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Middlefield Road 'repaving'
Original post made by Jarred, Midtown, on Oct 23, 2007
Palo Alto is the one city that actually manages to make its roads BUMPIER when it repaves them. Then they immediately dig holes in the streets for utility work. Then they repave them and they get even bumpier.
But at least we have a great city website and a mayor who cares about global warming!
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 23, 2007 at 8:18 pm
There are actually roads all over Midtown that are being done at the same time and left in the same condition. Greer is completely blocked off at Louis and there are other areas where sidewalk work is being done. To make matters worse, I see they have posted signs in downtown on Northbound Alma to say that they will be working there and expect delays for the first couple of weeks of November.
Why can't they do one job, finish completely, paint the lane markers, etc. and then move onto the next job. Not only are they doing a pretty awful job, driving anywhere in Midtown is now one construction zone after another.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 23, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Sorry, I meant Southbound Alma.
There may be signs northbound too, but I only drive southbound on my way back from El Camino baseball park as there is no other way to sensibly negotiate Alma/El Camino even though it would be quicker for me. They couldn't get that one right either!!
a resident of Santa Rita (Los Altos)
on Oct 23, 2007 at 10:42 pm
I could be wrong, but I think the paving project was delayed because of all the rain that was predicted last week. Paving and rain don't mix and the contractor probably didn't want to risk it. As usual, the weatherman was wrong.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 23, 2007 at 11:34 pm
I love all the dust in the air from the gravel. I know its easy to armchair quarterback, but what was wrong with Middlefield before the repaving? I don't remember it looking too bad.
a resident of South of Midtown
on Oct 24, 2007 at 1:18 am
The roadways are poorly paved and left bumpy deliberately - it slows the traffic down!
a resident of Crescent Park
on Oct 24, 2007 at 11:15 am
Palo Alto has the worst roads in the area.
a resident of Downtown North
on Oct 24, 2007 at 11:45 am
LOL! First, people complain that Palo Alto's roads are the worst (which they're not - Craig's post, above, says it all for most citizens), then when we get road repairs, we hear that its inconvenient, or people don't like the end product. Catch 22, anyone?
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 24, 2007 at 5:39 pm
No Catch 22. We are noticing the sudden rush of repairs all over town including streets not mentioned yet. We are wondering what is causing the sudden rush. Maybe it is the end of the budget year? I'm curious too, what is going on.
Middlefield wasn't a problem, why the resurfacing?
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 24, 2007 at 8:03 pm
I agree with the people who question why Middlefield needed repaving. Or to be more precise, why it needed a repaving that actually made it bumpier. I could understand a repaving that made it smoother.
Now they are about to repave the circle that I live on in Midtown. The street is in reasonably good condition. I'm sure it will be much worse when they are done.
I wonder if they are repaving it so it can be more "environmentally correct". I heard that when they repaved East Bayshore a few years ago, they used a paving material made partly from old car tires, for environmental reasons. It may make the road last longer, or be more environmentally benign, but it's certainly more wear and tear on the cars and the drivers.
a resident of University South
on Oct 24, 2007 at 8:07 pm
I drive that stretch of Middlefield every day, and have for the past year on my way to work. It is in my opinion worse now with the new paving than it was before. Before, it was smooth and decent, with a minimum of road "cuts". Now, it's bumpier and far noisier.
I also noticed they've dug up many streets around my neighborhood (Homer, Channing, etc...). Ironically, those streets were in fine condition. Forest however is a complete off-road dump of a road, with tons of road cuts and temporary patches. Guess what? Forest isn't getting paved (at least not yet).
Who sets these priorities?
a resident of South of Midtown
on Oct 24, 2007 at 9:49 pm
There are lots of roads that had trenches cut and rectangles cut and patched here and there as a result of utilities projects. This is true of Middlefield, Colorado and others. The pavement was locally smooth but globally bad, with many seams that degrade quickly with rain and temperature cycling. The paving jobs being done are called "chip seals" and are known to be the cheapest approach, albeit with unreliable results. The underlying base and pavement is not touched. A sticky layer of tar is applied and covered with gravel. It is left for a week or so to allow traffic to press the gravel into the tar. Then a final layer of sealant is applied and the lines are painted. The result is a surface that is rough on the scale of inches but has all the cracks sealed against rain and is more resistant to breakup due to differential expansion. This is considered a stop-gap measure that is good for about 5 years, at which time a complete dig-up and re-paving is needed.
It is MUCH less expensive to do many streets at once than to do one street completely, then do another street completely, etc. This job is contracted out to a company that does paving jobs all over the state. They have specialized equipment for each stage of the job, and we pay for the amount of time that equipment is in Palo Alto. If, for example, we stripe all the streets in one week it costs much less than if we spend one day striping one street, then another day a week later and so on for a month. We would be paying for the striping equipment for a month instead of for a week. The contractor would not be willing or able to move the equipment elsewhere for a few days, then back to Palo Alto once a week.
Palo Alto did not do chip seals for many years because the result is somewhat unreliable, depending on the effects of traffic to achieve the final result. As a bicyclist I hate chip seals, which have a very high rolling resistance and uncomfortable feel. As a Palo Alto taxpayer, though, I understand that they are trying to accomplish road repairs with a very constrained budget.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 24, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Albert, thanks for the info. It must be that gravel that makes it so bumpy. I notice that even when the newly repaved road looks smooth and level, it feels bumpy as I drive over it. I guess I'm feeling the gravel.
Do you think Middlefield will get any smoother? Will the final layer of sealant smooth it out at all, or did they already apply the sealant?
a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 25, 2007 at 9:53 pm
It is called "Cheapo Job".
Made in China is actually better.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Oct 26, 2007 at 12:52 pm
So, today I wanted to go down Colorado to Bayshore, but found the road blocked off. Instead I turned left on Greer to get to Oregon. I had to u turn on Greer because the road was blocked off. All this was due to repaving. Can we please have sensible signs telling us that there is no way through. I along with many motorists were caused much confusion trying to get from Colorado to 101. Our streets are not mazes, it is not a competition to find out who is the brightest, we just want to get where we are going without having to turn round or alter our route more than once.
Thank you.
a resident of Southgate
on Oct 26, 2007 at 1:14 pm
The el cheapo slurry job is a political ploy to take the heat off. It reflects the failure to do proper infrastrucre mainenance over many years. Take heart, though...we DO have a new enviromental bureaucracy that can help save the world, even though it contributes to el cheapo streets!
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 26, 2007 at 9:15 pm
The City repaves the street which makes them smoother, then everyone complains the vehicles are going too fast. Don't repair our streets just leave them in need of repair, it will slow the traffic down.
a resident of South of Midtown
on Oct 29, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Have you noticed the re-striping along Middlefield has made the vehicle lanes and turning lanes much narrower and the parking and bicycle lanes much wider. This is the way they plan to slow the traffic down.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Nov 1, 2007 at 10:20 am
I had a nightmare 10/31 afternoon just trying to get to and from Safeway from my home (should be a quick trip - but found out at last minute Colorado was blocked off from Louis, so had to go way down and come back, then huge backup on Middlefield to Oregon..).
I would appreciate a website or phone recorded message where residents could check each day as to the road work scheduled: just the basics of which streets/blocks will be closed and so on.
This has happened top me many times where I have had tremendous detouring with no advance notice around this city in the past several years I have lived here. I am wasting time and gasoline and rushing to not be late.
a resident of Midtown
on Nov 1, 2007 at 6:01 pm
First of all, I have never ever seen a worse repaving job in my entire life. None of the lines are straight, there is one point on Middlefield where you have to make a sharp turn to the right if you are headed from Charleston toward Loma Verde. Also, a biker is going to be killed because the bike lane just ends. I do think that the roads desparately needed to be repaved, but not by the same people who trimmed the trees about a month and a half ago!!! They need professionals!
