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How Michigan lost grip on Method Home Products
Disconnect, slow response killed plant; officials vow to do better
Method Home Products could have made Detroit — or one of several other Michigan cities — home for a large soap manufacturing plant. It could have built a 200,000-square-foot factory. It could have invested $35 million. It could have created 100 green-manufacturing jobs.
Instead, the spoils went to Chicago.
A year and a half ago, Detroit didn't step up to help the San Francisco-based company through the labyrinth of tax credits, abatements, zoning laws, real estate rules, legal wrangling and everything else it takes to turn an abandoned brownfield site into a successful business, said Adam Lowry and Eric Ryan, the Detroit-area natives who founded Method.
Mike Finney, president and CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corp., said his organization also dropped the ball by not providing site information or tax incentive information quickly enough — although the MEDC has since improved its business attraction efforts.
Among others in Michigan, the sprawling 2.5 million-square-foot site of American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc.'s Detroit manufacturing complex was a contender for Method's plant, said Greg Hudas, the agent/broker for Southfield-based Signature Associates Inc.,a Cushman & Wakefield alliance member. Hudas evaluated sites throughout the state between November 2012 and February 2013.
Method also considered the former Ford Motor Co. Wixom assembly plant and RACER Trust sites in Flint and Grand Rapids, as well as other sites in Lansing and in southern Michigan near Toledo.
"The mindset was triple-green, LEED Platinum, and they were going to have a windmill for electricity," Hudas said.
Too slow off the mark
Hudas said the American Axle site in Detroit would have been "tremendous" for Method, which was founded in 2000 and in 2012 was acquired by European rival Ecover, creating a $200 million company.
"But I never had a chance to sit face to face with the Method guys," Hudas said. "There were no meetings with the American Axle people or the guys who own the Ford Wixom site."
What could have been done differently?
For Lowry, interviewed during the Detroit Regional Chamber's Mackinac Policy Conference last week, choosing Chicago over Detroit came down to vision.
Chicago, he said, knew what type of businesses it wants to grow. Every developer sang from the same hymnbook, knew what types of projects could be expedited. Detroit, meanwhile, was haphazard. It was, at least at that time, economic development by happenstance, not by grand vision.
Chicago won the business with a better pitch and a team in sync.
If the plant had come to Detroit, it would have become just the third LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum-certified building in metro Detroit, joining the 80,000-square-foot Lafayette Place development at the former Sears Roebuck & Co. department store location in Pontiac and the Kresge Foundation headquarters in Troy with that distinction.
Justin Palm, president of Madison Heights-based Lumerica Corp., a manufacturer of LED lights which has worked on several LEED projects, said Method's decision wasn't a "major blow" to the green building movement or to the region. Instead, he said, it's more a reflection of past missteps.
"I think it reveals what occurred in the past and, I think, looking forward, the city and state have taken great steps to address situations like this," he said. "From our experience, we are seeing the city and state and other entities working in unison quite well."
Lowry and Ryan, whose products are in stores ranging from Whole Foods to CVS, said they had visited Chicago, Detroit and other locales, telling the mayor's office, local brokers and developers they were looking to rehabilitate an existing factory or build new on an abandoned site. They knew what they wanted — to bring jobs and investment into a struggling area.
"We wanted to go into an urban area and take something that had been abandoned and turn it into a factory for the 21st century," Lowry said. "Doing that takes an unusual amount of coordination. We needed a lot of help understanding what it would take to remediate a brownfield site."
But when Method's brokers took them to see properties in Detroit, they didn't fit the bill. "It was like they were just showing us properties they wanted to get rid of," Lowry said.
Lowry wouldn't identify exactly whom the Method team spoke with in Michigan — other than to say the MEDC and the Detroit mayor's office — but the parties never coalesced in time to help them find the right property and push forward.
"By contrast, Mayor Rahm Emanuel himself very quickly got involved in the project."
Emanuel appointed one of his deputies, Steve Koch, to be the point person. They got the permits in 20 days. Emanuel and representatives from Gov. Pat Quinn's administration announced the 150,000-square-foot plant last July.
A groundbreaking on the plant was held in March, and construction is expected to be complete early next year.
Needed: Better coordination
Method will employ 70 people there, and a commercial greenhouse on the roof will bring at least 30 more jobs. A bottle manufacturing facility is also scheduled for the property, which will include a refurbished 230-foot wind turbine and solar panels that will generate approximately half of the plant's yearly electrical needs, according to a press release.
Dan Labes, senior vice president in the Southfield office of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, said he's never heard anyone in his office complain about lack of receptiveness or response from the Detroit Economic Growth Corp. or MEDC.
Finney said the MEDC fell short on the Method project but has since become more responsive.
"The situation that happened with Method is one that we obviously find less than optimal, but we've taken steps, including the Michigan prospectus and the business attraction team, which should keep us well positioned to not miss out on potential opportunities," he said.
The prospectus lists shovel-ready sites across the state that "could be available on relatively short notice," Finney said. The business attraction team is a group of about eight MEDC employees who, when corporate prospects such as Method arise, assign the interested company to one person to see a project through.
In addition, the MEDC and 13 other economic development organizations across the state like the DEGC and the Wayne County Economic Development Growth Engine, or EDGE, now meet monthly to discuss development issues.
