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In the late 1800s, the city now known as Oxnard was nothing more than a vast, open plain as far as the eye could see. Farmers the world over, seeing potential in the rugged land, settled on the plain in hopes of making a living for themselves and their families. They managed to survive as a community. They were the first agricultural settlers in Oxnard, and their history is being told at the Oxnard Historic Farm Park Museum.
The Oxnard Historic Farm Park Museum was an idea of a descendant of one of the original Oxnard families, Jeff Maulhardt. Maulhardt, a fifth-generation native of Oxnard, traveled to Germany to study the history of his family in 1997 in order to better understand his ancestry and other German families that settled the area.
In 2004, the Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board approved the Gottfried Maulhardt/Albert Pfeiler Farm Site as a Ventura County Landmark, number 165.
After Maulhardt realized that some of the original buildings still stood on the site, he approached the developer who had control of the land about building a museum using the old structures. After receiving approval, Maulhardt went to work turning the site into a working museum in order to bring the rich cultural history to the current people of Oxnard.
"We needed a home for Oxnard history and Oxnard hasn't had one," said Maulhardt. "It's becoming a place where people can bring their stories and their pictures."
The museum consists of several original buildings, the oldest of which is a building that might seem odd considering its location: a winery. The Maulhardt storehouse is believed to be one of the oldest brick structures remaining on the Oxnard plain and was used to store wine. Built by Gottfried Maulhardt, the winery was used by several original families, including the congregation at Santa Clara Chapel, one of the first churches south of the river.
Gary Blum, who sits on the board of directors of the museum, says that one of the goals of the museum is to restore that building to its original state.
"Sometimes the historic significance isn't always packaged in a more elaborate building," said Blum of the somewhat nondescript winery.
When the Maulhardt home was developed, there wasn't much going on in the area outside of a few cattle herds and dry plain farming, says Blum. The challenge in raising awareness of the site comes from what Blum says is a lack of connection to the historical significance of the area.
"A lot of people identify with history that they experienced or their parents experienced, and the challenge here is that this predates most people's recollections of Oxnard's history," said Blum. "This farm was there before the city was even called Oxnard."
One way in which Maulhardt and the board of directors are trying to bring people to the museum is by offering new activities such as the recently launched organic farmers market on Saturdays. At the launch of the market, McGrath Family Farms owner Tim McGrath brought a saddle older than 100 years and that was part of his ranch for display at the museum.
Though Oxnard cuvée is mostly unheard of, Maulhardt is trying to change that by planting several varietals of grapes from vines first planted in the late 1880s. Maulhardt transported vine clippings from Santa Cruz Island and had them planted on the same site where grapes were once grown when the storehouse was first constructed, in hopes of making wine in the future.
Currently under development is what Maulhardt calls a "Migratory Wall," featuring photographs and other images of migrants who settled in Oxnard from the late 1800s to the 1950s, donated by area residents.
For Maulhardt, getting people to the museum is the most difficult part due to a lack of awareness, but when people realize that the history on display at the museum is their own, they will come, says Maulhardt.
"This site was always hidden from the public," says Maulhardt. "Anyone who has grown up in the area might not know that this place is here. We're hoping that now people will put two and two together and come out."
The Oxnard Historic Farm Park Museum is located at 1251 Gottfried Place, Oxnard. For more information, visit www.oxnardfarmpark.org.


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The Sky is fallingPosted Saturday, September 13, 2008, at 9:50 AM
Because of the popularity of late night radio, a lawsuit filed in Hawaii, and some rather prolific blogging, cutting edge physics has again made the headlines:
CNN September 12, 2008
A hopeful crush on the LHC
Posted: 12:15 PM ET
"It's not every week we power up a machine and wonder about the speculations, however unwarranted, that a black hole will swallow the planet. On Wednesday morning, everyone was either utterly fascinated or fearful as the Large Hadron Collider, a $10 billion machine more expensive and powerful than any of its predecessors, started up for the first time."
The world didn't end, but just to make sure we weren't playing with the proverbial fire, I contacted a physicist friend of mine to get his take on the matter (no pun intended). Here is what he said:
"As a physics teacher, I suppose I ought to be glad. I am. But it does remind me how those of us in the business of science education need to do a better job of reaching the public.
In any case, here is one opportunity. This week, at the European Organization for Nuclear research, an experiment began in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC is
"a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles -- the fundamental building blocks of all things. It will revolutionize our understanding, from the minuscule world deep within atoms to the vastness of the Universe."
So says the LHC website. That is, the goal of the experiment is twofold. Researchers will test the so-called 'standard model' of the nature of matter while also testing differing versions of the 'Big Bang' theory which most physicists believe accurately describes the origin of the present universe. The experiment is really rather simple: two beams of protons or electrically charged lead atoms are fired at one another at a speed closer to that of light than in any previous such experiment. At these speeds and the corresponding high energy of the particles, current theory predicts black holes may be produced. A black hole is formed when matter is squeezed into so tight a space that even light can't escape the resulting gravity. These particular black holes would be tiny-really tiny. The largest theoretical BH that the collider could produce would be many powers of ten smaller than a proton… a particle which is itself about one hundred thousand times smaller than an atom. The best theory available predicts that such exotic objects would be unstable… so unstable that they would decay in less than a one hundred millionth of a billionth of a billionth of one second by shedding so-called 'Hawking radiation" named after Stephen Hawking, who first predicted it in the 1970's. Concern evidently started in the media when a German chemist published a non peer-reviewed paper (scientifically vetted) that suggested that such BH's might be stable after all. If so, such a tiny object could pass back and forth through the earth acquiring more and more matter, thus expanding to consume the earth. The paper was reviewed by well placed particle physics who found numerous inconsistencies and inaccuracies. In a nutshell: its baloney.
But ah, you say, suppose those things really are stable after all! What assurance can you give me that one or more produced by the LHC won't eat the earth and bring doomsday!
It turns out that the best reason not to worry is that if the LHC makes mini black holes, so do cosmic rays in the earth's atmosphere! In other words, they occur naturally. In fact, there are at least two observatories tasked on detecting black holes through their decay signatures in the earth's atmosphere. Expected observation rates could top more than 20 per year according to information from one of these observatories. So, either the LHC can't make little black holes to begin with, or else they are so common that doomsday would already have occurred even if they are dangerous. If they're real, the happen all the time. If not, there is no concern at all. We should however excited about the experimental results because of what they will tell us about our amazing cosmos and its origin."
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I am the 'physicist friend' of Kenneth Jones who contributed the article to the blog above. I wanted to respond to comments from JTankers concerning the article and concerning safety from exotic matter/mini black hole production at the LHC for the sake of non-physicists who may be reading these blogs. After doing a more careful reading of the links he posted and my own research, I am even more convinced that there is no evidence of any debate among particle physicists concerning a potential for a disaster resulting from particle experiments at CERN. To some intelligent readers who nevertheless lack a formal background in physics, comments such as those of JTankers and others can create the illusion that there is a vibrant, legitimate controversy in the particle physics community on this point. Having spent considerable time over the last two weeks searching for evidence of such, I have found nothing significant. There is a lot of media and blogging related to LHC safety, but very little or no actual scientific work in the form of peer-reviewed scientific papers. I'll be more specific on that point below. If you don't wish to read my comments further, here is an excellent article on the subject from physics.org which summarizes the issues well:
Also, refer to this website at CERN:
As you can see, this report from CERN's website summarizes the response of CERN particle physicists and independent particle physicists to the speculative scenarios which have been popular in the press and blogosphere recently. In particular, notice the second link at the bottom of the page, reproduced here:
This is a statement issued by the American Physical Society's Division of Particles and Fields (DPF). As you can see, they fully endorse CERN's safety report (LSAG) and the peer reviewed assessment of the paper by Mangano and Giddings. The DPF is composed of a panel of experts in particle physics who work in university research and/or one of the U.S. national laboratories. They are not CERN staff scientists. I'm not sure how one would convene a more objective panel of actual experts in the field.