Also, I agree that the roads are much bumpier....like the steam roller ran out of steam! All in all...a horrible job was done and whoever actually paid money for that job needs to be fired. The company should be paying the city not to sue them for such a horrible job.
Also, I think because elections are coming up that people are in a rush to get the work they promised done so they can be re-elected on Nov. 6th....well maybe we should all think twice about that one!


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I usually sort by dominant color. So pink with white dots would go in the pink pile.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
I usually sort by dominant color. So pink with white dots would go in the pink pile.
The largest portion of my stash is on open book cases. The windows are UV protected and face north. The shelves are filled with 1/4 - 1yd pieces, folded into a size no larger than 5 x 9". The 5" side is on the "book spine" side of the shelf and has a fold to easily see the fabric. There are 5 stacks on each shelf. They are divided into sections: solids, looks like hand dye, christmas, multicolor, oriental, black & white, flesh tone, stripes, browns, greys, silk, 30's, and the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green blue, purple). When a type of fabric will make 2 stacks, it gets seperated out. Projects in progress are in "ArtBin" totes, so there's fabric in them too. And "thinking about it" is stacked anywhere there's a flat surface. As you can see, my system is morphic- it changes with what I'm working on. UFO's: probably 40+ are hung in the closet, in ArtBin totes, in drawers, on the design wall; I give myself permission to put something aside that has me stumped or there's a deadline for something else. It's not a job, it's a passion. Large pieces are stored in the hall closets. As my style of quilting has changed and become more defined, my stash has changed.
Lots of great ideas here - I also use many of them. Sort by era (30s, civil war, etc) color and size - all big enough for backing a quilt is stored in one place.
I do what most have suggested...keep in themes, but I also have Large quantity pieces that I might use for a backing in one location.
I also have landscape type fabrics together since I do a lot of applique and often need grass or water...etc. I have several plastic drawers filled with small quantities sorted by color for applique use also.
This is a problem I think we all have. We all have different solutions as you can see. A lot depends on space as well of fabric theme or color. Now that I have a whole room, although a small one it is easier for me now. I have a lot of furniture in my quilt room that is recycled. I have two tall book cases with adjustable shelves. On those I have fabric and two shelves of quilting books. If you ask at Joanns of your local quilt shop they will probably be happy to give you the empty cardboards that the bolts are wrapped on. I cut them with an exacto knife so I have one thickness of width by 11 1/2 inches. You can get at least four from one board. I wrap yardage on them and stand them up on the shelves by color. Fat quarters and scraps are in clear shoe box size bins from dollar tree by color. I do keep my holiday, civil war, and 1930s fabrics seperate, but using the same system. I have another book case that I keep the totes on. My machine is on a used desk with some drawers I keep small notions in, all that stuff you had to have that you don't really need at all. The best thing was wrapping the fabric on the cardboards, the stacking always ended up in an untidy mess.
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Always have a good attitude, don't cut corners, and go with your instincts.
I sometimes struggle with the sorting of fabrics.
What I found that works best for ME is to look at the background
color, is it predominate over any other color? if yes then I put it into
that pile (predominately black background goes into the black pile etc.).
If there is a variety of colors in equal or close to equal amounts then
I put it with a "multi-color" pile, you would be surprised at how much
fabric I have in this pile.
Of course this might end up changing as I get going more with sorting
fabrics to share with my daughter who is beginning quilting. She doesn't
need to go to a fabric store to buy. All she has to do is go shopping at
"moms" place.
Louise - Ya-ya to Zachary April 13 2015. I collect mugs from the U.S. and around the world. Also collect handmade pincushions, sewing/quilting themed fabrics, and fabric in general.
I sort calicoes and "regular" quilting fabrics by color with a few exceptions. I keep blacks/white; red/white; blue/white together. I keep my Thimbleberries separate (but haven't sub-sorted them by line). Other categories are Civil War fabrics, 30's fabrics, juvenile prints, panels, patriotic, seasonal/holidays, border prints, homespuns, neutrals. backings and shirtings (which are my newest "thing"). I'm still trying to come up with better organization with scraps. I keep fat quarters in a cd tower and scraps (depending on size) in drawers of an old bureau but really like things out where I can see them.
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Our youngest is 14 now and we only seem to do things together but never just the two of us. If she doesn't feel like going out with us, DH loses interest and decides to stay at home. He's just happy pottering around in the garden etc - he doesn't seem to want to DO stuff with me. And that includes in the bedroom. It's never been the be all and end all for us. We've never had an amazing sex life, but now it's non existent.
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hi! came here looking to see if we were winterizing correctly. seems like we're on track. for new beekeepers, here's a link to a picasa album i uploaded so you can see step-by-step how we winterize a hive in the middle midwest (iowa). (haven't done a web album before so i hope this works!)
Nice, that's basically how I did it too. I put 4" of foam instead of two, but didn't wrap over the top with the tar paper. Lots of bees out as soon as the sun hit the hive even though it was only 10 deg C.
First insulation keeps heat out as well as it keeps it in. keeping ice frozen would be the result of keeping heat out.
Second is an understanding of how insulation works. there are several ways but the most common and the one that applies to snow. Air is a poor conductor of heat or in other words a good insulator. Btu it has to be unable to move. most insulation such as foam. fiberglass batting etc are simply trapping air in pockets. that is how they insulate. snow has a lot of air trapped in it.
In order for any insulation to help a hive stay warm. the hive has to get warm first. Otherwise it will help the hive stay cold.
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
Wow, nice pics. Thanks for the link.
To answer the lake question, it is as much about the snow being white as it is its insulation capacity. White snow reflects more sunlight than ice which is usually dark blue/green slowing the melting process. Water is even darker. That's why when the ice goes in the spring it happens exponentially on a sunny day. The larger the area of exposed water, the greater the heat it absorbs, the faster the ice recedes and exposes even more water, repeat.
re: wrapping your hive like a package. When February comes and you want to add pollen patties or fondant to feed, it looks like it would be difficult to unwrap to open the hive up enough to get the food onto the inner cover. What do you do in that case?
Fortunately in Perth Western Australia we don't need to wrap our hives. . 5 degrees C is a cold night with a few frosts on rare occasions. I do read with interest the additional problems posed by your climate and pests.
Just curious, what does it cost to wrap the hives in tar paper and can it be reused. Tar paper is not a common product here.
cost for supplies: maybe $1 or $2 USD per hive ... at the most. get your supplies off craigslist (classifieds), and it's even less. yes, fold it all up real nice and neat and it's reusable for YEARS.
you might have tar paper there, just called something else. this is the thick, black, kraft-like, waterproof paper that is used on a roof before the shingles are installed.
Go to the above link for survey results on winter prep. of hives.
The only thing that had a significant effect was providing a top entry.
Thanks to Soloman Parker for leading me to this information.
Julysun elevation 23 feet. 4 Hives, 2 years.
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I know what it is and what it is generally used for in the US. Its not used in Australia for roofing as far as I know. The roofing here is clay or cement tiles, or colour-bond corrugated metal. I was wondering what the cost and effort was.
well we will see what happens in the spring.
I purchased a Walter Kelly top.https://kelleybees.com/Images/Products/49Ajpg
I have four inch styro-foam insulation taped to the outside of the hive on the top cover to provide less heat loss, or gains.
Wrapped with the foil insulation, my theory is for the moisture to leave through the vented supers, which are located in the top, loosely wrap the hive with the bubble wrap, any moisture with escape through the vent holes to the outside of the hive.
I taped the insulation with aluminum type.
I also purchased a laser thermometer so I can tell temps inside the hive when I need to.
It's a gun where you point and it tells the temperature where the laser lands.
We have 14 inches of snow on the ground temperatures around Thirty in the day, and twenty-seven at night.
Next week it will be cold, I'm not going to bother the girls until it gets warmer.