"We spent a lot of our early time focused on existing business; now we are focusing on business attraction," Finney said.
Finney pointed to Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. as one recent success story in Southeast Michigan. The Indian automaker announced in May an expected $2 million investment in its Mahindra North American Technical Center in Troy, and plans to add 112 engineers. Mahindra also chose Ann Arbor for a $2 million plant to build electric scooters.
Last week, the state announced incentives for other manufacturing projects. Walker-based Challenge Mfg. Co. LLC received approval of a $2.5 million performance-based grant toward a 400,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Pontiac. The $50 million project is expected to create 450 new jobs at the former General Motors Pontiac Assembly.
Also last week, the state said Green Box NA Michigan LLC, a subsidiary of De Pere, Wis.-based Environmentally Advanced Reclamation Technology HQ LLC, will receive up to $125 million in tax-exempt bond financing for two facilities. The proposed $200 million projects include a commercial-waste treatment plant in Detroit and a processing plant in Cheboygan.
The commercial waste, mostly from the restaurant industry, will be turned into pellets in Detroit, then shipped to Cheboygan, where it will be converted into bath, facial and napkin products, as well as biofuels and fertilizer.
The two Green Box projects are expected to create up to 331 jobs.
Left hung out to dry?
The Method project loss, though, was shock to the representatives of the DEGC and city of Detroit who were sitting in the audience of a Mackinac Policy Conference panel last week.
"This wouldn't have happened if they'd called us," said Olga Stella, DEGC vice president of business development.
Waymon Gillebeaux, executive vice president of project management for the DEGC, had never heard of the project. Neither had Marcell Todd, who worked in the administration of former Mayor Dave Bing and is now Mayor Mike Duggan's director of city planning.
Duggan also is laying plans to improve the city's chances when the next big manufacturer comes calling. He has a lean processes team evaluating systems like permitting and licensing. (See story.) Still, Finney said, the Method project was a missed opportunity.
"Based on what I've seen, we could have done better."


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Anyway, it seems that gun shops have their regular prices, but I have seen very cheap prices at gun shows. Last year, I saw new ones for $450... 1st quarter, I saw them new for $425. And at the last big Houston gunshow, I saw new Beretta 92s for $409 new.
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THE HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF Bolivia reflects both its pre-Columbian and its colonial heritage. The ruins of Tiahuanaco testify to the first great Andean empire. Bolivians still speak the languages of the Aymara kingdoms and of their Quechua conquerors; the society remains predominantly Indian and rural, and only a minority is monolingual in Spanish. Nevertheless, Spain also left its imprint in the political, economic, and social spheres. During 300 years of colonial rule, Spain imposed its institutions on the colony and concentrated on mineral exports, which are still the backbone of the Bolivian economy. Using forced Indian labor, local entrepreneurs extracted the mineral wealth--the silver deposits at Potosí were the largest in the Western world--and shipped it to Spain in accord with the prevailing mercantilist practices.
After Bolivia received independence from Spain in 1825, political instability became endemic. Rivalries among caudillos resulted in numerous coups and countercoups. Despite attempts at reform by the nation's first three presidents, the economy did not recover from the disruptions caused by the wars of independence; taxes paid by the Indians were the main sources of income for the governments.
The War of the Pacific (1879-80), in which the country lost its access to the sea to Chile, had a profound impact on Bolivia. Civilian governments replaced the erratic caudillo rule, and for fifty years Bolivia enjoyed relative political stability. The economy improved with the dramatic rise of tin as the main source of wealth. Because Bolivians, rather than foreigners, dominated the tin-mining industry, the former made most political decisions. As a result, the parties in power--the Conservative Party, Liberal Party, and Republican Party--were remarkably alike in that they were primarily interested in the development of the mining sector. Increasing democratization benefited the middle class but still excluded the Indians.
The devastating defeat suffered by Bolivia at the hands of Paraguay in the Chaco War (1932-35) discredited the traditional leadership and brought the military back to politics. Between 1936 and 1939, military governments tried to reform the country from above with a program of "military socialism" that included social justice and the control of the country's natural resources. In 1937 they nationalized the Standard Oil holdings, the first such step taken in Latin America. Although they failed because they were inconsistent in their rule and unable to marshal popular support, these governments were important because they facilitated the formation of a number of new parties that, despite differences, agreed on the need to limit the power of the tin magnates.
Although members of the Conservative Party attempted to stop the growing trend toward reform in the 1940s, they could not contain the popular discontent. Unrest in the countryside increased, and the middle class resented the government's inability to deal with economic stagnation and increasing inflation. The unifying force in the opposition was the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, a primarily middle-class party that became more radical as it integrated the militant ideology and demands of the workers.
Bolivia's 1952 Revolution, led by the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, was a turning point in the country's history. The government decreed universal suffrage without literacy or property requirements, an action that increased the electorate from some 200,000 to 1 million voters. It nationalized the mines of the three great companies--Patiño, Hochschild, and Aramayo-- and distributed land to the campesinos under a far-reaching agrarian reform. The revolution remained incomplete and lost momentum, however, when the government's policies produced a virtual bankruptcy of the economy. In exchange for massive assistance from the United States and the International Monetary Fund, the government agreed to cut social spending. This action produced renewed labor unrest and eroded support for President Víctor Paz Estenssoro (1952-56, 1960-64, and 1985-89). The government then made the fateful decision to rebuild the Bolivian armed forces, which had been purged and decimated in 1952. During the early 1960s, the military became the arbiters in Bolivian politics as widespread anarchy convinced many that only the armed forces could restore order. As a result, a military coup in 1964 led by General René Barrientos Ortuño and General Alfredo Ovando Candia had widespread support.
