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- Bay Bridge: Opening of new span to be delayed for weeks or months
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- Bay Bridge: Open new span with or without bolt repairs, experts say
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- Daniel Borenstein: Bay Bridge officials don't walk the transparency talk
- May 29:
- Will the new Bay Bridge open on time?
- Bay Bridge bike path bolt repairs completed months ago
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- Bay Bridge suspense continues
- Contra Costa Times editorial: Bay Bridge executives failing to produce basic written reports
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- Bay Bridge bolt maker says report 'exonerates' it from blame
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- Gov. Jerry Brown: Bay Bridge 'not going to open unless it's ready'
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- Live coverage: Bay Bridge bolt fix to cost $ 5 million to $10 million
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- Bay Bridge: Caltrans to reveal how it will fix bolt problems on span
- California Gov. Jerry Brown breaks silence on cracked Bay Bridge bolts
- Bay Bridge technicians 'listen' for cracking in the steel anchor rods
OAKLAND -- Caltrans' use of large galvanized steel fasteners on the Richmond-San Rafael bridge in 2001 led to engineers' choice to deploy the same specifications for the bolts that later snapped on the new Bay Bridge.
High-strength steel coated with zinc is susceptible to a well-known phenomenon where hydrogen atoms invade the metal's molecular structure and it becomes brittle and fractures. National standards caution engineers about its use and Caltrans' own bridge design manual prohibits it on ordinary spans.
But the state and private engineers designing the unique self-anchored suspension span for the Bay Bridge in 2003 believed the steel rod manufacturing modifications developed for the Richmond-San Rafael retrofit in 2001 would sufficiently reduce the risk of hydrogen embrittlement, according to dozens of project documents, emails and letters Caltrans released late Tuesday.
The change "does the trick for galvanizing high-strength rods," wrote Caltrans engineer Robert Kobal to his colleagues in April 2003.
Ten years later, that decision would prove costly in dollars, time and public confidence.
In early March, a third of the 96 high-strength threaded rods -- 3 inches in diameter and 17 to 24 feet long -- broke in key seismic stabilizers on the span after contractors tightened them down.
Engineers blame hydrogen embrittlement triggered by the combination of susceptible steel; the presence of hydrogen atoms trapped during galvanizing; and the heavy load on the fasteners.
Caltrans, Bay Area Toll Authority, the bridge contractor and the team of private engineering consultants hired to design the span are now scrambling to determine whether a proposed $5 million to $10 million repair job can be finished in time to open the bridge as scheduled.
They must also settle unanswered questions about the long-term integrity of the other 2,210 high-strength steel fasteners used on the bridge fabricated in the Midwest under identical specifications. Testing is under way but it could be weeks or months before engineers have the results.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi volleyball team will continue its road swing in Louisiana on Saturday, Oct. 12, when it travels to Hammond, La. to take on Southeastern La. The Islanders are coming off its sixth Southland Conference victory of the season and are looking to keep its four-match winning streak alive against the Lady Lions.
The Islanders are off to the best Southland Conference start in program history with a 6-1 record including an 11-7 overall record. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi has won eight of its last nine matches and will meet the Lady Lions for the ninth time in program history. The squad currently sits behind undefeated Central Arkansas (6-0) in the conference standings and is tied with Sam Houston State (6-1).
The Islanders are coming off a 3-1 victory (19-25, 25-23, 25-12, 25-16) Thursday night against first-year conference member New Orleans. The team finished with three players in double figures in kills and tallied a season-high 10 blocks. Brianna Brink powered the Islanders' offense with 15 kills on .303 hitting while Ivy Baresh collected 14 kills, nine digs and tied a career-high five blocks. Freshman Shaquinn Parker had an impressive night with 11 kills on .444 hitting while recording four blocks and Ashley Phelps chipped in nine kills. Senior Logen Bourque ran the offense with 51 assists and tallied eight digs. The Islanders' defense also had a solid performance with 61 digs, including a career-high 21 from Shayla Maldonado.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi currently leads the conference in assists with 12.98 per set, which ranks 33rd in the nation. The Islanders are third in the conference in kills with 13.64 per set and third in digs with 15.82 per set.
Bourque is currently ranked 36th in the nation with 10.91 assists per set, which is good for second place in the conference. She has collected 720 assists this season for a total of 3,926 assists in her career. Baresh is leading the Islanders' offense this season with 3.48 kills per set (4th SLC) and is second on the team in digs with 3.30 digs per set. Brink is right behind Baresh with 3.02 kills per set (14th SLC) and 196 total kills.
Defensively, Hailey King powers the team with 3.95 digs per set (9th SLC) and 257 digs on the year. Parker is leading the Islanders at the net with 39 total blocks this season, including 32 block assists.
Southeastern La. enters Saturday's match with a 6-13 record including a 0-7 record in conference play. The Lady Lions are coming off a 3-2 loss to Houston Baptist at home Thursday night. Prior to that, Southeastern La. had dropped six straight. Tiffany Thomas leads the Lady Lions with 3.15 kills per set while Mikayla Shippy runs the offense with 9.35 assists per set. Defensively, Morgan Todd leads the team with 4.27 digs per set and Rachael Bunn has recorded 51 total blocks on the year.
Saturday's match will mark the ninth meeting between the two schools with the Islanders holding the 8-0 series advantage. The Islanders have won eight straight matches over the Lady Lions, with the last two coming last season. In the first meeting, the Islanders sealed a 3-1 victory in Hammond and followed it with a 3-0 win in Corpus Christi.
Click here for live stats and video of the match and for in-match updates check out Islanders Volleyball on Twitter (@IslandersVB).
The Islanders will wrap its Louisiana road trip on Monday, Oct. 14, when the team takes on Nicholls State in Thibodaux, La. First serve is set for 6:30 p.m.
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Last night's episode of Running Wilde made it clear that this is not the next Arrested Development. It's good (in a watered-down, slightly-absurd sitcom way) but is this really what Fox thinks America is looking to watch? Clips inside.
