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Aston: Parks and recreation, 7 p.m., municipal building, 5021 Pennell Road.
Bethel: Sewer Authority, 7 p.m., Sewer Authority office, 1082A Bethel Road, Garnet Valley.
Chester Township: Council organizational meeting, 7 p.m., Robert C. Wilson Building, 1150 Engle St.
Colwyn: Regular council meeting, 7:30 p.m., borough hall, 221 Spruce St.
Concord: Park and recreation board, 7 p.m., 40 Bethel Road; historical commission, 7 p.m., municipal building, 43 Thornton Road.
County: Library board, 7:30 p.m., DCLS administration headquarters, 340 N. Middletown Road, Fair Acres Building 19.
Haverford: Zoning hearing board, 7:45 p.m., commissioners meeting room, 2325 Darby Road; Friends of the Grange, 7 p.m., at the Grange.
Interboro School District: Board of school directors general business and operating meeting, 6:30 p.m., administration building, 900 Washington Ave., Prospect Park.
Media: Workshop, 7:30 p.m., municipal building, 301 N. Jackson St.
Rose Valley: Planning commission, 7:30 p.m., borough office, 9 Old Mill Lane.
Trainer: Recreation board, 7 p.m.; EAC, 7 p.m., municipal building, Ninth and Main streets.
Upper Chichester: Board of commissioners' caucus meeting, 7:30 p.m., municipal building, 8500 Furey Road.
Upper Providence: Recreation board, 7:30 p.m., municipal building, 935 N. Providence Road.
William Penn School District: Board of directors budget and finance, 6:30 p.m., Penn Wood High School, 100 Green Ave., Lansdowne.
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Podcast: Open I/O Systems
The once proprietary links between controllers and I/O are becoming ever more open - much to the benefit of process automation pros. Opto 22 was and is one of the pioneers of open I/O, and their Arun Sinha and Benson Hougland join Controls Dan Hebert for a freewheeling discussion. Topics covered include why open I/O is good, how it is becoming more widespread, and the remaining barriers to open systems.01/16/2009
2008 Top 50 Automation Vendors
As the economy crashes, process automation is poised to ride it out. Walt Boyes speaks with ARC Research Directors Larry O'Brien and Craig Resnick on the state of the process automation economy, and the Control/ARC Top 50 automation companies.12/16/2008
Best Practices in Manufacturing Drive the Adoption of Windows Vista (Webcast)
This informative webcast, presented by experts from Microsoft, Aberdeen and Iconics, will review nextgeneration software analytics solutions built on the latest open, scalable technologies. Youll learn how to rapidly integrate new and existing systems into a unified management platform, resulting in enormous savings and improving the bottom line. Join us at 2 p.m. EST December 11, 2008. A questionandanswer period is included at the end of the presentation. » Register Now11/17/2008
Podcast: Protecting Our Cyber Infrastructure
Cybersecurity is one of the pillars of protecting our critical infrastructure. It was profiled in one of the November Special Edition stories, and Bob Mick, ARCs vice president of enterprise systems joins Controls Walt Boyes to put cybersecurity in perspective and offer agreement and disagreement with what the article said11/14/2008
Market Intelligence Report: Field Instruments
Controls Walt Boyes reports on how end users are using field instruments, analyzers and final control elements. Wired or wireless, this is where the rubber meets the road.11/14/2008
Operational and Business Readiness
Matt Willmott discusses the top business issues process manufacturers are facing today and how an integrated main automation contractor approach can help overcome those challenges and ensure a smooth transition from project into operations.10/24/2008
Podcast from ISA 2008: Wireless Enable Your Old Gauges
Harry Sim left Honeywell for Cypress Envirosystems (a subsidiary of Cypress Semicon) two years ago because he had an idea that needed Silicon Valley innovation and technology. Now, with Honeywells help, Sims wireless gauge readers are giving new life and a digital flair to outmoded dial gaugesat Genentech and other pharma sites. Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Senior Editor Paul Thomas spoke with Sim at the recent ISA 2008 show in Houston.10/20/2008
Back to Basics: Managing Alarms
Editor in chief Walt Boyes talks about effective alarm management processes. Over the past 50 years many process industry disasters could have been avoided if only the proper alarm systems had been in place. The switch of alarm management systems from panel walls to display screens and DCSs resulted in system operators' loss of visual pattern recognition. This switch caused the newer generations of alarm operators to develop tunnel vision. Meanwhile lack of careful alarm rationalization causes them to be inundated with too many alarms, making it impossible to respond to the important ones. Watch this 5-minute video and learn how to design an alarm system that contributes to your plant's "inherently safe" lifestyle.10/15/2008
Searching for the One True Network
October's cover story in Control is the search for the One True Network, as chronicled by John Rezabek, our intrepid On The Bus columnist. Walt Boyes, Control's editor in chief talks to Larry O'Brien, research director for process automation for ARC Advisory Group about fieldbus in this month's edition of the Control/ARC Monthly Podcast Series.10/08/2008
Podcast with ARC on "Domino Theory"
Control contributing editor Rich Merritt conducts a wide-ranging interview with ARC Advisory Group principal analyst John Blanchard on a variety batch-related topics and trends. The interview is a follow-up to Merritt's "Domino Theory" cover article on batch processing in the September 2008 issue of Control. The two discuss the ISA88 standard's history, whether the word "batch" can be mentioned to continuous control users, how ISA88's documentation procedures can help users and where ISA88 and ISA95 may be headed in the future.09/16/2008
Market Intelligence Report: Operator Interface/HMIs
Human-machine interfaces (HMIs) are increasing in number, variety, resolution, sophistication and related computing power, and so are becoming all-pervasive in most process applications. To help make sense of this rapidly changing market, Jim Montague, Control's executive editor, presents the results of Control's latest Market Intelligence Report on HMIs. Respondents reported on how they use HMIs to interact with their plants control systems, the age of their existing HMIs, their visual presentation preferences and on how well their HMIs handle alarms.09/15/2008
Technically Speaking: Energy Management
Dan Hebert Talks About the Hottest Current Topic in Process Plants, Reducing Energy Costs09/05/2008
Technically Speaking: Analyzers
Dan Hebert Speaks on Analyzers. Moving Complex Measurements from the Lab to Online Analyzers09/05/2008
Technically Speaking: Middleware
Dan Hebert Talks about How Being in the Middle of the Plant-Floor ERP Connection Is Hard To Do09/05/2008
The Shocking Truth About Wireless - Podcast
ARC wireless expert Harry Forbes joins Editor in Chief Walt Boyes in a far-ranging discussion of wireless based on Control's August cover story.08/19/2008
Remote HMI Systems-What Control Readers Like (And Dislike)
This Special Report from the Process Automation Media Network, sponsored by EZAutomation, focuses on how Control readers use remote HMI systems and what they like--and don't like--about them. Walt Boyes reports on a special survey done in early August of 2008 of over 225 Control readers.08/18/2008
The Power to Perform: Experience Honeywell User Group 2008
Featuring the latest in multimedia and animation technology, this special report from the Honeywell User Group Americas Symposium includes more than 20 articles and presentations as well as eight streaming videos and audio podcasts--many of which have never before been published. Witness Honeywell's latest technology roadmaps and learn best practices from expert users on topics ranging from alarm management to wireless.08/14/2008
Back to Basics: Loop Tuning
Control Editor in Chief Walt Boyes explains the basics of this fundamental control operation. Learn about dead band, lag time, PID control, manual and adaptive loop tuning and why your loop tuning problems can't always be fixed by software.08/14/2008
Rep James R Langevin, (D, Rhode Island) on Cybersecurity
Rhode Island Congressman James Langevin Keynotes the ACS Cybersecurity Conference and Demands Cooperation to Improve Cybersecurity and Better Protect the Country08/06/2008
Podcast: Not Playing Nice
Listen to Walt Boyes speak on the field-instruments portion of the ISA100 Wireless Standards.07/29/2008

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That's right girls.....if you are scratching your head in creative wonder as to what to ask Santa for, for Christmas...LOOK. NO. FURTHER! Melodee, our ever amazing, ROCKSTAR of a buyer, came up with a little Christmas Miracle for all of you! The Silhouette SD. You have asked, and asked......and now you shall receive the opportunity to have one for your very own! Today, this very day, at 9 AM, you will have your chance!