The military governments in power after 1964 varied in their ideological outlook. The armed forces were divided by personal ambitions, generational differences, and regional interests and lacked the corporate identity of a modern military. Barrientos's conservative rule, for example, encouraged foreign investment and suppression of the left, whereas the "Revolutionary Nationalist" governments of Ovando and Juan José Torres González nationalized United States holdings and courted the workers, peasants, and students. Another conservative, Colonel Hugo Banzer Suárez (1971- 78), was forced out because of growing opposition and pressure from the United States to reestablish democracy. The attempt at a transition to democracy after 1978 failed at first because no single party achieved a majority in three elections, and alliances of various groups could not break the deadlock. Military coups, including one led by the ruthless and corrupt General Luis García Meza Tejada (1980-81), overthrew civilian interim presidents. Only in 1982 did the military return the country to democratic government.
Facing a corporate-led threat to one of the basic building blocks of life-- water-- indigenous and non-indigenous Bolivians in Cochabamba were successful in stopping the privatization of the local water supply- including everything from local wells to falling rain, by a multinational consortium headed by San Francisco's Bechtel Corporation in April of 2000. The privately-owned water would have cost Bolivian families up to 50% of the average national wage per month.
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In several hives this spring I've found frames of crystallized honey. Most times I've found them in deadouts - but occasionally in living hives as well. In the living hives I would assume that the bees didn't need it - that they had other resources easier to injest and that for whatever reason they didn't use the moisture generated by their respiration to re-liquify the honey.
Some of my hives that are booming this spring by and large cleaned out their stored honey and are now storing incoming nectar.
So I'm left wondering... If weaker hives have difficulty overwintering on honey likely to crystallize, how do I go about getting them to store sugar syrup for winter and put the Golden Rod/Aster honey in the supers for me? I have a decent market for the stronger tasting honey. I'm nervous about feeding syrup and then putting supers on at a later date out of concern that the bees *might* move the syrup into the supers - and I don't want to risk selling "honey" made from sugar syrup.
I can't be the first person to wrestle with this question. I'm curious how others have dealt with the problem.


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The 96G Red battles in Brenham on Monday night to earn a 2-0 win, falling one goal short of advancing to regionals. They beat Challenge Kingwood to end up tied for 1st place in state—with….12 players!
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"Dude, last night my girl gave me a killer strom-job and I had to try to not get pepperoni all over her. She was too busy with the sausage, any way!"
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A collaborative study illuminates old questions about how pollen grains survive
Anna Lena Phillips
When a flowering plant releases pollen from its anther, the tiny grains rapidly desiccate, their outer layers folding to keep the genetic material inside safe until they reach the stigma of another flower. The process was given a name, harmomegathy, by palynologist Roger P. Wodehouse (1889–1978). But how it works had never been investigated. "The problem was not known to physicists, and the mathematical technique was not known to biologists," says Eleni Katifori, a postdoctoral physicist at the Rockefeller University's Center for Studies in Physics and Biology. During her Ph.D. work at Harvard, Katifori and her collaborators used computer simulations and scanning-electron microscopy of pollen grains to try to determine the geometric pathways by which they fold. The results are published in the April 27 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The team chose pollen from Lilium longiflorum and Euphorbia milii, whose structures are common among angiosperms. The lily pollen has one elongated aperture through which sperm cells exit; the euphorbia has three long colpi, or furrows. The group simulated the pollen wall with thin-shell structures, for which stretching requires more energy than bending. The models closely matched what happens in the actual pollen. "This is the unifying aspect of the mechanism," says Katifori. "You have a big change in shape but with no stretching, just bending. Like origami—just by bending a flat piece of paper, you get very weird things."
In the case of the lily pollen, what you get is something like a football—and protection for the delicate material within as it hurtles through the air. Imagine a hollow sphere with a slice missing—this represents the aperture—and then press at either side of the slice so that the edges meet. "Like it's a clown's nose," says Katifori. Simple enough. The E. milii, with its three colpi and complex curvature, takes a little more work. The sphere becomes wider and flatter and the colpi crumple inward, allowing the pollen walls to meet on either side of them.
Nan Crystal Arens, a palynologist at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, wonders how the design of harmomegathy developed during plants' transition from water to land. Studying early land plants using this quantitative approach could "allow us to test some assumptions that we have taken on logical faith." Placing structure in evolutionary context is just the kind of insight that future interdisciplinary work could engender. "There are several areas of biology where such collaboration would be very, very fruitful," says Patricia G. Gensel, a paleobotanist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It's easy to think that one's own field would not have much to say to a vastly different one, she says, but "when you get a conversation going, you realize, there are ways this could be useful to me."
