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Original post made by Ralph N. Shirlet, another community, on Feb 3, 2010
Would you please explain Web Link.
What is the Stars and Stripes Club and what are the club's current activities? Why would neighborhoods throughout Contra Costa County District III refer to it as "The Scars and Stripes Club?"
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a resident of another community
on Feb 9, 2010 at 8:39 am
Dear Dolores,
Subscriber news service research editors have provided the following discovery related to The Stars and Stripes Club and other county elected officials' office holder account fund raising activities. The information displays the legitimate concern of district III community and neighborhood groups for the exceptional influence of such contributors on the policies, projects, positions and actions of our district III supervisor and how such funds are used for political actions specific to supporters' interests:
Under current county codes and state regulation, individuals, "small contributor committees," and political parties can make political contributions to candidates for county office and county elected officials. Such contributions are subject to a variety of dollar amounts and other limitations. These contributions are made directly to the candidates, who are then responsible for reporting information to the county. There is no current public disclosure requirement that makes this information available for public review through the Internet. Upon the resignation or death of an elected official or the defeat of a candidate, there are a number of restrictions on the use of contribution funds. Most importantly, upon resignation or defeat, the contributed funds would become the property of the candidate or office holder.
Under state consideration for county and municipal code requirements, political contributions to office holders could only be made by (1) individual California residents eligible to vote and (2) political parties. The concern is the exceptional influence of corporations, unions, other councils and associations contributions or individual contributions made by their officers and members. The measure would require county or municipal election authorities to record information on all political contributions on the Internet and in public records.
In review of www.marynejedlypiepho.com, The Stars and Stripes Club Memberships are solicited without website disclosure of member names and contributions:
Platinum/Corporate Membership - $1,000 per year
Gold Membership - $500 per year
Silver Membership - $250 per year
Individual Membership - $100 per year
This fund raising has been >$200,000 in recent years which makes newsworthy such uses of funds and how The Stars and Stripes Club influences political decisions in the regional corridor, Walnut Creek and south.
Dolores, this is a newsworthy story that deserves EMC staff discovery at Contra Costa County.
Hal Bailey
Member, CDSI Research Fellowship
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Original post made on Apr 10, 2008
Scherer III is the son of Ernie Scherer Jr. and Charlene Abendroth, whose brutally beaten bodies were found in their Castlewood Drive home March 14.
Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, April 10, 2008, 11:14 AM
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a resident of San Ramon
on Apr 10, 2008 at 11:52 am
Does anyone know whether the son attended the funeral services for his parents on March 22? When was the last time anyone has heard from him?
a resident of another community
on Apr 10, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Yes, the son did attend the service.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Apr 11, 2008 at 11:41 am
I think this goes along with what a lot of people have been feeling - that is was not a random act. Whether the son is involved or not is I guess an open question. Or is it? Someone told me they saw an article in a paper that described issues with the son...they didn't say anything further however.
I did think it was strange that a couple so close to retirement age had taken out a $500,000 line of credit on a home they bought only two years prior. This thing makes me think they needed cash relatively quickly and that was a way to get it. So under what circumstances does someone need to generate that amount of money really quickly and then a short time later they are found brutally murdered? weird.
a resident of Heritage Valley
on Apr 27, 2008 at 7:55 am
Things have been quiet recently. What is the latest on this story?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 27, 2008 at 2:38 pm
I don't think there has been any commentary on this story since June when the police announced that the son was a "person of interest". I don't think the police have ever released the official cause of death. That seems strange. Why would that be such a big deal?
Has anyone heard anything else since then?
a resident of another community
on Sep 18, 2008 at 9:29 am
I live on the block where the son, daughter in law and grandchild lived. The house has been vacated for quite awhile now. Does anyone know whats going on with this case? Is the son guilty? Has anyone been charged with the murder of his parents? I never met him but the wife, Robyn was very nice. It is such a shame, and oh so sad.
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Urine Crystals (cystine or urate urolithiasis)
So I posted about our cat peeing in the bathtub, well it keeps happening. And the other week he peed in the corner of our LIVING ROOM, and then he did it again on Sunday while we had company over. (The thing is, he started the peeing in the tub thing BEFORE he ever got fixed.)
My uncle and aunt were over, and they told me that it could be either these crystals OR the fact that we have 2 cats sharing 1 litter box. They've had tons of cats over the years, one of their males went through the urinary crystals 3 or 4 times. Their current vet told them that dry food can cause these crystals. The vet said to only feed them wet food and change the water several times a day.
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ABRUTAL killer who battered his neighbour to death with a paving stone is running a Bebo website from his prison cell to make threats and boast about his life behind bars.
John Graham, who was jailed three years ago, is serving a life sentence for the murder of joiner Thomas Hart, with a minimum term of 15 years before he can apply for parole. But the 24-year-old is using a smuggled mobile phone to post photographs of himself and fellow inmates inside Saughton Prison on the social networking site.
Posing for pictures inside his cell, Graham boasts on his web pages that himself and fellow youth gang members from the Pilton area are "on tour at Her Majesty's hotels".
Prison bosses have confirmed they are investigating the matter, which came to light after Graham allegedly used his Bebo site and a mobile phone to make threats against an Edinburgh mum.
The 18-year-old victim said she was left "terrified" after Graham repeatedly called her phone and sent messages saying she would be "raped and killed".
Graham's use of his Bebo page is the latest in a number of similar incidents and follows the case of a prisoner at Addiewell apparently discovered using a smuggled mobile phone to browse his Bebo site.
The Evening News can also today reveal that Graham's younger brother, who was jailed for life last October for fatally stabbing 31-year-old Mark Johnston in Haddington Place, has his own Bebo site. Photographs believed to show Philip Graham, 22, inside his prison cell are posted on his pages.
The news today sparked calls from Tory justice spokesman Bill Aitken for both a "full inquiry" to be carried out by jail chiefs, and a police investigation to determine whether John Graham can be prosecuted.
His Bebo site contains a string of vicious rants including threats against the "grassing *******" whom Graham claims will "suffer ten times more than I did" when he is finally released.
The site also features volleys of sectarian and racist abuse.
The killer has 206 "friends" on his page, and uses the site to keep in contact with family members and pals, including other north Edinburgh criminals serving their own jail terms. It is not clear whether Graham is using an illegal phone to directly update his site, or texting friends on the outside to make the posts for him.
A Scottish Prison Service (SPS) spokeswoman said it was "looking into" John Graham's alleged use of mobile phones and the internet while in jail. Both are outlawed for all inmates.
Graham, formerly of West Pilton, was jailed in April 2007 after being found guilty of the murder of Mr Hart, 51, almost exactly a year before. He smashed a 3.7 kilo stone over the head of Mr Hart outside his front door in West Pilton Lea in a dispute over 500.
A massive fracture split Mr Hart's skull from one eye socket round the back of his head almost to the other socket. His nose, cheekbones and jaw were all shattered after suffering several blows. Minutes later, witnesses saw the drunk 21-year-old laughing and shouting, "Ha ha, Tam's dead".
Graham is also serving a five-year sentence for a machete assault which left his 21-year-old victim scarred for life.
He allegedly made calls from prison to an Edinburgh teenager, the mother of a five-month-old daughter, as her brother is now dating the killer's ex- girlfriend. The teenager, who asked not to be named, said: "I knew John Graham before he was jailed because we lived in the same area. The calls started about two weeks ago. He's threatened to rape and kill me, my mum, and my daughter. He's said he'll have someone kill me so I've been left really terrified. He's inside for murder so I don't know what he's capable of.
"I can't believe it's so easy for him to do this while in prison. I hope they do something about it and take the phone off him."
Tory justice spokesman Bill Aitken said: "In soft-touch Scotland, all things are possible whilst in jail. Firstly, this man should not have a phone in prison, as that is forbidden, and secondly he should not be able to make calls of this type. A full inquiry should be carried out and, if appropriate, charges brought against this individual in light of the alleged threatening nature of these calls."
On his Bebo site, Graham calls himself the "ginger monkey" and tells those he blames for crossing him on the outside that they have "invited the devil into ur lifes". A number of photos are posted, including shots of Graham and other inmates each wearing prison issue clothes embossed with "SPS".