Just like any other die-hard Arrested fan, my heart exploded with happiness when David Cross and Will Arnett had their first scene together. But like any other fan of good comedy, my great mood immediately deflated while sitting through their scenes.
There's something heartbreaking about watching two actors with a great rapport give a performance that isn't laugh-out-loud funny. Am I wrong?


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Obama plans do little to prevent Connecticut tragedy
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Very little proposed by President Obama today could have prevented the tragic shooting in Connecticut, while the President instead inflamed political and regional rancor on an issue over which broad bipartisan cooperation is needed, according to Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Carter (R-TX31).
"Americans are united in looking for real bipartisan solutions to the kind of mass shootings that we have suffered at Sandy Hook Elementary, Aurora, Fort Hood, Virginia Tech, and Columbine," says Carter. "Instead we have the President accusing everyone who disagrees with his specific ideas to be pawns of lobbyists, who don't care whether children are murdered. The only concrete reforms he proposes that could have prevented the Sandy Hook shootings is to provide school security officers at federal expense, which is in essence the NRA plan which he previously opposed, along with vague suggestions on increased firearms security measures."
The mother of the Sandy Hook shooter legally purchased the firearms used in the crime under the same background check criteria as those proposed by Obama today. An armed guard at the school might have prevented the killings, as would have the weapons being locked in a gun safe or other security devices that would have prevented the shooter's access. The shooter was legally blocked from purchasing firearms, and was able to carry out the attack only by accessing his mother's guns.
Carter plans to introduce legislation providing federal tax incentives for firearm owners to better secure their weapons against unauthorized use, and remains open to finding constitutional ways to prevent mentally unstable persons from accessing guns. The former Texas judge is also interested in determining the role of media in the rash of recent mass shootings, especially that of violent video games.
Carter says he is committed to working with members of both parties to develop solid policies to prevent mass shootings. "We have recurring problems with these horrific incidents that must be addressed," says Carter. "And those problems are not responsible firearms owners misusing their weapons. The Virginia Tech, Fort Hood, and Aurora shooters should have been denied sales based on their troubled histories, but were not. I'm very interested in finding ways to prevent mentally unstable individuals like these from purchasing weapons."
"But I do not support the President's call to deny or restrict the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens," Carter says. "I do not appreciate the rank partisanship of his remarks, and I remain suspicious of the legal rationale behind his executive orders. We need to bring this nation together to find common-sense solutions to eliminate these terrible acts while respecting our Bill of Rights. Fanning political flames is not the way to do that."


text: Austin Whitney, a 22-year-old UC Berkeley grad paralyzed in a 2007 car accident (he got drunk and hit a tree), fulfilled a dream today that most of us would take entirely for granted: He walked seven steps to collect his diploma, with the help of a motorized exoskeleton. Watch the video and be inspired. (And don't drink and drive.) [PopSci]


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New mom, McKayla Mathis gave birth to Kaden Wasko on April 27, 2013. Grandmother, Paula Bevington recalls just 18 years ago in 1994, being in the Birth Center at Robinson when Mary delivered McKayla. Paula and new mom, McKayla were thrilled that Mary was able to be a part of both their deliveries.
"Attending McKayla's birth was such a thrill," Mary stated. "I still remember assisting her mother through her labor and the birth of McKayla during a busy Christmas season early in my career. Watching Paula become a grandmother was rather surreal – she still looks like a young mother herself."
Mary has been a nurse for 42 years, with 35 years in maternal-child nursing. Mary began her career in midwifery 20 years ago, when she received her Certificate of Nurse Midwifery from Case Western Reserve University.
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The opportunity for e-cigarette entrepreneurs to open new vapor bars and hookah lounges in Fremont and Hayward has gone up in smoke -- for now, anyway.
Both East Bay cities temporarily banned new such businesses earlier this month, while allowing existing retailers to stay open pending further study of the trendy smoking products' health effects.
Fremont's City Council added e-cigarettes to its list of prohibited smoking products on Feb. 11, Community Development Director Jeff Schwob said. It also placed a 45-day moratorium on new retailers and vapor bars, where customers use the smokeless devices.
The battery powered devices heat a small amount of nicotine -- sometimes flavored -- to create a vapor that users inhale. The method avoids cigarette byproducts such as tar and chemicals.
"People might think they're not harmful because they're not regulated," Schwob said, noting that the city will err on the side of caution. "Basically, we're treating e-cigarettes the same as we treat regular cigarettes." But are they the same? The Food and Drug Administration is expected to rule soon on that question, and some states and cities have held off enacting regulations until then.
E-cigarettes are considered less harmful than regular cigarettes. In vapor bars, users fill a tank with nicotine solutions that come in different flavors and potencies, and press a button that heats the solutions into vapor that customers inhale.
The vapor's health effects are unknown, leading national health experts into an ongoing debate: Are e-cigarettes a dangerous gateway habit that primes teenagers for nicotine addiction? Or does it actually help heavy smokers stop using cigarettes, which kill nearly half a million people each year?
When Fremont's ban expires in April, Schwob said, the council likely will extend it for two years, the longest permitted by state law. "It's hard to study an issue in 45 days," he said. "(The extension) would allow us time to do more research and see what other communities are doing."
Fremont has about six such businesses, city leaders said.
E-cigarettes have helped "a large number of people coming in to quit smoking," said Munvir Aulakh, co-owner of Vapor Planes, which opened in Fremont last year.
"Not only have they successfully quit smoking but their personal lives have gotten better," Aulakh said, adding that a 54-year-old customer credits his business with helping her kick her nicotine habit. Hayward has eight retailers, but it added e-cigarettes to its smoking ordinance last month when it temporarily halted all new tobacco retail stores. Before, the city had no rules specifically for e-cigarette sales, but when seven stores opened in less than a year, Hayward planners took notice. Last week, the City Council extended its moratorium, which covers new hookah and vapor lounges, until next January.
It does not affect the city's existing businesses, said Linda Ajello, a city planner.