For Gensel, the research also raises questions about the other end of evolution. She notes that the two pollen forms studied are common to gymnosperms and older groups of angiosperms—so "the direction of evolutionary change appears to be away from their design." More work on folding in advanced angiosperms is in order, Gensel thinks, "because there apparently is more than this one way to close down when drying out." Likewise, it seems clear, there are many more ways to explore complex questions at the intersection of physics and biology.
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Thought to share something here.
This is what happen when you have a good laying queen bee.
Her daughters also exhibit the same laying pattern.
Anyone what to share as well?
Adding more pics to this. Sorry, cannot tilt them back. No bee is good without the foods too.
What else is blooming now in your area?


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Release Date: Fall 2005
Written to run parallel to the storyline of the Advent Trilogy, Advent Shadow takes players on an all-new, high-intensity portable experience designed specifically for the PSP.
Advent Shadow chronicles the gripping story of Marin Steel, a mercenary pilot thrust into a saga of intergalactic proportions. We first encounter Marin in the midst of extracting herself from a "hostile negotiation." Things quickly go from bad to worse as Marin's negotiations are interrupted by a planetary invasion—an invasion led by monstrous aliens bent on human genocide. In her efforts to escape the dying world, she is thrown together with young Gideon Wyeth, the unlikely hero of Advent Rising , the first game released from the Advent Trilogy. Together they find themselves swept up in a massive struggle against dire forces bent on the destruction of humanity. Not until Marin begins to discover the latent power dormant within her can she become that which these dark beings fear the most . . .
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Christie spokesman calls bridge closures 'idiotic'
The Christie administration was slow to acknowledge the true motive behind the lane closures at the George Washington Bridge because of a betrayal by a Port Authority executive who repeatedly claimed that a legitimate traffic study was the reason Fort Lee was gridlocked for five days last September, according to testimony given by Christie's spokesman on Tuesday.
Michael Drewniak, who testified for seven hours on Tuesday before a legislative committee probing the closures, also said that he informed a senior official in Christie's office in late October of allegations that a deputy chief of staff in the governor's office and Christie's campaign manager had prior knowledge of the lane closures. Drewniak brought those allegations — made by the same Port Authority executive, David Wildstein — to the governor again in early December after a one-on-one dinner meeting during which Wildstein also claimed that he had told the governor about the lane closures as they were happening in September.
About a week later, on Dec. 13, Christie said publicly that his senior staff had assured him that they had no knowledge of the lane closures.
Drewniak's account, described in detail, provided fodder for a grueling full-day hearing in Trenton during which Democrats pushed him on how the administration missed several warning signs. Drewniak, in turn, portrayed the lane closures as an "idiotic" and misguided idea that was convincingly justified for months by Wildstein, his onetime friend, and former Port Authority Deputy Executive Director Bill Baroni.
Drewniak, who is known for his combative style, was exceedingly polite on Tuesday, addressing committee members as "sir" and "ma'am." And although Drewniak's testimony was colorful, it echoed statements already provided in a report on the lane closures commissioned by Christie that concluded the governor had no involvement. That report said there was an ulterior motive behind the lane closures, but did not identify what that motive was. The governor has said that the closures appeared to be politically motivated.
Republicans claimed that very little significant new information was provided during Drewniak's testimony.
Drewniak is the second member of Christie's administration to testify under oath before the legislative panel as a concurrent investigation is being conducted by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark. Drewniak has acknowledged appearing before a grand jury.
On Tuesday, Drewniak defended the office's initial response to the lane closure controversy, described his growing concern after the Dec. 5 dinner meeting with Wildstein, and expressed confidence that the remaining members of Christie's office had no involvement.
"I can say with complete confidence and comfort that none of these people — starting with Governor Christie — had any involvement whatsoever in this reckless and perplexing episode," Drewniak said. He called the lane closure scandal "one of the strangest things I've ever witnessed," adding that the motive is still a mystery to him and asserting that he played no "knowing role in any actual or perceived 'coverup.'Ÿ"
Wildstein, he said, acknowledged during the dinner at a steakhouse that the traffic study was his idea and insisted that it was legitimate. But Drewniak said his concern grew because Wildstein also appeared to be "offering up people" during the dinner meeting, mentioning that he had gotten approval from two Christie confidants and that he had mentioned the study to the governor.
Democratic lawmakers zeroed in on the administration's missed opportunities to look into the bridge allegations, building off Drewniak's testimony that he had conversations with top staff members in late-October and raised concerns again after the Dec. 5 dinner meeting.
Drewniak said sometime between mid-October and mid-November, when he left on vacation, Wildstein told him that Christie's former campaign manager, Bill Stepien, and his deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, had knowledge of the lanes being closed as part of a purported traffic study.
Drewniak said he took that information to his boss, Maria Comella, a deputy chief of staff, who dismissed the matter as a Port Authority issue that was being hyped up for political reasons during the governor's reelection campaign. He also raised the issue with Charles McKenna, Christie's chief counsel, who told him he would look into it.
Drewniak raised the issue again in early December, the morning after his dinner with Wildstein. This time, Drewniak addressed it with Kevin O'Dowd, the governor's chief of staff, and Christie himself. Wildstein claimed at that dinner that in addition to Kelly and Stepien's having knowledge of the lane closures, he had told Christie about it during a 9/11 memorial event. Drewniak said Wildstein maintained that the lane closures were part of a traffic study, which was his idea.