In short, I am in AWE of the capabilities of this machine. Honestly I have wanted one for ages. The fact that it plugs directly into your computer, eliminating the need to buy any costly cartridges totally rocks my world. For those of you that are wondering exactly what a Silhouette is, here is the definition found on the Silhouette page: The Silhouette is a digital cutting tool for personal use. It connects to your computer just like a printer, but instead of printing designs it cuts them with a small blade. With the machine connected to your computer, you'll get access to all of the fonts on your PC plus the thousands of cuttable designs found on the Silhouette Online Store. In short, this machine is smart, versatile and all sorts of crazy fun!
Let me take you on a little journey of my crafting time with the Silhouette SD.
Let me list in a nutshell some of my favorite features about this machine:
* Small. VERY lightweight. Portable. Perfect for taking to crops!
* No need to buy expensive cartridges. The Silhouette online store features 1,000's of images for $.99 each.
* Mac and PC Friendly
* Cutting capabilities of 9 x 40"
* FANTASTIC adhesive qualities to the cutting mats
* Easy to use. Lots and LOTS of tutorial videos available
* Exclusive design images by Hero Arts, Heidi Swapp and Cosmo Cricket
* Average blade life of 6 months
* Print and cut feature = print an image or photo on your home printer, insert into Silhouette and the machine is smart enough to sense the cutting areas
* The Silhouette staff is VERY courteous and friendly. Top notch customer service!
* The Silhouette blog. Their designer, Traci, is absolutely friendly, talented and I have to admit packs more creativity in her THUMBNAIL than I do in my entire body!
Now let's move on to the 'meat and potatoes' of my journey. When I first took the machine out of the box, I actually immediately texted Melodee to tell her how cute and small it is. After owning another die cutting machine for the past several years, I was delighted with how small, lightweight and easy to open it is.
I pulled out the driver software and installed it onto my computer. EASY. I then spent the rest of the evening watching the video tutorial CD that came with the machine. I wanted to know every last bit of potential that the Silhouette SD had to offer, and boy...I was not disappointed!
I also spent quite a bit of time searching around YouTube looking for tutorial videos.
I really enjoyed this video by a fellow scrapbooking friend Nichol Magourik. She walks through the basics of creating with the Silhouette.
I also found this video that was informative and easy to follow.
One of the things that has always drawn me to the Silhouette is the fact that not only can you use any font that you have on you computer to cut out titles for scrapbook pages or vinyl lettering, but you can shop at the Silhouette online store and purchase individual designs for $.99 each. I. LOVE. THAT! The machine comes with a $10 gift card to use in the store so it was absolutely fantastic to spend time browsing the catalog to find those perfect designs to play with.
Now let me back track a minute. Did you catch the part where I mentioned that you can use ANY font that is on your computer to cut out letters? That means that any font you download from the internet can also be used. That's right! The possibilities for the perfect font for the perfect title have just become almost limitless!
I downloaded this cute font called Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. I love how intricate it is and how perfectly the Silhouette cut it it out.
I then found a tutorial video on YouTube featuring a fun gate fold type card.
I decided to purchase the same design from the Silhouette store and create a card of my own.
Next I wanted to explore the world of cutting vinyl.
I read the simple and easy to understand instructions on the Silhouette website then set to work.
I have owned another electronic die cutting machine for several years and have never cut vinyl with it. I think it had a lot to do with the fact that I was limited to certain designs provided with the cartridges or would have to spend a good amount of money to get 'that perfect' saying. Again I returned to the Silhouette store and found a fun 'Happy Thanksgiving' design for $.99. I cut it out and now have a fun, temporary decoration to celebrate Thanksgiving.
The love of vinyl cutting didn't stop there......
I have to admit. I'm a girl that loves her bling. I was overjoyed when I saw that we would be offering a Rhinestone starter kit. I was wondering what to create when I thought it would be fun to make myself a t-shirt to wear to my girls' big regional band competition this weekend.
I first watched a video tutorial....
Then set to work to create....
I'm pretty excited to sport my bling this weekend while supporting my girls! :)
I was then pretty impressed with the array of 3D designs that I could purchase from the Silhouette store. I downloaded a couple of pumpkin designs and made some cute little fall decor table centerpieces.
I also downloaded a fun cupcake sleeve. EASY and what a cute addition this would be to any birthday party!
I also downloaded a couple of cute 3D snowflake designs that will be so fun to make to put on our Christmas tree this year.
Another amazing project that you can do with the Silhouette is Heat Transfer. Being as we are offering a Heat Transfer bundle I had to give that a shot as well. I turned to the Silhouette website for a little extra 'how to' and set to work adding a flower to a plain dinner napkin.
Now you would *think* that the capabilities of the Silhouette SD ends there, but nope! Check out this card I made using inks. Instead of inserting a blade into the machine, I inserted an ink cartridge instead, so anywhere that a design would be cut, it actually draws.
Another amazing feature of the Silhouette SD is to 'Print & Cut'. Sadly my printer was out of ink, so I was unable to try the print and cut feature. I did however, find a tutorial video which goes into depth about this amazing feature which the Silhouette can do!
I also noticed on the Silhouette website that you can do glass etching. You better believe that I couldn't resist trying that one too!
All I can say is....EASY!
In short (or actually quite long, because there is just too much good to be said about this machine!), if you are looking for a fantastic way to shoot your creative abilities and powers through the roof...the Silhouette SD is your answer!


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Technically the war never ended, but remains a tense standoff between North and South Korea
Sometime in July 1950, Beauford Haynie was running from heavy fire by North Korean forces, followed by Robert Lee Dobbs of Kansas City.
They were in the Pusan Perimeter in South Korea when the North Koreans began firing on a tank nearby.
"It was a little too crowded for me," Haynie recalled recently at Lake Shore Commons, where he lives today. So they took off running.
Just as they sped past the body of a dead North Korean soldier, Haynie looked up as a photographer snapped his picture.
"What the hell's he doing here?" he thought fleetingly.
The photographer was David Douglas Duncan and the photograph has become one of the iconic images of the Korean War. It's on the cover of Duncan's 1990 book, "This Is War! A Photo-Narrative of the Korean War"
July 27 will mark the 60th anniversary of the armistice that ended the fighting during the Korean War. Technically the war never ended, but remains a tense standoff between North and South Korea.
North Korea's bellicose young leader, Kim Jung Un, guarantees that the U.S. won't forget about his country.