"We expect to come back with regulations in the spring," Hayward Development Services Director David Rizk told the council. "We need time to do more research and outreach."
E-cigarette use more than doubled among middle- and high-school students from 2011 to 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, and sales last year reportedly surpassed $1 billion. The fast rise in popularity has led some cities to crack down.
Union City last month became the state's first municipality to ban vapor lounges and other businesses where e-cigarettes are used. Boston, New York City and -- closer to home -- the city of Richmond have banned smoking e-cigarettes in public places.
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REDWOOD CITY -- Software colossus Oracle (ORCL) on Wednesday beat Wall Street's expectations for sales and earnings despite a slight drop in profit from the same period a year ago, according to its latest quarterly financial report.
The company reported sales of $9.27 billion for its second fiscal quarter, up 2 percent from last year, but its $2.56 billion profit was off about 1 percent from a year ago. That worked out to earnings of 56 cents a share.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters generally had expected earnings of 53 cents a share on sales of $9.19 billion.
"It was a solid quarter overall," Oracle's Chief Financial Officer Safra Catz told analysts during a conference call. "We're pleased with the results."
Although the Redwood City giant is among the world's biggest sellers of business-oriented database programs and other software, it faces tough competition, especially from so-called cloud service providers.
Traditionally, Oracle's software has been installed on individual business computers. But with cloud computing, the software is kept on Oracle's servers and customers access it over the Internet for a fee. Hoping to strengthen its grasp on that market, Oracle has been buying cloud providers and earlier this year announced cloud-service partnerships with its former rivals, Microsoft and Salesforce.com.
After growing steadily for a decade after the dot-com bust, Oracle's sales have flattened out lately.
In a recent note to their clients, analysts with FBR Capital Markets termed Oracle's business "lackluster" and "choppy" over the past year, due in part to a slowdown in technology spending by its customers and "missteps" with the way its sales force has performed.
But the analysts added, "we believe brighter days are on the horizon for Oracle," because of its improved product line and recently revamped sales operation, which should enable it "to show some nice growth momentum over the next 12 to 18 months."
The FBR note also discounted concerns by some Wall Street experts about sluggish sales of Oracle's server and storage equipment business, a niche it got into by buying Sun Microsystems in 2010. The analysts pointed out that Oracle is phasing out the less profitable parts of that business as it ramps up sales of more advanced products, such as its Exadata line, which combines hardware with software for high-performance data processing.
In a separate note, Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with of Global Equities Research, said Oracle faces a big challenge from such rivals as Amazon.com and SAP, and that Oracle's customers "continue to complain about poor customer support." However, Chowdhry added that Oracle is performing well in other respects and that one big plus for the company is that its software is essential for many firms.
"The critical nature of Oracle's software tells us that Oracle should be able to overcome short-to-midterm business challenges," he concluded.
Contact Steve Johnson at 408-920-5043. Follow him at Twitter.com/steveatmercnews.


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The second session is for the 7th and 8th graders and will start at noon and end at 4pm, with a cost of $20.00. Snacks will be provided and each camper will receive a T-Shirt. Firebird Mat Camp is aimed to cover basic techniques, and have fun while learning more about wrestling and what it has to offer. Many Firebird Varsity wrestlers will be on hand to help motivate and assist with teaching this energetic camp.
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Eagle Valley Library District is offering a variety of programs for patrons this spring. Classical guitarist Peter Fletcher will be returning to the Eagle Public Library. He will perform Wednesday, April 25, at 6:30 p.m. in a free concert sponsored by EVLD.
Fletcher puts an enormous amount of thought and consideration into his concert programs. The first half includes a balance of standard classical guitar repertoire, his own transcriptions from other instruments and new music he has commissioned. The second half includes more "crowd pleasers."
He has performed at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall and is scheduled for a return solo recital April 19, 2013. His performance will be the world premiere of a work written specifically for him by the American composer Jeremy Gill.
New York-based Fletcher began studying guitar at 7 and made his professional debut at 15. He currently has six CD recordings with another projected to be released this fall.
On Sunday, April 29, the library will be hosting a reception for the Ping-DeGraw Families, the 2012 recipients of the Nimon-Walker Award. The Nimon-Walker Award acknowledges individuals for their commitment and contributions to preserving Eagle County history.
Leonard Ping ran a photography business from the family's hotel from the 1920s through the 1940s. He saved many of those photos, which his relatives, the Claude DeGraw family, have generously shared with the historical archives. Vieva and Claude DeGraw will accept the award on behalf of the families.
Keynote speaker for this event is Robert Silbernagel. He is currently the editorial page editor of "The Daily Sentinel." He began his journalism career in Eagle County working for several different weekly newspapers.
He will be talking about his most recent book, "Troubled Trails: The Meeker Affair and the Expulsion of Utes from Colorado." Research from historical documents, newspaper articles and Ute oral histories provide details on the incidents leading up to and following the 1879 confrontations between the U. S. Cavalry and the Utes.
"Books in Bloom," a festival of authors and their books is another program available to library patrons. Three authors, Erin Blackemore, Jennifer Haigh and Tatjana Soli will be speaking at The Pines at Beaver Creek on June 30. Information on the authors and their books is available online at www.evld.org. Tickets can be purchased via a "books in bloom" link on the library website. Tickets went on sale on April 16 and are expected to be reserved quickly.


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SAN JOSE -- Just who is the Banana Pants Bandit?
It's a question neighbors of the well-to-do Willow Glen neighborhood are asking after a mysterious woman clad in bold yellow pants was caught on HD surveillance video swiping a San Jose mayoral campaign sign from a family's front yard. The clip has since been spreading quickly across Facebook, pumping a little political intrigue into the normally slow summer months leading up to the November election for a new San Jose mayor.
According to Katie Zazueta, her family of four was out enjoying the Fourth of July holiday when they came back and noticed their "Sam Liccardo for Mayor" campaign sign was gone. They quickly checked the Dropcam they had installed on the front porch of their Meredith Avenue home, just off the downtown drag of Lincoln Avenue, and discovered what their 10-year-old daughter described as the "first crime she's ever seen."