I have a entrance reducer, attached to the aluminum tape, and acts like a hinge, when it warms up, I can lift the entrance reducer, and get a true temperature inside the hive from the bottom.
Soon as the weather breaks, I'm ripping the bubble wrap off these hives, and we we go from there.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh football coach Paul Chryst has dismissed two players and suspended another indefinitely after they were charged with possession of drug paraphenalia. Another player was suspended after he was charged with assault.
Tight end Drew Carswell and defensive back Eric Williams, both juniors, have been removed from the team. Carswell, Williams and defensive tackle Khaynin Mosley-Smith were all suspended last week after police made a drug raid on their house.
All three players were charged by summons. Mosley-Smith remains suspended.
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Stuck for a Christmas gift idea for the beloved who has everything? Consider giving them an "experience". There are literally hundreds of options from hot air ballooning, to skydiving, massage, cooking, diving and driving. Executive Style profiles three popular options.
1. City scuba
I'm three metres underwater, listening to the roar of my own breathing, and concentrating – hard – on staying horizontal.
It's after five, I've had a full day at my desk and now, under the gentle waves of Sydney's Camp Cove, I find myself drifting, being tugged by gentle currents and feeling, frankly, as far from the office as is humanly possible.
I'm on a PADI Discover Scuba Diving course, a happy medium between committing to a full PADI certification and the surface joys of snorkelling. Introductory dives, like this one with Bondive, last around 20 minutes, offering a complete novice a taste of the submerged life – and it's rarely not followed by a bigger bite into the subterranean world of scuba diving.
Peter Michie knows city life all-too-well. A criminal prosecutor for 20 years, four years ago he packed it all in to dip a toe into the water of his true love, diving. Now, the diving instructor spends his days taking everyone from time-pressed city-types to curious tourists underwater. The harbour is his training ground, the beach his office.
We drive from my work to Vaucluse and, before the backdrop of Sydney's skyline, I am taught the mechanics of scuba.
After changing into my wetsuit and far-heavier-than-expected gear, within moments I'm bobbing, floating, then submerging and reminding myself to breathe. It's unlike anything I've tried; taking each breath feels unnatural, a connection to the daring-do of legendary underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau and a salutary lesson to slow down, breathe with control, listen to the body.
We see baby stingrays and an eel. My legs seem to have a buoyancy of their own, and I feel the cold seep of water gradually creeping through my neoprene layers. The visibility is unexpectedly clear. Just a few kilometres away, cars sit bumper-to-bumper in the city.
Aquatic protection zones and changes to deep water outfalls mean that city-accessible diving has done an about-turn in the last 15 years - from a no-go zone to a playground in itself. And Sydney is responding. Michie says his market was once almost entirely comprised of inbound international tourists. Increasingly now it's locals, especially time-poor professionals who appreciate the other-worldly sensory deprivation and calming isolation of aquatic life.
The beauty of diving is that you don't need to be super fit, or even a very strong swimmer. There are no phones, no background noise; only an odd, but relaxing, weightlessness.
And, to those of you who may harbour fears of the odd shark, Michie, who has more than 2000 dives under his belt, laughs. "Virtually nothing in Sydney water is dangerous unless you go and pull it by the tail."
• Bondive offers day-long PADI Discover Scuba Diving courses, which include lifts to and from the dive site, all gear, a meal and two introductory dives for $650. Go to bondive.com.au
DAISY DUMAS was a guest of Bondive.
2. The amazing race
If it's adrenalin you're after, there are few bigger rushes than strapping yourself into a real racing car and hitting the track.
You can choose to sit beside an experienced racing driver in a tin-top V8-powered supercar for an appreciation of the speed and skill involved in top-flite touring car racing. Or you can drive yourself.
If harnessing all the power and weight of a big V8 seems daunting, downsize to the most pure form of racing on the planet - an open-wheel Formula Ford.
Formula Fords make about the same amount of power as a humble Ford Fiesta, but with a kerb weight of 500kg - about one-third of the Fiesta - that's where the resemblance ends.
They're capable of topping out at more than 200km/h – if the driver chooses. And it's up to you, because Formula Ford come-and-try days allow drivers to lap at their own pace, after a briefing and a sighting lap in a road car with experienced driving instructors.
You're suited up in the full kit, from full-face helmet and triple-layered flameproof suit down to proper narrow-gauge racing boots, then strapped into the compact cockpit. Your bottom is now just inches off the deck and your arms and legs stretch in front to a tiny steering wheel and a narrow pedal box. Forget about automatic transmissions; this is a manual-only affair with a rifle bolt-like four-speed shifter next to the steering wheel and a tiny clutch pedal with a narrow take-up point that makes quick shifts a bit of an artform.
Perhaps the most amazing aspect of driving open-wheelers is just that – your front wheels are right in front of you, and you can judge exactly where you are placing them on a racetrack in a way that's impossible to emulate in a road car. It's the closest to driving a Formula 1 car that most of we mere mortals will ever come.
It takes a few laps to dial into the super-sharp steering, finicky clutch and the sound and feel of the wind slapping your helmet, but each time you slot home a gear without a complaining graunch from the gearbox the experience becomes more and more addictive.
• Formula Ford experience days can be purchased from websites including redballoon.com.au or adrenalin.com.au and are held at various racetracks in many states. Prices start from around $260 for five laps.
3. Make me a chef
If a glass of bubbles in one hand, a fresh piece of pasta in the other and a view of Sydney Harbour aren't enough to persuade even the most novice chef into cooking, we suggest moving along.
Altitude's cookery courses are perhaps the most decadent way around to learn to roll pasta, gut a fresh fish, whip up a Jerusalem artichoke puree and stuff a tortellini. From the sous chefs on hand to having the washing-up taken care of, it's a stylish cooking class mixed with an equally stylish lunch, all perched at 36 storeys above the city.
The Shangri-La's private dining room, complete with its 270-degree vista, is converted into your private kitchen. The hotel's executive chef, Steve Krasicki of Masterchef fame, is the appointed master of ceremonies.
The menu is a moveable feast, sliding from theme to theme depending on seasonality and availability. It's a rambunctious affair, helped along by drinks and Steve's larrikin humour, not to mention the breezy sophistication of the place - there's nothing parochially Home Ec about these cookery classes.
We work through our menu, comparing sublime tortellinis to pasta fails, making a hash of the onions and praising one participant's mastery of fish filleting.
But, beyond the expert knife wielding and step-by-step cheats' guide to restaurant-style food, the day's piece de resistance has to be the two-course lunch: the dishes you've attempted, cooked by the pros, straight from beyond the swinging doors.
No lumps, no shell shards, no fish bone, no burnt bits – just good food, well done, and wine flowing.
Sessions officially last for around three hours but have been known to go on and on ... or, at least, until the one-hat restaurant needs to turn tables over for the evening's first sitting.
• Altitude's 'Make Me a Chef' once-monthly group classes cost $135 per person. Sparkling wine, apron, recipe cards and two-course lunch included. Go to www.shangri-la.com/sydney/shangrila/dining/offers/details/makemeachefcookingclassataltituderestaurant or phone (02) 9250 6123.
DAISY DUMAS was a guest of Altitude.


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LAFCo Incorporation Studies: when do we pay the bill?
Original post made by Rachel Wells, Alamo, on Jul 9, 2008
Complete and appropriate studies provide basis for all options proposed for local political and planning voice by our region's neighbors. Current incorporation proposals and various other defined options require such studies as financial consideration of local political and planning organizations for our region. Our potential opportunities are to join together and create a local government defined to our will and interests and protect our neighborhoods from political interests outside our community.
Neighborhood representatives from Tice Valley/Rudgear to Diablo Road will be visiting their neighborhoods asking for donations following (from Alamo Community Foundation website) "August 7, 2008: LAFCO's presentation of feasibility studies, Creekside Church. Details coming soon." In addition, Our Alamo business district, as a regional neighborhood, will be contacted by "downtown" neighborhood representative for donations.