But Korean War veterans often feel slighted by history. Korea is called "The Forgotten War."
At least two Marine Corp veterans in the Wilmington area vividly recall one of the fiercest battles of that war, the fight in present-day North Korea at the Chosin Reservoir.
As members of the "Chosin Few," neither Haynie nor Harry Jablonski of Shallotte will ever forget one of the coldest events in the Cold War.
As temperatures plunged to 35 or 40 degrees below zero, United Nations troops were vastly outnumbered. Estimates vary widely, but Harold Davis, a Korean War veteran from Wilmington who has researched the war and its casualties, believes there were about 25,000 U.N. troops at Chosin vs. 120,000 Chinese troops.
Haynie fought in the Pusan Perimeter in the summer of 1950, with United Nations troops that had been pushed down to the southeastern tip of the Korean peninsula by the advancing North Korean army.
Both he and Jablonski participated in the Inchon landing in September as U.N. forces landed on the west coast and eventually retook the city of Seoul.
And both were transported by sea to Wonsan, on the east coast in present-day North Korea, and easily advanced 60 miles north to the Chosin Reservoir.
That was when Haynie's men noticed something different about the dead soldiers they were encountering.
"The Koreans wore green uniforms. We were running into brown uniforms. We said, 'Hey, something's wrong here,'?" Haynie said.
The Chinese, alarmed at the collapse of the formerly successful North Korean forces, sent Chinese army troops over the border.
Jablonski's unit was scouting high ground when they arrived at Chosin when they saw a daunting sight.
"We looked down in the valley and there were Chinese swarming all over down there," he said.
"We're in for it now," he told his colonel.
During subsequent movements, his unit volunteered to be out front, the point position, mainly so they could keep moving instead of having to stop and wait in an accordion-like march.
"If you stopped, you would freeze," he said.
At one point, he saw Chinese machine gun nests 100 yards away.
"They could have killed us at any time," he said. But the Chinese held their fire, waiting for the main body of the column to come by.
The Marines had air superiority. They called in positions and Marine F4 Corsairs would swoop in to attack the enemy.
"We'd sit back and watch the show," he recalled.
Jablonski said it was an error to take one man from each two-man pup tent to keep watch. Two men could have kept each other warmer.
He was lying alone when snow covered the tent. Marines found steam coming out of a small hole caused by his breath.
"They found me and dug me out," he said. He couldn't move.
"I was totally frozen. My heartbeat was slow," he said. "It wouldn't have taken half an hour before I was dead."
Jablonski was near a makeshift airfield at Hagaru-ri when he was shot in the leg.
He spent two months recovering in Japan before returning to the war.
Meanwhile Haynie, leading three other men in his fire team including Dobbs, tried to get some sleep before an expected action the next day.
The little unit bedded down outdoors together, but the cold seeped from the ground up through Haynie's poncho, shelter, blanket and sleeping bag.
"It felt like ice fingers around my spine," he said.
So he got up and began stamping his feet, trying to warm up.
Suddenly a mortar shell landed where he'd been lying moments before. All of his men were killed.
Haynie was later evacuated because of frostbite.
"My toes turned black," he said.
The story of Chosin is the story of U.N. forces, many of them U.S. Marines, overwhelmed by the huge Chinese army and fighting their way out. Maj. Gen. Oliver P. Smith, leading the 1st Marine Division, was famously quoted as saying, "We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction!"
These two Marines, and other service members who fought in Korea, are angry that their conflict receives relatively little attention. Aside from "M*A*S*H" – a Vietnam-era show – and a handful of movies like the 1959 classic "Pork Chop Hill," the Korean War didn't resonate in popular culture.
"I get so mad," Haynie said. "They talk about World War I, World War II, Vietnam and Desert Storm, and don't mention Korea.
"I get so mad I could choke up," he said. "We were there."
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Atlas and P-body Pricing and Pre-Order Details...
ThreeA Toys has released pricing and pre-order information on their 1:6th scale Portal 2 action figures: the humerous robot duo of Atlas and P-body. Pre-orders for these two figures opens today - May 24th at 8:59pm EST, at bambalandstore.com. Each figure is priced at $190 USD or together as a set priced at $340 USD. Singles will be offered to retailers at a later date but the 2-Figure Set is exclusive to Bambaland only.
- ATLAS is approximately 27.5 cm (10.8″) in height
- P-body is approximately 30.5 cm (12″) in height
- ATLAS and P-body each need 1 x CR2 battery to power their Optical Sensor light-up feature
- Portal Devices need 2 x AG4 batteries
- Each character comes with their own Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device
- The Portal Devices are removable and not permanently attached to the characters
- Each character features illuminated Optical Sensor displays with animated boot-up sequence
- Both figures feature torso sections that are removable from their bodies
- The eyelids on each character can be manually opened or closed to create different expressions
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Description for Georgetown by American Rug Craftsmen
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- Actual Construction: Woven
- Actual Design Pattern: Floral
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Area rugs should be spot cleaned with a solution of mild detergent and water or clean professionally. Regular vacuuming helps rugs remain attractive and serviceable.
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Once, just once, I wish politicians would leave the prose and symbolism to the fiction writers.
Not that I was expecting any different, but as I watched Mitt Romney accept the Republican nomination, I heard bold talk and big promises.
It is a narrative, plain and simple, an entertaining one perhaps, but one that I fear will do little to make things better for Main Street.
Small businesses are and should be the centerpiece of our country, and so I appreciate Romney's efforts to put them at the center of his campaign.
But if he thinks reducing the size of our government alone will allow them to thrive, than either he is naive, or even he doesn't believe his own talking points and just thinks we are all idiots.
I have my doubts about the President as well, and I suspect that when Barack Obama takes the stage in Charlotte this week, that while the message will be different, the rhetoric will be just as loud.
Here is the fatal flaw with Romney's 'get government out of the way' approach to housing and commerce.
Government really hasn't been in the way. Banks have been running wild lately, with few checks and balances put in their way.
Obama's administration has left the banks to their own devices, more often than not, and has yet to really lay the hammer down.
And that was when our government was supposed to be keeping their eye on Wall Street.
So is Romney going to remove all pretense, and just shut his eyes as big business is left to keep making its own rules?
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Here's some video I shot with my new camera. Most of these were in the 390-420' range, which is a pretty decent step for me. I have problems with nose down, which I'm working on, and I don't get my weight forward as much as I'd like, but both of those are related to physical problems rather than form things, so tell me what I'm still doing wrong I guess. I'm throwing mostly Teebirds in this, with a Destroyer mixed in for fun.
And another, slower one from the front:
EDIT 6-09 video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yN9lX_S84 more distance, due to tighter pull, more nose-down, still need to work on hip rotation and facing the target before/at the throw.


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Remember Those Classic Pinball Machines from Your Teen Years? Well, They're Still Out There, and They're for Sale
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Your eyes follow the silver steel ball as it careens around the playfield, diving down an alley, ricocheting off a bumper. Voices boom out of the speakers, guiding you as you send the ball up ramps and through gates. Lights flash on, revealing TRIPLE SCORE and EXTRA BALL, and quickly, teasingly flash off again. The score continues to mount as you send the ball back into the game with the smack of a flipper. Extraneous noises and distractions fade into the background. Now there are no deadlines, no bills, no career pressures. It's just you and the game. You're playing pinball.