DPF then requested independent assessment of the statement and the LSAG report from another panel of outside experts. These included Gerard T'Hooft, 1999 Nobel Prize winner for physics. In other word's CERN's own safety report (which is quite thorough) was independently checked by the DPF-an outside agency…which was independently re-checked by T'Hooft et. Al. CERN has gone out of its way to address safety concerns however unfounded. I haven't yet found evidence of anyone in the particle physics community who thinks there really is cause for concern. That is: the relevant experts seem to agree that there is no reasonable concern.
When I wrote the original article, I'd already read Rossler's paper on Hawking Radiation. I took the time to reproduce his mathematics so that I could get a clear sense of his claims. He seems to have cherry-picked a formula out of context and then drawn a false inference. The problem with Rossler's claims is at least twofold: 1) They rest on a basic misunderstanding of the relevant theory (General Relativity) and 2) They are self-contradictory. This isn't my own assessment (see below). I'll just expand on point 2) a bit. Rossler claims that Hawking radiation never leaves the because the outgoing radiation would take an infinite time to traverse the infinite distance between the black hole's surface and any arbitrary point outside (including any point in the lab!). According to Rossler's own model then, any mini black hole generated would be safely at an infinite distance from CERN. This is only one of the problems with the paper. I encourage readers to first read Rossler's paper which can be found in JTankers' response. Then go to the following page:
For a more technical summary, see:
The (first) article was not written by a CERN staff member, but by a particle physicist with the Max Planck institute. JTankers seems to imply that it must be biased simply because somebody at CERN requested it. Apparently Rossler spoke with a physicist at CERN named Landua who made the request evidently to avoid any allegation of bias and to get expert commentary on Rossler's paper (which has not been published in any refereed physics journal/see my original article above). Rossler himself tells this story in an online interview with blogger Alan Gillis. I'm not sure what else Landua could reasonably have done. Finally, Rossler's main training is in chemistry. He's apparently made some contributions to chaos theory also, and so he must be a really smart guy, but he doesn't seem to have formal training in particle physics or General Relativity, which are highly technical fields (see above). So pointing out that he drew a false conclusion from a formula is no insult to Rossler.
About Plaga: Okay, Dr. Plaga is an astrophysicist, which is at least closer in expertise to particle physics. However, his paper (an Elsevier pre-print) affirms the majority of the points in the LSAG report (CERN's safety report). Here is Mangano's response to Plaga's paper (it's a bit technical):
Here the author shows that Plaga makes an invalid assumption by applying an equation in a size regime in which it doesn't belong (i.e. one that assumes the relationship between the radius and mass of the hypothetical black hole can be described in four dimensions when an equation assuming 5 dimensions is required to get the right result for the radius of the black hole's event horizon). In essence, Plaga miscalculates the size of the mini black hole by making it 100 billion billion times too large. Oops. This spoils his claim that hypothetical MBH's could hypothetically spew out as much Hawking radiation as would a hydrogen bomb. But, okay, say that you think these papers are too technical for nonspecialists. What is a layperson to do when 'experts' disagree? There is a more obvious problem however, in that Plaga believes in Hawking Radiation, while Rossler does not. To expand a bit, if Rossler is correct, then Hawking radiation never occurs for theoretical reasons, so mini black holes (MBH's) don't evaporate and might pose a risk for an entirely different reason. On the other hand, if Plaga is correct, Hawking Radiation does occur after the mass of the mini black hole reaches a certain threshold. I'm not assuming that JTankers meant to mislead anyone, but Rossler and Plaga can't both be correct. Citing them together as evidence of a problem with the LHC program seems inconsistent to say the least.
-- Posted by cmlo on Fri, Sep 26, 2008, at 3:23 PM
lets hope the aliens don't become hostile when their dimension is exposed by the lhc
-- Posted by jeramy on Sun, Sep 14, 2008, at 8:40 PM
The Chicken Littles of this world have been predicting doomsday ever since the first transfer of ideas between human beings....................
-- Posted by Johnny Yuma on Sun, Sep 14, 2008, at 6:05 PM
I may be one of the more notable "prolific bloggers", but in a nutshell: this is similar to selling pharmaceutical drugs of dubious safety, big stakes and biased propaganda and in this case little or no oversight.
The papers criticizing Dr. Rossler's well crafted paper were prepared at the request of CERN as a favor, objectivity is in question[1].
Senior German visiting Professor of Physics Dr. Otto E. Rössler is an award winning scientist famous for his valued contributions to Chaos theory and founding the field of Endophysics.
But Dr. Rössler is not alone in his concern.[2] Most recently senior German Astrophysicist Physics PHD Dr. Rainer Plaga also reviewed CERN's safety conclusions and discovered fundamental flaws with CERN's safety arguments. Dr. Plaga proposes feasible risk mitigation measures[3]
CERN announced plans to speed up rather than slow down.[1]
Dr. Plaga, Dr. Rössler, former Nuclear Safety Officer Walter L. Wagner and other scientists are calling for non-biased independent verified proof of safety before high energy collissions begin. Law suits are pending in Euorpe and the US.
CERN announced plans to ignore US courts.
Baloney or not will be determined by History but it should be determined before high energy collisions begin.
[1] www.lhcfacts.org/?p=72 CERN?s Dr. Ellis tells only half of the story - LHCFacts.org (2008)
[2] www.wissensnavigator.com/documents/OTTOR... Abraham-Solution to Schwarzschild Metric Implies That CERN Miniblack Holes Pose a Planetary Risk, Prof. Dr. Otto Rossler (2008)
[3] arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0808/0808.1415v1.pdf On the potential catastrophic risk from metastable quantum-black holes produced at particle colliders - Rainer Plaga Rebuttal (2008)
-- Posted by JTankers on Sat, Sep 13, 2008, at 1:09 PM
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quote: they sold nearly 3 million fewer BlackBerrys in this quarter than the last
quote: To have such slight growth in an industry that is absolutely booming is not great, espectially for a company that once owned the market.
quote: RIM only does phones
quote: and judging by the huge layoff
quote: So far they have done nothing but catch up to the rest of the industry... Not going to be good enough
quote: You think they are doing great and most of the world disagrees
quote: Its a service, but its all about the BB phone. No phone = no service
quote: Catch up? They have 90% of the PC market in the world and have almost zero competition for that market. Apple's whopping 6% inst a threat
quote: lets not even get into the enterprise market where MS owns as well
quote: MS owning their HUGE market
quote: MS didnt lose more than half its marketshare like RIM
quote: it dropped like 5% in the last decade
quote: RIM is down in US, Europe and Asia
quote: actual sales/shipment charts dropping
quote: I re-iterate and post this same question
quote: sales and subscriptions actually shrink
quote: MS has so many revenue streams
quote: We're both looking at the same charts depending on when you start it you could say it went up or down
quote: I mean overall, its down
quote: why dropping from 55% in the US trumps the small gains in smaller markets
quote: stand behind what you say


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Earlier today I received an email from a "fan of the blog and podcast".. his email is certainly appreciated and I am glad that he took the time to express his thoughts, but…
I will not post the email here, but let me share with you the part that got me to write this post.
"OK Captain Obvious, we all know the 'Methods of Scouting' and use them, please tell us something we don't know.. after all, if it isn't broke we are not going to fix it".
Really now.. it isn't broke. Well good timing my friend. Last night at the Top Team meeting our Scout Executive presented the 2011 Progress review to the District Chairman. I was floored by the results of the audit at both the National level and our Council. Let me tell you that we have work to do.. at both the National Level… and the Council level. Now our SE said we are going to "Celebrate our short comings.. and work to fixing the issues".. I would suggest, strictly from "Captain Obvious's" point of view that we need to work and work hard to get some of these things fixed. So, tell us something we don't know he said. Let me tell you that the discussion on Methods is exactly what we don't know.