The site includes references to his affiliation with the city youth gang, Young Pilton Derry, while he writes that "last year has been the hardest year of my life" and "I hate all my past".
Graham also lists his favourite films as gangster movies Carlito's Way and Once Upon a Time in America, as well as In The Name of the Father about the Guildford four. When the Evening News visited his internet site yesterday, Graham had last been active updating his pages just 17 minutes before.
A Scottish Government spokesman said: "We have already made possession of a mobile phone or SIM card in prison an offence. And we are currently creating a new offence of using a mobile phone in prison with a tougher penalty of up to two years in prison."
Figures released to the Evening News in February showed 637 phones were recovered inside Saughton Prison between January 2008 and January this year. A total of 148 phones were found in the Addiewell jail over the same period.
SOCIAL networking sites have been used by both inmates at Lothian prisons and city youth gangs to keep in contact with friends and enemies alike.
Addiewell Prison in West Lothian, which is run by private firm Kalyx, has also been hit by controversy over the alleged use of Bebo websites by one of its inmates.
Last week, it was reported that Graham Murray, 25, from Dedridge, who was believed to have been jailed for assault to severe injury in November 2008, has been talking to his friends using the site for the past month after getting his hands on a smuggled mobile phone. A Kalyx spokeswoman today confirmed that the investigation into the allegations against Murray was "ongoing".
City gangs commonly pre-arrange their fights via their Bebo websites, with the final arrangements made by mobile phone to avoid alerting the police, who monitor the sites.
Edinburgh Young Team, the Young Leith Team, Young Lochend Shamrock, Young Mental Drylaw, and Young Niddrie Terrors are among the gangs which have made use of Bebo.


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Sorry to hear about this guys. Still, you made the right call and are where you should be. Progress sounds good though, so hopefully only a brief interlude. Also brings about the chance of a beer doesn't it??
Back in the UK but things are looking up
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Mary is now on a ward and while we are not fully out of the woods yet; Mary is still very vulnerable; there may yet be side effects; and even a speedy recovery will take some considerable time, the fact that Mary is now making derisory and comical remarks about the other patients on the ward and the general state of nursing care, is only good news as far as we are concerned.
Really hoping to avoid London and get back on with the trip but maybe next week. Frankly I hope to be packing next week and on the way.
Gosh, thats a difficult start, hope all is improving. Julie and I were talking about you today in the chilly school playground, thinking you'd be basking in the sun! I hope you plans run smoothly from here and Mary is on the mend x


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I think the whole "Rogues/stealthy" people have a higher chance of "Critical Hits" because they spent a vast amount of time training to seek out their enemies weak spots. Where the average fighter types devotes their time to training to overwhelm their opponents by brute force. Think about it, if the cliche fighter type trained half as much as the cliche stealthy did in finding ones sweet spot, they would be racking in the critical hits too. The part about the MP, I think that's just plain stupidity/ignorance.
um, throwing fireballs and resurrecting people are pretty artificial too... I don't have any problem with critical hit idea or its history.
*blink*... *mumble*... Gonna read it again :S
Well, it does make sense to some degree, the association between stealth and criticals/extra damage. I think what might be throwing you off some is your logic for criticals = vital hits to balance the HP system of RPG's. I would say that's inherently not possible within the confines of HP and how it works.To give some insight into how I've seen the whole critical hit issue explained, inasmuch as it pertains to physical damage, look at D&D as you mentioned. The Rogue class therein has sneak attacks, which do extra damage, similar to Ambush or Backstab in WoW currently. The idea isn't so much that you have some sort of esoteric and non-specific training as a stealth class so much as that because you are stealthed and your enemy is not aware of you, you have the time to plan out and take the time to make the perfect strike.
Thieves in D&D did not originally have critical hits; D&D didn't have critical hits. They did, however, have the ability to stab enemies in the back for extra damage. In later editions, this was later abstracted to be "sneak attack" damage, when they had the advantage over their opponent.
Back when I started playing MUDs years ago, there were three primary sneaky classes, the rogue, thief, and assassin. Rogue's were harmless mischief makers, thieves lived up to their name and assassins were the ones with the critical hits. So, when I started playing WoW, also years ago, the rogue class and crits made sense to me. Rogues are the combination of what I already knew. But to simpilify: assassin=rogue=thief=ninja=Crit!(You die!)
Fair 'nuff
Combat is pretty potent if play right...KS + a few crit here and there could take out a person just as fast...
As has been said, I would guess that any thief/rogue/assassin-type characters (who generally don't wear heavy armor and thus can't afford to have a plate-wearing warrior's recklessness) who intended to fight would have to know how to strike their enemies in their most vulnerable spots - a 'critical hit', essentially.I think the bigger issue pertaining to this is, as you mentioned, the idea of 'hit points'. It's something I've noticed greatly in WoW - while it makes sense that more experience in battle would boost one's survivability in combat, why are instance elites so much more difficult to bring down than a normal enemy of the same race, combat type and level? Is it some kind of 'elite enchantment' granted by an instance's endboss or something?Or for that matter, why would the 'Scourge' enemies in the Undead starting area be so much weaker than the Plaguelands variety (which is a mere one zone away)? Why is Gnomeregan still full of troggs and leper gnomes when even a lv. 80 clothie could clean out the place single-handedly? How can a faction leader character or a raid boss have literally thousands of times more HP than any single character and survive being attacked by multiple attackers using the most powerful weapons and magic available at the same time, even when they just look like a typical human or what-have-you?All of that depends heavily on the hit point system, and I think that deserves its own discussion.
Secret of Mana!That's all I really have to say for this post. It was my first RPG I ever played as a kid, and it's still one of my favorites.
It's supposed to be World of Crycraft! See sig below!Nah, I'm just kidding. I actually enjoyed this blog mostly because it brought back a lot of nostalgia regarding RPGs I used to play or play less frequently...
I'm your dream, make you realI'm your eyes when you must stealI'm your pain when you can't feelSad but true I'm your dream, mind astrayI'm your eyes while you're awayI'm your pain while you repayYou know it's sad but true
Your link at the bottom goes to: http://www.wowhead.com/htparnell.blogspot.comWait to mess up the tag :P
Wall of text critical hits Twinz for 9277523 damage.Twinz dies.
So anyone dont have ever seen WL controller? I think that pic is just copy of it... rogue RACISZ!
I want the controler, better than mashing 1 on my keyboard all the time :)
Well, I think it's important to note that in D&D 3.0 (and 3.5, I don't know very much about ver. 4), Rogues have sneak attack, but they DON'T have any additional chance to critically hit. You only gain that with certain weapons (weapons with a 19-20 or 18-20 threat range), certain feats, certain weapon enchants, and the very rare prestige class feature.I suppose I didn't make one of my original points clear enough. D&D doesn't have this association between Rogues and critical hits. Rogues have sneak attack damage, but as yawgmoth pointed out, THAT damage isn't multiplied on a critical hit. If anybody, Fighters (who get access to the most feats) are the most likely to have an increased critical chance, but if a critical hit is supposed to represent your chance of striking an internal organ, and you can take a feat to make that more likely, it's not really an entirely random chance any more. But if it's not random chance, how is that different from what the rogue is doing?There's something fishy going on here...
Wait, are you QQing about ROGUES? sup with the Palas and DKs?


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Monday night featured a team on the rise, the Colorado Avalanche, against the NHL's most explosive squad, the Pittsburgh Penguins. Both entered the contest with 7-1-0 records with the Avs 4-0-0 on the road and the Pens 5-0-0 at home. More than that, the game marked the first meeting between Pittsburgh superstar Sidney Crosby and Colorado's young phenom Nathan MacKinnon, friends from different generations but the same hometown (Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia). In one of the marquee contests of the season's first month, vetern netminder Jean-Sébastien Giguère made 34 saves to keep Crosby off the scoreboard as the Avs nipped the Pens, 1-0.