The pinball obsession has gripped the United States (and a surprising number of other countries) since its explosive birth in the 1930s. In the past 65 years, pinball has gone from a simple marble game to the classic wood-railed beauty of the 1950s to the solid-state, digitized, multileveled, maddening machine that it is today.
The financial impact of that appeal is considerable. In 1994, pinball made up roughly 38 percent, about $3 billion, of the $8 billion-a-year U.S. coin-operated amusements industry (video took about 45 percent and the remainder went to skee ball, arcade baseball and the like). By comparison, the U.S. film industry grossed about $5.4 billion in 1994. But pinball reached its billions a quarter at a time.
A lot of these quarters didn't come from kids. Wander into New York City's Broadway Arcade any weekday evening, and you're as likely to see men in suits--lawyers, corporate executives, Wall Street brokers, Madison Avenue ad men--at the machines as well as kids in baggy jeans. (Although increasing numbers of women are playing pinball, it is still a male-dominated pursuit.)
But the action isn't just in the arcades and bars. The number of private pinball collectors is growing. For surprisingly reasonable prices (about $350 to $500 on average for a restored machine), pinball collectors, predominantly men between the ages of 25 and 55, are buying the machines they remember from childhood summers at the beach arcades, teen years at the local pizza joint or their college nights at the student pub. Whether they're searching out machines from their youth or gathering particular genres of pinball history, an estimated 2,000 to 5,000 collectors worldwide have created an expanding subculture, complete with books, magazines, conventions, clubs, competitions and Internet sites, all dedicated to the pursuit of the silver ball.
What is the appeal of that 2.8 ounce, 1 1/16-inch-diameter steel ball? Ask 10 collectors and you'll get as many different answers.
"Pinball gives three things Americans demand: instant gratification, fast response and aesthetics," says Richard Bueschel, a collector and author in the Chicago suburb of Mt. Prospect. "There might have been a pinball machine named Siesta," he says with a laugh, "but I can't think of it." (Bueschel, a historian of pinball and other coin-operated machines, is writing The Encyclopedia of Pinball. Volume one is due out in November.)
To Sarasota, Florida, physician and cigar aficionado Randy Silverstine, owner of about 120 machines, pinball's appeal is in its individuality. "Most lay people think, 'Pinball is pinball,'" he says. "They don't necessarily care which machine they put their money into. But each machine has its own personality; it plays differently, for collectors and others who play a lot of pinball."
Tim Arnold stopped counting when his collection of pinball machines topped 1,000. "It's beyond a hobby," he says. "It's a sickness." A former owner of amusement arcades near Lansing, Michigan, Arnold decided to keep his old pinball machines rather than accept the "insulting" $50 a piece offered in trade by dealers of the new machines. He bought a building and started stacking--and the machines added up. "The floors were sagging, the back wall was ready to come down," Arnold recalls. "There was stuff back there that I didn't even know I had." It took him about two years during the early 1990s to move his collection from Michigan to a specially built aircraft hangar behind his new home in Las Vegas.
For Roger Sharpe, director of licensing for WMS Games Inc., parent company of pinball and amusements giant Williams Bally/Midway, pinball's appeal is metaphysical: "In pinball, I am the mad scientist. I am the one that's creating those things and getting the thing to reach out or the Borg ship to fire back at me in Star Trek: The Next Generation. I am the one who's effecting what is happening, what's taking place. That's the part that's magical."
Sitting in his office at the Williams factory in Chicago, surrounded by pinball artwork and plastic figures of comic book characters, Sharpe, 47, warms to his subject. "We look at the brave new world of interactive entertainment with its 'total immersion.' What's more immersive than being in a pinball machine? If you're really at one with the game, if you're really in sync, or as an old buddy of mine once said in Sports Illustrated, if you're really in 'the zone,' you are the pinball machine. There's no two ways about it. For that 10 seconds or 20 seconds or a minute, where everything is just kind of clicking, there's no difference between you and the game. Both of you have the same rhythm; it's almost as if both of you have the same heartbeat. So if you could lose yourself in that world, in that reality, you don't need a headset."
Pinball as we know it today is a Chicago-born child of the Great Depression, but its ancestry lies in an eighteenth century parlor game of the French nobility called bagatelle. Using a small cue, or pusher, on a slanted table, players shot balls into holes on the playfield. When French soldiers crossed the Atlantic in the early 1780s to aid the American colonists in their revolution, they brought their bagatelles with them.
The game caught on, and for the next century, bagatelle and its variations would spread with American expansion to saloons and drawing rooms across the continent. (An 1862 political cartoon showed President Lincoln playing bagatelle in a sleazy saloon.) In 1870 a toy manufacturer in Cincinnati named Montague Redgrave brought bagatelle to the next level, replacing the cue with a spring plunger. Bagatelles for adults, and smaller versions for children (the plastic marble games you played as a child were a type of bagatelle) proliferated into the next century. But it took a worldwide economic collapse before bagatelle truly took off.
The year was 1931. The United States was in the depths of the Depression; breadlines and unemployment were the norm. But one industry was about to explode. In Youngstown, Ohio, a small company called Automatic Industries created a coin-operated bagatelle known as Whiffle Board (then known as a marble or "pin" game, for the pins surrounding the scoring holes), while Chicago's In & Out-Door Games Company Inc. presented the Whoopee Game. They were a hit, but the Whoopee, at $175, was prohibitively expensive. Later that year in a Chicago garage, a man named David Gottlieb and his family created a colorful marble game at one-tenth the price, called Baffle Ball.
What was once a fad became a phenomenon. For $17.50, druggists and tobacconists, barkeeps and barbers could buy a countertop-sized Baffle Ball that, at seven balls for a penny, often paid for itself within three or four days. "All of these other businesses were failing, but the people buying these machines, their problem was that they couldn't lift the machines because they were so full of pennies," says Mark Houk, who is filming a documentary on pinball with his partner, Howard Cook, and their Revere, Massachusetts-based production company, ESS Productions. "Everybody was out of work and out of luck, and here is this little device on a drugstore counter, and for a penny you could forget you were unemployed and just play your troubles away." The game's appeal was not lost on the literati of the time. In William Saroyan's 1939 play, The Time of Your Life, a "marble game addict" named Willie spends the entire drama trying to defeat a pin game in a man versus machine parable. In the end, he succeeds.
Baffle Ball sold 50,000 units in less than six months and set Gott-lieb on the financial path that would make his name synonymous with pinball; but he couldn't make nearly enough Baffle Balls to meet the overwhelming demand. Tired of the back orders, Gottlieb distributor Ray Moloney introduced a game at the 1932 Chicago Coin Machine Exposition that raised the stakes. It was called Ballyhoo, taking its name and design from a popular magazine of its day. The game was flashy, it had a hugely successful promotional campaign, it even had a jingle: "What'll you do in '32, Ballyhoo!"--and in the depths of the Depression 75,000 machines were sold in seven months. The company that grew from Ballyhoo took its name from the game, becoming the amusements giant Bally.
With the incredible success of these games, the pinball industry exploded. Home to the majority of manufacturers, Chicago became the pinball capital of the world, a title it still holds. By the end of 1932, there were about 150 pinball manufacturers (many of them one- or two-man operations), creating hundreds of different games. The competition was fierce, with companies stealing ideas from each other faster than you could say "patent lawsuit." Of the 150 manufacturers in business in 1932, only 14 survived to 1934.