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on Jul 11, 2008 at 1:32 pm
On August 7, 2008, Contra Costa Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO), will present incorporation study results in a community meeting held at the Creekside Church, 7PM to 9PM, in the Alamo business district. The purpose of this meeting is to provide understanding of the study results to residents within the boundaries of the proposed Town of Alamo and answer any questions related to such studies.
It will be the purpose of the Diablo Vista (Alamo) region neighborhoods to gain disclosure of the entire scope of the incorporation proposal being studied and definitions of governments proposed from such incorporation application. To a further extent, regional counsel will seek opportunities for further definition of such incorporation proposal in application to LAFCO as a final proposal subject to any resulting incorporation approval and election.
We encourage neighbors from Saranap/Rudgear to Diablo Road to attend this meeting to better understand incorporation proposed for a selected portion of the Diablo Vista (Alamo) region. It is important that opposition, supporters and those that differ with current incorporation proposal attend this meeting and express their will, interests and opinions to LAFCO staff for commissioners' consideration.
For your reference:
On November 5, 2007, Contra Costa LAFCO received a petition and application for the proposed incorporation of the Town of Alamo. The petition was signed by over 25% of the registered voters in the area. The Comprehensive Fiscal Analysis (CFA) and environmental (CEQA) review are just two components (studies) to the incorporation proposal and application.
State of California, "A Guide to the LAFCO Process for Incorporation" - Web Link
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The BEACON Study (Breast Cancer Outcomes With NKTR-102) (BEACON)
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Don is predeceased by his father William Harmony Sr., Mother Helen, stepfather Albert Doss, brothers William Harmony (Sandy), Charles Doss (Patricia), and LeRoy Doss (Kathy), sister Barbara Harmony Scott, and daughter-in-law Tammy Lang Fica.
Don is survived by his wife, Virginia (Ginny) Harmony, son Donald R. Harmony Jr., daughter Dawn Réaume (Brian), brother Albert Doss (Rita), sister Beverly Doss Tucker, long lost brother Lee Harmony, brothers-in-law Kenneth Payne and Matthew Hughes. Grandchildren Christopher Lang, Crystal Giordano Pearson, Donald R. Harmony III, Ethan P. Harmony, Ashley, Shelby and Tristen Réaume. Great-grandchildren Angalena Jackson, and Rebecca Pearson, as well as many loving nieces and nephews.
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First off, I decided to go a different direction with my fifty gallon.
I have given my mom a bunch of my guppies, and sold the rest, and now currently have only about 16 three month olds in the fifty gallon, [along with the cories and two plecos] that i plan on selling once they come into thier colors a bit.
I still have three tanks filled with guppy fry, so its not like im getting rid of ALL the guppies, but the fifty gallon will be void of guppies!!
What will i replace them with, you ask?
Female Betta Sorority.
Or, as i have been informed, a Female Betta Community.
Either way, Ive taken the step into female bettas!
Its a scary step, but its one I have wanted to take since day one. I just didnt feel up to the challenge.
But I do now, and Ive already bought the girls! o.O
I bought the first six on the 4th of March, and the next six the next day.
A few days go by, and two of the girls look sick, and on the 12th, the first girl died, and the other showed signs of pineconing, so i took them back to the pet store, but by a stroke of luck got PAID to take three new girls home!
See, I bought the first girls on sale, but the girl who did the return gave me credit for full price. THEN, gave me the three girls i was getting at sale price! So I got paid four-change to get new betta girls. =D
Anywho, so now i have thirteen girls.
I bought a bunch of new tupperwares from the dollar store, to replace the cups they were in. The tupperwares hole 3.6 cups, or .25 gallons.
My plan is, and has been, daily water changes, of 98% of the water.
It is tireless. It SUCKS.
But I do it, because they all need a quarantine period, of at least two weeks, and i need to add all the females at relatively the same time [the same day], so even though the first girls have already gone their two week QT, I still need to keep them in the containers for another 10-12 days, barring no more deaths/sicknesses.
I would add them straight to the tank, but there are healthy fish that are living in there already, and I have had them since near the beginning, so I would hate to lose them.
So here is the setup, only now the the tray has a bit of water in it, and underneath is a heating pad on Lo. It keeps thier containers at 76, a bit low, but the heating pad on Med gets them up to like 80-82, and I figured less is more? Oh, and add one more tupperware.
And this is the tank, with the cories, the bristlenose and rubbernose, and various snails. and currently the 16ish juvie/adult guppies, who are maintaining the biological filter til the girls are ready. That day they will be transfered to a bin i have ready and either that day or the next day, they will be sold. Or given away, in an RAOK. I dunno yet!
Next post will be pictures of the girls and personality profile!
I will explain it all in the next few posts, stay tuned!
Get ready for pictures galore!
I got my Sparklies and CPDs today! They are acclimating right now, one of the CPDs doesn't look too good, he got stuck in the folds of the bag, not sure how long he'd been like that, he was stuck when I took out the bag. =\ The rest seem to be okay, except for a slight angle when they swim. Both the Sparklies an the CPDs.
Well see how we'll they do! So exciteddd!!
|Thanks l8nite! They are pretty cool, huh? I wish i could find a definitive answer to what to do with the flowers, propagation/pollination, but til i find out, theyll just be lookin' pretty! =]
So, about to do a little remodeling, stay tubed for pictures!
And while your waiting, heres a few videos i took!
Heres me feeding the fry tank, a little less action than i usually get, but this was after id already fed them that morning. Also, you can spot some of my apples, and theres a closer look at my 'sick' plants, or plants im trying to grow out.
Heres a vid, hopefully showing all my gups..and my cories! I hope i got all of them in the video! Theres a shot of one of the otos, but you can glimpse them throughout the videos..
Here is one of my favorite fish, hes such a character! It starts out as a guppy/cory vid, but Bristlenose decided this video should be about him! Then he promptly says goodbye! I shouldve kept filming, cause right after i stopped, my other pleco came out! But thats the next video!
Heres Rubbernose, snuffling around the sand, looking for NLS pellets[ both plecos LOVE them] and he gets frustrated he cant find any, and settles for angrily sucking on some zucchini. My favorite part about Rubbernose is when he 'chews'. He lifts his little head, and it looks like hes chewing! Gives me a giggle every time. He does it a bit when hes 'sniffing' out pellets...Enjoy!
Now off to get my arms wet!
|Nice blooms!
Blooms and such! =D
So, my aponogetons have been flowering...like mad!
And my banana plant finally shot up a viable lily pad, so i figured id share these with you guys!
This is the start of the flower, unusual, but i see the beauty in them. =]
These blooms are from my aponogeton d., that i grew from petsmart bulbs. =]
Heres another shot, with the lily pad, curled in the back! It hadnt fully opened yet..
And heres one of the lilly pad!
[[ill have to put that one in later!]]
And my massive aponogeton ulvaceus is blooming as well! Three times!
Thats the first one, about two weeks old now? Im not sure hoe long they last under the water, but well see...
The second bloom, started a little wonky, but grew huge!
And the third bloom, big as ever!
As far as i know, my apono wont go dormant, only some species of the plant do, and ulvaceus isnt one of them..not sure of diatchyon though.
Either way, lots of flowers, all at the same time! Whoo! =]
Haha! It is! Especially since the tank is so big, and they are so small, and theres only five...they dont swim like other fish. they stop, and slowly pivot, so you cant really tell their there. then they dart about, and freeze, and inspect whatever. They are very interesting fish!
From what i understood, nano fish are different, as they are so small. The tank being so planted also makes a difference, i believe.
The guppy fry are temporary, and one of the ADF will be moved to a different tank.