The sharp video shows a dark gray sedan drive by then apparently turn around and pull up in front of the Zazuetas' well-manicured house. After sitting in the car for about 10 seconds, a woman wearing a black sleeveless top, a black hat, dark sunglasses and those yellow pants that earned her the Banana Pants Bandit moniker online emerges from the passenger-side door. The woman calmly walks up to the sign, yanks it out of the lawn and appears to delightfully gallop back to the getaway car, which accelerates away.
The petty theft hasn't been reported to the police and has generated more laughter than animosity. Someone even posted a tongue-in-cheek "wanted" flyer online.
"Really the crime in this wasn't so much the sign but the fact that she went out in these yellow pants and could so easily be spotted," Zazueta said Monday.
These so-called "sign wars" aren't uncommon in San Jose and other Bay Area cities during election years, even in wealthy neighborhoods, but rarely are the sign thefts caught on video.
In this case, the sign in question supported Zazueta's childhood friend, Liccardo, a San Jose councilman running to replace termed-out Mayor Chuck Reed in November.
Liccardo's opponent, county Supervisor Dave Cortese, said he had no knowledge of the Banana Pants Bandit.
"But our staff claims there is a thief taking down Cortese signs called the Mango Top Marauder," Cortese joked.
Zazueta doesn't have any theories on the whodunit, and the Liccardo campaign isn't pointing fingers, either.
"It's disappointing to see something like this. We want this to be a clean campaign at every level," Liccardo's campaign manager, Ragan Henninger, said in a statement. She added that if the thefts continue, the campaign may start contacting the authorities. "But for now, we will just encourage everyone to have respect for opposing views and to have respect for private property."
Although the 81-second video has been widely shared online, no one's offered any hints as to who the sign-stealer may be. Her face and the vehicle's license plate are both obscured in the video, and the driver never appears on tape.
As for Zazueta -- who is not part of the Liccardo campaign and did not seek out media coverage -- she's mostly just upset that her free speech rights were besmirched, especially during a holiday meant to celebrate freedom.
"It just shows you that people have no kind of respect for other people's opinions or boundaries," she said. "It's just unpatriotic."
Contact Mike Rosenberg at 408-920-5705. Follow him at Twitter.com/rosenbergmerc.


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- I have the chance, finally, to come off the fence and out of the closet, stretch my philosophical wings, nail my colours to the mast, and proudly declare: I am a relativist; je suis un relativiste; ich bin ein Relativist.
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Can you please make PS3 Media Server restore its system tray icon next to the clock when ever Windows Explorer crashes?
Here is how you do it.
If you are writing any application which adds an icon to the Taskbar notification area, it's recommend to handle the "WM_TASKBARCREATED" the message sent by explorer. This message is sent by explorer when it's creating the taskbar. As after crash explorer doesn't remember the original notification icons, you should handle this message and then re-register your application notification icon.
To capture this message, you must first register it like this:
const static UINT WM_TASKBARCREATED = ::RegisterWindowMessage(__T("TaskbarCreated"));
Once it's registered, you should handle this in your Windows Callback Procedure to re-add the icon for your application in the notification area. Something like this:
// Check if the Taskbar is just being created. This message is broadcast by the Explorer
// when it's launched (after any crash)
if (message == WM_TASKBARCREATED)
// Add the code to re-add your application in the notification area.
Simple, but yet effective. What do you think?
http://syedgakbar.wordpress.com/2008/07 ... rer-crash/
Lots of software I use can restore it own icon after a crash Examples Skype, Foolbar2000,Phonetray, Weather Watcher Live and even ATI Catalyst icon.
I really hope you can add this simpe fix to PS3 Media Server


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Help dogs and cats by ordering pizza
Published: Saturday, March 30, 2013 at 8:55 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 1, 2013 at 1:07 p.m.
You can eat pizza in Raceland and help animals in need.
Moe's Pizza, 4545 La. 1, Raceland, will hold a Give Back Night from 5 to 10 p.m. April 8. The store will donate 10 percent of its sales to help Thibodaux-based rescue group Hope for Animals care for its many needy cats and dogs.
The restaurant devotes each second Tuesday of the month to Hope for Animals.
For information visit www.hopeforanimals.com or call 537-5757.
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GREENBELT – Most of the county's youth services bureaus have had their funding restored for fiscal year (FY) 2017, but the Greenbelt CARES program is still pleading its case.Read more
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In between birth and death there is a dash. You know: the diminutive line on a tombstone or obituary indicating all those years of life between birth and death.
Linda Morse made "The Dash" famous in a poem by the name that challenges us to reflect on how we live our dash.
On Dec. 5, Gifford Medical Center picks up the discussion with "The Dash: Quality of Life Matters."
The free discussion open to all is a continuation of last winter's popular education series on death and dying and reopens a new series expected to last into the spring, explains organizer Cory Gould, a mental health practitioner and member of Gifford's Advanced Illness Care Team.
The talk will include interviews with pre-selected participants on their quality of life. For example, Dr. Daniel Stadler, assistant professor of medicine and an internist with special interests in geriatrics and palliative care at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, will interview a woman in her 90s about her life experiences.
Other discussion points during the 5-6:30 p.m. event will focus on:
- What do we mean by "quality of life?"
- How do you measure it?
- Is your quality of life different than someone else's quality of life?
- Does quality of life change over time?
- How does one's quality of life relate to the quality of one's death?
"There's a truism that's been repeated over and over again and that is that people die as they lived," says Gould. "We want to involve participants in a discussion of the question: 'What gives life meaning for you?'"
Following this free talk, other talks are planned on advance directives; what dying looks like; a "death café" or open discussion about death; and a discussion on death with dignity versus assisted suicide.
Speakers will explore the concepts but there will be ample opportunity for group discussion and sharing.
Last year, the popular series included sessions on starting the conversation of end of life and preparing for death, such as through Advance Directives; what is a "good" death; and various aspects of grief.
