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PLEASANTON -- "Who needs sleep" read the sign at an A'Gaci store in Concord during the wee hours Friday morning, symbolic of the latest overnight Black Friday shopping spree in the Bay Area.
Yet by 3 a.m. in Pleasanton's Stoneridge Mall, some shoppers were doing just that, sleeping even while they clutched shopping bags containing their purchases. For the shoppers who were still awake and patrolling the corridors of the big regional mall, views differed on whether it was all worth it to be awake and shopping for discounts.
They weren't alone: Thousands of Bay Area consumers crowded into malls and other retail outlets starting Thursday night and continuing Friday morning, deciding to forsake Thanksgiving feasts and a regular night's sleep in a quest for bargains that officially kicked off Christmas shopping in 2013.
"We found good deals on most stuff, some stores had 50 percent off sales," said Bianca Ruiz, Pleasanton resident who was shopping at Stoneridge. But Ruiz also added that "With the stores opening at 6 p.m., that kind of ruined the point of Thanksgiving."
Mike Calvin of Sacramento said he decided to be very picky before buying anything at the Pkeasanton shopping mall.
"It's a lot of hype for deals that are only kind of O.K.," Calvin said. "The sales tend to be the same kind of sales you'd find on any other day of the week. I only spent my money if something was at least 50 percent off. There was limited opportunity to get those deals."
Campbell Dawson contemplated her shopping expedition that began at 9:30 p.m. Thursday night at Concord's Sunvalley Mall and ended around 2 a.m. on Friday.
"I got some really good deals on boots and jeans" Dawson said. She added, a hint of weariness in her voice, "I think I'm done," adding that she and her companions weren't planning to venture to any more stores.
The night shopping at Sunvalley was a way for Eric Alcala of Martinez to cope with the Thanksgiving dinner he had consumed just before hitting the mall.
"It was something to do after dinner, to walk that all off," Alcala said.
For Andrea Alcala, the latest Black Friday adventure marked the second straight year of shopping in the middle of the night.
"It was all right," Andrea Alcala said in a mixed assessment of the overnight discounts. "Some stores had really good deals, but some of the other ones weren't good at all."
Chris Braun of Pittsburg said he wanted to do more than simply shop, although he and his wife did some purchasing.
"Some of it is the experience of being out here tonight and some of it is the buying," Braun said of his group's trip to Sunvalley. Braun bought some clothes and his wife got a Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
In Hayward, two sisters renewed a tradition of shopping in the middle of the night as a way to mark their family bonds amid the throngs of consumers at Southland Mall.
"It's like our sister spending time together tradition," said Briana Brown, a Hayward resident.
Brown and her sister were taking a break from a night of shopping at the retail center while they did some people watching and planned which store to visit next. The sisters figured the most recent commercial expedition was the fourth straight year of overnight shopping for Christmas.
"It's weird that Black Friday is starting so early this year," said Heather Brown, who also lives in Hayward. "The earlier shopping cut into Thanksgiving dinner. But this is a way to spend time with my sister."
At Southland Mall, the sisters bought toys and other presents for children in the family, including nieces, nephews and a daughter.
Hoping to gobble up bargains on Turkey Day, customers crammed into lines that snaked towards store entrances throughout the Bay Area.
At NewPark Mall in Newark, customers said they found good bargains -- but also noted that the discounts weren't necessarily deep enough to justify the night-time excursions.
"I expected better sales," said Liz Vasquez of Fremont, who shopped at Macy's. "The deals were all right. But they were not what I was expecting."
Some shoppers said it would likely be possible to find similar or even better discounts or later during the first weekend of holiday shopping.
Customers will have plenty of opportunities to find deals, since a number of stores will wind up being open continuously from Thursday evening until late Friday night.
The Hollister store at NewPark Mall opened at 8 p.m. on Thursday and is due to stay open continuously until 9 p.m. on Friday -- 25 hours straight. Both the Kohls and Macy's stores in Hayward opened at 8 p.m. on Thursday and were expected to stay open until midnight on Friday -- 28 straight hours of being open.
"I feel sorry for the people who have to work in the stores all night," said Leon Vasquez, a Fremont resident.
This Thanksgiving marked the first time for overnight shopping for Jessica Rodrigez of San Leandro. She wasn't really looking to buy a lot of things although she did purchase some items.
"I just wanted to see what this was all about and I liked it," Rodrigez said. "It's better if you go just to look. There's no pressure."
Thursday night marked the second year in a row for early bird shopping on the part of Jessica's shopping companion, Samantha Rodrigez, a San Leandro resident. She also preferred the no-pressure approach.
"Last year, I was really looking for specific items and it wasn't fun at all," Samantha said. "This year it's much better. And you can get the same deals online."
Among the first customers to shop at stores Thursday night were people who jammed parking lots and formed huge lines at outlets such as Best Buy and Wal-Mart.
At the Best Buy in the McCarthy Ranch retail complex in Milpitas, a crowd of more than 1,000 lined up outside the consumer electronics store spanning nearly five city blocks and looking like a line at Disneyland in mid-summer.
Milpitas residents Michael Guinto, 21, and Andrew Rosas, 22 were in the vanguard of the line. They had spearheaded a line-waiting system that went back to Friday of last week.
With a tent and a generator to power their TV and XBox, Guinto and Rosas secured their place in front of the Black Thursday line with seven days of fast food and a shift-based system that encompassed 11 total participants.
What did they covet? A 39-inch Insignia LED television for about $170, or less than half of its typical price.
They did learn that they probably could spent less time in line in line and still been first to get in the Best Buy. They didn't even get confirmation that they would be assured their sought-after items until an hour before the 6 p.m. opening Thursday.
"Next year we won't do it as early," Guinto said. "Maybe just a couple of days before."
On the other end of the spectrum -- and line -- was Milpitas software guru Chris Stoner, who casually showed up before the opening and took her place in the queue, expressing surprise at the breadth of humanity in front of her.
