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[ IMPORTANT --> Be sure to read the section on requirements! ] This is a very ALPHA-TEST implementation of a thesaurus for GNU Emacs. Although it is not complete, I'm not sure when or if I'll have the time to spiff it up. As a result, I'm posting what I have here (is anyone else working on something similar?). It's copyrighted and is being released under the GNU Public License (see the end of this file for more details). Note that only this interface falls under the GNU Public License; the thesaurus itself has a completely separate and independent "copyright". The Emacs-Lisp functions in this package allow you to query a thesaurus for synonyms of a word. For example, you can ask Emacs to quickly display a thesaurus entry for "editor": ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Word: editor #593. Book. -- N. booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule; tract, tractate; livret; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphjlet, enchiridion, circular, publication; chap book. part, issue, number livraison; album, portfolio; periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal. paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet; leaf, leaflet; fly leaf, page; quire, ream chapter, section head, article paragraph, passage, clause. folio, quarto, octavo; duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo. encyclopedia; encompilation; library, bibliotheca; press &c. (publication) 531. writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writerr for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker, diaskeaus, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a liner; editor, subeditor; playwright &c. 599; powt &c. 597. bookseller, publisher; bibliopole, bibliopolist; librarian; bookstore, bookseller's shop. knowledge of books, bibliography; book learning &c. (knowledge) 490. Phr. "among the giant fossils of my past" [E. B. Browning]; craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux; "for authors nobler palms remain" [Pope]; "I lived to write and wrote to live" [Rogers]; "look in thy heart and write" [Sidney]; "there is no Past so long as Books shall live" [Bulwer Lytton); "the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers" [Disraeli]; volumes that I prize above my dukedom" [Tempest]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ******************************************************************************* ***** REQUIREMENTS: To use this, you need the following (besides the files that came with this README file): * A copy of the thesaurus itself (which is not included with this README file). Thanks to Project Gutenberg, a copy of the 1911 Roget's Thesaurus has been made available via anonymous ftp from mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu [ 18.104.22.168 ] (please ftp the file during off-hours -- at times OTHER THAN 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM Central Standard Time (Daylight in summer)). It's in the directory "/etext": -rw-r--r-- 1 24 micro 1377400 Jun 19 18:08 roget11.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 24 micro 592247 Jun 19 18:13 roget11.zip You only need one of these, as roget11.zip is roget11.txt in a .ZIP file. Note, however, the size. * A copy of Perl 4.0, compiled with dbm/ndbm support, as the thesaurus indexing and low-level access routines are written as Perl scripts (this was done to avoid having to load the entire 1.3MB thesaurus into Emacs, bloating its process size). Part of the index is stored as a dbm database, and so dbm/ndbm support must be compiled into Perl. * While building the index (an index must be built from the raw thesaurus data), it is recommended that your system have plenty of free RAM and swap space, as a single 10-12 megabyte process is created during the indexing process. Once the index is created, you need much less resources to access the thesaurus. * You need about two megabytes of free disk space. The thesaurus occupies about 1.3MB, and the index files occupies another half megabyte or so. Installation instructions are mentioned below. ******************************************************************************* ***** USAGE: The GNU Emacs interface provides three functions: thesaurus-lookup-word This function will prompt for a word to look up, and all entries that begin with this word will be displayed. To display the entry that contains only this word, specify a prefix. thesaurus-lookup-word-in-text This function will extract the word under the cursor and run `thesaurus-lookup-word' upon it. A prefix can be specified to force the display of only the entry that contains this word. thesaurus-show-words This function will prompt for a word and will display all words in the thesaurus that begin with this word. These functions should be bound to some key sequences; however, this package does not do this. You'll have to do it yourself. There is also a shell-command-line interface to the thesaurus (which is what the GNU Emacs interface uses). Using the "th" Perl script, you can query the thesaurus for a number of things: th <word> [<word> ...] Search the thesaurus for all entries that begin with "<word>". Multiple words can be specified here. th -V <word> [<word> ...] Search the thesaurus for all entries that begin with "<word>". All displayed entries are separated by a line of dashes. th -W <word> [<word> ...] Search the thesaurus for the entry that contains "<word>" exactly. th -w <word> [<word> ...] Display all words in the thesaurus that begin with "<word>". th -w -v <word> [<word> ...] Display all words in the thesaurus that begin with "<word>". Alongside each word, the numbers of the entries that contain the word are displayed. th -n <number> Display thesaurus entry number "<number>". Unlike a word, only one number can be specified. Generally, you will want to pipe the output to more(1) or less(1). ******************************************************************************* ***** PROBLEMS: Error handling needs work. Nothing is output if a word is not found in the thesaurus. The scripts are simple-minded, and occasionally "screw-up" (fortunately, this seems to be rare). There are typos in the thesaurus, which can cause the scripts to mis-index very small parts of the thesaurus. The scripts used to build the indices are inefficient and are unbelievably poorly written. Fortunately, this doesn't really matter, as the index creation process is a one-time task. Looking up words in the thesaurus is quite fast. The thesaurus is stored in an uncompressed form. I thought about breaking the thesaurus apart and storing each entry as a separate, compressed, file, but this method loses some information in the thesaurus (which cannot currently be accessed by these routines). It might be interesting to try compiling Perl with GNU dbm and storing the entire thesaurus as a monolithic gdbm database (one entry per datum). ******************************************************************************* ***** INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: The following assumes that you are familiar with Emacs and that you have installed a copy of Perl 4.0. 1. Create a directory to hold all of the files. 2. Copy the files that came with this README file into that directory. 3. Copy the thesaurus into that directory. 4. cd to that directory. 5. Link the thesaurus to the name "roget.txt". For example, if the copied thesaurus is called "roget11.txt", you can use a symbolic link (if your system supports symbolic links): ln -s roget11.txt roget.txt or you can use hard links: ln roget11.txt roget.txt 6. Run the script "makeindex". This script runs the other scripts to build the index files. On most modern machines with adequate resources, it'll take about 5-10 minutes to run (less, on fast machines, and more, on slow machines). Note that a single 10-12 megabyte process is created during the indexing procedures, so be sure that you have plenty of free RAM (otherwise, you'll go into swap h*ll, and this procedure could take hours). Once everything is done, three files will be created: -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 4096 Dec 17 20:50 offsets.dir -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 16384 Dec 17 20:50 offsets.pag -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 492733 Dec 17 20:49 word-index (The file sizes may be different on your machine.) The files that begin with "offset" comprise a dbm/nbdm database of thesaurus file byte offsets versus entry number (i.e., for a given entry number, the corresponding file byte offset of the beginning of that entry is stored). This means that, if the thesaurus file is ever edited or changed, you MUST re-execute the "makeindex" script to rebuild the indices. The file "word-index" is an ASCII text file of words and entry numbers, e.g.: creditor: 805 creed: 484 creek: 198 343 348 In this example, the word "creditor" is mentioned in entry #805, "creed" is mentioned in entry #484, and "creek" is mentioned in entries #198, #343, and #348. 7. Edit the file "th", and edit the line (around line 69): $thesaurus_dir = "/usr/local/lib/roget"; Change "/usr/local/lib/roget" to point to the directory containing the thesaurus and index files. 8. Add this directory to your $PATH. If you don't, you won't be able to run the "th" command (Emacs needs this). 9. Edit your .emacs file and add this directory to your load-path. Also add a line like the following: (load-library "thesaurus") 10. That's it. ******************************************************************************* ***** Legal foo: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These thesaurus indexing and accessing routines are copyrighted. Copyright (C) 1991 Darryl Okahata (email@example.com) NOTE THAT THE THESAURUS ITSELF HAS A COMPLETELY SEPARATE AND INDEPENDENT "COPYRIGHT". SEE THE THESAURUS FOR DETAILS. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Darryl Okahata Internet: email@example.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the little green men that have been following him all day.


