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Park grounds are open sunrise to sunset.
Visitor Center open Friday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
William B. Ide Adobe State Historic Park
In an effort to prevent visitation surges and help stop the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), State Parks has implemented the following safety measures to date:
- Closed some parks, meaning all trails and restrooms within these parks are closed.
- Closed vehicular access at remaining parks, including for off-highway vehicle riding.
- Closed all campgrounds, museums and visitor centers.
- Cancelled all events.
A list of closures is available online at parks.ca.gov/FlattenTheCurve. The list is dynamic and updated on a regular basis.
Phone Number
(530) 529-8599
Park Hours
Park grounds are open sunrise to sunset.
Driving Directions to William B. Ide Adobe SHPThe park is located in Red Bluff, a small town approximately 25 miles south of Redding. From Interstate 5, exit at Adobe Road. Turn east on Adobe Road, and travel one mile. The park will be on the right at 21659 Adobe Road.
Online reservations are not available for this park.
Upcoming Park Events
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Interpretive Exhibits
Nature & Wildlife Viewing
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Drinking Water Available
In an effort to protect public health and the safety of our visitors, volunteers and staff as the state responds to the continued threat of COVID-19, California State Parks is temporarily closing the visitor center at William B. Ide Adobe State Historic Park. While we are not directly affected by COVID-19, we are monitoring the situation carefully and are committed to being responsive and following California Governor's updated policy on social gatherings to help slow the spread of COVID-19. The park will remain open for all other activities such as day use and hiking. We recognize the importance of visiting William B. Ide Adobe State Historic Park represents an opportunity to get outdoors and enjoy fresh air with family and friends and escape from our daily routines. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause your visit. We thank you for your patience, trust and continued support. We'd also like to thank our volunteers and staff for their commitment and dedication as public servants through these challenging circumstances. For the most up-to-date information, please follow our park webpage at www.parks.ca.gov.
Ide Adobe has an opportunity for you to volunteer while enjoying the park and meeting new people. The camp host duties included generally 20 hours a week of:
- Updating staff on park visitation and maintenance needs.
- Maintaining restrooms and removing garbage.
- Providing basic park security.
- Providing basic information to visitors.
- Staying on site during peak days and hours of visitation.
- Helping operate the Visitor Center.
- Providing support for interpretive activities.
For more questions or to apply please call or email:
Kirk Coon, Supervising State Park Ranger
William B. Ide wrote the proclamation that established the short-lived California Bear Republic in 1846. It lasted 22 days. Ide recognized the opportunities available to him in the West and as a surveyor, miner, treasurer, district attorney, deputy clerk, and judge, provided support and leadership to this northern part of California. While the park memorializes Ide's role in early California history, recent research has shown he never owned the property.
Like William B. Ide, pioneer settlers at Adobe Ranch arrived in California envisioning opportunities. Facing hardships and challenges, they took advantage of the ranch's location on the river to transform the site. Contrary to the quiet, rural impression the park leaves today, the ranch's location near the California-Oregon Road and adjacent to the Sacramento River (important communication and transportation arteries) probably kept its residents well connected. During the Gold Rush and afterwards, a succession of pack-mule trains, travelers on foot, herds of cattle and sheep, freight wagons, stagecoaches and riverboats moved up and down the valley and along the river.
Depending upon the water's depth, steamboats would transport goods and passengers to the most northerly navigable point on the river. From there, they were off loaded. The property owners made the most of this location in the 1860s by establishing a ferry across the Sacramento River. Cross-country travelers depended upon ferries to make their river crossings safe and easy. Later bridges built in the area made them obsolete.
The park today reflects the hard work it took to maintain life away from California's urban centers in mid-19th century. Visitors touring the visitor center and ranch buildings will be able to learn about the special skills and work activities of California pioneers, comparing them to their own lives. Educational programs tied into school programs offer students hands-on learning experiences that emphasize the lifeways associated with the early settlers.
Enjoy a picnic overlooking the Sacramento River. The park features the old adobe home, blacksmith shop and a visitor center.
The park is located south of Redding, in Red Bluff on Adobe Road, one-half mile from Interstate 5.
Seasons/Climate/Recommended Clothing
Summer and spring are warm; fall and winter can be cool. Layered clothing is advised.
Special Events
Come visit during Adobe Day, to enjoy the period music of the Ide Adobe Players and experience "hands-on" pioneer crafts and period activities at this historic ranch and ferry crossing.
Cheer the competition at the Ide's Ferry Champion Horseshoe Pitchers Contest. It represents a period-style 1850s contest, complete with authentic attire (provided). Only amateurs or backyarders may participate! The winner takes home a gold-filled pocket watch.