Prior attendance at discussions is not required and all are welcome.
No registration is required for this free educational discussion. Gould can be reached at (802) 728-7713 to answer questions.
The talk will be held in the Gifford Conference Center. The Conference Center is on the first floor of the hospital and marked with a green awning from the patient parking area. For handicapped access, take the elevator from the main lobby to the first floor. For directions to the medical center and more, visit www.giffordmed.org.


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I enjoy riding my bike every chance I get. It's a great form of exercise; it also helps keep the roads less congested and sets a positive, active example for my children. They've even started tagging along on their bikes when I go for a run!
Wike Bicycle Trailers is looking to make our world healthier and more sustainable. With an end goal of getting more people cycling rather than driving, Wike introduces people to new uses for bicycles – from using their trailers to transport pets, groceries and equipment to helping disabled triathletes compete.


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Cuts follow fire tax's defeat
Bayou Cane fire officials plan layoffs, station closure.
Published: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 8:48 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 8:48 p.m.
The Bayou Cane Fire Department no longer has enough money to keep all of its stations open and firefighters on staff, the fire chief said.
Voters defeated a property-tax increase Tuesday, and officials said they have to find a way to address the gap left by an expiring grant used years ago to hire 14 firefighters.
Fire Chief Ken Himel said he expects to lay off six people by Jan. 1, and the department is considering closing one station as early as next week.
Himel said he and other officials have not decided which station to close, although it will likely be Station 2, at 4617 W. Park Ave., or Station 3, at 1214 Savanne Road.
"Just from operating expenses, you can save almost $100,000 just by not operating a station," Himel said.
Voters chose to renew the department's 20-mill property tax, but did not grant it the additional 10-mill tax it requested. At that rate, the department should bring in an estimated $3.8 million next year, the Terrebonne Parish tax assessor has said. The 10-mill tax would have brought in an estimated $1.9 million.
The renewal request passed by a margin of 60 percent to 40 percent; the tax increase was defeated by a margin of 56 to 44 percent.
Himel, who advocated strongly for the increase, and fire board Chairman Jeff Teuton, who was far more wary of it, both agree the millage increase was proposed to fix the problem of how a small population of residents pays for a fire department in an area highly frequented by workers and shoppers.
"It's a 27,000-member district, and on any given day it's twice that because of Martin Luther King (Boulevard), West Park (Avenue), West Main (Street), and (La.) 311," Teuton said.
Where Himel and Teuton's opinions differ is that Teuton believes they can cut the number of calls they respond to, focusing on fires and cutting out less-urgent medical calls.
Teuton said 911 operators should be able to screen calls for firefighters.
Himel said 911 operators often get limited information from callers, and firefighters have to treat calls as worst-case scenarios.
"It's nothing that can't be worked out," Teuton said. "Bayou Cane has grown significantly over a relatively short period of time, and now you've got to kind of reel in the operations and see what kind of services the public wants as opposed to what the fire department is wiling to provide."
Teuton said he will defer to Himel about the best way to change operations.
"I haven't looked at the operation — the number of firefighters and staff at each station. That's the chief's job," Teuton said. "But I have looked at the financial part since Day 1, and it's stretched. When this new board got there, it was stretched. They were relying on more money, more money, and obviously we've got to cut costs. If the chief thinks we have to reduce personnel, I think that'll have to be his call."
Himel will present the department's budget at Monday's board meeting.
Firefighters can't apply for the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response or SAFER grant through the Federal Emergency Management Agency again because it's against the rules to request it to replace the expired grant. The department could apply for it again at the end of 2013, but firefighters need to be able to show they have a revenue source that can replace it when it expires, "which we don't," Himel said.
Firefighters may request an additional tax increase from voters again in April, though Himel said he isn't sure if that would be worth it.
"We're going to have to come up with some kind of funding source," he said. "Or this is it. This is the size of a department they want, and we're going to do it."
Himel has forecasted in the past that cutting staffing and a station may affect the department's rating that dictates Bayou Cane residents' insurance costs. Firefighters and residents will learn if that's the case in 2015 when they get the results from the rating scheduled two years from now, Himel said.
"We're going to keep exploring every option we possibly can, keeping cutting back costs to be the most effective fire department we can. ... At the end of the day, we're still here," Himel said. "When the next alarm comes in, we'll be there to answer."
Staff Writer Katie Urbaszewski can be reached at 448-7617 or
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I need to check the code. Only what I wanted to say was that I never spoted this behavior that file is transcoded when embeded subs are present but subs are disabled so not burned to the picture.
Maybe I understood you wrong and you are talking about ability to stream emeded subs without transcoding on supported renderers like Samsung TV?
Hopefully I will understand all posted above by checking the code...from past I wasn't able to reproduce your problem.
Also no offence but I am not native english speaker so it is easy for me to mis-understood things, mayble like this one


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18" Component Subwoofer, 20Hz to 1kHz frequency range
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The homeless teen who made headlines by bravely donning 49ers gear and strolling amid a sea of exuberant Seahawks fans at the team's Super Bowl parade, is homeless no more.
Known as "Niner Waldo" for his striking garb and out-of-place appearance, 15-year-old Ronnie Andrews is settling into his new foster home in Washington state, according to Niners booster club Ladies of the Empire co-founder Catherine Tate.
Tate, inspired by a viral photo of the brave teen, started a crowdfunding site to get Andrews -- who she nicknamed Niner Waldo -- to the 49ers-Seahawks game at Levi's Stadium next year.
After she discovered Andrews was a ward of the state, the site raised close to $40,000 for a college scholarship fund for him. The media visibility also attracted five potential foster homes, and he's now trying to adjust to being a normal teen with his new family, Tate said.
Assuming his foster parents give Andrews the OK for him to leave the state, Tate said whatever money is left over from getting him to a game will be set aside until he turns 18.
"We're going to let things mellow out for a few months, and when it does we'll have it moved to a trust," Tate said. "I want to make sure this money goes to his education."