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I had the honor of having dinner in the Bellevue, WA, home of Mike and Laurie Jaglois. You should really book a flight here to visit them, as Laurie makes the best salmon!
They have a beautiful home overlooking a small lake and a hillside of houses.
Mike is running his own agency called Uppercut and Laurie runs a very busy landscaping service.
Mike was at C/D LA during the early days at the Biltmore, working as an AE on the Olympia business. Laurie worked at C/D both at Olympic Boulevard (where she was a receptionist) to the Biltmore where she did print traffic on Yamaha with Joe Sosa and Tom Marshall.
They have three children who are all in their 20s and a whole passel of dogs!
The mystery website Scoopertino has released photos of Apple's next ideation of the iPad.
I cannot reveal who is behind this site, but he's funny and losing his hair.
Here I am in Portland with one of my favorite alums, Lori Gaffney. She worked in various offices of C/D (LA and NY) over a period of about ten years as a media planner and now she lives in Portland with her soccer-playing husband, Brian, who works for Microsoft.
Her two boys are all grown up, but Lori still looks as young and sweet as she ever did.
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Jon was a floater in the NY office for nine months in 1997. Wow, has HE blossomed. He was in the Broadway musical "Passing Strange," which was nominated for a Tony as Best Musical and won for Best Book.
I asked Jon was he was up to now and got this impressive C.V.:
I just finished writing the score for the movie "Freakonomics," which should come out this fall. I also did the music for the "Simpsons 20th Anniversary Show" on Fox, which was a real privilege, as I'm a huge fan of the show. I'm in the Spike Lee movie of the Broadway show I was in called "Passing Strange" (available on Netflix) and right now I'm in rehearsals of "On the Levee," a new musical that Lincoln Center is producing that will open in June.
I'm traveling across the country and this weekend I am in Boise visiting Mike and Louise Seeley. (You will remember Louise from when she was married to Bob Dion.)
She is now an elementary school librarian and Mike sells high-end running shoes and gear.
They have a huge house in Eagle, Idaho, just outside of Boise. I had the pleasure of having dinner with them last night and then today Louise took me on a grand tour of Boise.
Louise and Mike are avid marathoners. Here's their collection of medals so far:
On Saturday morning, Mike came within 10 seconds of qualifying for the New York Marathon.
They both seem obscenely happy and it was so great to see them.
From Ken Segall ...
In memory of our friend and colleague Bob Dion, a group of us got together on May 6th for a little Festival of Bob in NY. Given the person to whom we were paying tribute, there seemed to be no viable location other than the Old Town Bar on 18th Street (near the old Chiat NY office) ― which was Bob's favorite after-work hangout.
The evening didn't exactly start right, as the second-floor bar where the owner instructed us to congregate turned out not to exist. But we found ourselves capable of drinking at street level and the event grew from there. The Old Town has apparently been enclosed in a time bubble, with every detail unchanged.
We had a fabulous time remembering our old friend Bob, but first we had to remember each other ― since many of us hadn't crossed paths in two or three decades. Indeed most of the attendees seemed to be from the freshman class of Chiat NY, which opened in 1983.
We had such a good time, we're thinking of doing this more than once every 20 years ― ideally without having to lose anyone first. If you were there on May 6th, thanks for coming. If not, then we hope you can join us next time.
Peter Franke, Dan Krippahne Tom Carroll
Welcome home Kat Jaibur, who was at C/D from 80-83 AND the most energetic woman in the history of Chiat/Day, Stacy Osugi!!
(Stacy also was kind enough to donate some money to help pay for the hosting of the site, so notice her name has been added to that list of benefactors over to the right.)

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Best Neck and Décolleté Creams
As I age, I find that my neck doesn't look the way it used to! Well apparently I'm not alone. When we called for volunteers to test neck and décolleté creams for this month's 7 Years Younger column, we had an overwhelming response.
With our GH beauty editors, we canvassed the market for neck and décolleté creams and found over 40 products. To limit the scope of our test, we analyzed ingredient labels, sampled the creams to find those with the best textures and scents. After much debate and discussion, we narrowed our test group to six: three drugstore creams that claimed to work on both face and neck and three high end neck creams with price points in the $90 to $350 price range.
We recruited over 120 women, 35 years of age or older, to use the creams according to their label directions on their neck and chest areas for 4 weeks. In the Beauty Lab we snapped over 500 before-and-after neck pictures, collected over 400 skin firmness measurements on our Cutometer
and over 12,000 hydration data points on our Corneometer.
After close to 3 months of research, testing, and tallying of scores we're happy to reveal our top picks.
Fine-Line Smoother: L'Oreal Paris Age Perfect Hydra-Nutrition Golden Balm Face, Neck & Chest ($20, drugstores)
In the Lab it earned top ranking for moisturizing as well as high scores for reducing fine lines and wrinkles. The following comments from some of our testers say it all: "This cream delivers results on the neck and chest," "I would recommend this for neck and décolleté."
Great Hydrator: Olay Total Effects Night Firming Cream ($20, drugstores)
It earned top scores for hydration. One panelist summed it all up: "It felt substantial but never overpowering. It seemed to keep my skin moist for a long period of time. And I have dry skin that really soaks up moisturizers. I would definitely buy this product."
Skin-tone Booster: Lancôme Renergie Lift Volumetry Neck ($88, department stores)
This was our panel's choice for evening out skin tone. A volunteer's testament: "This was non greasy, absorbed well, and smelled wonderful."
Best Firmer: Guerlain Orchidee Imperiale Neck and Décolleté Cream ($365, department stores)
Super-pricey, this "silky" cream is definitely splurgeworthy. It scored highest in the lab for lifting and testers gave it top marks for firming and reducing fine lines. "I really thought this worked better than what I previously used," one woman commented.
For other top anti-aging products please check our Anti-Aging Awards winners. To participate in a tour of our labs at the Good Housekeeping Research Instiutte, please click here.
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If you remember, five years ago today, Yahoo! launched its own search engine. And tday, it may include images and video in search results. Yahoo is to launch a new search-advertising platform that allows advertisers to add video, images and custom search boxes to their search ads; will it make diffrence or its just a google clone.
Yahoo is expected to announced later today an upgrade to its paid search-advertising platform by integrating image and video results with listings. Rich Ads in Search will expand Yahoo's results from basic text listings.
The move comes almost five years to the day that Yahoo launched Yahoo Search, its bespoke paid search platform created after its acquisition of Overture.