The Pioneer Christmas Party is celebrated the third Saturday in December and emphasizes early holiday traditions of the north valley.
The Northern Buttes District is pleased to announce that the William B. Ide Adobe Visitor's Center Interpretive Plan is now available. The following summary document will provide the reader information about the plan. For more information, please contact the District at 530 538-2200.
View the document here.


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If the answer is "our care," ask for specifics. It is important to understand the level of care. Excellent care is expected of a healthcare community. When discussing levels of care, be sure they site examples. This helps all to understand and manage care expectations in the future. Not all senior living communities are equal. Read what senior living communities are and are not here (link to blog on Lifestyles and care levels)
Does the community have a management company?
If so, where is it located? How often do representatives from the management company visit the community? Having an involved property management company is critical to the health of the community, the caring staff, and the maintenance of the building.
Who owns the community?
This is a crucial question if not the most important. Are the owners local? Do they make regular visits? It is important to know that the owners are invested in its community.
If the above 3 questions cannot be answered, it may be time to tour another community. If they pass, let's dive in deeper.
Do you have a Registered Nurse or a Licensed Professional Nurse overseeing the healthcare program?
While Assisted Living communities do not require that an RN or LPN be in the building overnight or on weekends, they are "on call" for any needs that the residents may have. If so, what hours is she/he at the community?
Are members of the management team at the community on the weekend?
You should be able to access a member of the management team every day of the week. The management team should be aware of what is happening during the weekend.
Can you provide a copy of the latest state survey? (For Assisted Living community only)
The State Health Department survey should be readily available for assisted living and higher-level care communities. This survey provides deficiencies the state survey team found and what steps the community is taking to correct them.
Now that you are confident with the foundational questions, let's talk about the everyday. Is this a community that is everything you imagined and more? Virginia Woolf once said, "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." So, let's begin this next set of questions with dining.
Who plans the menus? How are they planned? How often are they changed: monthly, quarterly, or by season? Are the residents encouraged to make suggestions for the menu?
If residents have menu input, ask for a specific example. Be sure to get a copy of at least one monthly menu if it is available. If possible, schedule a lunch and tour so you can see for yourself!
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Ask for a copy of the latest calendar of activities and a newsletter if they have one. If a community has a way to communicate these activities to you then BONUS POINTS!
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Meeting the Executive Director and asking questions about why he/she chose this industry is important. This is the person who sets the standard for the rest of the community employment and ensures the most positive environment.
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This is their community. See what they have to say. They can give you valuable insight and potentially be a new friend and neighbor. If you don't feel comfortable doing so, ask for stories and examples that the current residents have shared with the management team about how living in this community has improved their lives.
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It's happened again. You've spent $50 at your local cheese counter, and now you've got more cheese than a human being can possibly consume in a week. How are you going to store all this cheese? Will it go bad if you don't eat it right away?
Wrapping Cheese
The good news is that many cheeses can last up to a few weeks in the refrigerator as long as they are stored properly. The goal is to let the cheese breathe while keeping it from drying out, so your best bet is to wrap it in a finely porous material, such as cheese paper, parchment paper, or breathable plastic wrap made especially for cheese. These wrappings control the amount of moisture around the surface of the cheese while still allowing oxygen to move in and out of the packaging. All of these factors make for a substantially longer lifespan in your fridge.
By itself, regular plastic wrap does not allow breathability and should not be used to wrap cheese. Cheese is a living, breathing thing, and without proper oxygen, it will suffocate. In a pinch you can use aluminum foil, but if you're a regular cheese shopper, it might be worth it to invest in some specially designed cheese paper.
That said, wrapping your cheese tightly in parchment paper and then wrapping it loosely in plastic wrap is a great way to store it. The parchment helps keep the cheese from drying out, while the loose coating of plastic holds in some moisture, allowing airflow in and around the cheese. You can also reuse the paper that your cheesemonger used.
Storage for longer than a week: It's good practice to change the wrapping occasionally to prevent errant mold and bacteria growth. Cheese likes to kept clean, just like everyone else.
Blue Cheese
Blue cheese is a little different, given that special molds are added to the curds to give them their signature spicy bite. These molds have their own special needs. If you're storing a blue variety, feel free to wrap it in aluminum foil; in fact, you might have noticed that some of the blue cheeses you buy come wrapped in foil already.
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It's a good idea to keep cheese in your crisper (the drawer in your refrigerator made to store vegetables). These little drawers are actually somewhat climate-controlled to keep your veggies fresher for longer, and they perform the same function when it comes to keeping cheese.