"I thought it was going to be crazy," Stoner said. "But not this crazy." For Stoner and her party of three, the quest was a post-dinner jaunt, so no meals were foregone. Her target? An HDTV, but she wouldn't say which one.
As for the promotional gambit of Thanksgiving Day store openings, Palo Alto resident Greg Mitchell lamented the new development as an impediment to family time. Yet he was still in line. No. 3 to be exact after his group spent three days in their spot.
"The economy knows what it's doing," Mitchell said. "We can't pass up these deals."
Yet 16-year-old Emi, a Fremont resident, said she resents what appears to her to be a steadily intensifying commercialization of the holidays.
"It's like Thanksgiving doesn't exist any more," said Emi, who didn't wish to provide her last name. "They set up Halloween stuff in September. Then on November 1st, they put up Christmas stuff in the stores. Everything is about consumerism."
Stephany Lemos, a Fremont resident, was waiting with her son to get inside the Wal-Mart store in Fremont that opened its doors at 6 p.m. Thursday.
"It's the first time I've done this. I think it's going to be worth it," Lemos said.
Lemos hoped to buy a 50-inch flat-screen television for $288 at Wal-Mart. Lemos said she came over to the store right from Turkey Day dinner.
"This is something I've really wanted," Lemos said. "I got here a little later than I had planned."
A rough count of the crowd indicated that about 1,000 people were waiting in lines soon after the doors opened at the Wal-Mart on Osgood Road.
"This is a little bit too much," said Clifford Chavez of Livermore, surveying the throng at the Wal-Mart. "I just can't believe this line. I'm surprised there are so many people."
Chavez wasn't sure whether to go or stay. He thought a different store might be easier to handle. Chavez was primarily interested in buying electronics items such as an iPad and a flat-screen TV.
Srina Banai of Fremont said he was pleased with what he found at the same Wal-Mart, primarily an array of household items.
"It's our first time doing this," Banai said. "It was well worth it. We're done shopping for the night."
Raj Singh departed the packed Wal-Mart in Fremont with all the items he wanted and said he was done shopping for the evening, even though it wasn't even 7 p.m. yet. But that didn't mean he would repeat the experience of Thanksgiving night shopping.
"I pretty much found everything, mostly electronics stuff," said Singh, whose purchases included a digital camera. "We are going to dinner now."
Singh said the Wal-Mart was chaotic inside and directions about how to find items were confusing.
"Overall it wasn't worth it," Singh said. "Never again."
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One of the hottest beach reads this summer is "Nineteen Eighty-Four."
The spate of disclosures about America's surveillance apparatus appears to have spurred not only allusions to Orwell's dystopian classic, but also a surge of book sales.
According to Amazon.com Inc. sales data posted earlier Tuesday, one edition of the 64-year-old book jumped more than 7,000% in its overall sale rankings since the beginning of the week. Ranked 13,074 on Monday, the title is now in the top 200.
Editions of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" now occupy at least four out of the top 50 spots in Amazon's "movers & shakers" list of big gainers over the last 24 hours.
The telescreens that watch over the citizens of Oceania in the book are nothing like the National Security Agency data-collection programs unearthed this past week.
But Big Brother is having a moment right now, said Elizabeth Keenan, a spokeswoman for Plume, a paperback imprint of Penguin Group (USA), which published an edition of the novel in 2003 marking Orwell's 100th birthday.
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We struck out for Santa Fe on a cloudless October morning, hungry for some southwest culture, art and, of course, spice. It had been nearly two years since I'd wandered the 400-year-old city, and it was my friend and favorite travel companion Holly's first time seeing the southwestern part of the country. We'd schemed about a girl's trip to Santa Fe for years. As such, we were giddy that morning as we drove south, towards the stark Sangre de Cristo's, having made our talks a reality.
But I was nervous as well. I'd promised my friend a city that nearly gushes with good food, incredible art and architecture and this electric and eclectic energy. And more than that, my friend was newly pregnant, something she'd just shared with me the day before, and it felt like this might be our last fall foray for a time, a tradition we started years ago.
Would it, could it, possibly live up to the expectations I'd set so high? In five days time, we'd both know.
Middle East meets Southwest
We pulled into town around 3 p.m. and drove straight to our hotel accommodations for the next two nights, Inn of the Five Graces, a veritable sanctuary in the middle of the city, less than a block from the capitol building. A hospitable man showed us to our room, one of only 24 in the entire place. A sign with the word "Scheherazade" was posted next to the door. "What does it mean?" I asked.
"Storyteller," he said, opening the door to the warm, richly decorated room. My eyes were drawn first to the tall stone fireplace, darkened with soot from years of use, before taking in the colorful Orient-meets-Southwest aesthetic, with bright tapestries, carved wooden sideboards, intricate tile mosaics and more. The Inn is owned by the Seret family, Middle Eastern rug and furniture importers. There was an aura of mystery and luxury about the property that I've never felt in a hotel setting before. The inn, which is named for the five graces of Tibetan culture --sight, sound, touch, smell and taste -set the tone for a rejuvenating trip that fed each of our senses.
'New Mexico, that was mine'
We walked towards the city's epicenter - the downtown plaza. Our goal was to visit two museums before eating dinner at The Shed, a local-institution, further proved by the 1.5 hour wait. Good thing we put our name on the list before we hit up the museums.
First we visited the Georgia O'Keefe Museum (217 Johnson St., www.okmuseum.org), which had an exhibit of Robert Henri paintings on display, as well as some of O'Keefe's work. My favorite was an abstract pink, red and purple swirl of a a a piece that drew me in. This strong, stubborn painters love affair with New Mexico was immediate: "When I got to New Mexico, that was mine," she said. Next up, the New Mexico Museum of Art (107 West Palace Ave., www.nmartmuseum.org), located right off the plaza in a building that dates back to 1917, though its design makes it look more like a 300-year-old mission. I was surprised by the breadth of the collection - everything from bright woodblock prints of native Santa Fean Gustave Baumann to "New Native Photography," 25 photographs by 19 Native Americans. The museum is free on Friday nights from 5 to 8 p.m.