Contact Jeremy Thomas at 925-847-2184. Follow him at Twitter.com/jet_bang.


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A new Fulton State Hospital hinges on a massive new bonding proposal working its way through the Capitol. That's because the proposal for a new 300-bed, high-security hospital would cost $211 million. Mental Health Department officials say ditching the old building could save $3 million in utilities, staffing and worker's compensation. It would also make it a safer facility and opens up beds for treatment of sexually violent offenders.
Hospital Upgrades in the Works
Bond proposal for new Fulton State Hospital would cost $211M
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"My philosophy is that if you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
- Cicero
This is a favorite quote with local gardener and former Eagle Valley Library District Reference Librarian Jan Fedrizzi. Thanks to her expertise, we have purchased several new, pertinent gardening titles.
Jan's suggestions "stem" from her involvement with CSU Extension Master Gardener program, as well as garden club "Gardeners on the Go."
The list includes current or recently revised books, which represent many facets of local gardening - soil concerns, vegetable and organic gardening, season extension, small space gardening, garden art/design and xeric information.
Here is a bibliography of our newest gardening books, along with Jan's helpful observations.
• "Succulent Container Gardens: Design Eye-Catching Displays with 350 Easy-Care Plants" (2010) by Debra Lee Baldwin - shows imaginative uses for succulents in container gardens
• "All New Square Foot Gardening" (2006) by Mel Bartholomew - simplifies vegetable gardening with clear-cut information on building beds, planning crops, seeding, plant spacing, growing-up supports, covering beds for season extension, etc.
• "Four Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long" (1999) by Eliot Coleman
• "The Winter Harvest Handbook: year-round vegetable production using deep-organic techniques and unheated greenhouses" (2009) by Eliot Coleman - Grower guru Eliot Coleman has revolutionized market-growing in cold climates, and all his titles are recommended.
• "Handmade Garden Projects: Step-by-Step instructions for Creative Garden Features, Containers, Lighting and More" (2011) by Lorene Edwards Forkner - allows one to take a break from gardening chores and create a handmade accent.
• "The Truth about Organic Gardening" (2008) by Jeff Gillman - this notable author writes about soils, safety, and valuable information about when organic gardening is the best choice.
• "The Container Gardener's Bible" (2009) by Joanna K. Harrison and Miranda Smith - is an excellent guide to growing in all kinds of containers, conditions, and locations, along with suggested plant combinations.
• "Gaia's Garden: a Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture" (2009) by Toby Hemenway - is a perfect complement to sustainability.
• "Teaming with Microbes: the Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web" (2010 revised edition) by Jeff Lowenfels - is good for the gardener who is deciding what to grow, and whether or not to use chemicals.
• "Landscaping on the New Frontier: Waterwise Design for the Intermountain West" (2009) by Susan E. Meyer - is for home or business owners who are dealing with landscaping in the Rocky Mountains.
• "Waterwise Plants for Sustainable Gardens: Drought-tolerant Choices for All Climates" (2011) by Lauren Springer and Scott Ogden - is a favorite reference by a notable husband and wife team, which has information about best choices for western plants.
• "Solar Gardening" (1994) by Leandre and Gretchen Vogel Poisson - is a classic book for extending the gardening season.
• "Curb Appeal Idea Book" (2006) by Mary Ellen Polson - this book has many helpful photos and drawings.
• "The Polytunnel Book: Fruit and Vegetables All Year Round" (2011) by Joyce Russell - polytunnels may be the future trend for year-round growing.
• "Organic Gardener's Companion: Growing Vegetables in the West" (2012) by Jane Shellenberger - has suggestions for organic growing in dry, mountain climate.
• "Vegetable Gardener's Bible" - 10th Anniversary Edition (2009) by Edward C. Smith - a one-stop reference for a fledgling vegetable gardener. Highly recommended!
• "Perennial Vegetables: from Artichoke to Zuiki Taro, a Gardener's Guide to over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-grow Edibles" (2007) by Eric Toensmeier - includes the unusual vegetables for the adventuresome.
I want to offer a special thank you to Jan for compiling this annotated list of materials that our libraries can offer our gardeners. Come check out these books of advice tailored for Eagle County!


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Finding Silver Linings in Napa's 2011 Playbook
Post by Chuck Hayward | March 5th, 2013
Each February, The Napa Valley Vintners Association hosts the Premiere Napa Valley Auction, which has quickly turned into a "must attend" event for the wine industry. Intended as a fund raiser for the marketing and educational efforts of the Vintners Association, the week's activities provide an array of events, connecting the entire wine trade with the wineries of Napa Valley. The highlight for most of us in the trade is the opportunity to taste barrel samples of the wines up for auction.
The lead-up to the weekend auction is complemented with educational seminars on Napa's soils and subregions for wine industry professionals from across the globe. Even more important is the annual Symposium for Professional Wine Writers held at Meadowood during the same week. The conclave brings aspiring and professional wine writers together to talk about the nuances of writing about the grape. You'll often find yourself rubbing elbows with guest lecturers at the barrel tastings following the symposium. This year saw Decanter's Guy Woodward and Steven Spurrier walking through the barrel room of the old Christian Brothers Winery. (more…)


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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi women's golf team shot a third-round 308 – its best round of the tournament – to finish in 11th place (319-316-308—943) at the 2014 Islanders Classic.
The Islanders saw three of their four players shoot 76 or better in the final 18 holes, with Vanessa Johnson and Krista Fenniak each posting 75. Lindsay Biehler added a 76, while Ana Paredes delivered an 82 in the third and final round.
Fenniak (77-77-75—229) finished 19th, while Biehler (78-76-76—230) was just a stroke back in 23rd. Johnson (81-83-75—239) bounced back from a tough opening day to finish in 44th, and Paredes (83-80-82—245) was 60th. Claudia Galindo shot an 87 in the first round before withdrawing due to injury.