Most hard, aged cheeses will last up to a month when kept properly, and softer semi-firm cheeses can last up for two to three weeks if conditions are ideal. If you notice a few spots of fuzzy mold growing on your cheese, don't panic. Remember that cheese is fermented with a series of molds and bacterias, so if you notice a little patch of extra mold here or there, it's perfectly safe to scrape it off. If the cheese has been completely overtaken by mold, well, it's probably best to toss it.
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As I mentioned before, after dinner, Stefan and I snuck away briefly for a few more portraits. And where did we go? The roof of the restaurant. Talk about a cool place to escape to.
For those of you who asked, yes, we did meet in elementary school. Kindergarten, actually. In second grade we played footsie during a root beer float party at our school. In fifth grade I gave him a note with an embroidery floss bracelet and instructions to wear it if he agreed to be my "secret boyfriend". He did, but then accidentally lost the bracelet. The summer before our senior year of high school, we went on our first official date (mini-golfing and a Woody Allen movie). Our wedding day was our nine year anniversary.
You might recognize these cake toppers that I spent forever making. They were absolutely perfect for the mini cake that Canlis made us.
We cut the smallest slice of cake ever seen, and fed a bite to each other.
Besides our itty-bitty wedding cake, we also had a dessert bar with crème brûlées, berry tarts, and chocolate covered ice cream pops. There was another table set up nearby with coffee & tea.
Even though we didn't have dancing, there was music playing the whole night. Our playlist was a mix of old and new songs, like i'll try anything once, i can't help myself, heart skipped a beat, blue moon, cherry blossom girl, blackbird, and fade into you.
Right before our photographers left for the night, a group of us took over the bathroom so I could get a few shots reclining on the chaise. That's right – there's a chaise in the bathroom! I tried to look poised while the rest of the ladies looked on.
Then the night was over, and we left happy and exhausted.
Thanks so much for letting me share all these photos! Before I go, I want to thank our amazing vendors and share a few sources. (Also, a big thank you to 100 Layer Cake for featuring us.)
photography: JL Photografia
venues: Ballard Locks for our portraits and Canlis for the wedding & reception
food + cake: Canlis
my outfit: J.Crew dress (the Gracie gown), Nine West pumps, earrings from my aunt
my hair & maid of honor's hair: styled by Erin Hunt
stefan's outfit: Hugo Boss suit, Calvin Klein shoes
officiant: my uncle
flowers: bought in bulk from Marigold & Mint and arranged ourselves
decor: manzanita branches from Blooms & Branches, floating candles from Quick Candles
paper goods: designed + printed by me
photo guest book: fujifilm INSTAX 210 camera, handmade guest book by Linda
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Don`t Blame IT for Wall Street Mess
Wall Street has invested heavily in information technology, including systems that calculate risk in order to safeguard the big investment firms against pretty much exactly what's been happening to them this year.
But don't blame the computers for the meltdown of the financial system. The best technology can only do what people tell it to do, and people just weren't asking the boxes the right questions. This was a failure of management that goes right to the top of the big banks, broker/dealers and insurance companies. And the CIOs at those companies are implicated in the disaster.
"The machines weren't used the way they were designed to be used," says Gregg Berman, risk-management practice head at the RiskMetrics Group, an analysis and services firm.
The issue was not as simple as the old programmers' adage "Garbage In, Garbage Out," or GIGO. It was less about bad data than incomplete data, based on a worldview that was skewed in favor of keeping the money machine running, even as markets and products became so opaque that the bankers themselves often didn't understand the full implications of what they were doing.
Transparency, a necessity for free markets, was sacrificed. In his prescription for recovery, former Securities and Exchange Commission chair Arthur Levitt Jr. wrote in The Wall Street Journal that companies should disclose "the key assumptions they used, the risks they present, the range of movement of these assets, why the company expects the fair value to recover if the asset's value has shrunk, and a track record and outlook for the investment horizon."
That would represent quite a change. Modeling the risks associated with complex, packaged mortgage-backed securities is complicated work, full of assumptions and abstract variables, and the folks with their hands on the levers did not really want that work done. That's the way it often works in situations far beyond the current mortgage mess: People want to keep on making the deals that made them money, and so they ignore the worst-case scenarios.
"The tendency is to model exposure to a normal day's movement in the markets, but not every day is normal," says Clay Struve, a partner at the small trading firm CSS, who is known as the man who made the Black-Scholes option-trading model work in a real-life trading environment. "You've got to look at the extremes."