Once seated inside The Shed, dinner was quick, and tasty. Alternately annoyed and entertained by a margarita-loud trio at the next table, we were in and out in 40 minutes. After dinner, we walked to the nearby St. Francis Cathedral Basilica, named for Saint Francis of Assisi, the Patron Saint of Santa Fe. We snapped a few photos of the church, which was lit with a glow that seemed almost heaven-sent, before heading for the Inn.
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The next morning, we walked to The Railyard, visiting artisan booths along The Alameda pedestrian walkway selling everything from hand-painted aspen cards to leather goods, and then crossed the street to the Farmers Market. Everywhere we looked we saw beauty: deep-red tomatoes, red chile wreaths, giant sunflowers and more. A small boy in the center of the bustling walkway yelled "Mom" again and again, as people streamed around him. We paused, wanting to help, but a kindly older woman stooped down and reassuringly asked him what his mother's name was, so she could help search.
"It's mom," he said, matter-of-factly. And so the two of them wandered along the sidewalk, yelling "Mom" every few feet.
We hotfooted it to the Inn of Loretto (www.innatloretto.com), where we'd booked two pedicures at the hotel spa with Alley, a chatty woman who always wanted to live in Santa Fe, and made it a reality a few years back. We relaxed in the quiet room, softly lit with candles in the Kiva fireplace, while Alley made our toes beautiful.
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Santa Fe is the second largest art market in the nation, and has more art galleries than any other city of its size. There are more than 100 of them tucked along Canyon Road, which is where we headed next. I remember walking Canyon Road with my parents, as a kid, and being mostly bored. Not this time. In fact, we ignored our grumbling, hungry-for-lunch stomachs, and ducked into gallery after gallery. The day we were there, dozens of artists painted out-of-doors, in front of galleries, sometimes in the street. I was surprised by the range of art we saw - some southwestern art, yes, but representational, contemporary and abstract, too. We went into gallery after gallery for an hour, nearly OD'ing on it like a couple of drug addicts, until I overhead an artist tell one passer-by "the faster you go, the less you see."
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According to the terms of the separation, the science school will purchase its 23-acre campus and all school operations from The Keystone Center. Since late 2012, a local task force has worked on behalf of the school to raise the necessary funds for the purchase. After a two-month campaign it raised roughly $2.3 million, most of which came from the Summit County community.
Plans are in place to make the transition go smoothly, with the separation expected to be finalized in early spring. The majority of changes will be administrative, said The Keystone Center CEO Gary Grappo, and should not outwardly affect any of the organizations' programs.
The history between the school and the center has been long and close. The science school came into being just one year after center started in 1975. For the next 36 years, the two worked in conjunction to promote education and address societal challenges.
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"It was to bring these critical-thinking skills and the respect for science to kids ... in the same way that they were trying to garner respect for science and for the cooperative process in leaders," said Robyn Brewer, director of marketing communications at the center. Craig's vision, she said, was to "raise a generation of thinkers who already respect science and understand that collaboration can be a valuable way to solve problems."
With a multitude of camps, school, educator and community programs, the science school worked to make its mark on young minds - minds with the potential to grow into the very leaders and professionals that the center sought to highlight.
"Throughout its history, The Keystone Center has invested a great deal of time, money and energy in the success of the science school," Craig said in a statement. "The science school has been an extremely important facet of The Keystone Center's focus on science as the governing element in its public policy process. It is wonderful to see how the school's reputation has been solidified in the community and I'm grateful that it will continue to serve its original mission of instilling a love of science in children."
Although the center and the school will soon be separate organizations, the split is completely amicable, Brewer said, and the sense of connection remains.
"We really want the community to know that this effort, this split, has been a partnership effort," she said. "We were an organization with one mission and the school, under the care of The Keystone Center, has really been nurtured and gotten to this place where now it is strong enough to bloom on its own."
The center, which has an office in Washington, D.C., will retain its headquarters in Keystone and continue its programs. The two organizations have expressed interest in seeking ways to partner in the future.
"The science school is very grateful to The Keystone Center's board and staff for their support and partnership in taking this historic step," Doug Sims, chairman of the science school's board of directors, said in a statement. "We look forward to a very bright future."
Science school executive director Ellen Reid agreed. "We're grateful to the community and to everyone who supported our campaign," she said. "We're exited to look forward to the next chapter of this journey and continue to offer important educational programs."


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In about a month, either incumbent Democrat Jim Hood or Republican challenger Steve Simpson will become the state's elected leader in all things legal.
The two candidates faced off against each other Monday.
"I have fought my entire adult life to make my community and my state a safer place," said Simpson.
"I act on the facts of the law and not partnership," Hood said.
Both men bring years of legal experience to the table. Hood was first elected to the position in 2003 and is currently the only Democrat elected to a statewide office.
Before getting in the race for attorney general, Simpson resigned as commissioner for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.
One area of division is whether Mississippi should join in with other states in fighting the federal health care reform law known as Obamacare.
Hood says the Supreme Court will have to change the law and doesn't want Mississippi to bear any of the legal cost, while Simpson attacked Hood saying fighting against it would send a message to the nation.
"It's not about let's save some money," said Simpson. "It's about doing your job and representing the will of Mississippians who don't want it, can't afford it and oppose it."
"I'm going to use and concentrate my time on something we can have an impact on, not some political partisan issue out here that the federal government is going to have to deal with," said Hood.
Those impacts, Hood says, are clear from his time in office.
"My career has been based upon fighting for those who can't fight for themselves," Hood said.
Monday's forum was the first meeting of the two candidates, and most likely, will be the only one. Simpson is challenging Hood to public debates, but Hood says his record stands on its own.
From the state's Cyber Crime and Domestic Violence units to fighting scams and BP, Hood says voters already know what he's about. Meanwhile, Simpson says he has a record, too, but a debate would better serve voters.