Drewniak said Christie was "incredulous" and questioned how he would be expected to know what Wildstein was talking about if he mentioned a traffic study in passing at an event. But he also said Christie had concerns about Stepien.
"He said one thing to me," Drewniak said. "He said, 'I always wondered if Stepien knew more about this.'Ÿ"
State Sen. Loretta Weinberg, a Teaneck Democrat and co-chairwomen of the legislative panel, said the administration went into "damage control mode" instead of working hard to find out what had happened.
"Why didn't somebody — the commissioner in the Port Authority, a chief counsel to the governor, the governor's press secretary, the governor's chief of staff — why didn't one of them actually find out and ask the questions, what happened here?" she said.
Drewniak described Wildstein as "someone I trusted, someone I considered a friend and someone who I knew worked very hard and long hours."
Drewniak spoke about the "personal betrayal" he felt when he learned of Wildstein's role in the lane closures.
"I now know how badly, regrettably, even naïvely, I misplaced that trust," he said.


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Car Collision with a Deer--Lessons Learned
Original post made by Paul Losch, Community Center, on Oct 14, 2007
It all happened so quickly, much of the experience is a blur. But, I do think a couple of things I did and did not do probably avoided any of us in the car getting hurt or killed. I have talked with some safety and insurance people as part of my de-brief, and they concur that given the circumstances, I did the right thing.
Specifically, I did not swerve or try to avoid the collision. I gripped the wheel, held the course, braked and let things happen. Had I tried steering out of the way to avoid hitting the deer, I likely would still have hit it, but going a fast speed, albeit the posted limit, there was a risk of rolling the car and since it was a narrow road, the car could have careened a number of yards into the ditch and ravine off the road.
I am not happy about what happened, and it is one of those experiences where in hndsight one could ask, could I have avoided the incident driving a bit slower, brights on, not off, driving a different time of day, etc, etc. Will never know, the deer just appeared out of nowhere. But, by the same token, things could have been much worse, even tragically so, even with some differences in how I was driving.
Today's cars are designed to abosrb the impact of a collision and keep the people inside the car as safe as possible. In this case, the car did what it was designed to do. I pass this along as food for thought for people who find themselves driving in areas where deer and other large animals are present. As awful an experience as it was to hit and kill this animal, I am hugely relieved that I handled the car the way I did, and as a result, nobody in my family that was driving with me was hurt or killed.
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a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 14, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Sorry to hear about your travails. You did everything right, except one thing: You braked. At high speeds that big rig behind you might not have seen the deer jump out in front of you. The correct thing to do is to drive straight through the animal, then slowly come to a stop.
The "I Brake for Animals" bumper sticker is fine for city driving (to avoid squirrels and cats) but it can get you killed at high speeds.
Glad you survived. I enjoy your posts!
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 14, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Paul sorry about your accident; it is a good lesson for anyone driving up into the hills, which isn't very far away. As a former resident of Los Altos Hills I can tell you I've had some very near misses with deer.
a resident of Barron Park
on Oct 14, 2007 at 5:00 pm
I don't understand this. It seems to me that if a driver hits a deer, he or she could just as easily hit a child running into the road. Plus cars are supposed to be far enough apart to stop safely when the car ahead's brake lights go on. Just a case of unsafe driving.
a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 14, 2007 at 5:11 pm
When a deer jumps in front of your car, at 65-70 mph, from the brush, it is impossible to stop. Children don't just jump out of the brush (unless they are raised by by a doe). Cars SHOULD be able to stop, when they see the brake lights, but big rigs need a logical warning. Yet, many cars are not all that quick to respond - that is why rear enders happen all the time. Does this help you to understand?
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 15, 2007 at 9:07 am
Joe, if you're driving on the rural narrow streets up in the hills at night you are probably the only car on the road, you are not following behind other vehicles, it is dark, there are no street lamps.
After dark there probably aren't small children playing on the street, but there are deer and they jump out across the road, and sadly they do get hit.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 15, 2007 at 9:12 am
If you are driving on the rural narrow streets up in the hills at night at 65 70 mph, then you are driving much too fast. We followed a car that went up the cliff at the side of the road and got totalled this summer. He was lucky, he could have gone over the other side where the road fell down a cliff which would have probably meant that he couldn't walk away as he did. Just because there is no traffic on these roads, doesn't mean you can travel fast.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 15, 2007 at 9:14 am
I should have said that we pulled over to let a car pass and within a couple of bends found him up the cliff. We were not going anywhere near the speed he was.
a resident of Community Center
on Oct 15, 2007 at 10:17 am
Just to be clear, I agree that driving even 45-50 MPH in the hills west of Palo Alto is way too fast.
We were on a flat state highway in eastern Washington state, with a posted speed limit of 70MPH. It was out in the middle of nowhere, the closest thing was a bridge about 2 miles after the collision, where we finally were able to pull over.
The way the deer jumped across our driving path, I would have been unable to avoid it even if I had been driving 55MPH, which was much less than the posted speed limit of 70MPH. My speed was varying from 65 to 70MPH during the drive, slightly below the posted speed limit signs.
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on Oct 16, 2007 at 1:33 am
Jay Thorwaldson is a registered user.
Having driven many miles in rural areas at night, I've always wondered whether one of those high-frequency "deer-alerting whistles" one attaches to the front bumper really work. Or does one just get a bunch of dogs running after you down the road. Any feedback?