Struve has advocated continuous stress-testing and updating of risk models, with an eye for the potentially fatal unlikely event. That's the kind of thing technology was supposed to simplify, but it doesn't work if the machines are set to create risk-management models that are seaworthy in fair weather, but not in a storm.
Part of the problem is the traditional division at financial firms between an analysis of market risk and credit risk, says RiskMetrics' Berman. Modern products like Credit Default Swaps combine the two, and up-to-date technology can handle the interrelationships between them. However, many companies maintained the old siloed approach to risk analysis. "Players who don't silo did well," Berman says.
The large investment banks also favor proprietary systems, which means their models may be built in relative isolation and do not reflect best practices, Berman says. (RiskMetrics and its competitors sell to banks, but mostly at the divisional level.)
It would have been tough for any CIO--or chief risk officer or investment committee--to have stopped the train, according to
Berman. "The culture and the incentive structure were not designed so that people highlighting issues were valued," he says. "An understanding of the ramifications of extreme circumstances didn't boil up to the top."
Still, he adds, "This information was knowable and could have been acted upon."
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Theresa Anderson, N.Y. grandmother who ran family cocaine drug ring, gets 15 years in prison
(CBS/AP) BUFFALO, N.Y. -A woman who enlisted generations of family members in a drug-dealing operation she ran for more than a decade was sentenced Tuesday to 15 1/2 years in prison.
Theresa Anderson, a grandmother in her 50s, pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.
In U.S. District Court, she choked up as her attorney read a letter she wrote to Judge Richard Arcara in which she described being "consumed by addiction."
"I have been using drugs since I was 14 years old," the letter said. "My poor choices were a way for me to finance my own addiction."
Prosecutors said Anderson, of Buffalo, oversaw an around-the-clock operation in which crack cocaine was sold from several houses she bought on two streets to ensure a monopoly in the area.
She was arrested in February 2012 along with her common-law husband, son, three adult daughters, two of the daughters' boyfriends and a granddaughter. All have since pleaded guilty to drug charges.
U.S. Attorney William Hochul said, "This defendant not only destroyed her own family by leading them into a life of illegal narcotics trafficking, she also damaged the neighborhood where the drug trafficking took place."
The government has seized more than $50,000 and nine houses used by the organization, Hochul's office said.
In sentencing papers, defense attorney Robert Ross Fogg said Anderson was addicted to alcohol, heroin, cocaine, crack, methamphetamine and prescription drugs while running her business. He said drugs and drug contacts became more available each time she participated in drug counseling, and he blamed her addiction for a criminal record dating to 1975.
Anderson told the judge she's "not a bad person."
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Why Everything You Think You Know About Crack Addiction Is Wrong
One of the reasons America's idiotic war on drugs has existed as a punitive project rather than a therapeutic one is because it's easier to write off drug addicts as losers with no self-control instead of damaged people deserving of sympathy. The nation is a rat race for money, and the fewer people competing for that money the better, so who cares if some sad guy addicted to crack gets thrown in jail for years on end? More for me.
It becomes harder to hold onto that kind of wrongheaded selfishness the more you discover that "scary drug addicts" might actually just be human beings who are down on their luck and need some help, not solitary confinement. We now have decades of research that suggests America's drug problem could be better handled with treatment programs than jails. Today comes another study that puts forth the notion that, in a clinical environment, people who continually use harmful drugs—meth, crack, etc.—will frequently stop doing the drugs if you offer them opportunities for economic advancement.
This is from a New York Times article about Dr. Carl Hart, a psychologist studying drug abuse at Columbia University:
At the start of each day, as researchers watched behind a one-way mirror, a nurse would place a certain amount of crack in a pipe—the dose varied daily—and light it. While smoking, the participant was blindfolded so he couldn't see the size of that day's dose.
Then, after that sample of crack to start the day, each participant would be offered more opportunities during the day to smoke the same dose of crack. But each time the offer was made, the participants could also opt for a different reward that they could collect when they eventually left the hospital. Sometimes the reward was $5 in cash, and sometimes it was a $5 voucher for merchandise at a store.
When the dose of crack was fairly high, the subject would typically choose to keep smoking crack during the day. But when the dose was smaller, he was more likely to pass it up for the $5 in cash or voucher.
When meth started tearing up American communities the way crack had, Hart replaced crack with meth and got the same results—"similarly rational decisions," as the New York Times put it. Furthermore, when the financial incentive was raised from $5 to $20, every single drug addict, on crack and meth, took the money over the drugs. Lest you should think choosing the money was merely a cash grab to rush off and buy more substances that night, anyone participating in the study had to agree to live in a hospital ward for several weeks and have their substance abuse tracked. They could also only collect their cash and gift certificates after the completion of the study.