The more successful firms offered innovations in sound, electricity, artwork and game design at a dizzying pace. Electricity, lighted backglasses, plastic bumpers and legs for the countertop machines were all in use by 1937. A young California game designer named Harry Williams (who in 1942 founded the firm that thrives today as Williams Electronics Inc., parent company of WMS Games) created the infamous tilt device in 1932--a ball on a pedestal that, when disturbed, would fall on a metal ring and stop play. Williams soon improved on his tilt with a pendulum device that is still in use today.
While many machines offered exciting new features, it was Bally's Bumper in 1937 that revolutionized pinball. On that model, the company replaced the playfield's pins and scoring holes with electrified bumpers that racked up points when hit by the ball.
To attract the attention of players and operators in a glutted market, some pinball manufacturers turned to machines that offered payouts to high-scoring (and high-paying) players in the form of returned nickels, or tickets and tokens redeemable by the operator. By the mid-1930s, lawmakers in cities and towns across the United States began to view pinball as a threat, claiming that the machines amounted to gambling. Even Hollywood got involved. In the 1936 Warner Brothers gangster film Bullets or Ballots, Humphrey Bogart played a lowlife who forced pinball machines on helpless owners of mom-and-pop stores.
Municipalities around the United States began banning "payout" pinball, in which an increase in coins played increased a player's possible return. Many cities banned pinball altogether rather than bothering to distinguish between payout and amusement versions. In 1941, New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia delighted in photo opportunities in which he would smash machines with a sledgehammer or watch as they were dumped into the East River. By 1942, pinball was banned in Los Angeles, New York and, in painful irony, its birthplace of Chicago. It was a ban that would last for at least 30 years.
Production of new games was suspended during the Second World War, with pinball factories turning out aircraft parts and ammunition. A few entrepreneurs refitted old games, often with patriotic motifs--targets picturing Hitler and Tojo were popular. But at war's end, pinball was again off and running.
The game took a great leap forward one day in 1947, when a D. Gottlieb & Co. designer named Harry Mabs, working on a spring bumper, accidentally touched two wires together. The bumper jumped. Recognizing the potential of his discovery, Mabs created a swinging bumper, similar to the bats of arcade baseball games, that was activated with the press of a button. Three pairs of his first "flipper bumpers," as he called them, went into Gottlieb's 1947 Humpty Dumpty, and with it, Mabs turned a game of chance into a game of skill. No longer did players have to watch helplessly as the ball rolled to its inevitable "draining," that is, out of play. Although the flippers on Humpty Dumpty and other early games faced out, not in, and were placed in the middle of the game, the idea caught on instantly. Flipperless games disappeared from the market. On a 1948 machine called Triple Action, Genco designer Steve Kordek added power to the flippers and moved them to the bottom of the game, where they are still placed today.
The decade from 1948 to 1958 is known as pinball's "golden age," when pinball giants Gottlieb and Williams battled it out and a number of smaller firms--Genco, Chicago Coin, Marvel Manufacturing and United--contributed a few games of their own. Gottlieb controlled about 70 percent of the market during the 1950s, averaging a new machine every three weeks (compared to today's pinball manufacturer's average of about four a year). It was a time when pinball reached new heights of backglass artwork and game design.
"Gottlieb, far and away, was the Cadillac of the industry," says collector Gordon Hasse Jr., an ad agency senior vice president in New York City and owner of more than 100 Gottlieb pinball machines from that era. "It was a combination of superior artwork and superior design. The guy who was designing for Gottlieb through most of the '50s was a gentleman by the name of Wayne Neyens. He was probably the industry's primo designer, certainly at that time, and probably of any time. The collaboration between Neyens and the artist, Leroy Parker, was the most incredible and productive of any in the history of the game."
Yet even during its golden age, pinball had its detractors. "Bingo" pinballs offering replays angered lawmakers, who believed the games were created to dodge federal antigambling laws on payout pinball. On some machines, the player could win up to 999 free games in an afternoon, which operators thoughtfully redeemed for cash. Clergymen and mothers spoke out against the evils of pinball, noting the unsavory locations where machines were often found, such as pool halls and bars, and decrying the dangers of teenage boys wasting their time and money in front of machines that frequently featured scantily clad, busty women. What's more, pinball also had to compete with the latest fads, such as drive-in movies, coin-operated shuffle alleys and the resurgence of bowling.
The industry responded in the 1960s with new enticements for the player: an add-a-ball feature (which gave high scorers extra balls instead of extra games, satisfying players and lawmakers alike, if not the clergy), drop targets, spinning targets, score-to-beat counters, mushroom bumpers and other innovations. Bally, dormant through the 1950s, returned with a series of innovative games in the late 1960s.
The game received a huge boost in 1969, when The Who released the world's first rock opera: the story of a pinball wizard named Tommy. When the album was made into a movie in 1975, pinball soared once more. (The two games used in the film--Elton John played a 1965 Gottlieb Buckaroo and Roger Daltrey had "such a soulful wrist" on a 1965 Gottlieb Kings and Queens--and the two games inspired by the movie, Bally's Wizard (1975) and Captain Fantastic (1976) have all become hot collectibles.) In 1975, pinball was grossing 80 percent of the coin-op amusement industry income.
The following year, a pinball fan in New York City celebrated America's bicentennial with a little revolution of his own. "I grew up in Chicago and never played pinball," Roger Sharpe recalls. "You had all the manufacturers based in Chicago, providing thousands of jobs and considerable revenue, yet you couldn't play the game. It was kind of like not allowing people to drive cars in Detroit, or god forbid you ate cereal in Battle Creek." As an adult, Sharpe would have the last laugh. Testifying before the New York City Council at a hearing on pinball in April 1976, Sharpe, then a 27-year-old magazine editor in Manhattan, played three balls on a Gottlieb Bankshot, explaining to his audience as he played how pinball was a game of skill, not of chance. Then he took a gamble--the pinball world's equivalent of Babe Ruth's legendary called home run in the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.
Sharpe tells what happened next: "'Even down to this plunger,' I told them, 'there's skill. If I pull this back the right way, I should be able to send the ball into the middle slot.' I actually specified a lane, which, in retrospect, I probably should not have done. I pulled back the plunger, and wouldn't you know, boom boom, it went straight down where I had said [it would go]. These people kind of threw up their hands and said, 'All right. Enough. Fine, thanks.'"
The council reinstated pinball in New York City that summer and Chicago followed suit a few months later. (Los Angeles had legalized pinball in 1972.) After nearly 35 years, it had taken a Chicago native son to bring pinball home again.
At the same time, pinball was undergoing its own revolution. The mid-'70s saw the introduction of solid-state pinball machines. The numerous advantages of solid-state circuitry, with its ability to create sound and more sophisticated playfield action, increase machine memory, produce cost savings in design and construction and (usually) effect greater machine reliability, led to the twilight of pinball's 40 years of electromechanicals.
But the computer revolution was a two-edged sword. While pinball was going high-tech, the greatest threat in its history was invading arcades in the guise of digital space ships and dot-chomping circles. Video games had arrived.
The Pac-Mans, Space Invaders, Asteroids and other video games of the early '80s dealt a staggering blow to the pinball industry. Pinball creators fought back with increasingly innovative game designs, even borrowing concepts from video games, but to no avail. By 1984, pinball's 80 percent share of the amusements market had plummeted to 5 percent. To nonbelievers, the game seemed doomed to pop culture's scrap heap.