Here are five takeaways from the game:
1. Patrick Roy's confidence in Jean-Sébastien Giguère is growing: Giguère was in goal when the Avs knocked off the Sabres in Buffalo two nights earlier. Though he had only played two games so far and is thought of as a backup to Semyon Varlamov, Roy likes Giguère and gave him consecutive starts. He has now stopped 101 of the 103 shots he has faced. At 36, Giguère has earned his stripes through the years. He had a losing record in six of his first seven NHL seasons before winning the Conn Smythe Trophy and then the Stanley Cup in separate campaigns with Anaheim. Giguère made a superb stop with seven minutes left in the third period when the Penguins attacked on a two-on-one. As Crosby led Chris Kunitz with the feather pass into the slot, Giguère anticipated the play and stacked his pads to cut the five hole and then snared a snap shot to turn back Kunitz, a point-plus-per-game man (62 in 56 games) including last season and this one. "You have to be in the zone when you play here," Giguère said. "Luckily for me I was lucky tonight." With Giguère in top form, Colorado has two good goaltenders to choose from during the season.
2. The Avalanche doesn't make life easy on itself: It's a sign of a young team. Colorado made several mental mistakes throughout the game, taking seven penalties and occasionally losing coverage in its defensive end. MacKinnon saw just 2:45 of ice time in the first period, largely because he twice let opposing forwards get away from him in his own zone. With the Avs often shorthanded early, coach Patrick Roy wasn't about to put him on the ice. Another gaffe occurred in the final minute of the second period when the Avs were called for too many men on the ice while on a power play, and they nearly had two too many. And less than four minutes into third period, Avs defenseman Erik Johnson had a chance to make a play instead of taking a penalty, but he was lucky to get away with just a boarding minor after drilling Penguins winger Chris Conner into the boards.
3. Nathan MacKinnon is human, but the Avs are more than their young star: So what if MacKinnon's shot 13:38 into the first period was Colorado's first of the game? The Avs blocked 22, making life easier on their goaltender. Defenseman Jan Hejda led the way with six blocks, but 12 Avs had at least one. (The Penguins blocked 11 as a team). After Pittsburgh failed to score on five straight power play opportunities through the first 25 minutes, Colorado answered on its next scoring chance -- doesn't it always work that way? -- when Gabriel Landeskog jumped out of the box where he was serving a minor penalty for hooking. Just eight seconds after his penalty ended, Landeskog sped down the right side and beat Marc-Andre Fleury under the Penguin goalie's glove. "We figured killing those penalties were going to give us some momentum," Roy said. MacKinnon failed to record a point and managed just two shots in 10:54 of playing time. When speaking about the Avs' phenom before the game, Crosby insisted, "He's going to get his (points) before you know it." How good could the Avalanche be when that happens?
4. Sidney Crosby is human, too: In four partial seasons -- two hampered by injury, one shortened by a lockout and one less than a month old -- Crosby has combined for some absurd stats: He entered Monday's contest with four straight multiple-point outings and totals of 62 goals, 114 assists and 176 points in 107 games. Crosby managed five shots during Monday's first period in which the Pens had four power plays. For the game, their captain amassed a season-high seven shots, but failed to record a point for the first time this season. Fellow gunner Evgeni Malkin led all skaters with eight shots on the night. Their combined total of 15 was one more than the Avalanche had as a team. Colorado also picked up on Pittsburgh's tendency to set up one-timers from the right side of the ice, and re-adjusted their penalty kill to make sure that they gave Giguère a chance to see those shots. Pittsburgh's power play can be deadly, but in a 1-2-2 configuration, it can also be predictable at times.
5. There is something in the water in Cole Harbour: Both Crosby and MacKinnon hail from the same town in Nova Scotia (pop. 25,000), three miles Southeast of Dartmouth, which is linked by the continent's oldest saltwater ferry boat to Halifax, which is Canada' No. 13 city. In other words, it isn't the size; it must be the water, especially since Cole Harbour is right at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. Crosby trained with MacKinnon periodically during the off-season, and both players acknowledge that they have formed a friendship away from the ice. Two days after the 2013 draft, they were running sand dunes in the Canadian Maritimes. "It's going to be cool," MacKinnon said before the game. "He's the best player in the world." It wasn't too long ago when Crosby was being compared to other great players in the game, but perhaps now that a new generation of stars is emulating him, The Kid may need a new moniker. "It means I'm getting old," Crosby says.


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With a stay at Hendon Hall in London (Hendon), you'll be within the vicinity of Wembley Stadium and London Zoo. This 4-star hotel is within the vicinity of Wembley Arena and Lord's Cricket Ground.
Make yourself at home in one of the 57 individually decorated guestrooms, featuring DVD players and LCD televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include safes and desks, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Take in the views from a terrace and a garden and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access. Additional features at this hotel include concierge services and complimentary use of a nearby fitness facility.
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Auckland Council is paying almost $2 million a month to outsource planning work to private consultants - even during a slow period of construction, The Aucklander reveals today.
The community newspaper sought information on the amounts consultants had billed the council since it opened on November 1.
The council was unable to provide detailed information and asked The Aucklander for almost $3000 to pay for a person to spend a week compiling an itemised account of the work it has contracted out.
The paper has learned:
* The value of contracts let until March 31 in the planning department is $8.75 million - an average of $1.75 million a month.
* Other departments letting out significant contracts are regulatory ($3.02 million) and human resources ($442,000).
Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse is fuming about the cost of outside consultants. "I do think we need to hold [Local Government Minister] Rodney Hide and the Auckland Transition Agency to account for the rather large costs we are having to bear. We're over 100 planners short."
Previous councils across Auckland had about 10,000 staff which the Auckland Transition Agency attempted to reduce to about 8500 positions.
"We are sitting at around 7800-ish so there is still a shortfall of staff," Ms Hulse says.
She says the council is being criticised for a 4.9 per cent increase in rates while having to grapple with transition costs.
"People ... have forgotten that we've been saddled with all these costs. We're in here just trying to make this damn thing work."
In March the set-up costs for the Super City were estimated at $200 million. Ms Hulse said she was criticised for claiming the cost would be "upwards of $200 million".
"Rodney Hide has been saying $90 million but it's going to be a lot more than that. We need to sheet this home to the ATA and Rodney Hide."
Despite the $8.7 million injection of work from consultants, Auckland Master Builders Association president Darrell Trigg says builders report that little progress has been made in getting planning permits from the council.
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It's Not Your Founding Fathers' First Amendment
Original post made by Tom Cushing, Danville, on Jul 27, 2011
I have always had profound respect for the First Amendment's genius, considering it the most fundamental expression of America's respect for individual freedom. It guards us against every government's worst instinct – to entrench itself by squelching dissent. I fear its role in that regard is in jeopardy – not by traditional censorship, but by drowning.
My treasured bulwark against tyranny has recently been turned on its head to facilitate attempts by private interests to capture the government and hold it by the sheer volume and "harmony" of their voices. While the Supreme Court's recent Citizens United decision consummated the deal, the erosion process began in a judicial footnote over a century ago, and was enabled by another Supreme Court decision in the 1970s.
That footnote appeared in an 1886 railroad case, and conferred "personhood" status on corporations, which were not yet the dominant economic institutions they are today. Thus they could enjoy Constitutional protections originally accorded to living, bleeding Americans. Recognizing the corrupting influence of money in politics, later legislation forbade corporate political contributions, at least in federal elections.
Fast forward to 1976, when the Supremes, in a case challenging the Constitutionality of campaign finance reform legislation, equated donations-to-candidates with the expression of a political opinion. Thus, the First Amendment's protections of individual rights now come into play to constrain government power to limit those "expressions." The yet-more-conservative Roberts Court then recently issued the awful Citizens United decision, largely removing the government's power to limit contributions. That decision opened the floodgates that previously regulated the flow of corporate money to candidates for policy-making positions in government -- governments whose job it is, in part, to regulate those corporations (think: Love Canal, Enron/Madoff/credit default swaps, thalidomide). The inmates have captured the asylum.
So, while "the law, in its majestic equality" also allows the poor and disadvantaged to contribute as they may, whose views, do you suppose, will be heard in the halls of government? It has never been so good to be "in" with the In-crowd – a crowd with nearly unlimited resources, focused narrowly on policies that maximize profits. Only coincidentally do those interests also serve the notion of a broader public interest.