Hart, who grew up in a crack-addled community, says 80 to 90 percent of people who use crack and meth don't even get addicted in the first place. "And the small number who do become addicted are nothing like the popular caricatures," he adds.
Those caricatures, of course, are of the dead-eyed crack zombies Americans saw depicted throughout the '80s and '90s, people who, no matter what, were irrationally lost to their addiction and were incapable of making the choice to not smoke crack. Hart says drug treatment and providing economic opportunities are not a panacea, but he says, "If you're living in a poor neighborhood deprived of options, there's a certain rationality to keep taking a drug that will give you some temporary pleasure."


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In our life together at PSR, we rely on God's presence among us as we build a community that values diversity, mutual respect, and listening and learning from one another. The importance of these values transcends PSR: when we work to create community with others different from ourselves, we acquire important skills for leadership in churches and other faith communities.
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We specialize in aftermarket car parts for high end German vehicles. We are building up our brand and have earned a lot of online presence. We are starting this rewards program where the dollar amount spent on an order equates to the customer acquiring points. These points which have a dollar value can be applied to future orders.
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I just posted this column on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Website. The President faces his first test on whether he means to put the Pentagon back in the box, after eight years of out-of-control spending. We'll see if he means it.
Obama's first budget test
By Gordon Adams | 20 March 2009
During his campaign, President Barack Obama promised to end funding national security programs, including the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, through emergency budget requests. He was especially critical of supplemental requests for programs and activities unrelated to Iraq or Afghanistan or that clearly belonged in the regular defense and foreign affairs budgets.
With Obama's first emergency supplemental budget request coming later this week, now is the time to see whether he'll keep his promise. We clearly need such discipline. For the past eight years, both the Defense Department and the State Department have abused the emergency supplemental budget process to add to their base budgets. Supplementals, you see, don't receive the same scrutiny the appropriators in Congress normally give the basic agency budgets. As a result, by fiscal year 2009, roughly one-quarter of Defense's total budget and one-fifth of State's total budget came through emergency supplemental funds.
All budgets are finite, and programs and activities that are part of the core activity of Defense, State, and USAID, should be scrutinized as part of the regular budget planning process."
Over the last eight budgets, Defense in particular has taken advantage of the availability of extra funding to pay for a long-planned expansion of the army and marines and to buy weapons programs--i.e., aircraft and helicopters--that added to the inventory but weren't required for combat operations in Iraq. For its part, State used the supplementals to provide full-funding levels for humanitarian assistance and food aid programs it had underfunded in its basic budget.
This budgetary shell game has severely undermined the once-celebrated budget planning system at Defense and eliminated any incentive for State and USAID to institutionalize a rigorous budget planning process, something it never has had. The reform Obama promised is intended to clean up and discipline the process in both departments.
But will he undermine his planned reform if he transmits a new supplemental budget request this month? Not necessarily. Unanticipated needs do crop up. Tsunamis, sudden unplanned military deployments, and international crises all create a need for additional funds--exactly why the emergency supplemental budget window exists.
We might expect this week, for example, an Obama request for humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza, the consequence of an Israeli invasion nobody anticipated when the budget was put together. In terms of Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama's policy is just now being defined, but troop operations will run out of funding sometime this summer, having been only partially funded by the Bush administration.
Because Obama cannot walk away from genuine unexpected emergencies, some kind of supplemental is inevitable this year--and probably for fiscal year 2010 as well. The real test will be whether or not these supplementals have been constrained to real unanticipated needs and war costs and not used as a backdoor way of funding things that should be included in the normal budget. In the current economic and fiscal environment, priorities need to be set and choices need to be made.
How will we know that discipline has begun to return to defense and foreign policy budgeting when the supplemental request arrives? Here are a few benchmarks for the Defense request (likely to be around $75 billion):
* Is Defense asking for funds to replace equipment lost in combat, or is it asking for more equipment than it lost and/or a new generation of equipment? Research by Stephen Abott at the Stimson Center shows that supplementals have been used to replace older helicopters and fighters with new, more expensive V-22s and F-35s. If the equipment is next generation, this need should be debated as part of the regular procurement budget.
* Is the Pentagon asking for funds to replace equipment "stressed" by operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, but not lost in combat? Repairing and replacing worn-out equipment should be included in the planning for the basic budgets for the military depots that do this work.
* Is the department asking to replace weapons with systems they already have in the long-range defense budget plan? Again, these should be considered in the regular budget debate.