But, again, pinball came back. By 1992, players were feeding $2.5 billion into pinball games in the United States; overseas markets added $10 billion. (Sixty percent of the pinball production in the United States--the only nation making pinballs today--is exported.)
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November ethanol exports were a new monthly record of 152.2 million gallons, according to U.S. government calculations. The destination for nearly half of the November shipment of U.S. ethanol was Brazil, which is a country that has always been the demon blamed for why the U.S. has had to have an import tariff to protect the U.S. ethanol industry.
It is hard to understand why the U.S. ethanol industry needs any type of protection in the form of tariff or otherwise. I can understand tax and tariff protection when the ethanol industry was struggling to get its footing, but the ethanol industry needs no protection now. What the country needs is a mandate that the ethanol produced in the U.S. goes into 15 percent, 30 percent and 85 percent ethanol mix fuels.
"American ethanol producers are the lowest cost provider of motor fuel today and have ample supplies available to help meet ethanol demand around the globe. While the preference for American producers would be to use more ethanol domestically through use of higher ethanol blends like E15, E30 and E85, overseas markets will remain a viable and important part of America's ethanol industry," said Geoff Cooper, vice president of research and analysis at the Renewable Fuels Association.
Let's see more effort in countering the petroleum lobbyists and others that don't want ethanol to take more of the U.S. fuel market.
When the corn ethanol industry first began, corn farmers saw the potential market for their grain production and they invested in the new ethanol industry. Government assistance was justified to get the industry on its feet.
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My friend worked hard while unemployed to advertise his photography business and build his business so that when his unemployment payments ended, he was ready to go full time with his photography business, which was quickly successful. The unemployment assistance helped my friend get through that start-up period when many businesses fail.
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Vegan Brownie (from Allrecipes.com) – makes 242 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
2 cups white sugar
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup water – I used 1 1/2 cups of soy milk1 cup vegetable oil – I used 1/2 cup1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a large bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt. Pour in water, vegetable oil and vanilla; mix until well blended. Spread evenly in a 9×13 inch baking pan.
Bake for 25 to 30 minutes in the preheated oven, until the top is no longer shiny. Let cool for at least 10 minutes before cutting into squares.
I wanted to add some nuts to some of the brownies, so I decided to add nuts to 1/3, swirled chocolate/PB chocolate chips to 1/3 and left 1/3 plain. Hubby liked the ones with the PB/choco-chips best. I liked the plain ones best.
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text: OverviewBack to top Vita Coco - Coconut Water 330 ml. Tangerine - 11.1 oz. Item# :100653UPC# :898999000404 Brand:Vita Coco Size/Form:11.10 oz. Servings:1 Flavor:Tangerine Vita Coco Coconut Water With Tangerine (330 ml) Hydration 101 While other beverages claim to be the before, during, and after sports hydrator, Vita Coco doesn't. Sure, Vita Coco Coconut Water has more than 15 times the electrolytes found in sports drinks and is as natural as natural gets (some say it's just like sticking a straw in a coconut). Vita Coco is about hydration, and hydration is important no matter what you do. It's okay if you're not a marathon runner, a football player, or a Tour de France winner. Life is hectic enough, and you should be hydrated while you live it. Go ahead, get hydrated with Vita Coco Coconut Water and remember that life is a sport. Never call them "baby oranges." Vita Coco would like to go on record as saying that tangerines are not the same as oranges. If they were then they'd be called "baby oranges" and they'd be called cute. But, there's nothing cute about tangerines…they should be taken seriously. After all, tangerines have all the vitamin C of an orange without the acidity, making them kinder on the stomach. See, tangerines deserve some credit too. Thanks for hearing Vita Coco out…stay tuned for the next discussion: "oranges, friend or foe?" Stay hydrated and enjoy. What kind of coconuts does Vita Coco use?Only green coconuts! Most people don't realize there is an enormous difference between green coconuts and the brown coconuts we're used to seeing at the grocery story, and in most pop culture imagery. Green coconuts have all the nutrition and healthful benefits. Vita Coco harvests green coconuts in the north of Brazil, in a farm near Fortaleza. The average age of the coconut is about 7 months, the best age to extract sweet coconut water that is fat-free (before the coconut ages, turns brown and the water turns to hardened "meat" – fat city!). Does Vita Coco pasteurize this product?Yes, Vita Coco uses a flash pasteurization process. Vita Coco's machinery uses a patented method to extract the coconut water then filters and flash pasteurizes it at 120° for two seconds before packaging the water in its aseptic Tetra Pak package. (As per FDA guidelines, flash pasteurization is mandatory for bottled beverages.) Only Tetra Pak can stabilize and give the coconut water a shelf life of 12 months, allowing us to keep it 100% natural – no additives, no preservatives, and all the healthful benefits. Can women who are pregnant drink Vita Coco?Yes, because it is pasteurized. Many doctors suggest that pregnant women drink coconut water regularly, since it has so many nutritional benefits. Coconut water contains high levels of lauric acid, what the body uses to make monolaurin, a disease-fighting fatty acid derivative. Lauric acid has anti-fungal, anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties that protect the body against various infections and boost the immune system. Is there added sugar in Vita Coco?No, there is no added sugar in any Vita Coco products. Is your beverage organic and fair trade certified?No, Vita Coco is not certified organic…yet. However it is 100% natural and Vita Coco can assure you their beverages include only fresh and natural ingredients, and no additives or preservatives. Is Vita Coco kosher?Yes, Vita Coco is kosher and is Star-K certified. How long after I open the 11.2 ounce (330 ml) Vita Coco does it stay fresh?No more than 24 hours! Vita Coco suggests that once you open this size Vita Coco, you should drink it immediately. But if you don't finish it, put in the fridge for no more than a day. How long after I open the 17 ounce (500 ml) or 1 liter does it stay fresh?You've got a little longer with Vita Coco's re-sealable sizes: up to 48 hours. Does Vita Coco need to be refrigerated when unopened?No, because of the Tetra Pak process, Vita Coco does not need to be refrigerated prior to opening, however Vita Coco suggests you drink Vita Coco chilled! Helps keep the body cool and at the proper temperature.Translation: Now when you get noticed it's not 'cause you're sweaty and gross. Promotes weight loss.Translation: You still have to cut back on the fried chicken and hit the treadmill, but we're there for you to enhance your diet program. Helps carry nutrients and oxygen to cells and boosts poor circulation.Translation: See, everyone needs a boost from time to time. Regulates the function of the intestine, helping promote smoother skin.Translation: Doing something good for your insides can make you prettier outside! But you still need to wash your face properly, exfoliate and moisturize (don't forget the SPF). Helps replenish your body's fluids after exercising.Translation:Your body needs plenty of fluids after the gym. Fluids free of barley and hops. Go figure. Helps detoxify your body and boost your immune system.Translation: Keeps your immune system tough. Grr. And, yells at viruses to back off. "Back off viruses!" Helps ease stomach pains.Translation: Calms your stomach, unlike your in-laws' chili cookoff. Q & A With Michael Kirban Vita Coco speaks with Michael Kirban, the co-founder of Vita Coco, and one half of the team responsible for creating the fresh coconut water category in the beverage aisle. Now, almost five years after a breakneck schedule putting Vita Coco together, he answers a few questions. Why do you think Vita Coco has been so popular?MK: It's an authentic brand that delivers what it promises. Consumers have connected to the simplicity and purity of the beverages, and have seen its efficacy as a hydrator. It all lends to strong word-of-mouth and brand loyalty. Vita Coco is almost five years old. What's next for the brand?MK: We're still focused on creating drinks in new flavors (we've got six, and counting) as well as exploring new food and consumer concepts that incorporate fresh coconut water. In the fall, you'll be seeing the "beauty" of Vita Coco in a new product! I can't say much more now. What's Vita Coco's most popular flavor?MK: Pineapple… still! It's been our best-selling flavor since we created it. The Acai & Pomegranate flavor is becoming quite popular too, but nothing outsells our original, 100% Pure flavor. What are the big trends today in beverages?MK: Consumers want function, flavor and simplicity. This has been the ongoing trend since carbonated beverages peaked a few years ago and we're still seeing it. Consumers want to know a beverage is good for them, and see the positive results of that goodness. Flavor is personal, of course. Simplicity has been one of the big secrets to Vita Coco's success and the success of other beverages that have sold well: consumers want cleaner, better tasting beverages with fewer ingredients and additives.