A friend recently took out a deer on a back road up near Folsom, going a moderate speed at night. The deer actually ran into the right-front fender of the car more than the car hitting the deer. Still caused damage, but mostly to the late deer.
The CHP wrote the person a letter saying she should have reported the "collision," but dropped the matter when she replied that the deer was clearly at fault yet was unable to file a report due to the circumstance of being deceased.
a resident of another community
on Oct 16, 2007 at 4:33 am
you said "Plus cars are supposed to be far enough apart to stop safely when the car ahead's brake lights go on. Just a case of unsafe driving"
Being far apart from other cars depends very much on "other" cars being far apart from you. Unless you haven't ever driven on the freeway and any busy road you know that if you try to keep safe distance another car will place itself in between you and the car in front of you- there is no way to keep that distance and it's not "unsafe" driving, it's just the reality of driving.
I drive very responsively ( never hit anything or anybody) and I would probably have hit that deer in the same circunstancies.
There is also no way to avoid physics. It is a normal reaction to want to brake but as another post said you shouldn't. If something jumps in front of you unless you are driving with absolutely no cars or precipices in sight you better hit it otherwise you will swerve (as a billiard ball) and you will be thrown sideways, hitting other cars, people on the side of the road or your passengers.
Contrary to popular belief if the car in front of you stops suddenly and you hit it, you may indeed not be at fault- it is a favorite for insurance fraud and the distance you would need to keep not to hit it would be "infinite".
Physics: trucks are too massive to be able to stop suddenly. An eigtheen wheeler would need so much distance between itself and the next vehicle that it wouldn't be able to be in
These occurences are what is called " accidents". Don't be too self righteous.
a resident of another community
on Oct 16, 2007 at 4:36 am
where I said "Physics: trucks are too massive to be able to stop suddenly. An eigtheen wheeler would need so much distance between itself and the next vehicle that it wouldn't be able to be in"
I should have read
"...next vehicle that it wouldn't be able to be on the road"
a resident of Barron Park
on Oct 16, 2007 at 7:40 am
That infinite distance stuff is just nonsense, an excuse for not obeying the speed limit and not driving responsibly.
Joe (ex-physics major)
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 16, 2007 at 10:48 am
The deer died, but everyone inside the car was safe. We have engineered our cars to allow the passengers to survive crashes rather than put our efforts into avoiding crashes. The result is that our cars are very safe for those inside, but not for those outside. Just like the deer, pedestrians and bicyclists have not benefited from these advances in engineering. Indeed, drivers often now think that their cars will save them from bad driving. Cars are even advertised that way! I am not saying that this case involved bad driving, just that it points out the disparity in safety for those inside the cage and those outside the cage.
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According to Pikes Peak Community College Police Chief Ken Hilte, the investigation started when some students noticed the suspect, David Henley, looking at pornographic images in class.
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We had a very nice holiday! The house was really nice and adekvat. The pool was near and it was walkingdistance to the ocean. It was very practical to have the train station near, so you dont have need for a car. Felix and his sister were very friendly and helpfull. Thanks for a wonderful holiday!
Great place to stay, only a 5 min walk to the sea, 10 mins from airport with direct suburban train, swimming pool as described in picture. Excellent place to spend your vacation in Spain!!!
We had a lovely stay and wished we could have stayed longer. The house was really well equipped with everything that we needed, including a (pre-booked) cot and baby bath. The house was very clean and comfortable, perfectly suited for 4 adults and a toddler. The area is quiet with mostly Spanish holiday makers around (June), the pool is very clean and lovely to chill out at. It's a 10 minute walk to the beach (with a toddler in a buggy) and much quieter than nearby Torremolinos centre beach. Restaurants are a 20-30 minute walk away (lovely walk along the beach). It's really easy to get to the house via train (2 stops from the airport), as well as to Malaga city and to Torremolinos centre, and to the nearby Plaza Mayor shopping centre.
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Nice place to stay, lovely garden with sun and shadow. Situated in a very quiet part of Torremolinos. By train (station at 2 min. walking) everything 20 min. you are in 20 min. in Málaga. Going by car to the city is not a good idea. Beach nearby (7 min. walking), where you find nice restaurants. Conclusion: we found everything what made our holiday fantastic.
It has been a good experience. The apartment is located just 5minutes walk from the train station Los Alamos away and the beach is also within 10 minutes. Shopping facilities are also near enough.
Thank you for the great time.
Es hat uns gut gefallen. Die Wohnung liegt nur 5Minuten Fußweg von der S-Bahn Station Los Alamos entfernt und zum Strand sind es auch maximal 10 Minuten. Einkaufsmöglichkeiten gibt es auch genug in der Nähe.
Danke für die schöne Zeit.
Felix joanna there are very welcoming, particularly attentive and available. We had a pleasant stay in Andalusia, the house is well placed for touring between Cordoba, Granada, Malaga ... And enjoy the long beach of Torremolinos. Can go to the beach on foot, there are some nice restaurants on the edge sea great and nice pool. Only Bemol: near the airport but it is reasonable. House maintained and functional without opposite. Owl family holidays, Thank you
Felix y joanna sont tres accueillants, particulierement prevenants et disponibles. Nous avons passé un sejour agreable en Andalousie, la maison est bien placée pour rayonner entre Cordoue, Grenade , Malaga...Et profiter de la longue plage de Torremolinos .On peut aller a la plage a pied , il ya des restaurants sympas en bord de mer. Piscine grande et agreable.