Some see hope in the democratization (small D) of expression by the web on which you're reading this. Others point to the historic inability of the super-rich to get themselves elected (e.g., Forbes, Trump, Whitman, of late). I'm less sanguine, especially when I consider how far to the right the country has already moved in my lifetime, and as I watch purported "liberals" (or dreaded "socialists" in the absurd hyperbole of the day) toady-up to the lords of high finance who will underwrite their next campaigns.
The First Amendment can no longer ensure "a free marketplace of ideas" when those ideas are for sale to the highest, loudest bidder. As Ben Franklin said, We have "a republic – if you can keep it." Tragically, America has largely lost the powerful ally of the First Amendment in our attempts to do so.
a resident of Danville
on Jul 28, 2011 at 9:33 am
Interesting quote: "... how far to the right the country has already moved in my lifetime."
Could you give some examples please? Something along the lines of how it would be impossible for the "right-wing American society" to ever elect a quasi-socialist as President?
Other examples would be most helpful in understanding your statement.
a resident of Danville
on Jul 28, 2011 at 1:20 pm
This piece is full of so many inaccuracies, why didn't the Danville Express editor do some fact checking before publishing it?
First of all, the Citizens United case did NOT involve the federal ban on corporate campaign contributions, as you assert. What it was about was, during the 2008 Democratic primaries, some nutjobs wanted to broadcast, "Hillary: The Movie," and a federal court said that violated the McCain–Feingold campaign law. They were mad about it, because the courts had no problem allowing Michael Moore's, "Fahrenheit 9/11," to be shown during the 2004 presidential campaign, (a damn good anti-war movie, I might add, that shows what an idiot Bush is. Bush won the election anyway, unfortunately, thanks to all you ignorant Bush supporters).
The court said it's a violation of the 1st Amendment for Congress to prevent any organization (whether it be a corporation, labor union, non-profit org., or whatever) from broadcasting political commercials.
You call the Citizens United case an "awful" opinion by the "yet-more-conservative Roberts Court." Let me get this straight, the Supreme Court EXPANDED the application of the 1st Amendment, extending free speech rights to any organization. How is an expansion of free speech a limitation on the "marketplace of ideas?"
Justice Kennedy, wrote: "If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech."
There are other ways to fix our broken electoral system besides tampering with the First Amendment.
My lunch hour is over, so I can't continue. But I hope the Danville Express will work harder to fact check these types of articles.
a resident of Danville
on Jul 28, 2011 at 2:31 pm
@ Rick: turnabout is fair play.
Here are a few examples off the top of my head, from my early and later life – I don't agree that all the early stuff is perfect or the later stuff bad, but it does demonstrate dramatic changes in the political tenor of the respective times:
Legislation: Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Great Society Programs
Court: Brown v Bd of Ed, Griswold v CT (right to privacy), Roe v Wade, Pentagon Papers, Nixon Tapes case, Von's Grocery, Miranda/Escobido/Gideon
Exec Branch: formation of EPA, EEOC, OSHA, etc. Peace Corps.
Tax rates: 90% highest marginal tax rate on earned income
Legislation: rollbacks on social programs for elderly, disabled, children, restrictions on abortion, Prop 8, deficit obsession, remarkable level of military spending.
Court: Ledbetter case, WalMart class action case, Citizens United, Kelso (eminent domain), Gore case
Exec Branch: stagnation and lack of attention in agencies like EPA and SEC: to securities fraud, climate change, Endangered Species Act, opposition to state-level initiatives on the environment, "faith-based" initiatives blur church/state boundaries.
Tax rates: Bush tax cuts --> 35% top marginal rate
Let the quibbling begin.
And I gotta say: Obama the "quasi-socialist" is laughably ridiculous. He is a corporatist and a centrist, and much more of a politician than a reformer. That's why The Left is so dismally disappointed with him.
It's also why I think he'll probably be re-elected. I think he'll capture the Great Center of the electorate, only because The Right is likely to repeat their mistake of 1964 and nominate a candidate who is philosophically pure -- and bat-dropping crazy. The Moderates are already holding their noses when they contemplate the direction of the GOP. I think they'll cross over, but obviously it's early, and I'm not taking bets.
a resident of Danville
on Jul 28, 2011 at 2:55 pm
spc: C-U is important not for its narrow procedural specifics, but for its gross and obvious financial impact on campaign finance law. I stand by what I stated above: it opened the floodgates to corporate money, and mis-used the First Amendment to eviscerate federal campaign finance reform law.
Here's what a few others have had to say about it:
Constitutional Scholar Lawrence Tribe (Hah-vud): [it] marks a major upheaval in First Amendment law and signals the end of whatever legitimate claim could otherwise have been made by the Roberts Court to an incremental and minimalist approach to constitutional adjudication, to a modest view of the judicial role vis-à-vis the political branches, or to a genuine concern with adherence to precedent."
"Talking about a business corporation as merely another way that individuals might choose to organize their association with one another to pursue their common expressive aims is worse than unrealistic; it obscures the very real injustice and distortion entailed in the phenomenon of some people using other people's money to support candidates they have made no decision to support, or to oppose candidates they have made no decision to oppose."
McCain: "there's going to be, over time, a backlash ... when you see the amounts of union and corporate money that's going to go into political campaigns."
Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: "In invalidating some of the existing checks on campaign spending, the majority in Citizens United has signaled that the problem of campaign contributions in judicial elections might get considerably worse and quite soon."
Obama (no slouch on the Constitution, either): [it] "gives the special interests and their lobbyists even more power in Washington — while undermining the influence of average Americans who make small contributions to support their preferred candidates."
"...this ruling strikes at our democracy itself....I can't think of anything more devastating to the public interest."
And in the State of the Union address: "Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities."
Also from the wikipedia article on the decision:
"The New York Times stated in an editorial, "The Supreme Court has handed lobbyists a new weapon. A lobbyist can now tell any elected official: if you vote wrong, my company, labor union or interest group will spend unlimited sums explicitly advertising against your re-election."
"Jonathan Alter called it the "most serious threat to American democracy in a generation".
I like the company I'm keeping on this issue.
a resident of Danville
on Jul 28, 2011 at 8:53 pm
I guess T-Cush wants freedom of speech only for the folks who are "more equal than others."
a resident of Danville
on Jul 28, 2011 at 9:36 pm
The First Amendment deals with ensuring free speech for every citizen. A corporation is not a citizen but a legal designation. Every citizen within a corporation is guaranteed the right to free speech, but since a corporation is not a person, its free speech rights are not protected.
a resident of Danville
on Jul 29, 2011 at 8:04 am
I agree with your points about the undue influence that the politically connected have on American politics, including corporations, organizations, unions, religions, non-profits, etc.
I also agree with the quotes you posted from President Obama, Justice O'Connor, NYTs, etc. Citizens United does "hand lobbyists a new weapon," "opens the floodgates for special interests," and "removes existing checks on campaign spending," etc.
I agree that the political system is broken and Citizens United probably makes it worse.
I strongly disagree, however, that the solution to this political mess is to start placing limits on political speech. Find another way to fix the problem.
Freedom of speech, especially political speech, is the cornerstone of the 1st Amendment. We shouldn't allow Congress to diminish that right, even for a "good" cause without thoroughly exhausting other remedies.
Mike's point about "corporations not having rights" is a joke. As the Supreme Court said in the Citizens United opinion, "There is no way to distinguish between media and other corporations, and these restrictions would allow Congress to suppress political speech in newspapers, books, television, and blogs..."
My point to you Tom is, if you want to be taken seriously as a columnist, you should do your homework—YOURSELF.
You obviously have never read the Citizen's United case itself or probably even a summary about the case. You also didn't merely misstate its "narrow procedural specifics" as you claim. You didn't get the facts right. You said, "Citizens United decision, largely remov[ed] the government's power to limit contributions." In fact, Citizens United had nothing to do with contributions but was about whether Congress had the power to limit corporations and other organizations from broadcasting political commercials.
And then, instead of admitting you made a mistake, you tried to hide behind other people's opinions, like some schoolkid saying, "Hey, all these smart people got the right answer, so my answer must be right too." If you make a mistake, admit it and move on. Better yet, get the facts right in the first place.
a resident of Danville
on Jul 29, 2011 at 8:14 am
@ Rick -- the "folks" who are now "more equal than others" are institutions with means, not people.