"Would you hire a lawyer without ever having a chance to interview him?" asked Simpson. "Neither should Mississippians."
"The media is the best way, I think, to get the message out about what the issues are," said Hood.
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The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Volleyball team will compete in its first spring tournament of the season on Saturday, taking on four teams throughout the day on Saturday in the Second Annual F.A.S.T. Complex Spring College Tournament.
The team will start the day off at 10 a.m. against Rice at the Fundamental Athletics Sports Training (F.A.S.T.) Complex in Houston. The Islanders will then face SMU at 11 a.m. before breaking for lunch. They pick it back up against TCU in a 1 p.m. match, and they will round out the day at 3 p.m. against Southland rival Stephen F. Austin.
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Saturday's letters: Not welfare
Published: Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, May 24, 2013 at 5:14 p.m.
To the editor: I object to the term welfare state in George Wills May 12 column. I dont think it is helpful to discuss welfare states or failed states. Rather, we need to focus on functioning states.
FDRs Works Progress Administration programs, which I experienced firsthand, are fine examples of such. Nobody received anything without working!
I remember when FDR was president and I was an upcoming sophomore at Georgia Tech. Word came that federal money was available to build a naval armory at the end of the Tech stadium. The grant did not include money for the design of the building.
Tech President Marion L. Brittain presented the problem to my father, a faculty member in the Department of Architecture. That department was languishing with fewer students than usual because of the Depression. Papa offered to tell the unemployed workers where to lay the bricks in exchange for a years tuition for me.
Public money combined with individual initiative and bartering gave badly needed jobs to the unemployed, justified my fathers position and gave me an education. If that be welfare, we need more of it!
James Herbert Gailey Jr.
Guns do kill
To the editor: As a writer must supply a list of the sources on which his information is based, a number of us skeptics about Stephen Jones assertion that more people are killed by knives than by guns are interested in his source.
We have never read anything supporting that allegation. And, unlike tragedies such as Columbine, Dunblaine, Virginia Tech or Sandy Hook, a knife wielder would have been subdued after killing but a fraction of the number that guns are capable of.
As for automobiles, vehicular deaths are an unfortunate outcome of drivers often driving too fast and/or too close to the vehicle in front (can anyone say NASCAR?). Cars were invented as a means of transportation. Deaths are an unintended consequence.
Guns, on the other hand, were invented for the sole purpose of killing (bows and arrows and knives not being lethal enough).
And yet the gun fanatics parade these hackneyed, and long since discredited, attempts at obfuscating what is a simple matter guns do kill, and it can never be said with certainty that a seemingly sane person wont go berserk.
If he does, lets hope he wields a knife or car, not a gun.
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The Ignacio High School boys basketball team survived an ice-cold first half Saturday against Mancos to win 59-43.
IHS, ranked No. 6 in Class 2A by The Denver Post, struggled mightily and trailed 6-5 at the end of the first quarter.
After hitting only 8 of 43 shots from the field in the first half, the Bobcats managed a slender 27-20 halftime lead.
�We were 4-for-20 from the 3-point line in the first half. We couldn�t hit anything,� said IHS head coach Chris Valdez.
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Clayton Jefferson led IHS with 14 points. Wyatt Hayes and Richmond scored 12.
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Elana's Story
Repair Interview- Elana Baurer and Avodah: The Jewish Service Corps
by Leah Koenig at Repair the World
DC and New York Avodah fellows relaxing together in the New York bayit (house). Photo courtesy of Elana Baurer and AVODAH
Service has always been a part of Elana Baurer's life – from her mother's involvement with their synagogue's social action committee, to her decision to major in African American studies at Wesleyan. But until recently, she always struggled to locate herself and her service work within a larger, like-minded community. Then she joined AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps – a year-long service program that came with an instant community of 17 other people.
Bauer, whom AVODAH helped to place for the year as a paralegal at the New York Legal Assistance Group, took the time to share her thoughts on serving communities in-need, the dangers of making assumptions, and how she hopes to bring the lessons she learned at AVODAH with her next year.
Tell me a bit about your background with service before AVODAH.
I grew up in a house where the idea that privilege comes with responsibility was instilled from a very young age. My mother was the social action chair of my synagogue, so those ideals were at the foundation of my identity and Jewish identity specifically.
In college I was an African American studies major, so I studied race, hierarchy and patriarchy and looked at the societal trends of inequality in America. While in school I got involved with prison work - I coordinated a program that brings Wesleyan students into a women's prison and facilitated workshops for men's prisons.
I got more interested in the study of prisons and volunteered at a women's law project in Philly. I dealt with clients one on one, answering hotlines and giving out basic legal information. It was not policy work, but it related to the larger structural problems.
What drew you to AVODAH?
Even though I have had experience with both service and Jewish service work, I had never effectively found a community around it. There was my parents' community in Philly, but not of my own peers. Many of the people I worked with in the social justice and social action worlds were either not Jewish or their Judaism did not play a role in the work. The two sides were connected within me, but I didn't have an external melting pot.
And how has it been to be a part of AVODAH's community?
It's been amazing. Right before AVODAH began I psyched myself down. We were a group of 18 and I didn't think I'd be able to connect with everyone. But I've been both challenged by and impressed with my housemates. It's been an interesting experience to learn what assumptions I made about the other participants and their motivations. There are many different backgrounds represented - people who studied organizing in college, people who were science majors, and everything in between.
Are the Corps members' Jewish backgrounds also diverse?
We have a really wide range of Jewish backgrounds and that helps to inform our identity as a group. Around holidays we often talk about our different traditions and what we learned growing up.
What work do you do at your AVODAH placement?
My title is paralegal, but I have other friends with the same title who do very different things. I have my own client load and cases - I work primarily with Food Stamps and welfare cases. If clients have a problem, they can call our "warm-line" and leave a message so we can call them back. I also do advocacy work for my clients and represent them. It's rewarding because I'm helping my clients get the benefits that they are owed.
How has your work with AVODAH fit in with or diverged from the service you've done before?