Seul Bemol : proximité de l'aeroport mais cela reste raisonnable. Maison entretenue et fonctionnelle sans vis a vis. De chouettes vacances en famille , Merci a vous
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Yup, that's the best plan I know. The "local" clubs I know of are IDPA and they let you shoot the first match free if you join IDPA. Since IDPA lets the local club have some of the $$ for joining it works out.
Helping out with the taping, clean-up, etc is THE way to go. Not only do you get to prove your value but you probably pick up more friends and advice than if you left early. Personally I think it gives you a competative edge too. You get more time and more hands on at the stages so when you're shooting them you have more of a feel for it.


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Computer Nerd makes a virus but I have ???
Graduating in June with a BA in Computer Forensics and Network Security. I have a FT job that has gotten me by for the last 3.5 yrs and do tech support.
Anyways I work with a total of 5 people and two of them are computer nerds. You know the type, talk about the fastest processors or new video cards, new laptop out with 3D capability.
Anyways one of them today came and spoke to me about a "virus" he and his friend made a few yrs ago. It's funny when I talk about network Security stuff in detail he has the "deer in the headlights look". Anyways he says that he made a virus that when the computer boots the virus literally shuts the power supply off.
I just nod my head and say "ah that's cool dude" because I don't believe him that he has the know how to make a virus except maybe an STD...LOL.
Anyways my question is: Can you make a virus that would do this, shutting the P/S off when the computer boots.
My first assumption is it's possible I suppose. But I doubt this guy and his track record of making complete BS stories up is pretty high, usually we just laugh at his numerous weird stories.
Any truth?


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Former #Redskins RB Ryan Torain was one of several players to work out for the Giants this week. QB Curtis Painter did as well.
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Former #Redskins RB Ryan Torain was one of several players to work out for the Giants this week. QB Curtis Painter did as well.
The RB I understand...but Curtis Painter?
Torain is the only person we worked out so far that gave me a little bit of excitement.
He showed some serious promise for a short while there. Not sure whatever happened.
Had to wiki to refresh my memory. I have to admit, I'm a little bit more confused then I was before. This has to mean the kid is a FA for off field / attitude problems, right? I can't see any other logical reason that no one wants him
On September 4, 2010, Torain was released by the Redskins, [4] but was re-signed to the practice squad on September 24, 2010, and was elevated to the 53-man team roster as Brandon Banks was released. In his first game back he had 7 carries for 46 yards with a 6.6 yard average. Ryan was designated to replace Clinton Portis as the principal running back. Portis suffered a groin pull during the Redskins' Week 4 victory at Philadelphia.[5] After a 70-yard, 1-touchdown performance against the Eagles, Torain served as the Redskins' primary running back for the next five weeks. He had a 100-yard game and two touchdowns against the Indianapolis Colts, then a career-high 125 yards against the Chicago Bears. Torain suffered a hamstring injury the next week in a game against the Detroit Lions. He returned after his injury and rushed for 172 yards in a loss to the Tampa Bay Buccanneers. He was waived on December 27, 2011


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I don't know where some of u been finding ur info on Greene, but i reccomend watching him urself, as the guy is as talented a defensive player as there is in this draft.. He litteraly was RUTGERS football, and just dominated in every aspect u can, pass rushing, forcing fumbles, defending the pass and just being a animal against the run... Either way, heres a scouting report from Walterfootball whos seen a ton of em..
2013 NFL Draft Scouting Report: Khaseem Greene
Khaseem Greene, 6-0/236
Outside Linebacker
Khaseem Greene Scouting Report
By Charlie Campbell
Very fast
Extremely reliable tackler
Uses good tackling technique to wrap up ball-carriers
Read-and-react skills
Fabulous run-defender
Physical player
Regularly generates splash plays
Produces good down-and-distance situations
Quality blitzer
Three-down linebacker
Will have to work on taking on and shedding blocks
Only a 4-3 player
Only an outside linebacker
Summary: The Rutgers team lived off of Greene in 2012. The Scarlet Knights didn't have a high-powered offense and were led by their stop unit. Greene and cornerback Logan Ryan had tremendous seasons to carry the defense.
It was impossible to not notice Greene when watching Rutgers. He was all over the field and constantly around the ball. Greene was superb as a run-stuffer. He also attacked the line of scrimmage and produced big plays in the backfield. Greene made his presence felt in pass defense both as a blitzer and by dropping into coverage. He totaled 136 tackles, six sacks, six forced fumbles, five passes batted, two interceptions and 12 tackles for a loss this year.
Greene played safety his first two collegiate seasons before moving to outside linebacker as a junior. The move payed off for Rutgers as he used his speed to fly around the field and make tackles. Greene led the team with 141 tackles, 14.5 tackles for a loss, 3.5 sacks and two forced fumbles in 2011. He broke his ankle against Iowa State in the 2012 Pinstripe Bowl. Greene had 77 tackles and two interceptions as a sophomore.