Lamar defended its 2013 title, taking the 2014 crown with an 892 (302-295-295), outdistancing Houston Baptist's second-place 908 (292-310-306). Oral Roberts (314-304-297—915), Oklahoma City (301-305-311—917) and North Texas (308-307-306—921) rounded out the top five.
OCU's Elia Folch took the individual title, shooting a three-round 219 (70-73-76). She finished one stroke ahead of a trio of Southland golfers in second place – Lamar's Wenny Chang (75-73-72), Central Arkansas' Sarah Brown (74-74-72) and Sam Houston State's Alisa White (72-74-74).
The Islanders will return to the links on March 7-9, as they head to Arizona for the prestigious Rio Verde Invitational. It will mark their third straight trip to the tournament, which is hosted by Western Michigan University.
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Chrome… based on the open-source project of Chromium. Google Chrome has revolutionised the design of web browsers. Have you seen how IE9 and FF5 completely remodelled their designs to be minimalistic like Chrome?
Google Chrome despite being lightning fast on fast computers, is very slow on old old ones (slower than IE even)…
Google Chrome is an essential app for any recent Mac :)
Chrome has become the worst memory hog ever. Opening the same 10 bookmarks on a cold launch: Safari 5: 612MB, Firefox 4: 504MB, Google Chrome 12: 2.4 GB (includes all the subprocesses Chrome is running).
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Great browser, feels really fast and minimal, and I love the tabbed interface.
Buggy, buggy up to the point that it can bring your whole system down. It looks nice, is speedy when it works but it really messes up your system.
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Even if you think it works on your mac just launch Console and watch the constant stream of errormessages from Chrome for yourself.
Want a fast Safari alternative use Opera.
I've been off-and-on with Chrome, but it's currently my go-to browser. It starts quicker than Firefox, feels more minimal, and I like the "one process per tab" crash protection. I first set it aside after realizing that extensions weren't available under OSX, then when it wasn't behaving well with my employer's Outlook Web Access. Neither concern now applies.
not quite as polished as the windows version, but still very fast
Latest version destroys Safari and Firefox. No contest, this is the best browser ever made.
It's getting quite nice. For stability purposes I prefer to stay away from plugins (I use glimmerblocker for blocking ads). At least keep firefox fanboys quiet. User interface is great, speed is awesome.
What is keeping me from using it as my default browser (instead of Safari)? The scrolling is not as smooth. I hope they manage to improve it SOON!
Great work. Very likely to be my default browser in the near future.
Excellent browser, that has replaced Firefox as my OSX default. With extensions, bookmark management and syncing now standard, it's an indispensable browser.
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"24: Live Another Day" (9 p.m., Fox): Jack Bauer's (Kiefer Sutherland) adventures in London continue, but too bad his schedule is so hectic. Doesn't leave much time for sightseeing.
"The Blacklist" (10 p.m., NBC): The drama closes out its highly successful freshman season with an episode that producers promise is a "game changer." That's great, but what we really want to know is the true identity of Liz's mysterious husband (Ryan Eggold).
"Castle" (10:01 p.m., ABC): The season finale is titled "For Better or Worse," which has us a little leery. Are Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) and Katherine Beckett (Stana Katic) finally going to walk down the aisle? Or is something crummy going to happen to ruin things?
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A murder-suicide investigation was underway Thursday as authorities found the bodies of two men in neighboring backyards in Strawberry, an unincorporated area near Mill Valley.
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Sheriff's Lt. Doug Pittman said events that unfolded at 152 and 154 Carlotta Circle were unclear, but added there is a "high probability" the case involved a murder-suicide.
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Redwood City video game publisher Electronic Arts (ERTS) and San Francisco social gaming company Zynga have agreed to settle competing lawsuits over alleged copyright violations and the recruiting of employees.
Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but both companies agreed to permanently drop claims they had raised in litigation begun last August in San Francisco federal court.
Electronic Arts had alleged that Zynga's new game "The Ville" ripped off EA's "The Sims Social," which had been launched the prior August and at one point become Facebook's second most popular game ahead of Zynga's "FarmVille."
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Wes Anderson Gives a Tour of 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'
Wes Anderson's new movie "The Grand Budapest Hotel" opened strongly in the U.S. last weekend in limited release. According to the website Box Office Mojo, the film has so far brought in $1,062,176 on just four screens. Anderson, the director behind such movies as "Fantastic Mr. Fox " and "Rushmore," recently sat down for a wide-ranging interview about his new movie, which stars Ralph Fiennes, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, and others.
Who are the filmmakers you feel you have learned the most from?
Wes Anderson: Well for this movie in particular, I've always thought maybe the biggest influences were middle European directors, directors from Berlin or Vienna who made their way to California and did Hollywood movies that are set in places like Budapest and Prague and Warsaw. Particularly Lubitsch, but there are so many directors who fall into that category, like Fritz Lang and Billy Wilder and Rouben Mamoulian – there are a couple of Mamoulian films that we thought of quite often during this movie. And then also maybe the Max Ophuls and Jean Renoir movies I think are connected to this one. We stole ideas from them anyway.
In Berlin you mentioned Stefan Zweig as an influence. Are there any books out there you'd love to adapt?
Well, I'm not sure what book I want to adapt, but I have lots and lots of favorite writers. I think in relation to this, Zweig above all others. But there are a couple of other ones. Did you ever read Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky? That book I found very inspiring in relation to this movie. And I'm just reading right now a little book called Utz by Bruce Chatwin. And that one has all kind of interesting links to this story as well.
Your films don't only look distinctive, but sound distinctive. Where does your ear for dialogue come from?
In the case of this story the way that M. Gustave, the character who Ralph Fiennes plays, talks is really modeled on a real person who's an old friend. As much as anything, it's just the way he talks. But there are also poems and things like that that he's reciting, that he's meant to have memorized. And Jeff Goldblum's character talks in this dramatic legal language. They've all got their different directions. Whereas the character played by Toni Revellori, Zero, the lobby boy, well he doesn't really say much at all.
I was interested in the poems that Ralph Fiennes recited. Where are they from?
