but the car continued onto westbound Interstate 70. The deputy turned on his siren and spotlight and the car still didn't stop. It kept driving between speeds of 55 and 75 mph. The deputy's commanding officer told him to end his pursuit at Bair Ranch in Glenwood Canyon.
Garfield County deputies intercepted the car in Glenwood Springs. The 45-year-old driver was from Brazil and the car was a rental. The man said he didn't think he had to pull over. In his country, the police drive up next to you and motion to stop.
The man was cited for attempting to elude a police officer and failing to dim his brights.
A deputy saw a car with expired Minnesota license plates in Avon Jan. 19.
The officer stopped the 26-year-old driver and discovered the man had a warrant in Eagle County for failing to appear in court. His Minnesota driver license was also revoked for failing to pay a fine in that state.
The man was arrested for the warrant and cited for displaying expired license plates and driving with a revoked license.
• An employee at a Beaver Creek hotel had her wallet stolen from her purse while she was working Jan. 17. She canceled all her cards and was told someone attempted to use her credit card at a Rifle gas station that day. Besides $30 cash and several gift cards, the wallet contained the 41-year-old woman's Green Card, Social Security card and driver's license.
• The back window of a car parked on Estes Lane in Gypsum was shattered between 6 and 9 p.m. Jan. 19. A deputy suspected the window was broken by a rock or BB gun.


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Living History and Modern Military Encampment
Living historians portraying members of the Union Army's Signal Corps will be encamped at the Pry House throughout the weekend. During the Battle of Antietam, the Pry Farm served as an important signal station for Gen. McClellan as he coordinated the army's movements. Periodic demonstrations each day will showcase the equipment and operations of the Signal Corps during the Civil War. Interpreters will present the evolution of the U. S. Signal Corps, which began just before the Civil War and continues to play a vital role in the modern military. Visitors can try on uniforms and equipment and have a chance to send messages.


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OAKLAND -- A couple of old friends did in the A's on Sunday, Kurt Suzuki with a tiebreaking double and Josh Willingham with a subsequent two-run homer in the eighth inning of a 6-1 Minnesota victory that ended Oakland's winning streak against the Twins at a dozen.
But the alumni association newsletter wasn't entirely full of grim tidings. Down in Anaheim, Yoenis Cespedes hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning for Boston as the Red Sox beat the Angels 3-1, preserving the A's four-game lead in the American League West.
"There you go," A's shortstop Jed Lowrie said of the Cespedes homer. "That would be considered helpful to our cause."
While the A's have the best record in baseball at 72-45, they aren't above finding a little help useful, particularly in the next week. They left after Sunday's game for a four-game set in Kansas City with the Royals, who are the hottest team in baseball, having won 10 of their last 11. The A's handed them their only loss in that stretch, Aug. 2 in Oakland, but also lost two pitchers' duels.
"They have some of the best starting pitching in baseball," first baseman Stephen Vogt said, to which third baseman Josh Donaldson said, the Royals, top to bottom, "are as tough as it gets" as a foe. And Lowrie said the K.C. bullpen "is one of the best, if not the best, in the American League."
The two teams come into this series from entirely different routes. Much like the A's did with Texas two years ago, the Royals are trying to run down the Tigers in the American League Central in the final two months of the season. The A's are trying to ride a wave that has seen them in first place in the A.L. West every day since April 28.
"It'll be a big series for us," second baseman Eric Sogard said. "Especially coming into the last couple of months, wanting to turn it on and play our game."
Minnesota starter Phil Hughes turned out to be a mean customer, and the A's offense went nowhere after Vogt's RBI single in the first inning.
Jason Hammel, the Oakland starter, built on the 52/3 shutout innings he threw against Tampa Bay his last time out, throwing 62/3 innings this time, allowing just a first-inning homer to Brian Dozier.
Manager Bob Melvin said of Hammel, "He was better this time; this was his best start yet with us."
Hammel, while pleased that his slider and his sinking two-seam fastball are now producing the ground balls he likes to induce, would have liked to go deeper into the game. But he said he was back to "trusting my stuff and really competing out there."
The game got away from the A's in the eighth inning, and it all started with an infield hit that was close enough at first base that Melvin contemplated challenging the call. He didn't, probably correctly, and Suzuki came up later in the inning to break the tie with a double off the left field wall, and Willingham hit a home run over the same edifice to make it 4-1.
The decisive inning came against Luke Gregerson, who had been simply spectacular of late. He came into the game unscored upon in 15 games dating to June 25. It was just one of those days, and if Twins leadoff man Danny Santana had been called out at first, the Twins likely wouldn't have scored off Gregerson.
That one in the books, the A's packed up and headed to the Midwest and their meeting with the Royals expecting big things.
"I don't feel like we need to make any statements," Donaldson said. "I feel like we need to go out and play good baseball. I feel like if we play good baseball, we'll win. If not, we'll lose."
Abad has not allowed any of his 21 inherited runners to score this season.
For more on the A's, see John Hickey's Inside the A's blog at ibabuzz.com/athletics. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/JHickey3.
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