Let me share some National numbers with you..
MEMBERSHIP- In my last post on the Outdoor program, I suggested that PROGRAM, PROGRAM, PROGRAM, and working the Outdoor program method was a key point in getting Scouts to join and stay in Scouting. It is what gets Webelos to cross over and invite their friends to join. When I was at the National Meetings last year in San Diego, Rex Tillerson the BSA President talked to us about "the Main thing". that Main thing is delivering Scouting to young men. They can't do Scouting if they are not in Scouting.
In our Council we are seeing a terrible trend in Cub Scout market share (market share is how the BSA measures growth). Our Council is pretty much average with the Nation, but here are the numbers from 2007 thru 2011. In 2007 we had 15,022 Cub Scouts in the program, 14,465 in 2008, 13, 902 and 13, 303 in the next two years and in 2011 we ended the year with only 12,600 Cub Scouts. That is a significant loss. The reason that I find this alarming is that without Cub Scouts you drastically reduce the ranks of Boy Scouts.
Boy Scout membership in 2007 in our Council was 11,960 and in 2011 it dropped to 11, 731. Now this may not seem significant but long term, the Cub Scout numbers will catch up. Boys are in the Boy Scout program longer than their Cub Scout years, so we have not felt the impact of the dropping number yet.
I would suggest that this is broke and the question first is why? Could it be programs? Could it be the lack of leaders not trained.. we will get into that in a second. Could it be that methods are not being followed? I wish I had the answer.. but Captain Obvious here knows broke when he sees it.
Now the good news is that our Retention numbers are looking pretty good.. but only pretty good. The National Average in retention is 70.6%. We have way too many Scouts going out the back door. Our Council's retention rate is 76%.. still not a great number.. so why are they leaving? Is it that they don't agree with our values? are they bored? are they not getting the bang for their buck?
The average size of a Boy Scout Troop in America is 21 Scouts and we recruit about 9 a year on average… so where are they?
Ok.. lets move on to Advancement.. yeah.. remember that's one of the methods also.. How are we doing?
Only 39.8% of the Boy Scouts in the Nation advanced a rank last year. Need we say more? Captain Obvious says we need to work a little harder on this.
Now get ready to treat for shock.. TRAINING!
Only.. and I hope you are sitting down for this.. ONLY 34.4% of Direct Contact leaders, that's Tiger Leaders, Den Leaders, Webelos Leaders, Cub Masters, Scoutmasters, and Venturing Advisors are Trained in their positions! As my daughter would say OMG! And we are taking these boys in the woods and asking parents to feel good about it. I would not allow my sons to be in a unit with untrained leaders. 34.4 % is the National Average of trained leaders and I would suggest this needs immediate fixing. There is no excuse what so ever for an adult to be un trained. NONE. In an age where the BSA has made Training easier than ever to access, District and Council training committees are holding multiple training events annually… why are we not trained? How do we have "Adult Association" and mentoring for "Leadership development". How does an adult who is not trained teach, coach, train and mentor a Scout? Captain Obvious is shocked.
So once again, I would like to thank the reader for the email and suggest that we revisit the "Main thing" and the Methods of Scouting. maybe, just maybe we can fix some of these issues… nay.. we have to fix these issues and the methods will help you and your unit fix what you think is not broke. Here is what I think. Those that don't know.. don't know. Those that are untrained, will not know. There are no excuses for this. We all love Scouting and for the most part will do what ever it takes to deliver the promise of Scouting. Scouting is alive and well, but has some work to do to deliver that promise. It's obvious what we need to do. ON MY HONOR I will do my part!
What are your thoughts? I am curious to know what you think. drop an email, leave a comment, or send me smoke signals.
Have a Great Scouting day!
Captain Obvious
Earlier today I received an email from a "fan of the blog and podcast".. his email is certainly appreciated and I am glad that he took the time to express his thoughts, but…
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From the viewpoint of a Unit Commissioner I know over the past 2-3 years many Scouts that have left Scouting because Scouting in general and summer camp has become too expensive (and the costs go up every year) at at a time when many parents are losing jobs or having to take pay cuts and Scouting no longer fits in the family budget. We also see fewer parents wanting to participate in unit activities because they are working longer hours (for the same or less pay) or more than one job.
I sincerely believe that youth of all ages (including adult youth) are attracted to program. If we set up a fun thing, people want to do it. It's tough getting people to volunteer for the parts that this takes. I believe we can grow our units by doing more fun stuff. In order to do that, we need to be the ones who apply the elbow grease.
Just wanted to say that I am new to the blog and really appreciate the content. It's making me THINK and I will be passing along some of the nuggets to our committee.
I think that the guys in my troop don't leave because of a lack of money. If they leave, it's because they are not enjoying our program. It's not that we don't go camping- we do every month. The problem is that the older guys in the troop never helped out the new scouts. The only scouts that ended up staying in the troop out of a 10-boy den crossing over were two friends that I reached out to (this was a year ago). I think that to improve retention, the PLC needs to organize the program better. As the new SPL of my troop, I made it a point at our first PLC with new leaders to plan better skills instruction for our meetings, so that the guys don't get bored wandering around in the hall. I also think that the youth leaders should be getting trained at NYLT. When I went, it was a fantastic program, and I learned so many new things. To keep the scouts interested, planning and organization should be the #1 priority.


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We brought more beach home with us this week than all the months we've lived here combined. I've already given up on my poor car - it's in a constant state of sand.
We said goodbye to our friends this morning, and felt full from a good time spent together. I'm a little jealous at the sights they will see on their journey home, and I turn my eyes to school supply lists and earlier bed times in the coming weeks. But you never know with us what surprises might be waiting around the corner, or wave, or sand hill.
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"I just got my feet wet, it's totally new. I've been doing this for two and a half weeks, my whole life. I'm just trying to take it in strides and take all the advice from my coaches and teammates to get better."
Those were first the words Florida State's Cam Erving uttered to reporters following the Garnet and Gold spring game back in April.
After sitting down with the coaching staff in March to discuss his future at FSU, Erving took their advice and without hesitation jumped to the offensive side of the ball to begin learning a new position.
With the quality depth FSU has on the defensive line, along with a lack of big-body athletic guys on the offensive line, Erving and the coaches agreed his best opportunity to be a contributor on this team was as an offensive tackle.
In Erving's words it was a 'business decision.'
"It's a business decision," said Erving. "I just want to help my team, so any way I can help my team makes me happy along with my teammates."
Most players in his position would either transfer to another school or sit around hoping to see the field and essentially letting their football career go to waste.
Not Erving. Erving went in to it with an open mind and accepted the challenge, which speaks volumes about his character.
Once he accepted it, Erving had no choice but to hit the ground running because his new challenge was to block the man in front of him; preseason All-American and likely first-round pick Brandon Jenkins.
There was no down time or learning curve for Erving, he jumped in the fire from day one, because in his words 'you either step up, or you don't.'
"No, there is no down time going against a guy like Brandon Jenkins," Erving said. "It's simple: you either step up or you don't. Obviously it was tough, but at the end of the day I'm the type of person that likes challenges. I just did the best that I could."
Regardless of how daunting a task it was to block Jenkins in his first day on the new job, it could only make him that much better in the long run. After all, he wasn't going to see many defensive ends quite like Jenkins.
And as it turned out Erving was a very quick learner and even gave Jenkins some problems of his own.
"Brandon said the first time he rushed, all of a sudden that long arm stabbed him and stopped him," Fisher said laughing after a spring practice. "You block those guys, you can block anybody else."
Erving continued to work on his technique over the summer and into fall camp while also absorbing every bit of knowledge he could with the rest of the unit.
Coming out of fall camp, Erving, along with the entire offensive line, showed vast improvements across the board, but most notably in their size.