This is a little pastiche. I just made them up. They don't exist beyond that. None of them get very far.
In this film, as in many of your works, there is an emphasis on the handcrafted: rear-projection, stop-motion animation and hand-drawn backdrops. What draws you to such techniques? Would you ever consider making a 3-D film?
I'm just interested in those old techniques. I think that they have certain charm. More or less, whatever's in the movie is what I'm most interested in exploring and making an experience out of. I don't know if I have a reason for it. If I had thought of a story like Gravity, I expect that I would be inclined to tell it in a different way. Not that I could ever come close to doing what Alfonso Cuaron did. But certain kinds of stories call for a more hi-tech, state-of-the-art treatment and the kind of stories I do maybe get something out of using something where you can sort of see how the magic tricks are accomplished.
With so many returning actors in your films, the cast seems to constitute a little family. Do you get together off-set?
It sort of depends on which one. I think on most of them, the chance to make a movie together is when we get to see each other. Often what really happens is we work together on the movie and then when the movie is coming out there's a certain amount of running around together that everybody gets to do, but it totally depends which person we're talking about. But it's very fun gathering a group like that together to make a movie like this, because it's a very communal, family atmosphere.
Do you have a dream project? Something crazy or ambitious that you want to do before you die?
Well, I can't say that I have a thing that I've sort of set aside. I mean, usually what I have is, I have the next thing in mind. That's really about as far as I've ever got. But I do have that vaguely…but that's pretty rough at the moment.
So, no Don Quixote?
No Don Quixote, but that would be a good one. I feel that we're still kind of waiting for the great Don Quixote. I mean, we had the Terry Gilliam one that didn't pan out and we had the Orson Welles one that didn't pan out. And where's the one that did pan out? Is there one?
Do you prefer watching new movies or old ones?
I probably saw more or less all the big new movies that are all competing for all the prizes and everything now. But mostly I think I watch older movies: lately, a lot of pre-code movies. I just was never that knowledgeable about that period of filmmaking and lately have seen so many interesting films from that period. Lots are quite wild ones, but there are also lots of comedies that have a different energy to them. So anyway, lately we've been watching a lot of them, including Lubitsch and William Wellman [who directed Wings, the first film to win the Best Picture Oscar in 1927]. And some of the Capra ones. The pre-code Capra versus the only slightly later ones are really radically different. There's one called American Madness that I just saw. It's with Walter Houston and not that it has no connection to what [Capra] does later, but it's much more kind of adventurous. I think it has to do with that it was the beginning of talking movies and some of them seem so energized with this new combination of techniques and you really feel it.
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Salmon with Lentils and Beets
Beans, lentils, and other legumes are the richest sources of resistant starch, which stabilize blood sugar and insulin levels, and may help deter diabetes.
We love lentils for their flavors and texture, and because, unlike beans, they don't need to be soaked overnight. They're terrifically tasty and filling, and make perfect companions to Salmon.
This recipe, adapted from Martha Stewart Living, includes beets and an orange mustard sauce. As Marthaor more likely, one of her many minionssays, it makes for a hearty, delectable Sunday dinner.
Salmon with Lentils and Beets
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Sea salt and organic black pepper
1/2 cup dried lentils, rinsed
1 cup low-sodium chicken broth
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2 fresh sprigs thyme
1 1/2 teaspoons organic extra virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
4 (6 oz each) wild Alaskan Salmon fillets
1 large shallot, finely chopped
1/3 cup dry white wine
1 1/2 pounds fresh spinach, washed and stemmed
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Q Can an airline bump passengers from previously purchased, extra-legroom seats? Last summer we checked in online for a United Airlines' Boston-to-San Francisco flight and learned that we had been bumped back to regular coach from our previously purchased Economy Plus seats. We thought paying for the extra legroom seats essentially guaranteed us those seats. Could the fliers in "our" seats have had some frequent-flier elite status giving them priority?
A The answer to the first question is that airlines can pretty much do whatever they want. Sometimes they even do things they don't want -- as was the case in this case, according to United. "We erred," said Charles Hobart, a United representative.
"What happened," Hobart continued, "was that flight times changed and departure times changed, so somewhere after they had checked in, they lost that Economy Plus upgrade."
I appreciate United's honesty in acknowledging that it erred, but I didn't quite understand why flight times changing would cause this group party to lose the upgrade. When I asked Hobart about the "If A then B" logic there, he acknowledged he didn't know quite why the change in departure times fouled up the seat selection.
But he could say with certainty that these travelers weren't kicked out of their seats because a more elite customer asked for them. "That just doesn't happen," he said.
Before responding to that, I thought I'd check with a couple of experts for their perspective on the seating situation, which got a lot of ink last year, especially after families started having a hard time finding seats together that didn't require paying for premium seating.
As part of SeatGuru.com, Jami Counter has had a ringside seat to the seat issue, and he didn't assume, as many of us would, evil intent on United's part.
"I'd be very surprised if UA did this intentionally," he said in an email to me. "They'd quickly risk destroying a very successful ancillary revenue stream, since most customers wouldn't bother paying extra for Economy Plus seats if there were a decent chance of them being reassigned back to regular coach at the airline's discretion."
Counter noted that the new revenue opportunities for the airlines are not without some downsides for the airline, too. "I do think the ability to pay extra for certain seats in the coach cabin introduces additional complexity into airline operations, particularly on the day of departure," he wrote. "So if there is weather or anything else that causes a lot of flights to be canceled or delayed, then this is one more thing that can potentially go wrong -- especially if there is a change of equipment or the passenger has to be rebooked on another flight.
"And at that point, there are other higher-priority problems that the airport agents and staff are probably focused on, so this has the potential to create customer-service issues in those situations."
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STOCKTON — A 19-year-old man was shot shortly before 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the 1900 block of Latigo Way. The victim was shot following a dispute with a black male who was driving a white 2009 Pontiac G6 with Ohio license plates.
The victim was taken to a hospital. He suffered serious injuries but was expected to survive.
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