To be fair, Citizens United also opened the door for unions and non-profits -- although unions are shadows of their former selves as economic powerhouses, and although a few non-profits are huge, as a group they do not approach the economic power of for-profit corporations.
As to what I want -- given the influencing/corrupting power of campaign donations (pols tend to dance with them that brung 'em), I would like to see donations limited to living, breathing, bleeding homo sapiens, and I would like to see limits on totals by individuals, too. There's a certain equality in that, no?
a resident of Danville
on Jul 29, 2011 at 9:41 am
@ Mike: there are some ways it makes sense for a corporation to be treated like a person -- it should be able to own property, sue and be sued, etc. But at the end of the day, they are financial vehicles -- a way to reorganize money and do stuff for private economic benefit. In so doing, they get certain advantage over individuals, like so-called "limited liability" of their owners for the debts of the company. They've been hugely successful economic engines, and hooray for that.
Giving them political rights, however, is a very different thing. They can't vote (yet ;-) ) for instance, but now they can, In Effect, contribute to campaigns for election quite easily. I think that's hazardous to the health of the body politic, given their narrow interests, vast resources and the fact that it's part of the government's job to regulate some of their baser instincts.
A similar thing may be said about unlimited contributions from individuals on either side of the philosophical aisle. Transparency is one answer -- we should get to know where the money comes from, at least. Another is actual limits on any one person's contributions, which I also think is healthy.
Surely no system would be air-tight -- "money is the mother's milk of politics" as Jesse Unruh famously said (I think -- no doubt 'spc' will correct me if I'm miss-attributing), so it's a perpetual game of whack-a-mole -- but I think we're better off if we play it.
a resident of Danville
on Jul 29, 2011 at 10:38 am
Yeh, those mean old capitalistic corporations. They shouldn't have any say in how they are taxed and what silly bureaucratic hoops they have to jump through. Let's get rid of their power! While we're at it, let's prohibit rich folks from donating any money to political campaigns. They are corrupt, too.
Let's just make a law saying that only Labor Unions can make donations to political campaigns. Then we will REALLY see something.
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on Jul 29, 2011 at 11:19 am
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hey Ricky, (huff huff), hey Ricky
Hey Ricky!
You've been around all night and that's a little long,
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a resident of Danville
on Jul 29, 2011 at 4:17 pm
@spc: it was what you guys call harmless error, if any error at all -- I don't intend to reread the case to debate with you over that point when you've already acknowledged that you agree that there's a problem, and C-U "probably makes it worse." But if I ever write for the Law Review, I'll want you to be my editor.
I'd also take issue with your "hiding" point -- a debate over the precise holding of that case is utterly beside the point. The blog post is about C-U's implications for the electoral process, and so were those quotes I supplied.
As to tampering with political speech, the Republic survived many years without the Supreme Court equating money with speech in the 1977 Buckley case. I think they were wrong to do so; the concepts are different, and that decision opened the door that the Roberts Court blundered through in C-U. I hope and expect that line of case law will be overturned one day.
You know, the best lawyers I know don't just say "No," they propose alternatives. Mine is campaign finance reform.
What's yours?
a resident of Danville
on Jul 29, 2011 at 4:23 pm
@ Rick: without resorting to lyrical parody, I gotta say that you seem much more interested in spewing invective than you are in discussing the actual blog. Your recent post has sweet nothing to do with the article, and there's not a lot more to say about it.


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The Six Million Dollar Man Would Only Cost Less Than $1 Million Today?
The "Six Million Dollar Man" may have been big stuff in the 1970s…but nowadays, a "bionic" man isn't so far-fetched. And he's also about ONE-SIXTH of the cost.
ABC News says it would only cost $922,000 to rebuild Steve Austin…the character played by Lee Majors on the classic series…using artificial body parts that people are actually using today.
That includes a "bionic" eye at $144,000…two "smart prosthetic legs" for $190,000, cochlear implants for $264,000, an artificial heart for $124,700 and two bionic hands for $200,000.
There's one thing they're not taking into account, though. The bionic parts Steve Austin had were more than just replacements for regular body parts. They made him a SUPERMAN.
They gave him inhuman strength, speed, sight and hearing…without which he never would have been able to take on Bigfoot! Bionic parts that could do that would probably cost BILLIONS in today's dollars.
Still, it is kind of amazing where science has taken us so far.
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After neck/chin lipo at what point should you become nervous or are certain things red flags? I am only two weeks out so I know it is soon but it's very hard not to worry. My lower right lip is "pulled up" if I smile with lips closed it looks normal but showing teeth, talking, laughing, yawning it's like my lip is "pulled up". Sensation is fine. If somethings only happens to 1 out of 1000 people I'll sadly be that one. Please help me understand what I can expect here & if or when I should worry.
Nerve Issue After Lipo of Chin and Neck/Jaw Line
Doctor Answers 7
This is likely a motor nerve injury related to the liposuction.
Weakness of the marginal mandibular branch of the facial nerve is well described after facial liposuction. It was once much more common due to the size of the cannula that was used. As cannula size has come down, the incidence of this injury has fallen off. You are extremely early from you liposuction. The nerve can be mildly traumatized and this can lead to a weakness on the side of the injury. Over the course of many more weeks, it is not uncommon to see these completely resolve. However, it is also possible that not all of the function will recover. I would definitely bring this to your surgeon's attention so they can worry about the problem with you.
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Chin Liposuction
See a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon and be evaluated for nerve function. Also, swelling can cause some impairment of the nerve for several weeks, but nerve damage is a possibility as well. Thus, you need an evaluation with a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon who can offer alternatives.
Web reference: http://www.elitemdspa.info/
Nerve Issue after liposuction under chin
It is not unusual to observe some weakness of the muscles controlled by the marginal mandibular nerve after submental liposuction (liposuction under the chin). It usually occurs on one side resulting in an asymmetrical (lopsided) smile. The good news is that is is almost always temporary. It can take from a few weeks to a few months to get better. Botox can be used to even out your smile while you wait for the nerve to heal, but I would give it 4-6 weeks to see if the nerve will heal quickly.
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Neck liposuction side-effects
Most likely, you have weakness of the muscle that pulls down the lower lip &/or the muscle that pulls down the angle of the mouth. This is usually the result of trauma to the nerve supplying the muscles. It usually resolves within a few weeks. Permanent damage of the nerve can be another possibility, albeit very rare. I agree with my colleague who suggested a little botox on the opposite side to correct the asymmetry. I personally would advise waiting for 4-6 weeks to give healing a chance.
Nerve trauma after liposuction of the neck
Neurapraxia of the marginal mandibular branch of of the facial nerve is not uncommon after liposuction of the neck. It could resolve in a few weeks but could also take 3 months. If it is embarassing to you, I would recommend a small amount of botox to the opposite nerve to get temporary paralysis to the normal side. This evens out the smile and is a great relief to patients. Once the Botox wears off on the normal side the opposite injured side will have recovered from the neurapraxia. I have never seen permanent injury to the nerve from liposuction of the neck so rest assured the odds are it is only a temporary neurapraxia. Best wishes.
Temporary Nerve Injury After Jawline Liposuction
One of the risks, and perhaps the most significant one, from liposuction of the jowls and along the jawline is injury to the marginal mandibular branch of the facial nerve. This can cause some weakness to the muscle that normally pulls down the corner of the mouth and lip. This will result in asymmetry of mouth and your description sounds exactly like what would occur of this happens. While it is not common, the good news is that it will be temporary. The small nerve branch has not been cut but just bruised or stretched. You should have a full recovery which may take several months to completely return to normal.
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Injury Following Neck Liposuction
Although unusual, injuries to the marginal mandibular nerve can occasionally occur during liposuction of the neck. This nerve supplies the muscles that move the corner of the mouth. When injured these muscles don't function properly and this results in a distorted smile.
During the procedure a liposuction canula is repeatedly passed through the subcutaneous tissue. This canula has the potential to damage the marginal mandibuler nerve. In the majority of cases, the nerve is stretched or bruised, but rarely it can be transected. In most cases nerve function returns with the passage of time, but loss of function may be permanent when the nerve is transected.