Working with clients is so rewarding, and I've learned so much just seeing what people are up against every day. I'm not up against those same things, and it feels amazing to take some of their pressure off. This year has been really formative - I didn't know if I wanted to go to law school, and after working here for a few months, I felt convinced that it would be both rewarding and useful.
What do you want to take with you when the AVODAH year ends?
I think about this question a lot. One of the most important things for me is the idea of intentionality. In college I struggled with the Jewish community at Wesleyan and went back and forth between being involved and ambivalent. But the idea of intentionality, and continuing to bring my religious identity into my work, is something I want to maintain.
More practically, I'm planning on living with only one person next year, but still want to form a home around intentionality. I've been exposed to ideas about communal living as well as bringing sustainability into the home - making instead of buying snacks, or composting and reducing waste. I want to take these things forward.


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Note: My weekly op-ed.
I will venture a prediction; every single person reading this column has things about them they would rather other people did not know.
If you�re lucky, it�s information that would merely embarrass you. If you�re not, you might have secrets exposure of which would put you at risk of losing your job, your friends, your marriage, or your life.
These need not be shameful secrets. You might not want it generally known that you have something worth stealing at home, for example.
Case in point. In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, the The Journal News in Rockland County, New York, recently posted an interactive map on their website showing the names and addresses of approximately 44,000 people in the area who had legally registered hand guns. The information was taken from the gun registry database obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request.
And that�s when the manure hit the oscillator. The newspaper�s office was flooded with angry phone calls and emails.
And irony of ironies, though police who reviewed the messages found none of them overtly threatening (it�s not illegal to tell someone you are very angry with them) management was so alarmed they hired armed guards for the building. Now it seems those guards are going to be a permanent fixture of The Journal Record�s office.
Opinion about the consequences was mixed at first. On the one hand, it was pointed out that burglars now knew which houses had armed owners waiting inside and could avoid them, to the detriment of unarmed homeowners.
On the other hand, burglars who want to steal guns now know just where to find them.
Burglars after guns are often more dangerous than those who just want your stereo. A thief who steals mass-produced commodities knows overworked police can spare little effort to trace something that is quickly lost in the market of cheap used goods.
But a handgun whose chain of ownership is broken and cannot be traced if found at a crime scene is a valuable item indeed to a certain kind of criminal. The worst kind.
Then an even more sinister development emerged. It turns out about 8,000 active and retired police officers are on that map, and inmates in the Rockland County jail have been taunting corrections officers by telling them their addresses.
One has to wonder what The Journal News Publisher Janet Hasson and Editor Caryn A. McBride were thinking. McBride said she believes knowing where gun owners live is in the public interest.
No, they were indulging an urge to be news makers rather than news reporters, an occupational hazard of the profession. And sell newspapers of course, although that seems to have backfired on them.
And since turnabout is fair play, enterprising bloggers are now creating their own interactive maps showing names and addresses of The Journal News staff.
Way back in 1999, Scott McNealy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, shocked and angered a lot of people by saying, "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."
Well, �zero privacy� may be a bit of an overstatement, but the fact is McNealy was more right than wrong. Nowadays a lot of your life is an open book and more and more people know how to read it.
That same year author David Brin published, �The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom?�
Brin points out the genie of surveillance technology and openly available information is out of the bottle and is not going back in. But he said the ability to look at your life need not be tyrannical, if it works both ways.
He further pointed out that maintaining the privacy we desire is going to depend on a mutual agreement not to invade the privacy of others in ways we would not want ours to be invaded. A kind of Golden Rule for the Information Age.
I think that point has been made rather forcefully to Janet Hasson and Caryn A. McBride.


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Digital presentation - In this unique ghost story set on the Peruvian seaside, a married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions. Miguel (Cristian Mercado), a handsome young fisherman, and his beautiful bride, Mariela (Tatiana Astengo), are about to welcome their first child. But Miguel harbors a scandalous secret. He's in love with Santiago (Manolo Cardona), a painter, who is ostracized by the town because he's gay. After a tragic accident occurs, Miguel must choose between sentencing Santiago to eternal torment or doing right by him and, in turn, revealing their relationship to Mariela—and the entire village.
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Please can you help me with this?
I am playing a .mkv file from PC using PS3 media server . File has DTS 5.1 channel sound track in it.
Hardware setup:
PS3 with latest software update
Panasonic Plasma TV
Yamaha YSP-2200 as sound system
In PS3 Media server common transcode settings I selected 'Keep DTS Track'
Sound settings on PS3 are selected to Automatic
While playing I press Select button (square shaped one) on PS3 controller then following information displayed on the screen.
Linear PCM 2Ch 48Khz 1.5 Mbps AVC .
If I uncheck 'Keep DTS Track' in PS3 Media server common transcode settings and play the file again, I am seeing the following information
DolbyDigital 5.1 Ch. 48kHz 634 kbps AVC
When I used PS3 Media Sever to play same movie on my friends house using Sony 3D BDVE 490 Blu-ray home cinema system, information shown on screen was
DTS 5.1 1.5 Mbps.
Is this problem with my YSP-2200 or PS3?


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Definition of lambda in English:
1The eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet (Λ, λ), transliterated as 'l.'.
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- Before the suspense gets too much for everyone, I'll reveal the secrets of the symbol above - it's the lower-case Greek letter lambda.
- Einstein's 1917 refinement of his equations of gravity included a new term - denoted by the Greek letter lambda - in which his model universe neither expands nor contracts.
- The cosmological constant, which Einstein signified by the Greek letter lambda, made it so.
1.1 (Lambda) [followed by Latin genitive] Astronomy The eleventh star in a constellation: Lambda Tauri
1.2 Biology A type of bacteriophage virus used in genetic research: [as modifier]: lambda phage
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- Also, it is the surface receptor of the virus, bacteriophage lambda.
- The diagram below at right shows a virus that attacks bacteria, known as the lambda bacteriophage, which measures roughly 200 nanometers.