Tim Mayer, Yahoo VP for search monetisation and distribution, said the move will provide consumers with a fuller search experience and advertisers with more options when running search campaigns. Advertisers seem to spend a majority of their online advertising budget on search ads these days, more so during a recession as it gives them direct and measurable results. Yahoo stuck to its display advertising till now, where it sells boxes and banners on its highly viewed pages.
"It moves the advertising experience from just the blue links to a more engaging experience for advertisers," he told The New York Times. Yahoo's move is the latest in its attempts to claw back market share from sector leader Google.
Post images and video, which can increase the branding impact of search advertising. Pedigree has added video to its campaigns, for instance.
Create deep links to relevant pages, which can help drive conversions directly from the Yahoo! search results page.
Include boxes within the listing that lets users search for their desired product or a store location directly without additional navigation. Esurance's listing lets users enter their ZIP codes from the results page for insurance quotes.
Show their logo, which enhances user trust.


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Definition of sensorimotor in English:
adjective[attributive] Physiology
(Of nerves or their actions) having or involving both sensory and motor functions or pathways.
Example sentences
- This indicates the presence of complete sensorimotor reflex pathways within the organ wall.
- Such activation of the tectal neurons could be related to their role in sensory processing and in the integration of multi-sensory and sensorimotor functioning.
- This lends some support to the popular anecdote that subjects with unilateral ankle sprains have a deficit in the sensorimotor system that affects the central processing of motor control.
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Definition of vetch in English:
A widely distributed scrambling herbaceous plant of the pea family that is cultivated as a silage or fodder crop. See also tare1.
- Genus Vicia, family Leguminosae: several species, in particular the common or (spring) vetch (V. sativa) and purple vetch (V. americana).
Example sentences
- Buckwheat, mustard, rape, or fast-growing legumes, such as vetches or crimson clover, can be used.
- Sometimes, instead of a multi-year hayfield, Moyer will just use hairy vetch or a vetch / oats mix as a cover crop between the summer wheat harvest and corn planting the following spring.
- After you prepare a seed bed in your future tomato plot, plant the vetch, either by broadcasting or in shallow furrows at the rate of an ounce of seed per 10 square feet.
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French veche, from Latin vicia.
Words that rhyme with vetchetch, fetch, ketch, kvetch, lech, outstretch, retch, sketch, stretch, wretch
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Hair color
According to Dr. Gray, executive director of the Oxford Hair Institute the significance of color in nature can be pointed to two desired outcomes: survival and mating. Each species of plant and animal developed body color in the battle for survival.
In humans the Hair color is primary confined to recognition and display at a distance. Across the open plain or a nightclub floor, hair is the most powerful visual sign of attraction (or repellence) according to Dr. Gray.
In early days of human history, dark hair pigment was necessary for protection from the sun. Migration to other parts of the world allowed lighter Hair color to emerge once out of the glair of Africa's sun. However, black hair still dominates the world (90% of the word's inhabitance have dark hair): natural blonds and reds are rarity.
In the history of humanity hair color formed social perceptions and is viewed and used in social interactions of the day.
Red Hair had different meaning attached to it through the history. Greeks thought of it as bad luck, in British Imperial Army the red hair was associated with ferocity and bravery. Admiration of Queen Elizabeth's red hair changed British attitude towards red hair. In 16th century artists showed idealized young women with long red or auburn hair, and in late Victorian times, red hair became highly fashionable.
During the 20th century, Hollywood used red hair to depict women who were "fiery." Even today, red hair associated with risk-taking. Red color in the most popular "fun" color around the world and the most frequently used artificial color. In fact surveys show that just over 50% of women would go red if they could change their color for one day.
Blond Hair emerged in the human history only in the past few thousand years in any numbers. In early Christian world blond hair was regarded with reverence. According to experts, at a basic psychological level, blond hair denotes youth. In fact blond hair is more common in children than adults.
Today, natural blonds remain rare (only 5% of North Americans are naturally blond) and are associated with glamour, so it is no surprise that almost 65% of female newscasters are blond.
Black Brunette Hair is in a core of the archetypal male classically cast as "tall, dark and handsome." As a n example Elvis Presley tinted his naturally sandy-colored hair black, and the rest is history.
Dark-haired women also enjoy positive perceptions. The Clairol survey revealed that brunettes are considered intelligent, trustworthy and successful:
83% of women believe that brunette women are better at managing money.
77% would trust a brunette with their deepest secret.
59% believe that CEO would be likely to hire a brunette
A majority of respondents believe that the first female U.S. President will be a brunette.
The haircolor artistry evolved to capture and express social aspiration for men and women. Your self-image of youth, creativity, intelligent and dependability could be enhanced by your haircolor. Often experimentation is the best method of discovering the optimal balance for individual's haircolor.
Live richly and have fun…
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Luke Bryan's "If You Ain't Here to Party" played on the clubhouse speakers Friday morning as the Cubs got ready for their afternoon game against the Pirates.
Across the street from Wrigley Field, the marquee at Murphy's Bleachers read, "A Little Party Never Killed Nobody," while fans put on their pregame buzz in anticipation of a playoff-clinching win.
By the late innings, most of the executives from the business operations department were sitting by Chairman Tom Ricketts near the Cubs dugout, and co-owner Laura Ricketts joined them in the bottom of the ninth, just in time to see Starlin Castro's RBI triple pull the Cubs within a run.
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Foreign money, local campaigns: A guide
Three men are accused of illegally funneling foreign money into San Diego city elections. A self-styled campaign "guru," a former San Diego Police officer and a local lobbyist are accused of helping a Mexican billionaire donate at least $500,000 to San Diego campaigns. Under federal law, foreign nationals are prohibited from making contributions to election campaigns in the United States.
The accused are: Ravneet Singh, right, 41, founder of Washington D.C.-based ElectionMall Inc.; retired San Diego Police detective Ernesto Encinas, left, 57; and lobbyist and former Chula Vista planning commissioner Marco Polo Cortes, 44, at center. Singh was arrested Friday and arraigned on Tuesday. Cortes was arrested Tuesday. Encinas appeared in court Thursday.
The billionaire
The money came from a foreign national identified as Mexican industrialist José Susumo Azano Matsura. Azano, who owns a home in Coronado, was not named in federal documents, but they included enough information to identify him.
Straw man
Cortes, Encinas and Singh are accused of funneling Azano's money through shell companies and a straw donor — believed to be local businessman Marc Chase — to circumvent federal law that prohibits foreign nationals from contributing to campaigns at any level. An occasional donor to political campaigns, Chase is co-owner of Symbolic Motor Car Company in La Jolla.
Money trail
According to the criminal complaint, the most money — $340,000 — went to help Bob Filner's mayoral candidacy. Azano spent more than $200,000 in support of Dumanis' failed mayoral bid. He also supported an unnamed 2012 federal candidate that was probably Rep. Juan Vargas. Azano also tried to help former mayoral candidate Nathan Fletcher although there's no evidence that Fletcher knew about the effort. None of the politicians are implicated in wrongdoing.
Since the scandal broke on Tuesday, local politicians have moved to distance themselves from tainted funds Rep. Juan Vargas, D-San Diego, Dumanis, Interim Mayor Todd Gloria and congressional candidate Carl DeMaio said they would voluntarily return campaign contributions they had legally received from Encinas.