* Is Defense asking for training equipment or simulators? All of these should be part of the regular budget debate where training is funded.
* Is the Pentagon seeking funds for health-care infrastructure? Only short-term, combat-related health care should be funded through the supplementals. Long-term health infrastructure investments belong in the basic budget discussion.
* Is the department asking for funds to increase the size of the ground forces or for reconfiguring those forces into brigade units? These are long-term plans that belong in the basic budget discussion.
* Is Defense asking for funds to improve services or repair facilities at U.S. bases from which forces have been deployed in combat? Only the operational costs of forces being deployed to the theater should be in the supplemental request.
* Is the Pentagon asking for funds for the activities of special operations forces anywhere in the world, or just in the Central Command (CENTCOM) area? If used outside CENTCOM, these funds should be part of the regular budget debate.
Similarly, here are some benchmarks for the State and USAID budget requests:
* Are they asking for funding for humanitarian-assistance programs and food aid that are part of predictable State or USAID activity? Or are they asking only for humanitarian funds that are directed at emergencies that weren't known when the fiscal year 2009 budget was put together--a la Gaza? Only the latter belongs in the supplemental request.
* Are they asking for funds to support the budgets of other countries or the Palestinian Authority? If so, these funds should be part of the regular budget discussions at State. Research by Molly Lewis at the Stimson Center suggests that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's commitment of $900 million in budget support to the Palestinians should be considered as part of State's base budget.
* Are they asking for embassy construction and security funds for Iraq? These are now predictable and should be part of the basic budget preparation. As the United States expands its presence in Afghanistan, there may be reason to seek emergency construction and security funds there, but only for the first year.
* Are they asking for additional counternarcotics funding for Mexico or current South American programs? If so, these funds belong in the base budget planning process, as they are anticipated requirements.
* Are they asking for additional security assistance for Pakistan? If so, these probably belong in the base budget discussion, as they may not be executable in fiscal year 2009.
* Are they asking for funds to expand State and USAID staff or to increase the size of the planned post-conflict reconstruction corps? If so, these are expected costs and need to be part of regular budget planning.
The point of such an analysis isn't to prevent either Defense or State from planning budgets that include some of these items. They may be important priorities. But all budgets are finite, and programs and activities that are part of the core activity of Defense, State, and USAID should be scrutinized as part of the regular budget planning process in these agencies. That is what long-term strategic and budgetary planning is all about--making choices and setting priorities, given realistic limits on resources. If families have to do this, so should federal departments.
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Join us for the Second Annual Comedy for a Cause with Vicki Barbolak from America's Got Talent & Friends, featuring Betsy Salkind, actress, comedian and script writer, Bay Area comedian, Phil Griffiths and Lou Brockman on the Piano on Saturday, December 14, 2019, at The Yacht Club at Bodega Harbour located at 565 Smith Brothers Road in beautiful Bodega Bay.
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Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott's violent death should not define her life, pastor John W. Taylor of the First United Methodist Church told his congregation yesterday.
The people in the pews included Robert E. Marriott, Ms. Marriott's father, who was sitting at the back of the church. He had met Rev. Taylor one day earlier, when the pastor prayed with Ms. Marriott's family and friends after they learned 19-year-old Ms. Marriott had been murdered. The group Saturday had been planning to drive to New Hampshire to search for Ms. Marriott, a University of New Hampshire student who had been missing since Tuesday evening.
New Hampshire authorities have charged Seth Mazzaglia, 29, of Dover, N.H., with second-degree murder in connection with her death. Greg Rota, who has acted as a Marriott family spokesman, said yesterday that Ms. Marriott was friends with Mr. Mazzaglia's girlfriend.
Twenty-nine-year-old Seth Mazzaglia, of Dover, is due to be arraigned Monday on second degree murder charges in connection with the death.
Meanwhile, officials expect to decide today the next step in the search for Ms. Marriott's body.
Police have declined to say what led to Mazzaglia's arrest. They said they have credible information leading them to believe Marriott's dead, but wouldn't elaborate.
Rev. Taylor said yesterday, "This evil act will not define Lizzi. We will remember her smiling and laughing."
She is in heaven and will see her parents and brother again, he said. For the moment, he urged the congregation to pray for Mr. Marriott. "Get him through the day. Bear him up," Rev. Taylor said.
As two people hugged the grieving father, the rest of the congregation turned, and with arms raised toward him, prayed for him and his family.
"Ms. Marriott is going to be a factor for our community forever," the pastor said.