My wierd guppies..They are gups that i raised, in one of my first batches, from my original nine. Their all silver, with a dark streak through their eye. In most direct light, they have a nice purple sheen to their scales. One is male and one is female, and they never stray from each other. They are always together, one following the other, neither one seems to be dominant. The female is much bigger than the male, and he has an obvious gonopodium. I believe they are sterile, because ive had them in a few tanks alone with each other, on account that they are nippers, and ive never had any fry in those tanks.
I dunno where they came from, and they are trouble makers, but i like em...lol
I found the Least Killies! It was like a Where's Waldo contest - lol
I'm interested in your weird guppies - what makes them so different?
Lots of good projects started, and the bedside tank is wonderfully lush, but am I reading this right? It's a 15g tank, and it's going to be stocked with this;
5x least killifish
5x 2-3 week old guppy fry
2x African Dwarf frog
2x RCS
Soon to add:
6x sparkling gourami
6x celestial pearl danios
and ill be gathering up a few more shrimp from my other tanks as well
I'm no expert, but that sounds like far too much for a 15 to me. I'd be interested to know what those with more knowledge/experience than me say...
|Thank you driftwood! Im going to try that in my next post! You explained it perfectly! =] Thanks!
Fry tank, and Bathroom Tank, and my Bedside tank!!
So, you guys know i have guppies, so that means i have fry! Tons of fry...So many. The numbers on my last batches are crazy! In october, there was 98, that i caught. November was lost to an ich outbreak, brought in by a sick fish. December was 57. But Janurary...So far, im at 183!
There are still fry in the tank!
I only have two fry tanks right now, a ten gallon and a 2.5! And the ten gallon already had Decembers batch in it..so i dumped twenty or so in the 2.5 that was supposed to be for growing algae rocks for my otos. I netted out the yellow fry, a few of the darkest fry, a couple of the biggest, and added those to the 10 gallon, and the rest i had to add to my goldfish tank.
I couldent look until two days later, and saw nothing..I felt horrible, but what was i supposed to do? I definitely had a surplus of babies!
A couple of days later i happened to see flashes of silver in the tank after the lights were off..goldies were drifting aimlessly, dozing, but all along the bottom of the tank were tiny guppy fry! Im guessing they hide in the dense plastic plant grids i made, and come out at night..Little survivors. =]
Anyways, sorry for being long winded, but heres the ten gallon fry tank, nothing spectacular, easy to clean, kind of a plant recovery tank as well as apple snail breeding den. Yep, theres seven apples in there, two known female, one other possible female, three male and one unknown.
[[Ive had three successfull egg clutches, and have juvie apples from each in my tanks! =] ]]
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The tank is a standard ten gallon, lit by a single 36 in t8 6500k. A bit long, but it works. It also lights a bulb growing tank i set up, and a few bowls with mosses in them that are usually in front of the tank.
I feed em NLS .5 mm, even when thier little, cause once they grab one, they just carry it around!
I should take a video of feeding time..they are so cute!
My other 'fry' tank in my Bathroom Tank.
Yep its in my half bath, where i fill my water jugs, and drain my fish water. Its got alot of fish related stuff in it, and my Mother wont go in that bathroom anymore, because shes wierded out. Lol.
Anyways, This tank, as i said, was supposed to be an algae factory for my otos, just cause i wanted to see if i could do it, if i needed it, and was set up, with two of the wierdest guppies ive ever seen, more on them later if you guys want. =] ]
Then i won an RAOK, and got a riparium planter, with a plant named R. brittoniana, which i had planned on putting in the ten gallon, to help with water quality, but with the addition of the fry, i figured they could use the extra boost in the newer tank. Theres also a 'betta bowl' that has java moss clippigs growing out in it. The fry really like to hide in there...
The tank looks a bit shabby, but its serving a purpose right now..but that just means its time to start planning for what it looks like after these babies leave the tank!
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And now for the Bedside Tank!
This bad boy has seen all sizes, starting with a .5 gal with a single ghost shrimp upgrading all the way up to its current size 15 gallons. =]
Its a trial and error tank, where i really tried planting, since things seemed to flourish! I took pictures of this tank at all sizes, and almost every rescape...Its the tank im most proud of, cause you can see how much ive improved in this hobby.
Lemme tell you the stats, before the pictures, so here we go:
Lighting: standard ten gallon hood, on glass top, two CFL bulbs, 13 watts each, said to be more medium than low light.
Substrate: standard black gravel, [thinking of making a beach area]
Ferts: Flourish Comprehensive Supplement, osmocote caps spaced along the glass. when scape is they way i want, ill be adding red clay caps for iron and dolomite/potash for potassium and calcium.
aponogeton undulatus
aponogeton Boivinianus , soon to be removing, its got spots!
Aponogeton distachyum
crinum calamastratum
rotala rotundifolia
banana plants
small sword plant
parrots feather
rotala red
ludwiga cuba
ludwiga repens
dwarf sag
red dwarf lily bulb
5x least killifish
5x 2-3 week old guppy fry
2x African Dwarf frog
2x RCS
Soon to add:
6x sparkling gourami
6x celestial pearl danios
and ill be gathering up a few more shrimp from my other tanks as well
and heres the FTS!
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And one with the flash, it shows some parts better than the one without..
Attachment 75498
And here are close ups of the tank:
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thats the feeding dish, the frogs sure know what that is! you can see the spots on my boivinianus, which is why i gotta take him out. And in thelower let hand corner you can see my red dwarf lily bulb. =]
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My best plant, hands down. I love this Banana plant. =] Its leaves are huge! The tank is a foot tall! And ive just gotten the most beautiful lilly pad from it. You can also see my 'stripes' of foreground..dwarf sag in back then marsilea, and then im trying to get pennywort to work..it sort of does, and i really like it, but it doesnt grow hardly. and its the only small leaves pennywort i have..lthe others are huge....
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Like the penny wort wrapped around my arch here! =]
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Heres one of the other Banana plants i have, next to what should be a growing repens x xarcuata forest.
Heres a few shots of the guys who live here, a shot of three least killies playing in the plants..if you can find em, kudos!
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And of the frogs!
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And that, guys, its the end of my tanks! for now...
I do have quite a few more things to post about, so keep reading! =]
To post the pic;
1 = click on Image Hosting up by the top banner, that brings you to your photos you've saved to Image Hosting.
2 = when you decide what pic you want to post, scroll below it and left click on Image URL (the forth row down, under the pic). That will highlight the URL in blue.
3 = right click on the now-highlighted blue bar, and choose "copy".
4 = start your post/message in the message box at the bottom of the thread page - just like you were going to write a reply to a thread. Right click on the yellow square box with a landscape in it, it's the next-to-last icon in the top of the message box.
5 = when you click on that yellow landscape box, you will get a pop up box that prompts you to add the URL of your image. To do so, first delete the "http" that's already in there, highlighted in blue. Then right click to paste your pic's URL, the one you just copied on your Image Hosting page. That will insert your pic into the message.
I'm not the greatest at explaining things - I hope I wasn't too convoluted! lol
oops! edited to change step 5. I had to go through the steps, and realized I don't know my left from my right - lol
Testing the image hosting!
Khodii with a dirty face...*sigh* Lol
Well, i can post a link to the picture...how would i go about having the actual picture in the thread?
Thats not where id like them, in the end, i just had no idea what to do with them, and that was a bare patch of sand...see?
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I have a few other new plants coming in this week, so ill be doing a rescaping...
Im glad theyll straighten out! Some of the leaves dont look healthy, i should snip those off, correct?
My substrate in this tank is just playsand. My swords are in pots, that contain Miracle Grow Organic with a sand cap, with osmocote. When i permanently plant the crypts, should i do this? Or will they be okay with just the sand?
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The tanks look great. The crypts will straighten out. When I took them out of the 75g they did that as they were floating in the 29g. Mine just straightened out. They look great once they fill in. Mine made a little jungle on the left side of my tank. It's a pain to wait for them to fill in again.