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DOVER, N.H. (AP) — A former school bus driver in New Hampshire and Maine will wait until early next year to learn how long he'll spend in prison for sexually exploiting children on his bus.
John Allen Wright, who pleaded guilty in September, had been scheduled for sentencing last week, but Foster's Daily Democrat reports that the hearing has been postponed until February.
Wright, who lived in Milton, worked as a bus driver for special needs children. He was arrested in September 2011 and charged with filming child pornography on the bus using cameras hidden in glasses and pens.
Officials have said he faces prison time of up to 160 years.
Information from: Foster's Daily Democrat, http://www.fosters.com - Full story: http://bit.ly/ROaGkw
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Track time, event & project planning and billing in iCal.
TimeTable reads and filters iCal calendar data and then calculates the hours spent in the events. Find trends by searching the details of events and viewing the average, maximum and minimum times spent on projects. Events are edited and stored in iCal, and TimeTable reads the events directly from a calendar in real time based on the timeframe selected.
Once a timeframe is selected, TimeTable can export this data to email, text or comma separated values to use the results in other tools like, invoicing, time tracking or spreadsheet applications. Since TimeTable only reads iCal data, there is nothing to save or backup.
Standard features include:
* Viewing overall hour based totals and averages
* Viewing individual event details
* Search your results by Title, Notes or Location
Required OS: not specified
Tags: ical , time , hours , timesheet , calendar , project
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This is a supremely good app, highly recommend it.
Using a combination of Minco to record precise times and this you get a really useful way of printing time sheets out. Minco has a option of exporting its data already but it outputs all the calenders together in one file, doesn't take in to account stuff made outside minco yet in ical, and its exporting methods are limited compared to this. I really like the method of emailing the data out, when combined with a nice html signature for me it creates a really fast way of sending people invoices.


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I fell in love. I fell in love with the town of Marfa. Safari tents. Stand alone bathtubs. Vintage trailers. Twinkle lights. Hammocks.
An off the beaten path campground takes you to another world. You can choose to stay in one of their hip vintage trailers, eco-friendly safari tents, or in one of two teepees. The place fills up so all that was left was the safari tent. I felt like I was in a part of Moonrise Kingdom.
It takes up 18 acres in Marfa, Texas and it has a place where they host live music, a communal kitchen, a shaded nook full of swinging hammocks, a community lounge and a small little shop filled with unique finds.
It's a place that just steals your heart and makes you wonder when you can come back.


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This is Hou Ying Zhong, of XLH.
His real job is creating theatrical and cinema sound systems, but high-end audio is his passion.
He's standing in front of his $50,000/pair AEF-1812 loudspeakers. That's "18," as in 18" woofer, and "12," as in "1+2=3, which is an auspicious number.


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Parenthood brings about a whole new take on the holiday season. Luckily we have a few years before Rowan is old enough to really know what all the holiday hoopla is about; by then maybe we will have acquired all the necessary accoutrements for a truly American Christmas. This year we did not opt to wrap our porch and palms in lights like all the neighbors, but we did get a tiny tree. All of our ornaments are still in storage, so anything larger would have been quite bare. It is cute and Rowan-sized. I am looking forward to an exciting new year full of many new firsts and hopefully some exciting photographic projects.
This past year was a pretty exciting one as well. I started the year off hunched over a toilet with morning sickness in a friend's San Francisco apartment. The highlights of 2009...
- Pho in San Francisco...one of the few things I could eat at the time:)
- Surprising my dad for his retirement/60th birthday party
- Rowan was born
- Got my first digital SLR
- 5th wedding anniversary
- Orchid photo show
- Rowan's first smile
- Rowan's first laugh


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|Feline Behaviors: Why Does My Kitty Do This?
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by Holly D. Webber
Holly D.Webber is the founder/owner of HDW Enterprises and the in-home Bengal cattery Foothill Felines Bengals, located in Sacramento, CA. She has been breeding Bengals for 6 years, and is also a breeder member of The International Cat Association, and The International Bengal Cat Society. In addition, Ms. Webber is the U.S. Foreign Correspondent for "PETWORLD" Magazine, published bi-monthly in Malaysia. Asa and I had the pleasure of meeting Holly and her son, Wesley, a few months ago, and spent a delightfully memorable afternoon playing with and "socializing" Bengal kittens.
The Fascinating Feline
Dunking a Favorite Toy in His Food or Water Bowl
Kneading You With His Paws
Suddenly Starting to Hiss at You When You Are Petting Him
Licking or Chewing Photographs or Plastic BagsThis is a difficult behavior to explain, and some cats are more prone to it than others. Most feline behaviorists have come to believe that some cats find a slight odor to the plastic and/or film surfaces simply irresistible, and also that the coolness and texture of the plastic and/or film must feel and taste good on the cats tongue. It may also be another form of trying to "nurse" sort of a feline "oral compulsive" behavior.
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Grilled Watermelon Salad Recipe
Grilled Watermelon Salad Notes
This recipe comes from the wonderful Chicago-based food blog Eat A Duck I Must.
- 2 large chunks de-seeded watermelon
- olive oil for drizzling
- balsamic vinegar for drizzling
- mint leaves
- micro greens
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
- lemon juice to taste
Preparation Instructions
Drizzle the watermelon with oil and season with salt and pepper
Heat the grill on high
Once the grill is very hot, sear the watermelon for about 1 min
Place the watermelon in a blender and puree
Filter the juice to remove the pulp through a sieve
Put 200 ml of the juice back into the blender and add 1 gm of sodium alginate. Blend the mixture until evenly mixed. The liquid should have thickened up.
Pour the mixture into a squeeze bottle and let it sit in the fridge to remove the bubbles (~4 hours or overnight) Air bubbles in the mixture can cause the sphere to break apart easily when forming. It is better to remove as much of the air bubbles as possible.
In another bowl add 500 ml of water and the 5 gm of calcium chloride, stir until dissolved.
Take a 1 tablespoon measuring spoon and quickly dip it into the calcium solution. Gently squeeze in the watermelon mixture into the tablespoon, slowly submerge the spoon into the calcium chloride solution. Swirl the spoon around until a shell has formed, then carefully turn over the spoon to release the sphere.
Let it sit for 1-2 mins then remove the sphere and place it in a water bath In the mean time, toss the micro greens, mint leaves with olive oil, salt and lemon juice.
Strain the sphere and place it in a serving spoon.
Drizzle with a little balsamic vinegar and top it with the greens.
Serve immediately.


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Ryan started a Q&A meme over at Catavino that I participated in; you can check out the exchange here. What I didn't know was that there were so many Portuguese wines here in the local market. I'll be rounding some of Ryan's wife Gabriella's picks for a future podcast. You can follow Ryan's Q&A with fellow wine bloggers here. Great stuff!
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"In 2012 and 2013 we saw a slew of retailers make policies to eliminate gestation crates in their pork supply chains," reports Matthew Prescott at the Humane Society of the United States.
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Skip to comments.Greta Van Susteren Thinks Palin Will Run for President
Posted on 07/12/2011 11:38:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Family friend and fellow Fox News contributor Greta Van Susteren is the only journalist we've noticed that has much access of any kind to Sarah Palin's inner circle. And this morning Politico pointed to her surprising prediction on her blog: "First, I have absolutely no inside track (despite what some may think) but I am guessing Governor Sarah Palin is running for President in 2012." That seems like a pretty bold prediction for someone without any "inside track."