In a press conference following fall camp Fisher said they were "different cats" size wise, and he wasn't lying.
Last season FSU's offensive linemen had an average weight of 300lbs. On opening day this season the unit had an average weight of 319lbs and it has shown dividends in both pass protection as well as in the running game.
Quarterback E.J. Manuel has been sacked just 13 times in 613 total snaps this season, which equates to one sack every 47 snaps. That number is unbelievably better than last year when the unit surrendered one sack every 20 plays.
The time Manuel has to stand in the pocket and progress through his reads is a luxury he was simply not used to in his time as the starter, and even nine games in to this season hasn't fully adjusted to.
"It's funny, I'm used to our defense getting on me so quick in practice that the time-clock in my head is a little fast," Manuel said. "Then when I go watch it on film, I'm like 'dang' I had another five seconds."
Manuel says that he hasn't been surprised by how well they've done because he saw the grueling work they put in over the summer, but he is very thankful for that work and the pride they take in keeping him protected.
"I'm not surprised, but I'm very thankful," said Manuel. "Over the summer those guys took it upon themselves to learn and be responsible for everything they're supposed to be responsible for as offensive linemen. They pride themselves in taking care of me. Each time we go out there they say 'E.J. nobody is going to touch you,' and that's what you want from your linemen."
For a unit with such little experience working together entering the season, the rapport and chemistry among the group has been the most surprising part. The unit reads the defense at the line of scrimmage and makes calls in unison as if it's been together for years.
That affinity is, in large part, a tribute to FSU's offensive line coach Rick Trickett who is a perfectionist and has unparalleled expectations for his linemen.
"Our play as a unit, and mine specifically, is due to coach Trickett's mentality," Erving said looking back at how far the group has come. "He coaches you based on the player he knows you can be, not where you're at. Success isn't glorified, it's expected."


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LOCKPORT – A Lockport man, accused of having sex with a 14-year-old girl and hiding her in a closet as police looked for her, was arraigned on a 23-count indictment Tuesday in Niagara County Court.
Jarad R. Matsulavage, 19, of Robinson Road, pleaded not guilty to assorted counts of second-degree kidnapping, second-degree rape, second-degree criminal sexual act and disseminating indecent material to a minor.
Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth R. Donatello said the girl was found in the closet at about 4:30 a.m. Oct. 11, as police searched the apartment for about an hour in response to a tip that the girl, who had been reported as a missing person, might be there. Donatello said the girl was not forced to hide and the kidnapping charge, like the rape charge, stems only from her age.
The indecent material charge covers alleged text messages from Matsulavage to the girl, Donatello said. Matsulavage is being held in lieu of $50,000 bail.


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Weather Blog: Crashing Temperatures
Thank you for stopping by the Weather Watch 12 Blog! A strong early winter-like cold front is poised to deliver the coldest air so far this season to southeast Wisconsin by Monday. In today's blog we discuss the huge temperature drop ahead, and when a few snowflakes are possible.
Let's start with potentially the last 60 degree temperatures of 2012. Highs will top out in the mid-60s in many locations across the Milwaukee metro area on Sunday. The RPM computer model forecast shows the forecast map at 4pm Sunday. Notice the huge temperature spread from Milwaukee to Eau Claire!
Near the cold front showers and even a few thunderstorms will be possible. Along with a crazy temperatures swing, winds will gust to around 40mph on Sunday. A shift of the winds Sunday evening will send cold air pouring across the viewing area. By Monday morning temperatures will be in the 20s or low 30s. Daytime highs will barely reach the mid-30s on Monday in Milwaukee. Below is the RPM temperature forecast map at noon Monday.
With gusty winds continuing into Monday, a winter coat is recommended as wind chills will stay in the 20s all day.
While wind and cold will be the big change, a few flurries cannot be ruled out as the moisture exits early Monday. Just enough cold air will be available to change the rain to a brief period of snow showers or flurries between midnight and 3am Monday. While no snow accumulation is expected, it's another sign of the season ahead.
For the latest weather information watch WISN 12 News, and for updates throughout the day follow me on Twitter @jnelsonweather
Have a great day!
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For Snow-Removal Firms, This One's a Mixed Blessing
The blizzard howling through the Northeast this weekend will put a strain on hundreds of local snow-removal firms, which have been struggling with downward pressure on their fees and rising costs for equipment and insurance.
Heavy snowfall should be good for snow removers. But too much all at once can force them to pay large amounts of overtime, and in some cases the firms are locked into contracts that cap the amount of revenue they will receive in a season, no matter how much snow falls.
"Everybody needs service at the exact same time," said Grant Mitchell, senior vice president of Divisions Inc., Newport, Ky., which does snow removal, landscaping and other work for retailers in about 30 metro areas. "You have guys in trucks for 30 hours, 45 hours. It's kind of dangerous, but it is also an opportunity. A lot of guys go longer than they should sometimes."
In the past decade, dozens of national or regional management companies like Divisions have sprung up to provide one-stop snow-removal shopping for large retail chains and other customers with facilities scattered around the nation. That is convenient for customers that don't want to have local managers negotiate for services at each location. It also allows big companies to use their size to press for discounts. The snow-removal management companies then find local entrepreneurs to do the work.
Snow-removal costs for some retailers are down as much as 30% from five years ago, Mr. Mitchell said.
Jason Case, president of Case Snow Management in North Attleborough, Mass., said prices are down more than 50% in some cases.
"Everyone has had to get tighter on their numbers," said Jacob Silvis, a snow-removal entrepreneur in Mount Pleasant, Pa., near Pittsburgh. He negotiates directly with most customers but does some work through national management companies. He said those management companies sometimes calculate what his costs should be based on weather data for Pittsburgh, rather than on the "microclimate" in his turf between Pittsburgh and the Laurel Highlands, where snowfall tends to be heavier.
Another challenge for the local contractors is that customers increasingly require them to bear the responsibility for any lawsuits filed by people who slip on icy pavements. "It isn't the big box you're suing," said Michael Merrill, chief executive of North Country Snow & Ice Management, Glens Falls, N.Y. "The little guy is the one who carries the liability—me."
Mr. Merrill, who has about 175 employees and covers a broad area around Albany, N.Y., says insurance costs have been rising and now top $200,000 a year.
One problem is that people expect parking lots to be scraped perfectly clean and no longer dress for blizzard conditions, said Mr. Case. "It can be a blizzard out and people think it's acceptable to wear high heels," he said.
Despite their complaints, snow-removal people were fired up about the prospect of a huge storm. "We live for this," said Mr. Case, 33 years old, whose firm is deploying about 1,000 trucks and other vehicles this weekend in New England. He engaged a videographer to record the event and show what his firm can do in an emergency. It is also a social-media opportunity: Mr. Case promises "some cool pictures" on the firm's Facebook FB 0.42 % page this weekend.
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First off, I never knew there were so many people from Pittsburgh who lived in Denver. Wow, for all the love they showed their Penguins tonight, youd think they would never have left their beloved city in the first place. But there they were in their Stub-Hubbed glory tonight, sitting in the lower bowls of the Pepsi Center, cheering nonstop for the Penguins in their romp over the suddenly awful Avs again.
(One thing Ill never ever do again: wear jerseys of my Boston teams in a foreign arena. Not because I would be afraid of being told off, but because Ive finally come to realize after nights like tonight: that you look foolish. You look dorkish jumping up and down for a team whose city you dont live in anymore, high-fiving all your phony new friends in similar jerseys around you. I think I finally agree with those who say: If you love your city and team so much, why do so many hundreds of you live in Denver or wherever? I think its kind of a big, sad overcompensating plea for attention, and I used to fall into that group too; you want so much for people to think Hey, Im from PITTSBURGH (or Detroit, or Boston or New York or wherever), that Im going to act like every goal we score just won us the Stanley Cup and Im going to lord it over you poor saplings from Denver even though we live in your city now. I finally realize now how annoying Red Sox fans are.)