- Evidence that PP may play a dominant role in UV-induced transition mutagenesis has been obtained for bacteria and lambda phage.
1.3 Anatomy The point at the back of the skull where the parietal bones and the occipital bone meet.
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- Berry found sutural bones in 19th century Londoners in the vicinity of the lambda in 28.7% of men and 17.1% of women.
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News 12 First at Five / Monday, Oct. 29, 2012
EVANS, Ga. -- Being crowned homecoming queen is a big deal for any teenage girl, but for Lakeside High School senior Jessica Giddens, it's a dream come true.
Jessica has Down syndrome but she and her classmates sure aren't letting that hold her back. On Friday night, they crowned Jessica the 2012 Homecoming Queen.
Her reaction was simply, in one word, priceless.
"Your homecoming queen is ... Jessica Giddens!" boomed the announcer at Friday night's game.
Her reaction is what everyone is talking about.
"When they called my name, I said, 'Oh my god. I just can't believe it.' I was like jumping up and down," Jessica said.
Still wearing her crown through the halls, it's a moment Jessica will always remember.
"It was amazing," she explained.
"It's unbelievable. I see the pictures, I watch the video ... and I think about it and I'm just overjoyed," added her mother, Lisa Giddens.
"I was very honored to walk with my daughter across that field, just to hear the crowd scream for her when they announced her name sent a well of emotions up through me," described Retired Col. John Giddens, Jessica's father.
"When I became daddy's little princess, I just turned into this queen," Jessica said.
A queen who always lights up the room.
"Her disabilities don't limit her, and there's so much that she brings and she's full of spirit and she's just awesome to be around," said Jessica's friend Bailey Doss.
And her fellow classmates are her biggest cheerleaders.
"It just fills my heart with joy and laughter and it's just awesome," said Bennett Lemmon of Jessica's reaction.
"Just to see the look on her face, it's just so hard to describe that kind of joy and that kind of happiness," added Arden Mobley, another senior on Homecoming Court.
"Everybody is talking about it, everyone's talking about how everyone was crying," said Colby Ellis, Jessica's escort for Friday's pep rally.
"These kids know that no matter what color you are, no matter what disability you have, you're accepted and it's just such a wonderful thing to see," Mrs. Giddens said.
"It's a testimony of their character, it's a testimony of their love that they have for our daughter and we're so appreciative," Mr. Giddens said.
A living lesson of friendship these students will never forget.
"It means the world to me. This has been a happy day for me. Thank you all. Love you," Jessica said as she blew the camera a kiss.
Jessica's mother says she hasn't taken off the crown since Friday night.


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It's a bike race - in the dark, on snow - and it returns to Copper Mountain for a second year today.
Now called WinterBike, the event is part of the Leadville Winter Mountain Bike Race Series put on by the Lake County bike club, Cloud City Wheelers. Though the series has been around since the mid-'90s, the group took it over around 2007.
"We're here to promote and expand cycling," said Sterling Mudge, chair. "This is a grassroots race series, all put on by volunteers. We're not in the business of making money off the races."
Instead, he said, the money goes toward cycling advocacy. In the last three years, the group has built seven miles of singletrack in Lake County.
"We're trying to raise money for trail building and bike stuff," he said.
Three of the four races in the Leadville series take place at night, including the one at Copper. Aside from the fact that putting on a race that attracts more than just a few cyclists would be a logistical nightmare to do during the day at Copper, Mudge said, the snow conditions are generally better at night. Plus, people also seem to enjoy the added challenge of riding with lights.
Participants often ride their normal mountain bikes, though the general rule is that fatter is better.
"Most people ride as big of a tire as they have and as wide of a rim as their normal mountain bike holds," Mudge said.
In the last three years, however, he indicated that there's been an explosion on the market of manufacturers building fat bikes designed specifically for snow and sand riding. Now, there are a lot of components available, and tires can range from 3-4.5 inches wide.
"With these fat bikes you can do a lot more," Mudge said. "I rode singletrack the whole entire winter last year with my fat bike." Whereas normal tires would sink, he said, "the increased width of the tire and wheel (on a fat bike) makes you float on the snow."
Normal mountain bikes outfitted with the fattest tires possible will do the trick for Saturday's event, although some people may need to get off and run during parts of the course, he said.
"You can expect to fall down and watch other people fall down," Mudge said. "You make a good time of it and have a beer afterward. It's a $20 race, not a $60 race to go hurt yourself on."
The course is new and runs through Center Village. Racers take off at 6 p.m. in front of Jack's deck and do three 2.9-mile laps. The race culminates at the same location, where an announcer and DJ from the Red Bull MXT will be keeping the crowd entertained.
"It is a great spectator area for people to hang out and cheer on the racers," said Copper spokeswoman Austyn Williams.
Copper will send off fireworks to start the race and conclude with a fireworks show, too. The event coincides with the resort's En Fuego celebration and Safety Fest.


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Where Ontario County stands on hydrofracking
Bristol: Moratorium through December 2014
Canandaigua town: Moratorium through March 2014
Canandaigua city: Moratorium expired Aug....
Where Ontario County stands on hydrofracking
Bristol: Moratorium through December 2014
Canandaigua town: Moratorium through March 2014
Canandaigua city: Moratorium expired Aug. 4
East Bloomfield town: No moratorium or ban
East Bloomfield village: No moratorium or ban
Farmington: No moratorium or ban
Geneva town: No moratorium or ban
Geneva city: No moratorium or ban
Gorham: Moratorium expired May 2012
Hopewell: Moratorium expired June 2013
Manchester town: Moratorium expired March 2013
Manchester village: No moratorium or ban
Shortsville village: No moratorium or ban
Clifton Springs village: No moratorium or ban
Naples town: Moratorium through November 2013
Naples village: Ban adopted May 2012
Phelps town: Moratorium expired October 2012
Phelps village: No moratorium or ban
Richmond: Moratorium expires January 2014
Seneca: No moratorium or ban
South Bristol: Moratorium expired July 2013
Victor town: No moratorium or ban
Victor village: No moratorium or ban
West Bloomfield: Moratorium expires December 2013
NOTE: Moratoriums�-�a temporary ban -�and bans address unconventional, high-volume hydraulic fracturing for natural gas but may vary in wording and scope. All municipalities report addressing hydraulic fracturing in some way, including through zoning or resolutions, considering bans or extending expired moratoriums.