But, despite Van Susteren's claim to the contrary, it does seem like she would be privy to the workings of a nascent Palin campaign. Remember, she was the only reporter Palin gave much access to while on her family vacation/historical "One Nation" bus tour. And she is the go-to Fox News person for a Sarah Palin interview, so much so that she's had to defend her unprecedented access to the family: Politico noted back in 2009 that she nabbed Palin's "first post-election sit-down, Todd Palin's first interview during the campaign and Bristol Palin's first interview since giving birth."
Still, the reasons that Van Susteren lists for her "she's running" guess on her blog are pretty thin, and they amount to this: we haven't heard from her since the bus tour (maybe she's planning something), "she has never said no" (maybe she's thinking yes), she seems to be getting a lot of media attention (maybe it's a strategy), she has a lot of volunteers in Iowa (maybe that's her organization) and finally, "Are there any signs she is not running other than that she is not physically in Iowa and has not declared a candidacy?" Well, sure, those reasons could be used to make arguments for and against Palin getting into the race. But the reasoning matters less than the mere fact that Van Susteren made a prediction.
Governor Palin has been running for three years, has a national bus tour (still in place), a recent book, a movie due out in days, a cover on Newsweek, and is in contact with her Iowa organization and a had personal appearance there only last week or so.
She sure looks like a candidate to me.
I don't get it. Palin is available for simple conversation-—she doesn't live on another planet-—and can answer this question better than anyone. But let's not ask her, that would be too easy...let's speculate instead and sell some news print..
she is the ONLY candidate which will EXCITE America-!!!
she is the ONLY candidate which will EXCITE America-!!!
here is a link to the blog post and poll by greta.
I don't think Sarah would give a direct answer to that question until she herself is ready to make that announcement. I think she's playing the media like a drum.
Born February 11, 1964 in Sandpoint, ID (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Charles R Heath, born in ID
Sarah Sheeran, born in WI
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of her birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Sarah Palin is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama ISN'T!
(I dont get it. Palin is available for simple conversation-she doesnt live on another planet-and can answer this question better than anyone. But lets not ask her, that would be too easy...lets speculate instead and sell some news print..)
She has to make a decision first......to run or not run and then an announcement. I am sure that when she has made that decision Sarah will quickly tell us what it is and I think it will be a dramatic occasion. In the meantime she is raising a beautiful ruckus in the gourds of all and I do mean all the libs and left leaners. For this, I truly love her.
- She will give a preliminary announcement on the Bob and Ken show in Alaska on August 1st
- She will formally announce on August 29th, the date of her wedding anniversary to Todd and the date of her selection as VP three years ago.
- The announcement will be held at Cowboy Stadium in North TX. That weekend prior to her announcement (08/29 is a Monday is and ripe for prime-time viewing) there will be an "Announcement Convention" of some sorts featuring conservative speakers, and Palin may even invite the current presidential candidates to give a speech
- She will be the first presidential candidate to raise money by text messaging
- She will honor the 10th anniversary of 9/11 with a powerful speech at Ground Zero
- She will be the first candidate to already introduce her running mate BEFORE the primaries
- She will raise $500 million by the end of this year
Grasping at straws, now back to Aruba and Greta, the democrat.
Amen to that! The whole country will go absolutely wild when she announces. I don't think the beltway, elites and GOP have a clue how much. She is the symbol of our Revolution! We're taking out country back!
Those predictions appear reasonable to me. I look forward to the crowfeast from the "she's not running" crowd.
She is the ONLY candidate which will EXPLODE LIBERAL TALKING HEADS' HEADS!....................
Yup, Palin is the anti-Obama. She will stir up as much excitement and support as Obama and his minions did, only she will actually deserve it.
" But the reasoning matters less than the mere fact that Van Susteren made a prediction."
Unless you are deaf, dumb, and blind...which politico appears it is. This sounds like kids talking in a schoolyard so the teacher won't overhear them.
For someone "not running" for President, she sure looks like she has been running since 2008 to me.
In fact, this is the best noncampaign I think I have ever witnessed in my lifetime.
"Greta Van Susteren Thinks" is such an outrageous statement..
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The 2012 Iowa Caucuses are scheduled to take place on February 6, 2012.
Greta is the only one on FOX that was positively effected by Palin. Since Palin was picked by McCain I have watched Greta go from a CNN throw-away liberal mostly doing tabloid news on FOX, to her becoming much more conservativeThe only times I've ever seen Rush on FOX has been on Greta's show.
$2 million of it from me, FRiend.
Now was Greta the liberal in Aruba are not//????
You have to be crazy to think Sarah Palin is not going to enter the race.
For Palin it is a win-win situation even if she loses.
Palin and Perry of Tex. or Bolton for V.P. works for me OK. Marxists need not apply.
The only hope for America is for Sarah Palin to be the next President of the United States.
That is not an exaggeration.
The corruption is so deep in DC, it will take an honest outsider to root it out and to preserve the Constitution. When Sarah takes an oath, she means it.
She has done it before—and she can do it again.
That is why the hatred is white hot for her—DC will never be the same and the political class knows it.
Don't believe me? Even Ray Charles could see the kabuki theater being played today alone in DC on the nation's finances is a crock.
She reported on the Natalie Holloway case, but how does that make her liberal or conservative? It's her job.
If Palin runs for president the policians and the MSM will run out of depends in DC.
She needs to announce on August 4, as a birthday present for Obama.
Well, she's beating them like a drum, but playing them like a Stradivarius.
Excellent post.
May it be so. But lets not stop at just the monolith of federal government.
Millions of Americans have been living on the backs of tens of millions of other Americans via bloated, unaccountable federal, state and local governments.
For example, have you seen how ridiculously over-equipped your local police and fire departments are lately? And lets not even talk about their pensions.
Commence firing, fire at will.
Oh, E3, from your keyboard to God's ears!
How would it be a win if she loses?
Wouldn't that be fabulous! That would be absolutely GREAT!!!
"She sure looks like a candidate to me."
Unpossible! She's not running because she can't win because she quit because she's not running. Just ask the PDS brigade running round the maypole in circles ;)
good video:
Putting the pieces of the Palin 2012 puzzle together
Agree, regarding Greta. She is the #1 best interviewer on FoxNews and she gets all sorts of Senators and Congressmen from both sides to agree to do her show, because they know she asks good questions and will allow them to answer. Bret Baier is the 2nd best interviewer on FNC, for similar reasons, but his show format doesn't lend itself to doing a lot of one-on-one interviews.
O'Really is a horrible interviewer; tosses only softball questions to Obama and claims he was tough on him; seldom lets anyone give a full answer to his questions before he interrupts them. ....Loved it when Sarah cut him off in the middle of such an interruption so she could finish her answer. He was visibly pissed!!
O'Rielly with Bachmann yesterday was truly pathetic, snarky, smirking, dismissive, demeaning, he was an idiot.
Yes Sir, I totally agree!
Bold and detailed predictions! I would love for her to announce here in the great state of Texas. That was the most puzzling prediction of all...but seeing her announce on that huge Cowboy Stadium screen would be AWESOME!!!! I would camp out way in advance of that date!!! So do you think Perry is her running mate...I hope it is Allen West and not Perry.