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Eight badminton players from top badminton countries China, Indonesia and South Korea were disqualified from London Olympics for throwing matches away in front of an arena full of spectators and millions watching globally. The players deliberately hit their shots into the net or outside the court as audiences across the world wondered if this is what Olympic games are all about.
The players disqualified included China's top-seeded duo Yu Yang and Wang Xiaoli, Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Ha-na, and Ha Jung-eun and Kim Min-jung from South Korea and Greysia Polii and Meiliana Jauhari of Indonesia. IOC President Jacques Rogge agreed with the International Federation's decision and suggested that this was indeed the right way to go.
There are many questions that need answers. Is Badminton as a sport prone to such 'fixes'? The answer is yes. Coaches and players have voiced their concern about such unscrupulous incident in Badminton for long now. It is still shocking that top teams engaged in such conduct on such a large scale at the Olympics. Most concerns have been voiced against Chinese players that they work out who they are most likely to play, depending on the draw and fix matches in order to gain a favorable outcome. In fact, the Indian Badminton team manager Pullela Gopichand, a former All-England Champion had voiced similar concerns in managers' meeting. But he was told that these events were unlikely to unfold.
Next question arises within the context of Olympic games. Was the players' indiscretion all the more condemnable because it happened at the biggest sporting extravaganza on the planet? The answer is yes.
Pierre de Coubertin, who is considered the father of the modern Olympic Games believed that the important thing in life, let alone sports is not to triumph, but to compete. The Olympic motto of "Citius, Altius, Fortius" encapsulates his ideals for each person to compete against his own self in an effort to become better. Seen in this conext, the behaviour falls way short of the ideal that the Olympic motto stands for. The Olympic Charter states in unequivocal terms that 'the Olympic spirit is one which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.' Mutual understanding was on display when the players decided to throw away the matches, but the Olympic Spirit certainly does not allude to this understanding. Fair play was nowhere to be seen.
The Olympics are not just a sporting event. Every athlete, no matter how many world championship medal he/she has, wants an Olympic medal in his/her cabinet. Such is the spirit of firece competition flanked by the higest gamesmanship. One is incomplete without the other. It is not a question of picking a victory over fair play. It is one who practises both in its purest form deserves the accolades. Michael Phelps set a very good example when he lost to Chad de Clos by a hair splitting time difference. At stake was the claim to being the greatest Olympian of all time. But he overcame the obvious disappointment in heartily congratulating De Clos as "the hungry kid" who wanted to win so badly. This is what the Olympic games symbolize. And the Badminton players undermined that spirit, which endears us to these games in the first place. This is why we cheer for the winnder and cry for those who fall short , while applauding those compete at the games. Winning matters, but not over the joy that athletes pushing themselves to the limit brings. One can only hope that in these times when sports is big business, these values attain the exalted status that were the core of the Olympic games once. It is time for athletes to realise that they are not mere sportsperson, they stand for something much bigger, more ideal.


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Are intelligence sector reforms enough to protect Colombia's journalists?
When Colombia's national intelligence agency, known as DAS, was disbanded in October 2011 after revelations of illegal surveillance and harassment of the press and public figures, many journalists breathed a sigh of relief. But recent claims of reporters being spied on and government agencies buying advanced surveillance technology without ensuring clear guidelines over its use, has raised questions about the country's commitment to ending abusive practices.


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Thanks! It was a fun and easy quilt to make that required no batting. It's a heavy quilt!
I worked in large sections since denim is very heavy. The large sections are noticeable on the back of the quilt. All the squares are pieced together with a 1" strip using a 1/4' seam. The range of the squares are 2"-12". Once sections of squares were pieced together, I then quilted those section to the back fabric. After all sections were quilted, I then added all the sections together with 1" strips.
I didn't come up with this pattern. Credit should be given to this gal: http://lucysquilts.blogspot.com/2009...im-quilts.html
The order I worked was laying out squares, piecing squares into large sections, drawing quilt lines on sections (so the quilting matched up), quilting, attaching large sections together with the 1" strips, binding, and sewing down backside of the thin strips.
Yes, I did hand-stitch the binding and backside strips since I wanted a clean look without any additional machine lines showing or decorative stitching.


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ABC News Science FailAugust 7, 2012, 8:04 am
Please try harder ABC.
Santastic Christmas 2011December 22, 2011, 9:34 am
Ronald Reagan In Support of Unions and Collective BargainingMarch 7, 2011, 8:30 am
Sorry Scott Walker. Wrong again.
Good article here as well.
Does Scott Walker Know That Ronald Reagan Supported Unions and Collective Bargaining?
The News Is Also PlantedMarch 7, 2011, 8:12 am
Premiere On Call, a division of the Clear Channel subsidiary that distributes Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck, is a service that hires actors to call into radio shows and read a script that purports to be a true story presented by the public. They bind their actors to confidentiality agreements, and disavow any involvement in fraud, saying "Premiere, like many other content providers, facilitates casting--while character and script development, and how the talent's contribution is integrated into programs, are handled by the varied stations."
The actors hired by Premiere to provide the aforementioned voice talents sign confidentiality agreements and so would not go on the record. But their accounts leave little room for doubt. All of the actors I questioned reported receiving scripts, calling in to real shows, pretending to be real people. Frequently, one actor said, the calls were live, sometimes recorded in advance, but never presented on-air as anything but real.
If they are doing this for radio shows I've got to believe they are also hiring people to troll internet sites. I've had a few run-ins with trolls who said they were hired to post their baiting posts... but who knows.. they are trolls and it's their goal to deceive.
via BoingBoing
Hope Is Fading FastNovember 24, 2009, 8:40 am
Reports have been wrong before, but the intertubes tell me that the Obama stimulus plan involves sending lots of troops to Afghanistan.
Let's just tell them to give up bin Laden and the Iman and we'll be on our way. Thanks for playing.
Glenn Greenwald v Joe KleinSeptember 1, 2009, 8:26 am
When Glenn Gets you. You get got.
He's called "Glennzilla" for good reason.
As someone said brilliantly about watching "Jokeline" pick a fight with Glenn: "That's like watching a man with a lion tamer's hat actually taking on a lion."
Latest ProjectAugust 13, 2009, 9:23 am
Below are photos of my latest project.
For years I've been throwing old computer boards into a box in the garage to someday recycle them into some sort of project. It finally popped in my head to create a table with them using some of the black walnut from a tree we cut down a few years ago and had milled in the yard with a portable mill.
It's basically two tables. One internal table to screw the boards to and another set of wood frames with glass that slide on top of the board table. It's basically a wood diorama. It will be very easy to swap out the computer boards with something else once we get tired of the look of the boards.
Auto-Tunes The NewsJune 22, 2009, 1:06 pm
The Role of the Press: StenographersMay 20, 2009, 9:41 am
- David Ignatius of the Washington Post
Stuff Journalists LikeJanuary 12, 2009, 6:34 am
Based on the popular Stuff White People Like, this site helps us understand why Journalists, and those wish they were, do what they do.
I liked #10:
For a journalist, there are a few things to look forward to. There's the end of an election. The closing of a trial and of course when the town's annual rodeo/festival/art show is finally over. After a long day of grilling public officials, dredging through public records, chasing ambulances and writing 25-inch stories, journalists like to relax with a tall cold one.
The old stereotype of the curmudgeon journalist with a bottle of whiskey in his desk is alive and well today because journalists like to drink.
Between natural disasters, covering triple homicides and reporting on fatal accidents, journalists see some pretty horrific stuff. And since journalist pay ranks around that of a trained circus monkey, they can't afford any psychological help. However, they can afford a $15 bottle of Fighting Cock bourbon. Nothing takes the edge off after a day of reporting on the scene of drug bust, shifting through six years of financial papers at city hall and stressing over deadlines like a nice shot of low-shelf whiskey or a pint.
True insight on every post.