So, this guy is suggesting the Pens fans look foolish. Is this guy honestly suggesting that if you go to a hockey game (any sporting event actually), you better be sure you are only a fan of the home team...or at least, don't wear the visiting team's jersey or cheer for them, otherwise you will look foolish?
The biggest "huh?" part for me was when he's suggesting that they loved the Pens or the city of Pittsburgh so much, then why are they in Denver. This is the most absurd comment I've ever seen. Some of those people may have travelled from Pittsburgh, that happens....but more importantly, who cares. I grew up in Nova Scotia...spent my whole life there until after University when I moved to Toronto to start my career. So, I grew up, spent approximately 20 years cheering for Detroit.....when I moved to Toronto, was I all of a sudden supposed to stop cheering for the Wings and change my team to the Maple Leafs? The writer didn't make a single logical point in his rant.


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When Breaking Dawn: Part 2 opens this week, Ashley Greene hopes fans can concentrate on the big screen action – and forget about the off-screen drama surrounding the film's two main stars.
Of course, over the last several months Twi-hards have been enthralled with the ups and downs of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's all-too-real breakup due to her cheating scandal and eventual reconciliation.
Asked if she thinks audiences will be affected by the couple's issues, Greene, 25, tells Seventeen, "I don't know. Hopefully, it won't taint it and people will still be able to enjoy the movie. I think a lot of people see us as our characters; I really want them to still be able to do that."
Greene – who has had some high-profile romances of her own, with singer Joe Jonas and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark star Reeve Carne – says she understands still feeling love for an ex.
"I certainly have [been in love]," she tells the magazine. "I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well."
As for any behind-the-scenes gossip from the set of Breaking Dawn, Greene reveals that the fun-loving cast "secretly coordinated a surprise dance-off during a scene."
"We were all in on it, but [the director] Bill Condon didn't know," says Greene. "[All the vampires] were supposed to charge at each other and destroy each other, and instead we just started dancing! Everyone did it – the Cullen clan and probably 20 vampire extras! It was such an amazing way to end it all."
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The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues released a report entitled "Privacy and Progress in Whole Genome Sequencing" on October 11, 2012. In issuing the report, the Commission intended to identify privacy and data-sharing risks and challenges posed by whole-genome sequencing (WGS) and to articulate a series of recommendations for facilitating the advancement of WGS while balancing important public policy considerations.
The Commission is an advisory panel composed of experts in a variety of disciplines, such as medicine, science, ethics, and law. Charged with advising the President on bioethical issues attendant to biomedical innovation, it seeks to identify best practices and policies that ensure that the biomedical innovation is informed by a set of ethical principles. The Report sets forth 12 recommendations to address the privacy and data-sharing concerns.
The report notes that WGS is increasingly popular among patients, physicians, and researchers in part because it's cheaper to perform, we know the clinical significance of more and more sequences, and it is vital to successful biomedical innovation in the genomic age. Although the majority of people still do not currently have their entire genome sequenced, and opt instead for specific genetic tests as needed (which are often covered by insurance where WGS is typically not), the Commission expects that WGS will become an increasingly attractive and effective option.
In light of this trend, the Commission argues for prospective safeguards and solutions for data-sharing maximization and informational privacy protections that account for some of the specific ethical concerns the Commission sees as raised by WGS.
Of course, concerns about genetic privacy are not new. Questions about the nature and degree of privacy risks posed by genetic information as compared to other types of sensitive health information, such as mental health information and communicable disease information, are also not new. Thus, in considering informational privacy and other risks for WGS, it is important to consider whether these are new risks in kind and/or new risks in degree.
The Commission appears to try and identify both risks new in kind and risks new in degree, as well as to highlight existing regulatory gaps or barriers to equitable data sharing. For example, the Commission explores several privacy-related concerns regarding group or community privacy, as information gleaned from WGS may reveal something about the tested individual's family or community members if the results suggest a familial, racial, or ethnic predisposition to a condition as opposed to a random, isolated genetic mutation in that one individual.
The Commission also notes with concern whether existing state and federal privacy frameworks are adequate in light of the sheer amount and detail of information about an individual that could be learned and abused through unauthorized access. Apart from privacy, the Commission questions whether risk and incentives are appropriately calibrated currently to promote equitable data sharing and data-use benefits.
Accordingly, the report proposes 12 recommendations across the following goals: (1) data protections simultaneous with data access and sharing; (2) data security and access to secure databases; (3) different consent models; (4) facilitating WGS progress; and (5) maximizing public benefit:
1.1 Various genomic medicine stakeholders should have clear policies for access to and permissible uses of WGS data. The policies should promote opportunities for data sharing.
1.2 Federal and state lawmakers should implement a "consistent floor of privacy protections" that would protect individual privacy and prohibit unauthorized access.
2.1 Various genomic stakeholders should ensure the security of WGS data and should be mindful of ethical standards for the use and disclosure of such information and held accountable for federal and state regulations for security breaches.
2.2 Various genomic stakeholders need to explain clearly to patients and donors of WGS information the permissible uses and disclosures of such information and, whenever possible, WGS data should be stripped of certain "traditional" identifiers to minimize the chances of linking this information to individuals.
2.3 Federal agencies should invest in efforts to ensure compliance with existing privacy regimes and to assist in the development of best practices.
3.1 Researchers and clinicians should develop and implement new consent policies and procedures tailored to genomic privacy and should seek to obtain up-front consent for future use.
3.2 OHRP or another federal agency should establish clear and consistent guidelines for informed consent forms for research.
3.3 Researchers, clinicians, and WGS commercial providers should explain the risks of incident findings and whether such findings will be communicated to the patient.
3.4 Funders of WGS should support studies that assess models for sharing incidental findings and that assess public expectations with respect to incidental findings.
4.1 Various genomic stakeholders should facilitate information exchange between researchers and clinicians while maintaining data protections.
4.2 Lawmakers should identify ways for the public to benefit from WGS research and for researchers and research subjects to collaborate on genomic research.
5.0 Federal government should facilitate access to WGS-generated advancements to the greatest number of people to ensure that everyone who can benefit does.
Overall, the Commission's recommendations encourage stakeholders to look through genomic-colored glasses in order to leverage well-established ethical and legal principles in anticipation of the widespread adoption of WGS. As genomic information moves from the periphery to the center of medial practice, patients will increasingly undergo WGS. Accordingly, the privacy and data-sharing protections and incentives put in place for genomic information may well serve as a harbinger of the next-generation privacy and data-sharing framework generally.
The Commission's Report, therefore, should be carefully considered as an early government effort to establish public policy in this important area, and WGS stakeholders should begin the process of reviewing their policies, practices, agreements, and other procedures and forms with an eye to tailored protections.
Jennifer S. Geetter ([email protected]) is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery and a member of the firm's Life Sciences Affinity Group and Personalized Medicine Team, and Privacy and Data Protection Practice.
Jennifer S. Geetter ([email protected]) is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery and a member of the firm's Life Sciences Affinity Group and Personalized Medicine Team, and Privacy and Data Protection Practice.
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
A short time ago I got an email from a special someone in Summerville. It featured a "List of 45 Lessons Life Taught Me" by Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper columnist Regina Brett. The lessons are delightful, thoughtful and incisive – all well worth remembering and sharing. It included a catchy visual, a photo indicating the author and showing a white haired feisty-looking lady all dressed in turquoise, including huge rings. She peered out through massive black rimmed circular eyeglasses. The email said this "List" was her most requested piece of work and as her "odometer rolled over to 90" recently she decided to share the column once more.
Oh, was I impressed! Imagine: 90 years old and still writing newspaper columns. "There's hope for you," my husband declared. My odometer hasn't quite rolled over that far – yet, but mom lived to be 92, so it's on the possibilities horizon. At any rate, I was so encouraged I decided to try for an interview to learn her secrets for writing longevity.