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Here's a cool Midi feature you may have missed in Ableton Live. It's called "Stretch Notes" and I've been using it lately. Double click a Midi Clip to show it's contents in the Clip View (the bottom right panel of the Ableton Live interface). Select all or multiple notes and then either Right Click or Apple Click to open the Contextual Menu and choose "Stretch Notes". Now two handles pop up which you can drag left or right. As you move the handles the notes shrink or lengthen. Cool and easy no?
When multiple notes are selected in the Note Editor, the Stretch Notes command becomes available from the context menu. Note Stretch markers will then appear in the Note Editor, allowing notes to be scaled proportionally in time. The markers are a pair of downward-pointing indicators that snap to the beginning of the first and last notes in the selection. – Ableton Live User Manual
Here's an example how I used it in a song. In my song "You Are Disturbing" there is a melody that plays over and over as the chorus. At one point in the song after I say the lyrics "What are the things you like sexually" the same melody plays using TC Powercore's Roland SH-101 emulator Powercore01 but at double speed. I did this using the Stretch Notes feature:
There is an interesting video by Andreas Wetterberg called "Phase music with Ableton Live" where he uses the Stretch Notes feature to create an entire song. Check it out: click here
I hope this tip inspired you. Oh yeah… try it on some drum loops!


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Dirty Barry is Kung Fu Super Cop. Keeping the streets of San Francisco safe. At night he fights crime, by day he is a mild mannered janitor. On patrol in the dark, dangerous alleys with his Nunchuks at the ready or speeding to the rescue in his yellow and black mustang. Do you feel lucky punk? well do ya? It's the 1970's and the villains have control of the city, ordinary cops run and hide, afraid for their lives. Who can they turn to for help….Kung Fu Super Cop….Hi Yaaaa!!
Ideal for cartoons, games, comedy sketches, background, pastiche work. It has a light hearted, fun vibe that tells a story.
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Touching Base: A Message from the ChiefNovember 18, 2012Dear Community and Department Personnel:
Save the Date:
On Sunday, December 2 from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m., Villa
Esperanza Service is hosting its 4th Annual Deck the Villa Volunteer
Event. Join Villa's very special adult residents and help decorate their homes
for the holidays. Villa is trimming the tree, stringing lights, and
enjoying cookies and hot chocolate. Space is limited, so please RSVP to Vanessa
Voors at (626) 499-2919 ext. 168, or email@example.com.
Our Community:
On November 8, Pasadena Police Lieutenant Cheryl
Moody and Administrator Karen Peterson attended Councilmember Jacque
Robinson's Neighborhood Meeting, which was held in the Cleveland Elementary
School Auditorium. Cheryl and Karen discussed public safety issues,
neighborhood crime, and the police department's communication services.
On November 8, I received an email from Ms. Laura
Zeronian (parent and community member) commending Pasadena Police Officers Derek
Locklin and Thomas Blanchard for facilitating "Every 15 Minutes
(E15M)," which is an educational program focused on the consequences associated
with driving while intoxicated. Derek and Thomas are the lead officers
responsible for coordinating this elaborate program where students serve as the
actors and role-players. This year, E15M was hosted at Marshall
Fundamental High School. Marshall Senior Amy Zeronian participated as a
student actor. According to Laura, the program had a tremendous
(positive) impact on Amy. She wrote about her E15M experience as part of
her college application. Amy will be attending Belmont University (Nashville,
TN) and received a NCAA Softball scholarship. It is indeed gratifying to know
that E15M has had a positive impact on our young drivers and that Amy made the
best of her experience.
On November 11, Pasadena Police Sergeant Ed
Calatayud attended the American Legion Post #280 annual Flag Dedication and
Disposal ceremony. There were several men and women present at the event
representing all branches of the armed forces, current and retired, as well as
families of those lost in war time. A United States flag was retired and
dedicated on behalf of the Pasadena Police Department in honor of the men and
women of law enforcement who have given the ultimate sacrifice in service to
our country and in recognition of those who served in the past and who are
currently serving.
On November 13, Commander John Perez and I
attended a community meeting hosted by the Flintridge Center to discuss the
recent shootings in Northwest Pasadena. The meeting was well attended and
I discussed the proactive strategies currently being utilized by the Pasadena
Police Department to mitigate the violence. In an attempt to address the
shootings, I have authorized the use of extra patrols in the Northwest. These
extra patrols have resulted in several arrests, including three suspects who
were armed with firearms. It is currently unknown if the suspects and/or the
firearms were involved in the recent shootings. Additionally, Pasadena Police
Detectives are interviewing victims, witnesses, and other community members who
were at or near the shootings when they occurred. Unfortunately, my detectives
have encountered some uncooperative victims and/or witnesses; however, they
will continue to work hard in an effort to identify the suspects responsible
for the shootings. If you have any information about the shootings, please call
the Pasadena Police Department at (626) 744-4241, or you can report your
information anonymously by using CRIME STOPPERS (800) 222-8477.
On November 13, I stopped by the Opus Bank to see the
artwork presented by students from Eliot Middle School and John Muir High
School as part of Room 13 program. Opus Bank hosted the event allowing
students to display their artwork in the lobby. Mayor Bill Bogaard
also attended and provided a few brief remarks commending the students and the
Room 13 art program. Special thanks to Opus Bank Vice President, Retail
Banking Manger, Sandra D'Arnato Flores, and Light Bringer Project
Manager, Kelly Phillips.
On November 13, Commander Chris Russ,
Lieutenant Pete Hettema, and I attended Councilmember Gene Masuda District
4 Town Hall Meeting. The meeting was held at A Noise Within Theatre and
was well attended. I talked about public safety issues, crime, parole reentry,
and homelessness. District 4 Field Representative, Noreen Sullivan,
and Pasadena Public Health Director, Dr. Eric Walsh, were also at the
Pasadena's Finest:
On November 15, Lieutenant Jari Faulkner retired
after serving the community of Pasadena for more than 28 years. Jari
experienced many challenges and opportunities in her career. She served
with honor, courage, integrity, and passion. I thought it might be
interesting for you to read about her career and the path she traveled over
nearly three decades.