In the majority of cases the nerve is located above the jawline. In a small number of patients the nerve lies below the border of the mandible. Under these circumstances the nerves may be more vulnerable to injury during neck liposuction.
When this type of problem occurs following liposuction, consultation with your plastic surgeon is important. It's also important to understand that the vast majority of injuries to the marginal mandibular nerve resolve without treatment.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Editor Smith: No More HBO Commenting For Me
re: internal memo e-mailed to newsroom my SR Editor Steve Smith Thursday p.m.
I wanted to send out a cautionary note re: staffers who participate in our many online blogs and forums.
A few weeks ago, I allowed myself to be sucked into a dynamic and exciting online debate on Huckleberries Online. It was so easy to jump into an argument about religious zealotry that before I knew it, I was debating issues with our readers and expressing relatively strong opinions.
As editor, there are places where it is appropriate for me to express a point of view...but that blog debate wasn't one of them. My involvement, while personally satisfying, was in appropriate and compromised the newspaper.
I'm not the only staffer who has been drawn to our blogs. At this point in time we don't have anything in our ethics policies dealing with the appropriate level of involvement. We have a group actively updating our policies and I'm sure this and other aspects of online behavior will be addressed.
Until that time, I would just ask that we all exercise common sense in interacting with readers online. It is always appropriate, in our Transparent Newsroom, to address questions or concerns about our journalism. And for columnists and others with a license to opine, there is plenty of room to exercise opinion.
Othwerwise, please be careful about expressing views about stories you are actively covering or otherwise involved in, be careful of political expression and try to avoid situations where you're arguing politics, social policy, religion or other such issues with our readers.
As I said, I'm not in any way suggesting rules at this time, just asking for care and common sense. And I promise to do better myself.
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San Ramon Valley Unified School District trustees gave the OK at their meeting last night to stop busing for regular students because the program was losing money. Paul Gardner, Joan Buchanan and Rachel Hurd voted for discontinuing the program, while Bill Clarkson and Greg Marvel voted against it.
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Trustees say 'no' to continuing school busing
Original post made on Jun 28, 2007
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a resident of Alamo
on Jun 28, 2007 at 9:56 am
One can imagine how the funds used in selective and prejudiced preference to build Monte Vista High School a parking lot would have allowed SRVUSD to establish a realistic school bus and car pool program. It seems that SRVUSD is quite good at education and very poor at the transportation issues that deliver students appropriately to their schools.
At a time of exceptional fuel costs and acknowledged global warming, this decision by SRVUSD seems to be the work of accountants and not valid consideration by the board.
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Doc Rivers spoke to the media after the Celtics with their 6th straight, beating the Charlotte Bobcats by a score of 100-89.
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Played I thought was I thought December. Sort of in the second quarter right before halftime ahead and -- third down and seven and and at first that. I don't dispute should have gone for the next one. Joseph go now long Kyoko they don't get -- Baltimore scored a touchdown that was a -- way. Don't you think. -- And they were heard word. That. Well those that just happens you know that was bad -- -- A total what you say it. No didn't have them. Yeah just our team early on plea -- green energy and horror. And got a lot of us in the stock options which allows us again in transition and we get in transition. Access and run -- you know because they're run in the war. And so that was good you know that's how we want to avoid it its option one rotten. You know all we talk about this please please please. Defense and dolphins and you know it makes is really given. Multiples and -- and we did that a lot person. I thought actually at that -- last two minutes -- arm in the third and fourth quarter currently experts which. The bad habit and you but moved to two. Well I don't know what is or isn't Rome. Thought we did at times tonight you know wanted things now than ever -- -- talked to about themselves and they just keep playing and you know that's hard to do when it's really nice to see me in those guys. Maybe -- -- also -- around them when on the stroke going. Yet they come out and put the effort -- -- I mean they're giving their best. There rent turn -- but more importantly it was just you know the files are there on the first we. You know Regis. Just to a lot of baskets by our files and losing guys in transition. And internals reflect. -- Well I guess you know I told the fact we started out well a lot gave -- something that we knew we. It was already there there's a lot tougher when you start up more than. And then try to get things going I think that's a lot -- Yeah coming. He missed a lot of things now when you mister -- You can play defense when you come back everything else's is a timing and he started this time he's been -- like books ago. -- -- In the -- don't think that you because the shots. It terrible and their wide open as ever and I am home mortgages to shoot it and now are going to. Yeah well it's the last rotation you know use them on the right side and moved to laugh at the last rotations -- these. Created. A double teams. And that's what we're -- -- -- somewhere to -- -- holds it yet though when it's all the last weeks ago. So that's -- Well just always been -- Certain numbers. There -- -- corners you know so we try to keep him corners all -- all. You know of course Kuerten in court last year well so we've got three guys. The problems with voter. Went through corners it. March it does. But. I just feel honestly. Going in. And he's always right he used to always. -- Yeah there's always don't like it and I think. Tonight was definitely but not using them as well. -- -- They're they're Belgians are engaged in and there are gonna keep fighting and make shots when they do it's nice that we catch it. Instead of those those movies in the end of the day. -- And register it means you can throw a -- anywhere. Is such a great Paris. That's what's so hard his oldest or trappers. Because this past him and shooting ability. Question two keys you're beating -- at an elbow or typos can throw to a guy. You can shoot -- argued that allows our employees of the cuts -- in the know a lot of times that through to the next big drops back where you can do that -- Just gives us another pastor work. Yeah. Does -- -- -- item change Ronald they're -- just comes image in the same things blocked shots. It's gonna take the charts and his body in the ways of dying. He prepares every such pro you know just good camera. That really you know. I think two minutes what's up Jeff it's obviously been through comfortable you know. -- -- and what's tough about the may have shot makers and -- and going these have been Gordon's on the floor -- I have a memory from Chicago Steelers. And I saw those shots -- And so you never comfortable when he's around. Now analysis I don't know what that is all of stuff. You know you felt them. Because the point so well you know really. To just about. Doing it you know with Iran Ronald. Minutes prove themselves back in Seattle its football straight this week that it really was it was it was also Packers lost me after this footnote. That you can do better than men as far as I'm concerns. That you guys that.


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I'm reading ...When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David SedarisSedaris is the master of the short, comic, grotesque personal essay. Are his rambling ideas connected, or is he just really good at making it seem like they are? I don't know, but I die of envy. A little David Sedaris goes a long way, though, and the essays in this collection are not quite as tight and sharp as some of his other works -- but still, very funny stuff, enough to make me snort while I'm reading in bed. An ex … [Read more...]
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I'm reading . . . Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith. Fourth in the Arkady Renko series that began with the brilliant Gorky Park, about which I said this: Maybe because it was so popular when it came out, or maybe because the author's name is so snazzy, I somehow assumed that it was a trashy beach book, or some kind of dated, two-bit thriller. Boy, was I wrong. This is the real deal — real literature, a genuinely great novel. Almost Dostoevskian at times.The characters are so re … [Read more...]
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I'm reading . . .A Case of Conscience by James Blish (1958).It turns out that the bland title has prevented anyone else in my house from picking this book up, and they had no idea it's a Catholic science fiction adventure novel about a biochemist Jesuit who is on an alien planet collecting information about a society of super intelligent lizard-like creatures who do not sin and who have no apparent need for God, and what do we think about that? In his down time, he works on solving a … [Read more...]
The lady was sad, and MAD. (We showed the kids an opera!)
My kids' experience with opera comes entirely from Bugs Bunny, and we really wanted them to branch out. So, with great trepidation, we showed them Don Giovanni last weekend ... and they loved it. More or less.We did it in two nights. The first night, I set out some trays heaped with treats in the living room. We had brie, havarti, and honey goat cheese and three kinds of crackers, red and green grapes, mini chocolate eclairs, and sparkling cider. So the kids were all excited and cheerful, an … [Read more...]
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I'm reading . . .Zorro by Isabel Allende.Allende is definitely a guilty pleasure. Zorro is silly fun, very typical of Allende, with her contemptuous fondness for Catholicism, the silly sex scenes mashed naively in with a kind of lascivious clumsy feminism, a few plot turns that don't make any sense and quietly get abandoned, and lots of running around, sailing, fighting, crying, eating, singing, being squalid, and more running around. I like the bouncy, tasty prose, and her ch … [Read more...]