Surprisingly, Greene didn't really stand out at the 2013 Senior Bowl, but he has plenty of good game tape to win over NFL talent evaluators. Greene should develop into a starting Will (weakside) linebacker in a NFL 4-3 defense. He would fit an attacking scheme or a Tampa 2 defense. Greene's speed and athleticism should let him be a three-down linebacker in the NFL.
Greene should grade out as a second-round pick and looks extremely likely to go in the second or third round.
136tackles 6sacks, 6forced fumbles, 5pass batted, 2INT, 12TFL in 2012..
141tackles, 14.5TFL, 3.5sacks, 2FF in 2011...
That is flat out beasting in every sense of the word!
Not interested.
Kinda reminds me of Jarvis Jones, with his athleticism, and appearance. Looked pretty good, but didn't show up at the senior bowl...Put up your bass speakers, the song for Greene's highlights is bangin' lol
although I want us to grab arthur jones if available, I think greene would be a handsome addition to our LB core. he plays with fire and aggression and appears to have good instincts as well. and oh yeah,,,that theme song was tight, thie beat anyway,,,,I gotta go dig up my gold and jewels goblet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FP_Ze728sw I thought it was clever, for the record.


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While we're at it, another thing that's wrong with this shiny, new TD Ameritrade Park — the screen behind home plate.
It's a dinky little thing. You barely notice it's there.
Rosenblatt had this massive thing that looked like it had been constructed to hold up a medieval cathedral.
Mainly, it was in two parts, separated by an industrial-gauge slab of cable running horizontal across the length of it. The first part ran straight up to the cable, from where the second section slanted back and upwards until it attached to the overhang. Balls would roll up, roll back down and hit the bump in the cable, from where they might bounce anywhere.
Now they hit the screen and fall straight back on the field ... and the most polite fans in the world are denied the age-old CWS tradition of booing the fresh-scrubbed teenage girls who serve as ball girls when they couldn't catch one of the odd bounces off the infamous bump.


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We cannot just focus on distillate. Gasoline will likely be our next major concern.
Gasoline stock levels have fallen well below the typical band for this time of year, primarily for the same reason distillate stocks fell to low levels -- namely relatively low production due to low margins. At the end of January, total gasoline inventories were almost 13 million barrels (6%) below the low end of the normal band.
While gasoline stocks are generally not as important a supply source to the gasoline market this time of year as are distillate stocks to the distillate market, gasoline stocks still are needed. Gasoline stocks are usually used to help meet gasoline demand during February and March as refiners go through maintenance and turnarounds, but we do not have the volumes in place now to cover the usual draw.
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Members of the Hope College women's golf team escaped serious injury when their van was involved in an accident in Allegan County on Saturday morning (Oct. 14, 2006)
The team was on its way to the championship tournament of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) at the Bedford Valley Country Club near Battle Creek.
The accident occurred at approximately 11 a.m. on M-89 east of Plainwell in AlleganCounty. Apparently a car crossed in front of the van at an intersection. The van was being driven by Coach Eva Dean Folkert. The accident is being investigated by the Allegan County Sheriff Department.
Coach Folkert and one of the six players in the van suffered minor injuries. They were released after receiving treatment at the PippCommunityHospital in Plainwell.
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Vinny Pestano in to pitch, and starts with Frazier flying out to left
Vinny Pestano in to pitch, and starts with Frazier flying out to left
Reds go down 1-2-3. 5-4, mid 3rd
Partch stays in and gets Swisher to ground to 1st on the 1st pitch. Clay Hensley warming up
Brantley doubles off the wall in left, then moves to 3rd on a balk
Votto whiffs on fielding a Santana grounder, and we're all tied at 5 now.
Reynolds flies out to right, then Chisenhall flies over the right field wall. Now 7-5 CLE, Hensley coming in now to pitch.
Phillips snares an attempted Stubbs liner to end the inning. Joe Martinez in to pitch the 4th for Cleveland.
BOOM! Miguel Olivo with the first Reds homer of the year! 7-6 Cleveland.
Wholesale changes for the Indians, and for the life of me I don't know who any of these people are. But Choo just grounded out to whoever is standing at SS.
Phillips rips a shot down the left field line, but Generic 3B snags it and throws him out.
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Votto flies out to left to end the inning. 7-6, mid 4th
Bottom of the 4th starts with a fly out to Heisey, who's now in center. Lots of changes for the Reds now, too.
Hensley allows just one hit that inning. Gameday finally updated who's in:
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I'm a 2nd year beek with currently 3 hives, double deeps with medium supers each. 2 new packages this year and one survivor hive from last year. Strong population and capped brood larvae in each which I am pleased with but had alot of rain this year and in a dearth the past 2 weeks but pollen is starting to be brought in with golden rod and aster blooming. Then comes Wed. 08-21-13 with a swarm approx: 2lb which I witnessed from the survivor hive which landed in my orchard and was able to catch in a queen catcher(marked queen) and placed in a nuc box. Friday 08-23-13 I saw the survivor hive swarm again and landed in my apple orchard again, large swarm of probably 8lbs. and didn't locate the queen but they all marched into the super which is packed. I'm in western Pennsylvania and is late in the year and am thinking of a paper combine for these two and let the queens decide who wins, don't want 3 weak hives. Looking for suggestions...Thanks
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