Those RINO and Democrat clowns are proposing band aids for a deep cut that's bleeding.
Then add in Obama with his "eat your peas" line....sounds
more like "drink the Kool Aid" to me.
The 14 trillion plus national debt is a serious problem that demands a serious solution that will PO the political and business insiders who keep kicking the ball down the road with a steam roller bearing down on it.
You bet!
Palin / West is the ticket...You Betcha!!!!!!!
Me too!
Be very very careful about date setting... She will announce when the time is right.
To those attending this Weekend showing of "The Undefeated" make sure to bring O4P materials !!! A perfect time to sign people up !!! Also, after the movie, use your cell phone cameras and conduct impromtu interviews. Afterwards, post the interviews on YouTube, C4P or Facebook!!!
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I have started a blog regarding the 3 foot passing law mainly regarding Virginia and also just for general discussion ABOUT ANYTHING...if anyone wants to participate please go to:
Gary Davis
This would be a great thing, but in all purposes uneffective. Drivers don't know the laws considering bicycles. The law in VA (live here too) is two feet now, and we still get clipped riding on the white sideline! The bill didn't make it, how about lobby for informing the ******* drivers about the law that is on the books now. Plus, in order for these people to be caught they have to be seen doing such by a cop. And even then hte cops probably would do a thing. I've called in plates to the cops, what happened probably nothing. So ride smarter is my motto.
I agree with you whole heartedly. I think if a cop was to observe an accident they would probably look at the cyclist being at fault somehow. Two feet isn't enough and it doesn't matter anyway, because motorists don't observe that. I am so tired of being buzzed whenever I go out, or have someone scream obsenities at me when I'm perfectly within my rights to be on the road. There are those that will give you plenty of room and for that I am very grateful.
One important rule of the road (for us) that I have learned. Take 3 feet from the curb....the closer you are to it...the more motorists will try to "squeeze" between you and the white dividing line. By taking your 3 feet you "force" them to cross over the dividing line to get around you and that makes it safer for everyone. It also causes those that don't understand the laws to become irate...Hence...our problem.
Your mention about riding smarter-Yes..you are correct. By that we all know that being the defensive rider is key to our longevity. Several ways to do that, but my main focus when I ride-Wear a helmet, I run lights "both" front and rear in broad daylight, dusk and at night. Brightly colored clothes help and even simple reflective tape on your bike and shoes can attract a drivers attention.
In your communities...become active even if its one meeting a month. Another voice, another vote might bring you one step closer to a goal.
A town in the US has banned cyclists on most of its streets, punishing anyone who gets caught with a $68 (£46) fine. Black Hawk in Colorado, which has a population of just above 100, is thought to be the first town in the US to make cycling illegal after a change in civic law.
The curious decree has been introduced for "health and safety" reasons, said administrators of the former goldmining town, which in the 1990s decided to develop gambling to prevent the place vanishing altogether.
Michael Copp, Black Hawk's city manager, the equivalent of chief executive of a local council in the UK, admitted there had not been any accidents to prompt the ban, just concern over potential collisions between motor vehicles and bicycles on 19th-century streets that were designed for horses and carriages.
The town started enforcing the ban on 5 June, five months after it passed the law requiring cyclists to dismount and wheel their bikes through the town. So far eight tickets have been issued, said Copp.
Copp, who does not cycle himself, said the council passed the ordinance after the town experienced a surge in traffic – buses, delivery trucks, and motorists – following a law that increased the maximum betting limits from $5 to $100 once it chose gambling as its raison d'etre.
The ban applies only to the narrow 19th century thoroughfares in a town that is lined with historic buildings and new casinos, not the few residential streets. Cyclists riding in on Colorado highway 279, a main route through the town, would have to dismount and walk about 400 metres, Copp said.
"This ordinance is necessary for the preservation of health and safety and for the protection of public convenience and welfare," says the law, which is set out on the Black Hawk website.
"The rules will allow bicycle traffic that originates locally to continue to operate with City Manager authorisation, while still assuring that such traffic can operate in a manner that is not incompatible with vehicular traffic," says another clause.
Cyclists' lobbies are gearing up to challenge the law, which they say is illegal.
"The danger here is the precedent," Dan Grunig of Bicycle Colorado, an advocacy group, said. "We don't believe it's right or legal and we want to make sure it's addressed before it's spread any further."
Grunig's group, which claims 7,000 members statewide, has appealed to national groups to help.
"An outright ban on being able to ride a bicycle through a community is unheard of in any other community in the country, said Charlie Zeeger, director of the Pedestrian and Bicycling Information Center at the University of North Carolina.
But Black Hawk seems proud to be first. "At this point the council has no intention of repealing the ban," Copp said. "They believe their actions are what's best for its citizens in Black Hawk, which are casinos and their patrons."
I love reading letters here from riders who make exactly the same points that I do. Gary is to be commended for initiating a blog on this important point. "Geared" as well underscores the issues we experience here in Michigan. I think that a three foot "bubble" to which they often refer to the space in Colorado is patently absurd and have stated that if it was promoted as to be the law here I would be the most vocal advocate against it, as not being big enough.
The "squeeze through" issue is of course significant as well. If we allow for a space for a driver to squeeze through when there is oncoming traffic then we put ourselves at risk. I will take more of the lane if I don't think I'm safe to tolerate a passing auto (that is if there are oncoming cars) and move over to the right when the last oncoming car goes back. Now what I promote that I have not seen anywhere else is that when I make that move into the lane I hand signal sort of a "stop" signal as I might if I was slowing down for an intersection. My theory (or perhaps my fantasy!) is that if I make that signal then the trailing auto driver will know that I know that he is there and not presume, as I'm sure you all know the deal, that I am cavalier about the road, hogging it all, and indifferent to the cars. I will then when the opportunity opens up, wave a sort of thanks when I'm moving over when the oncoming traffic passes through. I think this is effective from my experience from doing this around here (North of Detroit in general) though none of my local cohorts have made comment on whether it seems to work for them or not. I can't attest to whether they do it or not despite my frequent letters on this and other points that I'll send to various clubs and so on. Nevertheless I think it considerate to make this move and many cars appreciate it and don't get to that place where we are just owning the road or the whole universe as has been pointed out to us. By the way, I WILL NOT WAVE THEM ON to pass me. That is their call and at least one attorney suggested I might be putting myself in a legal bind if say, a passing car were to make a mistake (or if I erred) and there was an accident as a result. (This reminds me of the old Charles Addams cartoon with the Uncle Fester character driving a hearse on a darkened evening on a mountain and he waves a trailing car to pass but there is a truck coming around the bend that is not seen by the car!)