By Julie Sherwood
Representatives of six Ontario County towns expect to have drafts of local laws that address hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, ready to take back to their towns by the end of October.
Working with Boylan Code LLP, a Rochester-based law firm, the towns hope the documentation will offer their communities and others solid protection against fracking as well as other heavy industrial development involving natural resources.
The proposed model law or laws would have to be passed by each individual municipality and could also serve as a guide for towns, villages and cities in the county in crafting their own policies.
The group of six are the towns of Bristol, Canadice, Canandaigua, East Bloomfield, Richmond and Victor.
Ontario County Associate Planner Tim Jensen, group coordinator, said, �Early on, the group decided that instead of just focusing on high-volume hydrofracking, it made more sense to come up with regulatory tools to address the broader category of large-scale natural resource extraction.�
Canadice Town Supervisor Kris Singer, a member of the county�s Environmental Quality Committee, said fracking is one of potentially many more industries coming down the pike that could affect natural resources.
�We don�t know what is coming in the future,� said Singer, whose town code does not allow heavy industrial development. Canadice �is already fairly protected ground,� she said. �We feel in pretty good shape but are concerned about the future.�
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he will make a decision on allowing fracking in New York after a study by Health Commissioner Dr. Nirav Shah, which since February has been promised as being weeks away.
Hydrofracking is the term used for the unconventional method of extracting oil and gas from deep underground by pumping huge amounts of water, sand and chemicals at high pressures to break rock formations. Opposition is strong in the Finger Lakes region, where fracking concerns center on its potential damage to the region�s lakes, watersheds, agriculture and tourism.
East Bloomfield Supervisor Dodie Huber said she is glad the towns joined forces for economic as well as other reasons.
�We often times try to do things as a group because it saves money,� she said.
Each of the six towns chipped in $1,083 to fit the fee of $6,500 from Boylan Code.
Huber added that working together also led to sharing ideas and making what Huber said she believes are wise decisions in dealing with environmental concerns regarding fracking and other developments that could threaten the health of the region.
�It has been very good to exchange ideas and thoughts with representatives from different towns. It gave me a broader appreciation for the impacts hydrofracking could have if it ever came to the area,� said Richmond Town Councilman Steve Barnhoorn.
Page 2 of 2 - �This approach will put the towns in a better position to deal with not only existing resource extraction methods, but also others that may be developed in the future,� said Jensen. �This strategy will help the towns avoid regulating specific methods of drilling, extraction, and other aspects of an operation in a way that duplicates or conflicts with the existing requirements of outside permitting agencies like the (state Department of Environmental Conservation).�
A number of municipalities in Ontario County have fracking moratoriums or bans, or local laws or zoning regulations that prohibit certain drilling or mining methods they believe inappropriate for their communities (see sidebar for where they stand).
�We feel our zoning protects us from anyone coming in and getting a permit to drill,� said Gorham Town Supervisor Fred Lightfoote. He added that while anyone can apply for such activity, the town�s regulations and application process make it unlikely the drilling would ultimately be approved.
Supervisors of Hopewell and the town of Geneva expressed similar situations.
�Certain types of mining are not permitted in our zoning, and fracking is one of those,� said Hopewell�s Peg Hilton. Geneva�s Mary Luckern said her town passed a resolution prohibiting fracking.
In Naples, where the village has banned fracking and the town is considering a ban while under a moratorium, the Town Board last Monday hosted a presentation by attorney David Slottje with Community Environmental Defense Council, Inc., a Ithaca-based non-profit public interest law firm. Town Supervisor John Cowley said the board voted unanimously to have the council scrutinize town zoning and write zoning amendments to protect the town from heavy industry such as hydrofracking.
Cowley said the state holds the power to regulate gas and oil extraction. But towns can ban the process completely through land use zoning � �home-rule police powers,� said Cowley.
�The environmental law creates a situation where there is no gray area,� Cowley said. �You have the possibility of (oil and gas drilling) or not.�
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Verbal confirmation has been given by the Ontario County 911 Center that a missing 13-year-old Geneva girl, Kayla Jo Weatherford, has been found.
The Ontario County Sheriff's Office reached out to residents Saturday for help in locating Weatherford, who they say left her home at 111 Blue Spruce Circle in the town of Geneva at about 7 p.m. on Friday, March 28.
Deputies described Weatherford as 5 feet, 3 inches tall, weighing approximately 115 pounds, with brown hair and green eyes.
No further information has been released.
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I started the C25K and got to week 8 but started to have a knee problem. Hoping to start again. I have been trying to cross train on the bike and other thiings easy on my knee. It has been almost a month and it is almost better. I might try to start to run in about a week.
Just wondering how many over 60's there are who also just started to run.
I had a similar problem back in the spring. I have run before so I knew not to run too far too fast, but you know what I did, was up to 3 miles after 5 weeks, still slow but I started feeling a pain right at the top of the tibia where it should be cushioned going into the knee socket. If there is such a thing, I'm not a doctor but I knew it wasn't shin splints ( been there, done that )
So I took the summer off, got back into running Oct. 11th, and took it painstakingly slow. I just ran a 5K on Jan.2 and did fine. I only timed myself on 2 runs during the period from Oct to Jan, because I knew if I started recording times I would start running against the clock.
By the way I'm 62, and have run before, but my last race was in 1999, so I'm starting over. Am not overweight or health issues so I'm lucky there and otherwise in good shape. I really think that at this age, your muscles take a lot longer to take to this type of exercise, as opposed to being 30 or even 40 for instance. So even if you were active as a youngster, allow yourself much more time to get back in shape.