While I found the Ohio newspaper on the internet with a picture of Regina, she didn't have white hair or glasses – and looked between 40 and 50. More research led me to discover that she was indeed a long time writer for Buckeye State newspapers, had indeed written that most requested column and in addition was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2009. The only thing she wasn't was 90!
I read several of her columns online and was again impressed, so I tried to reach this younger – and authentic – Regina as I still sought that interview. But her mailbox was full each time I called until my own deadline loomed. So I had to rely on her blog to find out what happened. She didn't know how or why this "editing" was done but seemed to have gotten as much feedback from this misleading odometer as she had from her work.
"You don't look 90," was the comment she heard most after her age was accelerated on the internet. She initially received dozens of emails a day on the subject. Her favorite was from a fellow who asked if she has a painting of herself "in the attic that is getting really REALLY old looking?" Despite this reference to Dorian Gray, Regina asserted that there was no picture decay going on. She says she then became an Urban Legend right up there with such myths as baby carrots and Wal-Mart flip flops.
For the record, Regina recently turned a mere 53. It doesn't really matter what age she is as long as she continues to write well and is so relevant. As to her Life Lessons, these especially appealed to me:
"When in doubt, take the next small step."
"Over prepare, then go with the flow."
"No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up."
"Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."
If you want to learn more about Regina, her blog is: http://cleveland.com/brett. Read those Life Lessons and share them. They're worth it.
And I'd like to add one, while still tracking my own odometer.
"If you can keep loving, working and flat out enjoying life until you're really and truly in your nineties – then by all means, have at it!"
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(no fries, no shakes) El Gitano, Mount Vernon, Burlington, Bellingham The Eatery (Clark's), between Rockport & Marblemount Marblemount Diner - really good. Americana fare. Good service! Closed in winter. Mondo, Marblemount. Big, sloppy, good burgers, good fries, teriyaki. New in 2012. We had excellent service. Hope it's consistent. Open in winter, too! The Freestone Inn in Mazama. $$$, but trail-dust friendly. The Mazama Store - The hippie/Subaru capitol of Highway 20, with good sandwiches and pizza. Plus 72 kinds of canned organic tomatoes. Old Schoolhouse Brewery - Winthrop Twisp River Pub, Twisp Logan's Cafe in Twisp. Great breakfasts! Cinnamon Twisp, Twisp, oh yum yum! FORK. Food Truck in Twisp: at Twispworks (old Ranger Station. https://www.facebook.com/forktwisp/ Wonderful! Lorenzo's, Sedro Annie's Pizza Station, Concrete Mick & Miki's Red-Cedar Bar, Twisp > for when the chic burgers at the Twisp River Brewpub just aren't going to cut it! Que Car BBQ in Marblemount east of the Eatery. Better than the Buffalo Run next door. http://www.quecarbbq.com/ Mondos, Marblemount. A new restaurant in the old store building. Great old-fashioned hamburgers and steak fries. Train Wreck Bar and Grill http://trainwreckbar.com/ Great food and atmosphere, big full plates, cold beer. Buffalo Run. A bit pricey for an after-hike meal, but what the heck. Pie slices are huge. Coconut Kennys off of Metcalfe St. in Sedro-Woolley. Huge hot sandwiches great pizza, beer!! Mt Baker Highway Graham's Restaurant, Glacier. Gourmet burgers & good beer selection. The North Fork Brewery, Pizzeria, Beer Shrine and Wedding Chapel , between Deming and Maple Falls Milano's in Glacier: homemade pie Acme Diner on Highway 9: Don't miss their satisfyingly dense ice cream Chair 9, just East of Glacier. Great pizza Hiway 7/706 Mt Rainier (Paradise) Kelley's Kafe, Spanaway (breakfast) Country Rose Cafe, Spanaway (breakfast) Copper Creek Inn, Nisqually Entrance Scaleburgers, Elbe from Nisqually entrance, you can eat and watch the steam train switchin tracks. The Pour House Grub & Pub, Eatonville Brunos Family Restaurant & Bar , Eatonville - good brews on tap, buffalo and elk burgers, organic greens. Mt Rainier (N Side) Wally's Drive-in, Buckley Pick N Shovel, Wilkeson Naches Tavern, Greenwater Wapati Woolies, Greenwater (Espresso) Krains Corner, Hwy 169 outside of Enumclaw Lee Restaurant, Enumclaw (Diner food, Map & Reviews) Black Diamond Bakery, Black Diamond off Hwy 169 Dog and Pony Alehouse, Renton Mountain Loop Highway Eagles Nest Sports Bar, Darrington. New. No reviews yet (as of 4/26/16) Home Town Bakery & Cafe, Darrington - open til 9 PM even Sundays. Cash only. Excellent pza. Fountain Drive-In, Arlington Granite Falls - La Playa Bonita Buzz Inn Steakhouse, Granite Falls Lochsloy Store[/u], Hiway 92 - great burgers and shakes Arlington - the BEST thai food - Arlington Thai, on the main drag downtown. North side of street, on a corner. Next to the mexican place. Open til 8:30PM 7 days a week. Omega Pizza & Pasta, Granite Falls Olympic Peninsula Silver City Brewing, Silverdale Loggers Landing, Quilcene Granny's Cafe, Port Angeles Forks Cafe Taqueria Santa Ana, Forks (cash only) Three Rivers Resort (groceries, gas, restaurant), near Quilyute The In Place, Forks (great burgers) Waterfront Pizza, Port Townsend Fat Smitty's, Discovery Bay El Cazador, Sequim Gordy's Pizza and Pasta, Port Angeles Drakes subs, Port Angeles Olympic Bagel Company, http://www.olympicbagel.com/, Port Angeles Sawadee Thai Cuisine, Sequim Sully's, Forks Pacific Pizza , Forks Linda's Woodfired Kitchen, Neah Bay The Garage Barbeque, Port Gamble 101 Brewery, Quilcene https://101brewery.com/ (great burgers, beer and pie) Highway 12 Mt Adams Cafe, Randle - good food, reasonable prices, friendly service Cliff Droppers, Packwood - Big burgers with a skiing motif Spiffy The Only Place to Eat, Morton - decent burger fry foot long place Oregon Terminal Gravity brewpub, Enterprise, OR (on the way to many Eagle Cap wilderness/Wallowas trail heads) Wyoming Wind River Brewing Co. Pinedale, Wy (Wind River trips) Snake River Bewing in JacksonWiki summmary last edited by jinx'sboy on Thu Jun 02, 2016 7:55 pm (this post can be edited by any member) Back to top Mesahchie MarkReally Useful EngineJoined: 10 May 2005Posts: 623 | TRs | PicsLocation: Island of Sodor Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:51 pm Best Post-Hike Grub (I'm sure this topic has been visited before, but it seems appropo) The scenario - you've just put max effort into enjoying the great outdoors, it's just past sunset, and of course, you're starving! Where do you go for soul-satisfying grub and brew? I nominate the North Bend Bar & Grill for I-90 adventures. Good brews on tap, and the chicken quesadillas are hard to pass up! BTW, they serve food until 10:30 PM...a TNAB fav!--------------Cheers, Mesahchie Mark Back to top peppersteak'n'aleMemberJoined: 28 Aug 2003Posts: 1973 | TRs | Pics Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:59 pm I always crave burgers when coming down a trail after a long day, so any place that has good char-broiled burgers and a thick pint of amber usually gets my vote Back to top briejerMemberJoined: 03 Jun 2004Posts: 52 | TRs | PicsLocation: Puyallup Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:05 pm Playing in the Sky Valley, Sultan Bakery is a must. Food is great and the portions are HUGE!!! Back to top sarbarHiking Momma!Joined: 28 Jan 2002Posts: 7782 | TRs | PicsLocation: Maple Valley, Wa Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:37 am I am probably the only person who will NEVER eat that bar and grill in N. Bend. They forgot my order-and fed everyone else in my group-and it was the owner serving us!!!! Had the guy just said "hey I am sorry" it would have been fine. But nothing! He just shrugged his shoulders like "whatever". Now that other place in North Bend....the one that was on Twin Peaks with the cherry pie-that one is good! Good service also. I love stopping at Wally's Drive In at Buckley. The Black Diamond Bakery in BD. The little greasy spoon cafe in Enumclaw..Cynthia's Pony Express or something..always packed-great waitress staff. In Port Angeles we eat at the Olympic Bagel Company going in, and at the mexican joint leaving..I cannot rember the name, but it is the one that has sister restuarants in Forks and the corner of Hwy 7 and 12 (Great for Packwood trips.) All 3 of the places are equally good! El Cazador in Sequim serves massive bowls of chips and large plates of food. Urp! Loggers Landing in Quillibilly..... In Aberdeen we love Duffy's-there are two, we eat at the one farther away from Walmart. Totally old school-and cheap!