I've been writing on the Facebook threads about this ridiculous scenario in Colorado. The intellectual discourse has been as rich with constructive comments from the supporters there as the shore line in Colorado of the ocean. That reads as non existant! I'm surprised some ride group does not come through in a sort of civil disobedience act and ride through with 100 plus riders. That would nearly total the population of that town. The comment that seems to be made over and over is how unsafe the the riders are to the car drivers. The notion of slowing down seems to be absent. That tour buses could overtake the riders and that they all just block traffic for miles and miles. Yeah right. My notion, now I'll admit I've ridden in mountains not there in that county, that riders who are strong enough and skilled enough to ride narrow mountain roads and climb and descend them are also smart enough to do so in a safe manner. They will assert themselves into that lane as we've discussed so as not to get bumped off the cliff but the drivers don't get that and the community neither. Of course we know that if we can we would pull over to let a long stream of cars go by but I don't think that is the real issue there. The discussion is just replete with the notions that as cyclists we are indifferent to the needs of any others. Most of us drive cars too, (when we have too) and know it goes both ways. That said I am really getting short with cyclists who keep telling me I'm running lights and swarming cars and hogging the road and being dangerous to auto drivers over and over and I never hear from the police for example what they've done to make my riding experience in their community better. That stated,
we've been bandying about the notion of creating a site where riders post incidents where they were buzzed and it goes directly to that police jurisdiction. The police seem to say that they get complaints "ALL THE TIME" that we are doing all these terrible things but do they get complaints whenever we experience a terrible thing that darn nearly kills us?
So, I proposed recently here that we use our phones and call 911 whenever an incident occurs. And darn it I had to do it just two days ago. Some traffic backed up on a local road eastbound. My buddy and I on road bikes came out of a cross street and two mountain bike riders went by. We waved hello and then turned to follow about 30 or more yards back. Then a stream of cars went by and alas a guy in a duster goes past about 1 foot, if that, from me and also nearly hit my pal. I was forced to eat it in a pothole as I didn't have an inch to maneuver. I did not go down. The driver continued on and we yelled and I whistled to the mtn guys and he nearly hit them too. They gave him sort of a wave of frustration. We caught the guy up the road and he was cavalier at best and said he rides a bike, (I love hearing that from this expert) and that if he were us he'd be on the sidewalk. As we were able to go the speed of the traffic or better actually we in no way held him up. Turns out he had passed a young man, whom I know as he is from a devoted cycling family, just prior to nearly hitting us and he had nearly hit this nice young man on his Serotta. So, I called 911. Gave them the description of the car, the plate, the driver and the intersection ahead allowed the guy to miss the officer on his way over but we waited for the police and he came and said the guy will get a call and inferred this incident would tag him of sorts. Don't know if that happens but I felt they were interested. Kudos to the Beverly Hills, MI police and to the Farmington Hills police for a similar incident I experienced a few years ago where the prosecutors office took the driver to court (the judge thought it not felonious assault) and the case was dismissed but remember, the driver had to retain an attorney and I was informed, probably to the tune of $5,000. So that maneuver cost him. We need to follow the law but use it too to keep each other safe out there!
Way to go Gary. Good luck with your blog. I'll copy it and send it to about 1,600 riders here. You can paste this on there if you wish.
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*We have the 3 foot passing law in Tennessee. If you asked a motorist , that doesn't bike, they would probably answer that they have no clue about the 3 foot passing law . Only bikers and their families know of the law.
* I find that 98% of my bike route encounters are courteous drivers and only a very small portion of motorist dislike bikes being on the road. The bike "dislikers" do exist.
Has anyone heard about this proposed law in New Jersey, it would require bicycles to be licensed and registered at $10 a bike.
Outrageous, Absolutely Outrageous!
And what is it that they propose to do with the money? Pay someone to issue the licenses? Or build bike lanes? Or educate drivers about their responsibilities to share the road? And every kid has to register his bike? And I have to register all 10 of mine?
Let us know!
It hasn't become a law, and hopeful won't a law. I googled the story for an update and it was just update this morning at 6:00AM. The same assemblywoman who proposed it, withdraw it.
Assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker on Thursday slammed the brakes on a much-maligned proposal to require bicycles be registered with the Motor Vehicle Commission at up to $10 a pop, and to force them to sport license plates.
Tucker (D-Essex) quickly withdrew the bill, which would have fined those without plates up to $100, and switched gears to focus on elderly pedestrian safety. She had introduced the bill after receiving complaints from senior citizens who had been hit by kids riding bikes.
"My intention was never to impose a burden or additional costs. My goal was to at least begin a discussion of how best to protect elderly pedestrians," said Tucker. "No idea is perfect, but protecting elderly pedestrians deserves attention. I would encourage everyone to give thought to how best we can protect elderly pedestrians and suggest solution."
The bill (A3657), introduced last week, drew outrage from bicycle enthusiasts and others who called it unnecessary and intrusive government regulation.
"I think it's a victory for everybody who wrote into her, and to their assemblymen and senators," said Paige Hiemier, vice president of the New Jersey Bike & Walk Coalition. "It's a victory for cyclists."
It never had much of a chance. Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver (D-Essex) said it wasn't a priority. And while thousands of bills are introduced in the state Legislature each year, few become law. Since 2010, 6,798 bills were proposed and only 129 have been signed into law. Most will sit idle until they expire. Few, however, are formally withdrawn.
Brigid Harrison, a professor of political science at Montclair State University, said the bill struck a sour note with the public because they feel "nickeled and dimed to death."
"Whether it's access fees to beaches or user fees on campgrounds and parks, the cost of living is hitting people in their purses and wallets, especially in this economic climate," she said.
I've been thinking about this one for a couple days now and the idea of equipping a bicycle with some sort of "identification" might have been a good idea...what I mean is that both Children and Adults abuse the privilege. I can definitely understand watching out for senior citizens, but how about watching out for us? Cyclists I mean...you know the "law abiding" type like many of us.
If more laws "forced" drivers to pay attention to cyclists on the road so that we could share it, we might not have to worry so much about these types of problems. Anyway, we can only keep plugging away on these laws and continue to educate ourselves and other drivers.
Sigh.....moan...anyway, just letting out my frustration.
Over the past couple of seasons I''ve had, in my capacity as a ride leader for several clubs, communications directed towards me on hazardous bike riders. Usually I'm not impressed by the complaints, some from the police but I do know that some riders are flagrant in their breeching of the law, running lights and so on. Nevertheless even a casual rider will attest to the hazards while riding and in particular the hazards created by cavalier, incompetent, or hostile motorists. That said, we need to get on the same page. I urge every rider in our groups to contact the authorities/police whenever there is an incident on the road. Take out your sell phone, take a picture of the offending driver, his plate and call the police and tell them you felt assualted by the driver who purposely drove near you forcing you off the road or whatever.
If more cyclists report every incident in which they are threatened then there are more incidents in which we were threatened and the narrow roads without a bike lane become a problem. Use that cell phone to advantage.
Hey Sod,
Thanks for the opportunity to plug the work of the JRCF since you are in Tennessee and may not be aware of our presence. The Jeff Roth Cycling Foundation promotes cycling as a safe and healthy form of transportation and recreation through advocacy and education, and helps to provide assistance to families cycling tragedies. Some of the Foundation's goals are:
We are currently working for a specialty license plate which would increase awareness of the 3 ft law in TN and help raise funding for other bicycle intiatives. One point brought up in this thread is the general lack of awareness on the part of law enforcment officials about bicycle protection under exisating laws. That is certainly a needed area of outreach for the group and the finicial resources we generate with the plate can be directed at educational materials for use in schools, annual law enforcment continuing education, etc.