Happy birthday, Antonín Dvořák!
Born on this lavishly romantic day in 1841.Did you know that he was a devout Catholic, and that his father was an inkeeper, butcher, and professional zither player? Does that explain a thing or two? Or not? Either way, here are a bunch of Slavonic dances to which you can whirl heedlessly around the living room.P.S. This is exactly what a composer should look like.Happy birthday, man. I love you so much and I always will. … [Read more...]
New to me: the wonderful Samatha Crain
I was grousing to myself about spending yet another evening and afternoon driving back and forth to town, but at least I had the radio on -- and I discovered a new (to me) singer! Samantha Crain. Oh, what a voice. Here is "We Are the Same"Plus she looks a tiny bit like Katrina Fernandez, which predisposes me to like her. Love her face, love the aching clarity of her voice, the way she carries herself, and how many stories she has. Here's "Santa Fe":And here's the one I heard thi … [Read more...]


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Maranda Pleasant: What is at the very heart of your work and what you do?
Richard Freeman: The heart of my work is freedom. Freedom for myself and others. Because if others aren't free, I'm not free. I feel free.
MP: What do you do with pain, when pain comes in?
RF: You kind of hold it. When pain arises, you hold it. Say, if you had a child who was crying, you just hold them. With pain, you just hold it in the space of your awareness, so the awareness is both intelligent and compassionate. You're holding pain. But if you turn away from it or reject it, it'll come back. Guaranteed. It'll come back in a way that can't be rejected. The ability to deal with what most people would think were the unpleasant states of suffering is really the key to yoga practice. And when people finally get around to that, then the yoga really starts to work.
MP: What is it that sustains you when everything else falls away?
RF: I'm sustained by other practitioners. Others. The traditions. The tradition of the traditions. And then whatever practice I've done, it has a residue. Just the samskaras of that are really helpful in difficult times, when I'm not around others. It's just the practice of returning to raw mindfulness. Mindfulness of breath, if there's breath there, but we know that won't last. So, it's just that kind of gravity of that state.
MP: What is it that makes you the most vulnerable?
RF: Impermanence. [laughing] Impermanence makes everyone vulnerable because we know that this whole thing is crumbling. So, whatever it is that we're riding on that is our prop is going to dissolve eventually. And that's the nature of impermanence. So facing that right away, rather than waiting until the time of death, is pretty much what the path is.
MP: Why do you want to wake up in the morning? Besides coffee?
RF: That was my first choice, coffee. That's my reward for getting up. [laughing]
It's the ongoing mystery. The life of the mind, navigating in the world — you can never quite figure it out. But it certainly is an interesting project.
I like to wake up to just the simple, raw things: breathing, perception, the fact that the most astonishing, the most immediate things are the most incomprehensible.
MP: Last question: what is it that you've struggled with the most? What is it that you struggle with?
RF: Besides ego?
MP: Besides that!
RF: I've become impatient. And impatience isn't necessarily bad, but I want people to understand. It's very rare that anyone understands. They don't even understand that they don't even understand. I've become rather impatient. Usually if I am mindful of my own impatience, then I say, Well, of course people don't understand because that would be too miraculous!
But everybody understands a little bit. That's the thing. It's not an either/or thing. Most people are semi-brilliant. And it's kind of just cultivating that semi-brilliance that's already there in people. The mind would like to look at it [like], Everyone is so hopeless, I give up! But so many people, particularly in the yoga world, they're like 95% on fire. They've got it. And it's this little fine-tuning, paying closer attention, that's going to bring it to fruition. That's actually pretty exciting, to get the more compassionate view of the current yoga world. But I do go through periods [when] I'm astonished or aghast. It seems [like], Oh my god, this is hopeless.
MP: We should not be hanging out because I would drive you crazy.
RF: Yeah.
MP: [laughing] He agrees!


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Pokój blisko St.Peter 's i Watykan
Maks. liczba gości3
Rozmiar14 m²
Piętro(z windą)
- Przyjazny dla rodziny/dzieci
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|Via Seneca, 00136 Roma, Włochy
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(there is a lift, no fear!) , quite near St.Peter's and the Vatican City. It is a quiet and safe area where
any kind of shops and facilities are available. It is also well connected to the centre by metro, urban
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5 minutes from metro A stop CIPRO
6 minutes from metro FM3 stop St.Peter's
10 minutes from the Vatican Museums
15 minutes from St.Angel's Castle
20 minutes from Piazza Navona, Piazza del Popolo, Piazza di Spagna with the Spanish Steps
The Zodiaco panoramic terrace is nearby with one of the most beautiful views in Rome.
Our B&B has 3 confortable rooms and 1 bathroom for our guests. There's a confortable lounge/
dining room where we normally serve continental breakfast, but, on request, we can also prepare a
real English one. Also we can serve dinner with typical Roman specialities cooked by your hosts,
but you'll have to give a 24 hours notice.
RegulaminOur house rules are quite obvious: we expect our guests to be wll mannered, to respect other guest's rest, to smoke on the balcony and not in the bedrooms, to enjoy themselves. We are ready to give any help and advice.
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We had a great stay with Daniela and Max. They were very welcoming to us and provided us with all the information and help we needed. You can reach the Vatican easily with a direct bus just around the corner from their B&B and the bus continues right into the town in a few minutes more. If you are going to Rome I would recommend Daniela and Max without reservation.´We really enjoyed our stay!
Daniela and Max were excellent hosts! They made our stay the most comfortable possible. They are very friendly and kind persons, always ready to talk and gave us perfect indications to reach the apartment and move to the city. Their place is well located and you are in the city within minutes by public transport.
Our room was great, with good beds and very spacious. Their breakfast was an excellent way to start our days in Rome. We enjoyed our stay with them very much, and would definitely stay there again! Thank you everything!
My wife and I had an wondeful time in Rome. Max and Daniela are kind and helpful people. The room was clean and romantic, the perfect place for a honeymoon or just a weekend trip :-)
We can only recoment the place and thanks the two host for their positive attitude!
- Mette and Jacob / Denmark
Daniela and Max have been wonderful hosts. Both were very kind and helpful. They helped us finding our ways in the City. They were always interested in how our day had been and gave us very good advice.
The room was great, it looked exactly like in the pictures. It was quiet and very clean.
The facilities were always clean too.
We recommend everyone who wants to go to Rome to spend their time with Daniela and Max in their lovely B&B!
We really can't say enough good things about Sapore di Casa.
From the moment Max picked us up from the station, we knew we were going to have a great stay. We were welcomed like friends, and felt truly lucky to have found such a cosy home away from home.
Our room was beautifully decorated, impeccably clean and the perfect place to wind down after a sweltering day in the city. Max and Daniela could not have been more attentive, friendly and helpful and the delicious breakfast really set us up for hardcore days of sightseeing. We felt so at home we were sad to leave.
Thankyou for making our stay in Rome so special. We hope to come and see you again soon.
Accoglienza molto cordiale
Alloggio distinto in località molto tranquilla
Zona alloggio Monte Mario abbastanza comoda ai mezzi
Le torte della sig.ra Daniela buonissime sintesi dell'accoglienza ricevuta
Ganz toller Aufenthalt bei Max und Daniela. Würde jederzeit wiederkommen.
War zwischen 2 Aufenthalten zu einer Leichtathletik-EM in Ancona. Alles hat sehr unkompliziert geklappt. Danke! Gunter
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Heart aflame? Dark chocolate to the rescue.
I was always skeptical about the alleged health benefits of chocolate, and suspected they might be a nutrition myth perpetuated by so-called "researchers" at places like the Hershey Research Institute. But researching the issue took on particular urgency for me when my husband took up amateur chocolate-making (his handiwork pictured above), and my kitchen became a minefield of tempting heart-shaped confections.
So you can imagine my delight to discover that a robust and credible body of scientific evidence supports a real and significant role for dark chocolate in lowering several risk factors of cardiovascular disease.