--------------Freezer Bag Cooking, Trail Cooking, Recipes, Gear And Beyond: http://blog.trailcooking.com/ Back to top gregMemberJoined: 23 Jun 2003Posts: 1159 | TRs | Pics Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:31 am Had an excellent Olympus burger at the Quinault store and snack bar (which is for sale) on South Shore Road recently post-hike. Double patty with Canadian bacon and cheese, mmm mmm. Bummer though was the shake machine was busted. Used to stop at JJ's nearby for berry pie, but heard its closed. Back to top QuarkNiece of Alvy MooreJoined: 15 May 2003Posts: 14139 | TRs | Pics Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:59 am Half the fun of a trip is the post-hike grub. I do very little in S Cascades, so it's nice to have those tips from folks, in case I go someday. Mtn Loop: Mountain View Cafe. everthings' good. Waitresses surly and freindly all at the same time. Darrington: Glacier View Cafe or that mexican place in Arlington. Haven't been that way in awhile tho, since the floods of '03. NCascades: Twisp Brewery, Winthrop Brewery, (not a fan of Duck Brand, but everyone seems to be in love with the damn place, so I'll throw it out there too. NCascades: Good Food (except the sanitary conditions are poor nowadays, so I might have to bump Clark Cabins up as the replacement grubbin' in that area as far as I'm concerned. I'm very tolerant of down-home atmosphere, but that place is getting ridiculous) EDIT 8/15/05. Good Food is definately on the hit list. Unsanitary, even by my standards. I-90: Ken's Truck Town. Excellent shakes and malts. I don't go into NBend if I can help it. I figure getting back to Seattle is city enough, soon enough. I like to keep out of towns as long as I can. Hwy 2: Zeke's. I can never wait til I get to the Sultan Bakery to eat. Chiwawa Rv area: 59'er Diner's irritating, but I'll take it 'cause it's all there is. Please someone tell me if there's another place. Teanaway, Cle Elum: Sunset Cafe, or that mexican place. Quilauyte: 3 Rivers store/restuarant/campground/gas station/local dog hang-out. the BEST shakes and malts ever! Local souvenirs in the store, books by local authors, too. Forks: Forks Cafe Entiat area/Cashmere: Rusty's Drive Inn. Went to Mineral Springs Resort a few months ago; very uninteresting food. Great fireplace in there, tho. Leavenworth: still searching, but there are good tips on another thread (Kodiak Pizza and some other place) Grand Coulee: La Presa mexican, couple miles outta town toward Wilbur Roslyn: That pizza place, but it's crowded Tonasket area: Grab what's open and be glad about it.--------------"...Other than that, the post was more or less accurate." Bernardo, NW Hikers' Bureau Chief of Reporting Back to top moosefishI am the fishJoined: 02 Jul 2004Posts: 1212 | TRs | PicsLocation: monkey herder Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:53 am All you North Bend Bar and Grillers are missing out on Gordy's two miles east at exit 32. It's quite a bit pricier, but the ribs are spectacularoriffic! Plus afterwards you can ride the dinosaur home. Oh wait, I only feel like a Flintstone after eating there. Duh. Back to top diceycustom titleJoined: 11 May 2004Posts: 2854 | TRs | PicsLocation: giving cornices a wider berth Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:31 pm I usually stop at one of the places already mentioned in Marblemount on my way out the the N.Cascades, but this past weekend, we drove all the way to Mt. Vernon before grabbing grub at the skagit river brewery It was worth the wait --------------I'm not always sure I like being older but being less stupid has advantages. http://www.flickr.com/photos/32121172@N00/sets/ Back to top Mike CollinsMemberJoined: 18 Dec 2001Posts: 2426 | TRs | Pics Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:50 pm Quark list is fairly comprehensive but missed the A&W in Issaquah. The ambience is great with 50's-60's memorabilia all over the place complementing the hamburgers and fries menu. Back to top reststepMemberJoined: 17 Dec 2001Posts: 3855 | TRs | Pics Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:00 pm The Old Spaghetti Factory is good if you can wait that long.--------------"The mountains are calling and I must go." - John Muir Back to top WTCrockerMemberJoined: 26 Jan 2005Posts: 211 | TRs | PicsLocation: Between the 42nd and 49th parallels. Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:50 pm It's always something cooked on the tailgate and something alcoholic and something caffinated. Except when it is near midnight before I get out, then it is something spooned out of the can cold and scarfed without tasting. Back to top gregMemberJoined: 23 Jun 2003Posts: 1159 | TRs | Pics Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:47 pm You ain't related to Betty are you WT? Back to top marzsitDorkJoined: 29 Apr 2003Posts: 883 | TRs | PicsLocation: kent, wa. Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:09 pm Mike Collins wrote: Quark list is fairly comprehensive but missed the A&W in Issaquah. The ambience is great with 50's-60's memorabilia all over the place complementing the hamburgers and fries menu. isn't that the XXX drive in? didn't know there was an a&w in issaquah.. Back to top salishMemberJoined: 17 Dec 2001Posts: 2273 | TRs | PicsLocation: Seattle Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:18 pm Quark wrote: Tonasket area: Grab what's open and be glad about it. I was in Tonasket this past weekend and my daughter and son in law took me to "Sarge's Burger Bunker" for dinner. The food was great. I had a taco soup that was incredible. Be forwarned, the cooks, waistresses, and other employees dress in camo fatigues and for decorations they sport demilled pineapple hand grenades, howitzer shells, and assorted militaria along the windows. Cliff--------------My short-term memory is not as sharp as it used to be. Also, my short-term memory's not as sharp as it used to be. 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5 Things 'Pawn Stars' Doesn't Tell You About Auction Hunting
"They play them on the Spike network in between Star Wars marathons," Jack continued. "They are, I guess, incredibly popular. If they weren't, that would mean television executives were idiots, and I don't want to live in a world where that's the case." "Popular?" I asked skeptically. "Aren't people tired of popular things yet?" "No, by definition." He frowned. "Are you not using that dictionary I got you?" "You mean your transparent attempt to make me learn American spelling? J'accuse Jack. J'accuse." He ignored my out-thrust finger. "What are you working on right now?" "A short story about a guy who spends all his time carving a girlfriend out of a large block of cheese. Like the kind you get at Costco, but larger. Then at the end of the story, something really, deeply upsetting happens." "You see, the problem with that is that it's completely insane. People are tired of reading utter insanity. Write something sane. Write the auction thing." "Is this one of your transparent attempts to get me to write something sane?" "Was it not transparent enough?" _________ Soon after, I retired to Cracked's multimedia center ...
... where I began reviewing our archived footage of the various storage auction shows which have been steadily eating all the cake shows. The basic template goes like this: a variety of men, ranging from unattractive all the way up to unappealing, visit storage facilities that are holding forfeited property auctions. There, they bid on lots of goods, hoping they'll stumble upon something incredibly valuable, like antiques, or a hat made of hundred dollar bills, or the most valuable thing of all: imagination. I next turned to my sturdy ally, the Internet, and conducted some research on upcoming storage auctions in my area. A short list in hand, I returned home to put on my auction hunting uniform ...