ABCs Dirty Little SecretAugust 1, 2008, 7:44 am
Glenzilla has the full story
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He Knows No ShameJuly 30, 2008, 8:22 am
Perle, one of the most influential proponents of 2003 invasion of Iraq, is in talks to join a consortium of investors with the Kurdish Regional Government, today's Wall Street Journal reports.
The Journal reports that Perle is talking with a Turkish firm, AK Group International, and also a representative from the government of Kazakhstan. They are targeting the co-called "K18 concession" which is near the city of Erbil and is estimated to hold 150 million or more barrels of oil.
There is a special place in hell reserved for this man.
As Bryon Gysin said: "Man Is A Bad Animal."
The News Not On CNN - Truth of WarSeptember 10, 2007, 9:05 am
From the APTexas' Hunt Oil Co. and Kurdistan's regional government said Saturday they've signed a production-sharing contract for petroleum exploration in northern Iraq, the first such deal since the Kurds passed their own oil and gas law in August.
A Hunt subsidiary, Hunt Oil Co. of the Kurdistan Region, will begin geological survey and seismic work by the end of 2007 and hopes to drill an exploration well in 2008, the parties said in a news release. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
From Hunt's bio: "In October 2001 and again in January 2006, Mr. Hunt was appointed by President George W. Bush to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board in Washington, D.C."-Via Josh Marshall
Hypocrisy Quote of a GenerationJuly 16, 2007, 1:47 pm
- - Rep. Richard Baker, R-Baton
wow.. just wow.
Libby's DemiseMarch 7, 2007, 7:45 am
Media Matters does a great job of documenting the numerous instances of conservative misinformation about the CIA leak case.
Update: This is great. Rush Limbaugh is warning that the country should beware of "Poking The Bear".
There's a quote that the conservatives will choke on. muhahahaaaa
The StoopidsDecember 11, 2006, 12:45 pm
They attempt to document for posterity sake all the people who thought the Iraq war wouldn't be the bestest war evah!
All of whom turned out to be exactly right.
Such luminarys featured:
I'm actually amazed this article hasn't been disappeared down the rabbit hole of history.
An Apology:November 11, 2006, 6:28 pm
Nor indeed do we intend that viewers should consider them as crabby ulcerous little self-seeking vermin with furry legs and an excessive addiction to alcohol and certain explicit sexual practices, which some people might find offensive.
We are sorry if this impression has come across.
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Bad Nuke News Of The WeekOctober 12, 2006, 2:09 pm
Experts warn of an accidental atomic war.
Nuclear missile modified for conventional attack on Iran could set off alarm in Russia.
Pentagon project to modify its deadliest nuclear missile for use as a conventional weapon against targets such as North Korea and Iran could unwittingly spark an atomic war, two weapons experts warned Thursday.
Russian military officers might misconstrue a submarine-launched conventional D5 intercontinental ballistic missile and conclude that Russia is under nuclear attack, said Ted Postol, a physicist and professor of science, technology and national security policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Pavel Podvig, a physicist and weapons specialist at Stanford.
"Any launch of a long-range nonnuclear armed sea or land ballistic missile will cause an automated alert of the Russian early warning system," Postol told reporters.
Posted for Future ReferenceSeptember 29, 2006, 12:07 pm
CLINTON developed the nation's first anti-terrorism policy, and appointed first national coordinator of anti-terrorist efforts.
Of Clinton's efforts says Robert Oakley, Reagan Ambassador for Counterterrorism: "Overall, I give them very high marks" and "The only major criticism I have is the obsession with Osama".
Bill Clinton stopped cold the Al Qaeda millennium hijacking and bombing plots. Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to kill the Pope. Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up 12 U.S. jetliners simultaneously. Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up UN Headquarters. Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up FBI Headquarters. Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Washington. Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up Boston airport. Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up Lincoln and Holland Tunnels in NY. Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up the George Washington Bridge. Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up the US Embassy in Albania. Bill Clinton tried to kill Osama bin Laden and disrupt Al Qaeda through preemptive strikes (efforts denounced by the G.O.P.). Bill Clinton brought perpetrators of first World Trade Center bombing and CIA killings to justice. Bill Clinton did not blame the Bush I administration for first WTC bombing even though it occurred 38 days after Bush left office. Instead, worked hard, even obsessively - and successfully - to stop future terrorist attacks. Bill Clinton named the Hart-Rudman commission to report on nature of terrorist threats and major steps to be taken to combat terrorism. Bill Clinton sent legislation to Congress to tighten airport security. (Remember, this is before 911) The legislation was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the airlines. Bill Clinton sent legislation to Congress to allow for better tracking of terrorist funding. It was defeated by Republicans in the Senate because of opposition from banking interests. Bill Clinton sent legislation to Congress to add tagents to explosives, to allow for better tracking of explosives used by terrorists. It was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the NRA. Bill Clinton increased the military budget by an average of 14 per cent, reversing the trend under Bush I. Bill Clinton tripled the budget of the FBI for counterterrorism and doubled overall funding for counterterrorism. Bill Clinton detected and destroyed cells of Al Qaeda in over 20 countries. Bill Clinton created national stockpile of drugs and vaccines including 40 million doses of smallpox vaccine.
Paul Bremer, current Civilian Administrator of Iraq disagrees slightly with Robert Oakley as he believed the Bill Clinton Administration had "correctly focused on bin Laden.
Barton Gellman in the Washington Post put it best, "By any measure available, Bill Clinton left office having given greater priority to terrorism than any president before him" and was the "first administration to undertake a systematic anti-terrorist effort".
Clarence Swinney,
Political Historian
Two Paragraphs - Dead OnSeptember 25, 2006, 8:07 am
Bush, Cheney, and those around them remind me of Nietzsche's line about staring too long into the abyss. They've become transfixed, hypnotized almost, by the evils they believe themselves to be fighting. Obsessed to the point where they've clearly developed an admiration for the brutal methods, ruthless dishonesty, and utter secrecy with which the enemies of liberalism conduct themselves.
Liberal democracy isn't a fluke occurrence that just so happens to have survived despite its drawbacks. It's actually a superior method of organizing a state. The idea that the country is being run by people who don't understand that is sad and frightening. The idea that the very same people claim to be embarked upon a grand mission to spread our system of government around the world is like a horrible tawdry joke.
"Abyssus abyssum invocat!
What is abyssus abyssum?
lt means the abyss calls the abyss." - Diva
AccountabilitySeptember 22, 2006, 8:55 am
Zephyr Teachout of the Sunlight Foundation is offering members of the public a "goodwill bounty" of $1,000 for each Member of Congress, and $250 for each candidate, that they persuade to sign the Punch Clock Agreement, an agreement to put their daily schedules on the Internet.
Members of Congress work for us, and we should know what they do every day.
The Iran DeskSeptember 20, 2006, 12:50 pm
Hello "The Iran Desk"
The propaganda continues.
ProgressSeptember 11, 2006, 9:05 pm
2005 - 11,111 = 14,602 deaths
2004 - 651 = 1907 deaths
2003 - 208 = 625 deaths
2002 - 199 = 725 deaths
2001 - 355 = 3,295 deaths
2000 - 423 = 405 deaths
1999 - 392 = 233 deaths
1998 - 273 = 741 deaths
1997 - 304 = 221 deaths
1996 - 296 = 311 deaths
Source: US Department of State
Glaring ContradictionsSeptember 7, 2006, 3:41 pm
"With a truce between the Pakistani Taliban and Islamabad now in place, the Pakistani government is in effect reverting to its pre-September 11, 2001, position in which it closed its eyes to militant groups allied with al-Qaeda and clearly sided with the Taliban in Afghanistan. While the truce has generated much attention, a more significant development is an underhand deal between pro-al-Qaeda elements and Pakistan in which key al-Qaeda figures will either not be arrested or those already in custody will be set free."