I am hoping you can spread the word down in the Chattanooga/Soddy Daisy area on the project. Of couse you can also help out by going to the site and signing up for your own plate today. Let me know how much work you want to do for us in your area and we will get someting going for you. Aren't you glad you posted here?
Have a great day!
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aka Chuck Faulkner
Tazewell, TN 37987
Hey folks,
Haven't been by in a while so I wanted to update everyone on a couple of developments in TN since my last post regarding the 3 foot law. Thanks to the work of Bike-Walk TN, a statewide legislative-regional bike-pedestrian planning group HB100/SB1171 adds teeth to the existing Jeff Roth/Brian Brown Bicycle Protection act to strengthen the level of charges to be applied fro injury to cyclists and pedestrians. You can gt a summary of the new legislation which becomes law on July 1 following this link. http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/billinfo/BillSummaryArchive.aspx?BillNumber=HB1007&ga=107
In February, Michael Montgomery, a cyclist from Franklin TN was run down by a dump truck driver while riding on a designated bike route, in the bike lane. Tn HWY Patrol (THP) conducted an on site investigation and decided it was an accident and no charges would be filed, despite the severity of injuries to Montgomery and eyewitness accounts that the dump truck driver repeatedly veered off the road prior to making contact with the cyclist. A complaint was filed on behalf of Montgomery by The Jeff Roth Cycling Foundation (JRCF) http://www.jeffrothcyclingfoundation.org/and THP reopened the investigation, amended the accident report and filed charges against the driver. This is the first time a driver has been charged w/ violation of the 3ft law and 1st time THP amended an accident report in favor of an injured cyclist. Most importantly we got word out to a number of THP officers that the 3ft law is an actual law in TN for which charges can be filed. It amazed me to find out that the existence of the law was not universally know among law enforcement authorities indicating we have much work to do.
In May, we had another cyclist run down near Maryville TN. Charges were filed against the driver by the Blount Co sheriffs dept on the spot. Interestingly this is the home territory of the JRCF so it would seem we have done a little better closer to home. On May 17 we hosted the annual Ride of Silence to honor the memories of cyclists killed and injured by motorists http://www.wate.com/story/14673642/maryville-cyclists-ride-in-silence-for-those-injured-and-killed. We had nearly 200 riders and got TV coverage from 2 stations. Here is brief video posted on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRJo4zdFJGs
The weather here has been great overall so we have been riding an awful lot. I'll be checking back periodically so don't count me gone and forgotten. Hope everyone out there is also riding and having fun.
Horrendous and grevious spelling errors in this message were corrected using the SpellChecker by: Gotta Ride Today
Gotta Ride Today
aka Chuck Faulkner
Tazewell, TN 37987
It's amazing how negligent you can be as a driver involving (cyclists), but run a red light, or blow past a stop sign and you can end up in court quicker than you can blink an eye. Run a cyclist over though...and ah, you know it must have been the cyclist's fault somehow. Oh Boy...doesn't that just grate your nerves??? Anyway, sorry about the person involved in the dump truck accident...BUT they got it overturned and charged the driver appropriately. It's about time and another small step in the right direction.
Recently here in Virgina Beach there was a cyclist that was hit by a sideview mirror on an SUV and they suffered a broken leg and back while the driver just kept on going. No charges, I guess no one knows except the person that hit that cyclist. We don't have a 3 foot rule here...they turned it down and not even sure they really care. Some comments from a cycling group here.."Don't ride that road and you won't have to worry about it"!! Uhhhh, that just doesn't sit right you know? It's a 2 lane road, plenty of room for both cars and cyclists, but no mention of how to better share that road, let's just not go there. I guess then that we ought to just stick to sidewalks and ride in our neighborhood cul de sac maybe?
I hope that everyone that has posted in this wall is doing well.
Oh..one more thing. There is an area here called Pungo which is a very old part of Virgina Beach with tiny roads but lots of backwoods where many cyclists ride and also lots of group rides. There was recently a function involving about 200 cyclists and that's when the "thumbtacker" struck! They threw handfuls of small thumbtacks onto the roads at major intersections causing more than 50 cyclists to incur flats and create accidents. Supposedly the perpetrator has been caught and we waiting to see just what, if any charges get filed. People just DO NOT understand the seriousness of such an incident, especially when you are running pace lines at 20-30 mph. Sigh!!! If only we get every person in the United States and especially the ones in legislation to get on a bike and ride just once a month..it would take only a little time for them to realize how unappreciated we are and maybe then would we begin to see the necessary changes to keep us all safe.
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The Custer County State's Attorney's office has announced indictments have been unsealed and arrest warrants issued for Henry J. Martens Jr, 27; and Timothy J. Burke, 46; both of Keystone, for two counts each of Hunting Big Game Without a License. These charges stem from the alleged illegal taking of two bull elk in Wind Cave National Park Jan. 30.
"This investigation has brought together the best of both the state and federal system in order to investigate, charge and prosecute the individuals who were involved in this senseless act," said Custer County Deputy State's Attorney Matt Brown. "I have been absolutely impressed with the professionalism of U.S. Park Ranger Darren Belskis and South Dakota Game Fish and Parks Officer D.J. Schroeder, whose tireless efforts have solved this case, and will bring those responsible to justice. I applaud the level of multi-agency cooperation that has taken place to resolve this case."
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NIAID researchers, in collaboration with their colleagues at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, found rare instances of vaccinia virus DNA—but not infectious virus—in blood samples taken from 28 NIH employees who had received the Dryvax smallpox vaccine as recommended for their jobs.
Using two different testing methods for blood samples, the research team found only four out of 200 specimens tested positive for vaccinia virus DNA. Moreover, the positive results were deemed "weakly positive" and samples did not contain detectable infectious virus. In addition, no vaccinia virus DNA or infectious virus was detected in throat swabs.
The findings are contrary to the conclusions of an earlier study that recommended extending the time between when individuals are vaccinated against smallpox and when those people can donate blood.
"Like the earlier study, we also found evidence of the smallpox vaccine virus DNA in the blood," says lead researcher Jeffrey I. Cohen, M.D., chief of the Medical Virology Section in the NIAID Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases. "However, the earlier study did not look for infectious virus in the blood. We were able to look at the same samples that were positive for viral DNA and found no infectious virus. Thus, we feel that as long as the current guidelines for donating blood after smallpox vaccination are followed, the risk of transmitting the vaccine virus through blood transfusions should be exceedingly small."
The current guidelines recommend that Dryvax recipients who do not develop complications from vaccination should defer from donating blood until after the vaccine scab has spontaneously separated or after 21 days, whichever is longer. Individuals with vaccine complications, the guidelines advise, should defer from donating blood until 14 days after all complications cease.
JI Cohen et al. Detection of vaccinia virus DNA, but not infectious virus, in the blood of smallpox vaccine recipients. Vaccine 25(23): 4571-74 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2007.03.044 (2007).
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LSU got 18 points from Johnny O'Bryant III en route to an 80-67 victory over Chattanooga on Tuesday at Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
LSU did not, however, defeat Chattanooga against the spread, which closed at 19.5 at most sportsbooks.
Andre Stringer had 18 points for LSU and Corban Collins chipped in with 11 points. Andre Stringer had 4 assists for them, while Johnny O'Bryant III was the team's top rebounder, grabbing 10 boards.
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