How it works
Cacao beans are one of nature's richest sources of plant compounds called flavanoids. (Flavanoids are the same compounds responsible for the health-promoting effects of red wine and teas, by the way.) Research shows that the flavanoids in cacao help reduce the oxidation of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) in your blood vessels, which is a major cause of plaque build-up in the arteries. They also have been shown to help inhibit platelet aggregation in the blood-– which is the same type of effect that aspirin therapy produces. This helps lower the risk of clotting that could lead to stroke. Oh, wait: there's more. Cacao has also been shown to produce a reduction in blood pressure.
Recently, a well-designed, well-controlled Italian study published in the Journal of Nutrition examined the blood levels of a protein called C-Reactive Protein (CRP) in a group of about 5,000 healthy people over age 35. CRP is a protein produced by your liver during times of stress, acute illness and during chronic inflammatory conditions; when elevated, it is a very predictive risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The study showed that participants who ate approximately 1 oz of dark chocolate every 3 days had levels of CRP that would classify them as at "mild" risk for cardiovascular disease, compared with participants who ate no dark chocolate, whose CRP levels placed them at "moderate" risk for cardiovascular disease. The authors assert that these findings are the equivalent of a 26% decreased risk for a "future cardiovascular event" (that's Italian for "heart attack or stroke") among the dark chocolate-eating men and a 33% decreased risk for dark chocolate-eating women compared to non-dark chocolate-eating people.
What type of chocolate–and how much– will provide these benefits?
There is no standard definition of "dark" chocolate in the scientific studies that looked at the health benefits of chocolate. However, since we know that the more cocoa solids your chocolate has, the more flavonoids it has, as far as your heart is concerned, the darker the chocolate, the healthier the chocolate. Dark chocolate by definition must have no milk solids added, and you'll see ranges of 30% cocoa to over 80% cocoa sold commercially. The higher the percent, the better: aim for at least 50%, and if you like how it tastes, go for those varieties with 65% or more.
As far as serving size goes, 1 oz two to three times per week seems to offer significant benefits. (Disappointing, I know.) Note that this is about equivalent to eating 2 Hershey Kisses-worth of dark chocolate per day. Some clever companies like Scharffen-Berger and Green & Black's, are selling 1 oz bars of dark chocolate; Ghiradelli Squares are 1/2 oz each, Dagoba Organic sells fantastic 2 oz bars that range from 59% to 87% cocoa in a whole variety of interesting flavors, so you can split those with someone you love. Hershey's has a line of 60% cocoa bars called "Extra Dark", and Dove sells a 63% and a 71% version of their silky smooth chocolate bars.
Cacao nibs are a great way to get your flavonoid fix. The nibs are an intermediate step in the cacao processing chain, which are what you get after the cacao beans are fermented and shelled but before they are roasted and ground to produce the chocolate liquor from which cocoa powder or cocoa butter id derived. This means they have a higher flavonoid content then the end products. Health food stores often sell raw (unprocessed) nibs, which if eaten alone will be bitter, but you can stick them in a coffee grinder to make an antioxidant rich cocoa powder that can be added to skim milk and sweetened to your liking. (I'd use skim here because the nibs have plenty of fat already.) Alternatively, the clever people at Sweet Riot coat their yummy nibs in dark chocolate for a bit of extra sweetness. They sell cacao nibs covered in your choice of 50%, 65% or 70% dark chocolate in portion-controlled 1 oz tins. And they're a socially-responsible, fair-trade company to boot. Look for them at Whole Foods or at the cash register area of your favorite health food store.
What's the catch?
Dark chocolate, despite all of its healthful properties, still has fat and calories that must be accounted for…especially if you're going to start on a regular regimen of it. Gaining weight from excessive chocolate consumption will surely cancel out whatever health benefits the chocolate is providing, so you'll probably want to think about what gets cut out of the diet to make room for it. (Hint: aim for something with little nutritional value that's been dragging your diet down, anyway). If you make this effort, the universe will meet you halfway: in a sign that the powers that be love us and want us to be happy, the type of saturated fat in dark chocolate–stearic acid–appears not to have the same LDL cholesterol-increasing effects as most saturated fats. Yay! So if you displace some empty calories in your diet for an equivalent amount of dark chocolate, it should be a pretty good trade-off.
Also, the Italian study's results suggest that a little bit is good, but more is not better when it comes to keeping those CRP levels down. They found that people who consumed a single serving of slightly less than 1 oz every 3 days had CRP levels that were significantly lower than both non-consumers AND higher-consumers of dark chocolate. Scientific evidence for the old adage "everything in moderation," if you will.
Note that NONE of this holds true for milk chocolate or white chocolate. Milk chocolate has very low levels of flavonoids and contains milkfat, a saturated fat which, unlike stearic acid, does increase LDL cholesterol. White chocolate contains no cocoa solids–and therefore no flavonoids– at all, and is higher in fat, sugar and calories than both dark or milk chocolate.
So this Valentine's Day when that gold Godiva ballotin shows up at your desk, go for the dark solid demitasses or dark truffles , give away the rest, and tell your heart how much you love it!Did you like this? If so, please bookmark it, RSS feed.


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Variety: Chili Lime, Sea SaltWheat...or Corn...or Both! After a pretty exhaustive look at snacks and how people eat them, we decided there's a place for a darn good tasting baked snack made from both wheat and corn. Two all-American grains in one single product. With 40% less fat than fried corn chips , it's guilt free and delicious.


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Severe weather leaving its mark on Mid-Missouri
Roads flooded, buildings damaged and businesses closed because of storms
Mid-Missouri - An afternoon of heavy rains, tornado warnings and severe thunderstorms has left its mark on Mid-Missouri.
Multiple roads in Boone County and Cole County were still closed Thursday night due to flooding. More than three inches of rain has fallen since midnight in some parts of Mid-Missouri.
The washed out roads were causing delays in bus service for Columbia Public Schools.
Heavy rains over two days had closed two businesses in a shopping center in Jefferson City due to roof leaks.
Golf ball-sized hail hit Moberly and parts of Randolph County about 3:30 Thursday afternoon. Officials there were not reporting any major damage.
The closures in Boone County include Driskel Road between Route E and Moreau Road, and Wilcox Road at Oneal Road. A complete list can be found here.
Around 5:30 a.m. Thursday Columbia firefighters were called out to Blackfoot Road for a water rescue. When they arrived two people were on the roof of their car and water was up to the door handles.
Two rescuers were put in the water and were able to safely help the stranded motorists.
Thirteen routes are closed in Cole County tonight. Those include: Waterford, Meadows Ford, Murphy Ford, Campbell, Payne, North Branch, Engineers, Bainer, Loesch, Buffalo, East Lohman, Zion and Settlen roads.
In Pettis County, at least three separate washouts have been reported on Route T north of Dresden. At least one person has been injured related to these washouts.


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Governor Scott Speaks At PortMiami Tunnel Opening Ceremony
After nearly 5 years in the making, the Governor will dedicate the new Port of Miami tunnel today.
Port Access Tunnel Vice-President, Chris Hodgkins says today is largely symbolic, with the invariable last minute punch list still to be checked out, but overall the project is on time and on budget.
The nearly one-mile long underwater tunnel will link the MacArthur Causeway and PortMiami's cruise and freight berth's without a single stop sign or traffic light eliminating huge traffic tie-ups on the causeway.
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April 13, 2010 Election Results
There will be a recount in the election for Mayor of Gainesville. With all precincts reporting in the Runoff Election, Craig Lowe held a tiny 35 vote lead over Don Marsh. That's less than a half-a percent difference, which launched an automatic recount. The Board of Canvassers will meet Friday to determine when the recount will take place and whether it will be done by hand or machine.
A Runoff Election was triggered in Alachua between the top two vote-getters for the Seat 2 position on City Commission. That will take place May 4th.
4/13/10 Municipal Elections
Alachua City Election
Seat 2
Duane Helle 33%
Dollean Perkins 27%
Robert Wilford 40%
Seat 3
Ben Boukari, Jr. 72%
Michael Canney 28%
Gainesville City Election Runoff Results
Craig Lowe 50.14%
Don Marsh 49.86%
District 4
Randy Wells 62%
Penny Wheat 38%
Newberry City Election Results
Group 1
Andy Cook 42%
(I) Joe Hoffman 58%
Group 3
Robert Fillyaw 43%
(I) Alena Lawson 57%
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