The National Security Strategy of the United States of America
"To defeat this threat we must make use of every tool in our arsenal—military power, better homeland defenses, law enforcement, intelligence, and vigorous efforts to cut off terrorist financing. The war against terrorists of global reach is a global enterprise of uncertain duration. America will help nations that need our assistance in combating terror. And America will hold to account nations that are compromised by terror, including those who harbor terrorists— because the allies of terror are the enemies of civilization. The United States and countries cooperating with us must not allow the terrorists to develop new home bases. Together, we will seek to deny them sanctuary at every turn."
Freeper Heads Explode in.... 3... 2...1....
To All Conspiracy Theorists:August 15, 2006, 1:28 pm
I have proof.
I read it on a website.


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Council Roundup: Biennial budget adopted
The City Council Monday adopted its 2013-2014 budget. It includes modest growth, a welcome change from the past two years when $24 million was pared from Bellevue's budget because of the recession.
"I'm proud to have the council approve a budget that meets all our goals without increasing the property tax," Mayor Conrad Lee said.
"It provides for public safety, community development, parks, human services, light rail, environmental stewardship, planning, administration and everything else the city does, and does well," Lee added. "This is the result of an amazing effort by city staff, city council leadership and public support."
The council voted 5-2 for adoption of the budget. Councilmembers Claudia Balducci and John Chelminiak voted against the budget.
The general fund, which covers core services such as police, fire, transportation and parks, is budgeted to grow 4.4 percent in 2013 and 3.2 percent in 2014. A portion of the increase can be attributed to the annexation earlier this year of four neighborhoods in south Bellevue, which added about 5,400 new residents and 700 acres to the city. The capital and operating budgets total $1.29 billion for 2013 and 2014.
Highlights from the budget:
Public outreach concerning the budget included three public hearings, two forums and a focus group.
More information, including the preliminary budgets, is available at www.bellevuewa.gov/budgets.htm
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A brand of crayon that blends and retains true color better than Crayola crayons. Tests have shown this to be true. This is do to the larger amount of wax content in the crayons.
Nice crayola crayons you have there Dasha, however, these RoseArt crayons will produce much more brilliant colors.
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Based on anecdotal exit polls, the Guernsey calf may have been helped by anti-Jersey sentiment, rather than actual Guernsey love.
by Lucas Sjostrom, Associate Editor, Hoard's Dairyman
Hundreds of votes are in from all over the world; in a landslide election, our Guernsey calf beat our Jersey with a final tally of 55.6 percent to 44.4 percent at 8 a.m. After the polls officially closed, the Jersey calf began to battle back.
Obviously, the race came down to the swing states. In this case, as Ohio went, so went the country. With headquarters for both the Jersey and Guernsey camps, we expected more of a race. But Guernsey overtook Ohio by a 2-to-1 margin over Jersey.
Dairy-minded states like Wisconsin, New York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Vermont all had higher than expected voter turnout. Connecticut, Illinois and Maryland also contributed in a higher-than-expected proportion.
Amazingly, Jersey herd strongholds California and Wisconsin were very weak for the Jersey calf. California was won by the Guernsey calf, following suit of Oregon and Washington. Wisconsin actually leaned to the Guernsey calf 2-to-1 over the Jersey calf.
Canada went Guernsey, as did Mexico, the United Kingdom, Australia and Japan. The Jersey calf triumphed in New Zealand, Singapore, Holland and Kenya.
Pro-Guernsey calf, or anti-Jersey sentiment?
As with all contentious elections this year, we never know if people are voting for a candidate, or just against one they vehemently disagree with. Of the dozens of comments received, nearly 15 percent mentioned a breed not even competing in this election (Holstein, Brown Swiss and Normande).
Others used slang terms like "Guerndogs" and "Swamp-goats" to describe the breeds, leading us to believe that those who did not own Guernseys or Jerseys were simply betting against their least favorite breed.
Now that the campaigning is complete, the Guernsey calf out of Grumpy will be on its throne until the next election. Votes spanned over 35 states and 5 of the 6 inhabited continents (South America had no votes) in just 20 hours time.
Webinar next Monday: Transition cows are a focus of every farm. Are yours being fed and handled correctly? On Monday, June 11, Jim Drackley of the University of Illinois will present "Feeding and handling of transition cows" in the June edition of the Hoard's Dairyman webinar series. Tune in Monday at noon Central time by registering today at www.hoards.com/webinars. This webinar is brought to you by Elanco and its portfolio of dairy products.
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On Sept. 17, 1992, a group of Iranian and Kurdish opposition leaders were assassinated in a Greek restaurant in Berlin. Despite pressures to keep the investigation at the lowest possible level, a German prosecutor unraveled a tangle of threads that led to Iran's Supreme Leader himself. Host Scott Simon speaks with Roya Hakakian, author of the new book, Assassins of the Turquoise Palace.
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I got a call from a lady in South Texas that needs bees removed. She says the bees have lived in her Dad's house for over 30 years!!! :scratch: He has passed away and they need them removed so they can take care of his property, etc.. She says the house is in Donna, Texas next to McAllen, Texas. If you can do a cut-out there, give her a call. Her name is Mary and her phone number is 956/342-4489.
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I have a 2003 Rodeo and recently the air conditioner stopped working. When the fan is turned on, it blows, but you can't hear the condenser?/compressor? come on. I thought it was low on freon at first and had the guys at the shop put some in and it worked fine for about 2 weeks, then it stopped working. What do you think is the problem?
Sounds like a leak in the lines somewhere. You probably won't hear the compressor much because newer models A/C compressors are quieter than they were 10 years ago so this might be a non-issue. However, if you do remember the compressor making some noise when running, then look at the compressor as that may be a sign to buy a new compressor.
--------------------------------Something stinks and it ain't me. E-thugs: always looking for a fight, no matter how meaningless.I drank all of RL's rum.
I have the same problem with my 200 Amigo, I was told by the guy at advanced autoparts that it was a common problem with these vehichles, he told me that it was the indash blower and not the conditioner unit its self. On another topic I dont know if youve had the same problem but I have a freind who has a rodeo and the feul gauge sensor has gone out in it, the same has happened to my Amigo and several other people who have these models
If the only problem you have with te Rodeo is the AC...consider yourself lucky.
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'GIANT' Thursdays move to a Brand New Location in Orange County! Launching this Thursday, October 2 with Ferry Corsten, GIANT moves our weekly Thursday club nights in Orange County to a brand new location: Heat Ultra Lounge. The fun doesn't stop after Ferry. Upcoming GIANT Thursdays at Heat feature The Crystal Method, Sultan, Dirty South, Kaskade, Sharam (Deep Dish) and more. When we say brand new, we mean brand spankin' new. Heat just opened at the GardenWalk in Anaheim. Built from the ground up, this multi-million dollar venue features everything necessary for the best clubbing experience… a Funktion-One Sound System, four bars, state-of-the-art lighting systems, and an intimate setting to experience the world's best artists. Beyond those basics, Heat offers extensive VIP bottle service areas, a second dance lounge, a luxurious smoking lounge, valet parking, and tons of free parking on site. GIANT, Southern California's leader in dance music, continues with our weekly club nights in on Saturdays in Hollywood at Vanguard, Fridays in San Diego at Spin and Perfecto Saturdays Las Vegas at Rain. Don't forget, this December 31st, GIANT Maximus New Year's Eve returns with Moby and many more artists to be announced. Get all the details at giantclub.com
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The first photographs of new Apple products posted on the internet by their smug owners. Usually showing the item :- being purchased, while boxed, being opened, box packaging, box contents, the item still wrapped, the item unwrapped and powered up. Other addicts will be showing signs of jealousy/envy whilst trying to recall that 'new Mac smell'.
Those photos are pure Apple porn.
by Carl D. Patterson May 19, 2006
1. Porn viewed on a Apple Computer.
2. Porn that is rather grainy in appearance.
3. Porn viewed on a Video i-Pod.
by ixpd003 March 01, 2006