It doesn't look as good on me, but it still looks pretty good.
... and hurled myself into the exciting and odorous world of auction hunting. Auction Lesson #1: Everyone Hates You There's a limited number of auctions that can occur in any geographic area, and for the few people who make their living picking through them, the sudden interest in their turf these shows has raised has been a disaster. This is an industry which supported maybe a couple hundred people across the country, and has now been flooded with thousands of ass-necks and brain-turders, raising auction prices and lowering margins. At these auctions, hatred for the newcomers can be seen dripping from the corrugated steel walls. "When does this thing start?" I asked someone chummily, trying to make conversation. He had a brown shirt on, but didn't look happy about it. He squinted at me. "Fuck off, newb." I squinted back. Clearly I was dealing with one of the seasoned experts. Well seasoned. Like, literally seasoned with salt and left in the sun for some time. A hard, chewy man. I would later learn that much in the opposite way that Eskimos have a hundred words for "snow," in the auction world, "fuck off, newb," can mean any number of different things. "This looks like a promising lot" or, "the auction begins at 11" or even, "I hope your intestines catch on fire you auction-clogging poo-pile." Undeterred by this hazing -- I am from the Internet, after all -- I continued my investigation. The way these auctions work is that you're allowed to examine the lots up for auction, but not very closely -- typically only from the edge of the storage container door. I slid up to one of these containers and had a look around, my uninitiated eyes seeing boxes and not much else.
Have you ever seen anyone smiling while moving? This box is clearly full of poorly contained ether.
Beside me was a guy, seeing more than me and taking notes. I craned my neck to get a look at what he was writing, but he noticed and twisted away from me. "What do you think is in those boxes?" I asked politely. "Baseball cards? Jewels? Rare stamps?" I struggled to think of more things that could be in boxes. "Pandoras?" "Fuck off, newb." Hoping to make him laugh, I proceeded to "fuck off" by thrusting my pelvis into the air so that I left the ground and traveled forward slightly, repeating the process until I was several feet away. I looked back to see if I had earned a chuckle or even a smile. I had not. Auction Lesson #2: What A Bunch Of Shit During my auction-show research, I observed that about four out of five storage lockers resulted in a profit for the auction hunter. It turns out this is a bit of classic Hollywood bullshit -- a high-grading, creative editing separating the cool antique pinball machines from the stacks of old Goosebumps novels.
High in nostalgia value perhaps, but in resale value, worth less than urine
Bidding started on the first container and raced out to the astronomical sum of a hundred and fifty dollars. Feeling pretty flush with the expense account I thought I had (it turns out I did not have any authorization for any expenses at all) I put forward my own bid of $200. "Sold!" The auctioneer said immediately. "Isn't anyone else going to bid?" I asked. "No." I frowned, sensing a trap, and also quite a bit of snickering. Inside the storage container I found a trunk which contained no doubloons, a hat box which contained no hats and a suitcase which contained no suits. All containers in my winnings were filled with pairs of green shorts. "Do you think there's any chance these green shorts were worn by the Boston Celtics?" I asked one of the experienced hunters, honestly trying to recall if the Celtics had ever worn pea-green plaid. The '70s were a strange time for fabrics as I recalled.
Although the '70s were a disaster for fashion, they were the good-time decade for ad copywriters, of course.
Wary silence greeted my query, so I went all in. "Would you be willing to buy these off me for five thousand dollars?" I asked. A punch in the sternum greeted me in return, which I reacted to instinctively by folding into a heap and crying. Several similar conversations later, I concluded that the shorts were worthless, and that I had paid two hundred dollars for the privilege of disposing them. Even that wasn't easily done, as the people at Goodwill refused to take them from me, and when I tried to leave them on the curb, I got a lecture from a homeless person about littering, as well as several unsolicited tips on fashion and romance. Auction Lesson #3: Not All The Surprises Are Good Ones In an effort to fit in a bit better for my next auction, I salted myself up real good, and arrived at the storage facility where I immediately kicked a confused looking newbie in the back of the knee. Seeing a few of the pros nod with approval, I mixed with the crowd, trying to listen in on conversations. All present had one thing on their mind: "Stop fucking listening to our conversation." Clearly, I would have to be more subtle, and, judging by the chafing I could feel around my thighs, probably a bit less salty. I hung back until quite late in the action this time around, looking for my moment to strike. Eventually a locker came up which no-one had much interest in. Seeing no one else bidding on it, I tentatively stuck up my hand and offered a dollar. I won. "Or did I?" I said to myself as the crowd cleared off, giving me a chance to inspect my winnings. I wondered if it was a trick, some hazing ritual. Like this was the locker they sometimes used to poop in when the main toilet was clogged. Had I just purchased an auxiliary toilet? But there was no shit, not withstanding the metaphorical shit, which was in fact everywhere. It looked like the belongings of an old hippie; hippie furniture, hippie record players, hippie lamps, all of it carpeted.
The carpet did a wondrous job of preserving the wondrous odors of sweat and recreational plants and low standards.
Not wanting to at all, I began opening hippie containers and airing out other dreadful hippie things. In the very back was a hippie wardrobe, tipped over, leaning against a dreadful hippie couch at a 45 degree angle. I righted my new, awful-smelling wardrobe, and opened the doors, revealing one dead hippie, who tumbled out, landing face-first in my lap. "AHHHHHHHH!" I announced coolly, somersaulting backwards out of the storage container several times. "Find a body?" someone asked. "Yes!" "Fuckin' newb." He walked off. This was evidently a commonplace event, as the managers of the facility already had a procedure in place. The procedure, implemented immediately, consisted of a container of wet-wipes, thrown at my chest, and a curt announcement that the police were coming. After wiping my hands and face and eyes, but not my soul, no wet-wipe moist enough for that, I warily looked back into the container. Food. Jugs of water. A chemical toilet in the back. The poor bastard had been living in there, until he stopped. Somehow the pros had known, using their dark, auction-hunting magic. I had to find out how. And to take many, many showers.


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A Buffalo man was taken to Erie County Medical Center after he was shot at three times Saturday evening – and struck in the left shoulder and left forearm – in the Kensington-Bailey neighborhood, according to a Buffalo police report.
A witness told police that after the shooting, two men fled in a dark-colored Dodge Caravan west on Stockbridge Avenue.
The victim, Cardricus Maye, also fled along Stockbridge, toward Bailey Avenue, and was found by police about 6:14 p.m., according to the report. A police report did not list Maye's age or address and a police spokesman could not confirm whether Maye is the brother of Dominique Maye, who died in September 2010 in a hail of bullets fired into a house on Hewitt Avenue.
Earlier this year, Cardricus Maye testified in the murder trial of Kevin J. Davis II, who was convicted of second-degree murder for the 15-year-old girl's killing.
During the trial, prosecutors said Davis, a member of the Gangster Disciples, a violent street gang, had attacked the Hewitt Avenue home in a failed attempt to shoot Cardricus because gang members believed he was a snitch. But Davis fatally shot Dominique instead.
Maye, who did not have a criminal record when he testified in March, did not cooperate with police after fellow gang members beat him two weeks before Dominique's death, and he did not cooperate after his sister was killed.


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term for beer.
looks like mike had a little to much brew ha ha tonight.
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A herd of remotely operated drones, that deliver beer and bourbon shots (but only good bourbon) to great apes. They usually travel in groups of 5 or more. The brew ha-ha breed is know for its capacity to achieve sustained loads of 16oz. Although they can be found anywhere in the world, they tend to congregate in the Black Rock desert towards the end of Aug. then, spontaneously disperse around the 1st week of Sep.
Look, the brew ha-ha's are back this year. Let's see if they will deliver a bourbon shot
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