The search for Ms. Marriott's body is ongoing, according to James Vara, a New Hampshire assistant attorney general with the homicide unit. He asked anyone with information about the crime to call the Chester, N.H., Police Department at (603) 742-4646. Authorities were searching in the area of Peirce Island in Portsmouth earlier in the weekend but were not there yesterday. According to the Associated Press, the ground and water search on and around the island was put on hold yesterday, and officials plan to discuss the next step in the search today.
Ms. Marriott had been living with an aunt in Chester, N.H., and commuting to UNH in Durham. She was studying marine biology and was in her first semester there after previously studying at a community college. She graduated from Westboro High School in 2011.
Some of the Westboro people who knew her are members of First United Methodist, and they had asked Rev. Taylor to pray with the group Saturday. He also spoke at a vigil in her memory Saturday night.
Yesterday, after sending the children in the pews to Sunday school, Rev. Taylor told the adults Ms. Marriott had lived her life to the fullest. She had family and friends who loved her, and one of the last text messages she received was from a friend telling her she was "amazing," he said.
"That evil that befell her could not deny her soul for shining forever so bright," he said. "I know when Lizzi died, God's light was present. She knew she was loved; she wasn't alone."
Mr. Marriott had told the pastor he wanted to be with people today. His wife, Melissa, and son, a local high school student, did not attend the church service. The family had not been a part of the church, but the congregation was moved by their loss and was planning ways to help.


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Hello - we are a start-up consultant team seeking a company logo for a website and letterhead. We consultant in the area of Lean Manufacturing Facilitation and Training programs for small to medium enterprises.
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Neil Netanel teaches and writes in the areas of copyright, free speech, international intellectual property, and telecommunications law and policy. His recent books and book projects include Copyright's Paradox (Oxford University Press, 2008); The Development Agenda: Global Intellectual Property and Developing Countries (Neil Weinstock Netanel ed., Oxford University Press, 2008); From Maimonides to Microsoft: The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print (Oxford University Press, 2016); and Copyright: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Professor Netanel joined the UCLA School of Law faculty in fall 2004. Prior to joining UCLA Law, Netanel served for a decade on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where he was the Arnold, White & Durkee Centennial Professor of Law. From 1980 to 1981, Netanel was Assistant to the General Counsel of the State of Israel's Environmental Protection Service. He then practiced law at Loeb and Loeb in Los Angeles (1981-84) and Yigal Arnon & Co. in Tel-Aviv (1985 to 1992). Professor Netanel received his B.A. from Yale University (1976), J.D. from UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law (1980), and J.S.D. from Stanford University (1998).


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Short sell Apple (AAPL)? Wouldn't that be the greatest short in the history of shorts?
It isn't hard to find famous money managers buzzing about this idea. Jim Chanos, who made his fame shorting Enron and who is a huge China bear, tells Bloomberg TV "we're getting afraid of heights" in Apple stock. Jeff Gundlach, the bond guru at DoubleLine capital, started talking up short sell Apple earlier this year:
"If I were one of these crazy hedge fund guys, with the slick haircuts and fancy shoes and racing stripe shirts, the trade I'd put on is 10-times-leveraged natural gas long versus 10-times short Apple."
As passive investors, we would never encourage leverage or taking short positions on anything — or even taking part in active trading at all — but a simple examination of the Apple timeline tells a pretty interesting story.
The stock is rumored to be headed toward $1 trillion market cap territory. Money managers have relied on its meteoric rise to pad their performance. By market cap, Apple recently was worth more than ExxonMobil (XOM), more than IBM (IBM), more than Walmart (WMT), GE (GE), PetroChina (PTR), or Microsoft (MSFT).
Apple stock poked its head above $700 a share recently before falling back. Incredibly, you could have bought Apple stock in mid-2003 for under $10 a share. That performance, however, neatly lines up with the tenure of the late Steve Jobs.
In 2000, Jobs was still "interim" CEO, having returned after several years of exile to the company he famously founded in a Silicon Valley garage with a high school buddy, Steve Wozniak, in 1976.
In 2001, Jobs sold the first iPod. In 2003 — about the time the stock began its climb — iTunes opened for business and the operating system OS X was launched. Then it just explodes from there: iPhones, iPads, various iterations of the laptop and desktop franchises, and so forth. While competitors such as Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Dell (DELL) went after corporate business, Jobs aimed straight for the high-end consumer.
Almost a year ago, Jobs died at 56. Nobody was surprised by this. Jobs had been sick for some time, although he worked quite hard to hide his illness and its seriousness. Apple insider Tim Cook took over as CEO and the iPhone 5 launched to great success, although Cook's big debut was marred by a decision to use homegrown mapping software not quite up to Jobs' exacting standards.