Lieutenant Jari Faulkner was raised in Altadena where she
currently resides. She graduated from John Muir High School, attended
Pasadena City College where she earned her AA Degree in Administration of
Justice. With a thirst for knowledge, Jari later earned her Bachelors and
Master's Degrees from the University of La Verne in Public Administration. Jari
began her career as a Pasadena Police officer in September 1984 after
graduating from the Rio Hondo Police Academy (she was a pre-service
cadet). Jari felt right at home at the police department since her mother,
Ruth Bryant, also worked at the agency as a Police Clerk (1969 – 1995).
Throughout the years, Jari worked a variety of
assignments. She was particularly fond and proud of her work in the
Community Services Section, working with local Pasadena youth. She helped
to expand the Youth Advisor Program (YAP) and created a strong relationship
with the Pasadena schools. As Jari's students grew into adulthood, she
maintained contact with them, which is a tribute to the positive impact Jari
has on their lives. Jari is credited with helping start the Pasadena Police
Activities League (PAL). Later, she developed the Pasadena Police Park
Safety Specialist Unit, which remains an effective workgroup in the
Jari has been a board member for the Salvation Army, a
member of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE)
and the Pasadena Police Department's Peer Counseling Team. She was a
mentor for the Youth of Promise Mentoring Program and served on the Chandler
School Board of Trustees. Jari is a certified leadership coach attending the
Steven Covey Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was also certified
through a Self-Management Coaching, which is an internationally known consulting
and coaching firm.
In retirement, Jari plans to continue coaching, but more
importantly, she plans to spend much more time with her husband, Jerry (a
retired police captain) and children, Tyler and Payton.
On a personal note, it was a privilege to work with and
learn from Lieutenant Jari Faulkner. She is an extraordinary woman and
possesses many attributes. Jari's passion and courage helped her bridge
gender gaps that were prevalent throughout the law enforcement community when
she entered the profession. She is bright, committed, and her smile is
infectious. Her retirement dinner, attended by more than a hundred
current and retired employees, community members and friends, was a tribute to
a successful career and the impact she had on the Pasadena Police
Department. Jari will be missed within the ranks of PPD. I suspect;
however, her positive contributions in our community will not diminish.
Critical Incidents:
On May 25, a family was returning from an evening out
with relatives. They stopped their vehicle at the intersection of Daveric Drive
and Alegria Street, when the drive of a white Nissan Altima blocked their
path. Two suspects exited the Nissan and approached the victims still
seated in their car. The suspects produced handguns and robbed the
victims at gun point. Fearing for their safety, the victims surrendered
their valuables. The suspects returned to their car and fled the
area. Pasadena Police officers and Forensic Technician Brogdon
responded to the scene to conduct their investigation. The case was
assigned to Pasadena Police Detective David Duran. David
learned that the victim's credit cards, which were stolen in the robbery, were
used at two Pasadena businesses. David obtained additional evidence and
with the assistance of several patrol officers, identified the person using the
stolen credit cards. David completed his investigation and presented the case
to the Office of the Pasadena Prosecutor. After filing the case, an
arrest warrant was secured for the suspect. Evidence collected from the
victim's vehicle by ID Tech Brogdon was submitted to the crime lab, which led
to the identification of the robbery suspect.
On November 8, David secured a search warrant for the
suspect's residence. On November 13, Pasadena Robbery Investigators
(David Duran, Carolyn Gordon, Derrick Carter, and Sergeant
David Reavis) and detectives from the Special Investigation Unit
(SIU) and the West San Gabriel Valley Anti-Crime Team (WSGV-ACT)
arrested the robbery suspect without incident. The investigators and
detectives then served a search warrant at the suspect's residence, where they
recovered a handgun which is similar to the description of the weapon used in
the initial robbery. The case was presented to the Los Angeles County District
Attorney's Office, and several felony charges were filed. The DA's office also
filed this case as a third strike against the suspect due to his prior
On November 8, a residential burglary occurred in the
1500 block of Pegfair Estates. The suspects stole electronics, cameras,
and music equipment. The victim contacted a local music store outlet and
provided them with the serial numbers of the stolen instruments. As is
turns, one serial number matched a guitar that had been purchased by the music
store the same day. Detectives assigned to the West San Gabriel
Valley-Anti Crime Task Force (WSGV-ACT) began their investigation,
ultimately identifying one of three suspects involved in the Pegfair Estates
burglary. Detectives assigned to the Pasadena Police Department's Special
Investigation Unit (SIU) and WSGV-ACT arrested the suspect without
incident. Detectives later identified the remaining two suspects.
WSGV-ACT and SIU detectives secured search warrants and responded to the
suspect's residences. The detectives served the search warrants, recovered the
majority of the items stolen from the Pegfair Estates burglary, and arrested
the remaining two suspects without incident. Pasadena Police Lieutenant Tom
Delgado commands the WSGV-ACT.
On November 11 at about 4:30 p.m., Pasadena Police
officers responded to a business in the 400 block of North Fair Oaks Avenue to
investigate an armed robbery. On arrival, officers talked with the store
clerks. They told the officers that two suspects (Male Black, dark clothing,
dark gloves, and a Female Black, dark clothing, dark gloves) entered the
business near closing time. The Male Black suspect produced a handgun and
ordered the store clerks to the back of the store. The Female Black locked the
doors to the business. Both suspects then stole money and other items
before fleeing the location. If you have any information about this
incident, please call the Pasadena Police Department at (626) 744-4241, or you
can report your information anonymously by calling CRIME STOPPERS (800)
On November 11, Santa Barbara Police (SBPD) Detective
Brian Larson called the Pasadena Police Department and said a law
enforcement surveillance team was following an attempted murder suspect into
the Pasadena area and may require assistance. At about 11:30 p.m., the SBPD
surveillance team followed the suspect to an apartment in the 100 block of
Marengo Avenue. Pasadena Police Sergeant Johnny Mercado assembled
an arrest team consisting of Tom Brown, Kim Baecker, Mike Herrera, and Lynda
Mercado and responded to assist SBPD. After verifying the warrant was
valid, PPD officers contacted the suspect and arrested him without
incident. The suspect was released to the custody of SBPD.
On November 14 at about 8:00 p.m., Former Mexico
President V. Fox arrived at the Pasadena Convention Center as part of a
Speaker Series. Pasadena police developed a contingency response plan
after receiving information that protestors would be present. The
protestors engaged the officers by attempting to pass their security line and
unlawfully enter the convention center. When the protesters failed to heed to
verbal commands, the officers attempted to contact the primary agitator, which
resulted in an attack by nearby protestors. Several officers were punched and
kicked before the crowd could be controlled. The incident resulted in the
arrest of about six protestors for a variety of charges. The suspects were
transported to the Pasadena jail and later booked.
On November 17 at about 4:00 p.m. two Pasadena Police
helicopters were involved in an incident where their rotator blades were
believed to have touched during a maneuver at the police heliport. The
aircrews, five police officers and one civilian observer, sustained minor
injuries and were transported to local area hospitals by the Pasadena Fire
Department. The injured offices and the involved civilian were later
released from the hospitals and taken home by family members, friends or police
personnel. Both helicopters sustained extensive damage. The National
Transportation Safety Board will investigate.
Phillip L. SanchezChief of PolicePasadena Police Department207 N. Garfield AvenuePasadena, CA 91101(626) 744-4545Mission First, People Always