So my next goal is to slowly lengthen the runs and work on speed occasionally, working up to some 10K's in late spring. Then we'll see what is next at that point.
I'm 61, started at 59 (c25k) I have been very lucky so far with no injuries so far. I took everything very slow, I saw too many older runners getting injured. After my first 5k I did one every two months for a while then every month with a couple 10k's thrown in. Last Oct I did my first 1/2 marathon, May will be my second and if I can stay injury free Nov will be my 1st full marathon. So, it can be done, keep it at your own pace and make sure you have the best shoes for you. Good Luck and Keep us informed
I am 67. I started running the beginning of August. Last week I ran my first 3 miles in 35:08. I am still having problems with my breathing, I find my self breathing too hard. I am hoping to run my first 5K on Oct 16th. I like to get my time down around 30 minutes. Does anyone have any times for 5k runners around my age?
From experience, I wouldn't even think about somebody's else's times. You run against yourself, that's the fun of it and seeing your own improvement. I ran a 5K in Jan., 2010 @ 28.18, but I think that a 70 year old guy beat me. By the way I was 5th in my age group, so there were 4 faster than me. I was 62 then, 63 in March.
So continue to run and set your own goals, not somebody else's.
On breathing, try to get into some kind of rhythm. I exhale fully every other time my left foot hits the pavement, and slowly inhale through the next few foot hits, till that left foot hits again. During training runs I inhale over a longer period, such as filling the lungs until every second, or even third time the left foot hits. During a race it could be the last half of the race I exhale every time the left foot hits. Just figure out a rhythm that's good for you.
Good Luck, and do your thing and read other posts to get ideas.
I'm 64, but I've been running for 50 years. One thing we all have in common is the loss of muscle strength; we have to work harder than the kids to stay uninjured, which means hard work in addition to running. If you're not up to the time commitment and discipline, you won't be running long. Work on your quads and calves, and don't forget your abdomen.
I'm 62, I'll be 63 in December. I've been running about a year and a half.
I am 67. I have been running since I was 12. Right now I am involved in an experiment; I do a 5K every day, generally on an evil machine.
I suggest that you consider backing down on your speed, so that the impact loading on your joints at foot strike is lower. The compressive loading on your leg at foot strike depends on your speed.
I would recommend that you run at a much slower speed that does not create discomfort. When you fell okay at that pace, consider increasing your speed, but very slowly.
I am 64 and started running at 63. Over 200lbs @6'1". It has been 18 months since I started. I am blind in one eye, had a full shoulder replaced 2 years ago, left knee surgery 15 years ago. Tested for COPD because of limited breathing, but I had cronic asthma aggrevated by allergies. So I identify with your breathing situation. In 18 months I have completed 14 races....4 of which are half marathons. 5K pr= 29:46....10K=1:09:21 and half=2:20:21. Two races this year breathing just about stopped me. What I have learned to do is watch what pace my breathing panic or shut down started. I run with a Garmin Forerunner now so I can accurately monitor this. I then trained at just below that pace and did fartleks occcasionly. Doing that I increased my distance instead of my speed. I also learned to adjust my breathing pace to my running pace. Gradually my times got better and better, and I still am working on them. In a 90 day period I was able to shave over a minute a mile average off every distance I run. Good luck. Let me know how it goes.....Dennis
I have been running since I was 16, now 62. I have been using ChoPat straps since the mid-80's and have stopped having knee pain. It tilts the kneecap ever so slightly away from the socket so the ridge on the back of the kneecap does not rub against the sides of the groves in the leg bones. This stops the irritation and swelling so no pain. This was my issue after having major surgery to the knee in 1972. I was a paratrooper. At 19 it was a lot of fun - now I am paying for the fun. I am signed up for my 9th marathon at Disney World in JAN 2012. Have fun, I hope this helps, and don't stop moving.
I am over sixty. Lost 80 lbs running. Love running now, after two years, but was injury prone at first. Best advce I could give is take it slow!! The slower
you progress, the healthier you will be. Nothing wrong with walking the distance if you feel a bit off for a while. Its all in the roadwork, not the speed!! Enjoy yourself.
I'm 63. I started running in '90, and switched to racewalking (because of foot issues) in '03. Still at it, doing races from 1,500m to half marathons.
I wonder if you have the right shoes for the way you run? Have you gone to a good running shoe store to have your stride and foot strike analyzed to make sure you have the right shoes? Another consideration is whether or not you are giving yourself enough easy, rest, and/or cross-training days each week. As we get older, we don't bounce back quite as quickly as we once did, and it becomes easier to sustain overuse injuries.
Good luck!
I was talking to my dad on the phone, telling him about my run that morning, when he said, "Your mom is thinking about getting into running." My mom is 73! But perhaps she's not nuts and figures what's good for her daughters (my sister and I are in our 40s and both run) may be good for her. My parents live on the coast, and Mom walks several miles a day, either on the beach or the coastal paved trail. She's never run, though, and was thinking about starting off with some slow jogging during her walks. Is this a good idea? My aunt (Mom's sister) broke her hip recently, and Mom's been diagnosed with osteoporisis in her spine. She also has high blood pressure - the meds were affecting her energy so she couldn't come close to walking her goal of 10,000 steps per day, but off the meds she can do it no problem. The blood pressure has shot back up, though. Someone commented on running lowering blood pressure, which sounds like a much better method than taking pills with side effects.
Sound like from other posts than if Mom takes it slow, running could be good for her. Any input?
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My wife and I both use Hawthorne Berries (Walmart has them for about $5 a bottle) and this has helped keep our blood pressure in line without having to use meds. It might help with your mom. Also, have her start SLOW with the running/jogging. Take time and build up to whatever distance she is looking to be able to do.
I think I'd be just as cautious about the osteoporsis. Running will introduce more stress on the spine. I don't think that's enough reason not to run, but it has to be a consideration. Of course, weight-bearing exercise is also supposed to help with bone density.
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