And here we are: Apple is trading at about 15.59 price-to-earnings, just under the S&P 500 at 16.67. Short sell Apple while it trades below the market P/E? Does that make sense?
The problem for active money managers now is how to "guess right" something that is absolutely unguessable. Will Tim Cook be as good or better an innovator as Jobs? Would anybody?
Will investors panic out of the stock today, tomorrow, next quarter? Never? The iPhone 5 sold through the roof the first weekend, but analysts are howling for more. At some point, no result will be good enough for a skittish fund manager. Good news could turn into a rapidly devaluing commodity. The short sell Apple argument would gain ground.
Nevertheless, Apple's P/E ratio is in line with the broad market. If you thought the company was a winner a year ago, valuation suggests you were right to stay in. You could still be right a year from now. If you were to consider the short sell Apple play, it might bite you back, and hard.
The passive investor, meanwhile, is way ahead of the supposed "greatest short of all time." Part of the reason that many index funds are higher today is that they bought and held Apple all along.
That's because many index funds and ETFs are weighted by market cap. As a stock rises, it becomes more of the fund's holdings. Apple is the top holding today of some big passive funds. For instance, it was 3.6% of the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) at the end of June.
Over the years since 2003, periodic rebalancing had the effect of taking out cash as Apple drove ever higher. If it goes higher still, index funds still own it, of course. If it collapses in a heap and the short sell Apple play wins, that piece of the total pie remains relatively small.
The upside of the passive approach is less exciting, of course, but the downside on one stock in an index fund is minimized to almost no risk at all. Apple might crater, but it won't take GE, Exxon, and Walmart with it.
That's what passive investing is all about, in the end: Enjoying the fun and excitement of the rise while avoiding the inordinate — some would say crazy — risk of throwing the dice on a single stock. Even the greatest stocks can, and do, come down to earth.


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. Sketched below it is a bearded Imam, a broad grin on his face and a skateboard in his hand. On Saturday, September 10, he watched the park being put through its paces by the
Isle skate team.
Isle were in town for the first professional skateboarding tour in Palestinian history. The week-long trip, organized alongside
, wrapped up on September 16. Sylvain Tognelli is a French skateboarder who has been signed to Isle since he turned professional in 2013. "Living in France, Germany or England, all you get to hear about is the negative side of things in Palestine, the war and the bombs. But it's not like that at all," he told the Palestine Monitor.
He added that several team members "were a bit nervous" about the trip. But their expectations were confounded as they tracked down local skate spots in Ramallah, Nablus and Bethlehem.
"In Ramallah, all the local kids came out, and it was great to hang out and skate with them," Sylvain recalled.
Co-organisers SkatePAL have previously grabbed
global headlines
by kitting out local kids with decks, building skate parks such as the Nablus rink and inviting international volunteers to share their skills with Palestinian skaters and instructors.
"One of the guys in the Isle team, Chris Jones, has been coming with us for two years as a volunteer," SkatePAL founder Charlie Davis explained. "So he managed to convince some of the Isle team to come out.
"Palestine is obviously a politically unsafe place, and the occupation affects people's lives all the time, so they're here to make a tour video and show that it's a viable skate destination," he added.
The Isle demo in Nablus went down in the skate-park in Asira El-Shameliya, a village in the hills above the city. The 2015 build was a collaborate effort between SkatePAL, the Asira council and a local charity,
The Palestinian House of Friendship
"The youth here are frustrated because they have absolutely nothing to do," said Majed Sawalha of PHF. "But if we can change this city, we can change any city."
Majed views Nablus society as more conservative than in Ramallah or other West Bank skate spots, and said it took some time to convince local bigwigs to give permission for the skate park build.
He continued: "at first people were suspicious, and said [skateboarding] is not productive. But when people see that their kids are not traumatised any more, but that they're exploring and giving their heart and soul to something… they change their minds."
Osama, 18, is a Nablus student who has been skating since before the Asira park was built.
He told the Palestinian Monitor he was glad to finally have a proper park to hone his skills, and excited to skate alongside the pros. "I'm not as good as them, but I love it anyway," he added modestly.
As the Isle team shredded the Asira park, more and more children arrived from the city below. By the end of the afternoon there were around 50 kids hanging around, watching the pros and getting a helping hand as they wobbled off on their boards.
With the sun beating down on the exposed park, Isle team members, SkatePAL volunteers and local skateboarders took refuge in the shadow of a half-pipe.
And as the conversation came round to possible slogans for the Isle tour video, one suggestion in particular stood out: "skateboarders, not state borders."
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